livers in Selondine water and Honey for the 〈◊〉 and stoppage of the spleen in Tamamaris Water for the French pox in Fumitory or Broom-flower water against worms in Grass or Wormwood water for the fits of the mother in decoction of Betony or Featherfew in Wine for suppression of Urine in decoction of Garlick with Wine for the gout in decoction of Chamepitys Wine in wounds and ulcers the place is lightly to be touched with a feather wet in the Oyl if a hollow toothach put a drop into it if all your teeth ach 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 Oleum Vitrioli Page 192. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Vitriol The Colledg Take Ungarick or English Vitriol of the best as much as you will melt it in an Earthen vessel glazed and exhale away all the moisture continually stirring it and so bring it into a yellow pouder which is to be put in earthen Retorts that will endure the fire placed in an open furnace give fire by degrees even to the height for three daies till the receiver which before was full of smoke be cleer rectifie the liquor from the 〈◊〉 in sand and keep the strong and pouderous Oyl by it self Culpeper A. It must be mixed with other medicines for it kills being taken alone it asswageth thirst allayeth the violent heat in feavers and pestilences and a few drops of it gives a pleasant grateful tast to any medicine Aqua fortis Page 192. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Vitriol prepared as for Oyl of Vitriol two pound Salt peter purged one pound beat them together and put them in a Retort well luted place it in a furnace with a large receiver and giving fire to it distill it by degrees for twenty four hours rectifie the water in sand Aqua Mellis Page 193. in Lat. Book Or Water of Honey The Colledg Take of the best Honey sour pound dry Sand two pound distill it in a glass still so capacious that the matter take up only the fist part of it draw off the flegm in a bath then encrease the fire and draw off the yellowish water Culpeper A. Paracelsus adviseth it to be drawn five times over and calls 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 Liquor seu Liquamen Tartari seu Oleum Tartari Per Deliquium Page 193. in Lat. Book Or Liquor of Tartar The Colledg Take of Tartar of white Wine calcined till it be white as much as you will put it in Hypocrates his sleeve and hang it in a moist Celler that the Tartar may dissolve putting a vessel under it to receive it dissolve what remains in the sleeve in common water filter it and evaporate it away till it begin to be like Allum then use that like the former Culpeper A. This is common to be had at every Apothecaries 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 Oleum Mirrhae per Deliquium Page 193. in L. B. Or Oyl of Mirrh The Colledg Boyl Hens Eggs till they be hard then cut them through the middle of the length take out the yolk and fill the Cavities half full of beaten Mirrh joyn them again and bind them gently with a threed place them between two dishes in a moist place a grate being put between so will the Liquor of the Mirrh distill down into the lower dish Culpeper A. You had both it and its vertues before Only Oyl of Tartar Chymical is left out Oyl of Tartar The Colledg Take of Tartar so much as you will put it into a large Retort with that proportion that 〈◊〉 the third part of the vessel be fid distill it in Sand with a strong fire afterwards the Oyl being first separated 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 CHYMICAL PREPARATIONS MORE FREQUENT IN USE Antimonium cum Nitro calcinatum Page 194. Or Antimony calcined with Niter Colledg TAke of the best Antimony one part pure Niter two parts bruise the Antimony then ad the Niter to it bring them both into Pouder which burn in a Crucible which will be most conveniently done if you put it in the red hot Crucible with a ladle or such a like instrument then take it out and beat it again and mix it with the same quantity of Niter as before put it into the Crucible upon hot coals and putting into it a live coal fire it stirring it with an iron thing that it may burn all about equally and when there needs put in more fresh coals bruise it the third time and with the like quantity of Niter use it as before at last beat it into pouder wash it in pure water and keep it for use Chalybs Praeparatus Page 194. in Lat. Book Or Steel prepared Take of filings of Steel clensed with a Loadstone as much as you will moisten them twelve times with sharp white Wine Vineger dry it in the Sun or a dry air beat it in an iron mortar and levigate it apon a Marble with a little Cinnamon water and so bring it into a very fine pouder and keep it for use Crystal of Tartar Page 195. in the Latin Book Take of Tartar of white or Rhenish Wine as much as you will beat it in gross pouder and wash it from the dross in water then boyl it in a sufficient quantity of spring water after you have taken away the scum filter it being somewhat warm through a brown paper into a glass warmed before least it break then place it in a Cellar that the Crystal may stick to the sides of the glass the which wash in pure water and keep for use Crocus Martis Page 195. in the Latin Book Heat pieces of Iron or Steel red hot and thrust them into a great heap of Brimstone a bazon of water being set underneath the mettle will run out like Wax which being separated from the Sulphur beat into very fine pouder in an Iron mortar which put into four-square earthen pans not above afingers bredth in deepness set it at the flame of a reverberatory three or four daies till it look red like a Sponge the tops of which take away with an Iron set the rest at the fire again till it look so all of it Crocus Metallorum Page 195. in the Latin Book Take of the best Antimony and salt Peter of each equal parts beat them into pouder severally then mix them together put them into a hot crucible with a ladle or other convenient instrument let it be beaten till the noyse ceaseth then remove it from the fire and cool it then the vessel being broken seperate it from the
Liver and clense the blood they are in their prime in May. Fumitory Water is usual with the City Dames to wash their faces with to take away morphew freckles and Sunburning inwardly taken it helps the yellow Jaundice and Itch clenseth the blood provokes sweat strengthens the stomach and clenseth the body of adust humors It is in its prime in May and June The Water of Nightshade helps pains in the head coming of heat take heed you distill not the deadly Nightshade instead of the common if you do you may make mad work let such as have not wit enough to know them asunder have wit enough to let them both alone til they do The Water of white Poppies extinguisheth al heat 〈◊〉 nature helps headaches coming of heat and too long standing in the Sun Distil them in June or July Colts-foot Watar is excellent for burns to wash the place with it inwardly taken it helps Phthisicks and other diseases incident to the lungues Distil them in May or June The Water of distilled Quinces strengthens the heart and stomach exceedingly staies vomiting and fluxes and strengthens the retentive faculty in man Demask Rose-water cools comsorts and strengthens the heart so doth red Rose-water only with this difference the one is binding the other loosening if your body be costive use Damask Rose-water because it is loosening if loose use red because it is binding White Rose-water is generally known to be excellent against hot rhewms and inflamations in the eyes and for this it is better than the former The Water of Red Poppy flowers called by many Corn-roses because they grow so freequently amongst corn cool the blood and spirits overheated by drinking or labor and is therefore excellent for surfets Green Walnuts gathered about the latter end of June or beginning of July and bruiled and so stilled strengthens the heart and resisteth the pestilence Plantane Water helps the headach being dropped into the ear it helps the toothach helps the Phthisick dropsie and fluxes and is an admirable remedy for 〈◊〉 in the reins and bladder to be used as common drink the herb is in its prime in May. Strawberry Water cooleth quencheth thirst clarifieth the blood breaks the stone helps al inward inflamations especially those in the reins bladder and passages of the urine it strengthens the Liver and helps the yellow Jaundice The distilled Water of Dog-grass or couch-grass as some cal it clenseth the 〈◊〉 gallantly and provokes urine opens 〈◊〉 of the Liver and spleen and kils worms Black Cherry Water provokes urine helps the dropsie It is usually given in diseases of the brain as convulsions falling sickness palsey and Apoplexy Betony is in its prime in May the distilled Water thereof is very good for such as are pained in their heads it prevails against the dropsie and al sorts of feavers it succors the Liver and spleen and helps want of digestion and evil disposition of the body thence arising it hastens travail in women with child and is excellent against the bitings of venemous beasts Distil Sage whilest the slowers be on it the Water strengthens the brain provokes the terms helps nature much in al its actions Marjoram is in its prime in June the distilled Water is excellent for such whose brains are too cold it provokes urine heats the womb provokes the terms strengthens the memory and helps the judgment causeth an able brain and therefore I commend it to the Colledg of Physitians Distil Chamomel Water about the beginning of June It easeth the chollick and pains in the belly it breaks the stone in the reins and bladder provokes the terms expels the dead child and takes away pains in the head Fennel water strengthens the heart and brain dilates the breast helps the cough provokes the terms encreaseth milk in nurses and if you wash your eyes with it it cleers the sight Calaminth Water hea t s and clenseth the womb provokes the terms and easeth the pains of the head distil it in May. The Distilled water of Rosemary slowers helps such as are troubled with the yellow Jaundice Asthma it clenseth the blood helps concoction strengthens the brain and body exceedingly Waters of the flowers of Lillies of the valley strengthens the brain and all the sences The water 〈◊〉 Cowslip flowers helps the palsey and thence they obtained the name Paralysis takes away pains in the head the vertigo and megrim and are exceeding good for women with child The eyes being washed every morning with Eyebright water most strangely cleers and strengthens the sight Maidenhair distilled in May the water clenseth both Liver and Lungues clarifies the blood and break the stone Hysop water clenseth the Lungues of flegm helps Coughs and Asthmaes distill it in August The water of Hore-hound helps the Cough and straitness of the breast it strengthens the breast Lungues and stomach and Liver distil it in June Carduus water succors the head strengthens the memory helps such as are troubled with vertigoes and quartan agues it provokes sweat strengthens the heart and is good in pestilences and all other feavers of choller it is in its prime in May and June Scabious water helps pleuresies and pains and prickings in the sides Apostthemes Coughs pestilence and straitness of the breast Water of Flower-de-luce is very profitable in dropsies an ounce being drnnk continually morning and evening as also pains and torments in the bowels Bawm water distilled in May restores memory when it is lost it quickens al the sences strengthens the brain heart and stomach causeth a merry mind and a sweet breath The water of Comfry sodders broken bones being drunk helps ruptures outwardly it stops the bleeding of wounds they being washed with it Wormwood water distilled cold about the end of May heats and strengthens the stomach helps concoction staies vomiting kills worms in the stomach and bowels it mitigates the pains in the teeth and is profitably given in feavers of Choller Mint water strengthens the stomach helps concoction and 〈◊〉 vomiting distil it in the latter end of May or beginning of June as the year is in forwardness or backwardness observe that in all the rest Chervil water distilled about the end of May helps ruptures breaks the stone dissolves congealed blood strengthens the heart and stomach The water of Mother of Time strengthens the brain and stomach gets a man a good stomach to his victuals provokes urine and the terms heats the womb it is in its prime about the end of June The water of Marigold flowers is apropriated to most cold diseases of the head Eyes and stomach they are in their vigor when the Sun is in the Lion Distilled water of Centaury comforts a cold stomach helps in feavers of choller which the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it kills worms and provokes appetite to victuals Maudlin and Costmary water distilled in May or June strengthens the Liver helps the yellow 〈◊〉 opens obstructions and helps the dropsie
Water-cresses distilled in March the water clenseth the blood and provokes 〈◊〉 exceedingly kils worms outwardly mixed with Honey it cleers the skin of morphew and Sunburning Distil Nettles when they are in flower the water helps coughs and pains in the bowels provokes urine and breaks the stone Saxifrage water provokes urine expels wind breaks the stone clenseth the reins and bladder of gravel distil them when they are in flower The water of Pellitory of the wal opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen by drinking an ounce of it every morning it clenseth the reins and bladder and easeth the gripings of the howels coming of wind distil it in the end of May or beginning of June Sinkfoyl water breaks the stone clenseth the reins and is of excellent use in putrified feavers distil it in May. The water of Radishes breaks the stone clenseth the reins and bladder provokes the terms and helps the yellow Jaundice Alicampane water strengthens the stomach and Lungues provokes urine and clenseth the passages of it from gravel Distil Burnet in May or June the water breaks the stone clenseth the passages of urine and is exceeding profitable in pestilential times Mugwort water distilled in May is excelleut in coughs and diseases proceeding from stoppage of the terms in women it warms the stomach and helps the dropsie Distil Peny-royal when the flowers are upon it the water heats the womb gallantly provokes the terms expels the Afterbirh cuts and casts out thick and gross humors in the breast easeth pains in the bowels and consumes flegm The water of Lovage distilled in May easeth pains in the head and tures ulcers in the womb being washed with it inwardly taken it expels wind and breaks the stone The tops of Hops when they are young being distilled the water clenseth the blood of addust and melancholly humors and therefore helps Scabs Itch and leprosie and such like diseases thence proceeding it open obstructions of the spleen helps the rickets and Hypocondriack melancholly The water of Borrage and Bugloss distilled when their flowers are upon them strengthen the heart and brain exceedingly clense the blood and takes away sadness greife and melancholly Doddar water clenseth the Liver and spleen helps the yellow jaundice Tamaris water opens the obstructions and helps the hardness of the spleen and strengthens it English Tobacco distilled the water is excellent good for such as have dropsies to drink an ounce or too every morning it helps ulcers in the mouth strengthens the Lungues and helps such as have Asthmaes The water of Dwarffe Elder hath the same effects Thus have you the vertues of enough of cold waters the use of which is for mixtures of other medicines whose operation is the same for they are very seldom given alone if you delight most in liquid medicines having regard to the disease and part of the body afflicted by it these will furnish you with where withal to make them so as will please your pallat best COMPOUNDS SPIRITS and COMPOND DISTILLED WATERS Culpeper A. BEfore I begin these I thought good to premise a few words They are all of them hot in operation and therefore not to be medled with by people of hot Constitutions when they are in health for fear of Feavers and adustion of blood but for people of cold constitutions as Melancholly and Flegmatick people If they drink of them moderately now and then for recreation due consideration being had to the part of the body which is weakest they may do them good yet in diseases of melancholly neither strong Waters nor Sack is to be drunk for they make the 〈◊〉 thin and then up to the head it flies where it fills the brain with foolish and fearful imaginations 2. Let all yong people forbear them whilst they are in health for their blood is usually hot enough without them 3. Have regard to the season of the year so shall you find them more beneficial in Summer than in in Winter because in Summer the body is alwaies coldest within and digestion weakest and that is the reason why men and women eat less in Summer than they do in Winter Thus much for people in health which drink strong waters for recreation As for the Medicinal use of them it shall be shewed at the 〈◊〉 end of every Receipt only in general they are due respect had to the humors afflicting and part of the body afflicted medicinal for diseases of cold and flegm chilliness of the spirits c. But that my Country men may not be mistaken in this I shall give them some Symptoms of each Complexion how a man may know when it exceeds its due 〈◊〉 Signs of Choller abounding Leaness of body costiveness hollow eyes anger without a cause a testy disposition yellowness of the 〈◊〉 bitterness in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pains in the 〈◊〉 the pulse 〈◊〉 and stronger 〈◊〉 ordinary the 〈◊〉 higher colourd thinner and brighter troublesom sleeps much dreaming of fire lightning anger and fighting Signs of Blood abounding The Veins are bigger or at least they seem so and fuller than ordinary the skin is red and as it were swollen pricking pains in the sides and about the temples shortness of breath headach the pulse great and full urine high coloured and thick dreams of blood c. Signs of Melancholly abounding Fearfulness without a cause fearful and 〈◊〉 imaginations the skin rough and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 want of sleep frightful dreams 〈◊〉 in the throat the pulse very weak solitariness thin 〈◊〉 urine often sighing c. Signs of Flegm abounding Sleepiness dulness slowness heaviness cowardliness forgetfulness much spitting much 〈◊〉 at the 〈◊〉 little appetite to meat and as bad 〈◊〉 the skin whiter colder and smoother than it was wont to be the pulse flow and deep the urine thick and low colored dreams of rain flouds and water c. These things thus premised I come to the matter The first the Colledg presents you with is Spiritus et Aqua Absinthii minus Composita Pag. 30. Or Spirit and Water of Wormwood the lesser Composition The Colledg Take of the Leaves of dried Wormwood two pound Annis seeds half a pound steep them in six gallons of small Wines twenty four hours then 〈◊〉 them in an Allembick 〈◊〉 to every 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 water two 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sugar Let the two first pound you draw out be called Spirit of Wormwood those which follow Wormwood Water the lesser Composition Culpeper A. I like this distinction of the Colledges very well because what is first stilled out is far stronger than the rest and therefore very fitting to be kept by it self you may take which you please according as the temperature of your body either to heat or cold and the season of the yeer requires A. It hath the same vertues Wormwood hath only fitter to be used by such whose bodies are chilled by age and whose natural heat abateth You may search the Herb for the vertues it heateth the stomach and helpeth
digestion The Colledg After the same manner only omitting the Annis seeds is distilled Spirit and water of Angelica both Herb and Root 〈◊〉 Mints Sage c. The Flowers of Rosemary Clary Clove-gilli flowers c. the seeds of Caraway c. 〈◊〉 berries 〈◊〉 pils Lemmons Citrons c. 〈◊〉 Nutmegs c. Culpeper A. I would some body that knows their conditions would do but so much as ask the Colledg what the meaning of all these et caetera's is Spiritus et Aqua Absynthii magis composita Pag. 30. Or Spirit and Water of Wormwood the greater Composition The Colledg Take of common and Roman Wormwood of each a pound Sage Mints Bawm of each two handfuls the roots of Galanga Ginger Calamus Aromaticus Alicampane of each three drams Liquor is an ounce Raisons of the Sun stoned three ounces Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each three drachms Cinnamon Cloves Nutmegs 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 twenty four pints of Spanish Wines for twenty four hours then distilled in an Allembick adding two ounces of white Sugar to every pint of distilled water Let the first pint be called Spirit of Wormwood the greater composition Culpeper A. In this Receipt they have only in their new Master-piece left out According to Art and I commend them for sure it was advisedly done of them not to write of what they never had A. The Opinion of Authors is That it heats the stomach and strengthens it and the lungues expels wind and helps digestion in ancient people Spiritus et Aqua Angelicae magis composita Page 31. Or Spirit and Water of Angelica the greater Composition The Colledg Take of the Leaves of Angelica eight ounces of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ounces of Bawm and Sage of each sour ounces Angelica seeds six ounces sweet Fennel seeds nine ounces Let the Herbs being dried and the seeds be grosly bruised to which ad of the Species called Aromaticum Rosatum and of the Species called Diamoschu Dulce of each an ounce and an 〈◊〉 infuse them two daies in thirty two pints of Spanish Wine then distil them with a gentle fire according to that art which we never had and with every pound mix two ounces of Sugar dissolved in Rose water Let the three first pound be called by the name of Spirit the rest by the name of Water Culpeper A This Receipt was far different from that Angelica water which they prescribed in their last Dispensatory I could at first imagine no reason worth the quoting unless it were done to make it dearer as who should say seeing the common people cannot be kept from knowing the vertues of what we have so long monopolized into our own hands through the iniquity of the times in abolishing Kingly Government which was the only 〈◊〉 we had to lean upon yet will we to work again and leave never a stone unturned that may uphold us in our pride and unconscionable domineering and though we cannot write but it will be translated into such a language as will be in the reach 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 brain yet will we wind the business so high that it shall be out of the reach of his purse this I thought to be the plain English of it yet afterward I found that their former Dispensatory had a water called Cordial Water which here shouldered out Angelica Water and having got into its place stole its name Pray do but so much as tell what good it doth the vulgar for you to change the names of Medicines I 〈◊〉 a Rat a new trick to cheat the world A. The chief end of composing this Medicine was to strengthen the heart and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore is very wholsom in pestilential times and for such as walk in stinking airs I shall now quote you their former Receipt in 〈◊〉 former Dspensatory Angellica water the greater Composition The Colledg Take of Angellica two pound Annis seeds half a pound Coriander and 〈◊〉 away seeds of each four ounces Zedoary bruised three ounces steep them twenty four hours in six gallons of 〈◊〉 Wines then draw out the Spirits and sweeten it with Sugar Culpeper A. It comforts the heart cherisheth the vital Spirits resisteth the pestilence and al corrupt airs which indeed are the natural causes of al Epidimical diseases the sick may take a spoonful of it in any convenient cordial and such as are in health and have bodies either cold by nature or cooled by age may take as much either in the morning fasting or a little before meat Spiritus Lavendulae compositus 〈◊〉 Pag. 31. Or 〈◊〉 Spirit of Lavender Matthias The Colledg Take of Lavender flowers one gallon to which pour three gallons of the best Spirit of Wine let them stand together in the Sun six daies then destil them with an 〈◊〉 with his refrigeratory Take of the flowers of Sage Rosemary and 〈◊〉 of each one handful the flowers of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lillies of the vally Cowslips of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let the flowers being newly and seasonably gathered being infused in one gallon of the best Spirit of Wine and mingled with the aforegoing Spirit of 〈◊〉 flowers adding the leaves of Bawm Feather-few and Orrenge tree fresh gathered the flowers of 〈◊〉 and Orrenge tree Bay berries of each one ounce after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 distil it again after which add Citron 〈◊〉 the outward Bark 〈◊〉 seeds husked of each six drachms Cinnamon Nutmegs Mace Cardamoms 〈◊〉 yellow Sanders of each half an 〈◊〉 wood of Aloes one 〈◊〉 the best 〈◊〉 the stones being taken out half a pound digest thêm six weeks then strain it and filter it and add to it prepared Pearls two drachms Emeralds prepared a scruple Ambergreese Musk Saffron of each half a scruple red Roses dried red Sanders of each half an ounce yellow Sanders Citron pills dried of each one drachm let the Species being tied up in a rag be hung into the aforegoing Spirit Culp Although I could have easily been brought to beleeve that the Colledg never intended the company of Apothecaries any good yet before I read this Receipt I could not conceit they willingly intended to impose impossibilities upon them I could wish the Apothecaries would desire to be certified by the Colledg A. 1. Whether the Gallon of Lavender flowers must be filled by heap or by strike A. 2. Next whether the flowers must be pressed down in the Measure or not A. 3. How much must be drawn off in the first distillation A. 4. Where they should get Orrenge leaves and flowers fresh gathered A. 5. What they mean by Convenient Digestion A. 6. Where you shal find Borrage Bugloss and Cowslips 〈◊〉 together that so you may have them al fresh according to their prescript the one flowring in the latter end of Aprill and beginning of May the other in the end of June and beginning of July
rag and hung to the top of the glass Culpeper In my opinion this latter water is more prevalent for heart-qualms and faintings than Mathiolus his neither is it half so hot therefore more safe Aqua Coelestis Mathiolus The Colledg Take of Cinnamon an ounce Ginger half an ounce white red and yellow Sanders of each six drachms Cloves Galanga 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 Parsnips Bazil of each a drachm and an half Roots of Angelica Avens Calamus Aromaticus Liquoris Valerian the less the leaves of Clary Time Calaminth Penyroyal 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 fifteen daies in twelve pints of the best spirit of Wine in a glass body well stopped and then let it be distilled in 〈◊〉 Mariae according to art Adding to the distilled Water Pouders of Diambra 〈◊〉 dulce Aromaticum Rosatum Diamagariton frigidum Diathodon 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 rag cleer Julip of Roses a pound shake them well together stopping the glass close with wax and Parchment till it grow cleer to be kept for your use Culpeper A. It comforteth and 〈◊〉 the heart reviveth drooping spirite prevaileth against the plague and all malignant feavers preserveth the Sences and restoreth such as are in Consumptions It is of a hot nature Let not the quantity taken at a time exceed half a drachm A. Only take this Caution both concerning this and all other strong waters They are not safely given by themselves in Feavers because by their hot quality they inflame the blood and ad fuel to the fire but mixed with other convenient Cordials and consideration had to the strength complexion habit age and sex of the patient for my own part I aim sincerely at the publick good in writing of this and therefore as I would not have Physitians domineer so I would not have fools turn Physitians Bawm Water The greater Composition The Colledg Take of 〈◊〉 a pound Time Penyroyal of each three drachms Cinnamon two drachms Cardamoms the less one drachm Grains of Paradice half an ounce Sweet Fennel seeds an ounce Nutmegs Ginger of each a drachm Galanga 〈◊〉 drachms 〈◊〉 Aromaticus Cyperus of each one 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 twenty four hours together and then distilled by an Alembick draw out of the stronger water three pints Culpeper A. The Simples seem chiefly apropriated to the stomach and therefore must needs strengthen cold and weak stomachs and help digestion besides Authors say It restoreth memory lost quickkens all the sences keeps away gray hairs and baldness 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 Rosa 〈◊〉 The Colledg Take of Nutmegs Annis seeds Coriander seeds of each one ounce Galanga Ginger Cloves of each half an ounce red Rose Leaves one bandful Ros-solis six handfuls Liquoris two ounces Cardamoms Zedoary Grains of Paradice Calamus Aromaticus of each one drachm 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 〈◊〉 strain it and ad to the Liquor one pound and an half of Sugar Culpeper 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 〈◊〉 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 The Colledg 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 Penyroyal Pellitory of the Wall Rosemary flowers of red Roses Chamomel Origanum Lavender of each one handful infuse them twelve hours in twelve 〈◊〉 of Gascoign Wine then with an Alembick draw three pints of strong Water from it Culpeper A. Authors hold it profitable for women in labor that it provokes the terms and brings away the after-birth Ordinary Aqua vitae The Colledg Distil Ale and Lees of Wine in 〈◊〉 Alembick whose worm runs through cold Water into small Wine in ten Congies of which 〈◊〉 one pound of bruised Annis seeds for twenty four hours then still it again into strong water Aqua vitae Compound The Colledg Is made of smal Wines in six congies of which infuse Annis seeds half a pound seeds of Fennel and Caraway of each two ounces Cloves 〈◊〉 and Ginger of each one ounce and then draw the strong Spirit from it Culpeper A. This is excellent good in my opinion for such as are troubled with wind Vsquebach The Colledg Take of strong Aqua vitae twenty four 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 Culpeper A. It strengthens the stomach and helps indigestion coming of flegm and cold A. It is possible I may have overslipped some others of their Alterations of Names my time is short and my understanding dull and the truth is their new model shews far more subtilty than honesty TINCTURES Tinctura Croci Page 41. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Saffron Colledg TAke two drachms of Saffron eight ounces of Treacle Water digest them six 〈◊〉 then strain it Culpeper A. See the Vertues of Treacle Water and then know that this strengthens the heart something more and keeps melancholly vapors thence by drinking a spoonful of it every morning Tinctura 〈◊〉 Page 41. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Castorium The Colledg Take of Castorium in pouder half an ounce Spirit of Castorium half a pound digest them ten daies cold strain it and keep the Liquor for Tincture Culpeper A. A learned invention 'T is something more prevalent than the Spirit Tinctura Fragorum Page 41. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Strawberries The Colledg Take of ripe Wood-Strawberries two pound put them in a Phiol and put so much small Spirit of Wine to them that it may oretop them the thickness of four fingers stop the vessel close and set it in the Sun two daies then strain it and press it but gently powr this Spirit to as many fresh Strawberries repeat this six times at
Colledg Take of yellow Wax melted one pound with which mix three pound of Tiles in pouder draw out the Oyl in Sand with a 〈◊〉 which rectifie with water Culpeper A. I am of Opinion that Oyl of Wax is as singular remedy for burns and 〈◊〉 ulcers as any is or need to be The Colledg After the same manner is 〈◊〉 Oyl of Fat 's and Gums and Rosins which cannot be 〈◊〉 into pouder as Ammoniacum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sagapen Liquid Styrax Tacha 〈◊〉 c. Oleum Latericium Phylosophorum Page 190. in L. B. The Colledg Take of Bricks broken in pieces as big as an Hens egge heat them red hot and 〈◊〉 them in old Oyl where let them lie till they be 〈◊〉 then beat them into fine Pouder and still them in a glass retort with a fit receiver give fire to it by degrees and keep the Oyl in a glass Close stopped Culpeper A. The Oyl will quickly penetrate and is a soveraign remedy for the gout and all cold afflions in the joynts or nerves cramps epilepsies or falling sickness palsies it mollifies hard swellings dissolves cold swellings as also cold distempers of the spleen reins and bladder Oleum Succini Page 191. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Amber The Colledg Take of yellow Amber one part burnt Flints or pouder of Tiles two parts distil them in a retort in Sand keep the while cleer Oyl which comes out first by it self then distil it on till all come out keep both Oyls severally and rectifie them with water gather the Salt of Amber which sticks to the neck of the retort and being purged by Solution Filtration and Coagulation according to art keep it for use Culpeper A. It speedily helps all afflictions of the nerves and convulsions falling sickness c. Being given in convenient liquors it is a singular 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 labor 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 The Colledg 〈◊〉 is distilled oyl of Jet and of Gums and Rosins which may be poudered as Benjamin Mastich Frankinsence c. Culpeper A. Having perused these Oyls following I would willingly have left them quite 〈◊〉 I mean the manner allotted by the Colledge to make them A. 1. Because I fear they and the truth are Separatists A. 2. Because the Ignorant will know as well how to make them as they did before when I have done what I can A. 3. As to Alchymists to whose profession the making of them belongs I shall seem like Phormio the Phylosopher who never having seen 〈◊〉 undertook to 〈◊〉 Military 〈◊〉 before 〈◊〉 who was one of the best Soldiers in the world But I am in a manner forced to it He that is able to understand the Receipt is able to understand that the failings are not mine but the Colledges Oleum 〈◊〉 Butyrum Antimonii Page 191. in Lat. B. Oyl or Butter of Antimony The Colledg Take of crude Antimony Mercury sublimate of each one pound beat them into pouder and put them in a glass retort with a large neck give fire by degrees into a reverberatory or else in Sand the Fat will distil down into the receiver that part of which that sticks to the neck of the 〈◊〉 will 〈◊〉 be melted by putting a gentle fire under it let this fat be rectified in a small retort and kept either in an open Phiol or in a Celler or other moist place that it 〈◊〉 be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oyl which must be kept in a vessel close stopped Oleum Arsenici Page 191. in Lat. Book Or Oyl of Arsenick The Colledg Take of Christalline Arsenick first sublimated with Colcother alone mix it with an equal part of Salt of Tartar and Salt-peter calcine it between two pots the uppermost of which hath a hole through till no smoke 〈◊〉 dissolve the matter so calcined in warm water that you may draw out the salt moisten the Pouder which resides at the bottom with Liquor Tartari and dry it by the fire do so three times then dissolve the matter again that you may draw out the salt and there will remain a white pouder and fixed which being kept in a moist place will dissolve into a moist substance like Oyl or Butter Oleum Salis. Page 192. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Salt The Colledg Take of French or Spanish Bay salt as much as you will dissolve it in water and filter it and having then put it in a Copper vessel mix with the Brine fine Pouder of tiles 〈◊〉 bricks two or three times the weight of the Salt before it was dissolved and set it upon hot coals and let the water evaporate away continually stirring it till it be very dry 〈◊〉 put the Pouder into a glass Retort well luted placed in a furnace with a fit receiver giving fire by degrees to the height for the space of twelve hours so shall you have an Oyl or sharp spirit of Salt in the receiver rectifie this by separating the 〈◊〉 in a retort in sand and keep it close stopped for use Culpeper 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 and the falling-sickness being mixed with Oyhtments it is exceeding good in ruptures and dislocations Oleum Sulphuris Page 192. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Sulphur The Colledg It is prepared in a Bell still by 〈◊〉 burning and consuming of Brimstone by which a sharp spirit beating against the sides of the still will turn into liquor and 〈◊〉 down like water or oyl the orderly disposing of the still and 〈◊〉 and other commodities belonging to this operation we leave to the 〈◊〉 of the Artificer Culpeper A. Prevails against diseases coming of cold putrifaction or wind feavers ague 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 humors or putrifaction outwardly applied it helps 〈◊〉 ulcers of the mouth and 〈◊〉 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 quotidian agues give it in wine in which Rosemary or Mints or both have been 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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 little Venice Treacle in the falling-sickness with decoction of Betony 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 chollick in Chamomel flower water for dropsies and cold
according to art Turpethum Minerale Page 200. in the Latin Book Take of crude Mercury Oyl of Vitriol seperated from all the flegm of each equal parts still them in 〈◊〉 encreasing the fire by degrees till all the 〈◊〉 be flown up in the air a white Mass remaining in the bottom which being separated from the crude Mercury wash in spring water and forth with it wil 〈◊〉 yellow wash it in warm water from all its 〈◊〉 dry it and keep it for use Tartarum Vitriolatum Page 200. in the Latin B. Take of liquor of Tartar four ounces into which drop by drops two ounces of Oyl of Vitriol wel rectified so wil a white pouder fall to the bottom which dry and keep for use Vitriolum album depuratum Page 200. in the Lat. B. Or White Vitriol clensed Dissolve white Vitriol in cleer water filter it and coagulate it Vitrum Antimonii Page 200. in the Latin Book Take of good Antimony in fine pouder and put it 〈◊〉 a large stone vessel put fire under til it grow into clots beat it and do so again and again alwaies stirring it til it resemble white ashes smoke not at al then take of this half a pound Corax half an ounce put them in a crucible the which cover with a Tile set it in a strong fire till there flow a matter like water then put it into a brass or copper vessel and keep the glass for use THE GENERAL WAY OF MAKING EXTRACTS EXTRACTS may be made almost of every Medicine whether Simple as Herbs Flowers Seeds or Compound as Species or Pills Therefore take of any Medicine cut or bruised or prepared as the infusion requires and powr to it Spirit of Wine or distilled water as the Pbysition commands let it stand in infusion in the heat of a bath two daies more or less according as the thickness or thinness of the 〈◊〉 requires untill the tincture be sufficient then separate the liquor and put in more as before do so till the Medicine afford no more tincture put all these Liquors together and filter them and exhate the humidity to the heat of a bath till the matter be left at the bottom of the thickness of Honey to which if the Physitian prescribe you may add two scruples or half a dram of its own proper or other convenient 〈◊〉 to every ounce of Extract that so it may keep the longer THE WAY OF MAKING SALTS Salt Volatle or Essential is thus made TAke of any Plant when it is fresh and full of Juyce a sufficient quantity bruise it in a wooden Mortar and a great deal of cleer water being added boyl it till half be consumed strain 〈◊〉 decoction press it strongly and boyl it to the thickness of Honey set it in a glass or glazed vessel in a cold place eight daies at least and a Cristal Salt will arise like Sal. Gem. which gather and wash with its proper water and dry for your use Thus is Salt made of wormwood Cardus Mugwort and other bitter Herbs but of other Herbs with much difficnlty Salt fixed or Elementary is thus made It consists in four things Calcination Solution Filtration Coagulation Burn the matter you would make salt of into white ashes and berein sometimes you must have a care 〈◊〉 by too hasty burning they run to glass then with 〈◊〉 water make the ashes into ly to draw out the Salt filter the Ly and boyl it in an 〈◊〉 vessel by a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the water may be exhaled and the Salt left which Solution Filtration and Coagulation being repeated certain times it will be free from all impurity and be very white Thus is prepared Salt of Plants and parts of living Creatures amongst which these excel Salt of wormwood Time Rosemary Centaury the less 〈◊〉 Cardus Masterwort Parsly Rest-harrow Ash Dwarf Elder Box 〈◊〉 St. Johns wort Cichory Sullendine Scurvy-grass Betony Maudlin Bawm Cetrach c. PREPARATIONS OF CERTAIN SIMPLE MEDICINES The way of Preparing Fat 's TAke of fresh fat the veins strings and skins being taken away wash them so often in fair water till they be no longer bloody then beat them well and melt them in a double vessel strain them and powr off the water keep it in a glass in a cold place it will endure a yeer So is also prepared Marrow taken out of fresh bones especially in Autumn The burning of Brass Lay flakes of Brass in an earthen vessel interposing Salt or Brimstone between each of them so lay flake upon flake burn them sufficiently and wash the Ashes with warm water till they be sweet The washing of Aloes Put as much Aloes in pouder in a glass as you will putting a sufficient quantity of warm water to it that it may overtop it two or three fingers thickness stirring it about with a Spatule that the purer part of the Aloes may be mixed with the water that being poured off put in fresh warm water and stir it in like manner that the dross may be separated gather those waters together evaporate the Humidity nad keep the Mass. The preparation of Bole Armenick Grind it smal and dissolve it so often in Rose water till the dross and Sand be taken away dry it in the Sun and keep it being dryed Foecula Brioniae Take of Bryony roots scraped bruised and the juyce pressed out which being let it stand still a while in a vessel a white pouder like Starch will fall from the bottom from which pour the water and let it dry for use So is Gersa Serpentaria prepared of Aron roots and Foecula of the roots of Radishes and Orris May Butter About the latter end of May take fresh Butter without Salt and in a glazed earthen vessel set it in the Sun that it may be all melted strain it through a rag without pressing set it in the Sun again strain it again and keep it a year The preparations of Lapis Calaminaris Heat it red hot three times in the fire and quench it as often in Plantane and Rose water at 〈◊〉 levigate it upon a Marble and with the same waters make it into Balls The washing of Lime Bruise quicklime put it in a pan and mix it with sweet water and when it is settled to the bottom change the water and mix it again do so seven or eight times filtring it every time at last do it with Rose water and dry the Lime The preparation of Corral Pearls Crabs Eyes and other precious Stones Beat them in a steel mortar and levigate them on a Marble putting a little Rose water to them till they are in very fine pouder then make them into Balls The preparation of Coriander seed Steep them twenty four hours in sharp Vineger then dry them So may you prepare 〈◊〉 seed The burning of Harts horn Ivory and other bones Burn them in a crucible till they e white then beat them into pouder and wash them with Rose water at last levigate them on a Marble and
of it drives away venemous beasts so deadly an enemy is it to poyson it 's an admirable remedy against wounds and Gun-shot wounds made with poysoned weapons it draws out splinters broken bones c. The dose from halfe a drachm to a drachm They say the Goats and Deers in Creet being wounded with Arrows eat this herb which makes the Arrows fall out of themselves And from thence came the tale in Virgil * about Aeneas Dipsacus sativ sylv Teazles Garden and wild the leaves bruised and applied to the temples alay the heat in feavers qualifie the rago in frenzies the juyce dropped into the ears kill worms in them if there be any there to kill dropped into the eyes cleers the sight helps redness and pimples in the face being anointed with it Ebulus Dwarf-Elder or Walwort hot and dry in the third degree wasts hard swellings being applied in form of a pultis the hair of the head being anointed with the juyce of it turns black the leaves being applied to the place help inflamations burnings scaldings the bitings of mad-dogs mingled with Buls suet is a present remedy for the gout inwardly taken is a singular purge for the dropsie and gout Echium Vipers-buglosse Vipers-herb Snake-buglosse Wall-buglosse Wild-buglosse several Countries give it these several names it is a singular remedy being eaten for the biting of venemous beasts Continual eating of it makes the body invincible against the poyson of Serpents Toads Spiders c. however it be administred It comforts the heart expels sadness and melancholly It grows abundantly about the Castle walls at Lewis in Sussex The rich may make the flowers into a conserve and the herb into a syrup the poor may keep it dry both may keep it as a Jewel Empetron Calcifraga Herniaria c. Rupture-wort or Burst-wort the English name tels you it is good against Ruptures and so such as are bursten shall find it if they please to make trial of it either inwardly taken or outwardly applied to the place or both Also the Latin names hold it forth to be good against the stone which who so tries shall find true Enula Campana Elicampane Provokes Urine See the root Epithimum Dodder of Time to w ch ad cōmon Dodder w ch is usually that w ch grows upon Flax indeed every Dodder retains a vertue of that herb or plant it grows upon as Dodder that grows upon Broom provokes urin forcibly loosens the belly and is moister than that which grows upon Flax that which grows upon Time is hotter and dryer than that which grows upon Flax even in the third degree opens obstructions helps infirmities of the spleen purgeth melancholly releeves drooping spirits helps the rickets that which grows on Flax is excellent for agues in young children strengthens weak stomachs purgeth choller provokes urine opens stoppings in the reins and bladder that which grows upon Nettles provokes urine exceedingly The way of using it is to boyl it in white Wine or other convenient decoction and boyl it very little remembring what was told you before in 〈◊〉 Eruca Rocket hot and dry in the third degree being eaten alone causeth headach by its heat procureth lust Eupatorium See 〈◊〉 Euphragia Eybright somthing hot and dry the very sight of it refresheth the eyes inwardly taken it restores the sight and makes old mens eyes young a drachm of it taken in the morning is worth a pair of Spectacles it comforts and strengtheneth the memory outwardly applyed to the place it helps sore eyes Filix foemina Filicula polypodium See the Roots Filipendula Malabathrum Indian-leaf hot and dry in the second degree comforts the Stomach exceedingly helps digestion provokes urine helps inflamations of the eyes secures cloathes from moths Foeniculum Fennel Encreaseth milk in Nurses provokes Urine breaks the stone easeth pains in the Reins opens stoppings breaks wind provokes the terms You may boyl it in white Wine Fragaria Strawberry leaves are cold dry and binding a singular Remedy for inflamations and wounds hot diseases in the throat they stop fluxes and the terms cool the heat of the stomach and inflamations of the Liver The best way is to boyl them in barley water Fraxinus c. Ash-trees the leaves are moderately hot and dry cure the bitings of Adders and Serpents by a certain antipathy they say there is between them they stop loosness and stay vomittng help the Rickets open stoppages of the Liver and Spleen Fumaria Fumitory Cold and dry it openeth and clenseth by Urine helps such as are Itchy and Scabbed cleers the skin opens stoppings of the Liver and Spleen helps Rickets Hypochondriak Melancholly madness frenzies Quartan Agues loosneth the belly gently purgeth Melancholly and addust choller boyl it in white Wine and take this one general rule All things of a clensing or opening nature may be most commodiously boyled in white wine Remember but this and then I need not write one thing so often 〈◊〉 Goats-rue Temperate in quality resists Poyson kills Worms helps the Falling-sickness resisteth the Pestilence You may take a drachm of it at a time in pouder Galion Ladies-bedstraw dry and binding stancheth blood boyled in Oyl the Oyl is good to anoint a weary Traveller inwardly it provokes lust 〈◊〉 See the Root Genista Broom hot and dry in the second degree clens and open the Stomach break the Stone in the Reins and Bladder help the green sickness Let such as are troubled with heart-qualms or faintings forbear it for it weakens the Heart and Spirit Vital See the Flowers Geranium Cranebil the divers sorts of it one of which is that which is called Muscata and in Sussex barbariously Muscovy it is thought to be cool and dry helps hot swellings and by its smel amends a hot brain Geranium Columbinum Doves-foot helps the wind Chollick pains in the belly stone in the reins and bladder and is singular good in ruptures and inward wounds I suppose these are the general vertues of them all Gramen 〈◊〉 See the Root Gratiola Hedg Hysop purgeth water and flegm but works very churlishly Gesner commends it in Dropsies Asphodelus foem See the Root Hepatica Lichen Liverwort cold and dry excellent good for Inflamations of the Liver or any other Inflamations yellow Jaundice Hedera Arborea 〈◊〉 Tree and Ground-Ivy Tree-Ivy helps Ulcers Burnings Scaldings the bad effects of the Spleen the Juyce snuffed up in the nose purgeth the head it is admirable for surfets or headach or any other ill effects coming of drunkenness and therefore the Poets feigned Bacchus to have his head bound round with them Your best way is to boyl them in the same liquor you got your surfet by drinking Ground-Ivy is that which usually is called Alehoof hot and dry the Juyce helps noise in the ears fistulaes gouts stoppings of the Liver it strengthens the Reins and stops the terms helps the yellow Jaundice and other diseases coming of stopping of the Liver
the green Olives cool and bind English-Currance cool the stomach and are profitable in acute feavers they quench thirst resist vomiting cool the heat of choller provoke appetite and are good for hot complexions Services or as we in Sussex call them Checkers are of the nature of Medlars but something weaker in operation Barberries quench thrist cool the heat of choller resist the pestilence stay vomiting and fluxes stop the terms kill worms help spitting of blood fasten the teeth and strengthen the gums Strawberries cool the stomach liver and blood but are very hurtful for such as have agues Winter-Cherries potently provoke urine and break the stone Cassia-fistula is temperate in quality gently purgeth choller and flegm clarrifies the blood resists feavers clenseth the breast and lungues it cools the reins and thereby resisteth the breeding of the stone it provokes urine and therefore is exceeding good for the running of the reins in men and the whites in women All the sorts of Myrobalans purge the stomach the Indian Myrobalans are held to purge melancholly most especially the other slegm yet take heed you use them not in stoppings of the bowels they are cold and dry they all strengthen the heart brain and sinnews strengthens the stomach releeve the sences take away tremblings and heart-qualms They are seldom used alone Prunes are cooling and loosning Tamarinds are cold and dry in the second degree they purge choller cool the blood stay vomiting help the yellow Jaundice quench thrist cool hot stomachs and hot livers I omit the use of these also as resting confident a child of three yeers old if you should give it Raisons of the sun or Cherries would not ask how it should take them SEEDS OR GRAINS COriander seed hot and dry expels wind but is hurtful to the head send up unwholsom vapors to the brain dangerous for mad people therefore let them be prepared as you shall be taught towards the latter end of the Book Fenugreek seeds are of a softening discussing nature they cease inflamations be they internal or external bruised and mixed with vineger they ease the pains of the Spleen being applied to the sides help hardness and swellings of the matrix being boyled the decoction helps scabby heads Linseed hath the same vertues with Fenugreek Gromwel-seed provokes urine helps the chollich breaks the stone and expels wind Boyl them in white Wine but bruise them first Lupines easeth the pains of the spleen kils worms and casts them out outwardly they clense filthy ulcers and Gangrenes help scabs itch and inflamations Dill seed encreaseth milk in Nurses expels wind staies vomitings provokes urine yet it duls the sight and is an enemy to generation Smallage seed provokes urin and the terms expels wind resists poysons and easeth inward pains it opens stoppings in any part of the body yet it is hurtful for such as have the falling sickness and for women with child Rocket seed provokes urine stirs up lust encreaseth seed kills worms easeth the pains of the spleen use all these in like manner Basil seed If we may beleeve Dioscorides and Crescentius cheers the heart and strengthens a moist stomach drives away melancholly and provokes urine Nettle seed provokes lust opens stoppages of the womb helps inflamations of the sides and lungues purgeth the breast boyl them being bruised in White Wine also The seeds of Ammi or Bishopsweed heat and dry help difficulty of urine and the pains of the chollick the bitings of venemous beasts they provoke the terms and purge the womb Annis seeds heat and dry ease pain expel wind cause a sweet breath help the dropsie resist poyson breed milk and stop the whites in women provoke lust and ease the headach Cardamoms heat kill worms clense the reins and provoke urine Fennel seeds break wind provokes urine and the terms encreaseth milk in Nurses Commin seeds heat bind and dry stop blood expel wind ease pain help the bitings of venemous beasts outwardly applied viz in plaisters they are of a discussing nature Carrot seeds are windy provoke lust exceedingly and encrease seed provoke urine and the terms cause speedy delivery to women in travel and bring away the after-birth All these also may be boyled in White Wine Nigella seeds boyled in oyl and the forehead anointed with it ease pains in the head take away leprosie itch scurff and hepls scald-heads inwardly taken they expel worms they provoke urine and the terms help difficulty of breathing the smoke of them being burned drives away Serpents and venemous beasts Stavesager kills Lice in the head I hold it not fitting to be given inwardly The seeds of water-cresses heat yet trouble the stomach and belly ease the pains of the spleen are very dangerous for women with child yet they provoke lust outwardly applied they help leprosies scald-heads and the falling off of hair as also Carbuncles and cold ulcers in the joynts Mustard seed heats extenuates and draws moisture from the brain the head being shaved and anointed with Mustard is a good remedy for the lethargy it helps filthy ulcers and hard swellings in the mouth it helps old aches coming of cold French Barly is cooling nourishing and breeds milk Sorrel seeds potently resist poyson helps fluxes and such stomachs as loath their meat Succory seed cools the heat of the blood extinguisheth lust openeth stoppings of the liver and bowels it allaies the heat of the body and produceth a good colour it strengthens the stomach liver and reins Poppy seeds ease pain provoke sleep Your best way is to make an Emulsion of them with Barly-water Mallow seeds ease pains in the bladder Cich-Pease are windy provoke lust encrease milk in Nurses provoke the terms outwardly they help scabs itch and inflamations of the stones ulcers c. White-Saxifrage seeds provoke urine expel wind and break the stone Boyl them in white Wine Rue seeds help such as cannot hold their water Lettice seed cool the blood restrains lust Also Gourds Citruls Cucumers Mellons Purslain and Endive Seeds cool the blood as also the stomach spleen and reins and allay the heat of feavers Use them as you were taught to do Poppy seeds Wormseed expels wind kills worms Ash-tree Keyes ease pains in the sides help the dropsie releeve men weary with labor provoke lust and make the body lean Peony seeds help the Ephialtes or the disease the vulgar call the Mare as also the fits of the mother and other such like infirmites of the womb stop the terms and help Convulsions Broom seed potently provoke urine breaks the stone Citron seeds strengthen the heart cheer the vital spirit resist pestilence and poyson TEARS LIQUORS AND ROZINS LAdanum is of a heating molifying nature it opens the mouth of the veins staies the hair from falling off helps pains in the ears and hardness of the womb It is used only outwardly in 〈◊〉 Asa foetida is commonly used to allay the fits of the mother by smelling to it they say inwardly taken it provokes lust and expels
Devils-bit Tobacco Parsly Burnet Plantane Rosemary Willow leaves Sage Sanicle Scabious Soldanella Vervain Dry in the third Degree Southern wood male and foemale Brooklime Angellica Briony white and black Calaminth Germander Chamepitys Sullendine Pilewort Fleabane Epithimum Dwarff Elder Bank cresses Clary Glaswort Lavender Lovage Horehound herb Mastich Mints Water-cresses Origanum Cinkfoyl hot Arsmart Poley mountain Sneezwort Peny-royal Rue or herb of Grace Savin winter and summer Savory mother of Time Lavender Spike Tansy Time Trefoyl In the fourth Degree Garden cresses wild Rue Leeks Onions Crowfoot Rosa solis Garlick Spurge Herbs moist in the first Degree 〈◊〉 Bugloss Marigolds Pellitory of the wall Mallows Bazil In the fourth Degree Chickweed Arach Daisies Lettice Duckmeat Purslain Sow thistles Violets Water-Lillies Herbs apropriated to certain parts of the body of man and so they Heat the Head as Maudlin Costmary Bettony Carduus Benedictus Sullendine Scurvy grass Eyebright Goats 〈◊〉 Cowslips Lavender Laurel Lovage herb Mastich Feather-few Melilot Sneezwort Peny royal Senna mother of Time Lavender Spike Time Vervain Rosemary Heat the Throat Archangel white and red otherwise called dead Nettles Devils-bit Heat the Breast Maidenhair white black common and Golden Distaffe thistle Time Betony Calaminth Chamomel Fennel Iudian leafe Bay leaves Hysop Bawm Horehound Oak of Jerusalem Germander Melilot Origanum Rue Scabious Peruinkles Nettles Heat the Heart Southernwood male and foemale Angellica Woodroofe Bugloss Carduus Benedictus 〈◊〉 Goats Rue Bay leaves Bawm Rue Senna Bazil Rosemary Alicampane Heat the Stomach Wormwood common and Roman Smallage Avens Indian leafe Broom Schenanth Bay leaves Bawm Mints Parsly Fennel Time mother of Time Sage Heat the Liver Agrimony Maudlin Pimpernel male and foemale Smallage Costmary or Alecost our Ladies thistles Centaury the less Germander Chamepiyts Sullendine Sampier Fox gloves Ashtree leaves Bay leaves Toad-flax Hops Hore-hound Water-cresses Parsly Poley mountaine Sage Scordium Senna mother of Time Soldanella Asarabacca Fennel Hysop Spicknard Heat the Bowels Chamomel Alehoofe Alexanders Heat the spleen All the four sorts of Maiden-hair Agrimony smallage Centaury the less Cetrach Germander Chamepitys Sampier Fox-gloves Epithimum Ashtree Bay leaves Toad flax Hops Hore-hound Parsly Poley mountain sage scordium senna mother of Time Tomaris Wormwood Water-cresles Harts-tongue Heat the Reins and Bladder Agrimony Maudlin Marshmallows Pimpernel male and foemale Brooklime Costmary Betony Chervil Germander Chamomel sampier Broom Rupture-wort Clary 〈◊〉 Bay leaves Toad-flax Hops Melilot Water-cresses Origanum Peny-royal scordium Vervain mother of Time Rocket Spicknard Saxifrage Nettles Heat the Womb. Maudlin Angellica Mugwort Costmary Calaminth Fleabanc May 〈◊〉 or Marg-weed Dittany of Creet Schenanth Archangel or dead Nettles Melilot Feather-few Mints Devils-bit Origanum Bazil Peny-royal Savin Sage Scordium Tansy Time Vervain Peruinkles Nettles Heat the Joynts Cowslips sciatica-cresses hot Arsmart Garden cresses Costmary Agrimony Chamomel Saiut Johns-wort Melilot Water-cresses Rosemary Rue Sage Stechas Herbs cooling the Head Wood sorrel Teazles Lettice Plantane Willow-leaves sengreen or Housleek strawberry leaves Violet leaves Fumitory Water-Lillies Cool the Throat Orpine strawberry leaves Privet Bramble leaves Breast Mulberry leaves Bramble leaves Violet leaves strawberry leaves sorrel Wood-sorrel Poppies Orpine Money-wort Plantane Colts-foot Heart Sorrel Wood sorrel Vipers Bugloss Lettice Burnet Violet leaves strawberry leaves Water-Lilles Stamach Sorrel Wood-sorrel succory Orpine Dandelion Endive strawberry leaves Violet leaves Hawkweed Lettice Purslain sow thistles Violet leaves Liver Sorrel Wood-sorrel Dandelion Endive succory strawberry leaves Fumitory Liver-wort Lettice Purslain Nightshade Water-Lillies Bowels Fumitoty Mallows Buckhorn-Plantane Orpine Plantane Burnet Spleen Fumitory Endive succory Lettice Reins and Bladder Knot-grass Mallows Yarrow Money-wort Plantane Endive succory Lettice Purslain Water-lillies Housleek or sengreen The Womb Wild Tansy Arach Burdocks Willow herb Mirtle Leaves Money-wort Purslain sow thistles Endive succory Lettice Water-Lillies sengreen The Joynts Willow leaves Vine leaves Lettice Henbane Nightshade sengreen or Housleek Herbs altering according to property in operation some Bind as Amomus Agnus Castus sheaphards purse Cypress Horstail Ivy Bay leaves Melilot Bawm Mirtles sorrel Plantane Knot-grass Comfry Cinkfoyl Fleawort Purslain Oak leaves Willow leaves sengreen or Housleek c. Open as Garlick Onions Wormwood Mallows Marsh-mallows Pellitory of the wall Endive succory c. Soften Mallows Marshmallows Beets Pellitory of the wall Violet leaves strawberry leaves Arach Cypress leaves Bay leaves Felawort c. Harden Purslain Nightshade Housleek or sengreen Duckmeat and most other Herbs that are very cold Extenuate Mugwort Chamomel Hysop Penyroyal Stoechas Time Mother of Time Juniper c. Discuss Southernwood male and foemale al the four sorts of Maiden-hair Marshmallows Dill Mallows Arrach Beets Chamomel Mints Melilot Pellitory of the Wal Chickweed Rue stoechas Marjoram Draw Pimpernel Birthwort Dittany Leeks Onions Garlick and also take this general Rule as all cold things bind and harden as is apparant by the frost binding and hardning water and mire so all things very hot are drawing as is cleer by the Sun who is the Original of heat drawing up the dew Suppure Mallaws Marsh-mallows white Lilly leaves c. Clense Pimpernel southernwood sparagus Cetrach Arrach Wormwood Beets Pellitory of the wal Chamepitys Doddar Liverwort Horehound Willow leaves c. Glutinate Marshmallows Pimpernel Centaury Chamepitys Mallows Germander Horstail Agrimony Maudlin strawberry leaves Woad Chervil Plantane Cinkfoyl Comfry Bugle self-heal Woundwort Tormentill Rupture-wort Knotgrass Tobacco Expel wind Wormwood Garlick Dill Smallage Chamomel Epithimum Fennel Juniper Marjoram Origanum Savory both winter and summer and that I am of opinion was the reason in ancient times women alwaies boyled Savory with their beans and pease viz. to expel the windiness of them it was a good fashion and therefore I would not have it left however this shews that in ancient times people were more studious in the nature of Simples or at the least Physitians were more honest I mean more free in imparting their knowledg for the benefit of the vulgar at last Honesty began to leave the Earth and then Ignorance quickly stepping up in the place of Knowledg people used them a while for custom sake at last they were esteemed superstitious and quite left off I care not greatly now I am at it if I quote one more of like nature I am confident were it my present scope I could quote an hundred and that is Tansy Tansie is excellent good to clense the stomach and bowels of tough viscous flegm and humors that stick to them which the flegmatick constitution of the Winter usually infects the body of man with and occasions gouts and other diseases of like nature and lasting long this was the original of that custom to eat Tansies in the Spring which afterwards grew to be superstitious and apropriated only to some certain daies as Palm-Sundaies c. and so at last the evils of observing daies being known and the vertues of the meat absconded it is quite almost left off For my part if any think it superstitious to eat a Tansie in the Spring I
stiffness coming by travailing The flowers of Rocket used outwardly discuss swellings and dissolve hard tumors you may boyl them into a pultis or Cataplasme as Scholers cal it But inwardly taken they send but unwholsom vapors up to the head Hops open obstruction of the bowels Liver and spleen they clense the body of Choller and flegm provoke urine I wonder in my heart how that apish fashion of drinking Beer and Ale together for the stone came up and others affirm that the disease of the stone was not in rerum naturam before Beer was invented a gross untruth for Physitians have written of the stone that lived a thousand years before Beer was invented I deny not but staleness of Beer may cause sharpness of urine otherwise Beer if mild is ten times better drink for such as are troubled with the stone than Ale as being more opening Jasmine flowers boyled in Oyl and the greived place bathed with it takes away cramps and stiches in the sides The plant is only preserved here in the gardens of some few and because hard to come by I pass it If you desire more vertues of it be pleased to search it in Dodonoeus The flowers of Woodbine or Honey-suckles being dryed and beaten into pouder and a drachm taken in white Wine in the morning helps the rickets difficulty of breathing provoke urine and help such as cannot make water I would have none make a common practice of taking it for it clenseth the uritery vessels so potently that it may cause pissing of blood The flowers of Mallows being bruised and boyled in hony two ounces of the flowers is sufficient for a pound of hony and having first clarified the honey before you put them in then strained out this honey taken with a Liquoris stick is an eccellent remedy both for Coughs Astmaes and cansumptions of the Lungues Certain FRUITS mentioned by the Colledg in this Order Colledg WInter Cherries Love-Apples Almonds sweet and bitter Anacardia Orrenges Hazel Nuts the oyly Nut Ben Barberries Capers Gumny Pepper Figs Carpobalsamum Cloves Cassia Fistula Chestnuts Cherries black and red Cicers white black and red Pome Citrons Coculus Indi 〈◊〉 Currance Cornels or Cornelian Cherries Cubebs Cucumers garden and wild Guords Cynobatus Cypress Cones Quinces Dates Dwarf Elder Green Figs Strawberries common and Turky Galls Acorns Acorn cups Pomegranates Goos-berries Ivy Herb True-love Walnuts Jujubes Juniper berries Bay-berries Lemmons Orrenges Citrons Quinces Pomegranates Lemmons Mandrakes Peaches Stramontum Apples garden and wild or Crabs and Apples Musk Melones Medlars or open Arses Mulberries Myrobalans Bellericks Chebs Emblicks Citron and Indian Mirtle berries Water Nuts Hazel Nuts Chest-nuts Cypress Nuts Walnuts Nutmegs Fistick Nuts Vomiting-Nuts Olives pickled in brine Heads of white and black Poppies Pompions Peaches French or Kidney Beans Pine Cones white black and long Pepper Fistick Nuts Apples and Crabs Prunes French and Damask Sloes Pears English Currance Berries of purging Thorn Black-berries Rasberries Elder-berries Sebestens Services or Checkers Hawthorn Berries Pinenuts Water nuts Grapes Goos-berries Raisons Currance Culpeper That you may reap benefit by these be pleased to consider that they are some of them Temperate in respect of heat Raisons of the Sun Currance Figs Pinenuts Dates Sebestens Hot in the first degree Sweet Almonds Jujubes Cypress nuts green Hazel Nuts green Walnuts Hot in the second degree The 〈◊〉 Ben Capers 〈◊〉 dry Walnuts dry Hazel Nuts Fistick nuts In the third degree Juniper Berries Cloves Carpobalsamum Cubebs Anacardium bitter Almonds In the fourth degree Pepper white black and long Guinny Pepper Cold in the first degree The flesh of Citrons Quinces Pears Prunes c. In the second Guords Cucumers Melons or as they are called in London Musk Melones I suppose for the sweetness of their smell Pompions Orrenges Lemmons Citrons Pomegranates viz. the Juyce of them Peaches Prunes Galls Apples In the third Mandrakes In the fourth Stramonium Moist in the first degree The flesh of Citrons Lemmons Orrenges viz. the inner rind which is white for the outer rind is hot In the second Guords Melones Peaches Prunes c. Dry in the first degree Juniper berries In the second The Nut Ben Capers Pears Fistick nuts Pine-nuts Quinces Nutmegs Bay-berries In the third Cloves Galls c. In the fourth All the sorts of Pepper As apropriated to the body of man so they heat the Head as Anacardia Cubebs Nutmegs The Breast Bitter Almonds Dates Cubebs Hazel Nuts Pine-nuts Figs Raisons of the Sun Jujubes The Heart Walnuts Nutmegs Juniper Berries The Stomach Sweet Almonds Cloves Ben Juniper berries Nulmegs Pinenuts Olives The Spleen Capers The Reins and Bladder Bitter Almonds Juniper Berries Cubebs Pine-nuts Raisons of the Sun The Womb Walnuts Nutmegs Bay-berries Juniper berries Cool the Breast Sebestens Prunes Orrenges Lemmons The Heart Orrenges Lemmons Citrons Pomegranates Quinces Pears The Stomach Quinces 〈◊〉 Cucumers Guords Musk Melones Pompions Cherries Gooseberries Cornelian Cherries Lemmons Apples Medlars Orrenges Pears English Currance Cervices or Checkers The Liver Those that cool the stomach and Barberries The Reins and Womb Those that cool the stomach and Strawberries By their several Operations some Bind as The berries of Mirtles Barbérriés Chestnuts Cornels or Cornelian Cherries Quinces Galls Acorns Acorn-cups Medlars Checkers or Services Pomegranates Nutmegs Olives Pears Peaches Discuss Capers al the sorts of Pepper Extenuate Sweet and bitter Almonds Bay-berries Jnniperberries Glutinate Acorns Acorn cups Dates Raisons of the Sun Currance Expel Wind Bayberries Juniper berries Nutmegs al the sorts of Pepper Breed seed Raisons of the Sun sweet Almonds Pinenuts Figs c. Provoke Urine Winter-cherries Provokes the Terms Ivy Berries Capers c. Stop the Terms Barberries c. Resist poyson Bay berries Juniper berries Walnuts Citrons commonly called Pome-citrons al the sorts of Pepper Ease pain Bay berries Juniper berries Ivy berries Figs Walnuis Raisens 〈◊〉 all the sorts of Pepper Fruits Purging Choller Cassia Fistula Citron Myrobalans Prunes Tamarinds Raisons Melancholly Indian Myrobalans Flegm Colocynthis and wild Cucumers purge it violently and therefore are not rashly to be medled withal I desire my book should be beneficial not hurtful to the vulgar but Myrobalans of all sorts especially Chebs Bellericks and Emblicks purge flegm very gently and without danger Of all these besides what hath been formerly mentioned in this Book to which I refer you give me leave to commend only one to you as of special concernment which is Juniper berries They may be found all the Winter long plentifully growing on Warley Common in Essex neer Brent-wood about fifteen miles from London Tragus saith the Vertues of Juniper berries are so many that they cannot be numbred amangst which these are some The Berries eaten for they are pleasant in tast are exceeding good against the biting of Adders they resist poyson pestilence or any infectious disease help the strangury and dropsie Mathiolus affirms that a lye made with the ashes of Juniper and water is as great a provoker of Urine as can be
few it were easily answered They did it in Latin to animate people to bring up their children to learning which is a thing I wish from my heart were done what the Colledg doth I know not 2. Because they have here left out some Oyntments the use of which they would not have the Chyrurgians know the most part of which are no Scholars the more is the pity and that they know well enough it were a brave trick if they could catch old birds with chaff KIND READERS THE Right VVorshipful the Colledg of Physitians of London in their new Dispensatory give you free leave to distill these common VVaters that follow but they never intended you should know what they are good for SIMPLE DISTILLED WATERS Of Fresh Roots of BRiony Onions Alicampane Orris or Flower-de-luce Turneps Of Flowers and Buds of Southernwood both sorts of Wormwood Wood-sorrel Ladies-Mantle Marsh-mallows Angelica Pimpernel with purple flowers Smallage Columbines Sparagus Mousear Borrage Shepheards-purse Calaminth wood-bine or Honey-suckles Carduus Benedictus our Ladies thistles Knotgrass Succory Dragons Coltsfoot Fennel Goats-rue Grass Hysop Lettice Lovage Toadflax Hops 〈◊〉 Mallows Horehound Feathersew Bawm Mints Horsemints Water-cresses English Tobacco white Poppies Pellitory of the wall Parsly Plantane 〈◊〉 Self-heal Penyroyal Oak Leaves Sage Scabious Figwort or Throatwort Housleek or 〈◊〉 the greater and lesser Mother of Time Nightshade Tansie 〈◊〉 Valerian Of Flowers of Orrenges if you can get them Blew-bottle the greater Beans Water-lillies Lavender Nut-tree Cowslips Sloes Rosemary Roses white 〈◊〉 and red Satyrion Line-tree Clove-gilliflowers Violets Of Fruits of Orrenges black cherries 〈◊〉 Quinces Cucumers Strawberries Winter Cherries Lemmons Rasberries unripe Walnuts Apples Of parts of living creatures and their Excrements Lobsters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Snails 〈◊〉 Bullocks dung made in May Swallows Earthworms Magpies spawm of Frogs SIMPLE WATERS DISTILLED being digested beforehand Of the fresh Roots of Nettles Of the Leaves of Agrimony Wild Tansie or Silverweed Mugwort Betony Marigolds Chamomel Chamepitis Sullondine Pilewort Scurvy grass Comfry the greater Dandelyon Ashtree leaves Eyebright Fumitory Alehoof or ground Ivy Horstail St. Johns wort Yarrow Moneywort Restharrow Solomons seal Ros solis Rue Savin Saxifrage Hartstongue Scordium Tamaris Mullin Vervain Pauls Betony Mead sweet Nettles Of the Flowers of Mayweed Broom Cowslips Butter-bur Peony Elder Of the Berries of Broom Elder Culpeper A. Then the Colledg gives you an Admonition concerning distilling these such a one as it is which being converted into your native language is as followeth We give you warning that these common waters be better prepared for time to come either in common stills putting gaod store of Ashes underneath the Roots and Herbs being dryer c. Or if they be full of Juyce by distilling the Juyce in aconvenient Bath that so burning may be avoided which hitherto hath seldom been But let the other Herbs Flowers or Roots be bruised and by adding Tartar common Salt or Leven be digested then putting spring water to them distill them in an Alembick with his refrigeratory or Worm till the change of the tast shew the vrtue to be drawn off then let the Oyl if any be be seperated from the Water according 〈◊〉 Into the number of these Waters may be ascribed The Teares of Vines The Liquor of the birch tree May dew Culpeper A. That my Country may receive the benefit of these Waters I shall first shew the Temperatures secondly the vertu es of the most usual most easie to come by If any should take exceptions that I mention not all for itis imposible to write to please every body I answer first I me ntion enough secondly Who ever makes this objection they shew extream ingratitude for had I mentioned but only one I had revealed more to them than ever the Colledg intended they should know or con me thanks for doing but the best is I respect their love and fear their hatred much at one The quallities and apropriation of the simple distilled Waters Simple distilled Waters either cool or heat Such as cool either cool the blood or Choller Waters cooling the blood Lettice Purslain Water-Lillies Violets Sorrel Endive Succory Fumitory Waters cooling and repressing chollerick humors or vapors in the head Nightshade Lettice Water-Lillies Plantane Poppies viz. The flowers both of white black and red Poppies black Cherries The breast and lungues Violets Poppies all three sorts Colts-foot In the heart Sorrel Quinces Water-Lillies Roses Violets green or unripe Walnuts In the stomach Quinces Roses Violets Nightshade Housleek or Sengreen Lettice Purslain In the River Endivc Succory Nightshade Purslain Water Lillies In the Reins and bladder Endive Succory winter Cherries Plantane Water-Lillies Strawberries Housleek or Sengreen black Cherriea In the Womb. Endive Succory Lettice Water-Lillies Purslain Roses Simple Waters which are hot concoct either flegm or Melancholly Waters concocting flegm in the Head are of Betony Sage Marjoram Chamomel Fennel Calaminth Rosemary flowers Primroses Eye-bright In the Breast and Lungues Maidenhair Betony Hysop Hore-hound Carduus Bnedictus Scabious Orris or Flower-de-luces Bawm Self-heal c. In the heart Bawm Rosemary In the stomach Wormwood Mints Fennel Chervil Time mother of Time Marigolds In the Liver Wormwood Centaury Origanum Marjoram Maudlin Costmary Agrimony Fennel In the Spleen Water-cresses Wormwood Calaminth In the reins and bladder Rocket Nettles 〈◊〉 Pellitory of the wall Alicampane Burnet In the Womb. Mugwort Calaminth Peny-royal Savin mother of Time Lovage Waters concocting Melancholly in the head are of Hops Fumitory The Breast Bawm Carduus Benedictus The Heart Borrage Bugloss Bawm Rosemary The Liver Endive Cichory Hops The Spleen Dodder Harts-tongue Tamaris Time Having thus ended the apropriation I shall speak breifly of the vertues of distilled Waters Lettice Wat er cools the blood when it is overheated for when it is not it needs no cooling it cools the head and Liver staies hot vapors ascending to the head and hi ndring sleep it quencheth immoderate thirst and breeds milk in nurses Distill it in May. Purslain Water cools the blood and Liver quencheth thirst helps such as spit blood have hot coughs or pestilences The distilled Water of water Lilly-Flowers cools the blood and the bowels and al internal parts of the body helps such as have the yellow Jaundice hot coughs or pleuresies the headach coming of heat feavers pestilential and not pestilential as also hectick feavers The Water of Violet flowers cools the blood the heart Liver and Lungnes overheated and quencheth an insatiable desire of drinking they are in their prime about the latter end of March or begining of April according as the year fals out The Water of Sorrel cools ths blood heart Liver and spleen if Venis Treacle be given with it it is profitable in pestilential feavers distil it in May. Endive and Succory Water are excellent against heat in the stomach If you take an ounce of either for their operation is the same morning and evening four daies one after another they cool the
A. 7. If they can make a shift to make it which is a task almost if not altogether as hard as to piss down Pauls how or which way the vertues of it wil countervail the one half of the charge and cost to leave the pains and trouble out 〈◊〉 Dr. Ignoramus followed Matthias and never considered he lived in a different Climate Spiritus Castorii Page 32. in the Latin Book Or Spirit of Castorium The Colledg Take of fresh Castorium four ounces Lavender flower an ounce the tops of Sage and Rosemary of each half an ounce Cinnamon six drams Mace Cloves of each two drachms Spirit of Wine rectified six pound digest them in a Phial filled only to the third part close stopped with cork and bladder in warm ashes for two daies then distilled in Balneo Mariae and the distilled water kept close stopped Culpeper A. By reason of its heat it is no waies fit to be taken alone but mixed with other convenient medicines apropriated to the diseases you would give it for It resists poyson and helps such as are bitten by venemous beasts it causeth speedy deliver y to women in travail and casteth out the after birth it helps the fits of the mother Lethargies and Convulsions being mixed with white Wine and dropped into the ears it helps deafness if stopping be the cause of it the dose to be given inwardly is between one drachm and half a drachm according to the age and strength of the patient Aqua Petasitidis composita Page 32. in Latin Book Or Compound water of 〈◊〉 Burrs The Colledg Take of the fresh roots of Butter Burr bruised one pound and an half the roots of Angelica and Master-wort of each half a pound steep them in ten pints of strong Ale then distil them till the change of the tast gives testimony that the strength is drawn out Culpeper A. This water is very effectual being mixed with other convenient cordials for such as have pestilential feavers also a spoonful taken in the morning may prove a good preservative in pestilential times it helps the fits of the mother and such as are short winded and being taken inwardly dries up the moisture of such sores as are hard to be cured Aqua Raphani Composita Page 33. in the Latin B. Compound water of Rhadishes The Colledg Take of the leaves of hoth sorts of Scurvy-grass of each six pound having bruised them press the 〈◊〉 out of them with which mix of the Juyce of Brooklime and Water-cesses of each one pound and an half of the best white wine eight pound twelve whole Lemmons pills and all fresh 〈◊〉 roots four pound the roots of wild Raddishes two pound Capt. winters Cinnamon half a pound Nutmegs four ounces steep them altogether and then distil them Culpeper A. In their former Dispensatory when they had that Ingenuity left to confess where they had their medicines I gave them a modest term and said they borrowed them from such or such an Author but now all ingenuity hath left them and nothing but Self remains in them and they abscond their Authors I know not what to say unless I should say they stole them whether this be their own or not I know not 't is something like them a churlish medicine to a churlish Colledg I fancy it not and so I leave it I suppose they intended it for purgation of women in childbed and 't is as fit for it as a Sow is for a Saddle Aqua Peoniae Composita Page 33. in the Latin B. Or Compound water of Peony The Colledg Take of the flowers of Lillies of the vally one pound infuse them in four gallons of Spanish Wine so long til the following flowers may be had fresh Take of the fore named flowers half a pound Peony flowers four ounces steep them together fourteen daies then distil them in Balneo Mariae til they be dry in the distilled liquor infuse again male Peony roots gathered in due time two ounces and an half white Dittany long Birthwort of each half an ounce the leaves of Misleto of the Oak and Rue of each two handfuls Peony seeds husked ten drachms Rue seeds three drachms and an half Castorium two scruples Cubebs Mace of each two drachms 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half Squils prepared three drachms Rosemary flowers six pugils Arabian 〈◊〉 Lavender of each four pugils the flowers of Betony Clove-gilli-flowers and Cowslips of each eight pugils then adding four pound of the Juyce of black cherries Distil it in a glass stil til it be dry Culpeper A. It seems the Colledg was shrewdly put to it to alter the name of this Receipt from Langius his Antepileptical water to Compound water of Peony a new trick to cheat the world and they have also altered some few things not worth the noting A. If the Authority of Erastus or daily experience wil serve the turn then was this Receipt chiefly compiled against the Convulsion fits but the derivation of the word notes it to be prevalent against the falling sickness also for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek signifies Falling sickness and indeed Erastus and 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 at this time for their minds are mutable A. Well then having now learned the vertues of the Water a word or two of the Use will not be amiss 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 sickness only at the new and full Moons I could give reasons for this judgment of Erastus but I am unwill ing to be tedious Then saith he if the disease come daily let a spoonful to it be taken morning and evening if weakly then let it be taken only at the new and ful 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 Bezoartica 34. in the Latin Book Or Bezoar Water The Colledg Take of the leaves of Sullendine roots and al three handfuls and an half Rue two handfuls Scordium four handfuls Dittany of creet Carduus of each one handful and an half Zedoary and Angellica roots of each three drachms Citrons and Lemmon pills of each six drachms Clove-gilliflowers one ounce and an half red Roses Centaury the less of each two drachms Cinnamon Cloves of each three drachms Venis Treacle three ounces Mithridate one ounce and an half Camphire two scruples Troches of vipers two ounces Mace two drachms wood of Aloes half an ounce yellow Sanders one drachm and an half Cardus seeds one ounce Citron seeds six drachms let
them be cut and infused in Spirit of Wine and Malaga Wine of each three pound and an half Vineger of Clove-gilli-flowers juyce of Lemmons of each one pound and distilled in a glass stil in Balneo Mariae after it is half stilled off the residue may be strained through a linnen cloath and be reduced to the thickness of Honey and called the Bezoartick extract Culpeper A. Extracts have the same vertues with the waters they are made from only the different form is to please the quaint pallats 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 exceeding good in pestilential feavers in health it withstands melancholly and consumptions and makes a merry blith cheerful creature Of the extract you may take ten grains at a time or somewhat more if your body be not feaverish half a spoonful of water is sufficient at a time and that mixed with other cordials or medicines apropriated to the disease that troubles you which the Table at the latter end of the Book will direct you to And take this for a general rule when any thing is too hot to take it by it self resort to the Table of diseases which will amply furnish you with what to mix it and especially the cold waters the vertues of which you have amply in this third Edition This is Langius Receipt though the Colledg would have no body know it Aqua et Spiritus Lumbricorum Magistralis P. 34. L. B. Or Water and Spirit of Earth-worms The Colledg Take of Earth-worms wel clensed three pound Snails with shels on their backs clensed two Gallons beat them in a mortar and put them into a convenient vessel adding stinging Nettles roots and all six handfuls wild Angellica four handfuls Brank ursine seven handfuls Agrimony Betony of each three handfuls Rue one handful common Wormwood two handfuls Rosemary flowers six ounces Dock roots ten ounces the roots of Sorrel five ounces Turmerick the inner bark of Barberries of each four ounces Fenugreek seeds two ounces Cloves three ounces Harts-horn Ivory in gross pouder of each four ounces Saffron three drachms smal Spirit of Wine four gallons and an half after twenty four hours infusion distil them in an Alembick Let the four first pounds be reserved for Spirit the rest for water Culpeper A. 'T is a mess of Altogether it may be they intended it for an Universal medicine Aqua Gentianae composita Page 35. in the Latin B. Or Gentian Water Compound The Colledg Take of Gentian roots sliced one pound and an half the leaves and flowers of Centaâ—ry the less of each four ounces steep them eight daâ—â— in twelve pound of white Wine then distil them in an Alembick Culpeper A. It conduceth to preservation from ill air and pestilential feavers it opens obstructions of the Liver and helps such as they say are Liver grown it easeth pains in the stomach helps digestion and easeth such as have pains in their bones by ill lodging abroad in the cold it provokes appetite and is excellent good for the yellow jaundice as also for prickings or stitches in the sides it provokes the terms and expells both birth and after-birth it is naught for women with child If there be no feaver you may take a spoonful or taster full by it self if there be you may if you please mix it with some cooler medicine apropriated to the same use you would give it for Aqua Gilberti Page 35. in the Latin Book Or Gilberts Water The Colledg Take of Scabious Burnet Dragons Bawm Angellica Pimpernel with purple flowers Tormentil roots and all of each two handfuls let al of them being rightly gathered and prepared be steeped in four gallons of Canary Wine stil off three gallons in an Alembick to which ad three ounces of each of the cordial flowers Clove-gilli-flowers six ounces Saffron half an ounce Turmerick two ounces Galanga Bazil seeds of each one drachm Citron pills one ounce the seeds of Citrons and Cardus Cloves of each five drachms Harts-horn four ounces steep them twenty four hours and then distil them in Balneo Mariae to the stilled water add Pearls prepared an ounce and an half red Corral Crabs eyes white Amber of each two drachms Crabs claws six drams Bezoar Ambergreese of each two scruples steep them six weeks in the Sun in a vessel well stopped often shaking it then filter it you may keep the pâ—uders for Sp. cord temp by mixing twelve ounces of Sugar candy with six ounces of red Rose water and four ounces of Spirit of Cinnamon with it Culpeper A. I suppose this was invented for a cordial to strengthen the heart to releeve languishing nature it is exceeding dear I forbear the dose they that have money enough to make it themselves cannot want time to stady both the vertues and dose I would have Gentlemen men to be studious A. Only one thing I would demand of the Colledg that makes their brags so much of minding their Countryes good these same species which they appoint to be left after use in this medicine for Species Cordiales Temperatae Doth the vertue come out of them in this medicine or not if not why are they put in if yes then wil the Species cordiales Temperatae be like themselves viz. good for nothing but to deceive people Aqua Cordialis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Page 36. in Lat. B. The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Borrage Bugloss Bawm Bistort Tormentil Scordium Vervain Sharp-pointed dock Sorrel Goats Rue 〈◊〉 blew Bottle great and smal Roses Marigolds Lemmons Citrons of each six ounces Bnrnet Sinksoyl of each three ounces white Wine Vineger one pound Purslain seeds two ounces Citron and Cardus seeds of each half an ounce Water Lilly flowers two ounces the flowers of Borrage Bugloss Violets 〈◊〉 of each one ounce Diatrion Santalon six 〈◊〉 let all of them being rightly prepared be infused three daies then distilled in a glass still to the distilled Liquor add earth of Lemnos Siletia aud Samos of each one ounce and an half Pearls prepared with the juyce Citrons three drachms mix them and keep them together Culpeper A. No sooner had I translated their old Dispensatory which should have been Authentick til dooms day in the afternoon had not I done it to work go they and make another such a one as 〈◊〉 and then the old one is thrown by like an old Almanack out of 〈◊〉 some final alterations they have made in some medicines of which this is one not worth speaking of yet wil they serve to vapor with look here quoth they here 's such a thing altered here is a grain and an half put in where there was but a grain before the other is dangerous and destructive to the Common-wealth and so care not a straw for defaming their predecessors nay some of their own handy works so they may but uphold their own interests and unconscionable domineering thus they serve the poor
people just as a Cat serves a Mouse first play with them and then eat them up A. It mightily cools the blood and therefore profitable in Feavers and al diseases proceeding of heat of blood it provokes sleep You may take half an ounce at a time or two drachms if the party be weak Aqua Theriacalis Page 36. in the Latin Book Or Treatle Water The Colledg Take of the Juyce of green Walnuts 〈◊〉 pound the juyce of 〈◊〉 three pound juyce of Carduus Marigolds and Bawm of each two pound 〈◊〉 Petasitis roots one pound and an half the roots of 〈◊〉 one pound Angellica and Master-wort of each half a pound the leaves of Scordium four 〈◊〉 old venis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each eight ounces Canary Wine twelve pound Vineger six pound juyce of Lemons two pound digest them two daies either in horse-dung or in a bath the vessel being close shut then distil them in Sand in the distillation you may make a theriacal extraction Culpeper A. This water is exceeding good in 〈◊〉 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 Treacle The dose is from a spoonful to an ounce Aqua Brioniae Composita Page 37. in the Lat. Book Or Briony water Compound The Colledg Take of the juyce of Briony roots four pound the leaves of Rue and Mugwort af each two pound dried Savin three handfuls Feather-few Nep Peny-royal of each two handfuls Bazil Dittany of 〈◊〉 of each one handful and an half 〈◊〉 pills four ounces Mirrh two ounces Castorium one ounce 〈◊〉 Wine twelve pounds digest them four daies in a convenient vessel then stil them in Balneo Mariae about the middle of the distillation strain it out and make an Hysterical extraction of the residue Culpeper A. A spoonful of it taken easeth the 〈◊〉 of the mother in women that have them it potently expels the after-birth and clears the body of what a mid-wife by heedlesness or accident hath left behind it clenseth the womb exceedingly and for that I fancy it much take not above a taster full at a time and that in the morning fasting for it is of a purging quality and let women with child forbear it This was called Aqua Histerica in their former Edition let any body unless it be an Ass be judge if the Colledges intentions in changing the names only of their medicines the Ingredients being all the very 〈◊〉 If I could not have found out this I had certainly been as great a fool as themselves Aqua 〈◊〉 Page 37. in the Latin Book Or Imperial Water The Colledg Take of dried Citron and 〈◊〉 pills Nutmegs Cloves 〈◊〉 of each two ounces the roots of Cyperus Orris Florentine Calamus Aromaticus of each one ounce Zedoary Galanga Ginger of each half an ounce the tops of Lavender and Rosemary of each two handfuls the leaves of Bay Marjoram Bawm 〈◊〉 Sage Time of each one handful the flowers of white and Damask Rose fresh of each half a handful Rose water four pound white Wine eight pound let al of them being bruised and insused twenty four hours then distil them according to art Culpeper A. You must distil it in a Bath and not in sand It seems the Colledg were but mean practioners in Alchymy but in this and many other Receipts trusted to that monster called Tradition therefore take this for a general Aphorism All gross bodies stilled in sand will stink egregiously This so gravelled the Colledg that in their new Dispensatory they quite lest out the manner of distillation A. It comforts and strengtheneth the heart a gainst Faintings and Swoonings and it is held to be a preservative against Consumptions and Apoplexies You may take half a spoonful at a time Aqua Mirabilis Page 38. in Lat. Book The Colledg Take of Cloves Galanga Cubebs Mace Cardamoms Nutmegs Ginger of each one drachm 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 half a pound Spirit of wine one pound white wine three pound infuse them twenty four hours and draw off two pound with an Alembick Culpeper A The Simples also of this regard the stomach and therefore the water heats cold stomachs besides Authors say it preserveth from Apoplexies and restoreth speech lost Aqua 〈◊〉 Page 38. in Lat. Book The Colledg Take of Scordium Scabious Cardus 〈◊〉 of each two handfuls Citron and Orrenge Pills of each two ounces the seeds of Citrons Cardus Hartwort Treacle Mustard of each one ounce the flowers of Marigolds and Rosemary of each one handful cut them and bruise them grosly then insuse them in four pound of white Wine and two pound of Cardus Water in a glass stopped close and set in the 〈◊〉 or bath for a fortnight often shaking it then still it in Balneo Mariae Let the two first pounds be kept by themselves for use and the remainder of the distillation by it self Lastly mix an ounce of Julep of Alexandria and a spoonful of Cinnamon water with each pound Culpeper A. Aqua 〈◊〉 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 Caponis Page 38. in Lat. Book Or Capon Water The Colledg Take a Capon the guts being pulled out cut in pieces the fat being taken away boyled in a sufficient quantity of spring water in a close vessel take of this broath three pound Borrage and Violet Water of each a pound and an half white Wine one pound red Rose Leaves two drachms and an half the flowers of Borrage Violets and Bugloss of each one drachm pieces of bread hot out of the Oven half a pound Cinnamon bruised half an ounce still it in a glass still according to art Culpeper A. Divers Physitians have written several Receipts of this water as Gesner Andr. è Lacuna Med. Florent and Coloniens But the truth is this Receipt although our Physitians conceal it was borrowed from the Augustan Physitians and only because they thought as I suppose a Capon 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 the composition greatly nourishes and strengtheneth such as are in consumptions and restoreth strength lost either by feavers or other sickness 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 Aqua Limacum 〈◊〉 P. 39. Or Water of Snails The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Ground-Ivy Coltsfoot Scabious Lungwort of each one pound and an half the Juyce of
Purstain Plantane Ambrosia Pauls Betony of each a pound Hogs blood white Wine of each four pound Garden Snails two pound dried Tobacco Leaves eight pouder of Liquor is two ounces of Alicampane half an ounce of Orris an ounce Cotton seeds an ounce and 〈◊〉 half the greater cold seeds Annis seeds of each six drachms Saffron one drachm the flowers of red Roses six pugils of Violets and Borrage of each four 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them three daies warm and then distill them in a glass still in sand Culpeper It purgeth the lungues of flegm and helps consumptions there If you should happen to live where no beetter nor readier Medicine can be gotten you may use this Aqua Scordii Composita Page 29. in the L. Book Or Compound Water of Scordium The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Goats-rue Sorrel Scordium Citrons of each one pound London Treacle half a pound steep it three daies and distill it in sand Culpeper A. A tasterful taken in the morning preserves from ill airs Aqua Mariae Page 39. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Sugar candy a pound Canary Wine six ounces Rose water sour ounces boylit well into a Syrup and ad to it Imperial Water two pound Ambergreese Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fitfeen grains yellow Sanders infused in Imperial water two drachms make ae cleer water of it Culpeper A. The difference between this and their former Aqua Mariae is this Here they appoint Imperial Water and before Aqua 〈◊〉 which they very subtilly have left out here any tooth good Barber so we may hold up our honor and gains Both Receipts are very costly as far beyond the reach of a poor mans purse as of his brains Aqua Papaveris Composita Page 39. in L. Book Or Poppy Water Compound The Colledg Take of red Poppies four pound sprinkle them with white Wine two pound then distill them in a common still let the distilled Water be powred upon fresh flowers and repeated three times to which distilled water ad two Nutmegs sliced red Poppy flowers a pugil Sugar two ounces set it in the Sun to give it a pleasing sharpness if the sharpness be more than you would have it put some of the same water to it which was not set in the Sun and then it will be a pretty water good for nothing Aqua Juglandium Composita Page 40. in L. Book Or Walnut Water Compound The Colledg Take of green Walnuts a pound and an half Rhadish roots one pound green Asarabacea six ounces Rhadish seeds four ounces let all of them being bruised be steeped in three pound of white Wine for three daies then distilled in a leaden still till they be dry And when you have done so I pray ask the Colledg what it is good for in truth I know not Some Waters kind country men the Colledg have plaid the men and left out in their new Dispensatory which were in their old one and they are these Mathiolus his Bezoar Water The Colledg Take of Mathiolus his great Antielote Syrup of Citron Pills of each one pound spirit of Wine distilled five times over five pound put all these in a glass 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 glass to be kept for your use stopping it very close with wax and Parchment else the strength will easily fly away in vapors Culpeper 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 and speedily cureth the bitings of any venemous beasts whatsoever that although the danger of death be such that the patient have lost his speech sight and almost all the rest of his sences yet will he be rouzed 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 testifie by experience in the commendations of it I have known it given in acute in peracute feavers with gallant success and also in Consumptions yea in Hecticks and in Galens supposed incurabe Marasmos neither hath it missed the desired effects and therefore out of question it strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and the spirit vital It helps in the falling-sickness apoplexies and convulsion A. 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 It is too hot to be taken alone and half a drachm is the most may be taken at a time Cinnamon Water The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound and an half Spanish Wine twelve pints Infuse the Cinnamon in the Wine twenty four hours then distil them in an 〈◊〉 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 Culpeper A. The vertues are the same that Cinnamon it self hath to which I refer you Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound put it into a glass 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 twenty four hours then put on the still-head lute it well and distill it according to art Culpeper A. Mathiolus appoints Wine of Creet four pints and that is all the alteration A. The Authors own Judgment is That it strengthens the brain heart liver stomach lungues spleen and nerves quickens the sight resisteth poyson 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 have a care of taking too much of it in feavers Cinnamon Water made by Infusion The Colledg Take of Cinnamon bruised four ounces Spirit of Wine two pints infuse them together four daies in a large glass close stopped with Cork and a Bladder shaking the Glass twice a day Dissolve half a pound of white Sugar Candy in a quart of 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 linnen
last keep the cleer Liquor for your use Culpeper A. A gallant fine thing for Gentlemen that have nothing else to do with their money and it will have a lovely look to please their eyes Tinctura Scordii Page 41. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Scordium The Colledg Take of the Leaves of Scordium gathered in a dry time half a pound digest them in six pound of small spirit of Wine in a vessel well stopped for three dates press them out gently and repeat 〈◊〉 infusion three times and keep the clarified Liquor for use So is made Tincture of Sullondine Rest-harrow Ros-solis Culpeper A. See the Herbs for the Vertues and then take notice that these are better for cold stomachs old bodies Tictura Theriacalis Vulgo Aqua Theriatalis Lugd. per infus Page 41. in Lat. Book Or Tincture of Treacle The Colledg Take of Canary Wine often times distilled Vineger in which half an ounce of Rue seeds have been boyled two pound choyce Treasle the best Mithridate of each half a pound mix them and set them in the Sun or heat of a Bath digest them and keep the Water for use Tinctura Cinnamomi vulgo Aqua Clareta Cinnam Page 42. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Cinnamon The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon two ounces rectified Spirit of Wine two pound infuse them four daies in a large glass stopped with Cork and Bladder shake it twice a day then dissolve half a pound of Sugar candy by it self in two pound of Rose Water mix both Liquors into which hang a Nodule containing Amber greese half a scruple Musk four grains Culpeper A. This was before amongst the Waters only there is four ounces of Cinnamon appointed and here but two Tictura Viridis Page 42. in the Latin Book Or A Green Tincture The Colledg Take of Vert-de-greece half an ounce Auripigmentum six drachms Allum three drachms boyl them in a pound of white uine till half be consumed adding after it is cold the Water of red Roses and Nightshade of each six ounces Culpeper A. This was made to clense ulcers but I fancy it not Aqua Aluminosa Magistralis Page 42. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Plantane and red Rose water of each a pound roch Allum and sublimatum of each two drachms Let the Allum and Sublimatum being in pouder boyl in the waters in a vessel with a narrow mouth till half be consumed when it hath stood five daies strain it Culpeper A. Now they have left out the Quicksilver as I bid them I like men will do as they are bid yet I fancy it not Follopius invented it but you must tell no body PHYSICAL WINES Vinum Absynthites Page 43. in the Latin Book Or Wormwood Wine Colledg TAke a handful of dried Wormwood for every gallon of Wine stop it in a vessel close and so let it remain in steep so is prepared Wine of Rosemary flowers and Eye-bright Culpeper A. It helps cold stomachs breaks wind helps the Wind Chollick strengtheneth the stomach kills worms and helps the green sickness A. Rosemary flower-Wine is made after the same manner that Wormwood Wine is made A. It is good against al cold diseases of the head consumeth flegm strengtheneth the gums and teeth A. Eyebright Wine is 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 A. All other Wines are prepared in the same manner when the Physitian shall see it fit quoth the Colledg in their former but here they left it out A. But what if there be never a Physitian worth a rush 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 vulgar Fervent cold in such cases let them view 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. The best way of taking any of these Wines is To drink a draught of them every morning You may if you find your body old or cold make Wine of any other herb the vertues of which you desire and make it and take it in the same manner I have done only I would know of the Colledg whether their wooden wits intend Sack or white Wine to be used in these Vinum Cerassorum Nigrorum Page 43. in Latin B. Or Wine of Black Cherries The Colledg Take a gallon of the juyce of black Cherries keep it in a vessel close stopped til it begin to work then filter it and an ounce of Sugar being added to every pound let it pass through Hippocrates his sleeve and keep it in a vessel close stopped for use Culpeper A. If ever I knew the like of the Colledg never trust me here they go and appoint the Wine of black Cherries with never a drop of Wine in it and the juyce will not keep without it above a week or so and so if you are minded to make it you may by that time sing Alack alack now have I lost My pains my labor and al my cost A. Or I know not it may be they followed their Patriarks the Papists as wel in this as in their reasons why Physick must not be printed in our mother tongue and they were minded to pop you off with the juyce and drink al the wine themselves Or to judge as modestly as can be judged they were so mad because I had translated their former that anger so besotted them in this that they knew not what they wrote Impedit Ira animum ne possit cernere verum Unbridled anger takes away mens knowledge And clouds the The truth and so it did the Colledg Vinum Helleboratum Page 43. in the Latin B. Or Wine Helleborated The Colledg Take of white Hellebore out smal four ounces Spanish Wine two pound steep it in the Sun in a Pbial close stopped in the Dog daies or other hot weather Culpeper A. And then it will make a dogged purge as like the Colledg as a pomewater is like an apple Vinum Rubellum Page 43. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Stibium in pouder one ounce Cloves sliced two drachms Claret Wine two pound keep it in a Phial close shut Vinum Benedictum Page 43. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Crocus Mettallorum in pouder one ounce Mace a drachm Spanish Wine one pound and an half steep it Vinum Antimoniale Pege 43. in the Latin Book Or Antimonial Wine The Colledg Take of Regulus of Antimony in pouder four ounces steep it in three pound of white Wine in a glass well stopped after the first shaking let the Regulus settle Culpeper A. These three last mentioned are vomits and vomits are fitting medicines for but a few as I told you before
pound Culpeper A. This is the common Decoction for all Clysters according to the quality of the humor abounding so you may ad what Simples or Syrups or Electuaries you please only half a score Linseeds and a handful of Chamomel flowers are added Decoctum Fpythimi Page 47. in the Latin Book Or A Decoction of Epithimum The Colledg Take of Myrobalans Chebs and Inds of each half an ounce 〈◊〉 Raisons of the Sun stoned Epithimum Senna of each one ounce Fumitory half an ounce Mandlin five drachms Polipodium six drachms Turbith half an ounce Whey made with Goats milk or Heisers milk four pound let them all boyl to two pound the Epithimum excepted which boyl but a walm or two then take it from the 〈◊〉 and ad black Hellebore one drachm and an half Agrick half a drachm Sal. Gem. one drachm and an half sleep them ten hours then press it strongly out Culpeper A. Here is half a drachm of black Hellebore added and I like the Receipt never the better for that A. It purgeth melancholly gallantly as also addust choller it resisteth madness and al diseases coming of melanchelly and therefore let melancholly people esteem it as a jewel A. I cannot but commend it to such of my Countey men as abound with melancholly humors Let them take a quarrer of a pint of this in the morning and keep by the fire side al day imagine they take it at six of the Clock then let them drink a draught of posset-drink at eight and eat a bit of hot Mution at twelve if their bodies be strong for people oppressed with Melancholly usually go hardly to stool by reason it is a retentive humor Let them mix those Syrups which I shal quote when I come to them with it and I dare hazard that small credit I have in Physick that it shall in a few mornings fetch them out of their Melancholly dumps which though they may seem pleasing yet are no way profitable to the body of man especially if the body be troubled also with ill tumors I know not what better word to give Cacochynna Decoctum Sennae Gereonis Page 47. in the Lat. Book Or A Decoction of Senna The Colledg Take of Senna two ounces Pollipodium half an ounce Ginger one drachm Raisons of the Sun stoned two ounces Se bestens Prunes of each twelve the flowers of Borrage Violets Roses and Rosemary of each two drachms boyl them in four pound of water till half be consumed Culpeper A. It is a common Decoction for any purge by adding other Simples or Compounds to it according to the quality of the humor you would have purged yet in its self it chiefly purgeth melancholly I shal quote it when I come at such Compounds as are fit to mix with it Decoctum Pectorale Page 48. in the Latin Book Or A Poctoral Decoction The Colledg Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned an ounce Seb oftens Jujubes of each fifteen Dates six Figs four french Barly one ounce Liquoris half an ounce Maiden-hair Hysop Scabious Colts-foot of each one handful boyl them in three pound of water till two remain Culpeper A. The medicine is cheifly apropriated to the Lungues and therefore causeth a cleer voice a long wind resisteeh coughs hoarceness Asthmaes c. You may drink a quarter of a pint of it every morning without keeping any diet for it purgeth not I shall quote some Syrups fitting to be mixed with it when I come to the Syrups Decoctum Trumaticum Page 48. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Agrimony Mugwort wild Angelica St. Johns wort Mousear of each two handfuls Wormwood half a handful Southernwood Betony Bugloss 〈◊〉 the greater and lesser roots and all Avens both sorts of Plantane Sanicle Tormentil with the roots the buds of Rasberries and Oak of each a handful all these being gathered in May or June and dilligently dried let them be cut and put up in skins or papers against the time of use then take of the fore named Herbs three handfuls boyl them in four pound of Conduit water and two pound of white Wine gently till half be consumed strain it and a pound of Honey being added to it let it be scummed and kept for use Culpeper A. 〈◊〉 sight of a Medicine will do you good this is as like to do it as any I know Some they have left out in their new Model which are these that follow A Carminative Decoction Colledg TAke of the seeds of Annis Carrots Fennel Cummin and Caraway of each three drachms Chamomel flowers half a handful 〈◊〉 of the Sun an ounce and an half boyl them in two pints of water till almost half 〈◊〉 sumed Culpeper A. It is commonly used in Clysters to such whose bodies are molested or oppressed with wind these seeds being added to the former Decoction A Decoction of Flowers and Fruits The Colledg Take five Figs fifteen Prunes Jujubes and 〈◊〉 of each twenty Tamarinds an ounce the flowers of Roses Violets Borrage Bugloss of each a drachm Maidenhair Hops Endive of each half an handful Liquoris two drachms being cut and bruised boyl them in three pints of spring Water to the consumption of the third part Culpeper A. It strengthens the Lungues and helps Obstruction Lac Virgineum The Colledg 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 〈◊〉 them about till they are white Culpeper A. It takes away Pimples redness freckles and sunburning the face being washed with it A Drink for wounded men The Colledg Take of Crabs of the River calcined and beaten into very fine pouder two drachms the roots of round Birthwort and of Comfry the greater Self-heal Bay-berries lightly bruised of each one drachm tie 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 Perewinkles 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 Culpeper A. And therefore left my poor wounded Country man should perish for want of an Angel to fee 〈◊〉 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 Receipt in his own Mother tongue he may get any friend to make it He may drink half a pint of it in the morning or if he please to boyl it in smal Ale instead of Wine he would be well the sooner if he drunk no other drink SYRUPS ALTERING SYRUPS Syrupus de Absinthio Symplex Pag. 49. in Lat. Book OR Syrup of Wormwood Simple The Colledg TAke of the clarified Juyce of common
Wormwood clarified Sugar of each four pound make it into a Syrup according to art After the same manner are prepared simple Syrups of Betony Borrage Bugloss Cardus Chamomel Succory Endive Hedg-mustard Strawberries Fumitory Ground-Ivy St. Johns wort Hops Mercury Mousear Plantane Apples Purslain Rasberries Sage Scabious Scordium Housleek Coltsfoot Pauls Betony and other Juyces not sour Culpeper A. See the Simples and then you may easily know both their vertues and also that they are pleasanter and fitter for delicate stomachs when they are made into Syrups Syrupus de Absinthio Compositus 49. in the Lat. B. OR Syrup of Wormwood Compound The Colledg Take of common Wormwood meanly dry half a pound red Roses two ounces Indian Spicknard three drachms old white Wine Juyce of Quinces of each two pound and an half steep them a whol day in an earthen vessel then boyl them gently and strain it and by adding two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art Culpeper A. Mesue is followed verbatim in this and the Receipt 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 urin It was Roman Wormwood before and so Mesue hath it and our Colledg is as well able to correct Mesue as the Pigmies were to beat Hercules Syrupus Acetosus Symplex Pag. 50. in the L. Book OR Syrup of Vinegar Simple The Colledg Take of cleer Water four pound white Sugar five pound boyl them in a glazed vessel over a gentle fire scumming it till half the water be consumed then by putting in two pound of Wine Vineger by degrees perfect the Syrup Culpeper A. That is Only melt the Sugar with the Vinegar over the fire scum it but boyl it not Syrupus Acetosus Simplicior Pag. 50. in the L. Book OR Syrup of Vineger more Simple The Colledg Take of white Sugar five pound white Wine Vinegar two pound by melting it in a bath make it into a Syrup Culpeper 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 humors in the stomach they cool the body quench thirst provoke urine and propare the stomach before the taking of a vomit If you take it as a prepatative for a vomit take half an ounce of it when you go to bed the night before you intend to vomit it will make you to vomit the easier but if for any of the foregoing occasins take it with a Liquoris stick Syrupus Acetosus Compositus Pag. 50. in the L. Book OR Syrup of Vinegar Compound The Colledg Take of the Roots of Smallage Fennel Endive of each three ounces the seeds of Annis Smallage Fennel of each one ounce of Endive half an ounce cleer Water six pound boyl it gently in an earthen vessel till half the Water be consumed then strain and clarifie it and with three pound of Sugar and a pound and an half of white wine Vinegar boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper A. This in my opinion is a gallant Syrup for such whose bodies are stuffed either with flegm or tough humors 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 〈◊〉 at their stomach Mesue prescribes ten 〈◊〉 of Water and a quart of Vineger let every one use which D r Experience tels him is best Syrupus de Agno Casto Pag. 50. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Agnus Castus The Colledg Take of the seeds of Rue and Hemp of each half a drachm of Endive Lettice Purslain Guords Melones of each two drachms of Fleawort half an ounce of Agnus Castus four ounces the Flowers of Water-Lillies the Leaves of Mints of each half a handful Decoction of seeds of Lentils and Coriander seeds of each half an ounce three pound of the Decoction boyl them all over a gentle fire til two pound be consumed ad to the residue being strained two ounces Juyce of Lemmons a pound and an half of white Sugar make it into a Syrup according to art A. A pretty Syrup and good for little Syrupus de Althaea Pag. 51. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Marsh-Mallows The Colledg Take of Roots of Marsh-Mallows two ounces the Roots of Grass Sparagus Liquoris Raisons of the Sun stoned of each half an ounce the tops of Mallows Marsh-Mallows Pellitory of the Wall Burnet 〈◊〉 Maiden-hair white and black of each a handful red 〈◊〉 an ounce of the four greater and four lesser cold seeds of each three drachms boyl them in six pound of cleerr Water till four remain which being strained boyl into a Syrup with four pound of white Sugar Culpeper 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 excellent 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 Clysters but for gravel or the stone drink it in convenient Medicines or by it self If both of them afflict you use it both waies I assure you this medicine will save those that are subject to such diseases both mony and misery Syrupus de Ammoniaco Pag. 51. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Ammoniacum The Colledg Take of Maudlin and Cetrach of each four handfuls common Wormwood an ounce the Roots of Succory Sparagus bark of Caper Roots of each two ounces after due preparation sleep them twenty four hours in three ounces of white Wine Rhadish and fumitory water of each 2. pound then boyl it away to one pound eight ounces let it settle in four ounces of which whilst it is warm dissolve by it self Gum Ammoniacum first dissolved in white Wine Vinegar two ounces boyl the rest with a pound and an half of white Sugar into a Syrup adding the mixtures of the Gum at the end Culpeper A. It cools the Liver and opens obstructions both of it and the Spleen helps old Surfets and such-like diseases as scabs itch leprosy and what else proceed from the Liver overheated you may take an ounce at a time Syrupus de Artemisia Pag.
51. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Mugwort The Colledg Take of Mugwort two handfuls Penyroyal Calaminth Origanum Bawm Arsmart Dictani of Creet Savin Marsoram Germander St. Johns Wort 〈◊〉 Featherfew with the Flowers Centaury the less Rue Bettony Bugloss of each a handful the Roots of Fennel Smallage Parsly Sparagus Bruscus Saxifrage Alicampane Cyperus Maddir Orris Peony of each an ounce Juniper Berries the seeds of Lovage Parsly Smallage Annis Nigella Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Costus Cassia Lignea Cardamoms Calamus Aromaticus the Roots of Asarabacca Pellitory of Spain Valerian of each half an ounce being clensed cut and bruised let them be infused twenty four hours in fourteen pound of cleer water and boyled till half be consumed being taken off from the fire and rubbed between your hands whilst it is warm strain it and with Honey and Sugar of each two pound sharp Vineger four ounces boyl it to a Syrup and perfume it with Cinnamon and Spiknard of each three drams Culpeper A. It helps the passion 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 You may take a handful of it at a time Syrupus de Betonica Compositus Pag. 52. In L. Book O R Syrup of Betony Compound The Colledg Take of Betony three handfuls Marsoram a handful and an half Time red Roses of each a handful Violets Stoechas Sage of each half a handful the seeds of Fennel Annis and Ammi of each half an ouce the roots of Peony Polypodium and Fennel of each five drachms boyl them in six pound of river water to three pound strain it and ad juyce of Betony two pound Sugar three pound and an half make it into a Syrup Culpeper A. It helps diseases coming of cold both in the head and stomach as also such as come of wind vertigoes madness it concocts melancholly it provokes the terms in women and so doth the Simple Syrup more than the Compound The Composition was framed by the Augustan Physitians Certainly our Physitians have but shallow brains that they are fain to trot as far as Ausberg in Germany to steal Receipts Syrupus Byzantinus Simple Page 53. In the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the Juyce of the Leaves of Endive and Smallage of each two pound of Hops and Bugless of each one pound boyl them together and scum them and to the clarified Liquor ad four pound of white Sugar to as much of the Juyces and with a gentle fire boyl it to a Syrup Syrupus Byzantinus Compound Page 53. In the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the Juyces so ordered as in the former four pound in which boylred Roses two ounces Liquoris half an ounce the seeds of Annis Fennel and Smallage of each three drachms Spicknard two drams strain it and to the three pound remaining ad two pound of Vineger four pound of Sugar make it into a Syrup according to art Culpeper A. They both of them viz. both Simple and Compound opens stoppings of the stomach liver and spleen help the Rickets in children cuts and brings away tough flegm and helps the yellow Jaundice Mesue saith the Compound Syrup is of more effect than the Simple for the same uses You may take them with a Liquoris stick or take a spoonful in the morning fasting Syrupus Botryos Page 53. In the Latin Book O R Syrup of Oak of Jerusalem The Colledg Take of Oak of Jerusalem Hedg-mustard Nettles of each two handfuls Coltsfoot an handful and an half boyl them in a sufficient quantity of cleer Water till half be consumed to two pound of the Decoction ad two pound of the Juyce of Turneps baked in an Oven in a close pot and with three pound of white Sugar boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper This Syrup was composed against Coughs shortness of breath and other the like infirmities of the breast proceeding of cold for which if you can get it you may take it with a Liquoris stick Syrupus Capillorum Veneris Pag. 53. In L. Book O R Syrup of Maidenhair The Colledg Take of Liquoris two ounces Maidenhair five ounces steep them a natural day in four pound of warm water then after a gentle boyling and strong straining with a pound and an half of fine Sugar make it into a Syrup Culpeper A. It opens stoppings of the stomach strengthens the Lungues and helps the infirmities of them This may be taken also either with a Liquoris stick or mixed with the pectoral Decoction like Syrup of Coltsfoot Syrupus Cardiacus vel Julepum Cardiacum Pag. 53. O R A Cordial Syrup The Colledg Take of Rhenish Wine two pound Rose water two ounces and an half Cloves two seruples Cinnamon half a drachm Ginger two scruples Sugar three ounces and an half boyl it to the consistence of a Julep adding Amber-greese three grains Musk one grain Culpeper A. He that hath read thus far in this Book and doth not know he must first boyl the Simples in the Wine and then strain them out before he puts in the Sugar is a man that in my opinion hath not 〈◊〉 enongh to be taught to make up a Medicine and the Colledg in their new Master-piece hath left it out A. If you would have this Julip keep long you may put in more Sugar and yet if close stopped it will not easily corrupt because 't is made up only of Wine indeed the wisest way is to order the quantity of sugar according to the pallat of him that takes it A. It restoreth such as are in Consumptions comforts the heart cherisheth the drooping spirits and is of an opening quality thereby carrying away those vapors which might otherwise anoy the brain and heart You may take an ounce at a time or two if you please Syrupus infusionis Floram Caryophillorum Pag. 54. O R Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers The Colledg Take a pound of Clove-gilliflowers the whites being cut off infuse them a whol night in two pound of Water then with four pound of sugar melted in it make it into a Syrup without boyling Culpeper A. In their former they added three pound of Water if you would infuse them you must do it at several times 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 and usually mixed with other Cordials you can hardly err in taking it it is so harmless a syrup Syrupus de Cinnamomo Pag. 54. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Cinnamon The Colledg Take of Cinnamon grosly bruised four ounces steep it in white Wine and small Cinnamon water of each half a pound three daies in a glass by a gentle heat strain it and with a pound and an half of Sugar boyl it gently to a syrup Culpeper A. This comes something neerer the Augustan Dispensatory than their
those whose bodies are subject to scabs and Itch. If you please you may take two ounces by it self every morning Syrupus de Glycyrrhiza Pag. 56. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Liquoris The Colledg Take of green Liquoris scraped and bruised two ounces white Maidenhair an ounce dryed Hysop half an ounce steep these in four pound of hot water after 24. hours boyl it till half be consumed strain it and clarifie it and with Honey Peuids and Sugar of each eight ounces make it into a syrup adding before it be perfectly boyled red Rose-water six ounces Culpeper A. It clenseth the breast and lungues and helps continual Coughs and Pleuresies You may take it with a Liquoris stick or ad an ounce of it or more to the pectoral Decoction Syrupus Granatorum cum Aceto vulgo Oxysaccharum simplex Page 57. in the Latin Book O R Syrup of Pomegranates with Vineger The Colledg Take of white Sugar a pound and an half Juyce of Pomegranates eight ounces white Wine Vineger four ounces boyl it gently into a Syrup Culpeper A. Look the Vertue of Pomegranates amongst the Simples Syrupus de Hyssopo Page 57. in the Latin Book O R Syrup of Hysop The Colledg Take eight pound of spring Water half an ounce of Barley boyl it about half an hour then ad the Roots of smallage Parsly Fennel Liquoris of each ten drams Jujubes Sebestens of each fifteen Raisons of the sun stoned an ounce and an half Figs Dates of each ten the seeds of Mallows and Quinces Gum Tragacanth tyed up in a rag of each three drachms Hysop meanly dried ten drachms Maiden-hair six drachms boyl them together yet so that the Roots may precead the Fruits the Fruits the Seeds and the Seeds the Herbs about a quarter of an hour at last five pounds of Water being consumed boyl the other three being first strained and clarified into a syrup with two pound and an half of Sugar Culpeper A. You may thank Mesue for it not the Colledg A. It mightily strengthens the breast and lungs causeth long wind cleer voice is a good remedy against coughs Use it like the syrup of Liquoris Syrupus Ivae arthriticae sive Chamaepityos Pag. 57. O R Syrup of Chamepitys The Colledg Take of Chamepitys two handfuls Sage Rosemary Poley mountain Origanum Calaminth wild mints Peniroyal Hysop Time Rue Garden and wild Betony Mother of Time of each a handful the roots of Acorus Birthwort long and round Briony Dittany Gentian Hogs Fennel Valerian of each half an ounce the roots of smallage sparagus Fennel Parsly Bruscus of each an ounce Pellitory of Spain an ounce and an half stoechas the seeds of Annis Ammi Carraway Fennel Lovage Hartwort of each three drachms Raisons of the sun two ounces boyl them in ten pound of water to four to which ad Honey and Sugar of each two pound make it into a syrup to be persumed with sugar Nutmegs and Cubebs of each three drachms Culpeper A. I bid them mend this for shame last time and the truth is so they have before it was a Hodg-podg that could not be made and now 't is a Hodg-podg only not worth the making Syrupus Jujubinus Page 58. in the Latin Book O R Syrup of Jujubes The Colledg Take of Jujubes Violets five drachms Maiden-hair Liquoris French Barley of each an ounce the seeds of Mallows five drachms the seeds of white Poppies Melones Lettice seed of Quinces and Gum Tragacanth tyed up in a rag of each three drachms boyl them in six pound of rain or spring water till half be consumed strain it and with two pound of sugar make it into a syrup Culpeper A. Those that adore the Colledg as so many little God-a-mighties let them ask them what part of the Violets must be put in for they must operate as neer to their meanings as the men of Benjamin could throw a stone and not miss others that do not may be pleased to make use of the Flowers A. It is a fine cooling syrup very available in Coughs Hoarsness and Pleuresies Ulcers of the Lungues and Bladder as also in all inflamations whatsoever You may take a spoonful of it once in three or four hours or if you please take it with a Liquoris stick Syrupus de Meconio sive Diacodium Page 58. Syrup of Meconium or Diacodium The Colledg Take of white Poppy heads with their seeds gathered a little after the flowers are fallen off and kept three daies eight ounces black Poppy heads so ordered six ounces rain Water eight pound steep them twenty four hours then boyl and press them gently boyl it to three pounds and with twenty four ounces of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art Syrupus de Meconio Compositus Page 59. in L. Book Syrup of Meconium Compound The Colledg Take of white and black Poppy heads with their seeds fifty drachms maindenhair fifteen drachms Jujubes thirty the seeds of Lettice fourty drachms of Mallows and Quinces tied up in a rag a drachm and an half Liquoris five drachms Water eight pound boyl it according to art strain it and to three pound of Decoction ad sugar and penids of each a pound make it into a syrup Culpeper A. Meconium The blush of which this Receipt carries in its frontispiece is nothing else but the juyce of English Poppies boyled till 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 all reason is colder in quality and therefore I speak purely of Meconium and Opium not of these syrups though they be no edg-tools yet 't is ill jesting with them 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 beginning of Feavers nor to such whose bodies are costive ever remember my former Motto Fools are not fit to make Physitians Yet to such as are troubled with hot sharp Rhewms you may safely give them and note this the last which is borrowed from Mesue is apropriated to the Lungues whose own words translation excepted of it are these It prevails against dry Coughs Phtisicks hot and sharp gnawing Rhewms and provokes sleep It is an usual fashion for Nurses when they have heat their milk by exercise or strong liquor no marvel then if their children be froward then run for syrup of Poppies to make their young ones sleep I would fain have that fashion left therefore I forbear the dose let Nurses keep their own bodies 〈◊〉 and their children will sleep well enough never fear Syrupus 〈◊〉 Page 59. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Bawm The Colledg Take of the Bark of Bugloss Roots an ounce the 〈◊〉 of white Dittany sinksoyl scorzonera of each half an ounce the Leaves of Bawm scabious Devils-bit the 〈◊〉 of both sorts of Bugloss and Rosemary of
and an half boyl them after one daies warm digestion in a sufficient quantity of distilled Water of Peony Roots to four pouud in which being strained through Hippocrates his sleeves put four pound and an half of white sugar and boyl it to a syrup Culpeper A. It is somewhat costly to buy and as troublesom to make a spoonful of it taken helps the Falling-sickness and Convulsions Syrupus de Pomis alterans Page 62. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Apples The Colledg Take four pound of the juyce of sweet scented Apples the juyce of Bugloss garden and wild of Violet Leaves Rose water of each a pound boyl them together and clarifie them and with six pound of pure sugar boyl it into a syrup according to Art Culpeper A. It is a fine cooling syrup for such whose hearts and stomachs are overpressed with heat and may safely be given in feavers for it rather loosens than binds it breeds good blood and is profitable in Hectick feavers and for such as are troubled with palpitation of the heart it quencheth thirst admirably in Feavers and staies Hiccoughs You may take an ounce of it at a time in the morning or when you need Syrupus de Prasio Page 62. In the Latin Book Or Syrup of Horehound The Colledg Take of white Horehound fresh two ounces Liquoris Polipodium of the Oak Fennel and smallage Roots of each half an ounce white Maiden-hair Origanum Hysop Calaminth Time savory scabious Coltsfoot of each six drachms the seeds of Annis and Cotton of each three drachms Raisons of the sun stoned two ounces fat Figs ten boyl them in eight pound of Hydromel till half be consumed boyl the Decoction into a syrup with honey and sugar of each two pound and perfume it with an ounce of the Roots of Orris Florentine Culpeper A. It is apropriated to the breast and lungues and is a fine clenser to purge them from thick and putrified flegm it helps Phtisicks and Coughs and diseases subject to old men and cold natures Take it with a Liquoris stick Both this Receipt and the former Fernelius was the Author of Syrupus de quinque Radicibus Page 63. In L Book Or Syrup of the sive opening Roots The Colledg Take of the Roots of smallage Fennel Parsly Bruscus Sparagus of each two ounces spring Water six pound boyl away the third part and make a syrup with the rest according to art with three pound of sugar adding eight ounces of white white Wine Vinegar towards the latter end Culpeper It clenseth and openeth very well is profitable against Obstructions provokes Urine clenseth the body of flegm and is safely and profitably given in the beginning of Feavers An ounce at a time upon an empty stomach is a good dose Syrupus Raphani Page 63. In the L. Book Or Syrup of Rhadishes The Colledg Take of Garden and wild Rhadish Roots of each an ounce the Roots of white Saxifrage Lovage Bruscus Eringo Restharrow Parsly Fennel of each half an ounce the Leaves of Bettony Burnet Penyroyal Nettles Watercresses Sampier Maidenhair of each a handful Winter Cherries Jujubes of each ten the seeds of Bazil Bur Parsly of Macedonia Hartwort Caraway Carrots Gromwel the Bark of the Root of Bay-tree of each two drachms Raisons of the sun stoned Liquoris of each six drachms boyl them in twelve pound of water to eight strain it and with four pound of Sugar and two pound of Honey make it into a syrup and perfume it with an ounce of Cinnamon and half an ounce of Nutmegs Culpeper A. A tedious long Medicine for the stone I wonder why the Colledg affect such LONG Receipts surely it will be LONG enough before they be wiser Syrupus Regius aliàs Julapium Alexandrinum P. 64 Or Julep of Alexandria The Colledg Boyl four pound of Rose water and one pound of white sugar into a Julep Julep of Roses is made with Damask Rose water in the very same manner Culpeper Two fine cooling drinks in the heat of summer for them that have nothing else to do with their money Syrupus de Rosis siccis Page 64. In the L. Book Or Syrup of dried Roses The Colledg Make four pound of spring Water hot in which infuse a pound of dried Roses by some at a time press them out and with two pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. If you boyl it it will lose both colour and vertue and then who but the Colledg would first cry out against such paltry stuff I am weary with nothing this in every Receipt therefore be pleased to accept of this one general Rule It is not best to boyl any syrups 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 You may take an ounce at a time before meat if for fluxes after meat if for vomiting Syrupus Scabiosae Page 64. In the L. Book Or Syrup of Scabious The Colledg Take of the Roots of Alicampane and Polypodium of the Oak of each two ounces Raisons of the the sun stoned an ounce sebestens twenty Coltsfoot Lungwort savory Calaminth of each a handsul and an half Liquoris Spanish Tobacco of each half an ounce the seeds of Nettles and Cotton of each three drachms boyl them all the Roots being infused in white Wine the day before in a sufficient quantity of Wine and Water to eight ounces strain it and adding four ounces of the Juyce of Scabious and ten ounces of sugar boyl it to a syrup adding to it twenty drops of oyl of Sulphur Culpeper A. It is a clensing syrup apropriated to the breast and lungues when you perceive them oppressed by flegm crudities or stoppings your remedy is to take now and then a spoonful of this syrup it is taken also with good success by such as are itchy or scabby Syrupus de Scolopendrio Page 64. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Hartstongue The Colledg Take of Hartstongue three handfuls Polypodium of the Oak the Roots of both sorts of Bugloss bark of the roots of Capars Tamaris of each two ounces Hops Doddar Maiden-hair Bawm of each two handfuls boyl them in nine pound of spring water to five and strain it and with four pound of white sugar make it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. It helps the stoppings of Melancholly opens obstructions of the Liver and spleen and is profitable against splenetick evils and therefore is a choice remedy for the disease which the vulgar call the Rickets or Liver-grown A spoonful in a morning is a precious Remedy for children troubled with that disease Men that are troubled with the spleen which is known by pain and hardnes in their left side may take three or four spoonfuls they
being tyed up in a rag and often crushed in the boyling Culpeper A. Mesue appoints Senna Cods and so do the Augustan Physitians viz. the husk that holds the seeds and the Colledg altered that and added the Annis seeds I suppose to correct the Senna and in so doing they did well A. The syrup is a pretty cooling purge and tends to rectifie the distempers of the blood it purgeth choller and melancholly and therefore must needs be effectual both in yellow and black Jaundice madness scurf Leprosie and scabs It is very gentle and for that I commend both the Receipt and Mesue the Author of it The dose is from one ounce to three according as the body is in age and strength An ounce of it in the morning is excellent for such children as break out in scabs Syrupus de Pomis Magistralis Page 68. in L. Book Or Syrup of Apples Magisterial The Colledg Take of the Juyce and Water of Apples of each a pound and an 〈◊〉 the Juyce and Water of Borrage and Bugloss of each nine ounces Senna half a pound Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each three 〈◊〉 Epithimum of Creet two ounces Agrick Rhubarb of each half an ounce Ginger Mace of each four scruples Cinnamon two scruples Saffron half a drachm Infuse the Rhubaib and Cinnamon apart by it self in white Wine and Juyce of Apples of each two ounces let all the rest the Saffron excepted be sleeped in the Waters above mentioned and the next day put in the Juyces which being boyled 〈◊〉 and strained then with four ounces of white Sugar boyl it into a syrup crushing the Saffron in it being tyed up in a linnen rag the infusion of the Rhubarb being added at the latter end Culpeper A. Out of doubt this is a gallant syrup to purge addust Choller and Melancholly and to resist madness I know no better purge for such as are almost or altogether distracted by Melancholly than one ounce of this mixed with four ounces of the Decoction of Epithimum ordering their bodies as they were taught Syrupus de Rhabarbaro Page 69. in the Lat. Book Or Syrup of Rhubarb The Colledg Take of the best Rhubarb and Senna of each two ounces and an half Violet Flowers a handful Cinnamon one drachm and an half Ginger half a drachm Betony Succory and Bugloss Water of each one pound and an half let them be mixed together warm all night and in the morning strained and boyled into a syrup with two pound of white sugar adding towards the end four ounces of syrup of Roses Culpeper A. It clenseth choller and melancholly very gently and therefore is fit for children old people and weak bodies You may ad an ounce of it to the 〈◊〉 of Epithimum or to the Decoction of Senna It is a very pretty Receipt made by the Augustan Physitians Syrupus Rosaccus Solutivus Page 69. in L. Book Or Syrup of Roses Sclutive The Colledg Take of spring water boyling hot four pound Damask Rose leaves fresh as many as the Water will contain let them remain twelve hours in insusion close stopped then press them out and put in 〈◊〉 Rose leaves do so nine times in the same liquor encreasing the quantity of the Roses as the Liquor encreaseth which will be almost by the third part every time Take six parts of this Liquor and with four parts of white Sugar boyl it to a syrup according to art Culpeper A. It loosneth the belly and gently bringeth out choller and flegm but leaves a binding quality behind it Syrupus e Succo Rosarum Page 70. in the Lat. Book Or Syrup of the Juyce of Roses The Colledg It is prepared without steeping only with the Juyce of Damask Roses pressed out and clarified and an equal proportion of Sugar added to it Culpeper A. This is like the other Syrupus Rosaccus Solutivus cum Agarico Page 70. Or Syrup of Roses Solutive with Agrick The Colledg Take of Agrick cut thin an ounce Ginger two drachms Sal-Gem one drachm Polypodium bruised two ounces sprinkle them with white wine and steep them two dates over warm oshes in a pound and an half of the infusion of Damask Roses prescribed before and with one pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to Art Culpeper A. You had better ad twice so much sugar as is of the infusion for fear the strength of the Agrick be lost in the boyling A. It purgeth flegm from the head relieves the sences oppressed by it it provokes the terms in women it purgeth the stomach and Liver and provoketh urin Some hold it an universal purge for all parts of the body a weak body may take an ounce at a time and a strong two ounces guiding himself as he was taught in Decection of Epithimum Syrupus Rosaccus Solutivus cum Helleboro Page 70. Or Syrup of Roses Solutive with Hellebore The Colledg Take of the bark of all the Myrobalans of each four ounces bruise them grosly and steep them twenty four hours in twelve pound of the infusion of Roses before spoken Senna Epithimum Polypodium of the Oak of each four ounces Cloves an ounce Citron seeds Liquoris of each four ounces the bark of black Hellebore roots six drachms let the fourth part of the Liquor gently exhale strain it and with five pound of Sugar and sixteen drachms of Rhubarb tyed up in a 〈◊〉 rag make it into a syrup according to Art Culpeper A. You must not boyl the black Hellebore at all 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 Receipts 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 resisleth madness I wish the ignorant to let it alone for fear it be too hard for them and use them as coursly as the Colledg hath done Syrupus Rosaccus Solutivus cum Sena Page 70. Or Syrup of Roses Solutive with Senna The Colledg Take of Senna six ounces Caraway and sweet Fennel seeds of each three drachms sprinkle them with white Wine and infuse them two daies in three pound of the infusion of Roses aforesaid then strain it and with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper A. It purgeth the body of choller and melancholly and expels the relicts a disease hath left behind it the dose is from one ounce to two you may take it in a Decoction of Senna it leaves a binding quality behind it Surupus de Spina Cervina Page 71. Or Syrup of Purging Thorn The Colledg Take of the Berries of Purging Thorn gathered in September as many as you will bruise them in a stone Mortar and press out the 〈◊〉 let the fourth part
Wine Vineger of each two pound boyl them in an earthen vessel taking the scum off with a wooden Scummer till it be come to the consistence of a Syrup Culpeper A. Your best way is to boyl the Water and Honey first into a Syrup and ad the Vineger afterwards and then boyl it again into a Syrup Observe that the later it be before you ad the Vineger to any Syrup the sowrer will it be so may you please your self and not offend the Colledg for they give you latitude enough A. It cuts flegm and it is a good preparative against a vomit Oxymel Compound Page 73. in the L. Book The Colledg Take of the Bark of the Root of Fennel Smallage Parsly Bruscus Sparagus of each two ounces the Seeds of Fennel Smallage Parsly Annis of each one ounce steep them all the Roots being first clensed and the Seeds bruised in six pound of cleer water and a pound and an half of wine Vineger the next day boyl it to the consumption of the third part boyl the rest being strained with three pound of Honey into a liquid Syrup according to art Culpeper A. First having bruised the Roots and Seeds boyl 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 and with all my heart I will put it to Dr. Reason to judg which is the best way of making of it the Colledges or mine Oxymel Helleboratum Page 74. in the Latin Book Or Oximel Helleborated The Colledg Take of Rue Time Dittany of Creet Hysop Penyroyal Horebound Cardus the Roots of Celtick Spicknard without Leaves the inner bark of Elders of each a handful mountain Calaminth two pugils the Seeds of Annis Fennel Bazil Romane Nettles Dill of each two drachms the Roots of Angelica Marsh-Mallows Aron Squils prepared Birthwort long round and climing Turbith English Orris Costus Polypodium Lemmon Pills of each an ounce the strings of black Hellobore Spurge Agrick added at the end of the Decoction of each two drams the bark of white Hellebor half an ounce let al of them being dried bruised be digested in a Glass or glazed vessel close stopped in the heat of the Sun or of a Furnace Posca made of equal parts of Water and Vineger eight pound Sapa two ounces three daies being expired boyl it a little more than half away strain it pressing it gently and ad to the liquor a pound and an half of Honey-Roses wherein two ounces of Citron Pills have been infused boyl it to the thickness of Honey and perfume it with Cloves Saffron Ginger Galanga Mace of each a drachm Culpeper 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 the labor and cost if put in an equal ballance would outweigh the benefit but the Apothecaries must make it the Colledg commands it Oxymel Julianizans Page 75. in Lat. Book The Colledg Take of the bark of Caper Roots the Roots of Orris Fennel Parsly Bruscus Cichory Sparagus Cyperus of each half an ounce the Leaves of Harts-tongue Schaenanth Tamaris of each half a handful sweet Fennel Seed half an ounce infuse them in three pound of Posca which is somthing sowr afterwards boyl it till half be consumed strain it and with Honey and Sugar clarified of each half a pound boyl it to the thickness of Honey Culpeper 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 Children are as humorsom as men and they are humorsom enough Experience the best of all Doctors teacheth some love sweet things let them take Syrup of Harts-tongue others cannot abide sweet things to their natures this Syrup suits being taken in the same manner The Colledg Oximel of Squils simple is made of three pound of clarified Honey Vineger of Squils two pound boyl them according to art Culpeper A. They say they borrowed this Receipt of Nicholaus but of what Nicholaus I know not the self same Receipt is word for word in Mesue whose commendations of it is this It cuts and divides humors that are tough and viscus and therefore helps the stomach and bowels afflicted by such humors and helps sour belchings If you take but a spoonful in the morning an able body will think it enough A. View the Vineger of Squils and then your reason will tell you this is as wholsom and somwhat more toothsom Oxymel Scilliticum Compositum Page 75. in L. Book Or Oximel of Squils Compound The Colledg Take of Origanum dried Hysop Time Lovage Cardamoms the less Stoechas of each five drachms boyl them in three pound of Water to one strain it and with two pound of Honey Honey of Raisons half a pound Juyce of Briony five ounces Vineger of Squils a pound and an half boyl it and scum it according to art Culpeper A. Mesue saith this is good against the Falling-sickness Megrim Head-ach Vertigo or swimming in the head and if these be occasioned by the stomach as many times they are it helps the Lungues obstructed by humor and is good for women not well clensed after labor it opens the passage of the womb 'T is too churlish a purge for a Country man to meddle with If the ignorant will be medling they will meet with their matches and say I told them so A. Such Syrups as are in their rejected Dispensatory and left out in this for they love to reject the best and chuse the worst as though they were born for nothing else but to do mischief are these that follow Culpeper A. REader before we begin I thought good to advertise thee of these few things which indeed I had inserted at the beginning of the Syrups had I not forgotten it A. 1. A Syrup is a Medicine of a liquid body compounded of Decoction Infusion or Juyce with Sugar or Honey and brought by the heat of the fire into the thickness of Honey A. 2. Because all Honey is not of a thickness understand new Honey which of all other is thinnest A. 3. The Reason why Decoctions Infusions and Juyces are thus used is because thereby 1. They will keep the longer 2. They will tast the better A. 4. In boyling Syrups have a great care of their just consistance for if you boyl them too much they will candy if too little they will sour A. 5. All Simple Syrups have the vertues of the Simples they are made of and are far more convenient for weak people and queazy stomachs Syrup of Purslain Mesue The Colledg TAke of the seeds of Purslain grosly bruised half a pound of the Juyce of Endive boyled and clarified two pound Sugar two pound Vineger nine ounces infuse the seeds in the juyce of Endive twenty four
declare their sin and hide it not but manifest to the world in the sight of the Sun that they are not a Colledg of Christians but of RANTERS by calling KING JAMES their GOD blush O Sun at such blasphemy It may be they left it out because King Charls is dead for worshiping old Jemmy for God 't is more than probable they worshiped his Son for Christ and their Tubelary gods being apud Inferos gives me some hopes they will follow them quickly and so all the Tyrants will go together 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 rediculous it hath the same vertues Pearls have Saccharum Tabellatum Compositum Page 86. Or Lozenges of Sugar Compound The Colledg Take of choyce Rhubarb four scruples Agrick Trochiscated Corallina burnt Harts-horn Dittany of Creet Wormseed and Sorrel seed of each a scruple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Saffron of each half a scruple white Sugar a pound dissolved in four ounces of warmwood water warmwood Wine an ounce Cinnamon water a spoonful with the forenamed poudersmake it into Lozenges according to art Culpeper 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. Saccharum Penidium Page 86. in Latin Book Or Sugar Penids The Colledg Are prepared of Sugar dissolved in spring water by a gentle fire and the whites of Egs dilligently beaten and clarified once and again whilst it is boyling then slrain it and boyl it gently again till it rise up in great bubbles and being chewed it stick not to your teeth then powr it upon a Marble anointed with Oyl of Almonds let the bubbles first sink after it is removed from the fire bring back the outsides of it to the middle till it look like larch Rozin then your hands being rubbed with white starch you may draw it into threeds either short or long thick or thin and let it cool in what form you please Culpeper A. I remember Country people were wont to take them for coughs and they are sometimes used in other Compositions Confectio de Thure Page 87. in the Latin Book Or Confection of Frankinsence The Colledg Take Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce Nutmegs white Frankinsence of each three drachms Liquoris Mastich of each two drachms Cubebs Harts-horn prepared of each one drachm Conserves of red Roses an ounce white Sugar as much as is sufficient to make it into mean bits Culpeper A. I cannot boast much neither of the rariety nor vertues of this Receipt Saccharum Rosatum Page 87. in the Latin Book Or Sugar of Roses The Colledg Take of red Rose Leaves the whites being cut off and speedily dried in the Sun an ounce white Sugar a pound melt the Sugar in Rose water and juyce of Roses of each two ounces which being consumed by degrees put in the Rose Leaves in Pouder mix them put it upon a Marble and make it into Lozenges according to art Culpeper A. As for the vertues of this It strengthens weak stomachs weak hearts and weak brains restores such as are in consumptions restores lost strength staies fluxes easeth pains in the head ears and eyes helps spitting vomiting and pissing of blood it is a fine commodity for a man in a Consumption to carry about with him and eat now and then a bit This they mended as I bid them `t is a comfort they will do something as they are bid SPECIES OR POUDERS Aromaticum Caryophyllatum Page 88. in the Latin Book Colledg TAke of Cloves seven drachms Mace Zedoary Galanga the less yellow Sanders Troches Diarrhodon Cinnamon wood of Aloes Indian Spicknard long Pepper Cardamoms the less of each a drachm red Roses four drachms Gallia Moschata Liquoris of each two drachms Indian leaf Cubebs of each two scruples beat them all dilligently into pouder Culpeper A. This pouder strengthens the heart and stomach helps digestion expelleth wind staies vomiting and clenseth the stomach of putrified humors This they have mended also as I in my former Edition shewed them Aromaticum Rosatum Page 88. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of red Roses exungulated fifteen drachms Liquoris seven drachms Wood of Aloes yellow Sanders of each three drachms Cinnamon five drachms Cloves Mace of each two drams and an half Gum-Arabick and Tragacanth of each eight scruples Nutmegs Cardamoms the less Galanga of each one drachm Indian Spicknard two scruples make it into pouder to be kept in a glass for use Culpeper They have here only left out the Musk and Ambergreece viz. Musk one scruple Ambergreece two scruples for fear the Receipt should be too good A. It strengthens the brain heart and stomach and all such internal Members as help towards concoction it helps digestion consumes the watry excrements of the bowels strengthens such as are pin'd away by reason of the violence of a disease and restores such as are in a consumption Pulvis ex Chelis Cancrorum Compositus Page 89. Or Pouder of Crabs Claws Compound The Colledg Take of Pearls prepared Crabs eyes red Corral white Amber Harts-horn Oriental Bezoar of each half an ounce Pouder of the black tops of Crabs Claws the waight of them all beat them into pouder which may be made into Balls with gelly and theskins which our vipers have cast off warily dried and kept for use Culpeper A. This is that pouder they ordinarily call Gnscoigns pouder there are diverse Receipts of it of which this is none of the worst thought the manner of making it up be antick and exceeding difficult if not impossible but that it may be had to do a man good when Adders skins cannot be gotten you may make it up with gelly of Harts-horn into which put a little Saffron four or five or six grains is excellent good in a feaver to be taken in any Cordial for it cheers the heart and vital spirits exceedingly and make them impregnable Species Cordiales Temperatae Page 89. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of wood of Aloes Spodium of each a drachm Cinnamon Cloves bone of a Stags heart the Roots of Angelica Avens and Tormentil of eath a drachm and an half Pearls prepared six drachms raw silk tosted both sorts of Corral of each two drachms Jacinth Emerald Saphir of each half a drachm Saffron a scruple the leaves of Gold and Silver of each ten make them into pouder according to art Culpeper A. Musk and Ambergreece of each half a drachm is here left out it was not done for cheapness for it will still be dear enough but the world changeth so doth the Colledg the world grows worse and worse so do the Colledg A. It is a great Cordial a great strengthener both of the heart and brain Diacalaminthe Simple Page 89. in the Latin Book The Colled Take of mountain Calaminth Penyroyal Origanum the seeds of Macedonian
compositions yet naturally they heat cold stomachs help digestion strengthen the heart and brain Trochisci Hysterici Page 134. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Assafoetida Galbanum of each two drachms and an half Mirrh two drachms Castorium a drachm and an half the roots of Asarabacca and long Birthwort the Leaves of Savin Featherfew Nep of each a drachm Dittany half a drachm with either the juyce or decoction of Rue make into Troches according to art Culpeper A. These are applied to the foeminine gender help fits of the mother expel both birth and after-birth clense women after labor and expel the relicts of a careless Midwife Search what other compositions are apropriated to the same purpose you may find them in the Table at the latter end of the Book and then you may ad half a drachm of this to them Trochisci de Ligno Aloes Page 134. in Lat. Book Or Troches of Wood of Aloes The Colledg Take of Wood of Aloes red Roses of each two drachms Mastich Cinnamon Cloves Indian Spicknard Nutmegs Parsnep seed 〈◊〉 the greater and 〈◊〉 Cubebs Gallia Moschata 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mace of each a 〈◊〉 and an half 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each 〈◊〉 a scruple with 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 make it into Troches Culpeper A. It 〈◊〉 the heart stomach and 〈◊〉 takes away 〈◊〉 qualms faintings and 〈◊〉 breath and 〈◊〉 the dropsie The rich may take half a drachm in the morning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Page 135. in the Latin Book Or Troches of Mirrh The Colledg Take of Mirrh three drachms the 〈◊〉 of Lupines five drams Maddir roots the leaves of Rue wild Mints 〈◊〉 of Creet Cummin seeds Assa foetida Sagapen Opopanax of each two drams Dissolve the Gums in Wine wherein Mugwort hath been boyled or else 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then add the rest and with juyce of Mugwort make it into troches according to art Culpeper A. They provoke the terms in women and that with great ease to such as have them come down with pain Take a drachm of them beaten into pouder in a spoonful or two of syrup of Mugwort or any other Composition tending to the same purpose which the Table at latter end will direct you Sief de Plumbo Page 135. in the Latin Book Or Sief of Lead The Colledg Take of lead burnt and washed Brass burnt Antimony Tutty washed Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each an ounce Opium half a drachm with Rosewater make them being beaten and sifted into Troches Culpeper A. It fils up and cures ulcers in the eyes If you put it into them say authors but in my opinion 't is but a scurvy medicine Trochisci Polyidae Androm Pag. 135. in Lat. Book The Colledg Take of Pomegranat flowers twelve drachms Roch album three drachms Erankinsence Mirrh of each half an ounce Chalcanthum two drams Buls gall six drachms Aloes an ounce with Austere Wine or juyce of Nightshade or Plantane make them into Troches according to art Culpeper A. They are very good they say being outwardly applied both in green wounds and ulcers I fancy them not Trochisci de Rhabarbaro Pag. 135. in Lat. Book Or Troches of Rhubarb The Colledg Take of Rhubarb ten drachms juyce of Maudlin made thick bitter Almonds of each half an ounce red Roses three drachms the roots of Asarabacca Maddir Indian Spicknard the leaves of Wormwood the seeds of Annis and Smallage of each one drachm with Wine in which Wormwood hath been boyled make them into Troches according to art Culpeper A. They gently clense the liver help the yellow Jaundice and other diseases coming of choller and stoppage of the Liver You may take a drachm of them every morning or if you list not to take them alone beat them into pouder and mix them with white Wine Trochisci de Santalis Page 136. in the Latin Book Or Troches of Sanders The Colledg Take of the three Sanders of each one ounce the seeds of Cucumers Guords Citrulls Purslain Spodium of each half an ounce red Roses seven drachms juyce of Barberies six drachms Bole armenick half an ounce Camphire one drachm with Purslain water make it into Troches Culpeper A. The vertues are the same with Troches of Spodium both of them harmless Trochisci de scilla ad Theriacam P. 136. in L. Book Or Troches of Squills for Treacle The Colledg Take a Squill gathered about the beginning of July of a middle bigness and the hard part to which the Small roots stick wrap it up in past and 〈◊〉 it in an Oven till the past be drie and the Squill tender which you may know by 〈◊〉 it with a wooden sticks or a bodkin then take it out and 〈◊〉 it in a mortar adding to every pound of the Squill eight ounces of white Orobus or red Citers in pouder then make it into Troches of the weight of two drachms a peice your hands being anoynted with Oyl of Roses dry them on the top of the hoùse opening towards the South in the shadow often turning them till they be well drie then keep them in a peuter 〈◊〉 glass vessell Troches of Spodium Page 136. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of redRoses twelve drachms Spodium ten drachms Sorrel seed six crachms the seeds of Purslain and Coriander steeped in Vineger and dried Pulp of Sumach of each two drachms and an half white Starch rosted Balaustines Barberries of each two drachms Gum Arabick rosted one drachm and an half with juyce of unripe grapes make it into Troches Culpeper A. They are of a fine cooling binding nature excellent in feavers coming of choller especially if they be accompanied with a loosness they also quench thirst You may take half a drachm either by themselves or in any other convenient medicine Trochisci de terra Lemnia Pag. 137. in Lat. Book Or Troches of Earth of Lemnos The Colledg Take of Earth of Lemnos Bole Armenick Acacia Hyposistis gum Arabick tosted Dragons blood white Starch red Roses Rose seeds Lap. Hematitis red Corral Amber Balaustins Spodium Purslain seeds a little tosted Olibanum Hartsborn burnt Cypress Nuts Saffron of each two drachms black Poppy seeds Tragacanth Pearls of each one drachm and an half Opium prepared one drachm with Juyce of Plantane make it into Troches Culpeper A. Indeed in external applications if any inflamation or feaver be I think it better with Opium than without else better without than with it A. It was invented to stop blood in any part of the body and for it 't is excellent well then for the bloody flux take half a drachm of them inwardly being beaten into pouder in red Wine every morning for spitting of blood use it in like manner in Plantane water for pissing of blood inject it into the bladder for bleeding at the nose either snuff it up or anoint your forehead with it mixed with oyl for the immoderate flowing of the terms inject it up the womb with a syringe but first mix it with Plantane water for the hemorrhoids or wounds apply it
binding Comfry the greater Wormwood Centaury Horchound Cardamoms Cyperus grass Calamus 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 and of 〈◊〉 Compounds are The Oyls and Oyntments of these Refrigerans Galen Unguentum Album Rhasis Unguentum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de Siccativum rubrum Unguentum Pectorale 〈◊〉 Chap. 3. Of ATTRACTIVES ATTractives called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 are 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 for the nature of Repelling Repulsive or Repercussive Medicines is to drive from the Circumference to the Centre but of Attractives to draw from the Centre to the Circumference They are all hot in temper and of thin parts Attractives draw by 1. Natural Heat 2. Putrifaction 3. Hidden Property 4. Fuga 〈◊〉 1. Such as draw by Natural heat are 1. Simple 2. Compound Simple are Onions Briony Leeks Garlick and now you may know a reason why the cutting of Onions makes your eyes run a water Birthwort Spurge Southernwood Nettles 〈◊〉 Gentian Asphodel Bdellium 〈◊〉 Euphorbium Water-cresses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Carpobalsamum Frankinsence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rosemary flowers Cabbage Aqua vitae Sea water Ammoniacum Pitch Bitumen Calaminth Dittany Mustard 〈◊〉 Galbanum Pellitory of Spain Cantharides Crowfoot c. Compound are The Oyls and Oyntments made of these Turpentine Oyl of Bricks Oyl of Foxes Oyl of Bays Oyl of Dill Oyl of Rhue Peter Oyl Oyl of Castorium Oyl of S t Johns wort Oyntment of Arregon Matiatum and Agrippa Mithridate and Venis Treacle applied outwardly for 〈◊〉 Diachylon magnum Diachylon cum Gummi A Plaister of 〈◊〉 both Simple and Compound 〈◊〉 with many others which Reading and Dilligence if they be gentlemen of your acquaintance will help you to and furnish you with Such as draw by Putrefaction are All Turds in general especially Pidgeons and Goats dung Leaven Old Cheese c. By hidden Property as they call it All 〈◊〉 in general Amber Viscus Quercinus or Mislero Peony the Load-stone these they poor fools being utterly ignorant of the Sympathy and Antipathy of the Creation and by consequence of the Magnetick Vertue of things upon which the Foundation of Physick is built call them Hidden Qualities and so give Physick by rote as a Parrot speaks I could if I durst tell you of common 〈◊〉 obvious to the eye of every one that have a far greater Magnetick Vertue in them than the Load-stone but I must be silent till men learn to be Honester It is denyed me to write all I know By Fuga Vacui or driving away Emptiness It is a most certain truth that nature abhors Vacuum or Emptiness neither is there such a thing in rerum Naturâ let Baptista van Helmont speak his pleasure And this way do Cupping glasses and Horse Leaches draw and thus may you draw with a horn Chap. 4. Of Resolving Medicines THese the Greeks call Diaphoretica the Latins Carminativa and these are used externally as well as internally for it is the external use of Medicines we are to speak of in this place Their Use is 1. To open the Pores 2. To make the Humor thin 3. To Evacuate them by Sweat which is that they call Insensible transpiration They are 1. Simple 2. Compound The Simple are 1. Weak 2. Strong Weak are Savin Marjoram Rosemary Origanum Wormwood Melilot Arrach Spicknard Chamomel Dill Annis Cummin Hysop Fumitory Elder Dwarf Elder Valerian Southernwood Wormwood 〈◊〉 Rozin all sorts of Turds Turpentine old Cheese Wine strong-strong-water Strong are Dittany Leeks Onions Garlick Vineger Aqua vitae 〈◊〉 of Spain all the hot seeds which you may find ranked in Battalia at the beginning of the Compounds Cinnamon Chervil Nutmegs Pepper Crowfoot Coupound are Oyls Oyntments and all Compositions of the former Oyl of Euphorbium Oyntment of Bays Diachylon magnum and cum Gummi Emplastrum de Cymino Oxicroceum Emplastrum de Baccis lauri Of Melilot Oyutments of 〈◊〉 Arregon and Martiatum Chap. 5. Of Emollients TEe use of Emollients is to soften hard places and bring them to their pristine estate of which we spake more at large in the Simples They are 1. Common 2. Propper Those are common whose general operation is to soften hard swellings and such parts and places of the body as are hardened by Congralation They are Propper which are apropriated to peculiar humors and belong to my scope at present for I intend not a Treatise of Chyrurgery but to givea Candle and a Lanthorn to light you through the Oyls Oyntments and Plaisters that you may see what a mist the Colledge being ballanced with ignorance and Sailing by the wind of Authority hath hitherto wrapped you in and compassed you round about with for take this for a general rule and you if you have any Ingenuity in you must needs confess Ignorance is encroaching and seeks Authority to back it But wisedom desires to be publick and is alwaies justified of her children To proceed consider that Emollients are more temperate than Attractives but less temperate than Suppuratives of which more in the next Chapter Also take notice that if the tumor be in any principal part of the body mix your Emollients with Astringents Emollients are either Simple or Compound Simple are Almost if not altogether all Marrows as of a Stagge Dog Horse Caìfe Bear Man Hog Hen Goose Duck Lion Goat c. The Colledge in their Simples rattle you up enough of them one after another I promised then to tell you what they were held to be good for and now I am as good as my word and although I am of opinion that there is a far neerer and 〈◊〉 way to cure diseases than they use yet this book if you have but wit enough to be a Physitian this Book I say if heedfully read and examined will so furnish you with the vulgar rules that you may be able to understand that when God shall enable me to put it forth A man shall never know any thing of the mysteries of his Creator till he knows himself and he shall never know himself First Till he hath the honesty freely to impart to others what God hath freely revealed to him for the publick good Secondly Till he hath the Discretion to impart every thing in its due season But to proceed to Simple Emollents where I left Gum Amoniacum Bdellium Opopanax Galbanum Turpentine Rozin Colophonia Pitch the Emollient hearbs you have them in rank and file at the beginning of the Compounds Linseed Fennugreek seed white Lilly roots Astrach Figs Wheat and Barly Meal Malt Flower c. Compounds are Oyls Oyntments and Plaisters made of all or any of these Oyl of Lillies Oyl of Chamomel Oyl of Earth-worms Oyl of Foxes Oyntment of Marsh-mallows Resumptivum Diachylon cum muliis aliis I shall give a notion or two and then I have done with this you had had them before had I not forgotten them and now before I go any further let me advise those that intend to reap any benefit by my writings to take a pen and ink and note down what ever they find of consequence in them for I
Chollick The Table of diseases will direct you I love to have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Negligent people make wooden Physitians The Colledg Common Oyl of Olives is pressed out of ripe Olives not out of the stones Oyl of Olives Omphacine is pressed out of unripe Olives Oyl of Yolks of Eggs. The Colledg Boyl the Yolks till they be hard and bruise them with your hands or with a Pestle and Mortar heat them in an Earthen vessel glazed until they begin to sroath stirring them dilligently that they burn not being hot put them in a linnen bag and sprinkle them with Aromatick Wine and press out the Oyl according to art Culpeper A. It is profitable in 〈◊〉 and malignant ulcers it causeth the hair to grow it cleers the skin and takes away deformities thereof viz. Tetters Ringworms Morphew Scabs I suppose none is so sinple to take it inwardly to cleer their skin nor to anoint their feet to take away the deformity of their face SIMPLE OYLS BY INFUSION AND DECOCTION Oyl of Roses Omphacine The Colledg Take of red Roses before they be ripe bruised in a stone Mortar four ounces Oyl Omphacine one pound set them in a hot Sun in a glass close stopped a whol week shaking them every day then boyl them gently in a bath press them out and put in others use them in like manner do so the third time then keep the Oyl upon a pound of juyce of Roses Oyl of Roses Compleat Is made in the same manner with sweet and ripe Oyl often washed and red Roses fully open bruised set in the sun and boyled gently in a double vessel only let the third infusion stand in the sun fourly daies then keep the Roses and Oyl together In the same manner is made Oyl of Wormwood of the tops of common Wormwood thrice repeated four ounces and three pound of ripe Oyl only the last time put in four ounces of the juyce of Wormwood which evaporate away by gentle boyling Oyl of Dill of the flowers and leaves of Dill four ounces compleat Oyl one pound thrice repeated Oyl of Castoreum of one ounce of Castoreum Oyl one pound Wine four ounces which must be consumed with the heat of a bath Oyl of Chamomel which more than one call Holy of compleat Oyl and fresh Chamomel flowers the little white leaves taken away cut bruised and the vessel covered with a thin linnen Cloth set in the Sun pressed out and three times repeated Oyl of Wall flowers as Oyl of Dill. Oyl of Quinces of six parts of Oyl omphacine the meat and juyce of Quinces one part set them in the Sun fifteen daies in a glass and afterwards boyl them four hours in a double vessel press them out and renew them three times Oyl of Alicampane of ripe Oyl and the roots of Alicampane bruised and their juyce of each one part and of generose Wine half a part which is to be evaporated away Oyl of Euphorbium of six drachms of Euphorbium Oyl of Walflowers and sweet Wine of each five ounces boyling it in a double vessel till the Wine be consumed Oyl of Ants of winged Ants infused in four times their weight of sweet Oyl set in the sun in a glass fourty daies and then strained out Oyl or Balsom of St. Johns wort simple is made of the Oyl of the seeds beaten and pressed and the flowers being added and rightly set in the sun Oyl of Jesmine is made of the flowers of Jesmine put in cleer Oyl and set in the sun and afterward pressed out Oyl of of Orris made of the roats of Orris Florentine one pound purple Orris flowers half a pound boyl them in a double vessel in a sufficient quantity of Decoction of Orris Florentine and six pound of sweet oyl putting fresh roots and flowers again and again the former being cast away as in oyl of Roses Oyl of Earthworms is made of half a pound of Earthworms washed in white Wine ripe oyl two pound boyled in a double vessel with eight ounces of good white Wine till the wine be consumed Oyl of Marjoram is made with four ounces of the Herb a little bruised white Wine six ounces ripe oyl one pound mixed together let them be set in the sun repeated three times at last boyled to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of Mastich is made of oyl of Roses omphacine one pound Mastich three ounces Wine four ounces boyl them in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of Melilot is made with the tops of the Herb like oyl of Chamomel Oyl of Mints is made of the Herb and oyl omphacine 〈◊〉 oyl of Roses Oyl of Mirtles is made of Mirtle berries bruised aud sprinkled with austere wine one part oyl omphacine three parts set in the Sun twenty four daies and in the intrim thrice renewed boyled and the berries pressed out Oyl of Daffadils is made as oyl of Roses Nard oyl is made of three ounces of Spicknard sweet oyl one pound and an half sweet white wine and cleer water of each two ounces and an half boyled to the consumption of the moisture Oyl of water Lillies is made of fresh white water lilly flowers one part oyl omphacine three parts repeating the flowers as in oyl of Roses Oyl of Tobacco is made of the juyce of Tobacco and common oyl of each equal parts boyled in a bath Oyl of Poppies is made of the flowers heads and leaves of Garden Poppies and oyl amphacine as oyl of Dill. Oyl of Poplars is made of the buds of Poplar tree three parts rich white wine four parts sweet oyl seven parts first let the buds be bruised then infused in the Wine and Oyl seven daies then boyled then pressed out Oyl of Rue is made of the herbs bruised and ripe Oyl like Oyl of Roses Oyl of Savin is made in the same manner So also is Oyl of Elder flowers made Oyl of Scorpions is made of thirty live Scorpions caught when the Sun is in the Lyon Oyl of bitter Almonds two pound let them be set in the Sun and after fourty daies strained Oleum Cicyonium is made of wild Cucumer roots and their 〈◊〉 of each equall parts with twice as much ripe Oyl boyl it to the consumption of the juyce Oyl of Nightshade is made of the berries of Nightshade ripe and one part boyled in ripe Oyl or Oyl of Roses three parts Oyl of Styrax is made of Styrax and sweet white Wine of each one part Ripe Oyl four parts gently boyled till the Wine be consumed Oyl of Violets is made of Oyl Omphacine and Violet flowers as Oyl of Roses Oyl of Vervain is made of the herb and Oyl as Oyl of Mints Culpeper 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 vouchsafe to quote the Vertues of
Book Or Oyl of Mandragues The Colledg Take of common Oyl two pound Juyce of Mandrake apples or for want of them of the leaves four ounces Juyce of white Henbane two ounces Juyce of black Poppy heads three ounces Juyce of Violets and tender Hemlock of each one ounce Set them all in the Sun and after the tenth day boyl them to the consumption of the Juyce then put in Opium finely beaten and Styrax Calamitis dissolved in a little Turpentine of each half an ounce Culpeper A. It is probable the Author studied to invent an Oyl extreamly cold when he invented this I am of opinion it may be used safely no way but only to anoint the temples and noses of such as have a frenzy If by using this Ointment you see they sleep too long dip a spunge in Viniger and hold to their noses it may be a means to awake them It is scarse safe yet if you let it alone it cannot do you harm Moschelaeum Page 149. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Musk. The Colledg Take two Nutmegs Musk one drachm Indian leafe or Mace Spicknard Costus Mastich of each six drachms Styrax-Calamitis 〈◊〉 Lignea Mirrh Saffron Cinnamon Cloves Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Bdellium of each two drachms pure Oyl three pound Wine three ounces bruise them as you ought to do mix them and let them boyl easily 〈◊〉 the Wine be consumed the Musk being mixed according to art after it is strained Culpeper A. It is exceeding good against all diseases of cold especially those of the stomach it helps diseases of the sides they being anointed with it the stranguary chollick and vices of the nerves and afflictions of the reins A. The Receipt was made by Nicholaus Alexandrinus only the Colledg something altered the quantities and that not worth speaking of Oleum Nardinum Page 150. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Nard The Colledg Take of Spicknard three ounces Marjoram two ounces wood of Aloes Calamus Aromaticus Alicampane Cyperus Bay leaves Indian leafe or Mace Squinanth Cardamoms of each one ounce and an half bruise them al grosly steep them in water and Wine of each fourteen ounces Oyl of Sesamin or Oyl of Olives four pound and an half for one day then perfect the Oyl by boyling it gently in a double Vessell Culpeper A. I wonder why they should put in Oyl of Sesamum or Oyl of Olives when every body knows Sesamum is a kind of purging pulse but purge or bind it is all one to them it seems So Authors say it Will that answer serve the turn before the Lord God Almighty another day I left out Oyl of Sesamum in the coppy because of that and if it be made as I have written it It heats attenuates digests and moderately binds and therefore helps all cold and windy afflictions of the brain stomach reins spleen liver bladder and womb being snuffed up the nose it purgeth the head and gives a good colour and smel to the body Oleum Nicodemi Page 150. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the seeds or tops of Saint Johns wort old Turpentine of each one pound Litharge six drachms Aloes Hepatick Tutty of each three drachms Saffron one ounce white Wine four pound old Oyl two pound The fourth part of the Wine being consumed in a bath or sand or in the Sun in the Dog daies after the tenth day strain it and keep the Oyl apart from the Wine Culpeper A. Both Wine and Oyl are exceeding drying that the Wine is more clensing and the Oyl best to skin a sore your genius though never so dull will tel you and therefore excellent for sores and ulcers that run much as for scabs itch small pocks swine pocks c. Oleum Vulpinum Page 150. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Foxes The Colledg Take a fat Fox of a middle age if you can get such an one caught by hunting about Autumn cut in pieces the skin and bowels taken away the bones broken boyl him scumming it dilligently in white Wine and spring water of each six pound till half be consumed with three ounces of Sea salt the tops of Dill Time and Chamepitys of each one handful after straining hoyl it again with four pound of old Oyl the flowers of Sage and Rosemary of each one handful the Water being consumed strain it again and keep the pure Oyl for use Culpeper A. It is exceeding good in pains of the joynts gouts pains in the back and reins it heats the body being afflicted by cold and hard lodging in the airs whereby the joynts are stiffe a disease incident to many in these times Oyls left out in the new Dispensatory Culpeper THe Receipt is before the vertues of Oyl of Tobacco is A. It is a gallant remedy for deep wounds scabs or itch as any is under the Cope of Heaven and no way prejudicial See the Oyntment Oyl of Pepper Mesue The Colledg Take of long black and white Pepper of each three drachms Myrobalans Chebul Bellerick Emblick and Indian of each five drachms the roots of Smallage and Fennel of each three drachms and an half Sagapenum Opopanax Ammoniacum white Henbane of each two drachms and an half Turbith two drachms Ginger three drachms the branches of green Time and green Rue of each one handful infuse them according to art in a sufficient quantity of Aqua vitae Oyl of Walflowers otherwise called Winter Gilliflowers two pound then boyl them to the consumption of the Aqua vitae Culpeper A It helps cold diseases of the nerves as Palsies falling sickness convulsions wry-mouths trembling or shaking palsie likewise cold afflictions of the reins and bladder yard and womb gouts and all diseases of the joynts it 〈◊〉 makes thin and clenseth and therefore it opens obstructions or stoppings and breaks the stone Oleum Populeum Nich. The Colledg Take of fresh Poplar buds three pound Wine four pound common Oyl seven pound two ounces beat the Poplar buds very well then steep them seven daies in the Oyl and Wine then boyl them in a double vessel till the Wine be consumed if you infuse fresh buds once or twice before you boyl it the medicine will be the stronger then press out the Oyl and keep it Culpeper A. It is a fine cool Oyl but the Oyntment called by that name which follows hereafter is far better OYNTMENTS MORE SIMPLE Unguentum Album Page 153. in the Latin Book Or white Oyntment The Colledg TAke of Oyl of Roses nine ounces Ceruss washed in Rose-water and dilligently sersed three ounces white Wax two ounces after the Wax is melted in the Oyl put in the Ceruss and make it into an Oyntment according to art add two drachms of Camphire made into pouder with a few drops of Oyl of sweet Almonds so will it be camphorated Culpeper A. Some hold it impossible to make it into an Oyntment this way others hold it not convenient but instead of Oyl of Roses they add so much
half an ounce Honey warmed and not scummed four ounces make it into a Plaister according to art Culpeper 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 It is an excellent remedy for the Collick and wind in the bowels Emplastrum Barbarum Magnum P. 171. in Lat. B. The Colledg Take of dry Pitch eight pound yellow Wax six pound and eight ounces Perrosin five pound and four ounces Bitumen Judaicum or Mummy four pound Oyl one pound and an half Vert-de-grease Litharge Ceruss of each three ounces 〈◊〉 half a pound Roch Alum not burnt an ounce and an half Burnt four ounces Opopanax Scales of Brass Gal banum of each twelve drachms Aloes Opium Mirrh of each half an ounce Turpentine two pound Juyce of Mandrakes or else dried Bark of the root six drachms Vineger five pound let the Licharge Ceruss and Oyl boyl to the thickness of Honey then incorporate with them the pitch being melted with Bitumen in pouder then add the rest and boyl them according to art till the Viniger be consumed and it stick not to your hands Culpeper A. It helps the bitings of men and beasts easeth the inflamations of wounds and helps infirmities of the joynts and gouts in the beginning Emplastrum de Betonica Page 171. in the Lat. Book Or A Plaister of Betony The Colledg Take of Betony Burnet Agrimony Sage Penyroyal Yarrow comfry the greater Clary of each six ounces Frankinsence Mastich of each three drachms Orris round-Birthwort of each six drachms white Wax Turpentine of each eight ounces Per-rosin six ounces Gum 〈◊〉 Oyl of fir of each two ounces white Wine three pound bruise the hearbs boyl them in the Wine then strain them and add the rest and make them into a Plaister according to art Culpeper 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 rest ores flesh lost clenseth digesteth and drieth Emplastrum Coesaris Page 171. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of red Roses one ounce and an half Bistort roots Cipress Nuts all the Sanders Mints Coriander seeds of each three drachms Mastich half an ounce Hypocistis Acacia Dragons blood Earth of Lemnos Bole-Armenick red Corral of each two drachms Turpentine washed in Plantane water four ounces Oyl of Roses three ounces white Wax twelve ounces Perrosin ten ounces Pitch six ounces the juyce of Plantane 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 of each an ounce the Wax Rosin and pitch being melted together add the Turpentine and Oyl then the Hypocistis and Acacia dissolved in the Juyces at last the Pouders and make it into a Plaister according to art Culpeper A. It is of a fine cool binding strengthening nature excellent good to repel 〈◊〉 or vapours that ascend up to the head the hair being shaved off and it applied to the crown Emplastrum Catagmaticum the first P. 172. in Lat. B. The Colledg Take of juyce of Marshmallow roots six ounces Bark of Ash treeroots and their leaves the roots of Comsry the greater and smaller with their leaves of each two ounces Mirtle berries an ounce and an half the leaves of Willow the tops of St. Johns wart of each an handful and an half having bruised them boyl them together in red Wine and Smiths water of 〈◊〉 two pound till half be consumed strain it and ad Oyl of Mirtles and Roses Omphacine of each one pound and an half Goats 〈◊〉 eight ounces boyl it again to the consumption of the decoction strain it again and add Litharge of Gold and Silver red Lead of each four ounces yellow Wax one pound Colophonia half a pound boyl it to the consistance of a Plaister then add Turpentine two ounces Mirrh Frankinsence Mastich of each half an ounce Bole Armenick Earth of Lemnos of each an ounce stir them about well till they be boyled and made into an Emplaister according to art Catagmaticum the second Page 173. in the Lat. B. The Colledg Take of the roots of Comfry the greater Marshmallows Missleto of the Oak of each two ounces Plantane Chamepitys St. Johns-wort of each a handful boyl them 〈◊〉 parts of black Wine and Smiths water till half be consumed strain it and add Mussilage of Quince seeds made in tripe water Oyl of Mastich and Roses of each four ounces boyl it to the consumption of the Humidity and having strained it ad Litharge of Gold four ounces boyl it to the consistance of an Emplaister then ad yellow Wax four ounces Turpentine three ounces Colophonia six drachms Ship-pitch ten ounces pouders of Balaustines Roses Mirtle Acacia of each half an ounce Mummy Androsamum Mastich Amber of each six drachms Bole Armenick fine flower Frankinsence of each twelve drachms Dragons blood two ounces make it into a Plaister according to art Culpeper A. Both this and the former are binding and drying the former rules will instruct you in the use Emplastrum Cephalicum Page 173. in the Lat B. Or A Cephalick Plaister The Colledg Take of Rosin two ounces black Pitch one ounce Labdanum Turpentine flower of Beans and Orobus Doves dung of each half an ounce Mirrh Mastich of each one drachm and an half Gum of Juniper Nutmegs of each two drams dissolve the Mirrh and Labdanum in a bot mortar and adding the rest make it into a Plaister according to art If you will have it stronger ad the pouders Euphorbium Pellitory of Spain and black Pepper of each two scruples Culpeper A. It is proper to strengthen the brain and repel such vapours as anoy it and those pouders being added it dries up the superfluous moisture thereof and easeth the eyes of hot scalding vapors that anoy them Emplastrum de Cerussa Page 174. in the Latin Book Or A Plaister of Ceruss The Colledg Take of Ceruss in fine pouder white Wax Sallet Oyl of each three ounces ad the Oyl by 〈◊〉 to the Ceruss and holy it by continuall stirring over a gentle fire till it begin to swell then ad the Wax cut small by degrees and boyl it to 〈◊〉 just consistance Culpeper A. It helps burns dry scabs and hot ulcers and in general what ever sores abound with moisture Emplaistrum ex Cicuta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P. 174. L. 〈◊〉 Or A Plaister of Hemlock with Amoniacum The Colledg Take of the juyce of Hemlock four ounces Vineger of Squills and Ammoniacum of each eight ounces dissolve the Gum in the juyce and Vineger after a due infusion then strain it into its just consistance according to art Culpeper A. I suppose it was invented to mitigate the extream pains and alay the inflamations of wounds for which it is very good Let it not be applied to any principal part Emplastrum è Cinnabari Page 174. in the Latin B. The Colledg Take of Cinnabaris an ounce and an half
Lavender Cotton b 17 Ladies Bedstraw b 18 Liver-wort a 19 Laurel of Alexandria a 20 Lavender a 20 Laurel a 20 Lettice a 20 Lovage a 20 Lungwort a 23 M Marigold b 15 Maiden-hair a 13 Maudlin a 13 Marsh-mallows b 13 Marjoram b 13 Mousear b 14 Mugwort a 14 Muschata b 18 Masterwort b 20 Mastick-tree a 21 Mallows b 20 Mandrakes b 20 Melilot a 21 Mints a 21 Mercury a 21 〈◊〉 b 21 Moss b 21 Mirtle-tree b 21 Moneywort a 22 Mother of Time a 24 Mullin a 25 N Navil-wort b 25 Nep a 16 Nettles b 25 Nightshade a 24 O Oak of Jerusalem a 15 Ox-eye b 15 Orpine b 17 One-berry a 19 Origany Origanum a 22 P Pansies a 25 Patience b 19 Pauls Bettony a 15 Pimpernel a 14 Perewinkle b 25 Primroses b 22 Pellitory of the wall a 19 Pepper-wort a 20 Penyroyal b 22 Peach leaves b 22 Plantane b 22 Poppies a 22 Poley-mountain b 22 Purslain b 22 R Rocket a 18 Ruptue wort a 18 Rosemary a 23 Roses a 23 Rue a 23 S Sampier b 17 〈◊〉 consound a 17 Sage b 23 Sanicle b 23 Savin b 23 Savory b 23 Saxifrage b 23 Schaenanth b 23 Southernwood a 13 Sorrel a 13 Smallage a 14 Silverweed a 14 Sowbread a 14 Sengreen b 14 Shepherds-purse b 15 Spleenwort b 16 Sullendine a 17 Succory a 17 Strawberry leaves b 18 Stinking Groundpine a 19 Saint Johns-wort b 19 Sciatica-cresses b 19 Star-wort a 20 Share-wort a 20 Sea Bugloss b 20 Sea Lavender b 20 Sweet Trefoyl b 20 Self-heal b 21 Sicklewort b 22 Sopewort b 23 Scordium 〈◊〉 23 Senna a 24 Sow-thistles a 24 Spinach b 24 Stoechas b 24 Spurge b 24 Swallow-wort b 25 T Tamaris b 24 Tansie b 24 Teazles b 17 True-love a 19 Tongue-blade b 19 Toad-flax a 20 Treacle-mustard b 21 Tobacco b 21 Turnips a 23 Time b 24 Trefoyl a 25 V Vervain-mallows b 13 Vipers bugloss a 18 Vervain a 25 Violet leaves b 25 Vine leaves b 25 W Water-cresses b 21 Walwort a 18 Wormwood a 13 Wood-sorrel b 13 Woodroof a 14 Wild Tansie a 14 Wild-flower a 19 Woad a 20 Widdow-wail b 21 Winter-green a 23 Willow leaves b 23 Y Yarrow b 21 FLOWERS Bawn a 26 Balaustins 26 Borrage 26 Bugloss 26 Beans 26 Broom 26 Centaury 26 Chamomel 26 Clove gilliflowers 26 Cowslips 26 Elder flowers 26 Hops 26 Honey-suckles 26 Lavender flowers 26 Mallows 26 Peach-tree 26 Rosemary 26 Roses 26 Saffron 26 Stoechas 26 Schaenanth 26 Succory 26 Walflowers 26 Water-Lillies 26 Winter gilliflowers 26 FRUITS BUDS Apricocks 27 Bay-berries 27 Barberries 27 Bitter Almonds 27 Capers 27 Cassia Fistula 27 Checkers 27 Cherries 27 Cloves 27 Cucumers 27 Cubebs 27 Currance English 27 Dates 27 Figs 27 Galls 27 Medlars 27 Melones 27 Myrobalans 27 Nutmegs 27 Olives 27 Pepper 27 Pears 27 Plums 27 Pinenuts 27 Pompions 27 Prunes 27 Quinces 27 Raisons 27 Sebestens 27 Services 27 Strawberries 27 Tamarinds 27 Walnuts 27 Winter cherries 27 SEEDS Annis 28 〈◊〉 tree 28 Bazil 28 Bishops-weed 28 Broom 28 Cardamoms 28 Carrots 28 Coriander 28 Cummin 28 Chich-pease 28 Dill 28 Fenugreek 28 Fennel 28 French barly 28 Four greater cold Seeds 28 Citrons 28 Gromwel 28 Lettice 28 Linseed 28 Lupines 28 Mallows 28 Mustard-seed 28 Nettles 28 Nigella 28 Peony 28 Poppy 28 Purslain 28 Rocket 28 Rue 28 Smallage 28 Stavesager 28 Sorrel 28 Succory 28 Water-cresses 28 White Saxifrage 28 Wormseed 28 GUMS ROZINS Aloes 29 〈◊〉 29 Ammoniacum 29 Bdellium 29 Benzoin 29 Camphire 29 Diagrydium 29 Elemni 29 Frankinsence 29 Galbanum 29 Labdanum 29 Manna 29 Mastich 29 Mirrh 29 Olibanum 29 Opopanax 29 Sanguis Draconis 29 Scammony 29 Styrax Calamitis 29 Traganth 29 Turpentine 29 JUYCES Citrons 29 Lemmons 29 Liquoris 29 Sugar 29 PLANTS Agrick 30 Misleto 30 LIVING CREATURES Crabfish 30 Earth-worms 30 Eels 30 Grashoppers 30 Hedg-sparrows 30 Oysters 30 Pidgeons 30 Sows 30 Swallows 30 Vipers 30 Woodlice 30 PARTS OF LIVING CREATURES Bears grease 31 Bone in a Stags heart 31 Bone in a Hares foot 31 Brain of Sparrows 31 Brain of Hares 31 Cats head 31 Crabs eyes 31 Cocks stones 31 Castorium 31 Ducks liver 31 Ducks grease 31 Elks claws 31 Fox lungues 31 Fox grease 31 Frogs liver 31 Goats Bladder 31 Goats suet 31 Goose grease 31 Capons grease 31 Harts-horn 31 Honey 32 Ivory 31 Kites head 31 Mans skull 31 Man 's fat 31 Milk 31 Os Triquetrum 31 Stags pizle 31 Sheeps bladder 31 Raw silk 32 Unicorns horn 31 Wax 32 BELONGING TO THE SEA Amber 32 〈◊〉 32 Foam of the Sea 32 Pearls 32 Red Corral 32 Sea sand 32 Sperma Ceti 32 METTALS STONES 〈◊〉 33 Allum 33 Amethist 33 Bezoar 33 Brimstone 33 Carbuncle 33 Cocks stone 33 Diamond 33 Emerald 33 Granate 33 Gold 33 Jacinth 33 Jasper 33 〈◊〉 34 Lead 33 Litharge 33 Nephriticus 33 Pompholix 33 Ruby 33 Saphire 33 Swallows 〈◊〉 34 〈◊〉 33 〈◊〉 33 A TABLE of the COMPOUNDS in the Order they are set down in every Classis A directs to the first Column B to the second the Number to the Page SPIRITS and COMPOUND DISTILLED WATERS SPiritus et Aqua Absinthii minus Composita Or spirit and Water of Wormwood the lesser Composition b 62 Spiritus et Aqua Absynthii magis Composita Or spirit and Water of Wormwood the greater Composition a 63 Spiritus et Aqua Angelicae magis Composita Or spirit and Water of Angelica the greater Composition ibid Spiritus Lavendulae Compositus or Compound spirit of Lavender b 63 Spiritus Castorii or spirit 〈◊〉 Cistorium a 64 Aqua 〈◊〉 Composita Or Compound Water of Butter-burs ibid Aqua Rhaphani composita Or Compound Water of Rhadishes b 64 Aqua Peoniae composita or Compound Water of Peony ibid Aqua Bezoartica Or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 65 Aqua et spiritus Lumbricorum Magistralis Or Water and spirit of Earth-worms b 65 〈◊〉 Gentianae composita or 〈◊〉 Water Compound ibid Aqua 〈◊〉 or Gilberts Water ibid Aqua 〈◊〉 frigida 〈◊〉 a 66 Aqua Theriacala Or 〈◊〉 Water ibid Aqua Brioniae composita Or 〈◊〉 Water Compound b 66 Aqua Imperialis Or 〈◊〉 Water 〈◊〉 Aqua Mirabilis a 〈◊〉 Aqua 〈◊〉 ibid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or Capon Water b Aqua Limacum Magistr Or Water of snails ibid Aqua Scordii composita Or Compound Water of Scordium b 67 Aqua Mariae ibid Aqua Papaveris composita Or Poppy Water Compound ibid Aqua Juglandium Composita Or Walnut Water compound ibid Mathiolus his Bezoar Water a 68 Cinnamon Water ibid Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water b 68 Cinnamon Water made by Infusion ibid Aqua Coelestis ibid Bawm Water a 69 Rosa solis ibid Dr Stephens Water b 69 Aqua vitae ordinary ibid Aqua vitae compound ibid Usquebach ibid TINCTURES Tinctura Croci Or Tincture of saffron a 70 Tinctura Castorii Or Tincture of Castorium 70 Tinctura Fragorum Or Tincture of straw-berries 70 Tinctura Scordii Or Tincture of scordium 70 Tinctura Theriacalis Or Tincture of