hours shaking it together three or four times then take it out and being cold pour it forth and put almost as much more of the mixed spirits digested as before in a gentle heat by Balneo then put it forth to the first extracted and adde halfe as much more spirits the third time and digest it again and then have you extracted all the special part of the Amber and leave nothing but a black dead earth of no value Then take a pint of the spirit of what herb you will use and dissolve therein one pound of pure white sugar candy or at the least twelve ounces very finely powdered and searced thorow a fine searcer for the speedier resolution thereof It is best to dissolve it cold This dissolution must be twice filtered thorow a thin cap paper to make it very perfect clear then take three parts of this dulcified spirit to one of your extract of Amber drawn with spirit of wine then shake them well together and let them stand in a square glasse very close stopped untill it shall be perfectly clear one drachm of this extraction of Amber will serve to dulcifie and make fit two quarts of the spirit of Mints or Clary or the like and give it a most excellent taste and efficacious vertues 23 Spirit and water of wormwood the lesser Composition Take of the leaves of dried Wormwood two pound Annis-seeds halfe a pound steep them in six gallons of small wines 24 houres then distill them in an Allembick adding to every pound of the distilled water two ounces of the best sugar Let the two first pound you draw out be called Spirit of Wormwood those which follow Wormwood water the lesser Composition 24 Spirit and water of Wormwood the greater Composition Take of common and Roman Wormwood of each a pound Sage Mints Bawm of each two handfuls the roots of Gallanga Ginger Calamus-aromaticus Alacampane of each three drachms Liquoris one ounce Raisins of the Sun stoned three ounces Annis-seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each three drachms Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs of each two drachms Cardamoms Cubebs of each one drachm Let the things be cut that are to be cut and the things bruised that are to be bruised all of them infused in 24 pints of Spanish Wines for 24 hours then distilled in an Allembick adding two ounces of white sugar to everie pint of distilled waters Let the first pint be called Spirit of Wormwood the geater Composition 25 Spirit and water of Angelica Take of the leaves of Angelica eight ounces of Carduus Benedictus six ounces of Bawm and Sage of each four ounces Angelica seeds six ounces sweet Fennel seeds nine ounces Let the herbs being dried and the seeds be grossy bruised to which add of the spices called Aromaticum Rosatum and of the spices cal'd Diamoscha dulce of each an ounce and a half infuse them two daies in thirtie two pints of Spanish wine then distil them with a gentle fire and with everie pound mix two ounces of sugar dissolved in Rosewater Let the three first pound be called by the name of Spirit the rest by the name of Water 26 Spirit of Wine extraordinarie Take the finest paper you can get or else some virgin parchment strain it very right and stiffe over the glass body wherein you put your Sack Malmsie or Muscadine oyl the paper or virgin parchment with a pensil moistned in the oyle of Ben and distill it in Balneo with a gentle fire and by this means you shall purchase only the true spirit of Wine You shall not have above two or three ounces at the most out of a gallon of wine which ascendeth in the form of a cloud without any dew or veins in the helm Lute all the joynts well in this distillation This pirit will vanish in the air if the glasse stand open 27 Quintessence of Snakes Adders or Vipers Take of the biggest and fatest Snakes Adders or Vipers which you can get in June or July cut off their heads take off their skins and unbowel them then cut them into small pieces and put them into a glasse of a wide mouth and set them in a warme Balneo that they may be well dryed which they wil be done in three or four dayes then take them out and put them into a bolt head and pour on them of the best alcolizated Wine as much as wil cover them six or eight fingers breadth stop the glasse he metically and digest them fifteen daies in Balneo or so long til the Wine be sufficiently covered which pour forth then pour on more of the foresaid spirit of wine til all the quintessence be extracted Then put all the tinged spirits together and draw off the spirit in a gentle Balneo til it be thick at the bottome on this pour the spirit of Wine caryophilated and stir them wel together and digest them in a Circulatory ten daies then abstract the spirit of wine and the quintessence remaineth at the bottome perfect This quintessence is of extraordinary vertue to purifie the blood flesh and skin and consequently all diseases therein It cures the falling sicknesse strengthens the braine sight and hearing and preserveth from gray hairs reneweth youth preserveth women from Abortion cureth the Gout Consumption causeth sweat is very good in and against pestilentiall infections 28 A liquor against the tooth Ach. Take of oyle of Cloves well rectified half an ounce in it dissolve half a drachm of Camphire adde to them of the spirit of turpentine four times rectified in which half a drachm 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 29 A Liquor to comfort smelling and preserve the head Take Lignum aloes two ounces Annis-seed four ounces Calamus aromaticus one ounce Calamint dried three ounces common hony two pound strong white wine twelve pound let all these be infused for four daies and then distil it in Balneo and when you distil it put into the Receiver six grains of Musk dissolved in two ounces of Rosewater and distil away but three pound the which keep in a glasse close stopped and when you will comfort the smelling wash the face and beard therewith and you shall smell a savour of marvellous effect which comforteth nature marvelousty it comforteth the stomacke and helps a stinking breath it helpeth the mouth being ulcerated and those that have the rupture in short time if you wash it twice a day therewith it helpeth also women that are troubled with descension of the Matrix if you wet a cloth in it and lay it upon the mother in short space it restores great health Also it helpeth those that are troubled with the Meagrum or paines in the head coming of cold or winde if you wash the head with the said liquor it presently giveth ease It hath divers other vertues which I will not now recite 30 To make an Antimonial
and coagulation according to art keep it for use 56 How to make an excellent Oyl of Hypericon Take flowers leaves and seeds of Hypericon as much as you list beat them together and infuse them in white-wine that they may be covered therewith and set them in the sun for ten dayes then put thereto so much oyl of Olives as all the rest doth weigh and let it stand ten daies more in the Sun But look you weigh the oyl to know how much it is then put thereto for every pound of oyl two ounces of Turpentine and one drachm of Saffron and of Nutmegs and Cloves of each halfe an ounce of Mirrhe and Rosin of each an ounce and of the root of Briony two ounces put them all in a vessel of glasse and mix them wel together and then set them in a vessel of hot water and set thereto an head of glasse and a Receiver well shut and boil it so long untill no more will distil from it which will be about twenty four hours then take it out and straine it whilst it is hot and keep it in a vessel of glasse And when you use it first heat it well and apply it upon a wound without using any tent at all This is excellent for a green wound especially if there be veins sinnews or bones offended or cut It keepeth wounds from putrefaction it cleanseth them and easeth pain and doth incarnate and skin them It helpeth bruises pains aches or swellings in any part and is wonderfull against venome or poyson 57 Oyl of St. Johns Wort. Take a quart of Sallad oyl put thereto a quart of the flowers of St. Johns wort wel picked let them lie therein all the year till the seeds be ripe the glasse must be kept warme either in the Sun or in water all the Summer until the seeds be ripe then put in a quart of St. Johns wort seeds whole and so let it stand twelve hours then you must seeth the oyl eight hours the glasse being kept open and the water in the pot full as high as the oyl is of height in the glasse then when it is cold strain it that the seeds may not remaine in the oyl and then put up the oyle for your use 58 Oyl of yolks of Eggs. Boil the yolks till they be hard and bruise them with your hands or with a pestle and mortar heat them in an earthen vessel glazed untill they begin to froth stirring them diligently that they burn not being hot put them in a linnen bag and sprinkle them with aromatick wine and press out the oyl according to art 59 To make oyl of Mandrakes Take of common oyl two pound juyce of Mandrake Apples or for want of them of the leaves four ounces juyce of white Henbane two ounces juyce of black Poppie heads three ounces juyce of Violets and tender hemlock of each one ounce Set them all in the sun and after the tenth day boil them to the consumption of the juyce then put in Opium finely beaten and Styrax Calamltis dissolved in a little Turpentine of each halfe an ounce 60 Oyl of Musk how made Take two Nutmegs Musk one drachm Indian leafe or Mace Spkenard Costus Mastick of each six drachms Styrax Calamitis Cassia lignea Mirth Saffron Cloves Cinnamon Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Bdelium of each two drachms pure oyl three pound Wine three ounces brutle them as you ought to do mix them and let them boil easily til the wine be consumed the Musk being mixed according to art after it is strained 61 How to make oyl of Snakes and Adders Take Snakes or Adders when they are fat which will be in June or July cut off their heads and take off their skins and unbowel them and put them into a glasse gourd and pour out so much of the pure spirit of wine wel rectified that it may cover them four or five fingers breadth stop the glasse wel and set it in Balneo till all their substance be turned into an oyl which keep well stopt for your use This oyl doth wonderfull cures in recovering hearing in those that be deaf if a few drops thereof be put warme into the eares It 's reported that some have beene cured that were borne deafe by using this oyle 62 An oyntment for a Rupture Take of Sanicle two handfuls of Adders-tongue Doves foot and shepherds purse of each as much of Limaria one handful chop them somewhat smal and boile them in Deers suet until the herbs be crumbly and waxe dry 63 Flos Unguentorum Take Rosin Feroline Virgin Waxe of each halfe a pound melt all these together and put into them one quarter of a pound of Rosemary tops beaten small put then to them all together a pottle of white wine let them boil wel together then strain them through a course linnen cloth into a pot or pan and when it is cold put the wine from it as much as wil and and melt the medicine again and put therein two ounces of Camphire Venice Turpentine one quarter of a pound Sallet oyl half a pint let it boile a little and put it up in some gally-pot for your use It is good for new or old wounds for sinnews shrunke started or sprung to draw out thorns or broken bones healeth Biles all Aches of the reines and backe swelling of the members and the emerauds 64 Unguentum Populionis commonly called Pompillion Take a gallon of Bores grease as much of Popple buds when they first put out and a handfull of Smallage stampe the herbes and the Bores grease together put them togeher in an earthen pot well stopped and set it in an horse dung-hill fourteen daies together then boil it over the fire about a quarter of an hour keeping it still with stirring when you are ready to take it off the fire put thereto halfe a pint of the best Sallet or Olive oyl and stir them wel together then let them boil a little and strain it into an earthen pot which being close covered wil keep good seven or eight years 65 Doctor Lewins Unguentum Rosatum good for the heat in the Back Take a certain quantity of Barrows grease of oyl of sweet Almonds and Rosewater either red or damaske of each a like quantity but of neither so much as of the Hogs grease beat them together to an oyntment put it in some gally pot and when you would use it heat it and therewith annoint the Back and Reins 66Vnguentum Sanatinum Take of Turpentine one pound Wax six ounces oyl of Camomile halfe a pint put all together in a pan and put to it a handfull of Camomile bruised or cut very small boile them upon a soft fire till they be wel melted and no more then take it from the fire and strain it into a clean pan and so let it cool all night and in the morning put it up for your use This Ointment is good for any cut wound or breaking of the flesh it eateth
be for it worketh this operation viz. as soon as it joineth to the stomack it draweth to it all the evil humors of the body and imbraceth them and carrieth them forth of the body both by vomit and seige and so leaveth nature unburthened which may prevaile at pleasure because it hath no impediment and the order to make it is thus Take fine white sugar four ounces pure Pearls Musk Saffron Lignum aloes Cinamon of each one scruple Petra Philosophale four drams mix them together and make thereof Lozanges with Rose water according to art the which ye shal keep in a box of Wood close shut and the order to use it is thus When the physician goes do visit any sick person and intends to prepare him some medicine to take inward the best and most perfect inward medicine that he can ordain is this Aromatico because it evacuateth the stomack by vomit and the body downward and his operation is such that it doth in manner help any crude sort of infirmity and the quantity is from one dram to two drams and may be taken in broth in wine in water or mix it with any pils or potion giving charge that when it is put into any potion thou leave none in the bottom of the cup where thou drink it out because the Petra Philosophale is heavy and wil remain in the bottome for if that remain it wil not work at all giving also charge the day that you give this medicine that you let the patients drink as much crude water as they wil and give them little meatto eat that day and this is the order to use this medicine 3 Caustick Take Arsenick Cristaline sal Armoniak Sublimate of each alike boil them being sinely ground in as much strong vinegar as the matter weigheth until 2 third parts be consumed and that there remain a third then keep it in a glass close shut for thy use as I wil shew thee in divers places when occasion shal serve 4 A Magistrale Cerot against the white Scal. This Cerot is of great vertue and of marvellous experience to resolve the white scal because it is penetrative Mundificative and Resolutive and causeth the hair to grow where it is fallen away to the great content of the Patient and honor of the Physician and it is made in this order Take Frankincense that is strained from his filth what quantity you wil and distil it in a retort and give it fire at the least forty hours then let it cool and break the glasse and in the bottome thou shalt find a black mase the which make into powder then for every pound of the said powder put thereto one ounce of Wax and four ounces of the said oyl that you distilled and half an ounce of the heads of Bees the which are easie to be had in Summer Mix all the aforesaid things in a vessel of Copper and with a smal fire make them in form of a liquid unguent and when thou wilt use it shave the head and wash it and lay thereon this Cerot upon a fair cloth warme and every two daies change it and so in short time thou shalt see strange effects of his vertue This serveth also against breaking of bones dislocations and for scabs ulcerated because it dryeth and comforteth and resolveth all the evil qualities giving charge in the distilling because the fire many times consumeth it so that in the bottome their remains nothing that is good and therefore beware in the making 5 Pillole Magistrale which is good against any infirmties These pils are of great vertue and especially against all kind of pains coming of corrupt humors for they purge the putrified humors and preserve the body from corruption and the order to make it is thus Take Olibanum Mastick Mirrhe Sarcocolla aloes hepatica Eleborus niger Saffron Turbit Colloquintida of each what you please Stamp them finely and for every ounce of the aforesaid matters put thereunto two Carets of Musk and then incorporate it with hony of Roses and Aqua vitae of each a like and this paste thou mayest keep six months in a vessel of lead the quantity is from two drachms to three drachms in the morning fasting and drink thereon a little wine These pils are most excellent to take away the pains of the Gout and to preserve a man from it they are also good for them that have the french pox because they evacuate the gross and viscous humors and maintain the body in good temperature and using them in those diseases it preserveth the body in good temperature They are also good for women that are troubled with pains of the Mother and retention of their terms for these are aperative and provoke them and purgeth the Matrix of all impediments contained therein They serve against the Megrum and all pains of the head and also against all kind of putrified fevers as the experience thereof hath been seen sundry times 6 To make a Quintessence of marvellous vertue Quintessence is so called because it is an essence taken from the elements without corrupting them and it 's called Quinta essentia because its an effence above the four elements which hath a marvelous vertue in preserving all things from putrefaction and is of so much vertue that drinking every morning half an ounce thereof as soon as a person riseth out of his bed it preserveth in continual health It helpeth wounds and sores of all sorts by washing them therewith It preserveth all flesh fish and fruits that are put therein The order to make it is thus Take fourteen pound of good strong wine common hony one pound Annis-seed Coriander Lignum aloes Calamus Aromoticus of each three ounces Rose water foure ounces Beate those things which are to be beaten grosly and infuse them in the said wine two daies and then put them in a gourd of glasse and distil it by Balneo so long til the extracted water burn and when it wil burn distil it no more then keepe that which is distilled in a glasse close stopped that it take no air and so keep it til thou have occasion to use it for it is a most rare liquor because it resolveth all indispositions that happen to mans body If any desire to have this Quintessence more perfect let him take a tenth part of good hony with a little Cinnamon and distil it again by Balneo and the Flegm wil remain all in the bottom of the vessel and the Quintessence wil be so fine that the air will take it away And therefore he that can make this well shall work strange cures therewith even to admiration 7 Quintessentia solutiva which is of Marvelous operations in divers matters This Quintessentia solutivae evacuateth the body with great ease and without any detriment and it purgeth all parts of the body that are troubled with gross and viscous humours it resolveth swellings and taketh away the pains it preserveth the sight and killeth worms and causeth a
c. 38 Oyl of Sage Take the Sage and boil it in Oyl of Olives till it be thick and greene then straine the Oyl from the Sage and reserve it 39 Oleum Laureum Take Bay-leaves grinde them well and boil them in Oyl of Olives til it be green then strain it and cool it c. This is for coldness in the Lims Palsies and such mortifications c. 40 Oyl of Tobacco Take the Green leaves of Tobacco cut them small and put them into a glasse or gallipot wel stopped then fil it up with Sallet oyl set it a good while in hot water or in the Sun fourtie daies and you shall find it a precious Balme 41 Oyl of Roses Take Sallet Oyl and put it into an earthen pot then take Rose leaves clip off all the white and bruise them a little and put them into the oyl and then stop the pot close with paste and set it into a boiling pot of water and let it boil one houre then let it stand all one night upon hot Embers the next day take the oyl and straine it from the Rose leaves into a glasse and put therein some fresh rose leaves clipt as before stop it and set it in the Sun every day for a fortnight or three weeks 42 Oyl of Creame Take Creame and seeth it softly upon some embers and it will become an Oyle this wil cure the gout in a hauks leg 43 Oyl of Swallows Take two dozen or twentie Swallows out of the nest a good handful of Rosemary as much Lavender cotton and as much Strawberry leaves strings and all stamp all these together and fry them altogether in May Butter or rather sallet Oyle til the rawnesse be gone then put it in an earthen pot fast stopped nine days and then fry it again wring it thorow a cloth and keep it in a glasse or gallipot and being warmed annoint the place grieved there with it is good for all Aches and for the shrinking of Sinews 44 Oyl of Roses Take a pint of good Sallet oyl or more as you please then take as much red Rose leaves the white clipt off three quarters of a pint put them into a stone pot stop it close with paste and set it so long in a greater pot of boiling water till the strength of the Roses be gone into the Oyl then wring the Roses thorow a Canvas cloth till they be drie then put in new stop them boil strain and change them thus four or five times til you think it strongenough of the Roses then put it up for your use This is the best Pattern for these Oyles 45 The use of Oyl of Violets Oyl of Voilets Camomile Lillies Elder-flowers Cowslips Rue Wormwood and Mint are made after the same sort Oyl of Violets if it be rubbed about the Temples of the head doth remove the extream heat asswageth the head-ach provoketh sleep and moisteneth the Braine it is good against melancholy dulnesse and heavinesse of the Spirits and against swellings and sores that be over hot 46 The use of the oyl of Camomil Oyl of Camomil is good in glisters for the Agues that come of costive stoppings it asswageth all paine and Ach it cureth wearied and bruised parts it loosneth and softneth hard and swoln parts and openeth all which is stopped 47 The use of oyl of Lillies Oyle of Lillies is good to supple mollifie and stretch sinnews that be shrunk it is good to annoint the sides and veines in the fits of the stone 48 The use of the Oyl of Elder-flowers Oil of Elder flowers is good for the hardness and paines of the liver and spleene if the sides be therewith annointed But you must not come neer the bottome of the bellie where the bladder lies nor the hollow of the stomack It is very good to apply to green wounds with some lint dipped in it for it cooleth and heal eth them and also festring sores 49 Oyle of Cowslips Oyle of Cowslips if the nape of the neck be anointed with it is good for the Palsie it comforteth the sinnews the heart and head 50 The use of the Oyl of Rue Oyle of Rue is good to be used in Olisters against the Collick and Stone It is good for the Kings Evill or any swellings in the chroat it doth warme and dissolve cold humors in any joint it provoketh Vrine being annointed about the region of the Bladder it is good to annoint the Spleene for the stopping of it 51 The use of the Oyl of Wormwood Oyle of Wormwood is good for strains and bruises and to comfort the stomack It is made of the green herb as are the Oyles of Camomile Rue and Mint 52 The use of the Oyle of Mint Oyle of Mint comforteth the stomack overlaid and weakned with casting it doth drive back milk and dry up womens brests and doth keepe them from being sore being therewith annointed 53 To make the Oyle of Salerne Take Southernwood Wormwood Lavender tender Crops Rose leaves Camomile Saint Johns Wort red Sage Rosemary tops of each one handfull cut them somewhat smal as it were about an Inch long and bruise them a little then put to them a pint of the best Aqua vita and a pottle of the best salad-Sallet-Oyl you can get boyl them an hour and half upon a soft fire keeping them from burning with continual stirring then strain it thorow a linnen cloth and when it is cold put it up in a glasse and keep it for all cold infirmities When you use it warme the Oyl a little and warme your hand against a Chafingdish of coales and annoint the place pained therewith 54 How to compose the Oyl of Excester Take one pound and a halfe of the Flowers of Cowslips and steep them in three pints of the best Candy oyl and let them so stand three weeks or a month and then take of Calamint Saint Johns-wort Sage Egremony Sothernwood Penneroyal Wormwood Lavender Parietarie Rosemary Camomile Pellitory of Spain Bay-leaves Scabious of each a handful beat them in a stone Mortar as smal as you can then strain the Cowslip flowers from the Oyle and stamp them among the other herbs as smal as you can and put them altogether in aquart of white wine and let them stand therein twenty foure hours then put the Oyl to them and boil them upon a soft fire til they be so incorporate together that it is all become oyl then letting it cool a little while strain it into some earthen pan there keep it till it be cold and then put it up in some glass or gally-pot 55 Oyl of Amber Take of yellow Amber one part burnt flints or powder of tiles two parts distil them in a Retort in sand keepe the white cleare oyl which comes out first by it selfe then distill it on till all come out keep both oyles severally and rectifie them with water gather the salt of Amber which sticks to the neck of the retort and being purged by solution filtration
Nature helpeth Digestion provoketh Urine and looseth the Bodie which things are most comfortable to the bodie The order of making it is thus Take ten ounces of the seeds of Quinces the pils of Citrons six ounces Balm Nettles of each four ounces beat all these grosly and infuse them in twelve pound of strong white wine and there let it remain six dayes then distill it with six ounces of honey and fifteen ounces of sugar untill you have received two pound of water then take it from the fire and let it coole and strain it by a filter and then put therein the first water and eight grains of Musk dissolved with about two ounces of Rosewater and then for every pound of the said Water put thereunto one scruple of the oyle of Vitriol and incorporate them well together then keep it in a Glasse close stopped that it take no aire And of this you may take one ounce in the morning cold and fast thereon for whosoever they be that shall use this in their health shall seldome be sick but shall live in much health For into this Composition there entereth the seeds of Quinces which resolve the evill quality of the stomack and make the heart merry the Pomecitron pils preserve and help digestion the Balm purifieth the blood he aleth the Liver causeth good digestion and comforteth the heart The nettles warm provoke urine mundifie the reins and resolve the malignity of the sinnews The Wine comforteth nature strengtheneth the head and sustaineth the strength The Musk is warme by nature and resolveth the windinesse and purgeth the blood The oyl of vitrioll healeth all the Scoriationes of the mouth the brest and stomack and preserveth the body from all corruption So by this you may see of what importance this Composition is through the vertue of the Simples that are therein So to conclude I say this is one of the best Compositions that can be made because of its nature It letteth alteration in our bodies and helpeth against all diseases and infirmities and prolongeth life 155 An exceeding good remedie against the yellow Jaundice Take one handful of red nettle-tops Plantane and Saffron and boil them wel in a pint of Ale then strain it and drink thereof for four or five daies together and you shall find help 156 An excellent receipt to destroy any Impostume Take of the roots of Flower-de-luces and roots of Lillies of each a like quantity stamp them together and put therein a quart of hony boil them all together either in wine or Ale and when they are well boiled then take the liquor thereof and strain it thorow a fine linnen cloth and when occasion serves let the Patient drink two or three spoonfuls at a time especially in the morning and evening first an last and this will speedily cure it 157 To make an issue Take Rice flowers and Mustard seed beaten to powder and with water make a little paste and lay a ring upon the place made of a rush and applie it 158 A medicine for the Itch of the body Take sweet butter unwrought wax vinegar Brimstone a little Rosewater red Cloves whole boil them together till they be like a salve then annoint the flesh three sundry nights by the fire therewith and no more 159 For kibed heels Take a Turnep make a hole in the top of it take out some of the pith infuse into that hole oyl of Roses then stop close the hole rost the Turnep under the embers when it is soft apply it plaister wise warme to the Kibe bind it fast 159 Of Waxing Kernels called by some Scrophulae their cure These kernels are commonly in the throats of young children being caused by superfluous melancholly humors corrupted and are a kind of Ulcers very hard to be holpen and evil to endure for when they are broke they cause excessive pain in that great abund ance of humors runneth thereunto and they are so hot and corrupt that outward medicines alone wil never help them because they proceed from an inward cause Therefore if thou wilt help them remove the cause first First then give them the Syrup against melancholly humors which you shall find among the syrups in the Experiments of Conserving and Candying then give them a dose of Aromatico fasting which will evacuate the stomack of choller and flegm and dry up those humors that run to the sores The Medicines to be applyed are two the first is Costick which wil mortifie it in 24 hours and take away the corruption but the Askar must not be taken away till it fall out it self The other medicine to be applied to the sore is the black Cerot of Godfredo de Medic. which is also written in Galen Thus it wil be cured in a short time as hath been proved 160 A special receipt to destroy Lice Take Frankincense and beat it into fine powder and a good quantity of Bores grease boil them together in an earthen pan and when it is boiled annoint therewith the place where the lice are and you shal be suddenly rid of them Or take stavesacre beaten to powder searced and mingled with soap and Tobacco ashes and annoint often therewith it wil speedily destroy them 161 How to cure the Measels In the curing of this disease it being only necessary to defend the heart and preserve the stomack from corruption and putrefaction you shall use this receipt Take Julep of Violets two cunces Rose water four ounces Oyl of Vitriol four grains mix them and let it be drunk cold This is a most rare medicine 162 To cure the disease of the Mother Take six or seven drops of the spirit of Castoreum in the beginning of the fit in two or three spoonfuls of posset Ale applying a plaister of Gavanum to the Navel 163 For the dead Palsie Annoint the neck pit often with Oleum Benedictum and that wil restore the speech annoint also the place affected oftentimes with mustard against the fire and after that bath it with wine and bath it again morning and evening if the party be young with Aqua vita if old take a spoonful of Aqua vitae and halfe a spoonful of Sage-water distilled and bath it therewith drink also every morning and night as much treacle as four Pease in some stale Ale 164 A plaister for a Bile or Push Take a yolke of an egge and half a spoonfull of English hony mix them together with fine Wheat-flower and making it to a Plaister apply it warme to the place grieved 165 A very good Plaister to heale and dry up a sore or cut suddenly Take of Marigold leaves Porret blades or leaves and House-leek of all two handfuls beat them all very smal in a morter and put to them the whites of two new laid egges and beat them very well til they be throughly incorporated with the eggs and apply this til you be well Renew it every day 166 A plaister for the Stomack Take of wood of Aloes
face if it be annointed therewith Moreover it is marvellous in old diseases inwardly if ye give thereof every morning a drachm with halfe an ounce of Vegitabile Syrupo Leonardo The fire cureth sores and such like and the earth remaineth in his state Ye shall understand that these are great secrets of importance which I have revealed of this Gumme and happy shall he be that useth them in the time of need Now the order to make this oyl is thus Take as much Frankincense as thou wilt and put it into a Retort of glasse with the fourth part of common ashes and set it to distill and give it first a small fire until the oyl change colour then presently change the Receiver and augment the fire untill all the substance be come out Ye shall understand that this oyl is best fresh for when it is old it wil wax thick and cannot pierce so well 204 The secrets of Mercury or Quick-silver Quick-silver is a liquid Mineral and volatile which the Alchymists call Sulpher volatilis and wil accompany with all other metals but with smal fire they may be separated again and wil fly away in fume and for that cause the Philosophers call it Servus fugitivus as a man would say it can hold friendship with none but so soon as he hath done his service he flyeth away as it is seen by Gold-Smiths that gild plate for when they have laid him on with the gold they put it to the fire and he flies away and the like it would do when any man doth occupie him in any sort of infirmity And the order to calcine it is this Take a long pot of stone that is very wel glazed with the neck a foot and half long and that hath a very narrow mouth as is possible and put therein two or three pound of Quick-silver then set the same pot in a sallet of Iron and lute them close together and set it upon a furnace and give them fire according to art until the Quick-silver remain calcined having special care that your head and receiver be very wel luted lest you lose some part of the Quick silver and thus in eight daies it shal be finished which shall be apt for solution Also this calcination serveth to divers and sundry medicines it mortifieth corrosive Ulcers without any pain The solution is made in this order Take the said Calx and put it into a long neck'd glass and put thereon distilled vinegar and set in warm sand four and twenty houres and then give it one walm and when it hath boil'd pour out the vinegar and then if there remaine and feces in the bottome put in fresh vinegar and do as thou didst before and this thou shalt do so often till it be dissolved into water and when all is dissolved evaporate away the vinegar that there remain but little in the bottom then put thereto water of hony made by distillation and so the solution of Mercury shal be finished which is miraculous in many infirmities It serves against the cough Catarrhe and for those that have their stomacks putrified with the Pox using it with other syrups and potions It helpeth those whose milt is indurated and also for those that have any kind of Fistula in any part of the body It is also good for divers other things which I will not insert here because others should endeavour too by exercise to find out other secrets thereof as I have done 205 To make the representation of the whole world in a glasse Take of the purest salt Nitre as much as you please of Tin half so much mix them together and calcine them hermetically then put them into a Retort to which annex a glasse receiver and lute them wel together let leaves of gold be put into the bottome thereof then put fire to the retort until vapours arise that will cleave to the gold augment the fire till no more fumes ascend then take away the Receiver and close it hermetically and make a lampe fire under it and you wil see presented in it the Sun Moone Stars Fountains Flowers Trees Fruits and indeed even all things which is a glorious sight to behold 206 In a fit of the stone when the water stops Take the fresh shels of Snailes the newest will look of a redish colour and are best take out the Snails and dry the shels with a moderate heat in an Oven after the bread is drawn Likewise take Bees and dry them in the same manner and beat them severally into powder then take twice so much of the Bees powder as of the Snails and mix them well together keep it close covered in a glaffe and when you use it take as much of this powder as will lie upon a six pence and put it into a quarter of a pint of the distilled water of Bean flowers and drink it fasting or upon an empty stomack and neither eat nor drink for two or three hours after This wil both cause the urine to come away and bring the gravell or stone away with it and hath done very much good 207 A Medicine for the Stone Pellitory of the wall Smallage Holioaks Mallows Tansie and Saxifrage of each take an handfull chop them small and quile them in a little linnen bag then take three pints of Cream half a pint of malmsie a quarter of a pint of running water and set them on the fire and when it doth seethe then put the bag of herbs into the pot and when the bag is throughly hot wring it between two trenchers over the pot to save the liquor then lay the bag to the grief as hot as you can suffer it and as soon as it cooleth make it hot again in the same liquor and so apply it to the grief 108 Another very good medicine for the Stone Make a posset of a quart of Rhenish wine a pinte of Ale and a pint of milk then take away the Curd and put into the drinke two handfuls of Sorrel one handful of Burnet and halfe a handful of Baulm boil them together a good while but not too long lest the drink be too unpleasant then take of the drink a quarter of a pint or rather half a pint at once at morning and to bedward putting therein first two or three spoonfuls of juyce of Lemmons This is an excellent medicine for the Stone in the Kidnies to dissolve and bring it away It is very good in these diseases of the Stone to use Burnet often in your drink at meals and often to steep it in over night and in the morning put in three or four spoonfuls of juyce of Lemmons and to drink thereof a good draught every morning a week together about the Full Moon three daies before and three daies after 209 To dissolve the Stone which is one of the Physicians greatest secrets Take a peck of green Bean Cods wel cleaved and without dew or rain and two good handfuls of Saxifrage lay the same
when they are baked ice them with Rosewater and sugar and the white of an egge being beaten together then take a feather and gild them then put them again into the oven and let them stand in a little while and they wil be iced clean over with a white ice and so box them up and you may keep them all the year 56 To make Paste of Carrots Take Carrot roots boil them take out of the pith one pound paring off all the outside beat the pith in a Morter with half a pint of Rosewater then take one pound of Sugar finely beaten and the yolks of sixteen egges beat them with the Carrots altogether then put it in a dish and dry it and being thus made into paste put it to what use or in what fashion you like best 57 To make the Macaroones Blanch a pound of the best Almonds and put them in fair cold water as you blanch them then drie them out of the water in a clean cloth and beat them in a morter then take a sawcer full of Rose water wherein of music and Ambergreece half a grain of each is dissolved and therewith stil sprinkle the Almonds as you beat them and when they are almost beaten enough put in by degrees a pound of fine sugar very smal beaten and searced all but two or three spoonfuls when they are beaten enough put them into a dish and take the whites of three Egges very wel beaten and the froth taken off put the clear thereof to the Almonds with a spoonful of fine flower and the two or three spoonfuls of sugar you left and the rest of the Rosewater with the musk and Ambergreece dissolved in it mixe all these very well together in the dish and lay them upon March-pane Paper the bignesse and fashion of an eg laying them rough and high Then put some other Papers under your water Paper for feare of burning and bake them in a oven hot enough to bake a light oven Pudding having a care that they scald not 58 To make Paste of Almonds Take one pound of smal Almonds blanch them out of hot water into cold then drie them with a cloth and beat them in a stone morter til they come to paste putting now and then a spoonful of Rosewater to them to keep them from oiling when they are beaten to fine Paste take half a pound of sugar finely beaten and searced put it to your Paste and beat it till it will twist between your fingers and thumbe finely without knots for then it is enough then make thereof pies Birds Fruits Flowers or any pretty things printed with Moulds and so gild them and put them into your Stove and use them at your pleasure 59 To make a March-pane Take two pound of small Almonds blanch them and beat them as you do for your Paste of Almonds then drive it into a sheet of Paste and spread it on a bottome of Wafers according to the proportion or bignesse you please then set an edge round about it as you doe about a Tart and pinch it if you will then bake it in a pan or Oven when it is enough take it forth and ice it with an ice made of Rose water and Sugar as thick as Barter spread it on with a Brush of Bristles or with feathers and put it in the Oven again and when you see the Jee rise white and dry take it forth and stick long Comfits in it and set up a stadderd in the middest of it so gild it and serve it 60 To make past of Violets or any kind of Flowers Take your flowers picke them and stamp them in an Alabaster Morter then steep them two hours in a Sawcer of Rose water after straine it and steep a little Gumme Dragon in the same water then beat it to paste print it in your moulds and it wil be of the very colour and taste of the Flowers then gild them and so you may have every flower in his own colour ond taste better for the mouth then any printed colour 61 To make the white Paste royal Take half a pound of white Barbary sugar finely beaten and searced put it into an Alabaster morter and therewith a little Gumme Dragon steeped in Rose water beat it by little and little til it come to a Paste when you have beaten it unto a perfect fine paste print it with your moulds and gild it and dry it in your stove set them on white papers and dry them on a hand-peel before the fire and when they be through dry box them and keep them for your pleasure 62 To make a red Paste royal Take half a pound of Barbary sugar finely beaten and searced put it into a stone mortar with a quarter of an ounce of Gumme Dragon steeped in rose water then strowing a little powder de Rosita on it beat it to a perfect paste then print it gild it stove it or otherwise dry it and keep it at your pleasure 63 To make the Paste royal in Spices Take four ounces of double refined sugar beaten and searced put thereto one ounce of searced Cinnamon beat it in a stone mortar to paste then print it with your moulds and turn some upon sticks to make them shew like Gummes they be called in Confectionary Cinnamon sticks or Cinalonians then gild them and put them into your stove but draw not out the sticks till they be dry for else they wil shrinke 64 To make Paste of Pippins Take twenty fair smooth skind Pippins pare them and cut them into quarters and core them then boile them in a quart of fair water til they be tender then powring the liquor from them strain them and dry them on a Chafingdish full of coals and put as much sugar to them as they weigh then boil them to the height of Manus Christi and fashion some like plummes some like leaves so stove them when they are stoved one night you may put two halves of the plummes to ether and put a stone between them and prick a stalk in the end so may you make some like plummes with stones and stalkes some with leaves I suppose it should be like leaves for the Pippin is the best fruit to counterfeit any plumme 65 To make Paste of Genua Take of Quinces two pound and two pound of reaches bake them in a pot in the Oven then pulp them thorow a hair sieve dry them on a Chasingdish of coals then take two pound of sugar boil it to the height of Manus Christi and put it to your dried pulpe make it to the fashion of great water leaves put them into an Oven after the bread is drawn let it stand all night in the morning warm the Oven again and turn your Paste and put it in again after that for the space of three or four daies set a chafingdish with coals into the oven to it and when it is thorow drie box it and keep it all the year 66. To
Buglosse ibid Syrup of Calamint ibid Syrup of Scabious ibid To make Syrup of Saffron pag. 38 Syrup of Folefoot or Colts foot ibid To make syrup of Pomecitrons pag. 39 A Syrup against Melancholly humors especially where there is wind in the stomack ibid Syrup of Wormwood simple pag. 40 Sprup of Marsh mallows pag. 41 Syrup of Radishes ibid Syrup of Popies pag. 42 Hony of Rosemary flowers ibid Experiments in PHYSICK CHIRURGERY Distillations Waters and Oyles Their Vertues and Uses 1 Doctor Stevens his Water TAke a Gallon of Gascoin wine of Ginger Gallingall Cinnamon Graines Cloves Mace Nutmegs Annis-seeds Caraway-seed Coriander-seed Fennel-seed and sugar of every one a dram then take of Sack and Ale a quart apiece of Camomill Sage Mint red Roses Time Pellitory of the wal wild marjoram wilde Time Lavender Peneroyal Fennel roots Parsley roots and Setwall roots of each halfe a handfull Then beate the spice small and bruise the herbs and put them all together into the wine and so let it stand sixteene hours stirring it now and then Then distill it in a Limbeck with a soft fire and keep the first pint of the water by it selfe for it is the best and the rest by it self for it is not so good as the first The principal use of this water is against all cold diseases it preserveth youth comforteth the stomack cureth the stone of what nature soever using but two spoonfuls in seven daies It preserved Doctor Stevens ten years bed-red that he lived to ninety eight years 2 To make Cinnamon Water Of the best Cinnamon you can get take one pound bruise it wel and put it into a gallon of the best Sack and infuse it three daies and three nights and then distill it as your Aqua Coelestis 3 Angelica water Of Cardus take and drie a handfull Angelica roots three ounces of My the one drachm Nutmegs half an ounce Cinnamon Ginger of each four ounces Saffron one drachm and a half Cardomons Cubebs Gallingale and Pepper of each a quarter of an ounce Mace two drachms Grains one drachm Lignum-Aloes Spikenard Juncus-odoratus of each a drachm Sage Borage Buglosse Violets and Rosemary flowers of each halfe a handful bruise these and steep them in a pottle of Sack twelve hours and distill it as the rest 4 Aqua Mirabilis Take three pints of White wine one pint of Aqua vitae one pint of juyce of Salendine one drachm of Cardamer a drachm of Melliot flowers Cubebs a drachm of Galingale Nutmegs Cloves Mace and Ginger of each a drachm mingle all these together over night the next morning set them a stilling in a glass Limbeck The Vertues This water dissolveth swelling of the Lungs and being perished doth help comfort them it suffereth not the blood to putrifie he shall not need to be let blood that useth this water it suffereth not the heart-burning nor melancholy or flegm to have dominion it expelleth Urine and profiteth the stomack it preserveth a good colour the visage memory and youth it destroys the Palsie Take some three spoonfuls of it once or twice a week or oftner morning and evening first and last 5 Balm water Take Balm dry three ounces Thyme Penniroyal of each an ounce Cinnamon four ounces a drachm of Cardomus grains half an ounce sweet Fennel seeds an ounce Nurmegs and Ginger of each a drachm Galingale one ounce Calamus Cypress Cubebs and Pepper of each two drachms of Caper-roots half a drachm of Diptamus one drachm bruise these things and put them to a pottle of Sack and steep them 24 hours and then use it as the former waters 6. Another Balm VVater Take a gallon and a quart of Sack put to it Annis seed and Fennel seed of each one pound Liquorice scraped and bruised a quarter of a pound of Coriander seed corrected and Caraway seed of each as much Cowslip flowers clipt from the whites and Rosemary flowers wel pickt of each one pound of red Mints wilde Time of each a good handful and of Baulm 2 pound steep all these first in the Sack 4 hours in the brasse pot wherein they shall be distilled and then distil them in a Limbeck 7 A Barly water to purge the Lungs and Lights of all diseases Take halfe a pound of fair Barley a gallon of running water Liquorice half an ounce Fennel seed Violet leaves Parselie seed of each one quarter of a ounce red Roses as much of Isope and Sage dried a good quantitie of either of Harts tongue twelve leaves a quarter of a pound of Figs and as many Raisins still the Figgs and Raisins put them all into a new earthen pot with the water cold let them sceth well and then strain the clearest from it drink of this a good quantity morning and afternoon observing good diet upon it it taketh away all Agues that come of heat and all ill heat it purgeth the Lights Spleen Kidnies and Bladder 8 A Water for a sore Mouth Take of Sage Rosemary and Woodbine leaves a like quantity viz. a handful and half of either boyl them in a quart of running water with as much of the best Allom as an Egg and let them boil to a pint then put in a pint of white Wine and let them boil again and so soon as it boileth take it off the fire and let it cool and then put it up in a glass and therewith wash your mouth morning evening and at night and other times as couse requires till it be well 9 Another for the same use White wine and fair water of each a quart wine Vinegar a pint red Sage a good quantity Mercury two penniworth Roch Allom half an ounce Rosemary an handfull Woodbine leaves somewhat more and 3 spoonfulls of Honey seeth them together and wash your mouth therewith 10 Rosa solis Take of Liquorice 8 ounces Annise-seeds Carraway of each an ounce Raisins stoned Dates of each three ounces Nutmegs Cinnamon Ginger and Mace of each half an ounce Galingale a quarter of an ounce Cubebs a drachm Figs two ounces Sugar four ounces bruise these and distill it with a gallon of Aqua vitae as the rest But when it is distilled you must colour it with the herb Rosa solis or else Alkanet root 11 Wormwood water Take of Wormwood two ounces and a half Sage Bittony and Rue of each half a handful Rosemary tops a handful Cinamon 3 ounces Nutmegs half an ounce Cloves and Mace of each half a drachm Ginger one ounce Galingale Cubebs and Spikenard of each a drachm and a half of Scordium half an handful bruise these and put them into a pottle of Sack and a pint of Aqua vitae and steep them 24 hours and distil them as the rest 12 Aqua Fortis Take of Vitriol prepared as for oyl of Vitriol two pound Salt Peter purged one pound beat them together and put them in a Retort well luted place it in a furnace with a large receiver and giving fire to it
in oyle of Camomile and keep it for your use 81 An excellent Ointment for any Bruise or Ache. Take two pound of May Butter purified pour it out from the dregs and put in it of Broom flowers and Elder flowers of each a good handful so clean picked that you use nothing but the leaves mix them altogether in a stone pot and boil them seven or eight hours in a Kettle of water being covered with a board and kept down with weights keeping the Kettle always full of water with the help of another Kettle of boyling water ready to fill up the first as it wasteth and when it waxeth somewhat cool but not cold strain the ointment from the herbs into a Gallipot and keep it for your use 82 The cure of grievous pains and aches in the Body A dose of Aromatico Leonardo and the application of Emplastrum foetidum is an approved cure for grievous pains and aches in the knees shoulders or other parts 83 Aches coming by the Pox healed Purge twice or thrice with the said Aromatico Leonardo then take for four or five dayes together half a drachm of the extract of Hermodactiles with white wine then to the articular parts grieved apply Emplastrum foetidum This hath in short time cured one of a dark melancholy complexion who was given over for incurable 84 Back weak or diseased to strengthen c. Take the pith of an Oxes back wash it in Wine or Ale and beating it very small strain it through a course cloth and make a caudle of it with Muskadine or strong Ale boil therein a few Dates sliced and the stones taken out and drink it first and last as warm as you can walking well but temperatly after it Toasted Dates often eaten are very good for the same 85 To take the Ague out of any place Take Vervine and black Hemlock of each an handful boil them in a pint of fresh Butter til they be soft and begin to parch againe Then straine the Butter from the herbs and put it into a gallipot and two or three times a day annoint the place grieved with a spoonful or two thereof Probat 86 For the Ague in children or women with child Take Venice Turpentine spread it on the rough side of a piece of thin leather two fingers breadth and strow thereon the powder of frankincense finely beaten and upon it some Nutmegs grated Binde this upon the wrests an hour before the fit comes and renew it still till the fit be gone 87 An easie and approved Medicine for a quartaine Ague Take a white flint stone for it will best endure the fire without breaking burne it in the fire till it be red hot then quench it in or dinary Beere and let the Patient drink of it a little before the fit cometh and likewise in the fit Let this be done three or four severall daies at the time when the fit is expected A woman by this onely medicine did cure divers of quartain Agues when long and much Physick could not prevaile 88 An Almond milk to cool and induce sleep Take sweet Almonds blanched five pound beat them in a stone mortar by sprinkling them now and then with a little barley-water at last put a quart of barley water to them and four ounces of fine sugar then strain it adding two ounces of Rosewater This may be drawn out with chicken broth and sweetned with Sugar Candy in stead of other sugar 89 For an Andcome Put half a dozen knots of a young oak into a sire pan and burn them to a red coal and take Bores grease and fine suet and two or three corns of salt and stampe them very fine and so make a plaister of it and if it do draw and beal too fast lay lime underneath the salve dresse it twice a day in winter and thrice in summer 90 Liquid Amber and its medcin al vertues Take liquid amber and distil it in a retort and there from will come a red oyl This oyl is used against all indispositions of cold and moisture or wind The same healeth scabs and is good for wounds If you annoint the stomack therewith it will exceedingly comfort the same for it is a thing incorrupptible and like unto Balsamum 91 A most Soveraign Balsam for several diseases Take five pints of Sallet oyl one pound of Venice Turpentine half a pound of Virgins Waxe fix ounces of red sanders halfe a pint of Damaske Rosewater First put your oyl with six spoonfuls of Rosewater into a clean skillet or new pipkin and let it boile a quarter of an hour wash the Turpentine with the rest of the Rose water pare the wax clean and cut it into thin slices and put it into another clean skillet or new pipkin with the Turpentine Let them be wel melted and mixed together then pour the water from the oyl if you can see any and put it into the Wax and Turpentine and let them boyl upon a gentle fire a dozen walms Then take it off and put in the sanders by two ounces at a time mingling and stirring it wel then let it boil a dozen walms more stir it to avoid burning then strain it into a bason fil it into gallipots 92 For a sudden bleeding at the nose Burn an Egg shel in the fire till it be as black as a Cole then beat it to a fine powder and let the party snuffe it up into his nostrils 93 A remedie for the spitting of blood occasioned by the breach of some vein in the brest Take Mice dung beaten to powder as much as will lie upon a groat and put it into halfe a glasse ful of juice of Plantane with a little sugar and so give the Patient thereof to drink morning and evening continuing the same he shall be sound 94 To stop bleeding of a wound Take Vervine dried and made into powder and put it in the wound and it wil leave bleeding Burne also the sole of an old hose and put in the Ashes into a wound and it wil leave bleeding 95 To stop inward bleeding Drinke the juyce of Neepe and it will help you 96 A medicine for those that are given to bleeding Make a Posset take off the curd and take liver-wort and beat it and put the juyce thereof into the Posset-drink and drink it morning and evening warme 97 To stanch bleeding at the nose Take Bolearmanack and the white of an egge and vinegar and beat them together and make plaisters thereof and lay them to your temples 98 To heal the Cut or sore Brest of a Woman Take Buglosse and Yarrow of each two handfuls stampe them and strain them with the third part of a pint of good Ale then stamp the herbs againe and strain them with an other third part of a pint of good Ale then stampe and straine them again the third time and you shall have neer a quart of the Ale keep this in a glasse close stopped and let the
patient drink of it first in the morning and last in the evening three spoonfuls at a time but if you make this for a sore brest if the brest be broken take three handfulls of Yarrow 99 A Medicine to breake and heal sore brests of Woman used by Midwives and other skilful women in London Boile Oatmeale of the smâ—llest you can get and red Sage together in running or Conduit water till it be thick enough to make a Plaister and then put into it a fit proportion of hony and letting it boil a little together take it off the fire and while it is yet boiling hot put thereto so much of the best Venice Turpentine as will make it thick enough to spread then spreading it on some soft leather or a good thick linnen cloth apply it to the brest and it will first break the sore and after that being continued will also heal it up 100 To dry up a womans Brest Take of oyl of Linseed and English hony of each a penny worth white wax half a penny worth and half a quarter of a pint of sweet Butter boyle all these to a plaister and lay it on the brest Master Buxton Colchester 101 For a stinking Breath Take Rosemary leaves with the blossomes if you can get them and seeth them in white-wine with a little myrhe and Cinnamon and you shall finde a marvellous affect if you use it often in your mouth 102 A Gargle for an unsavory breath Take Rosewater Mirtle water Orange flower water of each two ounces Musk three grains salt a little more Musk and Ambergreece you may put in for greater persons 103 For the Canker in a womans Brest Take Goose dung and Cellydony stamp them well together and lay it plaister-wise to the sore it will cleanse the Canker kill the worme and heale the sort 104 For the Canker in the mouth Take the juyce of Plantanc vinegar and Rosewater of each a like quantity mingle them together and wash the mouth often with them 105 Of the Catarrhe or Rbume in the bead The Catarrhe is a moist vapour which assaulteth the head and afterwards falleth down again into the stomack where it ingrosseth and corrupieth This moisture hath its beginning of the moisture of the lungs and until the lungs be discharged thereof the Catarrbe wil continue in its force It is predominant more in flegmatick then other constitutions Such as are troubled with it are not long liv'd because their lungs consume by little and little and thereupon they are troubled with the Ptisick and consequently perish if not quickly relieved See a rare secret to cure the same Take Pulmonaria and Sena that is fresh and new infuse them in wine and water over a gentle fire till the wine have drawn out the vertue then strain it and put thereto some Quintessence Leonardo and keep it close in a galffe Let the Patient drinke every morning three ounces lukewarme for twenty daies together let him eat good nourishing meats for they agree wel with this disease If the patient be not too far spent you shal see your oure perform'd in a short time In the mean time if the patient be weak let him take new laid Egges and good white-wine if the humidity be perceived not to be quite expelled and evacuated then give him Aromatico Leonardo afterward comfort him again with Restoratives and Cordials to make him strong and no doubt by the help of God he shal be cured 106 For young children that are weak in their limms and can neither go nor stand Take Sage sweet Marjorome of each a like quantity beat them very well together and strain out the juyce and put it into a double Vial glass fill the glasse as full as it can hold then stop it with paste very close and cover it with thick paste all over and then set it in an Oven and there let it stand so long as a great loaf requires time to be throughly baked then take it out and let it be cold then break the paste round about it and if the juyce be grown thick break the glasse and put it into a gallipot and keep it When you will use it take the quantity of two spoonfuls at a time and as much marrow of an Ox leg melt them together and mingle them well and both morning and evening annoint therewith as warm as can he endured the tender parts of the childs thighs and legs and knees chafing them well with your warm hands and so in a short time through Gods blessing it will be able to stand and go Successfully proved 107 For breaking out of childrens heads Take of White wine and sweet Butter a like quantity boil them together till it come to a salve and so annoint the head therewith 108 A medicine for the swelling of a childs Cods Bray red Rose leaves and boil them in red wine an hour then wet a cloth in it and lay it to the childs Navel as hot as can be endured 109 To heal children of the Lunatick disease This disease happeneth to children by reason of a worme with two heads which breedeth in their bodies which coming to the heart causeth such a passion in the child that of times it kils them The remedie whereof is this Dry the tender stalks of a Wilding tree in the shadow then stamp them wel and fift them and take of the said powder and roots of Gentian myrth and long Pyome of each a quarter of an ounce all these well beaten to powder you must put in a dish or some other vessel and moisten them with a little water then take of it with your two fingers and wet the lips and mouth of the child Do this three or four times and you shall see the worm come forth dead with the excrements 110 For a Consumption Taste Ash Keyes so soone as they looke withered set them into an oven the bread being drawn in a pewter or rather an earthen dish and being so dried pill off the outside and reserving the inner part of the seed or Keies beat them to fine powder and either mixe it with good English Honey and so eat of it first and last morning and evening a pretty deal of it at once upon the point of a knife or else drinke of the powder in some posset Ale or thin broth Mares milk drunk also warm morning and evening is a soveraign Medicine for it 111 To make a China Broth for a Consumption Of China root thin sliced take two ounces keep it in fair water twenty four hours letting it stand warm all the time being close covered in an earthen pipkin or iron pot then put to it a good Cockrel or two Chickens clean dressed and scum it well then put in five leaved grass Maiden-hair Harts-tongue of each half a handfull Dates twenty sliced two or three Mace and the bottome of a manchet let all these stew together untill not above one quart remains then strain it and take all
a plate 88 To make Jelly of Pippins Take Pippins and pare them and quarter them and core them lay them in water and when you set them on the fire shift them in another water and put them in a skillet and put in as much water as wil cover them and a little more set them over the fire and make them boil as fast as you can when the Apples are soft and the liquor tastes strong of the Apples then take them off and strain them thorow a canvas cloth gently take to a pound of juice a pound of sugar then set it on the fire when it is melted strain it into a bason and rince your skillet again set it on the fire and when it is boiled up then scumme it and make it boil as fast as you can and when it is almost boiled put in the juyce of three Lemmons strained thorow a cloth if you wil have Orange pil pare it thin that the white be not seene and then lay them in fair water all night then boil them in the water til the pil be soft then put it into the syrup and stir it about and fill your glasses and let it stand til it be cold and then it is ready to eat 89 To make a Jelly Take either Veal a Cock or which is best of all Calves feet boil them wel in one water or as they cal it scald them til you can get off the skin and clawes so make them very clean and let them cool Then set on more water and when it seetheth put in the Calves feet which for these proportions may be four or six and let them boil until they wil Jelly which you shal know by letting it stand til it be cold when it is enough strain the clearest from the other and let the best stand til it be cold Then an hour after set it on the fire again and put to it a pint of white wine and so much sugar as wil make it sweet two ounces of Cinnamon bruised in a Morter one ounce of Nutmegs and the white of one Egg wel beaten and when it beginneth to boile after they are put in put in two or three spoonfuls of white-wine Vinegar then make ready your white Cotton bag and put in the bottom thereof a sprig or two of Rosemary and while this is doing set the liquor on the fire againe and when it beginneth to seeth put in the white of one egge more well beaten first then take it off the fire and let it run thorow the Cotton bag then take that which is run thorow set it on the fire again as soon as it seetheth put in another white of an egge and then let it run thorow the bag again do so again the third time after it is heated and clarified and then it wil be enough then put it up in glasses wel covered and not in pipkins or gallipots and keep it for your use 90 A direction to make a Jelly Take three Calves feet flea and wash them very clean take also a fleshie Pullet or a piece of Veal pick the fat away and put them into an earthen pan or bason and to them so much water as wil cover them steep it therein two daies a night changing the water and bruising the flesh six or seven times a day then put it into a clean brass pot pour to it more then a gallon of fair water keep it boiling and alwaies scummed til it come to the height of a Jelly putting thereto first when you see the liquor half wasted more then a pint of white wine When it is enough strain it thorow a double linnen cloth let it stand til it be cold when if you can see any fat take it off lightly then pour the Jelly into a bason set it on a Chafingdish of coals and put thereto of the finest sugar finely beaten so much as wil sweeten it throughly then take of Cinnamon scraped and gross beaten half a pound three Nutmegs one ounce of white Ginger scraped and grossy bruised a little and a very little scraped and only broken ten Cloves bruised a little and a very little white salt put to them the whites of eight eggs new laid lightly beaten together stirre them together til they be all throughly mixed so let it boile softly til it taste of the spice and in the places where it riseth in boiling drop in here and there a spoonful of white wine vinegar and lastly three spoonfuls of the best damask-Rose water when you find it boiled enough take a clean Jelly bag put into the bottome of it of Thime and Rosemary of each a branch three branches of sweet Marjorome a handful of Violets if they may be had sprinkle the herbs and bag with good store of Damask-Rosewater hang the bag neare a good fire and put therein your Jelly taking great heed that no dust or smoak hurt it and so let it run into a clean bason thorow your bag twice at least then put it up in fittest sort for your use LEACHES 91 To make Leach of Ipocras Take one pint of Ipocras two ounces of Isonglas six spoonfuls of Rose water two grains of Musk and four ounces of sugar candy boil it leisurely upon a chafingdish of coals then let it run thorow a Cotten bag into a bason and when you serve it cut it in what fashion you wil with a spoone knife or otherwise being coloured as you please 92 To make fine white Leach of Almonds Take half a pound of smal Almonds beate them and strain them with Rosewater and sweet milk from the Cow put into it two or three pieces of large Mace one grain of Musk two ounces of Isonglas and so boil it on a Chafingdish of coals a quarter of an hour till it wil stand which you shal try thus Set a sawcer on or in a little cold water so that none come into it and put a spoonful of the Leach into it and if you see that stand take the other off the fire then you may slice it in what fashion you please 93 To make Leaches Take a pottle or gallon of Milk as you think fit make it hot as it came from the Cow then take a quantity of Almonds blanched and ground answerable to the Milk strain them with the milk and seeth them with so much sugar as wil sweeten it and some bruised Nutmeg Ginger and Cinnamon and a little Salt tied in a cloth with some Rose water and one ounce or more of Isonglas being washed and steeped before three or foure hours in faire water let them seethe altogether til it be so clammy that it wil cut with a knife then strain it thorow a cooler that the Isonglas may be taken away and the next day when it is cold cut it in slices into a dish and serve it So you may make it red with red Sanders yellow with Saffron green with c. 94 The Cooks common white Leach Take the
Sinnews of a Cowes heel the flesh and fat cut away slice them as thin as you can and boil them in milk warm from the Cow till it be stiff enough to cut which you shall try with a spoon then strain it thorow a cloth and sweeten it with sugar and a spoonful or two of Rose water then stir them wel together with a spoon and letting it stand til it be cold slice it out in what forme you list and serve it SWEETS 95 To make sweet Bags to lay Linnen in Take Damask Rose buds pluck them and dry the leaves in the shadow the tops of Lavender flowers sweet Margerome and Basil of each a handful all dried and mingled with the Rose leaves Take also of Benjamin Storax Gallingal roots and Ireos or Orris roots twice as much of the Orris as of any of the other beaten into fine powder a piece of Cotton wool wetted in Rose water and put to it a good quantity of Musk and Ambergreee made into powder and sprinkle them with some Civit dissolved in Rosewater lay the cotton in double paper and dry it over a chafingdish of coals Lastly take half a handful of Cloves and as much Cinnamon bruised not smal beaten mix all these together and put them up in your Baggs 96 Sweet bags to lay among linnen Take Orris Ciprus Galamus Fusis all of them gross beaten and Gallingal roots of eath a handful and as much of the smal tops of Lavender dried and put them into bags to lay among your clothes you may put in a handful or two of Damask-Rose leaves dried which will somewhat better the scent 97 Cyprus powder Take of Storax Calamint four ounces Calamus Aromaticus two ounces red Roses two ounces of Marjorome and Rosemary flowers of each one ounce Orange pil one ounce and a half of Cloves and Lignum Rhodium of each two drachms and fine Musk twenty grains Make all these into powder and put it up into a bag fitting 98 Powder of Violets Take of sweet Ireos roots one ounce red Roses two ounces Storax one ounce and a halfe Cloves two drachms Marjorome one drachm Lavender flowers one drachm and a halfe make these into powder then take eight grains of fine Musk powdered also put to it two ounces of Rose water stir them together and put all the rest to them and stir them halfe an hour til the water be dried then set it by one day and dry it by the fire half an hour and when it is dry put it up into bags 99 Cyprus Matches to burn in perfume Take of Willow wood made into Charcoal one pound of Benjamin two ounces Storax liquida one drachm and a halfe of Storax Calamint one ounce Marjorome one ounce Cloves one ounce of fine Musk ten grains beat them altogether into powder then take of Quincy Draggagenty foure ounces put it in Rose water and stir them wel together and let them stand a night and a day then put all the aforesaid parcels to this Rose water which must be no more then wil make it into a Paste and thereof make up your Matches in what forme you list and let them dry in the shadow without fire or sun 100 How to make a sweet water Take a gallon of Wort half a gallon of running water of Lavender and Bay-leaves dried of each two handfuls of Orris powder one ounce put all these together in an earthen pot let them stand one day and one night stirring them often the morrow after distil it putting in a penny worth of Balm and the water which cometh off the distilling wil be very sweet 101 To make a sweet powder Take Orris half a pound six pence Ciprus half a pound ten pence Calamus half a pound eight pence Fusis half a pound twenty pence Benjamin two ounces twelve pence Musk powder twelve pence grains one pound eighteen pence Total seven shillings two pence 102 Another for the same Take Benjamin four ounces two shillings Storax Calaminta three ounces two shillings Fusis of Cloves three ounces nine pence fine Ireos six ounces two pence Santalum Citrinum three ounces eighteen pence Musk 20 grains three shillings four pence Civet ten graines 20d. Total eleven shillings five pence 103 To make the Mosse powder Take of Mosse that groweth upon a sweet Appletree or a pippin tree a good quantity gathered betwixt the two Ladie daies put the mosse into a quart of Damask Rose water stop the glasse set it before the fire let it so remain one day and one night then take it out and lay it on the bottome of a sieve put it into an oven and dry it beat it to powder then take Benjamin Storax Calaminta Lignum aloes of each one ounce Musk Ambergreece Civet of each six ounces beat all these in a mortar together til they come to a powder then mix it with the mosse powder and it wil be a most excellent sweet powder 104 To make a sweet Bal or powder Take Cloves and Nutmegs of each one ounce Cinnamon and Benjamin of either half an ounce Calamus Aromaticus and white Sanders of each two ounces beat every of them severally and searce them into fine powder and then beat them into a past with Rosewater Take then Storax Calaminta two ounces Labdanum one ounce beat them in a mortar with Rosewater til they be wel mixed and then put the other Paste to them and beat them together till they be throughly mixed Then take Ambergreece Musk and Civet of each four or six grains bruise them and mix them wel together in a Sawcer with a little Rose water then put them to the other Paste and work them wel together warming both the paste and your hands very wel with a chafingdish of coals wel kindled standing by you til you have very wel incorporated them together and then while the paste is warme make it up into what assize or forme you please 104 To make Snow Take a quart of thick Cream and five or six whites of Egs a Sawcer ful of sugar finely beaten and as much Rose water beat them altogether and alwaies as it riseth take it out with a spoone then take a loaf of bread cut away the crust set it in a platter and a great Rosemary bush in the middest of it then lay your Snow with a spoone upon the Rosemary and so serve it 105 To make a Junket Take Ews or Goats milk if you have neither of these then take Cows milk and put it over the fire to warm then put in a little runnet to it then pour it out into a dish and let it coole then strew on Cinnamon and sugar then take some of your aforesaid cream and lay on it scrape on sugar and serve it FINIS The CONTENTS of the third Part. For Sallets c. A Lemmon Sallet 181 To keep Clove Gilliflowers For Sallets ibid To pickle Oysters 182 To pickle Quinces ibid To keep Goosberries 183 Purslane ibid How to keep Cucumbers raw