exceed all other Preparations yea the very Rosin of Scammony it self For it dissipates its tough viscous and poisonous malignity and doth correct it and doth certainly purge which doth not always follow from the taking of the Rosin only Magistery of Scammony THE true and Spagyrick Preparation and Correction of Scammony which is used as a Secret by Physicians is this Take a sufficient quantity of select Scammony which dissolve in Philosophical Spirit of Wine after due filtration draw it off again in an Alembick at least to half then pour upon it Rose-water as much as shall seem necessary for precipitation and the pure Rosin of Scammony will be precipitated void of all its poisonous quality and freed from its nauseous smell and taste which when the humidity is separated from it reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth the body of both sorts of Choler and divers other diseases without any offence to the body neither can there be a more mild sweet and noble Cathartick found in the whole bosom of Nature The Dose is from half a scruple to a whole scruple in Conserves or other appropriate Vehicles Magistery of Gum Guttemaw or Gambogia BY the forementioned Method may a Magistery or Flowers be prepared of this Peruvian Gum which is an incomparable Cathartick to purge serous and thick humors let it be prepared carefully and reserved for use The Dose is from ten twelve or fifteen grains to a scruple especially in robust bodies Gum of Peru Rosated Take Gum of Peru or Guttemaw well pulverized an ounce Chicory-water half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol rectified a dram These being well mixed put it into a Glass or a well glazed Vessel and in a warm place but if it be too hot it will grow black and be spoiled let it evaporate and grow dry till it looks of an earthy colour Afterward pulverize this and add to it powder of red Roses an ounce of red Sanders two drams and pour upon it a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine and let it circulate for twenty four hours and when it is grown cold again filter it through a Paper and by degrees let it evaporate till it is dry and so you have a red Extract of valid and excellent efficacy and in aspect fair and lovely though the Gum by it self or the Magistery of it is of an unpleasant yellow colour and doth easily nauseate Hitherto it is revealed and communicated to none but to the ingenious and worthy for which end it was found Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth serous humors without danger and difficulty from all parts of the body for which reason it is used with excellent success in all ill habits of body Dropsie Gouts of all sorts and such kind of diseases also in the Scurvy and Greensickness it is found excellent by Experience The Dose is from fifteen grains to twenty one especially in robust strong bodies Amber Muskified Take of the best pure Amber an ounce of the most odorate Musk a dram Elaeosaccharum of Citrons half a dram Mix them and bring the mass into a most subtile Powder which moisten with Spirit of Roses hot and let it dry again and this labour repeat certain times and afterward let it be again finely powdered and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It heats and drys It comforts the Brain it roborates and succours it in all its affects it helps the continual pain of the Head it cleanseth the Eyes of white specks and consumes the moist defluxions thereof It wonderfully gives help to old people and to those who are naturally cold it hastens drunkenness being infused in Wine The Dose is from four to six and eight grains at the most in Sack or other proper Vehicle Regal Diacinamon Take of the best Cinamon four ounces three Nutmegs of our Syrup of Cinamon as much as will suffice Make it into an Electuary to which add Confectio Alkermes an ounce Oyl of Cinamon half an ounce Amber Muskified Troches of Pearls of each a dram Leaves of Hungarian Gold thirty one Mix them and so make a Royal magnificent Medicine which reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of a hot quality It comforts the Brain and Heart above measure it discusseth the vitious humors of the Stomach and helps Concoction it helps the Syncope and Palpitation of the Heart it resists the inflation and swelling of the Stomach and dissipates wind It allays the Colick-pains proceeding from a cold Cause and it sweetens the Breath It resists all putrefaction It is very agreeable to old people who are cold and debilitated and in whom the native Balsam and natural heat are lessened and impaired It doth wonderfully recover strength increase Seed and promotes the strength of Procreation it excites to Venery and much sweetens the pleasure thereof and safely increaseth the motion thereunto The Dose in the morning fasting and in the evening at going to bed is the quantity of a Hazel-nut more or less according to the Complexion and Sex of the Patient Pearls Trochiscated TAke white Salt of the Oriental Pearls and free from all its acetosity what quantity you please dissolve it in water made of May-dew gathered from the standing Wheat or in some Cordial liquor to this solution add by drops of Spirit of Vitriol rectified as much as shall seem requisite for precipitation and a white Powder will precipitate to the bottom which the flegm being removed edulcorate and dry it according to art and you have the true Magistery of Pearls Then take of this Magistery an ounce the true Oyl of Roses and Oyl of Cinamon of each a scruple Mix them and with Tragacanth dissolved in equal parts of Rose-water and Cinamon-water let little Troches be made according to art which lay by for use and reserve it like a Treasure Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Comfortative in all affects of the Heart as Pain Sorrow Trembling Pulsation Palpitation defects of the Mind c. Also in pains of the Head Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy Palsie Contractures resolution of the Nerves Convulsion Phrensie Melancholy Madness Gout and Gouty pains in the Joynts Consumption Blasting the numbness and decay by Age Stone Dropsie Scurvy French Pox and Feavers c. It purifies the Blood it comforts all the Senses Brain Memory and Heart and preserves the whole body sound It fortifies Nature within also the Child in the Womb it roborates the Spirits repairs the strength and increaseth the humane Seed it amends Milk in Women takes away the spots of the Eyes and consumes Catarrhs c. And these Troches of Pearls thus made by our ordination have been highly approved by many Great and Noble men and by them esteemed as a great Secret and equal in effect to the Aurum Potabile The Dose according to the nature of the infirm and the Judgment of the Physician is from six grains to eight in appropriate Vehicles Elaeosaccharum of Citrons Take of Rose-water sixteen pound the exterior bark
is called Golden and in virtue and operation it comes near our Solar Bezoar only it is easier prepared In the first place it is a most excellent remedy against the Plague Epidemical diseases and all kinds of Poison For whosoever in time of the Plague shall use this Medicine keep it in their bodies and sweat with it do by the Providence of God escape without having the distemper But let one that is insected use it from half a dram to a dram in his greatest necessity expecting the operation of it in his bed and while he sweats let him forbear sleep which many Physicians do not permit under the space of 24 hours especially when the Bubo and Carbuncle appear yet seeing it doth restore strength and that heat in sleep is carried rather to the exteriors than to the interiors it ought not to be forbidden beyond the time of Sweating neither let the sick use any rigorous means to procure Sweat for I observe that either with or without it by the use of this Alexitery Evacuation is made by insensible Transpiration and the pestiferous matter is retunded which ought to be observed in giving all Diaphoreticks Moreover it helps Epilepsies Apoplexies Hemicrania's Cephalalgia's Vertigoes Convulsions Palsie and Melancholy It is a present help in the Asthma pains of the Heart Spleen and Liver Dropsies spitting of Blood the bloody Flux Colick Sciatica Gout and all kinds of Feavers either Quotidian Tertian or Quartan The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple and half a dram in some specifick and appropriate Vehicle Extractum Panchymagogon Take leaves of Sena eight ounces Pulp of Coloquintida roots of white Turbith black Hellebore of each four ounces Mechoacan Hermodactyls Elateris resinous Ialap of each three ounces Aloe rosata elect Rhubarb dwarff Elder-berries of each two ounces Of these Hermetically make an Extract of a just consistence to which add of Scammony rosated acid Tartar of each an ounce these Oyls of Cloves Cinamon Mastich Fenil Chamomil Oranges Mace of each a scruple Mix all into a mass for Pills which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an universal Cathartick profitable for all ages because as well in general as particular it purgeth all superabounding humors in what parts of the body soever they lurk and that pleasantly without any nauseating The Dose is from one scruple to two or a dram especially in strong bodies Extractum Polychrestum or an Extract good for many things Take Aloe rosata leaves of Sena of each four ounces Hermodactyls white and gummy Turbith Ialap of each three ounces black Hellebore Mechoacan Troches Alhandal Gum of Peru red Myrrh the best Mastich Ammoniacum Sagapen Opopanax Sarcocol of each an ounce and a half Troches of Agarick dwarff Elder-berries dryed the best Rhubarb of each an ounce Myrobalans Indian and yellow Polypody of the Oak Dodder Cummin seeds flowers of Arabick Stoechas of each half an ounce true Castor Indian Spike Cloves of each two drams These being mixed draw a Tincture according to art in the best Spirit of Wine of which make an Extract of a just consistence for our Pills called Pilulae Polychrestae Virtue Use and Dose It is called Polychrestum because it is profitable in many distempers of the body and purgeth all humors The Dose is from half a dram to a dram by it self or mixed with other Pills it is quickned with our Scammony rosated Extractum Specificum Hydropicum or a Specifick Extract against the Dropsie Take juyce of the roots of Flower-de-luce made thick Elatery of each eight ounces Mix them and in Spirit of Wine in which Species Diarrhodon Abbatis hath been infused draw a Tincture according to art which preserve till hereafter then take Pulp of Coloquintida roots of white and gummy Turbith black Hellebore of each four ounces the best Rhubarb gummy Ialap Mechoacan of each two ounces the inner bark of the roots of Elder Walnut-tree Alder-tree of each an ounce Hedge-Hysop Fumitory grains of Pepper of the Mount dwarff Elder-berries of each six drams Mix these likewise and with Spirit of Wine rectified in which Species Diacubeba hath been infused extract a Tincture with which mix the former and draw off the humidity in Balneo leaving the Extract at the bottom of the consistence of a Pultis to which add Magistery of Gutta Gamba Scammony rosated of each an ounce Tartar vitriolated Hyacinth prepared of each half an ounce Crocus Metallorum absinthiated Mercurius vitae of each two drams Spirit of Vitriol rectified a dram Let all these be carefully pulverized by themselves and faithfully mixed with the Medicine and about the end add of the Oyls of Cinamon Cloves Mace Chamomil Oranges and Mint of each half a dram and of all make a Mass of a consistence like an Extract Virtue Use and Dose It is specifick in Dropsies for it principally purgeth those serous Excrements and carries off all superfluous humidities and discusseth the matter of Tumors It also prevents and cures all diseases arising from a salt and burnt humor as Elephantiasis Mange Leprosie Cancer Tetters running Sores Ulcers malignant and fistulous It is given in the morning with care because it is a strong Cathartick and powerfully purgeth Flegm and all watry humors from the whole body Extractum Diasenae or an Extract of Sena Take of elect Sena four ounces Ialap Polypody of each two ounces Agarick black Hellebore prepared elect Rhubarb of each an ounce Fenil seeds half an ounce Cinamon Squinanth of each two drams Ginger Zedoary of each a dram After they are bruised infuse them in a sufficient quantity of warm water then shift the water and pour on new until all the virtue be draw forth which being done evaporate the humidity till it comes to the thickness of Honey and then add Oyl of Aniseeds and Cloves of each a scruple which being well incorporated the work is ended Virtue Use and Dose It is a most profitable Purge in all Constitutions especially Melancholy c. Dose from one dram to four scruples Extractum Specificum Emeticum or a Specifick Vomiting Extract Take Diarâ— hodâ—n Abbatis half an ounce fresh roots of Asarabacca Bryony Sowbread of each an ounce the inner bark of the roots of Alder the best Rhubarb juyce of Liquorish elect Mastich of each half an ounce From these with Spirit of Wine draw a Tincture by digestion stirring it often in the day which being done reserve it Then take Roots of the lesser Spurge prepared white Hellebore prepared of each eight ounces These being cut and moderately bruised pour upon them the Tincture you before prepared and let them stand in a gentle heat in Balneo for fourteen days then take the Spirit by inclination and pour on fresh do this so long till all the virtue is extracted Lastly the Spirit truly tinged being mixed together draw off the humidity according to art until the Extract doth appear in the bottom like Honey to which add Salt of Vitriol half an ounce Gutta Gamba Tartar
Centaury the less Tansie and Nettles or Archangel Also in Oxymel of Squills Honey clarified Syrup of Citrons Sorrel Hydromel or any other way which Children best like Species Diajovis or the Compound Powder of Jupiter Take Faecula Bryoniae half an ounce Salt of English Tin Mother of Pearl red Coral of each three drams roots of white Dictamnus and Peony of each two drams white Amber prepared Oriental Saffron Misleto of the Oak Antophyllorum of each a dram true Castor a scruple Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is a blessed Medicine in the most vehement and desperate suffocation and strangulation of the Womb and as it were sent from Heaven of God to Women For which Divine help let the Name of the Lord be blessed The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram three or four mornings together or in time of necessity in our Hysterical water or any other appropriate Liquor Species Diaveneris or a Compound Powder of Venus Take Sulphur of Vitriol of Venus sublimate and Spagyrically prepared half an ounce Venetian Borax two drams seeds of Ashen-keys of Rocket of each two drams of Parsneps Nettles and Leeks of each a dram and a half roots of Pellitory of Spain Boletus cervinus of each four scruples Galangal the less white Ginger Cinamon of each a dram Sea-Skinck prepared Magistery of Pearls Oriental Saffron of each half a dram Cantharides with the wings cut off Ambergriese each a scruple Musk Oyl of Mace of each ten grains Mix them and make of all a fine Powder with which mix an ounce of white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is by Experience the most effectual and indeed the last and most powerful remedy of all against the defect in the act of Venus And he that is willing to please his Consort and would to the utmost prove his virile force let him take after Supper if he desires the effect presently at his going to bed or if he would continue that work every morning from one scruple to two or a dram in warm Milk Sack c. It may also be prepared without Cantharides Species Diasaturni or the Compound Powder of Saturn Take Magistery of Saturn an ounce juyce of Liquorish depurated Lac Sulphuris compound roots of elect China of each three drams Salt of Oriental Pearls salt of red Coral salt of Wheat bread of each two drams red Bole prepared Benjamin sublimate Olibanum of each a dram Oriental Saffron Cassia lignea of each half a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder to which add of white Sugar Candy three ounces and being well mixed with the Powder keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose I know not with what words to extol this incomparable Medicine For a Consumption that cannot otherwise be cured by humane skill is oftentimes by this Medicine The Dose morning and evening is from half a dram to a dram in our Specifick water against Consumptions or in any other appropriate Vehicle Species Diasulphuris or a Compound Powder of Sulphur Take Lac and compound flowers of Sulphur of each an ounce and a half juyce of Liquorish cleansed Cardamoms the less sealed Earth of each six drams seeds of Roman Nettles seeds of Quinces Cinamon Ginger Nutmegs Saffron long Pepper Mace of each three drams Tragacanth roots of Flower-de-luce flowers of wild Poppy Mastich cream of Tartar of each a dram and a half Mix them and of all make a Powder to which add Oyls of Hysop Fenil Sage Aniseeds and Chamomil of each a scruple and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It helps continual Coughs difficulty of Breathing chronical Asthma's It doth cut and attenuate divers thick and gross humors in the Breast it preserves and cures without any other Medicine the Consumption Wasting Pleurisie and all Putrefactions and Imposthumes and is wonderfully effectual in all affects of the Throat and doth quickly restore the loss of the Voice It also drys up the Rheum from the Head and the evil humors in the Body from which are used to proceed Gouts pains in the Joynts and such like dolors It is a good Medicine in the Epilepsie Apoplexy Leprosie Pox Convulsion of the Nerves Colick and Dropsie c. The Dose is from a scruple to a dram morning and evening in some convenient Vehicle but in the Dropsie it is given with the like quantity of Magistery of Crocus Martis the body being first cleansed and it never fails In the affects of the Throat we use it in the form of a Tragaea by adding white Sugar Candy or mixed with Pectoral Syrups in the form of an Electuary or Lambitive Pulvis Refectivus or a Refective Powder Take white Sugar Candy concrete in Syrup of Violets an ounce Lac Sulphuris half an ounce compound flowers of Sulphur Confectio Alkermes of each two drams Magistery of Pearls red Coral and Saturn of each a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It repairs strength comforts the Heart and Nature it self it nourishes and fattens it drys up the Rheum in the Head roborates the Brain allays the Cough cures the Asthma Consumption and wasting The Dose is a scruple in water of Calves Lungs or Aqua Caponis or any other Specifick or so much of the Powder is mixed with any thing as will tinge the Vehiculum white and of this mixt Liquor the Dose is morning and evening one or two spoonfuls Pulvis excellens contra Tussim Infantum or an excellent Powder against the Cough in Children Take of Sugar Penids three ounces species of Diatragacanth frigid Diaireos simple of each half an ounce roots of Peony two drams juyce of Liquorish a dram Lac Sulphuris Saffron of each two scruples Mans skull calcined without fire seeds of white Poppy of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a most fine Powder Species Diavitrioli or a Compound Powder of Vitriol Take Galangal the less an ounce Magistery of Vitriol roots of water Acorus of each half an ounce long Pepper Cummin seeds Zedoary of each two drams Cinamon Calamus aromaticus Mace of each a dram and a half Cardamoms the less white Ginger Cloves Saffron Indian Spicknard wood of Aloes of each half a dram Musk and Ambergriese of each half a scruple Make them into a fine Powder for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a profitable Medicine against frigid humors of the Ventricle and putrefaction in the parts thereof and it digests flegm It helps digestion and concoction nauseating and vomiting and preserves the natural heat and warms the members of nutrition It dissipates flatulent humors it restrains four belchings and is useful in all diseases of the Liver It is profitable for those who are upon recovery after a long disease it helps the stink of the Nose and Mouth which ariseth from the consent of the Stomach The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram or by adding Sugar may be
a dram and a half in Broth of a Capon Beef Cicers or in Ale Beer or white Wine But it is given to Women in water of Balm or Juniper-berries Species Diamumiae or a compound Powder of Mumy Take Foreign Mumy Magistery of Pearch stones of each two drams Goats blood prepared Cloves Sperma Ceti of each a dram and an half roots of Madder Swallow-wort and Tormentil of each a dram white Amber prepared salt of red Coral Oriental red Bole of each half a dram Mix them and make all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose This Powder is excellent in all distempers that happen by Falls for it dissolves blood coagulated It is effectually used in Fractures Contusions and Ruptures falling down and glutinates all internal Wounds and prevents Impostumes that usually happen after Falls from on high The dose is from a scruple to a dram in Chervil water Wine or wine-Vinegar Pulvis Stipticus ejusdem ferè efficaciae or a Stiptick Powder almost of the same force Take Swallow-wort roots an ounce elect Rhubarb and Foreign Mumy of each half an ounce red Lacca Sperma Ceti of each two drams Bole Armoniack prepared sealed Earth of each a dram Mix them and make a Powder for the same use Another Pulvis Stipticus valde efficax or a Stiptick Powder of great force Take Sperma Ceti an ounce sealed Earth half an ounce Bole Armoniack Dragons blood Blood-stone of each two drams Crabs eyes prepared a dram roots of sweet Angelica Pontick Rhubarb elect Rhubarb of each half a dram Mix them and make a Powder The dose of which is half a dram in warm Wine expecting sweat after it by which way it operates and passeth to the Wounds Species Diaolibani or a compound Powder of Olibanum Take the roots of Peony duly gathered and Flower-de-luce of each three drams the best Olibanum a dram and a half Elks claws calcined without fire Magistery of Mans skull Oriental Saffron Misleto of the Oak of each a dram Sugar penids two ounces Mix them and make a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is given in the Epilepsie Apoplexy suffocative Catarrhs Cough Cardiack Passions and in every sudden disease and any dangerous accidents in Children and Infants for it comforts the Heart and Brain and throws off the peccant matter from those parts The dose is from half a scruple to a scruple by it self or in Mothers milk or any other convenient liquor Species Diatabaci or a compound Powder of Tabaco Take Indian Tabaco prepared with Oyl of Aniseeds half an ounce roots of white Hellebore of Lily of the valley Pellitory of Spain of each half a dram seeds of male Peony flowers of Lavender Rosemary Marjoram and Origanum of each a scruple long Pepper Peruvian Gum Agarick Troches Gallia Moschata of each ren grains Mix them c. Virtue Use and Dose A little of this Powder snuffed up the Nostrils doth immediately cause Sneezing by which means it purgeth the Brain kindly It is very effectual in all dolors of the Head Catarrhs Vertigo Epilepsie in all Imposthumes and other obstructions of the Nostrils for the Excrements as well thick as putrid it plentifully casts off and also strengthens the Brain The dose is the quantity of a Pease in the morning fasting which is to be snuffed up the Nose Species Diamarjoranae or a compound Powder of Marjoram Take flowers of the Lily of the valley half an ounce Marjoram first moistned with its own Oyl two drams wood of Aloes a dram Cubebs a scruple Ambergriese ten grains Mix them and make a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose We happily use this Powder in all diseases and affects where Sneezing is needful for it purgeth the Head exceedingly from all thick and flegmy humors and wonderfully comforts the Brain and the Organs of Sense also The dose is the quantity of a Pease snuffed up the Nose in a morning Species Diabalaustinae or a Powder compounded with Balaustines Take Balaustines six drams roots of Avens and round Galingale elect Mastich sealed Earth Cloves Sandarack Citron peels Rosemary of each half an ounce Coral prepared white Amber flowers of Pcony and red Roses Olibanum of each three drams Nutmegs seeds of wild Rue Coriander seeds prepared yellow Sanders Sassafras Cubebs of each two drams Mix them and make a Powder to be applied to the Coronal suture Virtue Use and Dose It is applied in Consumptions Hecticks dry Feavers pains in the Head to stop Loosnesses to dry Catarrhs and comfort the Brain let it be sprinkled upon the Coronal suture at night going to bed But in cold and moist distempers of the Brain let the Head be first bathed with Spirit of Wine and after sprinkle the Powder and you shall see a wonderful effect for it hinders the defluxion of the Rheum to the Nose Eyes and other parts Species Diabuglossae or a compound Powder of Bugloss Take the bark of the roots of Bugloss an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Citrons half an ounce red Roses dryed yellow Sanders wood of Aloes of each three drams Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each a dram bone of a Stags heart Oriental Saffron prepared of each half a dram Gallia Moschata our Aurum Potabile Indian Spicknard of each a scruple Oyl of Roses and Cinamon of each ten grains Manus Christi simple three ounces Mix them and make a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose This is a most excellent Medicine where any one is come as it were to desperation by over-much sorrow The efficacy of this Medicine is such against the affects of Melancholy and Cardiack Passions c. that it quickly restores them to health and is a most friendly Medicine to the Heart It comforts all members whose natural and animal sense is impaired it helps the trembling of the Heart and Syncope it repels evil cogitations relieves the solitary begets good manners abolisheth false imaginations and brings joy The dose is from a scruple to a dram Species Diaplantaginis or a compound Powder of Plantane Take juyce of Liquorish extracted sealed Earth of each an ounce roots of Plantane Dragonwort and Tormentil of each six drams Magistery of Crocus Martis made by reverberation Harts-horn burnt and prepared rind of Pomegranate of each half an ounce Blood-stone Nutmegs Orange peel Cloves of each three drams leaves of Sage Misleto of the Oak Balaustines of each two drams our Magistery of Coral prepared with Barberries feeds of Plantane a Harts pizzle of each a dram and an half the inside skins of Hens gizards prepared Dragons blood Hypocistis of each a dram Mix them and make them into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose This Powder helps those that loath their meat that piss or spit blood yea young Women whose Urinary passage is injured after a hard labour In Dysenteries pains in the Guts and superfluous Menstrua's it yields great relief to all Ulcerations in the Guts Reins Bladder and Urinary passage and soon removes all the Symptoms The dose is from half a
compound flowers of Sulphur half an ounce wild Boars teeth and the Iaw-bone of a Pike of each two drams Poppy flowers a dram Mix them and make a fine Powder which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It cures not without amazement to the Beholders the Pleurisie all putrefactions Imposthumes c. Dose from half a dram to a dram in Chamomil flower and Poppy water of each a sufficient quantity There is not a Remedy more effectual to be given and certainly this only draught edulcorated with a little white Sugar Candy and given often is a most admirable help which I have very often used and always by the blessing of God restored the sick to their former health Species Febrifugae Take the long shells of Shell-fish prepared Elks claws calcined without fire of each an ounce salts of the lesser Centaury of Carduus benedictus and Wormwood of each half an ounce Tartar vitriolated Magistery of Vitriol of each three drams Calamus Aromaticus Nutmegs of each a dram and a half seeds of St. Iohns-wort Cloves long Pepper Camphire of each a dram roots of Tormentil round Birthwort Zedoary and Laserpitium of each half a dram Mix them and make a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It drives away all Feavers especially Quotidian Tertian and sometimes the Quartan is by it cured also It is given in the Fit or a little before in water of Carduus or a little Centaury or in a draught of warm Beer or Ale The Patient being in his Bed let him compose himself to sweat The dose is from a scruple to a dram the age and strength of the Patient considered Pulvis Febrilis probatus or an approved Feaver-powder Take Calamus Aromaticus an ounce roots of Gentian round Birthwort white Ginger of each half an ounce salt of the lesser Centaury Carduus Wormwood of each three drams Harts-horn calcined without fire seeds of Marigold Camphire of each a dram white Sugar Candy an ounce and a half Mix them and make a fine Powder The dose is from half a dram to a dram in specifick and appropriate Vehicles Species Nephriticae or a Powder for distempered Kidneys Take Crystals of Tartar an ounce Magistery of Pearch stones and Crabs eyes of each half an ounce salt of white Amber a dram Oyl of Aniseeds a scruple white Sugar Candy four ounces Mix all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It gives ease to those who are pained in the Kidneys it breaks the Stone and tartarous matter in the Reins and Bladder and other members and brings it away It is a present help for the Ischury Dysury and Strangury without any great trouble it is indeed a Secret and so it ought to be esteemed against Stones of all kinds The dose for preservation is one scruple at the Quarters of the Moon in our Nephritick water but in curing the dose is from half a dram to a dram in the before-said water or in the water of Restharrow Parsley or Ground-lvy Species Cholagogae or a Choler-purging Powder Take Magistery of Scammony an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce acid Tartar two drams red Roses vitriolated flowers of the lesser Centaury of each a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It carries off yellow Choler without trouble and opens obstructions it relieves the Stomach Heart Liver Lungs Joynts and Bowels and conserves and increaseth their strength it cures the Heart-passion Consumptions yellow Jaundice c. It is taken with good success by ancient and weak people in burning and Tertian Feavers Dose from half a dram to two scruples Pulvis Carminativus or a Carminative Powder Take Cummin seed prepared with Vinegar seeds of Car away and Anise of each three ounces white Ginger six drams Mace three drams Oriental Saffron a dram Of these make a Powder Virtue Use and Dose It discusseth that wind that distends the Guts and by its acrimony causeth pains It may be taken constantly or in time of necessity by continuing of it certain days and for the first month in some Broth or with water of Fenil or Anise or our Carminative water The dose is from a dram to a dram and a half Farina Virginea Nobilis Take River-flints calcined and pulverized six ounces Pumice-stone prepared an ounce roots of Flower-de-luce half an ounce Gallia moschata a dram Oyl of Roses a scruple Mix all and make a Powder like Meal which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose There is not a more excellent Medicine to cleanse the Teeth and take off the corrosive Tartar if they be daily and diligently rubbed with a woollen Cloth and this powder than this is and therefore I do commend this sweet and pleasant powder of Flints to the use of all Pulvis Haemorrhoidalis or a Powder for the Piles Take fine Flour an ounce Crocus Martis half an ounce red Oriental Bole prepared roots of Mullein of each two drams white Hermodactyls infused all night in spirit of Wine and again dryed flowers of wild Poppy white Sugar Candy Dragons blood Olibanum of each a dram and a half Mix them and of all make a fine powder Virtue and Use. It presently stops the bleeding of the Haemorrhoids and wonderfully allays their vehement pains And when it is used make a Cataplasm either of the White of an Egg spread upon a Pledget of Tow or of stale Butter upon Lint on which sprinkle a little of this powder and so apply it to the bleeding Piles or Haemorrhoids Pulvis de Verbasco or a Powder of Mullein Take of the green herb Mullein what quantity you please put it into a Crucible and stuff in as much as you can cover it with another Crucible and lute it well then set it on the fire that it may wax black but not burn to ashes and when it seems to be enough let the Crucible cool and take out that black matter and reduce it into a fine powder then Take of this black powder an ounce elect Rhubarb two drams Mix them and make of all a fine powder Virtue and Use. This powder is a certain Experiment against the Condylomata and blind Piles the use of which is thus Let such person take a piece of Linen that is much worn and wet a little of it with his own Spittle and upon that sprinkle some of this powder and so apply it to the part repeating it so often till the Piles are dissolved and discussed which will be in a short time Pulvis probatus or an approved Powder to dry consolidate and heal the small Pox. Take meal of Lentils Beans and Orobus or Fitches of each half an ounce of Litharge of Ceruss washed Tutty prepared Pompholix of each two drams shells of Sea-shell-fish prepared roots of Reeds Crocus Metallorum of each a dram Mix them and make a fine powder Virtue Use and Dose After the seventh day when the small Pox are ripe open them with a golden or silver Needle wipe off the matter lest it
habits of body Dropsie pains of the Joynts Scabs or Scald Jaundice obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and also in Quotidian and Tertian Feavers in all which diseases we happily use it as an experienced Medicine The dose is from a scruple to half a dram and two scruples especially in strong bodies Pilulae Terebinthinae or Pills of Turpentine Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in juyce of Lemmons an ounce and a half juyce of Purslain made thick six drams Extract of the roots of Liquorish and Rhubarb Tartar vitriolated of each three drams the spongy brush that grows upon sweet Bryars the stones of Medlars of each a dram and a half Salt of white Amber Nitre prepared of each a dram Magistery of the Peach stone Crabs eyes of each half a dram Mix them and make a mass according to Art from which afterward with rectified Oyl of Citrons make Pills Virtue Use and Dose They are admirably good to break the stone in the Reins and provoke Urine and this chiefly to those of a hot Constitution for they expel the Tartar and Sand even to a miracle They cure the Running of the Reins and such like Fluxes and open the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen The dose is from half a dram to a dram taken a good distance of time before and after meat Pilulae Stipticae or the Stiptick Pills Take Extract of the juyce of Liquorish half an ounce species of Diaplantaginis and Diamartis of each three drams Laudanum Opiate two drams Birch-fungus Runnet of a Hare Camphire of each half a dram Horse hoofs burnt Sandarac Olibanum of each a scruple Mix them and with Juyce of Liquorish dissolved in Pomegranate-wine make a mass from which afterward with Oyls of Nutmegs and Cloves make Pills of the bigness of small Pease and gild them Virtue Use and Dose It stays all Fluxes of the Belly from what cause soever and stops blood flowing from any part of the body it stays the Courses in Women mitigates pain and procures sleep The dose from a scruple to half a dram at bed-time Cicera Tartari Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in Violet water and in the same water boiled to a just consistence two ounces acid Tartar an ounce species of Diaireos simple two drams Nitre prepared a dram Mix them and keep your hands wetted in cold Violet-water and so make Pills the bigness of a Pease Virtue Use and Dose We happily use it in all diseases proceeding from a thick tartarous matter And it is known by Experience that some by the use of this Pill have so cured and prevented the Gout that it hath not returned again for many years or else it returned more slowly but in others it hath been more mild and went off sooner They are also commendable in all obstructions of the Bowels and Veins in the Hemicrania Jaundice Contractures Dropsie Feavers retention of the Terms c. It fortifies the Reins and expels the Stones from the Kidneys and Bladder and doth not only relieve the Ventricle and parts about it but strengthens them also The use of these Pills is excellent in the Asthma Phthisick Cough c. and in all other Pectoral diseases They sometimes work by Sweat and sometimes by Urine according as the sick is propense to this or that The dose in preservation at the Quarters of the Moon is from half a dram to a dram but in curing every morning from a dram to a dram and a half Pilulae de Sandaraca Take of the best Sandarac half an ounce Extract of Polypody white Tartar of each two drams white Amber prepared black Pepper Roch-Alum red Sarcocol of each half a dram Lacca washed Nitre prepared round Birthwort seeds of wild Rue and Parsley of each a scruple Mix them and with the Juyce of the lesser Centaury made thick make a mass according to Art and of every scruple make two Pills and gild them Virtue Use and Dose It extenuates fat and makes people lean and attenuates all preternatural Carnosities in the humane body It is given every morning one Pill gilded Pilulae de Sabina or Pills of Savin Take salt of Savin two parts Oyl stilled from Savin one part They being mixed seal them Hermetically and set them in a Philosophical fire so long till they are hard like a stone afterwards Take of our Pil. Aloephanginae an ounce and a half of this Stone prepared an ounce Venetian Borax three drams Extract of our species Dialauri flowers of the lesser Centaury the herb Savin of each half a dram Oriental Saffron a scruple Mix them and with Oyl of Juniper make a mass from which afterward with Oyl of Cinamon and Mace make Pills Virtue Use and Dose These Pills do so happily open the obstructions of the Womb and so plentifully move the Terms retained that they deservedly claim the first place among Physical Arcana's that move the Courses The dose morning and evening is from a scruple to half a dram Pilulae Uterinae or Pills for the Womb. Take Pilulae Aloephanginae an ounce Faecula Bryoniae a dram salt of English Tin salt of Mother of Pearl salt of red Coral of each half a dram Extracts of Castor and the Callus of Mares of each a scruple Oyl of Angelica ten grains Mix them and make a mass according to Art of which when need requires with Oyl of Amber make Pills and gild them Virtue Use and Dose It is a peculiar and specifick Medicine for the suffocation of the Womb for it happily raiseth women that are as it were suffocated by Hysterical passion The dose is from a scruple to half a dram continued for certain mornings successively SECT VII Of Rotula's or little Rowls or Cakes Rotulae Imperiales TAke Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Troches of Pearls a dram Ambergriese a scruple the best Musk half a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Rose-water eight ounces Mix them and make Rotula's according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It strengthens the Head Brain and Memory to admiration It also roborates the Heart afflicted with cold and trembling and affords great help in all its other affects It gently draws away the continued pains of the Head discusseth the Vertigo sharpens the Sight drys up moist defluxions of the Eyes it prevents baldness and prolongs life shortned by bad diet c. The dose is one two or three at a time often in the day Rotulae Smaragdinae or Rowls of Emerauld Take of Emerauld prepared two drams Elks horn Spagirically calcined a dram and a half seeds of male Peony gathered the Moon decreasing Citron seeds huskt of each a dram roots of white Diptamus grains of Kermes the lesser Galangal Oriental Saffron prepared Cubebs Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Magistery of Oriental Pearls red Coral Hyacinth prepared of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Nutmegs Mace and Cinamon of each ten grains Oyl of Rosemary and Lavender of each four drops white Sugar dissolved in an equal quantity of our
and Liver once heated They gently and pleasantly remove and repel all Inflammations as well internal as external The dose is two three four or five at a time Rotulae Carminativae or Carminative Rowls Take of our Carminative Oyl a dram and a half Cinamon and Cloves of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Carminative water sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make all into little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They dissipate the wind and ventose humors lurking in the Ventricle and Guts They help Digestion and sour Belchings and give ease in the Nephritick pains by moving Urine and bringing away the Stone They are given as necessity requires three four or five at a time Rotulae Diacymini Take the species of Diacymini and Dianisi of each half an ounce of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur with Aniseeds Oyl of Fenil of each a scruple Oyl of Oranges and Mace of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Aqua benedicta Serpilli sixteen ounces Mix them and make a Confection in Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They powerfully dissipate the flatulencies of the Bowels and are good in all cold Distempers They wonderfully relieve old Folks and all those troubled with distempers of the Brain Vertigo Stomach Arteries Liver Spleen also in the Cough Asthma passion of the Heart Wind-Colick Quartan Agues c. They help digestion amend ill habits of body and free the Hypochonders when distended with wind Let the sick take one or more as he pleases Rotulae contra Vermes or Rowls against the Worms Take of our species Diacina two ounces white Sugar dissolved in water of the roots of Couch-grass and Tansie of each sixteen ounces Mix them and make little Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They kill Worms and bring them away They are given some days together to Children troubled with the Worms two three four or five at a time more or less as need requires Rotulae Mithridaticae praeservantes or preservative Rowls of Mithridate Take Extract of Mithridate prepared with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined Citron seeds husked compound flowers of Sulphur Emerauld prepared Oriental red Bole prepared of each a dram roots of Tormentil and Zedoary of each half a dram Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral Camphire of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Angelica of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Rue of each four grains the best Sugar dissolved in the waters of Sorrel and Roses sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Rowls Rotulae Theriacales liberantes Take Extract of Venice Treacle prepared with distilled Vinegar a dram and an half Elks horn Spagirically calcined sealed Earth seeds of Sorrel Tincture of Sulphur Hyacinth prepared of each a dram roots of Elicampane and Angelica of each half a dram wood of Aloes bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each a scruple Oyl of Camphire and red Myrrh of each ten grains Oyl of Cassia lignea and Zedoary of each four grains white Sugar sixteen ounces Dissolve the Sugar in Carduus and Scabious-water and make little Rowls for use Rotulae Angelicae praeservativae pro gravidis or preservative Rowls of Angelica for Women with Child Take Extract of the roots of Angelica made with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined sealed Earth Bole Armenick prepared roots of female Peony seeds of Sorrel of each a dram Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral Hyacinth prepared of each half a dram Mace macerated in Vinegar and again dryed Cassia lignea Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Oyls of white Amber rectified and Zedoary of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Citrons of each four grains white Sugar dissolved in water of Tormentil and Betony sixteen ounces Mix all and make little Cakes Rotulae Zedoarticae pro Pueris or Rowls of Zedoary for Children Take Extract of Zedoary made with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Elks horn Spagirically calcined white Amber prepared sealed Earth Oriental red Bole prepared of each a dram roots of male Peony of white Diptamus and Tormentil of each two scruples Emerauld prepared Hyacinth prepared seeds of Citrons husked seeds of Sorrel and Cina of each half a dram Magisteries of red Coral Oriental Pearls and Crabs eyes the bone of a Stags heart Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds of each a scruple Oyls of Cinamon Mace Citrons of each four drops white Sugar sixteen ounces Mix all and with the Sugar dissolved in water of Roses and Water-lily flowers make little Cakes Virtue Use and Dose They are good against the Contagion of the Plague and defend and preserve the body from being hurt by any malignant and infectious Air. The dose when there is occasion is two or three at a time Rotulae Catarrhales calidae or hot Rowls for a Catarrh Take species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram species of Aromaticum rosatum Diaireos simple of each half a dram Frankincense Mastich Harts-horn prepared of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Betony-water five ounces Make little Rowls and smear them gently with Oyl of Cloves Virtue Use and Dose When the humor is preternaturally sent from the Brain to the Eyes Nose Mouth c. or if it falls upon any other part and is perceived to hurt the actions of that part by altering it from its natural quality and state in such a case these Rotula's are of excellent use for they stop all cold Catarrhs and comfort the Head and Breast The dose is three or four at a time Rotulae Catarrhales frigidae or Rotula's for a cold Catarrh Take seeds of white Poppy bruâ—sed four ounces of the heads that contain the seeds grosly powdered two ounces Let them infuse a few days in water of Scabious and Coltsfoot of each a like quantity then distil them and in a sufficient quantity of this distilled Liquor dissolve an ounce of Mastich let it boil a little and then filter it to which add of white Sugar eight ounces and so make little Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose When the Catarrh is thin and sharp the Head hot and the Face and Eyes appear red the humor exasperating and exulcerating the part upon which it falls and a bitter saltness is perceived and a Feaver begun then are these Rotula's of great use The dose is three or four at a time SECT VIII Of Morsels Morsuli Cephalici or Cephalick Morsels TAke Conserve of the flowers of Peony and Rosemary of each half an ounce species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each two ounces Mans skull Spagirically calcined Elks horn prepared in the same manner of each a dram roots and seeds of Peony duly gathered Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Oyl of white Amber rectified a scruple Oyls of Lavender Nutmegs and Caraways of each four grains white Sugar dissolved in our Epileptick and
Apoplectick Waters of each sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make little Morsels Virtue Use and Dose They are used as well in preserving from as curing the Epilepsie Apoplexy and Palsie and other dangerous diseases of the Head Brain and Nerves The dose in preservation is from half a dram to a dram at all Quarters of the Moon but in curing it is given from a dram to two or three in the Fit or a little after either by it self or in some proper Vehicle And if necessary repeat it but to Children by reason of their age half so much or less is a sufficient dose Morsuli Regii Take green Pistick Nuts two ounces Pines cleansed sweet Almonds of each an ounce Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral of each a dram the Cordial Flowers cut small of each a pugil Oyl of Mace a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Rose-water sixteen ounces Mix them and make them into little bits or Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are of a grateful taste and comfortable above measure They nourish and restore those who languish under any Weakness Phthisick Consumption or are extenuated with a long Disease You cannot err in the dose for they may be taken at Meat or before or after it as the sick pleaseth Morsuli Rosati Take the best Conserve of red Roses two ounces species of Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce species de Gemmis frig Diamargar frigid of each two drams Confectio Alkermes Troches of Barberries flowers of Nitre of each a dram Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each half a dram Elaeosaccharum of Roses and Citrons of each a scruple Cinamon and Mace of each ten grains white Sugar sixteen ounces dissolve it in water of Roses and Strawberries of each a like quantity Mix all and make little Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are proper for all intemperate heat of the Head Heart Stomach Liver Womb and Reins and are given successfully in burburning cholerick Feavers They refresh those that are weak and dejected with a long Disease and restore them to their pristine strength They help the trembling of the Heart the defection of the Spirits and Digestion and those whose Countenance is vitiated The dose is from two drams to half an ounce Morsuli Pectorales or Pectoral Morsels Take Lohoch sanum expert two ounces species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce compound flowers of Sulphur juyce of Liquorish extracted of each two drams roots of Flower-de-luce Aliptae Moschatae of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur anisat Oyl of Fenil of each ten grains white Sugar sixteen ounces dissolve the Sugar in water of Horehound and Coltsfoot of each a like quantity Mix them and make little Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They relieve those afflicted with a lingering Cough Hoarsness Asthma c. They help difficulty of Breathing cut and attenuate the thick humors in the Breast and Lungs and ease pain there The dose is from half a dram to one or two every hour or when the Patient pleaseth Morsuli Refectivi de Cancris or Refective Morsels of Crabs Take the carnous part of River-Crabs boiled in pectoral Waters two ounces Conserve of Damask Roses an ounce and a half Pines cleansed green Pistick Nuts sweet Almonds of each macerated all night in Scabious-water an ounce white Sugar dissolved in our water of Calves Lungs five ounces Mix them and in the end add Syrup of Mastich two ounces Lac Sulphuris two drams Troches of Pearls and Oyl of Nutmegs exprest of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds a scruple Mix them and with great diligence according to Art make a Confection into little Morsels Virtue Use and Dose It is an Arcanum against the Phthisick and Consumption of the body which ought to be preferred deservedly before many other Remedies for there is nothing almost that doth more conserve the radical moisture than these It restores lost strength and comforts the principal members The dose is often in the day from two drams to half an ounce more or less according to the Complexion and Sex of the Patient Morsuli Stomachici or Stomach-morsels Take Diacydonium simple two ounces preserved China Ginger an ounce Calamus aromaticus preserved green half an ounce Nutmegs Cassia lignea the lesser Galangal Mace of each a dram seeds of Coriander prepared Cummin seeds of each half a dram Oyls of Cloves and Cinamon of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in our stomachical Water sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They wonderfully comfort a cold Stomach and help it to retain the meat They roborate and strengthen the members of Nutrition hurt and debilitated and do powerfully excite the Appetite and Taste They discuss Flatulencies and dissolve ventose Humors They abate and take away the swelling and extension of the Hypochonders and restore the native heat They take away the ill savour of the body and wonderfully help those who have cold Bowels The dose is from one dram to two Morsuli Epatici or Morsels for the Liver Take roots of Scorzonera and Succory preserved of each an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis Conserve of red Roses Raisins of each half an ounce Citron flowers preserved two drams Magistery of red Coral Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds Spodium of Wolfs lungs dryed of each a dram seeds of Sorrel and Purslain of each half a dram flowers of white Agrimony white Sugar dissolved in our Epatick water frigid and calid sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Tablets and gild them with gold Virtue Use and Dose They are very good for the weakness and imbecillity of the Liver they take away its obstructions and give it strength They are good in the Jaundice some kind of Dropsies and ill habit of body The dose is from a dram to two and half an ounce Morsuli Martiales or Morsels of Mars Take filings of Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce Cassia lignea the lesser Galangal Cloves of each a dram Mace Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Oyl of Cinamon half a scruple white Sugar dissolved in water of Wormwood and lesser Centaury eight ounces Mix all and make little morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are profitable in all Obstructions especially of the Spleen and help all the vices of the Stomach Heart Head the paleness of the Face and provoke the Courses in Women c. They are taken in the morning four hours before dinner drinking a draught of Wormwood-wine after it and after taking it to use exercise for an hour The dose from two drams to three at a time Morsuli Viriles Take of our Confection succulata Inda an ounce green Pistick Nuts sweet Almonds Pine-nuts of each half an ounce preserved Nutmegs two drams Venetian Borax lesser Galangal long Pepper Cardamoms the less of each a dram the pizzle of a Bull and a Hart of each half
Peony and Pellitory of the wall of each a pound seeds of Peony shavings of Cyprus wood Misleto of the Oak of each half a pound Cinquefoil Millefoil Rue Mullein Lavender Rosemary Henbane of each four ounces flower of Primrose Stoechas Teil-tree Peony and Elder of each two ounces Being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory and then add the ashes of young Magpies and Swallows and Peacocks dung of each an ounce And with an appropriate Liquor according to Art make a white crystalline Salt Virtue Use and Dose It is effectual in all Epilepsies Vertigo Lethargies and other stupefying Diseases 't is also given to those who fear or are troubled with dangerous diseases of the Head The dose is from ten to twenty or thirty grains in Teil-tree flower-water or in our Epileptick water Sal Cordiale or a Cordial Salt Take roots of Avens and Bugloss of each two pound the herbs Rosemary Sage and Balm of each a pound seeds of sweet Basil Citron peels of each half a pound the five Cordial flowers Clovegilly-flowers of each four ounces Mix them and calcine them into ashes the Vessel being close shut then add ashes of Cinamon three ounces ashes of Cloves and Cardamoms of each an ounce and a half ashes of Oriental Saffron and Mace of each three drams From these ashes thus mixed with Cordial waters extract a white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is most useful in Lipothymies Syncopes and other affects of the Heart to strengthen and refresh the Spirits The dose is from ten to twenty grains more or less in Cordial waters Sal Pectorale Take roots of Liquorish two pound Florentine Flower-de-luce Elicampane and Marsh-mallows of each a pound roots of Comfry and Mallows of each eight ounces both sorts of the herb Lungwort Horehound Hyssop Coltsfoot Fluellin Ground Ivy Maidenhair Scabious of each four ounces seeds of Fenil and Anise of each three ounces flowers of Coltsfoot Chamomil and Hearts-ease of each two ounces From these being mixed and well calcined with Pectoral waters extract a most splendid Salt Virtue Use and Dose It is excellent in Pectoral Diseases for it doth attenuate thick tough and viscous Flegm gathered in the Lungs and doth inlarge and cleanse the Breast Moreover it provokes Urine and purgeth the Reins and Ventricle The dose is from ten to twenty and thirty grains in Pectoral or other appropriate Vehicles Sal Stomachicum or a Salt for the Stomach Take roots of Burnet two pound Calamus aromaticus white Ginger of each a pound Sea-wormwood Water-Mint Sage Rosemary of each half a pound Quinces dryed and Zedoary of each four ounces Calcine all in a close Vessel and then add the ashes of the lesser Galangal and Cinamon of each three ounces ashes of Cloves both sorts of Cardamoms Nutmegs round Pepper of each an ounce Mix them and with Mint or other specifick Water make a Spagirick Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It wonderfully roborates and warms a cold Stomach it helps Digestion and Loathing of Meat It is useful in all distempers of the Nerves it quickens all the Senses allays pains of the Head preserves old people from Catarrhs and gives ease in the Dropsie The dose is a scruple more or less respecting both Disease and Patient in specifick Vehicles Sal Epaticum Take roots of Agrimony two pound roots of Chicory and Scorzonera of each a pound bitter Costus Eryngo Turmerick of each half a pound Calamus aromaticus Rhapontick of each four ounces Pontick Wormwood Southernwood Agrimony Harts-tongue Fluellin Liverwort Cascula of each three ounces These being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory then add ashes of Rhubard and Cassia lignea of each an ounce and a half Then with some Epatick or other convenient water draw a Spagirick Salt Virtue Use and Dose It takes away the hardness wind and obstructions of the Liver and dissolves the scirrhous Tumors there It helps the ill habit of body and takes away dropsical Humors It cures the Jaundice and amends the ill colour of the Skin moves the Terms provokes Urine and dissolves the Stone The dose is from a scruple to two in appropriate Vehicles Sal Spleneticum or a Salt for the Spleen Take Pontick Wormwood two pound Carduus benedictus a pound Rosemary Harts-tongue Fluellin and Ceterach of each half a pound roots of both sorts of Fern Calamus aromaticus of each four ounces bark of the Caper-tree Tamarisk Ash of each three ounces flower of Chamomil the lesser Centaury Broom of each two ounces Bring all into Ashes and with the distilled water of the aforesaid Herbs extract a Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It opens Obstructions mollifies and resolves the pains tumors and hardness of the Spleen It is good for aged people and those troubled with Quartan Agues The dose is every morning from a scruple to half a dram in Harts-tongue water or other convenient Liquor Sal Nephriticum Take roots of Parsley and Restharrow of each two pound roots of Dropwort and Vervain of each a pound roots of Eryngo and Burnet of each half a pound Beans dryed the cores of Medlars of each six ounces berries of Bays and Iuniper Winter-cherries and seeds of Gromel of each four ounces Ground-Ivy Fluellin Horstail Fumitory Strawberry leaves of each three ounces flowers of great Mallows Elder and Broom of each two ounces seeds of white Lilies of white Saxifrage and Burdock Barberries of each an ounce and a half Let all be calcined into white Ashes according to Art to which add ashes of Lignum Nephriticum of Peach-stones and kernels bitter Almonds round Pepper the lesser Galangal white Ginger of each an ounce Nitre prepared six drams Mix all and with Rain-water make a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It breaks the Stone expels Urine and Gravel and helps those that piss with difficulty and relieves those who are troubled with other distempers of the Reins and Bladder The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in water of Restharrow Parsley Burnet or Ground-Ivy or any other other Specifick Sal Hydropicum Take of the whole Iuniper-tree cut small two pound roots of Flower-de-luce Elder red Mugwort and Dwarf-Elder of each a pound roots of Swallow-wort Acorus and Turmerick of each half a pound leaves and stalks of Pontick Wormwood the lesser Centaury Agrimony Carduus benedictus Bindweed of each six ounces flowers of Liverwort Elder and Broom of each four ounces seeds of Ash Rocket and Cummin of each three ounces All being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory then add the ashes of Sarsaparilla Cubebs Rhubarb Nutmegs and Mace of each an ounce Mix these Ashes and with Elder-water make a crystalline Salt Virtue Use and Dose It discusseth wind and carries away water and is good in Dropsies of every kind for it potently drys up the swellings of the Microcosmical Earth caused by too much moisture It corrects the ill habit of body and exterminates
all depraved Humors The dose is from a scruple to a dram in appropriate Vehicles Sal Uterinum Take roots of Bryony two pound roots of white Diptamus and Peony of each a pound Misleto of the Oak Dwarff Elder and common Elder-berries of each half a pound Rosemary Balm Motherwort Nep and Penny-royal of each four ounces Mix all and calcine them to ashes and with Balm water or any other appropriate Water extract a most white Salt Virtue Use and Dose It opens all obstructions of the Womb helps Convulsions precipitates Suffocations and Fumes and provokes the Terms It removes sterility and takes away many other infirmities of those parts The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in appropriate Vehicles Sal Carminativum Take Chamomil two pound Pennyroyal Mother of Tyme Water-mints and Dill of each a pound Let them be calcined according to Art into white Ashes then add the Ashes following i. e. ashes of Anise Cummin Caraway and Fenil seeds of each two ounces ashes of the lesser Galangal white Ginger and Zedoary of each an ounce Mix all and with Chervil-water make a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is excellent to discuss wind It helps the Gripes and allays all pain proceeding from wind The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in our Carminative water Sal Febrile Take Sal Armoniack divers times sublimed Nitre prepared Salt of Carduus benedictus of Wormwood and the lesser Centaury of each an ounce Dissolve them all in Succory-water and make of all a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Alexipyretick in Feavers of all kinds whether Quotidians Tertians Semitertians or Quartans c. without danger It is given from half a dram to a dram two or three hours before the Fit in Centaury-water or any other Specifick expecting Sweat toward the end of the Fit And the same dose is to be repeated if the first or second dose doth not perform it Annotation If any one proceeds so ingeniously that from the forementioned specifick Compositions he desires to prepare with the safe and secret Spagiâ—ists the Essential Salts as they call them let him â—ake the simple Herbs or mixt with other Ingrediâ—nts and being well dryed by a temperate heat boil â—hem in common Water according to Art till all â—heir strength and native Salt is well excocted for otherwise his labour is in vain then pour off the Deâ—oction and again boil that to the consistence of Hoâ—ey or to the thickness of a Syrup put that into a â—ery cool place till it shoots into Crystals which â—ake off and purifie well by divers Solutions Filtraâ—â—ons and Coagulations until it be fit for Physical â—se This excellent Salt is also extracted from the â—uyce of Herbs made thick concerning which see â—eguinus Lib. 2. cap. 17. And do thou know Reaâ—er that three grains of these Essential Salts will be â—ore effectual than a scruple of the vulgar made by â—alcinations SECT XII Of Marmelades Marmelada Cephalica or a Marmelade for the Head TAke Diacydonium simple four ounces Rotula's of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each two ounces preserved roots of Peony an ounce Conserve of Rosemary flowers half an ounce preserved Walnuts three Nutmegs preserved in India one Emerauld prepared a dram Elaeosaccharum of white Amber Marjoram and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them and without any other additional Medicine make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Brain and resists all the affects thereof It is also happily given in the Apoplexy Epilepsie Vertigo Lethargy Palsie Trembling c. The dose is from a dram to half an ounce Marmelada Stomachica frigida or a cold Marmelade for the Stomach Take Diacydonium simple four ounces preserved rooâ— of Succory two ounces Rotula's of Diarrhodon Abbatâ— an ounce preserved Emblick Myrobalans Conserve 〈◊〉 red Roses of each half an ounce Nitre vitriolated haâ—â— a dram Mix them and without any additional Medicine make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It relieves the Stomach oppressed with hot Humors It comforts and provokes Appetite Moreover it alters a hot Temperature and is happily given to those that have pains about the Heart or are subject to vomit The dose is the quantity of a Chestnut Marmelada Stomachica calida or a warming Marmelade for the Stomach Take Diacydonium simple four ounces aromatick Rotula's Succulata Inda of each an ounce Bengale Ginger preserved Calamus aromaticus preserved Chebul Myrobalans preserved of each half an ounce preserved Orange and Citron peels of each two drams Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon and Cloves of each a scruple Mix all and without any addition make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Ventricle and parts serving for nutrition It helps Digestion moves Appetite discusseth wind and preserves from putrefaction It opens the obstructions of the Veins and helps Hiccup and Vomiting The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg Marmelada Pectoralis or a Pectoral Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple four ounces our Pectoral Morsels and Rotula's prepared with the juyce of Violets of each two ounces compound flowers of Sulphur an ounce preserved roots of Fenil and Elicampane of each half an ounce extracted juyce of Liquorish two drams species Diaireos simple Confectio Alkermes of each a dram Mix them and without any other addition make a Marmelade and cover it with gold Virtue Use and Dose It helps those who are troubled with infirmities of the Lungs Coughs Asthma's pains of the Breast It also helps those who are subject to a deflux of humors from the Brain upon the Thorax and vital parts The dose is from a dram to two Marmelada Cordialis calida or a hot Cordial Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple four ounces preserved roots of Borage and Bugloss of each an ounce and a half aromatick Rotula's species of Aromaticum Rosarum species de Gemmis and Diambra of each six drams preserved Citron peels and Confectio Alkermes of each half an ounce Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a dram Mix all and make a Marmelade according to Art without any other addition Virtue Use and Dose It strengthens and exhilarates the Heart and all the vital Spirits hurt by cold and refreshes them by its heat It wonderfully helps old people and women troubled with cold Diseases and is very proper for the distempers of the Womb. The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg Marmelada Cordialis frigida or a cold Cordial Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple three ounces Manus Christi perlati Rotula's of Diamargariton frigid of each an ounce and an half Pulp of preserved Citrons Conserve of red Roses of each six drams preserved roots of Succory half an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams precious Stones prepared of each a scruple Mix them and bring all into a Marmelade Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and extinguisheth the heat thereof it contemperates the
heat of the Bowels and is of excellent use in Cardialgia's Feavers cholerick Vomitings and extreme Thirst. The dose is from half a dram to two Marmelada Epatica calida or a hot Marmelade for the Liver Take Pulp of preserved Quinces four ounces Diacubeba Diacurcuma Dialacca of each an ounce preserved roots of Burnet Fenil and Eryngo of each half an ounce Cinamon two drams Rhubarb a dram spirit of Salt congealed with Salt of Wormwood half a dram Mix them and make of all a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is given to open obstructions of the Liver and Spleen in intemperate and cold Constitutions and is therefore good in all ill Habits and Dropsies and provokes Urine The dose is from a dram to two more or less Marmelada Epatica frigida or a cold Marmelade for the Liver Take the Pulp of preserved Quinces three ounces preserved roots of Succory and Scorzonera of each an ounce and a half Rotula's prepared with the juyce of Barberries and Goosberries of each six drams preserved pulp of Citrons preserved Spanish Lettice half an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis first moistned with Spirit of Vitriol two drams the four greater cold Seeds Nitre prepared of each a dram Mix all and make them into a Marmelade Virtue Use and Dose It cools the heat of the Liver Stomach and Praecordia It extinguisheth thirst and gives ease to those troubled with Feavers and a heat in their Bowels The dose is the quantity of a Chestnut Marmelada magnanima or a magnanimous Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple four ounces preserved roots of Satyrion Succulata Inda of each two ounces Pine-nuts cleansed and green Pistick Nuts of each an ounce Chestnuts boiled in Sack Nutmegs preserved in India Confectio Alkermes of each half an ounce Oyl of Mace exprest two drams Gallia Moschata Magistery of Oriental Pearls of each a dram Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Mix them and without any other Ingredient make a Marmelade Virtue Use and Dose It incites to Venery fattens nourisheth restores strength comforts the Heart and refresheth Nature It roborates the Liver and Ventricle and digesteth Flegm c. The dose is morning and evening the quantity of a Nutmeg Marmelada Carminativa or a Carminative Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple three ounces preserved Orange peel preserved Citrons of each an ounce and a half preserved roots of Fenil preserved Calamus aromaticus our Carminative Rotula's of each six drams preserved Nutmegs bone of a Hares foot of each two drams Zedoary white Ginger the lesser Galangal of each a dram Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon Cloves Aniseeds and Mace of each a scruple Mix them and make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It discusseth the flatulencies of the Ventricle which are generated from thick and flegmy Humors It allays the Gripes of the Belly and is effectually used against the Colick and Tympany The dose is from one dram to two Marmelada Splenetica or a Marmelade for the Spleen Take Diacydonium simple four ounces Diacurcuma Dianthos of each an ounce preserved roots of Elicampane and Scorzonera of each six drams Essence of Harts-tongue and Broom flowers of each two drams the fruit of Tamarisk and bark of Caper roots of each half a dram Elaeosaccharum of Rosemary Cloves and Cinamon of each a scruple Mix them and without any other Medicine make a Marmelade Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Spleen and dissolves the Scirrhus and hard Tumors thereof It removes Obstructions and digests and cuts tough Humors it alters all its intemperance and helps other Diseases thence proceeding the Body being first purged The dose morning and evening is the quantity of a Chestnut Marmelada Stegnotica or an astringent Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple six ounces preserved roots of Comfry and Succory of each two ounces powder of the roots of Tormentil half an ounce Magistery of Coral rosated Extract of Dragons blood Harts-horn burnt and prepared of each two drams Crocus Martis made by reverberation Emeraulds prepared sealed Earth of each a dram and a half Oriental Bole Nutmegs seeds of Plantane seeds of Roses of each a dram Cassia lignea Cloves of each half a dram Oriental Saffron Oyl of Mace exprest of each a scruple Mix them and make all into a Marmelade of a just consistence Virtue Use and Dose It stays a Loosness although old and in a wonderful manner helps Dysenteries and pains in the Guts It stays the immoderate flux of the Terms and Piles and all fluxes of humors from the Head to the lower parts The dose is from one dram to three in appropriate Vehicles Marmelada Terebinthinata or a Marmelade of Turpentine Take Pulp of preserved Quinces four ounces Cyprus Turpentine washed in Rhenish Wine two ounces species Diarrhodon Abbatis roots of Liquorish of each half an ounce powder of Aniseeds a little moistned with the Oyl thereof two drams the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Mix them and without any other additional Medicine make a Marmelade Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth the Reins and carries off Sand and other things that offend the parts It mitigates the pains of the Loyns and Back It removes Obstructions provokes Urine opens the Passages cures the Strangury and virulent Gonorrhoea For the Turpentine is endued with excellent virtues and is an admirable help in many cases The dose is from one dram to two early in the morning Marmelada Nephritica or a Marmelade for the Reins and Kidneys Take Diacydonium simple three ounces preserved roots of Eryngo Parsley and Fenil of each an ounce and a half ripe Winter-cherries six drams acid Tartar three drams Magistery of Perch stones Crabs eyes of each a dram Salt of white Amber a scruple Mix them and make a Marmelade of a just consistence Virtue Use and Dose It brings away the Stone and Gravel from the Reins Ureters and Bladder It removes Obstructions opens the Passages and powerfully provokes Urine The dose is from one dram to two in specifick Vehicles Marmelada Hysterica or a Marmelade for the Womb. Take Diacydonium simple four ounces Sugar prepared with Rosemary flowers two ounces preserved Calamus arcmaticus preserved roots of Peony of each an ounce Cinamon Faecula Bryoniae of each two drams seeds of Parsneps Agnus castus and Garden Rue of each a dram and a half Cardamoms the less Antophyllorum Mace of each a dram Magisteries of English Tin of Mother of Pearl and red Coral of each half a dram Elaeosaccharum of the seeds of Angelica Marjoram white Amber and Aniseeds of each a scruple Mix them and according to Art make a Marmelade of a just consistence Virtue Use and Dose It helps the suffocation of the Womb and the Whites and brings away any depraved Humor that is contained in those parts by opening the Passages and removing Obstructions The dose is the quantity of a Chestnut by it self or in warm Wine or in any Hysterical water SECT XIII Of liquid Confections and Electuaries Confectio Cephalica or a
Medicine for the Head TAke our species Dialunae an ounce and a half roots of white Diptamus Citron seeds huskt of each half an ounce Kermes seeds or berries seeds of Sorrel Extract of Lilies of the valley of each two drams Emerauld prepared Salt of mans Skull white Amber prepared of each a dram and a half Essence of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each four scruples Oriental Saffron prepared lesser Galangal Cubebs of each a dram bone of a Stags heart Hyacinth prepared of each two scruples Conserve of Peony flowers vitriolated Rosemary flowers of each an ounce white Sugar Candy dissolved in Aqua Apoplectica Syrup of the juyce of Citrons of each eight ounces Mix them and make of all an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is good for all or at least the most dangerous diseases of the Head which it takes away and happily cures And is very agreeable to Suffocations Vertigo Apoplexy Epilepsie and Lunacy and was only invented to dry the humidity of the Brain The dose is from a dram to a dram and a half more or less in appropriate Vehicles Confectio Opiata or an Electuary of Opium Take Opium Spagirically prepared and extracted half an ounce species Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each half a dram Extract of wild Poppy flowers and Oriental Saffron Foreign Mumy of each a scruple Gallia Moschata Oriental Bezoar bone of a Stags heart Unicorns horn of each half a dram And with Confectio Alkermes make an Electuary according to Art to which add Oyls of Cinamon Nutmegs Marjoram Sage white Amber and Cloves of each four drops Virtue Use and Dose This Medicine is called by this name which signifies an Opiate or an Electuary of Laudanum for Laudanum opiatum is hard to dissolve and doth usually remain in drops or little particles undissolved therefore in place of it this Electuary may be profitably used the effect of which is the same in use It is given from five to six seven and ten grains in some appropriate Liquor or in our Aqua Hypnotica Cinamon-water c. or in any other respecting the Disease Confectio Narcotica or a stupefying Medicine Take Nutmegs half an ounce Bole Armoniack Opium Spagirically extracted of each three drams Extract of wild Poppy flowers Oriental Saffron Trochisci Ramich of each two drams Crocus Martis made by reverberation a dram and a half roots of Tormentil Snakeweed and Zedoary of each a dram Magistery of red Coral white Amber prepared burnt Harts-horn Cloves of each half a dram Camphire five grains Mix them and with simple Syrups of Poppies and Jujubes of each four ounces make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It wonderfully mitigates all pain but chiefly of the Head Breast Stomach Matrix and Belly It doth safely and powerfully provoke sleep It cures the bleeding of any part gripes of the Guts bloody Flux Pleurisie Iliack Passion and Colick pains pains in the Kidneys c. It allays Vomiting Hiccup and Cough It gives ease in shortness of breath It stops the Terms and Piles and is good in a Gonorrhoea and Satyriasm The dose is from half a dram to a dram at going to bed Confectio pretiosa or a precious Electuary Take Elaeosaccharum of Citrons six drams true Tincture of Coral Magistery of Oriental Pearls of each two drams Kermes berries Elks horn Spagirically calcined of each a dram and a half the best Mastich wood of Aloes lesser Galangal the lesser Cardamoms of each a dram Nutmegs preserved in India one the five precious Stones prepared Ambergriese Extract of Oriental Saffron of each two scruples Alexandrian Musk bone of a Stags heart of each a scruple our Aurum Potabile half an ounce Oyl of Cinamon and Mace of each a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Roses of each a scruple Conserve of Gilly-flowers Conserve of red Roses vitriolated of each eight ounces Mix them and with Syrup of Chermes berries make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most noble Cordial Medicine against the trembling and violent pulsation of the Heart and there is not a more excellent Medicine in the whole Republick of Physick for the distempers of the Mind than this is It is given with good success to old and weak people that are sick to recover their strength for it refresheth and fortifies the vital animal and natural Spirits in all the Members renews the humidum Radicale and is a true Preservative from the Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy Leprosie Gout Scurvy and Dropsie The dose is from half a dram to a dram by it self or in appropriate Vehicles Confectio Pectoralis or a Pectoral Electuary Take our species of Diasulphur nineteen drams Diarrhodon Abbatis eleven drams of our simple Pectoral Syrup a pound Conserve of red Roses tinctured with our Elixir of Sulphur two pound Oyl of Cinamon a dram Mix them and make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a very pleasant Medicine to the Sight Taste and Smell and is by me used in the Asthma straitness of the Breast Phthisick Hectick and all affects of the Thorax in which cases I have experienced its wonderful power beyond other Medicines and am willing to communicate it to be used by others It is to be given a little at a time and often in the day and not to swallow it presently for if so then it passeth to the Ventricle and not to the place affected The dose is the quantity of a Hazel-nut or of a Nutmeg more or less according to the Disease and Age of the Patient Confectio Zingiberis Indi or an Electuary of green Ginger Take green Ginger preserved in India fourteen ounces species Aromaticum Caryophyllatum Diagalangal Diarrhodon Abbatis of each an ounce Diacydonium simple eight ounces Oyl of Cinamon a dram Conserve of red Roses vitriolated a pound Mix them and with Syrup of the before-mentioned Ginger make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and Stomach helps Digestion takes away Nauseating and Vomiting warms and assists the parts and Organs of Nutrition resists Putrefaction dissolves and discusseth ventose Humors excites the native Heat repels all noxious humors of the Breast and cures a Cough contracted from Cold it restores the Liver Spleen Reins and other Members to their native action being depraved by Cold. This is a most excellent and stately Electuary and I often use it for great and rich people The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg morning or evening or in time of necessity but you may give more or less according to the Age Sex and Complexion of the Patient Zingiber Rosatum or Ginger prepared with Roses Take Conserve of red Roses vitriolated twelve ounces green Ginger preserved in India four ounces Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Oyl of Cloves half a scruple Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of the Juyce of Violets vitriolated make an Electuary according
to Art Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and Stomach helps Concoction stirs up Appetite allays Vomiting and Loathing raiseth the native Heat refresheth the Spirits takes away Putrefaction dissipates Wind and is a famous and present Remedy in all cold Diseases The dose is the quantity of a Chestnut Confectio Citri or an Electuary of Citrons Take Conserve of red Roses vitriolated a pound and a half Rob of Barberries and Goosberries of each a pound Syrup of the juyce of Citrons Oxysaccharum Syrup of the juyce of unripe Grapes of each half a pound Pulp of Citrons preserved Citron peel preserved species of Diarrhodon Abbatis moistned with Spirit of Vitriol of each six ounces Nitre prepared thirteen drams Mix them and with a little Cinamon-water make an Electuary And let the Reader take notice That the pound here mentioned is not the Physical but the common pound used in other things and this is to be observed in all the Compositions through the whole Book therefore let this admonition serve for all Virtue Use and Dose By cooling and moistning it doth extinguish the heat of burning Feavers and mitigates the vehemence of their fiery quality It cures the Disease called Cholera the bloody Flux and contagious Diseases It resists Venery and Drunkenness It roborates the noble Members i. e. the Heart Stomach Liver Spleen Reins and other Bowels and defends the weak parts from an intemperate heat It opens and resists putrefaction It represseth cholerick Vomiting stops bleeding and is a good Medicine for cholerick Pustles The dose is from a dram to two or half an ounce certain times in the day Confectio Theriacalis or an Electuary of Treacle Take roots of Tormentil white Diptamus the best Camphire of each two drams Harts-horn and Elks horn Spagirically calcined of each a dram and a half white Amber Oriental red Bole Hyacinth Emer auld of each prepared a dram Salt of Wormwood Scordium and Carduus of each half a dram Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple Let them be all pulverized asunder and then mixed and divers times moistned with Spirit of Juniper in which Roots of Butter-bur Betony and Ginger have been steeped Then add Venice Treacle and Mithridate of Damocratis of each two ounces Extract of Elicampane roots and Angelica of each half an ounce juyce of Fumitory made thick juyce of Elder-berries of each three drams flower of Sulphur two drams distilled Oyl of Garden Rue Oyls of Zedoary Cinamon Myrrh Cloves and Citrons rectified of each half a scruple Mix them and with Rob of Elder-berries make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose In operation and virtue this Composition far exceeds the Treacle and Mithridate and hence the reasonable Reader may easily gather its use and strength It is experimentally good in the Dropsie Erysipelas Jaundice Scab Lues Venerea c. It is a most excellent Alexetery against the Plague and all other Poysons all which it virtually expels from the Heart by Sweat to the circumference and superficies of the body And the Poyson being once driven forth the Patient ought to refresh himself with comfortable things The dose is from half a dram to a dram more or less according to the age and strength of the Patient the disease and time of the year c. it is given in specifick and appropriate Vehicles In the Dropsie c. it is exhibited in Water or Spirit of Elder four or five hours after supper at going to bed and then toward morning it will sweat powerfully Confectio Magnanimitatis or a Magnanimous Electuary Take Essence of Satyrion two ounces recent Indian Nuts Pine-nuts cleansed of each an ounce and a half green Pistick-nuts kernels of Hazel-nuts sweet Almonds each an ounce white Pepper Calamus aromaticus white Ginger the lesser Galangal Cardamoms of each half an ounce Venetian Borax our Aurum Potabile of each three drams seeds of Rocket Ashen-keys and Nettles of each two drams Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral Salt of Sparrows of each four scruples Boletus cervinus of Bulls and Harts pizles the stones of a Badger dryed the flesh of Sea-Skinks of each a dram and a half the best Musk Ambergriese Oyl of Mace of each two scruples Oyl of Nutmegs Cinamon and Cloves of each a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of the Roots of preserved Satyrion make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a great Secret in comforting the Venereal parts and is given to those who are debilitated there for it gives help wonderfully to old people and to those who are cold by Nature It potently restores Virility lost and stirs up Venery in those who have forgot it It causeth erection of the Genital parts though cold and utterly decayed It increaseth and correcteth the Seed in both Sexes The dose is from a dram to two or three at bed-time in Sack or Muskadine or it is given in time of necessity to the quantity of a Nutmeg drinking after it a draught of good old odoriferous Wine But if the impotency were from birth it cannot be cured because the defects of Nature are hard to be restored Confectio Pacifica de Succulata Inda or a Pacifick Electuary of Succulata Inda Take Succulata Inda four ounces the preserved roots of Satyrion two ounces Cocks stones boiled in milk preserved roots of Eryngo Chestnuts boiled in Sack of each an ounce sweet Almonds Pine-nuts green Pistick-nuts kernels of Indian Nuts of each half an ounce Cassia lignea Boletus cervinus of each three drams seeds of Ashen-keys Venetian Borax of each two drams species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each half a dram Lignum Aloes leaves of Marjoram Oriental Saffron Nutmegs of each a dram Cloves the lesser Galangal white Ginger Cardamoms the less long Pepper of each two scruples Oyl of Cinamon and Mace of each a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of preserved Nutmegs make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose This Medicine is a great Arcanum for the weakness and impotence in the virile parts and hath been hitherto reserved for my Friends only It restores impaired and lost Virility it stirs up Venery in those who have lost it by taking away the cold impediments of the Testicles and Seminal Vessels and increaseth Seed in both Sexes it doth in a short space reduce the weak old and impotent persons to their pristine pleasure again The dose is daily the body being empty the quantity of a Chestnut more or less according to the age time and custom of the Patient drinking after it a good draught of rich Wine Confectio Satyrii or an Electuary of Satyrion Take the preserved Testicle-like roots of Satyrion four ounces Conserve of Clovegilly-flowers preserved Ginger of Bengal of each two ounces seeds of Ashen keys Venetian Borax of each half an ounce species of Diathamar three drams Nutmegs preserved in India one Teâ—ticles of a Hart and a Badger dryed of each a dram and a half Boletus
cervinus two drams Cinamon and long Pepper of each a dram Magistery of Pearl and red Coral of each half adram Gallia Moschata and Oyl â—f Cloves of each a scruple leaves of pure Gold fifteen Mix all and with Syrup of preserved Ginger make â—n Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It hath a great force to provoke the desire of Coition and doth egregiously excite â—oth Sexes thereunto it doth wonderfully increase Sperm and singularly restore those that are consumed and emaciated The dose is morning and evening from two drams to three with old rich Wine Confectio Stiptica or a Stiptick Electuary Take Tinctures of Crocus Martis of Celandine Rhubarb and dryed Nuts of each an ounce Tormentil Zedoary Gum Arabick Cloves white Ginger torrefied Nutmegs of each six drams sealed Earth white Amâ—er prepared Calamus aromaticus the lesser Galangal â—oth sorts of Cardamoms Cinamon of each half an â—unce shells of River-crabs boiled in Vinegar seeds of Bloodwort Plantane and black Poppy Orange peel â—f each three drams leaves of Sage Burnet and Mint of each two drams Bulls pizle Coriander prepared Acatia of each a dram and a half Cypress-nuts burnt Frogs calcined Talk of each a dram Let all be subtilly powdered and mixed and with Miva of Quinces make an Electuary according to Art to which add of our Carminative Oyl three drams and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It hath been wonderfully experimented in all fluxes of the Belly as Dysenteries Diarrhoea's Hepatick Fluxes bleeding at the Nose and Terms and also in other desperate ruptures of Blood For it comforts the Guts and internal Bowels and refresheth Nature by Constipation The dose is from a dram to half an ounce in Sack or other generous Wine either in the morning fasting or at any other time the Stomach being empty Confectio Terebinthinata or an Electuary of Turpentine Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in Rhenish Wine two ounces white Sugar Candy an ounce and a half powder of Liquorish six drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Nitre prepared a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of Violets make a mixture Virtue Use and Dose It is proper for those troubled with a Cough or Consumption It cleanseth the Breast and provokes Urine It helps the Strangury purgeth the Reins and easeth the pains of them It digesteth crude Humors loosens the Belly c. The dose is from a dram to two Theriaca Mulierum or a Treacle for Women Take Venice Treacle three ounces Iovial Bezoar half an ounce Elks horn and Harts horn of each Spagirically calcined a dram and a half Extract of roots of Angelica and Elicampane of each a dram Essence of Castor half a dram Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber half a scruple Mix them and with Rob of Elder-berries make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It cures almost all Diseases in Women by Sweat as well hot as cold by a certain occult property and for that Sex there is not a more excellent and noble Diaphoretick given The dose is from a scruple to a dram in waters appropriate to the Disease yet where the Disease is of a hot Cause we give it in cold Vehicles Theriaca Saxonica or the Saxonick Treacle Take Rob of Elder-berries and dwarff Elder-berries of each two ounces Harts horn Spagirically calcined an ounce juyce of Fumitory made thick simple Syrup of Poppies Spirit of Iuniper of each half an ounce Oriental rod Bole two drams Oyl of the seeds of Angelica Oyl of Zedoary of each a dram Mix them and over a gentle clear fire make them into the form of an Opiate Virtue Use and Dose It is a most noble Antidote powerfully working by Sweat and insensible Transpiration it defends men from and cures many and grievous Diseases It profligates and extinguisheth Feavers of all kinds whether intermitting continual or malignant Also the Dropsie Erysipelas Scurvy Jaundice Plague suffocation of the Matrix and other affects of the Womb the Pox Scab Itch Leprosie c. nay it deserves its praise so justly that no man is sufficiently able to proclaim its virtues The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg according to the Sex Age and Constitution of the Patient and the urgency of the Disease it is given in any fit and congruous Liquor especially such as is appropriate to the Disease I give it in many affects the body being first purged in the evening at going to bed four or five hours after supper with a sufficient quantity of our Harts-horn water and toward morning it doth use to sweat powerfully Theriaca Febrilis or an Electuary for Feavers Take species of our Febrifuge three ounces Conserve of Pontick Wormwood Conserve of Carduus and the lesser Centaury of each two ounces Venice Treacle an ounce and a half Harts-horn calcined without fire Mineral Diaphoretick white Ginger of each three drams species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each a dram and a half Camphire dissolved in Spirit of Angelica half a dram Mix them and with Rob of Elder-berries make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It cures almost all Feavers and is very profitable also in the Plague The dose is from a dram to two in our Aqua Febrifuge or in Carduus Scabious or Marigold-water c. let the Patient drink it two hours before the Fit and being in bed let him sweat for by this means it cures the Feaver Electuarium Opticum or an Electuary for the Eyes Take preserved Elicampane roots and preserved Chebul Myrobalans of each two ounces long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mace the lesser Galangal white Ginger and Cubebs of each half an ounce Sea-Beans prepared Pikes eyes Eyebright Pennyroyal Germander Clovegilly-flowers Rosemary of each three drams seeds of the Mountain Osier and Fenil of each two drams seeds of Parsley Anise Smallage Dill and white Saxifrage of each a dram and a half All being pulverized mix them then with twenty four ounces of white Sugar Candy dissolved in Spirit of Juniper and the depurated Juyces of Sage Rue Celandine and Hyssop of each a sufficient quantity and then boiled to a just consistence make an Electuary to which add Oyl of Cinamon and Nutmegs of each a dram And then again mix them and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Stomach consumes superfluous Humors cleanseth the Reins and is good to expel all flatulent Humors But it chiefly restores a weak Sight and hath been wonderfully experimented in weakness of the Eyes Suffusions c. let the cause be what it will The dose is constantly in the morning fasting and at night going to bed the quantity of a Chestnut And by so using of it the Patient shall be able to read a small print by a clear and free sight without Spectacles even to his life's end Electuarium Stomachicum or an Electuary for the Stomach Take sweet Almonds eight ounces aromatical Reed white
all other hot Cholerick distempers proceeding from mixt and complicated causes and is used by Kings and Princes It purgeth both kinds of Choler without trouble or any offence to the Stomach and kindly draws out the other offending humors even from the Joynts and Limbs and carries off the tartarous humors that oppress the Reins and Bladder It refrigerates the Heart mundifies the Blood and addeth strength to all the principal Members The dose is from a dram to four scruples Annotation For the ordinary and common sort of people you may instead of Confectio Alkermes substitute Conserve of Violets vitriolated and the Composition will be equally efficacious Catharticum Rosatum or a Purge compounded with Roses Take Conserve of red Roses vitriolated seven ounce Scammony rosated ten drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis moistned with Spirit of Vitriol an ounce Nitre prepared a dram and a half Oyl of Cinamon a scruple With a little Syrup of Roses solutive vitriolated mix them into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It expels yellow Choler without trouble and purgeth a hot Liver It is a worthy Remedy for all distempers of the Joynts proceeding from a hot Cause and for Tertian Feavers and is also of a good and grateful taste and therefore pleasant to the Stomach and Bowels It is an appropriate and suitable Purge for tender Virgins Children and Old people that are oppressed with Choler and cholerick Nauseating The dose is from two drams to three given with great profit and no trouble nor disturbance to the sick Catharticum Violatum or a Purge compounded of Violets Take new Conserve of Violets vitriolated four drams true Hermodactyls cleansed from their busks three ounces Magistery of Scammony ten drams Tartar vitriolated six drams Cinamon Cloves white Ginger of each a dram Oyl of Cummin seeds a scruple With Syrup of the Juyce of Violets vitriolated mix all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose This Confection of Hermodactyls is of admirable virtue and forde in the Gout Sciatica and such like pains of the Joynts for it safely purges all gouty humors we have also seen many Patients languishing with that tormenting pain and rouling in their beds to have been so restored by the use of this Medicine twice thrice or more and the help of external Unctions that they have soon returned to their former business And they would do wisely not to use it only under the impending pain but for their preservation to use it twice every year that is Spring and Fall The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Caryophyllatum or a Purge of Clovegilly-flowers Take Conserve of Clovegilly-flowers vitriolated seven ounces white and gummy Turbith two ounces Scammony rosated ten drams of the best Cloves an ounce Cream of Tartar six drams Cinamon and Mace of each a dram and a half Oyl of Oranges a scruple And with Syrup of Citron peels muskified mix all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It doth pleasantly and plentifully purge all cold Humors but chiefly Flegm from the Head Breast Stomach Joynts Guts and other principal Members and also from those deputed for nutrition It is good for complicated and continual Feavers and is very useful in the Colick coming of a cold Cause and for all other Diseases that proceed from frigid humors It is a good Remedy for those who are troubled with sour Belchings they being constantly troubled with Loathings and do generally abound with Spittle The dose is from a dram and a half to three drams especially in strong bodies more or less according to the age strength and season Zingiber Purgans or Purging Ginger Take Conserve of Rosemary flowers four ounces condited Ginger of Bengal three ounces Scammony rosated ten drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce the lesser Galangal and Mace of each a dram Cardamoms the less Cloves of each two scruples yellow Orange peels and Citron peels of each half a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple And with Syrup of the before-mentioned candied Ginger make all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It safely purgeth the whole body of Flegm and all other vicious Humors It draws away Choler of both kinds from the Stomach gives a sweet Breath comforts the Intestines being too cold and removes all Frigidity It dissolves thick flatulent Humors and clarifies the Blood neither hath it any ungrateful smell or taste It is very profitable in all kind of Feavers and in all other Diseases proceeding from a cold Cause also in the Colick Wind and pain of the Stomach Heart Liver Spleen Reins and Back The dose is from two drams to three in the morning early Cinamomum Laxativum or Laxative Cinamon Take white Sugar dissolved in Cinamon water four ounces Scammony rosated six drams species of Diacinamon half an ounce Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Mix all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth Choler Flegm and Melancholy from the Head Thorax Stomach Liver and Joynts c. and that without any trouble And this Composition may be also made into a solid form The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Cholagogum or a Choler-purging Medicine Take juyce of red Roses exprest white Sugar of each eight ounces species of Diarrhodon vitriolated nine drams Magistery of Scammony an ounce Spodium a dram and a half Gallia Moschata a scruple Let the Sugar be boiled to a consistence with the Juyce of Roses and then let the Species being pulverized be added so make all into an Electuary of the Juyce of Roses Virtue Use and Dose I happily use it to purge hot and cholerick Humors in all hot and cholerick Diseases and Affects The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Vitae or the Purge of Life Take Venice Treacle three ounces our species of Diaesula an ounce and a half Mercurius vitae a dram Mix them and with our Pectoral Syrup make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Medicine in Feavers Plague diseases of the Head Pox Leprosie ill habit of Body Dropsie fetid Ulcers c. and is a Secret in Quartan Agues for it leaves no impurity behind it in the body The dose is from a dram to two But let it not be given before meat but after it and so the sick do vomit sooner and easier Diaturbith Minerale Take Mithridate of Damocratis four ounces true Turbith Mineral species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each half an ounce our species of Diavitrioli and our Carminative Oyl of each a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of Jujubes bring them into the form of a thick Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Purge in all desperate Diseases as the Dropsie Pox Gout and Jaundice and by its expulsive force nothing is more excellent and noble in Fistula's malignant Ulcers Plague and most kind of Feavers c. The dose is from a dram to a dram and a half drinking after it a little white Wine Confectio Passulata or a
time twice in a month The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce either by it self or in appropriate Medicines Syrupus Vitriolato-rosatus or a vitriolated Syrup with Roses In the Preparation of our Magistery of Corals already mentioned a red Liquor will remain in the separation of the Coral from the Menstruum to which if a sufficient quantity of white Sugar be added and boiled to the consistence of a Syrup it will be red and a most noble and efficacious Medicine very profitable in the Plague Epidemical Diseases Feavers Dysenteries Liver-fluxes vices of the Stomach Scurvy obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Inflammations and many other Diseases The dose is from an ounce to two by it self or with other appropriate Vehicles Syrupus Cephalicus or a Syrup for the Head Take the juyce of Carduus and Millefoil depurated of each a pound water of Lavender and Betony of each half a pound roots of Avens and Peony of each an ounce Cassia lignea Nutmegs Cubebs of each an ounce and a half Marjoram Vervain Rosemary and Origanum of each three drams flowers of Lilies of the valley Teil-tree Primroses Rosemary and red Roses of each two drams seeds of Lavender Fenil Sage and Peony of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes Misleto of the Oak Oriental Saffron of each a dram Boil them to the consumption of the third part afterward let them be strained and clarified and then add of white Sugar a sufficient quantity to bring it into a Syrup according to Art which aromatize with Species Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Remedy in all dangerous distempers of the Head as inveterate Head-ach Hemicrania Epilepsie Apoplexy Palsie c. It roborates the Head Brain and Ventricle and is agreeable to those who are troubled with a trembling of the Head and Heart The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or with other appropriate Medicines Syrupus Pectoralis or a Syrup for the Breast Take roots of Liquorish sliced Coltsfoot of each two ounces roots of Elicampane Flower-de-luce Angelica of each an ounce both sorts of Lungwort Maidenhair sharp Sage Horehound Scabious of each half an ounce flowers of Coltsfoot Violets Chamomil and Hearts-ease of each two drams Let them be cut bruised and infused in water of Carduus and Fenil of each three pound of Mallows Fluellin and Marsh-mallows of each a pound Let them be boiled to the consumption of the third part Take of this Liquor strained six pound and infuse in it small Raisons four ounces seeds of Carduus Anise Roman Nettles Quinces and Myrtle-berries of each half an ounce of Dates Iujubes Sebestens and fat Figs of each twenty one Boil them again to the consumption of the third part and then let them be strongly prest and strained Take of this strained Liquor four pound white Sugar two pound Boil them again and as they are boiling aromatize it with Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Mace and Cinamon of each two drams Let these be tyed up in a thin Cloth and boil together with the rest till it comes to the consistence of a Syrup to which last of all add three ounces of Cinamon-water and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of wonderful force and power in all affects of the Thorax Vitals Destillations and Obstructions for it cuts and attenuates thick Humors It is also of good use in Consumptions Wastings and Ulcers of the Lungs And is a present Remedy for Asthma's and Coughs and is profitably used in the pains of the Hypochonders and a Pleurisie beginning It dissolves suppurated matter and helps to cast it forth and is a great Secret in Hoarsness and defect of the Voice The dose is from half an ounce to six drams by it self or in appropriate Vehicles Syrupus Asthmaticus or a Syrup for the Asthma Take white Sugar Candy a pound water of Lohoch sanum eight ounces Syrup of Horehound and Liquorish of each four ounces Syrup of Maidenhair and Iujubes of each three ounces Syrup of Hyssop and the juyce of Violets of each two ounces Mix them all well together and boil them to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It doth chiefly help in the Asthma and Pleurisie It safely cleanseth opens and inlargeth the Thorax and Lungs and also opens Obstructions It helps wheesing dry Coughs and is profitably given in the pain of the Breast and Hypochonders the Stone in the Reins c. It is also very agreeable to old people and those who are cold by Nature The dose is by it self or with Pectoral Waters from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus Cordialis or a Cordial Syrup Take Cinamon two ounces roots of Bugloss an ounce flowers of red Roses Borage Balm and Violets of each half an ounce Cardamoms the less Nutmegs wood of Aloes of each two drams Oriental Saffron and Mace of each a dram All being cut and bruised let them be macerated in three pound of good odoriferous Wine until the Wine hath imbibed all the virtue of the Ingredients then boil it to the consumption of a pound Take of this Liquor strained two pound white Sugar a pound and a half Boil these together and toward the end add of each of our Cordial Waters four ounces And boil all to the just consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It exhilarates and daily increaseth the Magnanimity of the mind and is a most efficacious Medicine in almost all melancholy Diseases Moreover it is of singular use in the passions of the Heart proceeding from grief or sorrow and this it doth by roborating of that part The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or in other convenient Vehicles Syrupus de Cassia Lignea Take Gelly of Quinces a pound Boil it over a gentle fire to the thickness of Honey then mix with it our Tincture of Cassia lignea so much as may bring it to the consistence of a Syrup at last add to it an ounce of Elaeosaccharum of Cassia lignea and again mix them and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is agreeable to old weak and frigid Patients and to those in whom the Radical moisture and natural heat are diminished It comforts all the principal Members It roborates the Heart and a cold Stomach It helps the Syncope and trembling of the Heart It allays Nauseousness Vomiting and Hiccup It takes away the ill savour of the Breath and makes it sweet The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce either by it self or in any other specifick Medicine Syrupus Diacitri Rosatus or a compound Syrup of Citrons and Roses Take juyce of Citrons and Lemmons first strained through a cloth or strainer but not prest and tinctured with powder of red Roses a pound Rob of Barberries and Goosberries of each seven ounces Syrup of the juyce of unripe Grapes Syrup of Vinegar Rasberries and Strawberries of each four
two drams leaves of Eyebright Vervain and Rue tops of Rosemary Sage of Pennyroyal Dill and Fenil of each a dram and a half flowers of greater Celandine Betony Lavender red Roses and Rosemary of each a dram Let them be macerated in six pound of Spanish Wine the space of eight days and afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual universal Medicines being premised for the weakness and dulness of sight and to comfort the visive Spirits and to rectifie the Brain and the humors thereof The dose morning and evening is from half an ounce to an ounce and a half Aqua Pectoralis or a Pectoral Water Take bitter Almonds and small Raisons of each half a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows and Coltsfoot of each an ounce roots of lesser Mallows Comfrey and Elicampane of each half an ounce seeds of Fenil Anise Quinces Carduus benedictus Carduus Mariae Myrtles and Nettles of each three drams Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Mace Cinamon of each two drams both sorts of Lungwort Fluellin Horehound Ground-Ivy Maidenhair Scabious Hyssop and Sage of each a draâ— and a half flowers of Chamomil Coltsfoot Violets and Hearts-ease of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and infused in twelve pound of the best old Hydromel and digested for eight days afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It operates to a Miracle in all the distempers of the Thorax as straitness of the Breast Asthma and Cough c. It cuts attenuates and deterges thick and viscous flegm gathered in the Lungs and cavity of the Breast and renders it easie to be spit out It also comforts the Stomach and with the help of our Species Diasulphuris it preserves from and cures all Putrefaction and Apostems Moreover it doth effectually help those who are troubled with Phthisicks Pleurisies shortness of Breath destillations of Rheum spitting of Blood and other purulent Matter The dose is from half an ounce to one or two Aqua Antiphthisica or an Anticonsumptive Water Take roots of great Comfry flowers of red Roses of each a pound crums of Wheat-bread four ounces Pine-apples and green Pistick Nuts of each three ounces roots of China two ounces flowers of Liverwort and Rosemary pith of Indian Nuts of each an ounce Mace half an ounce Let them be bruised and broken and put into a large Matrace with water of Calves Lungs two pound Plantane water and Capon water of each a pound water of Cinamon buglossated water of Fluellin and Scabious of each half a pound Let them stand in digestion for eight days often shaking them in the time and afterward add to them exprest juyce of Coltsfoot and Goats milk of each half a pound the blood of one Pig Snails taken from their shells and bruised an ounce and a half Hens Livers three Oriental Saffron a dram Again mix them and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Mariae Virtue Use and Dose This Water hath a wonderful operation it certinly cures the Phthisick or Consumption it heals Ulcers of the Lungs and cleanseth the Breast from thick humors But in Phthisicks coming of Rheumatisms in the Thorax and in Asthma's Pleurisie c. we usually give it in this Form following with good success Take of Aqua Antiphthisica nineteen ounces white Sugar candy three ounces Lac Sulphuris two drams flower of Sulphur a dram and a half Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a dram Mix them ready for use The dose is morning noon and night from a spoonful to two And by the use of this Liquor only a man will grow fat because it moistens lenifies nourishes comforts restores the radical Moisture and allays the Cough and is the only relief to extenuated consumptive and hectical bodies for it restores them to their pristine health and expels the Disease but before it be made use of it should be diligently moved Aqua Pulmonis Vituli or Water of a Calves Lungs Take the Heart Lungs and Liver of a Calf the fat and veins being cut off and add to it great Comfry roots four ounces French Lungwort Pimpernel Fluellin Hyssop Sage and Agrimony of each half an ounce Pour upon them a sufficient quantity of the same water also and boil them in a new well glazed earthen Pot close covered Take of this Broth with the other things three pound water of Borage Bugloss and Roses of each a pound species Diamargariton frigid roots of Pimpinella Cinamon of each an ounce the foâ— greater cold Seeds of each two drams the Cordial Flowers of each a dram Mix them and distil them in an Alembick Virtue Use and Dose Hectical and consumptive people may be nourished a long time by the use of this Water therefore not without reason was this Description always esteemed among us of great price The dose by it self is from one spoonful to two Aqua Caponis or Capon-water Take a Capon which you must boil in a well glazed new earthen Pot according to Art with small Raisons Pine-nuts and Liquorish of each an ounce Iujubes and Sebestens of each twelve new dryed Figs eight Lungwort Coltsfoot Endive and Lettice of each half an ounce flower of Violets and Betony of each a dram The Decoction being finished let all be bruised in a stone Mortar then take good Canary Wine three pound water of Coltsfoot Horehound and Bugloss of each a pound the crum of white Bread steeped in Goats milk half a pound Conserve of Borage Roses and Maidenhair of each four ounces species of Diamargariton frigid half an ounce Cinamon Mace and Aniseeds of each two drams Mix them and distil it in an Alembick according to Art and the distilled Liquor keep for use Virtue Use and Dose This Capon-water is most famous and effectual in all Pectoral Diseases as the Cough Asthma Phthisick c. and is given by it self The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua Cinamomi Buglossata or Cinamon-water Buglossated Take Bugloss water six pound flowers of Violets and Roses of each two pound Cinamon a pound bark of the roots of Bugloss three ounces flowers of Borage and Balm of each an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce Mix them and after due digestion distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It concocts mollifies and resists Poysons it also comforts the Brain Heart Stomach Liver and Spleen It clears the Sight provokes Urine and gives ease in diseases of the Reins and Bladder The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua ex Corde Cervi or Water of a Stags Heart Take a Stags heart cut into small pieces Cinamon half an ounce Cloves Cardamoms the less Galangal the less Mace Oriental Saffron of each two drams wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Citron peels seeds of Basil that smells like Avens of each a dram and a half flowers of Lavender Rosemary Balm and Sage of each a dram Let them be macerated all night in Spanish
bruised and then infused in the following Waters i. e. water of wild Poppy flowers and both kind of Mallows of each a pound and a half water of Plantane Purslain Violets Lettice leaves of Oak and Moneywort of each a pound Let them digest some days and then distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It takes off the heat and difficulty of Urine and obtunds the acrimony thereof that arises from hot Meats c. It deterges glutinates and cicatriseth all Ulcers and Ulcerations in the Bladder Reins Ureters and urinary passages For which it is a present Remedy which I have also experienced in Old people who are subject to a heat in the Bladder and from thence are subject to make water often This Water therefore sweeps away all mucous rough and painful filth and dregs of the Urine The dose is from one ounce to three Aqua contra Vermes or a Water against the Worms Take shavings of Harts horn four ounces crude Mercury well cleansed with Salt and Vinegar two ounces the best Sena seeds of Cina and Citrons true Corallina of each an ounce and a half Peach kernels Rhubarb Agarick and Myrrh of each an ounce roots of white Diptamus the pith taken away round Birthwort and Zedoary of each six drams white Tartar Nitre prepared Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce the tops of lesser Cantaury and Tansie chips of Hazel-tree of each three drams Let them be cut and bruised and then infused in four pound of Hydromel and after eight days digestion add to it water of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each a pound and a half of Carduus Grass and Scordium of each a pound Mix all and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Aqua Theriacalis or Treacle-water Take Venice Treacle eight ounces sealed Earth two ounces roots of Angelica and Tormentil Elicampane of each half an ounce Harts-horn and Elks hoof Spagirically calcined Sassafras Iuniper-berries Citron peels of each an ounce Boletus cervinus red Myrrh of each six drams Diaphoretick Antimony and Oriental Saffron of each three drams All being pulverized and mixed let them be infused in eight pound of Malmsey Wine for fourteen days and then distilled in Balneo with a gentle fire Virtue Use and Dose Because this Water by its tenuity and thinness doth quickly insinuate it self into all the Members and puts the native heat into action we happily use it in all diseases where Sweat is desired as Feavers Jaundice Putrefaction Worms Pox punctures of the Sides trembling of the Heart Plague rectification of the Blood c. The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua de Cornu cervino or Water of Harts-horn Take Harts-horn Spagirically calcined two ounces sealed Earth and Oriental red Bole of each an ounce roots of Tormentil white Diptamus Scorzonera and Zedoary of each half an ounce Sassafras yellow Sanders Cassia lignea of each three drams seeds of Sorrel Angelica and Citrons dryed of each two drams Oriental Saffron Mace and Marigold flowers of each a dram and a half These being cut and bruised let them be infused in the depurated Juyce of Carduus and Sorrel of each two pound of Scabious and Fluellin of each a pound of the husks of green Nuts and Scordium of each half a pound Let them macerate 24 hours then with a gentle fire distil them in Balneo with glass Vessels cohobating the second time Virtue Use and Dose This Water hath great force in the Plague and all other poysonous Diseases but especially in Women and Children for whom the Treacle-waters are not convenient Of this water an ounce or two or more according to the strength and nature of the Patient may be given either by it self or with other sudorifick Medicines in the place of Specificks c. Aqua Aloetica solutiva or a solutive Water of Aloes Take Epatick Aloes sixteen ounces juyce of the leaves of green Sena expressed Elaterium of each four ounces red Myrrh an ounce All being well mixed let them be distilled in glass in Balneo by the help of a gentle fire Virtue Use and Dose Anoint the Stomach often with this water and lay on after it a warm Cloth or Sponge and you shall see a wondrous Operation For it is a most excellent Medicine and only fit for Kings and Princes Aqua Cosmetica or a Beauty-water Take Goats milk four pound water of Aron roots Bean flowers white Roses white Lilies and Solomons seal of each a pound white Virgin Honey four ounces white Sugar candy and white Frankincense of each two ounces white Hermodactyls Florentine Flower-de-luce Venetian Borax of each an ounce Salt of white Tartar burnt Ivory and Camphire of each half an ounce flowers of white Narcissus of common white Mallows of white water Lily of each two drams Mix them and distil them in Balneo for the richer sort you may add a scruple of Gallia Moschata with Cotton to the neck of the Alembick Virtue Use and Dose It is used outwardly to cleanse and clarifie the Face For it takes off Spots Pimples c. from the Face and it hath a singular faculty in amending the foulness of the Skin in the Jaundice To accomplish which the Face must be often washed with it in the day Or take of this Cosmetick water six ounces of the Mercurial Cosmetick two drams Mix them and make a Lotion like Milk with which anoint the Face often SECT XX. Of mixed Liquors Nectar Vitrioli or Nectar of Vitriol TAke white Sugar candy ten ounces Spirit of Vitriol rectified two ounces Mix them and in a glass Vessel close covered keep out the flies and filth let them stand for some months till it all appear black like Pitch then take of this black matter four ounces Rose-water an ounce and a half water Mint-water half a pound Cinamon water buglossated six pound Syrup of the juyce of Citrons four ounces Manus Christi simple two ounces Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is commended in all intemperature of the Stomach as well cold as hot For it refresheth the languid and decayed strength thereof It provokes Appetite prevents Putrefaction It is good in malignant Feavers and allays Thirst. The dose by it self is from two ounces to three Liquor Vitriolatus or a Vitriolated Liquor Take Syrup of Violets and Roses of each half a pound juyce of Citrons or Lemmons four ounces Mix them diligently and being mixed add water of Endive ten ounces water of Sorrel and Roses of each eight ounces of water-Lily and Scabious of each six ounces of Cinamon water buglossated two ounces Spirit of Vitriol so much as will make all tart and grateful Again mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of a curious cooling quality in the Plague Hungarian disease burning Feavers and all other Inflammations It also allays Thirst c. The dose is from two ounces to three Liquor Ophthalmicus subalbidus or a whitish Water for
the Eyes Take our Ophthalmick water of Crabs half an ounce water of Eyebright and Fenil of each two drams our Ophthalmick Troches and Powder of each a scruple Mix them and make according to Art a whitish Collyrium Virtue Use and Dose It is of great virtue in the dimness and dulness of Sight and in Suffusions of the Eyes and it may be dropped into the Eyes without any pain it being void of all acrimony whatsoever and with it the Eyes may be washed every morning and so continue it for many days together Liquor Nitratus or a Nitrified Liquor Take water distilled from the juyce of Carduus benedictus nineteen ounces Rob of Goosberries four ounces simple Manus Christi two ounces Nitre prepared an ounce Mix them well and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a most admirable Diaphoretick Diuretick Bezoartick Refrigerative c. and is good in all hot and malignant Diseases whatsoever The dose is by it self from one ounce to two or three Liquor Cephalicus or a Cephalick Liquor Take of our Aqua Apoplectica four ounces Aqua Epileptica and Lily of the valley of each three ounces water of Marjoram Betony and Sage of each an ounce and a half Rotula's of Diambra an ounce Confectio Smaragdina half an ounce Salt of white Amber a scruple Mix them faithfully and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of good use in all diseases of the Head and gives present help in the Cephalalgia Hemicrania Epilepsie Apoplexy Madness Vertigo c. It quickens the Senses sharpens the Understanding and recovers a lost Memory The dose is from one spoonful to two Liquor Pectoralis or a Pectoral Liquor Take Cinamon water buglossated and Capon water of each four ounces water of Calves lungs Ground-Ivy Fluellin and Coltsfoot of each three ounces milk of Sulphur three drams flower of Sulphur a dram and a half Magistery of red Coral and Oriental Pearls of each half a dram Mix all and with Manus Christi simple three ounces edulcorate it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use to all those who are troubled with the Asthma Pleurisie Phthisick and Hectick It comforts the Heart and to admiration it takes away the grievous and dangerous Coughs and restores the Patient to his former health The dose morning noon and night is from one spoonful to two But before this Liquor is given it ought to be well shaken Liquor Cordialis or a Cordial Liquor Take of our hot and cold Cordial waters of each four ounces of Cinamon water buglossated and water of a Stags heart of each an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams Salt of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple All being mixed let it be edulcorated with an ounce and a half of simple Manus Christi and reserved for use Virtue Use and Dose It is good for the Heart-burning and pains of the Heart caused by sorrow It cures Palpitation Trembling and Swooning It animates the Spirits exhilarates the Mind refresheth those who are weak and languid It comforts the Heart in general and preserves it from the Plague and many other evils The dose is from one spoonful to two Liquor acidus Perlarum Orientalium or an acid Liquor of Oriental Pearls Take Vinegar of the solution of Oriental Pearls and again drawn off in Balneo two ounces Spirit of Vitriol duly rectified with Spirit of Wine Mix them and you shall have a whitish liquor of wonderful operation which keep as a Treasure for your use Virtue Use and Dose It strengthens the Head Brain Stomach Heart Liver and all the other principal Members It preserves the body from the Apoplexy Epilepsie Vertigo Leprosie Pox c. It raiseth an appetite in recovering Patients It cleanseth the Eyes of clouds and dimness resists Putrefaction and Poyson and is the last refuge in all malignant Feavers and hot Diseases The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram Liquor acidus Corallorum rubeorum or an acid Liquor of red Coral After the preceding manner is this acid Liquor of Coral prepared for the affects of the Head as Epilepsie Melancholy also the Dysentery Flux of the Womb c. and to rectifie the Stomach and Blood It is also a good Medicine to root out many internal Diseases and to refresh the Spirits and Mind The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram Liquor Nephriticus or a Liquor for the Stone and Urine Take Citron water distilled by it self in Balneo our Nephritical water of each a pound and a half Syrup of the juyce of Violets a pound white Sugar candy an ounce Salt of Perch stone and Crabs eyes of each two drams Nitre prepared with flower of Sulphur salt of white Amber of each a dram Mix them and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual in breaking and expelling the Stone both in the Reins and Bladder It provokes Urine and takes away the pain which happens in those parts The dose is in the morning fasting or at a good distance from eating from one spoonful to three Liquor Diaphoreticus Take of our Treacle water six ounces Spirit of Tartar often rectified three ounces Spirit of sealed Earth distilled by it self and rectified Spirit of Guajacum rectified the acid liquor of Oriental Pearls the acid liquor of red Coral of each half an ounce Mix them and in a Glass close shut let them digest for three or four weeks then filter it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It expels all Poyson from the Heart by Sweat It is good in Syncopes sudden Fits Epilepsie Melancholy Quinsie Palsie Dropsie Jaundice Pleurisie Pox Plague Epidemical disease Asthma malignant and putrid Feavers retention of the Courses Contractures Scurvy Scabs or Itch For this Medicine doth excel all others in taking away all Obstructions and Putrefactions And if it be given daily in the Palsie it doth wonders It penetrates the Nerves Muscles Marrow and whatsoever it finds hurtful it expels The dose is from half a dram to two drams in our Harts-horn water or Carduus water or any other Vehicle respecting the Disease Liquor refrigerans or a cooling Liquor Take water of the juyce of Succory four ounces water of Rasberries Carduus Roses Endive and Sorrel of each four ounces Rob of Goosberries and Barberries prepared without Sugar syrup of the juyce of Citrons of each three ounces Nitre prepared eleven scruples Mix them Virtue Use and Dose It cools and comforts admirably in Feavers and all acute hot Diseases The dose is from two ounces to three at a time Liquor Vulnerarius or a Wound-Liquor Take roots of the lesser Galangal Zedoary Crabs eyes and Mace of each half an ounce Foreign Mummy two drams of Nux vomica fifteen grains Let them be grolly bruised and infused in a pound of good generous Wine let them stand in a warm place Virtue Use and Dose The dose of this Mixture is morning and evening a
flowers of Rosemary Rue Marjoram and Sage of each a dram Gallia Moschata wood of Aloes Spicknard of each half a dram of Wine Vinegar a sufficient quantity Mix them and when the Vinegar is tinctured and well impregnated with the Ingredients keep it for use Virtue and Use. A linen Cloth wetted in this Liquor and applied to the Nose and the smell thereof received up into the Nostrils doth very much comfort the Brain quickens the Sense refresheth the Spirits and doth plentifully restore the decayed strength of the Mind and Intellect and is of singular use in the other diseases of the Heart Acetum Theriacale or a Vinegar of Treacle Take Venice Treacle an ounce Elks hoofs Spagirically calcined Bay-berries seeds of Carduus benedictus of each half an ounce leaves of Vervain Scordium and Rue of each two drams red Myrrh and Citron peels of each a dram and a half roots of Tormentil Angelica Zedoary and Butterbur of each a dram Camphire wood of Aloes Mace of each half a dram Wine-Vinegar in which Lavender flowers have been infused a sufficient quantity Mix them and let them stand till the Vinegar be well tinctured which pour off and keep for use Acetum Mithridaticum or Vinegar of Mithridate Take Mithridate of Damocratis sealed Earth roots of Tormentil Elicampane and Angelica of each six drams Harts-horn calcined without fire powder of Vipers and red Myrrh of each half an ounce seeds of Citron husked seeds of Sorrel and Bay-berries of each three drams flowers of Marigold and Clove-gillyflowers of each two drams Oriental Saffron Cloves and Camphire of each a dram Wine Vinegar in which Roses have been infused a sufficient quantity Mix them and when the Vinegar is well coloured keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose These two Vinegars are of excellent use in the Plague for they resist its impression and preserve from Putrefaction and whosoever shall take a spoonful of either of them in the morning shall not by the Providence of God be infected that day But in the Cure the dose of either of them is two spoonfuls with a scruple of our Solar Bezoar or Aurea Hadrianea c. There is another way commended for its use which is this In the morning before the Patient goes abroad let him wash the Pulse of his Wrists with these Vinegars and also carry a Sponge in his hand wet in the same But those who have a dry Brain and are troubled with watching must not smell to it often if at all Acetum Zedoarticum or a Vinegar of Zedoary Take roots of Zedoary an ounce roots of Tormentil Angelica and Scorzonera of each half an ounce Bay-berries husked Iuniper-berries of each three drams flowers of Marigold Lavender and red Roses of each two drams red Myrrh wood of Aloes and Mace of each a dram and a half Cloves and Nutmegs of each a dram Infuse them in Wine Vinegar in which Elder flowers have been steeped a sufficient quantity till it be perfectly coloured then strain the Vinegar and keep it for use Acetum Myrrhatum or a Vinegar with Myrrh Take red Myrrh an ounce roots of Gentian half an ounce Carduus Rue Wormwood Scabious Fluellin and Scordium of each two drams Oriental Saffron Cassia lignea and Castor of each a dram Macerate these in a sufficient quantity of Wine Vinegar in which Clove-gillyflowers have been infused and after eight days digestion filter the Liquor and being clear keep it for use Acetum Rhizoticum or a Vinegar of Roots Take the roots of Tormentil Snakeweed Burnet Angelica Valerian Masterwort Devils-bit white Dictamus Elicampane Swallow-wort Zedoary and Burdock of each half an ounce Let them infuse in a sufficient quantity of Wine Vinegar impregnate with Sage and after due digestion strain it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose These three preceding Vinegars have great force against pestilential Poysons and are armed with various virtues to that purpose for if the Nostrils or Pulses be often wet therewith or a Sponge wet therewith and often smelt to or Flints or Bricks red-hot and quenched in it and the Liquor drunk is very effectual both for Preservation and Cure but in the Cure a spoonful or two may be given to provoke Sweat the strength of the Patient considered but for Preservation half a spoonful is sufficient Acetum Bezoarticum or a Bezoartick Vinegar Take roots of Scorzonera Angelica and white Dictamus of each an ounce roots of Tormentil Zedoary and Elicampane of each half an ounce Camphire a dram and a half All being pulverized and mixed infuse them in Spirit of Wine left in making our Solar Bezoar and distilled Wine Vinegar in which Elder flowers were infused of each equal parts to that quantity that it may rise six fingers above the Ingredients let them stand in a Glass close stopt till the Liquor be perfectly tinctured then filter it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Bezoartick Vinegar is endued with excellent virtues that if half an ounce or an ounce be taken by it self or with a small quantity of any Cordial water it wonderfully relieves those infected with the Plague or bit or stung with any venemous Creature to the admiration of the Beholders and restores them to perfect health again It is of no less effect in poysonous Draughts it sâ—rengthens the Heart refresheth the Spirits c. And for preservation 's sake in any of the cases mentioned you may give half a spoonful in the morning but to cure give it from half an ounce to an ounce in water of Carduus Swallow-wort Scordium and the like Acetum Diaphoreticum or a Diaphoretick Vinegar Take Sarsa parilla and China of each an ounce Sassafras six drams Elder flowers half an ounce Cassia lignea two drams Let them be cut and bruised and infused in a sufficient quantity of sharp Wine Vinegar let them digest so long till it be of a red colour then filter it and keep the filtred Vinegar for use Virtue Use and Dose This Vinegar is commendable for its use in curing the diseases of the Head and Brain strengthening the Liver opening the Spleen and the obstructions in the Dropsie expelling the Stone in discussing Wind staying Vomiting helping Digestion resisting Putresaction and curing the Pox and incipient Elephantiasis in all which cases it hath an excellent Diaphoretick faculty Also by reason of its great driness and moderate heat it is an excellent Remedy for all kind of Defluxions but it is hurtful to those who are extenuated and weak Also a Sponge dipped in this Vinegar and smelt to often is very profitable against the Plague especially other Remedies not being neglected The dose is from one spoonful to two by it self or in appropriate Vehicles Acetum Hystericum or a Hysterical Vinegar Take dryed Rue and dwarff Elder-berries of each an ounce Sagapen and Galbanum of each half an ounce roots of Hogs sesmel and Castor of each two drams the Callus or Protuberances on Mares legs Assa foetida of each
a dram Let them infuse in a sufficient quantity of sharp Wine in Balneo for five or six days till the Vinegar be perfectly tinctured then filter it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose The smell and odor of the Fume upon hot Coals immediately raiseth Women that are suffocated c. it is also good in the Vertigo's Lethargies and other sleepy diseases And if it be taken inwardly it also performs the same The dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one Acetum Vomitorium or a Vomiting Vinegar Take bark of the roots of Thapsia four ounces â—oots of fresh dryed Asarabacca two ounces seeds of Cart aâ—us or bastard Saffron an ounce Cinamon half an ounce All being bruised and mixed infuse them in four pound of the best Wine Vinegar Let them digest in a Glass close shut for a month often shaking them in the time after distil them in Sand in a Copper body with a Leaden top to it And so you shall have distilled Vinegar impregnated with Saturn and a little sweet all which keep for use not rejecting the flegm Virtue Use and Dose It is a sweet and pleasant Vomit and purgeth all Humors as well cold as hot and is given in Quotidian and Tertian as well true as bastard both which it cures it takes away debility and loathing caused by super fluous sharp humors it is also an approved Medicine in renewed Feavers after seven Fits The dose is from two ounces to three more or less And to delicate bodies it is given in Syrup of Vinegar SECT XXIV Of Epithems Epithema generale or a general Epithem GOod in Melancholy Madness Phrensies immoderate Watchings pain and disorder of the Head in general from any cause Take water of wild Poppy Lettice and Roses of each four ounces of our Troches of Radice Rhodia an ounce Mix them for an Epithem Another of the same efficacy Take water of Henbane Sage and Vervain of each four ounces our Troches of roots of Rhodia an ounce Mix them for an Epithem and when there is a necessity of using it wet a double linen Rag therein and press it gently and apply it warm to the Temples and Forehead and this direction is also to be observed in the following Epithems An Epithem for the pain in the Head coming of a cold Cause with or without a Catarrh Take water of Betony Rosemary and Vervain of each four ounces Peach kernels half an ounce Cubebs three drams Nutmegs and Sandarack of each a dram roots of Mandrakes half a dram Mix them and make an Epithem and apply it warm Another in a hot Cause Take water of Chamomil Sage and Rosemary of each four ounces Peach kernels half an ounce the best Olibanum two drams Cloves Mace and wood of Aloes of each a dram roots of Zedoary half a dram Mix them for an Epithem An Epithem for pains of the Head coming of a hoâ— Cause with or without a Catarrh Take water of Roses Violets and common Mallows of each three ounces all the Sanders of each a dram and a half white Amber prepared a dram flowers of wild Poppy and Vervain of each half a dram Camphire a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Head Another in the same Case Take water of wild Poppy and Roses of each three ounces mans Skull calcined without fire a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram Mix them for an Epithem for the Head which operates wonderfully Epithema Hypnoticum or a Sleep-bringing Epithem Take water of Roses and Lettice of each four ounces Opium Spagirically prepared a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram of the spongy knot growing on wild Roses a scruple Mix them and dissolve them faithfully the mixture being prepared wet a linen Cloth in it and apply it warm to the Temples and moisten the Nostrils with it also and presently they begin to sleep Another to procure Sleep Take water of Nutmegs Lettice and Night shade of each four ounces seeds of white Poppy half an ounce seeds of Henbane and Dill of each two drams roots of Hounds-tongue a dram and a half flowers of Elicampane yellow water-Lily and Violets of each a scruple Bruise the Seeds in a stone Mortar with a wooden Pestle then mix them and press them and so make an Epithem for the Head An experienced warming Cordial Epithem Take water of Cinamon Balm and Bugloss of each three ounces Elks horn Spagirically calcined Cloves Nutmegs and Citron peels of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes a dram Pearls prepared red Coral prepared of each half a dram seeds of Marjoram and Basil of each a scruple Oriental Saffron and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Heart Another for the same Case Take water of Roses Basil and Clove-gillyflowers of each three ounces species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each a dram and a half Dianthos and Gems calcined of each a dram Mix them and make an Epithem to be applied to the region of the Heart A cooling Epithem in the Syncope and other Affects of the Heart Take water of red Roses four ounces water of Sarrel and water-Lily of each four ounces Vinegar violated an ounce red Coral prepared all the Sanders of each a dram sealed Earth and Bole Armeniack of each two scruples of the five precious Stones prepared bone of a Stags heart Pearls prepared Mace Cinamon Camphire of each ten grains Mix them for an Epithem for the Heart A most noble Epithem in the Palpitation of the Heart Take water of Marjoram Basil Balm Roses and Malmsey Wine of each three ounces Vinegar rosated an ounce species de Gemmis calid of Diambra and Diamoschu dulce of each a dram wood of Aloes and Mace of each two scruples Cinamon and Rosemary of each half a dram bone of a Stags heart Pearls and red Coral prepared Citron peel of each a scruple the five precious Stones prepared a scruple Mix all for an Epithem for the Heart Another for the Palpitation of the Heart Take water of Roses Sage and Borage of each three ounces odoriferous Wine an ounce Vinegar violated half an ounce species Diathameron and Diamargariton frigid of each a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined Cassia lignea yellow Sanders Cardamoms the less of each half a dram Oriental Saffron flowers of Cloves and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem to be applied to the Breast An Epithem for the Weakness and Inflammation of the Liver Take water of Water-Lilies Wormwood Endive Roses and Succory of each two ounces Vinegar rosated an ounce species Diatrion santalon half an ounce Crystals of Saturn two drams Rhubarb a dram and a half red Coral prepared two scruples seeds of Purslain and Sorrel of each a scruple Camphire Mace and Spike of each ten grains Mix them and make an Epithem according to Art Another in the same Case Take water of white Epatick flowers Rasberries Strawberries and the lesser Centaury of each three
each two drams Mix them and boil it to the consumption of the half and towards the end of its boiling aromatize it with a dram and a half of Cinamon let it cool by degrees and strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a clear Potion of it which edulcorate with Syrup of Violets four ounces Virtue Use and Dose The use of this Decoction doth not only give ease in the Catarrh Asthma and Pectoral diseases but also rectifies the whole Body and hath a singular force in curing Ulcers of the Lungs But it ought to be considered whether the Patient hath a Feaver or not for if he hath a Feaver he must abstain from the use of this Decoction It is given twice in the day for sweating but in the Cure it is used to be made of the Diaphoretick wood and for his ordinary drink at dinner and supper he may use the following Decoction of Raisons Decoctum Passulatum or a Decoction of Raisons Take small Raisons four ounces Barley husked three ounces roots of the best China Liquorish and Scorzonera of each half an ounce Cinamon two drams flowers of Violets dryed a scruple Boil them in six pound of Fountain-water to the consumption of the third part then let it be strained and clarified with the Whites of two Eggs and make a clear Potion of it Virtue Use and Dose Let the sick use this Decoction at Meals for his ordinary drink for it hath a certain singular faculty in curing the distempers of the Thorax and Liver for by lenifying and deterging it gives great ease in the vices of the Lungs The dose is a good draught at a time Decoctum Citri or a Decoction of Citrons Take Citrons rind and pulp cut into thin round pieces three or five white Sugar four ounces Fountain-water six pound Boil it to the consumption of the third part then strain it and the Decoction being clear like Wine keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose We do usually appoint this for a common drink to those who are sick of the Plague Epidemical diseases burning Feavers Cholerick diseases Inflammations small Pox and Meazles Stone immoderate Thirst Cholera c. because it curiously cools and moistens the Heart Stomach Liver Spleen Reins and also comforts the other Bowels that are hot and impaired and preserves them from putrefaction The dose is a good draught at a time but for delicate Palates it is prepared without the rind of Citrons and so prepared it is more palatable And a little Wine being mixed with it may prove an honest excuse to prevent drunkenness Decoctum Hepaticum or a Decoction for the Liver Take the stalks of Spanish Lettice preserved three ounces roots of Succory and Scorzonera preserved of each an ounce and a half seeds of Melons bruised and Currans of each an ounce the Liver of a Wolf half an ounce flower of white Epatice Violets Succory and water-Lilies of each a dram species Diarrhodon Abbatis Triasantalon of each tyed up in a Nodulus half a dram Let all be boiled in six pound of Barley-water to the consumption of the half and being strained clarifie it with the Whites of Eggs afterward add the juyce of acid Pomegranates and Citrons of each six ounces Syrup of blue Violets vitriolated four ounces Cinamon water half an ounce Mix them and make a clear Decoction Virtue Use and Dose It is of great power and use in contemperating the heat of the Heart and Liver for it cools and comforts and is good to lenifie the Breast and Lungs and to humect the Praecordia's The dose is from three ounces to four or a good draught Decoctum Spleneticum or a Decoction for the Spleen Take leaves of Sena and Sea Coleworts of each an ounce roots of Cappars Fenil Grass Flower-de-luce and dwarff Elder of each three drams Rhubarb Dodder species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each two drams and a half Maidenhair Hyssop Harts tongue and Betony flowers of the lesser Centaury Hops and white Liverwort of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and then infused 24 hours in water of Scurvy-grass Fumitory Sorrel and Pauls Betony of each eight ounces Afterward boil it according to Art and make a clear Decoction in which dissolve Cream of Tartar six drams that being dissolved add these Syrups following i. e. Syrup of Scurvy-grass of Succory simple of Fumitory and Agrimony of each an ounce Spirit of Salt corrected half a dram Mix all Virtue Use and Dose This Decoction is excellent in the Obstruction Tumor and Scirrhus of the Spleen also in the Scurvy rectification of the Blood ill disposition or inclining to a Dropsie The dose is every day from two ounces to three Decoctum Antictericum or a Decoction for the Iaundice Take Southernwood half an ounce Goose dung collected in the Spring and tyed up in a Nodulus three drams roots of Celandine Turmerick Rhubarb and Zedoary of each a dram and a half Nutmegs and Bay-berries â—uâ—ked of each a dram seeds of Cummin and Anise of each half a dram Oriental Saffron and white Lilies of each ten grains the best white Wine four pound Boil all to the consumption of the third part and make a clear Potion Virtue Use and Dose Let him that is sick with the Jaundice drink a draught of this Decoction warm every morning for six days together and it perfectly cures the yellow Jaundice But the poorer sort may instead of Wine use good clear Beer or Ale and be as effectual Decoctum Ficuum or a Decoction of Figs. Take fifteen fat Figs Raisons two ounces Harts-horn and pulp of Tamarinds of each an ounce roots of Liquorish and Mock-chervil of each half an ounce Barberries two drams seeds of Carduus and Fenil of each a dram and a half Make a Decoction in Barley water and being strained clarifie it with the White of an Egg then take of this Liquor a pound and a half Syrup of the juyce of Citrons four ounces Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It safely and without any danger expels and drives forth the small Pox and Meazles and curbs the malignity of them The dose is often in the day from one spoonful to two but if the Belly were too loose add Gum Tragacanth in the place of Pulp of Tamarinds Decoctum contra Mictionem Sanguinis or a Decoction against Pissing of Blood Take roots of Liquorish an ounce seeds of white Poppy and Myrtle-berries of each half an ounce Acorns and Acatia of each two drams Pauls Betony Maidenhair Ceterach Sage and Burnet of each a dram and a half flowers of red Roses a dram and of wild Poppy a scruple Boil them in a sufficient quantity of Fountain-water so that two pound may remain which edulcorate with Syrup of the Juyce of Violets for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a very good Medicine for those who piss blood for it doth quickly and without any trouble take away the affect and cure it really The dose is morning and evening from two
Wine rectified extract a Tincture from it and when it will give no more Tincture add all the tinged Spirit together and put to it the same quantity of our Pectoral water and set them for some days in a warm place that they may digest afterward draw off the Spirit of Wine in B. M. with a gentle fire and so the Tincture of Sulphur will remain in the Pectoral water This take off by inclination to the quantity of half evaporate the rest till it be like Oyl what remains filter through a Paper and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Tincture doth not only free the Breast from all thick humors that obstruct the Organs of Respiration and cause the Cough and shortness of breathing but it cleanseth the Thorax Lungs and neighbouring parts of all putrid and imposthumous Tumors and hastens their Cure and gives freedom and ease in breathing It succours drys and roborates a cold Brain in such as are falling into a Consumption It also allays the pains of the Colick and resists Putrefaction It is likewise given with great success in the Plague proceeding from a moist Cause but especially to the Common people who by feeding upon gross and bad food fill their blood with moist crude humors and therefore more proper for this kind of infection than to the others The ordinary Dose is from five six or seven to ten drops in a proper Vehicle Tincture of Tartar TAke Salt of Tartar well depurated by frequent solution and coagulation what quantity you will pour upon it the best Spirit of Wine Alkoholisated to the eminence of three or four fingers set it in digestion for certain days and every day as often as it is convenient shake it but take heed lest the Spirit of Wine should break the Glass let it stand so till it is tinged of a most red colour This Spirit being tinctured pour it off and pour on more that is fresh and this work repeat so often till it can receive no more Tincture from the Tartar Lastly the Spirit of Wine thus tinctured mix together filter it through a Paper and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It cleanseth the Reins and Bladder it breaks the Stone and brings it away like Bran it works by Urine and preserves Health It is excellent to remove Obstructions and Putrefactions and for penetrating and roborating it doth almost exceed all other Medicines and Arcana's It preserves from the Palsie and Gout if it be taken constantly morning and evening either by it self or in specifick Liquors Moreover in rectifying the blood it is of admirable use and cannot be sufficiently praised for its effects as well in that as in the Head-ach Dropsie Erysipelas Jaundice both black and yellow Colick Leprosie Pox Scabs Itch Tetters Pimples the Terms retained Pleurisie prickings in the Sides Feavers Contractures Gout and in other tartarous and venenate Diseases The Dose is half a spoonful at the most by it self or in some appropriate Liquor but the Dose is to be increased or diminished according to the Age Sex Complexion c. of the Patient Tincture of Lacca Take Gumm Lacca finely powdered half an ounce burnt Alum two drams Mix them and pour upon them water made of Lapis Medicamentosus with water of Sage and Roses three pound Let them stand in digestion till it be perfectly tinctured which being done filter it and keep the red Tincture for use Virtue and Use. It is experimented in the Scurvy and cures the laxity and rottenness of the Gums and takes away the stink thence arising it repairs the decayed flesh about the Teeth the way of using this Tincture is to wash and rub those parts often Tinctura Proprietatis Take Spirit of Wine prepared with Aniseeds sixteen ounces Elixir Proprietatis an ounce Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Clove-gilli-flowers a dram Let them stand in digestion till the Spirit be perfectly tinged then filter the tinctured Spirit sweeten it with white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Medicine in Melancholy Hemicrania Vertigo Palsie Catarrh Asthma Cough weakness of the Stomach passion of the Heart Quartan Ague and Stone Moreover it comforts the Heart keeps back baldness and makes the Patient merry and joyful c The Dose is from one dram to two in some convenient Vehicle Tincture of Iuniper-berries Take of fresh Iuniper-berries grosly powdered a pound Aniseed bruised four ounces Angelica-roots an ounce Nephritick wood half an ounce of the best Mace two drams Mix them and infuse them in four quarts of Spanish Wine let them infuse fourteen days and every day let them be stirred or shaken afterward distil them in B. M. and with this Liquor distilled extract the Tincture of Juniper-berries according to art which afterward filter and a little edulcorate and preserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It heats opens attenuates and discusseth and is good for the Stomach It is effectually taken in all distempers of the Breast Cough Wind Gripings and the biting of Serpents and is very profitable in the Plague it expels the Stone provokes Urine and helps the Convulsion and Suffocation of the Matrix The Dose is from one spoonful to three in the morning fasting Tincture of wild Poppy Take the Conserve of the flowers of wild Poppy an ounce flowers of wild Poppies moistned with Spirit of Vitriol a dram Mix them and with water distilled from the juyce of the before-mentioned flowers thirty ounces draw a most red Tincture which filter and then add of the Syrup of the juyce of wild Poppies a little vitriolated eight ounces Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is very profitable in hot thin and sharp Defluxions that trouble the rough Artery and Jaws and it procures sleep it helps the Cough Catarrh and Phthisick it is an admirable remedy in Pleurisies and prickings in the Sides it mitigates Pain removes Inflammations and causeth Sweat gently moreover it is very profitable in Fluxes of the Belly and Dysenteries stirred up by the efflux of Choler and sharp Humors The Dose is from one ounce to two by it self or in any convenient Liquor Tincture of Cassia Lignea Take Cinamon-water made with Spanish Wine one pound good Cassia Lignea six drams Let them stand so long in digestion till it be perfectly tinctured which filter and keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It is fit for all cold Distempers it strengthens the Stomach Liver Spleen Lungs Heart Brain and Nerves and also sharpens the sight It is good against Poisons and poisonous bitings or stingings c. It sweetens the Breath provokes Urine and the Terms it helps Vomiting and loathing at the Stomach it gives ease in all diseases where we are willing to heat open attenuate digest and strengthen yet they who are of a hot Constitution or are troubled with inflammations must for bear the use of this Medicine Tincture of St. Iohns-wort Take Iuyce of the Herbs and flowers of
boiled hard Conserve of the roots of great Comfry flowers of wild Poppy of each four ounces of the thorny pricks of Fishes of Nutmegs Gum Arabick of each two ounces the heads of Poppy with the seeds flower of red Archangel juyce of Acacia or instead of it juyce of Sloes of each an ounce Mix them and let them infuse 24 hours in six pints of red Stiptick Wine then add of our Aqua Hypnotica ten ounces and distil all in Balneo Then take of this distilled liquor four pints Dragons blood moistned with spirit of Vitriol as much as doth suffice to give it a red tincture then filter it and the red Tincture edulcorate with Syrup of the Juyce of wild Poppy-flowers and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is very profitable and of great power and force in all Fluxes of the Belly as Dysenteries Diarrhoea's Lienteries Tenesmus c. The Dose is four ounces SECT III. Of Extracts Bezoarticum Solare or the Solar Bezoar TAke Venice Treacle Mithridate of each eight ounces shavings of Guajacum and Sassafras of each six ounces Bay-berries roots of Elicampane Angelica of each four ounces Swallow-wort Zedoary Tormentile of each two ounces Dragon-wort Masterwort Valerian Scorzonera white Dictamnus Butter-bur of each an ounce elect Mastich red Myrrh wood of Aloes Calamus aromaticus Cardamoms the less white Ginger Cubebs Oriental Saffron Mace of each six drams These being pulverized and mixed draw the Tincture Spagyrically with the best Spirit of Wine and then separate the Spirit from the Essence by a gentle heat in Balneo until it remains at the bottom thick like Honey which being done add of Confectio Alkermes an ounce Iovial Bezoar Diaphoretick Mineral Oriental Bezoar of each half an ounce Elks hoofs and Harts-horn Hermetically calcined native Cinnabar prepared sealed Earth flowers of Nitre of each three drams the Mineral Solar and Animal Unicorn of each a dram and a half Salt of Oriental Pearls and of red Corals flowers of Benjamin milk of Sulphur of each a dram salt of Betony of Scabious of Scordium of each three scruples the five precious Stones prepared the bone of a Stags heart Vipers of each half a dram Ambergriese and Musk of each a scruple These being all diligently mixed and incorporated at last add by drops true Oyl of Roses of the Oyls of the seeds of Angelica of Oranges white Amber Cloves Nutmegs Cinamon Camphire Garden Rue Citrons rectified of each a dram Mix them all together and bring them into the due and just form of an Extract to which you may add for the greater force of the Medicine the Salt made of the calcined Feces and extracted according to art Virtue Use and Dose It is a great Secret nay it is the best Medicine in many and almost all Diseases against all metallick animal and vegetable Poisons as Mercury Arsenick Wolf-bane the brain of a Cat poisonous Medicines Love-potions the poison of Spiders Vipers Serpents Scorpions Toads c. which doth powerfully expel it from the Heart and the other principal Members by Sweat and penetrates and conserves the whole body It is also useful after due Purging in all putrefactions and superfluous humors of the body from whencesoever they arise in ill habits of Body Dropsie c. In Erysipelas's in which case open a Vein first in strong bodies in the English Sweat punctures of the Sides small Pox Asthma Melancholy Pox obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Leprosie Contractures all long and confirmed Diseases c. Also all Gouts in the Joynts Knee Foot Hip in all Feavers Terms retained Jaundice yea in the Colick and Iliack Passion c. It is a singular and incomparable remedy in the Plague the Hungarian disease and in all Epidemical diseases it is a great Secret and by the report of the Patient it works to a miracle and that I may speak all in a word it is an universal Evacuative of all Poisons in the body In Apostems Carbuncles the true Pleurisie first give one Dose and exactly five hours after give another let this be gentle that he may have a third and of the happy success let no man doubt But if the Patient should cast up the Medicine by Vomit repeat it again presently yea though he should retain it for it is not sufficient to give one Dose only but give it so that it may cast the pestilential Poison out of the body with power and safety repeat this Alexipharmack Sudorifick five or six times in two days Which seeing it is often neglected how many may be saved which dye and this noble Medicine is defamed When the Patient is in his Sweat let him refresh himself with Conserve of Roses vitriolated Conserve of Sorrel Rob of Goose-berries Juyce and Syrup of Citrons of Pomegranates with Cordial and simple Waters c. and let the Patient abstain from sleep till he hath sweat twice When his Sweat is over let his body be dryed with clean Linen moderately warm but take great care lest the expulsed Poison be driven in again by too cold Air let the Sheets and Blankets of the Bed be changed And if the sick were tyred with sweating let him use comforting and refreshing Meats as new-laid Eggs Broth Ptisans and such like which are pleasant and nourish much in a small quantity The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple But if he be seized with the Plague or his case be desperate let him take at first half a dram or two scruples in our water of Harts-horn Treacle or Carduus benedictus or let him take it in any other appropriate Vehicle and sweat for it doth most powerfully drive all Poison out of the body by its Diaphoretick force for you will see the whole body flow with sweat For which Divine blessing let the Name of the Lord be blessed Aurea Hadrianea or the Golden Hadrianean Take of the following Extracts made with distilled Vinegar Venice Treacle Mithridate Confectio Alkermes of each an ounce roots of Anthora Angelica Elicampane of each half an ounce Scordium Oriental Saffron Lupines of each three drams Harts-horn and Elks hoof Hermetically calcined Bole prepared with juyce of Citrons sealed Earth Bezoar Diaphoretick Mineral Iovial Bezoar of each two drams Hyacinth prepared Emerauld prepared salt of Pontick Wormwood Carduus the lesser Centaury of each a dram and a half Magistery of Pearls of red Corals and of Crabs eyes of each a dram bone of a Stags heart bones of Vipers Unicorns horn Extract of Lignum Aloes of each half a dram then add by drops Oyl of white Amber rectified of Camphire Zedoary Roses Cloves Cinamon Citrons rectified Angelica Rue of each half a scruple First mix the Extracts carefully that they may all well incorporate one with another which being well mixed add the other Oyls and Powders which by little and little sprinkle on the mass which being warm bring it into the form of an Extract Virtue Use and Dose This Antidote from its value and excellence
grateful Mix them and make a Draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum what quantity you please Syrup of the juyce of black Cherries water of Vervain Nutmegs of each two drams Confection of Hyacinth a scruple salt of red Corals three grains oyl of white Amber a drop Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiatum what quantity is convenient Magistery of Pearls Smaragd or Emerauld prepared of each three grains Mix them and with Oyl of Fenil make little Pills which gild for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a convenient quantity Magistery of red Corals Hyacinth prepared of each three grains Mix them and with Oyl of white Amber or Marjoram make little Pills which gild for one Dose A Bole or Bolus Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity conserve of Marjoram a dram confection of Smaragdus a scruple species of Diambrae half a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cinamom a sufficient quantity to make it into a Bole for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity conserve of Rosemary flowers a dram confect of Hyacinth a scruple species of Diamoscu dulce half a scruple oyl of Mace one drop Manus Christi Perlats a sufficient quantity to make it into a Bole for a Dose In Affects of the Heart A Draught Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Syrup of Lemmons two drams water of Borage Cinnamon Roses and Water-Lily of each a dram Confectio Alkermes Tincture of Corals of each half a scruple Salt of Oriental Pearls three grains Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Syrup of the juyce of Citrons and of Black-berries of each two drams water of Balm and Bugloss of each a dram and a half of our Confectio pretiosa a scruple Tincture of Coral half a scruple Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity our Magistery of Pearls and the bone of a Stags heart of each three grains Mix them and with Oyl of Mace make little Pills and gild them for one Dose Others Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity of the five precious Stones prepared Oriental Bezoar of each a grain With Oyl of Cinamon make Pills and gild them for one Dose A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity confection of Borage vitriolated a dram confection of Alkermes a scruple species of Diamargariton frigidum half a scruple of Manus Christi Perlat enough to make it into a Bole for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity conserve of Clovegilliflowers vitriolated one dram our confection of Citrons a scruple species Diarrhodon Abbatis half a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon enough to make it into a Bole for one Dose In the Epilepsie and Vertigo c. A Draught Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Syrup of Piony flowers waters of the Lily of the Valley of our Epileptick of each two drams of our Cephalick Confect a scruple oyls of Cubebs and Elks hoofs of each a drop Spirit of Vitriol a sufficient quantity to make it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Syrup of Betony water of Lavender and Teil-tree of each two drams confection of Smaragdus a scruple essence of Camphire three grains oyl of white Amber and Harts-horn of each a drop of our Elixir of Piony so much as will make it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity of the Animal Unicorn Magistery of Corals of each three grains With Oyl of Mans Scull make Pills and gild them for one Dose Others Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Magistery of mans Scull Sulphur of the Moon of each three grains With Oyl of Elks hoofs make Pills which gild for one Dose A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity confection of Piony flowers vitriolated a dram confection of Smaragdus a scruple of our species Dialunae half a scruple oyl of Rosemary a drop Mix them and with Troches of Diambra q. s. make a Bole for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity conserve of Rosemary flowers a dram of our Cephalick confect a scruple of our species Diacranei half a scruple oyl of Lavender a drop Mix them and with Troches of Diamoscu dulce make a Bole for one Dose In Vomiting Hiccup and a weak Stomach c. Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity syrup of Mint our Stomach-water of each three drams Extract of Calamus Aromaticus our Sal stomachicum of each four grains oyl of Nutmegs and Mace of each a drop our Elixir of Vitriol q. s. to maâ—e it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate a sufficient quantity syrup of Quinces water of Calamus aromaticus of each three drams Extract of Galangal the less Nitre vitriolated of each four grains oyl of Cloves of Water-mints of each a drop of our Elixir of Sulphur q. s. to make it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate a sufficient quantity Diagalangal ten grains With Oyl of Sage make small Pills for one Dose which gild Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. species of Aromaticus Caryophyllat ten grains With Oyl of Wormwood make Pills for one Dose which gild A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. preserved Ginger a dram preserved Acoras half a dram oyl of Mastich and Zedoary of each a drop Mix them and with Troches of Diagalangal make a Bole for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. conserve of Water-mint a dram Diacydon aromat half a dram oyl of Cinamon and Calamus aromaticus of each a drop Mix them and with Troches of Aromaticus Caryophyllatus make a Bole for one Dose In Melancholy Madness and Phrensie c. A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Basilicon Iulip Bugloss water of each three drams spirit of sealed Earth essence of St. Iohns-wort of each a scruple Elixir Proprietatis q. s. to render it grateful Of these make a draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Balm water half an ounce syrup of Bugloss two drams our confection of Citrons half a dram essence of Saffron tincture of Smaragdus ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Sulphur of the Moon Magistery of Oriental Pearls of each three grains With Oyl of Cinamon make Pills for one Dose which gild Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. powder of burnt Crab-fish magistery of red Coral of each three grains With distilled Oyl of Roses make little Pills for one Dose and gild them A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Confection of Hyacinth a dram Essence of St. Iohns-wort a scruple species of Diamargariton frigidum Elaeosaccharum of Citrons of each half a scruple Mix them and with Manus Christi Perlat q. s. make a Bole for one dose
keep it for use To the candid Reader THou hast here courteous Reader these Arcana's being Chymical and other Preparations partly private elaborated with my own care and Experience and partly from others yet by a due method produced in this place which for the dispensing our following Compositions are wholly necessary for thee with which few in this place I do satisfie my self I do neither hope for nor expect any other thing than thanks for things found and pardon for those omitted therefore do thou accept of these things such as they are as well with a benevolent as a ready hand and give when need requires thy assistance to those that want it improve all prudently and by these things preserve thy Neighbours health SECT V. Of Species and Powders Species Diasolis or the Compound Species of the Sun TAke Harts-horn and Elks hoof Spagyrically calcined sealed Earth of each a dram and an half Oriental Bezoar a dram Diaphoretick Mineral Iovial Bezoar of each two scruples Magistery of Pearls and-red Corals white Amber prepared of each half a dram the Solar and Animal Unicorn bone of a Stags heart of each a scruple true Gallia moschata eleven grains Oyls of Cinamon and Citrons of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is an Arcanum in all Epidemical and Pestilential diseases Erysipelas's poysonous draughts and in the Asthma or most dangerous straitness of the Breast for it defends the Heart from danger of poyson and expels by Sweat all noxious humors from it and doth wonderfully relieve it in all its distempers The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple in Carduus water Elder flowers or Treacle or any other appropriate Vehicle Pulvis Bezoarticus Imperialis or the Imperial Bezoartick Powder Take of Elks hoofs and Harts horn Spagyrically calcined of each three drams the red Oriental Bole prepared Iovial Bezoar of each two drams Oriental Bezoar stone sealed Earth of each a dram and a half flower of Sulphur compound the Animal Unicorn Magistery of Oriental Pearls red Coral of each half a dram native Cinnabar prepared bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Diaphoretick in all peracute diseases in burning malignant and Epidemical Feavers for it wonderfully drives out by Sweat all poisonous and vitious humors from the Heart and other principal Members The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple in appropriate sudorifick Waters or in Water or Decoction of the shaving of Hartshorn Species Dialunae or compound Species of the Moon Take roots and seeds of Peony gathered in a due time Elks hoofs Spagyrically calcined Magistery of Mans Skull of each half an ounce of the true Soul of the Moon in powder Lunar Bezoar of each four drams native Cinnabar prepared Misleto of the Oak Squills prepared of each two drams the Secundine of a Woman dryed but it must be of her first child and that a son also Peacocks dung prepared of each a dram and a half Salt of Oriental Pearls and red Corals of each a dram true Castor long Pepper Cubebs of each a scruple the best Musk and Ambergriese of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder to which add Oyl of Hartshorn rectified Oyl of white Amber Nutmegs and Rue of each half a scruple Mix them again and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It doth wonders in Lunatisms Epilepsies or Comitials Vertigo's Lethargies Subeth and in all cold congealed evils of the Brain it doth also relieve those who are troubled with frightful dreams and uncertain fears The Dose in curing is from a scruple to half a dram given in the Fit in our Epileptick or Apoplectick or any other convenient water But in preservation it is given in all Quarters of the Moon and in all moist and unconstant seasons of Air from half a scruple to a scruple in the fore-mentioned Waters Pulvis Epilepticus mirabilis or the wonderful Epileptick Powder Take of the Skull of a man strangled and calcined without fire an ounce Misleto of the Oak counterfeit Cinnabar Elks boofs of each half an ounce Mix them and make a Powder of which give a scruple to Children immediately after the Fit but to full grown persons a scruple let this be repeated and it cures them Pulvis Ophthalmicus or a Powder for the Eyes Take of white Sugar Candy and Tuty prepared of each two drams Pearls prepared and Sarcocol of each half a dram Beans prepared a seruple Mix them and make a most fine Powder for the Eyes Virtue Use and Dose This Powder is a great Secret to me in many affects of the Eyes and first it heals dulness and spots in the Eyes it wipes away the little clouds and specks therein and is a present remedy for watry Eyes It sharpens the Sight and makes it clear and then conserves the Eyes sound and well It being used in time a small part of this Powder is sprinkled into the Eyes morning and evening or it may also be mixed with other Eye-medicines Species Diamartis or the Compound Species of Mars Take Tormentil Nutmegs Galls of each half an ounce Crocus Haematitis Crocus Martis made by calcination of each three drams Zedoary Calamus aromaticus white Amber prepared roots of Cinquefoil and Cloves of each two drams ashes of Spunge Oriental red Bole prepared sealed Earth Acacia of each a dram and a half seeds of Plantane those things corruptly called Rose seeds of each four scruples Harts horn and Mans bones Hermetically calcined of each a dram burnt Alum Soul of Vitriol of each half a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It helps the tenderness of the Stomach also Dysenteries pains in the Guts and spitting of blood and matter the Gonorrhoea Haemorrhoids It helps those that cannot hold their water or have a bloody Urine it stops Womens menstrual Purgations And lastly it stops all Haemorragies of blood from what part soever it proceeds The Dose from a scruple and half a dram to one dram in some convenient Liquor Species Diamercurii or the Compound Powder of Mercury Take seeds of Cina thirteen drams Mercurius dulcis five drams the best Rhubarb Gummi Turbith Corallina of each two drams shavings of Harts horn red Myrrh of each a dram tops of the lesser Centaury Tansie Camphire of each a scruple Oyl of Hazel-wood distilled per descensum Spirit of Vitriol of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is given for the Worms the Moon decreasing from a scruple to a dram according to the age and strength of the Patient it is given in Milk and is an excellent Medicine against all kind of Worms for having killed them it brings them away by stool It is given also in water of Wormwood
made a Tragea Note That this and all other Compositions which have a great quantity of Musk may be also prepared without it Species Diacinnabaris or a Compound Powder of Cinnabar Take native Cinnabar prepared half an ounce Lapis stellaris prepared Elks hoofs Spagyrically calcined of each three drams the raspings of the fore-part of a Mans skull Misleto of the Oak of each two drams roots and seeds of Peony of each a dram and a half species Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Magistery of Pearl and red Coral of each half a dram Oriental Saffron Oyl of white Amber of each a scruple Leaves of Gold thirteen Make all into a fine Powder and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It hath a wonderful force and power in the Epilepsie and in all other kinds of dangerous diseases belonging to the Head and is both a sure and certain Experiment by which God assisting we have perfectly restored to health an incredible number who were incurable by other means and some of them labouring under that sorrowful disease nine ten twelve and some eighteen years and more and yet have been happily restored by this Medicine The dose is from a scruple to two according to the age and strength of the Patient in appropriate and specifick Vehicles to be repeated every morning till the Patient enjoys perfect health Species Dianitri or a Compound Powder of Nitre Take Crystals of Nitre prepared with spirit of Wine and Vitriol an ounce salts of Pearch stones Crabs eyes white Amber of each two drams roots of Dropwort and Liquorish of each a dram and a half seeds of the lesser Nettle Burdock Saxifrage Gromel Broom of each a dram berries of Bays huskt Iuniper of each four scruples Cinamon white Ginger Saffron long Pepper and Mace of each two scruples a burnt Hare Goats blood prepared powder of Ceterach red Sanders of each half a dram Millepedes prepared a scruple white Sugar four ounces Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent powerful Medicine in breaking and expelling the Stone in the Reins and Bladder The dose is from a scruple to half a dram early in the morning in a specifick Vehicle Species Diatartari or a Powder compounded with Tartar Take Tartar vitriolated Magistery of Scammony of each two ounces white and gummy Turbith Hermodactyls of each half an ounce Oyl of Cloves and Cinamon of each ten grains Mix them and make a Powder which reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It gently resolves Tartar coagulated in any part of the body and being resolved it safely and easily brings it away by stool with all other Podagrical defluxions It purges yellow Choler plentifully and watry humors lying between the Skin It also cleanseth the Skin of foulness Scabs Leprosie and such kind of filth Moreover it cures the Scurvy and mitigates the pains in the Joynts The dose from half a dram to a dram especially in strong bodies Species Diacrystalli or a Powder compounded with Crystals Take the flesh of a young red Cows udder boiled in Wine and dryed in a Furnace an ounce long Pepper five drams Crystals prepared half an ounce Pearls prepared â—wo drams seeds of Borage Fenil Lettice and Nigella of each a dram roots of Goats-beard Cardnus and wild Rape of each half a dram white Sugar three ounces Mix them and make all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is a specifick Medicine for Mothers and Nurses that give suck for it doth so increase milk in them that it doth turn almost all their food they take into milk And it hath also a secret quality to increase milk of it self The dose is from half a dram to a dram morning noon and night in Broth Carduus-water or any other convenient Vehicle Species Diasuccini or a Powder compounded with Amber Take white Amber prepared half an ounce Magistery of red Coral rosated Nutmegs torrified red Orientaâ— Bole Smaragdus prepared of each two drams Crocus Martis made by reverberation Dragons blood of each a dram and a half Styrax Calamitis burnt Harts-horn prepared Laudanum Opiate of each a dram Rose seeds seeds of Plantane flowers of wild Poppy of each half a dram Cloves Saffron Cinamon and Mace of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose This Powder restrains and obtunds the viscous and tartarous Salts which erode the Bowels and doth disquiet the ordure of the Guts Hence it is the only healing Medicine in alâ— Dysenteries and Fluxes of blood by stool The dose is from a scruple to a dram in appropriate Vehicles Species Diacretae or a compound Powder of Chalk Take Chalk prepared with Rose-water three drams Nutmegs a dram and a half roots of Liquorish and seâ—â— of Quinces of each a dram Oriental Bole prepares red Coral prepared of each half a dram the Carp fâ—â—â—â— prepared with Plantane water Mace a little torrifies best Mastich Oriental Saffron of each a scruple wâ—â—â— Sugar three ounces Mix them and make a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose This is a Catholick Medicine in the Orexis or burning of the Stomach for these Species have such a power that they hinder the ebullition and tartarous sublimation of yellow Choler into the Orifice of the Stomach and do powerfully resolve and precipitate it The dose is from half a dram to a dram in the Fit For Medicines in this case are to be given whensoever the stomach is distempered and to continue taking till it is restored to health again Species Diaboracis or a compound Powder of Borax Take Venetian Borax half an ounce Cassia lignea Oriental Saffron of each a dram shavings of the Savin-tree white Amber prepared of each half a dram bone of a Stags heart Misleto of the Oak flowers of white Violets of each a scruple Mix them and make them into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is successfully given to Women who are inclined to be barren and to those who bear them with difficulty It is most excellent to facilitate the Birth to cast out the dead Child or After-birth retained The dose is from a scruple to a dram in water of Cinamon white Violets Mugwort or in good white Wine Species Diaterebinthinae or a Powder compounded with Turpentine Take Turpentine twice washed in Citron water two ounces Magistery of Scammony an ounce white and gummy Turbith six drams Tartar vitriolated white Hermodactyls of each three drams species of Lithortrib two drams Saffron and Mace of each a scruple Sugar of Violets four ounces Mix them and make of all a Powder to which add Oyls of Aniseeds Oranges Cloves Cinamon and Fenil of each ten grains Mix them well and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Cathartick and wonderfully experimented in the Gout Colick Gonorrhoea Dysury Strangury Stone in the Reins and Bladder and in other distempers of the Urinal passages The dose is from half a dram to
Epileptick and Apoplectick Water sixteen ounces Mix them and make of all little Rowls or Cakes Virtue and Use. They wonderfully preserve from the Apoplexy Epilepsie Palsie c. They correct the Vertigo and take away the debility of the Brain sharpen the Memory and Sense comfort the Head refresh the Spirits support and relieve the Faculties of the Mind debilitated by study and continual cares which are dangerous to the Animal Faculties Rotulae Hyacinthinae or Rowls of Hyacinth Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton frigidum of each half an ounce Hyacinth prepared two drams flowers of Nitre a dram Magistery of red Coral a scruple distilled Oyl of Roses ten grains white Sugar dissolved in Water-lily-flower water sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It gives relief to the heat and inflammation of the whole body and repairs the imbecillity of the virile force They help the Syncope and wonderfully refresh refrigerate and strengthen those who have long been dejected and afflicted with a long tedious disease They do wonders in Asthma's Heart-passions Epatick diseases Jaundice Consumptions Coughs and malignant Feavers The dose is two three four or five often in the day Rotulae Cordiales or Cordial Rowls Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral of each a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Mace of each four drops white Sugar dissolved in Cinamon water eight ounces Mix them and make a Confection in little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They are great Fortifiers of the Heart and preserve it safe from all corruption and putrefaction that it cannot be vitiated by the malignant Air. The dose is two three or four for one time Rotulae Pectorales albae or white Pectoral Rowls Take species Diatragacanth frigidum and Diaireos simple of each half an ounce Lac Sulphuris two drams powder of Benjamin a dram Oyl of Fenil a scruple the whitest Sugar dissolved in milk of the seeds of white Poppy and Violet water sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are good for the asperity of the Tongue and Jaws and alleviate the hardness and compression of the Breast and Thorax They give ease to those troubled with the Cough Phthisick Consumption and wasting and to those who are obnoxious to defluxions and destillations from the Head The dose every hour one two or three at a time Rotulae Pectorales Citrinae or yellow Pectoral Rowls Take Lohoch sanum expertum species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each half an ounce juyce of Liquorish extracted flowers of Sulphur of each a dram powder of Benjamin roots of Flower-de-luce of each two scruples Extract of Oriental Saffron Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Fenil water sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose They purge the Lungs lenifie the Breast facilitate the Spittle and therefore give ease in a wonderful manner to those troubled with the Cough Pleurisie difficulty of breathing c. The dose often in the day from one or two to three or four at a time Rotulae Pectorales rubrae or red Pectoral Rowls Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce Lohoch sanum expertum half an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams juyce of Liquorish extracted flowers of Sulphur of each a dram powder of Benjamin roots of Flower-de-luce of each half a dram Oyl of Anisceds a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Hyssop water first tinctured with red Sanders sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They purge the Thorax and Lungs and strengthen them to expectorate the thick and gross matter there lodged Hence they give ease in tedious Coughs Asthma's and Pleurisies The dose is one two three or four at a time Rotulae Lac provocantes or Rowls provoking Milk Take Crystals prepared half an ounce red Corals prepared a dram Pearls prepared long Pepper of each half a dram Oyl of Fenil seeds a scruple white Sugar dissolved in water of Nutmegs three ounces Mix them and make Confectionary Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose It is a great Secret in provoking Milk and is therefore given to Nurses every day morning noon and night The dose is four or five at a time Rotulae refectivae Take Troches of Pearls a dram Magistery of red Coral Ambergriese of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved and extracted in milk of sweet Almonds with Rose-water four ounces Mix them and make little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They nourish and give strength in Chronical diseases they restore health and strength to those who despair of Cure they conserve Nature by roboration and help to recover pristine strength The dose is as necessity requires two or three being taken and by degrees rubbed upon the tongue and afterward swallowed Rotulae stimulantes Take Venetian Borax two drams seeds of Ashen-keys a dram Boletus Cervinus flesh of Skinks of each half a dram long Pepper a scruple the bodies of Cantharides Oyl of Cinamon of each half a scruple white Sugar dissolved in water of Satyrion and Rosemary flowers six ounces Mix them and make Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose They wonderfully irritate and excite Venery and are very effectual to repair that kind of impotence and lost virility The dose is at going to bed from three four or five to six more or less according as the Patient requires They may also be taken after the first digestion that is after midnight Rotulae Aromaticae Take Galangal the less a dram and a half Calamus aromaticus grains of Paradise white Ginger of each a dram Cloves Cassia lignea Zedoary Burnet long Pepper Caraway seeds of each half a dram Cubebs Nutmegs Oriental Saffron Mace of each a scruple Oyls of Cinamon Mint Oranges and Rosemary of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Stomach-water sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make a Confection in Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They calefie corroborate and preserve from pain all the principal members the Head Brain Stomach Heart Liver Spleen Guts c. They prevent the Colick stay Vomiting coming of a phlegmatick cause excite Appetite discuss the Flatulencies that distend the Ventricle and cure all that hurts the body coming of a cold cause The dose is two three four or five at a time Rotulae refrigerantes or cooling Rowls Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Citrons flowers of Nitre of each two drams Crystals prepared a dram Tinctures of red Coral and grains of Kermes Sanders of each half a dram Magistery of Saturn a scruple distilled Oyl of Roses four grains white Sugar dissolved in juyce of Barberries and Goosberries equal in quantity sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose They are very cooling and of excellent use to allay thirst in acute Diseases and burning Feavers They comfort the Stomach and its natural heat and relieve the Heart
ounces Cinamon water buglossated in which species Diarrhodon Abbatis hath been infused two ounces Nitre prepared a dram and a half Mix them and boil all into the consistence of a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It potently refrigerates penetrates drys and defends the parts from Putrefaction It is of excellent use in malignant cholerick Feavers and other contagious Diseases It powerfully resists Sur feits by drinking Poysons and Pestilence It extinguisheth Thirst and all intemperate heat of the Head Heart Stomach Liver Spleen Reins and Bowels It provokes Sweat and Urine represseth cholerick Vomitings and cures the Cholera It helps the passions of the Heart Dysenteries and griping of the Guts the body being first purged The dose is from half an ounce to two either by it self or in any other Vehicle respecting the Disease Syrupus Antiscorbuticus or a Syrup against the Scurvy Take of the juyce of Norway black Berries three pound juyce of Watercresses Brooklime Sorrel and Scurvygrass of each half a pound These being mixed add of white Sugar a pound and a half and so make a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most noble and approved Remedy against the Scurvy The dose is from an ounce to two or three by it self or with our Antiscorbutick Water Syrupus de Pyrethro or a Syrup of Pellitory Take of the best Agarick an ounce and a half roots of Pellitory an ounce roots of Acorus Burnet and male Peony of each half an ounce seeds of Peony and Fenil Iuniper-berries of each three drams Motherwort Agrimony Hyssop Primrose wild Mints Nep of each two drams flowers of Lily of the valley Mullein Bugloss and Rosemary of each a dram and a half Cinamon Nutmegs and Cubebs of each a dram All being cut and bruised let them be infused in water of Sage and Rosemary of each three pound Let them stand and infuse a whole night and then boil them to the consumption of the third part Take of this Liquor strained and clear four pound white Sugar two pound Mix them and boil them to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It is very useful in all passions of the Nerves as the Palsie Convulsions Epilepsie Hip-gout c. For it potently dissolves the peccant matter and mitigates pain The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or in any other convenient Vehicle Syrupus Nephriticus or a Syrup against the Stone in the Reins Take of our Aqua Antinephritica and Lithontriptica of each ten ounces Salt of the Pearch stone and Crabs eyes of each half an ounce Being mixed and dissolved add flowers of Marsh-mallows new dryed as many as sufficeth Let them stand in digestion a few days until the Liquor be perfectly tinctured afterward with two pound of white Sugar boil it to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It is given to those troubled with the Stone and Gravel from an ounce to an ounce and a half by it self or with some other agreeable Vehicle for it breaks and expels the Stone though great as you may see by daily Experience how sand and fragments of Stones lye at the bottom of the Urine Syrupus Stipticus or a Stiptick Syrup Take Sloes ripe and dryed a pound roots of water-Acorus Snakeweed Tormentil and Zedoary of each an ounce rinds of Pomegranates dryed Quinces of each half an ounce Turkish Galls red Roses Balaustines of each two drams seeds of Sorrel Bloodworth and Plantane of each a dram and a half Boil all according to Art in a sufficient quantity of white Wine till it be perfectly tinctured Take of this clear strained Liquor four pound white Sugar two pound Boil it again till it comes to the thickness of a Syrup and let it be aromatized with Cinamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Oriental Saffron white Ginger the lesser Galangal of each a dram wild Poppyflowers and Clovegilly-flowers of each half a dram Let these be all tyed up in a thin Cloth and boiled in the Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It helps Hepatick Dysenteries that arise from the sharpness of the Humors It moves Appetite to meat helps those that cannot hold their water But it is chiefly agreeable to those who are afflicted with long protracted Fluxes of the Belly caused of a watry humor as well cold as hot It stops Vomiting the flux of the Haemorrhoids overflowing of the Terms c. The dose is from an ounce to two universal Medicines being premised Syrupus Dysentericus laxativus or a purging Syrup for a bloody Flux Take roots of Polypody of the Oak two ounces Liquorish Burnet of each an ounce roots of Tormentil and Succory of each six drams leaves of Harts-tongue Agrimony Fluellin Knotgrass of each half an ounce Make a Decoction in water of Comfry-roots Plantane and Oak-leaves of each a like quantity boil it to the consumption of the third part and strain it Take of this strained Liquor three pound the best Rhubarb an ounce and a half Mechoacan yellow Myrobalans leaves of Sena of each an ounce Troches of Agarick half an ounce flowers of red Roses white Lilies Elder Chamomil and Mullein of each two drams seeds of Anise Quinces and Dill of each a dram and a half Cassia lignea Cloves and Nutmegs of each a dram Let them infuse in a warm place all night and in the morning let them be gently boiled and strained and prest and to the strained Liquor add of white Sugar two pound and make it into a just consistence of a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It gently moves the Belly downwards without trouble and purgeth all sharp and cholerick Humors from whence proceed the Ulcerations of the Bowels Moreover it mitigates the pain and its purging operation being over it stays the Flux The dose in young people is from an ounce to an ounce and a half But in those full-grown from two ounces to three Syrupus Pantagogus Take roots of Polypody of the Oak white Hermodactyls of each four ounces white and gummy Turbith Mechoacan of each two ounces the best Rhubarb an ounce and a half black Hellebore prepared the best Ialap of each an ounce Troches of Agarick of all the Myrobalans of each half an ounce Let them be cut and bruised and put into a sufficient quantity of white Wine in which let them infuse for certain days afterward boil them according to Art and in four pound of the strained Liquor again infuse the following Ingredients Sena three ounces small Raisons three ounces Cream of Tartar an ounce Maiden-hair Fluellin and Fumitory of each half an ounce Anise and Fenil seeds of each two drams flowers of Peaches Violets and Roses of Acacia and Epithymum of each a dram Let them stand in Infusion all night in the morning let them be boiled strained and pressed and then with two pound of white Sugar boil them to the consistence of a Syrup adding these things following Cardamoms the less Cloves Galangal
Wine and in the morning distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and preserves it from trembling and other dangerous accidents sometimes also it cures the loss of Reason and the defect of the Mind For by its nourishing and increasing quality it raiseth both the vital and natural Spirits and relieves the Heart as speedily as any thing The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua Cordialis frigida or a cooling Cordial Water Take Conserve of red Roses a pound and a half Rasberries a pound species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton frigid of each an ounce and a half seeds of Docks an ounce Sanders red white and yellow of each half an ounce the Cordial Flowers of each two drams Mix them and infuse them in these Waters following water of Sorrel water-Lily Strawberries Violets Borage and Bugloss of each a pound Mix them and digest them for some days and then again add Cinamon water buglossated a pound and a half juyce of Quinces depurated juyce of Lemmons and Citrons of each half a pound Again mix them and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It doth sweetly and effectually refresh and strengthen the Heart in all burning Feavers and all other hot and corrosive Diseases by which means it removes imbecillity and fortifies strength through the whole body It also helps those who are disturbed in Mind whether it takes its Original from the Heart or Stomach it discusseth and throws off all Poyson and poysonous qualities that offend the Vitals and it restores the Spirits that languish with weakness from an excessive heat to their pristine state and strength The dose is from one ounce to two Aqua Cordialis calida or a hot Cordial Water Take Cinamon four ounces roots of Avens three ounces Cloves sealed Earth of each an ounce both sorts of Cardamoms Galangal the less Mace Zedoary the peels of yellow Oranges Citron peels seeds of Basil of each half an ounce odoriferous wood of Aloes Oriental Saffron Spicknard Pennyroyal dryed of each three drams flowers of Borage and Bugloss of each a dram and a half All being pulverized and mixed let them infuse eight days in four pound of Spanish Wine then add Cinamon water distilled with Wine Clove gillyflowers of each a pound and a half flowers of Rosemary Lavender Balm and Sage of each a pound Mix them and in an Alembick in Balneo let it be distilled Virtue Use and Dose It doth help wonderfully in all cold affects of the Heart and is a good Remedy for its palpitation and the defect of the Mind It cureth the Syncope and Swooning refresheth the vital Spirits it takes away a sorrowful heaviness and the cause thereof and exhilarates the Heart It also restores those to health who are weak by the continuance of a lingering Disease and is an excellent Roborative It renders the whole body lively retards Baldness For whosoever is old and useth this Medicine will need no other Conservation for his Health The dose is from one spoonful to two or three at a time Aqua acetosa Stomachalis or a tart Stomach-water Take white Sugar a pound Conserve of Roses and Rose-water of each four ounces Spirit of Vitriol rectified half an ounce Make a Mixture and when it is strained keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This tart Stomach-water is good in any intemperance as well cold as hot and is very effectual in the loss of Appetite or Loathing which is caused by the vitriolated Juyce that is vitiated in the bottom of the Stomach and for this property it cannot be sufficiently praised For it doth most excellently restore Concoction whether it be lost impaired or vitiated and fortifies the Stomach It is to be given in some proper Vehicle two hours before meat without exercise or an hour before meat with exercise after it respecting the disease for in a hot distemper it may be given in Pomegranate-wine or Syrup of Lemmons or of the Juyce of Citrons or Tincture of Roses c. but in a cold defect with our hot Cordial or Stomach-water Wormwood-wine Malmsy or other generous Wine c. The dose of it is so much as will make the Liquor it is taken in tart and sharp Aqua Stomachica calida or a hot Stomach-water Take lesser Galangal an ounce and a half Cloves Nutmegs Cinamon white Ginger Mastich roots of Burnet Elicampane water-Acorus of each an ounce water-Mints six drams Rosemary Sage and Wormwood of each half an ounce both sorts of Cardamoms sweet Reed Mace long Pepper Cummin seeds of each three drams Squinanth Spicknard wood of Aloes of each two drams Bruise and mix them and macerate them in eight pound of Malmsy Wine and of Balm and Pennyroyal water of each a pound let them digest eight days and then distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It warms the Ventricle and rectifies the coldness thereof It allays the Gripes pains and punctures of it It also digests and concocts Flegm and crude Humors collected there It stays Vomiting and Loathing and is a present Remedy for sour Belching It is a Divine help in Leanness and the disposition of Old age and to excite appetite and heat in old people to expel thick ventose humors to open obstructions and to resolve moist humors and corrupt superfluities The dose is from one spoonful to two or three or from half an ounce to one or two Aqua Epatica frigida or a cold Epatick Water Take ripe Strawberries a pound species Diarrhodon Abbatis four ounces roots of Succory Agrimony Scorzonera and Eryngo of each an ounce flowers of the lesser Centaury Liverwort Borage and red Roses of each half an ounce Rhubarb three drams Sanders three sorts of each two drams the four greater and lesser cold Seeds Dock seeds of each a dram and a half Let them be cut and bruised and infused in four pound of red Wine Let them infuse eight days and then add water of the flowers of Liverwort Purslain Sorrel Endive Melons Succory Rasberries and Dodder of each a pound Mix them and distil by an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose The use of this Water is most safe and happy in its success in all Feavers as burning Tertians Quotidians Quartans and other noxious distempers rising from the heat of body in which the Liver suffers Moreover it corrects and amends the intolerable and corrosive heat of the Stomach Lungs and Spleen The dose is every other hour from one ounce to two or three by it self or with some specifick Syrup Aqua Epatica calida or a hot Epatick Water Take species Diacubeba three ounces roots of bitter Costus roots of Smallage Turmerick and Fenil Iuniper-berries seeds of Anise Cummin and Carrots of each an ounce sweet Reed Rhubarb Cassia lignea of each six drams Spicknard Oriental Saffron and Squinanth of each three drams Southernwood Wormwood Agrimony Mother of Thyme and water-Germander of each half an ounce flowers
is also a good Remedy in drying Erysipelas's and healing Fistula's But in applying it take heed lest you touch the Eyes or Teeth therewith Liquor Cerussae or a Liquor of white Lead Take the best white Lead an ounce of Pompholix half an ounce of Lapis Calaminaris and Litharge of each two drams Tutty prepared and Spodium of each a dram Let all be finely pulverized and mixed and then pour upon them water of Housleek Plantane and red Roses of each three ounces Again mix them and keep them for use Virtue and Use. It is used externally and cools and drys any part infested with a Tumor Redness or Inflammation It allays pain cures blood-shot Eyes It takes away the yellow spots of the Face and Body and renders a mans Countenance clear and vivid The use of it consists in often using divers day together Liquor Tutiae or a Liquor of Tutty Take Tutty prepared Litharge and Ceruss of each half an ounce Camphire a dram crude Alum half a dram Let all be diligently mixed and then add water of Plantane and Roses of each four ounces Again mix them and keep it for use Virtue and Use. It cools and drys the external parts of the Body infested with Tumors and Inflammations Liquor Mercurii Saccharatus or a Liquor of Mercury with Sugar Take water of Plantane and Roses of each four ounces Ceruss an ounce sublimate Mercury white Sugar Candy and the best Spirit of Wine of each half an ounce Mix them and then add to it a scruple of Aqua fortis Virtue and Use. It cures all contumacious Ring-worms Tetters and such like disease of the Skin But before it is used let it be shaken and the part effected touched with a Feather or such like thing Liquor Mercurii Acetosus or a sour Liquor of Mercury Take white Vitriol and Camphire of each half an ounce sublimate Mercury Ceruss white Tartar and burnt Alum of each two drams white Pompholix half a dram Mix all and make a Powder Take of this powder half an ounce the best Wine Vinegar four ounces Mix these and keep it for use Virtue and Use. We use it in the same manner as before to cleanse the Skin It perfectly cures all Ring-worms Tetters and such like SECT XXI Of Emulsions Emulsio Rosata or an Emulsion with Roses TAke sweet Almonds an ounce seeds of white Poppy two drams of the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Rose-water eight ounces water of Strawberries and Vervain of each four ounces Of these make an Emulsion and edulcorate it with Julep of Roses Virtue Use and Dose I happily use it in all hot affects of the Head burning of the Stomach Thorax Breast Heart and all the lower Belly Emulsio Violata or an Emulsion with Violets Take sweet Almonds an ounce seeds of Violets twâ— drams seeds of white Poppy a dram water of Violetâ— eight ounces water of Lettice and water-Lily of eacâ— four ounces Of these make an Emulsion which eduâ— corate with Julep of Violets to make it grateful Virtue Use and Dose It is good in a hot intempeâ— rature of the whole Body for it cools and moistenâ— allays Thirst induceth Sleep relieveth the Breasâ— and resists the Acrimony of Choler The dose is a moderate draught Emulsio Somnifera or a sleeping Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two drams white Poppy seeds a dram Melon seeds half a dram Lettice seeds half a scruple water of Violets and water-Lilies of each an ounce and a half of our Hypnotick water a dram Make an Emulsion and edulcorate it with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy and add Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each three grains Mix all for one dose and drink it in the evening at going to bed and it gives rest Emulsio Pleuritica or an Emulsion for the Pleurisie Take seeds of Carduus Mariae an ounce seeds of Carduus benedictus half an ounce seeds of white Poppy two drams water of Carduus Mariae six ounces water of Carduus benedictus water of wild Poppy flowers Chamomil flowers and Scabious flowers of each four ounces Make an Emulsion according to Art and edulcorate it with Sugar Candy concrete in Syrup of Violets Virtue Use and Dose It cures the Pleurisie and suddenly it allays all the pains of the Sides to the amazement of the Beholders but it is convenient that the sick should be daily purged or at least the Belly kept open by continual Clysters The dose is from two ounces to three or four Emulsio Laxativa or a Laxative Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two ounces of the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram water of Succory and Peach flowers Acacia and Violets of each four ounces Make an Emulsion according to Art in which dissolve Manna two ounces Let it be then strained and then add Cinamon water buglossated half an ounce Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is experienced in Children who are subject to be bound in their bodies Also in acute and burning Feavers in continual Tertians Hecticks Marasmus Synochus c. The dose is a moderate draught Emulsio Stiptica or a Stiptick Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two ounces white Poppy seeds half an ounce the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Lettice seeds half a dram water distilled from the juyce of Quinces and Millefoil of each four ounces water of Plantane Tormentil and wild Poppy of each three ounces water of Oaken leaves and Cinamon buglossated of each an ounce and a half Of these make an Emulsion according to Art to which add Iulep of Roses four ounces Magistery of red Coral a dram Mix them Virtue Use and Dose It cools and binds it cures the loosness of the Belly and Dysentery coming of a hot cholerick Cause It also helps cholerick Coughs and brings sleep The dose is a good draught at a time Emulsio Cannabina or an Emulsion of Hemp seed Take Hemp seed an ounce and a half the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram With water of Water-Lily flowers and Roses of each a like quantity to make an Emulsion Take of this Emulsion fourteen ounces Syrup of the juyce of Violets two ounces Cinamon water buglossated an ounce Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is profitably given to stop the Gonorrhoea or Flux of Seed Pollutions and other vices of those parts It is also good in burning Feavers and other distempers of Choler and Blood The dose is from two ounces to three SECT XXII Of Clarets and medicated Wines Claretum Antepilepticum Laxativum or a Laxative Antepileptick Claret TAke leaves of Sena two ounces the best Turbith and Mechoacan of each half an ounce filings of Elks hoof and mans Skull Nutmegs of each two drams roots and seeds of Peony duly gathered Misleto of the Oak of each a dram and a half the lesser Cardamoms Cassia lignea Cloves of each a dram flowers of male Peony Lily of the valley Lavender Teil-tree of each half a dram Let them be macerated in twenty
St. Iohns-wort strained and depurated two pound of Pimpernel with purple flowers strained and depurated one pound blood of an Ass taken from the veins behind his ears half a pound flowers of Bugloss red Roses and Rosemary of each six drams Confectio Alkermes and Cassia lignea of each half an ounce of Saffron one dram Let them infuse all night and then distil them in B. M. cohobate the Liquor and repeat the work the second time Take of this water two pound Essence of the flowers of St. Iohns-wort made with Spirit of Wine half an ounce Let them stand all night in a warm place in the morning filter it so often till you have a most red Tincture which edulcorate with white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Water is a great Secret in Melancholy Madness Witchcraft Inchantments yea in the Imagination impaired or abolished and as much as lyeth in art it amendeth the weakness dulness and stupidity of the Mind and the slowness of the Understanding it happily takes away all the affects of the Imagination It also provokes Urine and the Terms it helps Tertians and Quartans and is useful for all diseases of the Reins and Bladder The Dose is from three spoonfuls to four twice in the day in the morning before Sun-rising and at night going to bed Tinctura Vitae Take simple Spirit of Wine six pound of the best Rose-water four pound Orange peels Citron peels red Roses dryed water-Mints Balm white Sanders Cinamon of each eight ounces wood of Aloes Mace of each two drams seeds of Angelica Coriander Anise and Fenil of each a dram and a half Spicknard Galangal the less Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Cloves of each half a dram Ambergriese and Alexandrian Musk of each half a scruple Let them stand in digestion for eight days and then distil them in an Alembick Then take of this Spirit drawn off seven pound Cassia lignea two ounces Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Oriental Saffron a scruple Let them digest until the liquor is perfectly tinctured afterward let the tinged Spirit be edulcorated with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy dissolved in its proper liquor and reserved for use Virtue Use and Dose By the pleasantness of its smell it refresheth the Heart and Spirits it exhilarates and prolongs life and comforts the Stomach and Brain it increaseth the heat of the Ventricle confirms its strength dissipates wind and encourageth digestion it helps the Gripings of the Guts and keeps them sound yea it is very profitable in the cold distempers of the Thorax Liver and Spleen The Dose is from one spoonful to two Tincture of Guajacum Take raspings of Guajacum four ounces of the best Mastich an ounce resinous wood of Aloes a dram Clove-gilliflowers half a dram These being mixed pour upon them a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine to extract the Tincture which afterward filter and reserve for use Virtue and Use. Let the Mouth and aking Teeth be washed often with this Tincture for the pain often proceeds from the defluxions of the Head it drys Catarrhs takes away the stink and rottenness of the mouth and renders the breath sweet at the same time let there be warm Plasters applied to the Temples made of Mastich or Gum Elemi and after spitting let the mouth be diligently washed with a Decoction of Aniseeds Tincture of Sassafras Take Fountain-water well boiled and while it is yet hot eight pound Sassafras cut into small thin chips two ounces Let them stand in infusion all night in a new well glazed Pot close covered until it cools of it self in the morning filter it and the straining being clear let it be a little aromatized with a Tincture of Cassia lignea and keep it for your daily use Virtue Use and Dose It is a Nectar in Catarrhs and Arthritick pains because of its vast driness and moderate heat it is an excellent remedy in Defluxions of every kind which it doth radically consume and also expels the Stone It discusseth Wind prepares the Womb for Conception provokes the Terms helps Digestion corrects Vomiting and moves the Belly downwards but to those who are weak and extenuated it is useless The Dose is not strictly observed but the Patient may drink his fill of it and continue it for some weeks A Tincture for the Toothach Take Guajacum two ounces Sassafras and Sarsa parilla of each an ounce roots of wild Pellitory crude Alum Nitre prepared of each half an ounce seeds of Staveacre and Henbane of each two drams Opium Spagyrically prepared Cloves of each a dram and a half wild Time Origanum and Saffron of each a dram Mix them and make a Powder which put into a Glass and pour upon it simple Spirit of Wine and Wine-Vinegar a pound and a half and of these make a Tincture Virtue Use and Dose A little of this Tincture held warm in the Mouth on the place where the Teeth ake after a while spit it out and take in fresh if need be doth powerfully allay and take away all pains of the Teeth by hindring the sharp flux of Humors nay it wonderfully takes away those humors that are already fallen on the part and although at first it seems to increase the pain yet it is suddenly mitigated and doth vanish Tinctura Uterina Take the berries of Elder and dwarff Elder of each four ounces roots of Bryony an ounce of the herb Marjoram a dram Mix them and pour thereon a sufficient quantity of Aqua Hyster Lit. A. add also a few drops of Spirit of Vitriol and make a digestion in B. M. for certain days till you shall receive a most red Tincture which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It hath a manifest Hysterical and Cephalick force against all suffocations and torsions of the Womb and other dangerous affects yea it takes away all dolors and compressions of the Diaphragma The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole spoonful by it self or in some Hysterical liquor A Diaphoretick Tincture Take Spirit of Wine left in making our Solar Bezoar and flowers of Elder rectified of each four ounces Tartar often rectified three ounces of the best Vitriol an ounce Confectio Alkermes six drams Digest them for certain days shaking them often till the liquor be perfectly tinged Virtue Use and Dose It is a singular Medicine in the Plague putrid Humors diseases of the Head Palsie rectifying the Blood trembling of the Heart ill habit of Body Dropsie Jaundice Asthma Pleurisie Quinsie prickings of the Sides Pox Leprosie Worms Contractures Courses retained Feavers c. for it comforts the principal Members consumes superfluities corrects and expels noxious humors and by its Diaphoretick force penetrates the Nerves Muscles and Marrow and reduces all into its natural and pristine state The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one in water of Carduus Elder or Hearts-ease Tinctura Stiptica or the Stiptick Tincture Take the yolks of twenty one Eggs
vitriolated of each two drams Oyl of Cloves of Cinamon Nutmegs of each a scruple Mix them all carefully and make an Extract according to art Virtue Use and Dose This is a specifick Vomit and works variously by Vomit and Stool and is of great force and virtue in all Feavers pains of the Head and Joynts Gout Jaundice Dropsie and in obstructions of the Liver and Spleen yea in the Appetite depraved and the Stomach debilitated for it leaves nothing of a depraved nature in it but radically casts forth all the impure and peccant humors nor doth it do any injury The Dose is to be regulated according to the Age Sex and Complexion c. from a scruple to half a dram in some convenient liquor or in the form of a Pill c. having eaten something convenient before for then it works with the most ease and the least trouble Extractum Specificum Colicum or a Specifick Extract for the Colick Take of the yellow rind of Oranges six ounces specieâ— of Diacymini Iuniper-berries of each three ounces roots of Elicampane Pimpernel Cloves Zedoary of each an ounce and a half seeds of Chervil Bay-berries dryed Mother of Time Marjoram juyce of Liquorish of each an ounce Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron of each six drams Mix them and with Spirit of Wine draw a Tincture which afterward in Balneo abstract to the thickness of Honey and add of Nitre vitriolated thra drams Harts-horn Hermetically calcined Swines and Hares Cockal-bones calcined of each two drams white Amber prepared Magistery of Corals the Carp-stone of each a dram and a half Diaphoretick Mineral Iovial Bezoar the Bezoar stone Lac Sulphuris of each a dram Spirit of Salt rectified half a dram Mix them all together and make of it a Mass like an Extract to which add of our Carminative Oyl two drams the Oyls of Angelica Cloves white Amber Mastich Mace Cinamon Citrons of each a scruple All being well incorporated make an Extract and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a Specifick in the Colick and is properly applied to the Colick and Iliack Passion rising from a cold moist and flatuous Cause and the Excrements of the Guts being evacuated it is a Secret in allaying the vehement and mosâ— grievous pains of the Intestines for it dissolves and attenuates the thick and viscous humors and dissipates wind It helps the distension and windiness of the Hypochonders and Stomach and wonderfully relieves the coldness of the Stomach and the weakness of the Bowels It is also profitable for old Folks and those who have the Quartan Age c. It repairs Concoction and effectually expels the Tartar that is dissolved and loosned in the Guts The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram in our Water against the Colick or in any other appropriate Extractum Specificum Uterinum or a Specifick Extract for the Womb. Take Elder-berries dryed dwarff Elder-berries of each four ounces roots of Piony duly gathered red Mugwort white Dictamnus Briony of each two ounces Misleto of the Oak Climmin seeds Pennyroyal Balm new dryed Cassia lignea of each an ounce Oriental Saffron true Castor of each half an ounce Mix them and draw a Tincture with Spirit of Wine which being done separate the Spirit and the Extract will remain in the bottom to which add the blood of a Hog dryed in an Oven and prepared with the Hysterical water half an ounce Iovial Bezoar two drams Magistery of English Tin of Mother of Pearls and Coral of each a dram and a half Oyl of Cloves of Angelica white Amber Oranges of each a dram Let them be all well mixed and made into the form of an Extract which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose We have not a greater Secret for the Womb than this is for in the suffocations of the Matrix where all things are irritated and as it were desperate it is a most salubrious Medicine for it takes away the cause of these most cruel effects and all or at least-wise the most deplorable fits and strangulations of the Womb caused by a retention of the Seed and it resisteth many other things of the same nature it also perfectly quiets the motion of the Matrix The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram three or four mornings together in our Hysterical water or any other appropriate as those of Mugwort Balm Motherwort Pennyroyal c. Laudanum Opiatum Take of Thebane Opium Spagyrically prepared two ounces juyce of wild Poppy-flowers made thick an ounce roots of Hounds-tongue transmarine Mummy Styrax calamitis juyce of Liquorish Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce With Spirit of Wine draw the Tincture of each of them apart except the Opium which is to be drawn in distilled Vinegar or Juyce of Citrons then abstract the Spirit of all the Extractions in gentle heat of Balneo to the thickness of Honey and add to it the Extract of Bezoar stone Anodyne Sulphur of Vitriol of each two drams Salt of Oriental Pearls red Coral of each a dram Elks hoofs Hermetically calcined bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each half a dram Ambergriese a scruple Musk half a scruple These being all well incorporate and mixt add of our Aurum potabile a dram and a half Oyls of Chamomil Dill Wormwood Oyl of Oranges Cloves Nutmegs of Citrons rectified of Aniseeds and Caraway seeds of each half a scruple Let all be well mixed and brought into a Mass or Extract Virtue Use and Dose It is an admirable Medicine in stopping all fluxes of Humors and Catarrhs and all excretions of Blood and Terms in unreasonable watchings and want of rest in Feavers of all kinds and in sudden weakness In Phrensie Madness Melancholy Vomiting Epilepsie Heart-passions Hiccupping Colick weakness of the Stomach Pleurisie pains of the Joynts Gouts of all kinds Sciatica Stone Nephritick pains c. For in allaying all vehement and sharp pains it is really a Divine help and as it were our last refuge there being not a Medicine to be found in the Spagyrick Republick more excellent speedy safe and secret than this is witness the very Mother and Nurse of Physick Experience therefore use this Divine Medicine only to the Glory of the most high God and the Health of your sick Neighbour and with me give thanks for the same The Dose is from two or three to four five or six grains which is given at bed time the body being empty for when the Patient takes it he should omit his Supper that evening lest his food should obstruct the Medicine And because the use of Laudanum Opiatum is grown so famous and frequent I will here subjoyn the various use thereof In Affects of the Head A Draught Take Laudanum Opiatum three four five or six grains Marjoram-water half an ounce Syrup of Betony two drams Confection of Smaragdus a scruple oyl of Oriental Pearls three drops oyl of Fenil one drop spirit of Vitriol as much as doth suffice to make it
dram to a dram in the morning fasting and before dinner and supper in two or three ounces of Plantane water Pulvis Polychrestus Imperialis or an Imperial Powder good for many things Take white Sugar Candy six ounces Crocus Martis prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce and an half seeds of Fenil shavings of Ivory the Ankle-bone of a Hare Pikes eyes Cardamoms the less white Ginger Nutmegs roots of Liquorish of each an ounce Cinamon Cubebs Cassia lignea Spicknard roots and seeds of Peony Misleto of the Oak acid Tartar of each an ounce and a half Magistery of the Carp-stone of Crabs eyes of the Pearch-stone Oriental Saffron seeds of Parsly and Smallage true Castor Cloves red Myrrh wood of Aloes Hysop Oyl of Aniseeds each two drams Magistery of Pearls and red Coral the best Mace of each a dram leaves of Hungarian Gold forty three Mix them and make them all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It expels wind flatulencies and all peccant humors from the Stomach and Intestines and also comforts those parts it preserves from putrefaction and roborates the Brain it increaseth Memory and is excellent in the Epilepsie in the trembling and debility of the Heart difficulty and straitness of the Breast Cough Asthma c. It sweetens grief exhilarates sorrow removes timidity and opens all obstructions of the Liver and Spleen It cures the Tympany coming of a cold cause and many other long and confirmed diseases It stops the running of the Piles purifies the blood procures a fresh colour it warms a frigid Matrix and amends a corrupt intemperature of the Womb it purgeth the Reins and Bladder of stones sand c. It opens the Urinary passage and gives ease in the Strangury The dose every morning is the quantity of a Chestnut either by it self or in some Liquor respecting the disease Pulvis Dysentericus or a Dysenterick Powder Take Harts horn Spagyrically calcined an ounce and a half seeds of Bloodwort and Plantane of each an ounce Chalk prepared Nutmegs Misleto of the Oak Nitre prepared of each half an ounce Mix them and make a fine Powder which is effectually given in all Fluxes of the Belly The dose is one dram in some specifick Vehicle Species Dialauri or a compound Powder of Bay-berries Take Bay-berries dryed in an Oven in paste and pulverize an ounce flowers of Centaury the less three drams Madder red Myrrh Oriental Saffron of each a dram round Birthwort Cardamoms the less Galangal the less of each two scruples salt of Cinamon and Savin of each half a dram Mix them into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose They powerfully open obstructions of the Womb and as wonderfully stir suppressed Terms and bring them down in a large quantity too The dose is from half a dram to a dram in decoction of Savin with Saffron or in Beer Ale or Wine twice a day in the morning fasting or at night going to bed and to continue it till the Courses are produced Species Diajalapiae or a compound Powder of Ialap Take the best and resinous roots of Ialap two ounces acid Tartar eleven scruples Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Mix them and make a Powder according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It purges by stool without any trouble and mundifies the blood It draws away Flegm Choler and â—ll other impurities from the whole body and removes obstructions For that reason it is given in pains of the Joynts and Hypochonders Dose from half a dram to a dram especially in strong bodies Species Diaesulae or a compound Powder of Spurge Take the lesser Spurge prepared Rotula's of Diarrhodon Abbatis of each an ounce and a half white Hellebore prepared salt of white Vitriol of each three drams juyce of Liquorish extracted red Sanders of each a dram Cinamon Flower de-luce white Ginger of each two scruples Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cloves Nutmegs Mastich of each half a scruple Mix them and make a Powder according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is successfully given in all Quotidian Feavers also in all Tertian and burning Feavers and all other infirmities of the Stomach in salt Defluxions Worms pains of the Back Plague Epidemical diseases in poisonous draughts and carries off the slimy matter from the Joynts that causeth the Gout it works both upwards and downwards but without any trouble or molestation The dose is from half a dram to a dram Species Stomachicae or a Powder compounded for the Stomach Take acid Tartar three ounces Galangal the less white Ginger long Pepper of each a dram and a half Cardamoms the less Nutmegs Cloves Zedoary of each a dram roots of Liquorish leaves of Sage seeds of Rue and Caraways Olibanum of each half a dram Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Oyl of Water-mint of Oranges and Aniseeds of each ten grains white Sugar Candy eight ounces Mix them and make a Powder Virtue Use and Dose It stirs up lost Appetite takes away pains Vomiting and Hiccup it helps the Asthma prevents surfeiting and other disorders by excess it expels flatuosity and roborates the Stomach And lastly it hastens the distribution of Aliment The dose morning and evening is from half a dram to a dram in Sack or other Cordial Wine Pulvis Stomachicus or a Stomachical Powder Take the Cream of white Tartar oftentimes moistned with spirit of Vitriol and dryed again two ounces Harts-horn Spagyrically calcined half an ounce salt of Pearch-stones and Crabs eyes of each two drams Magistery of Pearls and red Corals of each a dram Oyls of Cloves and Cinamon of each half a scruple white Sugar Candy eight ounces Make of all a Powder Virtue Use and Dose As the Medicine is noble so it nobly comforts the Heart the Stomach and all the rest of the members of nutrition it corrects the niceness and crudities of the Stomach and prevents putrefaction and flegm It wonderfully helps those troubled with the Gravel Spleen or vomiting their food also those who by continual and Chronical diseases are utterly extenuated and by that means are grown very weak it roborates and strengthens Dose from half a dram to a dram in appropriate Vehicles Species Pleuriticae or a Pleuritick Powder Take Sulphur sublimate two drams Carduus seeds Bay-berries husked Misleto of the Oak roots of Zedoary Olibanum of each a dram and a half teeth of a wild Boar and of a Pike flowers of wild Poppy of each a dram Make all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose This is a great Secret against all Pleuritick pains and punctures of the sides where the sick by reason of their violence is almost dead The dose is from half a dram to a dram in water of Hysop and Fenil or in wild Poppy-flower-water morning noon and night or be sure at the least five hours between every dose It is also given in Scabious water and God assisting it certainly cures Pulvis Pleuriticus secretissimus or a secret Powder for the Pleurisie Take
Sulphuris half an ounce Extract of Lignum Aloes a dram Mix them and with Malmsey Wine make a mass from which with Oyl of Fenil Pills may be made in the manner of Aloephanginae that is in quantity greater or lesser and also in number more or fewer as there is occasion then let them be well gilt and reserved for use Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth gently yet radically all flegmy thick and putrid humors from the Head Breast Hypochonders and Stomach also the corrupt tartarous humors that are setled in the Ventricle c. and comforts and preserves from putrefaction all the principal members Furthermore it drys and takes away all Fluxes or Catarrhs that fall upon any part from the Brain It helps Concoction moves Appetite fortifies the natural powers of the Body and clarifies the Blood and Spirit It is of great force and virtue in all pestilential Contagions and kills and brings away Worms as well in Children as in elderly people They are of excellent use in the Epilepsie Apoplexy Cough Asthma Consumption Hectick Feaver Pox Convulsion of the Nerves pains in the Joynts Gout Sciatica obstructions of the Veins and Bowels c. and are ordinarily used by me rather to comfort than purge the body yet they may be used to lenifie and lubricate the Bowels giving them at any time either morning or evening or at any hour of the day before or after meat in almost all diseases but chiefly phlegmatick and Corrosives They are also given with good success in all continual and intermitting Feavers for they do not only relax the Belly but restore and invigorate the strength of the whole body The dose is the same as in Aloephanginae nostrae Pilulae Anodynae or a Pill easing Pains Take our Aloephanginae three drams Tartar vitriolated our Laudanum Opiate of each a dram Mix them and with Confectio Alkermes dissolved in our Aqua Hypnotica make a mass for Pills Virtue Use and Dose They do only excel in mitigating and allaying sharp pains gripes c. and to procure sleep and are useful in the Colick pains in the Kidneys Joynts in the Pleurisie and in all other diseases and are far more safe than Laudanum Opiatum by reason the Tartar vitriolated and the Aloephanginae are added which prevent Constipations of the Belly with which the sick is often troubled after the taking Laudanum by it self The dose is from twelve grains to fifteen and a scruple and from fifteen grains to half a dram For fifteen grains of this Pill contains in it three grains of Laudanum a scruple four grains twenty five grains of the Pill contain five grains of Laudanum and half a dram six grains and they are to be taken at night going to bed Pilulae Narcoticae or a Narcotick Pill Take Thebane Opium Spagirically prepared and extracted three drams species Diambrae a dram Salt of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each half a dram Extract of wild Poppy flowers and Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Bezoar stone bone of a Stags heart of each ten grains the best Musk five grains the Oyls of Cloves Cinamon Marjoram white Amber and Caraway seeds of each four drops Mix them and with Confectio Alkermes dissolved in our Aqua Narcotica make a mass for Pills Virtue Use and Dose For want of Laudanum Opiate we happily use these Pills which have frequently very good success The dose is from three grains to four five or six going to bed Pilulae Cephalicae or Head-Pills Take Scammony rosated three drams Extracts of Pil. Cochiae and black Hellebore of each a dram and a half Tartar vitriolated and species Diambrae of each half a dram Oyls of white Amber and Marjoram of each ten grains Mix them and make of all a mass which afterward with Oyl of Fenil make into Pills Virtue Use and Dose They wonderfully purge the Head Brain all the parts of Sense the Ventricle Womb and the other Bowels from cold thick serous flegmy and putrid humors and it is excellent in the pains of the Joynts Colick c. The dose is from a scruple to half a dram Pilulae Senectutis Take Extract of Balm three drams species of Diamoschu dulce a dram and a half white Amber prepared a dram our Troches of Pearls Ambergriese of each a scruple Mix them and with Confectio Alkermes dissolved in water of Lily of the valley make a mass for Pills afterward with Oyl of Cloves and Marjoram of each a like quantity make Pills of the bigness of a small Pease which gild with gold Virtue Use and Dose These Pills help and relieve the watchings of old men and those who are conversant in the greatest cares and troubles For they give hilarity and tranquillity of mind and are of excellent use to drive away thoughtful cares The dose is from three Pills to four or six at night Pilulae Smaragdinae or Pills of Emeraulds Take Emeraulds prepared a dram and a half Sulphur of the Moon dryed two scruples Hyacinth prepared half a dram Magisteries of Oriental Pearls and of red Corals of each a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of Citron rinds and Nutmegs make a mass for Pills from which mass make small Pills with Oyl of Aniseeds and gild them with silver Virtue Use and Dose They drive away grievous and terrible dreams which otherwise debilitate the body by breaking the rest and procure sleep they resist Poysons and are effectually given to comfort the Spirits through the whole body The dose is a scruple at going to bed Pilulae Odontalgicae or Pills for the Tooth-ach Take Thebane Opium a dram Camphire seeds of Stavesacre white Ginger long Pepper Turkish Galls white Chalk burnt Alum of each half a dram roots of Hog-Fenil of Henbane and the lesser Nettles of each a scruple species of Sal Nitre a sufficient quantity to make it tart Mix them carefully and with our Odontalgick Balsam make a mass for Pills from which afterward with the same Balsam make little oblong Pills sharp at one end Virtue and Use. By daily use we do esteem this a Secret for if it be but applied to the hollow Tooth it immediately takes away the most tormenting pain Pilulae de Calce viva or Pills of quick Lime Take unslakt Lime a dram fine Wheat flour long Pepper Pomegranate rinds Turkish Galls of each half a dram seed of Henbane Cloves Thebane Opium burnt Alum of each a scruple Mix them and with the Juyce of the Roots of Pellitory of Spain made thick make a mass of Pills from which afterward with Oyl of Origanum and Camphire of each a like quantity make little long Pills Virtue and Use. These Pills applied to aking Teeth do presently remove the pain and render them more firm and sound They kill the Worms that breed in the hollow parts of the Teeth and remove the Defluxions that fall upon the Gums Pilulae Odoriferae or Odoriferous Pills Take Styrax Calamitis two drams Benjamin a dram roots of Flower-de-luce half
of Suffocation for if one or two be taken in the morning for three days together in our Hysterical water or in any other appropriate they do under God cure the Patient for which Divine gift let God alone be blessed Trochisci de Alumine or Troches of Alum Take crude Alum roots of Pellitory of each half an ounce long Pepper a dram seeds of Henbane Wheat-meal white Chalk Nitre prepared of each a dram and a half white Ginger Cloves Opium prepared of each a dram Mix them and with Juyce of the lesser Nettles make Troches Virtue and Use. They take away pain being applied to the Teeth and Gums due Purgation or Phlebotomy being first used Trochisci de Satureja pro Lixivio or Troches of Summer-Savory for a Lixivium Take dryed Savory half an ounce Marjoram and Origanum of each two drams Lavender flowers red Roses Rosemary flowers of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes Gum Arabick white Tragacanth roots of Avens and Flower-de-luce of each a dram Cloves Nutmegs Cardamoms the less Cubebs of each a dram Ambergriese and Musk of each a scruple Mix them and with the Whites of Eggs make Troches each weighing a dram Virtue and Use. Boil two three or more of these Troches in a sufficient quantity of Lixivium and with that wash the Head in the morning fasting having first been at stool and presently let the Head be rubbed and dryed with warm Linen It takes away all the sweat and filth of the Head and strengthens it opens the Pores of the Skin drys up Catarrhs comforts the Memory and quickens the Sense Trochisci de Nitro or Troches of Nitre Take Rotula's of the juyce of Barberries and Rotula's of the juyce of Goosberries of each eight ounces species of Diarrhodon Abbatis moistned with spirit of Vitriol Nitre prepared of each an ounce powder of red Roses vitriolated two drams Oyl of Cinamon four drops Mix them and with Tragacanth dissolved in Juyce of Citrons make Troches Virtue Use and Dose They are of great use in the Quincy Inflammation of the Mouth and Tongue boiling of the Blood heat of Urine burning Feavers and especially putrid Semi-tertains The dose is from one dram to two in appropriate Vehicles Styli Dentrifricii or a Medicine for the Teeth Take the powder of calcined River-flints two ounce Pumice stone prepared burnt Alum of each half 〈◊〉 ounce roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce white ashes of Indian Tabaco of each two drams Gallia Moschata oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple Mix them and with Gum Tragacanth dissolved in Rose-water make little Rowls to cleanse the Teeth Virtue and Use. They are most used to cleanse the Teeth and to remove their ill colour For when the Teeth turn yellow black c. this Powder doth wonderfully cleanse them and make them white if they be often rubbed and cleansed with it Pomum Ambrae Take roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce Cloves Mace Cinamon of each half an ounce wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Styrax Calamit Benjamin of each two drams Ambergriese a dram Alexandrian Musk half a dram Balsam of Peru Oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple All being diligently mixed add of true Civet two drams then with Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each alike dissolved in water of Marjoram Narcissus Roses and Lavender make a mass of which make Troches Balls Cakes c. which put into a Glass and kept will grow hard Virtue and Use. It is a specifick odoriferous Medicine which in cold Cephalalgia's Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy pestilential Air Colick suffocation of the Matrix falling out of the Womb c. and especially when Medicines cannot be taken into the Body if these be applied to the Nose or other parts they comfort the Heart and vital Spirits exceedingly Sapo odoratus or perfumed Sope. Take Venetian Sope dissolved in water of Narcissus a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce an ounce Styrax Calamit Benjamin of each half an ounce wood of Aloes yellow Sanders of each two drams Ambergriese and Civet of each a dram of Musk Balsam of Peru of each half a dram the Oyls of Rhodium Lavender Cinamon and Cloves of each a scruple Mix them and with Oyl of Tartar per deliquium make little Balls and as you are making them up anoint your hands with the aforesaid Oyls SECT X. Of Suffiments Suffimentum Angelicum TAke Styrax Calamitis and Benjamin of each equal parts Dissolve these in the best Rose-water and presently well prest afterwards dryed pulverized and kept for use Take of this powder thus prepared an ounce wood of Aloes two drams red Roses dryed and Ambergriese of each a dram true Civet and Musk of each half a dram Balsam of Peru and Oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple Ivory calcined till it be black a sufficient quantity Mix all well and with Rose-water make a Paste of which make little black Cakes put them among Rose-leaves and dry them in the shade then put them in a glass Vessel and keep them for use Virtue and Use. They are used for a Perfume by Kings Princes and Great men for one or two being laid upon hot Coals or infused and boiled in Rose-water give a most sweet delectable and celestial Odor which doth refresh the Brain and vital Spirits and prevents the contagious Infection of a malignant Air. Suffimentum Imperiale or an Imperial Perfume Take Styrax cleansed Benjamin of each half aâ— ounce wood of Aloes two drams true Civet a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Roses â—f each ten grains Mix them and make all into little Balls or Cakes which keep for use Virtue and Use. These sweet Balls being laid upon hot coals send forth a most grateful Odor which doth not only correct a poisonous stinking and putrid Air but sweetly and pleasantly refresh the internal Spirits of man the Fume also conveyed by a Tunnel or other such Instrument into the Orifice of the Womb doth wonderfully help Women that are almost suffocated and stays all the inordinate motions of the Matrix But when it is thus used take care to cover the Head close lest the Patient should receive the odor by the Nostrils also Suffimentum Epilepticum or an Epileptick Fume Take white Amber eleven drams red Myrrh elect Mastich Gum Animae Galbanum and Elemi of each two drams Misleto of the Oak seeds of Peony huked Iuniper-berries shavings of Elks horn of each a dram Wormwood Marjoram Lavender flowers flower of Lily of the valley red Roses of each half a dram Mix them and with an Infusion of Tragacanth made in our Epileptick water make little Troches or Balls Virtue and Use. These being laid on coals and the Fume received up into the Nose by one that is grieved with the Epilepsie takes away the fit and is very profitable for those who are troubled with dangerous diseases of the Head as the Apoplexy and Palsie c. It is also used against the suffocation and falling out of the Womb. Suffimentum de Sandaracha Take of the
Vitriol carefully rectified and Spagirically impregnate with native Cinnabar four ounces Salt of Peony a dram and a half Let them be all well mixed and set to digest and circulate for eight days Virtue Use and Dose It may be deservedly called a specifick Epileptick Medicine for its admirable virtues and properties For in curing the Epilepsie it exceeds all other Remedies It is also good in all dangerous diseases of the Head such are the Apoplexy Palsie Vertigo Swimming c. Also in the stupor of the Brain Catarrhs Suffocation of the Matrix Colick c. it is of great use The dose and way of giving is to alter its acid sapor and give it in appropriate Vehicles as suppose our Epileptick water or in water of the flowers of Peony Lavender Tiel-tree Lily of the valley c. continuing of it nine days together and let the Patient fast for two or three hours at least after the taking of the Medicine Elixir Febrile or an Elixir for Feavers Take of our Species febrifuge four ounces long Pepper Cloves and Nutmegs of each an ounce the lesser Centaury Carduus and Wormwood of each six handfuls Cinquefoil and Rue of each three handfuls All being pulverized and mixed extract their Tincture with the best Spirit of Wine pour off the tinctured Spirit and pour on fresh so long till all the Tincture and Essence be throughly extracted Lastly draw off half the Spirit in Balneo and the remaining Spirit together with the Essence filter through a brown Paper and in a glass Vessel well stopt keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose After the body hath been duly purged it preserves cures and drives away all kinds of Feavers It is given in the Fit or just before it so that it may work with the Fit The dose is from a dram to half an ounce in water of the lesser Centaury Carduus Wormwood or in a draught of warm Beer But in robust bodies it is given from half an ounce to six drams Or it may in ill habits of body Dropsie c. with good success be mixed with common Drink for by its bitterness it expels all Putrefaction and by its thinness it opens all Obstru ctions SECT XVIII Of compound Spirits of Wine Spiritus Vini Cephalicus or a Spirit of Wine for the Head TAke Fenil seeds three ounces roots of Peony dulâ— collected Misleto of the Oak Anacardus oâ— each an ounce Iuniper-berries six drams Marjoram Balm Origanum Hyssop and Sage of eacâ— a handful flowers of Stoechas Lily of the Valley Rosâ— mary Primrose and Lavender of each two pugils Lâ— them be grosly cut and bruised and then infused in eight pound of common Spirit of Wine after due digestion let them be distilled in B M. and in the distilled Liquor again infuse Coriander seeds prepared seeds of mountain Osier Peony and Caraways of each half an ounce species of Diomoschu dulce and Diambra of each three drams Cardamoms the less Nutmegs the lesser Galangal Coves of each two drams sweet Cane Cubebs and Mace of each a dram white Amber prepared wood of Aloes Clovegilly-flowers red Roses of each half a dram Let them all stand in digestion for eight days then distil them in Balnco and reserve the Spirit for use they that please may edulcorate it with white Sugar Candy or with Essence of Peony flowers Clovegilly-flowers Violets red Roses or grains of Chermes or any other with which it may be variously tinged Virtue Use and Dose It is of great use in all cold affects of the Head applied both internally and externally Also it easeth those who are sorrowful and fearful and it helpeth those also that talk in their sleep for it doth not only warm dry and comfort the Head and consume cold Catarrhs but also roborates the other Members I commend it for an excellent Medicine in the Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy Palsie Convulsions and Trembling The dose is from one spoonful to two c. Spiritus Vini Aromaticus or an Aromatick Spirit of Wine Take Confectio Alkermes an ounce roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce red Roses of each half an ounce wood of Cassia Citron peel wood of Aloes Cloves of each two drams Cardamoms the less Nutmegs Cubebs Mace Zedoary of each a dram All being pulvetized and mixed infuse them in six pound of simple Spirit of Wine for eight days shaking them often in the time afterward distil them in an Alembick and the distilled Spirit edulcorate with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart in full-grown persons who are of a cold Constitution it also roborates the Breast Stomach Liver Spleen c. it also strengthens the Reins and expels cold and serous Humors The dose is morning and evening from one spoonful to two Spiritus Vini Odontalgicus or Spirit of Wine good for the Tooth-ach Take Chips of Guajacnm four ounces roots of Pellitory two ounces seeds of Stavesacre and Henbane Pomegranate peels Turkish Galls of each four ounces Cloves white Ginger long Pepper and Olibanum of each half an ounce flowers of wild Poppy Thebane Opium Camphire of each two drams Indian Tabaco Sage Arsmart wild Mints of each a dram Being bruised and mixed infuse them in six pound of simple Spirit of Wine and let them stand in digestion fourteen days and then distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose Let it be held in the mouth a while and spit out again and let this be repeated if there be occasion and it is a present Remedy for it effectually takes away all the pain of the Teeth Sometimes also for the greater content of those who use it it may be tinctured with flowers of Poppies and being tinctured kept for use Spiritus Vini Otalgicus or Spirit of Wine for the Hearing Take a hundred Pismires Eggs bitter Almonds an ounce roots of black Hellebore Garden Radishes Sowbread English Galangal of each an ounce Pomegranate peel six drams Bay-berries husked Iuniper-berries of each half an ounce seeds of Fenil Cummin Anise and Caraway of each three drams Pulp of Coloquintida true Castor of each a dram and a half Marjoram Wormwood Savin and Rue of each a dram Bruise them and being mixed infuse them in four pound of the best rectified Spirit of Wine and after due digestion let them be distilled in Balneo yet do it ingeniously lest you break your Glass The Spirit being abstracted add to it a sufficient quantity of live Millepedes and digest them all so long till the Spirit be tinctured this being done filter it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose A few drops of this Spirit dropped into the Ears morning and evening and the Ears stopped with muskified Cotton take away deafness and thickness of hearing nay it is an excellent Medicine in the ringing noise and hissing of the Ears also in the thickness of hearing c. But in these Affects Bread a little under-baked and taken hot out of the Oven and the lower Crust broken off
six ounces of Rhenish Wine and set in a warm place to digest afterward boil them a little and then add of white Sugar three ounces strain them through Hippocrates Sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth the Brain of those humors that breed diseases there as the Epilepsie Failing-sickness c. and is indeed a Divine remedy for the Epilepsie for it effectually takes away the cause and tinder of the disease But all Epileptical persons who use this Claret must take heed to keep themselves from fear anger water fire wine thoughts of grief c. nay let them shun all vehement motions of the mind while they are under their Cure and let them shun Drunkenness as the Plague The dose is from three ounces to four Claretum Antapoplecticum laxativum or a laxative Antapoplectick Claret Take leaves of Sena two ounces the best Turbith an ounce Iuniper-berries and roots of Zedoary of each half an ounce the best Agarick and black Hellebore prepared of each two drams lesser Galangal Cubebs white Ginger and Cinamon of each a dram flowers of Lavender Primrose Marigold and Lily of the valley of each half a dram Let all be infused and macerated in thirty six ounces of Rhenish Wine in Balneo for two days afterward boil it a little and then add four ounces of white Sugar clarifie it with Hippocrates Sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use in the Apoplexy Palsie Sleepiness Stupor and all other sleepy Diseases walking in their sleep Memory lost and in all other vices of the Brain The dose is from three ounces to four or five in the morning Claretum Passulatum laxativum or laxative Claret of Raisons Take of small Raisons washed in Wine two ounces leaves of Sena and Mechoacan of each an ounce Liquorish Cinamon and Aniseeds bruised of each half an ounce spotted Lungwort Harts-tongue Coltsfoot and Horehound of each a dram flowers of Liverwort Hyssop and Sage of each a dram Oriental Saffron and Mace of each half a dram fat Figs Iujubes Sebestens and Dates of each eight Let them be macerated twenty four hours in Hydromel and old Barley-water of each three pound then boil them a little and add to it four ounces of white Sugar strain it through Hippocrates Sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It is an appropriate and praise-worthy Laxative in difficulty of Breathing Asthma Pleurisie inveterate Cough pains of the Sides and in all other continual straitness of the Breast c. also in the distempers of the Liver and Spleen The dose is from four ounces to six Claretum Absinthiacum laxativum or a laxative Claret of Wormwood Take leaves of Sena half an ounce white Turbith and Mechoacan of each six drams Pontick Wormwood and Iuniper-berries of each half an ounce roots of our Flower-de-luce and Esula prepared of each three drams seeds of Fenil and Caraway of each two drams sweet Cane white Ginger Cinamon Cloves and Zedoary of each a dram flowers of Liverwort Elder and Broom of each half a dram Oriental Saffron and Dodder of each a scruple Let them be cut and bruised and infused in thirty six ounces of Rhenish Wine Let them macerate in Balneo and after due digestion boil them a little and add four ounces of white Sugar then strain it through Hippocrates his sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It is a specifick and select Laxative in the ill Habit Dropsie obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Feavers Colick Scurvy Itch c. and it doth by degrees prepare and evacuate the peccant humors The dose is four ounces Claretum Rhabarbaratum or a Claret Rhubarbized Take leaves of Sena two ounces the best Rhubarb an ounce roots of Scorzonera half an ounce Harts-tongue and Liverwort of each three drams seeds of Parsley and Smallage of each two drams the lesser Galangal Cassia lignea white Ginger and Cloves of each a dram flowers of lesser Centaury Liverwort red Roses and Succory of each half a dram Oriental Saffron and Dodder of each a scruple Let all macerate in Balneo in thirty six ounces of Rhenish Wine for two days then boil it a little and add to it four ounces of white Sugar strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth Choler as well black as yellow from the Stomach Liver and Spleen it also rectifies the Blood opens Obstructions and cures the Affects thence proceeding Hence it is an agrecable and appropriate laxative Medicine in the Dropsie Jaundice Scurvy tumor of the Spleen and pain of the Hypochonders Feavers c. The dose is four ounces adding a dram of acid Tartar to the Liquor and give it warm Claretum Antipodagricum laxativum or a laxative Claret against the Gout Take Hermodactyls the outer rind being taken off leaves of Sena of each an ounce white and gummy Turbith Mechoacan of each half an ounce Germander and Vervain of each two drams seeds of Anise and Fenil of each a dram and a half Cardamoms the less Cinamon Mace Oriental Saffron of each a dram flowers of Flower-de-luce Mullein Violets Rosemary of each half a dram Let them macerate in thirty six ounces of small white Wine in a warm place for two days then boil it a little and add to it four ounces of white Sugar and strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth thick Flegm especially from the Joynts and remote parts And for that reason it is solely proper for the Gout and other differences and pains of the Joynts The dose is four ounces adding to it a dram of Crystal of Tartar and so mix them and make a draught which is to be given warm in the morning but if it should chance not to work by ten of the Clock especially in robust bodies let the Patient take another draught again after dinner and thus repeat it for certain days while there is occasion Claretum Stomachicum confortans or a Claret to comfort the Stomach Take Cinamon an ounce water-Mints half an ounce Mastich Galangal the less and Cloves of each two drams sweet Cane Cardamoms the less and white Ginger of each a dram heavy wood of Aloes roots of Burnet and Zedoary of each half a dram Let them macerate in thirty two ounces of Malmsey Wine for certain days afterward clarifie it through Hippocrates sleeve and so make a Physical Claret Virtue Use and Dose It is a specisick Medicine almost against all the cold vices of the Stomach also against the trembling of the Heart Syncope and Vomiting of which the Patient may take morning or evening or in time of necessity from one spoonful to two or three with a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol well mixed together Claretum Juniperinum or a Claret of Iuniper Take Spirit of Iuniper-wine three pound water of Elicampane roots of Coltsfoot Lohoch sanum of each a pound Cinamon two ounces Cloves whole half an ounce
Let them infuse together for certain days afterward strain them through Hippocrates sleeve and edulcorate the Liquor with sixteen ounces of white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of excellent use in the Asthma Cough and other vices of the Breast also in the weakness and windiness of the Stomach Dysury Strangury and Stone The dose is from one spoonful to two or three often in the week Claretum Anisatum or a Claret prepared with Aniseeds Take Spirit of Wine anisated three pound water of Lohoch sanum Horehound and Violet flowers of each a pound Cassia lignea two ounces Mace cut small half an ounce Let them macerate eight days and then add twelve ounces of white Sugar Candy to it strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It is very good and proper for difficulty of Breathing and Asthma's and other cold affects of the Thorax arising from thick humors sticking to the Bronchia of the Lungs also for an old Cough Dyspnoea The dose as before is from one spoonful to two or three Claretum Chalybeatum or a Claret prepared with Steel Take the best Malmsey Wine three pound Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce roots of Scorzonera and cream of Tartar of each half an ounce the lesser Galangal Cassia lignea and Cloves of each a dram Put these mixed into a glass Vessel and let them digest in a warm place often shaking them for the space of two days afterward strain them and clarifie them through Hippocrates sleeve and you have a chalybeate Claret Virtue Use and Dose It opens all the obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Meseraick Veins It corrects an ill habit of Body and expels all vicious Humors cures the black Jaundice provokes the Terms and stays them if too superfluous It expels water in Dropsies and discusseth Wind it promotes the resolution of the Salt tending to Coagulation and by its Martial rays it drys the Microcosmical Earth swelling with too much moisture But in the use of this Liquor for the aforesaid Affects it is convenient to give gentle Purgers as often as may be that as this Wine prepares the body and humors fit to be purged so the purging Medicines cleanse and carry it off as in other Cures The dose of this Claret is from one ounce to two or three morning and evening But in defect of the Courses in Women it is given five days before the New Moon to young ones but to those more in years so many days before the Full Moon and so to proceed till the Courses appear Claretum Antinephriticum or an Anti-nephritical Claret Take whole Barley and red Cicers of each an ounce and a half roots of Restharrow and Eryngo of each an ounce Liquorish and Parsley of each half an ounce Iuniper-berries bruised and Winter-cherries of each two drams seeds of Gromel white Thorn-berries seeds of Marsh-mallows and small Mallows of each a dram and ahalf flowers of Broom and Violets of each a dram fat Figs and Sebestens of each eleven Let them be infused in small white Wine and Rain-water of each three pound for 24 hours then boil them to the consumption of the third part that there may four pound remain to which add of white Sugar four ounces clarifie it with Hippocrates his sleeve and make a Claret of it Virtue Use and Dose It gives great ease to those troubled with the Stone for it dissolves breaks and drives forth the Stone in the Reins and Bladder with the Urine by inlarging the Ureters and urinary passage and by opening the obstructions of the Loyns and Reins and the other parts The dose is every morning fasting a good draught from three ounces to four Claretum Moschatum or a Muskified Claret Take Cassia lignea half an ounce Cloves two drams Nutmegs Mace and Citron peels of each a dram roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce and the lesser Galangal of each half a dram yellow Sanders and wood of Aloes of each a scruple Ambergriese and the best Musk of each ten grains All being pulverized and mixed add to them twenty ounces of odoriferous Spanish Wine and let them stand in digestion for certain days afterward add Spirit of Roses four ounces clarifie them in Hippocrates his sleeve and make a Claret which for delicate Palates may be edulcorated with Sugar Candy Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use other universal Medicines and Purgations being premised to amend the ill savour of the Mouth and Nose and render them sweet it also roborates the Heart and Ventricle Let the Patient take a spoonful or two every morning fasting Claretum purgans or a purging Claret Take leaves of Sena two ounces roots of our Flower-de-luce an ounce Mechoacan white Hermodactyls and Turbith of each half an ounce Agrimony Harts-tongue and Fluellin of each two drams seeds of Fenil and Anise of each a dram and a half Cassia lignea Cloves white Ginger and Cinamon of each a dram flowers of Broom Balm Bugloss and Sage of each a dram and a half Infuse them all in a sufficient quantity of old Wine for 24 hours and then boil them and in sixteen ounces of the strained Liquor warm dissolve four ounces of the best Manna Again strain it and add of Cinamon water an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Citrons a dram Mix them well again and make of all a laxative Claret Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth flegm and water and that from the Joynts It gives ease in the Head-ach and Epilepsie and checks old Defluxions and for that reason gives ease in Gouts of all kinds It is also a good Purge in all pains of the Joynts Colon and Reins The dose is from three ounces to four Vinum Antiscorbuticum or an Antiscorbutick Wine Take Rhenish Wine four pound juyce of Scurvy grass Water-cresses Brooklime and Sorrel of each depurated four ounces roots of wild Radishes Elicampane and our Flower-de-luce of each cut into small pieces anounce and a half seeds of Rocket bruised an ounce All being mixed put them into a Glass in a cool place and reserve it for use adding to it two Nutmegs Virtue Use and Dose This medicated Wine universals being premised and the body duly purged perfectly cures the Scurvy in these Northern and Maritime Regions where it is natural and domestick and is also an infallible Medicine in rectifying the Blood The dose is from three ounces to four morning and evening two hours before meat and let the sick continue the use of this Medicine till he finds himself better SECT XXIII Of compound medicated Vinegars Acetum Aromaticum odoratum or a sweet Aromatick Vinegar TAke Florentine Flower-de-luce an ounce and a half flowers of Lavender red Roses and Clove-gilliflowers of each an ounce Cloves and Cinamon of each half an ounce Nutmegs Mace lesser Galangal and Zedoary of each three drams Orange and Citron peels of each two drams Styrax Calamitis red Myrrh Benjamin of each a dram and a half