the grosse and clammie Humours clenseth the stoppinges of the bowelles and expelleth the youngling deade This water for an inwarde rupture is right profitable if to the quantitie of foure ounces at a tyme it be often tymes in the day druncke The water dayly druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme swéetned with a little sugare purgeth and causeth good Bloud gladneth the heart refresheth and cooleth the Lyuer especially if it shall be distilled with the flowers The water also recouereth the exulceration of the mouth if it be often washed wyth the same The water of the stocke Gelyflowere The .xxij. Chapter THe congruente tyme for the dystillation is about the ende of Aprill or myddes of Maye when the flowers shall be full blowen then the hearbe wyth the whole substance finely shredde ought to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbyte of Glasse This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of two ounces at a time recouereth the Frenticke person comforteth the Brayne The water in the same maner druncke strengthneth the Lyuer and Kidneyes procureth the Termes causeth women to be fruitfull clenseth them after the byrth of Childe and sendeth foorth the younglyng dead In the same maner the water druncke heateth and comforteth the hearte colde sharpneth the senses and reason ioyeth the mynde clenseth strengthneth the Bloude corrupt heateth the marrow of the bones and recouereth colde Fluxes The depriuatiō or Palsie of the tongue doth the water helpe or if the sydes shall be molested wyth thys euill the water throughly recouereth by drincking twise a daye of it or rubbing the membres therewyth The water deliuereth the trembling of the handes if they be rubbed wyth the same the lyke doth the water performe druncke Morning and Euening The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of two ounces at a tyme temperateth the heate of the heart comforteth and openeth the same The water droped twise in the daye doth put awaye spottes in the eyes wheather those shall procéede of heate or of colde and procureth a cleare and fayre face The water seaseth all paynes of the head by applying and binding about the heade Lynnen clothes wette in it and in the same maner applyed procureth sléepe to weake persons The water of Dragons The .xxiij. Chapter THe congruent time of dystilling is that the roote shredde and brused be dystilled by Balneo Mariae betwéene the monethes of Iuly and September This water druncke with a little Rosed honnie preuayleth agaynst the plague The water druncke morning and euening helpeth the Cough openeth obstructions attenuateth grosse Flewme purgeth the breast of euill humours clenseth the Bowels and helpeth the dropping of Vrine The water is greatly auayleable if any shall happen to haue a grieuous fall or be stricken or pricked wyth weapon or brused by staffe that the Bloude wythin the bodie or skinne shall be congeled then take a wyne pinte of this water and foure ounces of Muster séede brused these after the tempering wyth foure ounces of Cheruell water and strayned through a cloth and wringed out to the maner of Milke giue to drincke swéetned afore wyth halfe an ounce of Sugar pennuttes morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme for this throughly helpeth in short tyme If Cotton wette in the water be layde on freshe woundes stayeth the bléeding of them It also healeth woundes by Lynnen clothes wette in it applyed vpon or by drincking morning and euening to the quantitie of two ounces at a tyme The féete astonished and without féeling by colde wash morning and euening with the same water For it expelleth the colde and mitigateth the griefe The person bytte or stinged of a Snake or Adder let him wash the gréeued place wyth Lynnen clothes wet in it and applye those vpon the sore for it spéedily helpeth The lyke doth heale a Canker if Lynnen clothes wette be applyed The water of the greater Comferie The .xxiiij. Chapter THe rootes wyth the whole Hearbe shredde brused require to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the middle of the Spring This water druncke helpeth such as are bursten and that haue broken the bone of the legge by taking of the same to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme both Morning noone and at Euening It healeth the choppes of the lippes if they shall be washed wyth the same The water druncke and Lynnen clothes after the wetting in it applyed vpon doth spéedily heale woundes and extinguisheth inflamations and seaseth paynes The water in the same maner applyed asswageth the burning of the Shingles and expelleth outwarde swellinges Applyed wyth Cotton wette in it stayeth the bléeding of woundes the lyke it performeth if myxed wyth anye other drincke it be druncke twise or thryse a day The water druncke twyse a day dissolueth and sendeth forth the clottes of bloude congealed in the stomacke or in any other part of the Bodie And this applyed wyth Lynnen clothes wette in it doth marueylously clense and sease the running of Matterie vlcers eaten in hapning about the pryuie place of man or woman The water of Quinces The .xxv. Chapter THe chosen tyme for dystilling of Quinces is when they be rype then they shredde and brused requyre to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbyte of Glasse This water to the quantitie of foure ounces myxed wyth thrée ounces of thicke red wyne and druncke morning noone and at euening yéeldeth fresh bloude amendeth an euill stomacke in that it comforteth and strengthneth the same retayneth the meate in it and putteth away the wyll to vomite It also seaseth belching of the stomacke and vomiting and restrayneth all maner of Fluxes of the bellie and comforteth all the membres of the bodie by daily and often drincking of it the water amendeth the exulceratiō of the throte if it be often gargelled wythin the mouth The water retayned in the mouth seaseth thirst healeth tongue vlcered and cooleth the heate of the stomacke The water taken with a dram wayght of some Cordiall powder at euening procureth an appetyte and desire to eate yéeldeth a great strength to the heart and comforteth it and putteth awaye drunckennesse In the griefes of the bowelles this is not to be vsed in that it restrayneth and in Feuers this neyther is to be ministred when as anye coueteth to haue the bellie soluble The water of Quince flowers dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbyte of Glasse druncke of women to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a tyme stayeth the great Fluxe of the Termes In the same maner druncke comforteth the heart and stayeth the will to vomite and vomiting by drincking to the quantitie of three ounces at a tyme morning noone and at euening The water of Doder The .xxvi. Chapter THe congruent tyme of Dystilling the Doder is when the stringes eyes or séedes beginne to appeare for it hath no leaues as other hearbes then to shredde the whole substance and dystill it
by Balneo Mariae thys water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme recouereth all griefes of the Lyuer and Lunges by purging and comforting for it clenseth ◠by a certayne astriction strengthneth it openeth the stoppinges of the Lyuer and dyssolueth the hardnesse of the Mylt and Lyuer by drincking of the water of heartes tongue myxed wyth the same The water druncke twyse a daye expelleth Flewmaticke and Chollericke humours out of the Bodie and causeth Vryne In the same maner druncke putteth awaye Iaundise and sendeth furth the stone of the Bladder It helpeth the grypings of the Bellie druncke morning and euening the water dropped into the eyes causeth them cleare wythin short time The water recouereth womens places colde if it be drunke in the foresayd maner The water helpeth women whose termes be stayed and that haue a swelling about the Nauell The water druncke with a little powder of Annis séedes ▪ profiteth such which abounde in corrupt Bloude and be infected wyth fowle or Leaprowse scabbes The water myxed wyth common drincke and druncke daylie for a tyme comforteth the stomacke The water helpeth Feuers in Chyldren gyuen in Ale wyth a little of the powder of Annis séedes in that it purgeth the hote humour The water of Elecampane The .xxvij. Chapter THe congruent tyme for dystillation is that the rootes wyth the Hearbe shredde togither be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of an Egge shell full at a tyme for fyue or sixe dayes togyther delyuereth the griefe of the stone washing the téeth therewyth strengthneth them i◠amendeth the cough by drinking twoo ounces at a tyme wyth the powder of Lycorise and Annis séedes myxed It also expelleth wormes in the Bodie helpeth conuulsions and swellinges and payne in the Loynes In the foresayde maner druncke or taken with drinke helpeth such bursten The water druncke wyth a little Rosed honie and the heade well laboured with the same that it may drye in by it selfe comforteth the heade The water druncke many dayes togither not onely comforteth and strengthneth the stomacke but clenseth the breast and Lunges of grosse and clammie humours Yea this causeth a fayre skinne to women both in face and Bodie through the often vsing of it It also procureth a glansome minde and the person often vsing the same to haue a chéerfull and amyable countenaunce The water druncke and annoynted strengthneth loose membres It profiteth such fetching the breath hardly by drincking sundrie morninges wyth Rosed honie The water druncke morning and euening for a certayne tyme togyther expelleth the stone of the Kydneyes and Bladder clenseth them and causeth Vryne The water of the rootes alone dystilled about the ende of Maye or from the moneth of Iulye vnto September druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a tyme for certayne dayes healeth an inner rupture In the same maner druncke helpeth the stone prouoketh the Termes in women delyuereth the griefe of the stone and causeth Vryne This druncke in the abouesayd maner sendeth furth the dead yongling out of the mothers wombe It like druncke or applyed with linnē clothes dissolueth putteth away the swelling of womens places This on such wyse druncke or applyed remooueth the swelling of the testicles The water often druncke swéetned wyth Rosed honnie seasseth the Coughe and consumeth the grosse and clammie humours detayned wythin the Breast The water of Eiebright The .xxviij. Chapter THe congruent tyme for the dystillatiō of it is that the leaues stalkes flowers wyth the whole substaunce be dystilled in a Cucurbyte of glasse by Balneo Mariae when it yéeldeth or beareth the flowers This water dropped and stryked about the eyes causeth cleare eyes and sharpeneth the sight the water vsed in the same maner seasseth the payne of the eies the water dropped into the eyes an houre before night and striked about druncke to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme comforteth strengthneth and preserueth the sight especially in the aged persons and flewmaticke of complexion The hearbe dryed and brought to powder and eaten euerie day in a reare potched Egge for a certayne tyme togither restoreth sight lost the water myxed wyth halfe a dramme of the powder and druncke euerie euening for a moneth or fourtie dayes togyther recouereth a weake sight The water of our Beanes The .xxix. Chapter THe best tyme of dystilling them that the gréene bestowed in a Cucurbyte of Glosse be dystilled by Balneo Mariae wyth the water of Beanes washe vlcered and matterie legges that remayning after the water dystilled quite forth bring by heate of fire into powder Which then sprinckle on the sore for it dryeth vp and is the best remedie for fowle and matterie legges The water of the Beane coddes distilled when the Sunne shall be in Leo and the Moone in Aries druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a time doth marueylously remooue and helpe the griefe of the stone of the Kydneyes and Bladder The water of the gréene hearbe wyth the stalkes dystilled about the ende of Maye druncke for certayne dayes morning euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a tyme swéetned wyth sugar putteth away the stone in Children the same euerie day druncke to the quantitie of foure or fyue ounces at a tyme preuayleth agaynst a strong Poyson The water druncke in the lyke maner for a moneth engendreth good and pure bloud The face and skinne of the Bodie washed wyth the same water procureth a soft skinne and cleare and a fayre face The water of the flowers gathered at the full rypenesse and before the rotting dystilled in a Cucurbyte of Glasse by Balneo Mariae dropped into the eyes at euening dryeth vp the watering and dropping of the eyes It amendeth the exulceration and rednesse of the eyes dropped into them after the maner abouesayd The lyke it auayleth in pushes of the eyes The face also washed wyth thys water or laboured on the Bodye causeth a cleare and soft skinne and clenseth or taketh away spottes on the skynne The same druncke to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a time auayleth agaynst poyson If Lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed vpon doth drawe furth Dart or Arrow heades and thornes runne into the Bodie The water druncke of women morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a tyme for sixe or seauen dayes togyther sendeth downe their Termes in due season The water extinguisheth the burning of the Shingles and expelleth euill pushes if it be applyed morning and euening wyth a Lynnen cloth or soft towe wette in the same The water of Filipendula The .xxx. Chapter THe chosen time for dystillyng the same is that the whole herbe with the rootes shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water druncke Morning Euening to the quantitye of thrée ounces at a time with a
Bladder and clenseth the Reynes and Bladder The water applyed on the Temples procureth sléepe If the féete of a sicke person of a hote Ague be rubbed or laboured with the same procureth rest and ceaseth thirst The water putteth awaye the Impostume behinde the eares by dropping it warme into them and by applying it without and by drincking a quantitie eche day The water druncke helpeth the often desire to the stoole and by applying lynnen clothes wette in it on the Bellie The water healeth the bytte of venimous things if it be washed with the same and lynnen clothes wette in it applyed vpon This also putteth awaye scabbednesse and ytche and spots of the body by dooing the like The water drunke resisteth the infection of the Plague and preserueth the person that he be not taken with the same sickenesse The water applyed on woundes or washed with the same filleth them with fleshe The water of the flowers dystilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae drunke morning noone and at euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time putteth away the grypings of the Bowels heateth and softeneth the Bellie The water dropped into the eyes diuers tymes in the day doth marueylously recouer and restore a decayed sight as the same of experience founde The water of Horehounde The L. Chapter THe time for Dystillation of it is that the whole substaunce with the rootes shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of two or thrée ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar preuayleth against the Cough the hardnesse of fetching breath the spitting of bloud the Dropsie comforteth the stomack clenseth the breast and lungs openeth the liuer Mylt and strengthneth the Kidneys bladder It comforteth the yongling in the mothers wombe druncke of women with chylde to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar This comforteth and quickeneth the wytte and memorie by chasing or rubbing it on the head The water dropped into the eares taketh awaye the payne of them purgeth and clenseth freshe woundes by washing them morning and euening with it yea it healeth open vlcers The water putteth away visions and euill dreames by drincking sundrie times of it It also helpeth the Dropsie if such refrayne from moyst things and to much drincking and all swellings this healeth by applying it on the places The water of the herbe Baulme The Li. Chapter THe herbe with the whole substaunce shredde small and well stamped lay to stéepe for a whole night in good white wine that it may well dryncke in of the wyne Which done dystill the whole on the morrow in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae about the ende of May. This water druncke twyse a daye to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a tyme recouereth in short tyme any kynde of scabbednesse of the bodie and causeth a swéete sauour of the same if with a grayne of Muske myxed it be washed The water remooueth Pymples Letters and all other spots happening on the face or breast by myxing a quantitie of the naturall or artificiall Baulme and washing or rubbing the places wyth the same and it causeth the face to come to a fayre redde colour The water druncke euery morning fasting to the quantitie of a small Nutte shell full at a time putteth awaye the yll â—auour or stincking of the breath The water also remooueth toothache by holding it a time in the mouth The water preserueth a long time fleshe or fishe by lying in it and poured into turned wyne restoreth the same to be druncke The water druncke procureth vrine and applyed with a Lynnen clothe on the bottome of the Bellie breaketh the stone of the Bladder causeth vrine and mooueth the Termes of women The water druncke recouereth the payne of the Bodie and Kidneyes The water druncke twyse a daye and the herbe applyed in playster forme on that swelling vnder the Chynne named Scrophula helpeth it greatly The water druncke fasting breaketh an impostume growne within the bodie It healeth also all prickinges or stitches of the heart and sides This water taken in the manner abouesayde is a mortall enimie or killeth all maner of wormes within the bodie The water druncke fasting comforteth the afflicted spirites strengtheneth all the members and recouereth those partes endammaged or grieued with the Goute through colde For this comforteth the sinewes farre better than any other remedie The water druncke fasting with a little Triacle deliuereth and helpeth the falling sicknesse And the person which by occasion of any sickenesse cannot speake by putting a fyne lynnen clothe wette in the water and put vnder the tongue oftentimes recouereth the speache hyndered and lacking The water druncke fasting comforteth the brest and helpeth digestion The water drunck twise a day procureth a swéete breath ceaseth all inward swellings putteth away the Cholick and grypings of the Bowels purgeth the matrice and helpeth the Dropsie The water applyed on wounds twyse a daye healeth them in short tyme The water dropped into the eyes stayeth the watering of them and procureth a sharpe sight â–ª The water druncke fasting cheareth the heart maketh a man merrie helpeth a colde stomacke strengthneth the vitall partes helpeth digestion recouereth the stoppings of the brayne amendeth a féeble courage strengthneth the weakenesse of the heart and the same especially by which sléepe is often broken in the night and the beating of his pulse repressed It also putteth awaye the cares of the mynde and troublesome imaginations which eyther are of Melancholie or of adust flewme engendred The water druncke fasting sharpeneth the vnderstanding and wytte and procureth a good or readie memorie The water of the herbe Mercurie The Lij Chapter THe congruent time for the dystillation of it is that the whole herbe shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Iune This water drawne vp into the Nosethrilles oftentimes profiteth vnto the purging of the heade helpeth the running of the eyes nose and eares The water applyed wyth lynnen clothes wette in it on burnings healeth them and mitigateth the griefes The water tempered with wyne and applyed with lynnen clothes wette in it on Vlcers cureth them The water druncke in the morning fasting to the quantitie of two ounces at a time expelâ—eth superfluous heates and grosse humors as Flewme and the grosse blacke Choler The water druncke and the herbe eaten for thrée dayes togither of women as a day before and twoo dayes after the Termes begun and at the fourth daye comming out of Bathe to coeate worketh a marueylous matter in conception The rather as Hippocrates affirmeth if before it the powder of the rootes of Iroos and it formed into a Pessarie with Honie be conueyghed vp into the bodie the readier to cause the Termes to come downe The water druncke in time of traueyle of chylde and a Bathe made with the Herbe and Malloes sendeth forth the afterburthen The water dropped into
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
oâ—nces and a halfe swéetened with Sugar for xl dayes togither wasteth the stone of the kidneyes and bladder The water clenseth away spottes on the skin and procureth a fayrenesse of the same It also healeth vlcers of the mouth by often washing with the same The water of the herbe Peryuincle dystilled about the ende of May drunck morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time recouereth womens places colde the rather by applying lynnen clothes wette in the same and helpeth those which haue a colde stomacke The water for certaine dayes druncke with a dramme of the powder of the herbe sendeth forth the water betwéene the fleshe and skinne by veine A Pessarie wette in the water and conueyed vp into the priuie place draweth downe the Termes The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar ceaseth the grypinges of the bowelles and stayeth the fluxe of the bellie â–ª and termes It also purgeth all clammie humours out of the lyuer and bladder and clenseth the reynes The water of the Vyne tree The Lxxx. Chapter THe water of the Vyne trée is gathered in a great glasse about the beginning of Aprill when Vynes are cut and the same after the dystilling by Balneo Mariae requireth to be sunned for xl dayes This water myxed with a little pure wyne and druncke fasting sharpeneth or quickeneth the mynde and senses The water profiteth against any scabbednesse if it be washed with the same it causeth a cleane and fayre face and putteth awaye pushes and pymples of the face The water often applyed weareth away wartes and the thicke knobbes of harde fleshe on the handes The water recouereth ringwormes fowle spottes on the bodie scuruynesse and inflammations with a rednesse of the skynne if they be washed with the same â–ª and applyed with lynnen clothes wette in it twyse or thryse a daye The leaues of the best vynes â–ª which growe on high and sunnie places requyre to be dystilled in a due season of the yeare as about the ende of May by Balneo Mariae Thiâ— water dropped into running eyes dryeth and stayeth the running of them cleareth the sight The water druncke helpeth the spitting of bloude recouereth vlcers of the bowels and stayeth a hote fluxe of the bellie The water taken thryce a daye to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time expelleth the stone helpeth the abhorring of women with chylde and their foolishe longing for sundrie things that no harme may insewe to the yoongling Of the rootes of the vyne is made a decoction right profitable on this wyse Take of the féete of the Vyne shredde small twoo poundes these infuse in the strongest vyneger couered well ouer to which after adde nyne pyntes of Conduite water and a pynte of whyte honie after the boyling and consuming in a thirde part that only sixe pyntes remayne strayne the whole through a carsey cloth to which then adde of the simple Iuâ—lepe viij ounces and fower graynes of Muske dissolued in fower or sixe ounces of pure Rose water which after the pouring into a glasse stoppe close with a corke and parchement If any drincketh foure ounces of this decoction hote in the morning fasting and refrayneth meate foure houres after procureth in short time a very good stomacke and appetite to meate This also helpeth the Cholicke passion encreaseth mylke in womens breasts putteth away griefes of the matrice and is much auayleable for the cough the rheume and griefe of the reynes The water of the greater Celondine The Lxxxi Chapter THe congruent time of dystilling the Celondine is that when the herbe bearing flowers the whole substance gathered and shredde small be dystilled in a Cucurbite of glasse by Balneo Mariae about the middes of May. This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time deliuereth the yelowe Iaundise and helpeth the grypings of the bellie The water druncke in the same manner mitigateth the Ague and putteth away scabbednesse procéeding of colde if the places be annoynted with the same The water druncke twyse or thryse a daye to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a tyme swéetened with Sugar recouereth the stopping of the lyuer and mylt The water after the infusion of the herbe for sixe dayes in good Aqua vitae druncke for certaine dayes morning and euening to the quantitie of an ounce at a time preserueth the bodie long in health and expelleth euill humors The water dropped into the eyes recouereth spottes the pynne and webbe deliuereth the rednesse of them preserueth and causeth a sharpe and readie sight and restoreth the same in a maner lost If the mouth be washed with the water it ceaseth the grieuous payne of the téeth and putteth away spottes if the face be often washed with the same The water dryeth and healeth a Canker and lykewise the Fistula and putteth away pestilent pushes if a lynnen cloth wet in it be applyed twyse or thrice a day The water of the greater Celondine that hath the propertie of helping diseases as well the hote as colde giueth strength to the spirituall members expelleth poysen from the heart deliuereth the lunges of that which to it is noyous healeth it vlcered and by drincking sundrie tymes of it stayeth the fluxe of bloude I am in doubt sayth a certaine skilfull Phisition whether a man may beléeue that all these properties be in the dystilled water of Celondine séeing that according to Dioscorides and Galen it is of qualitie mightily clensing and very hote by reason whereof this causeth the veynes to be the cléerer of all grosse humors and deliuereth the obstructions of the lyuer in the Iaundyse This also is the reason why the learned Mathiolus in his commentarie vpon Dioscorides doth so greatly reprehend the Chymists which take vpon them to drawe forth a Quintessence of this herbe that they affirme to be not only commodious for their extractions but as woonderfully profitable for the preseruing of health and expelling of infinite diseases Séeing that this herbe can worke no such matter it is possible that the Chymistes abuse the same where they in steade of rightly naming this herbe Chelidonium doe name it Caelidonum rather deuising for it such a worde Caelidonum as if this herbe were a gyft from heauen to which are attributed all these great vertues This water is on such wyse distilled take the rootes leaues and flowers which shredde small and put into a vessell of glasse well fenced with Lute burie the vessell couered with his heade in horse dung for the space of ten dayes After the taking forth dystill it in ashes according to Arte the lycour that shall first runne forth will be waterishe the seconde as an oyle which you shall dystill yet once againe and kéepe for your vse The water of Strawberies The Lxxxij Chapter THe time most agréeable for distilling of the berries is when they are rype yet not ouer soft and those which growe and are gathered in the
manner drunke morning and euening auayleth agaynst the swellinges of the Bodie but especially the Dropsie euen so this drunke helpeth the Quotidian Ague and stytches or other paynes in the sides it profiteth agaynst the outward swellings of the Body by applying Lynnen clothes wette in the same This water also remooueth stytches or other griefes in the sides by applying Lynnen clothes wette in it This gargelled wyth a little of the pouder of Pellitorie helpeth the falling of the Vuula downe Thys drunke warme after the manner aboue taught helpeth a drye cough This gargelled in the throte helpeth that swelling there named Angina The dystilled water of the rootes finely shredde doth much mitigate the grieuous dolor of the Goute by daylye dryncking and applying Lynnen clothes wette in it on the grieued places This also helpeth marueylously ioynt aches by applying on the grieued places Lynnen clothes wette in it and eating a fewe of the tender gréene toppes whether two or thrée in a Sallate causeth a man soluble and to haue sundrye stooles The water drunke with Sirupe of Vineger helpeth a burning Ague The pouder of the leaues marueylouslye worketh in all sortes of Vlcers in that the same asswageth paynes clenseth them and doth incarnate The water of Imperatoria The fift Chapter THe tyme aptest for dystilling the Herbe Imperatoria is when it yéeldeth the floures then the whole Herbe wyth the rootes well shredde although some rather wyll the rootes onely require to be infused in wyne for twelue houres after the bestowing into a Cucurbite dystill the whole after Arte in Balneo Mariae This water drunke doth marueylous expell the wynde of the stomacke Bowels and Bellie for which cause auayleable in the Cholicke pâ—ssions and tâ—â—sionâ— of the stomack This also procureth the Termes in women and mooueth vryne If asswageth toothach by washing the mouth therewith The same myxed with Rosed Honie and drinke warme helpeth marueylously the griefes and stranglings of the wombe or Matrice in women and Conception greatly furthereth where the impediment procéedeth of coldenesse This water in lyke maner drunke warme strengtheneth the stomacke and causeth digestion This water sundrie tymes gargelled in the mouth comforteth a colde Brayne and purgeth it effectuously of Flewme A dramme of the pouder drunke with a quantitie of the water preuayleth in colde sicknesses so that this marueylously helpeth the loose parts of the Bodie convulsions and the falling sickenesse This water myxed with Rosed Hony and drunke wyth halfe a spoonefull of the fine pouder of the roote an houre before the comming of the fitte helpeth myraculously the Quartane ague The water gargelled in the mouth amendeth the breath and strengtheneth all the senses Thys drunke wyth halfe a spoonefull of the pouder of the roote helpeth the plague all maner of poysons the byting and stinging of venymous beastes and wormes Thys water drunke with Rosed Honie and halfe a spoonefull of pure Cynnamone water amendeth such hardly fetching breath openeth obstructions helpeth the water betwéene the skynne and flesh the Dropsie and diseases in the Mylt To be briefe it heateth all those partes of the Bodie where colde occupyeth and offendeth The water of the blessed Thystell The sixt Chapter THe commended time for the dystillation of the blessed Thystell is that the Herbe alone finely shredde and stamped be dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of Glasse about the end of May. This water drunke Morning and Euening vnto the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a tyme with Rosed Honye purifyeth the bloude remooueth headache comforteth and causeth a readie memorie breaketh the stone putteth away gyddynesse of the heade amendeth the consumption of the Bodie and preserueth the person long in health This lyke ministred auayleth agaynst the Plague and deadly poysons receyued as well within the Body as outwardly by the stinging or byting of venymous Beasts applyed vpon This water drunke with a dram of the powder before the comming of the fitte helpeth not only the Quartayne but other Feuers whose beginning are wyth colde This lyke drunke helpeth the falling sickenesse in chyldren The water drunke with a quantâ—tie of Rosed honye asswageth the griefes of the bowels and kydneys ceaseth the other torsions of the Belly and kéepeth the Bodie soluble It also causeth sweating sleyeth the wormes in the Bellye amendeth the defaultes of the stomacke and wombe The abouesayde quantitie of the pouder drunke with pure Aqua vitae not only kylleth worms in the Bodie of Chyldren but deliuereth in short tyme the grieuous paynes of the Bodie A Passe made with the pouder of the blessed Thystle whyte Breade and Honye and dystilled wyth whyte wyne yéeldeth a water right singular for the decayed sight of the eyes The water of Pellitorie of the wall The .vij. Chapter THe tyme of the dystillation is that the whole Herbe shredde and infused in wyne be dystilled about the ende of Maye in Balneo Mariae the water drunke with Rosed honie for eyght or nyne dayes togither to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme Morning and Euening openeth the stopping of the Lyuer and Mylt purgeth the kydneyes and Bladder ceaseth the griefes of the Matrice and sendeth downe the Termes in women The same drunke Morning and Euening vnto the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme helpeth an olde and continuall cough The water simplye of the Herbe gargelled and applyed without amendeth the inflammation of the throte The aboue sayde water drunke with a quantitie of Rosed honye auayleth agaynst the Strangulion and grypings of the Bellye procéeding of wynde and colde humors The water applyed with Linnen clothes wet in it asswageth swellings and paine of the Goute also the Shingles burning or scalding and hote vlcers The water of Yarrowe The .viij. Chapter THe congruent tyme of the dystillation of Yarrowe is that the whole Herbe shredde and infused in wyne be dystilled about the ende of May in Balneo Mariae This water drunke euery morning for a tyme togither to the quantitie of foure ounces at a tyme and applying of it on the region of the heart heateth a colde stomacke This also auayleth agaynst the wormes of the Bellie and difficulties of Vrine The water drunke with a dram weyght of the fine pouder of Cynamone stayeth the ouer great fluxe of the Termes The rather if the gréene Herbe bruised be applyed at that tyme by a skilfull Midwyfe This water drunke sundrie dayes profiteth that person which hath lost his colour by much bléeding and purgeth the bloude Also fresh woundes wasshed with the same and Lynnen clothes after the wetting in it applyed vpon morning and euening doth spéedilye cure them A handfull of the herbe brused betwéene two stones and applyed on freshe and bloudie woundes after the stitching of the lyppes if they be great cureth them throughly within the space of .xxiiij. houres as of experience knowne by sundrie persons Thys water drunke with Coowe mylke vnto the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme both Morning and Euening helpeth the
diuers dayes drincking or rubbing them wyth it it healeth the burning or scalding if the places shall be washed wyth the same or linnen clothes wet in it applyed vpon them it healeth the Canker in the mouth if it be often washed wyth the same and the gummes vlcered within the mouth A Canker washed wyth the same morning and euening or if linnen clothes wette in it be often applyed doth in short time cure the sore The water dropped into the eyes doth amende a thicke and dimme sight The water healeth a Fistula putteth awaye whelkes the ytche and fowle scabbes by often washing wyth the same The water of Centorie the lesser The .xviij. Chapter THe tyme of Distilling this Centorie is about the ende of Iune then the stalkes leaues and flowers shred togither require to be distilled by Balneo Mariae in a cucurbite of glasse this water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a tyme is right profitable for them which haue a rawe and colde stomacke for all that which is euill and hurtfull in the same it coÌ„sumeth this druncke in the like quantitie abouesayde draweth and sendeth forth Choller Flewme and other grosse Humours by sieges This water druncke of a Childe to the quantitie of twoo ounces but of a man of full age fower ounces in the morning fasting expelleth the wormes in the bellye the same druncke at the beginning of the fitte putteth away the Ague but druncke for thrée morninges fasting swéetned with sugar auayleth agaynst all Agues The water druncke in the maner abouesayde helpeth the harde fetching of breath and putteth away an olde cowgh The water druncke of a woman expelleth out of the wombe the dead younglyng This is ryght profitable for staying the desire to vomite belching of the stomacke it procureth an appetyte to meate purgeth and expelleth grosse Humours of which are woont to procéede Ache and payne in the hyppes féete and handes the Iaundyse and others lyke The water swéetned with sugare and druncke in the morning fasting recouereth the stopping of the Lyuer Loynes Milte and Bladder and amendeth the hardnesse of the Lyuer and Milte it preuayleth agaynst the Chollicke passion gripinges of the bowels The water closeth and cureth new woundes bigge if they be washed with the same or by Lynnen clothes wette in it applyed vppon and olde vlcers that may hardly be brought to a scarre are dooing in the same maner couered wyth a scarre The water druncke much auayleth in the spitting of Bloude The water mixed wyth a little Honny and dropped into the eyes greatly cleareth them the same druncke sendeth downe the Termes This druncke helpeth the sinews affected by emptying and drying vp the matter offending The water swéetned wyth Sugar and druncke fasting is much auayleable for the obstructions of the lyuer and applyed aswell without the bodie as receyued inwarde is a singular remedie in the hardnesse of the Milte The water of Cherryes The .xix. Chapter THe great redde and sower Cherries wyth short stalkes when they shalâ— be rype are to be gathered And for twoo dayes spreade abrâ—de on a shete after distilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of glasse This water druncke twise or thrise a day to the quantitie of fower ounces at a tyme swéetned wyth a little sugar doth restrayne the termes the fluxe Dysenteria and all other Fluxes of the Bellie In the same maner druncke and applyed without amendeth the heate of the Lyuer stomacke and other partes of the Bodie and comforteth the heart The distilled water of the flowers dropped into the eyes at euening when the pacient goeth to bedde putteth away the pinne and webbe and other spottes of the eyes and the water lyke putteth awaye the rednesse watering of the eyes if it shall be dropped into them twise or thrise a day The water of the blacke Cherries distilled in the same maner druncke twise a daye to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme helpeth the Dropsie but it behooueth that the pacient in the meane time refraine froÌ„ taking any other drinck The water druncke in the same maner remooueth the depryuation and Palsie of membres so that they be washed and rubbed with the same and let to drye in by it selfe in lyke maner washing and gargelling the mouth with it restoreth the vse of the tongue lost Also such annoyed wyth those griefes ought dayly to drincke the water fasting to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a tyme The water druncke helpeth swellings and is auayliable in burning and pestilent Agues in that it cooleth seasseth thirst and yéeldeth strength The water of the rype blacke Cherries newlye distilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae druncke to the quantitie of halfe an ounce at a time or powred into the mouth at the tyme of the fytte of the falling sickenesse doth forthwith reuyue the person to knowledge of himselfe and causeth hym to be frée from convulsions and Crampes vntill the next fitte take hym Which assoone as it shall happen to come agayne let the same quantitie of the water be powred into the pacients mouth for this not onely shall let but take awaye and heale altogither the fitte as the lyke of experience knowne A certayne woman afflicted wyth the falling sickenesse recouered health and was delyuered throughly of it by the dayly receyuing at the fittes of the water distilled of the blacke Cherries the lesser Nettill and the flowers of the trée named Tilia The water distilled of the meate and kernelles brused togither doth sende foorth the sande procuring the stone in the Kidneyes and Bladder The Gumme of the trée infused a tyme in this water and druncke twise a day is not onely auayleable agaynst an olde cough but helpeth such as are vexed wyth the stone The water of Cheruell The .xx. Chapter THe chosen time for the distilling of Cheruell is that the herbe the roote wyth the whole substaunce finely shred be distilled by Balneo Mariae about the midle of Maye This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of foure ounces at a tyme helpeth persons bursten and harmed by a grieuous fall and resolueth the Bloude clotted into lumpes The same drunke helpeth the stone of the Kidneyes and a great quantitie druncke at a tyme looseth the Bellie it causeth a good stomacke strengthneth and comforteth the heart putteth awaye the colde shiuering or shaking of the Ague amendeth the heade comforteth the senses The water druncke in the maner abouesayde putteth away most great paynes and prickinges or stitches it helpeth the Lunges and his affectes or griefes The water of Germander The .xxi. Chapter THe time of the distillation is about the middle of Maye then the herbe wyth the whole substaunce shredde small requyreth to be distilled by Balneo Mariae The water druncke fasting to the quantitie of foure ounces at a tyme dissolueth the swollen and harde Milt prouoketh Vryne sendeth downe the termes This druncke in lyke quantitie cutteth asundre
dram waight of the powder of the Gentiane roote swéetned with sugar healpeth the stayinge backe of the vryne and dropping of the same it also amendeth the coldenesse of stomacke and helpeth digestion This in lyke maner druncke helpeth such fetching the breath shorte and painefully and all sicknesses procéeding of a cold cause The water druncke in the like quantitie abouesayd mixed with a dram waight of the powder of the blessed Thistell swéetned with sugar helpeth the plague and preuayleth against poison eaten or druncke by happe The water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitye of fower or sixe ounces at a tyme swéetned with Sugar easeth the griefes and expelleth the stone of the Kydneyes and Bladder The Water of Fumitarie The .xxxi. Chapter THe best tyme of dystillation is that the herbe with the whole substance shredde small be dystilled by Balneo about the end of Maye or the middes of Iune this water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a tyme recouereth the Iaundyse and cleareth awaye the foule scabbe on the face after the kinde of a Leaprie and preserueth the person by the dailye vsinge of it from the Leaprie In the same maner druncke helpeth euery kinde of scabbes the morfew ytche Let the pacient entred into Bath drincke this wyth a little Triacle for it then prouoketh sweate by which the bloude is pourged and helpeth the sickenesse which is procéeded of corrupt bloud In the tyme of the plague maye the water be vsed in that it preserueth such by drincking of it The water myxed with fine Tryacle and pure bole Armoniake and giuen to that pacient afflicted with the plague yealdeth a helpe deliuereth him in short tyme The water druncke attenuateth pierceth openeth obstructions looseth the bellye it also purgeth the bloud Choller and all discommodities procéeding of chollor adust humours The water drunck twise a daye strengthneth the stomack the Lyuer and the Bowels it also putteth away the chollericke and burning Agues and those sicknesse which are caused by the obstruction of the vessels The water in the foresayd maner druncke prouoketh much chollericke vryne and helpeth the stoppings of the Lyuer It also putteth away clotted bloude and dissolueth the swelling both within and without the bodie and prouoketh the termes in women The water druncke with a dram waight of the powder of Synamon comforteth the stomacke prouoketh vrine putteth away scabbes and ytche and mundifyeth the bloude A potion of the same water recouereth vlcers of the mouth and dolours The water of the garden Clarâ—e The .xxxij. Chapter THe aptest tyme for the Dystillation of it is that the whole herbe shredde small be distilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddle of Maye this water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time swéetned wyth Sugare ceasseth the gripings of the bellie and paynes of the stomack and sides the rather by applyng vpon the places lynnen clothes wet often in it The water drunck twise a day to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme remooueth the payne of womens places and prepareth them apt to conceiue with childe it also comforteth and recouereth the members harmed by colde by applying lynnen clothes wette in it on the places The water of Caryophyllata The .xxxiij. Chapter THe Herbe wyth the rootes finely shredde and bestowed in a Cucurbite of glasse requyre to be distilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of March or myddes of April this water druncke Morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a tyme swéetned wyth Sugar for fower of fiue dayes togither ceasseth gripinges of the bellie stayeth the blouddie fluxe womens Termes the spitting of bloude and strengthneth a colde brayne This in like maner druncke purgeth all euill clammye humours and sendeth them furth of the bodie The water drunck in the foresayde maner digesteth meate hard of digestion and amendeth a colde stomake This druncke twise a daye profyteth the Lyuer The water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitye of thrée or fower ounces at a tyme healeth the inner woundes of the breast the like doth this recouer woundes déepe and desperate vlcers if they be often washed and that linnen clothes wette in it be applyed on the fores The water helpeth impostumes by applying lynnen clothes wet in it on the swellings The water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitye of thrée ounces at a tyme swéetned with Sugar healeth fistulaes it also profiteth much if they be washed with the same or that linnen clothes wette in it be applyed on the places The water remooueth and putteth away spots moles or other like markes which Infantes haue taken of the Moothers if they be often washed in their Infancie with that water The Water of Broome flowers The .xxxiiij. Chapter THe dystillation of the flowers is to be done by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of glasse when the flowers are full rype and begynne in a maner to fall of thys water druncke wyth a little Rosed honye morning euening to the quantitie of two or thrée ounces at a tyme for twelue of fourtéene dayes togither draweth humors from the ioyntes purgeth flewme and auayleth against the shedding of the Gaule The water druncke twise a day to the quantitye of fiue or sixe ounces at a tyme swéetned wyth Rosed honye and a dram waight of the powder of Feâ—ell séedes myxed expelleth the excrementes of the kidneyes causeth vrine effectuously and breaketh the stone as well in the bladder as in the kidneyes and suffereth not matter after to gather in thâ—â—â— to harden into a stone The water druncke with Oximell or 〈◊〉 hony for a certayne tyme dissolueth the hardnesse of the Mylte and putteth away the swellinges in the throte The water profiteth the heade if applyed it be suffered to drie in by it selfe thys in lyke maner ordred recouereth the wearinesse of members The Water of Gentiane The .xxxv. Chapter THe congruent tyme for dystilling onely the roote as more commendid is that the gréene or freshe roote shredde small and bestowed in a Cucurbyte of glasse be distilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of the Caniculare dayes where otherwise the dryed rootes infused a tyme in wyne maye be dystilled at anye tyme The water symple of the fresh rootes druncke often fasting to the quantity of thrée ouncâ—s at a tyme expelleth feuers caused by the obstruction of the Bowells and other partes of the bodie kylleth the wormes in the bellie clenseth all maner of spottes in the face if they be often washed with the same and prolongeth mans lyfe in that it consumeth all the clammye humours in the stomacke The water like druncke prouoketh the termes in women and causeth vryne against the plague and stinging or bit of venimous wormes and Beastes this druncke and applyed with lynnen clothes doth myraculously auayle The water druncke of him which hath taken by happe the venemous and monstruous bloude of a
nim 455. expelleth the same nor suffereth any hurtfull disease to insue to the parson The water druncke fasting for certayne dayes procureth an appetite to meate and purgeth the stomacke of clammye humours If with it before the taking be halfe a drame of pure Calamus Aromaticus brought to fyne powder and a dramme of Sugar myxed the same potion taken thrée or foure tymes doth mightily restore the taste and desire to rate The â—ater druncke with a dramme of Ginger and an ounce of Sugar â—asting doth spéedily deliuer the grypings of the Bellye caused by wynde and the obstruction in the flankes This of experience founâ—e that the freshe roote brused and applyed in playster forme on the bellie doth vndoubtedly kill the wormes consisting in the Bowels The Water of ioynted Grasse The .xxxvi. Chapter THe congruent Distillation of it is done of the Herbe with the rootes and the whole substance shredde small And the same after the bestowing in a Cucurbite of Glasse distilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water drunke morning and Euening to the quantitie of foure ounces at a tyme with a dramme of the fyne powder of Synamone and a little Sugar stayeth the great fluxe of the Bellie The same quantitie of the water drunke at one time purgeth the Reynes prouoketh vryne and openeth the stopping of partes in the bodie The like quantitie taken with a little Rosed Honie fasting expelleth the wormes in the Bellie to Infantes and children onely giue but twoo ounces to youth of more yeares minister thrée ounces to men and elder persons foure ounces as aboue taught The water ceaseth the grieuous payne of the Shyngles by applying lynnen clothes wette in it â–ª It putteth awaye the Feuer arysing by heate eyther by drinking or applying the same without the bodie The water preuayleth against all paynes and burning beate of woundes yea and closeth them if they be gently wasshed and soupled with a lynnen clothe wette in it or lynnen clothes wette in the same be applyed The water in the foresayde quantitie drunke fasting ceaseth and helpeth the grypinges of the Bowels amendeth the stopping of Vryne recouereth the vlcers of the Bladder and breaketh the stone but a dramme of the powder of the séedes mixed with the water more auayleth in sending forth the vryne The water dropt warme in the matterie eares healeth them in short time It profyteth the rottennesse of the Gummes if they be often washed with the same This helpeth blacke pushes â— if a lyâ—â—nen clothe or soft Towe wette in it be applyed twyse or thâ—yce a daye and that at eche tyme be thrée or fower ounces drunck The water ceaseth all maner of heates by applying without lynnen clothes wette in it In yongmen and of xxx yeares doth this water mâ—â—e worke than in the elder persons The water of Grounde Yuie or Tunhoue The .xxxvij. Chapter THe congruent time of Dystillation is that the whole herbe shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Iune This water drincke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a tyme swéetened with Sugar preuayleth against the trembling of the heart the Kinges â—uill and a weake stomacke The water druncke in a bathe throughlye clenseth clammie hâ—mours which are contayned in the stomacke the Lungs the Liuer and Bladder and procureth the â—erson healthfull The water druncke in like maner preuayleth â—â—ainst the infection and poyson of the Plague in that it expelâ—eth the same The water druncke twyse a daye to the quantitie abouesayde doth recouer the vlcers of the Heads openeth the stopping of the Lyuer and Mylt draweth downe the Tâ—rmes of women and prouoketh vrine The water drunck morning noone and at euening preuayleth against the wearynesse of members in women if the partes also be rubbed with it fower times in a daye This water stilled into dropping and running eyes stayeth and dryeth vp the water The like perfourmeth the â—â—â—ce of the leaues or myxed with this water and applyed to them The water of Cowslippes The .xxxviij. Chapter THe aptest time for Dystillation of it is that the leaues and floures with the whole substance shredde togither be dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of Glasse about the beginning of Maye or sooner This water druncke twyce a day to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a tyme heateth the stomacke the Liuer and Matrice For which cause it is much auayleable for women painfully traueyling and prouoketh the termes in them The water in the foresayde maner druncke asswageth swellings of the hoade if lynnen clothes wette in it be often applyed The water twyse a day drunck resolueth humors gathered causing ache in the Hyppes and Ioyntes and sendeth them forth by vrine This water preuayleth against all maner of headache procéeding of colde by applying lynnen clothes wette in it to the aking heade It healeth also the bytte and stinging of venimous wormes and beastes and all poysonings The water clenseth the fowle staynings the wrinckling and spottes of the face and the rest of the bâ—die in that it causeth a smoothe and fayre skynne by often washing with the same The water druncke twyse a day helpeth the Palsie putteth awaye the stone in the Kidneyes and Bladder It also recouereth loose and broken bones by drinking and often applying lynnen clothes wette in it The flowers made into a Conâ—eâ—â—e with Sugar profite such as are féeble and often swounding and that be decayâ—d of strength in that they recouer and restore strength lost The water of Stoikes bill or herbe Robert. The .xxxix. Chapter THe â—â—st congruent time for Distillation of it is that the stalkes leaues and whole substance shredde small be distilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae about the ende of May or beginning of Iune This water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time mixed with a little Pepper and Myrrhe in fine powder profiteth such as are dacayed in strength and the like quantitie druncke twyce a day for thrée dayes togither or longer time mixed with Rosed Honie preuayleth against Inflations and recouereth the Phthisick or sore in the Lunges with a Consumption of all the bodie The water drâ—nck with halfe an ounce of the séedes and a quantitie of Myrrhe and Pepper in fine powder myxed togither doth put awaye the â—rycke and sâ—yffenesse of turning the necke The water profiteth the exulceration of womens places if they be wasshed twise a daye with the same and that lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed This water putteth away the blacke and blewe of the skinne caused by a fall or stâ—ype if it be applyed with linnen clothes thrée or foure times a day in that it dissolueth and weareth away the congealeâ—â—loude vnder the skinne Thâ—s also healeth the Fistula if it be washed with the water morning and euening or that lynâ—â—n clothes wette in it be applyed The water auayleth against ioyntaches of the shoulders and féete if it be laboured on the
grieued place â–ª or that it be â–ª applyed with lynnen clothes wette in it The water applyed with linnen clothes wet in it putteth away swellings of the Pappes and ceaseth the payne of them The water applyed on brused shaken members to péeces recouereth them and putteth away the clotted blouder The water of Horsetayle The .xl. Chapter THe congruent time for the distillation of it is that the herbâ— and rootes shred smal be dâ—stiâ—â—ed by Balneo Mariae about the middes of Maye This water drunke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time â–ª mixed with a dramme of the powder of Cynamone and a little Sugar recouereth the spitting of bloude healeth the bowels exulcerated and hurt stayeth the termes of Women the fluxe Dysenteria and all other fluxes of the Bellie cureth the Bladder vlcered comforteth the stomacke harmed and the Lyuer by applying also of lynnen clothes wette in it without The water druncke morning noone and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time swéetened with a little Sugar and that lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed in a playster forme asswageth inflammations and burning of the Shingles The water druncke twyse a daye helpeth the griefe of the stone the Strangurie The water recouereth the perillous fluxe Dysenteria if a linnen clothe wet in it be often applyed to the fundament The water applyed hote with lynnen clothes to the mans priuie member swollen doth put awaye the swelling ceaseth the payne The water healeth woundes of the féete the holes open if they be washed with the same The water applyed with lynnen clothes on the swelling of the Dropsie morning euening doth asswage put away the same The water applyed with linnen clothes wet in it to the foreheade nose and put within the nosthrils restrayneth and stayeth the bléeding of the nose and putteth awaye the running of the nose by drawing it vp by the nosthrils The water of Hoppes The â–ª xli Chapter THe congruent time for Dystillation of it is that the vpper toppes and first braunches cut vp in heygth or length of two handbredthes and shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Aprill This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time and that mixed with Rosed hony it be vsed for thrée or fower wéekes togither putteth away Melancholie of which commonly is caused scabs ytche and the Leprie and such lyke griefes that are woont to happen of corrupt bloude The water druncke in the abouesayde maner openeth the stopping of the Milt putteth away the pricking and all griefes which are woont to be caused by the stopping of the Mylt The water druncke and of it dropped at Euening into the eares clenseth and weareth away the mattering of them The water myxed with a like quantitie of Hartes tongue water and druncke with a little Rosed Honie or Sugar before the beginning of the cold deliuereth the Quartaine ague in short time The water on such wise prepared and druncke twise a day amendeth the harde fetching of breath and the stopping of the Breast The waters like prepared and drunck putteth away the Iaundise and Dropsie and looseth the belly The water druncke correcteth Choller purgeth the bloude of the same and extinguisheth his inflammations It also putteth away headach gathered of heate The water druncke mittigateth the heate of the Lyuer and stomacke and auayleth in Feuers caused of Choller and bloud The water of Henbane The .xlij. Chapter THe chosen tyme for Dystillation of it is that the whole Herbe with the rootes and flowers shred and brused be dystilled about S. Iohns daye This water ceaseth all manner of payne of the head procéeding of heate if the head be rubbed and laboured with the same The water annoynted on the forhead and Temples and washing the féete with it procureth sléepe in a sharpe sickenesse the rather if the séedes brought to powder and myxed with womans milke and the whyte of an Egge and a little Vinegar be applyed on the Temples It represseth and asswageth all maner of heate if linnen clothes wette in it be applyed on the places On such wyse it remooueth all dolour of the members and palifyeth or rather hydeth the forme of the Leprie on the face if it be often washed and sowpled with the same in that it draweth forth all maner of heate not naturall The water profiteth them which haue no naturall rest by applying it by discretion as well within as without the bodie and if it be laboured oftentimes on the heade and applyed with linnen clothes wette in it then it causeth a man the rather to rest naturally The water of Hartes ease The .xliij. Chapter THe congruent time for dystillation of it is that the Herbe with the Flowers shredde and bruised be dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of Glasse about the ende of Iune or myddes of Iulie This water ministred to children twyse a day to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time swéetened with a little Sugar recouereth without doubt the burning heate that commonly taketh them The water drunke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a tyme helpeth such hardly breathing and drawing the wynde short â–ª the inflammation and impostume of the Lunges and those which haue a straytenesse about the heart and breast and that haue there some sore or a swelling The water druncke fasting for a certaine tyme healeth scabbednesse and all other corruptions of the skynne The water of Iuniper Beries The .xliiij. Chapter THe congruent dystillation of the Beries is when they bée rype and waxing blacke then they ought to be bruised and dystilled by Balneo Mariae This water drunke morning noone and at euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time swéetened with a little Sugar deliuereth and helpeth the stone of the kidneyes and Bladder also clenseth the kidneyes and Bladder causeth vryne and draweth downe the termes of Women by drincking thrée ounces at a time with a dramme of the powder of Cassia lignea The water druncke with a little Cinamone and Sugar expelleth the deade yoongling and poyson and profiteth against the byte and stinging of venimous beasts and wormes The water auayleth against all ioyntaches procéeding of colde if the ioyntes be rubbed and applyed with the same morning noone and at euening and let after to drye in by it selfe The water attenuateth openeth and clenseth filthie vlcers if they be washed with the same The water of the woode Lillie The .xlv. Chapter THe flowers onelye are distilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae about the middes of the Spring yet the rootes distilled more excell The water of the flowers druncke to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar recouereth them which haue eaten poyson in their meate The water ministred orderly preuayleth against the byte of a madde Dogge it helpeth the harde traueyle of Chylde comforteth the Brayne
the Heart the Liuer and other spirituall members and riddeth away the falling sickenesse by drincking of the same for fortie dayes togither The water druncke fasting swéetened with a little Sugar helpeth swounding recouereth the lacke of speach lost and sundrie diseases of the bodie and restoreth plentie of mylke in womens brestes The water druncke in the foresayde maner helpeth the Strangurie auayleth against the pricking about the heart and amendeth the inflammation of the Liuer The water druncke twyse a daye stayeth the immoderate course of the termes in women The water healâ—th the byte and stinging of venimous beastes and woormes if a lynnen clothe wette in it be applyed on the place The water dropped into the eyes putteth away the inflammation and darckenesse of them It cooleth also hote inflammations by applying Lynnen clothes wette in the same Whose members or head doe tremble it behooueth him afore to washe purely and drie them after to rubbe and labor this water on the places and to let it dry in by it selfe recouereth them if this be done morning and euening The water applyed with Lynnen clothes wette in it putteth awaye the payne of the priusties To conclude this water orderly ministred recouereth loose and palsie members the falling sicknesse convulsions dazeling and swimming of the heade and swounding In Germanie certaine doe make of the Flowers dryed in the summer time a wine in the time of pressing forth the Grapes which after the myxing and standing togither a certaine time they minister of it for the foresayde griefes But there are other which stéepe a pounde of the freshe flowers in a gallon or twoo of olde wyne and set the Glasse in the Sunne for sixe wéekes or two Monethes putting to it of Lauander and of Rosemarie flowers with sundrie pleasant spyces this after the strayning they distill in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae which water purchased they bestowed for the preciousnesse of it in Siluer or Golden vesselles close stopped and they name this the Golden water which they vse to all the foresayde griefes of the bodye The rather if it be dystilled thrée tymes ouer and rectified by a Pellicane which then ministred with sixe graynes of Pepper a little of Lauander water worketh miraculously for it coÌ„forteth the Brayne restoreth such swouning and left for deade in a maner yea causeth them to liue after a long time It also recouereth the depriuation of Senses putteth away the Cholicke passion and profiteth that person which shall haue an impostume in the hinder part of the Brayne and Heade by drinking a spoonefull at a time of this precious water This water in lyke manner by applying it often on the foreheade and hynder part of the head procureth a good memorie and readie wit. As touching the recouerie of swounding and great hazard of death by it the learned Mathiolus reporteth that he hath of proofe founde manye tymes the contrarie yet such is the fame of it sayeth he in Germanie that many cannot refrayne the ministring of the same yea in most hote sickenesses The water of the Wyldinges or Crabbes The .xlvi. Chapter THe congruent tyme for Dystillation of them is that they bruised be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of October This water druncke Morning Noone and at Euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar is a most precious water and miraculously auayleth against the grypings of the Bowels The water in lyke maner taken helpeth the fluxe Dysenteria deliuereth the griefes of the stone clenseth the Reynes and Bladder The water of the vnrypened Crabbes or Wyldinges dystilled by Balneo Mariae about S. Iohns daye not onelye helpeth the face swollen by washing it with the same and letting it to drye in by it selfe but putteth away the high red colour and péeling of the skinne on the face and the red pymples or other deformitie of the same The water of putrified and rotten Apples The .xlvij. Chapter OF the graffed or swéete Apples which shall be rotten shall you dystill a water by Balneo Mariae This water helpeth that inflammation which cooled and putrified larger spreadeth insomuch that the fleshe falleth out if the place be morning and euening washed with the same or Lynnen clothes often applyed The water recouereth hote and red swellings and sores or Cankers eating and pestilent Botches by applying Lynnen clothes wette in it thryse in the daye The water of the Apples through ripe and before their rotting dystilled by Balneo Mariae very much auayleth for comforting in that it cooleth the body and heart by drinking morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time swéetened with a little Sugar The flowers of the graffed Apples requyre to be gathered when as they be thorowe blowen and by a Lynnen sheete spredde vnder the trée the blossomes ought to be beaten downe with a staffe and to be dystilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae This water recouereth and throughly helpeth the rednesse and deformitie of the face if for thrée or fower wéekes togither it be washed morning and euening with the same The water of the Peache tree flowers The .xlviij. Chapter A Certayne Chymist of fame in Germanie dystilled a Rose water out of the Peache Roses or Flowers which looseth the Bellie and procureth to vomite and he tooke for loosing of the Bellie the water which dystilled forth first before the Roses were burned and dystilled them in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae where he also dystilled the drye herbes and others in Sandâ— The water of the leaues dystilled by Balneo Mariae at the increasing of the Moone in Maye druncke in the morning fasting putteth away the griefe of the stone in the loynes the rather by taking it thryce a daye to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a time which in lyke maner vsed procureth vrine and purgeth the Bladder The water druncke of children fasting to the quantitie of an ounce at a time swéetened with Sugar killeth the long wormes in the bodie The water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time preuayleth agaynst the stone The water dropped into the eares killeth the wormes in them Rubbing the heade with it ceaseth headach The water of the smaller Mallowes The .xlix. Chapter WHen the Mallowes shall beare flowers then the rootes with the whole Herbe gathered and shredde small dystill by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Maye This water betwéene daye and night druncke fower tymes to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time swéetned with a little Sugar recouereth the pricking or stitches in the sides and Pleurisie and purgeth woundes The water druncke to the quantitie of sixe or eyght ounces at a time fasting softeneth and looseth the bellie remooueth the payne of the Matrice breaketh and healeth inwarde swellings The water in lyke maner druncke stayeth the perillous fluxe Dysenteria putteth away the griefe of the stone asswageth the payne of the
deafe eares and annoynted with olde wyne recouereth the hearing The water of Grummell dystilled about the ende of Maye or beginning of Iune druncke morning and euening for xxx or xl dayes togither to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time with a little of this water helpeth the stone the dropping of the vrine the Strangurie and griefe of the stone of the Kidneys and Bladder It also clenseth the reynes and Bladder The water of the Bramble berries The Liij Chapter THe congruent time for dystillation of the Berries is when they are full rype but not tarying till they be soft and it behooueth to washe them before and to drie them againe after to dystill them in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae Thyâ— water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar helpeth the stone in children The water druncke fasting recouereth the griefe of the stone of the Kidneyes and Bladder The water gargelled in the throte profiteth the griefes of the Vuula and healeth vlcers of the throte by gargelling it hote fower times in the day The water of Mulberies The Liiij Chapter THe Mulberies are to be dystilled when they are sufficiently rype by Balneo Mariae This water gargelled to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a time for thrée or fower times a daye recouereth vlcâ—rs of the throte The water handled after the same maner and druncke downe putteth awaye impostumes of the Breast expelleth flewme out of the bodie The water in lyke maner druncke expelleth and dissolueth the congealed bloude in the bodie helpeth the Cough and looseth the binding in the brest The water of the vnrypened Mulberies dystilled by Balneo Mariae dropped and applyed about the eyes greatly helpeth them This water often gargelled in the mouth helpeth the weakenesse of the Vuula taketh away all manner of roughnesse exulceration and heate of the throte The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a tyme with Rosed honie recouereth the impostumes of the Liuer The water of Nenuplâ—are or the water Lillie The Lv. Chapter THe whyte flowers of the water Lyllie when they are full rype requyre in the due season to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae This water druncke with Rosed hony morning and euening for tenne or thirtéene dayes togither to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time helpeth the shedding of the gall and a hote and drie Cough The water also profiteth them which haue an impostume of the Breast with payne in the side The water druncke with Sugar preuayleth against the vlcers of the Bowels softeneth a hote belâ—â—e and recouereth an olde watrie rupture The water druncke in lyke quantitiâ— preuayleth against the heate of the Plague putteth away headach ceaseth the Cough and helpeth the impostumes of the Mylt if they procéede of heate The water applyed with Lynnen clothes wette in it morning and euening doth mightily extinguish all inflammations in mans bodie It also procureth sléepe ceaseth the inflammation of the head the Lyuer stomacke and heart The water especially profiteth vnto the cooling of the hâ—ade if it be often applyed rounde about and recouereth the heate of the heart by applying lynnen clothes without The water drunke fasting or outwardly applyed greatly auayleth against the consumption of the Bodie It also deliuereth the night formes of Venus in sléepe and taketh away the Uenereall delight for euer by drincking it fasting and washing the Genitals with it for fortie dayes togither The water applyed without with lynnen clothes wette in it doth in short time coole the burning heate of the Liuer The Water of Hasill Nuttes The Lvi Chapter THe gréene Hasill nuttes gathered and bruised requyre to bée dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of Iuly Thys water well laboured on the handes and armes morning and euening and let to drye in by it selfe putteth away scabbednesse and trembling or shaking of the handes The water dystilled of the freshe Hasill Nuttes druncke fasting to the quantitie of twâ— drammes at a time miraculously helpeth the Cholicke and grypings of the Bowels a thing sure and experimented often as writeth the learneâ— Alexander Benedictus The water of Walnuttes The Lvij. Chapter THe gréene Walnuts gathered and bruised ought to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Iuly This water ministred to drincke to a wounded person twyse or thryse a daye putteth awaye the inflammation of the wounde the rather if a lynnen clothe wette in it be applyed sundrie tymes of the day The water druncke twyse a daye to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a tyme putteth away any maner of heate and profiteth blacke Pushes as the Carbuncle and harde swellings in the grynde and other pestilent Blysters and swellinges by applying diuers tymes lynnen clothes wette iâ— it It also helpeth the Plague by drinking the like quantitie twyse a daye with a scruple weight of fine Triacle Certaine persons there are which dystill a water out of the Walnuts not ripe and whole with their shelles which is soueraigne and auayleable against the plague and for to foment the places afflicted with Goute right profitable as the learned Graterolus wryteth The water applyed with lynnen clothes wette in it putteth away Tetters in that it extinguisheth and ceaseth payne The water of the gréene ryndes of the Walnuttes dystilled by Balneo Mariae in September taken in drincke with a thirde part of Uinegar when the heate of the Plague taketh any and that a veyne before be opened and that he shall drinke it within .xxiiij. houres is a sure and approued remedie against the Plague This water dropped into the eares helpeth the rynging and sounde or noyse of them The water of the rype ryndes applyed doth lyke helpe those griefes The water of the Walnut leaues shredde and dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of May dryeth vp the open vlcers ceaseth heate and causeth a smooth skinne to growe againe on vlcers by applying lynnen clothes wette in it morning and euening for a certaine time togither The water of Palma Christi The Lviij Chapter THe rootes only gathered and finely shredde require to be dystilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae about the ende of May. This water druncke twyse a daye recouereth the perillous fluxe Dysenteria as the same of experience knowne The water like drunck expelleth the grosse humors of the body and by oftentimes washing with it greatly clenseth and cléereth the face The water is profitable ministred to madde persons and franticke and in the griefes of the sinewes A dram weyght of the fine powder of the séedes gyuen with thrée ounces of the water swéetened with a little Sugar preuayleth against the falling sicknesse The water myxed with pure wyne and druncke at dinner and supper for .xxx. or .xl. dayes togither doth lyke recouer the falling sicknesse The water druncke at the beginning of the colde fitte riddeth away the Quartaine feuer in short
time as a certaine man of proofe affirmeth The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time strengtheneth the stomack heateth and comforteth nature The water in like maner druncke putteth awaye the yelowe Iaundise and prouoketh vrine The water taken in the morning fasting for a certaine time togither to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time and that Lynnen clothes wette in it be often applyed doth preuayle against all swellings being as well without as within the bodie The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time and that Lynnen clothes wette in it be often applyed doth heale olde and newe woundes aswell wythin happening as without the bodie The water of Cinkfoyle or fiue leaued grasse The Lix Chapter THe best time for dystillation of it is that the herbe stalke roote with the whole substance shred small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of Maye This water druncke morning and euening for certaine dayes to the quantitie of foure ounces at a time helpeth the stone the griefe of the Stone in the Loynes and clenseth the Reynes The water druncke fasting to the quantitie of eygth or nine ounces at a tyme doth mightily loose the belly and like resolueth the hardnesse of belly by applying it without The water applyed with lynnen clothes wette in it ceaseth all maner of heates and swellinges applyed with lynnen clothes wette to the foreheade stayeth the bléeding at the nose It recouereth the trembling of members and the handes if they be often laboured with the same and let to drye in by it selfe The water healeth newe and olde woundes if they be washed with the same or applyed with lynnen clothes It also putteth awaye all swellinges and Impostumes The water druncke fasting for certaine dayes profiteth against all maner of Feuers and expelleth them vtterlye The water of Thowrowaxe dystilled in Balneo druncke to the quantitie of two ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar helpeth the inner rupture of Children healeth inflammations with a readnesse and the Shingles and ceaseth the griefe of a burning stomacke The water of S. Iohns Worte The Lx. Chapter THe best tyme for Dystillation of it is that the herbe the leaues and flowers drawne from the stalkes be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Iune This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of two ounces at a time preuayleth against the Apoplexie or depriuing of senses This water myxed with the powder of the rootes or séedes or water of Pionie and druncke twyse or thryse a daye to the quantitie of two or thrée ounces at a time recouereth and helpeth the falling sickenesse The water preuayleth against the trembling of members if they be laboured with the same twyse a day The water drunck with redde wine helpeth all manner of superfluous fluxes of the Bellie the rather being applyed with a lynnen clothe wette in it The water druncke morning and euening healeth all maner of woundes being as well without as within the Bodie foynes or cuttes the rather if they shall be washed or applyed often with a lynnen cloth wette in it The water of Pympernell The Lxi. Chapter THe congruent tyme for dystillation of the lesser Pympernell which hath a sharpe roote is that the rootes the herbe with the whole substance shredde and bruised 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 tyme swéetened with Sugar helpeth the stone and griefe of the stone in the Loynes and Bladder and clenseth the Reynes This water helpeth the Plague druncke once wythin sixe dayes It profiteth women whose matrice is become colde and draweth downe the Termes The water druncke in lyke quantitie with a little of Castoreum brought to fine powder fasting putteth away the palsie of members The water druncke fasting to the quantitie of foure ounces at a time defendeth the person from sickenesse that daye in that it putteth away all maner of griefe from the heart deliuereth euill humors and procureth vrine this druncke with a little fine Triacle preuayleth against poyson The water causeth a cléere and fayre skinne of the face and handes if any often washeth these outwarde parts with it The water of Plantayne The Lxij Chapter THe rootes and herbe with the whole substance shredde small dystill by Balneo Mariae about the ende of May. The water druncke for fortie dayes morning and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a tyme swéetened with a little Sugar recouereth the Dropsie a hote Cough and that swelling procéeding of a heate and healeth Blysters and pushes rysing of heate It profiteth any fluxe of the Bellie but especiallye helpeth that fluxe Dysenteria if you mixe in the drinking the powders of the stone Hematites and Bole Armoniacke to the quantitie or weyght of a dramme of eche with two ounces of the water This lyke mixed and druncke stayeth the humorall fluxe and the ouer great fluxe of the Termes The water healeth the vlcers and impostume of the Lunges it preuayleth against poyson The water recouereth the falling sicknesse by drincking it for fortie dayes The water druncke for fower dayes helpeth the loue medicine if a purgation be afterwarde taken and this druncke a time deliuereth the griefe of the Mylt It killeth wormes by drincking fasting the quantitie abouesayde taken fasting for thrée dayes togither to the quantitie of foure ounces at a time helpeth the Ague It also recouereth the Matrice and sendeth forth the after burthen The water helpeth the Plague and profiteth inflammations by applying Lynnen clothes wette in it The water healeth all vlcers which are happened by a bruise stripe fall or by any other cause The water retayned a long time in the mouth healeth all woundes and vlcers of the mouth and the gummes rotten by bloude The water dropped euery day into a Fistula healeth it the rather if it be often washed with the same The water dropped into the eares remooueth the payne of them It helpeth the Shingles and dropped or applyed to the eyes putteth away the swelling of them The water gargelled in the mouth recouereth the exulceration of the throte The water applyed with lynnen clothes on freshe woundes stayeth the issue of bloud It healeth the bytte and stinging of venimous beastes and woormes recouereth inflammations and those with a readnesse by applying lynnen clothes wette in it The water applyed with lynnen clothes preserueth woundes that no inflammation or other incommoditie happeneth to them It healeth those Vlcers which by féeding créepe abrode The water cureth that fore féeding which most men name the Wolfe if in it be boyled the flowers of Pomegranates Psidia the Cypresse nuttes Xylobalsamum Carpobalsamum Sugar Alum of eche an ounce of Mumia an ounce and a halfe and of Camphora one dramme of Plantaine water one pynte with the which decoction thus prepared let the sore bée dayly washed The water often
applyed causeth fleshe to growe againe it healeth the Fistula in the Fundament and recouereth Canker sores by often washing the mouth therewith it healeth the exulcered bowels giuen vp in glyster wyse by the fundament The water applyed on running Pyles with Cotton cureth them it cureth also euill Pushes and grieuous vlcers The water of Rybworte The Lxij Chapter THe time of Dystillation of it is that the rootes and herbe with the whole substance shredde small by dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of May. This water druncke with Rosed Honie to the quantitie of foure ounces twoo houres before the comming of the fitte deliuereth the Quartaine feuer so that it be vsed before the beginning of sundrie fittes The water in lyke quantitie druncke sendeth forth the afterburthen clenseth the Reynes and Bladder and preuayleth agaynst the vlcers of the Nosethrils or eyes if they be washed twyse a daye with the same The water druncke warme with a little Rosed Honie expelleth the wormes of the bellie This water hath in a manner the same vertues which the greater Plantaine possesseth sauing that these are not so mightie in working The water of the Polipodie The Lxiij Chapter THe seasonable time for Dystillation of the Polipodie of the Oke is that the rootes onely gathered wythout the herbe and shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae from Iulye to September This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time with Rosed honie helpeth the Cough and frensinesse It also putteth away Melancholie heauinesse and griefe of the mynde and druncke for certaine dayes deliuereth the quartaine Ague The like quantitie drunck with the broth of a Cocke or Pullet expelleth by siege Melancholie and flewme and helpeth them greatly which by nature are costiue The water druncke looseth the streyghtnesse of the breast softeneth the bellie putteth away fearefull dreames prouoketh vrine purgeth the bloude comforteth the heart and amendeth an euill colour The water of the Daysie The Lxiiij Chapter THe herbe and rootes with the whole substance shredde small require to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of May. This water druncke Morning Noone and at Euening to the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a tyme procureth an appetite to meate The water druncke profiteth that person which shall haue a rybbe or legge broken and healeth woundes by drincking or washing them with it The water taken to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a time looseth the Bellie healeth the vlcered bowels and strengtheneth the Palsie members if they be often rubbed or laboured with the same It cooleth the Lyuer extinguisheth an inwarde heate represseth Choller helpeth the blysters of the mouth and tongue procéeding of heate The water of Knotgrasse The Lxv. Chapter THe whole Herbe with the rootes shredde small require to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the middes of Maye Thys water druncke morning noone and at euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time stayeth the ouer great fluxe of the bellie The water profiteth against the Ague which inuadeth with a heate It also healeth the Shingles by applying lynnen clothes wette in the same The water helpeth all manner of payne of wounds where an inflammation with redneâ—se consisteth if they be washed with the same or that a lynnen clothe wette in it be often applyed The water druncke in lyke maner abouesayde clenseth the Reynes expelleth the stone of the loynes procureth vrine and openeth the obstruction of such members The water druncke with Rosed honie profiteth children and men agaynst wormes It recouereth rotten gummes if they be often washed with the same and healeth blacke pushes or bladders by applying lynnen clothes wette in it The water extinguisheth all maner of heates happening as well within as without the bodie The water of wylde Tansey The Lxvi Chapter THe whole Herbe with the rootes shredde small require to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae from Iuly vnto September This water druncke morning and euening for sixe or eight dayes togither to the quantitie of twoo or three ounces at a time stayeth the whyte termes or whytes in women The water dropped into the eyes recouereth the much running of them and healeth the eye lyddes folding outwarde by annoynting them often with it The water applyed to the eyes profiteth against dymnesse of sight the pinne and webbe and other spottes happening in them The water healeth woundes if they be washed with the same and applyed often with lynnen clothes wette in it If the backe bone be laboured with the same it taketh away the griefe therof The water of the flowers when they shall be full rype dystilled in a Cucurbite of glasse by Balneo Mariae druncke in the morning fasting to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a time for certaine dayes togither comforteth all the members of man The water druncke and applyed with a lynnen clothe on the forehead profiteth against the gyddynesse and swimming of the heade The water deliuereth the Rheume and running of bleared eyes It also recouereth moyst vlcers by applying lynnen clothes wette in the same in that it draweth forth the moysture by the poores The water of selfe heale The Lxvij. Chapter THe time for dystillation of it is that the herbe stalkes and flowers shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water recouereth the putrifaction of the mouth tempered with the oyle of Roses and vinegar and applyed to the Temples putteth away the burning of the heade mixed with Rose water doth lyke helpe the heade The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time profiteth against the stitches which are felt in the sides and against the inner impostumes of the bodie It also extinguisheth inflammations and recouereth a weakenesse of the heart In the lyke manner druncke healeth the Shingles and the inflammations with a rednesse as well in men of rype age as in children The water euery daye druncke fasting preserueth from the plague clenseth the breast and putteth away the strangurie It also preuayleth against the Tertian and Quartaine Ague The water druncke in the abouesayde maner helpeth such women whose matrice wythin begynneth to putrifie and matter for by the same are they healed The water recouereth woundes if they be often washed wyth the same and that lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed The water healeth swellings and exulceration of the mouth by washing and gargelling the mouth with it for this deliuereth the putrifaction and heate and the pushes or sores of the mouth The water of the leaues of the Oke The Lxviij Chapter THe leaues gathered and bruised requyre to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the middes of May. This water drunck to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a time recouereth the fluxe of the bellie whether the same be whyte or matterie It also expelleth congealed bloude into clottes by a strype The water druncke to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at
a time profiteth a fowle and corrupt lyuer and diseased lunges or at the least beginneth to putrifie This in lyke maner druncke preuayleth against stitches in the sides The water druncke twyse a daye stayeth the ouer great fluxe of the termes stoppeth the bléeding of wounds and lyke helpeth the pyssing of bloude by taking it in the foresaid quantitie The water dayly druncke doth especially preuayle agaynst the stone of the loynes and bladder It also healeth the bowels exulcerated by the daungerous fluxe of the bellie The water applyed with lynnen clothes on the inflamed member exceedingly cooleth It healeth olde vlcers of the legges if they be often washed with the same and let to drye in by it selfe The water auayleth against rednesse and burning of the legges by black pushes in applying on the places twyse or thryce a day towe or lynnen clothes wette in it vntill the heate be extinguished The water druncke with a dramme weyght of the fine pouder of Mestiltowe of the Oke for certayne dayes togither adding to it a scruple weyght of Aqua vitae rectified recouereth not onely Feuers and the Apoplexie or depriuation of senses but helpeth without doubt the falling sickenesse The water in lyke manner prepared and druncke putteth away gyddynesse swellings of the bodie preserueth from the Leprie and deliuereth most diseases in that it purgeth and sendeth forth the grosse and euill humors offending The water of the leaues of the Willowe The Lxix Chapter THe leaues of the whyte Wyllowes strypped from the twygges being tender in the Spring time requyre to be dystilled about the beginning of May by Balneo Mariae This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of foure ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar helpeth the stone procureth vryne and preuayleth against the wormes of the bellie The water profiteth against the rednesse of eyes being often washed with the same It helpeth the Shyngles and recouereth the Fistula by applying lynnen clothes wette in it The water druncke in lyke quantitie expelleth the yoongling dead The water of the flowers dystilled after the maner of the flowers of the Apples and Peaches recouereth the sight healeth scabbednesse of the heade procureth fayre heare if wetting the heares well with a Spunge dypped in it and kembed be after suffered to drie by themselfe The water of the Elder The Lxx. Chapter THe outwarde rynde scraped and pylled from the slyppes of the Elde◠trée and the inner ryndes taken and shredde requyre to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of May. This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time recouereth the Dropsie The water druncke fasting to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a tyme swéetened with a little Rosed honie mightily looseth the bellie without harme The water of the tender leaues of the toppes and sides budding forth shredde small and dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of May helpeth hote legges and putrified vlcers if they be often washed with the same and let to drie by themselfe The water of the flowers through blowne and stamped togither dystilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time swéetened with Rosed honie looseth the straitnesse of the brest The water in lyke quantitie druncke profiteth agaynst the swelling and water betwéene the skynne and openeth the stopping of the lyuer mylt and kidneyes The water druncke putteth away the Tertian ague clenseth and helpeth all courses procéeding of Melancholie and strengtheneth the stomacke The water druncke to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a time purgeth all humors by siege and clenseth the bodie The water dropped into the eyes extinguisheth the heate of them It also druncke twyse a day and dropped into the eyes consumeth whyte spottes in them The water helpeth the trembling of the handes if they be wette and laboured with the same and let to drie by themselfe The water profiteth against vlcers and that be colde if they shall be often washed with the same or that lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed The Water of Scabious The Lxxi Chapter THe leaues and rootes shredde togither requyre to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water druncke thrée or fower tymes a daye to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme recouereth the straytenesse of breast and helpeth the impostumes of the same The water druncke morning noone and at euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme preuayleth against stitches of the sides The water profiteth against swellings in the bodie against the Plague poysoning the Cough and all inwarde corruption of the bodie The water in the abouesayde maner druncke helpeth scabbednesse and clenseth the bloude corrupt It also putteth away swellings arysing in the bodie and healeth woundes as well without as within the bodie by applying lynnen clothes wette in it The water in lyke maner druncke purgeth the lunges and putteth away the Cough The water helpeth the Pyles whyte scurfe Letters and Ringwormes It also recouereth pestilent pushes as the Carbuncle sore and amendeth the sight of the eyes The water of the Saxifrage with the whole substance shredde small and dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of May drunck euery day fasting to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar breaketh the stone of the kidneys and bladder helpeth ache in the hyppes deliuereth the stopping of vryne and clenseth the reynes and bladder The Water of Nightshade of the Garden The Lxxij Chapter THe leaues with the stalkes gathered and shredde small require to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae when that the berries be gréene This water druncke morning noone and at euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time helpeth a swelling procéeding of an vntemperate hotenesse It perfourmeth the lyke by applying lynnen clothes wette on the swelling The water in the foresayde maner taken helpeth the stone and putteth away sweate myxed with the water of wormewoode and druncke to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time The water preuayleth against the griefes and aking of the hynder part and whole heade procured of heate The water applyed with Lynnen clothes wet in it on a hote Gowte and the Shingles doth in short time helpe them the rather by the often applying of the clothes wette in the water The water dropped into the eares putteth away griefe in them asswageth inflamed impostumes of the breastes or pappes of women and represseth hote swellinges in the throte that they doe not hastily strangle nor stoppe the wynde and the water gargelled in the throte cooleth the liuer and extinguisheth heate The water helpeth men bursten by often applying lynnen clothes wette in it on the rupture The water druncke greatly auayleth if by any night terrour certaine pushes shall arise and the lyke doth the water preuayle applyed with lynnen clothes The water of the Mustarde séedes when the herbe bearing flowers is to be
after the â—â—éeping for thrée dayes dystill in a Cucurbite 〈…〉 water and the next an oyle which 〈◊〉 let 〈…〉 in a double veâ—â—ell A water helping 〈◊〉 procéeding of 〈…〉 the trembling of the heart the Quartain◠〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 and griefes of the splene and wâ—â—be diseases 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 cause Take of the flowers of Rosemarie of the flowers and rootes of Buglosse and of the Qâ—â—nce 〈…〉 oâ—nceâ— of Saffron halfe a dramme all 〈…〉 and infused in 〈…〉 of whytâ— wyne 〈…〉 bodie couered and set in 〈◊〉 after dystill and vse â–ª this but of Fumanellus A water that deliuereth 〈…〉 of Ague 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 of Fumitarie purified in which Reysins of the sunne be 〈…〉 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 Take of Cloâ—â—â— of Nutmegges of 〈…〉 oâ— Ginger of â—osemarie of Herbe grace and of Scabious of eche twoo ounces 〈◊〉 finely 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 which after 〈…〉 with a soft 〈…〉 kéepe to your vse A water causing the pacient to reâ—yâ—e and to appeare yong agayne Take of pure Turpentine one poâ—nde of clarified honie 〈◊〉 pyntes â–ª of burning water twoo pyntes of Xyloaloes the purest in powder thrée or drammes and a halfe of the Saunders 〈◊〉 much of Olibanum of 〈…〉 of the bone of the Harteâ— heart of Zedoaria and of long Pepper of eche thrée drammes of gumme Arabecke one ounce of the Nutmegge Galingale Cubebae Cynamone Carowayes 〈◊〉 Mace Cloues Spikenarde Saffron and Ginger of echâ— thrâ—eacute e drammes of chosen Muske a peâ—â—e weyght all these diligently brought to powder dystill according to Arte vntill a water 〈◊〉 forth so cleâ—â—e as the fountaine water whyles the 〈◊〉 water is in comming forth which then appeareth fierie increase the fire by little and little for the water will â—ssue then vnto the thycknesse of honie Another water of youth this so named the water of youth in that it preserueth youth and deliuereth the person vsing it from sickenesse Take of Xyloaloes of Cloues of Ginger of Galingale of Cardamomum of Cubebae of graynes of Paradyse of Rubarbe of Cynamone of Nutmegs of Aloes of Calomus aromaticus of Mace of eche twoo drammes all these brought into a grosse powder seaâ—se diligently adding to it of the iuice of Celondine twoo pyntes of 〈◊〉 of Brionie of Buglosse of Fumiterrie of Rue of Betâ—nie of Mynte of Borage and of Fennell of eche halfe a pounde all these reduced into one and dystilled with the best whyte wyne of this dystilled lycour druncke euery daye in the Summer time one spoonefull but in the Wynter twoo A dystilled water for the drying of vlcers and the Fistula take of the best Aqua vitae and that thryse dystilled ouer so much as you will into it 〈◊〉 of Betâ—nie of Veruaâ—â—â— of Rosemarie and of saint Iohns worte of eche alike well boyled put into the Aqua vitae â–ª or otherwise let them be dystilled againe togither and the vlcers after washed with it A marueylous water healing the Fistula and all woundes â–ª Take of Rosemarie of Bâ—yâ—s of the Myrtill of the wilde Smâ—lledge â—â—garden Smalledge which fower herbes cause newly 〈◊〉 be dystilled by a glasse Lymbeck of which water take one ounce after adde of Turpentine sixe ounces of gumme Iuie thrée ounces of Olibanum twoo ounces of Saffron Mastick of Cubebae of Nutmegs of Myrre of Galingale of Cinamone of Aloes â—â—ceatrine of Cloues of eche one ounce but let all these be finely brought to powder and infused in the abouesayde waters put the whole into a Cucurbite which dystill accorâ—ing to Arte this water reserue in a glasse bodie for this auayleth against any Fistula being from the throte downewarde and all woundes iâ— of the same you shall apply on them and that a clothe wette in this water be applyed vpon the sayd Fistulaes chaunging it foâ—th â— as it wareth driâ—â— this also much auayleth and helpeth any passionâ—â— the bodie impostume and inwarde griefes by drincâ—ing a litâ—le of the same But if any Fistula shall be from the thrâ—te vpwarde then let be added to the foresayd substances one ounce of Pepper â–ª and it will be most perfite and the fecies which shall remayne of the sayde dystillation bying to powder for that applyed on anye vlcer healeth it A water of a diuine workingâ— healing any wounde in a shorte time and both ytche and scabbes Take of the whyte Tartare calcined that is with the quicke siluer decocted and purified of burning water so much as shall suffice vnto the dystilling that if oftener it shall be dystilled it is then caused the effectuouâ—â—â— Fumanelluâ— Another prooued water against the Fistula which so hardeneth yron that you may cut another péece of yron therewith so easie aâ—â— if the same were woode Take of â—aâ—th wormes and of them drawe a water by dystillation and like drawe a water of Raâ—â—sh 〈◊〉 whâ—ch myxed togither into thiâ— then put 〈…〉 yron 〈…〉 redde hote the same thus heated and 〈◊〉 for three or fowre tymes by anequall qâ—â—ntitie vsed as 〈◊〉 tymes and the knyfe tempered with an edge â—ippe redde hote againe into the glasse with the waters abouesayde for you may after cut any Iron safely and easily and this wâ—ter 〈◊〉 is marueylous in Fistulaes A water for all woundes Take of Egâ—â—monde of Solanum of Pâ—â—â—taine of 〈◊〉 a pounde of whyte wyne to much â–ª of whyte glasse fower ounces of crude Alluâ— thrée ounces of Masticke twoo ounces of Orpiment halfe a scruple of the whytes of egges sixe in number let all these be stronglye beatin togither and dystilled with this water washe twyse a day the wounde Another water for Fistulaes knobbes knottes bunches scrâ—fâ—â—s and any other manner of swelling without payne Take of the chosen oyle of Tylestones fiue pyntes of whyte Franckincense of Masticke of gumme Arabecke of Turpentine of Venice of eche thrée ounces these finely wrought togither dystill in a Cucurbite after Arte and in the dystilling ouer againe adde fiue poundes of Salte and that dystilled lycour then kéepe to thy vse this Fumanellus A water soone healing wounds Take of burning water fower ounces of Triacle halfe â—n ounce this after the dystilling apply on woundes and strawing then the pouder of Aloes and Myrre this Fumanellus A water which healeth all woundes spéedily in any part of thâ— bodie whether those be newe or olde woundes and the Fistulâ— â–ª as the author hath 〈…〉 â—â—perienced Take of Aqua vitae dystilled of the best whâ—te wyne twoo pyntes of Rosemarie water and of Sage water dystilled at one time of ech fiue pyntes of whyte 〈◊〉 ten poundes which laboured togither or still ouer againeâ— after adde a viall or glasse full of Rosemary flowers and so much of Sage flowers these mixed with the foresayde dystâ—lation 〈…〉 it so stande for a daye which after strayne and kéepe in a glasse to your vse The maner of vsing is that it must be applyed on with a lynnen cloth wette in it and as the same cloth alwayes dryeth moysten it againe Another water to drawe out bones
and to kéepe the member â–ª from putrifying â–ª and auayleth in woundes Take of whyte Venice Turpentiâ—â— vnwashed of pure shâ—ppe Pitche of the hâ—nie combes of eche one pounde of pure and newe Rosen being whyte and of Hâ—nie fiue poundes all these dystill by a Limbecke of glassâ— and the waâ—ter kéepe in a Viall A compounde water for them which newly recouer out of ther Frencâ—e disease by the 〈…〉 Rondeâ—â—â—ius Take of the râ—sped 〈…〉 â–ª one pounde of good olde Triacle◠〈◊〉 ounces of the conserue of Roses Buglosse and Borage of eche twoo ounces of the Conâ—erue of Helenium or Hâ—lycampane and Rosemarie flowers of eche one ounce of the powder of the electuariâ— of precious stanâ—â—â— and of that named Letitia Galeni of eche 〈…〉 thâ—se togither infuse in a glasse bodie filled thrée partes vp with whyte wyne and pure Conduite water of eche alyke which dystilâ— with Cynamon on ashes in this water dystilled melt so much Sugar as shall sâ—ffice which after let runne through an Ipocras bagge of this giue to the féeble recouered from the French disease A Triâ—cle water of the same mans description Take of olde Triacle one pounde of Sorrell thrée handfulles of Camomill flowers of Penny Royall of the long or great grasse and of the blessed Thystell of eche twoo handfull these stéeped in whyte wyne dystill after Arte this kéepe in a glasse with a narrowe mouth let the pacient take twoo ounces of the same water wyth thrée ounces of Sorrell water and Buglosse when he goeth to bedde or entreth into the bathe or hote house This water cureth the paynes of the French disease if the same be ministred alone or with the decoction of Grummell or the great Burre I sayth the Author by happy successe haue cured many children and olde persons with this potion or by sometimes adding certaine drops to the common decoction of Guaicum so that through the thinnesse of partes doth this water soone penetrate and sende forth the matter This water also with the water of the extinction of golde myxed doth correct and amende all manner of defaultes of the Quicksiluer A Triacle water helping the falling sickenesse of the same Authors inuention Take of olde Triacle fower ounces of Methridate twoo ounces of the Helycampane rootes halfe a pounde of the herbe Clarée twoo handfuls of the greater Celondine one handfull these after the infusion for a night in Malmesie and put altogither into a glasse bodie distill according to Arte This water auayleth in all colde griefes and diseases both of the brayne and sinewes A Triacle water of Iacobus Siluius which he vsed in the French disease take of the rasped woode Guaicum halfe a pound of Spring or Conduite water viij pyntes of the white wyne not pleasant twoo pyntes of the waters of Fumiterrie Succorie and Camomill of eche one pynte let all these be infused togither for a night on hote ashes or ymbers to which after adde of the Polipodie of the Oke halfe a pounde of the flower of Tyme twoo ounces of Sperage sixe ounces of the Conserue of Roses Succorie Borage and Buglosse of eche fower ounces of the best Triacle twoo ounces of the conserue of Helycampane twoo ounces these well closed in a glasse bodie dystill in a double vessell The quantitie to be ministred at one tyme is from twoo vnto thrée ounces and you may if you will adde to thrée ounces of the Triacle water one ounce of Sugar and a dramme of Cynamone and let the same dystill againe through an Ipocras bagge for so the taste of it shall be the pleasanter in the drincking let be giuen in bedde in the morning to procure a strong sweate Eyght waters of S. Aegidius helping the falling sicknesse newe come the Palsie wounds Agues Take of Isope Peny Royall Hares foote of Succorie of eche a lyke these stamped in a morter and dystilled kéepe in a glasse with a narrowe mouth After take of Rue of Perselie of Zedoaria of Aloes or the stone Calaminaris of eche a lyke quantitie or dramme these beaten togither boyle in the foresayd water vnto a consumption of the third part the same after straine through a linnen cloth kéeping it theÌ„ close stopped and after the standing and setting of it xl dayes let the pacient drincke of this lycour euery morning fasting for ten dayes togither being molested with anye of the abouesayde sickenesses or diseases yea if he happen to haue the Plague but then let him refraine meate for six houres after the taking of this drincke This lycour also druncke with a fasting stomacke doth preserue the person from the falling sicknesse and Palsie for this excéedingly comforteth the members If this besides be druncke fasting with Castorie these sickenesses being but newe begun it is a speciall remedie It singularly auayleth in the healing of woundes and the cutting of veynes and sinewes if those be wasshed with it It cureth besides all maner of Agues being drunck with a fasting stomacke for nyne mornings togither The seconde water of the Philosophers Take of Rue of Egrimonie of the Satyrion of Celondine of Sugar of the stone Calaminaris otherwise Tutia of eche a lyke quantitie these beaten togither dystill in a Lymbecke with a soft fire This water is very precious in that it healeth any grief or disease of the eyes This vsed or taken with meates or otherwyse in potions before meate and with a fasting stomacke auayleth against all poysons in casting it vp by vomiting and druncke fasting cureth the Dropsie and clenseth the stomacke of all putrified and colde humors it extinguisheth the créeping influmation called Saint Anthonies fire in a day if playsters of Towe be applyed vpon being wette in this water It cureth the Canker being myxt with Aloes and that a playster of the towe of Hempe wette in it be applyed vpon twyse in the daye The thirde water of the Phylosophers which otherwise is named Petralis â–ª Take of Pympernell séedes of Persely of Smalledge of the Burre and of Masticke of ech a lyke these myxed beate togither with Goates bloude adding a little strong vinegar which let so stande close stopped for certaine dayes after dystill the whole in a Cucurbite after Arte the water which then commeth forth breaketh both the redde and whyte stone being eyther rough playne or sharpe But if the stone shall be broken then let the pacient drincke of this water with a fasting stomacke and he shall then pisse the sande forth And washing anye scabbed partes with this water doth spéedily heale the scabbes and causeth heare to growe in the bare places It cureth also all maner of scabbes of the bodie by washing all the places of the bodie with this water for thrée or fower dayes togither and druncke fasting in the morning ingendreth good bloude in the bodie It deliuereth the Palsie by drincking of it twyse in the daye with Castoreum or Castorie vnlesse the sickenesse shall be confirmed This also healeth the Apoplexie and falling sickenesse The fourth
all in a glasse body luted added after to it fiue pintes of rectified Aqua vitae and of Cloues distilled them togither by a pype The next day he tooke Lyquid styrax the other gummes distilled it againe and this distillation note is hard in that the same so lightly boyleth vp for that cause shall the coles be drawen forth when it beginneth to boyle vp The third day following he distilled the spyces and others with the Baulme by a pype in water c. And on such wise he purchased the prepared Baulme A Baulme of G. a Klee take of good cleare Turpentyne one pound of the oyle of Bayes two ounces these two mixe togyther after of pure Olibanum of Lignum aloes pure of eche two ounces of Masticke halfe an ounce of Myrre of Ladanum and of Castorie of eche two drams all these diligently brought to pouder and mixed with the abouesaid let so stand for thirtie dayes in the abouesaid oyle To these after adde of Galingale of Cloues of Cynamon of Nutmegs of Zedoaria of Cubebae of each half an ounce of Dittanie of Campherie of each two ounces all these prepare and put into fowre ounces of Aqua vitae rectifyed which mixe artely togither let the whole thus stand for fowre dayes at the end of which time mixe togither all the whole put into a Lymbecke diligently luted and closed in the ioynt distill then with a soft or slowe fyre First coÌ„meth a water which is named the Baulme water next insueth a cytryne lycour in colour like to oyle which assoone as you shall see distylling drawe away the receauer with the water of Baulme setting speedie vnder an other receauer to gather the most precious lycour then comming after the maner of oyle which is named the mother of Baulme After these shall the great lycour distill come and remooue then the receauer setting vnder an other to gather that blackishe lycour a part which then sendeth forth droppes or droppeth a long space and time betweene drop and drop and this lycour slowest distilling is more precious than the other two These three lycours throughly distilled keepe diligently in seuerall glasses close stopped with waxe which waxe notwithstanding through the fortitude of the Baulme water is within a short time softned like paste The second lycour is cytryne or yelowe which is the mother of Baulme The thyrde is blacke which is named Xylobalsamum eueÌ„ as the first named Opobalsamum The first is good the second is better then it but same excellenter is the thyrde I sawe sayth the Authour a person troâ—bled with the palsie which by applying one droppe on the forehead and another on the nauill of the belly was forth with deliuered and cured of it Another taken with the palsie leste the sense and feeling of the right Arme and foote who with the annoynting of the ioyntes the shoulder blades or pâ—yntes the armes from the Elbowes to the hands the knob and ioynt of the hand the knee the necke breast by spending on each place thrâ—â— droppes arose within a fewe dayes after from his bed and was throughly healed by it A Muncke carrying a Beame in Pauiâ— a Cittie of Lumbardie wrung and grieuouslie brused his hand betwâ—â—ne a pyller the Beame in such sort that his hand 〈…〉 after waxed so blacke as a coale with an intollerable paine â—rampe that hapâ—ed after in that hand which being annoynted with this oyle of the mother of Baulme the paine in short tyme after ceased but being after annoynted with it morning and euening the hand became whyte againe and throughly restored and healed The Aucthour by a chance cutting his fynger deepe healed it only with this baulme in a short tyme. Another Baulme distylled in a Retorte which not much varyeth both in the properties and composition from the other aboue Take of Turpentyne one pound of the oyle of Bayes two ounces to these mixed â–ª adde of GalbanuÌ„ of gum Elenum of gum yuie of Frankensence of Lignum aloes also diuers spyces of each two drams these after the artlie distylling put vp in a glasse The vse of this baulme is that a certaine noble man hauing the hand drawne and shrunke togither in such sort that he could not 〈◊〉 the same by annoynting the ioynts hand with it and couering or wrapping that hand with a hote cloath was within fifteene daiâ—â— throughlie cured Another personne hauing a hardnesse in his throate on such wyse that he could not retche nor cast vp spyâ—tle out of his throate mouth but by annoynting the throate with this oyle â–ª the whole throate after was greatly inlarge◠〈◊〉 â—y annoynting againe the throate the next day folowing with it the pacient was wholly cured Another hauing a pestilent Caâ—â—oâ—cle or swelling in the grynde by annoynting the saâ—â— with this lycour was wholly cured This also helpeth the belching paine of the stomackes the crampe â–ª the chollick and stitches the 〈◊〉 of the eares â—y iusâ—ylling one droppe at a time both morning euening into them The synewes shrunck at wounds the canker the Fistulaes bruses or the strypes of blacke blue the peâ—â—ilâ—ce euery hard impostume doth this resolue This besides helpeth memory if you apply or annoint one droppe on the forepart of the head annointed on the backe bone ioyntes helpeth the palsie â–ª A maystrial Baulme of vnknowne Aucthour to Gesnerus take of Xyloaloes of Masticke of mace of Galingale of Nutmegs of Spykenard of Gynger of Cinamon of Cardamoâ—â— of Cubebae of Cloues of Zedoaria of gum Arabicke of Santali muscellini of frankensence of saffron of OlibanuÌ„ of each two dramâ—â— al theâ—â— finely labour and bring to pâ—wder and myxe with the waters of Turpentiâ—â— hony prepared on this wyse take of Turpentine and hony of each halfe a pound these distyll togyther and a part from others without any myxing of spyces to them After take of Aqua vitae once rectifyed one pynte this myxe with the abouesayd confection letting the whole then putrify in the sunne in a Glasse close stopped with waxe for eyght dayes or longer tyme if you wyll After make a seperation by Lymbecke according to arte and the fyrst water which then commeth is named the mother of Baulme The seconde which yssueth named the oyle of Baulme the thyrde named the artificiall Baulme and in the ende aromatizated or made pleasaunt of sauour with Muske and Amber gréese and that addicion verye much comforteth and delighteth and vsed or added in euery confection of Baulme The mother of Baulme symple take of the best Turpentine thrée pounds of fine Frankensence of Lignum aloes of each thrée ounces of Cloues of Galingale of Cynamon of Nutmegges of Cubebae and of gumme Elemi of eache two ounces all these beaten and incorporated togyther and put in a luted bodye and standing in fermentacion for fyue or sixe dayes distyll after in syfted ashes begynning with a softe fyre and
togyther Out of this distyllation are also thrée lycours gotten and gathered This water wyll auayle against poysons the Pestilence the stone the quartayne the cotydiane Ague vnto sweating moouing c. This also helpeth the harde fetching of breath and the obstructions or stoppings of the bowelles vnto all flewmaticke matters and vnto the Falling sycknesse and to defende or preserue also the pacient from the Fallyng sycknesse A man maye lyke coniecture that this Baulme for the makyng of a perfite Tryacle to bée aptlye and to good purpose appoynted The Aucthor of Nouia viatici in the Chapter of the palsie discribeth a like licour to the baulme take of the whitest FraÌ„kensence and of Mastick of each two ounces of Lignum aloes one ounce of Cloues of Galingale of Cynamon of Zedoaria of Nutmegges and of Cubebae of eache sixe drams of Myrre of Aloes of Ladanum of Sarcocolla of Castorie of each halfe an ounce of Bay berries of the kernels of the Pyne aple of each one ounce of gumme Elemi of Opopanax and of Beniamen of each two ounces of the iuyces of Iua and the hearbe Paralycis or Cowselyp of each three ounces of good Turpentyne vnto the wayght of all the whole dystyll in a glasse bodye after arte The first which commeth is a water the second lyke to oyle the thyrde lyke to Hony. A compounde oyle borrowed out of Aristotle against the hote and colde gowte and against the incuruacions of the synewes so that the synewes be not cutte a sunder borrowed out of an Italian booke written take of Aqua vitae thryse distylled and of the iuyce of Byttonie of each three ounces of Saffron of the iuyce of Mugwoort of the iuyce of walwoort of the iuyce of Capreni or Caprellae of eache fowre ounces of the iuyce of march mallowes eyght ounces of Cloues of Carpobalsamum of Xylobalsamum of each two ounces of Ceruse of Frankensence of the Tartare of the whyte wyne of each thrée ounces of chyldes vrine and of good Hony â–ª of eache eyght ounces of the oyle of Turpentine thrée ounces of the oyle of Egges fowre ounces of the oyle of Brymstone two ounces of the oyle of wormes sixe ounces of the oyle of Rosemary halfe an ounce of the oyle of Bayes three drams let al these be distylled by a Lymbeck the first which commeth delyuereth the person from the hote gowte the seconde â–ª from the cold gowte and healeth any maner payne in what part of the bodye so euer the same shall happen and bée An oyle or water which is named of vertue a drinck of youth borrowed out of a highe Dutche or Germayne booke written of one Michaell Schricke Take of Sage leaues three quarters of a pounde of Cynamon of Cubebae of Galingale of long pepper of Annise of Mace of Nutmegs of Gynger of graynes of Paradize of each halfe an ounce â–ª these brought to powder myxe artlye which powre into sixe times so much wayght of good wyne as the whole being in a tynne vessell the same couer close that nothing vapour or breath forth let so stand in a hote place for fowreteen dayes At the ende of that tyme seperate the wyne froÌ„ the spyces by a strayner beate the spyces then finer that of the whole may be made lyke to a thicke broth or gruell and with the aforesayde wyne ioyne the whole agayne which then distyll according to art This water distilled come powred eyther on fleshe or fishe and lying couered in it doth defend and keepe eyther from putryfying and wyne commyxed with it doth not suffer it to corrupt but rather cleareth it and if the wyne presently be corrupt this spéedily restoreth it vnto perfection This druncke fasting in the morning consumeth impostumes and all inner disseases healeth also the outwarde grieffes by fomenting on the places it amendeth besydes any maner grieffes of the eyes and woundes by applying of it vppon within eyght dayes this closeth This druncke causeth myrth and mayntaineth youth This besydes auayleth in the disseases of the head and apoplexie This water to be briefe may be compared to baulme for it swymmeth aboue any other lycour myxt with it except oyle dropped on the fire this burneth It cureth the spottes of the face and druncke defendeth or kéepeth backe the Leprie A certaine sublymacioÌ„ like to a baulme in procuring of memory borrowed out of Michael angelus Blondus of memory In remeÌ„bring to orderly purge the stomack head before which done prepare of Frankensence of Cubebae of Cloues of Nutmegs of Galingale of Iuniper berries of eache halfe a dram of Cynamon three drams of Castorie fatte three drams of Costus and of long Pepper of eache a dramme all these brought to powder myxe a due proporcion of Aqua vitae answerable to the whole these put vp togither in a glasse body couered set into horse doong to digest for the space of a. xi dayes or more longer time if you wyl after this tyme ended sublyme then this in Balneo Mariae and to the sublymation adde of Mellis anacardini two or thrée small ounces and this then sublymed with the Hony let be buryed againe in a glasse body vnder doong for the space of two or thrée monethes but let this doong be chaunged euery eyght dayes least too much or to strong a heate may breake or cracke the glasse by such a space of tyme thiâ— sublymacion shal be then perfite vnto the sharpning quickening of memory The vse of it is on this wyse before you would apply for memory by a dayes space annoynt the temples and hinder part of the head and instyll one droppe into the nosethrelles after that eate downe fasting in the morning certayne droppes before you would reherse or vtter your Oration or in any other manner exercise of memory for this is the worthyest medicine of procuring memory An holly oyle which is very singular vnto diuers diseases for it especially auayleth against any Canker and Fistula all olde griefes or diseases borrowed out of a booke of secretes in written hande Take of olde oyle Olyue two pyntes of olde whyte wyne and the best fowre pintes of cleare the best Turpentine one pounde of the seedes of Hypericon or Saint Iohns worte two pounds and one dram of the white Dittanie of the Tormentill rootes and of the Gentian of each one ounce all these brought to pouder and mixt togyther putting the whole into a glasse bodie well stopped with paste that no matter breath forth procure that they may boyle in this manner Let the said vessell be set into a câ—uldron filled with water and straw and boyle there a time softly after rayse it from the fier and when it shal be colde put that vessel into a potte filled with sand in such sort that the whole vessell be compassed and couered vnto the necke with the said sande which set in a place where the sunne al the day shineth and there let it stand for fortie dayes
Synewes cutte a sunder in what parte of the bodye they shall so happen puttyng awaye swellyngs and all manner of hardnesse in the fleshe the Canker the hollye fyre and any payne of woundes and bruses and worketh more in one weeke then any other medycine in a moneth A certayne Phisition of small vnderstanding promysing and vnder takyng muche confessed that hée healed many disseases with this medycine alone as any manner vlcers of the Synewes the grieffes of the wyntes convulsions and swellinges and to bée brieffe to doe more matters than maye decentlye bée written the making of which is on this wyse let thrée poundes of newe puryfied waxe be taken and stieped in twelue wyne pyntes of the strongest whyte wyne the waxe soked through let it be wrynged harde with the hande and put after into another vessell of the lyke bygnesse hauing so many pyntes of wyne and through wrong the waxe harde prepared and the waxe put into a bodye which distyll after arte thrée tymes ouer this kéepe to your vse Another of the same mans The best oyle for the Canker and Fistula take of the oldest oyle Olyue two pyntes or thrée distylled with a sufficient small fyre continuing for twelue dayes the same which shall come and bée gotten helpeth the paynes of the ioyntes and grieffes of the Synewes â–ª the same which remayneth â—ee groundes in the bottome of the vessell helpeth Cankers and Fistulaes and by myxing Caphura with it worketh the perfyter Another of the same mans A water or oyle of great efficacye in healyng woundes Take of washed Turpentyne of the flowers of Saint Iohns woort so much as you wyll of Olibanum in powder of oyle Olyue and of freshe butter of eache a lyke wayght but lyttle in quantitye these distyll in a Lymbecke that which first commeth kéepe to your vse and by increasing the fyre that which next commeth serueth for woundes This lykewyse of the same mans A blessed oyle for woundes out of the secretes of Fallopio reade in the ende of the other Baulmes more at large vttered their in this place wherefore for repiticion sake here wyllinglye omytted An artificiall Baulme for the healing of woundes borrowed out of the Italian secretes of the famous Chyrurgian Gabriell Fallopio Take of the cleare Turpentyne one pounde and a halfe of the oyle of Bayes of Galbanum of gumme Arabicke of gumme yuie of eache one ounce of Frankensence of Lignum aloes of Galingale of Cloues of Nutmegges of Consolida minor of Cynamon of Zedoaria and of Gynger of eache sixe drammes of the whyte Dyttanie and of Lyquide storax of eache two ounces of Leuaunte Muske and Amber greece of eache one dramme all these brought to powder and myxed togyther powre into eyght pyntes of Aqua vitae fowre tymes distylled ouer which let stande togyther for eyght dayes in a glasse Retorte At the eyght dayes ende â–ª dystyll the whole in an open Furnace begynnyng with a softe fyre and a whyte water â—â—â—eweth as Mylke which diligently followed you shall after sée a clearer water come then chaunging your receauer put vnder an other gathering the cleare water apart In this water is a whytishe oyle contained which must also be seperated and kept This water is named the water of Baulme and the oyle the oyle of Baulme After this will an other water come whytishe as common water which when it beginneth to waxe come forth black chaunge then the receauer putting vnder another and this is named the second water of the Baulme After increase the fyre a Baulme blacke in colour â–ª will then follow and come whose fume stincketh The worke or distillation ended seperate the blacke water from the blacke Baulme that which remaineth in the bottome of the vessell kéepe in a glasse the same standing open for a good space that the fumes may passe becommeth sweete of smell The first water annoynted on the head helpeth the rewme deafnesse the Leprie the weakenesse of sight and marueylously healeth wounds The oyle of Baulme doth spéedily dissolue bruses bewtifieth the face preserueth youth and is a diuine medicine in the piercing and searching of wounds if the same be annoynted and drunke in wine The second water giueth a comelynesse of face if once in the day it be washed with it The Baulme also doth excell the naturall Baulme in properties The black water seperated from the Baulme auaileth in all wounds procéeding of a cold matter c. It is to be briefe the most precious and surest remedy vnto many diseases An oyle of great efficacie and power in the closing of wounds singular and experienced Take of Turpentine two poundes of the flowers of Saint Iohns woortten drams of Frankencense in pouder two ounces of commoÌ„ oyle fowre ounces of fresh butter without any salt three ounces all these mixed togither distill in a Limbeck the same which first commeth gather vnto your vse but that which remaineth in the bottome of the vessell distil with a fire encreasâ—d the same gathered is mightier in the healing of wounds This out of Fumanellus A singuler oyle helping the griefe paine of the synewes and ioyntes Take of the oyle of Turpentine one pinte of newe gum Iuie six ounces of pure lyquid veâ—uishe of Frankensence of ech two ounces these mixed togither distill in a Limbecke which keepe to your vse This out of the same Authour An oyle or oyntment sharpning the witte increasing memorie out of Fumanellus Take of Stoechias of Rosemary flowers of Buglosse flowers of Borrage flowers of Camomyll flowers of Maioram of Sage of Baulme of Violet flowers of red Rose leaues of Bay leaues of ech one ounce a half al these put vp into a glasse body strongly luted with fowre pints either of Malmesie Rennishe wine or Aqua vitae let these so stande to infuse for fiue dayes distilled adde to it of the best Turpentine one pouÌ„d a halfe of OlibanuÌ„ of chosen Myrre of Masticke BolelliuÌ„ of gum Iuie of each two ounces of Vernicis integrae one ounce of Mellis anacardi three ounces all these brought to pouder infused for fiue dayes with the foresaide distillation in a boddy with a head close luted distil againe adding to it of Cinamon of Cloues of Mace of Nutmegs of Cardamomum of graines of Paradize of the long and round Pepper of Ginger Xyloaloes of Cubebae of each one ounce all these finely brought to pouder To these adde of Muske Amber gréece of each two drams al these mixed togither distill after that these added put into the former distillation haue remained fiue dayes the fire in the beginning softe encrease after by little little vnto th end of the worke The vse of it is that the same may be applied in the winter time once in the weeke but in the soÌ„mer time once in a moneth â–ª the head before being washed the temples hinder part of the head anoint with it An oyle helping the gowte borrowed out
ounce and a halfe and thrée drammes of gumme yuie two drammes of gumme Arabicke halfe a dramme of Turpentyne two ounces and a halfe of Camphora halfe an ounce of oyle Olyue two pyntes all these dyssolue and mealt in a panne with a soft fyre scurring the whole strongly about after adde of Viridis aeris finelie powthered halfe an ounce boyle the whole againe a litle more vnto the chaunging greene of colour which after straine through a cloth kéeping the same artly in a glasse by stopping the mouth of it with sylke Another which receaueth all those which are required vnto the true baulme it easilye pierceth all woundes on what woundes soeuer this is applied it spedily healeth them take of the white Rosen two drams let this be dissolued in good wyne after strayne it through a linnen cloth this lycour boyle with a soft fyre vnto the consumption of the wyne after take one pynt of oyle Olyue in which dissolue the Rosen with a soft fyre this done take of gum Ammoniacum of Galbanum of Opopanax of each one ounce of gum Elemi two ounces which myxe togyther or styrre so long about vntill the same shal be throughly prepared to vse Another of the same mans take of Galbanum of AmmoniacuÌ„ and of Bolellium of eache halfe an ounce of Myrre of Masticke and of Olibanum of each two drams of Turpentine two ounces of Verdigresse halfe an ounce of oyle Olyue one pynt and a half let the gums be stieped for thrée dayes in wyne vineger in such maner that they may wholly be couered of the vyneger then let them be boyled with the oyle in an earthen potte glased vnto the consumption of the vyneger after straine the whole through a lynnen cloth wringing out the substance throughly then finely make the gréene Verdigresse into pouder which diligeÌ„tly worke and dissolue with the oyle Olyue and added to the lycour pressed out boyle the whole vntill it come vnto the perfyâ— colour of grenenesse which diligently kéepe in a glasse Another seruing vnto all newe and old woundes especially to those hapning on the head take of Turpentine twelue ounces of gum Elemi fiue ounces of Rosen fowre ounces all these melt togither and when they shal be molteÌ„ adde the pouders following of Aristolochia long a two ounces of DragoÌ„s bloud thrée drams with which let a masse be made after arte A Baulme not distilled seruing vnto all vlcers and woundes and through the applying with tentes this then mundifyeth and healeth Take of the oyles of Turpentine of lyne seede of sweete Almondes and of Roses of each one ounce let the oyle of Roses boyle in a glasse with the grene Verdigresse as much as you can take vp on a knyues poynt and wheÌ„ it hath boyled a litle straine the same through a cloth myxing it after with the other oyles Another take of Turpentine one ounce of the Iuice of rype Lemmons two ounces these after the putting intâ— a possenet or skellet set in such maner ouer the fyre that it toucheth not the possenet which let boyle vnto the consumption of an ounce after take vp a little with an Iron spattle and â—â—still sundry droppes on a cold stone which so often doe vntyl it shal be of a redde colour this then vse as the ryght and perfite baulme This borrowed out of the secretes of Fallopio An oyle curing the prickings of the synewes wounds of a practisioner vnknowne to the Aucthour Take of the Rosen of the pyne trée two ounces of coÌ„mon oyle one ounce a halfe of Turpentine one ounce all these molten togyther strayne dilygently to which after adde of Frankensence of Masticke of each one dram of gum Elemi two drams of this applie hote on sylke to the place The discriptioÌ„ of a baulme in wounds of the bones borrowed out of the practises of Theophrastus paracelsus Take of the greace of Mumia of the iuyce of S. Iohns woort of Centory of Sophia of each seuen ounces of the lycour of Myrre of Masticke of Frankensence halfe an ounce of Litharge prepared of the lycours of Centorie Trebanae Spicariae Pastonicae of each one dram of the oyle of Baies vnto the waight of al these bring into a baulme after art A compound oyle prooued many tymes helping spedily such that be poysoned the making of which is on this wyse Take of the oldest oyle Olyue one pynt of Aloes hepatick of Ruberbe of Spyknarde and of Myrre of each fowre drams of Turpentine of white Dittany of GeÌ„tiane of Bistorta of Camphery of Madder of ech fowre drams of Triacle Methridate of each thrée drams of lyue Scorpions thrée score in nuÌ„ber but let the ScorpioÌ„s before be boyled in Balneo for fowre howers after adde to them all the others letting the whole theÌ„ boyle for other fowre howers which after the strayning kéepe dilygently in a glasse close stopped For this vndoubtedly is a diuine lycour in such an accident in which as you perceyue the Scorpions be that are venemous beastes and theyr venome auayleth against venome such as are poysoned euen as one poyson of propertie driueth out another as we dayly sée that a person through druncke by drincking after the iuyce of the Cabbedge with wyne doth sone after become sober which the wyne alone doth not A lyke to this that if a man happen to be burned in any place with fire that the presentest remedie is to burne the same place againe as a soueraigne helpe experienced And a lyke also to this that if a man happen to be deepe wounded that he sheddeth of the same much blood the next remedie then is as hath bene many tymes tryed to let the pacient bléede of a veyne By these many other lyke reasons the Aucthour here proueth that to dryue forth poysons a man ought to doe those with the kyndes aunswerable to them But in such maner prepared that the matter alter not be by that meanes a more harme to the poysoned For that cause the maner of applying the oyle against poyson ought on this wyse be done when any needeth the vse of this remedy let the pacieÌ„t then be outwardly annoynted with it and take immediatly two drams of it by the mouth with whyte vineger as well in the morning as at night before the going to bedde he shall throughly be cured of any great poyson Vnlesse it be eyther Sublimatum or dyamonde which this remedy helpeth not in that they be no poysoÌ„s yet deadly myneralles that in no maner can dygest nor their euyl effect but lytle mytigated Notwithstanding if any shall be intoxicated with Sublimatum he needeth then no other but to bath him selfe in Vineger to drincke plenty of mylke to eate often butter to drinck the whaye of mylke at a sure true remedy experienced It shall also be good necessary that the pacient vomitte once a day for a tyme for the readier purging emptying of the stomacke of that matter This borrowed out
vttered in the other booke or first part of the treasure of Euonimus The oyle of the flowers of Verbascum is thus made stampe the flowers in a morter which after the putting into a glasse set in the Sunne close stopped for fiue or sixe wéekes this oyle much auayleth is right profitable for the gowte in the feete and other members It cureth also freshe wounds if the same be infused in the oyle Olyue it wyll then serue vnto many grieffes The flowers ought to be gathered when they be drie for the vertues sake The oyle made or drawne of the flowers of Tapsus Barbatus infused in oyle or wyne set in the Sunne for fiue or sixe weekes or boyled in a double vessel lyke the oyle of Hypericon or S. Iohns woort and artly strayned auayleth in the ache of the hyppes The oyle of S. Iohns woort is hote drye and stipticke through which it closeth and healeth the wounds of synewes cutte and the burning of fire it ceasseth also the paynes about the priuie place bladder and procureth vrine The preparing making of the oyle is on this wyse borrowed out of the naturall hystorie of Adamus Leonicerus Take of the tops being presently full rype of S. Iohns woort three ounces let these be stieped in pleasant wyne for thrée dayes after let those boyle in a double vessell stopping dilygentlie the mouth of the vessell which in a redynesse wryng hard out putting in a lyke wayght of the Hypericon freshe gathered and infusing it in lyke order as aboue taught which after boyle strayne and doe this a thyrde tyme and if the wyne be dyminished before the ende then adde a lyttle more according to discretion Take after of cleare Turpentine three drams of olde cleare oyle sixe ounces let these be boyled in a double vessell vnto the consumption of the wyne after the strayning and cleare purging of it from the sedyment powre the oyle into a glasse The oyle of Hypericon learned of Iohn Tanwyler the yonger a singuler Chyrurgian in the Citie of Auguste take of the flowers of Hypericon or S. Iohns woort foure ounces these infuse in redde wyne for fowretéene dayes after boyle these a lyttle which after the strayning forth put in other freshe flowers vnto the quantitie of fowre ounces of the oyle Olyue halfe a pynt let these stande to infuse other eyght dayes which after strayne adding to it of the iuyce of yarrow two ounces of the earth wormes washed in white wyne two ounces of Turpentyne one ounce a halfe of Saffron halfe a dram of Masticke sixe drams of Myrre and Olibanum of eache two drams of Opopanax and of Sarcocolla of eache two drams and a halfe of madder thrée drams let all these boyle togyther vnto the consumpcion of the wyne and iuyce which after the strayning kéepe close stopped in a glasse A compounde oyle of Hypericon borrowed out of the woonderfull practises of the Gréeke Leonarde Fiorauant which auayleth cureth by a marueylous maner woundes especially of the sinewie partes in that it closeth them and bringeth those to a scarre without sygne to be plainlye séene This also dissolueth bruses auayleth agaynst poyson and helpeth any crude kynde of venymous Ague by annoynting all the pacientes bodye without omytting any part and many other vertues hath this oyle which for breuitye are here omytted the making of which is on this wyse Take of the Flowers Leaues Stalkes and rootes of Saint Iohns woort as much as you wyll which stampe togyther in a morter stieping it after in the best whyte wyne as much as wyll well couer the substaunce the same let stande in the Sunne for tenne whole dayes powring into it after of oyle Olyue as much as the wayght of the whole with the wyne these then let stande in the Sunne for other tenne dayes herein considering that the oyle before be wayed whereby a iust wayght of it may be knowne This done adde for euerie pounde of the oyle two ounces of good Turpentyne of Saffron one dram to euery pound of the Nutmegs and Cloues of each halfe an ounce to euery pound of Myrre Rosen of the Pyne trée of eache fifteene ounces for euery pounde of Vitecella two ounces for euery pound let all these be put into a body of glasse well incorporated togyther which after set into Balneo Mariae letting it there boyle with the head close set on and the Receauer artly luted to the nose of the head The note when this is sufficiently boyled when the head distylleth no more forth and this wyl be within twentie howers or there about this seene drawe forth the body whyles the substaunce yet boyleth strayne the whole through a cloath keeping this lycour close stopped in a glasse as a precious iuel for with this as we haue aboue vttred may many matters be done so that you lay of this hote on the vpper face of wounds with out the applying of tentes within in such maner doing you shall wynne great praise haue prosperous successe at al times For the Aucthour many sundry wise proued this oyle to his estimation The oyle of Hypericon although the same may many wayes be prepared and made yet this waye and maner is the perfitest inuented by a singuler Chirurgian of Dadna named Gabriell Fallopio take of Bolellium of Opopanax of Galbanum of gum Serapinum of gum Elemi of each one dram of Turpentine of Rosen of the Pyne tree of Masticke of each one ounce of the earth worms washed with white wine two ounces of Antimoniū of the flowers leaues of Hypericon of playntaine of the greater lesser Consolida of the greater and lesser Centorie of the yarrow of Canda aequina or horse tayle of ech thrée ounces al these that are to be beatē somwhat broken afore which then myxe togyther in a glasse body with so much oyle but better the same shal be if it be with the oyle of Roses as wyll well couer the whole substaunce infused thus in the oyle let the glasse stande in the Sunne for fifteene dayes This oyle with the whole substaunce put into a Retort which dystyll with a soft fire for the first that commeth is a water the next that foloweth by a stronger fire increased wyl be an oyle at the comming of which change the receauer maintayne the fire vnto the ende of the worke the distyllacion ended adde the water oyle togither in a glased pan which boyle for an houre to which after adde one ounce of Madder of Graua sina halfe an ounce of Saffron two drams a handfull of the flowers of S. Iohns woort putting it againe into the glasse where the whole substance stāding in the Sun was But if you wyll make a most precious oyle of it burye the glasse with the lycour in the earth or horse doong for sixe moneths of which after apply on any wound you shall then sée a miraculous working of this oyle for
water possesse all the vertues which the Camphora hath That if this Camphora water be mixed with the common water it then worketh the same as milk and if it be strayned through a Lynnen cloathe this water wyll remaine courded of which you maye after make a Candell and lyghted wyll burne lyke the matche or Candle in a Lampe Now thi◠water profiteth in the colde disseases of the bodye for it dygesteth and preserueth flesh from putrifying the sadde person maketh merrie draweth vnto it the vertues of all hearbes infused in the same druncke certayne tymes breaketh the Impostume it coagulateth fyxeth Mercurie it dryeth vp teares of the eyes the rednesse heate of them it helpeth and cureth such disseased of the splene It preserueth woundes frō putrifying it helpeth the Fistula Canker reformeth or amendeth cold causes and the Palsie it sharpneth increaseth vnderstanding and helpeth memory if the temples sundry times be annointed with it It maketh a man ioyous and merry ▪ preserueth young age and health and taketh away the styncke of the mouth and gummes It maketh olde wyne of the newe it defendeth a man against poyson it taketh awaye the payne and defenesse of the Eares Two droppes druncke in a cuppe of the best White wyne doe marueylously preserue memory if the same be vsed at the going to bed The water annointed on the Temples foure tymes in the wéeke in the wynter tyme preserueth memory A water of lyfe inuented and drawen for a noble person take of Spetierum diambrae one dram of Dianthos halfe a dram of Pellitory rootes two drams of long Pepper sixe drams of Anacardus one dram and a halfe of Xyloaloes one dram these fynely wrought togeather infuse in Aqua vitae of good Maluesie dystilled seuen times ouer eyght ounces which let so stand close stopped for eyght dayes after dystill the whole by Balneum Mariae according to Arte. An Aqua vitae helping Tertian Agues borrowed out of Theophrastus paracelsus take a penny woorth of Aqua vitae and the white of one egge these beate very well togeather vntyll they be brought vnto the forme of a Pultyse which gyue before the comming of the fytte well an hower or two and to it also adde a lytle Saffron c. A Golden water helping the Apoplexie the Falling sicknesse and infirmities of the Synewes take of the leaues and flowers of the Sage two ounces of Nutmegges of Cloues of Gynger of Cynamon of Graynes of Paradize of eache one ounce of Castory one dram of the rindes of the Citrone three drams of Spykenard one dram of the pure Oyle of Bayes one dram all these after the dylligent beating powre into one measure of the best white wine the mouth of the Glasse body close sealed let so stand to putryfie for fowre dayes after dystill with a soft fyre according to Arte. Another water not vnlyke to the former procuring and mayntayning young age take of the leaues and flowers of Sage royal three ounces of Gynger of Cloues of Nutmegges and of the Graynes of Paradyze of eache halfe an ounce all these most finelie brought to pouder powre into twoo measures of the strongest wyne close stopped in a Glasse body for fouretéene dayes after set on the head cloose Luted and dystill with a softe fyre according to Arte the water gathered kéepe close stopped in a Glasse This helpeth the inward colde impostumes for druncke with the agréeable water incontinent breaketh them It auayleth vnto the Pinne and webbe of the eyes in clearing and putting them aawy it sharpneth also the syght and cureth the cold Ophthalmia with a Feather a lytle dropped into the eyes doth marueylouslye cleare them It auayleth also both without and within applyed druncke it preuayleth besides against bruses and strypes It cureth the Gowte and paine of the ioyntes And annoynting with it helpeth the paine of the head the Apoplexie the rewme and any maner coldnesse of the brayne and druncke auayleth against the dropsie helpeth the stomacke and auayleth against the cough with the water agréeable I beléeue that it doth preserue yong age if a lytle of it be druncke euery daye It cureth also any Scabbe annointed with it and the bytte of a mad Dogge applyed on the byt and giuen to drincke A water of Lyfe according to Aristotles instruction Take of Cynamon of Gynger of Cloues of Nutmegs and of long Pepper of each halfe an ounce of Dates halfe an ounce of Cubebae of Graines of Paradize of Mace of Almondes and of Galingale of eache halfe an ounce of Sage twelue ounces all these broken and beaten to powder infuse after in Malmesie for eyght dayes in a Glasse bodie which then distyll with a softe fyre according to Arte. Another water of Lyfe take of the roote with the hearbe of the blacke Ellebore prepared whether in the Quince Apple sowre ounces of the flowers of the Orrendges of the flowers of Stoechados of the flowers of the Pome Cytrone of the flowers of Horehounde of each fowre handfulles which serueth for the first distillation For the second distyllation take of chosen Ruberbe halfe an ounce or one ounce of the flowres of Borrage and Buglosse of eache sixe handfulles of great Reysons halfe a pounde of Mouse eare of the flowres of the Dasie of the hearbe of the blacke Ellebore prepared of eache two handfulles of the flowres of the Cytrone or Baulme sixe handfulles of the flowres or leaues of Angelica two handfulles of the flowres of Organy eyght handfuls of Lycorys scraped halfe a pounde these after the brusing distyll according to Arte. Also take of rectifyed wine vnto the vttermost foure measures which powre on the Spices and let the whole infuse for eyght dayes sturring it euery daye twyse or thryse after distyll with a soft fyre and on such wyse let it be done a seconde and thyrde tyme After of chosen Honny cleane skymmed and of oyle Olyue of each halfe a measure let these be mixed with the wine distylled and distilled togyther with a most soft fire for then taketh it away the stincke in the wyne and swéetneth the wyne taketh away the stincke and burning of the hearbes But if you wyll haue it better let the wine be fylled with the flowers of the Cytrone Stoechados distylled againe with a most soft fyre After take of this Aqua vitae two measures of white Sugar one pounde and thus corrected let it be most finelye brought to pouder and set on the coales euer sturring it about vntyll the whole Sugar be dyssolued in it and it shall be performed done in .xxix. dayes After take of the best Cynamon one pounde which bring to fine pouder the same infuse for eyght or tenne dayes sturring it once or twise euery daye after straine and wring the same hard in a presse If you be mynded to haue it smell and taste pleasaunter then adde to it of Muske and Amber greese according to your discretion For this lycour is of a maruaylous
lyke to Christall the coniealed take of or away for the same is the stone laboured and desired And this may aptly be prepared and made in the monethes of Iune Iulie and August A syngular way of making Borace that at this daye is in vse with the Goldsmythes which was brought out of Alexandria vnto the Aucthour and out of an Italian booke by him into Latyn turned Take of Goates mylke distylled and poured into a Glasse bodie adde to it of roche Alome brought to pouder that it may easily be dissolued without fire in the water of the mylk The whole poured into a narrow necked Glasse let the water be well two fingers breadth aboue the Alome which close couered let so stand for fiue or sixe weekes or vntyll the Alome appeareth a part which from the water must be seperated or taken and put into another Glasse Which thus ordered take two poundes of Oyle of sweete Almondes and fowre poundes of the marrow of an Oxe or Cowe the marrow with the Oyle mixe so togyther that it maye melt and be dissolued â–ª which after straine through a Linnen cloth you shall obtaine a thicke Oyle To this Oile adde the abouesayd Alome in such maner that the Oyle couereth two fingers breadth aboue the Alome the same then set in the Sunne for three monethes or a longer tyme which is the better and on such wyse shall you prepare and make what quantitie of Boraxe you wyll and this conceaue to be a most excellent secrete For it is the true Boraxe which is made in Alexandria Another composition out of the same D.H.D. Take of Alome purged from the Feces which Dyars vse and of the same with water drayned through strong Ashes able to beare an egge make a Lye after take a quantitie of the past of Boraxe which you mind to haue the same put into a vessell to which powre such a quantitye of scaldyng Lye as wyll couer the paste and with Canell let them be wel incorporated togither then let the whole stand vntyl the â—eces be setled in the bottome Which so ordered ingeniously seperate the Lye as aboue taught that the paste maye be well seperated and purged of all groundes and fylthe After take the whole Lye and powre vpon the paste of the Boraxe these in the boyling in a panne or potte skymme verye pure and cleane And the skimme kéepe a part in a vessel for in it is an Oyle contained which kyndled burneth lyke a Candle That you may rightlye iudge and know of the perfite boyling of the same instyll certayne droppes of it on a marble stone or on your nayle and if it remaine coniealed it is then sufficient Another perfit way borowed out of a Goldsmithes booke of fame with vs Take of Alome one pouÌ„d which breake in a grosse maner to it adde of pure cléere Gum Arabicke one quarter of a pound verie fyne brought to pouder of the séedes or corne of Wheate and Barlye of each one quarter and a halfe the seedes of the Wheate Barlie powre into an earthen vessel glased within which couer with warme Cowe mylke after set these into whote Horse doong for fiue and fiftye dayes and at euerie seuen dayes ende renue it with newe whote doong Another wel lyked and to be put in vse Take two partes of auncient oyle Olyue and one part of new Cow mylke these after the myxing togyther powre into a Glasse with a narrowe mouth to which adde of roche Alome such a quantity chopped into pieces so bygge as a Date that the licours may well be two fingers breadth aboue the Alome then burie the Glasse in hote Horse doong for fiftye dayes and let the doong be sufficient hote all that season after drye the substaunce in the shadow c. A speciall paste of Borace take of white Sope which finelye raspe or scrape the same myxe with Honny boyle so long togither in an earthen pan vntyl the whole becommeth teÌ„der this prooued A worthy confectioÌ„ of Boraxe take of roche Alome two ounces and resolue two ounces of Salt Alkali dissolued which put into a Tyn vessel ouer a soft fyre to boyle for halfe an houre after draw forth the water myxe with the same two ounces of Salt Geme brought to pouder and so much of Salt Alkali and of Honny two pyntes and one pynt of Cow mylke these then set in the Sun for thrée dayes and you shall purchase stones Another speciall manner and that good is thus made perfyte vnto all iudgementes Take of Salt Armoniacke one ounce of Gumme Arabicke two ounces of Masticke and of roche Alome of each halfe an ounce of Salt nitre one ounce of coÌ„mon Salt two ounces of Tartare calcyned one ounce all these finelye brought to pouder poure into a Glasse with vryne which boyle vntyll it be thycke Of potable Golde of the oyle of Golde and pouder of the Sunne or the Golde of Lyfe The .xiij. Chapter THE auncient Philosophers in tymes past had diuers opinions in the dyssoluing of Golde and yet vnto this day the same not of the learned fullye vttered whether so pure and perfyte substaunce as the Golde is may be purchased by mans industrye with any Arte force and propertie of fire to be resolued into a perfyter and purer lycour For which cause wée shall here vnder vtter certayne disputacions and argumentes of this kynde euen as we founde them written in scroules in the treasure of Euonymus And all those in a manner are propouned of learned men on eyther part by their Letters familyarlye written to D. Gesnerus And first of all doth a certayne most syngular Phisition of great report and fame with vs defende thus the Negatyue part If so be sayth he an Oyle of Golde may be prepared and made then the Alchymisters woulde obtayne and possesse all thinges For neyther an Oyle nor water is purchased except it be reduced into a spirit and the substaunce of the same perfitly mixt dissolued The same whether it may be compassed and done I beseeche you to reuolue and ponder according to your learned and Philosophicall vnderstanding Yet may Golde be dyssolued and into verie small partes in so much that with the lycour in the distyllation â–ª as they name it it may ascende Notwithstanding certaine it is that the substaunce of Golde doth remayne And many thinges there be which so dyssolue the Golde that they reduce it into verye small partes But do drawe a water or oyle out of Golde the skylfull practysioners know yet beleeue meacute e that none hytherto which affirmed this performed the matter in deede which if he coulde or knew the same he would be rytcher then Croesus I doe not denye but that a stone and tinctures maye be wrought and done yet consider a lytle I praye you that these be but tryfles and to small purpose So that howe in a Golden vessell the keuer of Golden vessell can noâ— be 〈…〉 a dreame 〈…〉 as the most instructions in a
boyling yet a little more incontinent throwe or poure into it the iuice or decoction of Gall nuttes in small quantitie If the water hath of Vitrioll or of Allum it will incontinent become blacke Or else take some composition black as is the medicine named Verzinum knowne in Italie causing it to boyle in water vnto the tyme that the water taketh a colour in maner blacke after strayne the same and sprinckle a quantitie of this water on the groundes and if there be of the Allum that colour blacke will incontinent be restored or caused more cleare And what I haue sayde of the colour left of the medicine Verzinum as much it behooueth to vnderstande of any other matter in such sort that the water for to worke or doe such an experience may be made of euery matter which may dye the water into a blacke colour and the water so that it be blacke it forceth not of what matter the same be caused blacke As touching the astriction which consisteth in the Allum I report nothing of it in that the Allum beyng in the sediment cannot be knowne by the taste For it commeth often to passe that when you taste the sediment and that you féele an astriction yet the same procéedeth or commeth not of the Allum but perhappes of Salt or some other thing The Iron the Copper and such lyke Mettals cannot by other meanes be known◠but by the corruption and resolution of the groundes in such sort that euery Mettall that there shall be maye be turned into hys proper excrement and so of his proper excrement shall you after knowe this or that Mettall to be in it By the selfe same fashion and manner is knowne the Iron the Syluer the Golde the Chrysocolla that is the Saulder of Golde the Copper and such lyke For these reasons it behooueth to ioyne and myxe the groundes with some medicine or sharpe lycour to the ende that euery Mettall which shall be contayned in the sediment maye be turned into his proper excrement Nowe the sharpe and corrosiue medicine that a man may finde apt and fitte to doe the same shall be the strong Vinegar the Aqua fortis and such lyke Take therefore the sediment and bestowe the same into Aqua fortis or other such medicine corrosiue and when you shall see the water to be dryed vp and consumed regarde and marke diligently if the excrement of any Mettall be not on the sediment as if you sée on the Groundes the excrement of Iron to be coagulated and heaped togither you shall easily iudge the Iron to be in the sediment or groundes If you there sée of the excrement of Copper or a matter gréene cankered the same is a note that there is of the Copper and euen so of the others Therefore the Mettalles are knowne by the corruption and mutation or chaunging of them into their proper excrements And this shall you knowe to be a sure experience and a troth of the matter as you may easily trie in the doyng if you take a portion of any Mettall as the Fylings of Iron and shall myxe the same with the groundes of any matter and bestowe a payne about it that the fylinges maye be corrupted then shall you sée that the same wyll be corrupted into his proper excrement which is named of the Latynes Ferrugo that is the rust of Iron After this maner are knowen how much and what are the things which are myxed with the Mynurall waters that serue to Bathes which is especially tryed by the industrie and worke of Dystillation But consider and take héede that the gréene colour doth not deceyue you which appeareth sometymes in the sediment although that it hath nothing of the Copper myxed for oftentymes this colour is there ingendred of some Bole which is myxed amongst the grounds for that cause throughly examine and make the proofe if this colour procéedeth of the Copper myxed or Iron or the excrement of Iron or of some Bole in this sort Take the sediment of that water and poure the same into Vineger dystilled and consider or marke what colour the Vineger representeth or draweth vnto the lyke consider what the colour is of the sediment after that it shall be through dryed For if it hath there the excrement of Iron the colour shall be blacke If Bole the colour shall be redde that is lesse blacke and tending or drawing to a rednesse I here vtter nothing of the sauour and taste for that so dyuers is the sauour and taste of Mynurall waters that a man cannot know of them what those are myxed wythall All these hitherto haue I borrowed out of the learned worke of Mynurall Bathes of Fallopius which I haue endeuoured to penne or wryte worde for worde as things appertayning to the matter of which we haue entreated in respect that we so oftentymes entreate of Mettals in this Booke which are things worthie to be examined diligently for the vtilitie and profite of most men ¶ A collection of certaine waters dystilled of Herbes Juices Lycours and Fruites The water of Hempe The .iij. Chapter THe congruent tyme of dystilling the Hempe is that the toppes as yet tender and gréene shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae This water greatly helpeth the paynes of the heade procéeding of a hote cause if the heade the foreheade and Temples be often laboured with the same Thys also profiteth agaynst any heate in what part or member of the Bodie it shall be especially the Goute if a Lynnen clothe dypped in the water be applyed on the place and thys in the Wynter vse twyse in the day but in the Summer thrée tymes of the day Take of the water of the gréene Walnuts one ounce of the water of Egrimonie an ounce and a halfe of the water of Rewe halfe an ounce of the water of Hysope thrée ounces of the water of Hempe foure ounces these myxe togither of which take halfe an ounce adding to it halfe a dramme of Mumia halfe an ounce of Sugar Candie and a dramme of the Conserue of Roses this after the drinking warme to bedde and lying downe well couered with clothes to sweete expelleth those wicked humors of which the plague procéedeth the same potion helpeth the Dropsie taken in the same manner and preserueth a man from such sickenesses A water dystilled of the Hempe séede with the iuice of Garlicke of the same fashion that the Rose water is dystilled which is Cosemeticall that is profitable for garnishing for it causeth heares to growe in the bare and balde places being often applyed The water of Walwort The fourth Chapter THe best tyme of dystilling the Walwort is when it beginneth to beare flowers that then the whole Herbe and roote finely shredde and bestowed in a Cucurbite or Glasse Bodye maye be distilled by Balneo Mariae this water drunke with a little Sugar or the iuyce of Reysons vnto the quantitie of foure or fiue ounces at a tyme fasting doth loose the Bellie In the same
vehement heate of the Kidneyes miraculously and in short tyme and it like auayleth in them which haue the Lyuer and Lungs vlcered and this often experienced in many persons The water of Angelica The .ix. Chapter THe aptest tyme for the distillation of the most singular herbe Angelica is when this begynneth to yéelde the floures then the whole Herbe with the rootes broken and shredde infused a tyme in the best wyne to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of Glasse with his heade and large Receyuer set to the Nose of it well closed about with Waxe and Rosin myxed togither This water thus Artely dystilled by dryncking a quantitie sundry Mornings doth not onely open attenuate and expell euill humours but marueylously preuâ—yleth agaynst the Plague and deadly poysons The same drunke with a quantitie of Rosed honie and a scruple weyght of the pouder of Cynamon or more digesteth Fleugmaticke and clammie humors Yea this amendeth the Cough in short time procéeding of colde in that it causeth the person more easily to spit vp grosse and clammie fleugme The water drunke diuers Morninges swéetened with a little Sugar or Rosed honie doth recouer and heale the inner Vlcers of the Bowelles and dissolueth the clotted bloâ—de wythin the Bodie and strengtheneth the stomacke Thys water ministred wyth a little of Cynamone water and a scruple of the pouder of the roote at a time for sundrie Mornings doth miracâ—lously helpe swouning and other passions or griefes of the heart This water auayleth agaynst the byting of madde venymous Beasts applyed outwardly with Rewe and receyued within the bodie with a scruple weyght of fine Tryacle Hereof it commeth to passe that certayne of the later Phisitions haue a great opinion in the bestowing of the roote of the Herbe in their Medicines for the expelling of poyson The water of the Nettle The .x. Chapter THe leaues and flowers plucked of require to be dystilled about the .xiij. daye of Iuly in Balneo Mariae This water drunke at Morning Noone and at Euening vnto the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme profiteth agaynst the Cholicke passion and grypings of the Bowels it putteth away the stone and griefes of the Kidneyes procéeding of colde The lyke quantitie drunke helpeth an olde Cough the harde fetching of breath and swouning of an vntemperate coldenesse procéeding and lyke recouereth the Lungs colde The same druncke a tyme togither preuayleth agaynst wormes of the belly and all maner of wyndie passions in the same It profiteth filthie and mattrie wounds and sores running if they be often washed with the same or Lynnen clothes wet in it be applied vpon If linnen clothes wet in the water of the red Nettle be diuers times applyed doth marueylously recouer helpe in short tâ—â—â— the byte of a mad Dog. The water of the rootes purely washed and shred before the dystilling in the Canicular dayes drunke Morning and Euening vnto the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a tyme preuayleth agaynst a long continuing and colde Cholicke ceaseth an olde Cough and breaketh the Impostumes of the Lungs The water drunke and applyed on the members putteth away the depriuation of féeling speach and moouing and the Palsie It also profiteth the prime place looseth the Bellie healeth the griefes of the Lunges and is to be applyed to the breast The same drunke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of two or thrée ounces at a tyme putteth away the payne of the stomacke draweth downe womens Termes and expelleth the yoongling deade A dramme weyght of the pouder of the Séedes drunke with a quantitie of the water and a little of the swéete Cuite of Reysius prouoketh a desire to the Venerall acte The water of Alkakengi or Winter Cheries The .xi. Chapter OF the kirnels gathered in the Moneth of August and brused let a water be dystilled in Balneo Mariae according to Arte This water dayly drunke at Morning Noone and at Euening to the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a tyme but to Children and Infants onely one ounce giuen helpeth the Lyuer the stone of the Kidneyes and Bladder The water drunke in the same maner stayeth the dropping of the Vrine spéedily purgeth the Lyuer Kidneys and Bladder This also drunke in the maner abouesayde recouereth the grieuous blystering and sorenesse of the Kidneys and Bladder and right profitable for the pyssing of Bloude The water of Alchimilla or Lions foote The .xij. Chapter VNto the congruent Dystillation the roote and Herbe wyth the whole substance requireth to be shredde and to be dystilled about the ende of Maye or the myddes of Iune in Balneo Mariae This water drunke vnto the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a tyme both Morning and Euening is not onely auayleable for inwarde woundes but healeth wynding vlcers and ruptures The water applyed wyth Lynnen clothes wette in it on outwarde wounds doth not only asswage the euill heate but also closeth them in short tyme this experienced in wounde drynckes ministred by diuers skilfull Germaines A dramme of the pouder of it taken with thrée ounces of the water helpeth the falling of the Bowels into the Codde or other rupture in short tyme without any cutting The lyke weyght of the pouder gyuen with the water swéetened with a little Sugar for fiftéene or twentie dayes togither procureth the woman not apt to conceyue through a coldenesse of the ouermuch moysture of the wombe which letteth the retayning of the séede iniected to conceyue in short tyme after The dystilled water drunke and conceyued into the wombe doth myraculously staye the whytes or whyte fluxe from the backe in women yea by the dayly iniection is the priuie place made so straight that hardly she can be knowne from the chaste Mayden the rather by sitting in the decoction which then is sooner perfourmed This also draweth vp hanging Pappes or Breastes of women and causeth them to be fast and harde if Lynnen clothes wette in it with the water of Horsetayles and the dryed peares of Roses with other â—ipticke things be often applyed The water of Barberies The .xiij. Chapter THe fruite of Barberies when they be rype as in October require to be dystilled in Balneo Mariae This water giuen with the sirrupe of Violets to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme Morning and Euening doth not only cease thyrst in vehement and pestilent Agues but suppresseth Cholericke and pernicions exhalations causing an euill heate in man The same like drunke profiteth against the heate of the Lyuer in the Cholicke passion in the casting or vomiting vppe of meate in fluxes and painfull grypings of the bellie and restoreth the appetite weake The water myxed with redde Corall and drunke stayeth the ouermuch shedding of the Termes The water drunke with the water of Grasse or Purcelane or Southernwoode sweetened well with Sugar â–ª killeth the woormes in the Bellie the water drunke sundrie tymes helpeth the spitting of bloud It fasteneth loose téeth if they be often washed wyth
it It strengtheneth the gummes and Iawes by often gargelling and represseth the hote styllinges from the heade The water closeth the freshe woundes in the vpper face of the fleshe and dryeth vp olde Vlcers being orderly applyed Neuerthelesse this water harmeth them which be grieued wyth paynes of the stomacke procéeding of wynde and coldenesse and that hardly fetch breath The water of Bryonie The .xiiij. Chapter THe roote of Bryonie shredde small requyreth to be dystilled about the ende of May This water drunke to the quantitie of foure ounces at a time with the conserue of Quinces a little Maâ—ticke helpeth digestion clenseth the breast mundifieth the brayne openeth the stoppings of the bowels causeth Vrine expelleth the stone in the Kidneyâ— deliuereth the falling sicknesse The water gâ—â—en with the â—rrup of Roses and Figges wrought togither doth marueylously helpe the Cough and resolueth hard swellings especially of the Mylt The water drunke with a little Cynamone draweth downe the Termes purgeth the whole wombe and expelleth the deade yongling the rather if she sitteth in the decoction of the rootes The féete washed and laboured with the faine preuayleth against the gout Foure ounces of the water drunke with a dramme weyght of sâ—me Cordiall pouder amendeth an euill stomacke but eyght ounces receyued at a tyme looseth the Bellie The water asswageth the burning heate of the Shingles putteth away vnséemely spottes moles and pimples yea cleareth a redde and Lâ—prâ—â—â— face and amendeth the scarres of woundes if it be often applyed after the forme of a Liniment The water applyed with Linnen clothes wet in it doth recouer a running Palsie and putteth away a swelling and the â—ingâ— euill The water sundrie dayes drunke doth marueylously helpe the suffocation or strangling of the Matrice insomuch that it throughly deliuereth and healeth such of the same griefe And a 〈◊〉 dayly deâ—eâ— in a 〈◊〉 with this griefe for certaine yeares was in the ende throughly cured of the same by drinking of the water boyled with an ounce of the roote swéetned with Sugar at the going to Bedde once in the wéeke for one whole yeare The water of Shepeheardes Purse The .xv. Chapter THe Herbe with the whole substance gathered and shredde small requireth to be dystilled in Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye or beginning of Iune This water drunke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme with a little fine Bole and Plantaine water is profitable for all maner of fluxes and grypings of the Bellie and helpeth the spitting vp of Bloude in the same maner druncke stayeth the abundance of the Termes in women if they sit in the decoction of the Herbe and Persicaria or Arssmart The water orderly applyed closeth freshe woundes and mitigateth the dolour of all woundes by washing them oftentimes with it This also dropped warme into the eares â–ª amendeth the matterie running of them The water applyed with Lynnen clothes wette in it on Inflammations and the Shingles mightily preuayleth Yea it stayeth all fluxes of Bloude by applying Lynnen clothes wette in it round about or on the place This also commended for the washing of wounds on the heade in that it mightilye stayeth bléeding and the same druncke to the quantitie of vj. or .vij. ounces swéetened with a little Sugar stayeth the bléeding of woundes The water restrayneth the bléeding at the Nose if a Pessarie made with rawe silke and dipped or wette in the same be put vp into the Nosethrils The lyke it perfourmeth if with a Lynnen cloth wette in the water it be applyed on the foreheade The water of Camomill The .xvi. Chapter THe Herbe Camomill with the whole substaunce shredde requireth to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of Glasse about the ende of May or beginning of Iune This water drunke morning and euening to the quantitie of two or thrée ounces at a tyme swéetned with Sugar doth mittigate the paine of the Bellie and grypings in the Bowels It strengtheneth the sinewes taketh away the Palsie and softeneth styffe members The same quantitie drunck with Rosed honnie looseth the Bellie purgeth downewarde Melancholie and Fleugme with other clammie humors and asswageth heate in the Bowels The water in lyke quantitie druncke amendeth the yelowe Iaundyse openeth the Vrinall wayes procureth vrine breaketh the stone of the bladder and Kidneys by mixing the Saxifragâ— water with it It mooueth the Termes in women and expelleth the deade yongling if any such be in the wombe of the woman all clammie humors besides of the Matrice This water druncke in the lyke maner abouesayde doth put away Agues without burning in the bowels procéeding of Cholericke humors or by thicknesse of the skynne It also openeth the Mylt stopped putteth awaye swelling of the stomacke by comforting and heating it stayeth besides the fluxe of the Bellie named Lienteria In the abouesayde maner druncke recouereth the impostume of the Lunges and amendeth the Leprie The water applyed with Lynnen clothes on the vlcered priuities asswageth heate and diminisheth the payne The water druncke and applyed with Lynnen clothes wette in it doth spéedily heale the bytte and stinging of venimous wormes and beastes The water profiteth the Marrowe or Bones if they shall be felt colde by often washing and rubbing of them with the same It also comforteth the Brayne ceaseth headach procéeding of a colde cause stayeth the colde running of the eares and draweth downe euill humors from the Brayne gathered of colde if the heade by a Lye made with the floures boyled in it be well washed The water of Honysuckles The .xvij. Chapter THe tyme congruent to the Dystillation is that the flowers bestowed in a Cucurbite of Glasse be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Iune This water druncke foure or fiue dayes morning and euening recouereth the Cardiacke passion and harde fetching of breath The water druncke in the same maner helpeth the Dropsie the shortnesse of wynde causing a long breath and purgeth the stomacke This in lyke maner preuayleth agaynst the stone of the Loynes purgeth the reynes and dissolueth the swelling of the Mylt yet by drincking a long time togither of this procureth barraynesse all the life time This water is profitable for them to drincke which feare the coÌ„ming of the Leaprie and purgeth the bloud it also amendeth the redde pushes in the Face putteth awaye Moles and causeth a cleare face if it be dyuers tymes in the daye washed wyth the same the water is effectuous for Palsie meÌ„bres which be dryed and consumed if with the same they be dayly rubbed it profiteth olde and new woundes washed morning and euening wyth the same it also healeth spéedily olde vlcers on the legges as the worthie Chyrurgian Iohannes de Vigo affirmeth if they be often washed with the same this annoynted on any swellinges healeth them or druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme The water doth lyke recouer astonished or benummed partes of the body by
séedes of Lettuce and séedes of the Darnell of eche thrée ounces these after the well grynding togither dystill by a Lymbecke thrée times ouer and in euery dystilling grynde the fecies or groundes myxing them with the water dystilled and in the thirde dystillation the water which then issueth or commeth forth kéepe close stopped in a glasse with a narrow mouth of this minister only twoo or thrée droppes at a time A water for the washing of the heade borowed out of the same Authour a compounde as they write experienced if so be the hynder part of the heade be bathed therewith and that a decent dyet be vsed before which ought to be applyed at the going to bedde for xl dayes togither and a grayne of pure Olibanum swallowed downe withall the forme of the compounde is on this wyse Take of the flowers of Rosemarie of Borage flowers of Buglosse flowers of the Roses of the Violets and of the herbe Balme of eche one dramme of the Camomill flowers twoo drammes of Baye leaues of Staechas of Maioram and Sage of eche sixe drammes these after the fine shredding stéepe in pleasant whyte wyne for fiue dayes togither after dystill the whole according to Arte which dystilled kéepe close stopped with a narrowe mouth adding to it one pounde of Turpentine of Masticke Myrrhe and of the honie of Anacardus of eche one ounce of Olibanum twoo ounces all these grynded and wrought togither infuse for fiue dayes within the dystilled lycour which agayne dystilled to this lycour adde of Nutmegs of Cloues of Cubebae of Cynamone of Mace and Cardamomum of eche sixe drammes of Lignum Aloes eyght drammes of Amber and Muske of eche halfe a dramme all these grynded and myxte togither infuse for fiue dayes which then begynne to dystill wyth an easie fire and toward the ende a stronger fire the same kéepe to your vse A water experienced for the whitening of the face and making thynne the skynne and clensing or taking away all spottes of the face Take of chosen Turpentine dystilled twoo poundes of Olibanum thrée ounces of Masticke halfe an ounce of the herbe Dragons so much all these beaten togither and with the Turpentine water myxte dystill againe adding to it after newe Barrowes grease molten one pounde of Cloues twoo drams of Nutmegs thrée ounces of chosen Cynamone halfe an ounce of Spica Celtica as much of Spikenarde twoo drammes of Caphura thrée drammes of golde leaues one dramme of siluer twoo drammes all these finely grynded and beaten togither dystill it in a Lymbecke after adde twyse so much of this water as of the water following and scouring the face before with the decoction of Branne washe the face all ouer with this water Take of the water of Quickesiluer one ounce of Borace of Aluminis Zucharini of Ceruse washed of eche one dramme these myxe togither and vse as aboue taught This borowed out of Fumanellus A water for memorie safe and to be marueyled at if so be the pacient kéepe and vse a dyet Take of Nutmegges of Cloues of Ginger of the thrée Peppers of eche thrée dammes of Iuniper beries halfe an ounce of saint Iohns worte of the ryndes of Cytrones of Rosemarie flowers of Basill of Maioram of Mintes of Pennyroyall of Baye beries of Catmyntes of Spyke of Xyloaloes of Cubebae of Cardamomum of Calamus aromatichus of Staechas of eche one dramme and a halfe of Acorus rootes one handfull and a halfe of Orgaâ—â—ie of Hysope of Rue of the herbe Hares foote both the Aristolochia and eyther Picnie of Cassia lignea â–ª of Pimpernell of Dittanie of Tormentill of Scabious of the Woodebynde or Honie suckle of the Amryse of Cummin Seseleos and of garden Cresses of eche one scruple of olde Triacle one ounce of Aqua vitae rectified according to Arte and dystilled out of the best wyne thryse ouer viij pyntes all these beaten and â—arced kéepe togither in a glasse bodie which then according to Arte fower tymes continuallye pouring the lycour vpon the fecies that remayned to this fourth dystillation adde of all the Myrobalanes and of Anacardus of eche twoo drammes and a halfe these finely brought to powder and infused dystill after the sixt day beginning to dystill with an easie fire and wythin a whyle after increasing the fire somewhat the first that then commeth is weake as water the next that commeth is of a yelowishe colour the thirde and last through the fire increased commeth forth yelower of colour to which then adde both Muske and Amber gréece and other fragrant powders and vsing it twyce in the wéeke vnto the quantitie of a spoonefull at a tyme sixe houres before meate that if you shall annoynt the seate or place of memorie and the temples you shall soone after call to mynde and remember what you will this borowed out of Fumanellus A water for memorie Take of Beane flowers of the Elder and Camomill flowers of eche twoo small handfuls of Rue of Balme of Pympernâ—ll of Buglosse of Lycoris cleane scraped and bruised of eche thrée handfuls these dystill in a Lymbecke with a soft fire of this water vse twyse or thryse in a wéeke vnto the quantitie of halfe or one ounce at a time A water helping the frensynesse or madnesse which is a precious secrete and prooued in the cure of madnesse and the Melancholie frensinesse borrowed out of an auncient written booke Take of the flowers of Rosemarie of Borage and of the rootes of Buglosse of eche a lyke of Saffron one dram of the Quince or Quinces fower ounces of the best whyte wyne well digested and cleare twoo pyntes these after the myxing let so stande for a naturall daye after burie the glasse bodie in horse dung for fiftéene dayes which drawne forth dystill according to Arte twoo or thrée times ouer This water sayeth the Authour kéepe as the apple of your eye for it is very precious in that I haue sayth the Author experienced the same in all Melancholie sickenesses very effectuously and in the payne and trembling of the heart the quantitie to be ministred at one time is a dramme Another whytening water causing or procuring a whyte colour Take of the redde Honie twoo pounds of gumme Arabeck twoo ounces these diligently myxed togither dystill according to Arte in a glasse body with a soft fire The first water which commeth serueth vnto the cléering and whytening of the face the seconde and thirde lycour togither procureth yelowe heare An odoriferous water not dystilled out of Alexander Benedict Allachalach as the Arabians wryte and it is a certayne compounde of the iuice of the leaues of the Myrtels of Rosewater and Saunders and a little of vinegar and the water of Alkalef or of the iuice of the fruites well smelling and of such lyke lycour myxed and put into a glasse with a narrowe mouth and after the well labouring of these myxed shall a pleasant smell ascende to the nose comforting the heade and spirites An odoriferous or fragrant water yet in taste
in a maner vnsauerie but in sauour and smell excellent and a droppe rubbed on the ende of the nose séemeth to be as a procurer of sléepe in a maner out of Georg. Sighart Take Assa dulcis and of Styrax calaminta of eche one ounce of Lignum aloes halfe an ounce of Cloues of the cytrine Saunders and of the ryndes of the Cytrone of eche thrée drammes these beaten and laboured diligently togither infuse in Rosewater vnto the quantitie of .xxiiij. ounces for eyght dayes which after dystill in Balneo Mariae the same dystilled kéepe close stopped in a narrowe mouth glasie in which hang of Muske and Amber grece of eche halfe a dramme tyed vp in a fine lynnen cloth of this vse to procure a swéete smell where euer you walke A most prooued water for the falling sickenesse Take of the rootes of the flower de Luce or Ireos of Smalledge of Fennell of Perselie of Sperage of Butchers broome rootes and of Hops of eche twoo handfull of Mayden heare of Harts tongue and the flowers of Tamariscus of eche one handfull of Fennell séedes Annise séedes and Carroway séedes of eche thrée drams all these well beaten togither dystill in a glasse bodie after Arte of this water minister or vse euery morning vnto the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time For the falling sickenesse let the pacient drincke a certaine dystilled water of the flowers of the Lynde trée of the lesser Nettle and Cherie trée leaues or flowers A certaine woman molested with the falling sickenesse by drincking sundrie tymes this water recouered health A water effectuous for the cléering of the voyce and helpeth the harde fetching oâ— breath the Cough and Leprie Take of Lycoris scraped and the iuice of it of ech thrée ounces of Spikenarde one ounce of Diatragacanthum of the Melon séedes of the Cytrone séedes of the Gourde séedes of the roote of Euula campana of Hysope of Tyme of the flower of Tyme of Polipodie of the rounde Aristolochia of Gentian of Ireos of Saffron of Sauerie of Organie of Penny royall and of Catmynt of eche halfe an ounce all these beaten togither and dystilled orderlye vse A pectorall water or water for the breast of great strength and vertue that especially auayleth in the weakenesse of the stomacke through clammie and rotten humors in that this softeneth and helpeth digestion and openeth withall and is also cordiall Take of Figges of Reysins of the Pynaple kirnels and Almondes of eche foure ounces of Coliander and Annis séedes of eche twoo ounces of common Honie one pounde these myxed togither poure into twenty pintes of common water letting the whole boyle togither vnto the consumption of sixe pynts and that xiiij remayne after strayne the lycour through a lynnen clothe and then haue you the water to this adde of our Quintessence fower ounces and kéepe to your vse in a glasse and this is the pectorall water excéeding by his worthynesse the vertues of all other pectorall waters hitherto inuented of anye this out of the secrete conclusions of Leonar Fiorauantus A dystilled water helping the Dropsie of which let the pacient take fasting euery morning vnto the quantitie of fower ounces at a time and if he will with wyne Take of the rootes of Ireos or flower de Luce of Fennell of Perselie of Smalledge of Sperage of Butchers broome rootes and of Hoppes of eche twoo handfull of Annis séedes Fennell sédes of Cummin of Perselye séedes of Sperage rootes and Butchâ—rs broome rootes and of Hoppes of eche halfe an ounce of Mayden heare Hartes tongue and flowers of the Tamariske of eche one handfull of Ginger of Galingale of Cynamone and of Mace of eche thrée drammes all these diligently beaten and myxed togither dystill in a glasse bodie according to Arte this water hath the Authour often experienced A water perfitely healing the Dropsie by washing and rubbing the bellie twyse a daye therewith and applying a playster both on the Pulses and Arters made of Bay beries so that the bodie be purged before The water is made on this wyse take of Cinamone of Cloues of the thrée Peppers of Xyloaloes of Spikenarde of Opobalsamum of Galingale of Calamus aromaticus of Cubebae of Saffron of eche brought to powder one ounce of Turpentine fower ounces dystill according to Arte the first which commeth forth throwe away and the seconde lycour that dystilleth forth kéepe to your vse for the applying of this aboue taught both deliuer and clense all the partes and veynes from filling any more Of a water dystilled by a Lymbecke of the matters herevnder described and druncke for a yeare vnto the quantitie of a spoonefull both morning and euening â–ª ech day with fower spooâ—â—fuls of wyne and the powder described in the seconde place strawed vpon the meates doth dissolue any stone yea hardened being eyther in the kidneyes or bladder It also ceaseth the paine of the bowels and cureth the diseases of a colde cause The preparing of it is on this wyse Take of Fennell rootes of Persely rootes Butchers broome rootes and Radishe rootes of eche one dramme and a halfe all these diligently stamped and stieped in the mightiest wyne dystill according to Arte to which dystilled lycour adde then of the powder of Cynamone halfe an ounce of Galingale of Amber of Ginger and of Catmynt of eche one dramme and twoo scruples of Macropiperis one dramme of Cloues twoo drammes and a halfe of Cummin one dramme of Ameos and of Louage of eche twoo drammes of Spikenarde of Cassia lignea and of Masticke of eche twoo drammes and a halfe which agayne dystilled adde therevnto of Cynamone of Cloues of Spikenarde of Ginger of long â–ª Pepper of Xyloaloes of Mace of Galingale of Zedoaria and Lycoris of eche seauen drammes and ten graynes weyght these togither myxed in the forme of a sawce dystill ouer agayne in a cucurbite which vse as aboue taught this borowed out of Fumanellus A water breaking the stone in the bladder and kidneys Take of the iuice of Saxifrage twoo pyntes of Grummell and of the iuice of Perselie of eche one pynte of the best vinegar of a pleasant wine eyght ounces these altogither dystilled let the lycâ—ur be kept in a glasse with a narrowe mouth of which minister in the morning one ounce at a time the like quantitie at noone and at euening before the going to bedde for this is a prooued water as writeth Fumanellus A marueylous and rare water causing the pacient to pysse forth sande and clensing the kidneyes of the same borowed out of Leonar Fiorauantus The which sande in man procureth a much and great heate and drythe of the kidneyes and such doe pysse wâ—th an extreme diffâ—cultie and burning in the comming forth of the vrine in so much that such cannot abyde many garments on but rather desire to go thinly and coldly speciaâ—ly on their backe And for that cause any minding to cure suâ—h a griâ—fe and disease ought to minister and vse those matters
water Take of yong Swallowes brought to pouder to which adde Castoreum or Castorie myxing a quantitie of vinegar withall these distill in a Cucurbite The water drunck auayleth against the falling sickenesse If he be a yong person of xiiij yeares of age taken with the sickenesse if he shall drincke of this water fasting for fortie dayes shall throughlye be cured It also helpeth the Cough the straitenesse of the breast or fetching of breath by drincking of it fasting nine mornings togither It comforteth and amendeth the brayne it purgeth the stomack it inlargeth the breast and taketh away the cause procuring the Palsie it increaseth sperme and heateth the colde persons and druncke fasting with Isope healeth the Dropsie of a colde cause and the Quotidian or dayly Ague But euery woman with child must refrayne that season from the drincking of this watâ—r in that the same slayeth the chylde This also druncke with Isope helpeth the diseases of the heade and procureth an appetyte purchasâ—th sléepe helpeth digestion and sendeth forth the vrine The fift water Take of Isope of Gladen of Sauin of Sothernwood of eche alyke of theâ—e make a paâ—te letting it so stand impasted togither for certaine dayes which dystill according to Arte for this is a singular water and of a great vertue It auayleth against all manner of Agues as well hote as colde It prouoketh womens termes and for that cause women with child ought to refrayne the taking of this water for doubt and feare of loosing the yongling The water druncke stayeth the bloudie fluxe or the perillous fluxe of bloude named Dysenteria and is a singular remedie also agaynst any maner of fluxe of the bellie It purgeth the stomack of euill humors and stayeth the wormes in the bodie Druncke with Castoreum helpeth the Palsie ministred or taken warme euery morning The sixt water of the Philosophers is made of a Moule which serueth vnto the dying or colouring of heares whyte eyther of man or beast Take a Moule which artely brought to powder with Brimstone adde to it the iuice of Celondine which orderly myxed let so stande for certaine dayes after dystill the whole according to Arte The vertue of this water is on such wyse that if a beast wholy blacke of heare shall be washed all ouer with this water the heares shall in short tyme become so whyte as snowe Also if to this water be waxe and Aloes myxed and annoynting the Palsie member therewith it cureth the same in short tyme It healeth besides the disease named Noli me tangere if this be applyed plaisterwise vpon it amendeth the weakenesse of the head Further this water commixed with the stone named Calaminaris and Aloes healeth the disease named the Wolfe if the same be applyed playster wyse twyse a daye or onlye washed twyse a day with the same water but beware that this lycour enter not and especially that you vse it not within the bodie The seauenth water which is named the water of conseruation or preseruing Take Persely which after the well beating in a morter dystill according to Arte who that drincketh of thys water not hauing an appetyte to meate with a fasting stomack doth not onely amende all wyndynesse and rawnesse of the stomacke but procureth digestion it purgeth also the breast of superfluous humors The eyght water is named the condupliciue or doubled Take of Smalledge séedes of the oyle of Poppie of whyte Sugar and of Cloues of eche alyke these laboured togâ—ther in a Morter adde to the whole the aboue sayde water of preseruing and mixed diligently togither dystill these in a glasse body after Arte This water drunck cold in the morning fasting and warme at the going to bedde doth marueylously helpe the Cough and griefes or paynes of the breast This water also druncke warme with Castorie auayleth in all the diseases of the splene and tremblings of the members yea and comforteth both the heade and brayne These eyght waters did the Authour translate out of the Germayne into the Latine tongue written first by that godlye man Aegidius And a ninth water affirmeth the Author there was which for that the description of the same was vnperfite for that cause he left it as vnmentioned in this place ¶ Of the compounde waters which are named Elixir of which some also extende vnto Baulmes and may like be applyed as shall after appeare The Lxxxvij Chapter A secrete water Take of Malmesey pure and good into which put your flowers herbes and spices and what thinges besides you please that let so stande infused for thrée or foure dayes in a glasse bodie close luted to putryfie after dystill the whole with a most slowe and easie fire and make no separation vntill the end then separate or drawe awaye the waters and cease least the waters styncke and the spyces burne In that water drawne dissolue Sugar adding after of Muske Amber and Cinamon and if you will haue your water very delectable or pleasant theâ—â— take of Sugar Candie pouring vpon it the best Aqua vitae and the same dystill from the Sugar vntill the spirites and fumes ascende poure the other water in the abouesayde glasse bodie in which will thrée or foure Aromaticall redde drops fall and such a dystillation also shall be repeated with Sugar Candie as before and the same so often repeated ouer shall marueylouslye worke being especially mixed with golde as you may like coâ—ceyue and you shall then haue golde dissolued or potable golde that is both marueylous and very effectuous and swéetest And if you be mynded to haue pure golde then laye a deade heade in a moyst place and you shall purchase and possesse a marueylous Arte And this abouesayde maner doth excell the others as reason the like instructeth which the Authour here will not reueale for causes that he knoweth A golden water or Elixir vitae Take of Sage thrée quarters of a handfull of Nutmegs of Mace of Gynger of graynes of Paradyse of Cloues and of Cynamone of eche twoo drammes of Reubarbe of Castorée and of Spikenarde of eche halfe an ounce of oyle of Bayes Artely drawne twoo ounces these diligently beaten and mixed togither infuse in sixe measures of good wyne close couered in a glasse bodie for a moneth at the ende of which tyme let the wyne be strayned and the spyces or drugges agayne beaten very fine vntill the whole be lyke a thicke broth or lycour vpon which poure then the abouesayde wyne letting the whole stande for other thrée dayes couered which after dystill by a Limbecke The water which commeth forth will be so cleare as Chrystall the same kéepe in a glasse bodie with a narrowe mouth being close stopped which applye to these griefes and sickenesses ensuing If you sprynckle Fyshes Byrdes Fowles Venison and such lyke with this water they shall not putrifie so long as you be mynded reasonablye to kéepe them Wyne of a sower straung sauour decayed is made pleasant and perfite if you poure a little 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
morter close couered for eyght or nyne dayes beating the same ouer once a daye after the heating of the whole in an earthen vessell vntyll it begynneth to fume and bée through hote put then of the substaunce into a new square bagge of lynnen cloth â–ª which stronglye wryng in the presse as aboue taught for out wyll come a redde oyle with which woemen maye onnoynt theyr faâ—â— for it causeth a comelyâ— redde and bewtifull skynne a secreth not before vttered â—n any booke and knowne to fewe otherwyse The making of anothâ—r oyle â–ª which causeth the face whyte and be wtyfull â–ª â—of noâ—â—esse importaunce than the others on this wyselâ— take of common Abuâ—ndeâ— sâ—â—â—ped syxe poundes of Sond a â—acha â–ª of Masticke whyte aâ—â—eacâ—e three ounces of the whytes of newe layde Egges fowre ounces of gumme dragant two ounces all these beats dilygentlye in a morter which after closed couer for syxe dayes beating and sâ—â—rring it about once euery dayeâ— which heating in a panne as afore taught and put vp into square lynnen â—agges hote wryng harde in the presse for out wyâ—â— come an oyle which cleareth the skynne and maketh it whyte and comelye in such sort that it wyll appeare myraculous and rare for this is one of the greatest secretes taught of bewtifying in that the same mayntayneth the skynne smoothe cleare and whyte and neuer harmeth the person nor the place where it is annoynted The making of a synguler Oyle verie rare which causeth a comelye face and maketh the person merrye which vseth it yea strong and hardye to fyght being gotten after this manner take one pounde or two of Hempe seede which after the fynely beating sprinckle and wette with a lyttle wyne then put the whole into an newe earthen panne glased and set ouer the fire heate so long vntyll you can not suffer your hande in it after put of the substaunce hote into square bagges which wryng harde out in a presse and an oyle wyll come forth verye profitable of which if any drincketh vntâ— the quantitye of an ounce at a tyme it maketh him pleasaunt and merrye and being a Souldiour which drincketh it this maketh him both flexce and hardie to fight hauing theâ— no doubt nor feare of his enimye and also profitable to women in that the same maketh them merrie and comely to see to And in this maner may you draw an oyle out of all seedes The making of the pleasaunt Oyle of Cloues by onelye pressing out after this maner which for that an oyle alone cannot be purchased through theyr drynesse therefore doe on this wyse Take of Cloues one pounde which bring to powder in a brasse morter to it adde thrée poundes of Almondes scraped and beaten in a morter which after the well myxing togyther sprinckle an duâ—e of thâ— best whyte wyne on eache pounde of the whâ—â—e letting it â—â—lye in 〈◊〉 for the spare of eyght dayes at the leaâ—â— â–ª after 〈◊〉 the whole ouer agayne putting it into an 〈◊〉 earthen 〈◊〉 â–ª â—hich heate so long vntyll you can not suffer your hande in it then put vp into sâ—â—â—re bagges â—word â—â—de in a presse vntyll all the whole substaâ—â—â—e of oyle be coâ—â— The making of an â—doâ—ifer querade of 〈…〉 with another substaunce ryght profitable â—â— and to be â—desyred prepared on this wyse â–ª take of Spyâ—â—â—arde one pounde this beate fyne in powder after beate syxe poundes of sweete Almondes seraâ—ed which myâ—e togyther 〈◊〉 letting the whole solye â–ª for tenne dayes at the least after beate the same ouer agayne sprinckling vpon eache pounde of the substaunce one ounce of Aqua vitae â–ª the whole after heate in an earthen panne so hote as you can not suffer your hande in it then putting it into square bagges hote wryng harde in a presse so long vntyl all the oyle be come which is verye sweete and seruing to the vse of Phisâ—icke and for other néedefull purposes The making of an odoâ—iferous oyle of our garden â–ª Spyke with an other substaunce in that this of it selfe yéeldeth no lycour and yet of a strong sauoure yet to purchase his sauour or smell doe on this wyse take what quantitye of Spyke you wyll the same after the fyne beating wette with the fynest Aqua vitae vntyll the substaunce be sufficientlye wette to each pound of this adde fowre poundes of â—â—urdaine Almendes scraped which beate and labour togyther letting the whole so lye for tenne dayes the same after the well beating â–ª wryng harde in a presse for out commeth a most cleare and pleasaunt sweete oyle which serueth so well in Phisicke matters as in the arte of perâ—â—ming The makyng of the Oyle of Nutmegges in an easye manner gottâ—n by pressing out on this wyse take of Nutmegges and of the best Almondes scraped of eache a lyke quantitie or wayght these beaten togyther â–ª let so lye â—or fowâ—â— or fiue dayes and after the sufficient heating wryng harde in a presse for an oyle wyll some of 〈…〉 sauour and taste of the Nutmeggeâ— And this by good reason in that the oyle of Almondes entereth to the making of it which neyther abateth his sauour nor taste nor hyndereth any thing hiâ— vertue for being myted with any other substaunce neyther hyndereth nor taketh awaye any part of hiâ— qualitie â–ª So that this is the aptest maner that any can vse in the drawing out of the oyle of Nutmegs and worketh a greater effecte â–ª where the same â—â— applyed for it is more pâ—arâ—â—ng and hath then a pleasaunter sauour and morâ— delectable in â—aste â–ª and worthyer in all his other workinges The drawing out of the oyle of Cynamon after an easie maner by presseâ— a secrete veris rare and marueylousâ— borrowed out of the syngular practyâ—â—oâ—â—r â— which serueth to the vse of Pâ—â—â—cke in that the same preserueth the stomacke from corruption by taking of it by the mouthâ— and applying of it on the stomacke the maner of purchasing this oyle is on this wyse Take one pounde of Canell or Cynamon which finelie beaâ—e after myxe and impaste it is with the oyle of swéete Almondes â—ntâ— the fourme of an â—yntment the same heâ—â—fe in an earthen glased panâ—e soft what which after â—et stand 〈◊〉 close for fowreteene dayes or twelue at the least at the ende of which tyme heate the whose againe sufficientlye the same wryng harde in a presse as afore taught vntyll the whole Cynamon rest through drye in the bagges which come forth wyll then bee of the colour sauour and tast of the Cynamon a secrete and an owne to few to be wrought in thâ—â—â—rder The making of a proâ—â—â—able Oyle named the oyle of the yolkes of Egges borrowed out of the afore sayd Aucthour â— whiâ—h serueth to dyuers and sundry matters and is an oyle which neuer consumeth the same besydes serueth in many workingâ— of Aleâ—ymie as in gyuing fyxation to the medyâ—â—â— when the spyrites are fleeting a way the drawing of it is on this wyse Take a quantitye of
After drawe it out of the said sande and set it in the vessell of sand in such order and maner that the sunne for eyght dayes fully may with his beames wholly compasse about it which time ended straine the whole through a newe lynnen cloath and presse out strongly the remnant in a presse the oyle after seperate from the wyne and the same kéepe a part put vp into a glasse close stopped This distillation ought rather bée done in the moneth of Iuly or August then in any other tyme This oyle gotten auayleth against the Fistula and Canker if eyther be washed before with the abouesayd wyne and annoynted after with the sayde oyle shall speedily and soone be cured This â—yle also helpeth all griefes and paines of the synowes This â—elpeth the ache of the hippes the paynes of the ioyntes a colde gowte And if a plaister be made of it and Ammoniacum doth then dissolue the impostumes of the spléene and the hardnesse of it in a shorte tyme it doth the lyke helpe all other hard impostumes Thys auayleth in all passions of the eares procéedyng of a colde cause it kylleth the wormes of the eares and helpeth spéedily the hyssing noyse and deafenesse of them This also helpeth the Palsie and drawyng awrye of the mouthe if the same bee often annoynted wyth it It prouoketh the termes if of the same bee aptly applyed into the Matrice and draweth forth the Embryo quicke or deade If a lyttle of it be druncke it dissolueth the curded blood in the bodye If a small quantitie of thys oyle be commixed wyth the Syrope of Roses doth then purge the Lunges of grosse and clammie humors and such shorte winded This marueylously helpeth all infirmities and diseases of the eyes but especially the Cataractes This druncke auaileth against poysons for if the pacient shal drink a little of it it extinguisheth any person It speedily cureth the quartane and tertian Ague if the backe and rydge bone bee annoynted wyth it agaynst the fyre in the begynnyng of the fitte Thys doth immediately take away delyuer the crampe or coÌ„vulsion of wounds if the same bée applyed warme on the place This to conclude healeth all woundes as well olde as new yea better and perfecter in one day then any other medicyne in a moneth A Lyniment or thynne oyntment as M. Michael Angelus Blondus wryteth in his booke of memorie which in vertue may bee compared to a Baulme choose sayeth he of the beste Turpentyne thyrtie ounces of the oyle of Bayes sixe ounces after that bring to powder of gumme Elemi of the Rosen of the Pyne apple trée sixe drammes of Sarcocolla two drammes of gumme yuie of Ammoniacum of Bolellium and of Frankencense of eache two drammes of Masticke of Aloes Hepaticke of Castorie and of Ladanum of eache one dramme of Galbanum syxe drammes of Xyloaloes an ounce and a halfe of Cynamon of Cloues of Nutmegges of Mace of Gynger of Pepper of Galingale of graynes of Paradize of Cubebae and of Zedoaria of eache one ounce Xylobalsamum Carpobalsamum of tormentill rootes of the whyte Dyttanye â–ª of Liuerwort of Celondine of both the greater lesser Consâ—lida of eache one ounce and a halfe these after the dilygent beating myxe togyther addyng to so much of Aqua vitae as to make and bring the whole into a fourme and bodie which leaue so for thrée dayes the fourth day following adde to it the Turpentyne the oyle and Rosen other of the gums which can not be powdered these then sublime in a glasse body according to Arte making in the beginning a soft fire but continuing the fire vnto the end and for that three kind of lycours are sublimed and gotteÌ„ of the whole as in the same that the first which shall come will then appeare yelowishe the second and next oylie but the third of a swartyshe colour and as the chaunging of colours euen so put vnder other receauers kéeping each seuerall and a part and those close stoppe with waxe that no ayre breath forth But this one thing doth the Authour admonishe and giue vs to vnderstande that the fyre bee studiously cared for and looked vnto vntill the sublimation of the whole shall be performed for in the stopping or slaking of fyre in that time the lycours could then not be throughly drawen gathered These three lycours to be briefe or rather this sublimation tryple wise be indewed with properties agreeable or answerable to their degrees yet the first of these lycours is of lesser power in properties then the other and the second weaker in vertue then the thirde so that the thirde is mightier and worthier then both or the other two The report is that besides the quickning and helping of memory they represse the hollow vlcers mayster the canker that it cleaueth not to the bone they also sease convulsions helpe colde rewmes vanquishe the langours and griefes of the stomacke and the colde tormentings of the body especially of the Bowells they cure also the noyse of the eares the grieuous paynes of the teeth helpe the synew drawen togyther or shrunke and they dissolue harde gatherings and swellings they mayster and helpe many colde langours and recouer memorie lost by annoynting the hynder parte of the heade wyth it it draweth downe and purgeth the heade of all humours offending through the helpe of the roote Cyclaminus put vp with it into the nosethrells as the Authour reporteth and instructeth After this let the pacient swallowe downe of the pilles of Hiera Mag â–ª with Agaricke one dram and the day after draw vp certaine drops of this oyle into the nosethrells in that this procureth the vertues of the braine quickneth vnderstanding recouereth memory If so be the temples and hynder part of the head be annointed for certayne bayes with it This also is a certaine composition of a baulme take of cleare Turpentine seuen ounces which washe well in wyne after take of Hony whyte thrée pyntes cleane skymmed ouer a softe fyre with a lytle wyne to the same well clarifyed myxe very well the Turpentyne powring vpon fowre pyntes of good Aqua vitae to these then adde of Borrage of Buglosse of Baulme of Sage and of Lauender of eache one handfull of Hysope of Camomyll of Yarrow of redde Roseleaues of each halfe a handfull of wormewoodde one dram of Rosemary two handfuls to these after adde of Lignum aloes of Xylobalsamum and of the thrée Saunders of each one dram of Mace of Nutmegs of Cynamon of Galingale of Cloues of Cubebae of whyte Ginger of long Pepper of Saffron of Spykenard of graynes of Paradize of Cardamomum of eache one dram of Zedoaria halfe an ounce of Squinanthum half a dram of the ryndes of the cytrone the séedes of the cytrone of Stoechas of eache one dram of Calamus aromaticus halfe a dram of Carlina that is cardopacia two ounces of Bistorta two drams of Ireos or the flowre De luce halfe an ounce of Baye berryes of Valerian
of a writteÌ„ booke takâ— of Carpobalsamum of Xylobalsamum of red corral of long Pepper of Nutmegs of each two ounces of SaffroÌ„ one ounce of the fat of a Beuer of the fat of a Grype or of the kydneys of a Weather of the marrow of the bones of an Asse or of an horse of each fowre ounces of Turpentine six ounces of olde oyle Olyue one pint of virgin waxe fowre ounces of olde Malmesie two pintes of liue water frogges xxx in number of the iuyce of the toppes of Canes or reedes of the iuyce of the wal yuie which yeldeth yelow seedes â–ª of the iuyce of the rootes of Veruaine of each fowre ounces all these beaten a part put after into a Limbecke distill with a soft fire The first water which coÌ„meth will be cleare helpeth the moyst gowte the thirde water gathered wyll be redde which auayleth in the colde gowte and this remember that the frogges ought to be put alyue into the Lymbecke for this is an approued mâ—dicine and alwayes found true A marueylous oyle in the palsie and shrincking of synewes the falling sicknesse the crampe and helpeth any colde sicknesse ingendred of a cold cause Take of Galbanum halfe a pound of gum yuie three ounces these brought to powder myxed togyther dystyll in a Lymbeck after art the water oyle distylling forth gather in a receauer into which put one ounce of the oyle of Bayes one pound of good Turpentine the whole throughly myxed dystyl againe the oyle water then gathered seperate the one from the other and the oyle keepe as a Baulme for it matcheth and is lyke to the baulme in all his vertues A certayne practyser applyed one droppe of the oyle on the pacientes forehead of the palsie and another on his nauell he â—ncontinent arose as amased of him selfe and was after an howre delyuered of the grieuous payne of a wound in a certayne place of the body and the shrincking of synewes he annoynted with this oyle the pacient was speedily healed And in other sicknesses and grieffes was this oyle diuerslie proued and founde to be of great efficacye The hynder part of the head annoynted with it at the going to bedde and that in the morning he eateth one dram wayght of the Reysons of the Sunne it quickeneth in a short tyme the memorie This oyle helpeth the defenesse and any sicknesse procéeding of a cold cause helpeth besydes the losse of smelling this borrowed out of the Breuiarie of Arnoldus de villa nouaâ—â—â— the Chapter of the palsie An oyle of many vertues but auayling especially in wounds borrowed out of the secretes of Fallopio take of cleare Turpentine two poundes of the oyle of Lyne séede one wyne pynt of the Rosen of the Pyne tree sixe ounces of Frankensence of Myrre of Aloes of Mastick and of Sarcocolla of ech two ounces of Mace of Saffron of Lignum aloes of each two ounces but these thrée last adde to if you wyl All these wrought togyther put into a Retorte of glasse strongly fenced which artly distyll in sandâ— with a verie soft fire in the beginning a cleare water shall come but a redde oyle within a whiles after wyl distyl forth which séene begyn then to increase your fyre and stronger stronger vnto the end of the distillation or that all be come after take away the receauer and seperate the water from the oyle which kéepe apart in seuerall glasses The water within a time waxeth redde the oyle will become of a Rubine colour This oyle is precious especially to be applyed on woundes where the synewes the bones and vaynes be cutte for by closing or stitching the partes and lippes of the wound and applying of this lycour vpon it healeth the same speedily without any griefe paine to the pacient And Falloppio on a time cured a scholler being a young man with this lycour which had fourteene woundes of these eyght were deadly by sowing or stitching all the wounds and applying only of this lycour vpon was in the space of thyrtie dayes throughly cured without annoyance to the pacient And of the wounds of small importaunce he healed a great number within fowre or fiue dayes with the sayd oyle and vsed none other so that he concludeth and prooueth this oyle to be singular in his properties that a maÌ„ with it may do myracles in applying of it on wounds and ruptures An artificiall Faulme helping and putting awaye the scarres of woundes if after a stripe a great scarre shall remayne on the face or in any other partes of the body then with this Baulme following may you remoue a scarre not wholly or altogyther but in such sort that it shall be little séene of any Take of Mastick one ounce of the ryndes of the swéete Pomegranates of gum Arabicke of each halfe an ounce of Saffron two drams of English Galingale one ounce of CarpobalsamuÌ„ half an ouÌ„ce of Aloes ten drams of Frankensence one ounce of Myrre one ounce of Turpentine of the Fyrre tree half a pound of old oyle Oliue one ounce those to be beaten bring to pouder after the mixing togither put the whole into a Retort of glasse strongly fensed with the lute of wisdome which order distill with a soft fire in the beginning and increasing after the fire by litle and litle vnto that end The receauer after the close sealing or stopping after art set into Balneo Mariae or burie in horse dung for ten dayes which then drawe forth and vse This perfourmeth the same which the Baulme doth in all proofes The confection of a baulme which is named a gréekes baulme borrowed out of Tarquinius Schnellen bergius take of Turbith two ounces and a halfe of Rhapontick fowre ounces of Rubarb one ounce and a halfe of long Pepper and of Cloues of each two drams of Gynger one ounce two drams of Zedoaria one ounce a halfe and two drams of Nutmegges seuen drams of Cardamomum one ounce a half and two drams of Cubebae eyght drams of Cynamon thre ounces of the rootes of Pympernell one ounce of Annise sixe ounces of Sugarcandie thrée ounces two drams al these beaten a part or seuerallie take after of oyle Oliue fowre pyntes of the oyle of Lyne seede one pynt of the iuyce of wormewood halfe a pynt Let the oyles be first heated after put in the powders but beware that you heate not the oyles ouer hote After the putting vp of the whole â—nto a Retorte or if you had rather in a Cucurbite distyll thrise ouer A secrete water of good accoumpt which putteth away spottes whitneth the skynne taketh away spottes wrinckles pimples causeth besydes a cleare most comely face borrowed out of Bertapalia take of Turpentyne sufficient cleare two pounds and of the same drawe a water by a Lymbecke to the same distylled and come of the Turpentine adde these powthered of chosen Masticke halfe an ounce of the whyte pure
Frankensence thrée drams of Tragacanthi halfe an ounce all these dilygently mixed togyther with the abouesayd water put after into a Lymbecke distyll the substaunce with a very easie fire that which then commeth keepe in a glasse close stopped After take of Barrowes greace strayned through a thyck cloath one pound of chosen Ginger one ounce of Cloues two drams of Nutmegs three in number of chosen Cynamon of Euphorbium of eache halfe a dram of Spykenard two drams of Cubebae halfe a dram of Camphora thrée drams all these after the finelye brynging to powder myxe artlie with the sayde Barrowes greace Also take of crude Mercurie thrée poundes of fine syluer one dram the siluer finely file to pouder chopping the pouder ouer again which after myxe with the sayd Mercury of these two make an argenture incorporate then al these dilygeÌ„tly with the abouesaid mixture of barrows greace putting altogither into a glasse body setting the headde artlye vpon distyll with a softe fyre in the begynning but after increase the fire stronger vnto the ende of the worke and the same which commeth forth is gathered in the Receauer powre into a glasse dilygentlye keeping the same to your vse After take of the first Turpentyne water halfe a pynt and of this other myxte with the Barrowes greace one pounde and these two artlie myxed keepe in a glasse close stopped And when any woman wyll vse this water let hir wâ— she hir face well before with the water of the decoction of branne after wyping verye drye hir face let hir pause an howre after and by applying of this water on all the face with a fine lynnen cloth wette in it wyll then cause such a comely whitenesse to appeare that wyll endure or continue many dayes after An oyle hauing the properties of a Baulme borrowed out of a written booke take of chosen Turpentyne two ounces of the rootes of Campherie and of Symphiti Petraei cutte into square Tables and thynne one pounde and of the rootes of Vlmi sixe ounces of the leaues of the wylding tree of horse tayles of yarrowe and of hearbe Iudaica of each two handfulles of rype Dates with theyr kernelles a lytle brused tenne in number of gum Elemi halfe an ounce chosen Myrre of Beniamyne and of Storax Calamyta of eache two ounces of Frankensence and of Masticke of eache three ounces of Nutmegs one dram a halfe of wormes dilygently washed with redde wyne one ounce and a halfe of redde Rose leaues of Spykenarde â–ª and of the flowers of Saint Iohns woort of eache one lytle handfull of the leaues of Vlmi with his licour two in number of Oxe eye brought to pouder two drams all these laboured and artlye myxed togyther put into a Lymbecke with a head close stopped about which dystyll after with a softe fyre The first lycour that commeth is shynne the seconde that followeth is an oyle supplying the properties of a baulme which is most effectuous in the closing and curing of new woundes and fylling the hollownesse with â—â—she or vnto other great vlcers and olde grieffes and vnto many others much helping This oyle ought dilygently to be stopped in a glasse with a narrowâ— mouth that adverâ—ue of it breath forth Of the Baulmes not distylled The .xi. Chapter AN oyle supplying the properties of a baulme in the curyng of wounds borrowed out of a written booke take of the flowers and hearbes of Saint Iohns woort as much as you wyll those put into glasse with a narrow necke and mouth fylling the same full with olde oyle Olyue or common oyle setting the same after in the sunne for fifteene dayes at the end of which tyme powre into it halfe a cup full of whyte wyne labouring altogyther set the glasse close stopped into hote horse doong for fifteene or twentye daies which after the drawing forth bind about with a smal hand of haye into which put then of Myrre of Mastick of Venice Turpentine and of Rosen of each two ounces or according vnto the quantity of the oyle prepared and let all these be finely brough to powder before the putting in the glasse then close stopped that no ayre breath forth set after into a kettle of water ouer the fire letting the substaunce in the glasse boyle for a certaine tyme and after the same shall be sufficientlye boyled strayne the whole through a common strayner and the refuse throw away the oyle preserue in a glasse close stopped which the older it shal be before the occupying the greater wyll be his effectes and when you wyll vse of it heate the oyle a lytle before Another baulme curing woundâ— take of gum yuie of Myrre of each one ounce of gum Elemi of Colophoniâ— of FraÌ„kensence â–ª of Masticke of Storax calamita of Lignum aloes of Saffron of Dragons blood of each halfe an ounce â–ª of Sarcocolla of Ammoniacum of Opopanax of Bolellium of the long Aristolochia of Castorie of gum Arabick of Nutmegs of Cloues â— of â—aules â–ª of ech one dram of Ladanum of Storax liquidâ— of each half an ounce oâ— Aqua vitae â–ª fowre ounces of Turpentine one pounde of olde oylâ— two pyntes of the oyle of thorough waxe made of the symple flowre halfe a pynte all these orderlie put into a glasse boyle in Balneo Mariae as aboue taught A good baulme of many vertues but it doth peculiarly close and heale â—â—lde woundes without leauing manifest sygnes of scars this also cleanseth the eyes preserueth the fleshe from putrifying and doth marueylously helpe the swelling of the ioyntes and payne of the hote gowte this borrowed out of a wrytten booke of secretes in the Italian tongue take of the lycour of the bladders of Vlmus the same strayne through a lynnen cloth putting it after into a glasse which set in sande to digest for fiftéene dayes the same lycour strayning euerie thyrde daye after set this in the Sunne for two whole monethes And note that this ought to be prepared and made from the midle of the moneth of March vnto the mydle of Iune Another take of oyle Olyue two ounces of whyte pytche one ounce of Galbanum halfe a dramme let all these be molten with one dram of the oyle of Romayne vitryoll with thrée ounces of the oyle of Poppie with fowre ounces of the oyle of bytter Almondes with one ounce of the oyle of Olybanum those that are to be brought to fine powder myxe with the oyle The inuentour of this is vnknowne to the Aucthour Another out of the secretes of Gabriell Fallopio take the iuyce of Léekes and the iuyce of Myntes of each a lyke which powred into a glasse set in the Sunne all the Dogge dayes and the same shall after be a syngular baulme Another of Tarquinius Schnellen bergius take of Masticke of Olibanum of eache two drams of Ammoniacum one dram of Galbanum thrée drams of Bolellium sixe drams of Opopanax one dram of Ladanum halfe an ounce of Assa foetida one
spattle after straine the lycor putting into it then of the greene Verdigres brought to powder the same styrre styll about vntyll it be in a maner colde these maye also be boyled in burning water preserued after in a glasse close stopped This out of Fumanellus A precious oyle compared to Golde in that the same cureth all euyls of the Legs synewes cutte it increaseth or procureth flesh to ryse closeth vlcers it remooueth besides paine it cureth the Fistula the CaÌ„ker al old vlcers except those which happeÌ„ on the head In the moneth of May take of Apium one handfull of Rosemarie so much of Sage Rue of each one handfull of Herba laurentia Florum omnium menseum of both thrée handfuls of Tapsus Barbatus of Lanceola of Celondine of ech two hanfuls of wormwood one handfull of common oyle two pyntes of good Turpentine one pounde of Galbanum two ounces of the Rosen of the Pyne tree two poundes of Viridis aeris or Diphrygis brought to powder two ounces the iuyce of the hearbes strayned and myxed with the oyle â–ª and Turpentine boyle on a softe fire of coales sturring the lycour continually about with a spattle vnto the consumpâ—â—â—n of the iuyce to which after the strayning adde of Viridis aâ—â—is brought to pouder and styl sturre the lycour about vntyll it taâ—â—n from the fire be colde which after put vp in a glasse close stopped An artificiall baulme prepared made without distyllation that auayleth in woundes and cureth them without the ingendrinâ— or procuring of matter it helpeth also the palsie members stayâ—th the blood and water which yssueth out of the wounded ioynts this borrowed out of a certaine Emperickes booke written in the Germayne tongue take of Rubarbe two drams cutte and pared into round balles to which adde of Camphora one dram a halfe these after put into a tynne porrenger powring vpon one ounce and a halfe of common oyle Olyue the same let stand in the Sunne for fowretéene dayes Another approued baulme out of the same booke take a glasse which is about a pynt in measure the same fyll with Spyknarde vpon which powre halfe a pynt of good Sallet oyle letting it after stande for a moneth in the Sunne which alwayes styrre about To it after adde of the oyle of Violettes two ounces of the oyle of Spike so much of the oyle of Camomyl and of the oyle of Roses of eache two ounces all these myxed togyther let stande for a whole moneth Another of the same man 's not to be contempned take of Galbanum of Ammoniacum and of Bolellium of each halfe an ounce of chosen Myrre of Masticke whyte Frankensence of ech halfe an ounce all these stiepe in the strongest vineger for thrée dayes and dissolued after powre the whole into an earthen Bason or pan wel glased within which set ouer a fire of coales without flame putting into it then of Turpentine two ounces of Sallet oyle two pyntes and a halfe let these boyle togyther in sturring the whole styll obout vntyll the Feces stick or cleaue to the bottome Which come to passe or being on such wyse adde then to it of Viridiâ— aeris brought to powder halfe an ounce the same taken from the fyre and become through colde straine through a lynnen cloath putting the lycour dyligently vp into a glasse to your vse for this auayleth in all woundes by applying lynt and tentes wette in it Another noble Baulme take halfe a pynte of common oyle with which myxe Violettes in a glasse setting the same after in the Sunne and the lyke doe with Broome flowers and leaues of the same after take of Galbanum two drams and a halfe of Bolellium of Ammoniacum and of Myrre of eache halfe an ounce of Masticke two drammes let the gummes afore be dissolued in the strongest vineger which after myxe togyther with the oyles and flowers strayning the whole through a lynnen cloath into a well glased potte the same set ouer a fyre of coales and when the oyle is hote powre in the Turpentyne heated and molten with the gummes dyssolued sturring them styll about that they burne not to the potte sydes and be carefull also that the lycour runneth not ouer then put into it of Viridis aeris finelie brought to powder halfe an ounce or sixe drammes and setting this agayne to the fyre sturre continually about vntyll the remoouing from the fire it shall be through cold which after the strayning put into a glasse and keepe â—â—â—se stopped to your vse Another â—elâ—â—ng members shruncke borrowed out of the practyses of Theophrastus paracellus take of distylled Turpentine one pounde â–ª of the gumme Galbanum and of Dyttanie halfe a pounde to these artlie myxed togyther â–ª adde of the oyle of Bayes one ounce which after made a Baulme with it annoynt members shruncke for many moneths and it shortly recouereth them The oyle Benedicke also myxed with the fatte of a Gray or Badger and the members annoynted with it doth marueylouslye worke in this case Another of the same mannes auayling in woundes Take of oyle Olyue one pynt â–ª of Saint Iohns woort of Bytonie of Centorie and of the hearbe selfe heale of eache one handfull these hearbes after the stamping and the iuyre wrynged out or onelye stamped and myxed with the oyle let them distyll in a glasse all the Summer after wryng forth the whole through a cloath which keepe for a nobler can not be found for woundes in that the same cureth them by the onely annoynting morning and euening without the applying of any other medycine this also expelleth the humours â–ª and farre otherwyse is then can well be vttered and what matters seeme impossible to be done by the helpe of this are speedilie perfourmed as in euery incarnating and closing togyther and healing so well in fractures as in bruses and such lyke Of the oyles gotten out of Flowers The xij Chapter THe oyle of Spyke is thus prepared if so be the Spyke be infused in wyne and distylled an oyle fyrst followe where a water otherwyse by distyllacion I gesse in Sande shoulde be seperated This oyle annoynted on the region of the kydneys helpeth the Gonorrhaea A certayne friend of the Aucthours hauing his wyfe nowe and then sicke procured to be ministred to hir in a draft of wyne but two drops of the distylled oyle of Spyke which after shée had druncke downe was brought by it in great hazard of lyfe but through it shee voyded soone many worms and recouered within short space The oyle of the common Spykenarde which is brought out of Fraunce doth Brassanolus commend but he affyrmeth that lyttle woorth or of lesser accoumpt to be made of which certayne prepare make of the Lauender in Italie the same writeth he that many name a Balsamyne vse it in the stéede of a naturall baulme Of the oyle of Spyke which many vsed in the steede of baulme and of his properties was fullie and at large
the vse of the Antimonie as he hath experienced for on such wise Gesnerus writeth The Antimonie prepared as Matthiolus instructeth I gaue in the yéere 1563. and in the .xxij. day of Ianuary to a Melancholy person sore vexed which had often assayd to destroy himselfe a fleshie young man fiue graynes almost in pouder mixed with a litle conserue of Roses wine framed in a bale or dose that lay before on bed for thrée or foure dayes without eating in a manner any meate could scarcely lift vp his head but with a certaine turning about imagined that he sawe deuills through which he came sorowfull fearefull with sighes calling on God within an howre after that a fat brothe was giuen him he stroÌ„gly vomited within a whiles after he made sundry sieges or stooles togither yet felt he after a mighty â—ormenting vexing about the heart belly with a grieuous headach sore molesting that he neuer indured the like in al his life time as he reported yet increased neuerthelesse the sicknesse Melancholy lurâ—king in him he became after marueilous thirstie drye to the qualifying of which he had drunke ouer much water with wine he refrained besides supper slept nothing but lay groning and sighing al the night vomited againe the morrow following to the staying of which I gaue him Rob de Ribes with the syrupe of Quinces the syrupe of Roses with wyne and water warmed togyther and cordiall matters I applyed on the breast The next day following was giuen to him brothe whether he would or no after which he slept almost an howre and he began then to waxe better Neuerthelesse I applyed to the foreheade a linnen clothe wet in the water of Roses Lettuce the oyle of Roses vineger which I coÌ„manded a good whyles before to be done but they had neglected it And I minded to haue ministred to him of the oyle of vitriol if he had not amended or recouered somwhat perhaps the conserue or syrupe of Nymphea I had giuen The same night I willed to be giueÌ„ him a litle quantitie of new Triacle after myd night if the vomiting ceassed not or that he slept not but they gaue him to litle a quantitie of it Here note that I onely licking my fingers whiles I mixed the medicine within two howres after felt an aking swimming or giddinesse of the head cast much water spittell of my stomack with a litle gryping paine in the bottome of my belly especially of the right syde and prouoking my selfe to vomite I dranck after of the syrupe of wormewood warmed amended The same Antimonie was cleare of a yelow colour to be séene through as a precious stone or Glasse lightly broken betweene the teeth In the Hospitall of Tygurie in Germanie to a certaine other person madde Gesnerus gaue of the Stibium prepared and cleare as glasse nothing of the fumyng matter in it sixe graines in fine pouder when he was about to vomite he vpon the eating of breade sent the matter down ward so that he felt but a little paine in the belly yet this after wrought and caused fowre sieges or stooles But the nexte day after he sayde and complayned that hys heade marueylously grieued hym Gesnerus also gaue to a dropsye person sixe graynes of the Stibium prepared darcke and fumyng a lyttle which after was grieuously vexed about the hearte the payne contynewing vnto the nexte morrowe and he purged vpward and downeward but little in quantitie A certaine notable singuler preparer of the Antimonie wrote vnto Gesnerus that he had giue more theÌ„ to foure hundreth persons of euery kind and age this his Antimonie not only without any harme but with prosperous successe He gaue of this to fiue takeÌ„ with the pestilent Ague who after recouered to health He also affyrmeth it to be a present remedy â–ª in the Plague but who that mindeth to receiue of the Antimonie may neither before nor after the taking of it blede by vaine Of this his Antimonie he sent certaine partes being of thrée sundry colours differing one from the other of which the same that was of a red colour be preferred before the others in that the same tarried a longer time in the fire that it might attaine the colour and so the vertue breathed forth But for that it is a deeper red to fire for that cause must a greater dose or quantitie be ministred The same person gaue of the red Antimonie to a certaine man strong of body fiue graines but to such which were meane of strength and to women he ministred only fowre graines And to the persons weake of body only thrée graines But if any shal be of a mightie strong complexion theÌ„ to him may sixe graines be safely applyed but he thinketh not good to minister aboue this dose where necessitie requireth it may be ministred at any time of the day yea at midnight if neede shal be so that it be receaued fiue or sixe howres after meate before or rather after the taking to fast two or thrée howres But where necessitie doth not so vrge or require the aptest time in giuing of it shal be in the morning an howre before the sunne rising I minister saith he this Antimonie against al Agues the dropsie the Iaundise the bloody scouring the Melancholy of womeÌ„ rewmes the paines of the head the french disease singularly a costiue belly the flewme fulnesse of the breast stomacke a stincking breath procéeding of the corruption of the stomacke poysons fransynesse many other diseases these hetherto be his Against the falling sicknesse take of the pouder of Antimonie of Dragons blood of Castorie of each two drams these brought to pouder and mixed minister after Arte this also put vnder the tongue of a chylde if néede requireth Gesnerus also hath thus noted by the iudgement and opinion of others of the maner of vsing of the same The dose of Stimmeos or Stibium to be prepared giuen to the strong persons must be in waight either fiue or sixe graines but to persons weake of strenght only thrée or foure graines mixed with Sugar Roset or Violets To childreÌ„ being foure fiue or sixe yéeres olde giue but one graine waight a halfe in the Rob or syrupe of Walwooort or elder flowers To slender old women one graine with milke For this worketh within an howre or halfe an howre after the taking This also may be ministred as some report to womeÌ„ with Chyld without peryll or harme which I marueylously doubt They which mynd to receiue the Antimonie prepared let them take it with a fasting stomack not eating any meat after for seuen or eyght howers but within a whyles after the taking let the person drincke a lytle quantity warme of the broth of Câ—cerum And kéepe within the house for two dayes space moderately drinck that tyme Some vse of the Stibium being onely most
take at a time two three or foure drops in some dystilled water or wine morning and euening Leonard Fiorauant that singular practisioner in his seconde booke of secrete practises published in the Italian tongue â–ª doth there vtter the maner of dystilling the oyle of Vitriol â–ª which from the common maner doth differ nothing at all sauing that the dystillation of the oyle at the eyght or tenth daye was perfourmed and from the beginning as it séemed wrought with flame of fire and the oyle dystilled was blacke A compounde oyle of Vitrioll of the sayd Leonard Fiorauant prepared and made after this maner Take of pure and whyte Sugar foure pounds of Rhaponticke one pounde of Ruberbe one ounce of Mercurie flowers one pound these after the well beating togither frame into a paste on which poure foure pyntes of the best Aqua vitae then poure all into a Retort which diligently stoppe and burie in hote horse dung for sixe dayes after the drawing forth dystill the whole in Balneo Mariae vntil no more will issue forth The feces then gotten forth of the Retort â–ª put into a lynnen bagge which wryng strongly and throughly in a presse After take of Buglosse water of Fumiterrie and of Scabioâ—s of ech sixe ounces and with these waters wash very well the feces pressed out and wring them harde agayne in the presse which done throwe the feces awaye And these two waters togither which you gathered by pressing forth dystill so often ouer by â— filterâ— vntil it appeareth sufficient cleare â–ª after mixe it with the first water and dystill all togither in Balneo Mariae And when of those thrée you shall hâ—ue performed one water then to ech pound or pynte of the water adde halfe a scruple or one whole dram if néede be of the finest oyle of Vitrioll which diligently kéepe in a glasse vnto vse Thâ—s excellent composition I prepared in the summer and vsed it to many with singular successe for it restoreth a weake or decayed stomacke â–ª it helpeth the disease of the mylt mittigateth the payne of the heade and téeth and many other matters whâ—ch for breuitte are â—urpassed But this coÌ„position is of so maruailous a working that it may be put in the booke of the maruailous thinges of Phisicke For thyâ— kéepeth or maintayneth olde men in their proper strength a matter greatly to be abashed and woondred at And I can this auouch that I haue séene many men and women which by vsing it after my appoyntment and counsayle are renuâ—d and become lustyer of age to sée too A matter in déede greatly to be maruailed at and scarcely to be beléeued and this compositiâ—n also preserueth them long in health which vse to take of it The maner of taking this excellent lycour is on this wyse that is in the morning let halfe an ounce of it be taken fasting and so colde as it is and let the person after refrayne to eate for the space of foure houres and the same day vse to eate the best meats of sâ—â—â—nance and this vsed for a time togither preserueth the person as aboue vttered A corrosiue oyle of Vitrioll take of Romaine Vitrioll sixe poundes of common salt one pounde and a halfe let these be calcyned so long togither vntill they waxe redde which then take from the fire and bring to pouder togither the whole deuide into thrée parts after gâ—t thrée glasse bodies fashioned to a Luâ—e verye well fenced with the lute of wysedome and into eche of these poure a third part of the sayde Vitrioll rubified and sette all the thrée bodies into one furnace of reuerberation and make a fire vnder by little and little vntill all the substance by force of the fire be drawen which will be so blacke a substance as yncke and many times floweth or is long in the issuing forth and when the same is come forth kéepe it in a glasse sufficient large and thicke that it burst not with this lycour you may open all maner of impostumes and clense all kynde of putrified vlcers by wetting only on the vpper face with the sayde lycour which doth cause spéedily a marueylous working and mortifieth cankers and vlcers cankred and doth many other matters besides all which I haue many times tryed and found euermore true and perfite This borrowed out of the Italian secretes of the singular Fallopius Another of the same mans otherwise prepared and drawne named a compounde oyle of Vitrioll and that most strong on thys wyse Take of Romaine Vitrioll sixe poundes of salt Armoniack of Brimstone of Vermilion of Orpiment and of Roche Allum of eche sixe ounces let all be calcined as we haue aboue vttered vntil all the whole be come vnto a rednesse and being thus rubified let all be brought into fine pouder and poured into a bodie as aboue vttered and let fire be continued vnder it for sixe whole dayes remembring before that the ioyntes be diligently luted With this licour may you depopulate or cut of any member if you wette a large knyfe made of the woode of the Oliue trée in it and marke the place about with tha sayde woode where you will cut it of this then is of such a force and efficacie that it openeth the fleshe euen as the same were done or cut with a rasour and worketh the proper effect without the shedding of any drop of bloude And this causticke is one of the worthyest secretes of all Chirurgerie and proued very often of the singular Fallopius and sundrie other Chirurgions which haue wrought the selfe same effect which I haue séene many times A naturall and most subtill oyle of Vitrioll pleasaunt or swéete in taste which is accounted for a miracle Take of the Hungarian vitrioll foure poundes which brought into very fine pouder and dryed in a bodie poure after into another bodie well fenced with lute being well beaten togither and thrust downe Then poure vppon of sublymed wyne rectified vnto the top of the foure poundes which set to digest for fortie dayes after dystill according to Arte and you shall then sée the Oyle of Vitrioll swimme aboue the vpper part of the sublimed wyne But the common oyle of Vitriol shall be mixed with his water and for that cause néedeth rectifying this borowed out a written booke An oyle of Vitrioll which mortifieth the Canker and Fistulaes and old corrosiue vlcers especially is made after this maner Take of Romaine Vitrioll burnt in a panne vnto a rednesse one pounde which bring to fine pouder to it after adde of oyle Olyue halfe a pynte these poure togither into a glasse body and sublime after the common maner then let it be distilled with one bodie set against another or by a Limbecke in adding to it a little of Aqua vitae well rectified that the Oyle may ascende c. Fumanellus of the oyle of Vitrioll against the Canker thus writeth In extreme diseases the extreme remedies are best and séeing the Canker is a disease of the same
kynde for that cause a man must apply extreme remedies to it as is the oyle of Vitrioll which is made after this maner Take of Vitrioll a sufficient quantitie which after the through drying and comming vnto a rednesse and the same rubified and brought to fine pouder poure into a Limbecke and dystill according to Arte of this let be giuen in the first day fasting one droppe with thrée ounces of Buglosse water and in the second day two drops with a greater quantitie of the water and in such maner adding a drop of the water vnto fiue dayes ende These ended let the extreme parts or edges of the Canker be annoynted with the foresaid Oyle vntill the matter of the canker be gotten out by the roote and this medicine hath not bene tried of the Author but obtayned of an Impericke A sirrupe digesting cankerous humors is made of the iuice of Fumiterrie of Borage and of Scabious of eche thrée ounces of Endiue and of Succorie of eche two ounces of Epithimi of Senae and of the wyne of Pomegranates of eche thrée ounces of Sugar so much as shall suffice to forme the sirrupe and the solutiues belonging to the same are the Electuarie of Hamecke Pilles de lapide Lazuli pillu Iudae Senee epithimum and whaye wherein Senee is stéeped Of the Oyles out of other Mettalles The .xxxix. Chapter AN oyle of Copper learned of a French Empericke Take of burnt Copper two poundes which finely brought to pouder and poured into a glasse Cucurbite very well luted and imbybed with the strong vinegar the whole dystill in xxiij houres space and you shall obtaine a most strong oyle of a redde and gréene colour An oyle of Saturne or Leadé is thus prepared and made which is after an easie maner Take of Ceruse which is Leade calcined and boyle it with the strongest vinegar after let the same settle or rest a time and the vinegar shall become yelow of colour the same then poure into a bodie and euaporate the vinegar forth and in the bottome will the oyle remayne This oyle of Saturne is commended in olde vlcers especially those which Theophrastus nameth the vlcers of the face of which kynde are the Canker and Fistulaes about the nose I knewe sayth the Authour a woman who had hir nose almost eaten away with a wicked vlcer was throughly cured with this oyle alone This oyle molten ought to be applyed with a warmenesse or by the furnace in the Winter tyme and striked ouer with a fether A certaine person sold halfe an ounce of this for a crowne of gold The dose of it at a time to be giuen inward with any lycour is thrée graynes and vsed both in the cholicke in fistulaes An oyle of Iron vnderstoode of a French Empericke Take of the filings or beatings of the Iron about the Anuill finely laboured to pouder so much as you will the same imbibe with childes vryne after calcine so often in the Furnace of reuerberation vntill it be brought impalpable and of a sanguine colour then poure it into a glasse bodie well fenced with lute and imbybe the substance againe with the strongest dystilled vynegar which dystill after the maner of Aqua fortis by the space of xxiiij houres euer increasing the fire and you shall obtayne a thicke and very redde oyle The experience of the oyle is that the lamines of anye metall rubified if they be quenched in this oyle forthwith receyue the colour of golde so marueylous is the tincture and péercing and doth also congeale Mercurie diuinely and doth many other affectes in the Arte of Alchimie Besides in Phisicke this worketh marueylously in that the same resolueth and healeth many infirmities and especially the fluxe of the bodie if so be a small quantitie be giuen by the mouth with anye sirrupe or other like composition which worketh a marueylous helpe to the pacient that taketh it so theâ— I affirme the sande oyle to be as a true â–ª Quintessence to our bodies seeing it is so miraculous in his working An oyle out of Stéelâ— and the Adâ—manâ— stone is drawen after the same maner as aboue taught of the Iron An oyle of Litarge is holden and accounted for a great secrete in that the same is marueylous in the clearing of spottes and Morphewe or other blemishes of the face it maketh a small scarre and putteth away the rednesse of them borrowed out of a most auncient written booke Take of Litarge finely brought to pouder so much as shall suffice the same dissolue by decoction in the strongest vinegar many times togither after euaporate the vinegar on the fire and a blacke oyle shall remayne in the bottome which then dissolue with hote water by the stirring about with a sticke cleane scraped and after dystill it by a woollen tongue or by Fylter and the oyle shal abyde in the bottome which separated from the water is singular in the working An oyle which is drawne out of Lyme is marueylous Take of vnâ—eaked lyme one whole péece which infuse in common oyle vntill it be diâ—solued and let the Lyme be brought to pouder the whole after poured into a glaâ—se Limbecke and dystilled an oyle will then issue which shall be named the calcine oyle c. An oyle drawne out of Bole Armoniacke is taught in a certayne place of the wâ—â—ks of the singular learned Theophrastus Paracelsus Of the preparing and making of the oyle of Amber by the description of a singular phisition of Germanie which freely described the historie also of the whole Amber as shall appeare in the proper places The .xl. Chapter THe oyle of Amber is none other than a most subtill fat ayreal substance which coÌ„sisteth in the Amber drawne out by Art and although it be not harde to purchase such an oyle yet a special care aptnesse of instruments is required vnto the same art for which cause must diligent héede be giuen that the precepts following be obserued What maner of Amber must be chosen The .xli. Chapter ALthoughe it be agreeable to Arte and ryght necessarye to choose the purest Amber vnto the dystilling and drawing forth of the oyle and that it be the greater part of the Amber for in taking the purer matter a purer lycour also issueth forth and the receyuer shall be filled with the lesser quantitie of the excrementall humour and refuse and it besides shall not so easily be resolued with fire and at one instant fall togither into the receyuer if it shall be of the grosser partes but shall dissolue and melt by little and little and slowly that the subtill substance which consisteth or is in it may the beter be separated from the feces yet in the slaking of it maye the pouder and péeces be taken and vsed in that those also yéelde an Oyle if they be rightly prepared and poured into the vessell A man must besides obserue and knowe that on the Amber poured into the Cucurbite be very small flynt stones layde and
for lacke of the same you maye vse the other instrument of glasse much like to the Funnell for this oyle euermore swimmeth aboue the water And this dystillation may also be done by sande in the same manner if so be you fence the bodie before with lute that the heate break not the glasse but the purer best coÌ„mended is that done by Balneo The Instrument of Valerius Cordus Another instrument of separating after the forme of a Funnell 4. Is the emptie space B. the pipe by whiche the aire entreth into the emptie space 2. the space of the oyle and water 5. the pype by which the water issueth Of the vertues and vtilitie of the rectified oyle The .xlv. Chapter THis Oyle in auncient tyme was named holye for the marueylous and secrete vertues of it for it hath the same properties which the Amber it selfe but farre effectuouser For what efficacie and vertue consisteth in fiue sixe or seauen poundes of the Amber the same may be reduced easâ—ly into one pounde By which reason it much auayleth in the falling sicknesse in the Palsie and Crampe and mightily helpeth women molested wyth the suffocation of the Matrice it comforteth also the yongling in the mothers wombe Of the Oyle of Amber and the vertues of it doth a certayne learned man thus write it excéedeth by his propertie sayth he all waters of lyfe as they name them and any maner of Aurum potabile or potable golde especially in the curing of the Apoplexie and falling sickenesse Of the Oyle of Tylestones The xlvi Chapter THe Oyle Benedick or Oyle of Tyle stones hauing in it manye vertues vnto colde griefes and diseases and profitabler than a Baulme by his vertue and subtilnesse is prepared and drawne after this maner Take of newe baked Tyles that neuer water came vpon such a quantitie as you thynke néedefull those beate so small as Fetches Hempe Milium or else the ponder most finely fifted After let it be poured into a glasse bodie or other bodie mightily maintayned with fire or strongly burned which thus burned poure into olde cléere oyle Olyue if it may be gotten being in an earthen vessell glased and let it so rest to infuse for vij or x. dayes and if any péeces be grosse beate those small and poure the whole into a great Cucurbite on which set a heade artely luted in the ioynt and dystill with a soft fire and this conceyue that of one pounde of the Oyle you shall gather but one ounce whose naturall vertue excéedeth and is greater in effect than the naturall Baulme in the curing of all cold sicknesses griefs is hoter than it for that cause it is named oyle Benedick or blessed oile especially vnto the curing of cold sicknesses the older the oyle shall be before the occupying the better will it work The true and certaine notes to knowe this Oyle assuredly are these that the oyle Oliue holdeth or beareth vp as it were thys oyle in the myddle of it or stayeth it hanging about the bottome and not touching the bottome whereof this sheweth it selfe to be hoter and lighter than the oyle Olyue and the same also which is not Artely drawne of Tyles iâ— heauye so that if a drop be let fall into this purer oyle it falleth to the bottome and in this is the coldnesse and he auynesse of it knowne Also this Oyle causeth or yéeldeth a strong sauour and is redde in colour and a drop of it besides poured in the hand doth incontinent vanish away spreadeth all the hande and if an yron rodde be annoynted with the same Oyle and touched of any flâ—me doth forthwith burne and kindled or flaming doth not easily go out nor is lightly quenched When the distillation of this Oyle shall be fully performed open then the vessel wittily after it shall be through colde draw forth the pouder of the Tyles resting in the bottome of the glasse into which oyle after poure a quantitie of other pouder burned if you mynde to purchase more of the Oyle and dystill after the maner aboue taught and the Oyle dystilled kéepe well in a glasse close stopped with waxe There are here vttered xliiij vertues of the same auayling in a colde cause so well inward as outward 1. First the Oyle restoreth all those members colde by any accident if the harmed members be annoynted with it 2. It healeth a wounde if the proper herbe agréeable be a little boyled in it 3. This helpeth all the clefts and chops happening on the handes and féete in the winter tyme. 4. The oyle helpeth sinewes weake through the Goute or some other cause and the trembling or shaking of the head and handes 5. The Goute and ache of the ioyntes procéeding of a colde cause the necke payning so stiffe that it cannot turne hither thither is helpen with this oyle 6. It breaketh into small péeces the stone of the bladder kidneys by annoynting on the places drinking often of the oyle with white wine 7. It cureth also the excoriation of the bladder so well within as without which is knowne by the byting or fretting of the yard by annointing on the proper place 8. This helpeth the staying back of the vryne and hardnesse in the making of water 9. The oyle helpeth the passions of the eares procéeding of a cold cause as the deafenesse the noyse or hissing the fluxe of euill humors to the eares by applying a fine lynnen cloth wet in it wythin the eare 10. This auayleth against the wormes eyther bred within or crept in by hap 11. This helpeth the drawing of the mouth by a crampe and the drawing or tormenting of the belly the griefes of the matrice in euery age to the helpe of the Sciaticke payne or ache of the hip paine of the kidneys ridge bone may be added those herbes flowers rootes of a hot nature appropriated to them as the Sage the Penyroyall the Wormewood the running Time Organy Betony Hisop Dittany 12. To euery push and raw impostume not through rype in that the raw it soone rypeneth and the ripe soone or spéedily dissolueth to which if the Daâ—nell roote the yolk of an egge and whyte Onyon rosted vnder hot ymbers be artly applyed doth greatly profite 13. The oyle helpeth the hardnesse of the milt through ouer much coldnes in that it spéedily moystneth gently heateth it 14. This oyle helpeth such molested with the falling sicknesse is the nosthrill of the pacient be annoynted wyth it 15. This helpeth the â—â—slation or stopping of the brayne and nose through a cold cauâ—e howsoeuer it shall happen whether the eyes run or water or the nosthrils be ful of flegme if the proper places be annoynted with it or that it be taken by the mouth 16. It helpeth all maner of coldnesse of the head and brayne for annoynted with the oyle it doth heate marueylously coÌ„forteth 17. This also annointed on the hinder part of the heade
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
long and filled with colde water An instrument which is so formed that the water by sucking is forced to ryse vp and run forth as the lyke practise is often â—sed in pittes of water or welles And by this instrument with a little fire maye a great quantitie of the water of lyfe be dystilled and gathered Of the dyuers maners of distylling the Aqua vitae so well simple as compounde The .vij. Chapter A Water sublymed out of pure wine affyrmeth an vnknowne practysioner and the same is of late daies inuented to sublime the water by a glasse or Copper Bodie in the which dooing the grosse substaunce and refuse remayneth or stayeth behinde and the lighter matter in the vapours ascending dystilleth and is gathered in the Receauer Vitalis de Furno wylleth thus to dystill the simple burning water Take pure Claret wine and strong which powre into a Lymbecke and dystill with a soft fyre as you doe the Rosewater and a burning water wyl yssue forth by sublimation which looke howe oftner it shall be dystilled ouer and so much the subtyller and profitabler it wyll be That the water of life once dystilled ouer may be so perfyte and good and possesse the same properties which an other thrise foure times or oftner dystilled doth The .viij. Chapter IF so be you wyll dystill a simple Aqua vitae or burning wyne at one dystillation that in propertie and vertue it may be as if the same were twenty times dystilled ouer then couer a Spunge ouer the mouth of the Cucurbite and the Lymbecke close with the seale or lute of Hermes and a receauer set to the nose of the Lymbecke and luted in the ioynte dystill according to Arte in Balneo Mariae For on such wise is caused that the spyrit of the wine ascendeth vnto the highest and from thence by the Nose falleth into the Receauer but all the waterynesse remayneth by the waye in the Spunge And a certaine Alchymister vsed this maner for a most great and déepe secrete Wée compared or assayed it sayth D. Gesnerus with the Aqua vitae once dystilled ouer without a Spunge and we found ours of greater effecte and vertue and wée againe assayed it with an other water dystilled ten tymes ouer without a Spunge and oures dyd more pearce then that A certaine dystiller with vs sayeth the Aucthour affyrmeth that the Aqua vitae onely once dystilled to be verie vnholsome to them which drinke it and to haue a great force of putrifying as the same experience proueth If the burning water be set on fire sayth he quenched againe after a whiles that which remayneth very much sauoureth or stincketh But the water which shal be twise or thrise distylled ouer neyther stincketh nor putrifieth Of the distyllation of Quintessence out of wyne by Balneum Mariae Take of white wyne the best fowre measures or fiue according to the greatnesse of the Glasse bodye so that a thyrd part of the Cucurbyte be emptie on which set a head of Glasse luted in the ioynte with the whytes of Egges meale and water myxed togyther and spread on a Lynnen clothe before the laying on which on this wyse prepared set into Balneum Mariae and distyll after with a verie softe fire both daye and nyght For out of fiue measures you shal purchase but a halfe measure pure which after the rectifying in a Pellicane for certaine dayes kéepe to your vse A water of Lyfe out of wyne distylled thrise ouer Take twenty pyntes of good and grosse wyne and drawe out of the whole fowre pintes in suche a vessell as you knowe after out of those foure drawe two pyntes and out of those two agayne drawe onelye one pynte This water auayleth against any rednesse and spotte of the eyes and is profitable vnto all woundes and auaileth also against the Rewme and Fistula vnto many other grieffes besides it is right profitable That if you myxe with this the gaule of a Partriche it taketh awaye the heate and myste of the eyes also dropped in the eyes stayeth and taketh away the teares if it shall be mixed with the iuyce of the wilde Tyme A burning water take a pottell of the auncientest Red wyne and poured into a great pytchard or Tankard hauing a large bottome and narrowe mouth to which adde thrée ounces of eyther Brunstone or eyther Oâ—pyment of Armoniacke of Tartare and of Salte nytre and one pynte of very olde Oyle olyue or common Oyle which boyle togyther vnto the consumption of two partes and let the whole be strayned to which then let hote or burning water be added and drawne after by an Ippocrasse bagge or strainer that the fyrst water may be gotten If a Candle be annoynted with this water or the wyke of any other light and put vnder the water wyll not goe out If this water also be sprinckled on the heyre of the head on a clothe or on a cappe that it may burne this after it shall be consumed the clothe wyll remaine vnharmed or any other on which it is sprinckled This Rogerius in his fourth Tract Chap. 7. where you shall fullyer learne this maner of distillation by the former Chapter A burning water you maye make on this wyse take thicke mightie and olde red wine to which adde a quarter of the same of vnsleaked Lyme of Brymstone most finelie brought to pouder of the Tartare of good wine lyke brought to pouder and of baye Salt which poure togyther into a Cucurbite well luted after the head set on and luted in the ioynt distyll according to Arte and the burning water gathered kéepe in a Glasse close stopped this Albertus Magnus A spyced water which they name the water of Lyfe or an Hyppocras or Baulme let the hearbes the swéete smellyng rootes and Spyces be stieped in sixe tymes so much of good wine for thyrtie dayes the wyne after strained and the spices broken adde againe to the wyne and distyll the whole according to Arte. To the water distylled adde of freshe Sage halfe an ounce of Cynamon of Gynger of Cloues of Nutmegges of Sage with the rootes and Graines of Paradize which after the infusion distyll ouer againe A water of Lyfe seruing vnto diuers grieffes procéeding of colde as vnto the Goute and paines of the same vnto the paine of the Bowelles and distyllation from the head druncke twyse in a moneth and the griefe also of the teeth the gummes and disseases of the Tounge this marueylously helpeth it worketh much good to the stomacke charged with flewme and the collicke passion â–ª one dram gyuen with so much of good Triacle in wine Take of burning water one pynt of Euphorbium of Odellium of Sagapenum of Spodium of long Pepper of Cubebae of Opopanax of Cynamon â–ª of Cloues of Nutmegs â–ª of Pellytory of Cyperus of Squinantum of each one ounce all these artlye brought to pouder stiepe in burning water for thrée dayes and drawe the lycour according to Arte in a dystyllatorie instrument this Bertapalia
A water of Lyfe against the Pestilence borrowed out of a written Booke Take of the Cloues halfe a dram of Cynamon of Zedoaria of the rootes of Valerian of Pympernell of Turmentyll and of red Roseleaues of eache one dramme of the Cytrine and red Saunders of Spodium of the ryndes of the Cytrone of Doronicum of Terra Sigillata of Dittany of Seseleos of Baulme of Maioram of the Helycampane of the séedes of Seseleos of Carabe of Ruberbe of Nutmegges and of Mace of eache halfe a dram of Scabious of the flowers of Borrage of Buglosse of Rosemarie of the Hartes horne burned of Rue of Colyander prepared Spetierum liberantis Specierum de gennus Diacameronis Letitiae Almansoris Diarrhodon abbatis Diamargaritonis of the Iacinct of the Smaragde of the pure Pearles of eache one dram of Methridate of Triacle of venice and of fyne Bole armoniacke of eache halfe a scruple of the leaues of Golde and Syluer of eache seuen in number of the best burning wine eyght pyntes let all these be disligentlye beaten and laboured togeather and myxed with the sublymed Wyne which after powre into a glased vessel and stoppe diligently the mouth that no ayre breathe forth best let so stande to infuse for thrée dayes and dystill after with a soft fyre according to Arte in Balneo Mariae Let of the same be gyuen in the Pestilence with the Electuarie aunswerable or agreeable to it A water of lyfe helping all colde grieffes and sicknesses especially an astonyed dissease the tendernesse of members and paine of the Goute and ioyntes Take of burning water drawne of the best wyne halfe a pynte of Acorus prepared two ounces of Rosemary flowers and Sauge flowers of eache one ounce and a halfe of the leaues of the same hearbe halfe a handfull of Cynamon of Xyloaloes of eache one dram of Mace of Cardomomum of the ryndes of the Cytrone of Cloues of Saffron of each halfe a dram of Nardus one scruple of Gynger one dram of Stachados two ounces of Muske and of Amber of eache syxe graynes all these after the breaking somewhat stiepe togeather for fiue dayes the Spices seperated dystill the liquour and ad too after the Spices Of a noble water helping many sicknesses and griefes of which as well the first that is dystilled as the seconde layde on a freshe wounde twyse in the daye is affyrmed to heale it in a short tyme also the Canker the Fistula eating Cankers or Wolf and the dissease which is named Noli metangere if they be washed once a day with eyther doth speedily cure them if halfe a dram waight be druncke with a small draft of the best wyne breaketh the stone and sendeth it foorth it mittigateth and helpeth the heate of the vryne in the comming foorth and any maner grieffes of the Matrice and annoynted with a lyke wayght of fatte lycour helpeth wearynesse and strengthneth the Synewes the Pacientes also molested with the Crampe and washed thrise in the day with this water are speedily holpen and many other infirmyties thys doth lyke helpe But the water a thyrde time distylled of these maintayning the colour of the blood is very precious of which if any shall drincke halfe a spoonefull for fifteene dayes togeather shall be cured of the Leprie the Palsie the water betweene the Skinne the ioynt Ache the Goute and other lyke disseases This druncke besydes vnto the quantity of halfe a dram or at the least twise in the weeke with a spoonefull of Borrage water for a yéere togyther doth stay backe olde age and recouereth strength in such maner that if any sicke be néere drawing anâ—â—r nigh head shall receyue a lytle quantity of this water shall not haâ—tity or sodaynlie dye The maner of makyng this water is on this wyse take of Zedoaria of Galingale of the long and rounde Pepper of Cloues of Gynger of Iuniper Berryes of the ryndes of the Cytrone and of the Orrenge of Sauge leaues of Basyll of Rosemarie of Maiorame of Myntes of Baye berryes of Penny royall of Gentiane of Catmynte of Elder flowers of the red and whyte Roseleaues of Nardus of Xyloaloes of Cubebae of Cardamomum of Cynamome of Calamus aromaticus of Stoechados of Germaunder of Chamaepithis of Melegeta of Mace of Olibanum of Aloes Hepaticke of the séedes and leaues of Mugwoorte and of the séedes of Wormewoode of eache one dram of Fygges of Reisons of the meate of Dates of swéete Almondes and of Pine Apple kernels of each one ounce of chosen Hony syxe ounces of Sugar vnto double the waight of the whole all which brought wel to pouder stiepe in burning water drawnâ— of the best wyne vnto the quantitye of thrée tymes so much as the waight of the whole which distyll with a glasse head according to Artâ— A singular water clearing the face and eyes take of the fieldâ— Rue of Fennell of the leaues of Veruaine of Bytony rootes of Roseleaues and of Mayden heyre of eache a lyke quantitie these stiepe togyther for a night in white Wine strong and pleasaunt and distyll after in a Cucurbyte after Arte this Fumanellus A distylled lycour for the speedylie healing of woundes out of Fumanellus Take of the water of Lyfe or burning water fowre ounces of good Triacle halfe an ounce which distyll in a glasse bodie after Arte of this applie on the wounde on which straw drye both of Aloes and Myrre I meane the pouder and on this againe a Lynnen cloth wette in the foresayde water Vnto the procuring of sleepe so many howers as is thought needefull â–ª take of the white black Poppie seedes halfe an ounce of good white wine and of the gaule of a Hare of eache two drams of pure Aqua vitae fowre ounces let these be poured togyther into the water and infused for three dayes which after distyll by a Lymbecke in Balneo Mariae A droppe of this procureth sleepe for an howre and two droppes taken for two howres c. A certaine composition of Doctour Gesnerus for the dropsse or the hardnesse of fetching breathe Take of olde White wine two pyntes of Cynamon one ounce of the Ireos of Florence halfe an ounce of our Ireos two drams a halfe of the red Roseleaues thrée drams of ColyaÌ„der prepared one dram a halfe of Fennel and of Gynger of each two drams of the rootes of Asarum three drams of Maister woort halfe an ounce of Chamaeleontis albi of Brionie of eache two drams of the ryndes of Esula thrée drams of Arum one dram of the Electuarie of the iuyce of Roses halfe an ounceâ— all these after the beating stiepe in a Glasse bodie well-luted which distyll in ashes according to Arte vntyll strakes lyke to parted lynes appeare in the head Of this giue one ounce at a tyme as tryed And for the same may it be wrought or done with the whay of mylke alone or with wyne in adding thereto a quantitie of Sugar or Rosed Hâ—nny when you shall
mynister it And he sometimes wylled a wyne to be dystilled in which the Raspinges of the wood Guaiacum the Iuniper berries CynamoÌ„ â–ª and a lytle of red Roseleaues haue bene stieped before A water of Lyfe of D. Thomas Fincke for many grieffes take of Lauender and of Sage of eache thrée quarters of Rue one ounce and a halfe of Gynger of Nutmegges of Cloues of Cynamon of Graines of Paradize and of white Sugar of each halfe an ounce of Mace of Alkekengi of eache one ounce and a halfe of Oyle olyue two drams al these after the beating powre into three pyntes or a pottell of the strongest wyne which let stiepe togyther for fouretéene dayes after distyll the whole according to Art with a very soft fyre A most singular water of Lyfe distylled for a noble man helping the consumption and perhaps the wasting of the Lunges take of the sublymed wine of good Malmesâ—e foure pintes here white bread a quantity which let stand close stopped in a Lymbecke for foureteene dayes then distyl the same by Balneum Mariae after take of Specierum diamargariton of Diambrae of Diarrhodon abbatis of Dianthos of Diapâ—â—riscuÌ„ musco letitiae Galeni of each two drams of Cassia newe drawne and of Sugarcandy of eache one ounce of the iuyce of Lycorys two ounces of Rosemary thrée drammes of Musci Alexandrini halfe an ounce let al these stand close stopped in a distyllatory vessell for a whole moneth After let the distyllation be done by Balneum Mariae the water seperated into two partes for the first water gathered is nobler then the second Another water of Life written in the Germane tongue take of the best Aqua vitae one pottel which distyl as you know in a glasse bodie in water or by Balneum Mariae and of the whole gather a quarte after take of Cynamon two ounces the same finely cutte or choppped and powred into a Glasse let it be myxed with the Aqua vitae in such manner that it maye couer the Cynamon a finger breadth aboue which let stande togyther close stopped for twelue or fifteene howres that the Aqua vitae maye so purchase a redde or blooddie colour which poure after into another Glasse and dylligentlie stoppe the same Againe to the same Cynamon powre another parte of the Aqua vitae of lyke quantitye least of the whole which order as aboue taught and the same you shal doe so often as this halfe parte endureth alwayes powring in that so powred and coloured mixe with the first vntyll the Aqua vitae powred in be no more coloured redde After take halfe an ounce of Cloues finely brought to powder and lykewise the other halfe of the Aqua vitae or more remayning powre to this pouder as aboue vttered That if of the Aqua vitae in this doing there shal no more remaine then take the red Aqua vitae in the Glasse body and setting a head on it dystill so much as shal be needeful to stiepe the matter for no rednesse at all ascendeth but what that is then gathered by distyllation is white After this take halfe an ounce of Nutmegs finely cut and as aboue taught poure the water of Lyfe vpon Which done take the Aqua vitae of the Cloues and of the Nutmegs mixe them togyther with the Aqua vitae of the Cynamon Then take of pure Malmesie or of the best Renish wine one measure which poure into a glased pot to it adde of SugarcaÌ„dy beaten three ounces the mouth of the pot couered with paste set on the fire that the Sugar may by lytle litle melt the Sugar molten â–ª let it leysurely coole After the cooling poure into it the red Aqua vitae which myxe togyther in the pot or rather in a glasse for that it may aptlyer and closer be stopped and then shall you obtaine a singular Aqua vitae A most noble Aqua vitae against a Reume Take of Hysope of Sauery of whyte Horehounde of Euulae of Ireos of Louage of Bytony of Sage of the leaues of that Trifoyle which sendeth vp or yeeldeth many grosse flowers so byg as a Nut in which flowers sucked is founde a certaine swéetnesse so pleasaunt as Sugar or Hony of each halfe a pound All these after the grosse beating put into a Glasse body on which powre so much of the strongest or myghtiest wyne that wyll couer a finger breadth aboue This after the distylling kéepe dilligently in a Glasse for it is more of value then Golde or precious Stones A water of Lyfe helping the Apaplexie Falling sicknesse for it is as a certaine water of Baulme Take of Gingar of Cloues of Nutmegs and of Graines of Paradize of eache halfe an ounce of Sage leaues one pounde of Cardamomum of Cubebae of Masticke of Galingale of Rosemary of Lauender of Maiâ—rame of Baulme and of Bytony of each two drams all these beaten and brought to pouder powre into a Glasse body on which poure nine pyntes of the strongest and best wyne or so much dystilled wyne as wyll well couer the whole this infused for ten dayes distyl after according to Arte. The water gathered helpeth the Palsy the swymming of the head the Apâ—plexie the Crampe both memory the head and a cold stomacke and fleshe or fishe sprincled ouer with the same doth not after corrupt And myxed with corrupt wyne rectyfieth it of this let be druncke three or foure droppes at a time with a smal slice of bread dipped in the same and after eaten doth so sharpen the wyt And let the hynder part also of the head and other places be rubbed with it It helpeth the dropsie the Melancholicke and such disseased of the Splene and for the eyes it is very precious A certaine marueylous and delectable distyllation which a certaine person obtayned of a certaine occupyer the experience of which I both dyd and saw sayth a certaine man vnnamed take of the best Malmesie sixe measures the same distyll by a Lymbecke with a softe fire nyne times ouer after adde to it of Amber gréese of Sperma ceti of chosen Rubarbe of eache halfe an ounce of Muske halfe a dram these brought to pouder tye vp in a fine Lynnen clothe being thinne which hang or put within the Aqua vitae This water is marueylous and of great vertue and serueth for Kinges and Princes A water of Life of Fredericke the Emperours seruing vnto all grieffes Take of Aqua vitae halfe a measure but of Malmesie a whole measure of Cynamon three ounces of Cloues one ounce of Gynger one ounce and a halfe of Nutmegs one ounce of Venice Zedoaria thrée ounces and a halfe of the Graines of Paradize one ounce and a halfe of Galingale two drams of Cubebae halfe an ounce of Rosemary halfe an ounce of Hysop so much of Althea so much of the rootes of Benedictae one ounce of Sage one ounce of Lauender halfe an ounce let al these be broken with the handes the others
brought to pouder which after put into a Glasse body sufficient large that may containe or hold thrée or foure measures of licour To these theÌ„ adde of Sugar Candy thrée ounces of Reysons of the Sun halfe a pound of small Reysons one quarter of a pound of Figges one quarter of a pound of Camphora one dram of Rosewater halfe a cuppe full of the water of Elder flowers so much so much of Endyue water all these then stop close and set in the Sunne for eyght dayes before the Feast of S. Iohn and so many dayes after it which after the strayning dyligently keepe in a Glasse close stopped Of this vse when néede shall requyre that is in the greatest weakenesse of body feblenesse of strength gyue a spoonefull of it and you shall trye sée maruailes for with this alone as the report goeth was Frederick Caesar recouered A compound water of Lyfe maruaylous auayling against the PestileÌ„ce sore vexing often proued discribed of D.D. Mag. Take of the Rue newly gathered of Sage of Lauender of Rosemary of Scabious of the rootes of Tormentyl of Pimpernel of Valerian of the Dragons of each two drams of Iunyper berries Baye berries of each one dram and a halfe of Terra sigillata of the purest Bole Armoniacke of each fowre scruples of the rootes of the counterfaite Dittany of Seminis sancti Benedictae Caryophyllata Helenij Gentiane Rhapontici Dioscoridis Ciambet an Zurumbet of each thrée drams a halfe of Coliander prepared of Sorrel of Basill and of Pympernell of each two scruples a halfe of the thrée Saunders of eache one dram of the flowers of Borrage of Buglosse and of red Roseleaues of each two lytle handfuls of the rootes of the white red Ben of each one dram of the ryndes of the sower Orrendges of the Citrones Pomegranates of each a like waight these after the cutting beating in grosse maner distyll by a Lymbecke in sublimed wyne according to Arte and rectified in a Pellicane vnto a sufficient quantitye as vnto eyght pyntes after take of Niberis whether of whyte Pepper Bulledini of Cynamon of Graines of Paradize of Mace of Nutmegs of Cardamomum of each halfe an ounce and foure scruples of SaffroÌ„ two drams of Galingale of Cubebae of Cloues of Calamus aromaticus of eache fowre scruples of Spetierum elect liberantis of the cordiall pouders against the plague of each thrée drams of Diamuscidulcis de gemmis of each one dram a halfe all these finely cutte brought to pouder put into the abouesayde wyne distylled which set in a hote place for 48. howers after distyll the whole by a Lymbecke fenced with the lute of wisedome the water gathered aromatyzate with the pouder of Muske Alexandri 17. graynes of Amber greese 12. graines of SaffroÌ„ halfe a scruple or syxe graines wayght these tye togyther in a red Sarcenette and hang within the water then dilligently stopped kéepe vnto your vse A distylled wafer for al Fistulaes borowed out of Theophrastus paracelsus take of the best Aqua vitae foure pints of the Rosemary water of Sage of each two pintes a halfe of pure white sugar fiue pouÌ„ds these after the mixing togither distil by a Limbeck according to Art for this is most certaine in Fistulaes inward vlcers An Aqua vitae helping ioynt Aches the heuinesse and sorenesse of the Breast and seruing vnto the feare of falling into the sicknesses of the Braine lyke as the falling sicknesse the Apoplexie the Palsie gyddinesse and such lyke borrowed out of the Counsels of the singular Benedic victorius take of the rootes of Acorus two pouÌ„ds of Pyonie halfe a pound of Galingale and of Zedoaria of each one ounce a halfe of Ina of the lesser CeÌ„tory of Sage of Maioram of Stoechados of Bitany of Rosemary of Penny royall of Catmint of Polâ—opodie of Poley and of Folium of each one handfull of red Roseleaues of Baccarum Myrthi of each halfe a haÌ„dfull al these beate in a grosse maner and in two hundred pintes of mighty and pleasant white wine let the whole be infused for the space of three whole dayes after wryng the wine and substaunce very hard out and that wine poure into a Glasse bodie with a head which distyl after Arte to this then adde of Nutmegges of Mace of Cloues of Cynamon of Masticke of Gynger of eache in a grosse maner beaten one ounce these after the standing a whole day distyll againe the whole by a Lymbecke and this water gathered repeate nyne times ouer To the water remaining of the ninth distyllation adde or mixe of leafe Gold leaues a hundred in number and of Syluer leaues fifty Omâ—â—uÌ„ fragmentorum of eache two drams of Pearles halfe an ounce al these most finely bring to pouder which againe distyl two times ouer And in the last distyllation â–ª Aromatizate the water with Muske and Amber And you shall then possesse the dyuine Elixir and treasure of Lyfe The maner of the taking and vse of it is on this wyse that in the morning before the filling of the bellie al the spondyles of the necke the Muscles of the breast and all the partes about it be wette and rubbed ouer with it And for three houres also before dynner let this drincke be taken as of the waters of Sage of Endiue of each halfe an ounce to it mixe flue droppes of the Elixir of Lyfe and giue to drincke as most profitable for the grieffes aboue vttered A coÌ„pound burning water distilled against the PestileÌ„ce borowed out of the treatyse of Guayuerus of the Pestilence Many thinges sayeth he are very singuler and effectuous against the Plague but farre excellenter and mightyer of vertue is the water that heere is taught For such is the agreement betwéene the hart and it that at any tyme as it should seeme may this water be drawne of the heart thus drawne be chaunged in a short tyme and conuerted after into a spumouse substaunce not only of the coÌ„plexional vertue but euen the whole forme resisteth any Pestilentiall poyson and maistryeth the same out of hand And for that cause such is the excellent vertue of the water that the taking and vse of it not onely preserueth a man from Pestilence but that taken of it both spéedily delyuer him the making and drawing of which water is on this wyse Take of Tormentyll rootes freshe if they maye be gotten one pounde of the rootes of Fluellyng and of Dittany of eache halfe a pounde of the rootes of Elecampane eyght ounces of Sorrell with the Séedes if they maye be gotten twoo pounde or of Sorrell one pound and eyght ounces and of the Séedes of it foure ounces of Borrage and Buglosse with theyr flowers of the red and wylde Roses of each one pound of Pympernel and of Scabious of each halfe a pound of the iuyce of Lymons one pounde of fine Tryacle halfe a pounde of burning Water drawne out of
three ounces of Gynger of Cloues of eache one ounce of the red Saunders two ounces of Mace of Nutmegges of blacke Pepper of Galingale of Cubebae of Cardamomum of Annise of Fennell of Coriander prepared of Speticrum aromatici Rosati of Drambrae of Dianthos of Maioram of Basill of Lauēder flowers of Rosemary flowers and of Spyknarde of eache halfe an ounce all these beate in a grosse maner to which then adde of red Roses two handfuls and a halfe of good Malmesie foure pyntes or two of sublimed wyne xi or vj. pyntes of Rosewater Musked one pynt and a halfe of the water of Cloues and of Cinamon that is of the water of each two ounces of Sugarcandye brought to pouder thrée poundes let all these stand to infuse for fowre dayes After let a decoction be made according to Arte and claryfied after the accustomed maner A water of Lyfe being a great secrete of Maister Edwardes Take of Cynamon of Cloues of Nutmegs of Gynger of Zedoaria of Galingale of the long and blacke Pepper of Iuniper berryes of the ryndes of the Cytrone of the rindes of the Orrenges of Baye berries of Sage leaues of Basill of Rosemary of Mace of Spyknard of Ligni aloes of Cubebae of Cardamomum of Calamus aromaticus of Stoecadus Arab of Chamcepityos of Myrre of Masticke of Olibanū of the séedes and leaues of the Dyll of the séedes of Mugwoort of eache one dram of drye Fygs of Reysons of the meate of Dates of swéete Almondes of Pynaple kernels of eache one dram and a halfe of white and pure Honny sixe ounces of harde and white Sugar vnto the wayght of all the aboue sayde All these beaten and myxed togyther distyll by a Lymbecke of Glasse fiue tymes ouer A water of Lyfe helping ioynt aches and synewes drawne togither and the Crampe of colde Take of Cloues of Mace of each thrée drams of the graines of Paradize two drams of long pepper two drams of Nutmegs of Ginger of Lauender of Basil of Hysope of Baulm of each one ounce of Galingale of the flowers o◠Rosemary of sage of each halfe an ounce of Xyloaloes two drās of fine Muske halfe a scruple all these brought to pouder poure into fowre pyntes of Aqua vitae distilled out of Malmesie for fouretéene daies which after distyl in Balneo Mariae according to Art. A water seruing vnto many harde infirmyties and disseases For this water cureth the Canker the Fistula Sinus Morbum attonicum the falling sicknesse the ryng woorme the Serpigo the ioynt sicknesse the Goute and any paine of the synewes whether the same shall procéede of hote cause or cold the making of which is on this wyse Take of burning water fine and pure tenne or fiftéene pyntes of Ina one handfull of Sagapeni halfe an ounce of Cubebae one ounce and a halfe of Xyloaloes two drams of chosen Myrre halfe a dram of Aloes hepanticke halfe an ounce of Aristolochia of Ammoniaci of Opopanacis of chosen Cadanum of eache halfe an ounce of Sarcocollae halfe a dram of Frankinsence thrée ounces of Masticke halfe an ounce of Gumme Arabicke so much of the red Saunders two drams of Spyknard one ounce of Galingale halfe an ounce of Saffrō two drams of Mumia halfe an ounce of Gum Elemi three ounces of Galbanum halfe a dram of Storax and of Cloues of eache one dram of Nutmegs halfe an ounce of chosen Cinamon halfe an ounce of Graines of Paradize or of Amomum halfe an ounce of Resina liquidae fyue poundes of Turpentyne thée poundes of Dragons blood and of Castorie of eache halfe an ounce of these let a lycour be dystylled according to Arte. This borrowed out of Fumanellus A syngular water for the preseruing of youth and staying backe of olde age the making of which is on this wyse Take of Ligni aloes of Cloues of Gynger of Galingale of Cynamon of Mace of Nutmegs of long Pepper of Calamus aromaticus of Cubebae of Rubarbe of the graynes of Paradize of Cardamomum of each two drams of Rosemary of Celondine of Mercurie of the blessed Thystle of Imperatoria and of the white Dittany of eache one ounce all these after the beatyng infuse in syxe pyntes of the best Aqua vitae that serueth for the Quintessence which let so remayne for eyght dayes after distyll the lycour in Balneo Mariae according to Arte. Of that water gathered adde to eache pynte two ounces of fyne Sugar dyssolued in Rosewater and eyght graynes of Muske which dillegentlye kéepe in a Glasse close stopped This syngular water druncke euerye morning vnto the quantitye of one or two drammes at a tyme preserueth the personne a long tyme in health and perfyte strength in that the same heateth the stomacke being colde increaseth naturall heate and causeth good digestion of meate through which nature is preserued long lustye and young This also heateth the bloud in the Veynes in suche manner that the same causeth it to runne and worcke his effectes without impedyment It dryeth up colde and moyste humours whiche hynder the working of nature and worcketh many other helpes This borrowed out of the singular practises of the Gréeke Leonar Tiorauant A water not to be mysliked yéelding and working many matters for this helpeth the Goute ioynt sicknesses the dystillation of the head preserueth young age and strength gyueth also wyt and memorie reuyueth the spyrites and causeth them purer The making of which is on this wyse take of burning water thrée or foure tymes distylled ouer foure pyntes of Rosemarye flowers one pound of the toppes of the branches of the same halfe a pound these stiepe togyther for a daye and drawe in a double vessell with a long necked Receauer the neather part of it resting in a colde place For we so name it sayth Galen when in a Pan or Kettyl which containeth the hote water another vessell standeth Of thys water thus distylled by a Lymbecke take halfe a pynte of Nutmegges of Galingale of Cloues of Cardamomum of Mace and of Cubebae of eache thrée ounces of white Aumber one ounce and a halfe of Ligm aloes so much of Castorye and of Spyknarde of eache two drams these beaten seuerall and apart and compounded after altogyther vntyll they be come vnto a certaine thycknesse and then distylled againe togyther keepe to your vse For an ounce of the aboue sayde water druncke with a slyce of white bread auayleth so much as a Baulme This Fumanellus as the Aucthour supposeth Of the Iuyces or drawing of Iuyces out of Symples and compound matters The jx Chapter IVyce which of the Greekes is properlie named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the working of the same termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is that which is pressed or wringed out of symple or compounde matters brused chopped or stieped But Iuyces are otherwyse pressed out as eyther out of the leaues or braunches of the hearbes beaten alone and that greene and full of iuyce or out of fruytes as out of
taken of The drawing of the black Ellebore described of a PhisitioÌ„ of Caesariaâ— â–ª let the rindes of the roote of the black Ellebore the pythes taken forth be infused in the water of Annise séedes froÌ„ which the oyle is newly seperated let the same rest to infuse for .xxiiij. houres or as long as you wyll after boyle the whole togyther vntyll the rootes remaine that the water in a maner be coÌ„sumed which after by a mighty strength wring forth In the end boile the same pressed forth with the syrupe of Roses solutiue vnto a sufficient thicknesse which put vp in an eartheÌ„ vessel glased vse when néede requireth The dose or quantity at a time is froÌ„ one scruple vnto a scruple a half this purgeth the Melancholy humour without griefe or harme This infusioÌ„ also very much pleased D. MoÌ„tanus for he reported the Hypocrates alwaies in the giuing or ministring of the black Ellebore accustomed to take vse also Annise as a speciall correctour of it Another extraction or drawing forth of the black Ellebore described of Doctour Hieronymi Heroldy take of the iuyce of Borrage and of Buglosse of each two poundes which straine purifye that they may be cleare to these after adde of Fennel rootes of Succorie of Sperage of Parcelie of each fowre ounces of the fruites of Sebesten and of Iniubarum of each two ounces of the lesser colde séedes of each half an ounce let these be boyled in .xvi. pints of water vnto a thyrd part consumed to the strayning adde the abouesayd iuyces which boyle on a lytle fyre then ioyne of the rootes of the true blacke Ellebore â–ª foure poundes which so long boile vntyl the rootes appeare as vncouered the whole then strongly wring and boyle after with a soft fyre vnto the thicknesse of Honny A solutyue extraction or drawing forth inuented of D.D. Magenbuch Take of Colocynthis sixe drams two scruples of Agaricke halfe an ounce of Rubarbe two drams of chosen Cynamon fowre scruples of Azari of Spykenard of red Roses of Masticke and of Ligni aloes of eache one dram of lyquide Storax foure scruples of good Malâ—â—esâ—e one measure of the whole let an infusion and an extraction or distyllation be caused lyke a Quintessence Another solutyue extraction or drawing forth inuented of the same Doctor whose dose or quaÌ„titye is from one scruple vnto halfe a dram to a mane from halfe a dram vnto two scruples or a whole dram take of the Pulpe of Colocinthis sixe drams two scruples of whyte Turbith and gummie ten drams of Stoechados arabick halfe an ounce of Diagridium thrée drams otherwise sixe drams of white Agaricke halfe an ounce of chosen Rubarbe thrée drams of the inner part of the CynamoÌ„ fiue scruples of the roote of Azari of Spykenard of red Roses of Masticke of Lignum aloes of each foure scruples of Aloes hepatick one ounce a halfe two drams of lyquide Storax two scruples and thrée graines these chopped and beaten infuse for a time in sublimed wyne which rectifye and make an Electuarie of the same according to arte The description of another Electuarie in a maner lyke to the â—ormer which at Norimberge is reported to be drawne the same after this maner was prepared take of Colocynthis one ounce fiue drams of blacke Ellebore of the Cast Senee of each halfe an ounce of the whytest Agaricke one ounce of the best Raned halfe an ounce otherwise of his top one ounce with the Rubarb not so excellent of Diagridij one ounce .vi. draÌ„s of Cynamon two drams two scruples of Turbith and of Stoechados arabicke of eache two ounces and a halfe of red Roses of Ligni aloes of Mastick of Ligni paradisi of Myrre of Mader of Azori of Spyknarde of lyquide Storax of each fiue scruples let an infusioÌ„ or putrifactioÌ„ be made of all these for certaine dayes as eyther .x. xij or .xiiij. daies with the essence of wyne that is the Aqua vitae thrise distylled ouer hote the iuyce after pressed forth ioyned or mixed with Aloes prepared thrée ounces But the Aloes was in this maner prepared it was finely shred or cut the Aloes vnto the quantity of a pound eyther more or lesse â–ª was put into a Bason or pan or pot to which added of Rosevineger and of Rosewater of each â–ª so much as shal suffice yet let there be more of the Rosevyneger then of the Rosewater And let these boyle togyther with a softe fyre for two or thrée boylinges after straine it by stronglye wrynging foorth The substaunce strayned boyle againe with soft fyre vnto the styfnesse of Aloes continuallye sturring it about with a spatle And when it shal be through colde let it be kept to vse The Spyces aboue named shred before finelye then beaten and Aqua vitae after powred on these thryse distylled ouer so much as shal suffice sturring the same often euery day after wryng the whole through a Lynnen cloth grosse or course and that stronglye then let the waterye moysture be drawne in a Lymbecke with an easie fyre made vnder vntyll the same which remayneth in the bottome commeth vnto the styfnesse of the confection named Diacytonâ—tes That if in the same shall yet a certayne moysture remaine â–ª then let it be set in some apte vessell on burning coales so long as shall seeme needefull that the same moysture may through the heate â—e wasted and euaporate away Aiuyre drawne out of the Iunyper berryes maye be preserued and kept for twelue yeares if it be ryghtlie wrought Which auayleth vnto the preseruation of the stone and the vse of it hath beene experienced in many persons which of late dayes before the publyshing of this booke were greeuouslye payned and vexed and many sharpe and persing Medicines were applyed and yet none of them so much auayled nor the lyke holpen as by this For this is a hote Medicine for that cause may perhaps heate ouermuch the Kydneys as a certaine learned supposed yet through the maner of preparing which is supposed to abate and qualifye the heate somewhat maye in this auayle greatlye This also eyther dygesteth or consumeth or casteth forth the flewme in the stomacke both clenseth and strengthneth the stomacke The vse of it serueth not so well vnto the defending and preseruing from sycknesses as vnto the curing of grieffes It besydes helpeth any kynd of dystyllations and Rewmes the gyddinesse or swymming of the head the blearedness of the eyen the horseness of voyce strayghtnesse of the breast the coughe the chollicke the suffocation of the Matrice the staying backe of the Termes the sounding the stone and the Pestilence Yea these sicknesses â–ª also are numbred of others which this iuyce is reported to cure as the Frepesy or madnesse the dropsie styncke of the mouth the falâ—lyng falyng sycknesse the tremblyng of members and inwarde impostumes The head and heart are marueylouslye relieued and refreshed
Leâ—arge with the â—â—â—â—ning water Lyllyes â–ª Memorye corrupt with the decoction of the Fennell and drunck restoreth â—ebâ—ed partes it remoueth Melancholie all maner of madnesse with the water of Bâ—rage it helpeth an aâ—tonishâ—â— sicknesse with burning water â–ª and cureth the falling sicknesse taken with the decoction of the wâ—â—ite â—â—te of the Pyonie â–ª gathered in the decre◠〈◊〉 wayne of the 〈◊〉 it â—â—â—â—eth vnto the softnesse or losenesse of members witâ— the distâ—lled water of Sage or decoction of the sameâ— it cureth the Ophtalmia â—â— inâ—â—amation of the eyes and other paines with the water of 〈◊〉 â—ythie of the 〈◊〉 and waterâ— it helpeth distyling 〈◊〉 â—or 〈◊〉 with the water of 〈◊〉 the bleeding of the Nose this helpeth with the water of Sâ—abious it cureth the cough with the water of Mayden hayre and in the spytting of blood with the water of â—â—antane in the consumption of the Lunges with the water of Honny and mylke in the paine and swelling of the Lâ—ngâ— with the water of ryuer Creauisses in the trembling of the heart with the water of â—â—â—line or Buglosse in the payne of the stomacke with the water of Myntes or decoction of the same in a hote disposition of the body with Rosewater or the water of Myrtylles in the blooddy scouring and gryping of the bellye or flyxe with the water of plantaine in the payne of the Collycke with burning water in the passions of the wormes with the decoction of Zedoaria or wormewood in the swellinges of the Liuer or stopping and water betwéene the skinne with the water of the wylde Endyue and of Lyuerwoort in a hote cause but in a colde cause with the decoction of Spykenarde or Cynamon in the Iaundise with the water of Honysocles commonly named Periclymenos or with Goates whaye in the passions of the Mylte with the water of the Ashe or Tamariske in the passions of the Kydneys stoppinges or fylling and the stone with the water of Tribulorum marinorum or Radyshe Alkekengi and Pympernell or with the pouder of Philantropos or Apparina in the Srangurie vlcers of the Kydneys with Goates mylke in the rupture of the caule of the guts and falling downe of the guts into the coddes with the water of eyther Consolida in the staying backe of the Termes with the water of Sauyne or Mugwoort and in the painfulnesse or straightnes of byrth with the water of Mugwoort it helpeth besydes barrennesse with the water of Nepte and Lauender all maner of ioynt aches happening in any member part of the bodye and consumpcions this cureth with burning water or the Cowslyp or the Lauender this serveth to the pestilent Ague with the water of Sorrell or Buglosse and Scabious to the Canker fystula and scabbydnesse with the water of Verueyne or Buglosse or Sorrell It preserveth a man from poyson and helpeth persons poysoned cureth the byt of a mad Dog with the water of Tormentyll white Dittany or Bystorta or the water of the roote of the Pyonie Quotydians Tertians quartaine Agues in the comming of the cold or beginning of the fytte giue it with the water of Harts tung and it putteth away the vnstable burning Agues with the syrupe of Violettes and that briefly to wryte they affyrme the potable Gold with burning water to procure a noble effect in mans bodie to put away in a maner all sicknesses And of it they appoynt in great sicknesses one scruple or halfe a dram wayght to be ministred at a tyme but in easier or gentler sicknesses vnto the quantitye of halfe a scruple in small grieffes vnto the wayght of two Barlye graines and myxed with a decoction being ten times so much Séeing that they vtter â— teach the making of it many waies for that cause wyl I here declare sundry of them but if any shall desire to knowe more wayes of the same and that the Chymistes terme name of fyxion of the Sonne in our heauine let him reade the Commentarie named the heauine of the Philophers where you shall finde many formes of the potable Golde and that sundrye wyse and in the same also shall you reade many compositions of Aqua vitae of which the trueth it selfe vttereth what fydelitye is to be gyuen to them A dyscription of the making of potable Golde The fyrst take a quantitye of the leaues of chosen Golde which shall seeme apter to thy purpose of the iuyce of Lemmons verye well puryfied so much as shall suffice powred into a bodie orderly stopped as it behooueth set into a Furnace of ashes vnder which a fyre made of a Candle or other lyght for fowrâ— dayes or more to which after adde halfe so much of burning water fiue tymes distylled ouer this vse according to discretion The second they vttering teaching another way of making the poâ—able gold doe take of gold leaues beaten very fine thin a. C. iâ— nuÌ„ber of salt finely grinded on a smoth marble stone half anounce these mixed togither washed in hote water they after poure into a glasse body framed or hauing a long neck in the bottom fenced with the lute of wisdom on the mouth of which a keuer artly set vnder which a fire made of a light hauing iij. matches or wykes that they may distil as the order is accordiâ— to art â–ª that if any part of the gold shal yet remain in the bottom of the vessel they kâ—epe the same vnto vse The thyrde by another maner preparing and making the potable Gold they take one part of the purest Golde of quicksyluer two partes which they stiepe togither for a daye and a nyght vntyll the Golde shall be dyssolued by his force after they distyll the whole with a fyre vntyll the quicksyluer be seperated from the Golde and to the Golde resting in the bottome of the vessell then tending vnto a blacknesse they adde of Buglosse water halfe a pynt and the mouth of the vessell being stopped or keuered after arte they mayntaine fyre vnder for three dayes three nyghtes vnto the meltyng or through dyssoluing of the Gold. The fourth let be taken of the cement of Gold one ounce which compound or myxe with one ounce of pure Spanishe quicksiluer the whole put into a Glasse bodie common Oyle powred vpon floting well two fingers aboue then let it boyle on hote Ashes or ymbers for .xxiiij â–ª howres and when it shall be through cold draw forth the Oyle that which remayneth washe with warme water vntyll the moysture and vnctuousnesse be seperated dryed the same bring or worcke into a fyne pouder which then put with the Sulphure into a Crucible or coales mayntayning the fyre vntyll the Brimstone be burned or consumed after take the gold and grynde it with Salt for a certaine tyme and after with Hony make a long grynding on a Marble stone then washe it with hote water vntyll the Gold be very well clensed and pure after take vryne dystylled
these flowers in a glasse then set it to putrifie for fouretéene dayes after powre forth the vyneger coloured and powre vpon newe vyneger sturring it well after let the same throughly settle then let the vyneger in the ende be chaunged againe powring vpon other and the same so often repeate vntyll no more remaineth in the bottome of the Glasse that the whole be dyssolued into the vyneger After powre the coloured vyneger into a bygge Glasse that the vyneger maye fréelye euaporate forth and in the bottome wyll a blacke Gold remaine lyke to an oyle as pytch which take powre to your wyne rectifyed that it may there be dyssolued and powred into a vessell of cyrculation which let stande in a most gentle heate for twelue wéekes and all the spyrites of the Wyne shall so bee gathered and fyxed and conuerted into a powder togyther with the Sonne or Golde which take forth and prepare or put to bée dissolued for it wyll be dissolued into a most cleare Oyle as Golde and this is named potable Golde of which vse as you knowe And the rectifying of the wyne is on this wyse done in a vessell of recteration or rectifying let the Wyne stande for tenne dayes but in the Wyne before let these be dyssolued before that it bée put into a Glasse to bee rectifyed as of Camphora two ounces of crude Sugar well dryed before so much of Nutmegges one ounce of Mace of Zedoaria and of Gynger of each one ounce with these rectifye the Wyne in the vesselles of rectifying the vessâ—lles verâ—â— tâ—ose stoâ—â—eâ— that lytle or nothing maye breathe foorth after let it â—e taken and with this Wyne prepare the Golde The potable Golde sayeth the singular Fiorauante is a dyuine lycour to which none other may be compared that the auncient and later Philosophe 〈◊〉 haue by dillygent studye great search art and practise dyue â—selye sought and laboured to dissolue and make this pocion of Gold and haue also attempted dyuers and sundry wayes of which some of them I wyll here reherse to the ende that the wyfe may iudge which way of these seemeth best For some there were that before the distyllation dyd diuer slie calcyne the Golde to bring it to dissoluing others there were which laboured to dissolue the Golde with Aqua fortis and others after the calcyning haue indeuoured to dissolue the Golde with Aqua vitae and thus many haue trauayled without lyght in the searche of the Arte hauing neyther knowledge skyll nor yet experience And this coâ—ceyue that all those matters which are possible to be done are wrought with great easinesse and in the lyke maner is the dyssolucion of Gold easilye wrought Wherefore I wyll here vtter teache an easie maner and sure way of making this most precious lycour so greatlye and highlye esteemed of mortall creatures not without desart in that the same is a substantial essence as it were another Soule yea our lyfe this potable Gold may be named â–ª for the sundry effectes ryght wonderfull that it in desperate cases hath wrought Take of Gold leaues or leafe Gold in wayght one ounce after get a byg and well fleshed Hen or male Pullet which after the kylling pull and take forth the bowels other â–ª refuse the body yet warme then open or cut holes in many parts of the body where most flesh is as on the breast the legs and vnder the winges These partes stuffe fyll with the leafe Gold vntyll all be full or that the whole be bestowed Which done set this Hen or pullet into an apt place where for sixe thirty howers the bodye maye retaine or keepe a naturall heate that the Golde maye so be dyssolued into a water for there is a certayne hydde propertye in the Hennes or Pullettes fleshe for the dyssoluing of Gold into a water Which time ended take the body forth wash all the fleshe of the Hen or Pullet so throughly round about and clearely that nothing at al remaineth 〈◊〉 of the Gold with the water of Honny â–ª distylled with his spyrites being reâ—tifyed twyse or thryse This washing ended take so much of the water of lyfe as is of the water of the washing of the Hennes fleshe which mixe togyther and for each pynt of the sayde water aâ—de one dram of Salt Armoniacke which is white without any blacknesse these powre togyther into a Glasse bodye after burye the Glasse in hote Horse doong for thrée whole monethes But euerye moneth lookâ— to your substaunce taking or powring forth the clearer aboue which keepe in a Glasse close stopped the body againe set into the hote Horse doong and remayning another moneth that which shal be cleare lykewise seperate from the Feceâ— and on such wyse in the space of thrée monethes shall you purchase all the water dyssolued and cleare In the ende distyll the Feces in ashes or sand with a strong fyre that all the substaunce may the better ascende and yssue forth But in the distyllacion of the Feces this remember that on the Feces must halfe a pynt of the fynest Aqua vitae be afore powred and the same which shall be distylled powre and mixe with the other that was kept in the first draft â–ª these distyll againe in Balneo Mariae vntyl all be distilled which set againe into hote Horse doong for .xxv. dayes and then haue you purchased potable Golde easilye prepared with small cost which by his maruaylous propertye and great vertue rayseth in a maner the dead The vse maner of ministring it is on this wise Take one dram of the potable Gold with one ounce of the Inleppe of Violets mixed togyther And this composition may be giuen in Broth or with any water or by it selfe without any other mixture or lycour And if any sicke person be at the poynt of death in giuing such a lycour shall lyue a farre longer tyme then perhappes he might doe without it and many by the dryncking of it haue recouered lyfe and health a long tyme after by which may well appeare of what importance this is for the Aged to lyue one or two or fowre dayes after the taking for the better dysposing of theyr goodes and wyll besydes this greatly auaileth vnto the restoring of strength This also hath caused the speachlesse in extreame daunger to speake and vtter theyr mindes before death of which this Fiorauante sawe sundrye in the lyke case Of the waye and manner of making and preparing the potable Golde wrote a certayne learned personne thus vnto D. Gesnerus I here sende vnto you the potable Golde as you most syngular learned requyred â–ª that is the way of the making of it as I sawe the same done by two practystoners conuersauâ—t with nice which prepared the same in this maner with 〈◊〉 euen of late yeares And I beséeche 〈◊〉 mâ—st singular Gesnerus that if it shall so séeme to you to continue any trueth that you wyl voutchsafe to allowe and retayne it
and rootes the pythes of which rootes take forth of these let there bée a pounde so much wayght of Sence â–ª a pound of redde Roseleaues a pound of Borrage flowers â–ª and a pounde of Buglosse flowers all these after the beating togyther put into a Bagge the Bagge put into a vessell contayning three gallons of goâ—d white Muste wyne it is a kynd of wine so called the halfe of which Muste wine with halfe of the sayde thinges put togyther into the sayde vessell and the other halfe after the boyling and cleane skymming put then the whole togyther and let the same settle and cleare in the vessell of which vse all the yeare through especiallye in the Wynter the â—pryng and Harueâ—â— and yt helpeth all the aboue sayde grieffes A syngular Cordiall wyne is made of Borrage and Baulme Which also is good for the Melancholicke and for the trembling of the heart â–ª this clâ—anseth the euyl blood of the body increaseth the good it putteth away from man an euyl thought and all euyl cogitacions comming to minde This wyne also serueth in the fowle breaking out â–ª and Leprosie it maketh a man merrye masâ—tyeth the wormes in the bellye The making of which wyne is on this wyse take a pound of Borrage and so much of the herbe Baulme which put into newe Muste boyle togyther and when the same is cleare vse of it for it serueth vnto many other purposes not here mencioned The wyne of Buglosse after the instruction of Macrobiâ— is prepared and made after this maner Take the rootes of Buglosse which after the cleane scraping sâ—iepe in good wyne vntyll the wyne hath purchased the vertue of them this wyne often vsed clenseth all the euyll humours by vryne and causeth a good braine and if a person were become wholye mad by the drincking of this wyne he shoulde be recouered and holpen thâ—oughlie as the lyke proofe was made on a woman who often was mad either through â—re or melancholie in so much that they were forced to byn◠〈◊〉 vntyll shée came againe to hir perfyte mynde and reason And by chaunce a poore man comming to hir doore to are his Almes vnderstanding hereof taught this remedye through which in 〈◊〉 tyme she was wholye delyuered A laudable wyne helping the disseases of the Mylte and heate of the Lyuer take the leaues and rootes of Succorye of Hartes â—ung of Endyue and Horehounde which boyle togyther in a lytlâ— â—uantitâ—e of wyne the same let runne through an Ipocras bagge and this wyne poure on the herbes letting the wyne run through two or thrée times vntill it be cleare This wyne helâ—eth all diseases within the bodie as the griefes of the Liuer the Lungs the Mylt and stomacke If the wyne be ouer bitter to drincke myxe the same with other swéete things as Reysins drie figges Lycorise and other swéete things A comfortable wine for all griefes of the eies Take eyebright the same infuse in newe Must wine for a time of this wyne vse dayly as morning and euening and you shall obtaine a perfite sight without pinne or webbe and it recouereth besides any maner griefe of the eyes that maye happen in eyther olde or yong where the sight is decayed And sundrie persons hauing not séene a long time through the drincking of this wyne for a yeare togither recouered sight If any also vse to eate euery morning of the pouder of this herbe with a reare egge or with good wyne euery euening shall recouer sight as aboue taught For manye by vsing anye of these which before did reade with spectacles coulde after reade the smallest letters without the occupying of any spectacles at all to the wonder of sundrie And there is no remedie perfiter for the sight A commendable wyne for memorie take an ounce of Ginger twoo â—unces of long Pepper two ounces of Galingale halfe an ounce of Cloues and halfe an ounce of Cubebae and halfe an ounce of Nutmegs these brought to pouder and tyed in a clothe hang in a vessell couered with seauen pyntes of wyne the same then boyle a little in such maner that no ayer breath forth after the clearing vse of this wyne not taking forth the bagge and this also is profitable for a colde stomacke The wyne of Sage being of great vertue and marueylous is made after two wayes some put the Sage into a bagge and hang it in the vessell of wyne and others boyle the Sage in the wyne vntill it be sufficiently boyled and both wayes be profitable and good This wyne is good for tooth ache and for payne of the gummes it helpeth also any member that trembleth and any weake member it strengtheneth and putteth away any euill humour in the bodie this also is good for the Palsie and often prooued for payne of the bodie and drawing or crampe of members and sinewes this besides is good for the Lunaticke which at the chaunge of the Moone lose their proper wittes and reason and to conclude this is profitable for payne of the stomacke and griefe of the Matrice and all the smewie places The wyne of Fennell commended with the séedes for the dimnesse of sight the spottes of the eyes and dropsie and the swellings like to Leprie spottes happening to children this also auayleth against euill meates against poysons the Cough and griefes of the lunges and it multiplyeth the mylke in womens breasts when this wine is made with the rootes it auaileth against the disease of the bladder and purgeth al euil humors of the body The wyne against the Fistula is made on this wyse take the long and rounde Aristolochia of eche two braunches gréene these after the stéeping and stamping in whyte wine boyle vnto the consumption of two partes of the wyne which strayned through a lynnen cloth and settled drincke euery morning fasting and euening going to bedde and it helpeth or deliuereth any Fistula in xv or .xx. dayes so that the pacient in the meane time eate no grosse meates nor whyte meates nor other contrarie thinges and on the sore also laye playster wyse of the roote of the rounde Aristolochia or of the pouder of it blowing the same into the hole and on such wyse shall the Fistula be cured so that it be not in the bone entred The wyne of Rosemarie is made in like maner as the others of which through setled if any taketh a good draught morning and euening it clenseth the bloude procureth a desire and appetite to meate expelleth all the inner humorâ— recouereth a great weaknesse this taken with a quantitie of the electuarie of the flowers helpeth the weaknesse of the heart this comforteth a moyst braine and strengtheneth memorie it confirmeth heateth the veynes cooled comforteth the Palsie rubbed on the members it ceaseth any colde swelling applyed vpon preserueth from the plague mitigateth the harde fetching of breath and helpeth an olâ—e cough it heateth the marrowe in the bones helpeth digestion a cold and clammie stomacke