a bag which may be hanged in the Water the vessell being close stopt the space of a month and then be taken out and cast away the Liquor thereof being first pressed out into the foresaid Water This Water is of wonderfull vertue in Surfets and Pleurisies composeth the Spirits causeth rest helpeth digestion if two or three or four ounces thereof be drunk and the patient compose himself to rest A Pectorall Water Distill green hysop in a cold Still till you have a gallon and half of the Water to this put four handfull of dryed Hysop a handfull of Rue as much of Rosemary and Hore-hound Elecampanie-root bruised and of Horse-radish root bruised of each four ounces of Tobacco in the leaf three ounces Anniseed bruised two ounces twoâ—quarts of Canary wine let them all stand in digestion two days then distill them and in the water that is distilled put half a pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned of Licorish two ounces sweet Fennel seeds bruised two ounces and a half Ginger sliced an ounce and a half and let them be infused in Frigido the space of ten days then take them out This water sweetned with Sugar-candie and drunk to the quantity of three or four ounces twice in a day is very good for those that are ptificall it strengtheneth the Lungs attenuates thick flegm opens obstructions and is very good to comfort the stomach A very excellent water against the worms Take of Wormseed bruised eight ounces the shavings of Harts horne two ounces of Peach flowers dryed an ounce of Aloes bruised half an ounce pour on these the water of Tansie Rue Peach flowers and of Wormwood of each a pint and half let them being put into a glass vessell be digested the space of three dayes then distill them cohobate this water three times This water is very excellent against the worms it may be given from half an ounce to three ounces according to the age of the patient A Water against the Convulsions Take of Ros vitrioli which is that water that is distilled from Vitriall in the calcining thereof two quarts in this put of Rue a handfull of Juniper berries bruised an ounce of Bay berries bruised half an ounce Piony berries bruised six drams Camphire two drams Rhubarb sliced an ounce digest these four days in a temperate Balneo then distill them in a glass vessel in ashes and there will come over a water of no small vertue It cures convulsions in children especially it helps also the Vertigo the Hystericall passion and Epilepsie it is very excellent against all offensive vapours and wind that annoys the head and stomach It may be taken from two drams to two ounces An Hydropicall water Take of Wormwood Broom blossomes of each a like quantity bruise them and mix with them some leaven and let them stand in fermentation in a cold place the space of a week then distill them in a cold Still till they be very dry Take a gallon of this water and half a gallon of the Spirit of Urine pour them upon two pound of dryed Broom blossoms half a pound of Horse Radish roots dryed three ounces of the best Rhubarb sliced two ounces of sweet Fennell seed bruised and an ounce and an half of Nutmegs let them digest a week being put into a glass vessell in a temperate Balneo then press the Liquor hard from the feces put this Liquor in the said vessell again and to it put three ounces of sweet Fennel seeds bruised Licorish sliced two ounces digest them in a gentle heat the space of a week then pour it off from the feces and keep it close stopt This water being drank from the quantity of an ounce to four ounces every morning and at four of the clock in the afternoon doth seldome fail in curing the dropsie it strengtheneth also the Liver is very good against gravel in the back stone cures the Scurvy Gout and such diseases as proceed from the weakness and obstructions of the Liver A Water against the Colick Take of Aniseed three ounces Cummin seed three drams Cinnamon half an ounce Mace Cloves Nutmeg of each a dram Galingall three drams Calamus Aromaticus dryed half an ounce The dryed rind of Orenges two ounces Bay berries half an ounce Let all these being bruised be macerated in six pints of Mallago wine 48 hours then be distilled in Balneo till all be dry This water being dranke to the quantity of an ounce or two at a time doth ease the gripings of the belly and stomach very much A Water against the Vertigo and Convulsions Take of black cherries bruised with their kernels a gallon of the flowers of Lavander three handful half an ounce of white Mustard seed bruised mix these together then put some ferment to them and let them stand close covered the space of a week then distill them in Balneo till all be dry This water being dranke to the quantity of an ounce or two or three doth much relieve the weaknesse of the head and helps the Vertigo thereof as also strengthen the sinews and expell windiness out of the head and stomach A compound Water of Burre root causing sweat Take the root of the great Burre fresh Swallow wort fresh The middle rind of the root of the Ash tree of each two pound cut them small and infuse them 24 hours in the best White wine and Rue vinegar of each five pints then distill them in Balneo til all be dry put to the water as much of the Spirit of Sulphur per Campanam as wil give it a pleasant acidity and to every pint of the water put a scruple and a half of Camphire cut small and tyed up in a bag which may continually hang in the water This was a famous water in Germany against the plague pestilence and Epidemical diseases it causeth sweat wonderfully if two or three ounces thereof be drank and the patient compose himself to sweat Another excellent Sudorifick and plague water Take of the best spirit of Wine a gallon Andromachus treacle six ounces Myrrhe two ounces The roots of Colts-foot three ounces Sperma Cett Terra Sigillata of each half an ounce The root of swallow wort an ounce Dittany Pimpernel Valerian root of each two drams Camphire a dram Mix all these together in a glass vessell and let them stand close stopt the space of eight dayes in the Sun Let the Patient drink of this a spoonful or two and compose himself to sweat Dr. Burges his plague water Take three pints of Muscadine and boil in it Sage and Rue of each a handfull till a pint be wasted then strain it and set it over the fire again put therto a dram of long Pepper Ginger and Nutmeg of each half an ounce being all bruised together then boil them a little and put thereto half an ounce of Andromachus treacle and three drams of Mithridate and a quarter of a pint of the best Angelica water This water which as saith
Spear Mint Rosemary tops Costmary Sweet Marjoram Wild Thyme all dry of each 2 ounces Nutmegs Cinamon of each 2 ounces and an half Cubebs Cardamums of each 1 ounce and an half Sweet Fennell seeds Coriander seeds of each 5 ounces Aniseeds a pound and half bruise them all that are to be bruised Distil them into strong Proof spirit Dulcifie with white Sugar ten pound according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Calamus Aromaticus 5 drams Guaiacum green Bark Avens roots dry Galingale of each 4 ounces Citron pils dry Orange pils dry White Cinamon of each 3 drams and a quarter Wormwood Common dry Wormwood Roman dry Spear Mint Rosemary tops Costmary Sweet Marjoram Wild Thyme all dry of each a dram and half Nutmegs Cinamon of each 2 drams Cubebs Cardamums of each a dram and a quarter sweet Fennell seeds Coriander seeds of each half an ounce Aniseeds 2 ounces 3 drams Bruise them all that are to be bruised distil them into strong Proof spirit Dulcifie with white Sugar 16 ounces according to Art CHAP. XII Marjoram Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Sweet Marjoram dry 3 pound Aniseeds 16 ounces Caraway 4 ounces Calamus Aromaticus 6 ounces bruise them distil and dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Sweet Marjoram dry 5 ounces Aniseeds 1 ounce 5 drams Caraway 3 drams and a quarter Calamus Aromaticus 5 drams bruise them distil and dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces according to Art Marjoram water is good against the infirmities of the Liver and Spleen causeth freenesse of breathing and strengtheneth the Stomach and inward parts CHAP. XIII Vsquebach The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Aniseeds 1 pound Cloves 2 ounces Nutmeg Ginger Caraway seeds of each four ounces distil them into strong proof Spirit according to Art Then adde to the distilled water Licorice Spanish Raifins solis of each 2 pound bruise the Licorice and Raisins dulcifie with brown Sugar 5 pound stir them well together and so let it stand ten dayes and then being fine draw it off and keep it for use The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Aniseeds 1 ounce 5 drams Cloves a dram and half Nutmeg Ginger Caraway seeds of each 3 drams distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art then adde to the distilled water Licorice Spanish Raisins solis of each 3 ounces a dram and half bruise the Licorice and Raisins dulcifie with brown Sugar 8 ounces stir them well together and so let it stand ten dayes and then being fine draw it off and keep it for use Vsquebach cureth the infirmities of the lungs warmerh the Stomach and causeth expectoration CHAP. XIV Balsamint Water The greater quantity Take strong proof Spirit what sufficeth Balsamint dry two pound Aniseeds best 1 pound Caraway seeds 4 ouncâ—s Limon pils dry 8 ounces bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into Proof spirit Dulcifie with white Sugar 5 pound according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Balsamint dry 3 ounces a dram and half Aniseeds best one ounce 5 drams Caraway seeds 3 drams Limon pils dry 6 drams and an half bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces according to Art Balsamint water comforteth the Stomach and expelleth wind CHAP. XV. Rosa solis The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Cinamon of the best 8 ounces Cloves 2 ounces Nutmegs Ginger Caraway seeds of each 4 ounces Marigold flowers Aniseeds of each 16 ounces bruise them distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art then adde to the distilled water Licorice Spanish 1 pound Raisins solis Brown Sugar of each 5 pound Red Sanders four ounces bruise che Licorice and Raisins stir them well together and let them stand 12 dayes then being clear it may be drawn for use The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Cinamon of the best 6 drams and an half Cloves a dram and half Nutmegs Ginger Caraway seeds of each 3 drams Marigold flowers Aniseeds of each 1 ounce and 5 drams bruise them distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art then adde to the distilled water Licorice Spanish an ounce 5 drams Raisins solis Brown Sugar of each 8 ounces Red Sanders 3 drams bruise the Licorice and Raisins stir them well together and let them stand twelve dayes then being clear it may be drawne for use This Rosasolis is good against cold infirmities of the Stomach helpeth digestion and expelleth wind CHAP. XVI Clove Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Cloves of the best 10 ounces Aniseeds 16 ounces distil them into strong Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 5 pound The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Cloves of the best 1 ounce Aniseeds 1 ounce and 5 drams distil them into strong Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces Clove water helpeth digestion breaketh wind provoketh Vrine comforteth the Heart and strengtheneth the Stomach Liver and all the inward parts CHAP. XVII Cinamon Water Common The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Cinamon of the best 5 pound Aniseeds 10 ounces distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 7 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Cinamon of the best 8 ounces Aniseeds 1 ounce distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 12 ounces CHAP. XVIII Cinamon water Proper The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Cinamon best large ten pounds distil them into Proof spirit according to Art take white Sugar 12 pound and an half Rose water four pound make them into a Syrup and dulcifie therewith according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Cinamon best large 16 ounces distil them into Proof spirit according to Art take white Sugar 20 ounces Rose water 6 ounces 3 drams make them into Syrup and dulcifie therewith according Art Cinamon water is good against loathing of the Stomach and a stinking breath It also strengtheneth the Heart Liver Lungs and Spleen and comforteth the Brain and Sinews CHAP. XIX Sweet Fennell seed Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons sweet Fennell seeds five pound Caraway seeds 4 ounces Aniseeds 16 ounces distil them into Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 5 pound The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Sweet Fennell seeds 8 ounces Caraway seeds 3 drams Aniseeds an ounce and five drams distil them into Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces Fennell water is good against the naseousnesse of the Stomach and easeth the pain thereof digesteth Flegm and expelleth Wind. CHAP. XX. Marigold Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Marigold flowers new gathered pickt
the Author must be kept as your life and above all earthly treasure must be taken to the quantity of a spoonful or two morning and evening if you be already infected and sweat thereupon if you be not infected a spoonful is sufficient half in the morning and half at night all the plague time under God saith the Author trust to this for there was never man woman or child that failed of their expectation in taking of it This is also of the same efficacy not only against the plague but pox measles surfets c. Crollius his Treacle water Camphorated Take of Andromachus his Treacle five ounces The best Myrrhe two ounces and half The best Saffron half an ounce Camphire two drams Mix them together then pour upon them ten ounces of the best spirit of wine and let them stand 24 hours in a warm place then distill them in Balneo with a graduall fire cohobate the spirit three times This spirit causeth sweat wonderfully and resists all manner of infection It may be taken from a dram to an ounce in some appropriate Liquor A distilled Treakle Vinegar Take of the roots of Bistort Gentian Angelica Tormentill of each ten drams Pimpernell Bay berries Juniper berries of each an ounce Nutmeg five drams The shavings of Sassafras two ounces Zedoary half a dram White Sanders three drams The leaves of Rue Wormwood Scordium of each half a handfull The flowers of Wall-flower Buglosse of each a handful and half Andromachus Treacle Mithridate of each six drams Infuse them all in three pints of the best White wine vinegar the space of eight dayes in Frigido in glass vessels then distill them in Balneo This Spirit is very good to prevent them that are free from infection and those that are already infected from the danger thereof if two or three spoonful thereof be taken once in a day with sweating after for those that are infected but without sweating for others An excellent water against the Stone in the Kidneys Take of the middle rind of the root of Ash bruised two pound Juniper berries bruised three pound Venice turpentine that is very pure 2 pound and a half Put these into twelve pints of spring water in a glass vessell well closed and there let them putrifie in horse dung for the space of three months then distill them in ashes and there will come forth an oil and a water separate the one from the other Ten or twelve drops of this oil being taken every morning in four or six spoonfuls of the said water dissolves the gravell and stone in the kidneys most wonderfully Another water for the same use Take the juice of Radish Lemmons of each a pound and half Waters of Betony Tansey Saxifrage and Vervin of each a pint Hydromell and Malmsey of each two pound In these Liquors mixed together infuse for the space of four or five days in a gentle Balneo Juniper berries ripe and newly gathered being bruised three ounces the seed of Gromel Bur-dock Radish Saxifrage Nettles Onions Anise and Fennell of each an ounce and half the four cold seeds the seed of great Mallows of each six drams the Calx of Eg-shels Cinnamon of each three drams of Camphire two drams let all be well strained and distilled in ashes Two ounces of this water taken every morning doth wonderfully cleanse the Kidneys provoke Urine and expell the Stone especially if you calcine the feces and extract the Salt thereof with the said Water To make an excellent Wound water Take Plantain Rib-wort Bone-wort wild Angelica Red-mints Betony Egrimony Sanacle Blew-bottles White-bottles Scabius Dandelion Avens Honey-suckle leaves Bramble buds Hawthorn buds and leaves Mugwort Dasie roots leaves and flowers Wormwood Southernwood of each one handfull Boil all these in a pottle of White wine and as much Spring water till one half be wasted and when it is thus boiled strain it from the hearbs and put to it half a pound of hony and let it boil a little after then put it into bottles and keep it for your use Note that these hearbs must be gathered in May only but you may keep them dry and make your water at any time This water is very famous in many Counties and it hath done such cures in curing outward and inward Wounds Imposthumes and Ulcers that you would scarce beleeve it if I should recite them to you also it is very good to heal a sore mouth The Patient must take three or four spoonfuls thereof morning and evening and in a short time he shall finde ease and indeed a cure unless he be so farre declined as nothing almost can recover him If the wound be outward it must be washed therewith and linnen cloths wet in the same be applyed thereto Dr. Matthias his Palsie water is made thus Take of Lavender flowers a gallon pour upon them of the best spirit of wine three gallons the vessell being close stopped let them be macerated together in the Sun for the space of six days then distill them in an Alembick with its refrigeratory then take the flowers of Sage Rosemary Betony of each a handfull Borage Bugloss Lillie of the valley Cowslips of each two handfuls Let all the flowers be fresh and seasonably gathered and macerated in a gallon of the best spirits of Wine and mixed with the aforesaid spirit of Lavender adding then the leaves of Balm Motherwort Orange tree newly gathered the flowers of Stechados Oranges Bay berries of each an ounce After a convenient digestion let them be distilled again then adde the outward rinds of Citrons six drams the seed of Piony husked six drams Cinnamon Nutmegs Mace Cardamums Cububs of yellow Sanders of each half an ounce Lignum Aloes one dram the best Jujubs the kernels taken out half a pound Let them be digested for the space of six week then strain and filtre the Liquor to which adde of prepared Pearl two drams prepared Emrald a scruple Amber Gryse Musk Saffron Red Roses Sanders of each an ounce Yellow Sanders Rinds of Citrons dryed of each a dram Let all these species be tyed in a silken bag and hanged in the foresaid spirit A Scorbuticall water or a compound water of Horse radish is made thus Take the leaves of both sorts of Scurvie-grass being made very clean of each six pound let these be bruised and the juice pressed forth to which adde the Juice of Brook-lime Water-cresses of each half a pound of the best White wine eight pints twelve whole Lemons cut of the fresh roots of Briony four pound Horse Radish two pound of the bark of Winteran half a pound of Nutmegs four ounces Let them be macerated three days and distilled Three or four spoonfuls of this water taken twice in a day cures the Scurvy presently Spirit of Castor is made thus Take of fresh Castoreum two ounces flowers of Lavender fresh half an ounce Sage Rosemary of each two drams Cinnamon three drams Mace Cloves of each a dram the best
rectified Spirit of Wine three pints Let them be digested in a Glass two parts of three being empty stopt close with a bladder and Cork two dayes in warm ashes then distill the spirit in Balneo and keep it in a glass close stopt If you would make it stronger take a pint of this spirit and an ounce of the powder of Castoreum put them into a glasse and digest them into a cold place for the space of ten dayes and then strain out the Spirit This spirit is very good against fits of the Mother passions of the heart which arise from vapours c. Bezoard water is made thus Take of the leaves of the greater Sallandine together with the roots thereof three handfuls and a half Rue two handfuls Scordium four handfull Dittany of Crete Carduus of each a handfull and half Root of Zedoary Angelica of each three drams The outward rind of Citrons Lemmons of each six drams The flower of Wall-gilly-flower an ounce and half Red Roses the lesser Centory of each two drams Cinnamon Cloves of each three drams Andromachus his Treacle three ounces Mithridate an ounce and half Camphire two scruples Trochisces of Vipers two ounces Mace two drams Lignum aloes half an ounce Yellow Sanders a dram and half The seeds of Carduus an ounce Citron six drams Cut those things that are to be cut and let them be macerated three days in the best Spirit of Wine and Muscadine of each three pints and half vinegar of Wall gilly-flowers and the juice of Lemmons of each a pint let them be distilled in a glazed vessell in Balneo After half the Liquor is distilled off let that which remains in the vessell be strained through a linnen cloth and vapoured away to the thickness of honey which may be called A Bezoard Extract This water is a great Cordial and good against any infection To make a specificall Sudorifick Take of Ginger a pound long Pepper and black Pepper of each half an ounce of Cardamums three drams of Grains an ounce powder them and put them into a glass with half an ounce of the best Camphire distilled vinegar two pound digest them a month then separate the vinegar by expression which must putrefie a month and then be circulated for the space of a week then filter it and thou hast as powerfull a Sudorifick as ever was or can be made The dose is from a dram to half an ounce and to be drank in a draught of posset-drink Treacle-water is made thus Take of the juice of the green shales of Walnuts four pound the juice of Rue three pints Carduus Marygold Balm of each two pints the root of Butter-burre fresh a pound and half Burre Angelica Master-wort fresh of each half a pound the leaves of Scordium four handfull old Andromachus treacle Mithridate of each eight ounces the best Canary twelve pints the sharpest Vinegar six pints the juice of Lemmons two pints Digest them two days in horse dung the vessell being close stopped then distill them in sand Aqua Mariae is made thus Take of Sugar candid one pound Canarie Wine six ounces Rose water four ounces Make of these a Syrup and boil it well to which adde of Aqua Imperialis two pints Amber gryse Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fifteen grains yellow Sanders infused in Aqua Imperialis two drams The Mother water commonly called Hystericall water is made thus Take of the juice of the root of Briony four pound the leaves of Rue Mugwort of each two pound Savin dryed three handfull Mother-wort Nippe Penny-royall of each two handfull Garden basill Cretensian Dittany of each a handfull and half the rind of yellow Oranges fresh four ounces Myrrhe two ounces Castoreum an ounce the best Canary wine twelve pints Let them be digested four dayes in a fit vessell then distill them in Balneo A vomiting water is made thus Take of the best Tobacco in leaves cut small four ounces Squils two ounces Nutmegs sliced half an ounce put these into three pints of spring water a pint of White wine vinegar distill them in a hot Still or Alembick If thou wouldst have it stronger thou mayest put this water on fresh ingredients and distill it again A little quantity of this water is a most safe and effectuall vomit and may be taken from the eldest to the youngest if so be you proportion the quantity to the strength of the Patient You may dulcifie it with sugar or syrup if you please A vomiting Water made by Platerus Take green Walnuts gathered about Midsummer Radish roots of each bruised two parts of distilled Wine vinegar four parts digest them five dayes then distill them in Balneo This being taken to the quantity of two spoonfull or three causeth easie Vomiting A distilled water that purgeth without any pain or griping Take of Scammony an ounce Hermodactyls two ounces the seeds of Broom of the lesser Spurge of Dwarf Elder of each half an ounce the juice of Dwarf Elder of wild Asses cucumber of black Hellebore the fresh flower of Elder of each an ounce and half Polypodium 6 ounces of Sene 3 ounces Red sugar 8 ounces common distilled Water 6 pints Let all these be bruised and infused in the water 24 hours then be distilled in Balneo This water may be given from 2 drams to 3 ounces and it purgeth all manner of humours opens all obstructions and is pleasant to be taken and they whose stomachs loath all other physick may take this without any offence After it is distilled there may be hanged a little bag of Spices in it as also it may be sweetned with sugar or any opening syrup A specificall Liquor against the tooth-ach Take of oil of Cloves well rectified half an ounce in it dissolve half a dram of Camphire adde to them of the Spirit of Turpentine four times rectified in which half a dram of Opium hath been infused half an ounce A drop or two of this Liquor put into a hollow tooth with some lint easeth the tooth-ach presently Of MINERALS BOOK III. Spirit of Salt is made thus TAke of the best Bay-salt as much as you please let it be dissolved in spring water and filtred mix with this brine in a Copper vessell of the powder of Bricks or Tiles twice or thrice as much as the Salt before its dissolution was in weight let the water vapour away over the fire continually stirring of it untill it be dry Then put this powder into a glass Retort well luted or an earthen Retort and put it into a Furnace a large Receiver joined to it according to art then give fire to it by degrees untill it will bear an open fire for the space of 12 hours Thou shalt have a very acid oil or spirit in the Receiver That Liquor being put into a little Retort in sand may be rectified by the vapouring away of the flegm then keep it for use in a glass very well stopt that no air goe in Spirit of Salt
specificall liquor A Water and Oyl made out of Hair Fill an earthen Retort with hair cut small set it over the fire and fit a Receiver to it and there will come over a very stinking Water and Oyl This water and Oyl is used in Germany to be sprinkled upon fences and hedges to keep wild and hurtfull Cattle from coming to do harm in any place for such is the stink of this liquor that it doth affright them from coming to any place near it Water of Milk is made thus Take of what Milk thou pleasest a gallon in it dissolve half a pound of salt and put to it two handful of Plantain and an ounce of Licorish sliced then distil it in a hot Stil with a gentle fire This water is of excellent use in hot distempers of the Lungs and Kidneys You may put in other ingredients according to the use you would have it for An excellent compound water of Milk for any inflammations in the eyes Take of womans milk a pint of white Copperas a pound distil them in ashes Note that assoon as thou perceivest any sharp spirit to come off then cease Let inflamed eyes be washed three or four times in a day with this water and it helpeth them wonderfully Spirit of Vrine is made thus Take of the Urine of a young man drinking much wine as much as you please let it stand in glass vessels in putrefaction 40 dayes then pouring it from its feces distil it in a glass gourd in sand til all be dry then cohobate the said spirit on the Caput Mortuum three times then distill it in a gourd of a long neck and there will ascend besides the spirit a crystalline salt which thou mayest either keep by it self being called the volatile salt of Urine or mix it with its spirit which will thereby become very penetrating if they be digested for some days together Note that the pipe of the head must be wide or else the volatile salt will soon stop it Note that this salt is so penetrating that it penetrateth the body of the glass This Spirit by rectification may be made so pure and subtle that it will burn as fire and dissolve gold and precious stones This being often applyed to any place pained with the gout easeth it presently it also quickens any part that is benummed The salt volatile is Helmonts famous Medicine for the Jaundies A compound Spirit of Vrine Take of Hungarian Vitriall a pound the Urine of a Boy that is healthy four pints put these into a glass vessel well closed that three parts of four may be empty digest them in Balneo for the space of a month then distil them in ashes til all be dry This spirit is of great vertue in the Epilepsie Gout Dropsie Convulsions being taken from two drams to half an ounce in some specifical Liquor To make a spirit of Honey Take good strong stale Mead otherwise called Metheglin as much as thou pleasest distil it in a Copper Stil or Alembick with its refrigeratory and it wil yeeld a spirit like Aqua vitae The quintessence of honey is made thus Take of the purest Honey two pound of Fountain water one pound boyl these together til the water be boyled away taking off all the scum that riseth then take the Honey and put it into a glass four parts of five being empty close it well and set in digestion a whole year and thou shalt have the essence of Honey swimming on the top in form of an Oyle being of as fragrant smel as any thing in the World the flegm wil be in the middle and the feculent matter in the bottome of a dark colour and stinking smel Some make the quintessence of Honey after this manner Take as much Honey as thou pleasest of the best put it into a gourd of glass first distil off the flegm in Balneo then extract the tincture out from what remains with the said water then calcine the remaining feces and extract from thence the salt with the foresaid water being distilled off from the tincture calcine the salt and melt it in a crucible then let it dissolve in a cellar then again evaporate it away and thou shalt have a most white salt which let imbibe as much of the tincture as it will digest them for three months and thou shalt have an essence of Honey An essence of Honey may be made thus Take of Honey wel despumated as much as you please pour upon it as much of the best rectified spirit of Wine as will cover it five or six fingers breadth digest them in a glass vessel wel closed the fourth part only being ful in a temperate Balneo the space of a fortnight or til the spirit be very wel tinged then decant off the spirit and put on more til all the tincture be extracted then put all these tinctures together and evaporate the spirit till what remains begin to be thickish at the bottome and of a golden colour This is a very excellent essence of Honey and is of so pleasant an odour that scarce any thing is like to it It is so cordial that it even revives the dying if two or three drops thereof be taken in some cordial water A most strong Spirit of the Vinegar of Honey Take a pound of Honey put to it of the best White wine vinegar six pints an ounce of white Pepper bruised smal of the strongest Mustard-seed bruised three ounces put these into a glass vessel that three parts of four may be empty digest them in a temperate Balneo or set the vessell in the sunne for the space of a fortnight then distil them in Balneo and thou shalt have a spirit farre sharper then the common spirit of Vinegar This spirit is stronger and better then any common distilled Vinegar for the dissolving of hard things and extracting the tinctures out of things Oyl or quintessence of Wax Take of the best Wax a pound as much of pure sand well washed from al its impurity and again dryed First melt the wax and then mix the sand with it very exactly then put them into a glass Retort well coated fit a strong Receiver to it and set it in sand give it fire by degrees continuing it four days which at last must be very strong and there wil come off a spirituous oyl which must be rectified seven times in a glass Retort every time changing the Retort and you shal have a subtle oyl of a golden colour This oyl extracts the vertues out of all flowers presently being set in the sun it is wonderful Balsamical for the cure of wounds or ulcers both inward and outward it also being applyed outwardly easeth all pains quickens any deaded member as in the palfie Water is made out of any flesh thus Take what flesh you please the bloudiest part thereof unwashed being cut very smal and then bruised or if it be a feathered fowl take it being chased up and down until it
Rhene and Seyfrie of Collen Generall against the Turks did always drink of it when they went to fight to encrease magnanimity and courage which it did even to admiration This spirit doth also wonderfully irritate them that are slothfull to Venery It also provoketh Urine even to admiration It doth also wonderfully irritate the spirits that are dulled and deaded with any cold distemper This oyl doth the same effects and indeed more powerfully This oyl doth besides what is spoken of the spirit help deafness exceedingly two or three drops being dropped into the ear after it is wel syringed once in a day for a week together It helpeth also the Eyes that have any film growing on them being now and then dropped into them Another-Aqua Magnanimitatis is made thus Take of Ants or Pismires a handful of their Eggs two hundred of Millepedes i. e. Wood lice one hundred of Bees one hundred and fifty digest all these in two pints of spirit of wine being very well impregnated with the brightest Soot Digest them together the space of a month then pour of the clear Spirit and keep it safe This water or spirit is of the same vertue as the former Water of Dung is made thus Take of any dung as much as thou pleasest whilest it is fresh put it into a common cold Stil and with a soft fire distil it off it wil be best if the bottome of the Stil be set over a vapour if thou wouldst have it be stronger cohobate the said water over its feces several times for we see there is great vertue in dung it makes ground fertil and many sorts thereof are very medicinable A water of Doves dung is made thus Take of Doves dung dryed as much as you please to every pound put a pint of Rhenish wine in which let it steep all night in a gentle Balneo then distil it in a glass gourd in ashes Cohobate this Liquor three times if there be any volatile salt mix it with the water This water is very excellent against all obstructions of the kidneys bladder it helpeth the Jaundies presently two or three spoonful thereof being drank once every morning and evening A Water made of Horse dung Take of the dung of a horse that is fed in the stable as much as you please let it stand two days out of the Sun and out of the wet to every pound of this pour a pint of white wine let them stand in a warm Balneo a fortnight then distil them in a glass gourd in sand cohobate this three or four times if there be any volatile salt mix it with the water This Water is very excellent against the bastard pleurisie stitches wind obstruction of the reins bladder very good in a dropsie jaundies scurvy c. If three or four spoonfuls be taken every morning in the water of Juniper berries it also causeth sweat A Water smelling like Amber made by Paracelsus out of Cow dung Take of Cow dung and distil it in Balneo and the water thereof will have the smell of Amber gryse This water is very excellent in all inward inflammations An excellent Sudorifick made of the young buds of Harts horn Take of the young buds of Harts horn whilest they are ful of bloud and moist bruise them into a paste then mix as much Canary wine as will make a very thin paste distil them in ashes till they be very dry This is an excellent Sudorifick in all burning Feavers and Epidemical diseases if a spoonful be taken by it self or in any appropriated Liquor Oyl out of Bones and Horns is made thus Take of what bones you please reduce them to a gross powder put them into a Retort putting a strong fire by degrees thereunto and there will come forth an oyl and volatile salt both which thou mayest mix together and digest them into an essence the oyl being first rectified with spirit of wine The Water of Swallows against the Falling sicknesse Take of Swallows cut them into pieces without separating any thing from them six ounces of Castoreum cut small an ounce mix them together infuse them 12 hours in half a pinâ— of Canary wine then put them into a glass gourd and distill them in sand till all be dry then cohobate the Liquor three times This water being drank to the quantity of two spoonfull every morning cureth them that have the Falling sickness Oyl out of Egs is made thus Take of the yelks of egs boyled very hard rub them in pieces with your fingers then fry them in a pan over a gentle fire continually stirring them with a spoon til they become red and the oyl be resolved and flow from them then put them into a hair cloth and so presse forth the oyl This oyl cleanseth the skin from any filthinesse contracted by heat it cureth pustles chaps excoriations ring-worms but especially all burnings A Water of the whites of Eggs that will cure a wound without any visible scarre Take as many eggs as you please boyl them very hard then cut them in the middle and take out the yelks filling up the cavities with some of those whites being first bruised into a paste then put both sides of the egg together as before and tye them together with a thread and with a string hang them in the middle of a gourd glass that they touch not the sides stop this glass very close and set it in Balneo and you shall see those whites which were bruised drop down into a Liquor which you must gather up out of the bottome of the glass and keep You will have very little of this Liquor This Liquor applyed to any green wound with a feather cures it presently wheresoever it be without any visible scar It cures most wonderfully all wounds in the eyes A Water of Crabs is made thus Take Crabs or Craw-fish as many as you please break them to pieces then macerate them in water of Sengreen for the space of a day then distil them cohobate the water three times This Water is of singular vertue in all manner of inflammations inward and outward An Oylor Liquor is made out of Crabs eyes thus Take of Crabs eyes very finely powdered five parts oyl of Tartar Per Deliquium six parts This oyl of Tartar must be made of salt of Tartar after it hath flowed in the fire digest them in horse dung the space of a month then coagulate the Liquor and make an extraction with the best rectified spirit of Wine that can be made or else you lose your labour then evaporate the spirit of Wine and there remaines an oyl at the bottome This oyl is of wonderful vertue in all putrid Feavers and such like distempers also in all obstructions especially of the Kidneys Water of Spawn of Frogs is made thus Take of the Spawn of Frogs gathered in March as much as you please put a handful of Salt to every quart and put them into a common cold Still and
with a gentle fire distil off the water till no more will distill A compound water of the Sperm of Frogs Take of the sperm of Frogs gathered in March about the new of the Moon four pound of Cow dung fresh six pound mix them well together and let them stand the space of a day then distil them in ashes This water allays all hot pains both inward and outward especially of the Gout Another compound water of the sperm of Frogs Take of the Sperm of Frogs gathered in March two pound and half the Urine of a young man three pints new Treacle two ounces and a half white Vitrial Salt Allum of each four ounces then distil them and put to the water an ounce and half of the Salt of Vitriall Camphire and Saffron of each an ounce This water being applyed outwardly helpeth all pains especially of the Gout and such like also allayeth hot or cold swellings It also stancheth bleeding A Miscellany of Spagyricall Experiments and Curiosities BOOK V. The Spagyricall Anatomie of Water WAter seems to be a body so very Homogeneall as if neither Nature or Art could discover any Heterogeneity in the parts thereof thus indeed it seems to the eye of the vulgar but to that of a Philosopher far otherwise as I shall endeavor to make credible by presenting to your consideration a twofold process of the discovering the dissimilary parts thereof whereof the one is naturall only and the other artificiall But before I speak of either it must be premised that in the element of Water there is great plenty of the spirit of the World which is more predominant in it then in any other element for the use and benefit of universall nature and that this spirit hath three distinct substances viz. Salt Sulphur and Mercury Now by salt we must understand a substance very dry vitall and radicall having in it the beginning of corporisication as I may so call it by Sulphur a substance ful of light and vital heat or vivifying fire containing in it self the beginning of motion by Mercury a substance abounding with radical moisture with which the Sulphur of life or vital fire is cherished and preserved Now these substances which are in the Spirit of the World make all Fountaines and Waters but with some difference according to the predominancy of either This several predominancy therefore is the ground of the variety of productions I say of productions because all things are produced out of Water for Water is both the Sperme and the Menstruum of the World the former because it includes the seed of every thing the latter because the Sperme of Nature is put refied in it that the seed included in it should be actuated and take upon it the divers Formes of things and because by it the seed it self and all things produced of seed grow and are encreased Now this being premised I shall shew you what the naturall processe is which I shal make plain by instancing in three several productions viz. of the spawn of Frogs of Stones and of Vegetables The Spawne of Frogs is produced after this manner viz. The Sulphur which is in the Water being by the heat of the Sun resolved and dissolved is greedily and with delight conceived by the Element of Water even as the Sperme of a Male is by the Matrix of the Female and that upon this account The Water wants siccity which the Sulphur hath and therefore exceedingly desiring it doth greedily attract it to it self Sulphur also wants humidity and therefore attracts the humidity of the Water Moreover the humidity of the Water hath the humidity of the Salt laid up occultly in it also the Sulphur cherisheth the humidity of the fire and desires nothing more then the humidity of the Salt that is in the Water Sulphur also contains the siccity of the Salt whence it is that Salt requires a siccity from the Sulphur And thus do these attractive vertues mutually act upon each others subject Now by this means there is a conception made in the water which now begins to be turgid puffed up and troubled as also to be grosser and more slimie until out of the spermatick vessels the spermes be cast upward in which spermes after a while appeare black specks which are the seed of the Frogs and by the heat of the Sun are in a short time turned into the same by which it appears there are dissimilary parts in Water 2 Stones are produced out of Water that hath a Mucilaginous Mercury which the Salt with which it also abounds fixeth into Stones This you may see cleared by putting stones into the water for they wil after a time contract a mucilaginous slimy matter which being taken out of the water and set in the Sun becomes to be of a stony nature And whence come those stones gravel and sand which we see in Springs they are not washed down out of the Mountains and Hils as some think from whence the waters spring neither were they in the earth before the Springs brake forth as some imagine and now appear by washing away of the earth from them for if you dig round about the springs even beyond the heads of them you shal find no stones at all in the earth only in the veins thereof through which the water runs Now the reason of the smalnesse of these stones is the continual motion of the water which hinders them from being united into a continued bignesse I shall make a further confirmation of this in the artificial processe of manifesting the Heterogeneity of Water I shal here only adde the assertion of Heâ—â—ont saying that with his Altahest all stones and indeed all things may be turned into Water If so then you know what the Maxime is viz. All things may be resolved into that from whence they had their beginning 3 Vegetables are produced out of Water as you may clearly see by the Waters sending forth Plants that have no roots fixed in the bottome of which sort is the Heart called Duck-weed which putteth forth a little string into the Water which is as it were the root thereof For the confirmation of this that this Heart may be produced out of meer Water there is a Gentleman at this time in the City of no small worth that saith he had fair water standing in a glass divers yeares and at last a Plant sprang out of it Also if you put some Plants as Water-mint c. into a glass of fair water it wil germinate and shoot out into a great length and also take root in the Water which root will in a short time be so encreased and extended as to fill up the glass but you must remember that you put fresh water into the glasse once in two or three dayes Hereunto also may be added the experiment of Helmont concerning the growth of a tree For saith he I took two hundred pound weight of earth dryed in an oven and put it into a vessel in
a glasse like a tree Dissolve Steele in a rectified Spirit of salt so shall you have a green and sweet solution which smels like brimstone filter it and abstract all the moisture in sand with a gentle heat and there will distil over a Liquor as sweet as rain-water for Steele by reason of its drynesse detaines the corosivenesse of the Spirit of salt which remaineth in the bottome like a bloud red masse which is as hot on the tongue as fire dissolve this red masse in oil of flints or of sand and you shall see it grow up in two or three houres like a tree with a stemm and branches prove this tree at the test and it yeeldeth good gold which this tree hath drawn from the aforesaid oil of sand or flints which hath a golden sulphur in it To melt any metall in ones hand without burning of the hand Take a little calcining pot in your hand make in it a lane or course of the powder of any metall then upon it lay a lane of Sulphur Salt-peter and Saw-dust of each a like quantity mixed together put a coal of fire to it and forthwith the metall will be melted into a masse An observation upon the beams of the Sun and heat of the fire how they adde weight to Minerall and Metalline bodies 1. Take any Minerall Liquor and set it in an open vessell in the sun for a good space and it will be augmented in quantity and weight But some will say that this proceedeth from the air to the which I answer and demand whether the air had not this impregnation from the sun and what the air hath in it self that proceedeth not from the sun and stars 2. Put this liquor in a cold cellar or in a moist air and you shall find that it increaseth not in weight as it doth in the sun or in the fire which hath in this respect some analogie with the sun I do not say but haply it might attract some little moisture which is soon exhaled by any small heat 3. Dissolve any sulphurous and imperfect metall as Iron Copper or Zinke in Aqua fortis or any other acid spirit then abstract the Spirit from it make it glowing hot yet not too hot that the Spirit may only vapour away then weigh this metalline Calx and set it in a crucible over the fire but melt it not only let it darkly glow let it stand so 3 or 4 weeks then take it off and weigh it again and you shall find it heavier then before 4. Set any sulphurous metall as Iron or Copper with sixteen or eighteen parts of Lead on a test made with ashes of wood or bones in a probatory furnace first weigh the test copper and lead before you put them into the furnace let the iron or copper fly away with the lead yet not with too strong a heat then take the test out and weigh it and you shall finde it though the metals are gone when it is cold to be heavier then it was when it was put into the furnace with the metals The question is now whence this heavinesse of all the aforesaid Minerals and metals proceeded if that the heat of the fun and fire through the help of the Mineralls and metals be not fixed into a palpable Minerall and Metalline body 5. Set a test with lead or copper in the sun and with a concave glasse unite the beames of the sun and let them fall on the center of the metall hold the concave glasse in your hand and let your test never be cold and this will be as well done in the sun as in the fire But this concave must be two foot in Diameter and not too hollow or deep but about the eighteenth or twentieth part of the circle that it may the better cast its beams forth and it must be very well polished 6. Calcine Antimony with a burning glasse and you shall see it smoak and fume and be made dryer then before yet weigh it and it will be heavier then before I shall take in for the confirmation of all this a relation of Sir Kenelme Digby concerning the precipitating of the sun beams I remember saith he a rare experiment that a Noble man of much sincerity and a singular friend of mine told me he had seen w ch was that by means of glasses made in a very particular manner and artificially placed one by another he had seen the sun beames gathered together and precipitated down into a brownish or purplish red powder There saith he could be no fallacy in this operation For nothing whatsoever was in the glasse when they were placed and disposed for this intent and it must be in the hot time of the yeare else the effect would not follow And of this magistery he could gather some dayes neer 2. ounces in a day and it was of a strong volatile vertue and would impresse it spirituall quality into gold it selfe the heaviest and most fixed body we converse withall in a very short time I leave it now to the reader to judge whether the beames of the sun and heat of the fire adde weight to Minerals and Metals To extract a white Milkie substance from the raies of the Moone Take a concave glasse and hold it against the Moon when she is at the full in a cleare evening and let the raies thereof being united fall upon a sponge and the sponge will be full of a cold Milkie substance which you may presse out with your hand and gather more De-La-Brosse is of opinion that this substance is of the substance of the Moon but I cannot assent to him in that only this I say if this experiment were well prosecuted it might produce for ought I know such a discovery which might be the key to no small secrets To condense the aire in the heat of smmer and in the heat of the day into water Fill an earthen vessell unglazed made pointed downward and fill it with snow-water which must be kept all the year in which is dissolved as much Nitre as the water would dissolve Let the vessell be close stopt Hold this vessell against the sun and the air will be so condensed by the coldnesse of the vessell that it will drop down by the sides thereof How two sorts of volatile salts will be fixed by joyning them together Take a strong Lixivium made of unslaked lime and evaporate it and whereas you would expect to find a salt at the bottome there is none for all the salt in the Lixivium is vapored away and the more the Liquor is evaporated the weaker the Lixivium becomes which is contrary to other Lixiviums Also if you take Spirit of vinegar and evaporate it you shall finde no salt at the bottome Now if you take the clear Lixivium of Lime and Spirit of vinegar of each a like quantity and mix them together and evaporate the humidity thereof you shall find a good quantity of salt at the bottome which
of its humidity it is called Mercury and in respect of its terrestriall siccity it is called salt all which are in gold perfectly united depurated and fixed Gold therefore is most noble and solid of all metalls of a yellow colour compacted of principles digested to the utmost hight and therefore fixed Silver is in the next place of dignity to Gold and differs from it in digestion chiefly I said chiefly because there is some small impurity besides adhering to silver Now having given some small account of the originall matter first and second and manner of the growth of gold I shall in the next place set downe some curiosities therein and preparation thereof The preparations are chiefly three viz. Aurum potabile which is the mixtion thereof with other Liquors Oil of gold which is gold liquid by it selfe without the mixture of any other Liquor and the tincture which is the extraction of the colour thereof Dr. Anthony's famous Aurum potabile and Oil of gold Dissolve pure fine gold in Aqua regis according to art the Aqua regis being made of a pound of Aqua fortis and foure ounces of salt Armo niack distilled together by Retort in sand which clear folution put into a large glasse of a wide neck and upon it pour drop by drop Oil of Tartar made per deliquium untill the Aqua regis which before was yellow become clear and white for that is a signe that all calx of gold is setled to the bottome then let it stand all night and in the morning pour off the clear Liquor and wash the calx four or five times with common spring water being warmed and dry it with a most gentle heat Note and that wel that if the heat be too great the calx takes fire presently like Gun-powder and flies away to thy danger and losse therefore it is best to dry it in the sun or on a stone stirring it diligently with a wooden spatle To this calx adde halfe a part of the powder of sulphur mix them together and in an open crucible let the sulphur burne away in the fire putting a gentle fire to it at the first and in the end a most strong fire for the space of an houre that the calx may in some manner be reverberated and become most subtle which keep in a viall close stopt for your use Then make a Spirit of urine after this manner viz. Take the urine of a healthy man drinking Wine moderately put it into a gourd which you must stop close and set in horse-dung for the space of forty dayes then distill it by Alembick in sand into a large receiver untill all the humidity be distilled off Rectifie this Spirit by cohobation three times that the Spirit only may rise Then distill it in sand by a glasse with a long neck having a large receiver annexed and closed very well to it and the Spirit will be elevated into the top of the vessell like crystall without any aqueous humidity accompanying of it Let this distillation be continued untill all the Spirits be risen These crystalls must be dissolved in distilled rain-water and be distilled as before this must be done six times and every time you must take fresh rain-water distilled Then put these crystalls into a glasse bolthead which close Hermetically and set in the moderate heat of a Balneum for the space of fifteen dayes that they may be reduced into a most clear Liquor To this Liquor adde an equall weight of Spirit of Wine very well rectified and let them be digested in Balneo the space of twelve dayes in which time they will be united Then take the calx of gold abovesaid and poure upon it of these united Spirits as much as will cover them three fingers breadth and digest them in a gentle heat untill the Liquor be tinged as red as bloud decant off the tincture and put on more of the aforesaid Spirits and do as before till all the tincture be extracted then put all the tincted Spirits together and digest them ten or twelve dayes after which time abstract the Spirit with a gentle heat and cohobate it once and then the calx will remain in the bottome like an Oil as red as bloud and of a pleasant odour and which will be dissolved in any Liquor Whereof this Oil may be the Succedaneum of true gold If you distill the same solution by Retort in sand there will come over after the first part of the menstruum the tincture with the other part thereof as red as bloud the earth which is left in the bottome of the vessell being black dry spongious and light The menstruum must be vapoured away and the Oil of gold will remain by it self which must be kept as a great treasure and this is Dr. Anthony's Aurum potabile Foure or eight graines of this Oil taken in what manner soever wonderfully refresheth the Spirits and workes severall wayes especially by sweat The true Oil of Gold Take an ounce of leafe-gold dissolve it in foure ounces of the rectified water of Mercury expressed page 75. digest them in horse-dung the space of two moneths then evaporate the Mercuriall water and at the bottome you shall have the true Oil of gold which is radically dissolved Another processe hereof you may see page 71. A Tincture of Gold Dissolve pure gold in Aqua regis precipitate it with the Oil of sand into a yellow powder which you must dulcifie with warme water and then dry it this will not be fired as Aurum fulminans This powder is twice as heavie as the gold that was put in the cause of which is the salt of the flints precipitating it selfe with the gold Put this yellow powder into a crucible and make it glow a little and it will be turned into the highest and fairest purple that ever you saw but if it stand longer it will be browne Then poure upon it the strongest Spirit of salt for it will dissolve it better then any Aqua regis on which dissolution poure on the best rectified Spirit of Wine and digest them together and by a long digestion some part of the gold will fall to the bottome like a white snow and may with Borax Tartar and salt Nitre be melted into a white metall as heavy as gold and afterwards with Antimony may recover its yellow colour againe then evaporate the Spirit of salt and of Wine and the gold Tincture remaineth at the bottome and is of great vertue Another Tincture of Gold Take of the aforesaid yellow Calx of gold precipitated with Oil of sand one part and three or foure parts of the Liquor of sand or of crystalls mix them well together and put them into a crucible in a gentle heat at first that the moisture of the Oil may vapour away which it will not do easily because the drynesse of the sand retaines the moisture thereof so that it flyeth away like molten allum or borax when no more will
against the Falling sicknesse CHAP. XXXII Water of Flower The great quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth and put it into a wide mouthed Pot or other Vessell stopt very close Take those severall flowers following in their seasons and being clean pickt put them to the spirit in the Pot viz. Cowslips Wood bine Stock gilly flower of all three sorts Damask Musk Roses Sweet Brier flowers Clove July flowers Llilium Convallium Jasmine Citron Orange flowers or pils dry Tillia Flowers Garden Limon Wild Thyme flowers Lavender Marigold Chamomile Mellilot Elder Flowers of each half a pound Being furnished with all your flowers as above when you would distill them adde to them Aniseeds 2 pound Coriander 1 pound bruise the seeds It were best to bruise all the flowers as you put them up into the spirit for their more orderly working distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art then adde to the distilled water Roses July flowers Elder flowers of each 1 pound after twelve dayes infusion it may be drawn off then dulcifie it with white Sugar 10 pound and being fine it may be drawn for use The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon and put it into a wide mouthed pot or other vessel stopt very close take those severall flowers following in their seasons and being clean pickt put them to the spirit in the pot viz. Cowslips Wood bine Stock Gilly flower of the 3 sorts Damask Musk Roses Sweet Brier flowers Clove July flowers Lilium Convallium Jasmine Citron Orange flowers or pils dry Tillia flowers Garden Limon Wild Thyme flowers Lavender Marigold Chamomile Mellilot Elder Flowers of each 6 drams and a half Being furnished with all your flowers as above when you would distil them adde to them Aniseeds 3 ounces a dram and half Coriander 1 ounce 5 drams bruise the seeds it were best to bruise all the flowers as you put them up into the spirit for their more orderly working distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art Then adde to the distilled water Roses July flowers Elder flowers of each 1 ounce 5 drams after 12 dayes infusion it may be drawn off then dulcifie it with white Sugar 1 pound and being fine it may be drawn for use CHAP. XXXIII Water of Fruits The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Juniper berries 4 pound Quince Pipping parings dry of each 2 pound Limon pils Orange pils dry of each 1 pound Nutmegs four ounces Aniseeds 2 pound Cloves 2 ounces distil them into Proof spirit according to Art to the spirit add Strawberries Raspisses bruised of each 5 pound stir them well together and after ten dayes it being clear may be drawn off then dulcifie with syrup made as is hereafter taught and so let it stand till it be clear and then draw it off for use The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Juniper berries 6 ounces 3 drams and a quarter Quince Pipping parings dry of each 3 ounces a dram and half Limon pils Orange pils dry of each 1 ounce 5 drams Nutmegs 3 drams and a quarter Aniseeds 3 ounces a dram and half Cloves 1 dram and a half distil them into Proof spirit according to Art to the spirit adde Strawberries Raspisses bruised of each 8 ounces stir them well together and after 10 dayes it being clear may be dawn off then dulcifie it with syrup made as is hereafter taught and so let it stand till it be clear and then draw it off for use CHAP. XXXIV Avens Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Avens roots 4 pound Orris roots Nutmeg Yellow Sanders Mace of each 2 ounces Lignum Rhodium Saffron Storax Benjamine of each 1 ounce Angelica roots 3 ounces Limon pils green half a pound Sweet Fennell seed Aniseeds of each 1 pound Cloves 10 drams Roman Wormwood Mint dry of each 3 handfuls Red Roses Stoechas flowers of each 4 handfuls Sweet Marjoram Balm Burnet Thyme all dry of each 6 handfuls Alkermes berries 2 ounces Bruise them all that are to be bruised distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with Syrupâ— thus made Take Rose water 4 pound white sugar 10 pound boile it to a syrup hight then strain it and put it to the fire again adde thereto confection of Alkerms 4 ounces Syrup of Gilly flowers 1 pound Ambergreese dissolved in Rose water 1 dram and so let these boil a little till they be incorporated with the Syrup and so keep it for use The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gal Avens roots 6 ounces 3 drams and a quarter Orris roots Nutmeg Yellow Sanders Mace of each a dram and half Lignum Rhodium Saffron Storax Benjamine of each 3 quarters of a dram Angelica roots 2 drams and a half Limon pils green 6 drams and a half Sweet Fennell seeds Aniseeds of each 1 ounce 5 drams Cloves 1 dram Roman Wormwood Mint dry of each what snfficeth Red Roses Stoechas flowers of each what sufficeth Sweet Marjoram Balm Barnet Thyme all dry of each what sufficeth Alkermes berries a dram and half Bruise them all that are to be bruised distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with Syrups thus made Take Rose water 6 ouuces 3 drams and quarter White Sugar 1 pound boil it to a Syrup hight then strain it and put it to the fire again add thereto Confection of Alkerms 3 drams and a half Syrup of Gilly flowers 1 ounce 5 drams Ambergreese dissolved in Rose water 6 grains and so let these boil a-little till they be incorporated with the Syrup and so keep it for use Avens water is a great Cordiall strengtheneth the Spirit comforteth all the inward parts and preserveth from Consumptions and Mesadnesse Additions to inrich these precedent Chapters to which by Numbers these are referred Additions to the first and second Chapters TAke July flowers Roses Poppy and Sanders or any of them severally what sufficeth and inâ—use them in Aqua vitae or Proof spirit till the tincture be be drawn out then draw off the spirit and reserve it close stopt for use When you have occasion to use it take 8 ounces thereof to 7 pound and a half of this water and you will give it a sufficient colour or you may take more at pleasure without inconveniency Additions to the third Chapter The greater quantity Take Aniseeds White Sugar according to Art of each five pound or what sufficeth The lesser quantity Take Aniseeds White Sugar according to Art 8 ounces Additions to the fourth Chapter The greater quantity Take Caraway seeds Coriander seeds of each 3 ounces Calamus Aromaticus Zedoary of each 4 ounces Aniseeds Cassia lignea of each 8 ounces Angelica Rootes 8 ounces or Hearb Angelica 2 pound white Sugar 2 pound and half or what sufficeth The lesser quantity Take Caroway seeds Coriander seeds of each 2 drams and a half Calamus Aromaticus Zedoary of each 3 drams and 3 quarters Aniseeds Cassia lignea of
Fennell Celandine Vervaine Rue Leaves of Enula Fullers Teesell Milfoile of each one handfull Camphire half a dram Bruise them and distil them in an Alembick CHAP. VII A water against the Gout Take Licorice half a pound Aniseeds 1 pound Cinamon 3 ounces Galingale Ginger Roots of Iroes Enula Campana Seeds of Fennell Caraway Amomum Ammi Piony Basil Savory Marjoram of each one ounce Juniper Berries 2 ounces Ground Ivie half a handfull Long Pepper Calamus Spikenard Mace of each 3 drams Valerian 1 dram Roots of Angelica half an ounce Cyprus 4 ounces Lignum Aloes half an ounce Sugar 4 ounces Maliga Wine or strong Ale 32 pound Prepare and distil them according to Art This water taken inwardly strengthens cold and weak Stomachs and breaks the Stone Outwardly applyed it easeth the Gout enlargeth Sinews that are shrunk and is good against all aches and passion proceeding from melancholy and cold CHAP. VIII A Water for the Web and spots in the Eyes Take Rue Plantaine Red roses Red Poppies Vervaine Celandine leaves of each 1 ounce Red rose water 1 pound Rich white wine 1 pound and an half Tutia prepared 1 dram Aloes Hepatick an ounce and a half Cloves 1 ounce Powder prepare and distil them according to Art Drop the water into the Eyes morning and evening CHAP. IX A water for Tetters Fistulas Cankers c. Take strong white Wine Vinegar 8 pound Wood Ashes 1 pound Infuse them 3 dayes naturall and stir them twice a day then put thereto unslaked lime 1 pound let it stand other three dayes and stir it as before when it is well setled Filtre off the clear Lee and put thereto Sal Gemme Salt Alkali Salis Vitae Salt Armoniac Salt of Tartar of each one dram Calx of Egge shels and Calx vive of each 1 dram Grind all these together and temper them with the said Lee put them into a Glass lembick and distil them in Balneo give it the first 24 houres no more heat then will make it and keep it warm after that distil it off according to Art CHAP. X. A water agoinst rednesse of the Face and to beautifie the Skin Take Wild Purslaine Mallows Nightshade Plantain with the seeds of each three handfuls The Whites of 12 Egges Limons number 12 Roch Allum 4 ounces prepair and distil them according to Art Another Take Calx of Egge shels White Corall pulverized of each 2 ounces Salt calcinated and Borax of each 6 ounces Gum Tragagant 5 ounces Roots of white Lillies number 6 White Sope 8 pound Styrax Calamita Belzoin of each 4 ounces Mix and distil them by Alembick Another of the same vertue Take Wine Vinegar half a pound Lytharge of gold 1 ounce and a half Ceruse 1 ounce Sal Gem 6 drams Roch Alum half an ounce Borax Sulphure vive Salt Nitre of each three drams Camphire half a dram prepare and distil them according to Art CHAP. XI A water against the inordinate Flux of Teares Take ripe Strawberries as many as you please set them to digest in Horse dung 15 dayes then distil them in Balneo Or thus Take Flowers of the white Thorn Leaves or tops of the Willow Eye-bright of each what sufficeth distil them as before CHAP. XII A water against rednesse of the Eyes Take juice of Celandine Rue Vervaine Fennel of each three ounces Tops and leaves of Roses of each what sufficeth Sugar Candy 3 ounces of the best Tutia Sanguis Dracâ—nis of each four ounces Bruise them that are to be bruised and distil them according to Art CHAP. XIII A Water to clense and dry a sharp Vlcer Take Crude Allum 2 ounces white of Egges number 15. Juice of Purslaine Plantaine Nightshade Nicotian Houseleek Water of Meadsweet Trinity grasse Roses of each 4 ounces Labour them well together and draw off the Water by an Alembick of Glasse in Balneo CHAP. XIV A water to make the Teeth white Take Allum 6 ounces Common Salt 3 ounces Myrrhe Mastick Cloves of each 6 drams Mix bruise and distil them according to Art CHAP. XV. A Water to take away the marks of the Small Pox. Take Mastick Myrrhe Aloes Hepatick Nard Sanguis Draconis Olibanum Opopanax Bdelium Carpobal samum Saffron Gum Arabick Liquid Storax of each 2 drams and a handful Beat what is to be beaten then adde thereto of clear Turpentine equall weight distil them according to Art CHAP. XVI A Water to Cicatrize Vlcers Take red Wine 2 pound Plantaine water half a pound Rose water four ounces Juice of Plantaine Vervaine Shepheards Purse Knotgrasse Centaury the lesse Comfery the greater and lesser of each 2 ounces Crude Allum 1 pound Cypresse Nuts 3 ounces Pomgranate flowers half an ounce Pomgranate pils 3 ounces Gals half an ounce Bark of the Oak Sumach of each five drams Turpentine 3 ounces Crude Honey half a pound Mastick Olibanum of each ten drams Sarcocoll 2 ounces Burnt Vitriol Burnt lead of each 1 dram Bole Armoniack 3 ounces Cassia lignea halfan ounce Round Birtwort 3 ounces Powder what is to be powdred then mix and distil them Another Take Mastick Myrrhe Olibanum Sarcocoll Mummie of each 3 drams Frankincense 1 ounce Nutmegs Cinamon Cloves Cubebs of each 2 drams Cyprus Nuts half an ounce Flowers Barkes of Pomgranates of each 1 dram Bole Armoniack 1 ounce Sanguis Draconis half an ounce Red Roses 3 drams Roch Allum 1 pound Vitriol 7 drams Clarifiâ—d Honey 1 ounce Aqua vitae a pound and half White Wine 1 pound Juice of Plantaine Nightshade Comfery of the greater and lesser of each 4 ounces Water wherein iron hath been quenched 4 pound Powder what is to be powdred and infuse them all night in Aqua vitae in the morning draw forth the water by Alembick CHAP. XVII A Water for Vlcers Take White Wine 4 pound Plantain water 2 pound Allum half a pound White Copperas 5 ounces Crude Honey 1 pound Licorice Rasped 1 pound Bole Armoniack 5 ounces Camphire an ounce and half Mercury sublimated 2 drams Bruise what is to be bruised and distil them by Alembick CHAP. XVIII A Water for hollow Vlcers Take Fountaine water Red Wine of each 2 pound and a halt Red Roses four ounces Flowers Rindes of Pomgranates of each 2 ounces and a half Sumach 2 ounces Sage a handfull Comfery the greater and lesser of each half a handfull Sarcocoll 3 ounces Mastick 2 ounces Olibanum 1 ounce Honey 1 pound water of Turpentine a pound and a half bruise what is to be bruised and distil them through a lembick of Glasse with a gentle fire CHAP. XIX A Cicatrizing Water Take water wherein Iron hath been quenched four pound Aqua Balsami veri four pound Turpentine a pound and half Crude Honey 1 pound Allum 10 ounces white Copperas five ounces Bole Armoniack 7 ounces Mercury sublimated half a dram leaves of Plantain Comfery the greater middle and lesser Teasill Knotgrasse St. Johns Wort of each a handful and a half Frankincense 2 ounces Olibanum White Sanders of each half an ounce
Red Roses a handfull and a half Cassia Lignea Cinamon of each 3 drams for the first distillation then take Turpentine 1 pound Mastick 3 drams pure Rozen 6 ounces Cinamon Cloves of each 2 drams Pomgranate rinds half an ounce Cyprus Nuts 1 ounce and a half White Copperas two ounces Allum 3 ounces Olibanum 4 ounces Sanguis draconis an ounce and a half Aqua Balsam veri 1 pound for the second distillation Afterwards Take Flowers of St. Johns Wort Sage Rosemary Carduus Benedictus Centaury of each 1 ounce Mastick Red Sanders of each 3 drams Wood of Aloes 2 scruples Cubebs one dram Aqua vitae half a pound Burnt Allum White Tartar of each an ounce and a half Myrrhe half an ounce Earth Wormes in powder 1 dram the middle Bark of the Oak 6 ounces Cassia lignea three drams White Copperas 1 ounce Rindes of Pomgranates half an ounce Cinamon 2 drams Flowers of Pomgranates 1 dram Guaiacum four ounces Carpobalsamum Xylobalsamum of each 1 dram Myrtles Mummie of each 2 drams Borax half an ounce Cloves 2 drams Tormentill Gentian of each 2 drams and a half Round Birt-wort This is for the last distillation afterwards adde Burnt Allum half an ounce White Copperas 2 drams Mastick 1 ounce in fine powder and then keep it for use CHAP. XX. A water for hollow Wounds Take Fountain water Red Wine of each 2 ounces an half Red Roses 4 ounces Pomgranat flowers Pomgranate rindes of each 2 ounces and a half Sumach 2 ounces Sage 1 handfull both the Coâ—feries of each a handfull Allum half a pound Sarcocoll 3 ounces Mastick 2 ounces Olibanum 1 ounce Honey 1 pound water of Turpentine a pound and a half Prepare the Ingredients according to Art and then distil them all together in a glasse lembick with a gentle fire CHAP. XXI A water for Wounds and Vlcers Take Calx vive extinct in Fountain water 8 pound Plantain water four ounces Rose water 2 pound Heat all these together afterward let them stand and clear pour forth all the clear to the lembick and put to it Honey 2 pound Allum 1 ounce Borax Mastick of each three ounces Olibanum four ounces the middle Bark of the Oak dryed 3 ounces powder what is to be powdred and distil them according to Art CHAP. XXII A water to make the Teeth white Take the first distilled water of Honey which is white one pound Allum half a pound Sal Nitre White Salt of each one ounce Water of Lentisk leaves 1 pound Mastick two ounces White Vineger White Wine of each 2 ounces Mix and distil them according to Art reserve the water CHAP. XXIII A water against the Colick Take Muscadell or Malmsey four pound Nutmegs Galls of each 1 dram Cinamon Cloves Grains of each two drams Powder the ingredients grossely and infuse them in the wine 24 houres then with a soft fire draw off the water according to Art CHAP. XXIV A water for a cold Stomach Take Citron and Orange pils dryed of each 2 ounces Rosemary Mints of each one handfull Cinamon Cloves Cubebs Cardamums Nutmegs Ginger of each a dram and a half Sage Pennyroyall Thyme of each one handfull Caraway seeds Aniseeds Fennell seeds of each four drams Bruise what is to be bruised and infuse them all the space of 24 houres in Canary wine four pints then distil them in Balneo according to Art CHAP. XXV Water of Sage Compound Take Sage Marjoram Thyme Lavender Epithâ—â—um Betâ—â— of each 1 ounce Cinamon half an ounce Ireos Roots of Cyprus Calamus Aromaticus of each 1 ounce Storax Benjamin of each a dram and a half Infuse them four dayes in four pound of spirit of Wine then distil them in Balneo CHAP. XXVI Lavender water Compound Take flowers of Lavender Lilly of the Valley of each 24 handfuls Piony Tillia Flowers of Rosemary Sage of each half a handfull Cinamon Ginger Cloves Cubebs Galingale Calamus Aromaticus Mace Messelto of the Oak of each a dram and a half Piony roots one ounce and a half of the best Wine what sufficeth infuse them in the Wine two dayes then distil them in Balneo Mariae This water is good against the Falling sicknesse Convulsion fits and the infirmities of the Brain CHAP. XXVII A Pectorall Water Take the Liver of a Calf the Lungs of a Fox of each number 1 Liverwort Longwort Sage Rue Hyssop of each one handfull Roots of Enula Gladiol of each half an ounce Seeds of Anise Caraway Fennell of each half an ounce Flowers of Borage and Buglosse of each two drams infuse them the space of 24 houres in rich old Wine what sufficeth Water of Scabius Carduus Benedictus of each four ounces Hysop 2 ounces then distil it in Balneo Mariae Another Take leaves of Scabius Veronica of each two handfuls Venus Hair Sage Hysop Horehound Liverwort Licorice of each one handfull Flowers of Borage Buglosse Violets of each half a handfull Roots of Enula Campana Licorice Flowers of Ireos of each half an ounce Aniseeds Fennell seeds of each one dram Choyse Cinamon orientall Saffron of each half a dram let them be bruised and cut be digested in water of Scabius Veronica of each one pound water of Hysop half a pound white Wine 3 pound let them digested two days be distilled in Balneo Mariae adde Sugar Candy what sufficeth This water openeth the obstructions of the Liver and Lungs and strengtheneth them CHAP. XXVIII Aqua Splenetica Take roots of Fern 2 ounces roots of Parsley Polypody of each an ounce and a half roots of Round Birt wort Lovage Calamus Aromaticus Acorns of the water of each 1 ounce chosen Rubarb barks of Tamarisk Copperas Ash of each half an ounce Lovage Seeds of Caraway Cummin Anise of each two drams Scolopendria tops of Wormwood Fumiterre Dodder leaves of Agrimony Ceterach of each a handfull and a half Rich Wine 8 pound let them be digested two dayes and then distil them in Balneo Mariae This water strengtheneth the Spleen openeth and provoketh Vrine CHAP. XXIX Aqua Febrifuga Take roots of Vipers grasse Cinquefoil Tormentill Dictamum of each 6 drams Seeds of Citron excorticated Carduus Benedictus Carduus Mariae Sorrel of each half an ounce of all the Sanders of each 1 dram of the Cordiall flowers of each 1 handfull Goats Rue one handfull Harts horn rasped half an ounce pour upon them bruised water of Tormentill Cychorie Carduus Benedictus Carduus Mariae Wild Poppy of each what sufficeth let them be macerated three dayes in a glasse close shut afterward adde Citrons bruised number six Juice of Endive Carduus Benedictus Plantain of each one pound Borage Scordium of each half a pound let them be distilled in Balneo Mariae This water is convenient in Feavers especially malignant Feavers because it driveth away the malignity and resisteth putrefaction CHAP. XXX Aqua Damascena Odorifera Take Ireos Flowers Cloves Cubebs Cinamon Grains of Paradise Calamus Aromaticus of each one ounce Marjoram Thyme
Bay leaves Rosemary Flowers Red Roses of each a handfull Lavender flowers three drams of the best Wine 3 measures let them be macerated â—nd distilled to the distilled liquor add Musk half a scruple Civet 6 grains This water beateth dryeth cutteth discusseth and chiefly strengtheneth the Heart and Head CHAP. XXXI Aqua Hysterica Take roots of Dictamnum seeds of Daucus of each one ounce Cinamon Cassia lignea Balm of each two scruples Orientall Saffron 1 scruple New Castorium 1 scruple and a half of all these mixt make a powder to which let be poured water of Rue two pound and a half let them stand in infusion four dayes and then distil them in Balneo Mariae CHAP. XXXII Aqua Nephretica Take roots of Enula Campaâ—a Cammock Pimpernell Radish of each one ounce Parsley Lovage of each 7 drams leaves of Lovage Parsley of each one handfull Saxifrage cum toto two ounces Flowers of Broom Balm Rosemary of each half a handfull Elder one handfull Berries of Juniper Myrtle Alcakengie Anifeeds of each 2 ounces cut them and infuse them the space of 8 dayes in 12 pound of the best white Wine then let them be distilled This water openeth and provoketh Vrine the dose is one spoonfull CHAP. XXXII Aqua Aperitiva Take roots of Eringo Vipers graffe Fern the greater Centaury of each half an ounce roots of Fennell Banks of Cappâ—ris Tamarisk Ash of each three drams Barks of Citrons two drams and a half Seeds of Carduus Benedictus Cichorie of each half an ounce Seeds of Endive Cresses Citrons Scariol of each two drams Polytricon Adianthum Ceterach Dodder Scolopendria Betony Endive of each a handfull and a half Tops of Thyme Epithymum Hops Flowers of St. Johns Wort Broome Borage Balm of each 1 handfull Small Raisins 1 ounce Cinamon 1 dram and a half Spec. Dialace half a dram Carduus Benedictus Water of Hops Scolopendria Pauls Betony of each one pound Rhenish Wine two pound and a half let them stand two days in a warm place in a vessel close stopped afterward distil them in Balneo This water openeth the obstructions of the whole body but especially of the Liver Spleen and Mesentery FINIS A Catalogue of the Materials and Ingredients used in the precedent Rules ROOTS ANgelica Avens Butter-Bur Calamus Arâ—maticus Cyperus long Contra-yerva Enula-campana Galingal Gentian Ginger Horse Radish Imperitoria Licorice Lovage Orris Sassafras Scordium Snake-grasse Valerian Common Garden Great Vincetoxicum Zedoary WOODS LIgnum Rhodium Sanders Red Yellow BARKS and PILLS BAy-tree Roots Cassia Lignea Cinamon Common White Citron Guaiacum Limon Orange Pippins Quinces Sassafras HEARBS ANgelica Arsmart Bay-leaves Balm or Bawm Burnet Brooklime Balsamint or Costmary Carduus Benedictus Chervile sweet Clary Calamint Cresses Water Garden Winter Bank Costmary or Balsamint Horehound white Lavender leaves Lavender Cotton Mint Speir Red Marjoram Sommer Peny Royal Rosemary Rocket Ros solâ—s Rue Sage Red Great Scurvygrasse Common Garden Stoechados Southernwood Scordium Thyme Wilde Garden Limon Tarragon Trefoil Water Valerian great Wormwood Common Romane FLOWERS COwslip Citron Camomile Elder Gilliflowers Clove Giâ—iflowers Stock three sorts Jasmine Lavender Lillium Convallium Marygold Melilot Orange Poppy Red Roses Red Damask Musk Bryer Saffron Sage Stoechas Tillia or Lindentree Thyme Garden Limon Wilde Woodbine or Honey-suckle SEEDS ANise Angelica Basil Caroway Cardamums Cresse Bank Chervile sweet Coriander Cummin Fennel sweet Grains of Paradise Mustard Radish Rocket Scurvy-grasse Garden Wormwood common FRUITS APricotes Alkerms Berries Barley Maulted Barley Maulted Cardamums Cherries Currans Forain English Cubebs Cloves Grapes Hops Juniper Berries Maces Nutmegs Pepper White Long Quinces Raspis Red Raysins sol Strawberries Saffron Walnuts green with husks Zedoary JUICES LImons Walnuts green with the Husks Others of divers kindes AMbergreese Allum Benjamin Camphire Confection of Alkermes Mithridate Musk Treakle Venice Syrup of Gilliflowers Storax Sugar of divers sorts Liquid Materials WInes of all kindes Beer and Ale After-Worts or Wash Sugar-Waters Tilts Dregs Lees or Grounds of Beer or Ale Lees of Wines Spirits of Wine Rose-water FINIS An Alphabeticall Table of all the Oils Waters Experiments and Curiosities contained in the six foregoing Bookes A. OYle of Adders 97 Quintessence of Adders 98 Air in the heat of the summer and the heat of the day to condense into water 137 The form of an Alembick 31 Oile of Amber 38 Spirit of Ambergreese 123 Oile or Butter of Antimony 70 Water of Antimony 71 Spirit Essence of Antimony 72 An Antimoniall Cup to make 165 Water of rotten Apples 24 Aqua vitae of Wine 24 Aqua vitae of Beere 25 Aqua vitae to rectifie 26 Aqua vitae Irish 45 Aqua fortis 69 Another 70 Aqua Regia Another 69 Tearms of Art Explained 8 Oile of Arsenick 68 Aurum Poâ—abile of Doctor Anthony 175 Aurum Fulmâ—nans 180 B. THe Delineation of a Balneum Mariae 21 Another 22 Another 23 A Balneum of Wood 29 Balsam of Bears Fat 97 For Baths a new Invention 152 A Hot Bath Artificiall from the same principles as the Naturall Bath is 154 Bellowes Philosophicall 150 Water of Berries 21 Oyl of Berries 35 Bezoard Water 58 Bezoard Extract 59 A dead Bird to raise to life 118 Oyl Water Magistery of Bloud 89 Oil of Bole Armoniack 79 Oil of Bones 101 Essence of mans Brains 90 Doctor Burgesse Plvgue Water 53 Burnt-root water compound 52 To purifie Butter And to make Butter tast of any Vegetable without altering its color 125 C. Oyle of Camphire severall wayes to make 37 A Candle that shall last long 148 Spirit of Castor 58 To make Cheese tast strong of any vegetable without discoloring it 125 Aqua Coelestis 46 Water against the Colâ—ck 51 Water against Convulsions 50. 51 Water of Corall 81 Water of Crabs 102 Oil of Crabs Eyes 103 Spirit of Cranium Humanum 91 D. DIstillation and its kinds 1 Vessels for Distillation 3 Rules for Distillation 12 Common distilled Waters 17 Distilling in wooden Vessels 29 To Distill Spirits of Minerals Vegetables Bones Horns c. 76 Water of Dung Doves Dung Cow Dung Horse Dung 100. 101. E. OIle Water of Egs 102 To engrave upon an Egge or Peble with wax or Grease 132 The four Elements to make appeare in a Glasse 128 Water of Elder Berries 21 Elixir Subtilitatus of Paracelsus 45 The Processe of the Elixir according to Paracelsus 188 according to Divi leschi Genus Amo 189 F. FIre to keep Fire in a Glasse that whilest the Glasse is shut will not burn but as soon as it is opened will be enflamed 144 For Fire an excellent invention 151 To make Firre trees appear in Turpentine 127 Water of Flesh 95. 96 Flesh to make Artificially 118 Water of the Spawn of Frogs simple and compound 103. 104 Furnaces the Matter and Form 2 A Furnace to distill liquor with the steam of Boyling water 20 Furnaces for four rectifications at once 28 A Furnace to distill per descensum 41 A Furnace for Reverberation 71 A Furnace that shall of it self
together in Balneo the space of three days then put them into a Retort and distil them in sand and there will come over a water tasting of the fire let this water be distilled in Balneo and what distils off keep by it self as also what remains in the bottome which is the fire keep by it self This last distilled water pour again upon its earth and let them be macerated together in Balneo for the space of three dayes and then let all the water be distilled in sand and let what will arise be separated in Balneo and the residence remaining in the bottome be reserved with the former residence Let the water be again poured upon the earth be abstracted and separated as before untill nothing remain in the bottom which is not separated in Balneo This being done let the water which was last separated be mixed with the residue of its fire and be macerated in Balneo three or four dayes and all be distilled in Balneo that can ascend with that heat and let what remains be distilled in ashes from the fire and what shall be elevated is aeriall and what remains in the bottome is fiery These two last Liquors are ascribed to the two first principles the former to Mercury and the latter to Sulphur and are accounted by Paracelsus not as Elements but their vitall parts being as it were the natural spirits and soul which are in them by nature Now both are to be rectified and reflected into their center with a circular motion that this Mercury may be prepared with its water being kept clear and odoriferous in the upper place but the Sulphur by it self Now it remains that we look into the third principle let the reverberated earth being ground upon a marble imbibe it s owne water which did above remain after the last separation of the Liquors made in Balneo so that this be the fourth part of the weight of its earth and be congealed by the heat of ashes into its earth and let this be done so oft the proportion being observed untill the earth hath drunk up all its water And lastly let this earth be sublimed into a white powder as white as snow the feces being cast away This earth being sublimed and freed from its obscurity is the true Chaos of the Elements for it contains those things occult seeing it is the salt of nature in which they lye hid being as it were reflected in their center This is the third principle of Paracelsus and the salt which is the matrix in which the two former sperms viz. of the man and woman the parents of the Homunculus viz. of Mercury and Sulphur are to be put and to be closed up together in a glazen womb sealed with Hermes seals for the true generation of the Homunculus produced from the spagyricall Embryo and this is the Homunculus or great Arcanum otherwise called the nutritive Medicament of Paracelsus This Homunculus or nutritive Medicament is of such vertue that presently after it is taken into the body it is turned into bloud and spirits If then diseases prove mortall because they destroy the spirits what mortal disease can withstand such a medicine that doth so soon repair and so strongly fortifie the spirits as this Homunculus being as the oyl to the flame into which it is immediately turned thereby renewing the same By this Medicament therefore as diseases are overcome and expelled so also youth is renewed and gray hairs prevented An Artificiall way to make Flesh TAke of the crums of the best wheaten bread assoon as it comes forth out of the Oven being very hot as much as you please put it into a glasse vessell which you must presently hermetically close Then set it in digestion in a temperate Balneo the space of two months and it will be turned into a fibrous flesh If any Artist please to exalt it to a higher perfection according to the Rules of Art he may find out how great a nourisher and restorative Wheat is and what an excellent medicine it may make Note that there must be no other moisture put into the glass besides what is in the bread it self Paracelsus his way for the raising of a dead bird to life and for the generating many Serpents of one both which are performed by putrefaction A Bird is restored to life thus viz. Take a Bird put it alive into a gourd glasse and seal it up hermetically burn it to ashes in the third degree of fire then putrefie it in horse dung into a mucilaginous flegm and so by a continued digestion that flegm must be brought to a further maturity being taken out and put into an ovall vessell of a just bignesse to hold it by an exact digestion and will so become a renewed bird which saith Paâ—acelsus is one of the greatest wonders in Nature and shews the great vertue of putrefaction 2 Cut a Serpent into small pieces which put into a gourd glasse which you must Hermetically seal up then putrefie them in horse dung and the whole Serpent will become living again in the glasse in the form either of worms or spawne of fishes Now if these worms be in a fitting manner brought out of putrefaction and nourished many hundred Serpents will be bred out of one Serpent whereof every one will be as big as the first And as it is said of the Serpent so also many other living creatures may be raised and restored again To make an artificiall Mallago Wine First take a wine barrell well hooped and dressed with one end being open to which a close cover must be well fitted which must be to take off and put on at pleasure Set it in a warm place Winter or Summer and fill it full with clear and pure water to each three gallons put six pound of the best Mallago Raisins which you must bruise in a stone Mortar and then strow upon the water upon each twenty gallons of which you must cast a handfull of Calxvive then cover the vessell close with the cover and cast clothes upon it to keep it warm and let it stand four or five dayes to work as Wine or Beer doe when they be new then see if the Raisins be risen up to the top of the Water if so then put them down again and cover it again as before let them thus stand three weeks or a month together the Raisins being every fourth or fifth day put down in case they rise up Then put a tap into the vessell three or four fingers above the bottome and try if it be good and taste like Wine if not let it stand a while longer but if so draw it off into another wine vessell and to every twenty gallons that you have drawn off put a pint of the best Aqua vitae two new laid Hen-egs and a quart of Alligant beaten well together and let it stand in a cellar as other wine doth till it be clear and fit to be drunk To
make an artificiall Claret wine Take six gallons of water two gallons of the best Cidar put thereunto eight pound of the best Mallago Raisins bruised in a Mortar let them stand close covered in a warm place the space of a fortnight every two days stirring them well together then presse out the Raisins and put the Liquor into the said vessell again to which adde a quart of the juice of Rasp-berries and a pint of the juice of Black cherries cover this Liquor with Bread spread thick with strong Mustard the Mustard side being downward and so let it work by the fire side three or four days then tun it up and let it stand a week then bottle it up And it will taste as quick as bottle-beer and indeed become a very pleasant drink and indeed farre better and wholsomer then our common Claret An artificiall Malmsey Take two gallons of English honey put it into eight gallons of the best Spring water set these in a vessell over a gentle fire when they have boyled gently an hour take them off and when they be cold put them into a smal barrell or run let hanging in the vessell a bag of spices and set it in the cellar and in half a year you may drink thereof To make an excellent aromaticall Hyppocras Take of Cinnamon two ounces Ginger an ounce Cloves and Nutmegs of each two drams of white Pepper half a dram of Cardamums two drams of Musk Mallow seed three ounces Let all these be bruised and put into a bag and hanged in six gallons of Wine Note that you must put a weight in the bag to make it fink Some boyl these spices in Wine which they then sweeten with sugar and then let run through a Hyppocras bag and afterwards bottle it up and use when they please A single Hypocras bag or Manica Hippocratis When you would have this or any other Liquor to be very clear you may use the triple Hypocras bag for what feces passeth the first will stay in the second and what in the second will stay in the last Note that these bags must be made of white Cotton A triple Hypocras bag is only one hanging above another after this manner To make an excellent Hypocras Wine in an instant Take of Cinnamon two ounces Nurmegs Ginger of each half an ounce Cloves two drams bruise these small then mix them with as as much Spirit of Wine as will make them into a paste let them stand close covered in a glass the space of six days in a cold place then presse ouâ— the Liquor and keep it in a glass A few drops of this Liquor put into any Wine giveth it a gallant relish and odour and maketh it as good as any Hypocras whatsoever and that in an instant Note that if the Wine be of it selfe harsh it will not be amisse to sweeten it with Sugar for thereby it is made far more gratefull This also being put into Beer will make it very pleasant and aromaticall Another way to make Hypocras or to make any Wine to tast of any vegetable in an instant Take what Wine you please and according as you would have it tast of this or that spice or any other vegetable of one or more together you may drop a few drops of the distilled oil of the said spices or vegetables into the Wine and brew them well together and you may make in an instant all sorts of Hypocras or other Wines as for example if you would have Wormwood Wine two or three drops of oil of Wormwood put into good Rhenish-wine being well brewed together will make a Wormword Wine exceeding any that you shall meet withall in the Rhenish-wine houses To make a good Rasberry-wine Take a gallon of Sack in which let two gallons of Raspberries stand steeping the space of twenty four houres then strain them and put to the Liquor three pound of Raisins of the sun stoned let them stand together foure or five days bring sometimes stirred together Then pour off the clearest and put it up in bottles and set it in a cold place If it be not sweet enough you may adde some Sugar to it Two other wayes to make it all the year at an instant Take of the juice of Raspberries put it into a bottle which you must stop close and set in a cellar and it will become clear and keep all the year and become very fragrant A few sponfulls of this put into a pint of Wine sweetned well with Sugar gives it an excellent and full tast of the Raspes If you put two or three ounces of the Syrup of Raspes to a pint of Wine it will doe as well but then you need use no other Sugar for that will sweeteen it sufficiently To make Mead or Metheglin that it shall tast stale and quick within a fortnight and be fit to drink To every three gallons of water put one gallon of the purest Honey put what hearbs and spices you please boyl it and skim it well now and then putting in some water When it is sufficiently boyled take it off and when it is almost cold put it into a wooden vessell and set it by the sire side cover it over with Bread spread thick with the strongest Mustard the Mustard side being downwards and so let it stand three dayes and it will worke only put a cloth over it Then tunne it up and after a week draw it forth into bottles and set it into a cellar and after a week more you may drink of it for it will taste as quick as bottle beer that is a fortnight old and indeed as stale as other Mead will in half a year To make a Spirit of Amber-gryse that a few drops thereof shall perfume a pint of Wine most richly Take of Amber-gryse 2. drams of Musk a dram cut them small and put them into a pint of the bâ—st rectified Spirit of Wine close up the glasse Hermetically and digest them in a very gentle heat till you perceive they are dissolved Then you may make use of it Two or three drops or more if you please of this Spirit put into a pint of Wine gives it a rich odour Or if you put 2. or 3. drops round the brimmes of the glasse it will do as well Half a spoonfull of it taken either of it self or mixed with some speciall Liquor is a most rich Cordiall An excellent sweet Water Take a quart of Orenge-flower water as much Rose-water adde thereto of Musk-mallow seeds grossely bruised four ounces of Bâ—njamin two ounces of Storax an ounce of Labdanum six drams of Lavender flowers two pugills of sweet Marjoram as much of Calamus Aromaticus a dram distill all these in a Glasse Still in Balneo the vessels being very well closed that no vapour breath forth Note that you may make a sweet water in an instant by putting a few drops of some distilled oils together into some Rose-water and brewing them well together To