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A01658	The newe iewell of health wherein is contayned the most excellent secretes of phisicke and philosophie, deuided into fower bookes. In the which are the best approued remedies for the diseases as well inwarde as outwarde, of all the partes of mans bodie: treating very amplye of all dystillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences, with the extraction of artificiall saltes, the vse and preparation of antimonie, and potable gold. Gathered out of the best and most approued authors, by that excellent doctor Gesnerus. Also the pictures, and maner to make the vessels, furnaces, and other instrumentes therevnto belonging. Faithfully corrected and published in Englishe, by George Baker, chirurgian.; Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri. English	Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565.; Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.; Baker, George, 1540-1600.	1576 (1576)	STC 11798; ESTC S103060	364,108	484

of experience ▪ in his booke of secreet● This oyle miraculously healeth al maner of woundes bruses that especially happen on the head for that singular Surgiane Gabriell Fallopio dyd woonderful cures with it among which hée healed a plowman of two such long déepe cuttes on the head that were fearefull to behold besides a wound that passed through both sydes of his thyghe that he healed onely with this oyle with such expedicion that it were in a maner incredible to be reported so that where neede is of drying there cannot be founde anything of greater vertue then this blessed oyle so often and many tymes proued of Fallopio Besides the gréeke Fiorauant reporteth that it causeth heare to growe on the head the heares of the beard shedding this stayeth causeth them to grow againe with expediciō by annoynting the weake place the bare pla●e after a wounde this also helpeth the paine of the flanks retention or staying backe of the ●ry●● by applying a glyffer prepared with a lytle of this oyle with●● the body this it doth forthwith For it mightylie dryeth vp that alteracion caused in the secrete places within where no lo●all matter can be applyed on the kydneys nor otherwyse de●●● withall This oyle first inuented by the famous Greeke Leonarde Fiorauant and increased by that worthy man Gabriell Fallopio ▪ 〈…〉 ●●most precious oyle for wor●●● ▪ whi●●●uer they be ▪ borrowed out of the first chapter 〈◊〉 written by Bertapa●●a Take of the kernelles of Peaches of bytter Almondes of Gentiane of wormewood of Horehounde or of Lupynes of Colewort seedes of the Peache tree leaues of the ryuer or water Catmintes of Oleandri of Pellytorie of whyte Elleborie of the rootes of the long grasse of eache halfe a handfull all these dilygentlye brought to powder and laboured with the gaule of a caulfe and the iuyce of Leekes and myntes of each two ounces of Neunphare oyle one ounce of wormewood oyle two wyne pynts all these after the dilygent myxing togither set in horse doong to putrify for a moneth in a strong glasse well stopped which after distyll with a headde close luted and you shall then purchase a water and an oyle reuyuing and strengthning the disseased and sicke of the wormes by taking two scruples of the water by the mouth with Malm●sie by annoynting of the oyle on the temples pulses of the hands and feete and all about the body and the mouth of the stomacke and about the shoulder poyntes By which doing the Aucthour sawe many children in a maner deadde of the wormes recouer health in a short tyme after and healed woundes with this oyle and vlcers with expedicion Of Baulmes which are applyed and vsed without the bodye of which some are prepared and done by distyllacion and some without distyllation The .x. Chapter AN artificiall Baulme curing all olde woundes helping the drynesse of members and the members shrunck take of Galbanum of Ammoniacū of Mastick of pure Myrre of gum Elemi of Bolellium of eache halfe an ounce of Turpentine one ounce and a halfe or two ounces which is the better of oyle Oliue two pyntes of Viridis aeris two ounces and a halfe all these brought to powder infuse for sixe or eyght dayes in the strongest vineger ▪ after distylled by a Lymbecke as in the first daye by Balneo Mariae and the next daye in sande but if you wyll haue it stronger of better taste then adde these vnder taught and let it be brought and done as afore vttered take of Storax calam●●a of gum yuie of Spykenard of Car●●e of ●olophonia of g●m Traga●●●ite of gum Serapine of Opopanax of each halfe an ounce 〈◊〉 ph●●●bium halfe a dram of Viridis aeris thrée drams of Turpentine one pounde This baulme cureth all olde woundes in a colde and hote cause It helpeth also the drynesse and shrincking of members if those shall be annoynted with that baulme A distylled oyle helping the trembling or shaking of the hands let equall portions of the oyle of Bayes of Rue and of Sage be distylled togyther which after tenne dayes powre into a strong wyne and distyll the whole in a Lymbecke with this water gathered annoynt the handes feete and the trembling members Another oyle helping the trēbling of the head take al the abouesayde which put into Aqua vitae for fowreteene dayes the whole distyll by a Lymbeck and with this water annoynt the temples both morning and euening Here it is to be vnderstanded that where he speaketh by the matters aboue taught he meaneth not the oiles in this but the Bay berries the Rue Sage especially A distylled baulme helping and curing woundes and deepe vlcers take of Turpentyne sixe poundes of Olibanum halfe an ounce of Lignum aloes of Masticke of each one dram of Cloues of Cynamon of Zedoaria of Nutmegges of Cubebae and of Galingale of eache thrée drammes of oyle Olyue sixe drams these brought to powder and myxed distyll with a slowe fire this helpeth the colde poysons of Toades Fistulaes Noli me tangere the Palsie and venymous woundes with or by a Tente Here in this place besides is to be noted after the mynde of Theophrastus Paracelsus that baulmes prepared and gotten by distyllation are not to be applyed at all on woundes of which let others iudge An oyle effectuous and proued for softning of the synewes or palsie and the shrincking of them or the crampe the falling sicknesse or Epileptia the trembling of partes and any colde disease it increaseth also memorie the vnderstanding Take of Galbanum halfe an ounce of gum yuie fiue ounces these after the bringing to powder distyl in a Lymbeck mixed after with one poūd of Sebesten distyll the whole againe with this annoint the hinder part of the head and the nape of the necke at nyght before the entering into bedde this borrowed out of Fumanellus The best oyle seruing vnto all the synewes vnto the ioyntes helping marueylously all the aches hapning in the hyppes the knées the handes and féete the bodye before purged ▪ after the begynning of the sycknesse and let the grieued place be annoynted at the fyre or in the Sunne twyse a daye Take of chyldrens vryne twentye pyntes of Brymstone one pounde of vnflaked Lyme two poundes let the Brymstone and Lyme bee brought to powder and the Vryne ●●●tyng a hande breadth aboue them which boyle togyther vntyll it shall come vnto a gréene colour after the strayning boyle agayne the grosser partes and Feces remayning with the other parte of the Vryne restyng and thys doe three or fowre tymes and so often vntyll the vryne hath leste his colour and seeth that whiche remayneth vnto the thycknesse of Honny being colde distyll in a Glasse bodye the same which fyrste commeth forth in the colour of water throwe awaye and the nexte which commeth being of a yellowe collour through the fire increase dylygentlye keepe Another of the same mans An oyntmente helping

for lacke of the same you maye vse the other instrument of glasse much like to the Funnell for this oyle euermore swimmeth aboue the water And this dystillation may also be done by sande in the same manner if so be you fence the bodie before with lute that the heate break not the glasse but the purer best cōmended is that done by Balneo The Instrument of Valerius Cordus Another instrument of separating after the forme of a Funnell 4. Is the emptie space B. the pipe by whiche the aire entreth into the emptie space 2. the space of the oyle and water 5. the pype by which the water issueth Of the vertues and vtilitie of the rectified oyle The .xlv. Chapter THis Oyle in auncient tyme was named holye for the marueylous and secrete vertues of it for it hath the same properties which the Amber it selfe but farre effectuouser For what efficacie and vertue consisteth in fiue sixe or seauen poundes of the Amber the same may be reduced eas●ly into one pounde By which reason it much auayleth in the falling sicknesse in the Palsie and Crampe and mightily helpeth women molested wyth the suffocation of the Matrice it comforteth also the yongling in the mothers wombe Of the Oyle of Amber and the vertues of it doth a certayne learned man thus write it excéedeth by his propertie sayth he all waters of lyfe as they name them and any maner of Aurum potabile or potable golde especially in the curing of the Apoplexie and falling sickenesse Of the Oyle of Tylestones The xlvi Chapter THe Oyle Benedick or Oyle of Tyle stones hauing in it manye vertues vnto colde griefes and diseases and profitabler than a Baulme by his vertue and subtilnesse is prepared and drawne after this maner Take of newe baked Tyles that neuer water came vpon such a quantitie as you thynke néedefull those beate so small as Fetches Hempe Milium or else the ponder most finely fifted After let it be poured into a glasse bodie or other bodie mightily maintayned with fire or strongly burned which thus burned poure into olde cléere oyle Olyue if it may be gotten being in an earthen vessell glased and let it so rest to infuse for vij or x. dayes and if any péeces be grosse beate those small and poure the whole into a great Cucurbite on which set a heade artely luted in the ioynt and dystill with a soft fire and this conceyue that of one pounde of the Oyle you shall gather but one ounce whose naturall vertue excéedeth and is greater in effect than the naturall Baulme in the curing of all cold sicknesses griefs is hoter than it for that cause it is named oyle Benedick or blessed oile especially vnto the curing of cold sicknesses the older the oyle shall be before the occupying the better will it work The true and certaine notes to knowe this Oyle assuredly are these that the oyle Oliue holdeth or beareth vp as it were thys oyle in the myddle of it or stayeth it hanging about the bottome and not touching the bottome whereof this sheweth it selfe to be hoter and lighter than the oyle Olyue and the same also which is not Artely drawne of Tyles i● heauye so that if a drop be let fall into this purer oyle it falleth to the bottome and in this is the coldnesse and he auynesse of it knowne Also this Oyle causeth or yéeldeth a strong sauour and is redde in colour and a drop of it besides poured in the hand doth incontinent vanish away spreadeth all the hande and if an yron rodde be annoynted with the same Oyle and touched of any fl●me doth forthwith burne and kindled or flaming doth not easily go out nor is lightly quenched When the distillation of this Oyle shall be fully performed open then the vessel wittily after it shall be through colde draw forth the pouder of the Tyles resting in the bottome of the glasse into which oyle after poure a quantitie of other pouder burned if you mynde to purchase more of the Oyle and dystill after the maner aboue taught and the Oyle dystilled kéepe well in a glasse close stopped with waxe There are here vttered xliiij vertues of the same auayling in a colde cause so well inward as outward 1. First the Oyle restoreth all those members colde by any accident if the harmed members be annoynted with it 2. It healeth a wounde if the proper herbe agréeable be a little boyled in it 3. This helpeth all the clefts and chops happening on the handes and féete in the winter tyme. 4. The oyle helpeth sinewes weake through the Goute or some other cause and the trembling or shaking of the head and handes 5. The Goute and ache of the ioyntes procéeding of a colde cause the necke payning so stiffe that it cannot turne hither thither is helpen with this oyle 6. It breaketh into small péeces the stone of the bladder kidneys by annoynting on the places drinking often of the oyle with white wine 7. It cureth also the excoriation of the bladder so well within as without which is knowne by the byting or fretting of the yard by annointing on the proper place 8. This helpeth the staying back of the vryne and hardnesse in the making of water 9. The oyle helpeth the passions of the eares procéeding of a cold cause as the deafenesse the noyse or hissing the fluxe of euill humors to the eares by applying a fine lynnen cloth wet in it wythin the eare 10. This auayleth against the wormes eyther bred within or crept in by hap 11. This helpeth the drawing of the mouth by a crampe and the drawing or tormenting of the belly the griefes of the matrice in euery age to the helpe of the Sciaticke payne or ache of the hip paine of the kidneys ridge bone may be added those herbes flowers rootes of a hot nature appropriated to them as the Sage the Penyroyall the Wormewood the running Time Organy Betony Hisop Dittany 12. To euery push and raw impostume not through rype in that the raw it soone rypeneth and the ripe soone or spéedily dissolueth to which if the Da●nell roote the yolk of an egge and whyte Onyon rosted vnder hot ymbers be artly applyed doth greatly profite 13. The oyle helpeth the hardnesse of the milt through ouer much coldnes in that it spéedily moystneth gently heateth it 14. This oyle helpeth such molested with the falling sicknesse is the nosthrill of the pacient be annoynted wyth it 15. This helpeth the ●●slation or stopping of the brayne and nose through a cold cau●e howsoeuer it shall happen whether the eyes run or water or the nosthrils be ful of flegme if the proper places be annoynted with it or that it be taken by the mouth 16. It helpeth all maner of coldnesse of the head and brayne for annoynted with the oyle it doth heate marueylously cōforteth 17. This also annointed on the hinder part of the heade

Retort The .xx. Chapter LEt a Retort be made of such a fashion as the letter A. demonstrateth of good Earth that is of broken Tyles péeces of looking Glasses and other Glasses whyte and cleare of Potters clay the sylings of yron diligently powdred wrought togither B. must be thrust wythin C. which hath an edge or border D. the Pype sharpened at the ende made of earth or of copper to th ende that it may be thrust into anye maner of Glasse vyoll or long necked Glasse with a narrowe mouth For to dystill the water of Sinamon a man must prepare such an Instrument First set readie a Treuet on which bestowe a vessell of Iron sufficient hollow filled with fine Sande or sifted Ashes or hauing nothing in it that requyreth then a greater fire and to be bored full of small holes into which set a Cucurbite of Glasse well luted you maye include the whole with a bande of an yron plate c. A figure very rare of the Alchymistes borrowed out of an auncient booke of Alchymie in wrytten hande The .xxi. Chapter In this little Furnace hauing to the right hande thrée flames ought to be filled with fine Sande and sifted and that the fire kyndled and flaming to haue thrée Candles the second Furnace whych is in the myddes of the two ought also to haue Sande and a fire temperate of two Candles as doth the flame demonstrate in the d●●re of the Furnace In the thirde Furnace to the left hande is a Balneum Mariae and the fire or flame of one Candell These Fu●naces ought on such wyse to be disposed and set in order that they stande nigh one the other whereby a verye small space may appeare betwéene Furnace and Furnace as the figure aboue playner sheweth to the eye For the same vse haue the Alchymistes deuysed these Instruments following A. the Cucurbite whiche con●ayneth the substance with his headde B. the heade whose Nose retcheth wythin the necke C. Into the glasse C. doth the secrete spirite of the Quintessēce passe Into the receyuing vessell D. doth the simple wyne or Flewme of the Quintessence fall The maner and Instrumentes of Dystilling by Discention The .xxij. Chapter THe manner of Dystilling by Discention is wrought in a Bozia or Cucurbite turned vpside downe which is conioined to the Furnace with the best lute that is of that part which the body of the Bozia thickest fenced toucheth to the furnace after the well drying closing thus of the Glasse●Body to the Furnace that no matter fall through the Coales then are to be layde vpon all about and on such wyse kindled that the fire be very gentle For a small fire sufficeth in this work at the first but when it toucheth and is come to the Bozia let the fire be after increased by little and little Before the Dystillation it behooueth to thrust couch strongly togither the matter wythin the Bozia or to drye throughly the same or with the whyte of an Egge or by long running to staye the matter in the Bozia turned vpside downe to the ende that it shedde not forth During the tyme of the Dystillation the matter cleaueth to the necke of the Bozia c. Thys maner of Dystilling is so much the more perfite and excellent bycause the matter séemeth to be sublymed often and many tymes as nygh a thousand thousande tymes wrought and dryuen vp and downe a hygh and belowe during the time of the Dystillation yet maye it not cause that such an agitacion and moouing to render and yéelde a perfite Sublimation of the Quintessence of the matter that is to saye the Elementarie conuerted into the name Elementall and of a corruptible matter rendred an incorruptible After this maner of Dystilling by Discention may a man attayne Oyles out of Woods and halfe Mynerals If so be the mouth of the Bozia strong luted be close stopped with a Plate of yron tynned and stricken full of small holes That you may the readyer conceyue the manner and Instruments of this Dystillation beholde the Figure here before descrybed borowed out of the woorke intituled Pyrotechnia That singular man Rogerius ▪ hath set forth a lyke maner of Dystilling on this wyse Let a Bottell of Earth well glased wythin be filled vp to the mouth with Flowers or Herbes hauing in the bottome a reasonable small hole and the mouth of it diligently stopped to be sette into the mouth of a larger vessell lyke glased standing vnder which done to close and stoppe with diligence the bottome of the Bottell wythin the mouth of the other vessell with good Lute or morter of Potters earth and to burie both the Pottes wholy wythin the Earth leauing these so couered for a yeare The yeare being ended to drawe them forth of the Earth and in the nether vessell shall be founde a verye cleare Oyle which is dystilled by vertue of the heate and fumes of the Earth The forme of a Furnace for Balneo Mariae very rare and highly commended The .xxiij. Chapter BEholde here a manner or fashion of Balneo Mariae verye excellent of which the vessell large and greate is of tynne much like to a bygge Vrinall Bodye in lengthe of thrée spannes or thrée great féete long verye bygge below and narrower extending vpwarde the bottome or bellye of the same standing wette well twoo long feete wythin the boyling water and the part aboue retching quyte without the Balneo in heigth of a long foote through a round hole cut out in the myddes of the couer of the Kettell or Panne being the Balneo On thys great vessell is a Lymbeck of Tynne set stedily and fast couered and compassed of another vessell like of Tynne farre larger after the forme of a Bucket that receyueth the colde water which is caused to runne by the Pype or Cocke of Copper out of the vpper vessell somwhat long situated and standing in the highest part of the Columne and the same for cooling continually the Tinne Lymbeck standing in the middes to the ende that the vapours which are ascended maye thicken much better and be sooner conuerted into water so that thys causeth that the Artificers may receyue the more yéelde of water and where the same colde water contayned in the Vessell or Bucket that compasseth the Lymbecke maye be hote wythin short tyme by the heate of the Lymbecke thys in lyke maner by a Pype out of which the water ●●●meth may incontinent be let forth in the nether part through a Cocke turned and the Bucket agayne filled with other colde water drawen out of the vessell on hygh But to th ende a man may not haue so great a labor and payne to emptie so often the hote water and to poure in of colde he maye dispose the same on such wyse that from the vessell whych is standing at the toppe of the Columne he may continually drawe out so often of the colde water into the Vessell which compasseth the Lymbecke as he letteth forth of

take the distyllacion by a Lymbecke of the quicksyluer of the syluer sublymed of Romaine vitryoll of each a lyke this orderlye vse A strong water helping a knob called Morum Bertapalia in the sixtene Chapter of impostumes take of Romaine vitryoll of roche Alome of salt Ammoniacū of Salt gemme of each fowre thrée two and one these are the wayghtes according to order which dilygently brought to powder distyll in a glasse body fensed with the lute of wisedome and Ore doong and strawe myxed This water is maruaylous for by touching the rounde knobbe Morum with it both shortlye destroy it yea any other knobbe of fleshe growen on the skinne and this is named the strong water with which the Golosmythes doe seperate the syluer from the Gold. A strong water auayling in Fistulaes and is besydes of great vertue and power in vlcers Take of Salt nyter of Romaine vitryoll of roche Alome of eache one pounde eache fynely grinded alone and incorporated togyther put into a Lymbecke making at the fyrst a soft fyre the fyrst water that comes kéepe by it selfe dystylling forewarde with the increasing of heate vntyll the glasse bodye wareth redde then take awaye that second water and receaue the other by it selfe for the fyrst water is nothing woorth and increase then the fyre myghtyer vntyll the Glasse bodye and headde become redder forsing then the Ashes which are in the vessell to ascende vnto the necke of the Glasse and increase your heate of fyre stronger and stronger vntyll the headde be redde and that the redde fume ascending shall ceasse which shall well or euidentlye appeare in the Glasse the same thus come seale dilygentlye with waxe and kéepe the abouesayde water The Furnace through colde and the bodye opened you shall fynde in the bottome of it a redde masse or lumpe which kéepe The sayde water is stronger then the water of the worlde and hath maruaylous workinges in it For this water dyssolueth corrodeth the fleshe and reduceth or chaungeth all thinges of the worlde into a powder and water as the stones and mettalles If this bée heated it then gyueth vp a verye redde and myghtie fume This water if it toucheth by it selfe eyther the fleshe or a garment it dyeth or coloureth the same yellowe to Saffron which spotte wyll neuer bée gotten out for the colour or stayne on the fleshe contynueth many dayes and if you washe the stayne with Lye it becommeth verye redde of colour Further if you shall put a lyttle piece of good Luna that is of syluer into this water it dyeth then the same of a blacke colour which after cannot be gotten out or clensed away And if you shal put a lytle of Mercurie which is quicksyluer into it ▪ that it bée molten it is then caused mightyer then the fyre For if it then toucheth the fleshe it doth cauterizate or burne euen lyk● to an yron fyre hote and is not fealt and is ryght notable for canterises or to make cauterizations it also mortifyeth all Fistulaes Cankers Carbuneles wicked and venemous humours If yron also bée put into the sayde water it forthwith heateth boyleth without fyre ▪ and if you put into it yron it causeth a redde water by the intermedling dissoluing of the yron And if you shall drawe or distyll the water by a bodye of glasse fensed the yron then wyll remayne in the bottome of the vessel and wyll be a verye redde powder which properlie is named Marses Saffron If also in the above sayd water you shall put Venus that is to say Copper it lyke boyleth and of the same is made a greene water And if you wyll draw that water forth by a Lymbecke then wyll a most blacke powder of Venus remaine in the bottome of the vessell which properlye is named Venus Lyme Note that if you shall put Saturne that is Leade in the sayde water it causeth the water cleare if you shall draw that water forth by Limbeck there wyl remaine a whyte Salt in the bottome that bytter Also if you shall put Iupiter that is tynne into it it wyll then cause of it a paste lyke to butter and if you shall drye the same as aboue taught the powder then wyll be whyte in the bottome And if you shall put Mercurie that is quicksyluer into it it maketh then a cleare water of the same and if you shall let the water of Mercurie to settle it wyll then fall to the bottome lyke to yse and if you wyl drye the same then remayneth a whyte salt in the bottome and strong as the styffest waxe And if you wyll recouer your Syluer when it is in the water put then in the same water crude Mercurie and the good Syluer wyll incontinent enter within the Mercurie after emptye the water and take the myxion which put into a Goates skynne wryng the substaunce verye harde and the Mercurie or quicksyluer wyll then issue forth the substaunce which shal remayne in the skinne put into a Crucible to be molten and you shall then finde the good syluer Also if you shall put Golde in the same water it causeth the water yelowe of it and if you shall drye the same then is a golden salt caused bytter as the earth that auayleth in the drying of Fistulaes If also you shall dyssolue one part of good Luna or syluer in the sayde water and so muche of Mercurie or quicksyluer and so much of the whyte sublymed Syluer and a fowrth part of one of these of Tutia Alexandrina and shall drawe this water by a Lymbecke all these then shall remayne in the bottome of the glasse vnto the fourme of a stone of which stone put one part vpon fowre parts of Copper molten and it shall soone after become so whyte as the syluer 〈…〉 if you ●hall io●ne good Syluer then maye fayre ornamentes be made of the same Also if you 〈…〉 cause l●ttle vesselle● or small rynges or any oth●r thinges be made of halfe Golde and halfe Syluer and that after you shall take the redde substaunce which remayned in the 〈…〉 the vessell of the 〈…〉 and wyll bring it into fine powder you shall then doe or worked 〈…〉 ●nother water p●euayling 〈…〉 and the taking a●●ye of thicke sky●nes and harde fleshe gathered take of Cuperosa that is Romayne vitryoll of Salt nyter of 〈…〉 made of each a lyke quan●●tie these after t●e dily●●nt 〈…〉 ●nd●nyring t●gither distyl ●y a Lymbeck according to arte The fyrst water yssuing or comming forth i● whyte th●t 〈…〉 pymples a●d 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 cleansing thicke and harde ●nottie fleshe the other water is redde which cle●nseth both knobbes and wartes and healeth all those which I have aboue vttered Or thus take of vnsl●●ed Lyme newe made thr●e ounces of 〈…〉 Euphorbi●m 〈◊〉 ounce 〈◊〉 these beaten a parte myxe dyligently with h●th halfe a po●n●e of oyle of Tyle stones which after distyll according to arte that distylled and come kéepe in a glasse both for thicke gatheringes and

only for the potte whyles it is thus baked is drawne and shruncke togyther much and for that cause the same ought before to be thus handled hauing a deepe foundation and a●roūd hole framed to the bottome hauing a grate made within aboue which fyxe hygher by halfe a foote two barres lying crosse on which set or let the bottome of the potte stand and let the Furnace ryse and be aboue the bottome of the potte that is aboue the yron barres one foote and a halfe or lytle les●e 3. Within the potte set a large Copper vessell● according to the quantity of the water as for two pounds of spyces let twentie pyntes of water be powred vpon in such s●r● that the empty●nesse round about be fylled with Sand a finger and a halfe hygh This vessell with the head shall stande and be aboue the Sande halfe a foote almost 4. Let the helmet or head aboue be rounde and not sharpe poynted that the vapour fall not againe downwarde nor that the head be cooled with water nor hath any edge or gutter For being on such wys● all the vapour wyll yssue and passe spéedily and forth with into the pype If the head nowe should be cooled the vapours there gathered would ●uer soone be thyckened and fall also backward or else this also otherwyse hyndered by this maner in the distylling of oyles For that cause must be c●nsydered and knowne howe the crookednesse of the nose ought to be according to the standing and space of the place that the pype fastened to the nose of the head maye aptlye passe and retche through the Fyrkin or other vessell of water c. 5. Let the pype be long in a maner sixe foote and let it passe or retche through the tubbe or vessell fylled with colde water 6. Let the fyre fyrst or at the begynning be made somewhat great after that by lytle and lytle abated or lessened but let it be kept in an equall force of heate The oyle wyll come forth togyther with the water and flewme c. Some part of it setleth vnder the water and another parte swymmeth aboue and the oyle also may be seperated The water then may be distylled agayne and that which shall fyrst come wyll be the swéetest water for the other is onelye flewme This distyllacion maye be perfourmed in eyght howers these hytherto of the practises of the learned Gesnerus A most apt instrument for the drawing of Oyles out of Rootes Hearbes Seedes Spyces and others lyke The .iij. Chapter A. Representeth the vessell which the Aucthour nameth a bladder in which the matter or substaunce is contayned B. Doth here represent the bellye that is fastened to the necke that the necke maye the commodiousser be applyed to the large mouth of the vessell which the necke coulde not so commodiously be fastned but through this mene and helpe C. Doth here shewe the long necke that letteth the head that ●t heate not to fast D. Signifieth the head E. The vessell or bucket compassing the head into which colde water is continually powred after the heating F. Representeth the long Receauer G. Here signifieth the Tappe or Cocke letting out the water hote This fourme and maner of Furnace purchased the Aucthour of a skylfull practisioner and learned Phisition of Basyll Of the drawing of Oyles by distyllacion of water boyling The .iiij. Chapter TAke a Copper bodie or potte of such a greatnesse that wyll well receyue fifteene pynts the same fyll so with wyne or water or with both myxed togither that a thyrde part onely may remayne emptie To the water powre your substance apt to yéeld an oyle and that grosely beaten which let stand to infuse for thrée howres yea the better fowre or sixe howres After set on the head verie close luted about and cause the water most stronglie to boyle for with the vapour then of the water doe the oylie spyrites ascende which by the pipe passing through the colde water doe descende distyl into the Receauer of Glasse standing vnder and are so chaunged into oyle which after in the Furnace of dygestion you shall seperate from the water with a Siluer spone And on this maner may you drawe an oyle out of Nutmegges Mace Annise séedes Fennel seedes Cynamon Cloues Iuniper berries and others This Furnace of digestion is a vessell into which the water oyle is powred togither in a place temperately hote standing that they maye the aptlyer be seperated one from the other And how this seperacion ought artlie be done shall after be taught The maner of purchasing Oyles by an yron or wood presse The .v. Chapter TAke a presse made with strong cheekes betwéene which two sydes put too yron plates sufficientlie heated but not burning hote after wryng harde togyther the substaunce out of which you minde to purchase an oyle remembring before to put vppe your matter into a newe Canuas bagge and then in this harde drawing wyll an oyle come forthe That if your substaunce shall waxe dryer and dryer before the ende of the worke then moysten the same by sprinckling a lyttle of the best Aqua vitae vpon But this conceyue ▪ that all substaunces ought before to be grosse beaten and being well heated in an earthen panne put then up hote into a newe thynne bagge and wrynging the same harde a more quantitie of oyle wyll come But for a playner vnderstanding conceyue these examples following and fyrst the purchasing of the oyle of Almondes which is gotten ●n this wyse Take of iourdaine Almondes or of other Almondes fowre poundes these after the paring and cleansing of them drye with a knyfe for that they may not be blaunched in water stampe grosely in a marble morter which sprinckle with a lytle of the best Aqua vitae mixed with Rosewater to the quantitye of two ounces of both these after the dilygent incorporating togyther put into a new earthen panne glased ouer the fyre which after the heating so hote that it beginneth to fume or at the least that you can not suffer your hande in it then put up of the same a quantitye being so hote into a thynne square bagge of newe cloath and wryng this verye harde in a presse betwene two smooth yron plates or two square boardes smoothed of Sugar cheast into a porrenger or cleane pewter dyshe this wholye gathered washe after if you wyll in an earthen panne fylled with rayne water which so long labour with a stycke in the water vntyll the same be come whyte with this maye woemen if they wyll annoynt theyr faces both in the morning fyrst and at nyght last for this both cleareth and maketh be wtyfull the skynne in any place wheresoeuer the same be applyed Another example ayding the aboue taught made of Almondes compowned after this maner take of Almondes tenne pounds of redde Saunders in powder syxe ounces of Cloues one ounce of whyte wyne fowre ounces of Rosewater thrée ounces these after the grosse beating let so lye in the marble

it seaseth the paine of woundes it drieth vp cleanseth and comforteth and doth the same which may be wrought by any and is especiallie profitable to woundes of the synewes The vse of this oyle is that it ought to be applyed hote on the grieued places Another mastryall cōposition of the oyle of Hypericon right profitable for woundes borrowed out of the Italian secretes of the abouesayd Aucthor take of cōmon oyle Oliue that is sweete pleasant of tast as much as you thinke needeful into which put so much of the Hypericon the flowers seedes as that oyle wyl well receyue this let so stande in a glasse vntyll the oyle appeareth redde into which after put these of Turpentine one ounce for euery pounde of the oyle of Nutmegs of Saffron of Beniamine of ech one drā for euery poūd of the oyle of claryfied Barrowes greace two ounces for euery pound of the oyle of yarrow of redde Roseleaues of Campherie of Cummine of ech one ounce and a halfe for euery pound of the oyle of the best wyne two ounces for euery pound let these infuse togyther for the space of a moneth after shyft all the substaunce into a glasse body with a couer which set into Balneo letting the substance there boile vnto the cōsumption of the wine drynesse of the hearbes after the taking forth strayne the whole through a lynnen cloath which preserue in a glasse close stopped This oyle is marueylous vsed on woundes if so it be applied hote with lint or a fine lynnē cloth vpon that woūd This oile also auaileth against poyson helpeth Petechiae swellings or knobs by anointing of it on the places that with expedicion And with this oyle hath the Author done many singular practises to his high cōmēdatiō An oyle of the Orrenge flowers take Melone seedes wel brokē so many as you wyl of these straw a part in that bottome of a broade or gallie glasse on which straw a bedde of the flowers of that Orrenges vpō that straw another course of the séedes which done let them so stand for a day after the throwing away of the flowers put in fresh flowers to the seedes in like order as aboue taught this doe for sūdry dayes togither in shyfting the flowers vntyl the seedes haue purchased the vertue sauour of the Orrendge flowers which sprincled wette somwhat with good Rosewater put vp into sware lynnen bagges these wryng harde in a presse pressing the oyle The oyle of the Iasemyne flowers maye in a lyke maner bée purchased by ordering the flowers as aboue vttered and if you thincke the yéelde not sufficient at a tyme then maye you increase the same in my opinion with the iourdaine Almondes cleane scraped and broken after discrecion An oyle of the Damaske Roses maye in a lyke maner be obtayned if so be you breake Almondes into small partes being cleane scraped before and not blaunched and ordered as aboue taught of the oyle of Orrendge flowers which after put into bags presse forth an oyle An oyle of Roses by sunning is prepared and made on this wyse as Rogerius in his fowrth treatyse and eyght Chapter instructeth Take the Flowers of gréene Roses and fyll the glasse with the flowers and oyle in such maner that to one pounde of Roseleaues be two poundes of oyle added which dilygently stopped set the glasse in the Sunne for fortie dayes sturring about the flowers once a daye After such a decoction strayne it through a Lynnen cloath into a Bason of fayre colde water and labour or styrre the oyle about with a Hasill sticke whyte scraped after shift the oyle into another Bason of cold water and sturring it and this doe tenne tymes togyther For through this often washing it purchaseth a coldnesse in working and a lesser drynesse By which it doth after more coole and moysten Also the substaunce put into a glasse set in the Sunne vntyll the moysture which entreth the powres may through the same be consumed In a colde countrey where through a weake heate of the ayre this can not be decocted let the glasse be set into a panne of water that it may there softlye boyle for two or three dayes vnto a thyrde part of the oyle awaye if that countrey hath not oyle Olyue then draw an oyle of freshe Nuttes scraped with which make your oyle of Roses or otherwise vse olde Nuttes scraped cleane and stieped for two dayes in colde water after let an oyle be pressed forth Whereof the Aucthour alleageth that the mylke drawne or made of freshe Nuttes may so safely be giuen to the sicke of the Ague at all tymes in a cold countrey as the Almonde mylke in a hote countrey This oyle also aboue taught hath sundrye properties for if a pacient vexed with the Ague be daylye or often annoynted about the forehead and temples and paulmes of the handes the soles of the féete and on the beating veynes of the wrestes this note onely represseth the payne of the head and other partes but altereth the heate and procureth sléepe yet this in no case may be done in the sick day where you hope of the vniuersall or particular action A singuler remedie cōmended that the yolkes of Egges be laboured with the oyle of Roses and layde playster wyse on the region of the Lyuer or vpon a fyrie impostume which being once or twyse applyed doth marueylouslie mitigate paine and doth dissolue the fumositie and sharpnesse of matter And the same cleanseth the place or swelling to fal remooueth the rednesse from the place This oyle also mixt with a lyke wayght of the iuyce of plaintayne for a glyster in the blooddy fluxe or perylous scouring with blood is greatly commended this doth spéedily bring woundes to a scarre and mytigateth the payne by repressing the matter These oyles afore placed although they be prepared and gotten without distyllation or but by pressing out or otherwyse made by the Sunne yet would I not omytte them in that these formes and wayes séeme easie comely and to skyll inuented and oyles being thus prepared may aptly be applyed to mens vse and vtilytie The oyle of Violettes is prepared made of Violettes in the lyke maner as the oyle of Roses out of Rogerius and serueth to lyke purposes as the oyle of Roses sauing that the one ofter the newe making is laxatiue and the other bynding If with a lyke wayght of the iuyce of Mercurie this oyle be applied in glyster wise in the sharpe daylie and renewing Agues and Tertians the same gently doth louse the bellie and easilye expelleth the superfluities by the excrements sent forth This out of Rogerius An oyle helping the spottes of the face which commonly we name Lyntelles take a sufficient quantitie of the flowers of Rosemarie which put into a glasse burye it in hote horse doong in a place frée or safe from rayne for thyrtie dayes or vnto the time the flowers be dyssolued after set the glasse in the

sodden out of which let an oyle be drawen after this maner let them be put into a frying panne on the fyre which stur to fro with a spone diligently and let the same so long frye vntyll it be well molten the whole after put into lynnen bagges wette before in water which wring harde out in a presse and an oyle will distyll forth With this oyle myxe of Pelytorie of Castorie of Mas●icke and of Ladanum of eache one ounce all these togyther put into a glasse Limbecke distill after the accustomed manner with a soft fyre the ioyntes of the heade and receauer before close luted that no ayre breath forth and the same which shall come of this distillation repeate vpon the Feces thrise ouer and with this oyle annoynt the grieued place and it shall speedily cure it for this is a most excellent oyle prooued A Iuyce or lycour pressed out of the hard yolkes of Egges sodden and instilled or dropped into the eares doth much helpe the ringing and sounding of the Eares The oyle of the yolkes of egges druncke before meate putteth away drunckennesse howe mightily any drincketh If paine vexeth a person by the cutting of any member if is cured by the oyle of the yolkes of egges and Goose grease incorporated togyther vnto the forme of an oyntment and of it applyed vpon which doth marueylously asswage the paine and causeth sléepe This also mytigateth the payne of the priuie member annoynted with it The vse of it also serueth in Alchymical works in that the same fixeth certaine medicines The shelles of egges clensed or pylled from the inner skynne out of which Chickins haue lately bene hatched beate to fyne pouder of this a dram waight druncke wi●h Saxifrage water doth prouoke vrine speedily this borrowed out of Leonellus Out of the hony is a Quintisence drawen by Art of distillatiō which yeeldeth marueylous and wonderfull effectes prepared drawen on this wyse Take of honie two poundes that is very cléere of a good sauour gathered of Bées in a good region or coūtrey which put into a large glasse body that remayneth fowre or fyue parts emptie this body lute about very well setting a head close vpon with the Receauer luted to the Nose after make a fire which mayntayne greater greater vntyll certayne whyt● fumes or vapors come or appeare which after be conuerted into water by applying linnen cloathes wet in cold water those layd on the head of the glasse the lyke on the necke of the receauer The water distilling wyll then come redde as blood which at the ende of the distyllacion powre into a glasse dilygently stopping it letting it there stand vntyl the water come most cleare be of a Rubine colour The same then distyl agayne by Balneo Mariae aboue sixe or seuen tymes thorow which it loseth the redde colour receyueth a golden colour and it then obtayneth a most sweete fragrant sauour This quyntisence doth dyssolue gold and maketh it potable or to be drunck the lyke it dyssolueth all precious stones infused or put in it For this is a blessed water which giuen to the quantity of two or thre drams vnto a person lying at the poynt of death maketh him speedily recouer come to him selfe againe If with it wounds or other fores be washed or applyed wet vpon are spéedily cured This the lyke healeth the cough the rewme sicknesses of the splene If it shal be twētie tymes distylled ouer it woulde render or restore sight to the blynd I have sayth the Aucthour giuen it to a person of the palsie xlvi dayes through which he was thorowly cured This besides healeth the falling sicknesse preserueth the body from putrifying To whome I gaue this by the mouth I ministred it so closelie in that I would not be sene of any standing about thorow my which doing and the successe that followed they supposed me to vse some maner of incantacions This borrowed out of the gréeke Leonarde Fiorauant An oyle of Hony seruing vnto the colouring of the heyres of the head yellow take of Hony one pound to which adde one handful of wheaten meale these after the myxing distyl according to art and drawe the oyle from the water after myxe the oyle and water togyther in a glasse with which kembe the heyres The distylling of two waters of which the one serueth to the clearing bewtifying of the face and the other to the colouring dying of the heyres of the head yellow Take of the best Hony one pounde this put into a great Retort set into sande on a Furnace vnder which make a soft fyre vntyll a whyte water be dystylled come and when a yellow begynneth to distyll draw away the Receauer setting vnder another and increase the fyre by lytle and lytle vntyll certayne whyte fumes y●●ew forth and so long mayntayne your fyre vntyll no more lycour wyll distyll forth And this last distyllacion wyll be of a Rubyne colour with which if you wet the heyres it dyeth them of the colour of golde and maketh the heyres grow very fayre and long But washing the face with the fyrst water maketh it comely and fayre and preserueth the skynne a long tyme from appearing olde These two haue many noble women vsed and founde great vtility by them as well for the face as colouring the heyre to their great admiration as wryteth the Aucthour Leonarde Fiorauant A water or lycour prohybiting or letting the ingendring of the stone Take of new Hony two poundes of Venice Turpentyne one pound these after the myxing togyther distyll with a soft fyre let the pacient take ounces but I rather iudge two drams to be taken in the morning fasting A lycour or water out of Hony drawne by distyllacion which serueth vnto the making of the heyre yellowe cytrine and golden Take of Salt peter and Hony of eache a lyke quantity these after the myxing distyll in a tynne Lymbecke with this water kembe the heyres of the head But after the w●tting of the heyre beware that it toucheth not the skynne or fleshe An Oyle out of fat waxe drawne by Chymicke or Chymisticke arte most excellent vnto the softning of hard swellings in that it mightily pierceth softneth dyssolueth this is no common medycine in brynging wounds to fayre scarres so that within a few dayes after the closing of the wound you vse to apply of it least a newe inflamation be caused The oyle is on this wyse prepared take new waxe Gesnerus iudgeth virgin waxe to be takē the same especially fat which you shall leasurely melt in some vessel ▪ with a soft fyre the same you shall often washe and thryst hard togyther in wine which you shal melt agayne and into the same molten shall you put many small pieces broken of Tyles made glowing hote which may so drinck vp much of the waxe and this doe a second and thyrd tyme if néede shall requyre vntyll all the waxe