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A57004	A medicinal dispensatory, containing the whole body of physick discovering the natures, properties, and vertues of vegetables, minerals, & animals, the manner of compounding medicaments, and the way to administer them : methodically digested in five books of philosophical and pharmaceutical institutions, three books of physical materials galenical and chymical : together with a most perfect and absolute pharmacopoea or apothecaries shop : accommodated with three useful tables / composed by the illustrious Renodæus ... ; and now Englished and revised, by Richard Tomlinson of London, apothecary.; Dispensatorium medicum. English	Renou, Jean de.; Tomlinson, Richard, Apothecary.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1037; ESTC R9609	705,547	914

cibaries to their Cells and reconding them for the insuing year They hunt not after smaller animalls like Cobs but degust them when dead congest grains and bear their burthens in their mouthes Ants are either winged whose infusion yeilds the said oyle or wingless which are frequently found in dry and incultivated places sick Bears seek sanity from them There is in some regions in India where Gold is effoded a kinde of Ants equalizing Foxes in magnitude I finde also some equitant ones and others that fly the light but the Apothecary never uses such CHAP. 36. Of the Silk-worm THat glory is now given to Silk which was given to fine linen wherewith the Ancient Kings were invested and as we read in Luke 10. A certain rich man arrayed This flax was a kinde of tenuious line next in dignity to Asbestinum whereof most subtile vestments were made with which women were most delighted which according to Pliny grew neer Elis in Achaia according to Pollux in India and Aegypt and Pausanias in Greece on a tree not unlike our Poplar with willowish leaves but whether its plant be a tree or an herb it is altogether unknown to us It bears not onely leaves but line also which the People of Seres Scytia and Asiatica perite in spining draw out into small threads and make it into vestments for rich men and that which the Serians work is called Silk Asbestus is either a certain stone of a ferreous colour in the Mountains of Arcadia which being once accended can never be extinguished or else flax whereof Napkins are made that will take flame and not burn away like plumbeous Lead But we have no such by ssigerous plant nor vestments made of their Down but onely Bombycina which as Byssina of old is now called Silk which is as good for dignity in the same uses and besides accommodated to Medicinal exhibitions for Apothecaries following the Arabians dictate have an opinion of Silk Vires that it will purge blood roborate the vital faculties recreate the heart illustrate the spirits refresh all faculties and help all the spirits These are the eximious Encomia wherewith the Barbarians nobilitate the excrement of their virulent Insect But seeing any one may Philosophize and propose his opinion in the matter in hand I profess I think Silk is of small use in Medicine for it is the dry inodorate exuicous recrement of an imperfect Animal affine to Cob-webs but inept and ineffectual in mans cure It may be that that Byssinum which the latter writers call fine flax is indued with eximious faculties but no such being now fonnd nor brought to us our Pharmacopolists cannot speak of it unless they speak in their dreams And I wonder upon what reason they give crude Silk to the sick when it is tincted with Scarlet it is indeed vertuous but it borrows that faculty from its infection and therefore I had rather prescribe the dying grains alone then frustraneously spend their succe in dying Silk But let perite Medicks who have onely reason for their Law be Judges in the case These Silk-worms are little Animals excluded from small round and blackish seeds called by some egges cherished with a moderate calour animated and at first formed into Minute-worms which educated on the leaves and boughs of the Mulberry-tree after a while spin their slender webs or Silken threads whereof precious cloth is abundantly woven When they are more adult they make of themselves hoods and domicils for themselves and there in a short time they transmute themselves into white Butterflies which produce seeds or small eggs whereof other worms of the same kinde are generated But these being known to Women and Children need no further description Some Medicks use the Galls of many Animals the Liver and intestines of Wolves the brains of Sparrows the testicles of Cocks and Asells which are found under water-vessels but these not ingreding the compositions in our Shop belong not to us Thus I have in three Books by Gods auxiliation briefly and clearly composed all Medicinal matter to whom be Honour Glory and Praise now and Ever Finis Libri Tertii THE Pharmaceutrical Shop Divided into TWO PARTS The first whereof Treats Of INTERNAL and the second of EXTERNAL MEDICAMENTS By the AUTHOR JOANNES RENODAEVS Physician in PARIS ENGLISHED By RICHARD TOMLINSON APOTHECARY LONDON Printed by J. Streater and J. Cottrel 1657. To his Honoured Learned and Vertuous FRIEND WILLIAM WITHEINGS Esq Worthy Sir THe manifold Testimonies of your reall favours calls for a perpetual Commemoration and what requital can be returned but a bare demonstration where ability cannot correspond or aspire to the dignity of that Desert couched within the verge of that manifestation of affection so amply discovered And to lie dormant under so much Courtesie were to invelop my self within the Rounds of Ingratitude and in stead of Coronating your deserved Worth already bedubbed with the true Sparklings of never-fading Glory I should Adumbrate the Lustre thereof which otherwise would necessarily dispel the thickest clouds by the Satyrical Screen of Fame-defacing-Oblivion To enumerate the many discoveries and dawnings of your Vertues were to comprehend a Catalogue of the Universal Genus of Atomes within the narrow bounds of a Nutshel Neither can the weak blandishments of a Quill emblazon the least shadow of those Trophies whose Glory is founded in the true Abyss of your merited Renown Pardon this boldness SIR in presuming to lodge this Book within your Gates and in making use of your Name without your consent Let not a sinister construction obstruct a gentle remission nor a rigid apprehension hinder the thought of a venial transgression Doubtless SIR the Subject will not dishonour your Person in Patronizing it from suffering shipwrack in the tumultuous gulfs of Contradiction and Detraction but rather conclude That the rayes of your Learning being 〈…〉 the Imperfections necessarily accruing in the Alteration of the Garb will put a period to what may be objected by those whose Medulla Scientiae is nothing else but the true pourtraicture of that Livid Viper Envy whose virulency is Malevolent Censure Let such endeavor its Overture whilest your finger supports it by the Chin till it arrives with the fresh gales of your Countenance to its desired Haven with its Top-gallant streaming out the true Characters of your Honour maugre the carpings of Zoilus What need it to fear the trivial Objections of certain Augurs when its Patron is both strongly fenced with the Principles of Theory and garnished with the Robes of Integrity SIR you are not one whom infant Effeminacy youthful Delicacy or voluptuous Liberty could ever yet allure your intellect and knowledge from diving into Divine and Moral Arcana's Altius surgentes Innocentes licet comitatur suspicio Tacit. What greater Symbole of true Gentility then Goodness It is not the gawdy lustre of the Purple but the inward vertue of the Person that proclaims Greatness having alwayes observed you to entrain Humility and Integrity