in some appropriate Liquor or other Medicine Oxysaccharum Emeticum or a Vomit of Vinegar and Sugar Take Crocus Metallorum absinthiated half an ounce Cassia lignea two drams Lignum Aloes Roots of Angelica of each one dram red Roses half a dram Let them be infused in fifteen ounces of Vinegar of Clove-gilly-flowers let them stand in infusion for 24 hours in a gentle heat and afterwards filter them and add of white Sugar Candy as much as will make it like a Syrup and then keep it for your use Virtue Use and Dose It is excellent in pains of the Head in Melancholy Epilepsie of what sort soever Quinsie Plague Pleurisie Cough Asthma in all affections of the Stomach in the Dysentery Pox Coagulation of blood c. it is good for those who have taken poisonous draughts it preserves from the Gout The Dose is from half an ounce to six drams in specifick Liquors or given by it self Catharticum Argenteum or the Silver Cathartick TAke of pure Silver an ounce Aqua fortis distilled from the Salt of Nitre and Vitriol and in a Retort in Sand over a gentle fire first rectified six ounces Dissolve the Moon in this water and to the solution add of fresh Aqua fortis four ounces of purified Nitre half an ounce mix them well and distil it in an Alembick in Balneo Mariae or in Sand three times still pouring on again the distilled Liquor on the Faeces according to art then put the Cucurbit into Sand that is higher than it is luted that so all the Aqua fortis may be drawn off till it be throughly dry Then break the Glass and take out the coagulated Medicine in the bottom which is black without-side but white within break this into small pieces and then dissolve it in about four ounces of Aqua fortis before drawn off till the Powder grow black and then you have the true Philosophical Moon take this clear Liquor and put it into a cold place and it will shoot into Crystals Take these Crystals and dry them by the fire not in the Sun if you do they will grow black and unprofitable and when they are sufficiently dried keep them for your use without edulcoration Virtue Use and Dose 'T is a most powerful Cathartick with which the most skilful Chymists purge in the Cachexy and Dropsie c. it also purges all serous and watry Humors and cures external Tumors of the Body in the strongest Constitutions it expels the watrish humors in the sides which cause various Symptoms and Diseases and it relieves any parts of the body overprest with humors The Dose is from four to five grains in a morning in a good draught of warm Wine It is most proper to use it in the decrease of the Moon about her last Quarter unless urgent occasion require otherwise Turpethum Minerale verum or the true Turbith Mineral THE true and genuine Turbith Mineral is not by the best Chymists prepared from crude Mercury with Aqua fortis but from sublimate in the following manner Take of the best sublimate Mercury what quantity you please dissolve it in Aqua coelestis warm filter the solution often which being done put the filtred Liquor into a Glass and pour upon it by drops so much Oyl of the Salt of Tartar as is requisite till you see a red Powder in the bottom of the Glass then pour off the Liquor and keep the red Powder edulcorate that with common water till it hath lost all its sharpness and saltness then pour upon it Aqua Mellis six or seven times well rectified and let this be repeated as many times at last take the Powder being dry and pour upon it Alkohol of Wine that it may be well moistned set the humidity on fire and keep it stirring with an Iron Spatula till all the Wine be consumed and so you have Turbith Mineral truly prepared whose excellent virtue is known almost to all neither shall I enlarge further upon it The Dose is from four or five grains to six and seven in some convenient Vehicle Mercurius Dulcis or Sweet Mercury MErcurius dulcis by the best of Spagyrists is thus prepared Take of Mercury sublimate six ounces of crude Mercury four ounces Mix them well that the crude Mercury may be no more seen sublime it the common way and this sublimation repeat five or six times till the Mercury becomes insipid or sweet The red Powder in the bottom and the white which is sublimated into the neck of the Glass is to be thrown away and that in the middle only reserved and so you have Mercurius dulcis truly prepared break the Glass and take it out pulverize it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It doth wonders in the Dropsie Plague Pleurisie Gout yellow Jaundice c. for by purifying the blood and rectifying the marrow in the bones it radically drives out all noxious humors from the body it is also an excellent Cathartick and by right deserves to be called a Panacea In all desperate diseases caused by a putrefaction of humors it is of singular use for it draws forth all poisonous and vitious humors and doth not move Vomiting but only by stool it gently purgeth and performs all its operations without trouble It kills Worms heals all Venereal Ulcers yea the Pox it self and it powerfully dries and radically takes away the defluxions of the Brain The Dose from one scruple to half a dram and in strong bodies two scruples Mercurius Vitae Corrected LET Mercurius vitae vitrified by the benefit of common Borax be finely powdered pour upon it distilled Vinegar first strongly impregnated with Spirit of Salt of Nitre and again well dryed in Sand so shall you have after due edulcoration a Powder which is safer to be taken and whose desired operations are performed with less trouble than by that of other preparations Virtue Use and Dose It is good in Quartan and other intermitting Feavers in most diseases of the Head in the Plague Dropsie Leprosie Pox malignant Ulcers and the like grievous affects it works wonders Dose in weak bodies from two grains to three in strong bodies from four to five either by it self or in Conserve of Roses or Violets or so many grains may be infused in Wine or other convenient Liquor all night in the morning let it be strained through a Cloth and drunk The Aperitive Magistery of Mars TAke of the Juyce of Sorrel depurated three pound pour it upon eight ounces of the best Tamarinds rub them well together either with your hands or with a wooden Pestle in an earthen Bason not a Pewter one that it may be all like Pulp or thick Pottage then take out all the husks and little stringy fibres boil it a little and clarifie it with the whites of two Eggs then strain it through a woollen Cloth and being clear put it into a glass Cucurbit to which add filings of Steel well cleansed from all its filth four ounces Let them
must abstain from the use of it Some do coagulate the Spirit of Vitriol with the Salt of Wormwood which way of preparing of it is equal in force of operation to the other The Gemm of Life TAke of Sal Gemm first prepared then certain times Chymically dissolved in Rhenish Wine then filtred and coagulated three pound Put this into a Cucurbit well luted and put upon it a double Alembick as Artists well know with a Receiver large enough and by degrees sublime it with a strong fire till all the white and corrosive Spirits go forth and the Receiver be filled with clouds then let all be cleared again and take away the Salt which is risen into the Alembick and with Spirit of Wine extract it the Spirit being impregnate with the Salt take it by inclination and keep it by it self The Salt left in the bottom dissolve again in the Rhenish Wine before abstracted then filter it and with an Alembick draw off all the humidity the Salt being dryed sublime it the second time and being sublimed again with Spirit of Wine as before extract it and this labour repeat four times or more till there can be no more extracted Lastly all the Spirit of Wine impregnate with the Salt and kept apart now mix them together and in a gentle heat in Balneo bring it to the driness of Salt and so you have a Salt spiritual lovely fair and crystalline of great force and operation At last put this Salt into a silver Vessel gilt with gold melt it and when it is melted put to it under an earthen covering so many leaves of Gold by degrees as may make it of a most red colour and after a quarter of an hour take it away let it cool and reduce it into a most fine Powder and keep it for your use as an incomparable Treasure Virtue Use and Dose It is a Medicine that deserves great praise and esteem and that I may say all in a few words it is the only Treasure of humane life against all diseases even the most desperate its force and power in altering penetrating comforting expelling and resisting putrefaction is greater than can be found in any other Besides it opens all obstructions dissipates poisons it renders the substance of the blood and all the Spirits more pure and lightsom and prolongs life unless opposed by Fatal necessity God so ordering it The Dose is from four grains to half a scruple in some appropriate Medicine which must be considered according to the quality of the disease Alum Tinged Take crude Alum an ounce Magistery of Dragons blood half an ounce Dissolve them in Carduus-water and coagulate it according to art Virtue Use and Dose This Alum thus impregnate with Dragons blood is of excellent use in Feavers and Quartan Agues and a great Secret in Dysenteâ—ies and all other Fluxes of the Belly The Dose is from half a scruple to a whole scruple in some appropriate Vehicle but in Feavers or Agues it is given some hours before the Fit in Tabaco-water to move Sweat if possible Bezoar Potabile TO accomplish and perfect this Arcanum prepare with singular care and study the following dissolving Menstruum Take Nitre cleansed Spirit of Vitriol rectified of each equal parts distil it in Sand in a Retort observing degrees in your fire And this first time when the fire hath been at the height and is again abated pour out the Liquor and weigh it and add to it the same quantity in weight of Spirit of Wine Alkoholisated and pour it on your Nitre again and draw it off as at first keeping a gentle fire in the beginning of your work lest the Spirit of Wine should fly too soon then gradually increase your fire to the fourth degree until you can perceive no more to rise This labour is performed in about three hours ere you get your fire to the fourth degree lastly you will see your Retort red-hot from which when it is cold you may take your Receiver and your Menstruum is prepared ready for use and in the bottom of your Retort you shall find a very little white matter almost void of taste Then take of the Oriental Bezoar-stone finely powdered an ounce put it into a small glass Cucurbit and pour upon it of this Menstruum last mentioned as much as will stand above the Medicine three fingers and set it in Balneo with a moderate heat and in the space of two or three hours the Menstruum will turn the Bezoar-stone into a red colour Pour off this solution and what still remains undissolved pour upon it again the fore-mentioned Menstruum after the same manner as before and again put that into a Bath and repeat this work till it is all dissolved and when it is so put all the tinged Menstruum into a Cucurbit and with an Alembick draw it off gently which being done pour Spirit of Wine upon the mass left in the bottom and again draw that off as before and so do the second and third time remembring to add new Spirit of Wine each time until you can perceive no more acrimony of the Menstruum left then again pour upon it water of Harts-horn or other Cordial water and again set it in Balneo till all the Extract is dissolved in this Liquor afterward filter it through a Paper and evaporate it that about four ounces may remain which keep as the most excellent Treasure among all earthly things for your use How this water of Harts-horn is truly and peculiarly prepared shall be shewed in the Section of Waters Virtue Use and Dose This most noble and more than Royal Medicine is a singular Antidote against Poison of every kind but chiefly against noxious vapors of a poisonous quality and pestilential infections reigning in the habit of the body and afflicting the vital Faculty which it expels by Sweat and insensible Transpiration and roborates the Heart and all other of the principal internal parts This I have found by Experience that it operates with great virtue and force against all sudden and dangerous affects produced from pestilential Poison in Feavers the small Pox Epidemical Pleurisies the Hungarian disease and all other diseases which arise from the same causes neither is it used with less success against the Erysipelas and other poisonous Symptoms where Diaphoretick Bezoars are required it is an enemy to all putrefaction and malignity and it mundifies the blood The Dose is from a scruple to a dram in proper Vehicles It is also given to the sick in some Potion to be drunk and not to put him into a violent heat therefore it may be taken early in the morning or if need require at any other time of the day being guided by your reason lest it should weaken and abate the strength of the Patient by giving too much vent for the Spirits and yet it is necessary that the Patient be warm and do gently sweat as much as may be without the debilitation and decrease of
Thesaurus Armamentarium Medico-Chymicum OR A Treasury of Physick WITH THE Most secret Way of Preparing REMEDIES Against all DISEASES Obtained by Labour confirmed by Practice and published out of good will to Mankind BEING A Work of great Use for the Publick WRITTEN Originally in Latine by that Eminent Physician Hadrianus à Mynsicht Com. Palat. Med. Phys. And faithfully rendred into English by Iohn Partridge Physician to His Majesty LONDON Printed by I. M. for Awnsham Churchill at the Black Swan near Amen Corner 1682. To the Honourable Lady Madam Frances Jenynes of St. Albans in the County of Hartford Health and Happiness Honoured Madam THose many Favours that I have received by your generous Approbation of my unmeriting Endeavors were too considerable to be passed by without my remembrance or immerged in the Gulf of Oblivion without my acknowledgment with thanks for the same yet upon a review of what is done methinks it appears so slender a piece of service that I do indeed question your Acceptance Yet I have ventured to present to your Ladiship 's Patronage these few sheets as a digression from my other Studies and the Earnest of what I acknowledge my self in Arrears for your former Favours Be pleased therefore I beseech you to accept my service and pardon my presumption The thing it self is really Foreign only drest in an English Garb but I fear not so fashionable as this captious Age may expect However we are all bound by Nature to be Civil to Strangers And seeing this is so I presume to put it under your Protection your Name being sufficient but especially your verbal Commendation to give it a better Reception and Esteem among all Persons of Honour and Eminence than he that is YOUR LADISHIPS Humblest Servant I. Partridge TO THE READER Friendly Reader I Here present thee with a Treatise in our own Language that is plain English which I assure you is one of the best Pieces of its kind and will I question not be serviceable to all those who understand not the Latine and yet are willing to be acquainted with the Mystery of Physick and therefore to omit all other Prolegomena's I come to speak something to the Book in general and particular The Book is generally Chymical and turned into as good English as the matter without too much swelling the Book with impertinent words would bear and therefore for thy convenience and satisfaction I have added an Explanatory Table to give the meaning of those words which perhaps may not seem plain to every Reader as Dysentery Haemorrhage Narcotick Sudorisick c. But yet there are three or four words which I do confess remain doubtful to me what English to give them and therefore I have put them in the English as I found them in the Latine that those who pretend to be Learned may give their own sence of them And the first is Sem. Cinae mentioned in the Powder called Species Diamercurii and in the Water called Aqua contra Vermes The second is Antiphyllorum mentioned in the Powder called Species Diajovis and in the Marmelada Hysterica The third is Boletus Cervinus mentioned in the Species Diaveneris Confectio Satyrii Confectio Pacifica and divers other Medicines so that did I not think it a piece of modesty or honesty to translate them into such words as my Iudgment thought most congruous there being no Authority for it but Opinion and in so doing I should have abused both Reader and Author and therefore I fairly expose them to every Reader that either is or thinks himself able to give the true meaning of them Fourthly In that Medicine called Morsuli Martiales the Author hath prescribed half an ounce of Oyl of Cinamon which I judge should be but half a dram for half an ounce of that Oyl will cost of it self about forty shillings or three pound and so make the Medicine too chargeable for common use Hence I conclude it a mistake of the Printer putting half an ounce for half a dram yet I have in the English followed the Latine Prescript Fifthly The Species Confectio Anacardinae being the first Ingredient mentioned in the Composition of the Water called Aqua Xyloaloe is a Composition of it self and may be found in the Dispensatory of Valerius Cordus pag. 83. Sixthly In several places of this Book the Author commands things to be duly gathered as Peony in the Aqua Epileptica in the Spiritus Vini Cephalicus in the Elixir Poeoniae and other places there is no more designed by that but to gather them Astrologically in the hour of that Planet governing the same the Planet at the same time being strong also Angular and every way fortified if possible Thou hast three several Tables The first of the Sections in which thou mayst see the general Heads and Matter of the whole Book The second of all the distinct Medicines Alphabetically set down under the Letter beginning the first word of the Medicine as Oleum Balsami under O and Sal Apoplecticum under S and so of the rest The third Table shews the Diseases that the Medicines in this Book cure and for the Printers ease and the Readers convenience they are brought under as few Heads as may be For instance sake thus Burning Feaver Intermitting Feaver and Hungarian Feaver and others of that denomination are all brought under the word Feaver Likewise Wind in the Stomach weakness of the Stomach Diseases of the Stomach c. are all brought under the word Stomach and so are Diseases of the Matrix brought under the word Womb and so of the rest which thou wilt no sooner see but understand them Lastly I recommend it to thy Perusal not desiring thy Commendation of it beyond its Merit nor expecting thee so disingenuous as to condemn it without a cause but wishing thy impartial Opinion as if the Author hereof were thy real friend But what need I say more to this purpose for Books have their Horoscopes as well as Men and therefore by consequence Fate too Habent sua Fata Libelli Fate is not bound to Man to Prince or State But Books have also their peculiar Fate And this Fate of Books is wrapt up in the Opinion and Iudgment of every Reader for according as he understands so he reports and according to his Credit so he is believed in the World and therefore hard is the Fate of Authors if thus to be dealt with But I leave it with thee hoping that my pains may be thy profit and advantage which if it be and that thou art satisfied with my well wishes and endeavours 't is all that is either desired or expected By thy Friend J. Partridge A Physical Dictionary Explaining the Terms of Physick used in this Book derived from the Latine and Greek A. APozem is a Decoction of divers herbs and other ingredients to which sometimes Syrups are added Acrimony sharpness Anodyne Medicines asswaging pain Acute sharp Asthma shortness of breath B. BOlus a
cervinus two drams Cinamon and long Pepper of each a dram Magistery of Pearl and red Coral of each half adram Gallia Moschata and Oyl â—f Cloves of each a scruple leaves of pure Gold fifteen Mix all and with Syrup of preserved Ginger make â—n Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It hath a great force to provoke the desire of Coition and doth egregiously excite â—oth Sexes thereunto it doth wonderfully increase Sperm and singularly restore those that are consumed and emaciated The dose is morning and evening from two drams to three with old rich Wine Confectio Stiptica or a Stiptick Electuary Take Tinctures of Crocus Martis of Celandine Rhubarb and dryed Nuts of each an ounce Tormentil Zedoary Gum Arabick Cloves white Ginger torrefied Nutmegs of each six drams sealed Earth white Amâ—er prepared Calamus aromaticus the lesser Galangal â—oth sorts of Cardamoms Cinamon of each half an â—unce shells of River-crabs boiled in Vinegar seeds of Bloodwort Plantane and black Poppy Orange peel â—f each three drams leaves of Sage Burnet and Mint of each two drams Bulls pizle Coriander prepared Acatia of each a dram and a half Cypress-nuts burnt Frogs calcined Talk of each a dram Let all be subtilly powdered and mixed and with Miva of Quinces make an Electuary according to Art to which add of our Carminative Oyl three drams and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It hath been wonderfully experimented in all fluxes of the Belly as Dysenteries Diarrhoea's Hepatick Fluxes bleeding at the Nose and Terms and also in other desperate ruptures of Blood For it comforts the Guts and internal Bowels and refresheth Nature by Constipation The dose is from a dram to half an ounce in Sack or other generous Wine either in the morning fasting or at any other time the Stomach being empty Confectio Terebinthinata or an Electuary of Turpentine Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in Rhenish Wine two ounces white Sugar Candy an ounce and a half powder of Liquorish six drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Nitre prepared a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of Violets make a mixture Virtue Use and Dose It is proper for those troubled with a Cough or Consumption It cleanseth the Breast and provokes Urine It helps the Strangury purgeth the Reins and easeth the pains of them It digesteth crude Humors loosens the Belly c. The dose is from a dram to two Theriaca Mulierum or a Treacle for Women Take Venice Treacle three ounces Iovial Bezoar half an ounce Elks horn and Harts horn of each Spagirically calcined a dram and a half Extract of roots of Angelica and Elicampane of each a dram Essence of Castor half a dram Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber half a scruple Mix them and with Rob of Elder-berries make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It cures almost all Diseases in Women by Sweat as well hot as cold by a certain occult property and for that Sex there is not a more excellent and noble Diaphoretick given The dose is from a scruple to a dram in waters appropriate to the Disease yet where the Disease is of a hot Cause we give it in cold Vehicles Theriaca Saxonica or the Saxonick Treacle Take Rob of Elder-berries and dwarff Elder-berries of each two ounces Harts horn Spagirically calcined an ounce juyce of Fumitory made thick simple Syrup of Poppies Spirit of Iuniper of each half an ounce Oriental rod Bole two drams Oyl of the seeds of Angelica Oyl of Zedoary of each a dram Mix them and over a gentle clear fire make them into the form of an Opiate Virtue Use and Dose It is a most noble Antidote powerfully working by Sweat and insensible Transpiration it defends men from and cures many and grievous Diseases It profligates and extinguisheth Feavers of all kinds whether intermitting continual or malignant Also the Dropsie Erysipelas Scurvy Jaundice Plague suffocation of the Matrix and other affects of the Womb the Pox Scab Itch Leprosie c. nay it deserves its praise so justly that no man is sufficiently able to proclaim its virtues The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg according to the Sex Age and Constitution of the Patient and the urgency of the Disease it is given in any fit and congruous Liquor especially such as is appropriate to the Disease I give it in many affects the body being first purged in the evening at going to bed four or five hours after supper with a sufficient quantity of our Harts-horn water and toward morning it doth use to sweat powerfully Theriaca Febrilis or an Electuary for Feavers Take species of our Febrifuge three ounces Conserve of Pontick Wormwood Conserve of Carduus and the lesser Centaury of each two ounces Venice Treacle an ounce and a half Harts-horn calcined without fire Mineral Diaphoretick white Ginger of each three drams species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each a dram and a half Camphire dissolved in Spirit of Angelica half a dram Mix them and with Rob of Elder-berries make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It cures almost all Feavers and is very profitable also in the Plague The dose is from a dram to two in our Aqua Febrifuge or in Carduus Scabious or Marigold-water c. let the Patient drink it two hours before the Fit and being in bed let him sweat for by this means it cures the Feaver Electuarium Opticum or an Electuary for the Eyes Take preserved Elicampane roots and preserved Chebul Myrobalans of each two ounces long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mace the lesser Galangal white Ginger and Cubebs of each half an ounce Sea-Beans prepared Pikes eyes Eyebright Pennyroyal Germander Clovegilly-flowers Rosemary of each three drams seeds of the Mountain Osier and Fenil of each two drams seeds of Parsley Anise Smallage Dill and white Saxifrage of each a dram and a half All being pulverized mix them then with twenty four ounces of white Sugar Candy dissolved in Spirit of Juniper and the depurated Juyces of Sage Rue Celandine and Hyssop of each a sufficient quantity and then boiled to a just consistence make an Electuary to which add Oyl of Cinamon and Nutmegs of each a dram And then again mix them and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Stomach consumes superfluous Humors cleanseth the Reins and is good to expel all flatulent Humors But it chiefly restores a weak Sight and hath been wonderfully experimented in weakness of the Eyes Suffusions c. let the cause be what it will The dose is constantly in the morning fasting and at night going to bed the quantity of a Chestnut And by so using of it the Patient shall be able to read a small print by a clear and free sight without Spectacles even to his life's end Electuarium Stomachicum or an Electuary for the Stomach Take sweet Almonds eight ounces aromatical Reed white
all other hot Cholerick distempers proceeding from mixt and complicated causes and is used by Kings and Princes It purgeth both kinds of Choler without trouble or any offence to the Stomach and kindly draws out the other offending humors even from the Joynts and Limbs and carries off the tartarous humors that oppress the Reins and Bladder It refrigerates the Heart mundifies the Blood and addeth strength to all the principal Members The dose is from a dram to four scruples Annotation For the ordinary and common sort of people you may instead of Confectio Alkermes substitute Conserve of Violets vitriolated and the Composition will be equally efficacious Catharticum Rosatum or a Purge compounded with Roses Take Conserve of red Roses vitriolated seven ounce Scammony rosated ten drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis moistned with Spirit of Vitriol an ounce Nitre prepared a dram and a half Oyl of Cinamon a scruple With a little Syrup of Roses solutive vitriolated mix them into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It expels yellow Choler without trouble and purgeth a hot Liver It is a worthy Remedy for all distempers of the Joynts proceeding from a hot Cause and for Tertian Feavers and is also of a good and grateful taste and therefore pleasant to the Stomach and Bowels It is an appropriate and suitable Purge for tender Virgins Children and Old people that are oppressed with Choler and cholerick Nauseating The dose is from two drams to three given with great profit and no trouble nor disturbance to the sick Catharticum Violatum or a Purge compounded of Violets Take new Conserve of Violets vitriolated four drams true Hermodactyls cleansed from their busks three ounces Magistery of Scammony ten drams Tartar vitriolated six drams Cinamon Cloves white Ginger of each a dram Oyl of Cummin seeds a scruple With Syrup of the Juyce of Violets vitriolated mix all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose This Confection of Hermodactyls is of admirable virtue and forde in the Gout Sciatica and such like pains of the Joynts for it safely purges all gouty humors we have also seen many Patients languishing with that tormenting pain and rouling in their beds to have been so restored by the use of this Medicine twice thrice or more and the help of external Unctions that they have soon returned to their former business And they would do wisely not to use it only under the impending pain but for their preservation to use it twice every year that is Spring and Fall The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Caryophyllatum or a Purge of Clovegilly-flowers Take Conserve of Clovegilly-flowers vitriolated seven ounces white and gummy Turbith two ounces Scammony rosated ten drams of the best Cloves an ounce Cream of Tartar six drams Cinamon and Mace of each a dram and a half Oyl of Oranges a scruple And with Syrup of Citron peels muskified mix all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It doth pleasantly and plentifully purge all cold Humors but chiefly Flegm from the Head Breast Stomach Joynts Guts and other principal Members and also from those deputed for nutrition It is good for complicated and continual Feavers and is very useful in the Colick coming of a cold Cause and for all other Diseases that proceed from frigid humors It is a good Remedy for those who are troubled with sour Belchings they being constantly troubled with Loathings and do generally abound with Spittle The dose is from a dram and a half to three drams especially in strong bodies more or less according to the age strength and season Zingiber Purgans or Purging Ginger Take Conserve of Rosemary flowers four ounces condited Ginger of Bengal three ounces Scammony rosated ten drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce the lesser Galangal and Mace of each a dram Cardamoms the less Cloves of each two scruples yellow Orange peels and Citron peels of each half a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple And with Syrup of the before-mentioned candied Ginger make all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It safely purgeth the whole body of Flegm and all other vicious Humors It draws away Choler of both kinds from the Stomach gives a sweet Breath comforts the Intestines being too cold and removes all Frigidity It dissolves thick flatulent Humors and clarifies the Blood neither hath it any ungrateful smell or taste It is very profitable in all kind of Feavers and in all other Diseases proceeding from a cold Cause also in the Colick Wind and pain of the Stomach Heart Liver Spleen Reins and Back The dose is from two drams to three in the morning early Cinamomum Laxativum or Laxative Cinamon Take white Sugar dissolved in Cinamon water four ounces Scammony rosated six drams species of Diacinamon half an ounce Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Mix all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth Choler Flegm and Melancholy from the Head Thorax Stomach Liver and Joynts c. and that without any trouble And this Composition may be also made into a solid form The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Cholagogum or a Choler-purging Medicine Take juyce of red Roses exprest white Sugar of each eight ounces species of Diarrhodon vitriolated nine drams Magistery of Scammony an ounce Spodium a dram and a half Gallia Moschata a scruple Let the Sugar be boiled to a consistence with the Juyce of Roses and then let the Species being pulverized be added so make all into an Electuary of the Juyce of Roses Virtue Use and Dose I happily use it to purge hot and cholerick Humors in all hot and cholerick Diseases and Affects The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Vitae or the Purge of Life Take Venice Treacle three ounces our species of Diaesula an ounce and a half Mercurius vitae a dram Mix them and with our Pectoral Syrup make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Medicine in Feavers Plague diseases of the Head Pox Leprosie ill habit of Body Dropsie fetid Ulcers c. and is a Secret in Quartan Agues for it leaves no impurity behind it in the body The dose is from a dram to two But let it not be given before meat but after it and so the sick do vomit sooner and easier Diaturbith Minerale Take Mithridate of Damocratis four ounces true Turbith Mineral species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each half an ounce our species of Diavitrioli and our Carminative Oyl of each a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of Jujubes bring them into the form of a thick Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Purge in all desperate Diseases as the Dropsie Pox Gout and Jaundice and by its expulsive force nothing is more excellent and noble in Fistula's malignant Ulcers Plague and most kind of Feavers c. The dose is from a dram to a dram and a half drinking after it a little white Wine Confectio Passulata or a
six ounces of Rhenish Wine and set in a warm place to digest afterward boil them a little and then add of white Sugar three ounces strain them through Hippocrates Sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth the Brain of those humors that breed diseases there as the Epilepsie Failing-sickness c. and is indeed a Divine remedy for the Epilepsie for it effectually takes away the cause and tinder of the disease But all Epileptical persons who use this Claret must take heed to keep themselves from fear anger water fire wine thoughts of grief c. nay let them shun all vehement motions of the mind while they are under their Cure and let them shun Drunkenness as the Plague The dose is from three ounces to four Claretum Antapoplecticum laxativum or a laxative Antapoplectick Claret Take leaves of Sena two ounces the best Turbith an ounce Iuniper-berries and roots of Zedoary of each half an ounce the best Agarick and black Hellebore prepared of each two drams lesser Galangal Cubebs white Ginger and Cinamon of each a dram flowers of Lavender Primrose Marigold and Lily of the valley of each half a dram Let all be infused and macerated in thirty six ounces of Rhenish Wine in Balneo for two days afterward boil it a little and then add four ounces of white Sugar clarifie it with Hippocrates Sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use in the Apoplexy Palsie Sleepiness Stupor and all other sleepy Diseases walking in their sleep Memory lost and in all other vices of the Brain The dose is from three ounces to four or five in the morning Claretum Passulatum laxativum or laxative Claret of Raisons Take of small Raisons washed in Wine two ounces leaves of Sena and Mechoacan of each an ounce Liquorish Cinamon and Aniseeds bruised of each half an ounce spotted Lungwort Harts-tongue Coltsfoot and Horehound of each a dram flowers of Liverwort Hyssop and Sage of each a dram Oriental Saffron and Mace of each half a dram fat Figs Iujubes Sebestens and Dates of each eight Let them be macerated twenty four hours in Hydromel and old Barley-water of each three pound then boil them a little and add to it four ounces of white Sugar strain it through Hippocrates Sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It is an appropriate and praise-worthy Laxative in difficulty of Breathing Asthma Pleurisie inveterate Cough pains of the Sides and in all other continual straitness of the Breast c. also in the distempers of the Liver and Spleen The dose is from four ounces to six Claretum Absinthiacum laxativum or a laxative Claret of Wormwood Take leaves of Sena half an ounce white Turbith and Mechoacan of each six drams Pontick Wormwood and Iuniper-berries of each half an ounce roots of our Flower-de-luce and Esula prepared of each three drams seeds of Fenil and Caraway of each two drams sweet Cane white Ginger Cinamon Cloves and Zedoary of each a dram flowers of Liverwort Elder and Broom of each half a dram Oriental Saffron and Dodder of each a scruple Let them be cut and bruised and infused in thirty six ounces of Rhenish Wine Let them macerate in Balneo and after due digestion boil them a little and add four ounces of white Sugar then strain it through Hippocrates his sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It is a specifick and select Laxative in the ill Habit Dropsie obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Feavers Colick Scurvy Itch c. and it doth by degrees prepare and evacuate the peccant humors The dose is four ounces Claretum Rhabarbaratum or a Claret Rhubarbized Take leaves of Sena two ounces the best Rhubarb an ounce roots of Scorzonera half an ounce Harts-tongue and Liverwort of each three drams seeds of Parsley and Smallage of each two drams the lesser Galangal Cassia lignea white Ginger and Cloves of each a dram flowers of lesser Centaury Liverwort red Roses and Succory of each half a dram Oriental Saffron and Dodder of each a scruple Let all macerate in Balneo in thirty six ounces of Rhenish Wine for two days then boil it a little and add to it four ounces of white Sugar strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth Choler as well black as yellow from the Stomach Liver and Spleen it also rectifies the Blood opens Obstructions and cures the Affects thence proceeding Hence it is an agrecable and appropriate laxative Medicine in the Dropsie Jaundice Scurvy tumor of the Spleen and pain of the Hypochonders Feavers c. The dose is four ounces adding a dram of acid Tartar to the Liquor and give it warm Claretum Antipodagricum laxativum or a laxative Claret against the Gout Take Hermodactyls the outer rind being taken off leaves of Sena of each an ounce white and gummy Turbith Mechoacan of each half an ounce Germander and Vervain of each two drams seeds of Anise and Fenil of each a dram and a half Cardamoms the less Cinamon Mace Oriental Saffron of each a dram flowers of Flower-de-luce Mullein Violets Rosemary of each half a dram Let them macerate in thirty six ounces of small white Wine in a warm place for two days then boil it a little and add to it four ounces of white Sugar and strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth thick Flegm especially from the Joynts and remote parts And for that reason it is solely proper for the Gout and other differences and pains of the Joynts The dose is four ounces adding to it a dram of Crystal of Tartar and so mix them and make a draught which is to be given warm in the morning but if it should chance not to work by ten of the Clock especially in robust bodies let the Patient take another draught again after dinner and thus repeat it for certain days while there is occasion Claretum Stomachicum confortans or a Claret to comfort the Stomach Take Cinamon an ounce water-Mints half an ounce Mastich Galangal the less and Cloves of each two drams sweet Cane Cardamoms the less and white Ginger of each a dram heavy wood of Aloes roots of Burnet and Zedoary of each half a dram Let them macerate in thirty two ounces of Malmsey Wine for certain days afterward clarifie it through Hippocrates sleeve and so make a Physical Claret Virtue Use and Dose It is a specisick Medicine almost against all the cold vices of the Stomach also against the trembling of the Heart Syncope and Vomiting of which the Patient may take morning or evening or in time of necessity from one spoonful to two or three with a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol well mixed together Claretum Juniperinum or a Claret of Iuniper Take Spirit of Iuniper-wine three pound water of Elicampane roots of Coltsfoot Lohoch sanum of each a pound Cinamon two ounces Cloves whole half an ounce