and get out the oyl till it begin to be clere without skin put y t oyl in a glas and kepe it for thine vse anoynt the sores twise a day and the scabs shall fall awaye by their owne accorde Alexander Benedictus in his .xxx. booke of experimentes I haue sene this oyl made .ii. waies firste frying the yelks in a frying pan til they wax red and yeild an oyl secondly siething them much loÌ„ger til they appere blak all the moisture gone oute of them for at length they yelde an oyle fodenlye which is separated with a spone remouing y â— frying pan from the fire streightway and pressing y e yolkes with the spone this some men think to be of greater vertue for places burnt with fyre it semeth in dede to dry more This oyl maketh skars subtil dissolueth Tetters and ringwormes Rogerius But Brassauolê° writeth that the Apothecaries do falsly attribute vnto this oyl the vertue to put away skars to the intente they may get egges from folishe people Thou shalt reade more of the vertues thereof in the Antidotary of Arnold Some tie the yolckes so fried in a linnen cloth and pres them in apres Oyll of wormes or bowels of the earth is commended for the asswaging of griefes specially of the sinewes ioyntes also if they cum of the freÌ„ch diseases It is made the worms purged froÌ„ their earthy excrementes ether by styping these excrementes through the fingars or rather by letting them stande alyue in sum vessell where hay is to crepe then sod with a litle wyne in oyl and strayned or set in the sun before thei be sod Sum sieth them in water and gather the fatnes that swymmeth aboue Sum get out the peth of biggar elder pypes somwhat strong put the wormes into theÌ„ powring in also oyl and so stopt they let them stande in a furnace for the space of halfe an houre then they take away the oyl and kepe it Oyl of Scorpions saith Mesues breaketh the stone of the reines and bladdar and expelleth it being anoynted vpon the loynes the priuy partes where heer is and betwien the tuel beneath the beginning of y e yard or els spouted in by y e yarde It is made of .xx. Scorpions or a litle moo or fewer set in the sun in oyll of bitter Almondes for the space of a month in a glas well stopt Or rouÌ„d Aristolochia gentian Cyperi the barkes of the rotes of Capers of euery one an vnce let them be set to sun in a Sextar of oyll of bitter Almondes xx daies in a glas stopt then put in the Scorpions from ten till .xv. in to the oyll stop the glas and set them in the sun againe a moneth He that is diseased with the stone shal be anoynted with it as he cummeth out of the bathe in the .iii. forsaid partes and let a litle portion of it be put in at the yard euery houre It is maruelous Sum had rather vsed the first sum y e latter as more effectuall and better wurking Thies Mesues But Siluius in his annotacions saith it is prepared also nowe with old oyll putting to simple medicines good against poyson and it becummeth an oyl of maruelous vertues against al poysons and pestileÌ„ce I knowe a man with the help of this that seteth light by any be it neuer so cruel and strong a poyson but both he and his seruauntes are preserued safe going with him to visite the sick of the pestilence and with the only anoynting diuers to haue bene deliuered from moste cruel poysons drunkeÌ„ The first because of the Scorpions is coulde the latter bycause of the spices is hoat more strongly wurking not bycause of the heet of thies and subtilnes of the substaunce wherwith it openeth perceth sclendreth clenseth breaketh thorowe but also by the propertie of the hool substaunce of Scorpions and as they speake specificall form wherwith it breketh both the kynde of stone of the reines and bladdar anoynted only vpon the loynes if it be in the reines but if in the bladdar vpoÌ„ the priuy place wher the heer is betwien the tuel and the yarde and then also a litle put in at the yarde Hitherto Syluius In the secretes of Variguanus we reed that certain haue been presently and out of hande deliuered from a cotidiaÌ„ ague being anoynted with the oyll of Scorpions Oyll of Scorpions whose operacion is maruelous against poysons specially of Serpentes and other beates and peculiarly against Napellum is written by Matthaeolus Senensis in his sixt booke of his commeÌ„taries vpon Dioscorides imprinted in Italian from whence we haue translated it into Latin This oyll saith he anoynted vppon the pulsing veynes where they appeare moste as of the temples handes and fiet and in the place of the hart so that euery third hower the anoynting be repeted deliuereth safely from all poysons within the body receyued that haue no gnawyng nor frettyng operacion and lykewyse from the bytinges of Eddars Aspes and any other venemous beast The composition therof is thus whiche I let bee knowen abroode that the hool worlde may knowe and confesse my lyberall and good hart In the begynning of May take thre pound of commun oyll of a hundreth yeare old or certenly the eldest of all that may be found Thre handful of Hypericon or saint Iohns wurt fresh with the herbe and flowers Put the oyll into a bely of glay twyse as big as for the measur thereof and when the Hypericon is a litle beaten put it in vpon it Then the vessell being stopt set it in moste fyne sand vp to the midst where it may be made hoat the hool day of the sun for the space of ten or twelue daies After thou shalt put it in Balneo Marie fowre and twenty howres Then pres out the oyll from the herbe and put to Hyperici Chamedryos Calaminthae Cardui sancti of euery one a handfull moderatly beeten and put them again into the bath for .iii. daies Afterward thou shalt streine them and pres them and putting to them .iii. handfuls of flowers of Hypericon well pickt from the stalkes and wel beeten set it again .iii. daies in Balneo Mariae and pres it out as before This shalt thou repete .iii. or .iiii. tymes till the oyll haue gotten a colour as red as bloud Afterward take the sedes of y e tender parts of Hypericon or the huskes lyke to the cornes of barly wherin the sedes ly hid in suche plenty that it may be equall with the three handfulles beate thies sprinkling vpon them a litle whyte wyne power it into the said oyll then bery it in sand in the sun eight daies and straight after in the bath for .iii. daies Streine and pres it as before And do this thre or .iiii. tymes putting in new tenderlynges of Hypericon till a very sad or darke reed colour remaine in it After this take fresh Scordium Calamint the les Centaury Carduum sanctum Veruin
⧠The Treasure of EVONYMVS conteyninge the vvonderfull hid secretes of nature touchinge the most apte formes to prepare and destyl Medicines for the conseruation of helth as Quintessēce Aurum Potabile Hippocras Aromatical wynes Balmes Oyles Perfumes garnishyng waters and other manifold excellent confections Wherunto are ioyned the formes of sondry apt Fornaces and vessels required in this art Translated with great diligence laboure out of Latin by Peter Morvvyng felow of Magdaline Colleadge in Oxford ⧠Imprinted at London by Iohn Daie dvvelling ouer Aldersgate beneath Saint Martines Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum Iohn Daye to the Christian Reader COnsideringe with myself louinge Reader many and sundrye times how y t nothinge is so desired so acceptable or so necessarye in the time of daungerous infirmities and pearel of bodely helth as to preserue those y t are free of sicknes frō the violence of the same and to restore the sicke weake and languishing paciente vnto his former estate and pristinate healthe which thyng is performed by the noble and excellente knowledge of Phisicke and again howe that this Arte is exercised yea of famous and learned men which with out any great profit to the pacient or worship to y e minister because their medicines are negligently prepared I thought it my part by this my trauail and expenses somwhat to serue herein thy necessity Wherfor I haue caused this precious treasure to be translated into oure vsuall and natiue language that like as all men are subiecte to sicknes so in likewise all men may by this occasion learne the way vnto helth And because thauthor whose name I spare to manifest for feare of inuious detracters do in many places of this his work send the Reader vnto Philippe Vlstadius Brunsvvick therfore I will with expedition if this my labors shall be thankfullye accepted also publishe them sparing neither laboure diligence or charges for to bringe them bothe to their perfection and also thy necessarye vse As touchinge the excellencye of the preparinge medicines the vtilitie springinge therof and the argumente of the worke because it is exactlye sette oute by the author in the preface folowing I wil leaue to trouble the further herein Fare moste hartely well in Christe At London the .ii. of May. 1559. The preface of the author to the Reader i Of the inuention of liquors and oyles destilled ii Of the scope and end of this booke Whereof more also shal be spoken about the end of the Preface iii The praise of them that can be content to make commō the best and most effectuous medicins they haue iiii How much the dressing and maner of preparans auaileth in euery thing THe Art of destillatiō whiche they call Chymia Alchimia Alkimia Chemia Suidas calleth it and Alchemia hath inuented many profitable things for mās life and in Phisicke also certain meruelous thinges and praise worthy if a man prepare them righte and diligentlye For the lacke of knowledge Couetousnes or negligence of Phisitions and commun Apothecaries is the cause why many such preparations are set litle by and worthily if you respect that which they prepare vnworthely if ye marke the Art it selfe whiche certes is most excellent and most profitable which semeth to be the cause why it lay hid so long and began to come in vre very late Some ascribe vnto Hierom of Brunsvvick which about .lxx. yeares past practised Phisick at Argentyn the originall of getting out waters as they cal them and liquors and oyles out of simple medicines by the strengthe of fire but they are much deceiued for this Arte was not inuented by him but wryten in our Dutch tung and first set out by him In mine opinion this inuencion is so aūcient as the inuencion of the very Chymia which I suppose was celebrated first and put in wryting by men that vsed the Punicall or els the Arabicke tonge a litle after the age of the Grecian Phisicions Of those I speake that writ almooste the latest as Aetius Oribasius Actuarius Psellus In certain libraries in Italy euen at this day are there extant certain wrytinges of Chymia by certain late Grecians namely a certain Philosopher called Stephan al so a boke intituled of the chaunging of metals which cōmunlye are called Chymia or Arcymia There is also a boke to be had of Alchymia made by Auicenna vnto Assis a Philosopher Geber the Nepheu of I canne not tell what great Mahomet who is celebrated as a captain and prince of this science what age he liued in I can not easily say Although I iudge him not to haue bene the first in uentor of this Art but one that broughte it to lighte and renouned it This man in his worke intitled Summae perfectionis discoursinge excellentlye and disputinge manye things of destillacion generallye writeth that diuers maners of destilling are knowne almost of all men euen as an auncient inuenciō yea in his time also no new thing Certain late wryters declare the wrytinges of Alchymia not only of Albertus Magnus S. Thomas Rhaza and Auicenna Arabik Phisitions but also of Aristotle Plato and Salomon at the least wise mention to be made by thē of it to whome I geue small credence not that I thincke this studye to be the newer but certes that it was ether vnknown to these philosophers or mentioned in no place Some there be that expound feetly and wittily al the feinings of the Poets and chieflye that of the golden fleece sought by the Argonautae vnto the multiplying of Golde or Art of enterchaunging of metalles Some also ascende higher and make the first men by and by after the beginnidg of the world authors therof Some simplely make it most auncient and affirme that no certainty is to be had of the first inuēters At Padvvay in Italy in our time was found a most auncient monument namely an erthen pot hauing written vpon it this Hexasticon Plutoni sacrum munus ne attingite fures Ignotum est vobis hoc quod in vrna latet Nanque elementa graui clausit digesta labore Vase sub hoc modico Maximus Olibius Adsit foecundo custos sibi copia cornu Ne praetium tanti depereat laticis This sacred to God Pluto theues ware that ye touch not Vnknown is it to you all this that is hid in a pot For the elements hath ishut vp digested with much pain In this smal vessel the great Olibius certaine Plenty with thy fruteful horn as a gard be thou present Least the price pearish of this liquor most excellent Within this pot was an other litle pot with the inscription of these verses Abite hinc pessimi fures Vos quid voltis cum vostris oculis emissitiis Abite hīc vostro cū Mercurio petasato caduceatoque Maximus maximo donum Plotoni hoc sacrū facit Away frō hēce ye mighty theues trudge els wher go by What seke ye with your spying eies why do ye por pry Hens with your
being shaken together it shal then run out hoolly first in a colour whyte as milke afterward yelowe Thou shalt perceiue by the tast whan the liquor that thou desirest beginneth to runne out when the colour is chaunged thou shal chaūge also the receiuer that thou maist receiue it seuerally for the last liquor is not so good and is to be vsed without the body but the first within the body Thies saith he I my selfe as I thinke sawe once oyll of the beries of Iuniper prepared in this wyse Suche destilled oyles as be to be ministred w t in the body al must be mixt with sum liquor wyn Meed or Syrup with sum destilled water or other medicine As wee shall declare also hereafter emong the balsameles And this is it that Practicioners dooe saye That vnto Oyles oyles as vnto spirites or soules sum body ought to be added Of oils of flovvers OYll of Saffron is prepared thus Thy matter is digested by sprinckling Aqua vitae vpon it and when the Aqua vitae is drawen out by destillacion the other liquor is wrong out with a pres as it is wryten afore of the generall destillacion of spyces out of Ryffius Oyl of Spick out of the Frenche booke of Furnerius Set the herb the flowers rather of Spik or Lauendar a whyle in the sun then drawe out the water in a lēbeck This set in the sun in summer in a very hoote place bringeth forth an oyl in the superficiall or vpper part of it whiche beyng separated now and then frō the water thou shalt reserue For it both smelleth moste swietly and is holsum against diuers diseases specially such as be could and taketh away painfull grieues An other way of the same mans Thou shalt stiep in a glas the flowers of Spick well rypened in as much as thou thinkest good of Oyll of swiet Almondes in hors dong .xl. daies Then destill them with a slowe fyer at last rectify them in the sun the vessel diligently stopt But if there be any smell of adustion or brentnes make .ii. or .iii. litle hooles in the couer So shall it remayne purged in the sun good and odoriferous The thirde waye of the same mannes Fyll a glasse with the floures of Spike well ripened shit it and euery day put as much to it as ye can Do this continually for the space of .viii. dayes then stop the vessell and putrifye it in hors donge iii. monthes At the length destill it a lembek with great diligence and when the oyl is drawne oute set it in the sunne so that thou seperat alway that is clearer and reserue it Some as soone as the matter is drawne forth from the fire so is it in the frenshe boke but I thincke it shoulde be from the dong that is the hors dong wherin it is stiept iii. monethes set it in the Sunne and the oyle that swimmeth aboue they remoue it awaye euerye foote But when the flowers haue lefte nowe yelding of oyl wring it as hard as ye can and the iuyce that is prest out let it stand in the sunne in a vessel set on the one side lening that the oyl swimming aboue maye the more easilye be separated So shall ye haue a wonderfull well smelling oyl withoute all discommoditie of adustion or brentnes Thus far Furnerius The same oyle Ryffius saithe is made as oyle of Roosemary the floures being cut and stiept in olde wine then destilled so that the spirites of the lembecke be couled c. Reade before in the oyl of Roosemary Some sell this oyle of Spike commonlye and name it Balme with tables wherin the vertues of it are described It is very hot and dry I knewe a woman whiche receiued into her body not past a drop or ii yet it put her in great ieopardy but therewith she auoyded manye wormes It is mixte with many thinges chieflye for the smelles sake One droppe of it chafed wyth a greate quantitye of water maketh it all swiete smellinge Phisicians also mixte it with Oyles and hotte oyntmentes bothe because of the sauoure that it maye encrease the pleasauntnesse of thinges that be somwhat swiet of them selues and to conserue them or els to hide and cloke an euill smell for it ouercometh all smels and perauenture a man shall not find anye liquor bothe so strong and so swiet smellinge It semeth that far swieter is made of Spike then of Lauender Oyle of Roosemarye that is in stied of Balme Take a Phiall full of the floures of Roosemary burye it in sande shitte with a double cerecloth or with waxe and a couer so that it maye brethe Atnold wyth a double linnen and then also wyth waxe to be closed Hollerius til the middle of the vessell and let it stande so a month or more vntil the floures be turned into water This water separated and set in the Sunne .x. or .xx. daies otherwise .xl. it will become thicke like Oyle It strengtheneth the harte the braine the sinnewes and the hoole bodye It putteth away the ragges of the eies and spottes of the face it conserueth youthe A drop of it put into balme water goeth to the bottome like Balme It is good for webs and teares otherwise spots and other diseases of the eien if one drop be put into the eyen twyse or thrise at the moost Members sick of the palsy it heateth them for the mooste parte and healeth them sometimes It resisteth salsfleem Fistulaes and Cancars that geue not place to other medicines it healeth them throughlye Aqua vitae destilled of wine wherin Rosemary is decocted and sod dothe the same thinges Lullius I would not sethe the Roosemary for the strength of the wine and quintessence dothe fume oute in vapours but I wolde stepe them in a vessell closed or putrifie them then firste in Balneo Mariae afterwarde in ashes pouring the water again vnto the dregges woulde I destill them And of my minde is Arnold de villa noua whiche in his booke of wine where he wryteth of the oyle also of Rosemarye the verye same thinges whiche we rehersed now out of Lullius if so be they be Lullius words Of tentimes saith he haue I tried that Aqua vitae made of wine wherin Rosmary hath bene mollified cureth salsfleum scabs cankar and the fistula whiche cannot be healed otherwise But thys oyl of Rosmary is made none otherwise then the oyl of the floures of Verbascum not by destillatiō Oyl of Rosemarye shoulde be made of floures cropt of with the toppes of the tender buddes or bowes wherin they are sprung pund and stiepte or putrified in veri good old wine They ought to be destilled with a slow fire so y ◠the spirits of the lembek be now and thē couled afterwarde to be circulated till y t all the gros matter be separated from the subtill as muche as is possible Gualterus Ryffius It may be destilled as I coniecture ether in a Cucurbita speciallye somewhat shorte with a limbeck or in
a croked still with a receiuer of a diuers figure and fashion or rather in two croked stils wherof the one maye be the receiuer or els in brasen vessels whiche the Apothecaries call bladdars as water of Cinnamon or burninge water In like manner be oyles destilled as the same man teacheth of Vernix or Gum of Iuniper of the floures of Spike or Lauender of Anes sedes and many other sedes The .iiii. essence or fyre of Selandin whyche is like a liquor of oyle c. how it is prepared and to what vse read before wher we haue entreated of quint essence It is possible also to draw out .ii. maner of oyles an aiery and afyerye oute of the moste herbes and other medicines after the same maner it is prescribed there in Selandine Oyl of Rue Cardanus in his second booke of subtiltie wryteth that there be certaine poysones which slee with the only touching Againste these saith he the remeady is not to tary in anye place vntil the hand wax hot often washing of thepartes with warme water also the annoynting with oyle of Rue not with the commun oyl but that is made after the same maner that oyl of Spik and oyl of Cloues is wont to be made of them y t make painting colours These writeth he Of oyl of the â—eedes of Rue shortlye hereafter we shall wryte out of Lullius but that wherof Cardanus maketh mencion heare I suppose it is to bee made of Rew it self that is of the extreme toppes of the bowes therof whiche florishe Of oils of siedes and fruites OYll of Cloues did I tast once in Italy wonderfull swiet and stronge howe it should be drawen oute we declared afore with Catdanus wordes where we write generally of drawing out of oyles also another way out of Ryffius that is the same waye y t ye may out of what spyce a man will which stiept in burning water they destill theÌ„ till the burning water be separated and as sone as the oyl beginneth to run the matter taken out of the Cucurbita is prest c. as before it is written out of Ryffius who describeth also particularly the vertues of this Oyll Oyl of Nutmegges how it may be gotten out fee before where as we entreated generall of the destillacion of Oyles by descention or dounward Oyl of Nutmegges and of his huske mace is drawen out after the same maner as out of Cloues Ryffius who describeth the vertues of ether of them seuerally Oyll of Anis sied is draweÌ„ out as out of other dry thinges whiche be in the kynd of plantes the siedes well beeten stieped in the best wyne then destilled by litle and litle by ascencion so that the spirites in the Lembeck bee continually refrigerated and couled c. and the liquor afterward circulated The vertues of it Ryffius rekoneth we leue them out as also of other for the most parte where no peculiar effect or working is attributed to the waters and oyles yea the same ar agreable to this medicines also wherout they be drawen or euer they be destilled sauing that by destilling they are made more subtill and more effectuall or stronger operacion Oyles of the beries of Iuniper and of the beries of Bayes are made one waye that is pund stiep in wyne or rain water they are destilled the same way that burning water is ether in a brasen bladder as the Apothecaries name it or in suche wyse as we described oyll out of Cardan to be goten out of woodes and cloues or els as out of spyces by Ryffius description I thinke it makes no great matter so be that the spirites which be caried about the lembeck may be couled commodiously in it and in the noos The vertues of thies oyles Ryffius rekoneth vp Agyrtae or iugleres also ar wont with vs to sel oyl of Iunipers with tables imprinted coÌ„teining the rehersal of the vertues therof This emongst other heeleth them that be sick of a tercian as I am infourmed Sum make oyll of wheet pressing it oute betwene two iron plates reed hoot other thinke it to be nothing worth thatis made thus and that it should be made as oyll of Iuniper that is of the stickes of Iuniper by descencion or dounwarde Mesue saith that wheet after it be husked is destilled in a vessell of sublimacioÌ„ as the Philosophers oyll It cureth ring wormes and ruggednes of the skin whiche springeth of drynes it mollifieth and moysteneth and other infections also of the skin it remedieth them It is described also by Rasus in his Antidotarium Loke within emoÌ„gst the oyles not destilled There might be made also of Barly and suche both by sublimacion and also by descencion Monachi vpon Mesue Oyles of Muske ben that is Balanus my repsica whiche Fnrnerius calleth Retraban or retraha of moste precious smel Lyke as of Almondes so shalt thou presse out an oyll of the fruites of Ben which ar found about Genua pleÌ„teously inough of the same pryce almost that Almondes be thou shalt let it stand and put a good quaÌ„titie of musk into it and so in a glas well stopt thou shalt set it in a ketle that it may seeth a whyle then receiue the oyll by destillacion whiche shal be moste swiet and moste odoriferous Certain oyls of siedes vvhiche I founde in a booke of Waters of Raimund Lullius THis oyles I thought good to wryte seuerally because I doubt whether the author woulde haue them made by destillacioÌ„ or simpely by pressing out in euery one he addeth thies wordes and let an oyll be drawen out after the maner of the lay people With whiche woordes he seemeth to signify simpely by the pressing out of the siedes in a pres as the commun people is wont to doo so is oyll to be gathered specially when as he would haue it drawen out of the same dryed in the sun Notwithstanding it is out of all doubt that the same thinges destilled accordingly should bee far moore effectuall But for destilling the liquor wherin the siedes pund or stiept ougth to be left with them and putrification to go before c. Stiep the siedes of Sponsa solis in womans milke forty daies and then make an oyll after the vse maner of the lay people Loke before amoÌ„gst the cosmeticall and garnishing liquors Oyll of the siedes of Rew. Mixt the siedes of Rew pund with leued gould and put it in vynegar a day Then dry it lyghtly by the sun drawe out an oyll after the maner of the lay men It is precious and resisteth poysons so that they shall auoyde by vomit if so be it a man drinke of it the second tyme the other humors also that be infected therwith shal be aâ—â—yded out if the third tyme he shal be cured perâ—â—câ—â—y within .iii. or .iiii. daies All grieues of the eyâ—s it heeleth theÌ„ what cause so euer it cum of so be that the apple of the eye be vnhurt if the eyes twyse a day be washt with this oyll
and one drop be poured into the eye for the eye shal be made hool within .iii. or .iiii. daies If it be drunck fasting it suffereth no venim to approche vnto a man that day If so be also a man wounded very sore and deadly drinke therof fasting he shall escape so be that the other care of y â— wound and cure be had accordingly Also beinge druncke fastinge and putteth awaye the Gutta or drop and all scabbednes and the dropsy sprunge of a colde cause if it be taken but two dayes To conclude it stirreth vp and restoreth all sliepy and benummed members taken with the Palsy being annoynted vpon Ruberta if it be right written perauenture of the coloure he so calleth it I woulde rather reade Sperma that is oyle of Nasturtium I would rather the seedes of Nasturtium as in other in the same place before and after the oyl moystened in sharp vineger dry it in the sunne and drawe out the oyl after the manner of the lay people This mixt with Aloes oyle of bayes cureth all scabbednes and the drop the places beinge anoynted Druncken with Aloes and cooles of an elme it healeth the Tercian and quartaine and all breches in the body Soden with a ptisan and drunken it stauncheth the bloudye flux and bindeth the belly Sod with bran and drunken it driueth away all droppes Oyle of the seedes of Pimpernell Put seedes in read wine a fewe dayes dry them punne them and make an Oyle after the laye manner Thys oyle drunke fastinge dissolueth breaketh and expelleth the sand and anye stone of the bladder yea if it be finished gathered to y â— form of a stone what matter so euer it bee of It lighteneth the wearied members of a mannes bodye These wryteth he Of oyle of the beries of Iuniper destilling first by ascencion then by descencion as I learned of my frendes TAke a pinte or a quarte full of the Bearies of Iuniper when they are beaten stiepe them two daies in well springe water then putte those beries together with the water wherin they wer sooked into a Cucurbita or bladder as they call it of Cooper whiche thou shalt fill till there be but ii or .iii. fingers thicke emptye then puttynge a measurable fyre vnder thou shalt destyll it in all poyntes like burninge water that is by a Pipe whiche maye passe throughe a vessell full of cold water It will yeilde plentye of water so that one receiuer shall not be inoughe At lenghte the oyle followeth whyche muste be â—uffered to runne into the water where vppon it will swimme thou shalt separate it toureninge the vessell wherein it is wyth a narrowe necke vpside downe so that the water be lette runne oute vntill a little be left whyche shall bee separated afterwarde by pouringe the oyle into an other vessell A sextarye or pinte of bearies as they call it in Alsatia aboute iiii ounces of oyle Other to separate the Oyle from the water put it into a drincking glas that hathe the foote taken awaye ether by commynge with a wyer of iron redde hotte or els by chaunce so that a little hoole in the bottome be lefte for the water passeth throughe and when it comes to the oyle the hoole is stopte and then the oyle maye be poured out into y e vessel wher it shal be kept SoÌ„e destill it in like manner but they moue the matter oftentimes in the stil least it be burned And they say spices beaten as Cloues and cinamon mai be rightlye destilled likewise Some as I heare saye destill in a crooked vessell not of glas but of Copper tinned in the inside whiche is put into a long pipe of coper as they do for burning water An other waye of preparing the same by descencion downewarde communicated and shewed vnto me as a secreate thing by a certain frend who prepared and made it so his selfe Gather Iuniper bearies well rypened and drye in harnest or a little befoore Haruest betwene the two Marye daies as they be appoynted in the Kalendar in the morninge at eighte or nyne of the clocke in greate plentye as manye as will fill a couple of bagges whiles it is fayre weather Oyll of the nuttes kernels of the pyn tree for the polishing putting away of wrinkles in womens skinnes is made by destillacioÌ„ dounward as oyll of y e wood of Iumper Syluius Of oyls of gums teeres or liquors thickened or congeled and rosines OYll of Mirh Looke before emongst the swiet waters of Furnerius where wee haue described one which is made with one part of Mirh and the half part of y e iuice of Roses moste odoriferous Liquors thikned by nature and gums as they call them of a hoot and dry temperatur that they may be prepared vnto destillacion when they are pund put them in a vessell wel stopt wyn also except I be deceiued may be a litle sprinkled vpon it and dig it in a could and moyst place so diep as a man is hy without putting to it any hoot matter and it must be left a good long space notwithstanding it should soner be resolued if thou put to it sum yolkes of hard rosted egs The gums so resolued yelded an oyll troubled and pudly whiche being destilled in a crouked still as they call it shal be made moore cleere and pure For al gums and Caphura also seing they contein a fat liquor and whyt that whiche by destillacion is drawen from them doo easely sauour of the iniury of the fyer faut of brentnes that although they be destilled in vessels very meen yet issueth forth a licour full of dregs gros brent of an vnplesaunt smell the vse wherof doth not plees me noo not without the body muche les within the body the strengthes vertues of them is not alyke When the matter is so resolued y u shalt straine it through a wolleÌ„ cloth or a hear cloth y t what so euer erthynes is in it may be separated from the sande and dros After y t whiche is streyned thou shalt leue it again in an indifferent warm place as many daies as thou wilt last of all destill it Thies maner of Oyles are verye subtill and of greate strength whan as nature it selfe firste hathe as it were gathered the chief vertues of trees suche as power forth any gums or teeres Thies for the moste part wryteth Ryffius in his first boke of destillacion The same Ryffius in the treatise of the same worke of oyles prescribeth no peculiar waye to drawe out oyl of gums but sendeth men vnto his first koke He describeth seuerally the vertues of oyles of Ammoniacum Belzoum Camphora Cloues Euphorbium Galbanum Ladanum Myrh Opopanax Sarcocolla Sagapenum Stirax liquid Calamita In the only oyll of Mastick he willeth the Mastick when it is pund to be resolued with old wyne and to be degested then destilled And the gum of Iuniper lykewyse to be resolued and stiept in wyne because of the drynes of
the substaunce therof and afterward to be destilled Oyl of Belzoum Thou shalt water a pound of Belzoum or more groos beeten with burning water and in a crouked stil with a receiuer set vnder thou shalt destill it in ashes with a slow fyer first and afterwarde with a great fyer This oyll hath an excellent and moste swiet smell The watery liquor that runneth out ought to be kept seuerally Furnerius Oyll of Styrax out of y e same Thou shalt beete somwhat groos Styrax Calamita that whiche is full of iuice and fat water it with the best Aqua vitae then destill it in a crouked still as the oyll before and kiep the water by it selfe This oyll excelleth with a marueilous fragraÌ„t swiet sauour Oyll of Camphora Looke before in the wawater of camphora amongste the simple waters destilled Of oyle of Turpentine or larigna resina PVt .iiii. pounde of Turpentin Rosin or of larix in a larg croked stil or cucurbita of glas and destilling it get out an oyl so that the cucurbita or croked stil be put in sand first of al with the water shall an oyl issue a thin and clere oyl secondly of the colour of gold last a duskish and thick take euery one of these by them selues and reserue them Valerius Cordus More of oyl of Turpentin and of the preparinge of it and of the hertues thereof wryteth Ryffius which I for shortnes sake let pas This is chiefly tobe taken hede of that in the destilling it sieth not as in hony also for they rise and swel quickly these liquors when they are made hot wherfor at the first the fire must be made very light scleÌ„der and encresed by litle and litle and the lembek according as the act requireth must be refrigerated and couled Some put vnto it slate tiles groselye beaten or white flints or sand washt and dried again or the leues of Iuye and a litle glas groose beaten such certain things are added also in the destilling of hony that they may let this risinge kepe iâ— froÌ„ sâ—thing ouer I woldad little peces of slates or flints wet with old oyl or som medicinable thing as in oyl Benedict y t by the same means both the â—iething might be letted and the vertue of the oyle incresed The descriptioÌ„ folowing maketh with me which I found in a certain wryten boke Take pure sande or little white and cleare flintes and put them ouer the fire in a vessell till they wax red hot then quench them in turpentin that they may drink wel and that sand quenched destil it in a lembeck Some commend oyl of turpentin for the grief of the stone Also those oyl of Turpentyn of a pound of Turpentyn an ounce of old tile slates or as Albucasis saithe newe tile slates because they may drink the more oyle and Mastik and Styrax of ether an ounce The tyles made red hot are slekt in oyl when they are queÌ„ched and pund they are mixte with the other in a lembeck of glas Thre liquors run out wherof y â— third is the best Iac. Hollerius amongst oils without smel for could greues Otherwise out of a writen boke In a cucurbita half ful of Turpintyn put a handfull of glasse pund and .ii. sponges of the quaÌ„tity of .ii. fingers the number is left out and put according to the art of Alchymistes fire about the cucurbita let the fire be continued .xxiiii. hours when the first destillacion is finished destill it again renuing y â— glas the cucurbita and the sponges To put awai skars or rather to asswage and mollifie them oyl of Turpentin doth chiefli profit except those that remain after warts For they that commend this oyl for the putting awaye the markes of wartes they are deceiued Brasalonus Oyl of Tartarum sublimated Put Tartarum beten in a vessell a cucurbita of glas parieted wyth claye or an earthen cucurbita and when it is put inalembek of glas destil it First of all water wil run forth then oyl whiche thou shalt receiue by it self encreasing the fire by little and little til it leue running The dutch writen boke Certain practicioners coÌ„mend the spirit or quintessence of Tartarum against inward impostumes kings euil Oiles of barkes OYl of Cinnamon is made as we declared before out of Cardanus how oyles be drawn out of woodes and like thinges as Cloues where is also described the instruments Or els as we described out of Ryffius of the drawing out of oyls of all kinds of spices CinnamoÌ„ may be stiept about viii daies in burninge water .vi. times destilled and theÌ„ be destilled as I was informed of a freÌ„d Here wil I rehearse also the waye to make water as they call it of Cinnamon for in the destillation also hereof oyl foloweth at length although but litle and because of the discommodity of adustion and breÌ„tnes vnprofitable to be vsed within the body but y e water is most noble most profitable y â— description wherof a certain freÌ„d of late seÌ„d vnto me on this wise The fornace instrumeÌ„ts must be in all poyntes suche as are vsed for burninge water with a pipe passing through a vessel full of colde water whyche excepte I be deceyued shall be better if it bee somewhat longe that is of the lengthe of .v. Romain fote what maner a one or rather longer an other shewed vs he had seene in the destillacion of this water but peraueÌ„ture it shal be les nied of such a long one wheÌ„ no great plenty of water is destilled It maye also be destilled in a Cucurbita of glas parieted with clay after the manner of Aqua fortis and perauenture it wold be best that way Put a pound of the best Cinamon pund not sifted in the bottome of a stil warely least the pouder sâ—ir abrode or cleue to the sides by and by pour to it a .iii. pintes of freash water the couer laid vpon it a receiuer set vnderneth make a litle fire of cooles The water y t runneth out first is soÌ„what thick like oyl but ther must be diligent hede taken that assone as it shal chaung the colour y t the receiuer also be chauÌ„ged The secoÌ„d water runs soÌ„what whiter theÌ„ chauÌ„g it again take an other receiuer so forth til the dregs issue out The water of the fourthe chaunging is most clere which when it begins to wax yelow streightway the couer the pipe muste be takeÌ„ away because y e busines is now ended al y e vertue of the Cinnamon is drawn out This hole matter may be don in .iii. or .iiii. houres but there must be a cople of meÌ„ about this destillacion the one to mark the alteration of the liquors and see that the fire be no bigger then it oughte and that the liquor run not to faste oute The other shall see that the Vessell wyth coulde water where through one part of the pipe passeth be according
oyl of Iuniper can and is made after the same maner Mesues Wher again Syluius saith That oyl anoynted vpon the left side vnder the short ribs and drunken deliuereth mightely the obstructions stoppings of the splene it mollifieth also digesteth This oyl saithe Rogerius represseth the colde greues of the ioynts it healeth a wound bryngeth skin where it lacketh it deliuereth from the white morphew and blackeneth it Io. Manardus in his epistles 16. 4. geuing couÌ„sel for y e helth of the cardinal Campegius sick of y e gout I praise saith he both the maner the vse of the fome of the decoction of lignum sanctum or of Iudicum to the place where the grief is But I think the oyl of the same wod destilled after y â— maner that the chymistes call by descencion to be far more effectual anoynting the places therewith y t swel and wher the grefe is They be wont also of the shauings of raw wode sodden in some noble wine putting vnto it old oyl to prepare an oyntment which is very good to be annoynted vppon the places where the grefe is Take y e wode cut like bordes therw t fill a new ertheÌ„ vessell with a couer of the same mater bord through w t litle holes y t diligeÌ„tly claid let an other empty ertheÌ„ pot digd in the erth vp to the mouth receiue it ioyned w t clay vnto the vpper standing aboue vpon it by the couer the force of the flames blasing rouÌ„d about it the oyl shall run down into the empty within the space of 4. hours or 5. WheÌ„ it hath left boiling opeÌ„ it thou shalt find oil swiÌ„ming vpon the water wherwith if thou anoynte whelks pushes exulceratioÌ„s y e swellings ofioyntes greues of finews y u shalt procure ease that not a litle That water also is drunkeÌ„ morning euening by it self or with the sirup following c. Andreas Mat in his boke of the frensh disease A maÌ„ may also as I hard of a frend destil guaiacuÌ„ after the same way that Aqua fortis is destilled best in an erthen vessel glased y t wil abide the fire suche as they make at Haganoa This oyle is good for the fauts of y e ioynts through the frensh pocks if it be anoynted vpoÌ„ the places w t the best burning water Oyle of the wode guaiacuÌ„ more mightilye of lygnum sanctum is holsome for the spanish diseases biles Sylu. A certain practicioner told me once y t this wod is not to be cast awai although it be decocted soden twise or thrise for euen so also yet is the best oyl destilled of Take the wod of iuy dried the beries gum also if y u maist haue it When they are cut in peces let theÌ„ be put in an erthen vessel bored through in the bottom in .ii. or .iii. places then let an other pot be set vnder it Set theÌ„ in the erth ioyne the bottoÌ„ of the vpper vnto the mouth of the nether w t clay or paste the vpper pot must stand hollye aboue the ground At length make a fire on euery side and the oyl shal destill blacke into the nether Vessell This oyle before all Oyles healeth the grefes in the ioynts of a cold cause Rogerius The preparing of oyl of capuistuÌ„ that is smoked because it is made by descencion like as the oil of woods I haue rehersed it in this place out of the first boke of Aetius where he entreateth of oyles from whence Nicholas Alexandrinê° also borowed it in his treatise of oyls Vngues aromatici that be black melà nchó Fuchsius the expositor of Nicolas readeth MegálcoÌ„ that is great thus MasculuÌ„ styrax the best bdellium pure Costus of euery one v draÌ„s of euery one .ii. vnces a half saith Nicolas which I like better .v. sextaris that is about iiii pints of the best swiet oyl ii a half saith Nich. Hypni as much as nede requireth The costê° cut in peces soÌ„what gros likwise y e styrax bdelliuÌ„ mixt together put theÌ„ into an ertheÌ„ vessell a new one Nycolas w tout ere 's y e mouth wherof y u shalt stop w t the hypneÌ„ without y u shalt defeÌ„ce it w t the slips of aspalathê° or som odoriferus thing haÌ„somli lest any thing fal out of y â— pot Then â—eke an other ertheÌ„ vessel w tout ears w t a loÌ„g neck which may re of the other vessel that conteineth the spices agreing aptly with the mouth into whiche thou shalt put .v. sextaries of swete oyl Afterwarde dig the ground and bury the earthen pot that holdeth the oyl vnto the neck lest it wax red hot after with the fire that shal be made about it then turne y e other vessel with spices the mouth downward vpon y e hed of it soioyn y â— mouths of theÌ„ both y t thei mai be closed together most exactly Then close y e hole vessel rouÌ„d about w t clay on euery side where the mouthes are ioyned together by by thou shalt kindle a fire putting vnder coles about y e earthen vessel blowing When the fire is kindled let the spices being consumed y t being set on fire theimai seÌ„d out their vapor by the mouth of y e ertheÌ„ vessell into y e oyl set vnder For y e which cause it is called capnistoÌ„ y â— is smoked The secoÌ„d day after remoue away the oil and put it in a glas to kepe Wemen vse this whose flours are stopt anoynting the nether part of their bely loines therwith It is coÌ„uenient for them y â— after they be deliuered are euil to litle purged being likewise anoynted vpon y e said parts Moreouer it is holsom for a cold chest healeth the disease called tenesimus if it be receiued in wol hotte as Nicolas addeth folded together and laid to the lower part of the bely loyns The same semeth to be called capnelaeuÌ„ or smoked oyle but the author of Kiranidum expoundeth it naphtha in his .iiii. boke where he maketh mencion of the fish Ecleneis or Remora I haue sene also of paper roled together in maner of a hod set on fire ouer a dish of tin holden at the very extreme top with a paire of sheeres or tonges certain drops of black oyl run out which are praysed for the spots or whytneses of y e eyes Of trevve Balm and antibalm that is Oyls composed by arte whiche are vsed in steed of the true Balm both within and without the body BAlsamum is a word vsed almost in all tonges a Syrian worde without dout for in only Syria in one only garden did it ones growe Panag y e hebrew worde in the .xxvii. of Ezechiel Dauid Kimhi after certaine doth erpound it a proper place of Iudaea other Apharsamon that is Balsamum The later wryters of the Iewes wryt Palsamon Mycander BalsamoÌ„ bycans of the
vers Opobalsamon is a liquor Carpobalsamon a sied whiche sum call also Casamum and they say it is swieter smelling then the liquor it selfe Xylobalsamum bowes or the wood I imagined once that it was called Balsamum of the excellencie bycause it was moste precious moste noble of all spyces for Boal signifyeth lorde and maister with the Hebrewes and Sam spyce Balsamon is an aromaticall flower Varinus And in died it is reason that as the thing it self is proper to Syria so the etimology and interpretacioÌ„ of the worde should be taken of the same tong PeraueÌ„ture Belsuin also other wrytte it Beniuin other Belzoum a liquor of moste swiet sauour hath the same Origen of his name Not same only with the Hebrewes but also Bosem signifieth a swiet smel ling spyce whereupon the Germaines may seme to haue called Mosch Bisem Balsamum or Balm sum in our age thinke it is lost the iuice of it was of the colour of gould it he led woundes and toke away wrinkles and kept the faces of deed men from corruptioÌ„ it brake also the stone in the reines it did put away the spottes of the eyes resisting poyson specially Aconitum Hemloke and the shaking of very feuers and in all thies thinges the vertues of Balm excelled But now ther is another kynd of Balm brought out of Spain of a red colour teÌ„ding toward blak weighty sauouring sumwhat of adustioÌ„ or brentnes and by and by it stryketh perceth the heed and the tounge also sharpely but sumwhat longe first as peper And it also heeleth newe woundes more quikly then any other thinge and taketh away wrinkles I could wel beleue that this kynd of oyll is effectuall and good thof not for all that the trewe Balm is yet surely to the moste parte The tree that bringeth this oyll is called Goacomax of the form of a Pomgranat tree and in bignes almoste lyke but it hathe a lief a litle biggar and a thinner barck as though it were drye the wood of it burneth lyke a torche the fruite is as the clusters of grapes but the kurnelles are sumwhat biggar of a wyny colour whiche together with the slippes or braunches sodden long in water doo yield that kynd of oyll Cardanus Certaine marchauntes affirme that the gardeines of Balme were destroyed what tyme as Zelimus the Turck the predecessor of Solyman wan Chayrum whan the Turkes killing the gardeners did not forthwith put other in their places the yere of our Lorde 1516. Moreouer they say there is a Balm tree of an indifferent bignes laid to kepe to be compared vnto many thousandes of Ducates with the moste famous maÌ„ of our time an other Lucullus Maist Antony Fuggerus Ioan. Agricola in his commentaries vpon Galen of the diseased places .iiii. ix Antibalsama Dioscorides prescribeth certaine notes and tokens of the trewe Balm In the collection and table of those medicines that may bee vsed one in steed of another which is ioyned with Galenus workes and in the ende also of Aeginetas bookes we reed In the steed of y e liquor of Balm Mirh that destilleth that is liquid and runninge Mirh which is called Stacte In the same place is red also In the steed of OpobalsamuÌ„ the liquor of Myrti but it semeth it should be more rightly y e liquor of Mirh Auicenna in his second booke in the chapt of oyl In steed of Balm saith he is liquid Mirh vsed or els lyke weight of the oyl Adhii or Aldadi or Dadi as Bellunensis traÌ„slated it Rasis in the latter ende of his Antidotarie separated in oyl Benedict or of tylstons It is of like force saith he y t oyl of Balm but it is more subtil hoter more proffitable in cold diseases Monaci vpon Mesuen And a litle after in the tretis quid pro quo what for what whiche is imprinted with the bookes of the sun of Mesue it is red In the stede of Balm Turpintyn destilled or oyll of Bayes or the gum of Iuy is put But what Dadi is I can not easily say it is described of Auicen the. 213. chapt Bellunensis nether there nor in the gloses expoundeth what it is It is a grain saith Auicenna lyke vnto barly longar more strait and cloos together more massy bitter could declyning to heet dry in the second degre it byndeth the bely withstandeth poyson it is good for the grieues of the fundament and hemrodes It resolueth hardnes c. I coniectur it to be CiTum or Ladanum for it is could also so measurably y t it hath a warm heet according to Galenus mynd it byndeth stoppeth y e bely and dryeth in the second degree that is hooter that groweth in hooter places the same mollifieth meanly and dissolued and concokteth or digesteth Furthermore in Antiballomenis Graecis we reed Propolis to be vsed in the steed of Tragopogona that is Ladanum and Auicenna in the resoluing saith he of hardnesses ii third partes in weight of kur that is Propolis and the half of the weight of abhel Dioscorides saieth that Ladanum is mixt with medicines without smell Auicenna that it is good for the griefes of the fundament hemrodes Now that Auicenna hath that Dadi is lyke vnto barly but longar straiter c. I plainly suppose it to be corrupt out of Dioscorides who maketh Ladon that is the bushe of LadanuÌ„ lyke vnto Cisthum with longer leues only and more black Last of all the names Ladon and Dadi do not muche disagree nor be far vnlike Oyl made of the flours of Rosemary after the same maner as it is made of the flours of Verbascus may be vsed in stede of balm and a drop of it put into water doth likewise go to the bottoÌ„e Arnold de Villa noua They put this also emongst other to be a tokeÌ„ of true balm y â— it wil gather milk into courds I going about to try on a time whether the same could be don with the made balme coÌ„posed of turpentin hot gums I found that it did not courd it no the milk was not once broken w t it The coÌ„mun people with vs cal oyl destilled of spik simplely by the name of balm y t is becaus of the excellente swietnes of the sauor There be som y u cal certain other odoriferous things by the name of balm ye they think theÌ„ to com veri nie to vertues therof as Ryffiê° oil of cloues In y e greke Antiballominis it is red y t the rotes of white violets may be substituted in y e place of XylobalsanuÌ„ The Antiballomena or rehersal of thinges y â— may be vsed one for another which was once imprinted w t Mesues works declare in this wise In sted of Xylobalsam the wod of iuy or Leucoradix For carpobalsaÌ„ the frute of iuy or XylobalsamuÌ„ in like weight The same for balme it self the gum of iuy But peraueÌ„ture in al these y e expositer or traÌ„slater was deceiued whan as no wryter euer coÌ„pared iuy
in any wise w t balin therfor I thought ether that the translator that translated it out of y e Arabik tong to haue erred or rather the Arabians them selues confounding Cisson that is iuy and Cisthum together for Ladanum is the iuice of Cisthum which Auicenna did put in stede of Balm In the Antiballomenis asscribed vnto Galen I find these also for the liquor of balme y e liquor of Carpasus and for the liquor of Carpasê° the liquor of Myrtus and for the liquor of willow the liquor of black iuye which the Arabians leuing certaine thinges or chaunging them translated them into their works as I coÌ„iecture ¶ Ther is also a certain Cassia called Balsamodes because of the smel Sisymbrium a kind of wild mint growing ni waters for the most part soÌ„what red y e late writers many of theÌ„ cal it Balsamita Ther is an other Balsamina as the Ligures about y e riuer of Poo cal it The Thuscans or Florentins cal it the apple of Ieru salem with the leues of the white vine y e floure of the Cucumer the frute atboth ends round sharp like to a litle cucumer c. the apple with ripenes a sunder when it is broken it appereth empty conteining within it a few seedes in the figure of chit or Lentil moste red wheroute oyle is pressed chief for wounds Som season the apple fyrste in oyl set it in the sun a few daies then they bery it in hors dong or in the earth so long til it be cleane putrified so they affirme it will get the vertue of balm in closing of wounds and thervpon hath it gotten the name of Balsamina Ruellius out of Her molaus Brasauolus calleth this oyl of Cochirs and the herbe that beareth those fruites in a rugged and sharp husk Cochia or Momordica The oyle saith he is prepared diuers waies both by infusion and being digd vnder the earth many yeres and by seathing and it is made of Echinus of the leaues seuerally and of the sedes That whych is hid in the earth helpeth the greues of Hemrods Generally that oyl asswageth all greues who so desyreth to know mo verye meruelous effectes of this oyl and herbe let him read Matthaeolus Senensis commentaries on Dioscorides the .iiii. boke C .lxxxiiii. chap. so many and so great that if they be true the true balme may be set light by in comparison of them Balsamaeleon that is the oyl of balm of a plant a cubit high or .ii. cubits like vnto wilde Rue by the bark wherof toward the East being scarified rased and wounded fat teares destill that is the fatnes of the balm Other do beat in a morter the slips of this plant in the beginning of Vere sethe it in water presse them in a presse and call it oyle of Balm Ther be some that when they haue puÌ„d the slips they put them in old oyle and set them in the sunne .xl. daies sieth it in a double vessel pres it put new slips beaten into it straine it twise or thrise and so keepe it Mesues Syluius translating him Wher Syluius also in his scoles saith let Xylobalsamum Carpobalsamum most new be stiept one day in old oyl after let y e oyl be drawn out by the art of chymists it shal be of no smal estimacioÌ„ or set Xylobalsamum new be putin old oyl and set in the sunne .xl. daies and sod in a double vessell The vertues of this oyl so much praised of al meÌ„ nothing spokeÌ„ of Mesue it is meruel for it heteth moysteneth extenuateth and maketh slender digesteth scoureth closeth This vertue of closinge she wed vnto the olde writers maketh it at this day precious Opobalsamum is most rare and gesen and therfore most precious Wherfore Petrus of Abanus Guilielmus Placectinus Bartolemaeus Montaguanus composed an oyl of balme nothing inferior in vertues to balm Other put the leues and sede and wode of this plant in oyle and set it in the sunne .xl. daies then pres it out and kepe it but in bertues it is far inferiorto Opobalsamum This saithe Syluius The Egiptians make a counterâ—aite kinde of Opobalsamum of y e bark new most swiet smelling heating it in oyl of Almondes of a singuler smell when it is fresh mixt Alexan. Benedictus The oyl that they cal communlye Balsaminum raiseth vp sodenly them that be falleÌ„ of the falling ficknesse beinge heide to their nose that they may smell it The same He semeth to mene oyl of spik destild for y t many do cal now a daies Balsamum Of balmes made by Arte. THe commun intentand purpose of all Balsams or balmes to speake of theyr vertue seemeth to be to close and heale wounds biles that in a short space to auoyd and turne away the euill Symptomata or diseases which the sores wold otherwise cause y t they mai heat dry be of scleÌ„der partes hereupon it is that all of them haue Turpintyn Rosin sum also other rosins as the rosin of Pyn tree Mastik here upoÌ„ also gums ar added Frankensence Elemi gum of Iuy Bdellium Sarcocolla Mumy c. Vnto sum diuers spyces are put to smell the swieter wherupon they are made apt for the moo vses and miet for diuers diseases euen within the body also as to those also vnto whiche moreouer diuers plantes or their partes are added They are destilled the most part of theÌ„ few except whiche are ministred only without the body as vnto woundes They are destilled in asshes chiefly all first with a slow fyer that the cleetest matter and more thin or watery may be gotten out then encreasing the fier by litle and litle that the oyll whiche is of a sumwhat reed colour may be receyued afterward the fier is made biggar that the oyle may be very reed and at length inclyne to black The liquor that issueth in the midst is more allowed to the vses within the body the last is sumwhat to hoot to vehement and vnplesaunt moore miet to be ministred withoute where there is nede of more force as y e first where there is nede of litle The first liquor semeth to be yielded chiefly of the Turpintyn for the whiche lest it sieth little pieces of slates or flintes may be mixt with it c. as we said of the destilling of tur pintyn All of them takeÌ„ within the body because of the Turpintyn and gums they make men beleche and many times not without grief and yet more the middle and last liquor being receiued They do al season the vrin with their smel They must all bee receiued within the bodye mixt with sum liquor chiefly wyne so that to a sponful of liquor one drop of the oyl or .ii. at the moste be put The dregges remaining in the bottom are good for nothing sauing that they may be vsed in steed of Colophonia or Scammonium I same of late a practicioner destilling I can not tel what kynd of Balsam in a pan
be annoynted with this oyle they putrifye not When thou wilte comforte bodies that be extenuated and broughte lowe thou shalt mixte Roose water with it and annoynte it vppon the lower mansions and from the Nucha vnto the raines If the backe bone be annoynted therewith being somewhat warme an hour before the fit leauing vppon it the token of it with Pecia thou shalt put awaye the shakinge of wandering Agues and of any simple agues But quartaines and wanderinge Agues it helpeth at the beginnninge of the course this place and they which folow seme vnto some to bee corrupted in the printed bookes in the swoundinge or debilitie annoyntinge the extreame partes of the backe boone that the instrumente for the purpoose maye speake with voyce put vnder the tonge of the sicke a little of it and after in his eares and nosthrilles if nede require Thou shalt geue of the same when neede requireth in the Stranguling and Suffocation of the Matrix or mother and in the fallinge sickenesse manye other diseases It is ministred in weght tree I thincke he meaneth one grain with wine that hathe a good smell So it comforteth y e mind and nature and healeth manye diseases But chieflye and is good for them that be Melancholye sadde and whose strengthes and members be feeble as though they were beaten and wekened by force For consuminge Feuers thou shalt mixte with Oyle of Rooses or of Mastike and annoynte the backe boone of them in a baithe or withoute a baithe Hitherto wryteth Aponensis The same manne willeth to mixte thys composicion in the steede of true Opobalsamum wyth Triacle Mithridatium Diacurcuma Aurea Alexandrina This Oyle saithe he Epiphanius Empiricus vseth as the Mother of all remeadies to all diseases of the sinewes annoynting twise a day therewith the Nucha the back and inynts for it is plain by manifest proues specially in a colde matter The same man commaundeth to stil this oyl in Balneo Mariae which I like not There is an other composicion of VViliam Pla centinus whiche I finde in the bigger Luminarie in Diacurcuma or Diacrocu in this wise Take Turpentin .ii. pounds commun oyl .iii. pound oyl of bayes .xvi. onnces Cinnamon .iii. ounces Euphorbium Cloues Bay beries Gum of Iuy Serapinum Galbanum Aromatik Opopanax ofeuery one an ounce Franken sence Mastike of ether ii vnces Let such be beteÌ„ as shuld theÌ„ destilled These and certain other diuers balmes dothe Ryffius also in his boke of destillation describe A quickeninge water and one that procureth youth vnto an old man out of the boke of Lullius of waters Turpentyne a pounde honye halfe a pounde Aqua vitae thryse or foure times destilled iii. ounces Lignum Aloes welbeaten SaÌ„dali mustatelli of ether .iii. drams gumme Arabeck perauenture a dram Nutmegs Ambra ofether .ii. drams When they are all pund destill them wyth a slowe fyre till ye haue the firste water cleare And when the second beginneth to run oute whithe shal be like to a burning cole encrease the fire by and by and kepe that by it self TheÌ„ encrese the fire again gather the third which shal be black and thick like hony til al the liquor be run out Of these waters y e last is hoter then y e first seconde The first is called mother of Balm the secoÌ„d oyll of Balm the third Balm artificiall The first is ministred in drink with warm wyne The second aâ—d the third ar good to remoue maladies which newly gnawe the fleshe of mans body The fyrst drunke with warme whyt wyne purgeth the stomack from al il humors and withholdeth the water that it cum not at the hart or principal partes as it is plain by often experiment A fyne lynnen clooth moystened in this water and thrust into the noosthriles with the litle fingar whan y e sick goeth to bed and left there within cureth the reum Being drunck morning and euening it cureth a stinking breth what cause so euer it cum of The tieth washt therwith are strengthened and made whyt and ar deliuered from ache whether it cum of a humor or of putrified bloud Whatsoeuer shal be put into it it will kepe it sound and vncorrupt A linnen cloth moysted in it and laid vpon woundes first washed therwith or vpon a fistula and other angry and ill byles cureth them It resisteth the quartain ague if the back boone be rubbed therwith a fewe daies Scabbednes washt therwith is made hoole A linnen clooth moystened therin is very good to be layd to y e hemrodes Wol that groweth on tries or Bombase dipt lightly is this water is very good to put in the eares against any kynd of deafnes Being anoynted it cureth the rednes of the face the palsy of the tong and all cold diseases The second and third water are of strength against the disease called Noli me tangere against the kynges il and also the disseases of the neck and throot Also against the fistula and the ill disease called Malus morbus specially if it be yet but new for by washing it and wetting and oft laing a linneÌ„ cloth moystened therin vpoÌ„ it it is made hool They help also if a maÌ„be beten with stones or clubes or a staf No poyson can approche ny vnto them and a spyder touched therewith dyeth They be anoynted vpon moste proffitably against all palsyes They strengthen all the partes of the body being washt therwith It is to be noted that the first water of thies thre as generall conteineth all the vertues of the other But to fret the second and the thirde are better this more then the other To be short they heel all diseases that cum of bloud or putrified fleume In the same Lullius a marueilous water is made in this wyse Cloues Nutmegges Ginger Zedoaria Galangal bothe sortes of Peper Iuniper beries the pilles or barck of Citri or OreÌ„ges Sage Basilicum Roosemary Maioram round Mint Bay beries Peny royall Gentian Calamint y e flowers of Elder Roses Ammens Spick nard wood of Aloes Cubebae here semeth somwhat to be left out as well wyld as domekical or growing in gardines Cardamomum CinnamoÌ„ Calami aromatici Stichados Chamaedryos Chamaepity os Melissae Mastick Olibani Aloes hepaticae Anis siedes and flowers she siedes of Mug wurt of euery one an vnce Put vnto thies dry figges Rasins that cum froÌ„ beyond see Dait stones fat swiet Almondes of euery one an vnce Whyt old hony half a pound After twys as much Sugar as all the forsaid be All thies shalt thou put into Aqua vitae v. or .vi. times destilled in a leÌ„bek of glas y e Aqua vitae shal be as much as thrys y e weight of all the speces besides After thou hast lest them stand .ii. daies thou shalt destill theÌ„ with a slow fier The first water is moste cleer precious The second differeth in colour and must be receiued in an other vessel it is whyt good towhit ten the faces of wemen
it taketh all the spottes or fracknes from them out of hande if they be once washt therwith thre daies and maketh thē swiet smelling cleer This is called y e water of Balm or mother of Balm It oughte to be destilled in a lembeck in a baith with a slow fyer with Aqua vitae of the same weight And y e first water shall run furth odoriferous and maruelous whiche thou shalt receiue by it selfe then an other of the colour of safron the third at length lyke bloud The vertues of the first and of the secōd water are thies If the one of thē be poured in to a woūd whyles it is new there needeth none other remedy But within a naturall daye and a halfe at the moste it shal be made hool so be that it be no deed wounde All ill soores or byles Old roten Cankred Fistula Lupus Noli me tangere and lyke to them let them be washt with ether of thies waters and they shal be heeled within a fewe dayes One drop only dropped vpon a Carbuncle quensheth it within .iii. houres If an eye be diseased w t blerednes or the web or the naill or any swelling carnosity bred vpon it drop one drop of thies waters vpon it euery third day and within nyne daies it shal be hool except it be vtterly destroyed A drop of them drunk with a litle good wyne breketh the stone in the reines or in the bladdar or in the yard stopped and that within two houres deliuereth from the grief If deed flesh be washt away therwith the place is shortly made hool If a womā be sick of her womb or bely let her drink a litle of them with sum iuice If a man haue any grief of a stroke or by chaunce without any byll or heed let the place be bathed and washed with a litle of them and the grief shall go away within iii. houres By the like helpe a sinewe shrunken waxen hard or otherwyse ill at ease is restored The rest of their vertues a learned physicion shal imagin by him selfe The thirde and bloudy water whiche surnamed holy and blessed is so excellent in vertues that if one vse halfe a sponefull of it .xv. daies he shal be cured of the leprosy pthisick or consumptiō Astma or disease of short wynde the dropsy palsy Ischia or Sciatica the swounding the fallyng sicknes the drop in the ioyntes called the goute y e consuming feuer the strangury and many other diseases and that within two monethes It recouereth youth vnto old men a man that lyeth a dying out of all hope of the physicions it restoreth him if one drop of it let fall into his mouthe bee swalowed so that it may cum to the hart If so be it a man drinke a yeare together euery daye the quantitye of a wheate corne of this liquor with a sponefull of water of borage destilled like Rose-water after the yeare is ended he shall seeme as though he were made new in his flesh blud and hole body both in form and strength An other Artificial balm out of the same boke of Lullius of waters Turpentyn a pounde and a halfe Galbani two ounces Aloes Cicotrinae Mastik Cloues Galangall Cinnamon Nutmegs Cubebarum of euerye one an ounce gum of Iuy halfe an ounce When al is wel beaten mixt them and destill them in a lembeck of glas with a slow fire first and gather the first water by it self seuerallye then encreasing the fyre a water somwhat reddishe and afterwarde encreasynge it more an oyle of a redde coloure till nothinge runne anye more chaunginge the receiuer thryse This oyle hathe all the vertues of true Balme For it burneth in the water and courdeth milcke by and by for if one droppe of it warme be put into a pint of Milcke it shall forth with become courded The firste liquor is called water of Balme the second oyl of Balme the thirde Balme Artificiall The fyrste is profitable againste the runnynge of the eares if two or three droppes mornynge and eueninge be put into them Dropte into the eyes it amendeth the blearednesse and consumeth the teares It dothe meruelouslye restreine superfluous humors in anye parte of the bodye It taketh away the touthache if they be washt therwith and killeth the wormes if there be anye in them Ther third liquor wil suffer no venom is an vtter ennemy and destruction to spiders and Serpentes Two or .iii. drops let drop into anye venemous bitinge do make it hole streight If thou draw a circle with this liquor shit a venemous beaste therein it shall dye there rather then goe out of it To he short it doth the same thinges all that Triacle dothe but more effectually all thynges Being poured or put vpon any impostume within .ix. daies it healeth them and likewise a fistula be it neuer so ill and also a Noli me tangere All diseases bred of fleume and colde humors it healeth them if a linnē cloth dipped in it be laid vppon the place where the grief is It putteth away vtterly the Palsy and all tremblinge of mēbers it strengtheneth meruelouslye the sinewes It is hoter then the first and second If a mā put a drop of it in his hand it perceth streighte without grefe To cōclude it doth many other things and all diseases risen of a colde cause it healeth them if they vse it right A water strengtheuing the memorye Floures of Roosemarye Borrage Camomell Violettes Rooses of euerye one an ounce Stichadis Baye leaues Samsuchi Sage of euery one .ii. ounces When they are all cut small thou shalt soke them in the best wine and destill them by a lembecke After the liquor is destilled thou shalt mixt with it a pounde of Turpintyne .viii. ounces of Olibanum Mastik Bdelli Anacatdorum of enerye one an ounce when they are all beaten mixte them with the other and destill them again Then adde vnto them againe Nutmegs Mace Galangall Cubebarum Cardamomi of euerye one an ounce Agallochi Amber Muske of euery one .ii. vnces if the written booke be true when they are beaten and mixte let them stande .v. daies and destill them the third time encreasing the fire til the oyl seace droppinge Certain waters of life to be reckened amongst Balmes shalt thou finde in Vlstadius boke called Caelum Philosophorum the .xliiii. liī chap. A balme of an vncertaine author Turpentin halfe a pounde Frankensence .ii. ounces woode of Aloes Saffron of either of them an ounce Mastik Cloues Mace Galangall Cinnamon Zedoariae Cubebarum Nutmegges of euery one halfe an ounce Gumme of Iuy or Elemi vi ounces slating tiles quenched in oyl accordingli such as neuer water touched .iii. vnces Pūd those that ought to be pund first will water issue forthe secondly oyl of Balm thirdly balm artificiall Balm artificiall saith Matthaeolus Senensis in his commentaries vppon Dioscorides whyche I tried and found of maruelus strēgth against very many diseases haue I made cōposed in this wise Take rosin Larignae
cloth .iii. or .iiii. tymes folded and let it abyde bound vnto it .iiii. houres If so be it the grief seas not then power vpon it again as is said afore and euer take hede that the byle or soore be cleen so in a few daies it waxeth hool maruelousli Sum mixt Turpintyn and certain gumes together in a Cucurbita of glas and let it sieth softly set in sand and cloosed with clay then they let it stande a whyle till the dregges settle to the bottō and wa◠hard then they streine it Oyll also of Hypericō is compared of sum vnto Balm whiche bycause it is not destilled I will describe it hereafter A water that bringeth out boones and preserueth that the woundes chaunce not to root Turpintyn pure and whyte but vnwasht Zopissae hony of euery one a pound Half a pound of Rosin of the Pyn trie that is whyte Let thē be destilled A water of Epiphanius composed for Fistulaes with Turpintyn certain gummes and spices c It is rehearsed befoore in the seconde order amongste the waters composed for certaine outwarde byly diseases And again an other like vnto it in the third order Of oyles of the partes of beastes or excrementes OF the bones and marowes maye an oyl be gotten by sublimacion Syluius Oyl of the yelkes of egs may be destilled in a lembeck like as the oyle of Philosophers Mesuae Syluius Loke before wher we intreated of the destillacion of oyles by descēcion downward generally oute of Vlstadius Oyle of mannes ordure or donge looke before in the order of mans dong Of the liquor of mans bloud loke before in quint tessence Of the destillinge of honye ▪ we haue wrytten before amongste the waters that bee destilled in Roosestilles c. The laste liquor that runneth here oute is somewhat thicke that I iudge it maye be called an oyle Oyles destilled maye also bee mixte together one with an oteer as in this medicine of Epiphanius Empiricus praised for frakens and all kinde of ruggednesse and spottes of the face An ounce and a halfe of virgines milcke Water of Rooses with a little brimstone an ounce Oyles of Tartaro of wheate of yelkes or Egges of euerye one halfe an ounce a scrupul of Caphurae Althoughe the seoyles are not wonte to be made by destillacion yet oyl of wheat and of the yelkes of egges are better made destilled Of oyles of metals tile stones Gagate Aumber WAters and oyles secreate by the singuler industrie and wit of Chymists are of most greate vertues and of so thin a substance and so subtil that a drop of a certain oyl by chaunce falling vpon a bed perced in a moment the manifold clothes and keuerings thereof and burned the bordes in the bottome of the bed Syluius This vertue of pearsinge semeth to pertaine chieflye vnto oyles drawne out of metalles in the which also is a greater force of burninge I vnderstande that Vinegar is chieflye vsed to be destild for the drawing out of oyles oute of Metalies as Antimoni Leade Cerussa Other vse other sharp and most hot liquors for that purpose as sharplie burning water vrine destilled Aqua Forti Lullius in the fift Canon of his firste booke of quintessence when he had taughte to drawe oute the .iiii. elementes oute of plantes he added And so shalt thou do also with metals firste thou shalt make them to resolue with oure Menstrue I suppose he meaneth oure Vrine vnder dounge for the space of a weke the Menstruum must be sharp with some Vegetable and stronge quickenynge thinges whiche we shall declare hereafter in the Questionary After the metalles shall be dissolued set them to be destilled in a fire of the first degree and the Menstruum shall issue forthe and the lime or pouder of y e metal shal remaine in the bottome After this reiterat repete it again vpō the dregs of the metall with newe Menstruum as muche as the weight of the metall and set it to putrifyinge for the space of a month and a half and after this destill it as thou didst of the Vegetable or quickning things but euery time put new Menstruum vpon the dregs Other diuers opinions of Philosophers in the drawing out of the elements out of minerall thinges we shall declare in the thirde boke This saith he I suppose it to be a commone thinge vnto all oyles of metals to be heauier then other oyles as Cardanus signifieih and an other certaine author wryteth that the drops oyl of Vitriol or Coproos to be ponderous and weightie Oyle destilled of Orpment or Mysi or Vitriol of Rom. annoynted vpon y e arteries region of the hart I suppose is hable to saue a mā infected with poyson be it neuer so sharp and strong do kill a manne onlye with touchinge Cardanus And a little after but sence wee are fallen into this communication I think it shuld not be so vnprofitable nor far frō the purpose to inquere this how oyl may be made whiche beinge annoynted vpon the Arteriis maketh the venome to breake out by vomit or purgacion or sweat or vrine It is sure it muste be of metall which must be most stronge I sawe suche once and by the waighte onlye I coniectured that it was without al doute of metall It muste also bee of the nature of Venome for by the immoderate heate as it is saide it vanquisheth firste the euill infection conceiued and by naturallye attracteth vnto the vtter partes that is hurtefull and by the contrarietie driueth it awaye It must also haue no small strengthe to discus expel and again sōe contrarietie against the poysons them selues which .ii. things agree to the iuice of Laser or Assa Foeetida Therfore those things that must driue out the poysone ought to be metally poysons but not most bitter and most hot and discussing or expelling also in a maner contrary to the poysons The matter therfore of these thinges may consist of these thinges Mysi Orpment and the iuice of Laser or Assa foetida and Gentian and of the fat of venemous serpentes and Aconitum If so be it that in any land moo of theese foresaide vertues as to discus expell and resiste poysones c. be to bee gotten the oyle extracted by the force of fyre shall be best of all And a little after But oyle that onlye by anoyntinge of the Arteries dothe thruste oute the poysone I woulde not call it the best in this sence that also besydes it thou shouldest Minister in drinke Triacle or Milke or sum other excellent medicin ye also it should be the more auaylable That dare I be bold to say that the anoynting of the arteries and the things ministred outwardly are better and of more strength then those things that are drunck saue only for this that the poyson remayneth yet in the stomack For vnto such poysons newly taken that they be not yet gone out of the stomack they that prouoke strong vomities are moost excellent as Milk Lie
Oyll water of Nucis vomicae or spewing nut Therfore in venemous bytinges in stingings in oyntmentes that be venemous in the drinking of venom whiche is now alredy perced to the midrif or nether partes of the chest the helpes that be ministred outwardly are more auailable and of greater strength c. Thies out of Cardane haue I written the more at large that therby also y e reason migth be the more euident of that marueilous oyl of Scorpions c. Whiche bycause it is made without destillacion I will describe it hereafter seuerally Oyll of Antimonium is moste proffitable to all ill soores and byles as I my self dotry with good succes But the Antimonium is purged first ofteÌ„times melted and made liquid with the fyer Far from this doth the oyll of Antimonium which chymistes vse wherwithall they endeuoure to set the colour of gould vpoÌ„ siluer Matthaeolus vpoÌ„ Diosc Oyll of Antimonium howe it is made for soore byles and fistulas I writ afore out of Vlstadius in the treetis of Quintessence But certain practicioners also make oyll of Antimonium to diuers diseases within the body whiche they extoll with maruelous and great praises They make it after this sort as I here Antimonii half a pounde whyt Tartari Calcionated asmuche let theÌ„ be beaten and melted or dissolued in a gouldsmithes Tigillo crucibulo vpon cooles when they are melted let them be powred out into sum earthen pot where they shal be sturred and mixt together and when they are becum into a hard lump let them be pund again and streined by a colender that is a sack of that form that they vse for Hyppocras as they call it in a moyst place in a hoot and moyst place as in a wyne celler the colender hanging for so shall the oyll destill out by litle litle which of sum bycause of the bloudie colour is called Rubedo Antimanii and lykewyse it is made of certain Gouldsmithes for a certain painting I can not tell what But for the remedies of mans body it ought to be prepared with Quintessence of wyn or with burning water so that twyse asmuche all moste of it be powred to the forsaid rednes of the Antimonium and let them be sturde diligently in body and mixt and then destilled in ashes thre or iiii times till the breth lose al the euil smell The dregs must always be mixt sturd about when y u powrest iâ— again the destilled water vpon theÌ„ or when thou powrest to them new Quintessence for I am not sure whiche way it ought to be doone Sum in the beginning do stregthway mixt reed vineger most sharp destilled with the AntimoniuÌ„ TartaruÌ„ calcionated to be melted together But I wryt althies not as certain but as I noted theÌ„ by the way as I hard them recited certain yeres ago of a certain practicioner I know that certain chymistes goldsmithes serche for y e oyl or Quint essence of y e AntimoniuÌ„ as a moste perfect treasur Thies destil first sharp lye coÌ„posed of vnslect lyme and ashes Clauellatas by a FiltruÌ„ and is this lye they sieth the AntimoniuÌ„ subtilly and fynly beten for the space of .v. houres and again destil this lye when it is cold by a FiltruÌ„ that of y e AntimoniuÌ„ that passeth through w t it that is a pouder of yelowe colour they reserue After they powre in vpoÌ„ the AntimoniuÌ„ put in a Cucurbita or body moste sharpe red vinegar destilled so that it be aboue it iii. or .iiii. fingars thick they set it in a hoot place a few daies and euery day they shake and â–ª mixt it x. or .xx. times then they power y e vinegar lightly into an other glas so y t nothing be troubled This do â—hey repete .v. or .vi. times euer powring new vinegar vpon the AntimoniuÌ„ remaining in y e Cucurbita or body at length they put all the vinegar together destil it by a lembeck with a slow fyer til y e oyl begin to run out This oyl or quintessence of AntimoniuÌ„ is of a colour of blud With this thei die Mercurie say it is an incoÌ„parable treasure a chief mistery of y e chymistical art as we traÌ„slated out of a certain writen doutch boke A reed oyll is gotten out of AntimoniuÌ„ very sharp smelling lyk brimston it reteineth y e vertue of y â— Antiminium bycause of the grosnes of the substaunce proffitable to few thinges Cardanus Hooll Lyme vnbroken let it be slekt in coÌ„mun oyll and destill it in a lembeck of glas there shall issue forth an oyll good for a boon that is corrupt Syluius Put a hot piece of quick Lyme into commun oyll till the Lyme becum powder then let it be destilled in a lembeck of glas and oyll of Lyme shall issue whiche is the firste that was described by Leonard of Praedapalea Patauinus Ion. Iacobus de Manliis Oyll of Cerussa Looke before where we intreted of Quintessence out of Vlstadius Oyll of Gagates or ieet called Sacratum or holy moste holsum for them that be possessed of spirits that haue the falling sicknes the palsy the cramp the stifnes of sinewes the gout or be chooked in their wombe it helpeth also coÌ„ceiuing It is made of Ieet stones after the maner of oyll of Iuniper by descention or elles by sublimacion as oyll of tyle stones Mesues of Iac. Syluius interpretacion out of whose notes we haue subscribed thies wordes Seing Bitumen is far lighter cost then Ieet and of the same vertues or stronger a man might proue to get an oyl out of it whiche shal run more abundauntly specially if it be new Bitumen forasmuche as it is as it were the fat of the earth and is burned in steed of oyll of them that dwell about the place of Asphaltita or deed sea or els in other places wher Bitumen is Forthermore he douteth whether it can heele the falling sicknes seing the falling sicknes doth the more appeer with y e foule stinking smell of the Bitumen But me thinkes it semeth probable that that sicknes shuld be helped with it by attenuating digesting drying whiche vertues boothe it hathe theim befoore and that not feablelye and also muche moore the liquor destilled thereof perfourmeth theese thinges Nether doth it not help this diese therfor because it is likely that the same should be vttred and appere with the perfume of that bituminous smell as with the perfume of Myrrh Galbanum and horns houfs and the skins of a she or he gote For Phisicions vse the hornes houfes of diuers bestes against this siknes ministring the shauings of them within the body nether is it a like reasoÌ„ in the perfuminge of a thinge and receiuinge of it simplely But of these maiters Phisicions shuld teach not so much by reasons coniectures as by experiment trial I my self saw once a perfume of beaten Aumber whiche also is ascribed vnto y e kind of Bitumen speciallye white holden to the nosthrils
of one sick of the falling euil with coles in a spone and the Amber vpon them and by by the fit ceased which thing appels or bals as they call them made with Mosch or Ambra will do also But that Mesuae writeth of men possessed with deuils saith Syluius is supersticious against the faith of a Christen man Brimston and iet are molten at the fire as al other liquors The same Oyl of philosophers which some haue named oyl of wisdom and of perfect mastership diuine and holy by al the old writers consent is most effectuous to secreat diseases and thaâ— not to a few of them for it heateth drieth perceth depe by the meanes of the subtelnes of the substance it digesteth and consumeth al excremental and superfluous expelled matter Therfore it is very holsome for the falling sicknes palsy turning sicknes for getfulnes and for the cold diseases of the splene rains bladder womb sinewes al ioynts other sinewy parts But one sort is natural or mineral and an other of the sea that runneth out of Iles rocks called Naphtha of the which kinde that which is somewhat white is counted the best the redish of a mean goodnes but that which is somwhat black thick is the worst NotwithstaÌ„ding it is made by arte in this wise Tiles made of red earth very old must be beaten into pieces set on fire with vnsmoking coles til they be red hot theÌ„ slek theÌ„ in a bole ful of oyl of Rofmary alchichil or old claret as much as is possible let them sok in the oyl Dry them by theÌ„ selues in cases caczobis The Munks vpon Mesuen wher also is red shortly after Caczola for a Cucurbita or body of a stil Afterward beat them most smal and put theÌ„ in a vessel that be destilled by sublimacion ioyn y e vessel to the hed with claye that chymists do vse sethe them with coles set a fire in a fornace til an oyl destil into a phial of glas glued to y e lower end of the nose of the head with clay Bulcasis which stopt veri exactly set it vp kepe it for the elder it is the stronger Mesue as Syluius traÌ„slateth him whose words also I haue writen here out of his annotacioÌ„s Oyl saith he of tiles is so subtil that in a moment it spredeth most brode if it be poured into a mans haÌ„d it perceth it forth w t. It is much more subtil more hot and more effectuous in cold diseases theÌ„ is oyl of balm It prouoketh vrin it breaketh the stone killeth worms it is holsom for the singing of the eares comming of a gros wind for the palsi the craÌ„p spasmo cynico the sciatica or ach in the hukle bones the gout in the knees fete the greues of the other ioynts being drunk or anoynted vpon y e place but let it be drunke mixte w t a litle porcion of some water conuenient for the disease The making of this oyl is described also by Rasis in his Antidotari or preseruatiue and by Bulcasis in his boke intitled Seruitor wheras Bulcasis preferreth new tiles y t neuer yet toucht water because they drink in y e oyl better he bids deuide theÌ„ into pieces of an inche bignes putreth theÌ„ so in a vessel of glas or glased wel claied y t the third part therof remain empty The fire must be made soft at y e first but so y t it touch y e bottom encresed by litle litle First shall a water issue forth afterward an oyl read Bulcasis which must be gathered bi it self In the same wise do we destil turpentyn guaiacuÌ„ many other things Oyl also of Chamaemel Nard also which is called Benet or blessed of Mesuae but this of tiles is y e chief of soÌ„e is called petroleuÌ„ or oyl of stones These Sylu. This is a stinking oil but it perceth passingli Io. Iac. de MaÌ„liis ¶ Read certain things befor wher we haue entreted generally of y e destillatioÌ„ of oyls by desceÌ„cion out of Vlst ¶ Bul. bideth to dip in the peces euerye one of an iâ—che bignes a dramme Rasis made redde hotte in mooste olde oyle and when they are quenched to take them out of y â— oyl and when thei are al soÌ„what grose beaten to put them into one or mo stillatory vessels whiche he calleth belies so that .ii. parts of y e vessell or more be filled He biddeth also to take hede that y e fyre come not nie to this oile while it is destilled because it wil easily be set on fire and hardly be put out Afterward again new peces of tiles dressed as before to be destilled til oyl inough be gathered which he biddeth to be kept in a vessell with a narow mouth moste diligently stopte with waxe and earth For it bretheth out easily because of the subtiltie and thinnes of the substaunce Vse this oyl saith he in cold sicknesses as the falling euil the benumming of the senses or Apoplexia the heauines of hearing and cold gout other diseases also haue I expressed in the booke of oyles for it is a secrete thing of philosophers The very same way of making it doth Rasis describe The oyl that they cal commonlye Balsamyn of spik raiseth vp sodeÌ„ly them that lie in the falling sicknes being held vnder their noses to be smeld or els that which they get out of tilestones hath the name of the stone Alexander Benet This oyl is made also with certain other thinges mixt with it as I found in a certain written boke the words wherof I wil rehers here Take breke into litle peces red tiles very olde or new but y t neuer touched water thei being made red hot queÌ„ch them in oyl of oliues or els y â— is better in oyl of baies by by make theÌ„ red hot again slek theÌ„ as befor vntil they wax blacke Then put these peces into a lembeck with y e oyl also wherin theiwer queÌ„shed if ani of it be left if not put new vnto it to the measur of a fingar Afterward put to it Castorei and Spicknard or in the steed of it rew of ether of them one part Costi two partes When thies are punned mixt them with the tyles in a Cucurbita or bely whiche thou shalt digge in hors dong about rx. daies At lengthe thou shalt destill it encreasing the fyer by litle and litle The first liquor is good the second better but the third of a red colour is best This oyll is good against all could diseases as Balm but this is more subtil then Balm and more proffitable in could diseases for it perceth through the hand quickly and spredeth abrode a great way It cureth the stoone of the bladder and the could diseases of the same It prouoketh vrine It helpeth the could diseases of the eares and killeth the wormes of the same It is moste proffitable for them that be
sick of the palsy and of the Cynical Cramp being anoynted therupon or drunkē also the Sciatica the griefs of the ioyntes and back A plaster made with this oyll and salt Ammoniack dissolueth in short space the impostumes and hardnesses of the splien It is of force against the falling sicknes and the obstruction or stopping of the nose being put into y e noosthrilles It heateth the brain confirmeth the memory asswageth touth ache Being put into y e womb it prouoketh the flowers It bringeth out the chyld newly conceiued ether dead or alyue It openeth the mouth of the vaines dissolueth the bloud that is lopperd or curded It purgeth the lunges from gros humors A fewe drops of it drunken with syrop of Rooses helpeth them that drawe their breeth peinfully It consumeth marueylously the water descending down to the eyes that is to saye the disease called Suffusion If fishers anoynt their nettes therwith they shall entyse innumerable fishes Iron moystened therin and put to the fyer shall burne streigth way It killeth wornes whersoeuer they be Being made hoot in an egge shell or other vessell may be dropt holsumly into the place where the grief is vntyll the grief asswage It resisteth could poysons as the sting of a Scorpion and also black Popy and Henbane if a mā haue reciued thē by his mouth It puteth away the stoone of the bladder being mixt with the barck of Percily and Fenell the barkes of the routes being sodde in water and a litle quantitie of this decoction receiued with a drop or .ii. in drinke but all thies thinges for the moste part doth Rasis in Antidotary attribute and asscribe to the simple oyl Benet that is that which is destilled of only tyles oyl That is coūted the best saith Rasis that is very red of a strong smel and of a subtill substaunce Oyl of leed Loke befor wheras we haue reher sed Vlstadius wordes of Quinessence Amber by an artificiall meanes of siething is turned into an oyl of his oun colour Ge. Agricola In died it is possible to make oyl of Amber after the same maner as of Iet wherof we haue writen befor For they seme not to be of much vnlyke nature The Germains call them by a cōmun name Agstein geuing only the difference of black vnto Iet Cardan supposeth that Camphora also is of y e same kynd only bycause y t this that the perfume of Amber receiued in a moyst cloth giueth afterward the smell of Camphora in it which notwithstanding did not appeare so to me as I did proue it for a triall Brimston anoynted drūck taketh away scabbednes leprosy and the frenche pockes But with a more vehement force the oyl therof which how it should be made we haue declared in our bokes of the frenche diseases Card. But his bookes of y e frenche disease I suppose ar not yet cum forth in print Salt cōteineth an oyll in it if it be mixt w t the lyme or clay called Bitumen Wherupō Arrianus declareth emongst the Ichthiophagi the men that liue only by fyshe in his history of Ind howe they make an oyll of salt That may be an argument also that the Oliue tries delyte in the Sea bankes for a salt groūd is also not a litle fat But as I said al thinges do so contein oyl that it may be drawen out by y e force of fier but it can not contein much except it haue Bitumē mixt w t it Car. For the making of oyl of Brimston a mā must chose out y t which is pure neuer touched the fier chiefly aliue of an ashy colour This oyl is made many wayes at Rome by sublymaciō descēcion c. It is good for many thinges chiefly for fistulas for y e healing of y e wheeles of y e moutes y ◠mē cal gangrenes I suppose it to be y t which we call in Englishe cankers in the curing wherof it excelleth moste of all For take and wet the end of a fether or other lyke thing as some yong and tender spring of a trie or herbe and touche the wheeles once or twyse only therwith and by and by thei shal be killed healed The Munkes vpō Mesue Take a vessell of glas as Maithaeolus Senen writeth in his boke of the Frenche euil not much vnlyke to a litle bell daubed with potters claye hang it the space of a cubit from the grounde by a wyer of bras or iron vnder y e which thou shalt set a basen of glas of a great cōpas with a pot turnde vpsyde downe Moreouer the bottom of the pot shall hold vp an iron plate of .iiii. fingars broode made red hoat wherupon the Brimstone may be brent Whyles this is brēt newe shal be added vpō it Therupon it shal cum to pas that by the smoke ascending the hanging vessell in short space shall destill drop down in to the basen that standes vnder an oyll whiche gathered diligently thou shalt serue in a phyall of glas Brimstone that neuer came ny the fyer or most yelowe whyles it is brent giueth a thick smoke to be receiued in a bell of glas or of stoone Wherein thorowe the gros vapour an oyll gathered together destilleth into a large plain vessell in y e mids wherof the brimstone builded vpon a litle vessell is brent Other beating the brimstone consume the fyry substaūce of if with Aqua vitae set on fyer and after deuil that whiche remaineth lyke vnto oyll of Philosophers Other sieth yelowe Brimstone Turpintyn of ether an vnce oyl of Roses a pound with a slow fire with .ii. vnces of odoriferous wine til the wine be consumed as it is red in Luminari maiore Syluius Put one part of quick brimston into .ii. parts partes of oyl of Lynsied beat them well and diligently together and let them stand in hors dong ii dais in a vessel wel shut it shal be clere fair But all these oyls seme to be prepared only for this purpose that they may be ministred without the body I here say that there be certaine practicioners now a daies which geue men to drink to ther body a certain oyl of brimstō chiefli against falling siknesses perauenture that kind whose firy substance as Syluius maketh menciō is first consumed by Aqua vitae set on fire then destild by sublimacion it may be more safly ministred with in the body then the other Oyl of Vitriol or copros is desired of chymists and likewise of phisitions and as a moste secrete matter is hid I will put here some descriptions therof whiche I receiued of my frendes or found in writē bokes and after other I wil declare one way of this oyl most effectuall approued which I know my selfe whiche a certaine practicioner with vs vsed to the curing almoste of all kinde of diseases and in many luckely c. Make the Vitriol in to lime as thou knowest then pour burning water vnto it
so that it excede the Vitriol a little then seperate the burning water by destillacion in a phiall or in a croked stil or a bely laid on the one side When that is drawne out vrge the spirits of the Vitriol by litle and little encreasing the fire more and more til al y e spirits be ouer passed This liquor destilled put it again into som one of the .iii. maner of vessels aforsaid destil it in a kettle ful of water vntil whatso euer watry thing is in it be separated whiche thou shalt endeuor to bring to pas by al the witte thou hast that the watrines be clean gotten out ether by a leÌ„bek with a nose or a blind lembek whose nether skirt haue a hollow gutter or circle like vnto a leÌ„bek that is to say with a nose Endeuor that the water in the kettle sethe lightlye if so be it ought to sieth at all the dutch word siedeÌ„ semeth to be equiâ—ocal and may signify as wel se thing as boyling to thintent that the waterines alone may ascend and the oyl alwaies remain in the botom of the bely the which thing to bringe to pas you shall haue nied of two daies at the least Then afterward that oyl that is left in the belly put it into a bely or other of the forsaid vessels defensed with clay and destil it marke whether any water pas before the spirits For if there be any watrines yet mixt with it it shal be nedeful to set it afterward in y â— sun or hot place in a blind leÌ„bek y â— the watrines being eleuated and caried vp may remain in the hem skirt of the leÌ„bek This if y u repeete ofter then once this insolacioÌ„ I mene the oyl shall becom euer the swieter and better Ye also a man may repete the destillacion the second or third time for by that meanes the oyl is rectified more and more Thou maist minister .ii. or .iii. drops of this oyl against all manner of diseases ether by it self or with waters conuenient for euerye disease This oyl I haue tasted my selfe it is swiet pleasant and strong in colour if I remember wel somwhat white An other way Take .iiii. poundes of Vitriol of Rome dry it in an earthen vessel till it wax red after when it is beaten put it into a bely of glasse diligently defenced with clay as the maner is for Aqua fortis and first destilit with a soft fire encresing the degre of the fire by litle and little vntyll white fumes begin to issue out at the nose of y e bely then set a great receiuing vessel fensed w t clay and make a fire with wod continuing for y e space of .xii. hours and at leÌ„ght shal issue out red drops and heauye When the receiuer beginneth to bee clear the matter is finished wherfore then cease that the vessels may be couled Afterward y â— shalt put it in a litle lembek to separate and auoide the fleum and reserue the reast setting it in the sun a ix daies When thou wilt vse it minister it wyth white wine or Malmsy .vi. or .vii. drops so that nothinge after be eaten by the space of .iii. or .iiii. hours it mai be receiued also before slepe if a maÌ„ drink not vpon it This liquor is profitable for a sick stomack for lepers for them that be sicke of y e stone for the retention and keping of vrin for theÌ„ that be sicke of the Ague and in time of the pestilence with water of Acetosae somwhat warm putting vnto it half a dram of spices Diamargariton which is cold if it may be gotten An other way for the same that it may be the better made and purer Put in an earthen pot of earth of Crucibulorum glased within as muche Vitrioll of Rome as thou wilt and destill it in a fornace as is befor said with a fyer of Aqua fortis and there shall run out a whyte water of Vitriol After when it ceaseth thou shalt encreas the fyer and a grien water shall folow which wheÌ„ it hath left thou shalt make a moste strong and vehemeÌ„t fyer both aboue and beneth and a red oyl shall issue out Chaunge euer the receiuer according to the chauÌ„ging of the liquors Or els take those .iii. liquors in one vessel seperate the waters afterward from the oyl by destilling them and the oyll shall remain in the bely This separatioÌ„ is made y e bely staÌ„ding vpright with a head and a receiuer the first destillacion of y e oyl the bely lying ouerth warth as it is said If thou dip a litle drie woul or bombase in water of Vitriol of Rome and ther w t thouch any kind of diseases of y e mouth thou shalt easely heale them Out of a writen booke of a certain friend he semeth here to meane that water y t ruÌ„neth out first which is to be vsed only without the body not the very oyl of Vitriol which is more precious and pure and is kept to be ministred giuen to drinke against inward diseases Of the vertues of oyl of Vitriol out of y e same writen boke Drinck Malmsy with a litle oyll of Vitriol coÌ„tinually for the space of .v. or .viii. dais it riddeth a man from all obstructions it purgeth the bloud and driueth away the stone It healeth the il scab if it be drunck with water of fumitory and Myrobalana condite It reneweth a maÌ„ with water of endiue It healeth all maner of griefes of the head with water of Maioram or Buglos or Melissa also the turnsicknes if it be conteined any space With water of Agresta it healeth al maner of diseases the body being first purged It restoreth the memory with the water of Acorus or Fenell It mouith a man to slepe with the sied of Letis or Popy It is good for melancolyck persons with water of Bublos or Borage It cureth mad men with water of the water lily coÌ„tinuing y e vse of it also hoat impostums the sleping euil with water of wyld rewe It purgeth the body w t Aqua vitae It healeth y e palsy with water of wyld mint or sage Hyssop the cramp with water of Sage the sicknes of quaking with water of Basilicus diuers inward diseases with water of Trifolium all feblenes of the eyes with water of Fenell the reum from the head with water of Lily y e catar w t water of AdiantuÌ„ Hyssop the cough also the disease of the syde with water of PlaÌ„tain the Pleuresis w t water of maiden hear the feblenes wekenes of the stomack w t water of mint With water of Quinces it staunceth vomitting if the sick be of a moyst temperature or coÌ„plexion let it be giuen him with water of plantain or shep pardes purs with a litle Diarhodon It stinteth y e flux of the bely with the water of Plantain the co lyck with water of Rewe With water of wormwod it
resistith venemous bytings It healeth al maner of impostumes and dropsy continuing it It is good for the limes that be resolued if it bee chawfed vpon with an Ox gaull It helpeth the splen with Tamarindis with water of Radish and and sea bremble it expelleth the stoone openeth the stoppinges of theines It healeth all agues w t water of Agresta certain kyndes of leprosy coÌ„tinuing the vse of it This is the trew potable gold and the trew SelaÌ„dyn or Chelidonia more also in weigth it giueth not place to gold it hath the same as many vertues as potable gould A litle of it with a litle water of Roses drunk restoreth y e speche that is lost it stinteth the bleding at y e nose with Roses Of the burninge or broylinge of Chalcanthum that is Vitriol and his kindes Bulcasis writeth in a maner the same things in his thirde boke of the preparacion of medicines whiche we haue declared afoore in his preparacion for the makinge of Vitriol Zimor also he teacheth to prepare after the same maner But emongst diuers wayes of this oyl of Vitriol I lyke that best which I described last For the liquor that is destilled that way is the sharpest of all and also the tartest in so muche that it may be called vinegar of metal as me thinketh Wherfore of certain it is highly commended for the quenshing of thirst in somer tyme one drop of it put into a draught of wyne lyke as I found in a certain doutch writteÌ„ booke where as this also is added Vitriolum is destilled in a bely laid ouerthwart fensed w t clay in the flames of the fyer it runneth out skant the third day and first water An other way out of the same booke Stiep Vitriol in Aqua fortis whiche may drawe out all the fatnes therof from the which if thou separate the Aqua fortis by destillacion an oyll shall remaine But perauentur this way is to daungerous that a liquor so destilled should be receiued within the body But without the body and to the wheeles or cankar of the mouth it may well be ministred I remember I haue red in sum place in Lulliê° in his worke of Quintessence where he maketh meÌ„cion of oyl or Quintessence of Vitriol But in what sort it should be made I could neuer yet fynde in any booke that went abrode so greatly haue they all kept secret this thing as a marueylous mystery For the description whiche I will declare here after out of the boke of Nicolas Massa vpon the disease of Naples can not be receiued within y e body When the Chalcanthum that is the Vitriol or Mysis that is Vitriol of Rome is brent an oyll moste sharp hoat is drawen out of it by the force of the fyre in vessels of glas wherwith if a man touche wartes when they ar cut or wounded they will go away The same if a maÌ„ tast it it striketh the tong lyke as it were a hoat iron Yet the vse of it is to dry byles within that be out of hoope of recouery wher as thei be not much filthy as it chauÌ„ceth in certain that be diseased of Phthoe corrupcion matter without grief It serueth also to cut of cancars corrupt members with the wood Oliue anoynted with it Cardanus The same coniectur we wryte before that oyl of Mysis or arsnick anoynted without may seme to deliuer froÌ„ poysoÌ„ The spirit or Quintesseuce of Vitriol is praysed of certain practicioners against the falling sicknes and Apoplexia or benumming of sences Shomakers inck lowseth the bely both in hony and meed drunck to the weight of a dram also in wyne specially the oyll therof George Agricola in his .iii. boke of the nature of things digd out of the ground Oyl of Vitriol doth kill not only men but tries wherfor it must be made in sum out syd or place where no man dwelleth Albucasis other shew the way of making it Brassauolus In myne opinion not the oyl but y e smoke of Vitriol whyles it is brent with fier prepared vnto destillacioÌ„ is so hurtful And again of ChalcanthuÌ„ y t is vitriol oyl is made so burning that we vse it for poteÌ„tiall fyer for it is of a caustical y u is a burning nature with litle grief it cutteth members if they be touched with a knief anoited with Oliues Whyles y e oylis preparing ye must take hede of the smoke bycause it doth not only kyl men but also the tries that be nye it drieth theÌ„ vp The tryal wherof FraÌ„ciscus de MoÌ„te the notable bone setter whose tries of his archard euery one died w t the smoke of Vitriol whyles he prepared the oyll therof The oyl of Vitriol is maruelous burning lyke a hoat iroÌ„ without grief is made in this maner xxx vnces of Vitriol of Rome or of Cypres Salnitrum roche Alum of ether .iiii. vnces When they are all beten let them be calcionated with fier according to arte Afterward put this calcionated in a croked Bocia clayed for the fier of an alchymists fornace and by the fier thou shalt haue the oyl incresed in the receiuer which is a marueilous Cauterium or burning thing and hath no pere in any operacion and chiefly in takyng away of wens great wartes But the receiuer must be great if thou wilt make the forsaid oyl Nicolas Massa in his boke of the disease Naples and Thomas Philologus who taketh .xx. drames of Vitriol but of Alum and salt of ether xxiiii ¶ A water of diuers metals out of a certain dutch boke for the leprosi spots dunnes of the eies The filing of siluer coper stiele gould of euerye one as muche as ye can get the first daye put it in vryn whyles it is warm made by a boy or wenche that is a maide the next day in the crums of hoat bread the third in a whyte of an egge the fourth in the milke of a woman y t nurseth a wenche the fift in reed wyne Then put all thies into a still destill them with a litle fyer and kipe it For the vertue of it is incoÌ„parable It is good against the leprosy and al the spots in the face and it procureth vnto the face a youthfull brightnes it maketh also cleernes of y e sight thies shalt thou reed otherwyse in the Addicions vpon the Breuiarium or Bridgment of Arnold de Villa Nona 1. 18. Of Aqua fortis and such lyke _â—E described a litle before a certain water lyke Aqua fortis destilled of Vitriol Sal Nitrum and Alum against greate wartes c. But the commun Aqua fortis also and the simple oyl of Vitriol if a man put a drop of them in to a wen or warte first cut they take it away of the whiche thing I made a tryall in my self vpon a sied wart on my fyngars ende wherinto when I had first cut it with a razer I put a drop of
and pres it out strongly Lykewyse stiep new Hypericon sieth it and presse it put to it .iii. vnces of Turpintyn six vnces of old oyll a scrupull of Saffron Sieth it till the wyne be consumed This oyll saith Syluius no man knoweth who was the author of it Yet Galen wryteth that Tart or harsch wyne wherin the leeues of Androsaenni or Ascyri whiche are kyndes of Hypericon are solde doth cloose great woundes and as sum thinke Hypericon hoat dry and of subtill partes is holsome for them to drynke that be diseased w t ache in the hippes or Sciatica Of the whiche the vertues of other mixt heer thou maiest gather y ◠whiche oyl strengtheneth digesteth and sclendereth For it is composed of contrary substaunces Sylui. vpon Mesuen Brassa putteth the same discriptiō in Examine simplice 519. chap. Sum saith he put simpely the flowers into a glased vessell y ◠the oyl may be gotten out by it self w t the strength of y e sun other dig it vnder y e ground other make it by infusing ether of the flowers alone or other mo thinges mixt with it as we haue declared alredy out of the wordes of Syl. Thus prepared in a glased or glas vessell they keepe it But thies thinges are cleerly expounded of Mesue newer authors Thies Brassauo Sum put to it wormes or bowels of the earth and let it stande a moneth or more in a wine cellar in a pot stopt with clay or past thē they sieth it by litle litle in y ◠same about ten houres they strein it through a bag pres it That is the best that is streined first The colour of the oyl is almost red the tast is sumwhat sour The vse of it is for woundes prickinges and all kyndes of offensions and the swellinges that cum therupon Sum vse them to the greuous soores of the legges An other cōposition of oyl of Hypericon which healeth any wound great or small within .xxiiii. houres out of a certain boke imprinted in french without an author A handfull of Hypericon Cōmun oyll two poundes a pound of Axungia that is swynes grees clarified streined Turpintyn of Venice the third part of a pound A dram of saf fron Cut all small and fyne and mixt them in a great phiall of glas whiche when thou hast stopt diligently with wax and otherwyse set it in dong two foot diep or more in a place that the morning sun beemes and euening may cum to it At the length when the yeare is gone about take out the phial in the whiche thou shalt fynde an oyll lyke vnto Balm That must ye vse as hoat as may be suffered An oyll is made also of Iuniper beries by expression as of other siedes Brassauo An oyll of the beries of Bayes and Iuniper stept in wyne is beatē out with a miln wery profitable for thē that haue griefe in the hukle boon and colde diseases of the ioyntes Iac. Hollerius Oyl of Baies The beries of Baies grene and beten let them be sod in oyl and streined An other way Beat the rype beries of Baies with y e leues sieth them and strain them Otherwise set the beries beaten in wine and when they are stiept .iii. daies let them be prest out in a pres Or els fresh and ripe beaten let thē be put in a sak and the oyl drawn out It is holsome againste the colick the disease of the great guts the Sciatica Rogerius Oyl out of the Myrepsical Nutte prest with an Anuil and a redde hotte iron is gotten oute Iac. Hollerius Oyles to asswage griefes are made of certain herbs brused together and sod in oyl as of Calen dulae Mary goldes Rosemary Maioram and other Iac. Hollerius Oyl of Nutmegs Cut them in smalpeces and when they haue stand .iii. dais infused in Malm sye drye them in the shadow .ii. daies then warm them moderatly in a fryinge pan and thou shalt sprinkle them in the meane season with Rosewater and pres them out in a pres Cardan I hear say som do not stiep them in wine but pres the very nuts alone beatē and heated I my self made of late verye good in this wise beinge taught of a certain French man I put in a glas about .v. ounces of Nutmegs somwhat grose beten for the space of one nighte in wine so that the wine was higher by a finger bredthe The nexte day I shut y e matter in a sack of linnen bound at the end that they could not fal out Thē I bound euery wher with thred that they shuld not com all together on a hepe But the matter must firste be warmed in a skellet not to much but as much as a finger may suffer and so put in a litle bag must they be by by tied and pressed in a little presse of wod with a litle lake or gutter of wod hauing a spout enclining downward the litle bag put ther in c. They yeilde for the most part the .viii. part of the weight of the nuts so that one ounce of the nuts geue a dram of oyl if the nuts be sufficiētly moystie A man may warm y e same matter again pres it as before but the second time yeldeth very litle oyl and not so good It is better therfor to leaue this matter and to dry it in the bag whiche when nede shal be may be laid to the stomak or to the mouthe thereof This oyle lately prest oute is somwhat thick and separated as though it were by Hilloks al which must be diligently gathered out of the wine and the wine streined from them with a linnen cloth they be brought into one mas and lump pressing and wringing it with your fin gers to the dish side wherinto the matter is crusht out that al the wine may be most diligently seperated The substaunce and the coloure appeareth like waxe The mountenance of a pease annoynted vpon the mouth of the stomack dothe meruelously strēgthen it I here say som vse the anoynting of it to the sturring vp of their luste Beinge swalowed it heateth moderatly the stomack and maketh swiet breth ¶ I here more ouer that som sieth the nuts beaten a while I can not tell whether in wine or in water and gather the fattines that swimmeth aboue I remember also y t I saw once an iron instrument like a pair of tonges the two extreme irons or ends wherof consisted of ii hollow half spheres so that when they wer prest together they might hold a Nutmegge or a little les as occasion of the pressing serued The one of the half spheres was bored throughe with .iiii. or v. little holes that the oyl might run out whē the ends of the tonges moderatly made hot wer prest together I founde also this descripcion in a certain writen boke Take .ii. pounds of Nutmegs Thre ounces of Malmesy wherewith the Nutmegs somwhat grose beaten may be sprinckled Put to half a pounde of commun oyle
elect when they are all mixte together let them be prest cunninglye in a pres But my waye whyche I described afore and tried my selfe liketh me moore then the other There be many waies to make oyl of Rooses It is made ether with oyl and ripe Roses or bothe of them vnripe or the one ripe thother vnripe and so ther is .iiii. diuers waies Som in stead of commun oyle take oyl of Almondes Rasis in hys Antidotario seperato putteth .iii. waies Firste Take a pound of coÌ„mun oil washed wherin thou shalt put the fourthe parte of Grene Rooses in a glased vessell of glas rather which thou shalt set in the sun for the space of .iii. daies ye .xl. as Aegi neta hath Then straine it and put it in a glasse This waye is better then the other The second Take oyl and Roses as before and hang the vessell in a well so that it maye be touched of the water and after .ii. monethes take it oute straine it and kepe it The third Oyl and Roses as before put them in a glas anoynted within with honye which stopt thou shalt let it diep in y e erth wher it shall not be touched nether with water nor other moisture ii months This oyl wil be better smellinge then the other These writeth Rasis oute of Aegineta as it appeareth Aegineta biddeth in the xx chap. of the seuenth boke vnto a Sextarium or wine pint of oyl Omphacinum made of oliues not fully ripe to put .iii. ounces of red Roses the nails taken awai and for the space of .xxiiii. hours laid out in the air then the oyl to be set .xl. daies w tout dores in the sun not vpon the ground but vpon a borde ¶ Mesuae in the. 411. chapt describeth .iiii. waies First that fresh and new red roses be set in the sun .vii. daies then let them be sod in a double vessel .iii. houres then the Rose leaues wronge oute let other be put in and let them be set in the sun and sod as before Which wheÌ„ thou hast done thrise put to the oyl water of infusion of Rooses y t is wherin Rooses likewise haue staÌ„ded which he saithe we haue prescribed in the chapter of syrrups as it were the fourth of the oyl that is the fourth part as the Munkes haue it Syluius traÌ„slateth it as much as the oyl is which I like not so well So when it is set in the sunne .xl. daies straine it and sette it longe againe in the Sunne The second mixting with the oyl washt the iuyce of Roses and the water of their infusion and the leaues beaten together then setting it in the sun and chaunginge it as before c. The thirde that with swiet Almondes blaunshed exactly beaten in a morter leaues of Roses be beaten again theÌ„ make them in litle lumpes or caakes and keepe them in a hoat aire .xxiiii. houres Then beate theÌ„ again and kneed them in the morter very exactly pouring vnto it a litle hoat water of infusion of Roses At length prees out the oyll with a presse put in a glas couered set it to suÌ„ The fourth y â— it be made with Sesamum blaunshed after the same maner as with Almondes But Almondes are more mete for vnrype Rooses Sesama for rype Thies hath Mesue wher Syluius had it The first composition saith he of the .iiii. now rehersed is vsed of many but of the Parisians the composition of Nicolas whiche shal be declared in his Antidotary And againe I heare that oyll of Roses is is made moste odoriferous by putrifying the roses one moneth in dung in a vessell well stopt After the same maner of commun Mastick and Roses incarnate and Muske Roses and suche lyke I doubt not but it may be made most odoriferous without the mixture of any oyll ¶ Sieth Roses Wormwod or any other odoriferous herb in water with the fourth part of oyl til all the water be consumed and the oyll shall haue the strengthes and vertues of the herbes So shalt thou make oyll out of hand of any thing Cardanus out of Symeon ¶ There be sum that when the Rooses are beeten and sod in only water say there swimmeth a certain fat foom whiche may be streined or gathered with a fether ¶ An other certain man told me that the leaues of Roses new should be sod in water til they be thick as hony almost then crusht with a spoon that the oyll or foom may enter in to it but sum water wil be mixt also with it wherfore when it is gathered in a glas it is set in the sun y e oyl swiming aboue in y e top is separated Oyll of the flowers of Elder purgeth and maketh smouth the skin strengtheneth the sinewes and helpeth the griefes of them Furnerius Oyl of Spick moste holsome for theÌ„ that haue the gout in their fiet whiche a certain physicion of late did coÌ„municate Fill a glas with the flowers of Spick nard dryed in the sun and power vpon theÌ„ oyl of Oliues so that it be higher by a fingar bredth When it hath stande .iii. daies in the sun make it boyll in a kettell six or seuen waues and streine it with migth then put in other flowers dried set them in the sun .xvi. daies or more So shalt thou haue saith he an oyl to put away peyn or grief wurth gould as I haue tried with often experience Lay linnen cloothes moystened in it vnto the grief it misseth very seldoÌ„ yea although a man do not consider the humor offending See more in the Antidotary of Arnold de Villa noua Oyll of the flowers of Verbascum is made by settin them in the sun in a glas as also of the flowers of Rosemary moste coÌ„mended praysed for the gout of the fiet of other griefs specially hoat Oyl of violets is made as oyll of Roses but of grien oyâ—l or oyll of Almondes or Sasamin Mesue Paulus Aegineta maketh this oyll of purple Violeth or Leucoio that is yelowe or he setteth them in the sun couering the vessell exactly that it breth not through only ten daies the Violettes in the meane season thrys chaunged and at lengthe he addeth dry Violettes Of oyll of Tartarum that is the dry Lies of wyne OYll of Tartarum deuysed by Peter Argil lata serueth to clense the face and to smouth it Tartarum cleauing to the sydes of the vessell whyte rather then red made into pouder is stept in vinegar after it is folded in a linnen cloothe then lette it be put in Tow moystened with water vnder the ashes after that let it be laid in a dish hielding towad the one syde .iii. daies then shall a certaine humor sumwhat red destill Nicolas way to make oyl of Tartarum cleaning to the sydes of the vessels Take that TartaruÌ„ that is of good wyne beaten folded in a linnen cloth moysten it well with strong whyte vynegar sieth it vnder hoat ashes burn it til it wax black