Rupe scissa looke in Raimund Lullus Io. Genrotus a frenche boke Io. Manardus Io. Mesuae Io. Tagautius Metaphras vp on the Surgery of Guido de Cauliaco Io. de Vigoes Surgery Marianus Sanctus a Surgean Munkes commentaries vpon Mesue Nicander Nicolas Massa of the Frenche pockes Nicolas Myropsus Peter Andro Matthaeolus Senenfis booke of the frenche pockes and Italian commeÌ„taries vpon Dioscorides Petrus Aponensis Philip. Vlstadius CoeluÌ„ philosophorum that is heaueÌ„ of Philosophers Raimund Lullius boke notable good and very learned of Quintessence which was prynted once at Argentin of late at Norinberge but differinge in manye thinges I haue .ii. written copies and other .ii. I saw with a frende of mine which al did differ amongste them selues from the prynted I did se also the boke of Quintessence of Ioannis de Rupe scissa almost throughout word for word agreinge with the same that it mighte seeme that Lullus writ out of his or els that some man fatherd it falsly vpon Lullus if so be it he writ afore Lullus as we reade in the Dialog of Ioannes Brasescus Yet Symphorianus Camperius noted that Lullus or Lullus florished the yere of oure Lord. 1311. But Io. de Rupe scissa the yeare 1340. Trite A boke of the same Lullus of waters Loke befor in Aegidius Rasis Remaclus F. Lymburgensis that writ of those destilled waters y t be in commoÌ„ vse Rogerius Bacho of the vertues of Aqua vitae according to the .xii. fignes whicke boke som not truely ascribe to Arnold de villa no. Serapio A Table of the chapters conteined in this Booke WHat destillation is and of diuers formes and kindes 1. Of the vertues of licores destilled generallye 7 Of the manifold vse of lyquors destilled bothe in Physicke and otherwise 15 A way to purge and make clene troubled waters 17 Of Balneum Mariae generallye and of those destillatioÌ„s that be don by vapors of hot water and in horse dong id Certain excelleÌ„t simple waters destilled in Balneo Mariae firste of Plantes then of bea 24 Of Rosewater 38 Of waters â–ª destilled of beasts or of their partes or excrementes and firste of all of the hoole beastes 49 Of vessels and diuers instruments belouging to destillation 51 Of the matter for vessels of destillacion and first against leaden and brasen vessels 57 Of Fornaces c 61 Howe to close vessels and to defend them bothe with clay and otherwise 61 Of the preparation for destillation 67 Of the rectificatioÌ„ of liquors destilled 73 Destillacion by a filter or a liste of Wollen cloth 75 Of burning water or single Aqua vitae and of the strength therof and manifold vse 76 Of the strengths and vertues of Aqua vitae 82 Of suche thinges as be destilled dry put into any liquor 89 Of quintessence of remedies 94 How the quintessence of all thinges maye be drawn oute to minister theÌ„ or the vertue of theÌ„ to mennes bodies 98 Of the drawyng oute of the Quintessence froÌ„ wine 102 How quintessens may be drawne out more easeli and with les cost for pore mens sakes out of the same 104 In what places Vlstadius teacheth in hys heaueÌ„ teacheth to draw out diuers quintess 106 A merueilous water that hath a contrarye operation to Aqua vitae whiche maye be called cold quintessence 107 Of the extractinge drawing forth of all the vertues of Chelidonia or Selandine by the whiche example euerye man of anye vnderstanding maye vse to drawe oute the vertues also of other plantes 110 How Quintessence is drawn out of frutes as Apples Pears plums Cheries chestnuts 1â—6 Out of flours herbs and rotes idem Of quintesseÌ„ce of maÌ„s bloud egges fleshe and Honye 117 Of quintesseÌ„ce of metals 121 Of the drawing oute of quintessence from Antimonia lead whit lead 122 Of diuers kindes of Aqua vitae coÌ„posed 124 Aqua vitae againste PestileÌ„ce proued and vsed with great and meruelous successe by a certaine Phisicion of oure time of Solodurn in Heluetia the yere of our lord 1547. In so much that scarsly euery teÌ„th of theÌ„ that receiued it died 128 Two compositions of Aqua vitae 125 What medicynes bee mixte wyth Aqua vitae without any destillation first within the body theÌ„ without 141 A water to washe the parts taken with the palsey 145 Of destilled waters coÌ„posed but with other theÌ„ with Aqua vitae 146 Certain composed waters to be destilled other of the medicines by them selues or w t well springe water 135 Of waters of vertues or golden water c. 155 A water of certain remedies for short c. 163 A water for the ston 165 Certain waters composed idem Waters of CapoÌ„s 168 Waters composed for diuers diseases wythin the body chiefly whereof some are made of medicins and iuices whyles they be yet new other are infused and put into the iuices of plaÌ„ts or waters destild whai or blud 170 An aproued water for the sores of the raines bladder 171 A water coÌ„posed 172 A water against the Pestilence c 174 Of purging medi. 175 Gold potable or c 177 Certain waters composed c. 183 Certaine waters for the eies 185 Of waters of swiet sauour 187 Rosewater with musk Saffron cloues c. 189 Waters of swiet c. 192 Waters destilled called Cosmeticall c. 195 Certain waters destild for y e garnishing c 200 Certaine Cosmetical thinges 207 Waters for the dying of the heares c. 208 A way to destill swiet waters effectual c 211 Destillation in ashes 213 Of Rosaries that is to say instrumeÌ„ts c. 218 Of oils destild c 222 How oyl must be drawn out of spices c 225 Howe oyle is drawne of wodes c. ideÌ„ Of oils of flours 232 Oils of sedes c. 237 Certain oils of sedes 239 Of oyl of the beries of Iuniper c. 242 Of oils of guÌ„s c 246 Of oyl of TurpeÌ„ c 249 Oiles of barkes 251 Of oils that ar drawn out of wodes 254 Of true balm and an tibalm c. 261 Of balme made c. 268 Of balms that c. 285 Of oyl of the parts of beasts or excremeÌ„ts 289 Of oyl of metals c 290 Of Aqua fortis c. 320 Of the lyquors c. 325 Of certain massy c. id Of certain other c. 338 Of diuers oyles 339 Of oyl of Tartarum y t is the dry Lies c. 351 Of oyles of the yolks of egges 354 Of Perfumes 362 Of certain iuices 367 Againe of the iuice of black Elieborus c. 375 Of the iuice of y e flour Deluce and Rape 378 Of decocted things 381 Of made wine mixt with medicines 383 Of Aromatical wines y t is made of spices 392 Of swiet wines spyced 396 Three wais to make Nectar c. 401 Of spiced wines with burning water 404 Of certain other Aromaticall wines specially such as are made by haÌ„ging a little c. 406 Of Artificiall wynes which
sick of the phthisik it auoydeth the stuffed stomack it breaketh the stone in the reines it separateth and putteth away the watery humors of the splene it helpeth forwarde the flowers if it be drunken nyne daies together in the morning and purgeth the bely Also it purgeth al choler and corrupt bloud It heleth all woundes within the bely it clereth the sight it cureth poysoned bytings to the healing of woundes the pouder of centory also ought to be put vnto theÌ„ Lulliê° in his boke of waters Certain at this day stiep dry routs of geÌ„tian in wyn destil a most effecual water therout The sage and penroyall of ether lyke much when they are beten in a morter destill theÌ„ This water heeteth a man that is ouermuch cold WheÌ„ it is soden with castorium as oft as a maÌ„ drinkes it so many daies it prolongeth his lyfe vntyll the tyme ordeyned of God Nether is it possible for any man to be so greatly couled but if he drinke it with castoriuÌ„ nyn daies he shal be perfectly made hoole Drunken fasting it remoueth the disease of the bely all gutta scabbidnes it maketh good bloud the best colour in the face It is profitable to many other thinges drunk .iii. a day Aegidius A water of iuniper beries stiept in wyn whyles they be newe is destilled I soockt dry beries in wyne wherupon I had very good and swiet lyquor when they were destilled The routes of the flowr deluce beateÌ„ ar stiept in whyt wyne .ii. or .iii. daies and then destilled But the routes of any herbe a man will which are vsed in physick or may be vsed if they be cut small and stiept a certain daies in wyne they yeld a water of the same vertue force but more pure and subtill c. A man must put les wyne to new routes then to dry and perauentur les also to theÌ„ whiche ought to refrigerat and coule or els moderatly to heat wherfor we shall destill the same rather newe and freshe then dried to thintent they may nede y e les wyne or els if new can not be gotten we shall stiep the dried rather in water or in sum other conuenient liquor sumtimes vynegar specially if it be to be vsed without the body Gualterus Riffius reherseth the routes that bee stiept in wyne to bee destilled as hereafter followeth Garlike Angelica whiche sum thynke to be our Alexanders that is sowen and the other that is called water angelica arum hollow aristolochia as they call it coÌ„munly in Germany asaruÌ„ or asarabaccha bistorta bryonia carlina dragones eryngium hibiscus hirundinaria flowre deluce inula Sorrell Lilies Meu or yalowe caret Piony Parsnippes Petasita Pencedanum Pimpernel or rater Saxifrage PolygonatoÌ„ PyretruÌ„ coÌ„moÌ„ radish wild rapes rubia or rubea satyricuÌ„ Scrofularia the bigger Symphytum the bigger Valerian Here whyles he asscribeth to euery one his vertues he makes a hoole booke When as notwithstanding he bringes none other vertues then suche as be attributed to the medicines them selues alone and that before destillacion whiche if he had toucht with one word at the beginning it had been sufficient And truly I maruell seing he wryt forth his bookes with suche earnestnes and endeuoured by all meanes to augment his thinges vnto a huge greatnes why he left out other many routes yea rather why he rehersed not all that be in any vse of physick euery one with his vertues repeted and that he did it not I suppose he lackt no will but remembraunce hinderd with hast The wyld radyshe whiche communly they call the byggar cut small and stiept in wyne a certain daies I wold thinke it would giue an effectuall stilled liquor for it wil lose easely his byting tartnes and leue it of in the liquors wherin it is stiept in so much that euen certain swiet routs as Parsnipes sooked together with them in vinegar becum more tart the slices of Radish leue their tartâ—es Against the stone it may be stiept in vinegar together with the rout of percely and anyse sede c. and to be destilled in asshes The rout of Pyretrum fresh or also dry beaten and stiept in wyne is destilled or also for touthe ache and to cause one vomit vp fleume in vinegar other new or destilled as Riffius teacheth A profitable water againste rottennes of the tethe Mixte the rotes of Pyretrum beaten small with the best wine ye maye get and make a mixture that may be like to Aqua vitae composed WheÌ„ ye will vse it taste a sponefull holde it in youre mouthe in the morninge or whan ye will for ye shall perceiue remeady shortly It healeth weke tieth corrupted holow it pourgeth also and cleareth them It is good also for the putting awaye of all kind of rottennes or vnclennes to auoyd it by spitting one nameles A water against the falling sicknes whereof ii or .iii. sponefull oughte to be geuen in the verye fitte communicated vnto me verye latelye of a frend The water of Angelica which a man mai stiep first in good wine a .iii. daies and the water of Lauendula in equall portions mixte them and geue vnto the pacient Of wine and milcke destilled together it is wrytten before amongste the symple waters of beastes Certaine composed vvaters to be destilled other of the medicines by them selues or wyth well spryng water oute of the treatise of Rogerius 4. cha 6. A Water drawne oute of the leaues of hisop leuisticus sauery Horhound inula the floures of floure deluce and that trifolium whyche beareth many flours about the bignes of a gaule nut whose floures if they be sukt they geue a swiet iuice It dissolueth fleumaticke humors of the brest or chest it fineth the spettle furthers it and breakes it A water destilled of gum Arabeck white tragacanthum lycoris violets Malowes put in water and then destilled It represseth the heate of the brest and correcteth the drines A water of Plantaine quinqueruia Tormentill and Roofes if it be drouncke wyth hote wine it closeth the woundes of the brest of a hot cause and altereth any hot distemperance A water drawne oute of the leaues or floures of white or blacke Iacea Verbafcum Roses sauin the houked burre it amendeth the cold imtemperature of the cheaste and consumeth the fleumaticke humoures and the woundes of the cheaste comminge of a colde cause it healeth them and closeth them A water destilled of Minte Betain Melissa Balsamita Sauerye Sage Serpillum Polium Peny royall hasta regia of the leaues of euerye one it healeth the infirmities of the heade and stomacke comminge of a cold cause it stauncheth the flixe of the belly comming of the same cause it helpeth concoction A water of the floures of Violets and malows altereth and louseth Of vvaters of vertues or golden waters and certain other composed of many medicines destilled with wine WAters of vertues which the Germans name golden all are destilled
writen booke TAke a Wether that is all whyte and in good plyt and well lyking cut his throot receiue y e bloud and stur it whyle it is fresh and new a good space with a stick of red Iuniper and euer in the sturring cast away the clotes that is gathered of the bloud or lopperd bloud Then cast in the shauinges of the same Iuniper the beries of Iuniper that be red lykewyse to the number of .xxv. And vnto thies a litle of Agrimony Rew Pheu Scabious Veronica commonly so called Pimpernell Cicory Peny royall of euery one a handful If so be it the mesure of the bloud excied thre Sextarts then put to it .ii. vnces of Triacle but if it be les according the portion of the bloud thou shalt lesson the mesure of Triacle They must al be prepared redy at hand that they may be put into the bloud whyle it is yet warme When they are all mixt draw out a stilled liquor whiche thou shalt kiep diligently in a glas and set it in the sun .viii. daies for it wil endure for .xx. yeares it is knowē by experience that this liquor is excellent good against the pestilence the impostumes of the heed and the sydes or ribes or against the diseases of y e liuer and lightes the inflacion of the splene corrupt bloud ague swellinges trēbling of the hart the dropsy vnnatural heates il humors and chief ly aga ynst poysons and the pestilent ague The sick that is taken with any of the foresaid diseases shall drinke a spounful or .iiii. or .v. droppes and procure hym self to sweete Of pur ging medicines composed destilled THey also are to be called cōposed waters that ar destilled of medicines composed stiept in wyne burning water or other liquor Certain cōpositions of spices to restore the strengtes of the hart and the spirites are mixt with waters of capons drest by destillations as I sayd before also with burning waters or rather Quint essence of wyne against the pestilence and poysons as we declared before But also purging medicines Electuaria chiefly in the whiche Dacry dium and other vehement thinges hurtfull to the stomack are receiued mixt with the liquors specially with burning water rectified or with wyne perauenture also with milke and wyne or with milck or whay alone in hoot natures and diseases it should dooe well and sumtimes let stande in infusion or sooking they are artificiously destilled that thei may be giuen to drinck to them that are deinty or rich or exceeding weake or haue their stomack abhorring against other medicines whiche Lullius also prayseth greetly and certain practicioners of any acquaintaunce haue vsed it with prayse I know a certain man that destilled chiesly an electuary named Hamech that whiche is of y e iuice of Roses and gaue to drinke vnto the weeker sort the liquor that he receiued by it selfe to them that were stronger he myxt sum of the elctuary with it and so he said he purged sick men without any grief With Helleborum is a water made that restoreth youth such one sawe I my father haue But suche waters vex the bodies and make a fallible image of youth Cardanus Gold Potable or that may be drōken OF potable gold who so list he may read much in the booke of Vlstadius whiche he nameth the heauen of philosophers in the boke of Lullus of quint essence That there is vertue in gold whiche commeth of it made hot and quenched in water that maye be an argumente that the water wherin a wedge of iron or golde is slekt is commended of Nicander against the poyson called Aconitum for it semeth to be vnderstanded of water wherein these mettalles shoulde be quenched when as he nameth none other liquor Quench saith he red hat iron or the dros of iron or red hot golde or siluer dip it in a troubled potion or drink Where the expositer saith Quensh iron in water and drink it and a litle after quench the dros of iron in hony drinck the intinction so calling the liquor wherein anye any thing is quenched Dioscorides bids to quēch in wine as Auicenna also hath and Aegineta and also Aetius who saith that a miln stone so slekt is holsom and that the wine should be druncke hot with these wordes and the dros of iron or iron it self or gold or siluer red hot quēched in wine if y t liquor be dronk And trueli it semeth that wine is more apt to receiue y e vertue of gold then water When as I on a time tasted water wherin golde was often quenched I could perceiue no quality of the sauor or the tast to be altered in it Again it is credible y t burning water specially suche as is brought vnto quint essēce doth draw more strēgth of the gold thē wine the more if the gold be beaten into most thin plaits most of all if it be betē into pouder But the oyl that coms of golde shall pas al these As for gold simplely sod as in y e brothe of capōs there is no strength in it all except a mās opinion cādo any thing as I beleue withal learned men for the most part Of the vertues of gold rede Auicenna in his secōd boke 78. cha But because y e purest is to be chosē for medicins I wil bring in here Plinies words out of his 33. boke a bout th end of the .iiii. chap. of y e purging of gould Let gold be rosted broyled with thrise as muche in weight of the clots or lūps of salt and agayne w t .ii. procions of salt one of the stonecalled schiston so it yeldeth his strength to the things burnt with it in an earthen vessel it self remaining pure vncorrupted I coniecture y t Plini in this place did mistake schistū the stone for schistū an alū for in an other place the. 35. boke 15. cha he writeth y t gold is purged with black alū That kind of Alum is most excellēt of al other that is called schistum yea and the reason taken of the vertues makes more for Alum for he saith gold is purged w t salt only and schistu◠put vnto it but Alum hathe more like effect vnto salte then the stone Schistos wherunto the old writers ascribe none other vertue but y t which it hath cōmun w t the Haematit of which kind it is that is to stop bloud But Alum is taken and vsed in the purging of metals also in Aqua Forti as they call it Notwithstanding Plini may be excused because the worde stoone is more cōmon and of larger signification with hym for he nameth both quick siluer and manye other metally things stones wherfor he might call the Alum Schiston by the name of Schiston Albeit he shoulde not haue so done for the difference of that which is proprely called a stone Schistus In the same place of Plini after the words now rehersed is put The rest of the ashes that is to
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
their things and that diuers kinde of men some for Ambicion that they maye haue wherewith to excell and pas other menne some also for couetousnes to get gayne thereby other thorowe the ignoraunce of the aunciente wryters as thoughe there were not put in wrytinge ether the same or far better by men of antiquitie whiche now are despised of many and a folish and vnsaciable lust is ther alwais to find out new things Ther wantes not such as think great and effectual medicins shuld be kepte secrete for this cause least vncunning men as many practicioners be without al reason almost and al learnynge might abuse them and conuert those thinges whiche are inuented for the helth of meÌ„ to their destruction To such wold I answer As no kind of euil ought to be committed for this intent that any good thing might follow therof so that which is good ought not to be left vndone leaste som euil might ensue for the world shal neuer be without them that wil abuse good things and profitable inuencions But good men simplely suche good thinges as they haue they make them common and wil not stick nor cese to do so because they feare that certain leud persons may do hurt therby But I wil leaue of this disputation thye do I protest sincerely as I thinck withal my hart that I couet by my example to stur vp learned and good Physions that laying apart al Ambition Couetousnes Ignorance Enuy if they can bring any excellent thinge vnto our profession that they wold do it gentlely and publikely As for the vnlearned certes they in ministring not only these great and effectual medicines of whiche sorte we shal put diuers in wrytinge heare but meates also and most common drinkes out of time do hasard and brynge mens liues manye times to diseases and deathe and it is well known that Hippocrates writ how our Ptisan ministred not in due time was the cause of death to a certaine man sick of the Pleurisy These therfore ought to be lefte partly to their ignorance partly to their leude malapartnes But they that haue nede of the Physicion are to be admonished to do that in Phisicke that all men are wont to do in al other Artes that is to chuse good Physicions and learned and such as exercise and practise this Art by their profession both with reasoÌ„s as a part of Philosophy and also in the very actions and doinges of cures But I return to the purpose The preparing therfor as I say is of the greatest moment and weight in euerye matter In Rhetorik vtterans gesture and pronunciation more almost moue the mindes of the hearers then the very argument that is handled HereupoÌ„ it cometh that things put in meter and in numbers do delite so greatly which if a man vtter in proos they shal be taken for cold dnl and solishe Hereof cometh it that one beinge asked the question what was the chiefest thinge in an orator answered pronunciation what was the next and the third the same Shewes and plaies that thei delite the hearers and beholders so greatly it is much more long of the form and maner of their forniture and preparance then of the matter plaied or shewed In like maner in the verye thinges and workes the forme the fashion figure maner aswel of nature as of Art finally a certain preparation is more marked and commended then the matter Likewise in physsk the conninge to prepare thinges aright and the descression to minister them aptly haue the greatest moment and skil moste Nether is it of greater force what thou ministrest then in what maner And althoughe there be manye circircumstances to be considered that thou maist exhibit the medicin aright yet the maner and the preparing is with in the medicine and is at it were the form therof and part the other circumstaunces are withoute it as time place and such things as are to be considred about the sickman But letting pas other waies of dressing and preparing at this preseÌ„t we wil onli touch those bi the which al the vertue and faculti or operation is separated from the substaÌ„ce of the medicins so that y e more liquid and moyst the more pure and subtil part of euery remedy or medicin maye be bad seuered and drawn out from the grose and erthy part whether it be gathered into a liquor drawn out of the sam remedy or medicin or into an other certaine ertarnall c. which the barbarous wryter Arnold calleth Eruirtuare to outuerteuat or Excorporare to outcorporate Furthermore if sumthings shal seme to be written somwhat curiously or double diligently ye must consider that suthe pertain not to the Physicions of the common people and pore fooke but to such as abound more with riches and ease haue plenty of seruants or such as remain in Prynces or Kings courts or also to Philosophers that busilye searche out the meruelous mutacion and vertues of natural thinges and in them delite them selues To conclude let no man maruel that so great and longe commendacions and praises are added to certain medicines as vnto the Quintessences as they call them to Aqua vities made baâ—mes and that vnto some meruelous vertues are attributed as to sharpen the wit and memory to coÌ„serue the senses and youth c. When as euen by the auncient Grekes Latins also we read such effects and operacions to be ascribed to Triacle and other preseruatiues and compositions specially by the Arabians vnto diuers things yea euen of Galen also vnto Triacle Ther be som that I wil not auow and whose credit I leaue to the authors whose names I write euery where But it is said before alreadye that we wryt all these thinges for the learned and discreate men which for the most part shall iudge more easily how much credit is to be geuen to euery thinge Althoughe in verye many it is not sufficient to be furnished with learning and iudgement excepte experience and practise be ioyned also therwith But I make an end heare of my Preface The authors alledged in this Boke AEgidius booke of ix or .x. liquors destilled in the whiche I fynde many things which are also in the boke of Raimund Lullus of waters Aetius Amidenus Albertus Magnus Alexander Benedictus Andreas Furnerius booke in French of the decking and of mans nature Antony Guainerius Arnolde de Villa Noua or Newton Auicenna Barthol Montaguana Bulcasis some cal him Albucasis Brudus Lusitanus Dioscorides Epiphanius Empericus boke writen not prynted of medicines a Phisicion that had trauailed in GrekelaÌ„â— whome I knewe when I was a yong man Geber a Chymist Gualterus Ryffius Dutche boke of destillacions Hermolaus Barbarus Hieronymus of Brunsvvik that writ first in Dutch of destilled waters Hieronymus Cardanus Iac. Holleriê° de materia Chirurgica Iac. Syluius commeÌ„taries vpon Mesuen and a booke of preparing and composinge of simple medicines Io. Almenar of the Frenche disease or pockes Io. Brasescus Io. Ganiuettus Io. de
But chiesly it breaketh newe spottes of the eies cūming of both the humors heet or cold if so be it they excede not mich It dryeth vp teers of both causes heet or cold it restoreth cleareth the sight lost with ether of the causes And I saw a woman hauing newly all ouer her face blesters or wheals by the strook of a ston with heet which the only washing of this water was streight way heled with great admiration But the vertue ther of is a hundred foold mor maruelous and stronger in operacion with burning water and muche moor with quintessence Yea this water mixt with quintessence or wyth burnynge water cureth the Leprosye Fraxinus THre vnces of the liquor destilled of the inner bark of ashe with as many vnces of whyt wyne is drūk against the pestilence and the same drinck after iii. howres is repeted so God willynge within .xxiiii. howres shall the sicke be deliuered A water of the kirnelles of Halicacabus is commended of som against y e stone of the reines and bladder if it be drounke ons or twyes a weeke Helxines WHiche we cal Parietary or Pelitory the water therof is profitable againste the stone ried before in the vertues of waters destilled generally out of Cardanus Hieracium DEntdelion in frēch wyth vs it is called Dandelion the water therof siemeth to bee of the same vertue as is the water of Endiue Cikory Some destill it first steeping it in wyne eight dayes it is of a sower tast and they giue it to drinke against the fittes of the fallyng sycknes with marueilous tryall as they say Hissopus HIssop retaineth merue louslye hys vertue in a destilled liquor althoughe it be destilled in a common earthen lembek only apon sād put in a fyre pan and likwise penyriall and certaine other They vse water of Hyssoppe o asswage touthache for it is sharp and subtill c. Intybum ENdiue the water there of coleth all hotte diseases and all burnynge of fyre or water hoote it heeleth them if they be wash therewith It is good also for quotidian Agewes and obstructyons of the bowels bothe drunck and mynistred oute warde Lullus vppon waters Lauendula WAters of the floures of lauender is sweet smelling Remaclus Iuglans THe water of walnuts not rype made aboute saint Ihons tyde ministred without is good for woundes and hoat byles and the pestilent anthrax Also being dronke a two or thre vnces it cooleth and resisteth the pestilence A water also is destilled of the vtter huskes of walnutes ether rype so that they be new brast and left of the nut or not yet at all in the moneth of September nether skilleth it if they be blacke so y t they be not rotten yet the black are counted the best A moderate potion of this water with the third part of vineger if it inuade a man with heet letting bloud first is geuen to drinke against the pestilence as a certain experiment It is praised also for y e noyse in the eares and the difficultie of heering for the diseases in the throte called angine being gargild A water destilled of y e leues of walnut tree about the end of May is maruelously cōmended for the drying and knitting of sores and to bring them to a skar if they be washt therwith morning and euening and a linnen cloth moystened therein bee laid vpon Brunsvvicencis Orchis SAtyrion is destiled rootes and al good for y e falling euill as men say Persica SOme destill the floures also of Peeches Petroselinum A Water destilled of Persely of y e garden beeten in a mortar cōfirmeth the apetite dissolueth all wyndes of the body and stomack strengtheneth concoction and purgeth out y e ill humors of the brest reines rather Aegidius Plantago AVyol of Plātain water is able to staūche bloud frō whence so euer it runne Cardanus Brunsvvick doth note many commodities vpon plantaine water and specially if it bee dronkē in the morninge and euening at eche time two ounces is good for the blody flix Pulegium PEny reall looke before in Hysope Rapum RApe water maye be made bothe of the hoole Rapes cut and also seuerally of the barkes whiche are sharper and hooter to prouoke vrin and further sweet The water of this Rapes sayeth Brunsvvick is good against burning of what cause soeuer it bee if the sore place be washed with it there wyll ryse first a scurffe but washe the scurffe also and it will hele the sayde burning Rosa ROos water semeth to be first inuented for I finde mention of it in Auicen the .ii. boke in the chapter of rooses Roosewater drounke saith he is good in a swoun and the iuice of them also and again water of roses is good for the liuer and it cōforteth the stomacke which is nourished of of it with hony and it is Geleniabin and helpeth to disgest And the roos and his iuice are good for a stomak to mich hoot And although the Arabiās for the most part ar wont to say water for iuyce or decoction yet in this place it can not be taken for then when as he speaketh seuerally of the iuice of the decoction also he made mētion befor Rooswater made by sublimation doth very much comcomforte Mesue in the chapter of Rooses And again The Roos and hys oyl and water sublimated comforteth the hart c. The same speeketh of rooswater destilled in the .vi. destinction wheras he describeth the iuleb of roses as the Munkes his interpreters do proue of whom also this was obserued and noted that two waters destylled and nomo mencioned in Mesue that is of rooses and wormwod They make no epithē or outward medicine at this day but they put roosewater in it In sharp vehement and greet inflammations to strengthen the principall members it maye be commodiously vsed It is good for the flixe of the bowels and vomiting It helpeth the inflammation of the eies veri much in the beginning Sum are wōt to mixt with it a litle thucia and sugercādy It strengtheneth the eies and sharpeneth the sight It stauncheth blud running out of the nosthrilles being put in a linnē cloth That which is made of red roses is more cordiall as they terme it and strengtheneth moor but of whit doth moore coul Remaclus F. Of wine mixt with roswater in time of meet see in Arnold in his boke of wine Rooswater although it be made diuers waies yet the best is made by Balneum Mariae Matthaeolus If thoos rooses which we call commonly carnacion dryed and moystened with the vapoure of water be destilled they yeld good rose-water Syluius They may be holden in a linen cloth ouer hot water til they haue drunck inough of the vapoure ⧠Of Roose vvater out of Bulcasis THe makynge of Roosewater is known in moste coūtires It is better made with water then without better also by fire of cooles then of wood wherfore of the iiii waies whyche be withoute water wyth flaming woode without water with
Tilia beaten The dosis or quantitie of ministration is one or one and a halfe It asswageth the griefes of the eyes and healeth the places brent with fyre or any hoot matter that more surely if the inner barck al but tiliae be stiept in this water or in stede therof the grains or kernels of quinces or psyllium and the places be anoynted with the horines or mouldines that bredeth ther vpon Ryffius Some vse against the pestileÌ„re a liquor drawn by the force of fire oute of the bloude of a graye or badger Also of the blud of duckes againste poyson c. wherof thou shalt read more in the boke of destillarions of Ryffius writen in Dutch Some mixt the bloud of a goat with medicins againste the stone to be destilled A water composed of the blud of a barrow hog and other diuers medicens wil we describe hereafter in some place Of the water of wormes and of the kind of CaÌ„tharides whiche is surnamed as Mey lander Kaeser saith of the month of May read Brunsvvick A water to take away wrinkles and spots of y â— face to clere the skin Beat the whites of egges hard sod in water y t yolkes takeÌ„ away together in a morter destill them in a lymbek of glasse or other vessel of glas The vse of it is that y e face be a noynted therwith euery day thrise for the space of iii. or .iiii. dayes I would adioyne here a table of waters destilled of plantes whiche are described in the Dutche bokes of destillacions of Hierom of Brunsvvick for the most part all that Gaulterus Ryffius hathe borowed of him sauing that I studye to be shorte And surely it is nothing necessary to resite al wheÌ„ as liquors also may and are wonte to be destilled of all such plantes wherof there is any vse in phisicke But to recken vp also the vertues and faculties of euery of them as some do it is superfluous when as none other for the moste parte but euen the very same also be attributed and ascribed to y e waters whiche are vnto the plantes so that theese repetycions moue irckesomenesse to the reader yea euen if it be but meanly learned neuer a whit les then colewortes twise sod Yet because that some waters chieflye and before other are in vse with apothecaries as those with Remaclus F. hath described I wil ad hither a rehersall and table of them in like order as he vseth and hath recited them him self Absinthinm wormwod Apium Artemisia mugwort Agrimonia Althea the holy hok Acetosa Alkekengi Auricula muris mouse eare Basilicon Buglossos Balsamita that is mynte of Rome Betonica Betony Bursapastoris shepherds pouche Chamomilum Cammomill Calendula Mary goldes Carduusbenedictus Centaurium Centory Chelidonium Felandine Cichorium Cikory Capillus Veneris Maiden heer Caprifolium that is Pericly menon woodbinde Cucurbita Gourde Cuscuta Ebulus Walwort Endiuia Enula Euphragia Eiebright Foeniculum Fennel Fumaria Fumitory Gentiana Genista Browme Hepatica that is Lichen Liuerwort Hedera Iuy Hyssopus Hippuris that is horsetaile Lactuca Lett es Lauendula Lapathum Sorel Maiorana Maioram Melissa Baulme Marrubium Hoorhound Melilotus Melilot Millefolium Milfoyl or Yarow Menta Mint Malua Malowes Nemiphar bothe kindes with the flowers Nigella Origanum Organy Paeonia Pyonie Papauer satiuum sown Poppy Parietaria Pelitory Pentaphyllon Cinkfoyl Petroselinum Persly Pimpinella Pimpernel Pastinaca Parsnip Plantago Plantaine both kindes Portulaca Purslein Polygonos that is CeÌ„tumno dia. Pulegium Peniroyall Roses white and red Ruta Rew sown or set Rosmarinus Rosmary Rubea tincterum Madder set or sowne Raphanus Radish Saluia Sage Saxifragia Satureia Sauery SaÌ„bucus Elder the bark floures and leues Scabiosa Scolopendrium Solanum wherof seing there are many kinds Remaclus writeth that apothecaries draw water out of Halicaâ—abus only for the moste part that is Alkekengi Semperuiuum Singrien Serpillum Salix Willow Senecio Grounswell Thymus Time Berded Tapsus that is Verbastum Tauacetum Tormentilla Violae Violets Valeriana Valerian Virga pastoris that is Dipsacus Tasill Verbena Veruin Vermicularis y t is the les syngrien Vrtica nettell Of vvaters destilled of beastes or of their partes or excrementes and first of all of the hoole beastes A Water destilled of whelpes will make that heir shall not growe againe And Furnerius I geue litle credence to thies curious exquisite remedies and although they be true yet I do not alowe them specially where other many and easy to be gotten ar not lacking A yong Storck some bid strangle and destil it lyke rose water and therwith to anoint the partes taken with palsey or shronke together and at certain tymes to be washt away with a decoction of sea crabes without salt they saye it helpeth marueilously if a man continue it Some bid put an vnce of Camphora a dram of amber in a yonge storkes bely the bowels taken out but it must be one that neuer yet flew then in destilling to gather seuerally thre waters differing in color of thies they prayse the last best to make the face whyte and clear They destill also a water of a pye wherof read Brunsvvick Ryffius as also of them that folowe Of a Capon whereof wee will speake seuerally within for it is not made simpely and singly only but also composed many wayes Of Frogs Crabes Snayles Pismiers or Emers Of the bloud of a Duck a he Goat a Gray of a calfe looke in Ryffius and Brunsvvick Of mans bloud looke Brunsvvick and within also wher we make mention of Quintessence Of the liuer and lightes of a Calfe The liquor of milck destilled the chymistes destyllors do vse and sum that go about to make Borax or Crhysocollam It is a wonder that men say amongst the Tartarians water destilled of milke doth make men dronke The milke must therfor be somwhat thicker and tary somewhat long vpon the fyre Whiche thing peraduenture chaunseth in meares milke Albeit all water if it be oft destilled wil do the same for it waxeth hoat is attenuated and made more fyne and receiueth the force and nature of the fyre the more Carda Some vse water destilled of wyne and milke together against y e feuer quartain specially in England as Brudus Lusitanus writeth Some drink it against the iaundys as witnesseth Iohan. Goeurotus Also seuerally of Goates milke water is destilled Loke in Ryffius Water of an Oxe hyde see in the same author Of the whytes of egges and of the yolke In the same Of the spaun of Frogges founde in waters looke in Ryffius Of kowes donge loke in the same Some say that water destilled of mans donge wil heale fistulaes also fretting soores and such as are to be cured and cancres and the disease called Tinea or matering of the head that it wil also make skarres like vnto the other skin and put away the spots or white webbes of the eyes If it be druncke it is good for them that haue the falling sicknes it helpeth them that haue
the gowte it driueth away the stone out of y e rains and bladdar it is a preseruatiue againste the bitinge of a mad dogge or other venemous beast But the oyle of the same which destilleth after the water wyth a greater fyre is much better to fistulaes and caÌ„cres and other euils aforsaid Matthaeolus of Sena and other you shal read certain merueilous thinges in Brunsvvick Mannes vrine destilled the Chymists doe vse to resolue certaine mettalles Printers to make their printinge inke but these destill it in Rose stillatoryes Of vessels and diuers instruments belonging to destellation Sublimation is taken of many simpely for destillation other take it particularly to lift vp or cause to ascende vp into the limbeck by the force of fyre the matter that is to befixed in it as many metally thinges ar sublimated The receyuing vessell for the moste part is a phiall of glas w t a longe neck in whose mouth the nose of the limbeck is put and some times the bely therof is set in a pot or some other holowe vessell that it maye stande the stedfaster in his place or els for the coÌ„moditie of the thing is set one way or other The formes and fashions of vessels ar diuers and almost without number coÌ„monly vsed with the chymistes and destillers Syluius Who so desireth the figures and names of diuers vesselles let him looke in Brunsvvick Ryffius Andro. Louicerus and other A man may cause to be made of what fashion he will in the glas makers shops suche as be in Heluetia nie vnto Scaphusia and not far from Basill and Solodourn But the best are made of whyte glas as at Venice suche may be made with vs of the peces of spectacle glasses other skrapes of whyt glas gathered together Of the vessell called aludelâ—s looke in Geber in his boke of chief perfection 1. 4. 44. chapter and again in his boke of fornaces Albertus wryteth it a luttell and expoundeth it a vessell appointed for sublimation lykewyse Bulcasis The same willeth arsnick to bee sublimated in an earthen dyshe glased the fashion wherof he describeth in the chapter of sublimation of abhichbar dic Aluthel writen with th is a limbeck whiche the Alchymistes vse in destillatious Belluencis Of the matter for vessels of destillacion and first against leaden and brasen vessels WAters destilled in Balneo Mariae do so far pas those that are made simplye by the tire in leaden limbeckes as golde passethyron For they that be made in Balneo Mariae with large chaplets limbeckes or heades and somwhat great and of glas do geue the natural sauour and taste of the herbes floures wherout they be taken without any noysome smel of smoke or burning which chaunceth not al in the common leaden stilles For the waters that are made in them very few and seldom speciallye whiles they be new are without notable lothsomnes of smoke and burntnes whiche vnto sickmen that drincke it is not only greuous but also hurtfull for the euill qualitie of the lead endamageth bothe the stomake and the breaste and all the entrailes and likewise the qualitie of brasse whyche the learned and excellent phisitions perceiuynge folowed the auncient men and vsed onlye decoctions But waters destilled accordinglye as they ought to be that is with the sauour and tast of his plant are not only equall in strength with decoctions but also passe them in thys that they more delite a man beinge more swete in taste and also clearer to the sight It shal be houe both good phisicions and also Apothecaries to lay away leaden instrumentes and prouid them the forsaid Balncum Mariae and althoughe it shall be a little more chargeable vnto them and painefull yet so shall they satisfy and please bothe God and man Matheolus Such thinges as are destilled in lead I iudge them altogether to be disalowed because of y e Cerusse and other malicious qualities of the leade when as water also that is conueyed by pipes of leade Galen condemneth because it bredeth diseases in the entrails Syluius Moreouer the vessel altereth muche aswell in destillacions as in thynges sodden Wherefore a man must take great hied in these things that the vessels be rather earthen or glasse then of metall and those that be of earth y t they be of a very pure earth and wel baked such as be the earthen vessels of Paris Bellonaca England and Spain But glasen vessels are the best because they be more pure and thicker but they be dearer will breake soner except they be made hoat by litle and lyttle and cold likewise and after the same sorte be also earthen vessels for the which cause they daube both sorts of them by little and little with claye of wisdom as they call it and dry them so far as the force of the fire shall touch yea althoughe it be to be set first in ashes sande or dros of metals For those vessels that shal stand in water or in the vavapour therof nede no such defeÌ„ce The cause whi I condemne vessels of metals leade yron brasse tin siluer and gold is Galens reason in euery one almost of these kindes of metals For if he affirme that water onlye conueied in leaden pipes dothe brede diseases of the bowels howe muche more oughte we to feare waters destilled in a leaden limbecke or still Besides that no small cerusse remaineth cleauynge to the inner side of a leaden heade as in destillinge of Vinegar is gathered so by the force of the vehemente heate or brentnesse ascendinge vp wyth a vapour manye times also tarte that is of sharpe and tarte plantes whiche infecteth the verye waâ—ers and for the mooste part maketh them white like milcke till that it be setled and suncke to the bottome Vessels of other metalles that bried other roust or canker are so muche the more pearilous as rouste or canker is more hurtfull theâ—â—cerusse Vessels made of pure siluer or golde as they be leaste hurtefull so are they more harde to be gotten because of the coste Syluius The best vessels be of glasse the nexte earthen that be glased bothe wythin and wythoute then limbeckes of tinne the bodyes in destillinge of Roses of leade Thirdlye the limbeckes and the bodyes also of leade For the strengthe of the fyre if it be moderate it hurtes not the leade but these bodyes of leade muste bee sette in syfted ashes a handfull thicke not in sande Fourthlye limbeckes of copper tinned within Fifthlye brasen But copper and brasse haue two discommodities but the brasse more then the other the fyrste they make the waters for the mooste parte somewhat read and fautye wyth brentnesse the other there is euer a certaine venemous operation in them more then in other metalles therfore Christophorus de Honestis admonisheth to take hede and auoyde them Brunsvvick Therfore seinge all the mooste learned Phisicions and experyence it selfe doe vtterlye disalowe waters destylled in vessels of leade Brasse and other vncleane mettals some
but this vertue of the third water perauenture is true if the destillacion be made with wine but if it be with lies as they be wonte with vs it is not true More ouer the stil must not be filled aboue .ii. parts but that the third part may remaine emptye and that the vapoures maye haue their scoupe and romthe Hitherto Lullus Of the strengthes and vertues of Aqua vitae in the boke of Arnold De Villa noua which is written of Aqua vitae ARnold in his boke of Aqua vitae describeth many qualities therof both of it alone and also mixt with other medicins after the destillacion obseruing the order of the .xii. signes from the head to the fete for as he saith a man must minister much more effectuall remedies to the head if a man haue nede at such time as the mone is in the ram and likewise in the other which thinge how true I iudge it I wil not say at this time notwithstanding this wil I say the better learned any man is in oure time the les credit haue they geuen to suche perswacions as the Arabians haue broughte into phisicke Aqua vitae simple and alone saithe Arnold oute of one Theoricus I can not tel whome breaketh an impostume or recours of matter bothe within the body if it be dronke and without as botche if it be annoynted therwith It helpeth read and duskish eies It stauncheth the running and watering of the eies It is good for them that haue the falling sickns if they drink it It cureth the palsy if they be anoynted therwith It sharpneth y ewit it restoreth memori It maketh mē mery preserueth youth It putteth awai fracins ring worms al spots of y e face If it gargild it remedieth y ◠diseas in y e throte called synanchen y ◠squince the iuila faln down w t humors also the salt fleme the rose drop the touth ache It is merueylous profitable for frētik mē such as be melācholy It erpelleth poysō The smel therof burnt killeth flies cold creping beasts It doth sieth flesh kepeth fishes from roating It restoreth wine that is turned or putrified It draweth forth the vertues of herbes and rotes if they be laid in it .iiii. daies otherwise .iiii. houres excepte onlye the Violet It oughte to be set vp in a glasen or siluer vessell and to be wel stopt There is more of it better made of old wine pure and read This he He that desyreth more concerninge the vertues of Aqua vitae let him read that which we write aboue of y e vertues of certain liquors which our men call goldē and waters of vertues For they ascribe all those powers for the most part as well to Aqua vitae as to the other specially to simple Aqua vitae much more to compound or Aqua composita but chieflye to the quintessens therof Reade more ouer Lullus in the boke of waters I haue sene also a certaine broken worke ascrtbed to Albertus of the vertues of Aqua vitae But practicioners ignorant of thinges and times or els of a purpose to deceiue mē as many as they could haue most impudently fathered many things vpon Galen Hippocrates and Aristotle of the vertues of Aqua vitae or burnynge water as writen by them All kinde of cold passions or greues that be curable it helpeth in shorte space specially diseases of the brain sinewes and ioyntes Also wormes in the bellye biles and all scabbines if it be washt oft therwith it healeth it It helpeth y e splene it killeth all wormes It mēdeth a stinking breth It taketh awaye the disease of the loines The hurt members if they be anoynted therewith it will restore them to their former health It preserueth fishe and flesh from corrupting but before they be eaten they must be washte with common water Camphora put into it will dissolue If cōmon water be poured into it it goeth to the bottom and likewise oyle This writeth Albertus as some alledge The taste of it excedeth all other tastes and the smel all other smelles Lullus It comforteth the natural heat more then any other remeadye it is most holsom for the stomake the harte and the liuer it norysheth blud it agreeth meruelously and most with mans nature it openeth and purgeth y e mouthes and entrances of the membres vaines and poores of the body euery one it auoydeth all obstructions and comforteth them Yea it chaungeth the assections of the minde it taketh awaye sadnes and pensiuenes it maketh men meri witty and encreaseth audacitie Lullus Anoynte the head therwith and it helpeth it of the head ache it killeth the wormes drunken fasting it putteth away sowning it healeth the biles in the priuy mēbers if they be washt therwith it easeth them that be diseased in the stomacke it stauncheth all runninges it preserueth bodies from corruptinge by wormes It auoydeth and kepeth a man frō gray heares It is not permitted to women with child It redresseth the fleame and reume of the hed It encreaseth the ability of accompanying with voemen It is good against thick hearing poured into the eares Mixt with wine and drōk it healeth the falling sicknes If a man hold it longe it taketh away diuers kinde of touth ache It putteth away the blemishes and whit spots in the eies if it be poured into them and auoydeth the running and watering of the same if a man do but hold it in his mouth It letteth the leprosy a space and hideth it It helpeth rotten and materinge biles if linnen cloutes be dipt therin and laid vpon them With a little decoction of parcely it driueth away the stones in the bladder It maketh womē apt to conceiue but anoyeth them that be greate wyth childe It cureth diuers greues it is profitable to be laid vpon broken bones hot with towe or with some plaster It slaketh the cramp in the legs if a man anoynt them therwith He hath no name exprest that sheweth these qualities But the most of them seme to be taken out of Lullus I knew an old woman that was cold and Cathectica to be restored by a handkerchief made warm with Aqua vitae set a fire within it Some alledge the testimony of Constantine of the vertues of burning water Aqua vitae besides other things is commodious and profitable for the strangury and other diseases of the bladder for the tertian ague and quartain also which are ioyned wyth colde humors against the disease called the Wulfe againste wormes againste the sens or painefull fealinge of a mannes bodye lyke vnto biles It furthereth and prouoketh wemens floures It breaketh and putteth awaye the stone in the reins and expelleth a dead child without anye greate paine The issues of the bellye and fluxes it helpeth what so euer they be They say that Aqua vitae is perfite when often measures is made one whiche I suppose will come to passe in the thirde or fourthe
reade within amongst composed waters Iuniper beries also dry set in wine geue a very good liquor swiet smellinge but wormwode soked a few daies geueth a water very effectuall and most bitter and the more if it be destilled in ashes which both waies I haue tried Pelitory other fresh or dry is set in wine or vineger destilled or vndestiâ—led â–ª These thynges also sookte in burnynge water as I sayde do communicate theyr strength wyth it but I heare it is done muche moore effectuallye if the thynges be beaten at the beginnynge and myxte wyth the lyes of wine redye to bee destylled for of theese rather then of wine the men of our country draw Aqua vitae So also did one teache me in counsell as a greate secreate that Wormwode water and other maye be best made I haue not tried it yet Water of Roses wyth drye Roses is so made Pour water to dry Roses not more theÌ„ is sufficient to stiep them in then put them from thence into glasen cucurbitas or leaden and destill them by little and little This water shall be profitable in medicins and also to garnishing and trimming or to the smel Ther was a certain man put to one pound of dry Roses ten pouÌ„d of water and destilled Rose water indifferente good But thys is not done saue when a man hathe not newe to make Rose water of Bulcasis If the Roses whyche we call commonly incarnation Roses dried moystned with the vapor of hot water be destilled they wil geue good Rose water Syluius The water of the nux vomica or spueinge nut or the iuice gotten out with fire is like the water in colour not in smel or tast the chiefest remedy against poysoÌ„ Cardanus in his second buke de subtilitate And a little after If the poyson newly taken remain yet in the stomake the best kind of remedies be they that prouoke much to vomit stroÌ„gly milke lie oyle the water of the spewing nut I suppose he meaneth by the iuyce gotten out by the fire nothinge els but the water destilled thereof For he nameth water that is like it in colour not in smel nor tast which agreeth with destilled waters But when as the spewing nut euery whit is most hard and dry it apeareth that his shel must be sookt in some liquor as water wine vineger Aqua vitae I wold soke it rather in vineger whiche by it self resisteth poyson and is good to prouoke vomitting Waters destilled of new and fresh plaÌ„ts saith Brunsvvick ought to be preferred whiche if they can not be had ether for some other cause or because they be brought out of straunge countryes only dry as spicknarde lauander stichae scoenantum the hard time c. Thou shalt destill oute of them dry in this manner In the month of May euery yere before the sunne rise when it hath not rained the hole night the sky is fair thou shalt gather dew out of som medow ful of diuers kind of herbes and flours no watery ground nor wet nor in a holow place but rather vpon some hil if it be possible Thou maist gather it thus draw a fair linnen cloth sprede abrode vpon the grasse til it haue dronken much of the dew then wryng it out into some vessell and draw it again and fill it euer wringing it out againe til thou haue gathred inough This dew thou shalt destil thrise in Balneum Mariae and rectifye it also in the sunne that is in hot sand for the space of xl daies and kepe it a yere TheÌ„ what time of the yere so euer thou lakst liquor of dry herbes do thus Take as many herbs as thou list dried in the shadow the leaues being taken away and kepte apart by theÌ„ selues put them in a glasse and pour vpon them thrise so much water of dewe or at thre times so that first thou power on so much that the herbes be sufficieÌ„tly ouercouered with water and againe twis so muche Then set it in hors dung twoo or three daies still it and putrifie it againe so that it be thrys putrified and destilled by course in order This water surely shal be muche better then if a man as Bulcasis wryteth to one pound of dry roses or other herbes or floures shall put ten pouÌ„d of common water and destill it by and by A certaine cunning phisicion wryteth that if water bee destilled out of dry thinges after this forsaid maner sooke in dew not thrys only destilled but nyn tymes it shal be better water then if it were made of freshe and newe thinges whiche haue muche fleame in them The same affirmeth that dew nyn times destilled doth drawe out the vertues out of the herbes that be put in it no les then aqua vitae Hitherto Brunsvvick And in the dew it selfe also there is a certaine medicinall vertue as Brunsvvick techeth in an other place to be in the water therof destilled In the falling sicknes if thou make a cake of meale knod with nighterly dew of saint Iohn and bake it vnder the ashes then giue it to the sicke to eate thei say it wil make him hoal AlexaÌ„der Benedictê° Of quint essence of remedies QVint essence they name to be the chief and the heauenliest power or vertue in any plant me tall beast or in the partes therof which by y e force and puritie of the hoale substaunce not by any elimentall or sensible qualitie although it be not without qualities conserueth the good health of mans body prolongeth a mans youthe differeth age and putteth away all maner of diseases Of this first of al meÌ„ writ RaimuÌ„dus Lullê° although it wer vnknowen to al the physicians of his time nether written of in any booke nor tryed or gone aboute in any vse After him foloweth besides other Iohannes de Rupe scissa whome one certain man thinkes he flourished before Lullus as I writ afore I iudge they were both in one tyme Hieronimus Brunsvvick Philippus Vlstadius and perauenture a few other whiche writ sumwhat of the same Sum kind therof is simple as y t moste famous quint essence of wyne or Aqua vitae of chelidony or selandyn of mans bloud of strawberys of Antimonii c. Other ar coÌ„pounde that is wheÌ„ certain remedies ar put to sum quint essence now perfited y t it may draw out y t vertues of theÌ„ wherunto gold y t may be drunken ought to be assribed But here springeth a doute saith Cardane whether a man may make y e water teÌ„perat which thei cal quint essence It wil be as I shal proue of the nature of the firmameÌ„t that is a most pure thin substance moueable which by the mouing reteineth a temperat heat very muche therof This thefor is of power to coÌ„serue al strengths topro long life For being most subtil it mixith it self w t the first moistur pearcing the massy thinges separateth the excremeÌ„ts which be coÌ„teined therin And because it hath much
heat it expelleth what soeuer is vncleane and therfore restoreth the natural heat For age is nothinge els then a lessening and diminishing of natural heat which is therfore diminished because the mouinge is hindred as I saide of fire for there is like reason of this vnto that Mouing is hindred because of y e aboundance of earthy matter because the earthe only hath very muche matter and is destitute of all mouing Therfore that water being of so teÌ„perate a heate it shall nether vexe the hearte nor noysom to the liuer wherfore this onlye can perform the things that we haue spoken When burning water therfore or Aqua vitae reteininge hys purity and subtil matter by the longe mocyon of circulacioÌ„ hath put of and rid away his heat and sharpnes of taste and smell it is becomed of the nature of the firmament and then firste of all it smelleth swiet and fragantly For a fragraÌ„t smel is nothing els then a sharp smell when it is moderate Example of peper whiche hathe no fragrante smell c. Therefore Aqua vitae if it come once to a temperatnes the thinnes and purity remaining stil it must nedes be made fragraÌ„t and swiet smelling and if it be once fragrant it must necessarilye be turned into the nature of the fyrmament There is also a water made of the flesh tyrê° or an adder that restoreth youthe there is made olso of Elleborus which I sawe at my fathers But these vexe and vnquiet the body and make disceitful image and likelines of youth the firmamentall water dothe it in dede whiche reteineth long that which a man hathe and adourneth the same But is the firmament more pure then the fire which is moste hot â–ª It is surelye so for it is next vnto the heauen and therfore most lighte For by his circulacion it moderateth the heat caused in it by the starres and after y e same manner thys water broughte to the moste puritye by the heat of the fire by mocion it self is coled again and obteineth a temper Wherefore bothe this and the firmamente are as it were in a meane betwene mortal thinges and immortall For hauing a place and temper and also substaÌ„ce next vnto the heauen it can not be corrupte But whiles it is constreined and driuen beneath it is couled and so after a loÌ„g time it is corrupt Ther fore it is in a meane betwixt mortal and immortal â–ª of which kind the Stoikes beleue mans soule to be Al this write Cardane The vertue of euery thing resteth in the quintessens therof hot cold moyst and dry c and the same operacion it hath which it had afore in his mixture or with his mater but much more swiftly more merueilouslye manye waies After the destillacion vpon the lies certain times repeated letting the water haue euer a new digestioÌ„ eueri water ought alwaies to be circulated so longe in hors doÌ„g or other wher vntil it haue a most swit sauor For such a fragrancy is required in euery quintessens Somthings it is sufficieÌ„t to destil theÌ„ once or twise and then circulate them after a few daies if any part of the earth or lies remain in the botoÌ„ of the circulating vessel to put it awai pouring it forth The quintessens of wine wyll no more burn the mouth nether is it burning wine any more but more subtill and is called heauen wherunto we say his starres is added when as herbes of diuers qualities and such as be excellent againste diuers sicknesses are sokte stiept therin as we shall shewe hereafter in Aqua vitae compounded To be solificate or made goldeÌ„ is when we procure the vertue of the sunne that is gold to be in it as it is declared before in the tretise of potable gold or gold that may be drounke These thinges for the most part are out of Lullus boke of quintessens The quintessens of any medicine hathe a thousand times the greater vertue then it had before whiles the thing had yet the element in it Vlsta Hovv the quintessens of all things may be drawn out to minister them or the vertue of them to mennes bodies oute of the first boke of Lullus intreatinge of quintessene THe quintessence of any thinge may be drawne out from it as of wode frutes floures rotes leaues sedes stones metals fleshe and of what spices a man will in this sort Anye thinge that you wil separate the quintessence from you shall put it into the quintessence of wine pure and perfect as is said before and you shal set it forth to be solified sonned in y e spring or els in a vessel to a lighte fire and within three houres you shall haue the quintessence of y e thing mixt with the quintessence of the wine which shal be conuerted into such a nature as is of y e thinge that is put in whether it be hot or cold moyst or dry purge or what other condicioÌ„ or smel so euer it be of and it shal not only haue the same operacion but also in the same degre y t is nether more nor les c. After this he reherseth remedies one by one which are hot in the first degre then in the secoÌ„d third fourth likewise he maketh tables of cold moist dry things Then he teacheth generally of y e degrees of remedies of y e art of mixting the same Last of all he addeth also tables rehersals according to y e second qualities as thei term theÌ„ all which we let passe because we write vnto the learned phisicions nether is it conuenient to confound the partes of sciences one with an other Then in y e secoÌ„d boke for euery disease those only that be most greuous and counted coÌ„monly almost vncurable he teacheth what remedies or medicins ought to be mixt with the quintessens Rogerius Bacho also writ a little booke of the qualities strengthes of Aqua vitae throughout the .xii. signes according to the diseases from the head to the fete adding waters and medicins according to the nature of euery part and disease for one one for an other an other Thys booke some ascribe to Arnold de villa noua Ihon Brasescus a man of our age moste exercysed in the misteries of the Arte of liquors as hys writinges do testify in a certain dialoge the spekers whereof be Raymund Lullus and Demogorgon which y e author set forth in Italian with an other also vpon the exposicion of the bokes of Geber Ihon Petreius at Norinberg Prynted them both in Latin withoute the authors name affirminge that quintessens whyche serueth for the conseruing and lengthening of mannes life is not to be lokt for out of plants beastes or precyous stones but of only metals he wryteth thus Raymund Seing it is necessarye that this medicine should be vtterly vncorruptible and in thys thinge it ought to passe and excede al things that haue any part of the elementes in them it muste nedes be
herbes seedes or routes and poure it again vpon his owne dreges then digest it by the space of seuen daies and afterwarde destill it by ashes the very same way as it is sayd afore of selandin that euery element may be had seuerally and that rectified Of quint essence of mans bloud egges fleshe and hony HOwe quint essence is gotten out of maÌ„s bloud egges and fleshe reade Vlstadi ' the xiiii chap. They put vnto them the tenth part of salt wherwith they ar wel mingled putrified and destilled and that four tymes by cours first the one then the other and at length they are perfited by long circulation vntil they come to the moste swietnes of sauoure and pure fynnes of substance Lullus also in his first booke the .iiii. chap. mencioneth of quint essence but the printed bookes left out that that salt must be added vnto it It semeth that salt may ryghtly be added to the destilling of moyste thinges specially those that woulde easely corrupte suche as chiefly the partes of beastes are A moste precious water of Albertus magnus as I found it in a certain wryten booke Destill the bloud of a healthfull man by a glas as men dooe rose water With this any disease of the body if it be anoynted therewith is made hoale and all inwarde diseases by the drinking thereof A small quantitie therof receiued restoreth theÌ„ that haue lost all their strength it cureth the palsey effectuously and preserueth the body from all sicknes Tobe short it healeth all kyndes of diseases All be it I can nether allow the making of medicines for men of mans bloud whiche although reason and experience would moue vs vnto it yet religioÌ„ semeth to forbid it namely when there is so many other medicines c. Nether yet do I lyke the preparation of this Albertus water if it be his when as he wylles it to be destylled only once and simpely The composition that followeth hath more reason with it whiche I founde also in the same written booke Holy oyle or lyfe oyle bycause it preserueth the lyfe of man of Hevve Gordones wherewith he cured many mooste greuous diseases Three pounde of read bloud of a helthfull man or helthfull men of .xxv. or thyrty yeare olde Spermaceti the mary of neet of ether a pounde Lette them be destilled in a lymbeck well clayed and closed and a water shall issue oute first whyte the next pale the thyrde yellowe the fourth read and sumwhat thycke An oyle so destylled when the moone encreaseth and decreaseth therefore they name it holy If so be it then gyue a sycke man that hath loost boeth all his strengthe and speeche three dropes with a lyttle wyne he shall bothe speake by and by and be stronger If a man euerye daye drynke a drop of this oyle with a sponfull of wyn he shall become lusty in mynde and strong in body throughoute all his membres and shall proroge and put of age very longe and shall be hurt with no poyson It cureth also fistulas old breaches and temporall byles if they become sumwhat drye before with the washyng of wyne Anoynt freshe woundes therewith and it healeth them in three dayes It cureth the fyges or blaines of the fundament without and within It healeth diuers diseases the Leprosy the Morphew the Palsy and other if a man fastyng drynke a droppe of it with whyte wyne Many boaste muche of mannes bloud sublimated as a certayne man Bartholomevve de Montaguana made at Padua but surely he was ignoraunt howe to prepare it whiche if thou wylt vse make it on this wyse Take the bloud of sanguin yong meÌ„ vsing a good diet whyles it is newly letten and let it stande a whyle and put away the water that swymmeth aboue theÌ„ with a litle salt punned chauf it a good and put it in a vessell well closed and clayed after set it in hors dung fortie daies At the length destill it certaine tymes euer powring the water againe vpon the dregs At the last thou shalt haue a marueilous water which being mixt with sum zulapio ielup as we call it is wonderfull proffitable to them that haue the hecticall feuer It shal be y e better if after it be destilled you put it to stiep again in hors dung fortie daies A man may also mixt other holsome medicines for the hectical persones together with the bloud Gnaynerius To draw out the foure elementes from mans bloud read the booke of Ioh. Geniuetus called the friend of physicions 4. 7. Of mans bloud destilled simpely read Brunsvvick in the duche booke of destillacioÌ„s He writeth that this water and the water of mans excrementes and ordure if they be mixt together will bryng to pas certain marueylous thinges My hart riseth against suche medicines and abhorreth them Io. Bracescus is of this opinion that the olde wryters woulde signify allegorically some other thing that of metall when they speake of mans bloud as I recited before wher I write of quint essence generally Vlstadius in the .x. chap. of his booke called the Heauen of philosophers wher he teacheth how quint essence of wine is made euery element drawne out apart by him self And thys sayth he which is destilled in the seuenth time is called mannes bloude whiche the destillers chieflye searche and it is verye ayre This saithe he In deede the liquor of the aire whiche in the mooste parte of destilled thinges is oylye semeth to be called by the name of mans bloude for as much as our bodye consisteth of foure humors as elements wherof the blud is compared to air hot moyst somwhat fatâ—y c. But Ihon Brasescus mans blud is a certain metally thing so called of the color For the extracting and drawinge out of quint essence from honi which goeth to y â— making of potable gold read Vlstadius the .xii. chap. and .xxii. whereas he prescribeth also diuers waies to gather thre maner of waters and reherseth the vertues wherof he spake nothinge in the .xii. chap. declared to get out only two diuers waters Of quint essence of metals IHon Brasescê° in the dialog of Raimund and Demogorgon when he had affyrmed that quint essence whiche is profitable to the preseruacion and lengethening of mannes life can not be had of anye other thing theÌ„ of metals only he addeth at leÌ„gth When as accordinge to the opinion of the auncient philosophers euery metall after theyr simiâ—itude vertue name coloure and proprietie are coÌ„prehended in euery metall as it is plainly declared in the boke of the expositioÌ„ of Gebrus bokes therfore this our medicin also although it be extracted and drawn out of som one metal only yet neuertheles it shall haue the vertue of al metals and plantes and the vertue ouer the hole bodye of man to heale manye infirmities that be curable Ioan de Rupescissa speking of our radical and naturall moisture and of quint essence vnder the name of Aqua vitae wolde signify the
no hoope or verye lyttle of anye remeadye lette hym dryncke halfe an ounce of thys liquor and lyinge vppon a bedde couered moderatelye wyth clothes and tarye for sweate the chamber muste be cloose from any ayre entrynge in Wythin an houre and a halfe or there aboute the sweat wyll begin whyche a manne muste suffer and abyde iii. houres at the leaste it shall be better if they sleepe a lyttle more or .iiii. houres absteyninge from dryncke all the whyle and wypinge hys face euerye foote wyth a lynnen clothe After remouing the clothes by litle and litle and wiping the bodye when the sicke is risen let him eate sodden Barlye or a little meale of Oates broyled mixte wyth Vineger and Rose water or Vineger onlye whiche shall be mixt alway with his meate also for the space of a sennyghte For his drincke he shall take a decoction of Barlye with raisons and Licoris when it is wel couled let hym dryncke as much thereof as he liste Let him abstein from wine .iii. or .iiii. daies after let him put water to his wine Therefore when he hathe taken meat after swet let a newe bedde be prepared for the sicke man or suffer him if he be so disposed to tarye in a chamber but wythoute aire for the space of .iii. or .iiii. daies If so be it he perceiue yet anye inwarde heate by the menes of the sweate let him drincke the liquor destilled of coulinge thinges as wilde Poppye Mulberies or Blacke beries Endiue and Cikorye the floures of sambucus Eldar or Acetosa And if so be it while he sweteth the botch called authrax or bubo do rise as it chaunceth often times then thou shalt vse theese medicines Cut an Onyon on the one side make it hollowe and put triacle into it tormentil Dictamni diligently broken and punde in equall partes and put the cappe that you cut of the Onyon on agayne fold it in moyst towe then roaste it vnder the ashes by the space of .vi. houres then punne it in a morter and wrynge it throughe a lynnen clothe puttynge Vinegar made wyth Roose water vnto it then lay the moyst cloth to the place and as oft as it dryeth moysten it again If a man drinke once a moneth halfe an vnce of this liquor and sweat vpon it he shal be preserued It is very good also if a man hold a drop or twoo therof euery daye in his mouth in the morning Vlstadius in the .xlvi. chap. describeth an other aqua vitae commended both for the pestilence and for other diseases An aqua vitae or quint essence whose effect is redy and present against poyson specially lest by the byting or stinging of beastes described by Matthaeolus Senensis in his sixt booke of his commentaries vpon Dioscorides A pound of our antidotū now described the description wherof we let pas for briefnes sake a man may vse good triacle in the place of it or Mithridatū or an other effectuall antidotum and a pound of syrup of the barkes of citron mixt them with fiue poundes of aqua vitae so oft destilled till it cum to quint essence and put them in a cucurbita of glas as big againe as the thinges do occupy that is of .xiiii. poundes and when it is well clayed moue it moderatly softly so long till the antidotus be holly resolued mixt with the liquor So let it stand a moneth mouing and chafing it in lyke maner twys a wieke The moneth being ended power out softly by litle and litle the clere water whiche is ascended aboue the antidotus whiche is sattled in the bottom into an other vessell of glas and reseruith very well closed This liquor is so effectuall whiche I haue proued by innumerable tryales that if halfe an vnce therof be dronken with wyne or with any cōuenient water destilled or els alone it restoreth a man infected with the bytyng or stinging of any beast althoug he haue lost both his voyce and his sences and calleth him again to the great wondering of all mem For the moste parte also the humors nowe infected are auoyded by vomite The same vertue hath it against poysons which a mā hath reciued in meats or drinkes For y e strength of this liquor is so subtile and effectuall that euen in a moment and furthwith it peerceth al the vaynes of the body It healeth lykewyse also other many and diuers diseases as euery leerned physicion may consider by him self chiefly it resisteth the pestilence both by preseruing and also curing them that be infected This wryteth Mattheolus Aqua vitae for the diseases of the colike Take a great ale quart of aqua vitae rectified put therein half an vnce of cinamon .ii. or .iii. nutmegges cloues ii scruples all pund and let them stande a hooll daye when a water is destilled thereof in a limbeck of glas giue the sick man a sponfull therof Andro Furnerius Aqua vitae deuised by George Alapide Take cinamon cubebarum ginger nutmegges cloues galangal of euery one an ounce freshe sage .iiii. vnces wyn that is sublimated six tymes made of the best of the wyne not of the lyes as muche in weyght as all the rest that is .x. vnces Take so muche euery day of this water destilled in a lymbeck as a filberd nut wyll holde They saye that M. Gallus the physicion of the Emperour Charles vsed this and liued Cxxiiii yeares A moste noble water of vertues worthy to bee preferred before siluer and gold out of a certaine wryten booke Cloues cinamon maces galāgal zedoaria bay beries graynes of paradise of euery one halfe an vnce Peny royall sage hyssop rue betyny ceri folii camphorae serpentine or dragons of euery one half an vnce Inniper beries fenell sede percely sede the seede of aquilegiae withy of the mountaynes the flowers of costi the seede of apii of the herbe called paralysis castorei of euery one two drames Destill all thies in wyne for the space of .xiiii. dayes then dreyn the wyn oute and grynde the spyces then mixed againe with wyne and let them stande .viii. dayes then destyll them and at length cast in a fewe sage leaues freshe They asscribe the same vertues euery one vnto it whiche we mencioned before in waters of vertues and .xx. seuerall vertues or ther about ar asscribed to sum one of them The conseruation of health the restoring of youthe and other whiche also ar ascribed for y t most part to simple aqua vitae A certain kynd of aqua vitae is commended in a certain booke wryten against the leper and pestilence in the composicion whereof Fumetetrae the les netle the leaues of bedegnar let them bee stieped in wyne in Balneo Mariae a moneth then let them be destilled casting into them also a dram of gold beaten to pouder Afterward put to destilled wyn decocted and sodden with peper that there may be equal porcions of both liquors whiche ioyned together and stieped eight dayes together in
merueilous and innumerable against al colde diseases It is made in this wise c. he describeth streight way the maner of destilling biserpentins as they call them he addeth also other thinges which all do agree with the simple Aqua vite in so much that I suppose the boke to be corrupted by the fault of the Printer VVhat medicines be mixt vvith Aqua vitae without any destillation first within the body then without MAny times instrumentes time or cost faileth a man that those medicines whose strength he wold haue in his aqua vitae as though it were by a certain metempsy chosin y â— is a transposinge of the soules or principal vertues he can not mixt them with it by destilation whiche onely waye is the chief and best of al other to mixt thinges together for both by disgestioÌ„ as though it were a preparation in a moderat heat first one mixture is made then in destillation twyse as muche first of the vapours by the least and moste pure partes of the spirites then by dropes when they gather together into water but circulatioÌ„ is it that bringeth a perfectnes and absolutnes to all mixtures and without doubt no mixtur that men deuise or inuent can more properly and ny imitate the naturall mixture whiche is plain by this argument taken of the ende and effect for thinges prepared in this wyse and mixed do les corrupt then by any other meanes and hauing gotten a certain moste simple and moste pure substaunce that they seme to the sence to be simple and of an airy or a fytte substaunce they attain vnto a certain incorruptioÌ„ as nye as may be This is euideÌ„t loke how much any thyng shall haue the partes wherof it consisteth les exactly and throughly mixt so muche the nerer it is to corruption whiche first and chiefly in those bodies that are called metâ—ora that is thinges bred on hy in the firmameÌ„t moreouer in many other thinges mixed ether by nature or by arte is easy to be vnderstanded But for so muche as in so diuers states of men sum for one hinderaunce sum for an other thei can not alwayes folow that whiche is best if quint essence can not be made at the least the second or the third or as many as may be let the destillacions be repeted with a slow fire for any mixture is done better by litle and litle and slowly then sodenly and violently And if a man can not destill together with the aqua vitae the medicines whose strengthe he desyreth to mixt with it yet at the least wyse let them be broken and stiept a whyle in it for it draweth vnto it the vertues of all thinges that are put in it There is a booke of Arnoldes de villa noua or rather of Rogerius whiche I haue written wher in is declared particularly to what diseases and sicknesses what medicines ought to be put to sooke into aqua vitae for euery part of the body which he doth attribute to the twelue signes of y e zodiak It is well knowen in many ages hitherto that gentian is the best preseruatiue against certaine moste greuous diseases and poysons but sum vse to power the pouder of the same with burning water as muche more effectual into the throotes of beastes whome they knowe or thinke to be hurte with poyson in their meet or drinke or els by byting or stinging and if gentian can not be gotten the burning water by it selfe To the remedy of certain sicknesses of man specially of the bulke or brest apomeli may be put for both certain men couÌ„t it otherwise for dainty to haue apomeli mixt with burning water also a toost of breed mixt therwith many take for a breekfast A maÌ„ may also against diuers sicknessess giue men to drinke the water of gentiaÌ„ artificially destilled with wyn mixt after with apomeli or swiet hypocras Wormwood wyn most excellent sum make on this wyse they power to the leaues of wormwod specially when it is dried the best burning water and so much malmsey Of this they take a little sponefull and mixt with a litle draught of wyn so giue it to drinke So is it made by and by and effectually and is long preserued I my self gaue it once to drinke for the colick and had good succes The same meanes a man may vse also in other as wel herbes as spices c. For both the vertue is drawen out so in a short space and the drink is also the more plesaunt and besides that it may be kept long inough Grien aqua vitae Take Melissa called baulm balsamita dried both in the shadowe of the first .iii. vnces of the other two vnces put them into .iiii. poundes of aqua vitae destilled fowre tymes in Balneo Mariae eight daies then vse it ether alone or mixting with it other kyndes of aqua vitae composed to comforte the stomake The herbes must bee dried in the shade that the colour may bee made grien and moste beutifull For if a man dry them in the sun the water shall proue darke as the iuice of any other herbe Vlstad lvi chap. A man may also dy it with other colours whiche may encrease both the grace of y e coloure and the strength of the medicin as with saffron with red or yallow parsnipes dried Sum put to it in summer black sower cheries whereby also the tast is made more plesant and the heet is les perauenture moor asswaged Sum put into burning water mint cut beaten and set it in the sun foure daies or fiue then sighe it and set it in the sun again With this they wiet the tip of their noos against corrupt and pestilent ayre ¶ Hereafter will I put the vse of burning water with other medicines without the body Many mixt a litle burning water with hoot oynmentes as Martiatum Arragon dialthaea at suche tyme as they should vse them and wil them so to be annoynted vpon the griefes A water that norysheth and restoreth the heat of the brayn wherewith the head is to be rubbed Two vnces of aqua vite Moschocarium Cloues maioram cubebe long peper of euery one halfe a dram When they are pound mixt them and rub them vpon the head a certain space Sum put to it a scruple of euphorbium Epiphanius a practicioner other put to other smellinge and hoot things as sage six vncees rew ginger graynes of paradys cinnamum flowers ot rosemary the bark of a citron of euery one half an vnce an vnce of oyle de bay a dram of spik a dram and a half of castoreum And in a destilled liquor they hang mosch amber of ether of theÌ„ a graine Thys they say is good to annoynt the hed and also with the smell it putteth away the palsy and apoplexia A merueylous water of the same mannes for the impostumes or botches of the priuye members Three yolkes of egges hard rosted and cut small pun them in
as it shoulde be and that the pipe be not to hotte wherefore nowe and then chaunging the water he shall poure in coulder oute of some Vessell by and put linnē clouthes dipt in could water about the pype and about the couer lykewyse if it be too hoot For it skilleth much that thies partes be couled that both more plenty of water and also better may run out This water of Cinamon I haue sene my self and tasted very plesaunt and swiet in sauour and in taste The liquor whiche I sawe was sharp almost of the colour of milck and troubled wherupon certain sumwhat red drops of oyll did swim whiche were les swiet then the water and smelled of adustion The same almost Cardanus wryteth generally of liquors of swiet woodē thinges as Cloues c. This liquor restoreth the strength excellently the other vertues thereof Ryffius describeth but euery man may know thē manifestly by the nature of cinamon it selfe In lyke maner is the oyll of the huske of Nutmegges whiche they call Mace prepared which also is described by Ryffius An oyll maruelous swiet smelling wherwith gloues and other certain thinges are anoynted out of Furnerius Thou shalt take in the moneth of May the .iii. partes of the second barkes of the tree of Almon so is it red saieth Furnerius in the booke out of whiche he writ it but doubted whether it ought to be vnderstanded an Elm or a Limon a kynd of Orenges and the fatter partes of the flowers of the same tree Les espis de la fleur qui sont grasses in lyke weight dry them in the sunne That kind of this tree is thought best that groweth not in watery places To thies y ◠shalt ad the third part of the beries of Juniper newe and destill them dounwarde with a little fyer at the first then greater and greater encreasing it till al the Oyll be cumd down into the receiuer whiche should be of glas and closed with clay Afterward thou shalt set it in the Sun with the mouth of the vessell open a whyle or shit with a parchement prickt through with a fewe hooles till the smel of adustion and brentnes brethe out Sum to encrees the smell put to it Belzoum Spick narde Agallochum the shauings of Cypres Styrax Ambra Mosch and destill all together repeting also the destillacion the second tyme. Of oils that are dravven out of Woodes Oyls of wood are all destilled by descencion as they call it dounward Of the preparing of oyll of the wood of Iuniper we shewed before out of Vlstadius where we entreted of destillacion dounward generally He that desireth more specially perteyning to the vertues let hym serche in the duche bouke of Ryffius who wryteth that oyll is goten out of Guaiacum also after the same maner vtterly and also out of the wood of Rosemary I will ad heer that I found in a certain dutche booke The wood of Iuniper to make oyll therof ought to be cut in y e beginning of May or haruest whiche is grien or fresh the barck being red When y ◠barck is taken of thou shalt dry it diligently in an ouen streight after the bred is taken out then cut in pieces with an ax put it in a pot that hath the botom full of hooles set hansumly in a pot vnneth it The vpper pot thou shalt fill with y e chips of Iuniper and also of that whyt Popler whiche they cal trembling with a part of the whyt stones wherof lyme is made after when thou hast fensed the couer wel with clay put it into the nether and make a fyer round about it This oyll also made of only Iuniper for the moste parte is ministred without the body for it is very vehement and sanoureth very much of brentnes It defileth the skin that it can not be esely washed away I haue tryed the vertue of it against Scabbednes and itches to be excellent Brasauolus commendeth the same against the pestilence It putteth away cold causes and represeth the typum of the quartain Being anointed from the nauell of wemen to priuy places and reines i◠strengtheneth the matrix or mother and dryeth vp the moystnes therof and prepareth it to conception Rogerius Oyll destilled of the stickes of Iuniper moste dry in twoo earthen vesselles with the mouthes ioyned together or also in a lembeck of glas if it be holden in y ◠mouth it taketh away maruelously the touth ach sprung of a could reum lykewyse it is good against all oher grieues comming of could humors as the griefes of the synewes the conuulsion or cramp of the ioyntes the palsy and lyke Matthaeolus Oyl of Iuniper saith Mesues helpeth the infections of the skyn crieping diseases the cancar angry byles such as in sommens legges the late wryters call the deed euill Fill a glased vessell with a narrowe mouthe with the small chippes of Iuniper ioyn a thin plate of irō boored full of hooles after the maner of a meell siue to the hooll mouth daub the same with the mouthe bothe of the saide vessell and of the lesser whiche must be glased or oyled also to receiue the oyl whiche when thou hast digged in the ground compas the other biggar whiche hathe the pieces of Iuniper with a cleer fyer two howres so the oyl shall destill into the les vessel Thies wryteth Mesues as Siluius interpreteth him In the same place Siluius in the commentaries By this arte saith he oyl is made of the kurnelles of Pynaples to put away the wrinkles of wemens skins of the wood Gnaiacum and stronger of Lignum sanctum for the grieues of the Spanishe disease as byles vnto whiche oyll of Iuniper also and of Broum and of ashe and of lyke is holsum and of other woodes specially that be fat and ful of iuice as fruites beries and seedes The biggar vessell also may be of metall or if it be of glas or ston let it be well fensed all ouer with clay of wisdome an erthen vessell because it is spongi not so cloos when the oyll seketh to breeth out it would gyue it way therfore let it be glased within the nether vessell and receiuer may bee of glas not clayedd only in the circuit but somwhat more thik it may be also of metal it may be at length of earth so be that it be glased and oyled as they call it els that most thin oyl wold run out here and there by the pores of the vessel much les may that oyl be receiued safe in the pit within the grounde hauing the sides walled with potters earth which notwithstanding Mesues commaunded Take this withall that it shal not be nedeful to dig the lesser vessel within the ground if thou canste finde a meanes to beare vp the cooles and woode with some floore as it were to compas the bigger vessell aboute with These wryteth Syluius Oyl of ashe tre helpeth them that be sick of the splene besides that it can do all that
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
searreth also euil sores eating them out euery where yea euen in the throte and letteth the sores from crieping and spreading namelye of the yarde and the wombe If it be to vehement mixte it with Roose water And I my selfe haue healed ill sores and biles of the throte touching them twise a dai with the saide water mixtinge with it half so muche of Rosewater and it is one of our secreates se more in the same the .vi. boke and .ii. chapter But this angelicall pouder had I of a certaine olde Alcumist and I made it before Iohannes de Vigo euer made anye mencion of it Thus farre Massa and parte Thom. Philologus out of him Of the making and commodities of this redde pouder read Iohannes de Vigo in his fifte boke of Additionum where he biddeth that the vessels rereceiuer shall be thrise as bigge as the bealye the xxxviii leafe b. And that white found with thys pouder is siluer sublimated from the redde like as is what so euer is yelowe or of a Saffron coloure And also in his booke entituled Capiosa the. Clxiii lefe a. Pouder of Mercury saithe Matthaeolus Senensis in his booke of the waye to heale the Frenche disease is made in this maner Take .iiii. pouÌ„ds of water wherewith gould is seperated from siluer a pound and a half of quick siluer Put these in a vessel of glas with a narow mouthe wyth a croked nek round about fensed with clay which shal be receiued of an other theÌ„ stop the ioynts of the vessels with potters clay diligently TheÌ„ put vnderfire made of coles so that it may euer wax bigger and bigger so long till all the water haue run out After this breake the phial and take out lightly the red cake that setleth in the bottome what white so euer sticks in it cast it away but y e red make it in pouder But for asmuch as throughe this pouder much harm might happen to theÌ„ shuld receiue it except it be duely prepared Take ii ounces of the said pouder and let them staÌ„d to soke in water of Plantaine and Acetosae of ether ii ounces the next morow early take the waters from thence and put new vnto it and set it to the fire in a vessel of bras or erth when they are hot cease not to stur them aboute with an iron or woden spattle or sâ—is vntil al becom pouder and that withoute anye difficultie of the which thou maist when thou list make such a recept against y e frenche disease aswel that is Flegmatike as Melancoly Take electuarii Conciliatoris this is made of diuers cordiall medicins and spices precious stones pearles gould siluer Camphora Ambra Mosch is described of him Differentia 196 half a scruple perls hyacincts of ether .v. grains the pouder of Praecipitatum v. grains pouder of Dâ—amuscum Diamargariton of ether halfe a scrupull Make .v. pils let theÌ„ be gilded Thom Philologê° who addeth Terrae Sigillatae and Boli Armeniae of euery .iii. grains let these be taken of the pacieÌ„t an hour before day let him kepe his bed .v. houres Shortly beleue me shal the french pocks be auoided with this receit For the fleum and blak choler also shal vanish away bothe by vomit and downwardes Besides this there are very many kinds of diseases that we haue cured with such a pouder For it puts not awaye onlye matter and rotten flesh being strawed vppon but also wythout any difficultie it bringeth sores biles vnto a skar the pestilence also with a little Triacle and with the iuice of the hearbe called Tuneci whiche they call Carduum Benedictum or w t an electuarye of precious stones if it be not yet confirmed stablished in the bodye it driueth it away meruelouslye Manye also that bee Limphatici that is mad or Melancolike whome they beleued commonly to be resorted vnto of Deuils we haue cured them with y e same What make I mani words We haue deliuered with this pouder those y t wer almost dead of the quartain putting vnto it Saccharum Buglossatum or triacle or Mithridatium som digestion made an hour before the fit in .v. or vii grains weight according to the age and streÌ„ght of the body of the diseased Yea also it is holsoÌ„ to be ministred amongst the griefes of the yard great guts for we haue cured some that auoyded their dung by their mouth leaninge to the moniments and sayings of Paulus Aegineta that saith how certain phisitioÌ„s haue ministred in that disease of the great guttes quicke siluer killed The same resisteth the taking as they cal it or inchaÌ„tment It hath besides this many notable vertues which when I haue more leisure I wil rehearse vnto thee he speketh to him y t talketh with him one by one perauenture then it shall delite me to expres in what sorte thou maist make pouder w t gould and quicke siluer or els the water declared before These he I hare of late that a certain phisicion or chymist at Athesin did prepare Mercurium praecipitatum with gould and sold it like gold which had suche vertue to eat oute gnawinge or grief Se those that we shal declare about the end of those that folow next after How Praecipitatum is made which is a remedy against all diseases growing of the rottennes of humors out of a certain writeÌ„ boke Make a water of equal porcions of Vitriol of Rome and Sal Nitrum with a heade and receiuer in the whiche thou shalt put the sixt-part of the weighte of rawe Mercury y t is to say if ther be 3. pouÌ„ds of Vitriol and Sal nitrum put .vi. vnces of Mercury Afterward suffer the water with his spirites to descend in to the receiuer Then auoyde all that is in the receiuer into a clean bely and that is claied vnder the whiche put a head with a receiuer and destill it again and wheÌ„ the water is in the receiuer put it againe in the bely in the whiche the Mercury remained Thou shalt repete this till the Mercury wax red Then when it is red washe it with Cordiall waters as Borage Balme and such lyke But first washe it often tymes in fountain water or well water destilled Mercury so prepared shalt thou giue to sick men within their bodies in this maner If the body be very strong giue .x. grains if it be mean .viii. weakes fiue if it be a chyld coÌ„sider diligently what is necessary to be done But vtterly mixt it with triacle so shalt thou giue it to him that is infected with poyson droysy pestileÌ„ce or taken with other infirmitie If a sounde man once a yeare or euery third yeare as it shall seme him good vse this Praecipitatum with a dew digestion of the humors that is with a preparacion of purgacion he shall preuent many diseases Note that in the stede of Mercury thou mayst vse Amal gama made of six partes of quick siluer and of one part of gold and so shalt thou worke
small then beaten infused in Aqua vitae as muche as is sufficiente they are let stande in the infusion warme in Balneo Mariae or sande .xiiii. daies sturring and chafinge them in the meane season oftentimes euery day then are they prest oute strongly throughe a grose linnen clothe Then are they put in a lembeck and with the fire is the waterye moysture drawne oute till the consistence or thicknes of Diacy donion of the said medicin If ther remain yet any moisture let it be put vpon burning coles in some vessel as much as is sufficient Of the iuice of the Flour Deluce and Rape c. OVre Floure Deluce is more stronge in operation in the dropsy as semeth me then the Florentines of the whiche opinion a frend of mine also a very wel learâ—ed Phisicion is who of late sente mee these hys experimentes and trialles of the iuice of the roote of Flower Deluce and Rape Take a hens egge and pouringe oute the white put the iuice of the Flower Deluce in place and mixte it diligently with the yolke and when thou hast a little warmed it in the ashes geue it for a mornynges draught which shall auoid downward aboue mesure the dropsy water This also saith he haue I emongst my secretes for them that be sick of the dropsy and can not swete take the iuice of a round Rape beaten in a morter and prest out seasoned with Suger or cinamon that it taste somthing els then the Rape geue this in the morning to the sick well couered aâ—d he shall sweat The iuice of Purslan Singreen or Houslike Cotyledonis and of other likewise that be slimye and Clammy because of the clammines can not be prest oute alone The herbe well punde wyth Omphacium is prest oute Other when they are punde heat them at a flow fyre Other beat them and let them stand in a colde place as a wine celler put in a basket of wikars to destill downe into a dishe set vnder Syluius in whome thou shalt reade moore of the preparinge and preseruynge of iuices in his boke of the preparacioÌ„ of simples Of Lignum sanctum and anye other we draw oute teares whiche is moore precious then the woode it selfe in this wise The Lignum is cut in pieces the thicknes of a finger which are put in the fire therby is gathered what tere so euer is in the Ligno Cardanus Milk is gathered of Esula Selandin cuttinge the highest bowes and laid hielding in a vessell pressing milking or sliping â–ª theÌ„ one by one The liquor so gathered shalt thou dry in the suÌ„ne But the iuice is gathered when the herbes are punde and prest out Bulcasis Gummes that be purginge and other if anye refuse to swalowe in the forme of pilles put them in boylinge water let them bee dissolued strayne them and put in oyl of swiet Almonds and geue it in drink with rob Put any stronge purginge medicine in water or wine Then in the same liquor stiepe drye prunes or drye Figges or Rasins till they swel then washe them in wine These frutes receiued within the bodye do maruelouslye and withoute grefe loose the bealye Arnold in his booke of wyne Sieth .iiii. ounces of Passularium with water of Violets half an hour lift them through a siue theÌ„ sprinkle in .ii. drams of Scammonium lette them be dryed Then when thou wilte geue .xxx. or .xl. and no mo with Panatella Epiphanius Empericus Some stuffe a fat Goose with medicins with well lykinge Kitlinges chopte small with Salt and roastinge it softlye vppon a broche gather the liquor that drops therout to annoynte goutie members therewith Io. Goenrotus I harde saye howe a certaine practicioner roosted a gose stufte with Mise chopte smal and ministred the liquor gathered there of to the annoynting of the croked vunche vpon the back Of decocted thinges WE cal decoctions liquors water wyne or vinegar in the whiche any medicins be sod at the fyer and then streined c. of the whiche for shortnes sake at this present we will speake nothing sauing that we wyl admonishe that wheÌ„ they are beaten or chopt they ought to be first stiept whiche should be sod and decocted in a vessell diligently stopt and cloosed Of grien plantes the decoction is more pleasaunt then of dry wherfore dry thinges beten and stiept longar tyme then fresh may be streined and prest out then alone or with sugar or houy to bee decocted and sod c. A decoction in vinegar against the pestilence Sieth two handfull of the biggar Salandin the herbe and root together in .iiii. pound and a half of the best vinegar vpon cooles in a glased pot w t a couer the mouth wherof shal be fensed with clay for an houre and a half till the thyrd part be consumed Then straine the vinegar and set it vp in a glas Giue .iii. sponefull of this to a man taken with the pestilence and if he vomit it again giue him again and will him to sweet One vnnamed in the dutche wryten booke Other which Selandine take as muche Rewe and dres it as before and to one taken with the pestilence thei giue one sponefull to drinke with a litle tryacle by whose help both I my selfe haue holsum and helthful experience and also I haue hard it muche commended of other And of late I red almost y e very same medicine in a certain boke of a certayn practicioner writen in frenche and a few yeares past wheÌ„ the pestilence was here a certain friend of myne sent vnto me a lyke description Many woulde haue the Selandine sod in the vinegar but other put other thinges to sum as I saide Rew only other also Sage noble Rosemary the leeues of flower deluce not the roote Zedoaria and sieth it in a pot wel couered therof they giue a few drops for preseruacion but to them that be alredy infected a sponefull with triacle and bidde them too sweet Sum stiep the same thing almost in wyne in a phiall well closed they stur and chafe it sumtymes then they destyll it they gyue it for preseruacion or to the infected as before is specified and when that is receiued they bid them not to sweet but to walke as far as is possible and if it be nied full to be led of two men Otherwyse â„ž Wormwood Rewe the yonglinges or shoutes of breÌ„ble of euery one one part Selandin iii. partes Sieth theÌ„ in whyte vinegar q. s that is as muche as is sufficient in a pot clayed till the third part be consumed let it be giuen as sone as amaÌ„ is infected after let him sweet Otherwyse â„ž A pound of the rootes of SelaÌ„dine Brimstone Saffron Turmentill an vnce Triacle .ii. vnces pimpernel Gentian of euery an vnce and a halfe Pilosella or mous ear with the roote and all Rewe of ether an handfull Sage a handfull Sieth them in a new pot well clayed with .ii. quartes of whyt vinegar til the third part be consumed
In this decoction dissolue electuary of an eg or triacle to the quantitie of a been let it be giuen to the pacient as thou knowest Of made vvyne and mixt with medicines LAst of all wee wyll teache and declare here certain thinges of made and counterfeit wynes yet not of all of purpose whiche should be to long Who so desireth mo kindes of made wynes and their compositions and vertues let him go to Dioscorides Aetius in his last booke and to the booke of Arnold Villa nouani of wynes ¶ Wynes mixt with medicines are made diuers waies first siething the medicines with the wyne whyle it is must and new for the moste part to the consumpcion of the third part skumming in the meane season straining afterward Sum sieth the wyne alone other till y e third part be cōsumed other much les afterward they hang within the wyne in a litle bag the medicines sumwhat gros betē And bitter medicines specially ought to be put in decocted and sod wyne for so it waxeth swiet in a litle bad or els to be sod together or both So are wynes made w t wormewood with Zedoaria with Inula also w t Borrage and Melissa in Arnold Sum sieth a litle newe must and when it is couled they power it vpon the herbes in the vessell Secondly putting the herbes them selues or the medicines dry in y e new wyne before it be hoat that by the heet of it in the vessel the vertue of the medicin may be mixt with it So the mooste men with vs prepare wyne of wormwood and they let it stande a hooll wynter in the vessels euer filling the vessels again if thei draw any thing out of it in the beginning of vere they take the herbes out sum leue them in al summer also but yet it is easely corrupted waxeth hoor and mouldy and sower specially if the vessell bee not full Sum set a plate of iron tinned boored through with many hooles within the vessell about the tap or spigot that it be not stopt with the medicines that are put in A man may any tyme of the yeare put wormwood or other herbes in old wyne in a litle vessell specially in cellers that bee sumwhat coule or in a great glas well stopt if so be it the route callet Cariophyllata dry be put to y ◠wyne shal be preserued the lōgar Other sieth simpely with wyne the medicine whose vertue they would haue to pas in the wyne at any time of the yeare but sod wynes for the mooste parte breeth out and becum almoste sower therfore I allowe rather the medicines beaten to bee stiept in wyne together w t clarified hony or sugar a fewe houres and then after to be strained sumtymes through an Hippocras bag So haue I made sumtymes wyne good for them that were sick of the dropsy of the rout of flowre deluce and for them that wer short wynded of Inula c. Wyne may also be mixt and streined with the iuices of herbes clarified or els the iuice of them whiche dry beaten haue been hanged in a litle bag in it a few daies to be prest oute and when it is strained to be mixte with the wine and newe medicines to be put into the bag c. for if the matter be prest oute often and newe put to the wine shall be the stronger and we shall fil the vessel now and then for that that is drawn oute for if not the wine will become euerye foote weaker Wines medicined as we haue saide maye be made leauinge the medicines put in a bagge or simplely in Must or new wine that they ma◠heat together or in wine sethinge at the fire But the first way is preferred bycause by it the vertue of the medicines is not resolued nor altered or wekened The hole of the conseruatiue vessel ought to be couered with a litle couer that the heat may brethe out moderatly and yet the odour fewm not out to much Yet if ye thinke good to sethe them in wine at the fire let the fire be made moste slowe and continued without smoke with the vessel couered least it brethe out and let it be sod a certain space with a bigger or les fire according as the substance of euery thing requireth Arnold in his boke of wine Such as a mā list to sethe it shuld be best to sethe it in a double vesselor in Baln Ma. Aromaticall made wines or with spices maye be kept for .iii. or .iiii. daies clear afterward they are troubled Plinius teacheth the confections of wines of diuers simple medicines 14. 16. Wine of Wormwode howe it is made I haue alreadye saide before Some make it with onlye Wormwode other mixte with it other diuers herbes speciallye hotte as Hyssop Rue Sage Cardnus Benedictus Peny royall Costus Hortensis Phyllitides the floures of Eldar the Barkes of Ashe I make somtimes in a glas forthwith putting the leaues of Wormwode dry into Malmsy and burninge water thrise destilled of ether like much This may be long kept a litle of it put to a great deale of wine doth season it holly with the qualitie of Wormwode It is good for a cold stomake it duscusseth winde it healeth the fleumatik colik and that is bred of wind it healeth scabbednes being annoynted vppon Arnoldus in hys boke of wines ¶ A better way of making it saith he that the Wormwod grene or dry be beatē and that the wine warme be straind vpon it certaine times til it receiue the sauour and vertue of it and to season it with Suger or Honye this waye to make this wine is better then other because all the strength of the Wormwod is in the superficiall and outward parts of it which by this menes is best drawn out then is he long in rekening the vertues of it Galangal or Anise maye also be added or any other thinge as a man thinkes good ¶ Wine of Mugwort is made in the same manner that wormwode wine is Wine of the kirnels of Alkckengi or Haliacacabus is made the same way straining the wine vp on them beaten for one Dosis of it thou shalt take from .v. to .x. it bringeth out stony matter frō the rains and bladder manifestlye and guideth oute the water that is reteined and kept in see Arnold in his boke of wine wherof I my self also made a trial of late straining together Anise the rote of Carlina the kirnels of Peches and y ◠litle stones of crabs wherupon the vrin holden now of long space followed within an houre Some put the graines of Haliacacabus hole into newe wine in a little vessel that they may sieth together and kepe it for their vse Wine of Betain is good for the griefes of the stomacke Alexan. Benedictus Wine of Buglos of the rotes of Buglos stieped in wine is maruelouslye commended of Arnold againste the diseases of Melancholy with a story of a certaine woman healed with the drincking therof which through anger
in steed of Sugar put hony and in steed of reed wyne whyte in those that followe contrary wyse So of Hippocras wyne maist thou make claret or clear and of clear Hippocras Sum make no difference of the colour of the wyne The spices of claret Ginger Galāgal of ether an vnce Cinamon two vnces Cloues .ii. drams Graines of paradis long Peper of ether a dram Hony a pound and a half Sugar .ii. poundes Whyte wyne .xvi. poundes Other make it with only Hony adding a litle Spike and nutmegges and with the whyte of an egge they clarify it The claret that Philip Vlstadius in his Coelo Philosophorum describeth the. 57. chapt ℞ the best whyte wyne .iiii. poundes whyte hard sugar iiii vnces Cinnamon an vnce Coriander prepared .iii. drams Cloues .ii. drams Graines of paradis whyte Ginger of ether a dram a half lōg Peper .ii. scrupuls Zedoaria half a dram Al most fine betē streined shal be kept in a tinnen vessel A wyne for them that wax olde proffitable for them that be melancholick and phlegmatick in wynter tyme it heateth the reines and the hooll body it taketh away the swelling of y e hemrodes it helpeth concoction it maketh good colour it clereth the sight sharpeneth the wit tarieth and differreth hoor heares worketh the same thinges that Hiera picra sauing that it is not bitter louseth not the bely Take Spike Cinnamon Carpobalsamum Xylobalsamū Ginger Gallangall Calamus aroma Macis Asarum Myrtilla of euery one a dram Mastick .ii. drams Licoris small Rasines of euery half an vnce sugar as ye think good It may be made by decocting or without it lyke claret putting the spyces in a large bag and the bag in a streiner straining it so oft til y e vertue strength of the spyces be hooly past in to the wyne whiche shal be perceiued by tasting Arnold in his boke of wyne An other ℞ Ginger .ii. drams Cinnamō half an vnce Cloues a dram whyt wyne .iii. mesures that is .xii. pound an vnce of hony whyte Sugar half a pound make claret therof according to art An other laxatiue ℞ Galangall six drames Cinnamon an vnce Turbit Esula Pilles Hermol dactyla of euery a dram a halfe Beat it make it claret with hony and sugar An other ℞ Ginger .ii. vnces cinnamon iiii cloues .ii. Galangal asmuch Grains of paradis one Euery one fiuly beaten sifted must be mixted Then kepe by it self an vnce of easterly saffrō well beaten When y ◠wilt make thy claret make hoot ouer the fier .ii. pounds of hony in a new ear then vessel when it begins to boyll take it frō y e fier pausing a litle whyle skim it Then take .ii. measures about .viii. pounds of wine which shal be so much the better so muche as it is more swiet and cleer mixt w t it .ii. vnces of y e spyces aforsaid and a dram or more of y ◠saffron Then shalt thou straine it through a bag the vpper part wherof almoste to .ii. third partes of the hool length shal be linnen the nether for one third part of y e hool bag or a litle more shal be wullen When the wyne is inough streined y ◠maist power y e dregs into Hydromel or Apomel y t is drinck made of hony as it is cōmunly made y t they may leue their strength y t yet remaineth in thē in it This wyne if it be for y e vse of any womā or delicate person in steed of hony take sugar out of a dutch boke wryten An other preseruing wyne in tyme of pestilēce Take of the best wyne a measur .iiii. pounds half an vn of Angelica Bole Armeniae a drā nutmegs ii drās Galangal long peper coriander of euery one a drā a half ginger a drā a half cinnamon six drams sugar half a pound Certain composicions of Nectar of claret out of a certain booke writen in Latin whē a man would haue a greater quantitie thereof to be kept in his celler in a barill or vessell of wood Lotum as it appereth is a name of certain mesure of wyne in Spain perauenture Claret or good Nectar shalt thou make in this wyse Cinamon a pound Galangall Ginger Cardamom Graines of Paradis Cloues Cubebae Macis of euery an vnce Long peper and black if thou wilt of ether halfe an vnce Spick narde Nutmegs Schenoanthum of euery one .iii. drās Saffron a dram Let all be beten very small and mixt So hast thou spices for half a hors lood y t is for one barell perauētur a. 128. poundes The nectar shalt thou make thus Put all the wyne in the vessell then put the spices in sum linnen cloth large inough and let the clothe with spices into y e barill wherin thou wilt make thy nectar in suche sort that the sides of the cloth may hang ouer the mouth of the barill After put .iiii. poundes of hony in sum vessell mixt it strongly with the wyne so that the hooll be sufficient clear then power in the wyne vpon the spices streining it and at last the wyne with the hony Then cloosing the barrill leue the spices in it with the cloth for .ii. days Then take it away and pres it with strength and thou shalt haue very good Nectar But if thou wilt make it for sum Prince or very ryche man ad to the forsaid Lignum Aloes of the best Foliū of ether half an vnce a dram and a half of Musk and in the stede of hony put suger finely beaten in a morter then dissolued in the wine An other very good wine with y e same species but in other weight Take .xii. vnces a halfe of cinamon ginger galangal graines of paradice cloues cubebae macis Cardamomū of euerye .ii. drās lōg peper a scrupul spikenard Schoenanthū nutmegs of euery a scrupul a half saffron to y e weighte of a Deranii of Turona or a little more Mixt al these together when they are most smal beten thou shalt hauespices inough for a Lotū Nectar of the city Burgens Then take a pound of hony w t a pint of springwater sod to the consūpciō of the water set it aside to cole Thē take about a Lotum of good wine and when the iuice w t the forsaid spices is put into the vessell streining the wine through it pour it in by little and litle the hony also mixt first with a litle of the wine shal be poured in by litle and litle so that the iuice be not prest together If so be it ye wil make it more preous take suger in steade of honye dissolued in the wine likewise about a pounde waighte or more Thou shalt strain it .iii. or .iiii. times y t the wine may be strōger and better Thou shalt put also to the forsaid things Agallochum of the best Folium of ether .ii. grains a litle Musk ¶ Otherwise hang the species in a
bag w t in the wine mixt with hony or suger after .ii. or .iii. dais take it oute pres it wel But the former way is better finer Three vvaies to make Nectar wherof the first .ii. are called Gratia Dei the thirde Manus Dei oute of a writen boke TAke cinnamon .ix. drams ginger .iiii. drams nutmegs long Peper of ether .iii. draÌ„s GalaÌ„gal grains of paradice Maris or Folii cubebae of eueri .ii. draÌ„s cloues a draÌ„ spiknard a hole scrupul saffron a half suger a pouÌ„d or a pint of hony y t hath boyled in a litle water til the water be consumed wel skimmed Mixt them in a Lotum a half of wine Some ad Cardamomum and Carui of ether .ii. drams And this is the better Claret To the same â„ž Aristolochia round cinnamoÌ„ of ether an ounce Ginger half an ounce Galangall graines of Paradice Cloues Cubebae Macis Nutmegs of euery .ii. drams long pepper iii drams spiknard a scrupul Saffron a half Suger a pouÌ„d wine a Lotum If it be for the rich ad Agallochum of the best .ii. grains and musk halfe a grain Or according to other â„ž Cinnamon elect .ii. ounces Ginger one graines of Paradise longe Pepper of ether halfe an ounce Nuttemegs cloues Maces of ether .ii. drams Cubebae Cardamom of ether a dram Spiknard Schoenan thum Calamus aro of euery a scrupul When they are pund mixt them together with .iii. pounds of hony and a Lotum of wine as is said A drink named Manus Dei. â„ž Cinnamon an ounce and a half Ginger .iii. drams CardamomuÌ„ ii drams Folium Galangal of ether a draÌ„ spiknard Carui of ether half a dram long Pepper or blak .iiii. drams If it be made for rich men adde Cloues Nutmegs Maces Grains of paradice of euery .ii. drams clarified hony a pint a BurgeÌ„s Lotum of good wine And if thou canst in steade of hony put a pound of Suger If this drink be rightly made it shal be profitable against manye diseases specially cold and in old men and them that be somwhat weake feble vnto copulacion It shal be conuenient for Fleumaticke Melancholik persons meruelously that not withoute a cause it may be called Manus Dei that is the hand of God It putteth away dumpishnes sadnes and bringeth mirth It openeth the obstructions and stoppings of the splene It heleth the dropsy bringeth the stone out of the rains mightily if a litle Saxifrage of the stone called Lynx be added Spices for Zedoartical wine â„ž Zedoaria cinamon of ether half an ounce Galangall .ii. draÌ„s mixt them and make them into pouder For the wine that is surnamed of Scapa or Rappish â„ž Zedoaria halfe an ounce Coriander .iii. ounces galangal .v. vnces cinamon cloues of ether .ii. draÌ„s make a pouder therof soÌ„what grose Otherwise spices for Zedoartical wine which shal be inough for a mesure of wine that is called communlye at at Straszborovv Cinnamone .iii. vnces cloues nutmegs grains of pa. Cardamom of euery half an vnce Zedoariae vi drams Cubebae long Peper of ether a .ii. drams Beate them somwhat grose mixt them for a bag For the same cinnamon .ii. vnces ginger half an ounce cloues Longe Pepper Cardamom Cubebae Zedoria of euery one a dram Galangal graines of paradise of ether a dram and a halfe When they are beaten somwhat grose mixt them for a little bagge Of spiced vvines vvith burning water THat burning water doth drink in easily all y e odour and vertue both of other medicins and also of spices if they stand to stiep in it a few houres first beaten and a litle of it afterward be poured into simple wine and that diuers wines both in sauour and taste may be made by this meanes forthwith we did declare before out of Arnold in the descripcion of simple Aqua ardens or burning water ¶ The confection or making of the wine which they cal commoÌ„ly Hippocras Put into the name of the mesure is not exprest of burning water destilled .iii. or .iiii. times or more .ii. vnces of Cinamon Ginger half an vnce graines of paradise Peper of ether a dram and a half a dram of Cloues half a Nutmeg When they are al pund put them into a vessel wel closed for .iiii. dais and shake it about twise or thrise euery daye At laste strain it and kepe it it may be kept a longe time Put a meane sponefull of this into a measure or iiii pounds of good red wine and put a pound of Suger to it Yet if the wine be swiete there is no nede of Suger Furnerius A way to make Malmsy â„ž Galangall of the best Cloues Ginger Maces of euery one a draÌ„ Let al thies sumwhat grose beten staÌ„d 24. houres in a vessell of wood wel couered infused in water Then hang them in a linneÌ„ cloth by a thried into a vessell of a soom as they call it which is about the bignes of a hogshead or half a Soom of clear wyn .iii. daies And thou shalt haue wyne so good strong as is the very natural Malmsy or Traminuum A dutche writen booke A wyne that tasteth lyke Rhetish wyne In a vessell of glas or of earth glased hange a linnen cloth full of the spices hereafter folowyng and fill it with burning water stop it diligently let it stande at the lest .xii. houres when thou wouldest vse it wring out y e linnen cloth into sum gret glas whiche the wyne shal be powered into afterward so that the sydes of the pot may be wet with that spiced burning water or els y e liquor crusht out into the bottom by lening and rooling y e glas a syde may moysteÌ„ the sydes euery where Then power in the wyne whiche shall haue the taste of Rhetish The spices are thies Cinamon Ginger Cloues of euery one half a dram when they are sumwhat gros beaten let them be mixt and after be tied in the linnen cloth After the some maner is the tast of Muscatello wyne made take a Nutmeg with a litle Macis mixt them beaten as is before said Cloued wyne Beat half a dram of Cloues w t a litle CinnamoÌ„ tie it in a linnen cloth as is aforsaid The tast of Elseter wyne bynd sugar caÌ„â—y in a linnen cloth as is before said Or els mixt hony diligently clarified with burning water in a vessell well stopt when thou wilt vse it wringe out a linneÌ„ cloth dipt in this liquor into y e pot All thies haue we borowed out of a dutch boke writeÌ„ Of certain other Aromatical vvynes specially such as are made by hanging a litle bag in the vessell CLoued wyne is made hanging the cloues in a litle bag within the vessel with must It drieth much dissolueth coÌ„sumeth draweth vnto it it helpeth the old difficultie of fetching a mans breth cough in old men w t the corruption of the humors it is proffitable also in the falling sicknes swouning it strengtheneth the vertue
half of the sede of Darnell for the space of .ii. daies let them be destilled An other causing slepe Take the seede of Darnell a pound half a pound of the sede of Henbane ii poundes of the sede of Purslan iii. vnces of the sede or rote of Mandrag as muche of Alkekengi wheÌ„ they are pund pour to theÌ„ a pouÌ„d of y e iuice of benes turned vp set down as much of the rotes or leues of Henbane half a pound of the iuyce of the leaues of black popy or if it be lacking or red minister an ounce of this water when it is destilled It is vehement and of great vertue A water called stony y e third of Aegidiê° becaus it breketh y e stone The sede of Pimpernel Petroselini Apii Ari otherwis Caryophylli Musterd sede leuing out Aro the bur also Apii bothe the herb the rote for the sede is named before burs Mastiches of eueri one like much wheÌ„ thei ar wel puÌ„d let theÌ„ be mixt w t the blud of a linx otherwis a he Gote better a little Vineger poured to it let theÌ„ stand a few daies in a vessel wel closed and theÌ„ at the last let them be destilled It is good for theÌ„ that be troubled with the stone what manner of stone so euer it be red white sharpe or plane if so be it the stone be confirmed gathered to some streÌ„gth let the pacieÌ„t drink of this water eueri dai for so shal it be brokeÌ„ brought into saÌ„d If so be icabd heds be washt once a day w t this water thei shal be made hole new heere 's shall spring the scabs shal be cured within .ix. dais otherwise any kind of scabs washt therw t is made hole w tin .iii. or .iiii. dais If it be droÌ„k fasting it maketh good blud good colour more theÌ„ any other medicin merueilouslye it strengtheneth the sinewes and taketh away the falling sicknes if it be druÌ„k twise a day Otherwise is added It heleth clene y e palsy if it be not dead in y e meÌ„bres Aegidius Lullê° An approued vvater for the sores of the raines and bladder by the cardinall of Tutellis CAudae equinae plantain red roses the grains of AlkekeÌ„gi the rotes of holy hok shauen or scraped licoris of eueri one an vnce IuiubaruÌ„ SebesteÌ„ of ether of theÌ„ .vi. draÌ„s bol armoniak half an vnce iiii cummen sedes could great cleÌ„sed of euery one .iii. draÌ„s the sede of white popy .vi. draÌ„s half an ounce of cytoniorum of the thinnest of gotes milk .vi. pound Let theÌ„ stand .ii. daies in the infusion or soking and after let them be destilled Geue the sick to drinck .iiii. vnces warm so longe as the disease continueth Epiphanius Empiricus An other water composed the second amongst the waters of Aegidius it is red of also in y e booke of Lullus of waters Rue Satyrion with y e hauds and stones Selandin otherwise Rue Agrimony Satyrion Chelidoni Suger otherwise Tutia the stone called Calaminaris al of like weight puÌ„d must be destilled with a slow fire This water excelleth in many vertues No disease of the eyes is so obstinate and great but it wil vanish awai and geue place to this medicin Being drunke it dryueth away all poyson other taken wyth meates for so it auoydeth the poyson by vomit It cureth y e dropsy it purgeth the stomak from al ill humors it quencheth y e holy fire in one day if flax dipt in it be laid vpoÌ„ y e sore It is good also against y e fire of a blak disposicioÌ„ white without or as a certain Dutch boke hath against y e inward heat of y e fire for if it appere red w tout it shal in no wise be conuenient to lay on a plaster It healeth the canker if aloes be mixt with it and a little towe of hempe dipt in it be laid like a plaster vpoÌ„ it twise a day A water composed the fyrste amongste Aegidius waters HIssop peny royal Charyo Cikory of euery one a draÌ„ let them be puÌ„d destilled After take tutiae persly of Alexan. Rue Zedoaria aloes the stone called calaminaris of euerye one a dram when they are pund sieth theÌ„ in y e forsaith water till y â— third part be wasted the liquor streyned with a cloth thou shalt kiep it in a glas diligently closed nyne days otherwyse .xl. Afterward let it be giuen in drink euery day in the morning before day other wyse by the space of .x. daies to the sick fasting It is proffitable against the falling sicknes if he that takes it continue fasting after it six houres And truly it is a moste effectuall remedy It heeleth al resolucion of the sinewes and the members are strengthened therby If it be drunck with Castorium it is good against all goutes whiche hath not taken rout yet in the members If it be drunk ix daies together fasting it puttes away all maner of agues what matter soeuer it cum of if it be drunk .ix. daies euery morning early This water is also moste profitable to wash wouÌ„des in which the sinues are cut An other of Aegidius the .ix. in number otherwyse they call it double The siede of Apii the sied of whyt Popy Apii ginger otherwise The sied of Apii whyte Popy sugar Carioph of euery one equall weght Pund in a morter put to it conseruatiue water that is destilled of persely and destill it This is the chiefest remedy for the cough and brest ill at eas If a man drinke it coulde fasting and in the euening as hoot as he can If it be drunken hoot with Castorio it is good against the disease called Apoplexia it healeth also the meÌ„bers sicke of the Palsy if so be the Palsy be not deed in the meÌ„bers It bringeth sliep rest easly it chereth all the members it driueth away il humors and strengtheneth the heed and the brayne An other the sixe in number amongst Aegidius waters Gladiolus Hyssop Sauin Sothernwood otherwys the sied of Sothernwood leuing out Sauin I like it not of euery one lyke much beate them together and let it stand a certain daies theÌ„ destill it This water is of greet streÌ„gth It with standeth all agues both hoot and cold It prouoketh wemens floures if it be drunk thrys but it is hurtfull to wemen with chyld and will destroy it It stauncheth the bluddy flyx and other flyx I would say rather that it styreth bloud rather euery where then to stop an other booke speeketh of nothing but stopping the flix of the bely It purgeth y e stomack froÌ„ ill humors It killeth worms being drunken fasting it cureth al the grief with Castorio it heeleth the palsy if it be drunke daily very hoot within .iii. daies The same descriptioÌ„ fynd I in the booke of Lullus of waters A vvater agrinst the Pestilence c. of the bloud of a Wether or gelded Ram out of a certain Duche