that is dry 107 Tooth-ach 10. 23. 110 Throat sore 160 Trembling of the Limbs 243 Troches of Agarick 196 Troches of Alhandal 245 Troches of Myrrh 301 Tumours to discuss 343 Tumours to ease them 13 Tumours to eat them down 56 Tumours of the Hands and Feet that itch 140 Tumours inward 50 Tumours Oedematous 214 Tumours to ripen them 65 118. 121 Tumours Scrophelous 148 188 V. VEnomous Creatures to drive away 86 Venery to provoke 11. 17 Vinegar of Roses 159 Vinegar of Squills 331 Viscous Humours to expectorate them 55 Vlcers 26. 30. 35. 51 175 Vlcers putrid 22. 183 Vlcers hot 50 Vlcers malignant 34 Vlcers of the Lungs 50. 93 322 Vlcers corroding 51. 182 Vlcers of the Bladder 62 273 Vlcers of the Paps 102 Vlcers of the Mouth 102 237 Vlcers of the Reins 105 273 Vlcers Fistulous 106 Vlcers of the Matrix ibid. Vlcers of the Vrinary Passages 107 Vlcers that are Cancerous 113 Vlcers Pocky in the Fundament 166 Vlcers of the Privy Parts 196 Vlcers to dilate them 262 Vlcers painful in the Fundament 276 Vlcers that are Gangrenous 280 Vlcers to cicatrize them 318 Vlcers to keep them open 330 Volatile Salt like that of Hart's-horn and endued with the same Virtues 73 Vomits 11. 183. 332 Vomiting to stop 19. 21. 23 130. 299 Vomiting Blood 112. 150 Vrine Involuntary 3. 149 252 Vrine to provoke it 4. 11 12. 16. 30. 33. 38. 136 156 Vrine Heat of it 13. 24 127. 118 Vrine the Passages to cleanse 295 Vrine bloody 20 Vvula fallen 191 Swellings of the Vvula 185 316 W. WArts 20. 34. 56. Watching 209 Water-Gruel 141 Weariness to remove 3 Whites 8. 47 Wind how to expel 16. 38 143. 209 Wind in the Stomach 77 Wind Hypochondriack 96 Wine how to make it taste pleasantly 13 Wine to colour it 22 Worms to kill 17. 52. 80 164. 312 Wound-Herbs 1. 51. 148 163. 168 Wounds 10. 26. 258. Wounds to cleanse them 88 Wounds with Fluxion 184 Wounds of the Head 274 Wounds to heal them 33 49. 169 Wounds inward 114 FINIS ADVERTISEMENT EExellent Purging Pills prepar'd by the Author are to be sold by Mr. Henry Bonwicke at the Red Lyon in St. Paul's Church-yard They cure the Scurvy the most reigning Disease of this Kingdom They purge the Head Breast Stomach and Reins and cleanse the Blood and are a very proper Purge for those that cannot confine themselves when they want Purging but are forc'd to go abroad about their Business The Price of each Box is 1 s. 6 d. With Directions for Use Books printed for Henry Bonwicke at the Red Lyon in St. Paul's Church-yard COllections of Acute Diseases in five Parts 1. Of the Small Pox and Measles 2. Of the Plague and Pestilential Fevers 3. Of Continual Fevers 4. Of Agues a Pleurisie Peripneumonia Quinsie and the Cholera Morbus 5ly and Lastly Of the Bloody-Flux Miscarriage of Acute Diseases of Women with Child a Rheumatism Bleeding at Nose Apoplexy Lethargy and several other Diseases A Collection of Chronical Diseases viz. the Cholick the Bilious Cholick Hysterick Diseases the Gout and the Bloody Urine from the Stone in the Kidnies Promptuarium Praxeos Medicae seu Methodus Medendi praescriptis Celeberrimorum Medicorum Londinensium concinnata Et in Ordinem Alphabeticum digesta All Three published by the Author of this Herbal The General History of the Reformation of the Church written in Latin by John Sleidan faithfully Englished To which is added A Continuation to the End of the Council of Trent By E. Bohun Esq In Folio Pains afflicting Humane Bodies Their various Difference Causes Parts affected Signals of Danger or Safety shewing the Tendency of Chronick and Acute Diseases for a seasonable Prevention of fatal Events With a Tract of Issues and Setons By E. Maynwaring M. D. Octavo Pia Desideria or Divine Addresses In Three Parts 1. Sighs of the Penitent Soul 2. Desires of the Religious Soul 3. Extasies of the Enamour'd Soul Illustrated with 47 Cuts Written in Latin by Herm. Hugo English'd by Edm. Arwaker Octavo The Art of Catechizing or The Compleat Catechist In Four Parts 1. The Church-Catechism resolv'd into easie Questions 2. An Exposition of it in a continued full and plain Discourse 3. The Church-Catechism resolv'd into Scripture-Proofs 4. The whole Duty of Man reduced into Questions Fitted for the meanest Capacities the weakest Memories the plaintest Teachers and the most uninstructed Learners Lately published Country-Conversations Being an Account of some Discourses that happen'd in a Visit to the Country last Summer on divers Subjects chiefly of the Modern Comedies of Drinking of Translated Verse of Painting and Painters of Poets and Poetry
and the Stone Some report that these were the Thorns our Blessed Saviour was crown'd with in Contempt by the Unbelieving Jews just before his Crucifiction Mastick Thyme in Latin Marum It grows in many Places in Spain By reason of its curious Smell it is kept in Gardens in England France and Germany One Dram of the Bark of it is a present Remedy for desperate Obstructions of the Courses being taken in Rough Wine every Morning Turbith It purgeth Flegm and clammy Humours that fall on the Joints 'T is good in the Dropsie for it purges Watery Humours 'T is brought to us from Guzaratta Turmerick in Latin Curcuma The Dutch boyl it with Fish for it gives it a good Taste and colours it yellow 'T is besides an excellent Remedy for Obstructions of the Bowels viz. of the Lungs Liver and Spleen and also of the Mesaraick Veins and for Nephritick Pains 'T is also very good for the Stone in the Kidnies and Bladder It also opens Women's Obstructions and hastens Delivery But it is peculiarly good for curing of the Jaundice In short This Root is reckon'd the best of all Medicines for opening Obstructions The People of China use it in Sneezing-powders like the Roots of White Hellebore And they make an Ointment with this Root and the Powder of Sanders and some sweet Flowers wherewith the Men and Women anoint their Bodies all over And tho' this may seem very odd to those that are unaccustom'd to it by reason of the yellow Colour yet it secures them very well from the Heat of the Sun and Feverish Heats and from the vexatious Biting of Flies and Gnats Take of the Roots of Turmerick and Madder each one Ounce of the Greater Celandine-Root and Herb of the Tops of the Lesser Centory each one Handful boyl them in equal Parts of Rhenish-wine and Fountain-water to a Quart in the strain'd Liquor dissolve two Ounces of the Syrup of the five Opening Roots give half a Pint Morning and Evening hot till the Patient recovers of the Jaundice but Vomiting or Purging must be first used V. VIne in Latin Vitis It does not deserve the Name of a Tree because it cannot stand by it self There is as great Variety of them as of Pears and Apples Currents that are called Corinthian do not grow now about Corinth for the Inhabitants are not encourag'd to plant or to take care of them there being now no Sale for them the Turks having shut up the Passage and not suffering any great Ships to go thither they come now from Zant and many other Places The Raisins of the Sun are very large Grapes and in form like a Spanish Olive They dry them after this manner They cut cross-ways to the Middle the Branches they design for this use and so they intercept a good part of the Nutritious Juice that should come to the Grapes they let the Branches hang half cut upon the Vine till they are dried by degrees partly by the Heat of the Sun and partly for want of Nourishment Vines grow best in an hot Country and the hotter the Country is if it be not too hot the sooner the Grapes are ripe There are great quantities of excellent Wine in Spain Italy Sicily and some Parts of France They usually climb up on Trees as upon the Elm and the Poplar In Lombardy they plant them in the Corn-Fields so near Trees that they may climb up on them and so they have Corn Wine and Wood in the same Fields The Leaves and Tendrels of the Vine bruis'd and applied ease the Pain of the Head and take off Inflammations and Heat off the Stomach The Tear of the Vine which is like a Gum but it does not grow on our Vines taken in Wine is good for the Stone The Ashes of the Tendrels mix'd with Vinegar cure a Condyloma and is good for the Biting of Vipers and Inflammations of the Spleen 'T is to little purpose to mention the Virtues of Wine for there is scarce any one that is ignorant of them The Wine called Setinum was most esteem'd by the Ancients The Wines that are most esteem'd amongst us are the Claret-Wine Burgundy-Wine common White-Wine Frontiniack Hermitage and Champaign These come from France The following from Spain Canary-Sack Malaga-Sack Sherry-Sack Alicant-Wine and Port-o-Port From the Island of Crete is brought Red Muscadine From Germany Rhenish Wine Wine is wholsomer than Beer Mead or Cyder and indeed than any other Liquor Now-a-days Rough Wines tho' they are not so pleasing to the Palate are counted better for the Stomach and to help Concoction as Claret and Florentine-Wine Baccius wrote an excellent Book in the Year 1596. of the several sorts of Wines it was printed at Rome and is indeed worth perusing wherein is contain'd all that has been wrote of the Grape by Ancient and Modern Writers together with Observations of his own about Greek Italian Spanish French and Rhenish-Wines with the Ways of making them their Diseases and Remedies Omphaciun is the unripe Juice of the Grape strain'd and kept in a Vessel close stop'd It cools and dries It is not only used in Physick but also with Food in Sauces It takes off Nauseousness excites Appetite stops the Flux of the Belly and mitigates the Heat of the Stomach and Bowels being taken inwardly And outwardly applied it clears the Sight as also does Wild Apples and cleanses them from Filth 'T is better for all hot Diseases than Vinegar Sapa is New Wine boyl'd to the Consumption of a third part Defrutum is New Wine boyl'd to the Consumption of half Distillation of Wine into Brandy is made in the following manner Fill with Wine half a large Copper Body cover it with its Moor's-head border'd with its Refrigeratory and fit to it a Receiver lute well the Junctures with a wet Bladder and distil with a gentle Fire about a quarter of the Liquor or else until the Liquor which distils does not burn when the Fire is put to it that which is in the Receiver is called Brandy Brandy may be drawn from all sorts of Wines but more of it may be drawn in some Countries than in others For Example The Wines that are made about Orleans and Paris do yield more Brandy than many others which seem to be stronger and the Reason is because those Wines that appear stronger are loaded with a great deal of Tartar which fixes their Spirits whereas the other containing but a convenient Portion of this Tartar do leave their Spirits at greater liberty When Wine has been drunk there is made a Separation of Spirits in the Body much resembling that which is made by Distillation for the Heat of the Bowels warming it causes the Spirituous Parts to spread on all Sides through the Pores and some part of them to mix with the Blood and rarefie it from whence it comes to rejoyce the Heart and increase the Vigour of the whole Body but because these Spirits do always tend upwards the greatest part flies
Wood Bark and Root mix'd together is given for this purpose but the Root is best It grows in Malabar Lignum-Molucense 'T is found in the Molucca's and is kept in Gardens and is so much esteemâ—d by the Inhabitants that they will not let a Stranger see it The Seed of it is used to catch Birds they mix it with boyl'd Rice and lay it out for the Birds to eat it and as soon as they have tasted it they fall asleep and are stupid and if they eat greedily of it it kills them To rouse them that are asleep they dip their Heads in cold Water and so they recover The Wood reduced to Powder with a File and taken inwardly or outwardly applied expels Poysons It cures the Biting of Vipers and Serpents ten Grains of it being taken in Rose-water It also cures Wounds made by poysonous Arrows The strongest Man must take but half a Scruple of it When it is used for Purging the Party that takes it must make but a small Supper the Night before It purges all Humours but especially gross clammy and melancholy Humours 'T is good for long Quartan-Agues and for Continual Fevers for the Iliack Passion the Cholick Wind a Dropsie and for Gravel and for Difficulty of Urine for Pains of the Joynts a Scirrhus and the King's-Evil It kills all sorts of Worms and restores lost Appetite Acâ—sta observ'd the great use of it in inveterate Pains of the Head an Hemicrania Apoplexy Noise of the Ears the Gout and for Diseases of the Stomach and Womb and for an Asthma If it work too much let the Party drink a Draught of a Decoction of Rice Lignum-Nepbriticum It comes from Countries that are moderately hot as is Mexicana 'T is used for Diseases of the Reins and for Difficulty of Urine And the Water of it is good for Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen The Water of it is made in the following manner They cut the Wood small and infuse it in clear Fountain-water and keep it in the Vessel till all the Water is drunk then they put on fresh Water and so they repeat it as long as the Wood will tincture the Water In the space of about half an Hour the Wood imparts a light Sky-colour to the Water which grows deeper in time 'T is also good in Fevers and for the Cholick Take of Sarsaparilla six Ounces of China three Ounces of Saxifrage one Ounce of Nephritick Wood two Ounces of Hart's-horn and Ivory rasp'd half an Ounce of White Sanders half an Ounce of the Roots of Parsely Grass Knee-holm and Eringo each one Ounce of Liquorish two Ounces of Dates ston'd number Six of Caraway and Coriander-seeds each three Drams infuse them in seven Quarts of Fountain-water boyl it according to Art and Aromatize it with the Wood of Cassia Limon in Latin Malus Limonia Limons are more acid than Oranges or Citrons and therefore it is probable the Juice is colder 'T is proper for all those Uses that Citron is but it is not so effectual against Poysons yet is it more powerful in hot Diseases it quenches Thirst and lessens Feverish Heats The Juice of it is very proper to lessen the Stone and to cleanse the Urinary Passages The Syrup of the Juice of Limons is good for the Stone and Obstructions of the Kidnies It quenches Thirst is used in Burning Fevers and it strengthens the Heart and Stomach It restrains the Effervescence of Choler and is used with good Success to stop Vomiting the Hickups and to take off a Burning Fever The Peel of Limons as well as of Oranges is candied with Sugar for Sweet-meats and the small ones are also candied whole for various Uses The distill'd Water of Limons as well as of Citrons is reckon'd an excellent Cosmetick Secret Letters are writ with the Juice of Limons which may be read when they are held to the Fire The Juice imparts a curious Purple Colour to Conserve of Roses or Violets 'T is also much used to change Colours or to fix them For Nephritick Diseases Take of the Wood of Oak rasp'd one Ounce of Fountain-water three Quarts of the Juice of Limons four Ounces infuse them twenty four Hours upon hot Ashes and afterwards boyl it to the Consumption of a third part strain it The Dose is six Ounces 'T is excellent for an hot Intemperies of the Liver for Ulcers of the Reins and for Heat of the Urine but especially it evacuates salt viscid Flegm from the Reins and Bladder the Cause of Heat of Urine and Strangury Limons are brought to us from Spain and Italy Liquid-Amber 'T is the Resin that flows from a vast Tree that hath Leaves like Ivy-leaves The Indians call it Ocosolt When the Spaniards first enter'd into those Parts where these Trees grow they call'd them Spice-bearing Trees 'T is much used in Physick It heats strengthens resolves and is Anodine It comforts the Brain the Head being anointed with it and cures all sorts of Pains proceeding from a cold Cause It strengthens the Stomach procures Appetite and helps Concoction Much of it is used to perfume Gloves 'T is good in all cold Diseases to resolve Tumors to open Obstructions of the Womb to asswage the Tumors of it and to provoke the Courses Some cut the Wood in small pieces and boyl it and take off the Fat which swims at top and sell it for true Oyl And this is sold by some Apothecaries for Liquid-Storax M. MAce in Latin Macis 'T is the Covering or the Nutmeg and is very Aromatick and full of much Spirituous Heat and is therefore good for cold Diseases 'T is much of the same Virtue with the Nutmeg but because its Parts are finer it works more powerfully and is more penetrative Mandrake in Latin Mandragora 'T is Male and Female It grows spontaneously in hot Countries as Spain and Italy and the like in Woods and shady Places Mandrakes are reckon'd amongst Narcotick Medicines Some have question'd whether the Apple of it were wholesom or no. But Faber Lynceus Botanick Professor at Rome a very learned Man and of good Reputation says that both the Pulp and the Seed may be safely eaten Now seeing the Apples of the Mandrake are fit to be eaten and smell well why should we seek for any other Interpretation for the Hebrew Word Dudaim which Reuben brought to his Mother Leah And seeing it was the Opinion of the Ancients that the Seeds of the Mandrakes purged the Womb 't is very probable that Rachel knowing this Virtue of them desir'd the Mandrakes that her Womb being purg'd she might be render'd capable to conceive and to bear Children as well as her Sister Leah and her Maid Zilpha The Bark of the Root which is brought to us from abroad especially from Italy is Narcotick but it is seldom used inwardly 'T is outwardly used for Redness and Pains of the Eyes for an Erisipelas hard Tumors and the King's-Evil Manna The best comes from Calabria It sweats out of the Branches and
in each Cloth to put the powder'd Cloves into set a small Earthen Cup upon each Glass of these Cloves let it stop so â—â—â—ly that it may suffer no Air to enter between its Brim and that of the Glass fill the Cups with hot Ashes to warm the Cloves and distil down to the bottom of the Glasses first a little Flegm and Spirit and after that a clear and white Oyl continue the Fire until there falls no more separate the Oyl in a Tunnel lined with a Cornet of Brown Paper and keep it in a Viol well stop'd Some Drops of it are with Cotton put into aching Teeth 'T is likewise good in Malignant Fevers and the Plague The Dose is two or three Drops in Balm-water or some appropriate Liquor You must mix it with a little Sugar-candy or a little Yolk of an Egg before you drop it into the Water otherwise it will not dissolve in the Water I have given you this Preparation to serve upon an Emergency when you want in haste the Oyl of Cloves You must only use hot Ashes to warm the Cloves if you desire White Oyl for if you give a greater Heat the Oyl turns red and besides a great part of it will be lost You must also take care to lift up the Cup from time to time to stir about the Powder Some do dissolve Opium in Oyl of Cloves and use this Dissolution for the Tooth-ach they put one Drop of it into the aching Tooth and it soon takes off the Pain The Spirit of Cloves which is made at the same time the Oyl is made is a good Stomachick It helps Concoction comforts the Heart and increases Seed The Dose is from six Drops to twenty in some convenient Liquor Cloves grow spontaneously in the Moloca-Islands Those that are good are black solid and weighty smell well are hard to break and bite the Tongue much and when they are broken their Liquor sweats out They may be kept five Years in a temperate place Coccus Baphica See Kermes Cockle in Latin Pseudomelanthium It grows every where amongst Corn and Flowers in June and July It cures the Itch and heals Wounds ann Fistula's and stops Blood But the Virtues of it are doubted by some Yet Sennertus commends it in Stopping of Bleeding Coco-Nut-tree in Latin Palma Coccifera A Liquor is drawn from this Tree called Suri which intoxicates like Wine It hath a pleasant sweet Taste An hot Water or Spirit is drawn from it by Distillation Sugar also and Vinegar is made of it Fine polish'd Cups tip'd with Silver are made of the Bark of it The Liquor or Wine is very good for Consumptions and excellent for Diseases of the Urine and Reins A Milk is drawn from the Kernels beat and press'd without the help of Fire which is very good for killing Worms eight Ounces of it being taken in a Morning with a little Salt The Liquor contain'd in the Kernel extinguishes Thirst cures Fevers clenses the Eyes and the Skin purifies the Blood purges the Stomach and Urinary Passages relieves the Breast tastes pleasantly and yields a great Nourishment 'T is said of it that it is Meat Drink and Cloth Chocolet is made of it It grows in the Spanish West-Indies and laste an hundred Years Coculus Indus 'T is uncertain where these Berries grow but the chief use of them is for catching Fish a Paste being made for them of White Flower and the Powder of the Berries For the Fish by eating of this Paste become giddy and stupid and so are easily taken But it is questionable whether Fish so taken may be safely eaten perhaps if they are gutted as soon as they are taken and boyl'd they may be eaten without hurt A Person who went to buy Cubebs of an Apothecary had these Berries deliver'd to him by a Mistake and when he had taken not above four of them he was presently seiz'd with a Vomiting the Hiccups and Faintness But a Vomit being presently given him he recover'd within an Hour Coffee in Latin Caova The Decoction of it strengthens a cold Stomach helps Concoction and opens Obstructions of the Bowels and is good for cold Tumors of the Liver and Spleen It heats the Womb and frees it from Obstructions Upon which Account the Egyptian and Arabian Women use it frequently But it is most taken notice of for removing Drowsiness But tho it be so commonly used and so very proper and effectual in some Cases yet in other Cases perhaps it may be hurtful or at least not so beneficial For it is commonly observ'd that Coffee-drinkers are often very lean and become Paralitick and impotent as to Venery But indeed in most Diseases of the Head as for Giddiness Head-aches Lethargies Catarrhs and the like Coffee is often used with good Success by those that are of a gross Habit of Body and of a cold Constitution and whose Blood is watery their Brains moist and their Animal Spirits dull for being taken daily it wonderfully clears the Spirits and dissipates those Clouds of all the Functions But on the contrary they who are of a thin Habit of Body and an hot and melancholy Constitution ought by all means to forbear Coffee And besides those that have but weak Spirits or are subject to a Trembling or Numness of the Limbs ought not to drink Coffee tho' they are afflicted with the Head-ach Nor ought they who are subject to the Palpitation of the Heart 'T is reckon'd good in a Scorbutick Gout and for the Gravel The Goodness of Coffee chiefly depends on the exact roasting of it Bernier says there were only two Men that knew how to roast them right in Grand Cayro For few know the manner and degree of Torrifaction for if they are never so little over or under-roasted they are spoyled Coffee is adulterated with burnt Crusts of Bread roasted Beans and the like 'T is commonly boyl'd in Copper or Tin-Pots but Earâ—hen are best for it for it is probable that Metals too often impart something of their Substance to the Liquor It hath been observ'd that upon Distillation a Pound of good clean Coffee the Vessels being well luted hath yielded four Ounces and an half of Flegm with a little Volatile Spirit mix'd with Salt and two Ounces and five Drams of a thick black Oyl which being rectified became yellow the Caput mortuum weighed about four Ounces so that about a fourth part evaporated notwithstanding the Vessels were so closely cemented Upon which we may reasonably conjecture that Coffee contains many Particles that are Volatile and Penetrative whereby it is probable it keeps Men waking Many that have been very subject to Nephritick Pains have been cured by taking Coffee often Women use it to cleanse the Teeth One that was seiz'd with a violent Cholera and painful Convulsions from an Internal Cause was cured in a short time by taking a great quantity of Coffee which was retain'd in the Stomach when the Tincture of Opium Mint-water and the like were
vomited up This little Tree grows only in that part of Arabia Foelix which is situated betwixt the Tropicks And the Arabians take such Care that it should not be planted any where else that they destroy the Vegetative Virtue of the Seed either by boyling or burning it before they will part with it out of their Hands And they are much in the right for they get infinite Treasure by this one Commodity Upon which Account at least it may be called Arabia Foelix No one can imagine how many Thousand Bushels of it are exported yearly 'T is frequently used through all the Provinces of the Turkish Empire Vestingius says there are some Thousands of Coffee-houses in Grand Cayre And it is as commonly used in Africa and Barbery and lately in Europe Certainly in England the King hath a great Revenue by it for I believe there may be now as many Coffee-houses in London as in Grand Cayre Besides in other Parts of England there is scarce a Town of Note but hath one or more Coffee-houses in it Coloquintida in Latin Colocynthis 'T is a violent Medicine It purges thick and glutinous Flegm and other Humours from the remotest parts of the Body as from the Head Nerves Joints and the like for which reason it is commended and is used successfully for inveterate Head-aches an Apoplexy Falling-sickness Vertigo Asthma Cough cold Diseases of the Joints Flatulent Cholicks a Dropsie and the like But before it is used it ought to be well powder'd and fat and Lubricating things ought to be mix'd with it to attemperate the Acrimony of it 'T is an Ingredient of the Pill Cochiae majores and minores and of the Pill Rudii of the Pill Eduobus and of the Fetid Pill and of the Pill of Hermodactils and of some others The Troches of Alhandel are made of it in the following manner Take of the Pulp of Coloquintida that is white and smooth and freed from the Seeds and cut small and well rub'd with Oyl of Sweet Almonds and at two Days end finely powder'd ten Ounces of the Gums Arabeck Tragacanth and Bdellium each six Drams infuse the Gums for three or four Days in a sufficient quantity of Rose-water till they are quite melted and then with the said Pulp and part of the Musilage of the Gums make Troches which must be dried in the Shade and made up again with the rest of the Musilage Contrayerva in Latin Drakena radix The Root of it is Alexipharmick The Powder of it is an excellent Remedy against all Poysons except Sublimate It expels Worms and cures Agues Clusius gave it the Name of Drakena because Sir Francis Drake gave it him Take of the Powder of the Roots of Contrayerna Virginian-Snakeweed and Butter-bur each one Dram of Cochinelle and Saffron each half a Dram mingle them and make a Powder The Dose is half a Dram in a convenient Vehicle This is a sweating Medicine and is proper to expel Malignity Coral in Latin Corallium 'T is of a stony dense Substance and looks very fine when it is polish'd 'T is commonly believ'd that it is soft when it is under Water but that is a vulgar Error for those who fish for it say that it is as hard and stony under Water as it is above only it is cover'd with a soft Mossy Bark It hath an astringent Virtue especially when it is burnt and reduc'd to a Powder It stops all Fluxes of the Belly and of the Womb and the Running of the Reins but whether it comforts the Heart or prevents Children's Convulsions as 't is said is uncertain 'T is used outwardly for Ulcers which it incarns 'T is also used to clear the Sight Nurses in England hang it about Children's Necks to promote Cutting of the Teeth for by reason it is soft and cold Children love to have their Gums rub'd with it and so the Eruption of the Teeth is render'd more easie But we do not believe it doth conduce any thing by an occult Quality to the easie Breeding or Cutting of the Teeth Tincture of Coral is much commended in Pestilential Fevers Coral is prepar'd by grinding it on a Marble to a fine Powder and this is called prepar'd Coral 'T is used for the Bloody-Flux a Loosness the Flux of the Hemorrhoids and the Courses and for all other Distempers that are occasion'd by an Acrimony of Humors this being an Alcali that destroys it The Dose is from ten Grains to a Dram in Knot-grass-water or some other proper Liquor Dissolution of Coral is made in the following manner Take what quantity you please of Coral ground fine on a Marble put it into a large Matrass and pour upon it as much distill'd Vinegar as will rise the breadth of four Fingers above the Matter there will happen a great Effervescency which being over set it in Digestion in warm Sand for two Days stirring the Matrass from time to time leave the Coral to settle at bottom and decant the clear Liquor into a Bottle Pour again so much distill'd Vinegar on the Remainder as before and leave it two Days in Digestion separate the clear Liquor and continue to add more distill'd Vinegar and to draw off the Impregnation until all the Coral is in a manner dissolv'd then mix your Dissolutions and pour them into a Glass-Cucurbite or else into an Earthen one evapotate in Sand two thirds of the Liquor or till there appears upon it a very fine Skin filtrate this Impregnation and keep it in order to make the Salt and Majestery as I shall shew by and by The Dissolution may be given for the same Purposes as the Salt The Dose is from ten to twenty Drops in some proper Liquor Red Coral is generally used because it is thought to have more Virtue than the rest Majestery of Coral is made in the following manner Take what quantity you please of the Impregnation of Coral made with distill'd Vinegar pour it into a Viol or Matrass and drop into it the Liquor of the Salt of Tartar made per Deliquium a Curd will appear which will precipitate to the bottom in a very white Powder decant the clear Liquor and wash your Powder five or six times with Water dry it It is that which is called the Majestery of Coral Great Virtues are attributed to it It fortifies the Heart resists Poyson stops the Bloody-Flux and all other Hemorrhagies The Dose is from ten to thirty Grains in some proper Liquor Salt of Coral is made in the following manner Take what quantity you please of the Dissolution of Coral made of distill'd Vinegar pour it into a Glass-Cucurbite or Earthen Pan and evaporate in Sand all the Moisture there will remain at hottom a Salt of Coral keep it in a Viol well stopped 'T is given for the same Reason as the Majestery is The Dose of it is less being from five to fifteen Grains Simple Syrup of Coral of the London-Dispensatory is made in the following manner Take of Red Coral four