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
away sadness and melancholly they are rather laxative than binding help swooning and heart-qualms breed special good blood help consumptions madness and such as are much weakned by sickness Bonus Henricus Good Henry or all good hot and dry clensing and scouring inwardly taken it loosens the belly outwardly it clenseth old sores and Ulcers Botrys Oak of Jerusalem hot and dry in the 〈◊〉 degree helps such as are short-winded cuts and wasts gross and tough flegm laid amongst cloaths they preserve them from moths and give them a sweet smel Branca ursina Bears-breech Brionia c. Briony white and black both are hot and dry in the third degree purge violently yet are held to be wholsom Physick for such as have Dropsies Vertigo or swimming in the Head Falling sickness c. Certainly it is a scurvy strong troublesom purge therefore ill to be tampered with by the unskilful outwardly in Oyntments it takes away freckles wrinkles morphow scars spots c. from the face Bursa pastoris Shepherds-purse is manifestly cold and dry though Lobel and Pena thought the contrary it is binding and stops blood the terms in women spiting and pissing of blood cools inflamations Buglossum Bugloss Its vertues are the same with Borrage Bugula Bugle or middle Comfry is temperate for heat but very drying excellent for falls or inward bruises for it dissolves 〈◊〉 blood profitable for inward wounds helps the Rickets and other stoppings of the Liver outwardly it is of wonderful force in curing wounds and ulcers though festered as also gangreens and Fistulaes it helps broken bones and dislocations To conclude let my Country men esteem it as a Jewel Inwardly you may take it in pouder a drachm at a time or drink the decoction of it in white Wine being made into an oyntment with hogs grease you shall find it admirable in green wounds Buphthalmum c. Ox eye 〈◊〉 saith they are commonly used for black Hellebore to the vertues of which I refer you Buxus Boxtree The leaves are hot dry and binding they are profitable against the bitings of mad dogs both taken inwardly boyled and applied to the place besides they are excellent to cure horses of the bots Calamintha 〈◊〉 Palustris Mountain and Water Calamint For the Water Calamint see Mints than which it is accounted stronger Mountain Calamint is hot and dry in the third degree provokes urine and the terms hastens the birth in women brings away the after-birth helps cramps convulsions difficulty of breathing kills worms helps the leprosie outwardly used it helps such as holds their necks on one side half a drachm is enough at one time Calendula c. Marigolds The Leaves are hot in the second degree and something moist loosen the belly the juyce held in the mouth helps the toothach and takes away any inflamation or hot swelling being bathed with it mixed with a little Vineger Callitricum Maiden-hair See Adianthum Caprisolium Honysuckles The Leaves are hot and therfore naught for inflamations of the mouth and throat for which the ignorant people often give them and Galen was true in this let modern Writers write their pleasure If you chew but a leaf of it in your mouth experience will tell you that it is likelier to cause than to cure a sore throat they provoke urine and purge by urine bring speedy delivery to women in travail yet procure barrenness and hinder conception outwardly they dry up soul ulcers and clense the face from morphew sunburning and freckles Carduncellus c. Groundsel Cold and moist according to Tragus helps the Chollick and pains or gripings in the belly helps such as cannot make water cleanseth the reins purgeth Choller and sharp humors the usual way of taking it is to boyl it in water with 〈◊〉 and so eat it I hold it to be a wholsom and harmless purge Outwardly it easeth womens breasts that are swollen and inflamed or as themselves say have gotten an ague in their breasts as also inflamation of the joynts nerves or sinnews Carduus B. Mariae Our Ladies Thistles They are far more temperate than Carduus Benedictus open obstructions of the liver help the Jaundice and Dropsie provoke Urine break the Stone Carduus Benedictus In plain English Blessed Thistle Though I confess it be better known by the Latin name it is hot and dry in the second degree clensing and opening helps swimming and giddiness in the head deasness strengthens the memory helps griping pains in the belly kills worms provokes sweat expels poyson helps inflamation of the liver is very good in pestilences and the French-pocks outwardly applied it ripens Plague-sores and helps hot swellings the bitings of mad-dogs and venemous beasts and foul filthy ulcers Every one that can but make a Carduus posset knows how to use it Carlina See the Roots under the name of white Chameleon Corallina A kind of Sea-Moss cold binding drying good for hot gouts inflamations also they say it kills worms and therefore by some is called Maw-wormseed Cassutha cuscuta potagralini Dodder See Epithimum Caryophyllata Avens or Herb Bennet Hot and dry they help the Chollick Rawness of the stomach Stitches in the sides Stoppings of the liver and Bruises Cataputia minor A kind of Spurge See Tithymalus Cattaria Nepeta Nep or Catmints The vertues are the same with Calaminth Cauda Equina Horse-tail is of a binding drying quality cures wounds and is an admirable remedy for sinnews that are shrunk yea Galen saith it cures sinnews though they be cut in sunder but Columbus holds that is incurable unless they be cut within the Muscle well then we will take Galen in the charitablest sense However this is certain it is a sure remedy for bleeding at the nose or by wound stops the Terms in women Fluxes Ulcers in the Reins or Bladder Coughs Ulcers in the Lungues Difficulty of breathing Caulis Brassica 〈◊〉 silvestris Coleworts or Cabbages Garden and Wild. They are drying and binding help dimness of the sight help the spleen preserve from drunkenness and help the evil effects of it provoke the terms they say being laid on the top of the head they draw the matrix upward and therefore are good for the falling out of the womb Chrysippus writes a whol treatise of them and makes them a universal medicine for every disease in every part of the body Centaurium majus minus Centaury the greater and lesser They say the greater will do wonders in curing wounds see the Root The lesser is that which is commonly in Sussex known by the name of Centaury and indeed so throughout that part of the nation that I have travailed over a present remedy for the yellow Jaundice opens stoppings of the liver gall and spleen purgeth choller helps the Gout cleers the sight purgeth the stomach helps the dropsie and green-sickness It is only the tops and flowers which are useful of which you may take a drachm inwardly in pouder or half
dropsies it is very hurtful to the stomach and therefore if taken inwardly it had need be well corrected with Cinnamon Ginger or Annis-seeds c. Yet the German Physitians affirm that it cures the dropsie being only bruised and applied to the navil and somthing lower and then it needs not be taken inwardly at all Sonchus levis Asper Sowthistles smooth and rough they are of a cold watry yet binding quality good for frenzies they encrease milk in Nurses and cause the children which they nurse to have a good color help gnawings of the stomach coming of a hot cause outwardly they help inflamations and hot swellings cool the heat of the fundament and privities 〈◊〉 Chirurgorum Flixweed drying without any manifest heat or coldness it is usually found about old ruinous buildings it is so called because of its vertue in stopping fluxes 〈◊〉 highly commends it nay elevates it up to the skies for curing old wounds and fistulaes which though our modern Chyrurgians despise yet if it were in the hands of a wise man such as Paracelsus was it may do the wonders he saith it will Spinachia Spinage I never read any physical vertues of it Spina alba See the Root Spica See Nardus Staebe Silver Knapweed The vertues be the same with Scabious and some think the Herbs too though I am of another opinion Staechas French Lavender Cassidony is a great counterpoyson open obstructions of the Liver and Spleen clenseth the matrix and bladder brings out corrupt humors provokes urine There is another Staechas mentioned here by the name of Amaranthus in English Golden flower or Flower-gentle the flowers of which expel worms being boyled the water kils Lice and Nits Succisa Monsus Dioboli Devils-bit Hot and dry in the second degree inwardly taken it easeth the fits of the mother and breaks wind takes away swellings in the mouth and slimy flegm that sticks to the jaws neither is there a more present remedy in the world for those cold swellings in the neck which the vulgar call the Almonds of the ears than this Herb bruised and applied to them Suchaha And Egyptian Thorn Very hard if not impossible to come by here And here the Colledg make another racket about the several sorts of Comfryes which I pass by with silence having spoken to them before Tanacetum Tansie hot in the second degree and dry in the third the very smel of it staies abortion or miscarriages in women so it doth being bruised and applied to their navils provokes urine and easeth pains in making water and is a special help against the Gout Taraxacon Dandelyon or to write better French Dent-de-lyon for in plain English it is called Lyons-tooth it is a kind of Succory and thither I refer you Tamariscus Tamaris It hath a dry clensing quality and hath a notable vertue against the Rickets and infirmities of the Spleen provokes the terms Telephium A kind of Orpine Thlaspi See Nasturtium Thymbra A wild Savory Thymum Tyme Hot and dry in the third degree helps coughs and shortness of breath provokes the terms brings away dead children and the after-birth purgeth flegm clenseth the breast and lungues reins and matrix helps the Sciatica pains in the breast expels wind in any part of the body resisteth fearfulness and melancholly continual pains in the head and is profitable for such as have the Falling-sickness to smell to Thymaelea The Greek name for Spurge-Olive Mezereon being the Arabick name Tithymalus Esula c. Spurge Hot and dry in the fourth degree a dogged purge better let alone than taken inwardly hair anointed with the juyce of it will fall off it kills Fish being mixed with any thing that they will eat outwardly it clenseth ulcers takes away freckles sunburning and morphew from the face Tormentilla See the Root Trinitatis herba Pansies or Hearts-ease They are cold and moist both Herbs and Flowers excellent against inflamatious of the breast or lungs Convulsions and Falling sickness also they are held to be good for the French Pocks Trifolium Trefoil dry in the third degree and cold The ordinary Medow Trefoil for their word comprehends all sorts clenseth the guts of slimy humors that stick to them being used either in Drinks or Clysters outwardly they take away inflamations Pliny saith the Leaves stand upright before a storm which I have observed to be true oftener than once or twice and that in a cleer day 14. hours before the storm came Tussilago Colts-foot something cold and dry and therefore good for inflamations they are admirable good for Coughs and Consumptions of the lungues shortness of breath c. It is often used and with good success taken in a Tobacco-pipe being cut and mixed with a little oyl of Annis seeds See the Syrup of Colts-foot Valeriana Valerian or Setwal See the Roots Verbascum Thapsus Barbatus Mullin or Higtaper It is something dry and of a digesting clensing quality stops fluxes and the hemorroids it cures hoarcness the cough and such as are broken winded the Leaves worn in the shooes provokes the terms especially in such Virgins as never had them but they must be worn next their feet also they say that the Herb being gathered when the Sun is in Virgo and the Moon in Aries in their mutual Antiscions helps such of the falling-sickness as do but carry it about them worn under the feet it helps such as are troubled with the fits of the mother Verbena Vervain hot and dry a great opener clenser and healer it helps the yellow jaundice defects in the reins and bladder pains in the head if it be but bruised and hung about the neck all diseases in the secret parts of men and women made into an ointment it is a sovereign remedy for old head-aches called by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as also frenzies it cleers the skin and causeth a lovely colour Veronica See Betonica Pauli Violarla Violet Leaves They are cool ease pains in the head proceeding of heat and frenzies either inwardly taken or outwardly applied heat of the stomach or inflamation of the lungues Vitis Vinifera The Manuted Vine The Leaves are binding and cool withal the burnt ashes of the sticks of a Vine scour the teeth and make them as white as snow the Leaves stop bleeding fluxes heart-burnings vomitings as also the longing of women with child Vincitoxicum Swallow-wort A pultis made with the Leaves helps sore breasts and also soreness of the matrix Virga Pastoris A third name for Teazles Thus you see the Colledg will be surer than the Miller who took his toll but twice See Dipsacus Virga Auria See Consolida Ulmaria See the Root Meadsweet Umbilious Veneris Navel-wort Cold dry and binding therefore helps all inflamations they are very good for kib'd heels being bathed with it and a leaf laid over the sore Urtica Nettles an herb so well known that you may find them by the feeling in the darkest night they are something
wind Benzoin or Benjamin makes a good perfume Sanguis Draconis cools and binds exceedingly Aloes purgeth choller and flegm and with such deliberation that it is often given to withstand the violence of other purges it preserves the sences and betters the apprehension it strengthens the liver and helps the yellow Jaundice Yet it is naught for such as are troubled with the Hemorrhoids or have agues I do not like it taken raw See Aloe Rosata which is nothing but it washed with juyce of roses Manna is temperatly hot of a mighty dilative quality windy clenseth choller gently also it clenseth the throat and stomach A child may take an ounce of it at a time melted in milk and the dross strained out it is good for them when they are scabby Scamony or Diagridium call it by which name you please is a desperate purge hurtful to the body by reason of its heat windiness corroding or gnawing and violence of working I would advise my country to let it alone 't will gnaw their bodyes as fast as Doctors gnaw their purses Opopanex is of a heating molifying digesting quality Gum Elemi is exceeding good for fractures of the skul as also in wounds and therfore is put in plaisters for that end See Arceus his Liniment Tragacanthum commonly called Gum Traganth and Gum Dragon helps coughs hoarsness and distillations upon the lungues Bdellium heats and softens helps hard swellings ruptures pains in the sides hardness of the sinnews Galbanum hot dry discussing applied to the womb it hastens both birth and afterbirth applied to the navel it staies the strangling of the womb commonly called the fits of the mother helps pains in the sides and difficuty of breathing being applied to it and the smel of it helps the vertigo or dissiness in the head Mirrh heats and dries opens and softens the womb provokes the birth and after birth inwardly taken it helps old coughs and hoarsness pains in the sides kills worms and helps a stinking breath helps the wastings of the gums fastens the 〈◊〉 outwardly it helps wounds and fills up ulcers with flesh You may take half a drachm at a time Mastich strengthens the stomach exceedingly helps such as vomit or spit blood it fastens the teeth and strengthens the gums being chewed in the mouth Frankinsence and Olibanum heat and bind fill up old ulcers with flesh stops bleediug but is extream bad for mad people Turpentine purgeth clenseth the Reins helps the running of them Styrax calamitis helps coughs and distillations upon the lungues hoarsness want of voice hardness of the womb but it is bad for headaches Amoniacum applied to the side helps the hardness and pains of the spleen Camphire easeth pains of the head coming of heat takes away inflamations and cools any place it is applied to JUYCES THat all Juyces have the same vertues with the Herbs or Fruits whereof they are made I suppose few or none will deny therefore I shall only name a few of them and that briefly Sugar is held to be hot in the first degree strengthens the Lungues takes away the roughness of the Throat succours the Reins and Bladder The Juyce of Citrons cools the Blood strengthens the Heart mitigates the violent heat of Feavers The Juyce of Lemmons works the same effect but not so powerfully as Authors say Juyce of Liquoris strengthens the Lungues helps Coughs and Colds I am loth to trouble the Reader with Tautology therefore I pass to THINGS BRED OF PLANTS OF these the Colledg names but few and all of those few have been treated of before only two excepted the First of which is Agaricus Agrick It purgeth Flegm Choller and Melancholly from the Brain Nerves Muscles Marrow or more properly Brain of the Back it clenseth the Breast Lungues Liver Stomach Spleen Reins Womb Joynts it provokes Urine and the Terms kills Worms helps pains in the Joynts and causeth a good Colour It is very seldom or never taken alone See Syrup of Roses with Agrick Lastly Viscus Quircinus or Misleto of the Oak helps the Falling sickness being either taken inwardly or hung about ones neck LIVING-CREATURES MIllepedes so called from the multitude of their feet though it cannot be supposed they have a thousand Sows Hoglice in Sussex they call them Woodlice being bruised and mixed with Wine they provoke urine help the yellow Jaundice outwardly being boyled in oyl help pains in the ears a drop being put into them The flesh of Vipers being eaten cleer the sight help the vices of the nerves resist poyson exceedingly neither is there any better remedy under the Sun for their bitings than the head of the Viper that bit you bruised and applied to the place and the flesh eaten you need not eat above a drachm at a time and make it up as you shall be taught in Troches of Vipers Neither any comparable to the stinging of Bees and Wasps c. than the same that stung you bruised and applied to the place Land Scorpions cure their own stingings by the same means the ashes of them being burnt potently provokes urine and breaks the stone Earth-Worms the preparation of which you may find towards the latter end of the Book are an admirable remedy for cut nerves being applied to the place they provoke urine see the oyl of them only let me not forget one notable thing quoted by Mizaldus which is that the pouder of them put into an hollow tooth makes it drop out Eels being put into Wine or Beer and suffered to die in it he that drinks it will never endure that sort of liquor again Oysters applied alive to a pestilential swelling draw the venom to them Crab-fish burnt to ashes and a drachm of it taken every morning helps the bitings of mad-dogs and all other venemous beasts Swallows being eaten cleer the sight the ashes of them being burnt eaten preserves from drunkenness helps sore throats being applied to them and inflamations Grashoppers being eaten ease the chollick and pains in the bladder Hedg-Sparrows being kept in salt or dryed and eaten raw are an admirable remedy for the stone Young Pidgeons being eaten help pains in the reins and the disease called Tenasmus PARTS OF LIVING CREATURES AND EXCREMENTS THE brain of Sparrows being eaten provoke lust exceedingly The brain of an Hare being rosted helps trembling it makes children breed teeth easily their gums being rubbed with it it also helps scald heads and falling off of hair the head being anointed with it The head of a cole black Cat being burnt to ashes in a new pot and some of the ashes blown into the eye every day helps such as have a skin growing over their sight if there happen any inflamation moisten an Oak leaf in water and lay over the eye Mizaldus saith by this one only medicine cured such as have been blind a whol yeer The head of a young Kite being burned to ashes and the quantity of a drachm of it taken every morning in a little
water is an admirable remedy for the Gout Crabs-eyes breaks the stone and open stoppings of the bowels The lungues of a Fox well dried but not burned is an admirable strengthner to the lungues See the Lohoch of Fox lungues The liver of a Duck stops fluxes and strengthens the liver exceedingly The liver of a Frog being dried and eaten helps quartan agues or as the vulgar call them third-day agues Cocks stones nourish mightily and refresh and restore such bodies as have been wasted by long sickness they are admirable good in Hectick feavers and Galens supposed incurable Marasmus which is a consumption attending upon a Hectick feaver they encrease seed and help such as are weak in the sports of Venus Castorium resists poyson the bitings of venemous beasts it provokes the terms and brings forth both birth and after birth it expels wind easeth pains and aches convulsions sighings lethargies the smell of it allaies the fits of the mother inwardly given it helps tremblings falling-sickness and other such ill effects of the brain and nerves A scruple is enough to take at a time and indeed spirit of Castorium is better than Castorium raw to which I refer you The yard of a stag helps fluxes the bitings of venemous beasts provokes urine and stirs up lust exceedingly A sheeps or Goats bladder being burnt and the ashes given inwardly helps the Diabetes or continual pissing Unicorns horn resists poyson and the pestilence provokes urine restores lost strength brings forth both birth and after-birth Ivory or Elephants tooth binds stops the whites in women it strengthens the heart and stomach helps the yellow-Jaundice and makes women fruitfull The vertues of Harts-horn are the same with Unicorns horn The bone that is found in the heart of a stag is as soveraign a Cordial and as great a strengthner to the heart as any is being beaten into pouder and taken inwardly also it resists pestilences and poyson The scull of a man that was never buried being beaten to pouder and given inwardly the quantity of a drachm at a time in Bettony water helps palsies and falling sickness That small Triangular bone in the Skul of a man Called Os triquetrum so absolutely cures the falling sickness that it will never come again saith Paracelsus Those small bones which are found in the fore feet of a Hare being beaten into pouder and drunk in Wine powerfully provoke urine A Ring made of an Elks Claw being worn helps the cramp The fat of a man is exceeding good to anoint such limbs as fall away in flesh Goose grease and Capons grease are both softning helps gnawing sores stifness of the womb and mitigate pain I am of opinion that the Suet of a Goat mixed with a little Saffron is as excellent an oyntment for the Gout especially the Gout in the knees as any is Bears grease staies the falling off of the hair Fox Grease helps pains in the ears Elks Claws or Hoofs are a Soveraign remedy for the falling sickness though it be but worn in a Ring much more being taken inwardly but saith Mizaldus it must be the Hoof of the right foot behind Milk is an extream windy meat therefore I am of the Opinion of Dioscorides viz. that it is not profitable in head-aches yet this is for certain that it is an admirable remedy for inward ulcers in any part of the body or any corrosions or excoriations pains in the reins and bladder but it is very bad in diseases in the liver spleen the falling sickness vertigo or dissiness in the head feavers and head aches Goats milk is held to be better than Cows for Hectick feavers Phtisicks and consumptions and so is Asses also Whey attenuateth and clenseth both choller and melancholly wonderfully helps melancholly and madness coming of it it opens stoppings of the bowels helps such as have the dropsie and are troubled with the stoppings of the spleen rickets and hypocondriack melancholly for such diseases you may make up your Physick with Whey Outwardly it denseth the skin of such deformities as come through choller or melancholly as scabs itch morphew leprosie c. Honey is of a gallant clensing quallity exceeding profitable in all inward ulcers in what part of the body soever it opens the veins clenseth the reins and bladder he that would have more of the vertues of it let him read Butler his Book of Bees a gallant experimental work I know no vices belonging to it but only it is soon converted into choller Wax softens heats and meanly fills sores with flesh it suffers not the milk to curdle in womens breasts inwardly it is given ten grains at a time against bloody-fluxes Raw-Silk heats and dries cheers the heart drives away sadness comforts all the spirits both Natural Vital and Animal As for Excrements there the Colledg makes shittin work and paddle in the turds like Jakes Farmers I will let them alone for fear the more I stir them the more they stink BELONGING TO THE SEA SPerma Caeti is well applied outwardly to eating Ulcers the marks which the small pocks leave behind them it cleers the sight provokes sweat inwardly it troubles the stomach and belly helps bruises and stretching of the nerves and therefore is good for women newly delivered Amber greese heats and dryes strengthens the brain and nerves exceedingly if the infirmity of them come of cold resists pestilence Sea-sand a man that hath the dropsie being set up to the middle in it it draws out all the water Red Corral is cold dry and binding stops the immoderate flowing of the terms bloody-fluxes the running of the reins and the whites in women helps such as spit and pisse blood helps witchcraft being carried about one it is an approved remedy for the falling sickness Also if ten grains of red Corral be given to a Child in a little breast-milk so soon as it is born before it take any other food it will never have the falling sickness nor convulsions The common dose is from ten grains to thirty Pearls are a wonderfull strengthner to the heart encrease milk in Nurses and amend it being naught they restore such as are in Consumptions both they and the red Corral preserve the body in health and resist feavers The Dose is ten grains or fewer more I suppose because it is dear than because it would do harm Amber viz. yellow Amber heats and dryes therefore prevails against moist diseases of the head it helps violent Coughs helps Consumptions of the lungues spitting of blood the whites in women it helps such women that are out of measure unwealdy in their going with child it stops bleeding at the nose helps difficulty of urine You may take ten or twenty grains at a time The Froath of the Sea it is hot and dry helps scabs itch and leprosie scald heads c. it clenseth the skin helps difficulty of urine makes the teeth white being rubbed with it the head being washed with it it helps baldness and trimly decks the head
being taken inwardly helps the cough and distillation of the Lungues hoarceness and losse of voice helps the hardness of the womb and provokes the terms if you take ten grains of it at a time made up in the form of a Pill Ammoniacum hot and dry in the third degree softens draws and heats being dissolved in Vineger strained and applied plaister-wise it takes away bunckles and hardness in the flesh it is one of the best remedies that I know for infirmities of the spleen being applied to the left side being made into an Oyntment with Oyl it is excellent good to anoint the Limbs of such as are weary a scruple of it being taken in the form of a Pill losens the belly gives speedy delivery to women in travail helps diseases in the spleen the sciatica and all pains in the joynts such as piss blood and have any humor afflicting their Breast Camphire it is held by al Authority to be cold and dry in the third degree it is of very thin and subtil parts insomuch that being beaten into very fine pouder it will vanish away into the air being beaten into pouder and mixed with Oyl and the temples anointed therewith easeth head aches proceeding of heat al inflamations whatsoever the back being anointed with the same cools the reins and Seminal Vessels stops the running of the reins and whites in women the moderate use of Venery the like it doth if it be drunk inwardly with Betony Water take but a smal quantity of it at a time inwardly it resists poyson and bitings by venemous beasts outwardly applied as before and the eyes anointed with it stops hot rhewms that flow thither Opopanax purgeth thick flegm from the most remote parts of the body viz. the brain joynts hands and feet the nerves and breast and strengthens all these parts when they are weak if the weakness proceed of cold as usually it doth it helps weakness of the sight old rotten coughs and gouts of all sorts dropsies and swellings of the spleen it helps the strangury and difficulty of making Urine provokes the terms and helps all cold afflictions of the womb have a care you give it not to any women with child The dose is one drachm at most corrected with a little Mastich dissolved in Vineger and outwardly applied helps the passions of the Spleen In the next place the Colledg tells you a sowr tale concerning Liquid Juyces and Tears which are to be kept for present use Viz. Colledg VIneger Juyce of Citrons Juyce of sowr Grapes Orrenges barberries Tares of a Birch-tree Juyce of Chermes Quinces Pomegranates Lemmons Wood-sorrel Oyl of unripe Olives and ripe Olives both new and old Juyce of red and Damask Roses Wine Tares of a Vine Culpeper A The Vertues of most of these may be found in the Syrups and are few of them used alone unless it be Vineger to make sawce and Wine to drink Then the Colledg tells you there are these things bred of PLANTS and that every child knows Viz. Colledg AGrick Jews-ears the Berries of Cermes the Spungy substance of the Bryar Moss Viscus Quercinus Oak Apples Culpeper A. As the Colledg would have you know these so would I know what the chiefest of them are good for Jews-ears boyled in Milk and drunk helpeth sore Throats it is the opinion of those that have studied Hermetick Phylosophy That those things which resemble any parts of mans body strengthens those parts of the body they resemble and help the diseases they are vulgarly incident to which is an approved truth in this for as they resemble the Bar of a man so being boyled in white Wine and the Wine drunk and the Jews-ears applied to the Ear outwardly will help deafness inflamations and other infirmities of the Ears Moss is cold dry and binding therefore good for fluxes of all sorts if you desire to know more of it I desire you would see my English Physitian Our Colledg must have none but Misleto of the Oak used and what has any body to do to question them for so doing let the 〈◊〉 buy only such and paysawce for it it is nothing to me but as for the poor Country man I can tell him this and I will tell him but the truth and am able to prove it when I have done That one sort of Misleto is as good as another it helps the 〈◊〉 sickness and the convulsions being 〈◊〉 gathered and used Oak Apples 〈◊〉 saith if Oak Apples be broken alonder about the time of their withering before they have a hole through them they contain in them one Living-creature or another which 〈◊〉 it be a Fly it signifies War if a Spider Pestilence if a Magget Murren of beasts if a Worm scarcity of Victuals if an Ant plenty of Corn for us I le bind no bodies faith to beleeve it because I never tried it my self this I say they are 〈◊〉 and binding being boyled in milk and drunk they stop fluxes and the terms and being boyled in Vineger and the body anoynted with the Vineger cures the Itch. Then the Colledg acquaints you with more wonders That there are certain Living-Creatures called Colledg BEES Woodlite Silkworms Stoads Crabs of the River little Puppy Dogs Grashoppers 〈◊〉 Cathanel Hedg-hogs Emets or Ants Larks Swallows and their yong ones Hors-leeches Snails Earth-worms Dish-washers or Wagtails House Sparrows and Hedg Sparrows Frogs Scincus Land Scorpions Moles or Mants Tortoise of the woods Tenches Vipers and Foxes Culpeper A. The part of this crew of Cattel and some others which they have not been pleased to learn may be made beneficial to your sick bodies be pleased to understand that Bees being burnt to ashes and a Ly made with the ashes trimly decks a bald head being washed with it Snails with 〈◊〉 on their backs being first washed from the dirt then the shels broken and they boyled in spring Water but not 〈◊〉 at all for the 〈◊〉 will sink of it self and the water drunk for ordinary drink is a most admirable remedy for a consumption and here by the way I cannot but admire at the simplicity of most Physitians who prescribe that the snails ought to be purged from their flime either with salt or bran before they be used which if you do you take away their vertue for the reason why they cure a consumption is this Man being made of the slime of the Earth the 〈◊〉 substance recovers him when he is wasted if you please to eat the Snails when they are boyled you may for they have a very pleasing tast it would be very cunningly done of you if you did so especially in these hard times for then would you have meat drink and medicine all together Besides this being 〈◊〉 and applied to the place they help the gout draw thorns out of the flesh and held to the Nose help the bleeding thereof Frogs It is a vulgar fashion of the Walloons to catch live Frogs and cut off their hinder Legs and fry them
and eat them whether they be good meat or no I know not but I am sure 't is a good medicine for the biting of Serpents An Oyl made of it is excellent good for the stifness of the Tendons and the falling off of hair Before I come to the Compounds lest any should think I go about to hide from them any thing that might do them good I have here inserted the living Creatures and Excrements c. in the order the Colledg left them for impose them they could not for want of Authority Alack alack the King is dead and the Colledg of Physitians want power to impose the Turds upon men The use of the Fat 's and Suets you shel have if you please but to stay til I come to the Oyls and Oyntments the other which you think not useful for Physick will serve to laugh at the reading of them may make you 〈◊〉 though the smell of them might turn your stomach My self cannot chuse but smile to think in what part of the Apothecaries Shop the Colledg would have them kept they had need place them neer the Civit pot Therefore consider that the Colledg gave the Apothecaries a Catalogue of what Parts of Living Creatures and Excrements they must keep in their Shops Viz. Colledg THE Fat Grease or Suet of a Duck Goose Ecl Bare Herron Thymallos if you know where to get it Dog Capon 〈◊〉 wild Cat Stork Coney Horse Hedg-hog Hen Man Lyon Hare Pike or 〈◊〉 if they have any fat I am 〈◊〉 't is worth twelve pence a grain Wolf Mouse of the Mountains if you can catch them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Serpent Badger 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 Bear Fox Vultur if you can catch them Album 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Dogs Turd the 〈◊〉 of a Hare and a Hog East and West 〈◊〉 Butter not 〈◊〉 and salted stone taken out of a mans Bladder Vipers flesh fresh Cheese Castorium white yellow and virgins wax the Brain of Hares and Sparrows Crabs claws the Rennet of a Lamb Kid a Hare and a Calf and a Horse too quoth the Colledg They should have put in the Rennet of ah Ass to make a Medicine for their adle brains the next time they alter their Dispensarory let them go take council of the Butchers and allow them a place in their Colledg-Garden in Amen-Corner as they have done their learned Alchymist truly they would have knocked down such an Earor like an Ox and told them no creatures had Rennets but only such as sucked to proceed The Heart of a Bullock a Stag a Hog and a Weather the Horn of an Elk a Hart a Rhinocerot an Unicorn the skull of a Man killed by a violent death a Cocks comb to hang upon their learned heads the Tooth of a Bore an Elephant and a Sea-horse Ivory or Elephants Tooth the skin a Snake hath cast off the gall of a Hawk Bullock a shee Goat a Hare a Kite a Hog a Bull a Bear the cases of Silk-worms the Liver of a Wolf an Otter a Frog Ising-glass the guts of a Wolf and a Fox the milk of a shee Ass a shee Goat a Woman an Ewe a Heifer East and West Bezoar the stone in the head of a Carp and a Pearch if there be any stone in an Ox Gall stone in the Bladder of a Man the Jaw of a Pike or Jack Pearls the marrow of the Leg of a Sheep Ox Goat Stag Calf common and virgin Honey Musk Mummy a Swallows nest Crabs eyes the Omentum or Call of a Lamb Ram Weather Calf the whites yolks and shells of Hens Egs Emets Egs bone of a Stags Heart an Ox Leg Ossepiae the inner skin of a Hens Gizzard the Wool of Hares the feathers of Partridges that which Bees make at the entrance of the Hive to keep out cold if they make any thing at all for I assure you I could never find any yet and have been a diligent searcher after it the pizzle of a Stag of a Bull Fox Lungues fasting spittle the blood of a Pidgeon of a Cat of a hee Goat of a Hare of a Partridg of a Sow of a Bull of a Badger of a Snail they might have been a little plainer Testudo which is their word signifies any shell-fish as also snails that have shels on their backs any thing will serve to cheat the people with Silk Whey the suet of a Bullock of a Stag of a hee Goat of a Sheep of a Heiser Sperma 〈◊〉 a Bullocks Spleen the skin a Snake hath cast off the Turds of a Goose of a Dog of a Goat of Pidgeons of a stone-horse of a Hen of Swallows of Men of Women of Mice of Peacocks of a Hog of a Heiser the Ancle of a Hare of a Sow Cobwebs Water shels as Blatta Bizantia Buccinae Crabs Cockles Dentalis Entalis mother of Pearl Mytuli purpurae Os sepiae Umbilicus Marinus the stones of a Horse of a Cock the hoof of an Elk of an Ass of a Bullock of a Horse of a Lyon the piss of a Bore of a shee Goats of a Man or Woman that is a Maid and that is not a Maid the Moss on a Mans skull Zibeth Culpeper A. The Liver of a Hedg-hog being dried and beaten into pouder and drunk with Wine strengthens the Reins exceedingly and helps the dropsie convulsions and the Falling-sickness together with all fluxes of the Bowels The Liver being in like manner brought into pouders strengthens the Liver exceedingly and helps the dropsie The Heart of a Frog being applied to the Region of the Heart in a burning Feaver mitigates the fits to admiration The Heart of a Lark being bound to the Thigh of those that have the Chollick helps them it doth the like also being eaten Then the Colledge tells you these things may be taken from the SEA As Coll. AMber-greese Sea water Sea sand Bitumen Amber white and yellow Jet Carallinae Corral white and red Fome of the Sea Spunge stone Pumice Sea salt Spunges Amber METTALS STONES SALTS and other MINERALS VErt-de-greese scales of Brass Aetitis Alana Terra Alabaster Alectorious Allum Scisile and Roch Amethist Amianth Ampheliles Antimony Leaves and filings of Silver Quick-silver Lapis Armenius native Arsenick both white and red artifieial Arsnick white and realgar Argilla Asteria Leaves and filings of Gold Belemnites Beril Bole-armenick Borax Toads-stone Lapis Calaminaris Cadmia Lime quick and quenched Vitriol white blew and green Steel Borax 〈◊〉 Crysopus Cinabaris native and artificial whetstones Chalk white and green Cristal Diphriges the rust dust scales and flakes of Iron Granate Morter such as walls are daubed with Hematites Heliotropium Jacinth Hibernicus Jasper Lapis Judaicus Tiles Lapis Lazuli Lapis Lincis 〈◊〉 Litharge of Silver and Gold Loadstone Marchasite or fire-stone Marble red Lead native and artificial Myst Naphtha Lapis Nephriticus Niter Oaker yellow and red Onyx Opalus Ophytes Osteocolla Lead white and black Plumbago Pompholix Marchasite realgar Ruby red Oaker Sal Armoniack Sal Gem and Sal Niter Saphir and Sardine Selenites
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
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
each a handful the seeds of sorrel Citrons Fennel Cardus Bazil of each three drachms boyl them in four pound of water till half be consumed strain it and ad three pound of white sugar Juyce of Bawm and Rose Water of each half a pound boyl them to a syrup the which perfume with Cinnamon and yellow sanders of each half an ounce Culpeper A. The scorzonera Roots and Bugloss Roots are added and the Bettony Roots left out and Fernelius his name buried in oblivion that is all the Alteration If the name of the wicked shall rot 't is more likely to happen upon themselves than Fernelius A. Alwaies tie perfumes up in a rag and hang them into the syrup by a string when it boyls and hang them by a string in the veslel be it pot or glass that you may keep the syrup in being boyled A. It is an excellent Cordial and strengthens the heart breast and stomach it resisteth Melancholly revives the spirits is given with good success in Feavers it strengtheneth the memory and relievs langushing nature You may take a spoonful of it at a time Syrupus de Mentha Page 59. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Mints The Colledg Take of the juyce of Quinces sweet and between sweet and sowr the juyce of Pomegranates sweet between sweet and sowr and sowr of each a pound and an half dryed mints half a pound red Roses two ounces let them lie in steep one day then boyl it half away and with four pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art perfume it not unless the Physitian command Culpeper A. The syrup is in quality binding yet it comforts the stomach much helps digestion staies vomiting and is in my opinion as excellent a remedy against sowr or offensive belchings as any is in the Dispensatory Take a spoonful of it after meat Syrupus de Mucilaginibus Page 60. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Mussilages The Colledg Take of the seeds of Marsh-Mallows Mallows Quinces of each an ounce Gum Tragacanth three drachms let these infuse six hours in warm Decoction of Mallows white Poppy seeds and Winter-cherries then press out the Mussilage to an ounce and an half with which 〈◊〉 and three ounces of the aforesaid Decoction and two ounces of sugar make a syrup according to art Culpeper A. A spoonful taken by it self or in any convenient Liquor is excellent for any sharp corroding humors be they in what part of the body soever Phtisicks bloody Flux stone in the Reins or Bladder or Ulcers there it is excellent good for such as have taken Purges that are to strong for their bodies for by its slippery nature it helps corrosians and by its cooling helps inflamations Syrupus Myrtinus Page 60. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Mirtles The Colledg Take of Mirtle berries two ounces and an half Sanders white and red sumach Balaustines Barberry stones red Roses of each an ounce and an half Medlars half a pound bruise them in eight pound of water to four strain it and ad juyce of Quinces and sour Pomegranates of each six ounces then with three pound of sugar boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper A. The syrup is of a very binding yet comforting nature it helps such as spit blood all fluxes of the belly or corrosions of the internal parts it strengthens the retentive faculty and stops immoderate flux of the terms in women A spoonful at a time is the dose Syrupus Florum Nymphaeae simplex Page 60. Or Syrup of Water-Lilly-flowers simple The Colledg Take of the whitest of white Water-lilly-flowers a pound steep them in three pound of warm Water six or seven hours let them boyl a little and strain them out put in the same waight of Flowers again the second and third time when you have strained it the last time ad its waight of sugar to it and boyl it to a syrup Syrupus Florum Nymphaeae compositus Page 60. Syrup of Water-lilly-Flowers compound The Colledg Take of white Water-lilly-Flowers half a pound Violets two ounces Lettice two handfuls the seeds of Lettice Purslain and Guords of each half an ounce boyl them in four pound of cleer water till one be consumed strain it and ad half a pound of red Rose water white sugar four pound boyl it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. They both are fine cooling syrups they allay the heat of Choller and provoke fleep they cool the body both head heart liver reins and matrix and therefore are profitable for hot diseases in either you may take an ounce of it at a time when your stomach is empty Syrupus de Papavere Erratico sive Rhubro Page 61. Or Syrup of Eratick Poppies The Colledg Take of the fresh Flowers of red Poppies two pound steep them in four pound of warm spring Water the next day strain it and boyl it into a syrup with its equal waight in Sugar Culpeper A. I know no danger in this syrup so it be taken with moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts the syrup cools the blood helps surfets and may safely be given in Frenzies Feavers and hot Agues Syrupus de Pilosella Page 61. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Mousear The Colledg Take of Mousear three handfuls the Roots of Ladies mantle an ounce and an half the Roots of comsry the greater Maddir white Dittany Tormentil Bistort of each an ounce the Leaves of Wintergreen Horstail Ground-Ivy Plantane Adders tongue Strawberries St. Johns Wort with the Flowers Golden rod Agrimony Bettony Burnet Avens Sinkfoyl the greater red Coleworts Balaustines red Roses of each a handful boyl them gently in six pound of of Plantane Water to three then strain it strongly and when it is setled ad Gum Tragacanth the seeds of Fleawort Marsh-mallows and Quinces made into a Mussilage by themselves in strawberry and Bettony Water of each three ounces white sugar two pound boyl it to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. Certainly they intended an universal Medicine of this and may prove as good as Chrysippus his Coleworts It is profitable for wounded people to take for it is drying and healing and therefore good for Ruptures Syrupus insusionis Florum Paeoniae Page 62. Or Syrup of the infusion of Peony Flowers The Colledg It is prepared just for all the world like syrup of Clove-gilliflowers Culpeper A. See syrup of Meconium for the vertues Syrupus de Paeonia Compositus P. 62. in L. Book Or Syrup of Peony Compound The Colledg Take of the Roots of both sorts of Peony taken up at the full Moon cut in slices and steeped in white Wine a whol day of each an ounce and an half Contra yerva half an ounce Siler mountain six drachms Elks Claws an ounce Rosemary with the Flowers on one handful Bettony Hysop Origanum Chamepitys Rue of each three drachms Wood of Aloes Cloves Cardamoms the less of each two drachms Ginger Spicknard of each a drachm stoechas Nutmegs of each two drachms
shall find this one Receipt worth the price of the whol Book Syrupus de Stoechade Page 65. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Stoechas The Colledg Take of Stoechas flowers four ounces Rosemary flowers half an ounce Time Calaminth Origanum of each an ounce and an half Sage Betony of each half an ounce the seeds of Rue Pcony and Fennel of each three drachms spring water ten pound boyl it till half be consumed and with Honey and sugar of each two pound boyl it into a syrup which perfume with Cinnamon Ginger and Calamus Aromaticus of each two drachms tyed up in a rag Syrupus de Symphyto Page 65. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Comfry The Colledg Take of the Roots and Tops of Comfry the greater and lesser of each three handfuls red Roses Betony Plantane Burnet Knot-grass scabious Coltsfoot of each two handfuls press the Juyce out of them all being green and bruised boyl it scum it and strain it ad its weight of sugar to it that it may be made into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. The syrup is excellent for all inward wounds and bruises excoriations vomitings spittings or pissings of blood it unites broken bones helps ruptures and stops the terms in women you cannot er in taking of it Syrupus Violarum Page 65. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Violets The Colledg Take of Violet Flowers fresh and picked a pound cleer water made boyling hot two pound shut them up close together in a new glazed pot a whol day then press them hard out and in two pound of the Liquor dissolve four pound and three ounces of white Sugar take away the scum and so make it into a syrup without boyling Syrup of the Juyce of Violets is made with its double waight of Sugar like the former Culpeper A. This latter syrup is far more chargable than the former and in all reason is better although I never knew it used they both of them cool and moisten and that very gently they correct the sharpness of choller and give ease in hot vices of the breast they quench thirst in acute feavers and resist the heat of the disease they comfort hot stomachs exceedingly cool the liver and heart and resist putrifaction pestilence and poyson It is so harmless a syrup you shall hurt your purse by it sooner than your body The Colledg Julep of Violets is made of the water of Violet flowers and sugar like Julep of Roses Culpeper A. It is cooling and pleasant for the Gentry when they are hot with walking for few of them much trouble their study PURGING SYRUPS Syrupus de Cicborio cum Rhabarbaro Page 67. Or Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb The Colledg TAke of whol Barley the Roots of Smallage Fennel and Sparagus of each two ounces Succory Dandelyon Endive smooth Sowthistles of each two handfuls Lettice Liverwort Fumitory tops of Hops of each one handful Maiden-hair white and black Cetrach Liquoris Winter Cherries Dodder of each six drachms to boyl these take sixteen pound of spring water strain the liquor and boyl in it six pound of white Sugar adding towards the end six ounces of Rhubarb six drachms of Spicknard bound up in a thin and slack rag the which crush often in boyling and so make it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. This Receipt without a name was borrowed from Nicholaus Florentinus the difference is only in the quantity of the Rhubarb and Spike besides the order inverted whose own aprobation of it runs in these terms A. It clenseth the body of venemous humors as Boyls Carbuncles and the like it prevails against pestilential Feavers it strengthens the heart and nutritive vertue purgeth by stool and urine it makes a man have a good stomach to his meat and provokes sleep A. But by my Authors leave I never accounted purges to be proper Physick in Pestilential Feavers this I beleeve the syrup clenseth the liver well and is exceeding good for such as are troubled with Hypocondriack Melancholly The strong may take two ounces at a time the weak one or you may mix an ounce of it with the Decoction of Senna Syrupus de Epithymo Page 67. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Epithimum The Colledg Take of Epithimum twenty drams Mirobalans Citron and Indian of each fifteen drams Emblicks Bellericks Polypodium Liquoris Agrick Time Calaminth Bugloss Stoechas of each six drams Dodder Fumitory of each ten drachms red Roses Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each two drachms and an half sweet Prunes ten Raisons of the sun stoned four ounces Tamarinds two ounces and an half after twenty four hours infusion in ten pints of spring water boyl it away to six then take it from the fire and strain it and with five pound of fine Sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. It is best to put in the Dodder Stoechas and Agrick towards the latter end of the Decoction A. This Receipt was Mesue's only instead of five pound of Sugar Mesue appoints four pound of Sugar and two pound of Sapa the making of which shall be shewed in its proper place and truly in my opinion the Receipts of Mesue are generally the best in all the Dispensatory because the Simples are so pertinent to the purpose intended they are not made up of a mess of Hodgpodg as many others are but to the purpose A. It purgeth Melancholly and other humors it strengtheneth the stomach and Liver clenseth the body of addust choller and addust blood as also of salt humors and helps diseases proceeding from these as scabs itch tetters ringworms leprosie c. and the truth is I like it the better for its gentleness for I never fancied violent Medicines in Melancholly diseases A mean man may take two ounces at a time or ad one ounce to the Decoction of Epithimum Syrupus è Floribus Persicorum Page 68. in L. Book Or Syrup of Peach-flowers The Colledg Take of fresh Peach-flowers a pound steep them a whol day in three pound of warm water then boyl it a little and strain it out repeat this infusion five times in the same 〈◊〉 in three pound of which dissolve two pound and an half of Sugar and boyl it into a syrup Culpeper A. It is a gentle Purger of choller and may be given even in feavers to draw away the sharp chollerick humors according to the opinion of Andernacus whose Receipt all things considered differs little from this Syrupus de Pomis Purgans Page 68. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Apples purging The Colledg Take of the Juyce of sweet smelling Apples two pound the juyce of Borrage and Bugloss of each one pound and an half Senna two ounces Annis seeds half an ounce Saffron one drachm let the 〈◊〉 be sleeped in the Juyce's twenty four hours and after a walm or two strain it and with two pound of white sugar boyl it to a syrup according to art the Saffron
this is more mild and not so harsh to the throat because it hath no Vineger in it and therefore is far more fitting for Asthames and such as are troubled with difficulty of breathing it cuts and carries away humors from the breast be they thick or thin and wonderfully helps indigestion of victuals and easeth pains in the breast and for this I quote the Authority of Galen Alwaies take this as a general Aphorism in Physick Sour things we offensive to the Wind-pipe A. Lohochs left out in their new Moddel because they must be doing Lohoch of Coleworts Gordonius The Colledg Take one pound of the Juyce of Coleworts clarified Saffron three drachms clarified Honey and Sugar of each half a pound make of them a Lohoch according to art Culpeper A. It helps hoarsness and loss of voice easeth surfets and Headach coming of drunkenness and opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and therefore is good for that disease in children which women call the Rickets PRESERVED ROOTS STALKS BARKS FLOWERS FRUITS PULPS TAke of Eringo Roots as many as you will clense them without and within the Pith being taken out steep them two daies in cleer water shifting the water somtimes then dry them with a cloth then take their equal waight in white Sugar and as much Rose water as will make it into a syrup which being almost boyled put in the Roots and let them boyl till the moisture be consumed and it be brought to the due body of a Syrup Not much unlike to this are preserved the Roots of Acorus Angelica Borrage Bugloss Succory Alicampane Burnet Satyrion Sicers Comfry the greater Ginger Zedoary Take of the Stalks of Artichokes not too ripe as many as you will and contrary to the Roots take only the pith of these and preserve them with their equal waight in Sugar like the former So is prepared the Stalks of Angelica Burs Lettice c. before they be too ripe Take of fresh Orrenge Pills as many as you will take away the exteriour yellowness and steep them in spring water three daies at the least often renewing the water then preserve them like the former In like manner are Lemmon and Citron Pills preserved Preserve the Flowers of Citrons Orrenges Borrage Primroses with Sugar according to art Take of Apricocks as many as you will take away the outer skin and the Stones and mix them with their like waight in Sugar after four hours take them out and boyl the Sugar without any other Liquor then put them in again and boyl them a little Other Fruits have the same manner of being preserved or at least not much unlike to it as whol Barberries Cherries Cornels Citrons Quinces Peaches common Apples the five sorts of Myrobalans Hazel Nuts Walnuts Nutmegs Raisons of the Sun Pepper brought green from India Plums Garden and wild Pears Grapes Pulps are also preserved as of Barberries Cassia Fistula Citrons Cynosbatus Quinces and Sloes c. Take of Barberries as many as you will boyl them in spring Water till they are tender then having pulped them through a sive that they are free from the stones boyl it again in an Earthen vessel over a gentle fire often stirring them for fear of burning till the watry humor be consumed then mix ten pound of Sugar with six pound of this Pulp boyl it to its due thickness Broom Buds are also preserved but with Brine and Vineger and so are Olives and Capars Lastly Amongst the Barks Cinnamon amongst the Flowers Roses and Marigolds amongst the Fruits Almonds Cloves Pinenuts and Fistick Nuts are said to be preserved but with this difference they are encrusted with dry sugar and are more called Consects than Preserves CONSERVES AND SUGARS The Colledg CONSERVES of the Herbs of 〈◊〉 Sorrel Woodsorrel the Flowers of 〈◊〉 Borrage Bugloss Bettony Marigolds the tops of 〈◊〉 the Flowers of Centaury the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 flowers Germander Succory the Leaves of 〈◊〉 the Flowers of 〈◊〉 the greater 〈◊〉 Cynosbati the roots of Spurge Herbs and Flowers of Eyebright the tops of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Flowers of Broom not quite open Hysop Lavender white Lillies Lillies of the Valley Marsoram Mallows the tops of Bawm the Leaves of Mints the Flowers of water Lillies red Poppies Peony Peaches Primroses Roses damask red Rosemary the leaves of Rue the flowers of Sage Elder Scabious the Leaves of Scordium the flowers of Lime-tree Coltsfoot Violets with all these are Conserves made with their trebble proportion of white Sugar yet note that all of them must not be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some of them must be cut 〈◊〉 and gently 〈◊〉 some neither cut beaten nor boyled and some admit but one of them which every Artist in his Trade may find out by this Premonition and avoid errour Culpeper A. What a half-faced order to make up Conserves do the Colledg here leave Indeed it belongs to the Apothecaries Trade Is it not sufficient for a gentle man to go to a Smith and bid him shoo his Horse but he must go about to teach him how to make his shoos and nails would he not by medling with what he hath no skill in quickly shew what a Lubber he is and what then can one say of the Colledg Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur SUGARS Diacodium Solidum sive Tabulatum Page 86. The Colledg Take of white Poppy heads meanly ripe and newly gathered twenty steep them in three pound of warm spring water and the next day boyl them till the vertue is out then strain out the Liquor and with a sufficient quantity of good Sugar boyl it according to art that you may make it into Lozenges Culpeper A. This Receipt is transcribed verbatim from the Augustan Physitians though the Colledg through forgetfulness or something else hide it the vertues are the same with the common Diacodium viz. to provoke sleep and help thin Rhewms in the head coughs and roughness of the Throat and may easily be carried about in ones pocket 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Simplex et Perlatum P. 86. Or 〈◊〉 of Sugar both Simple and 〈◊〉 The Colledg The first is made by pouring the Sugar out upon a Marble after a sufficient boyling in half its 〈◊〉 of Damask Rofe water And the latter by adding to every pound of the former towards the latter end of the Decoction Pearls prepared and bruised half an ounce with eight or ten Leaves of Gold Culpeper A. Here the Colledg have left out that blasphemous speech which I cannot write without horror nor an honest man read without trembling viz. To call a little Rose-water and Sugar boyled together THE HAND OF CHRIST The truth is if they had left out the rest of the blasphemies I should have had some hopes they would in time turn honest but I see to my grief they remain especially that abominable blasphemy in their Dedicatory Epistle to King James which they having not 〈◊〉 enough to alter 〈◊〉 let stand or else it was because like Sodom they would
purgeth addust humors and is good against madness melancholly forgetfulness vertigo It purgeth very violently and is not safe given alone I would advise the unskilful not to meddle with it inwardly You may give half an ounce of it in Clysters in melancholly diseases which commonly have astringency a constant companion with them A. They have now something mended it as well as they could they having no more skill in making up Medicines than a Cow hath in dauncing Electuarium Lenitivum Pag. 116. in Lat. Book Or Lenitive Electuary The Colledg Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned Polypodium of the Oak Senna of each two ounces Mercury one handful and an half Jujubes Sebestens of each twenty Maiden-hair Violets French Barley of each one handful Damask Prunes stoned Tamarinds of each six drachms Liquoris half an ounce boyl them in ten pound of water till two parts of three be consumed strain it and dissolve in the Decoction pulp of Cassia Tamarinds and fresh Prunes Sugar of Violets of each six ounces Sugar two pound at last ad Pouder of Senna Leaves one ounce and an half Annis seeds in pouder two drams to each pound of Electuary and so bring it into the form of an Electuary according to Art Culpeper A. It gently opens and mollifies the bowels bringing forth choller flegm and melancholly and that without trouble It is cooling and therefore is profitable in Pleuresies and for wounded people A man of reasonable strength may take an ounce of it going to bed w ch wil work next morning A. And intruth they have done well here to ad the Annis seeds to correct the Senna Oh that they would but do so alwaies Electuarium Passulatum Page 117. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of fresh Polypodium roots three ounces fresh Marsh-Mallow roots Senna of each two ounces Annis seeds two drachms steep them all in a glazed Vessel in a sufficient quantity of spring water boyl them according to art strain it and with Pulp of Raisons of the Sun half a pound white Sugar Manna of each four ounces boyl it to the thickness of a Cydoniate and renew it four times a yeer Culpeper A. The Colledg are so mysterious in this Receipt a man can hardly give directions how to make it for they give only incertainties A. You had best first boyl the Roots in three pints of water to a quart then put in the Senna and seeds boyl it to a pint and an half then strain it and ad the rest the Manna will melt of it self as well as the Sugar indeed you had best dissolve the Manna by it self in some of the Decoction and so strain it because of its dross A. It gently purgeth both choller and melancholly clenseth the reins and bladder and therefore is good for the stone and gravel in the kidnies I leave out the dose till the Colledg have learned wit enough to make the Receipt plainer Electuarium è succo Rosarum Pag. 117. in L. Book Or Electuary of the Juyce of Roses The Colledg Take of Sugar the juyce of red Roses clarified of each a pound and four ounces the three sorts of Sanders of each six drachms Spodium three drachms Diacydonium twelve drachms Camphire a scruple Let the Juyce be boyled with the Sugar to its just thickness then add the rest in Pouder and so make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. It purgeth Choller and is good in tertian Agues and diseases of the joynts it purgeth violently therefore let it be warily given I omit the dose because it is not for a vulgar use I would not willingly have my Country men do themselves a mischief let the Gentry study Physick then shall they know what belongs to it A lazy Gentry makes blockheaded Physitians Hiera Picra Simple Page 117. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Cinnamon Xylobalsamum or wood of Aloes the roots of Asarabacca Spicknard Mastich Saffron of each six drachms Aloes not washed twelve ounces and an half clarified Honey four pound and three ounces mix them into an Electuary according to art Also you may keep the Species by it self in your shops Culpeper A. It is an excellent remedy for vicious juyces which lie furring the tunicle of the stomach and such idle fancies and symtomes which the brain suffers thereby whereby some think they see others that they hear strange things especially when they are in bed and between sleeping and waking besides this it very gently purgeth the belly and helps such women as are not sufficiently purged after their travel A. Being thus made up into an Electuary it will be so bitter a dog would not take it and the Species kept by it self is not so sweet your best way in my opinion to take it for I fancy the Receipt very much and have had experience of what I have written of it is to put only so much Honey to it as will make it into Pills of which you may take a scruple at night going to bed if your body be not very weak in the morning drink a draught of hot broath or posset drink you need not fear to go about your business for it will hardly work till next day in the afternoon and then very gently I have found the benefit of it and from my own experience I commend it to my Country men Hiera with Agrick Page 117. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Species Hiera simple without Aloes Agrick Trochisheated of each half an ounce Aloes not washed one ounce clarified Honey six ounces mix it and make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. Look but the vertues of Agrick and ad them to the vertues of the former Receipt so is the business done without any further trouble Hiera Logadii Page 117. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Coloquintida Polipodium of each two drachms Euphorbium Poley mountain the Seeds of Spurge of each one drachm and an half and six grains Wormwood Mirrh of each one dram and twelve grains Centaury the less Agrick gum Ammoniacum Indian leafe or Mace Spicknard Squills prepared Diacrydium of each one drachm Aloes Time Germander Cassia Lignea 〈◊〉 Horehound of each one scruple and fourteen grains Cinnamon Opopanax Castoreum long Birthwort the three sorts of Pepper Sagapen Saffron Parsly of each two drachms Hellibore black and white of each six grains clarified Honey a pound and and half mix them and make of them an Electuary according to art Let the Species be kept dry in yo ur shops Culpeper A. It takes away by the roots daily evils comming of mellancholly falling sickness vertigo convulsions megrim leprosie and many other infirmities for my part I should be loth to take it inwardly unless upon desperate occasions or in Clysters It may well take away diseases by the roots if it take away life and all Hiera Diacolocynthidos Page 118. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Colocynthis Agrick Germander white Horebound Stechas of
to do one jot of this I know not And so play the Colledg here for the Alchymists have a better way by far to draw them the truth is I am in a manner tied to their method here from which I may not step aside if my Country kindly accept this which is the beginning of my labors I may happily put forth something else for the Ingenious to whet their wits upon Only here I quote the Oyls in the Colledg order and then quote the vertue of the chiefst of them that so the Reader may know by a penny how a shilling is coyned The Colledg In the same manner are prepared Oyls of Hysop Marjoram Mints garden water Cresses Origanum Peny-royal Rosemary Rue Savin Sage Savory Time c. the Flowers of Chamomel Lavender c. Culpeper A. I shall instance here only Oyl of Lavender commonly called Oyl of Spike which helps the running of the reins they being 〈◊〉 with it it expels worms two drops of it being taken in Wine the region of the back being anointed with it it helps the Palsey For all the rest see the vertues of the Herbs themselves After the same manner are made Oyl of dryed Barks The Colledg Of Orrenges Citrons Lemmons But it is better prepared of the Barks being green and full of Juyce seperated from the internal white part bruised and with a sufficient quantity of Simple distilled water so will the Oyl be drawn easter and in greater plenty and no less fitting for the Physitians use Oyl or fat of Roses commonly called Spirit of Roses The Colledg Take as many fresh Damask Roses as you will infuse them twenty four hours in a sufficient quantity of warm water after you have pressed them out repeat the infusion certain times till the Liquor be strong enough which distill in an Allembick with his refrigeratory or a Copper with his worm seperate the Spirit from the water and keep the water for another infusion So may you draw Spirit from Damask Roses pickled in Salt as also Spirit of red Roses Culpeper A. 'T is a good perfume OYL of SEEDS Oyl of Dill. Seeds The Colledg Take of Dill seeds bruised two pound spring Water twenty pound steep them twenty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 them in a Copper Stil or an Allembick with his 〈◊〉 seperate the Oyl from the Water with a 〈◊〉 and keep the water for a new distillation So also is prepared Oyl of the seeds of Annis Laraway Cummin Carrots Fennel Parsly Saxifrage c. Culpeper A. Oyl of Annls seeds although it be often given and happily with good success in vertigoes or dissiness in the head yet its chief operation is upon the breast and lungues it helps narrowness of the breast rawness and wind in the stomach all infirmities there coming of cold and wind strengthens the nerves six drops is enough at a time taken in broath or any other convenient liquor 〈◊〉 As Annis seeds are apropriated to the breast so are Fennel seeds to the head the Oyl of which clenseth the brain of cold infirmities 〈◊〉 iudisposition of the body numbness want of motion also it helps the stomach and expels wind A. Cummin seeds the Oyl of them is a great expeller of wind nothing better it also wonderfully caseth pains of the spleen pains in the reins and bladder stopping of urine especially if it come of wind and is a present remedy for the chollick for the way of taking of them see Annis seeds The Colledg So also are made Oyl of Spices as of Cinnamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Pepper c. Culpeper A. One or two drops of Oyl of Cinnamon is 〈◊〉 to take at a time and is exceeding good for such as are in consumptions See Cinnamon among the Simples A. Oyl of Maco is excellent good for Rhewms in the head and Oyl of Pepper for the Chollick The Colledg Also Oyls of Aromatical woods as of Sassafras and Rhodium c. OYL of BERRIES Oyl of Juniper Berries The Colledg Take of fresh Juniper berries fifty pound bruise them and part them in a wooden Vessel with twenty four pound of spring water sharp leaven one pound keep them in a Cellar three months the vessel being close stopped then distill them in an Allembick with a sufficient quantity of Simple water after the Oyl is separated keep the water for a new distillation After the same manner is made Oyl of Bay berries Ivy berries c. Or you may draw Oyl from the aforenamed berries bruised and steeped twenty four hours in warm water adding six pound of water or if the berries be very dry ten pound of water to each pound of berries and stilling them as before Culpeper A. Oyl of Juniper berries prevails wonderfully in pains of the yard and running of the reins the falling sickness it is a mighty preservative against the pestilence and all evil airs it purgeth the reins provokes urine breaks the stone helps the dropsie the quantity to be taken at a time in any convenient liquor is three or four drops outwardly by unction it helps the gout two or three drops dropped upon the navil helps the Chollick A. Oyl of Bay berries helps the Chollick and Illiack passion A. Oyl of Ivy berries helps cold 〈◊〉 of the joynts the 〈◊〉 one and provokes the terms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Use them as Juniper Oyl Oyl of Turpentine The Colledg Take of Venis Turpentine as 〈◊〉 as you will put it into an Allembick with four times its waight in common Water still it with a convenient fire and draw off a white thin Oyl like water the Colophonia will remain in the bottom of the vessel this Oyl 〈◊〉 be drawn into a bath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from burning in a 〈◊〉 still Culpeper A. It is wonderful good in cold afflictions of the nerves and all diseases coming of cold and wind it corrects the cold afflictions of the lungues as Asthmaes difficulty of breathing c. A drachm being taken in the morning outwardly it adorns the body takes away the prints of scabs and the small pocks chops in the skin and breasts of women and deafness being dropped into the 〈◊〉 Oyl of 〈◊〉 The Colledg Take of Mirth bruised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each six pound dissolve them in sixty pound of spring water and still them in a Copper still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bick Culpeper It keeps wounds and all things else 〈◊〉 Fioravantus from 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and youthful quickly cures wounds and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dropped into the ears Oyl of Guajacum The Colledg Take of 〈◊〉 in gross pouder as much as you will put it in a retort and still it in Sand the Oyl that cames first out because 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and sweeter keep it by its self which by 〈◊〉 with much water will yet be sweeter The same things are to be observed in the distillation of Box and Oak and other solid woods as also Oyl of Tartar with its 〈◊〉 Spirit which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be distilled out of Christal of Tartar in the same 〈◊〉 Oyl of Wax The
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