efficacie in the decay and faynting of the heart in myxing it with Electuaries and Cordiall Medicines as you know that vnderstand practise An Aqua vitae aromatyzated of great vertue seruing vnto all colde grieffes of the stomacke the makyng of which is gloryous and rare water is on this wyse Take of Nutmegges of Cloues of Galingale of Cardamomum of Cubebae of Mace of Cynamon of Gynger of Saffron and of Frankinsence of eache one ounce these beaten in a grosse manner myxe dillygentlye togyther after powre all these into a Glasse bodye verye well fensed with lute on which powre sixe pyntes of the finest Aqua vitae the whole let stande togyther for syxe or eyght dayes then dystyll the lycour with his head and Receauer in Ashes and a redde water wyll be gathered which is verye singular and precious For this as aboue vttered helpeth all grieffes of the bodye proceeding of a colde cause and both cleanseth and healeth all woundes without any griefe it procureth a good memorye helpeth the coughe and putteth awaye heauinesse of mynde and many other matters it worketh as by tryall maye be knowne this borrowed out of the synguler practises of the famous Gréeke Leonard Tiorauant A maruaylous water of Lyfe that auayleth in the Apoplexie and fallyng sicknesse druncke morning and Euening but better if taken euerye mornyng In the Euening three or fowre droppes taken with a slyce of breade comforteth both the heart and Brayne and all the powers and vertues of the Brayne and bodye It dryeth vp all the humours aboue nature or not naturall and all other superfluityes also whether these proceede of a hote or colde cause and preserueth naturall heate in his temperament Yet persons vnder thyrtye yeares of age maye not often vse or dryncke of the water vnlesse they be muche charged with many colde humours but verye apte and agreeable to olde and colde persons The vertue of this water can not sufficientlye be expressed in that the same auayleth both within and without the bodye Against the plague let it be taken the same daye with good Venice Triacle Annointed within the Nosethrelles very much comforteth And is a singular Medycine against the Apoplexie and falling sicknesse it is also the mother of all Medycines for it comforteth the Matrice and Wombe at any tyme yf it runneth to muche thys stayeth it and lyke prouoketh it if neede bée Take of Sage halfe a pounde of Wormewood two drams of the flowers of Organy sixe drams of Bytony halfe an ounce of Rosemary halfe an ounce of Maioram one ounce of Penny royal two drams of Roses one ounce and a halfe of Hysope two drams of Sauorye two drams of Parcelye one ounce and a halfe of the rootes of Parcelie one ounce of Polypodie and of Pympernell of eache two drams of Lauender one ounce of Tormentyll halfe an ounce of Bistorta sixe drams of Valerian two drams of Maisterwoort one dram or a halfe of Radicis benedictae one ounce of Ruta sixe drammes of Iuniper berries one ounce of Gynger one ounce and a halfe of Nutmegges and of Mace of eache halfe an ounce of Cloues sixe drams of Cynamon sixe drams of Cubebae and of Cardamomum of eache two drams of Galingale halfe an ounce of the Graynes of Paradize one dram of the long and black Pepper of each two drams of Saffron one dram of Calamus aromaticus halfe an ounce of Zedoaria of Corticis baccarum lauâ—i of each two drams of Fay berryes halfe an ounce of Coliander halfe an ounce of Annise and Lycorys of eache one ounce and a halfe of Triacle two drams of manus Christi and of Sugarcandy of eache halfe an ounce of Cummine of Carrowayes and of Dyttany of eache two drams of Ruberbe one dram of Nigella rindes of the Orrendge of eache halfe an ounce of the conserue of Roses one ounce of Psydia two drams or three of Honny halfe a pounde lastly adde of Muske the sixtéene part of a dram of Amber gréese so much of Camphora halfe a dram of whyte Sugar one ounce of the sublymed wine fiue times of wyne and not of the Feces thrée measures The hearbes and rootes beaten in a grosse manner powre into an earthen Iugge well stopped for three dayes and in the fourth daye let the whole be sublymed After let the Spyces be beaten and not searced which powre in and let stand to infuse for tenne dayes in the Iugge close stopped and once or twyse a daye sturre the whole about Then let the whole be sublymed in a Glasse bodie with a narrowe necke and Receauer artlye fastoned to it and when it shall distyll whyte forth or styncke then is it sufficient And then poure into it these foure as the Muske the Amber the Camphora and Sugar broken but the other thrée not broken which let stande togyther for thrée or foure dayes sturring it euery daye once or twyse from the bottome with a woodden spattell let these then stande for other three or foure dayes vntyll the whole be setled and that it appeare cleare which being cleare powre foorth in strayning the same through a fyne Lynnen cloth into a Glasse But in the ende when the lycour wareth troubled myxe togither againe â–ª and let it setle againe then straine againe as afore continue the like doing vntyl you haue purchased all that which is cleare which myxe altogyther in keeping it in a tynne Bottell for that the Glasse destroyeth it and let it be kept in no hote place and the vertue of it endureth for two or thrée yéeres or a longer tyme When you wyll vse or gyue of it poure foorth a lytle of it apart in stopping againe the â—est The remnaunt or that resting you may drye on a cloth in the shadow on the whole then powre two measures of cleare and good wine close stopped in an earthen Iugge for tenne dayes after distyll according to Arte and the sublymed wine kéepe in a vessel close stopped and it shall be a noble water although not so mightye as the first water for this auayleth annoynted without or applyed on places with a Lynnen cloth wette on it in many infirmityes and grieffes At the first a strong fyre ought to be made of coales vntyll it become so hote that you cannot suffer your finger vpon it then drawe away and abate the fire and so procéede with a softe fire that if you touch it you may be able to suffer the finger vpon and yet let not the fire be ouer soft nor ouer strong in heate least the substaunce maye be dryed in the potte Many tymes also a droppe falling prooue with the finger for on such wyse shall you redilye perceyue when his facultie and strength is feebled or lessened or that his sauour be chaunged odious or stincking for if it be felt on such wise then chaunge the Receauer as is afore taught A sublymed wyne of D. Ambrosius lung described for a Noble person Take of the inner part of the Cynamon
attempted to put in vse Distilled waters yet others for to recompence the default which they knewe to be in them sought out and practised many wayes how and by what meanes these might best retayne and kéepe their vertues after the Distilling But among the Arabians the Noble Mesue first made mention of Sublimation or Distillation of the waters of Wormwoode and Roses For sayth he water of Wormewoode is distilled after the maner as is out of Roses and such lyke which are done in vesselles of Sublimation But in processe of tyme when Rhasis Serapio and Auicen had taken in hande the practise of Alchymie then began these waters to be vsed in Phisicke Of the kyndes and differences of Distillations The thirde Chapter FOrasmuch as we haue sufficiently vttered in the first Chapter that the Bodies which we desire to separate by Distillation are not of one nature and qualitie yet it often commeth to passe that some lightly suffer and others resist mightilye through the action of the causes agent and these yéelde not but by a great force and violence so that not without good occasion the first inuentors of the Arte of Distilling and their successors which made a matter of the sayde Arte deuised diuers kyndes of Distilling according to the diuersitie of things proper to be distilled by the meanes of which they might the more easily come vnto the intended scope which they purposed Agayne séeing it is certaine that for the diuersitie of the kyndes and fashions of Distilling there néedeth diuers instrumentes proper and commodious to eche fashion of Distilling Good reason it is in my opinion that we intreate of the kyndes of Distillations before we make mention of the Instruments Further although that the Chymisticke Authors doe teache and shewe diuers fashions of Distilling by Ascention yet maye all these ways fashions be brought into thrée orders according to the difference of the cause agent or efficient which is heate First the Distillation that is done in the Sunne when the vessell or Lymbecke of Glasse filled with the matter which a man woulde distill is set fully in the hote Sunne on fine sifted Sande or Ashes hote to the nose of which is a receyuer hanging or fastened But this maner of Distillyng in Englande and Germanie and in colde Countries cannot so well be perfourmed Yet sundrie Chymistes are woont to prepare manye Oyles by Sunning that is by setting them in the hote Sunne which perhaps maye more commodiouser be prepared and done by decoction to the ende that the facultie and propertie of the Symples maye the better be drawne forth by a stronger heate Thirdly the forme of Distilling by Ascention is done in Distillatorie vessels filled with the purposed medicines or substances déepe set or standing couered in a heape or little hyll of newe pressed Grapes with the Kirnelles or in the refuse of Olyues after the Oyle pressed forth or in Horse or other Cattels dung For by the rotten heate of any of these kyndes being one and the selfesame continuall for certayne dayes The Chymistes not onlye purge and separate their Quintessences by a small labour and cost but infuse in a Glasse bodie with a narrowe necke and mouth for a long tyme their singular Medicines and Balmes with Oyle Aqua vitae or other Lycoure with which they affirme to cure diuers desperate diseases and sickenesses They also affirme by the sayde forme of Distilling that certaine waters maye be attayned for the restoring of youth and prolonging of lyfe and I cannot tell what maner of Defensatiues and worthy Drinckes sayth Ioannes Langius in his Epistles for expelling of the Plague and all maner of poysons to which as they gaue the name of Golde or termed Golden euen so they woulde those to be rewarded with gyftes of Golde And these thrée manners of Distilling may by good right be named Sublimations bicause these make their vapors to ascende on high The other forme and maner of Distilling which the Chymistes often haue in vsage named of Albertus by Discention is wrought or done on this wyse a round hole and déepe must be dygged in the earth after two Potts prepared glased within for the onely purpose the vpper Pot hauing manye small hoales in the bottome and that filled wyth the matter or chyppes of the woode to be distilled which after sette into the mouth of the nether Potte standing in the grounde luting diligently both Poâ—tes wyth a strong â—uâ—e made wyth the whytes of Egges after the well drying couer the nether Pot with earth vp to the brynâ—ke or edge or higher if you wyll Which done make an easie fire at the first rounde about the vpper Potte with coales or drie clouen woode not smoking least with too stronge a heate at the first you drie vp much of the lycour or Oyle in the Dystilling therfore increase the fire by little and little vntill the worke be ended For as soone as the woode or thyppes in the vpper pot shall be heated the Oyle or lycour then beginneth to distill through the little holes into the nether Potte And by this maner or waye dâ—e many at this day drawe out or dystill Oyles of the woodâ— of Iuniper â–ª Guaiatum and other woodes shauen as wryteth Langius Besides these we may not be â—â—noraunt that there be sundrie other manners or wayes of Dyâ—tilling often in vse as those which are wrought or done by Fyltâ—ing by a Spunge by a Presse c. But of all these shall here no further be mentioned but only touched by the way Of the Instruments or vessels which serue to the Dystillations The .iiij. Chapter ALthough that all maner of Dystillations may diuersly be performed according to the iudgement and industrie of the Distillatour and according to the pleasure and opinion of eche person yet euermore the workman Practiser howe ingeniouser and better aduysed he shall be so much the more carefully and diligently he ought to searche before all things the same which he knoweth to be necessarie for the guyding and perfourming of the worke happily And he shall in lyke maner weye and consider in his mynde what Instrumentes are for him more commodious for Dystilling before that he taketh in hande or begynneth the worke of Dystilling Nowe of the Instrumentes some are in generall and for the same cause â–ª require all one maner of Distillation which is the heate But the others are particular appoynted onely to certaine fashions of Distilling which are these Infusion Putrifaction Fermentation the Furnaceâ— of sundrie kyndes the diuers vessels of Glasse of Earth of Tyn or other matter and whatsoeuer there are of any other The maner of cutting your Glasses fitte for your purpose NOwe the easie wayâ— of cutting the neckes of diuers Glasses when néede requyreth with the apt Instrumentes seruing to that vse shall hereafter appeare First with that stone which the Glasiers vse being set into some handle drawe about the necke of the Glasse in the same place where you couet to breake it
BRIDGEWATER LIBRARY ¶ The newe Iewell of Health wherein is contayned the most excellent Secretes of Phisicke and Philosophie deuided into fower Bookes In the which are the best approued remedies for the diseases as well inwarde as outwarde of all the partes of mans bodie treating very amplye of all Dystillations of Waters of Oyles Balmes Quintessences with the extraction of artificiall Saltes the vse and preparation of Antimonie and potable Gold. Gathered out of the best and most approued Authors by that excellent Doctor Gesnerus Also the Pictures and maner to make the Vessels Furnaces and other Instrumentes therevnto belonging Faithfully corrected and published in Englishe by George Baker Chirurgian ALCHYMYA Printed at London by Henrie Denham 1576. VERO NIHIL VERIVS ¶ To the Right Honourable Vertuous and his singular good Lady the Noble Countesse of Oxeforde c. your humble seruaunt wisheth long lyfe prosperous health and dayly encrease of Honour IT IS VVRITTEN RIGHT Honorable and my singular good Lady that Philip King of Macedonia reioyced greatly vvhen his sonne Alexander vvas borne bicause his Empyre shoulde not lacke a gouernour after his death but herein he reioyced much more that his sonne vvas borne in the time of Aristotle that learned Philosopher by vvhome he vvas taught and instructed ten yeares And in lyke maner it fareth novv vvith me as vvith the King of Macedonia and no lesse is my ioye â–ª than the delight of that mightie Prince Herein I doe reioyce that this vvorke of Dystillation is novve finished to the profite of my countrie vvherein great studie and long labour hath bene earnestly bestovved But I reioyce much more that it is finished in the time of you my Honourable vertuous and good Ladie to vvhose learned vevve and fauourable protection I offer this Booke as a due testimonie of my seruiceable heart and as some fruites of my poore paynfull studie and practise vvishing that it vvere in value counteruayle able to the condigne demerites of your so Honourable expectation so as euery lyne in respect of my loyaltie might supplye a nevve Iewell for your Nevve yeares gift albeit you haue no neede of Golde and Ievvels abounding honourably in all riches Notvvithstanding this booke maye be truely termed the nevve Iewell of health vvhich before this daye vvas neuer seene or published abroade by anye other man This nevve Iewell vvyll make the blynde to see and the lame to vvalke This nevv Iewell vvill make the vveake to become strong and the olde crooked age appeare yong and lustye This nevve Iewell vvill make the foule seeme beautifull and the vvithered faces shevve smoothe and fayre yea it vvill heale all infirmities and cure all paynes in the vvhole bodie of man VVhat is it to haue landes and houses to abounde in siluer and golde to be decked vvith Pearles and Diamondes yea to possesse the vvhole vvorlde and lacke health the principall Ievvell Not vvithout cause therfore AgamemnoÌ„ the vvyse and famous Captaine of the Greekes did highly esteeme and revvarde Machaon and Podalirius by vvhose cunning skill in Chirurgerie thousandes vvorthie Creekes vvere saued alyue and healed vvhich else had dyed and perished But vvhy doe I here name Agamemnon or the Grekes vvhen as no age can be vvithout Phisicke no person can lyue vvithout Chirurgerie no countrie can mysse these noble mysteries VVherefore I at this time to pleasure my countrie and friendes haue published this nevve Iewell vnder your Honourable protection that it maye more easily bee defended against Sycophants and fault finders bicause your vvit learning and authoritie hath great force and strength in repressing the curious crakes of the enuious and bleating Babes of Momus charme Your honours humble obedient seruaunt George Baker ¶ George Baker to the Reader GEntle Reader although I haue giuen the onset to publish in our owne naturall tongue this most excellent worke of Distillation for which cause it should not be the lesse estéemed although some more curious than wyse estéeme of nothing but that which is most rare or in harde and vnknowne languages Certainly these kynde of people cannot abyde that good and laudable Artes shoulde be common to many fearing that their name and practise should decay or at the least shoulde diminishe The intension truely of such persons séemeth much like them which gape for all and woulde all haue leauing nothing to anye body but that which they must néedes forgo not considering that we are not borne for our selues onely as Plato sayth but for the profite of our countrie Surely if that I did not feare to be to long in this Preface I would prooue howe all Artes and sciences may be published in that tongue which is best vnderstanded as for example Hippocrates Galen Paulus Aegineta Aecius were Grecians and wrote all in the Gréeke to the perfect vnderstanding of their countrie men Also Cornelius Celsus being a Latinist wrote in the Latiâ—e Auicen and Albucrasis Arabians wrote in the Arabicke tongue The eternall fame of which worthye men shall neuer be extinguished or drowned in obliuion nor their noble works for euer be out of remembrance For what man is as yet aliue that euer was able to counteruayle them yea the best learned in our dayes doe most hyest estéeme of them aboue all without whose workes all Phisitions in the worlde be but blynde and not able to make any perfite Arte. Peraduenture some will obiect and saye that if we were without their works there are other of later wryters which shoulde suffice To the which I will aunswere that they haue written nothing but that their grounde was first layde by them further as M. Iohn Canape D. of Phisicke sayth I wyll giue them this gyft except they first reade Hippocrates and Galen they shall neuer vnderstande what they reade nor make any perfect worke Therefore not without good cause Guido calleth Galen the lanterne of light And nowe in these our dayes we sée howe other Nations doe followe their examples For what kinde of science or knowledge euer was inuented by man which is not nowe in the Italian or French â–ª And what more prerogatiue haue they than we English men of the which many learned men haue made sufficieÌ„t proofe within thâ—se few yeres fully to furnish satisfie our Nation with many goodly works For our English is as méete necessary for vs as is the Greeke for the Grecians though in the translation we be constrayned to make two or three words sometyme for one For if it were not permitted to translate but word for word theÌ„ I say away with all translations that which were great losse to the coÌ„mon weale considering that out of one language into another haue ben turned many most excellent works the which the best learned haue both receyued approoued to the singular commoditie of all men And among all the workes which haue bene translated into our natiue tongue I doe thinke concerning the matter there was neuer the lyke to this as yet For herein
abyde a part at the bottome of the Lymbecke Howe often the vertues of certaine substantiall partes are lost or chaunged in the Distillations and why that Distillation came but of later tyme into vse this borowed of the learned Ioannes Langius The seconde Chapter NO Person néedeth to doubt that all Bodies which growe and take increasement in the earth are compounded of diuers and in a maner infinite small parts which the Gréekes properly name Atomes of the Elements and that in those rest differing and contrarie vertues neuerthelesse vnder one maner of forme of all the Bodies compounded as the lyke appeareth and is confirmed in that roote of Rubarbe so much regarded and estéemed in all places which doth both loose the Bellie and bynde the same yet this deliuereth and openeth the obstructions and stoppinges of the Liuer The same also is knowne to be in the iuice of Roses which purgeth the bellye of Choler where contrarywise the distilled water and the drye powder of the leaues doe bynde and harden the Belly the lyke to this is found in the bitternesse of the nayles or white endes of the leaues which boyled and applyed vp in Glyster forme after the mynde of the learned Mathiolus doth mightily stay the fluxe of the Belly and by giuing it to drinke this healeth the perillous vlcers of the Lunges The yelowe séedes within the Rose and the heares hanging to them boyled in Wyne and drunke doth staye as he affirmeth the styllings downe to the Gummes and marueylously helpeth the running of the Whites in women He also reporteth that the whole heads of the Rose sodden in Wyne and drunke helpeth the fluxe of the Bellie and stayeth the spitting or casting vp of bloude the séedes within the peares of the Rose are knowen of experience to be astringent for which cause the yelowe and all the whole Peares sodden in wyne doth greatly profite the fluxe of the Bellie and such abundance of the Whytes in women yea marueylously stayeth the tedious Gonorrhea these hitherto Mathiolus And is it not euidentlye séene and knowne that the outwarde part of the Nettle procureth ytching and burning in that part of the bodie as the same toucheth where contrarywise the iuice drawen out of the inner substance applyed on the arteries of the armes doth refresh and coole the burning of the Feuer or feuerous burning of the heart Besides dryed and brought into powder and giuen to a maryed man to eate causeth him after to loue dearely his wyfe and children and the same vsed fortifieth the veneriall acte and purgeth the Matrix in women by the dayly eating in meate yea wasshyng the Bodie with the decoction of it mitigateth all paynes caused of colde and healeth scabbes And doe we not daylye vnderstande sée that out of one â—â—per Myne of the veyne vnder the grounde purchased there 〈◊〉 â—olten and separated in the Furnace diuers kyndes of Mettals that is of Leade of Siluer Copper Golde of which always the greater part is conuerted into Fumes When therefore after in the Distillation the grosser and excrementuous partes abyde in the bottome of the Lymbecke then doe the Aereall vanysh into spirits and the moysture thickened through the cooling of the couer or heade of the Lymbecke fall from the Gutter of the heade and runne downe drop by droppe into a Receyuer standing vnder It is not to be marueyled at if distilled waters doe not yéelde their proper sauour taste and all other vertues or but little that they ought of those matters out of which they are distilled For which cause the learned Phisition Mesue reporteth that the water drawne by distillation out of Roses doth greatly comfort and strengthen yet doth the same nor lyke loose and purge the bodie as the iuice gotten out of the freshe Roses or the infusion of them done after Arte by reason that their subtill heate vanisheth with the fire To these adde that the hydde or secrete propertie which procéedeth of the forme that the Phisitions terme particular as in the Lode stone Colocynthis Scamonie and others lyke equally shedde throughout the whole substaunce of his subiect insomuch that when the forces and vertues be lost of the other partes of the subiect it cannot then retayne his proper strength but that hys action and working perysheth as by a lyke the water distilled by a Lymbeck of the Colocynthis or Rubarbe cannot then loose or purge the Belly where the lycour at all times or either of them infused for certayne houres and ministred will easily perfourme the lyke working By the same maner all herbes of a hote and drie qualitie doe yéelde or giue forth in their Distillation the best waters of propertie kéeping neuerthelesse their naturall heate and drynesse but the herbes colde and moyste doe not reteyne so well their coldenesse and moysture by reason they attayne or purchase a certayne straunge heate of the fire of the Lymbecke which abateth and taketh awaye from the waters their proper nature and vertue so that the same water which is distilled doth not any thing reteyne or but little of the nature and vertue of that simple out of which it is distilled Whereof it commeth to passe that although the waters of Endyue Lettuce or Nightshade are accustomed or woont to coole yet doe these alwayes performe the same but a little where otherwyse if these kept the proper qualities of the Herbes from which they are distilled woulde then greatly coole to the ende that the Herbes the same which are of temperature 〈◊〉 maye kéepe their proper qualities they ought rather to be â—â—yled with a soft fire and their decoctions ministred when â—â—ede requyreth If at anye time the distilled waters are more agréeable and pleasanter in taste than the decoctions of the Herbes it behooueth to vnderstande that these loose lesser of their moysture and coldnesse in that they néede but a temperate fire if they be distilled in the Furnace named MARI BALNEVM Balneum Mariae whose forme is here described to the eye that commonly is made long whereby the same may contayne many vessels and hath sundrie doores that the water may heate togither alyke buylt also of small heygth to the ende the water may be made hote with a smal fire than if they were distilled in a driâ— Furnace as in Sande or Ashes of which hereafter shall further be vttered whereas we mynde to intreate of the correction of Herbes By the same discourse eche man may easily conceiue and iudge that all formes cannot wholy resist and doe their workings a long tyme in mixt bodies if the qualities abyde not perfite and hole For which cause it is no marueyle if the waters of Plants and Iuices especiallye those which are distilled by a drie heate of fire doe disagrée and seuer from the vertues of their Simples which for troth more troubled and mooued rather the skilfull to be abashed than the ignoraunt Phisitions and caused that a long tyme after it was or they anye thing to purpose
after be liuely demonstrated and the maner howe to order them in the distilling of things with the apt names for eche vessell and the formes shall in order be faithfully set forth Thys Vessell is named the Glasse body with a long necke and where at any time is mentioned of a Body which in Latine is named Cucurbita there this Vessell is vnderstanded and ment whether the same be greater or lesse according as the workeman shall thynke necessary and this is a Vessell common muche occupyed of them which Dystill diuers matters in the Arte and thys is as much vsed for Phisicke matters as for the working of Alchymie So that this commeth to occupying often as a thyng most commodious for the dooyng of all manner of workinges in a maner and maye as well serue for a Receyuer as for a Bodie to dystill withall Of which it maye be sayde that thys is a principall Vessell in the Arte of Dystilling seruing as it doth for two Vessels and beyng commodious in so many things so that more néedeth not to be spoken of it Wherefore we wyll procéede to descrybe herevnder that Vessell which of the Chymistes is named a Heade without the which a man can not distill anye matter by the Cucurbite or Bodie of Glasse as after shall playner appeare This Vessell named a Heade is well knowne to most persons and in the Arte of Dystilling verye necessarie Bycause as I haue aforesayd it is impossible that a man maye distill any thing without it and of such Vessels the workeman maye choose or cause to be made wyth narrower and larger mouthes according to the condicion of the Bodie standing vnder yet these requyre to be fashioned all after one manner and the lyke to be made with one manner of Nose which Nose requyreth to be after thys maner that is fashioned long and that put in it maye reach a good way into the Receyuer for by entring very déepe in the Dystilling and the spirites yssuing out of the Bodie will not be so apt to passe forth of the Receyuer for thys cause the sayde heade will be much better when the Nose shall be formed long herein considering that it hath the lyke similitude wyth the Nose of the Heade here afore descrybed and being on suche wyse fashioned it is a perfite Vessell for the Distilling of tender and Flegmaticke matters This Instrument named the Pellicane which is a Vessell for Circulating serueth to none other ende and purpose than for to Circulate the Quintessence which by the Arte of dystilling is drawen so that thys Vessell on such wyse made is not apt for the dystilling of any matter but only serueth for the Circulating of Aqua vitae and other compounde lycours Where in anye place you find written to be done in a Pellicane the same is ment to be wrought in the sayde Vessell and in all the Arte there is no other kynde of Vessels that are more necessarie than these fiue whych we haue afore descrybed although many other Vessels and of those diuers are occupyed of sundrye Chymistes yet all consist and serue to the lyke woorkyng which the aboue named doe that is the Retorte the narrowe necked Bodie the Heade the Vrinall and Pellicane wyth which a man may doe all maner of workes that are required in the Arte as Dystillations Sublimations Fixations Circulations and other lyke woorkyngs And for that cause I thynke it not néedefull to make a long description of so manye straunge sortes as of those long short rounde square and so dyuers formes which rather are occupyed to marueyle at than for vtilitie or profite But I thys affirme tâ—at these fiue Instrumentes to be the fundament of the whole Arte of Distilling and Alchymie as I haue afore declared Therfore let it not mooue you to marueyle at so many sortes of Glasses that manye Chymistes vse whych for this respect I leaue to demonstrate in thys place This is a Bagge which the Chimistes make of whyte Woollen cloth whether the same be Pennystone or Karsie shaped and sowen after this manner and name it a Fylter And it is a verye necessarye thing in that a man can not woorke in a manner anye thynge without it that consisteth thycke and in any place whereas a man findeth wrytten to dystill by Fylter the same is ment to be in thys Instrument which he shall lyke do when the matters are dissolued into water for to cleare them from their Faecies that they maye remayne neate and purified which maner of Purifying he shall woorke and doe after this order that is when the matter shall be dissolued it behooueth vs to poure the same into thys Bagge letting it passe and runne through by it selfe which passed through by this maner of dystilling wyll be most cleare and pure and this is named the dystillation by Fylter that also is verye necessarye in the woorke of Alchymie and the Apothecaries besides doe often vse this maner of Dystilling for to separate dyuers matters as are the Iuleps Syrupes Decoctions Iuices of Herbes and other Infusions whereby they might come purified and neate and in thys dooing there is nothing that maye hynder their woorking wherefore if such matters were not sufficiently purged they woulde soone fall to putrifying and corrupting which they doe not being well Fyltred and cléered thorowe the Bagge As by a lyke in that Syrupe which compounded of the Iuice of soure Cytrone ought first to be dystilled by the Bagge aboue descrybed or by a Lyste put into the Lycour for this otherwyse curdeth when it shall be colde and the lyke doth the Iuice of Orenges and Lemmons beyng not ordered as abouesayde The Cucurbites or Glasse bodies ought sometymes to be verye long necked as when we séeke and couet a purer and subtiller lycour Which sort of most long necked Bodies as wryteth Cardane serue for the onely turne and purpose of dystilling the Quintessence when as we woulde that the subtiller partes or spirites and not the grosser and more earthlye to ascende from the bottome of the Cucurbite or Glasse Bodie In the tyme of dystilling any substaunce a man must nowe and then coole the Lymbecke or heade of the Glasse wyth Lynnen clothes dypped or wette in meane colde water and those after the gentle wrynging forth to lappe wittily about the Heade that the vapors and spirites through the same dooing maye the sooner thicken and fall downe into the Gutter about But a man maye auoyde this labour and traueyle if he ordereth the Lymbecke or heade of the Cucurbite after the manner which the skylfull Louicerus descrybeth in his Treatyse of the Arte of Dystilling vnder these wordes The Beake or Nose of the heade ought not to be longer for the more part than from twelue vnto eyghtene ynches of the Thumbe before that it toucheth the water where otherwyse if the Gutter be longer as well the Oyles as the Waters shoulde consume somewhat the more The maner of Dystilling in the Sunne The .viij. Chapter THe singular
rounde about for the easier and handsommer setting to and fastening of the Receyuing vessels The water wythin the Tubbe must he cause so long to séeth vnto the tyme all the matters and substances in the Cucurbites be wholy dystilled The forme of makyng the abouesayd Balneum Mariae is borowed out of that skilfull worke named Pirotechnia which in Englysh is called the Arte of Firie workes or working by fire The figure of Balnei Mariae inuented by Albâ—casis as the learned Gesnerus coniectureth The .xij. Chapter THe Letter A. in this figure representeth the Furnace where the fire appeareth be made and kyndled the Character B. expresseth the Funnell or Chymney of the Furnace the note C. declareth the Potte sette and standynge ouer the fire in whyche the water boylinge is contayned the Figure D. sheweth the Pype by which the water boyling runneth forth into a Wooden Tubbe standing nygh to the Furnace the letter E. expresseth the Tubbe of woode which receyueth the water heated wythin which is set and standeth the Cucurbite or Bodie of Glasse the letter F. demonstrateth the Bozia or Cucurbite with his Helmet which contayneth the matter to be dystilled the figure G. representeth the hollowe Pype by which the water runneth forth into another waste Tubbe or Panne standing vnder the letter H. sheweth the Glasse vessell which receyueth the water dystilled It séemeth vndoubtedly sayth the woorthie Gesnerus the same to be the better fashion of all others for the Dystilling in Balneo Mariae but much more commodious than if the fire were putte vnder the Dystilling vesselles Consider and marke the other forme lyke in a maner to this hereafter among the Oyles The Dystillation of the Quintessence in Balneo Mariae The .xiij. Chapter TAke foure or fiue measures of the best whyte wine or of simple water or of Maye dewe or of other lycour pure according to the greatnesse and largenesse of the Bozia or Cucurbite in such sort that a thirde part of the Glasse bodie remayne emptie which done set the Lymbecke or Heade on the Vessell fast luted about with the whytes of Egges Flowre or Meale and water myxed togither and spred on a Lynnen cloth the Bodie of Glasse on such wyse trymmed and prepared let be set into Balneum Mariae after dystilling by a small or most soft fire daye and night vntill the tyme that the fiue measures be come to the one halfe the same keepe that you haue thus dystilled foâ— the extractions you shall haue a signe or note certayne of the perfite Dystillation of the Quintessence if you cast a heare of the Eye browe into the same and that it sinketh or falleth to the bottome incontinent then haue you brought the Quintessence to a perfection commodious and apt for other Dystillations The lyke may you bring to passe and doe with water â—ymple or Maye dewe In the meane whyles it behooueth that the Bozia be very long to th ende that the grosse vapours oâ— earthly spirites ascende not on hygh The same Dystillation must be repeated fiue or seauen tymes ouer or so often vntill that it be perfite And such a fashion or way séemeth verie excellent for that the saâ—â—e infecteth nothing at all the extractions infused in it wyth anye straunge qualitie you shall also obtayne a water wyth expedition if on any iuyce or lycour heated you set a Goblet or Bowle of Glasse into which the fume ascended turneth it selfe into sweating drops and those drops gathered togither of the sweatings are on such wyse conuerted into water By the lyke meanes and waye is the Vineger easily conuerted into water euen so the vapor of Herbes boyled in Wyne is gathered rounde about the bottome of Platters or Dyshes couered ouer such a Quintescense is very excellent for the clensing of spottes and Webbe or Pearle of the eyes especially if a man boyle of the Rue or herbe Grace in whyte Vineger us the worthie Phisition Cardanus affirmeth An ingenious maner of distilling by Sande The .xiiij. Chapter BEstowe the matter which you will distyll wythin a Glasse body stopping the mouth wyth Paste that no ayre at al may breath forth after do the like as followeth Set the Cucurbite into a Kettle or Copper panne full of water and fresh Oten strawe which cause to séeth softly vntill the time that the matter or substance boyleth no more as the same perhaps maye be at the consumption of all the water in the Kettell after remooue the Kettle with the Cucurbite from the fire and assoone as the Cucurbite is through colde put the same a newe into another vessell full of Sande in which let it be compassed about and couered with Sande vp vnto the necke after bestowe the same in a sunnie place where the sunne all the day shyneth very hote and in that hote place let this stande for fortie dayes togither which tyme expired take it forth of the Sande and set the Glasse againe on the Sande only without a vessell for the space of eyght dayes at the tyme ended let it runne through a newe Lynnen cloth and wring the substance harde in a Presse for the purpose c. This manner of Dystillation ought rather to be wrought and done in the Monethes of Iuly and August A forme very rare of Dystilling by Dung borowed out of the worke Pyrotechnia The .xv. Chapter THere is also another fashion and maner of distilling sayth a certaine Author much vsed of the Chymistes which is wrought in Horse dung whose heate is to be increased by the fume or vapour of Boyling water after thys order Lette a wooden Coffer or Chest be made of sixe Flemishe Elles in length or not aboue foure yardes and a halfe of our measure and of such a breadth that the same maye commodiously contayne of eyther side the Vrinall bodies of Glasse and that there be no more left than a space by which the Pype maye passe and retch betwéene the rowes of the Glasses standing on eyther side This long Chest fill with dry dung myxed with short chopped straw after lift vp and set the same on a wooden Forme or Benche to the ende that it may stande the higher and commodiouser for the performance of the worke These done it behooueth you orderly to bestowe the Vrinall bodies or Cucurbites of Glasse in the Dung wyth their heades aboue it and regarding by their heygth ouer the edge of the Chest on eyther side to the ende the Noses of the Lymbeckes may the handsomer be luted to the receyuing vessels In the myddest betwéene these vessels must a Pype of Copper or Leade or if you wyll of Woode be extended and couched hauing bored rounde about manye small holes and these in order throughout or all the length of the pype the one ende of which to bende after such fashion that it wholye regardeth towardes the Grounde to this mouth and ende of the Pype let a vessell of the best Earth or of Copper be raysed and set hauing a long necke and
dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Iune putteth away vlcers of the gummes by often washyng the mouth with the same The water profiteth the consumption of members if they be often rubbed and laboured with the same in that by it they recouer strength and flesh The water heateth the marrowe of the bones if they be often washed and laboured with the same and let to drie by themselfe The water profiteth against a colde disease of the ioyntes if they be rubbed and laboured with the same and let to drie by themselfe The water of Mullaine or Hygges Taper The Lxxiij Chapter THe leaues with the flowers full rype gathered from the stalkes after the shredding small dystill by Balneo Mariae This water is most precious against all swellinges as well inwarde as outwarde by drincking of it morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a time or that a lynnen cloth doubled and wette in the same be often applyed The water in such maner taken helpeth the lunges ascending vnto the throte and increasing Thys in lyke manner profiteth against a hote gowte by drincking of it morning and euening and applying lynnen clothes wette in the same for on such wyse handled a better remedie is not to be founde The water profiteth against all maner of griefes procéeding of a fluxe by drincking thereof morning noone and at night to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar and a little of the fine powder of Cinamone in the same maner druncke putteth away the grypings of the bowels The water recouereâ—h the face which appeareth infeâ—â—ed after the kynde of a Leprie if a soft lynnen cloth dypped in the same be often applyed vpon The water helpeth burnings or scalding â–ª if a double lynnen clothe assoone as the harme done wette in the same be applyed the rather by dooing on such wyse oftentimes for it draweth forth and extinguisheth the heate without harme leauing The water amendeth an ytching scabbednesse whether the same shall be moyst or drie by applying lynnen clothâ—s wette in the same morning noone and at euening The water profiteth if an inflammation with rednesse happeneth on the skinne by wetting a lynnen clothe in the sâ—me and applying it to the place The water profiteth if anâ—e shall haue a long tyme dymme eyes and weake of sight by letting one or twoo droppes fall at a time into eche eye for two or thrée wéekes togither The water of the Lynde or rope Timber tree The Lxxiiij Chapter THe flowers orderly gathered and put into a Cucurbite of glasse dystill by Balneo Mariae This water clenseth anye spottes of the face if the face be often washed with the same as Hieronimus the Herbarian reporteth The water druncke with a little Cynawone water recouereth the trembling of the heart The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time helpeth the falling sickenesse The water drunck in like maner profiteth against the fretting of the guâ—tâ—s and dropped at euening into the eyes procureth a cléerenesse of them The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time helpeth the stone In the same maner druncke recouereth swellings and sendeth all maner of euill humâ—rs out of the bodie The water of Tormentill The Lxxv. Chapter THe herbe with the whole substance shredde and bruised requireth to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae from the xv day of August vnto the viij of September This water druncke in the morning fasting to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time preuayleth against all maner of poysons The water is a good preseruatiue against the plague and an vnhealthfull ayer For the plague when it inuadeth any incontinent open a veyne as it behooueth after giue this potion on such wyse prepared take of the water of Tormentill thrée ounces of Uenice Triacle a dram weyght of wyne vinegar an ounce and a halfe which diligently myxed togither minister warme to the pacient lying in his bed and well couered with clothes to sweate whyles he thus lyeth in a sweate rubbe and labour his handes and féete with Uinegar Rue Wormewoode and Salt myxed The next day following minister againe the same potion and he shall then recouer helth The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time recouereth the desperate and all vlcers in maner and stayeâ—h any maner fluxe of the bellie especiallye the fluxe Dysenteria The water taken in the same maner strengtheneth the bodie comforteth the brayne the heart stomacke lyuâ—r mylt and the whole brest if wyne sometymes be myxed with the same The water druncke in the same maner helpeth all Agues it strengtheneth and comforteth such recouering out of a long sicknesse The water druncke profiteth woundes as well within the body as without and cureth outwarde woundes the spéedier if they be often washed with the same It also helpeth all manner of griefes of the eyes by dropping of the same euery night into the eyes for it cleareth the sight The water healeth the Fistula and Canker if they be often washed with the same and that lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed To be briefe in what maner and what sickenesses the water shall be applyed and ministred shall of experience founde be profitable The water of Valeriane The Lxxvi Chapter THe congruent time for dystillation of it is that the herbe rootes and stalkes with the whole substance shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of May. This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a time and applyed with lynnen clothes recouereth vlcers swellings causing payne and great pyles in the fundament It also profiteth against other pyles by applying lynnen clothes wette in the same The water helpeth such bursten and the bone somewhat broken by applying and drincking of the same It also dropped into the eyes cleareth them The water druncke in the morning fasting of Chyldren to the quantitie of of a spoonâ—full at a time deliuereth the wormes in the bellie The water druncke profiteth against poyson and a pestilent ayer It healâ—th newe and olde woundes recouereth vlcers and impostumes within the bodie and putteth awaye ache of the hyppes The water drunck procureth cleare eyes taketh away the paiâ—â— of them and prouoketh sweate powred into troubled wine causeth the same cléerer and purer The water remooueth griefe of the members procéeding of a cold cause by labouring the members with the same The water of the rootes onely dystilled by Balneo Mariae from the myddes of August vnto the viij daye of September drunck helpeth poyson and profiteth against venimous beasts wormes The water helpeth the quotidian feuer drunck to the quantitie of sixe ounces before the coÌ„ming of the fit The water drunck and applyed with lynnen clothes preuayleth against payne stitches of the sides The water procureth vnitie loue where twoo shall drincke togither a cup full
of this water The water of Verueyne The Lxxvij Chapter THe male Uerueyne with the whole substaunce gathered shredde small dystill by Balneo Mariae about S. Iohns daye in Iune This water druncke morning anâ— euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time for sixe or eyght dayes togither recouereth the yelow Iaundise preuayleth against poyson helpeth the Tertian and Quartaine feuer and expelleth wormes of the bellie by taking the lyke quantitie euery morning fasting The water in such maner drunck helpeth the straitnesse of the breast the hardnesse of fetching breath the vlcers and consumption of lunges It comforteth the lyuer and causeth a good coulour The water druncke recouereth griefes of the stomack the stoppings of the lyuer and mylt and grieuous paynes of the loynes and bladder The water drunk amendeth the stopping of the bowels stomack and bellie The water clenseth the reynes and bladder and washeth the stones in them The water profiteth against inwarde pushes of the bodie it helpeth the pyssing of bloud and grypings of the bellie It is a precious water for grieuous paynes and strypes of the heade by often annoynting and applying lynnen clothes wette in it to the heade It also helpeth long sickenesses whose cause is not knowne The water preuayleth against all manner of dymnesse of the eyes and vlcers in them comforteth a weake sight â–ª and procureth a clearenesse to it by â—ropping and annoynting it diuers tymes in the eyes The water helpeth sores or scabbes arysing amongst the heares of the heade or other places of the bodie and griefes of the stomacke lyuer and mylte by annoynting and applying lynnen clothes wette in the same The water profiteth against the exulceration of womens places if they be washed morning and euening with the same and that a lynnen clothe wette in it be often applyed The water of Fluelling The Lxxviij Chapter THe herbe with the whole substance shredde small and infused for a day and a night in good Sacke or white wyne dystill by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Iune which after rectified will indure for tenne yeares This water druncke in the morning fasting to the quantitie of two ounces or lesse at a time or that a Spunge wette in the water myxed with other sauours be borne in an Orenge pyll to smell oftentymes to it preserueth the person from the plague The handes heade forheade and temples annoynted with the same profiteth against any euill and noysome smell The person which is taken with the plague if he letteth a veine before it be opened and taketh an ounce and a halfe of the fine powder of this herbe with thrée ounces of the water myxed with a scruple weyght of Venice triacle and after the drincking be well couered with clothes to sweate the poyson and euill humors be then expelled from the heart and by sweating auoyded so that it is a present and prooued remedie agaynst venimous and pestilent feuers The water druncke twyse a day to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a time healeth newe woundes in that the same issueth forth of the woundes by sweating lyke to an Oyle The woundes are also to be washed wyth this water morning and euening applyed with lynnen clothes wette in it for this on such wyse cureth wounds and euill vlcers in a marueylous manner An ounce of Vitrioll or rather of the stone Chalcites brought to powder dissolued in a pynte of thys water healeth all putrified vlcers the Ringworme spottes of sundrie colours or any euill scabbe whelkes and fowlenesse of the skinne procéeding of corrupt humors The elder that thys water shall be so much the worthyer in diuers causes The water annoynted or applyed with lynnen clothes on the sting of Spyders or byte of venimous beasts healeth and putteth away the swelling The water druncke and gargelled morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time putteth awaye incontinent the swelling of the throte If halfe a pounde of Allum be dissolued in a pynte of this water and heated dryueth awaye Mothes out of clothe by wetting and washing it with the same The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of an ounce and a halfe or twoo ounces for certaine dayes togither putteth away gyddynesse of the heade helpeth memorie clenseth tough and clammie humours wasteth and purifieth corrupt bloude the matrice and bladder purgeth expelleth poysons the stone of the kidneyes and all inwarde poysons of the bodie The water deliuereth the wandring heate and openeth the passages of the bodie This also druncke euery morning fasting for sixe wéekes togither to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a time maketh a man leane of bodie strengtheneth the lyuer and consumeth superfluous euill humors The water druncke in the morning fasting anâ— labouring it especially on the heade doth greatly profite to the comforting of memorie and to the strengthening of the heade and brayne it also causeth a readynesse of speache and purifyeth the bloude The water druncke to the quantitie of twoo ounces or twoo ounces and a halfe with a dram weight of the fine pouder of the leaues of Fluelling â–ª and a dram of the myddle rynde in powder of Amara dulcis that is bytter swéete myxte and druncke fasting for certaine dayes togither deliuereth the clammynesse of the lunges purgeth the breast by spittings forth helpeth the Cough difficulties of fetching breath corruption of the lungs for which cause the shepeheards in our time vse to giue the herbe with salt to shéepe vexed with the cough The water taken morning and euening doth especially helpe the lunges and liuer if they inwardlye putrifie and doe ascende vnto the throte yea though they shall putrified vnto the gretnesse of a hasill nutte yet will they againe be restored to helth by this The water druncke with a dramme of the powder of the herbe deliuereth the shedding of the gall gâ—ntly procureth vrine and causeth very fatte and barren women leane and fruitefull The water druncke to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time procureth sweate according to necessitie The water of the Birche tree The Lxxix Chapter THe leaues newly sprunge out â–ª shredde and beaten dystill by Balneo Mariae about the middes oâ— May. This water drunck morning and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time â–ª swéetened with Sugar deliuereth the griefe of the stone in the loynes The water profiteth vnto the cooling of hote vlcers especially those which shall happen on mans priuities if it be applied with lynnen clothes The water dyâ—tilled out of the tappe of the trée after this manner purchased as that 〈…〉 a hole bored in the bodie of the trée néere to the roote and vnder the same a glasse set to gather the lycour dystilling forth which after dystilled by Balneo Mariae profiteth vnto all wounds washed with the same yea healeth and dryeth vp open vlcers if it be often applyed with lynnen clothes The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo
in euery scabbe or in all manner of scabbes The water of Dooues dung stéeped for a night before in wine dystilled and druncke helpeth the stone this Theophrastus The water of a Capon dystilled which a Germaine woman vsed in the traueyle of chylde and in birth of the chylde Take a Capon of twelue yeares of age this strangled pulled and orderly dressed boyle then in a sufficient quantitie of the best Malmesie Rosewater and Borage in a possenet or rather new earthen pot glased vnto a tendernesse of the fleshe after stampe diligently the fleshe with the bones and intrayles which put into a Cucurbite and luted dystill according to Arte in Balneo Mariae adde in the dystilling both Muske and Amber gréece but another willeth of Diambra and of Diamoschus which I rather allowe of the powder of precious stones of Diarrhodon abbatis of Diamargariton calidum Aromaticum Rosatum of eche of these Cordiall powders gotten from the Apothecarie fower scruples of Coriander prepared halfe an ounce adding herevnto besides of the oyle of Cynamone fower graines weyght of the oyle of Cloues sixe graines these diligently mixe togither The description of the water of a Capon out of the dispensatorie of the Colonians The Lxxxiiij Chapter The dystillation of a Capon Maystriall of D. Peter Vnormatiensis he first boyled the Capon in water vnto a sufficiencie on such wyse that twoo pyntes remayned of the broth after he powred the broth and fleshe into a glasse bodie close-luted which he dystilled after Arte in ashes and hauing distilled about a pinte or a pinte and a half ceased of without adding to this water eyther spices â–ª eyther herbes or rootes which water he often ministred and vsed to weake bodies in Agues and was delectable without abhorrement to the pacients Another let a good Capon be boyled in pure water with the leaues of Borage and Buglosse of eche one handfull of the conserue of Violets Roses Borage and Buglosse of eche twoo ounces of the Cordiall powlders a like quantitie added let all these be dystilled in Balneo Mariae the lycour dystilled aromatizate with the powder of the thrée Saunders and let this be druncke or ministred often to weak bodies this borowed out of And â–ª a Lacuria in the ende of his booke of the pestilence The dystillation of a Capon borowed of a certaine doctour Take an auncient Capon of sixe seuen or eyght yeares of age the same drie pull and bare which after the drawing stéepe or soke in pure water for a night the whole put after into a newe earthen pot glased which containeth fower measures of water this in the séething skym diligently and the fatnesse take carefully of remembring alwayes to fill vp the pot boyling After the fleshe tâ—â—derly sodden and fallen from the bones take or pare of both the fatte and thinne skynnes which so ordered shredde the fleshe very small putting it with the boyled water into fower glasse bodies Artely luted vnder which maintaine fire vntill the whole worke be ended which dystilled on this wyse stoppe close vnto your vse for this mightily recouereth those which be decayed of strength and that haue no appetite or will to meate Another water of a Capon vnto the restoring of decayed strength out of a written booke of a certaine Phisition the tender fleshe and pulpe of one Capon the skynnes and fatte drawne of and pulled away shredde finely and washe diligently with Buglosse water after this adde to the conserue of Violets Borage and Buglosse of eche an ounce and a halfe of the conserue of Roses one ounce of lease golde vj. in number all these arteficially mixt togither and put after in a double vessell dystill according to Arte let a spoonefull alone of this licour be often ministred or with comfortable brothes mixed Another water of a Capon out of the same author recouering bodies lowe brought by the ague Take the pulpe or tender flesh of the Capon being chased and coursed vp and downe and to and fro before the strangling from which drawe or plucke both the fatte and skinnes then washe both in the waters of the water Lillie named of the Latines Nenuphar and the Lettuce adding thereto the conserue of Violets new made and the flowers of the Nenuphar of eche one ounce of the conserues of Borage and Buglosse of eche one ounce and a halfe of the whyte Poppie and Lettuce séedes of eche one ounce of the powder of the colde Diamargariton one dramme and a halfe of the iuice of pleasant Apples twoo ounces all these diligently mixte togither and put in a double vessell dystill according to Arte which dystilled lycour vse after the maner aboue taught Another water of a Capon of the same authors for the recouering strength in a colde sickenesse Take the pulpe of the Capon throughly wearied and after washed diligently in whyte wine or else in Malmesie if so be the sickenesse shall be colder adding therevnto of the conserue of Sage flowers one ounce of the conserue of Staechas Anthos and Acorus of eche halfe an ounce of the ryndes of the Cytrons prepared with sugar and finely shred sixe drammes of the inner part of the Cinamone and of Nutmegs of eche one dramme let all these be put in Balneo Mariae and dystilled according to Arte let certaine spoonefulles of thys lycour be ministred for a certaine time to the weake and féeble bodies There be some Authors which in certaine sickenesses especially of the heade and in colde diseases with the weakenesse and decayed strength that highly commende the waters of Capons dystilled on such wyse yea the Author hath experienced to haue auayled somtimes in the Collick passions especially those which were wyndie of bodie for the distilled water giuen to such much perplexed with wynde of the bodie it spéedily ceaseth and stayeth the winde from any more molesting if so be the water shall rightly be prepared Thus diuers and sundrie medicines may skilfully be deuised by a learned Phisition in the varietie of sickenesses For what cause the brothes of Capons and other fattes seeing they be fluxible and of an ayreall substance are so slowly eleuated The Lxxxv. Chapter THe reason of this is in that the fatnesse floting or swimming aboue doth of the same procure and drawe ouer a thyn skin which so kéepeth the moysture resting vnder that the humor can hardly euoporate through and euen the like doth the oyle poured into a vessell with eyther wine or pleasant waters by the floting aboue suffer not any of them to breath through and the Radish roote also eaten with oyle causeth then not the lyke belchings or reastinges of the stomacke to insew as did otherwise without the oyle and euen the like of iuices may be learned which when any woulde haue kept for a time they doe couer it with oyle that neyther the spirites through the same keeping in the iuice doe breath forth nor maye be drawne awaye of the outwarde ayer this written of Langius in his Epistles A
of a diuers sundry properties vnto many grieffes disseases as vnto the recouerye of sight memorie It also strengthneth any member annointed with it digesteth the flewme harming the stomacke strengthneth it mynistred vnto the quantity of a sponeful at a time in what maner also it be taken euery day fasting the same defendeth the person from any byt of venemous beast and applyed on the byt of any venomous beast spedily deliuereth and cureth the poysoning annointed on any fowle scabbes it spedilye healeth them and slayeth wormes of the bodye dropped into the eares taketh away the hard and flowe hearing helpeth the running or watering of the eyes and all dulnesse of sight and drunck it delyuereth the swellinges of the inner members the téeth by washing and if both vlcer and canker be annointed with it eueryday they are spedily cured and in the lyke maner the resolution of the synewes it cureth besydes the swellinges of the legges or any sicknesse procéeding of a cold cause The Aucthour to make this toke of Turpentine halfe a pound of burning water two pints of Xyloaloes of the citryne redde Saunders of chosen Cinamon of Cubebae of Galingale of Nutmegs of CardamomuÌ„ of Saffron of Frankinsence of Mace of Mastick of Ginger of Spiknard of cloues of each thrée ounces of gum Arabicke one ounce of Muske one draÌ„ of Amber gréece so much all these he dyd beat apart finely searsed them which after he had infused theÌ„ togyther in Aqua vitae or burning water for a day in a glasse body he then distilled the whole with a very soft slow fyre vntyl the water distylling come forth cleare and when it chaunged colour he set vnder another Receauer and so kept eyther by it selfe This Fumanellus An Elixir or compound water of Lyfe which shall be applyed vnto the Baulmes The .lxxxviij. Chapter TAke of Cloues of Nutmegs of Gynger of Galingale of long Pepper of black Pepper of Zedoaria of Iuniper horryes of the rynds of Orynges of the rynds of citrones of Maioram of rosemarie of Myntes of Baye berryes of penny royall of the round Aeristolochia of Stoechas of SigilluÌ„ B. Mariae of the blessed thistle of the flowers of Cheiri named of some the stocke gelyflowers or rather the yelowe Violet flowers of Dasie flowers of redde Roses of Elder flowers of Spyknarde of Lignum aloe of Cubebae of Cardamomum of chosen Cynamon of Calamus aromaticus of Sage of Basill of Gentiane of Catminte of all the kindes of Saunders of Acorus of Pionie both the rootes seedes of Mace of the garden nightshade of the Hartes horne of the sylinges of yuorie of Germander of Chamepithis or bytter swéete of Nelligetta of Masticke of Olibanum of Aloes hepaticke of Myrre of Chamomill flowers of Dyll of Mugwoort and of Bytonie of each thrée drams or Borrage flowers of Buglosse flowers of Baulme of Annise sâ—edes of Fennell and Carrowaye seedes of each two drams of Specierum electuarij de gemmis of Specierum diarhodon of Specierum triasantali Specierum aromatici rosati of each halfe a dram of Diamuschi of Dulcis diambrae of the electuarie of precious stones of Triacle of Diacorus of Dianthos of each halfe an ounce of the flowers of the hearbe Lichnitis of Altilis of the bremble flowers of Marygold flowers of the rootes of Bardana of the Ferne rootes of each halfe an ounce of the greater Celondine with the rootes cleane scraped from the fylthe and the rotten decayed leaues cut away if any such hang on one ounce of chosen Ruberbe an ounce a halfe and of oyle of Turpentine one pounde all these aboue noted well beaten brought to pouder and let eache be gotten and put vp in his proper tyme in begynning from the Spring and continuing the Sommer in the best Aqua vitae made of pure pleasaunt rennyshe wyne distylled in a Glasse bodie and not in a Copper vessell and in that the flowers and hearbs gathered in theyr speciall tymes infused and close stopped in a glasse bodie with the head dilygently luted on The Aqua vitae in which the abouesayd spyces shall be infused must be vnto the quantitie of twentie and sixe pyntes If you shall deuide the water into thrée bodyes and lyke the spyces and other matters you shall then distyll safer in those three seuerall tymes then in one bodie and at one tyme alone And set your bodie with his head on in Balneo Mariae hauing a soft fire vnder The fyrst which commeth wyll be the Elixir or iewell of Lyfe the same keepe alone close stopped in a Glasse that it breathe not forth The next water which commeth wyll be grosser seruing vnto farre sympter vses And the Feces remayning in the glasse bodye bee compared to Triacle and serue for the poore and many sycknesses Another Elixir vitae maruaylously strengthning and comforting the head in a maner lyke to the other afore sauing it is nothing so chargeable and with lesser trauayle done Take of Cloues of Nutmegs of gynger of Zedoaria of Galingale of long Pepper and the blacke of the ryndes of the Cytrone of Iuniper berryes of Sage leaues of Basill of Rosemarie of Maioram of Eyebright of Fennell of Bytanie of Bayeberryes of Pennye royall of Gentiane of Catmynte of redde Roses of Spyknard of Lignum aloe of Cubebae of Cinamon of Cardamomum of Calamus aromaticus of Staechas of mace and of Olibanum of each one dram of drye Fygges of Reysons of Dates without the stones and of Iourdaine Almons of each one dram and a halfe of Hony sixe ounces and of whyte Sugar vnto the wayght of all let all these be dilygently beaten and laboured togyther and infused in good Aqua vitae thrise distylled ouer which after distyl in a glasse bodie with a softe fyre in doing besydes as is afore taught of the other Elixir vitae A most laudable water containing in it the vertues of a baulme necessarye and helping many sicknesses borrowed out of Fumanellus The water which followeth and yéeldeth the propertyes of a baulme procureth myrth and gladnesse coÌ„forteth the braine and druncke breaketh and cleanseth the rotten and mattery impostumes within the body putteth away the rednesse spottes of the eyes cureth the Fistula the Cankar applyed vpon by drinking of it it healeth the falling sicknesse the lousenesse of meÌ„bers or the palsie this cureth by applying and annointing the grieued places which especially procedeth of a cold cause the quaÌ„tity also of a sponefull drunck with a cuppe full of wyne fasting doth as it were staye backe olde age and mayntà yneth health and putteth awaye the pymples â–ª waterye whelkes and other spottes of the face by annoynting vppon yea the hyghe rednesse of the face being deformable and all other fowle blemishes hapning on the face it taketh away the payne of the téeth the wyndye beating of the eares being orderlye applyed â–ª the sâ—incke eyther of the swelling in the nosethrelles or swelling of
Fulgonus Take of the whytes of egges to the number of fyfteene of roche Alome of the iuyces of Purcelayne of Plantayne of Nightshade of Rosewater of the iuyce of sowre docke or sowre Grapes of each two pyntes these dyligently laboured mixed togither distyll in a Lymbecke with which washe the grieued places for it spéedilye bringeth olde vlcers and sores vnto a scarre A syngular practyse which a cunning Surgion vttered to the Aucthour that he often vsed against the eating Cankers hapning in the ouer partes of the body This Surgeon heated a new tyle stone which he after quenced in Alome water sundry tymes but he oftner vsed to hang vp the tyle redde hote and to poure leasurelye after a sprinckling maner Alome water vppon it vntyll the tyle was colde which water so stylling downe he gathered or receyued in a bason or dyshe and dypping lynnen cloathes in the water he applyed them on the vlcers and sores and thus as hée affyrmed dyd he marueylous soone heale those wicked Cankers to the admyration of many This Fumanellus A most syngular water helping the spottes of the eyes Take of whyte Hony two pyntes of Antymonie of Titia prepared and of Sugarcandie of each thrée drams of the best Aloes halfe a dram of Celondine of Rue and eye bright of each halfe a handfull these grosse beaten and myxed togyther distyll in a Lymbecke A water of Tutia prepared take of the eye bryght water of Fennell water of the Hony suckle water of eache halfe a pynt of Rosewater two pyntes of Tutia prepared two drams of Aloes halfe an ounce of whyte Coperase halfe a dram of Camphora one dram all these laboured and dilygently myxed togither distyll according to arte For this is a notable water experienced sundrys tymes against the spottes of the eyes this borrowed out of the learned practises of Arnoldus A water of Marchasite which consumeth clenseth the web and other spots of the eyes the pyn or web confirmed this softneth The making of which water is on this wyse take sundry pieces of Marchasite which redde hote quenche in a bason or déepe dythe fylled with olde sallet Oyle the pieces through quenched colde breake verye small which after distyll in a Lymbecke the Feces remayning grynde fynelie agayne distylling that ouer agayne A water helping the Leprie and other disseases This water preuayling against the Leprie and al maner foulnesse deformyty of the body cleansing the eyes mayntayning or preseruing youth effectuous in many other causes as by practise may further be coÌ„iectured the making of which distylled lycour is on this wise take of the fylinges or small pieces of syluer of copper of yron of leade of stéele of the owre of golde of copper of syluer of sâ—orâ—re of all a lyke wayght these stiepe for a daye and a nyght in the bryne of a chyld not polluted the next daye infuse those in hote whyte wyne the thyrd day these stiepe in the iuyce of Fennell the fowrth daye stiepe these in the mylke of a woman gyuing sucke to a man child â–ª which she bore into the worlde the fyft day infused in redde wine and the sixt day these infused in seuen times so much as the whole is of the whytes of egges which after the distylling kéepe to your vse A water auayling against the Lepry take of May dewflue measures of Brimstone one pound of Christal halfe a pound of Camphora one ounce these diligently beaten myxed togyther let so stand a tyme after boyle the whole easily or lightly which setled agayne distyll according to arte to this water adde pearles This orderlye mynistred purgeth choller adust and melancholic Lyme not quenched or staked ioyned with the whites of egges grinded on a marble stone distyl on such wise that the same which is the grosser may descend and for a day and a nyght kéepe this in a moyst place which distyll agayne with this whyten the face according to discretion Another whytning water take Lyme vnslaked incorporate the same with the water of the whytes of egges distylled by a Lymbecke which worke so thicke as a sauce after powre this into a Glasse body setting it couered in a moyst place for a daye and a nyght after distyll the whole according to arte which dystilled kéepe in a glasse with a narrow mouth A water whitning the face take of the whytes of egges of Boraciâ— petrosi of salt of roch Alome of each one dram each beaten alone myxe to the whytes of egges the whole distyll and vse A great vse there is at this daye of the strong water and often occupyed of the Chymistes and Goldsmythes yea in Phisicke exercised vnto sundrie disseases For that well practised Phisition Amatus Lusitanus â–ª prosperously exercised and ministred the same in the great and wicked vlcer of the iawes And certaine at the begynning of the webbe cured it by dropping of this water into the eyes A certayne Chyrurgian on a tyme applyed of this water into the hollowe toothe of a Woman which caused the Woman to ragâ— lyke almadde bodye â—ntyll thâ—â— a lyttle of Opium was applyed to the toothe by the aduise of a skilfull Phisition through which shee speedily after amended But this marueylously cureth vlcers Fistulaes Cankers and knobbes or knottes whyles they yet bée not entred within the bones and hollowe by wetting them onelye with a Feather or Lynnen cloath dypped in the water with which the Golde is seperated from the Syluerâ—e â–ª The auncient in tymes paste that they myght part or seperate the Golde from Syluer vsed the dystylled Lycour of Shoemakers yncke or bléeche as they also in Asia doe at this daye which with it doe seperate Golde from Syluer But our later practysioners that they might make the water stronger and vehementer added to it Salt peter Bellonius vttering and wryting of those medycines or compoundes preseruing dead bodyes affyrmeth that if yron or any other mettallyne matter bee put into the strong water that it forthwith boyleth and ryseth vp to faste that if it hath not vente to breathe out it then breaketh the vessel or doubble Glasse But yf you throwe Golde into it then doth it not lyke boyle vp but dyssolue the same into the fourme of Sande and all the other mettalles in the fourme of a lycour When Syluer shall be dyssolued in this water then put into it Copper plates and the Syluer wyll cleane to it which after stryke of with a brushe and in the ende this in the melting wyll ioyne A strong water is thus made take of Vitryoll and of Salt peter a lyke quantitye of these drawe a water by distyllacion into which if you put parsyll or doubble gylt ruppes or pottes the Syluer shortlye after wyll bée dyssolued but the Golde remayneth vndyssolued or as I may saye whole which after strayne and if you wyll stryke or wype of the Golde then adde vnto the abouesayd water of the Salt c. * after drye eache and
prepare orderlye Another strong water take of strong water of common salt and a lyttle of Salt Ammoniacum these dystill togyther or if the strong water shall be distylled before and the others after distylled with it this then is named the regall water or water of a kyng which seperateth Golde But the common Aqua fortis or strong water doth only seperate Syluer so that it doth both leaue the Gold and maketh it apparaunt A causticke water in the Fistula without payne â—nd auayleth also against kernelles swellinges and knobbes yea it taketh awaye all maner of excessiue or superfluous increasing of the fleshe in mans bodie without payne The making of which is on this wyse take of the best oyle of Tyle stands of chosen Masticke of gumme Arabicke and of Turpentyne of eache thrée ounces such as are to be beaten beate dilygentlye the whole then myxe togyther which distyll by a Lymbecke this after myxe and incorporate with halfe a pound of the ashes of the trée Cerrus which distyl agayne by a Lymbecke and that distylled or come forth kéepe in a Glasse well stopped A marueylous water in the Fistula with which golden letters may be written in yron take a Rammes horne cleane rasped and cleansed without which cutte into small or fyne pieces puttyng it after into a Lymbecked of glasse to be subtylly distylled this water then come forth worketh so on hote yron that it gyldeth it and marueylously auayleth in Fistulaeâ— This Bertapalia A water corroding and eating away in the stéede of a cauterice in so much that it eateth into yron take of â—alt water two ounces of Romaine Vitryoll one pounde of Vermylion or * of the redde sanguinarie stone fowre ounces grynde each a part which after the myxing togyther dystyll by a Lymbecke the water kéepe in a Glasse this Bertapalia A ruptory which serueth to part and cutte away any swellyng or mattery impostume without yron take of Romaine Vitryoll rubysâ—ed or made redde sixe ounces or Salt and nyter of each two ounces of gaules of salt AmmoniacuÌ„ of ech eyght ounces of Vitryol not rubifyed two ounces all these after the powthering and distylled in a Lymbecke keep warely in a glasse The vse of this lycour is that if an Olyue twygge or other piece of wood edged lyke to a knyfe be dypped and well wette in this water that the same cutteth awaye the swelling and wartes maye in lyke maner bée taken away with it This borrowed out of Fumanellus A water agaynst long continuing vlcers yea howe peryllous or wycked so euer they bée and the Fistula a medycine learned of a certayne religious person of which in another place we haue mencioned taught to mée many yeares agoe and by sundry practises tryed the same that it cleanseth all rottennesse and bringeth to healing yea and healeth them in a short tyme which is prepared and made after this maner take of Chalcitis or of the Romain Vitryoll one pounde of Salt nyter so much of water so much as shal suffice these boyle togither with a lyttle of quicksiluer Take of this water cleared two pyntes of quicksiluer one pounde the whole myxed together distyll in a Lymbecke and the distyllacion ended breake then the Glasse body and the substaunce within it which he as Feces or grounâ—e grinde fynely on a marble stone which distyll togyther agayne with the abouesayd water thrée or fowre tymes ouer For the vlcers being olde doth the powder remayning heale by applying vpon them withall the water This Fumanellus â–ª Another water taking away and healing Fistulaes knobbes or kâ—ottes Take of the oyle of Tyle stones fyue pyntes of vnquenched Lyme â—ew made thrée ounces of pure Arsenicke two ounces of Euphorbium one ounce all these distyll in a Lymbecke according to arte This Fumaâ—ellus Another mightyer water inputting away Fistulaes knobbes and wartes Take of the oyle of Tyle stones halfe a pynt of vnslaked Lyme fowre ounces of pure Ammoniacum so much of Euphorbium halfe an ounce all these myxed with the oyle distyll after arte in a Lymbecke and the distylled lycour â–ª kéepe to your vse This Fumanellus An Oyle for the cleansing of the Morphew take of whyte Tartare and of Salt nyter of eache a lyke these grynde finely on a smothe stone after make a hole in the myddle of the powder in which laye a burning coale and the oyle which runneth from the stone dilygently kéepe with the same annoynt the Morphew places and they shall speedily be cleansed and healed A strong water take of OrpymeÌ„te of Floris aeris of ech two ounces of Romaine vitryoll one pound and a halfe of Salt nyter two poundes of Alome thrée poundes all these dyligently brought to powder distyll according to art A strong water maruaylous in the curing of an old Fistula and that déepe entered within the bone borrowed out of a most auncient wrytten booke Take of Salt Ammoniaci of vitrioll of the redde and cytrine Orpymente of gréene copperase of each two drams eyther more or lesse according to the discrecion of the workeman all these brought to powder distyll in a glasse bodye well luted making a gentle fyre at the fyrst and increasing it so long vntyll the glasse body become redde that distylled keepe in a glasse closse stopped in that otherwyse it would breath out and consume away This water is of such a force and vertue that it pearceth the bones and for that cause one small droppe let fall in the hollow of the Fistula doth forthwith canterizate the same euen lyke to fyre After let the burning be taken or gotten away with the whyte of an egge or freshe butter and a warie application then vsed for the increasing of fleshe Another strong water take of Salt peter and of the Romaine Vitryoll of eache two poundes of Alome calcyned halfe a pound all these brought to powder distyll in a Cucurbite but I rather thinke a Retorte the better This water whytneth the téeth that be blacke if so be you applye a droppe of it on the téeth with a Goose feather and washe them after with spring or Conduite water A kynde of strong water auayling against wormes wartes and knobbes or lytle swellinges take of Salt Ammoniacum of Romayne vitryoll and of each two ounces of Sugar Alome and of vnslaked Lyme of eache halfe an ounce all these dilygentlye myxed distyll after arte Another water maruaylous in the Fistulaes and in the dyssoluing of pearles and the Gold in leaues Take of Salt Ammoniacum halfe a pounde of Salt niter three ounces of Tartare two ounces of coÌ„mon salt halfe an ounce all these finely brought to powder and distylled by a Lymbecke keepe in a glasse close stopped A water which dyeth or coloureth Horses Dogges cloathes and Feathers of a greene colour take of Salt nyter one pound and of Smerilij halfe a pounde these fynelie brought to powder distyll by a Lymbecke the water kéepe in a glasse closse stopped For the taking away of a Canker a secrete of Master Frances
two ounces of Romaine vitryoll and set in the open ayre for thrée dayes after vse the same according to discretion Another water take of salt gemme of the â—rosse beatings about the Antuiâ—ld of Copper and of Alcanâ—a of each a lyke quantitye these after the beating distyll after art in a Lymbecke Another water more of value take of salt gemme one pound of Romaine vitryoll halfe a pounde of Salt nyter fowre ouncâ—â— of the gréene rootes of Celondyne scraped vnto the wayght of all these seuerallye heateâ— â–ª and myxed togyther drawe â— water by Lymbecke the same 〈◊〉 fyrst 〈◊〉 throâ—eâ— way 〈◊〉 â—nprofitable the next which coâ—â—eth kéepe◠〈◊〉 it coloureth thâ— heyre in washing the heyres before with â—ye â–ª and â—â—tting the heyres often with a Spunge as thâ—y drye in the hote sunne A powder made by sublâ—mation most strong seruing with the corrâ—â—ing and eating away and mortifying deâ—â—â—slcke boroweâ— out of Lanfraâ—ke in his Antyâ—â—â—arie Take of the fylinges of yron of the powder of vitryoll of Alâ—ne iaâ—â—â—i and of Antiâ—â—â—nie of eache two ounces â–ª of the Salt â–ª Aâ—â—noniaâ—i of Arsenicâ—e cytrine â–ª of Sulphure viue of Floris â–ª aeris of each one ounce and a halfe of vnâ—laked Lyme new made halfe a pounde after all these well beaten and myxed togyther adde to the whole one ounce of quicksyluer extincted or kylled with fasting spyttle or mortifyed with the squilletick vineger or the sea water or stroÌ„g Lye which shall be the better if the same shal be of the ashes of Beanes and that Trochistes or lytle flat balles be made therof and dryed put into a Aludel and sublymed after arte The maner of the sublymation â—s on this wyse take a thicke strong Glasse body â–ª which wyl abyde the heate of fire without cracking or breaking or that it be a bodie of earth glased within and hath a couer to artificiallye framed and matched to it that one part entereth close within the mouth of the bodie which shal be vnder and so closely neere ioyned to it that nothing at all can breath out of the same with this that the edges or lyppes be luted round about with the lute of wisedome or potters claye Let the powder to be sublymed be put in the bottome of the body and close couered with the couer and the edges stronglye luted and set in the Furnace vnder which a soft or slowe fyre made for halfe a day after take the vessell from the fyre letting the same throughlye coole which being colde vncouer the head and that which then remayneth alowe in the bottome throwe away But that which cleaueth or sticketh to the couer take away and keepe in the pieces And when you shall néede of the same then vse and worke with the same by good cyrcumspection and in a warie maner in that this burneth lyke to fyre and both putrifyeth and corrupteth the place to which this is applyed Certaine instructions of Mercurie precypitate to be prepared and made with Aqua fortis are here vnder vttered Thâ—â— Mercurie precypitate is made on this wyse take of Aqua fortis or strong wâ—â—er one pound of crude Mercurie foure ounces dyssolued into water after the water euaporate in Sande or by distyllacion seperate it stronglye that it waxeth redde through dryed the same after grinde in a marble morter powring vppon Aqua vitae distylled fiue or seuen tymes ouer which also kyndle â–ª and let it burne vntyll the same be consumed After let it be rectifyed with Rosewater verie well myxed and then by fyltring or by a fylter seperate the Rosewater and leaue or suffer it to drye Then powre againe of the Aqua vitae vppon which kyndle and burne vntyll the same be through drye and the same repeted a thyrd time you shall haue that you desyre and seeke And so much of Aqua vitae must be powred vpon as maye onely suffice to couer it but not to much in any wyse A Mercurie precypitate inuented of an Empericke Frenche man take of quicksyluer one pounde of strong water fifteene pyntes these put into a Cucurbyte stronglie luted distyll after the maner of strong water as is afore taught increasing alwayes the fire vnto the ende Of Mercurie precipitate which serueth and is a remedie against all sicknesses and disseases caused of the rottennesse of humours The lxxxx Chap. TAke equal parts of Romaine vitryoll and Salt nyter and of them gather a water by distyllacion with a body head and Receauer into which bodye you shall put a sixt part of the wayght of crude Mercurie or quicksyluer that is if of the Vitryoll and Salt nyter there be three poundes then adde to these of Mercurie syxe ounces after this so doe that a water with his spirites may ascende and fall into the Receauer All which come in the receauer emptie then into another Glasse bodie pure within stronglye luted and fensed without to the headde of which set a Receauer fastened with lute and standing vnder the same cause to distyll againe and the water when it shall be gathered in the Receauer powre the same againe into the bodie in which Mercurie yet remayned and you shall often repeate and goe ouer with this vntyll a Mercurie come to rednesse being thus come redde take the Cake forth and washe it with Cordiall waters as the water of Rosemarye Buglosse Baulme and such lyke But washe the Mercurie before and that often tymes in spring Cunduite or well water being before distylled which Mercurie thus corrected and prepared you shall mynister to the sicke and grieued persons after this order and maner If the person shall be sufficientlye strong of bodie then mynister after the mynde of Gabriell Fallopius of Aloes cicotri halfe a scruple of Myrre and Masticke fowre graines of precypitate fyue graynes myxe these with rosed Hony or rather with the conserue of Roses framing of the whole eyther three or fowre pylles which gyue fasting in the morning and dryncking a draft of whyte wyne warmed after them If the bodie shall be meane of strength then mynister but fowre graynes with a lytle swéetâ— butter Sugar and three graynes of Masticke If the body shal be feeble and through crased then onely thrée graynes with halfe a scruple of Aloes â—ycotrine powthered and myxed with RhodosaccharuÌ„ which made into thrée pylles minister as aboue taught But if you minde to minister this to a Childe then vse but fowre graynes or rather applye of it according to the strength and weakenesse of the Chyldes body Further learne note that you ought to myxe the precypitate before with Triacle and to mynister the same then to the pacient poysoned to the dropsie person â–ª and pacient taken with the Pestilence or any other sicknesse And that more to be vnderstanded if a healthfull and sound man shall yearely or euery thyrd yeere vse this precypitate as neede occasion shall requyre the same with a prudent digestion of humours that is the preparation of the
purgation the pacient then shall auoyde disseases and from being sicke Here conceyue that in the place of precypitate you may vse the myxture named Amalgama which after the mynde of the Chymistes is made of sire partes of quicksyluer and of one parte of Golde with which thus prepared you may doe the greater marueyles And note that with the fyrst and second precypitate you may cure woundes by vsing the same after this maner as to put of it about the woundes within Besides the water remayning after the precypitate made taketh away the paine of all filthye wounds if they be bathed with the same a droppe of this water put with coten into a hollowe tooth which greuouslye aketh and payneth it doth sodaynlie astonishe mortifye the marow of the tooth and delyuereth the payne for euer Also this water mixed with whyte wine wetting the heyres of the head or beard with it being hoarie whyte causeth them to come yelow And sundry other matters besides this worketh which for breuitye here omytted The maner of making the Philosophers stone which healeth all disseases in man or woman is on this wyse take of Salt nyter prepared of roche Alome of Romaine vitryoll â–ª of each two poundes drye the vitryoll before in an earthen panne and being dryed beate altogyther into pouder vnto which adde fowre ounces of Salt gemme after put the whole into a bodie luted or fensed about with the lute of wisedome and the head close ioyned clayed about which set in an open Furnace making a fyre vnder with cleft wood if you wyl vnlesse you had rather vse coales then to the nose of the headde artlye fasten the Receauer that no ayre breath forth which done kyndle the fyre when it begynneth to distyl wet then lynnen cloathes easilye wringed out which shall applie both vpon the head and Receauer vnto this ende that the spyâ—â—â—es of the water do not euaporate waste for by the spirites euaporating the water is so caused vnperâ—ite to such a purpose in the begynning of this distyllacion doe the vesselles appeare so redde as blood and within a whyles after they become whyte when as you distyll with a strong fyre after that they returne so redde as at the first and these â—e the good spirytes of the strong water after that they returne once againe whyte and as soone as they appeare no more redde the water is then ended and perfite after which drawe forth the fyre and let the vesselles coole theâ— powre forth the water into a strong glasse close stopping the same which diligently kéepe for the making of the Philosophers stone After take of quicksyluer one pounde of vnflaked Lyme sixe ounces of blacke Sope fowre ounces of strong Ashes thrée ounces all these labour togyther in a morter whiche dilygentlye incorporated put after into a Retorte stronglye luted which fastened to his Receauer set in a Furnace to distyll making about and vnder it a strong or great fyre continuing this fire so long vntyll all the quicksyluer â—ée come forth and gathered in the Receauer which drawe awaye and keepe in a strong Glasse bodie close luted After labour the composition of the stone which is made after this maner Take the sayde water which you made fyrst powring the same into a bodye of such a bygnesse that two thyrde partes of the same may rest emptie which stronglye fence and lute about after powre into it the quicksyluer which you kept adding two ounces of thynne yron plates and one ounce of steele plates beaten verye thynne to the â—â— put so many golde leaues or sheetes as wayghe two Englishe crownes or fonte what lesse of wayght after these so put into the bodye set on the head forth with and the Receauer luted to with spéede for immediatly after the myxing of these togyther doth the substaunce in the bodie boyle and cause so redde Funles that yse as blood which then gather to the head so that spedilye â—ou must set the bodie in the Furnace applying fyre so long vnder vntyl the whole water be distylled and come and the Fume ended Then let the vesselles coole and kéepe the water a part close stopped after breake the bodye in the bottome of which you shal finde the Philosophers stone the same reduce bring into very fine powder and dilygently searâ—e it keeping it after in a â—alley pot or broade mouthed glasse â—â—ry close couered setting it vp as you would a precioâ—s treasure The water gathered and that you kéepe wyll serâ—e anothâ—r tyme to perfourme 〈◊〉 lyâ—â— effect and purpose but it for â—â—th not although you can worke â—uer but halfe the quantitye of the substaunce the same halfe you must necessarilye labour once â—uer againe in the fayde water which seconde worke ended of the stone bring the same into verye fyne powder and myxing â—â— with the first substaunce the water kéepe then close couered vnto infinite uses â–ª as shall after be vttered in the proper place But as touching the powder this one speciall matter is written by the Aucthour of the singular properties contained in it being prepared and compoâ—â—ned after the manner here vnder taught which so framed â–ª and mynistred doth then worke myraculously in that the same 〈◊〉 position named of him Aromaticum leonardi doth helpe all grieffes and sicknesses of the bodie of what qualitye and condiâ—ion so euer they be for setled in the stomacke doth forthwith drawe to it rounde about and from the headde all the euyll humours thereabout among the bodye which drawne togyther it speedilye sendeth them forth of the bodye as well by vomite as downwarde by stoole or siege disburdâ—ning by that meanes nature before charged after which the bodye may the sooner without impediment recouer to health and in this respect the same is a helper to the amendment of body and preuayling against all sicknesses as may appeare in the gloryous singular workings of it the making of which composition is on this wyse take of whyte Sugar fowre ounces of Pearles grynded of Muske of Saffron of LignuÌ„ aloe of Cynamon of each one scruple of this Philosophers stone fowre drams which after arte make into Tables with Rosewater as you doe Manus Christi these after put vp in a close woodden boxe that no ayre breath forth kept in a drye place The quantity to bée mynistred at a tyme is from one dram â–ª vnto two you may eyther gyuâ— it in broath wyne or Ale or in any conserue But gyuing it in a potion haue regarde that the same which setleth to the bottome of the cuppe be druncke also in that the same being heauie euermore setleth to the bottome and the same not druncke the effect then is not nor wyll be perfourmed at that tyme This also learne that what â—ays the pacient taketh it he maye then eate but lyttle vnto nyght and drincke onely thynne drincke for the better discharging of the stomacke The Aucthour also wryteth of an
of experience â–ª in his booke of secreetâ— This oyle miraculously healeth al maner of woundes bruses that especially happen on the head for that singular Surgiane Gabriell Fallopio dyd woonderful cures with it among which hée healed a plowman of two such long déepe cuttes on the head that were fearefull to behold besides a wound that passed through both sydes of his thyghe that he healed onely with this oyle with such expedicion that it were in a maner incredible to be reported so that where neede is of drying there cannot be founde anything of greater vertue then this blessed oyle so often and many tymes proued of Fallopio Besides the gréeke Fiorauant reporteth that it causeth heare to growe on the head the heares of the beard shedding this stayeth causeth them to grow againe with expedicioÌ„ by annoynting the weake place the bare plaâ—e after a wounde this also helpeth the paine of the flanks retention or staying backe of the â—ryâ—â— by applying a glyffer prepared with a lytle of this oyle withâ—â— the body this it doth forthwith For it mightylie dryeth vp that alteracion caused in the secrete places within where no loâ—all matter can be applyed on the kydneys nor otherwyse deâ—â—â— withall This oyle first inuented by the famous Greeke Leonarde Fiorauant and increased by that worthy man Gabriell Fallopio â–ª 〈…〉 â—â—most precious oyle for worâ—â—â— â–ª whiâ—â—â—uer they be â–ª borrowed out of the first chapter 〈◊〉 written by Bertapaâ—â—a Take of the kernelles of Peaches of bytter Almondes of Gentiane of wormewood of Horehounde or of Lupynes of Colewort seedes of the Peache tree leaues of the ryuer or water Catmintes of Oleandri of Pellytorie of whyte Elleborie of the rootes of the long grasse of eache halfe a handfull all these dilygentlye brought to powder and laboured with the gaule of a caulfe and the iuyce of Leekes and myntes of each two ounces of Neunphare oyle one ounce of wormewood oyle two wyne pynts all these after the dilygent myxing togither set in horse doong to putrify for a moneth in a strong glasse well stopped which after distyll with a headde close luted and you shall then purchase a water and an oyle reuyuing and strengthning the disseased and sicke of the wormes by taking two scruples of the water by the mouth with Malmâ—sie by annoynting of the oyle on the temples pulses of the hands and feete and all about the body and the mouth of the stomacke and about the shoulder poyntes By which doing the Aucthour sawe many children in a maner deadde of the wormes recouer health in a short tyme after and healed woundes with this oyle and vlcers with expedicion Of Baulmes which are applyed and vsed without the bodye of which some are prepared and done by distyllacion and some without distyllation The .x. Chapter AN artificiall Baulme curing all olde woundes helping the drynesse of members and the members shrunck take of Galbanum of AmmoniacuÌ„ of Mastick of pure Myrre of gum Elemi of Bolellium of eache halfe an ounce of Turpentine one ounce and a halfe or two ounces which is the better of oyle Oliue two pyntes of Viridis aeris two ounces and a halfe all these brought to powder infuse for sixe or eyght dayes in the strongest vineger â–ª after distylled by a Lymbecke as in the first daye by Balneo Mariae and the next daye in sande but if you wyll haue it stronger of better taste then adde these vnder taught and let it be brought and done as afore vttered take of Storax calamâ—â—a of gum yuie of Spykenard of Carâ—â—e of â—olophonia of gâ—m Tragaâ—â—â—ite of gum Serapine of Opopanax of each halfe an ounce 〈◊〉 phâ—â—â—bium halfe a dram of Viridis aeris thrée drams of Turpentine one pounde This baulme cureth all olde woundes in a colde and hote cause It helpeth also the drynesse and shrincking of members if those shall be annoynted with that baulme A distylled oyle helping the trembling or shaking of the hands let equall portions of the oyle of Bayes of Rue and of Sage be distylled togyther which after tenne dayes powre into a strong wyne and distyll the whole in a Lymbecke with this water gathered annoynt the handes feete and the trembling members Another oyle helping the treÌ„bling of the head take al the abouesayde which put into Aqua vitae for fowreteene dayes the whole distyll by a Lymbeck and with this water annoynt the temples both morning and euening Here it is to be vnderstanded that where he speaketh by the matters aboue taught he meaneth not the oiles in this but the Bay berries the Rue Sage especially A distylled baulme helping and curing woundes and deepe vlcers take of Turpentyne sixe poundes of Olibanum halfe an ounce of Lignum aloes of Masticke of each one dram of Cloues of Cynamon of Zedoaria of Nutmegges of Cubebae and of Galingale of eache thrée drammes of oyle Olyue sixe drams these brought to powder and myxed distyll with a slowe fire this helpeth the colde poysons of Toades Fistulaes Noli me tangere the Palsie and venymous woundes with or by a Tente Here in this place besides is to be noted after the mynde of Theophrastus Paracelsus that baulmes prepared and gotten by distyllation are not to be applyed at all on woundes of which let others iudge An oyle effectuous and proued for softning of the synewes or palsie and the shrincking of them or the crampe the falling sicknesse or Epileptia the trembling of partes and any colde disease it increaseth also memorie the vnderstanding Take of Galbanum halfe an ounce of gum yuie fiue ounces these after the bringing to powder distyl in a Lymbeck mixed after with one pouÌ„d of Sebesten distyll the whole againe with this annoint the hinder part of the head and the nape of the necke at nyght before the entering into bedde this borrowed out of Fumanellus The best oyle seruing vnto all the synewes vnto the ioyntes helping marueylously all the aches hapning in the hyppes the knées the handes and féete the bodye before purged â–ª after the begynning of the sycknesse and let the grieued place be annoynted at the fyre or in the Sunne twyse a daye Take of chyldrens vryne twentye pyntes of Brymstone one pounde of vnflaked Lyme two poundes let the Brymstone and Lyme bee brought to powder and the Vryne â—â—â—tyng a hande breadth aboue them which boyle togyther vntyll it shall come vnto a gréene colour after the strayning boyle agayne the grosser partes and Feces remayning with the other parte of the Vryne restyng and thys doe three or fowre tymes and so often vntyll the vryne hath leste his colour and seeth that whiche remayneth vnto the thycknesse of Honny being colde distyll in a Glasse bodye the same which fyrste commeth forth in the colour of water throwe awaye and the nexte which commeth being of a yellowe collour through the fire increase dylygentlye keepe Another of the same mans An oyntmente helping
then must the stroÌ„ger heate or fyre be left and the other followed and mayntained but if otherwise then let the heate be increased Thyrdly must be considered learned that the oile fyrst distilleth so that at the coÌ„ming of the second or thyrde oyle the receauer may be changed And within an howres space in a maner wyll halfe an ounce be distilled and gathered in the receauer So that when no more lyquidnesse appeareth on high in the Cucurbite then wyl no more matter distyll forth and the work vpon this sight is fully ended The oyle of Annise seedes is thus prepared drawne take of Annise seedes for this is a coÌ„mon forme waye vnto the distylling also of oyles out of other séedes one pounde these after the grosse beating râ—t into a horned or croke necked body to which let the receauer be artly closed fastned setting the body theÌ„ into a pot of ashes the same distyl with a most soft fyre you shall gather a water an oyle in the receauer The water you shal draw forth by a reuoluing or repeting againe of the whole substance that oyle remaining or tarrying behind in the body whose vse serueth vnto the collicke passion paine of the bowels But of the water is an electuary made with Sugar in the forme of losings or Manus christi of which one table at a tyme eyther after dynner or after supper may be giuen or taken For this strengthneth the stomack digestion putteth away or expelleth wynd This at any time takeÌ„ or vsed profiteth but in the morning especially helpeth the lungs the cough the obstructions or stoppings of choller helpeth the inward parts The vse of it properly is in droppes The oyle of Annise is much more in property then the Annise it selfe and in working myghtier Yet the naturall heate of the whole Annise seede can neuer be so exactly purchased as to draw forth seperate a perfite substance although an artificiall preparation may be wrought the same by mans industry For like as any meate that the same may be taken eaten without daunger or harme it néedeth before an outward preparation euen so must a lyke preparation be wrought in medicines that the subtyller parts be seperated from the grosser before those be applied or taken within the body for on such wyse prepared and ordered may any medicine worke the easier performe the proper action in the body without harme to the pacient The vse of this oyle much auayleth in the gyddinesse of the head the harde fetching of breath procéeding through a dangerous Rewme in a maner suffocating or choking the person in the weaknesse of stomâ—ck and wyndinesse in the dropsie in other colde diseases and those procured of wynd This also much profiteth the members lacking blood and the synew partes as the stomack the veynes the bladder the bellye and the whyte fluxe of the wombe this mightilye stayeth This oyle may be taken or ministred by droppos in gyuin certain droppes of it eyther in wine or in breath in the morning or in tyme of necessitie The oyle of Fennell séedes helpeth the head but the eyes especially the kydneys bladder Tables may be made of the same of lyke propertyes and vnto the same vses or certayne droppes may be mynistred alone at any time or else taken morning and euening And an oyle is drawne out of the drye séedes without any other addicion it is very pleasaunt and swéete of taste as the Aucthour prooued and felt of the same the same also in colour is whyte that first distylleth The oyle of Cummyne drawne is profitable to woundes ioyning néere vnto the Mylt the swellings of the body procéeding of a colde cause which sometymes happeneth and is the cause why the vryne is stayed backe vnto this vse may a droppe or two be mynistred in Ferne water or in Tables if they be made with it The oyle out of Henbane séedes prepared in the same maner as the oyle of Roses by the discription of Rogerius auayleth the lyke that the oyle of the apples of Mandrake doth It auayleth also in the hote ioynt aches in repressing mightily the payne and causing an astonishment to those places applyed in burning and in excoriations it may procure and make a lyttle scarre and mytigate the burnings out of the same Aucthour A compounde oyle out of Séedes procuring sléepe Take of the Seedes of Lollij of Henbane of the whyte and blacke Poppie of the Lettuce and Purcelane séedes of eache fowre small handfulles of the séedes of Faba inuersa which is Telephium two small handfulles let all these be distylled togyther of this distylled mynister two scruples wayght at a tyme with a lytle or small quantity of Opium Of the oyles out of Fruytes The .xiiij. Chapter THe oyle of Iuniper berryes is distylled in the same maner as the Aqua vitae by powring water vpon and it then spéedilye and easilye distylleth As an oyle fyrst commeth and a water next inseweth euen in the lyke maner as wheÌ„ the Spike is distylled But it behooueth to breake the berries before Some also distyll them in a bodie this auayleth vnto many grieffes vnto the gripings of the belly vnto the mattering of the yarde which is as the same were the Gonorrhaea vnto the paynes or grieffes of the necke procéeding of Rewme Agyrtae or Iuglers publishe marueylous matters of the same oyle which who that lyste may reade theyr tables imprinted with them But the maner howe this oyle ought to be distylled is on this wyse I tooke sayth the Aucthour a pynt full of Iunyper berryes which I brake somewhat small vpon which I powred pure water such a quantitie as verie well couered them after I powred the whole into such a copper vessell as the same is in which the Aqua vitae most commonly is distylled and with a copper pype also passing through colde water dyd I distyll hauing vnder a bygge Receauer fastened to the pype which myght well receyue or holde fowre measures of lycour and on this wyse dyd the oyle distyll come with the water But another instrument I vsed standing on the head which I fylled with colde water for the better cooling of the spyrites that they burned not in the comming Out of the abouesayde quantity of berryes I neuer drew aboue three ounces of perfite oyle There is a further instruction for the drawing of this oyle in the first part of distyllations By pressing out also in this maner or on this wyse we drawe get an oyle not euyll sauouring take of Iuniper berryes broken fyrst myxt with burning water and after with oyle Olyue let them boyle a lyttle or at the least let these be infused togyther often sturring them with a spattle for eyght dayes then powring them into a bodie distyll in a Furnace after art the oyle after swymmyng aboue gather into another glasse you may then put into it a lytle of Angelica or some other thing a lyttle
Rosemary let all these stande to iufuse togyther for many dayes after distyll the whole by a Lymbecke and that gathered keepe in a glasse close stopped An Oyle of Antes egges and the Nettle distylled togyther with which the kydneys and bladder annoynted prouoketh spéedily vryne this borrowed out of Leonellus Of the Oyle of Antymonie and those which are prepared of the same named the glasse or precious stone and powder The xxiiij Chapter STimini or Stibium of the later Practisers named which with the Chymistes and makers of Oyles and swéete oyntments Antimonium is nowe by great experience well accoumpted of and vsed verie common among men and with great prayses extolled For there are three kynds of remedies prepared of the Antymonie which eyther gyuen within the body or applied without doe cause myracles Of which the one and first named the oyle and Quintessence the other and seconde the Powder and the thyrd the glasse and precious stone Of the oyle of Antymonie The .xxv. Chapter THe preparing and making of an Oyle of Antymonie which I receyued and learned of a certayne friend is on this wyse take of crude Antymonie and of crude Tartare of each halfe a pound these after the beating togyther in a morter or labouring on a stone put into a pot well glased before the mouth of which let be close couered with a couer lute that no ayre after breath forth and the pot so prepared giue to the potter to set among other pottes to bake in his Furnace For by this burning it is made a paste and blackishe or swartishe redde of colour rounde formed and easily brought to powder which after the potte is through colde the pot opened let the substaunce be taken forth beaten brought agayne into fine powder after powred againe into another pot well glased on which powre distylled vineger so much that it may lie two fingers breadth aboue the substance this pot then set on a Furnace to be heated that the vyneger may approche drawe to a rednesse and with the same coloured And it ought to stande on the Furnace for thrée or fowre howers the vyneger after shyfted into a distyllatory of glasse other vineger powred vpon and the same so often doe I suppose sixe or eyght tymes vntyll the vyneger be no more coloured All that coloured vineger powred forth distyll by a Lymbecke that the vyneger may so be seperated by distyllacion the redde substaunce abyde or remaine in the bottome Which done breake the glasse taking the whole forth which cleaueth or sticketh to the glasse put into an ypocrase bagge made of whyte cloath the same hang in a cold moyst Seller where the oyle wyll distyll forth drop by drop into a glasse standing vnder And in this maner was a certayne Practisioner woont often to prepare and make the same An oyle of Antimonie also is gotten after this maner coÌ„municated to Gesnerus by a most skylful practisioner in the making of this matter Let the Antimonie be brought into most fine powder and powred into a glasse bodie on which a most sharpe wyne vyneger powred and the same distylled stiepe on a soft heate of fire least the glasse breake so long tyme vntyll the vineger be chaunged redde The same thus coloured powre into another glasse and on the Feces powre new distylled vineger vntyll the same in lyke maner hath purchased a redde colour These powrings vpon and addicions of new vineger on the Feces ought so often to be repeated vntyl the powders send out of them no more rednesse The vineger all gathered ought to be distylled with a soft fyre vntyll the rednesse begynning a lytle lytle to thicken seame to aryse appeare in the head Then are the vessels to be cooled the redde lycour set to dygest vnder hote horse doong for xl dayes vntyl it attayneth the perfite forme of an oyle The same some affyrme to be so sweet as sugar to cease al paints of wouÌ„ds to heale them perfitly as certayne wryte besydes it doth marueylously cure throublesome and tedious vlcers â–ª such Cankred Another secrete of Antimonie which also vnto the white work not meanly auayleth take af Antimonie brought to powder â–ª xi ounces of Tartare calcyned .ix. ounces these after the myxing togyther put into a goldsmythes melting pot which closely luted stopped set into a Furnace for two howres it wyl well be calcyned the same after it be cooled and the mouth of the pot opened you shall finde the substance in the pot to be of a darcke ashie colour myxed with certayne yellow spottes This then beaten in a morter put into hote water and boyled in an yron panne let the whole be after distylled by fyltering which distylleth lyke to lye The first water yssewing is redde troubled which poured after on the Feces wyll distyll be gathered cleare This water then euaporate in a glasse Cucurbite in sande vntyll the substance be left drye or the moysture resolued But this matter left in the sande distyll as first with a soft fyre after with a stronger vntyll the spirites of the Antimonie begyn to ascend begyn as it were to colour the necke of the Lymbeck lyke golde Then set the matter in it selfe be cyrculated Some report that if thynne syluer plates be layd in this that they are wholye gylded appeare like golde in such maner that rubbed with the touch stone they yet appeare as gold But I suppose sayth the Aucthour that it wyll be farre better if the first troubled water coloured be kept a part and new powred on the Feces for peraduenture the seconde and thyrd water would draw carry with them more of the rednesse of the Antimonie which after gathered into one may then be drawne with a soft fyre vntyll the oylie rednesse appearing Another maner which a certaine practisioner often exercised vsed let first the rednesse of the Antimonie drawne many tymes by the distylled vineger as is aboue taught let the exhaltacion of the vineger be after done on a soft fyre and the redde powder preserued in the bottome Let the Quintessence then of wyne be powred to it stande to cyrculate togyther for forty dayes this after may safely be ministred by the mouth into the bodie Another maner of the same Aucthor take the Tartare calcyned vnto a whytnesse let it runne with the Antimonie in a goldâ—smitâ—es Crucible this after brought into powder dissolue in hote water and you shal so finde a certayne rednesse to swym aboue the water all which gathered put into a retort a water first ysseweth a most bewtiful redde oyle after foloweth let the same be cyrculated for â–ª xl dayes the best oyle of Antimonie wyl theÌ„ be purchased lesse corrosâ—ue And this maner who that can be vnderstand and compasse shall attaine a rytch oyle singular in many causes Another oyle of Antimonie learned of a Frenche Empericke take of Antimonie two pouÌ„ds of Tartare
finely brought to powder and calcyned with ashes or Lyme in the same maner but it rather seemeth safer that it be sundry tymes molten afore This helpeth sicknesses and first the pestilence and those also which be infected with it soone after the same is ministred it is giuen besydes to purge for the preseruatiun of health It is also a singular medicine against poisons drunck It secondarily helpeth theÌ„ which be coÌ„tinually vexed with headach It thirdly staieth rewms falling to the Lungs It fowrthly helpeth the grieffes paines of the stomacke weakenesse of the same It doth fiftly remedy the dropsie This sixtly helpeth the hard fetching of breath and haâ—dnesse to breath This seuenthly doth cure the particular palsie And eyghtly this helpeth the falling sicknesse Nynthly this cureth quartaine Agues The tenth is that the same remedieth that Melancholy the franticke and madde persons The eleuenth whose bodies doe inclyne to a kynd of Leprie be affected with a fowle scabbe Many prepare and make pylles of Stibium after this maner Take of Aloes halfe an ounce of Cynamon halfe a dram of Cloues halfe a scruple of Masticke halfe a dram these artly myxed make a masse of the whole with Rosewater Take of this masse vnto the quantitie of thrée Tares to which myxe thrée graynes of the Stibium prepared and with Rosewater or wyne frame to the forme of a pyll which minister in two or three pylles A certayne secrete of a skylfull practisioner in the cure of that piece of fleshe aboue in the nose causing a stincke with Antimonie prepared Take of the powder of the Antimonie prepared after make a tent which annoynt with an oyntment seruing to the purpose the same then rolle in the sayd powder put vp to the flesh in the nose for this speedily cureth it is experienced many tymes After the vse or taking of Antimonie vnto the comforting of the stomacke certayne are woont to gyue these medicines folowing Take of the pleasant spiced wine named Hypacras two parts of the Inlep folowing one part in these mixed togither dyp a toast of white bread on which after straw of the powder of the electuary of the three SaÌ„ders so much of the pouders of the mynt worm wood The Inlep is on this wise take three parts of the Aqua vitae drawn through a parchment skyn wet with the oyle of Annise séedes or with some other swéete smelling oyle the same distylled by the vapour only of Balneo Mariae of Rosewater two parts In the Aqua vitae let a few cloues be infused for a night which mixed togyther adde to sugar so much as shall suffice The French men are woont to giue some Cawdell or broath after the taking of the Antimony when the person féeleth him selfe prouoked to vomyt that he may the easilyer vomyt This gathered out of the letters of a certayne notable phisition vnto the singular Gesnerus A certaine Empericke affyrmeth that it may at all tymes or alwayes be safely giuen to the sick of the quartaine he also vttreth certayne proper experiments of the same For he gaue of the same to a certayne dropsie person had good successe Yet he affyrmeth that this pacient at the first was in great danger Of whom when we requyred to know the cause of this he answered that he could not purchase the Antimony sufficiently prepared To conclude a certayne practisioner affyrmeth that the Antimonie is and may safely be taken for this kynd of medicine as he alledgeth hath the same property of nature that it rayseth or sendeth away no benigne and profitable humour in the body but expelleth only the noyouse the same eyther by sweate which where it appeareth occasion is then mooued eyther by vomyt or by stoole Certayne do marueylously extol the vse of Antimony suppose it to passe or excel al other remedies in theÌ„ which be infected with the pestilence but I sayth a most singular man in his letters vnto the learned Gesnerus which haue the Antimony as well prepared as they haue know much harme done to many in the giuing of it For in the taking of it it greuously afflicteth or tormeÌ„teth the hart which is especially caused wrought in pestilent Agues this is certaine Of the vse of Antimony a certayne other learned man thus writeth vnto D. Gesnerus it answereth in all as gold to lyfe both in the preparation vse The Antimony in the vse but not in the preparation that it expresseth or resembleth not the Iacint it manifesseth I nowe haue first prepared it and in the preparation of the same certayne haue tryed it as a perfite matter So that in theyr report of practise and proper preparatioÌ„ trusting gaue thrée graynes of it to a certayne person who within two howers and a halfe after vomyted sixe tymes and went thrée tymes to the stoole procuring nor leauing after it any harme Of the Antimony prepared his vse another certayne learned thus wryteth vnto D. Gesnerus I here send to you but a smal péece of Stibium prepared as the learned Matthiolus vpon Dioscorides instructeth of which he vttereth a nuÌ„ber of notable vertues that if those were certayne true who I beséeche you were happyer than I which may by this medicine rydde or deliuer my self from that my continual cruel sicknesse as he reporteth there a story of a certayne person incombred with much windinesse of body like cured But I haue vsed the powder of this vnto this day gyuen it more then to twenty persons hauing sundry diseases in all which this first procured vomyting and after sundry great sieges or stooles those without griefe in the body after remayning as Matthiolus in the same place affyrmeth And although certayne of theÌ„ became after better yet were none wholy cleared of theyr sicknesse For which cause whether the same perhaps may often be ministred I now doubt But our noble persons much alow commend it seing it taken in so smal a quantity doth so singularly throughly purge corrupt humours I am woont sayth he to myxe this poyson with most pleasant conserues and iuyces in such maner that without any procurement to vomyt they may the wyllinger and lightlyer swallow downe the same I my selfe sayth he haue synce vsed or taken of it to the quaÌ„tity of two graynes where I otherwise gaue thrée graynes and for truth without any griefe in a maner and I fyrst vomyted aboue half a pynt of greene choller with most tough flewme after I made nyne sufficient stooles but the sicknesse nothing abated of these but I rather after a few daies became worser so that I customably affected with the MelaÌ„choly disease in my flaÌ„k was coÌ„strained to cease froÌ„ taking any purging medicine whether they shal be vehementer or gentler c. That if any be apter or easier to vomit vpward harder to purge downward or at the least indiffereÌ„t to this person may you safely minister two or
for the more part a red colour for which cause must it be rectified after the forme and maner folowing A rectifying of the oyle of Vitrioll The â–ª xxxvj Chapter TAke a Retort of Venice glasse â–ª which diligently fence with lute after powre into it the oyle which is contained in the Cucurbite That Retort set into a lesser furnace into a déepe pan filled with pure and washed Sande which like distill in the Sand as you did in Balneo in sharpning and increasing the fire by litle and litle that the droppes may leasurely fall Thrust the mouth of the Retort into the necke of the receauer made of the same glasse and the ioynt diligently close with the best lute â—â— no matter breath forth when the whole shal be distilled forth of the Retort suffer it to coole after the taking away powre it againe into a pure Venice glasse which hath a narrow mouth set the same â—hâ—rely vâ—â—lâ—se stoppeâ— as a present remedy in many diseases â–ª that is â–ª the sharâ—e oyle of vâ—trioll whose vertues and propertie shall heâ—e vnder be vttâ—â—ed The vertues of the oyle of Vitrioll The â–ª xxxvij Chapter THe pure and not mixed ought not nor may be ministred or takeÌ„ within the body for through the mighty sharpnesse therof after the mâ—â—er of â—â—e â–ª this 〈◊〉 all places within the body wâ—â—re the same toucheâ—â— â–ª It â—oth also 〈◊〉 all â—hings except 〈…〉 the faâ—tie substances â–ª as the waxe â— pitch â–ª 〈◊〉 the colour of 〈◊〉 oyles this chaâ—ngeth except the colour of the oyle of Mace â–ª to which â—â— it bee 〈◊〉 procureth a sanguine colour If the Oyle als◠〈◊〉 contiâ—â—â—d within two vessels â–ª and that the one hath a colde 〈…〉 in it and 〈…〉 to the same â–ª 〈◊〉 after â—oyle so feâ—â—â—ntly 〈…〉 scarcely â—e 〈…〉 hold the glasse in yoâ—â— hand The oyle shed downe boyâ—â—â—â—â—he grounde euen as a kynde of Melancholy whereof this is â—aâ—â—ed the artificiall Melancholieâ— â–ª For lyke as the Molaâ—â—holy â–ª euen so doth this oyle comforte the stomacke and both mooueth and proâ—â—â—eth an appâ—tyte to meate heateth â— coldeâ— sâ—â—acke â–ª â—onsumeth all maner 〈◊〉 â—utteth a sunder the grosse and claâ—â—â—y humours â—elpeth the 〈◊〉 and perrillous â—yxe Dysenteâ—â— â–ª extinguisheth or qualifyeth the thyrâ—â— and burnyng heate of the inner members in Agues it stayeth belching spéedily and putteth away the desire to vomite and the abhorring of meate but this must be orderly myxed with some other apte matters For the better and readyer conceauing of this artely myxture learne an example or two here vnder vttered Take of the oyle of Mace and of cleare Turpentine of eache twelue droppes of the water of Annyse seedes and of Fennell of eche two ounces of the syrupe of Lycorise one ounce of the oyle of Vitrioll three of foure droppes these after the diligent myxing togither taste if the whole hath a sharpnesse with it which astâ—nieth not the teethe then is it well but if the potion be not soure or sharpe instill one or two droppes more proouing the same by taste how it is after drincke the same safely against the stone Or thus Take of the syrop of â—intes â–ª one oâ—â—ce of the water of Cynamon three ouâ—â—es and a halfe of the oyle of Cynamon two droppes and of the oyle â—â— Vitrioll thrée droppes these after the diligent mixing minister safely vnto the weakenesse of stomacke Or thus take of the syrupe â–ª of the iuyce or infusion of Violettes one ounce of the water of Cynamon one ounce of Barly thrée ounces and of the oyle of Vitrioll thrée or foure droppes these after the mixing draweth and causeth a red colour and taste of an eager or sowre wine aâ—â—â—â—tysed with Cynnamon this drinke against the heate and drieth of feuers or Agues Of the sowre oyle of Vitrioll how the same may be made sweete to taste The xxxviij Chapter AT the begynnyng of this Chapiter of the oyle of Vytrioll wee sufficiently vttered the oyle of Vitryâ—ll to be sowre and to consiste of a double myxture as of much Alome and a lytle Brimstone For which cause when you will haue out the eager or sowre drawe a swéete oyle the same is none otherwise wrought and caused then that the brimstone be seperated froÌ„ the Alome E y which appéereth that the swéete oyle of Vitryoll is none other than the oyle of Brimstone or the Brymstone it selfe reduced into a lyquide substaunce and thys properlie maye be named aâ— oyle For it is both fattie and vnctuous euen as the Brimstone it selfe which into an oyle and not into water dissolueth or melteth The maner now of seperation after inseweth The maner of seperating the oyle The â–ª xxxix Chapter TAke of the most sharpe or eager burning wyne and thrise sublymed syxe ounces of the eager Oyle of Vitrioll so much these myxe togyther in a Venice glasse which after powre into a small Cucurbite with a narrowe necke and mouth the mouth then close or stoppe with the surest lute and let the same so stand for a whole moneth or two After powre the whole into a Cucurbite â–ª on which set the head and lute immediatly the ioynt â–ª that no matter bâ—â—â—the forth this head ought to be formed â–ª after the maner of the fygure here after described and made of Venice glasse as well as the bodye this so ordered set then 〈◊〉 a small Fâ—â—nace â–ª and â—â—â—eâ—it halfe way vp with â—ifted Ashes to which after apply the receauer and close diligently the ioynt with â—â—te then draw out the â—â—xe â—â—nces of burnyng wyne that you powred in before That thâ—◠〈◊〉 the safelyer be wrought and done set the 〈◊〉 â—nto Balâ—eum Mariae and the wyne onely doth then ascende without the oyle or the oyle remaineth behinde when you shall 〈◊〉 drawen forth by Balneo the sixe ounces infused of the 〈…〉 wyne the same which remaineth set into a Furnace couered halfe vp with Sande â–ª and a cleare and emptie receauer and the same not bâ—gge set to the ioynt after diligeÌ„tly close with lute vnder which kindle then a very soft or modest â—â—re and by litle and litle drawe or distill forth all the moysture which was left in the Cucurbite vntill no more moysture at al appeereth in the bottom euermore hauing regard most great care that you so gouerne the fire that the lycour boyleth not vnto the gutter or pype of the head For iâ— it shal once boyle vp vnto this you cannot after ceasse or stay the boyling by no meanes possible but that all hastily ysseweth into the receiuer to the losse of the whole oyle in that this is wont verye easily and soone to boyle vp But when you shal draw the same leasurely you shal then obtainâ— your desire by by after draw away the receauer with the licour for you haue purchased two substaunces which you shal plainely sée in it as a waterie and Oylie lycour and fattie These shall you spéedilye seperate one
and powder of Diarrhodon abbatis after a purgation auayleth against the inflamation of the stomacke With the water of Scabious taketh away the gryping of the body which coÌ„meth of the cause of venome and if the same be of another cause then let it be gyuen with the water of Rue and syrupe of Nenuphar With the water of Rue it helpeth the chellicke passion With the water of Molyne or yarrow preuayleth against the Pyles and other passions beneath With wormeâ— wood water it auayleth against the hytte of venymous heastes With Endyue or Egrymonie water it delyuereth all the impostumes of the Lyuer and helpeth the dropsie With the water of Cynâ—quefoyle it healeth the Iaundise With the water of Mugwoort it auayleth against the passion of the Matrice and the harde fetching of breath With the water of Garlyke it delyuereth the toothacke With the water of the wylde myntes or Aqua vitae it taketh away the Sciaticke passion With the water of the Colewortes it delyuereth colde gowtes With the waterr of the Pellytorie or Plantayne it cureth hote Gowtes With the water of Egrymonie helpeth the palsie With the water of Eupatorium taketh away the passions of the mylt With the water of Rosemarie comforteth the stomack With the water of Catmynt stayeth the rewme falling to the breast And to conclude it auayleth in all passions if it be gyuen with the water agreeable to the passion and is also named potable Golde and is precious in euery medycine euen as Golde gyueth and worketh in all the Myneralles With the water of Bytonie it auayleth agaynst the Ilyacke and chollyeke passion With the water of Cresses and yarrowe prouoketh vryne This borrowed out of the Italian practises of Iero. Ruscell Another maner of preparing the oyle of Vitryol not much differing from the former good that he purchased of a certaine friend which affyrmed that he knew a Chyrurgian which with this only got his lyuing translated out of a wrytten Copy in the Germayne tongue There be some sayth he which by force of the fyre draw an oyle of vitryol out of ten or twelue pounds of the Romaine or Vngarian vitryoll in a body well fensed with lute or earthen pot vnglased which they say to one syde stouping in that Furnace with the receauer annexed to it dyligently luted in the ioynt Others when they haue distylled it by ascention doe seperate the flewme from the oyle and powre agayne the same flewme on the dead head and distyll it in the like maner aboue vttered the same they so often repeate vntyl the vitryol shal be wholy brought made vnprofitable that no oyle at all remaineth or is contayned in it And although the oiles drawne by these meanes be profitable vnto many sundry diseases yet I sayth he that the oyle may be applyed within the body or vsed in any other maner doe in the preparation of it proceede after this maner I take also two new pottes vnglased into one of that which I powre the vitryol set to the fire that the vitrioll may melte And the water may also be powred to the same although it be not so requisite necessary and to be sturred togyther with a woodden spatle on such wyse to be through dryed by the fyre In this fyrst calcynation â–ª is the vitryoll purged from his venemousnesse Then I bring the vitryoll agayne into powder and syâ—â—e it through a fine sieue or salte that it may so be labored into very fine powder if any péece shal yet remaine vnbrokeÌ„ I beat it again c. After doe I heate water the same very hote doe I powre on the powder contayned or being in a vessell sufficient large déepe and sturre somtimes about with the woodden spâ—ttle let it so rest that it may settle all the nyght folowing In the morning after the setling I take away so nygh as I can all the clearer and purer water resting aboue but the troubled I distyll by fylter On those Feces or groundes remayning after the distyllacion I powre the scalding water agayne and both sturre seperate as aboue vttered and I the same so often repeate vntyll the vitryoll hath no bytternesse contayned or remayning in it or is agreeable to the water This cleare Lye or water of the vitryoll let it be boyled so long by the fyre vntyll in the vessell the vitryoll be harde gathered togyther as a stone and the water consumed Of the properties of the oyle of Vitrioll doth one of D. Gesnerus friendes thus wryte The principall vertue of this oyle is Montane also affirming the same that it causeth men not to appeare aged a long tyme and moâ—t foule and corrupt teeth this causeth fayre and strong and the gummes also it procureth strong if the téeth dayly are lightly rubbed with one or two drops of it by which maner doing a famous curtisan in Venice preserued hir téeth from all filth and corruption and maintained them steddie and fast many yeres but Montane woulde not the oyle to be vsed vnto the remoouing of fittes and curing of sicknesses without the addition of other simples or myxtures to it for he had alwayes a regarde vnto those matters which were temperater surer in the giuing these hitherto he Ad morbum scorbunticum a certaine person not without great rewarde vsed it prosperously Arnoldus of the vse of the oyle of Vitrioll Take of the best Triacle to which adde a fewe droppes of the oyle of Vitrioll and let stande myxed togither vntill you will vse it If any lieth grieuously sicke and not vnto death giue a French crowne weight of this myxture but if the man be not ouer weake then a little more and drinck the whole meanly hote with a little wyne fasting in the morning foure houres before meate and if a lyttle shall happen to remayne in the bottome the same rynsed wyth wyne drincke in lyke maner After this the sicke well couered in beâ— and wrapped about the heade in such maner that nothing of the whole bodye may appeare sauing the mouth frée and vncouered which done let the pacient lye sweating somuch as is possible for the space of foure houres and sléepe in no wyse that tyme The shéetes then chaunged let the pacient yet abide in bedde for other thrée houres not sweating before he eateth any thing then let him eate somewhat and drincke good olde wyne after his meate After this medicine giuen the Phisition maye vse other medicines as the purging and comforting The nature of this medicine is to diminishe all sickenesses and to prepare the waye vnto health and the same with expedition and in a short time doe in that maner that the pacient may obey and kéepe a good dyet The cure consisteth that the pacient sweate rightly and plentifully for the foresayde foure houres for this drinck rightly ministred neuer fayleth nor beguyleth the Phisition If the pacient after the taking be not cured yet doth he cast vp by
matter And druncke with a fasting stomacke for two dayes togither with a little quantitie of Triacle purgeth the heade and dryeth vp by the moystures of the same If any drincketh a quantitie of this with some maner of wyne in the morning fasting doth like comfort the brayne This putteth away the dymnesse of sight and consumeth the webbe and spottes of the eyes and dryeth vp the running of them and dropped into the eares restoreth hearing A lynnen cloth wette in it and layde on the tongue restoreth the speach of the palsie person if it shall be often repeated for certaine houres Some commende the sublimation of wyne against wormes which bréede in the téeth by washing the mouth with it and the best wyne for thys purpose as affirmeth Alexander Benedictus is the Candie or Rennishe wine which the oftner repeated by distillation will be the stronger This water drawne by a glasse Limbecke annointed on the neck and drunck in the morning fasting helpeth hoarsnesse The vse of it in the dropsie is on this maner exercised take halfe a measure of the Aqua vitae which gently heate that it may be in a maner warme after washe the féete with it let the féete stande in the same for one quarter of an houre then the soles of the féete rubbe with the iuice of the Nettle and about the ancle bones and the pacient shall in short time be cured as Virus of Rochberg reported to the Author The water sublymed of pure wyne auayleth against refting or belching procéeded of cold and wynde This Alexander Benedictus The Germaines in a certaine place doe drincke or taste of the water thryse distilled ouer supposing it auayleable against flewme the same Author To be auayleable against the paynes of the loynes and flegmatick swellings did the author vnderstand learne this of a certaine farmer or franklin of the countrie on this wise that a platter or basen should be taken so fenced that it coulde not be harmed with the fire thorow a cloth layd on it the same so prepared set into a hot house close on euery side the cloth then wet with the best Aqua vitae set on a flame for if the Aqua vitae be good the cloth will not be burned and let the pacient incontinent enter into that close roume and he shall forthwith sweate in that it procureth there a mightie heate and let this be done fiue times or more according to the strength of the pacient and the places payning bath well with the Aqua vitae in which the flowers of Spykenarde shall be stéeped and the pacient shall be shortly holpen And vnto the stone of the bladder they will to drincke the water of lyfe for the space of seuen months euery day morning and euening myxing togither two partes of pure wyne and one of the water of lyfe and in this maner is the stone broken and the péeces sent forth with the vrine Woundes bathed with the water and the Canker and Fistula are healed with it Vitalis de Furno out of many attributed these properties to it that it breaketh impostumes aswell within as without the body if it be drunck or applyed sometimes without It taketh away the spots of the eyes and both the rednesse and heat of them and stayeth the shedâ—ing of teares It helpeth such diseased in the splene and lyuer being discretely drunck It congealeth Mercurie whiteneth Copper and dissolueth the spirits and bodies calcyned It cureth woundes any maner Goute the Canker and Fistula if drunck or the place of the wounde washed with it It sharpeneth vnderstanding discretely taken and matters past it bringeth to memorie and maketh the person excéeding merie and preserueth youth It cureth the salt flegme and redde spots of the face It taketh away the stinke of the nosthrils gummes and armeholes Gargelled breaketh impostumes in the throte It very much helpeth the Melancholick and much profiteth the ache in the hippes the goute ioyntaches It cureth the Dropsie of a colde cause It much auayleth against the cholicke passion with his lyme dissolued in wyne it breaketh the stone of the bladder but dissolued with his salt doth breake the stone of the kidneys and sendeth the péeces forth And taken moderatly doth put away the quartaine Ague If the leprous person shall measurably drinck of the water sometimes the lepriâ— shall not further extende It profiteth women to conceyue and conception it strengthneth if the woman conceyued drinck of it If a little of it be druncke sometymes or holden a whyles in the mouth cureth the Rheume â— The water annointed on the decayed eyes and liddes cureth thâ—m It giueth boldnâ—sse if any faint harted or weake couraged person shall somtimes drink of it These hitherto Vitalis Further of the properties of the same water in general doth Leuius Lemnius vtter these in his booke of the secret miracles of nature where he wryteth that no lycour which is ministred vnto any vse to mans bodie is eyther lighter or more péercing than the Aqua vitae or that more preserueth defendeth all things from putrifying or córruption whose vse hath growne so common with the nether Germanie Flaunders that fréelyer than is profitable to helth they take and drinck of it for not to all persons or at all tymes the drinking of it is so agréeable and healthfull insomuch that to leane persons of a drie nature in the summer time the vse of it is very daungerous for it burneth their bodies and consumeth naturall moysture in them but in the fatte and moyst bodies and such which doe abounde in the flegmaticke humors this nothing harmeth in that the water digesteth the excrementall humours and both defendeth and preserueth such bodies from the lithargie or sléeping downe right the Apoplexie all colde sicknesses For which cause in the winter time I allow a moderate vse of it as the quantitie of halfe a dram which filleth a spoone at one tyme throughly swéetned with sugar and a slyce of fine white bread eaten with it whereby the burning force of it may the lesse strike or giue vnto the nosthrils and brayne or hastily carie any harme to the lyuer through the penetrable and feruent heate but applyed without doth greatly helpe the sinewes and muscles and the members oppressed with colde all other painefull diseases which come of colde humors it asswageth and putteth awaye through the heating force and swiftnesse of piercing and it recouereth also speach depriued lost if at that instant tyme be mixed to it of the séedes of Roket and the squillitick vineger That if the Aqua vitae be distylled twyse or thryse ouer it purchaseth an incredible force of peerchig These hitherto Lemnius Of the instruments which the best practitioners vse vnto the dystilling of Aqua vitae The seconde Chapter SEing in the dystillation of the water of lyfe many grosse spirits are eleuated or sent vp by force of the heate for that cause the practisioner must indeuour to temper them