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A01662	The treasure of Euonymus conteyninge the vvonderfull hid secretes of nature, touchinge the most apte formes to prepare and destyl medicines, for the conseruation of helth: as quintesse[n]ce, aurum potabile, hippocras, aromatical wynes, balmes, oyles perfumes, garnishyng waters, and other manifold excellent confections. Wherunto are ioyned the formes of sondry apt fornaces, and vessels, required in this art. Translated (with great diligence, et laboure) out of Latin, by Peter Morvvying felow of Magdaline Colleadge in Oxford.; Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri. English	Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565.; Morwen, Peter.	1559 (1559)	STC 11800; ESTC S103098	210,005	408

shortly worke An other that taketh away al maner of spots Put into a glas like muche of Cristall and Corall with water of Limones so much that it maye couer them and be a fingers bredth aboue them Stop this vessell and put it in some colde place in the earthe as in a wine seller a fewe dayes Then caste away the shelles and wash the snailes with water somewhat salt so ofte till all their slimines be washt away Then destill them and keepe the water Afterward thou shalt draw out a water of rapes cut small by a limbeck When thou wilt vse it take a sponeful of the firste water .iiii. of the second and .iiii. of the third mixt them and washe y e face which notwithstanding must first be washt with water and wipte An other maruelous for the same purpoose Take snailes wythoute theyr shelles and washe them as is before rehersed then sprinckle an vnce of Salte otherwise salte Gemmae beaten in a glasse and put the snailes there vpon then sprinkle other Salte vppon them againe and snailes vppon that and so shall you do continuallye layinge salte vppon Snailes and Snailes vppon salte till the thyrde parte of the vessell be fylled Then poure vnto them so muche of the iuyce of Snailes that it stande aboue the salt and Snailes two fingers thicke and destyll them vse thys water as is aboue rehersed If so be it thou canst not commodiouslye destill them set them all mixt together in a cloose vessell tyll they receiue the forme of an oyntmente and that shall you vse at euenynge as the other aboue wrytten Oyntementes the face fyrste washte and wipte and the seconde daye after washe the face wyth water of Beane floures This also did I reade in the Antidotary of Gordonius An other not destilled Twelue Snailes cut euerye one in .iiii. partes put in good white wine This liquor shalt thou vse as the aforesaide It shall come to good succes After thys followeth a destylled water of a yonge Storke of the same effecte and operation whyche I described amongste the symple Medicinall waters An other manner verye good and secreate or vnknowne Sixe newe laide Egges halfe a pounde of Malmsey a yong Pigion not yet holelye fetheared Chese new from the pres y t is made of vnskimmed milcke .viii. Arantia Poma oyle of Tartaro iii. ounces an ounce of Cerussa Let thē be beaten that maye be beaten and mixte altogether that they may be destilled wyth a slow fyre The vse of this water is like the other before It maketh a fair skin fine tender as is possible A washinge or Kynges water whyche abolysheth all spottes Take water of cleare Turpintine as muche as can be gotten out of .ii. pounds of it put therein halfe an ounce of Masticke iii. ounces of white Frankensence halfe an ounce of Tragacantha When they are pund mixte them wyth the water and destyll them keepe the water Then mealte Swines grease of a male Hog vnsaulted and strayne it throughe a double lynnen cloth Then take white Ginger Cloues Cinamon Euphorbium Spiknarde Camphora of euerye one two ounces three Nutmegges when all these are pund myxt wyth the strayned Swines grease put vnto these two ounces of quycke Siluer often times washte wyth salte and Vineger and wrounge throughe a piece of Leather and with this mixte the drosse la feuille ou de lauenre as it is wrytten in Frenche of quicke syluer de couppelle When all is mixte together destill them and keepe the water Afterwarde take vi ounces of the water of the forsaid Turpentin and of the latter water twise so much mixt them and when you wyll vse them washe the face fyrste wyth a decoction of Cerussa and wipe it Then poure about .vi. droppes of thys water mixt together into the palm of the hand and wher thou wilt anoynt couering the place anoynted or wet with a linnen cloth till it be dried A marueilous effect and operacion shall folowe therupon An other of Snailes .xxx. whyte Snailes .ii. pound of gootes milke .iii. vnces of swynes grece or els of a yong Kid a dram of Camphora pund let them be destilled in a lymbeck of glas An other Take six vnces of the crums of the whytest breed and wash it .ii. poundes of milke mixt it diligently and destill it as is aboue sayd and washe with it The water also of the whytes of egges destilstilled is thought good An other that purifieth the face two vnces of Mirh whyte Frankencence Mastich of ether halfe an vnce Gynger whyte .ii. drams one dram of Camphora a pound or a pound and a halfe of whytes of egges When all is diligently mixt let them be put in the bely of a yong hen and wellyking the bowelles taken out If thou wilt put to a hen simpely but flein and cut in small pieces Put to also Asses milke or Gootes milke aboute iii. Sextares that is .ii. pyntes a half .lx. vnces Destill thies in a lembeck of glas That the face may shyne elegantly .xxx. newe laid egges stiep them in vinegar the sharpest you can get for the space of .iii. daies and night then boor them through with a pyn that the humor w t in them may run al out Destill all this in a Rose-still that the face may be washt therwith A water clarifying the face Take the rout of Dragons made cleen and cut in to thin roundles stiep them .ix. daies in whyte wyne so that euery daye half a pound or more freshe wyn be powred vnto them then take the call of fat that is aboute the goutes in a kides bely taken in May to the number of six rys beeten and sod in .iii. poundes of black nightshad and a poūd of the meel of rys half a pound of the water of wylde plums or bullies blaūshed Beenes to seeth in the same water Put vnto this .xii. rotten Appuls and ten egges two handfull of the routes of common flower deluce or els the flower deluce of Florence a pound of Hony halfe a pounde of bitter Almondes Gum Arabick Sarcocolla Tragacantha Borage Camphora of euery one two drams shiepes milk six poundes Venice Turpentin .ii. vnces water of the floures of water Lily Let thies be destilled together in a lembeck with a smal fyer The water destilled therof let it be set in the sun and moued oftentymes An other that taketh away the spots of the skin and whitteneth it An vnce of Borage halfe a dram of Camphora thre drams of cōmun Alum Gum Arabick and Tragacantha of ether of them half an vnce Sarcocolla Assa dulcis of ether .ii. drames .iiii. vnces of Cerussa Pun all thies mixt them and put them into half a pound of Dragons water and as muche of water of floures of Lily together with water of the floures of Broum of Nightshade of water Lilyes of euery one foure vnces When they are mixt destill them in a lembeck of glas To make the face cleer and youthlyke that it seme lyke to

earthye grose and more impure matter semeth to be more large and to be extended also to manye other preparations makinges and composicions of medicines I thinck it good to ioyne certaine thinges hereunto in manner of a Corollarium or addicion whiche are not verye common nor to be met with euery where But no man ought to looke heare for a full or exacte and generall way of composition at our hands when as we shal teache only a fewe and suche as shall come to minde by the waye and all theese as it were by matters besides oure necessary purpose But if anye manne desire moe and more fully of diuers kyndes and wayes of making and preparing of medicines let him goo to the bokes of Iac. Siluius and other of thies matters Of diuers Oyles I Se the moste part of odoriferous and precious oils to be sod in a double vessel It is an easy matter to pres oute an oyl that shal be like the plant in sauor vertues in those that contein oyl aboundātly or out of the frutes of them sod in water it is gathered But in such as haue no great plenty of oyle we are wont to pres oute the sauor and strengthe with the oyl .iii. waies In the more common and moore aunciente waye of Dioscorides the flours were poured into pure oyl .iiii. dais were set out in the sun then the oyl being prest out moste diligently as muche more of the new flours was added and again it was set oute in the hot Sunne so oft might a man do so til the oyl did drink vp the sauour They did ad also thicknings for oyntmentes as of hony and odoriferous thynges The second way it standeth in pressinge oute in som thinges without any help of Art as Myrobalano in other that be dry and odoriferous by their own accord as the Nutmeg that is light stiept in wine and pres out with a pres So may a manne draw oyl oute of spices But they that be odoriferous and lack the substaunce of oyles as flours they geue oyle in thys sorte Sprynkle Flowers vppon Almondes and vnder them and lay in order the leaues of Almondes and of the flours by course and kepe them so longe prest together till the smel of the floures maye be vanished awaye then put them away and in their steede laye other flours after the same sorte and do this so ofte for there is not one way in all till the Almonds haue gotten a verye great smell then haue them to the pres A man must firste blaunch them and parch them a little at the fyre By this meanes the oyle getteth the more strengthe and vertue and is les in daunger of corruption because no waterye iuice is left in it The third way is by destillacion whereof it is said afore Cardan Vnto the most parte of oyles that be to be sod and made by fire they put some wine by the whiche meanes they smell les of adustion brētnes they be sod til the wine be consumed But flowers and suche as be of a sclender substaunce it is better they shoulde not be sodde in oyle or at the leaste not to boyle in it c. A man muste adde the moore wine if there be many species that be mixt with the wine and to be sod somwhat long so that somtimes the wine be almost double vnto the oil Som be stiepte firste in wine and then the iuice prest out is added to the oyle is sod together ether by it self or with a part of Turpentin as thei do in oyl of Hypericō or S. Ihons wurt Iasminum is made of .ii. ounces of flours of Iasmin sette in the Sunne .v. dayes in a pounde of oyl whiche afterward is sod with a slow fyer Oyl of swiet Almondes hooll Cloues beinge added therunto let it be set in the sun .viii. daies it shal be marueylous swiet smelling But thou shalt reed diuers wayes in Mesue and in the annotacions of Syluius vpon the same of the pressing out of oyll of Almondes whiche also may be applyed to diuers other fruites and siedes from the whiche oyll is prest out ¶ We vse the oyll of Almondes am that is bitter in stede of oyll of y e kirnelles of peeches but it dryeth vp moore then the other Brassauolus I am wont to make an oyll of siedes and the reed codes of Capsicum or Cardamomū Arabicū other of the codes therof alone put in oyll whiche is wont to be vsed in place of oyll of Peper or also of Euphorbium if it be put in in more abundance for it is far more vehement then Peper With vs they call it reed Peper sum of the cōmun people call it Siliquastrum but not ryghtly but fewe of those silique or codes do wax rype bycause of the hasty coold of haruest But vnrype codes also hāged in stoues a few daies and dried may well be put vnto oyll For they haue sharpnes inough whiche is not to be found in the hool plāt besydes when as the leest heares or stringes are without any taste and the leeues and stem are vnsauery but in the codes is so excellēt a tast that it is worthy to be wondred at Sum bycause of the vehement heat therof reken it almost emōgst poysons as Cardan whiche I prayse not Nether was the● euer any man said that fyer was venemous burn it neuer so much when it hath no venemous qualitie besydes I haue my self vsed both the siedes of this Capsicum and the codes without harm in potage but in a small quantitie An oyl of the kirnels of cheries clenseth y e face taketh away spottes and frakenes it is good also for the gout and the stone of the reynes bladder It is made as oyl of swiet Almondes Furne Oyll of hay is thus made Let the hay be set on fyer and quenched and after let it be layde vpon cooles and when it is resolued into smoock lay an iron place vpon it and a certain vnctuositie or fatnes shall cleue vnto it whiche is called oyll of hay This oyll with a fether is anoynted vpon ring wormes and tetters Rogerius Oyl of whete is made betwene two iron plates moderatly made hoat or as Rasis hath between a marble and a thick plate of iron but muche better as I heare by destillacion it is commended against the ruggednes of the skinne and ringwormes Furnerius and other Sum say also that it is good for fistulas the chames or chinkes of the skin Mat. Read befor emōgst y e oyls destilled Oyll of Iuy beries drawen out lyke as out of Bay beries is good against the gout of a could cause or of obstructiō or stopping and it restoreth the astonied mēbers takē with the palsy Roge. A maruelous oyl of Hypericon or saint Iohns wurt Thre vnces of the tops of Hypericon are in fused .iii. daies in odoriferous wyn as much as is sufficient afterward sieth it in a double vessel wel stopt

good man shoulde do well to moue the matter to the Magistrates that it mighte not be lawfull for Apothecaries other to prepare anye more or sell such waters partlye hurtfull partlye vnprofitable Bulcasis in dede vseth leaden bodies in destillinge of drye Roses whiche perauenture may be graunted for such waters as ought to be vsed only wythout the body Some find no faulte with vessels made of pure and best yron because no euill qualitye as they saye can issue thereoute into the matter or liquor and trouth it is that certaine metallye thynges as requyre to be destilled with a greate and continuall fyre seme to haue neade of so stronge vessels But of this let other men iudge I wil leaue the matter to Chymistes and destillers Berchile Bulcasis dothe call a vessel in a furnace for Rose water whiche receyueth the boylinge water deriued oute of an other standynge by it in the which vessel the body of the stil conteining the Roses is set Of Fornaces c. I Declared before and described two manner of fornaces meete for destillation by ashes and Balneum Mariae also oute of Bulcasis Heare wyll I trace oute and descrybe another manner of fournayce the vse whereof shall be dyuers but chiefly when as any thing is to bee destiled by a great fier so that no meane be betwixt the fier the cucurbite or pan wherein is conteined the matter that is to be destilled after whiche maner oyles or certaine liquors that burn the skyn and fleshe are gotten out of metals as aqua fortis c. The vse therof shal be also to sublimation and if a man will set a kettell in at the top vpon theyron cros then fill it with ashes or water and put clay about it he shall be gin what destillation he will But for aqua fortis or suche lyke he shall set a cucurbite or pan dawbed with clay by by right vpon the cros Yea this fornace may be made also vpon a strong borde of wode as I haue made my selfe that you may remoue it from one place to an other at your pleasure Therfore vpon a woden table you shall buyl a four square fornace of such bignes that it may be sufficient to set in a meane circubite The walles you shall make of bricke ioyned with morter very wel made the hight shal not muche pas two foote the walles shall bee abont a foote one from an other within Whan you haue made the harth or botome you must make a dore O. where as the ashes may bee taken oute whiche fall from the coales from the grate buylded vpon it If so be it that an other grate were made also for the ashes to fall thorowe and that lowest space to be somwhat dieper a man shoulde not niede to take out the ashes so oft and the fyer should be the more vehement Of slow Harry or the fornace of slouth that is a pype wherwith the Balneo Mariae is made hoat we haue written aboue where as we haue entreated generally of the Balneo Mariae The differences of coales shall wee knowe in Theophrastus but better of our own smithes specially goldsmithes and of the very experience it selfe Such coales as ar digged out of the ground are condemned forbidden bicause of their foule smell They are counted the best that are made of bieche or fir tree Dioptra or a litle skrien I call an instrument whiche some men hold before their face with their hand least the nyenes of the fier should hur them when it is nied to come nye a vehemēt fyer That is a thin borde with a slitt or carfe in the midst cut out ouerthwarth with a handle Lyquors destilled shoulde be kepte in glasen phialles with narow mouthes Let the mouth be shit with a stopple of wod or rather of corke and besydes that a man must couer it with wax and bynde a parchement about it also ❧ Hovve to close vessels and to defende them both with clay and otherwyse CLaying of a thing men do commonly say for y t which is to daub with clai to plaister to pariet Tothintēt we may the better kepe the smell and qualities of suche thinges as are destilled we must close diligently and ioyne together with clay the head with the body the tipe of the nose with the receiuer they call it commonly claying Some vse pure clay littered with ox heare some also temper it with lyme except I be deceiued Some mixt lyme and whytes of egges together when they haue nied of haste for then the morter wil be hard dry by and by some other wyse make clay of wisedome as they terme it The receiuer with the nose nedeth not so strong a kynde of clay It shal be sufficient to ioyne them with a certain quantitie of wax and halfe so muche rosen And for this purpose the commune vnpurified rosen of fyr trees will serue but you must clarifie it your selfe on this wyse as sone as it is melted with the fyer by and by let it be sight and powred through abundell of strawe Of the preparation of wax by strawe to clay withal reade Vlstadius chap. x If the head be not miet inoughe for the body but somwhat to big you shall put paper round about betwene it and the clay Without also wheras about any ioyntes there must clay be laide lay first moyst paper about it or els a linnen cloth and after clay it The morter to ioyne the cucurbita with the limbecke withall c. oughte to bee made wyth claye and heare and to be dry before fyre be put vnder Bulcasis entreating of oyl of tilestones The morter shall be the stronger if it be tempred not onlye with heare or woll but also with gotes bloud and the more also to be made with that is dros of yron beaten as is found aboute smithes in fields Morter for fornaces after what sorte it should be drest see within wher we teach to destyl by ashes Of Hermes seal that is of ioyning together the mouthes of glasen vessels with a paire of hot burning tonges softlye thrusting them together and how after they oughte to be opened againe reade Vlstadius cap. 20. Let the cucurbita also be fensed round about w t clay specially those that must abide the fire directly put vnder them and nothing betwixte and that twise or thrise and that the first crust be dryed before the next be laide on as when aqua fortis and oyle of Vitrial are destilled For the destillation in ashes there nedes no such mortering nor claying albeit if a man wil prouide for the worst considering the frailnes of the vessels speciallye where manye vessels are sette together in one fornace it shal be sufficient once or twise to pariet thē Those cucurbitas whiche they vse in Balneo Mariae specially when many are set together some men vse to put vppon them wollen cloth made mete for them lyke as it were hoose or cases They say glasen vessels

then of that thinge wheroute it ranne In this manner the destillacion of waters also of herbes and floures maye be done but that waye is far better which is by descencion downwarde c. Some put Muske aboute F. and other precious smellinge thinges and the water that rettineth the smelles not onlye of the owne proper matter but also of the Musk and of other things that be put to it Of destillation by descencion or going downewarde Vlstadius in his .xix. Chapter teacheth of this waye of destillinge vniuersallye and speciallye or seuerallye of oyles of Iuniper stickes of the yelkes of Egges Nutmegges and Benedicto where throughe I wyll go aboute to declare the matter moore clearelye and more shortlye He teacheth to make a fornace meete for this destillacion lyke to suche a Chunney as is vsed to be made amongste the Germaines of brickes vnbrente of a Cubit and a halfhie on euerye syde saue the former side whiche maye be somewhat lower and couered with thinne tiles to lay any thing vpon as the iron instrumentes wherewith the fire is gouerned in bredthe .iii. cubites euerye waye In the middle of thys fornaice let there be a hoole so great that a mans fote may be put in at it This fornace shall be meete also for an other vse that is to seale wyth the seale of Hermes as they call it when the mouthe of a Glasen Cucurbita beynge put into the hoole of the fornace the length a hande bredth that is .iiii. fingers and if any more about it be open that being stopt wyth claye assone as it is red hotte it is nipte together with a paire of tonges likewise red hotte When thou wylte destyll therefore in this fornace take a Cucurbita of the best earthe or if not of Coper or Latin syll it vnto the thyrde parte wyth the matter that is to be destilled and shitte it wyth a verye thinne iron lidde of iron plate full of lyttle hooles Then tourne it vpside downe and putte the mouthe of the Vessell into the hoole of the fornace three fingers deepe and what so euer is open on anye side fyll it with claye diligentlye rounde aboute so that nothynge maye fall into thys hoole Beneathe in the neather parte of the hoole thou shalt sette vnder a Cucurbita of glasse for the puttinge in and takinge oute whereof and that thou mayste see when the hoole matter is destilled the foore parte of the fornace muste be open whereunto the mouth of the vpper Cucurbita must be ioyned but not with clay Then let a fyre be made aboue aboute the vessel that cōteineth the matter on euerye syde But the fyre at the fyrste muste be little and as farre of from the vessell as is possible afterwarde by little and little to make it bigger and nearer the vessell Ye muste vnderstande that of euerye matter at the fyrste water destilleth moore or lesse accordynge to the difference of the matter When it hath left running and now the oyll hath begun to destill thou shalt empty the Cucurbita of glas that standeth vnderneth and set it vnder a-again and continue in encreesing the fyer and to make it euer nerer and nerer the vessell vntill no more oyl destille For then by and by the fyer must bee remoued far of that the vpper Cucurbita may be couled Then take away the nether that is the receiuer and kepe the oyll But as I said a lytle fyer is required at the first and is to be encreesed by litle and litle vntill the fourthe degree for two causes First lest by the sodein exces of to muche heet all the moysture yea the oyly moysture also be consumed which chiefly must be taken hied of when we couet to haue oyll of the yolkes of egges and nutmegs for in certain other as of Iuniper stickes a man shal offende nothing to make a sodein and great fyer Then bycause the woode set on fier perauenture would hurte the Cucurbita burn it breeke it or infect the oyll with sum vnplesaunt sauour Moreouer in simple oyll Benedict thou shalt encrease the fyer only at the end of the destillacion and thou maist prepare suche a place for the destillacion Dig a pit in the earth long brood and diep accordining to the measure of the pot that is to be put into it Let the pot bee glased washt with water and vpon the mouth of it let a thin iron plate be put bored through with many holes so that the plate be a fingar thicknes within the brim of the pot vpon this set an other pot that conteineth the matter to be destilled so y t the mouthes of them be ioyned together and all well clayed then let a fyer be made about the vpper pot whiche shal be hool without the pit saue y e mouth But this second way is not so cōmodious as the first because the water can not bee separated from the oyl nor easely knowē whan the hooll matter is destilled except it be knowen by vse and custome The fornace may also be made in a stiep hill as the same Vlstadius sheweth I let that pas that I be not to long Oyl of the leeues of Citrum or Orenge Arantia or Limons when it is destilled first the water is gotten out then the oyll and both ought to bee kept seuerally the oyll is very swiet and good It is made on this wyse Take the leeues of any of the forsayd tries which so euer ye will when they are cut beet them in a morter and as ye destill them receiue the water and when ye see any drop of diuers colour swym vpon the water the receyuer being chaunged encrees the fyer and gather the oyll It shall smell a litle of the fyer whiche fault shal be amended if ye let it stande long set in the sun Sum drye the forsayde leeues between twoo lynnen clothes and beete them they put to also many odoriferous swiet smellyng thinges as ziuet Muske Ambra hoot Styrax Ladanum Cinamon Benzoum not the substaunce of them but the fume or smoke only for they put thies into Rose water vpon the fyer and with the vapour of them they season the leues When thies are so diligently seasoned they take Roosewater wherein certain spices ar stiept as Cloues Galangal Put megges c. for the space of one day and the pouder of the leues moistened therwith they destill it it ashes with a slow fyer till the watery liquor be separated then they encrees the fyer and receiue the oyll whiche is of a wonderfull pleasaunt and swiet sauour Furner A certain practicioner shewed me that the oyll is separated cōmodiously from herbes routes in this maner Put the herbes or routes in Turpentyn or Larigna rosin washt eigth or nyne tymes till it wax whyte and let it stande in hoote sand q. s Then destill them with a slow fyre the Turpintyn shal run out first ▪ by and by at the beginning or if it moue but a litle

be et it again kepe it in a vessell lying on the one syde enclyned eight daies in a cold place til it be resolueed into oyl whiche if it doo not pres it out and kepe it The same wayes doth Mesues make oyls of egs It wer better whē y e Tartarū is calcinated and put it in a Hippocras bagge as they call it let it be put in a dry place till the oyll runne out into a vessel set vnder it Syluius I fynd an other certain maner in Furnerius in a Frenche booke of decking where as he biddeth to take Tartarū burned and calcinated as muche as can be taken at two handfulles and tied straite in a linnen clout to be burnt and calcinated in a furnace of Glas Lyme or Brick thē to be powred into a good quātitie of water with as muche Alum as a nut and to be muche sturred aboute then when thou hast let rest .xxiiii. houres streine this water casting that away that remaineth in the linnen cloth and sieth it in a skillet till nothing els then a certayne whyte crust remaine c. this place semeth to be mangled whiche hanged in a litle bag ny to the earth within thre daies thou shalt see it turned in to liquor whiche muste be a certain tymes strained til it becum cleer Sum put Tartarum to be calcinated in a newe pot in a potters ouen and when the vesselles are all baked then take it out But I thinke it should be calcinated better moore purely in hoat ashes or cooles as apples or wardens are wonte to bee rosted happing them also with cooles It shal be inough burnt when it shall appeare nowe whyte nor any more black whē it is so burnt they hang it in a litle bag with a sharp end lyke a spyr stieple tund vpsyde doun the mouth or wyde end put in a clouen stick wherby it shall hang and be prest together w t a phiall of glas set vnder with a tunnil An other way Take equall porcions of Tantarum and Salnitrum pund burne them in a larg pot then grinde or breake them with a hotte iron and put them in a little bagge in a wine celer that they may destill An other Beat Tartarum and Nitrum in equal parts mixt them and burn them that the Nitrum maye be consumed The Tartarum that remayneth put in a bladder that is a glas like a bladder hang it in hot water and it shall be streighte resolued into oyle ¶ An other Tartarum well washte from the dregs and verye wel dried shalt thou calcinat till it waxe white Then when it is beaten and sifted dissolue it with raine water destilled and made warme when it is molten destill it by a Filtrum then lette it gather into a Iellye when it is so calcinat it againe that it may waxe more white So at lengthe shalt thou hange it in a little bagge as an Hippocras bagge in a moyst place laye on some brode thinge for a couer that no vncleane thinge fall into it and setting a glased pot vnder it Some destill it in a lembeek of glas that is to say in ashes from whence a water runneth first then the fire encreased by litle and little the oyle The vse It is good for all scabs and Ringwormes it maketh the skin white cleare youth-like I haue sene it vsed to runninge soores of the head to the which I thinck that is better wher w t Nitrum is burned together It maketh coper also siluer white and putteth away spots steins in linnē clothes It is put to colours to make thē more bright as I think as they put to wrytinge inke of the coloure of the bresill wode and other Rogerius also 4. 9 teacheth to make oyl of Tartarum This saith he clenseth cloths and spots remaining after birth of a melancoly cause purgeth the face Of oyls of the yelkes of egges wormes and Scorpions OYl of egs out of Rasis Put the yelks of egs in an iron kettel vpon the coles till they be burnt and the oyl that drippeth out kepe it in a glas It is good for the greues of the tuel or fundament and of the eares and teethe ¶ This oyl saithe Mesues is proued with much experience to purge the skin to heale thorowly tetters ringwormes and other faultes of the skin to brede heare to sores boyles and fistulaes Thirty eg yolkes or there about hard rosted crummed with the handes let them be parched in an earthen frying pan or skellet leaden w t a moderate fire sturring them with a wodē spone or erthen til they waxe red and let the oyle be resolued from them which being pressed yeld more then a sponeful Or the same yelkes harde rosted let them be broken vpon a moler then let them be beaten into lumps and prest out in a pres as we haue declared in oyle of Almondes and an Oyle shall destil from them Or the same yelkes put in to a bealy with a lembecke let them be destilled by the force of the fire as it shal be said of oyl of Philosophers These saith Mesues Whereas Syluius in his annotacions saith It taketh away meruelously the foulnes of the skin and skars specially that be left in burnte places for the moste parte it smelleth somwhat strong yet at the laste destilled by sublimacion les It encreaseth heare as Serapion saith in his Antidotarie Oyle of egges of Nicolas fashion Frye sodden yolkes of egges with a slow fyre made of coles in an iron skellet continually sturringe them wyth an iron rodde till they be well rosted presse them oute in a stronge linnen clothe moystened in oyle of Almondes But it is better saithe Syluius to frye the yelkes rawe and moue them continually with a spone til they being rosted and prest with a spone geue an oyl in a vessel hielding which put in a glas reserued good a greate while Oute of xx yolkes thou shalt draw oute in .ii. houres .iiii. ounces or there about Matthaeolus wrytinge vpon Dioscorides prayseth this oyl for the roughnes of y e skin for ringwormes for cleftes of the lippes handes feete and tuell also for the griefes of sores ioynts and all sinewy places to conclude for the griefes and sores of the eares Moreouer it is good saith he for places burnt with fire and in the thin skins of the brain it separateth the impared partes from y e hole meruelously whiche not without my great honor and commendacion and profit of the sicke I haue often tried in Surgery In a wounde vpon the braine panne poure in the oyl of egs and it wil take away the griefe as Abhomeron Abynzoar teacheth whiche we haue also tried with good succes Marianus Sāctus An oyle for the sores or boyles of children .xvi. yolkes of egs sod an vure of Mirrh .iiii. graines of black Helleborus let them be mixte together w t an iron spone in an iron skellet set vpō a few coles then pres the yelks

them that were sick of the colick and haue had oft good succes through the same burning water set on fyre in a bath stouf or sweeting hous narowe and close euery where the aire waxeth hoat wherin the sinewes ioyntes and other partes couled are proffitably fomentated and if it be possible to be done they sweet also To moue sweet and to warme the bathing place with the vapour of hoat water the commun people set great caudrous w t hoat water in their sweeting places with chaf together to keepe the heat longer and sumtymes swiet herbes Other haue a pot hoot without the bath with water and other herbes or medicines put in it from whence the vapour entreth into the bath by a pype beneth This other do with other instrumentes and vessels as they in Italy in the old tyme heated hoathouses When the bathing place is alredy made hoat a burning coole might be put into the pot and dry medicines be strow●d in the perfume wherof is desyred or ●●st both otherwyse also chiefly for wemens vse to diuers diseases of the wombe receiuing the perfume by a pype Hyppocrates describeth a peculiar vessell for this purpose Let them put out their head the whyle which are to weake for to abyde it or such as it is to be feared lest they swound or chaunce into ouer great thirst c. Sum in bathes power water or wyne simple or mixte with medicines vpon reed hoat tyle stones or dros of iron or stones Sweet in bed is prouoked with hoat tyle stones foulded in moyst linnen clothes and put in to the bedde or with tinnen bottelles filled with hot water or with litle bagges wherin herbes sod are put yet hoat and the better if a hoat tyle stone also be put in withall Wull vnskoured suppled in wyne or vinegar wherunto oyll is put Dates beaten Bran sod in salt water or vinegar do both repres and mollifie together Wyne and vinegar do repres and coule and more yet ether bread or meel or a sponge or ashes or woull vnwasht or a linnen cloth wiet in ether of thies Celsus Sum put hoat ashes or burning cooles rather in a vessell of wood filling it to the half the rest they fyll with what herbes they list as wormwod mints to comfort the stomack ether by them selues or sprinkled with a litle wyne then bynding vpon it a linnē cloth they lay it to y e part diseased specially where it is nedeful to heaten to dry to discus to drawe sumwhat strongly It is conuenient for partes couled and to them that haue gouty aches to vse it with mugwort only or also chamemell vnto the diseases of the womb with Matricaria This fomentaciō may be made with .ii. vessels to be laid vnto by cours Celsus willeth men in sum place to lay about the places diseased wull perfumed with the smoock of brymston Hereunto may be referred all suche thinges as Fuchsius other wryt of fomentacions apposicions embroches litle bags and insessions The greke word aeonein signifieth the water vpon and power vpon whether it be done bicause of fomentacion that is w t heat or other cause Galen doth prayse y e perfume of the fyer stone or miln stone sprinkled with vine gar for the taking away of hardnes of y e fleshe as kirnels Diuers perfumes for the french diseases which are al made with Cinabrio that is made of quitksiluer sum also with orpmēt Marchasita c shalt thou fynd in Nic. Mass certain other which haue taught y e heeling of this disease The leeues dry of Tussilago made in perfumes so y e smok may be drawen in at the mouth vpō doth help y e congh and Orthopnaeū and breaketh the impostumes in the brest The same operacion also hath the rout perfumed Dioscorides Of certain iuices THe iuices of certain herbes wrong and prest out are sod at fyer or dryed in the sun as Bulcasis teacheth seuerally of the iuice of Hamsig Plantain Lettis Singrien Purselan Rostrum Purcinum or hogges snout Scariola Fenel Smalage Volubili Sorrell and other A maruelous waye to drawe out the iuice out of black Elleborum whiche sum vse as a secrete mystery the commoditie whereof I also trying would not hyde lest I should seme to be sory that our posteritie shuld haue any excellēt knowledge who founde this way first I can not saye I learned it of certain my moste secret friendes I mean that black Elleborum whiche communly all men in Germany name in lyke maner lyke vnto Consiligo very many kepe it in their gardēs but that whiche groweth vpon the moūtaines to be found in our countrey Heluetia is best A man may trye the same way in Colocynthida Esula Laureola c. Sieth lightly in water the routes of black Elleborum cleen and washt set infused in the same first a night or more small cut Thou shalt take hede both in this and in the other decoctions that thou skim away diligently al the foom that swymmeth aboue as venemous This water shalt thou kepe and again power other vnto it warm and heet it a whyle moderatly chaunging the water so oft til the routes retein none or very litle bitternes any more whiche shall cum to pas when thou hast chaunged the water seuen or nyne tymes But in the meane space whyle thou chaūgest the waters destill the first euer with a Filtrum or through a brush and at length sieth all with a slowe fyer or with burnt cooles rather so that they boyl not yet let them be alwayes at the poynt of boyling vntil they be as thick as hony in an earthen pot glased or of bras tinned the pot couered or litle opē Whē as now a litle water remaineth about the ende of the siething stur it about gently now and then w t a stick that the iuice be not burnt too and at the same time for a pound of rotes of Elleborum thou shalt put .ii. drammes of Mastik pund and cease not to sturre it other continuallye or by little distaunces til the iuice seme out and out sufficiently thickened whiche wil chaunce sodenlye for the mooste parte and that the matter may be the les burnt the nere vnto the ende and to the thickning the iuice is so much vrge it with les fyre nor be not weary of the time for thou shalt haue a most excellent and exquisite medicine againste diuers diseases speciallye melancholik diseases It shal become of a darke red coloure of moste bitter sauour with a percing sharpnes like as is in Asarum or Asaraba●cha and Cloues but stronger ye burning as it semeth to the taster yet is not burning in deede that is because of the tenuitie and sclendernes of the partes as I wold haue tried It is ministred an hour after supper in the moūtenance of a pease in all diseases whereunto Elleborus is conueniente and where it is good to lose the bealy One pill of that quantity that I saide wil make a man to