run up to seed and if you gather them in a hot sunshine day they will not be so subject to putrifie the best way to dry them is in the Sun according to Dr. REASON though not according to Dr. TRADITION Such Herbs as remaine green all the year or are very full of juyce it were a folly to dry at all but gather them only for present use as Housleek Scurvy-grass c. Let Flowers be gathered when they are in their prime in a sun-shine day and dried in the sun Let the Seeds be perfectly ripe before they be gathered 3. Let them be kept in a dry place for any moisture though it be but a moist air corrupts them which if perceived in time the beams of the Sun will refresh the hearbs and flowers and do the Sun no harm 4. Take notice that only the Latin Names were quoted by the Colledg are to beseen at the beginning of each Simple in a different Letter the English Name together with the Temperature and Vertues were added by the Translator for the publick good 5. All the Latin Names to one Herb are not set down most of which are superfluous some ridiculons some Idolatrous as to attribute one Herb to the Virgin Mary another to St. Peter and a third to St. Paul Some blasphemous as to call one the holy Ghost another Allelujah another an Herb of the Trinity c. So in the Compositions To call an Oyntment the Oyntment of the Apostles to call one Plaister Divine another Holy a third the grace of God The Colledge might have been ashamed of it if they had ever come where shame grew but 1. The Heathen they dedicated herbs and trees to their Gods 2. the Papists they must follow their patriarks and dedicate them to their Saints Ours having not wit enough to find out a third for their wits were in print before they were born they follow the Papists as their holy Fathers as in absconding their art so in their blasphemies see how one sin ushers in another A CATALOGUE OF THE SIMPLES CONDUCING TO THE DISPENSATORY ROOTS ACANTHI Brancae Ursinae Of Bears-breech or Brank-ursine it is meanly hot and dry it helps ach and numness of the joynts and is of a binding quality good for wounds and broken bones Dioscorides saith they are profitable for Ruptures or such as are bursten or burnt with fire a drachm of the Root in Pouder being taken in the morning fasting in a Decoction made with the same Root and Water Acori Veri Perigrini vulgaris c. See Calamus Aromaticus I shall not nor dare not make a long Paraphrase about the sorts of it one of which is Water-flag or Flower-de-luce which is hot and dry in the second degree binds strengthens stops fluxes of the belly and immoderate flowing of the terms in women a drachm being taken in red wine every morning Alljum Garlick It is hot and dry in the fourth degree breeds naughty and corrupt blood yet is an enemy to all Poysons and such as are bitten by cold venemous beasts viz. Adders Toads Spiders c. it provokes urin and expels wind Alcannae Of Privet See the Leaves Althaeae Of Marshmallows are meanly hot of a digesting softning nature ease pains help bloody fluxes the stone and gravel being bruised and well boyled in Milk and the Milk drunk is a gallant Remedy for the gripings of the belly and the Bloody flux If a Feaver accompany the Disease boyl a handful of common Mallow leaves with a handful of these Roots Angelicae Of Angelica is hot and dry in the third degree strengthens the heart exceedingly and is a singular remedy against pestilence and poyson half a drachm taken in the morning fasting Anchusae Of Alkanet cold and dry binding good for old Ulcers Anthorae An outlandish root the counterpoyson for Monkshood it is an admirable remedy for the wind-chollick and resists poyson They that would know more of it let them reade Guainerius and Solerius both which lived neer the places where it plentifully grew Apii Of Smallage See the Barks Aristolochiae Of Birthwort of which are three sorts long round and climing All hot and dry in the third degree The long being drunk in Wine brings away both birth and after-birth and whatsoever a careless Midwife hath left behind The round being drunk with Wine helps besides the former stuffings of the lungues hardness of the spleen ruptures convulsions both of them resist poyson I never read any use of the climing Birthwort Artanitae Cyclaminis c Of Sowbread hot and dry in the third degree a most violent purge dangerous outwardly applied to the place it profits much in the bitings of venemous beasts also being hung about women in labor it causeth speedy deliverance See the Herb. Arundinis Vallatoriae Saccharinae Of common Reeds and sugar Reeds The Roots of common Reeds applied to the place draw out thorns case sprains the ashes of them mixed with Vinegar take scurf or dandrif off from the head and prevent the falling off of the hair they are hot and dry in the second degree according to Galen I would not have the Reader build too much confidence upon the degrees of temperature or more properly intemperature neither of this or any other Simple because most of them are quoted by Outlandish Authors and out of question the difference of the climate may somthing alter their temperature in degree I never read any vertue of the Root of Sugar Cane Ari c. Of Cuckow-pints or Wake-Robin hot and dry in the third degree I know no great good they do inwardly taken unless to play the rogue withal or make sport outwardly applied they take off Scurf Morphew or Freckles from the face and cleer the skin and case the pains of the Gout Asclepiadis vincetoxici Of Swallow-wort hot and dry good against poyson and gripings of the belly as also against the bitings of mad-dogs taken inwardly Asari Of Asarabacca the Roots are a safer purge than the Leaves and not so violent I do not much fancy any of them both ignorant people had better let them alone than be too busie with what they have no skill in they purge by vomit stool and urine they are profitable for such as have Agues Dropsies stoppings of the Liver or Spleen green sickness Asparagi Of Sparagus or Sperage they are temperate in quality opening they provoke urine and cleanse the reins and bladder being boyled in white wine and the wine drunk Asphodeli Hastae Regiae foem Of Kings spear or foemale Asphodel I know no physical use of the Roots probably there is for I do not beleeve God created any thing of no use Asphodeli Albuci maris of male Asphodel Hot and and dry in the second degree Inwardly taken they provoke vomit urine and the terms in women outwardly used in Oyntments they cause hair to grow clense Ulcers take away Morphew and Freckles from the face Bardanae c. Of
Rad. Of the Roots of Smallage Take notice here That the Barks both of this Root as also of Parsly Fennel c. is all that of the root which is in use neither can it properly be called Bark for it is all the Root the hard pith in the middle excepted which is alwaies thrown away when the roots are used It is something hotter and drier than Parsly and more medicinal it opens stoppings provokes urin helps digestion expels wind and warms a cold stomach use them like Grass Roots Avellanarum Of Hazel The rind of the tree provokes Urine breaks the Stone the husks anp shels of the Nuts dried and given in pouder stay the immoderat flux of the terms in women Aurantiorum Of Orrenges Both these and also Lemmons and Citrons are of different qualities the outward bark viz. what looks red is hot and dry the white is cold and moist the juyce colder than it the seeds hot and dry the outward bark is that which here I am to speak to it is somewhat hotter than that either of Lemmons or Citrons therefore it warms a cold stomach more and expels wind better but it strengthens not the heart so much Berber c. Barberries The rind of the tree according to Clusius being steeped in Wine and the Wine drunk purgeth Choller and is a singular remedy for the yellow Jaundice Boil it in white Wine and drink it See the Directions at the beginning Cassia Lignea c. It is something more oyly than Cinnamon yet the vertues being not much different I refer you thither Capparis Rad. Of Caper Roots See the Roots Castanearum Of Chestnuts The bark of the Chestnut tree is dry and binding and stops Fluxes Cinnamomum Cinnamom and Cassia Lignea Are hot and dry in the second degree strengthens the stomach helps digestion causeth a sweet breath resists poyson provokes urin and the terms causeth speedy delivety to women in travel helps Coughs and Defluxions of humors upon the Lungs Dropsies and difficulty of Urin. In Ointments it takes away red pimples and the like deformities from the face There is scarce a better remedy for women in labor than a drachm of Cinnamon newly beaten into pouder and taken in white Wine Citrij Of Pome Citrons The outward pill which I suppose is that which is meant here It strengthens the heart resists poyson amends a stinking breath helps digestion comforts a cold stomach Ebuli Rad. Of the Roots of Dwarf-Elder or Walwort See the Roots Enulae Of Elecampane See the Roots Esulae Rad. See the Roots Fabarum Of Beans Bean Cods or Pods as we in Sussex call them being burned the ashes are a sovereign remedy for aches in the joints old 〈◊〉 Gouts and Sciaticaes Foenicull Rad. Of Fennel Roots See the Roots and remember the Observation given in Smallage at the beginning of the Barks Fraxini Rad. Of the Bark of Ash tree Roots That the vertue lies only in the Bark of the Root I suppose it to be only nicety but the Bark of the tree helps the Rickets is moderately hot and dry staies Vomitting being burnt the Ashes made into an ointment helps Leprosie and other deformity of the skin easeth pains of the spleen You may lay the Bark in steep in white Wine for the Rickets and when it hath stood so two or three daies let the diseased Child drink now and then a spoonful of it Granatorum Of Pomegranates The rind or pill cools and forcibly binds staies Fluxes and the Terms in women helps digestion strengthens weak stomachs fastens the teeth and are good for such whose gums wast You may take a drachm of it at a time inwardly Pomegranate flowers are of the same vertue Gatrujaci See the Wood. Juglandium Virid Of green Walnuts As for the outward green bark of Walnuts I suppose the best time to take them is before the Walnuts be shelled at all and then you may take Nuts and all if they may properly be called Nuts at such a time you shall find them exceeding comfortable to the stomach they resist poison and are a most excellent preservative against the Plague inferior to none they are admirable for such as are troubled with Consumptions of the lungues the rich may keep them preserved they that cannot do as they would must be content to do as they may viz. dry them and so keep them Lauri Of the Bay tree See the Root Limonum Of Lemmons The outward pill is of the nature of Citron but held not so effectual how ever let the poor Country man that cannot get the other use this Mandragorae Rad. Be pleased to look back to the Root Myrobalanorum Of Myrobalans See the Fruits Macis Of Mace It is hot in the third degree strengthens the stomach and heart exceedingly and helps concoction Maceris c. It is held to be the inner bark of Nutmeg-tree helps fluxes and spitting of blood Petroselini Rad. Of Parsly Roots opens obstructions provokes urine and the terms warms a cold stomach expells wind and breaks the stone use them as Grass Roots and take out the inner pith as you were taught in Smallage roots Prunelli Silvestris Of Sloe-tree I know no use of it Pinearum putaminae Pine-shucks or husks I suppose they mean of the cones that hold the seeds both those and also the bark of the tree stop fluxes and help the lungues Querci Of Oak-tree Both the Bark of the Oak and Acorn Cups are drying and cold binding stop fluxes and the terms as also the running of the reins have a care how you use them before due purging Rhaphani Of Radishes I could never see any bark they had Suberis Of Cork It is good for something else besides to stop bottles being dry and binding stancheth blood helps fluxes especially the ashes of it being burnt Sambuci c. Of 〈◊〉 Roots and Branches purgeth water helps the dropsie Cort. Medius Tamaricis The middle Bark of Tamaris easeth the Spleen helps the Rickets you may use them as Ash-tree Bark Tilliae Of Line-tree Boyled the water helps burnings Thuris Of Frankincense I must plead Ignoramus Ulmi Of Elm. Moderately hot and clensing very good for wounds burns and broken bones viz. boyled in water and the greived place bathed with it WOODS and their CHIPS OR RASPINGS A Gallochus Lignum Aloes Wood of Aloes is moderately hot and dry a good Cordial a rich Perfume a great strengthener to the stomach Aspalathus Rose-wood There are diverse Bushes called by the name of Aspalathus But because the Colledge have set it down amongst the Wood I suppose they mean the Tree It is moderately hot and dry stops loosness provokes urin and is excellent to clense filthy ulcers Bresilium Brassil All the use I know of it is to dye Cloath and Leather and make red Ink. Buxus Box. Many Physitians have written of it but no physical vertue of it I suppose the Colledg quoted it only as a word of course Cypressus Cypress The Wood laid
the green Olives cool and bind English-Currance cool the stomach and are profitable in acute feavers they quench thirst resist vomiting cool the heat of choller provoke appetite and are good for hot complexions Services or as we in Sussex call them Checkers are of the nature of Medlars but something weaker in operation Barberries quench thrist cool the heat of choller resist the pestilence stay vomiting and fluxes stop the terms kill worms help spitting of blood fasten the teeth and strengthen the gums Strawberries cool the stomach liver and blood but are very hurtful for such as have agues Winter-Cherries potently provoke urine and break the stone Cassia-fistula is temperate in quality gently purgeth choller and flegm clarrifies the blood resists feavers clenseth the breast and lungues it cools the reins and thereby resisteth the breeding of the stone it provokes urine and therefore is exceeding good for the running of the reins in men and the whites in women All the sorts of Myrobalans purge the stomach the Indian Myrobalans are held to purge melancholly most especially the other slegm yet take heed you use them not in stoppings of the bowels they are cold and dry they all strengthen the heart brain and sinnews strengthens the stomach releeve the sences take away tremblings and heart-qualms They are seldom used alone Prunes are cooling and loosning Tamarinds are cold and dry in the second degree they purge choller cool the blood stay vomiting help the yellow Jaundice quench thrist cool hot stomachs and hot livers I omit the use of these also as resting confident a child of three yeers old if you should give it Raisons of the sun or Cherries would not ask how it should take them SEEDS OR GRAINS COriander seed hot and dry expels wind but is hurtful to the head send up unwholsom vapors to the brain dangerous for mad people therefore let them be prepared as you shall be taught towards the latter end of the Book Fenugreek seeds are of a softening discussing nature they cease inflamations be they internal or external bruised and mixed with vineger they ease the pains of the Spleen being applied to the sides help hardness and swellings of the matrix being boyled the decoction helps scabby heads Linseed hath the same vertues with Fenugreek Gromwel-seed provokes urine helps the chollich breaks the stone and expels wind Boyl them in white Wine but bruise them first Lupines easeth the pains of the spleen kils worms and casts them out outwardly they clense filthy ulcers and Gangrenes help scabs itch and inflamations Dill seed encreaseth milk in Nurses expels wind staies vomitings provokes urine yet it duls the sight and is an enemy to generation Smallage seed provokes urin and the terms expels wind resists poysons and easeth inward pains it opens stoppings in any part of the body yet it is hurtful for such as have the falling sickness and for women with child Rocket seed provokes urine stirs up lust encreaseth seed kills worms easeth the pains of the spleen use all these in like manner Basil seed If we may beleeve Dioscorides and Crescentius cheers the heart and strengthens a moist stomach drives away melancholly and provokes urine Nettle seed provokes lust opens stoppages of the womb helps inflamations of the sides and lungues purgeth the breast boyl them being bruised in White Wine also The seeds of Ammi or Bishopsweed heat and dry help difficulty of urine and the pains of the chollick the bitings of venemous beasts they provoke the terms and purge the womb Annis seeds heat and dry ease pain expel wind cause a sweet breath help the dropsie resist poyson breed milk and stop the whites in women provoke lust and ease the headach Cardamoms heat kill worms clense the reins and provoke urine Fennel seeds break wind provokes urine and the terms encreaseth milk in Nurses Commin seeds heat bind and dry stop blood expel wind ease pain help the bitings of venemous beasts outwardly applied viz in plaisters they are of a discussing nature Carrot seeds are windy provoke lust exceedingly and encrease seed provoke urine and the terms cause speedy delivery to women in travel and bring away the after-birth All these also may be boyled in White Wine Nigella seeds boyled in oyl and the forehead anointed with it ease pains in the head take away leprosie itch scurff and hepls scald-heads inwardly taken they expel worms they provoke urine and the terms help difficulty of breathing the smoke of them being burned drives away Serpents and venemous beasts Stavesager kills Lice in the head I hold it not fitting to be given inwardly The seeds of water-cresses heat yet trouble the stomach and belly ease the pains of the spleen are very dangerous for women with child yet they provoke lust outwardly applied they help leprosies scald-heads and the falling off of hair as also Carbuncles and cold ulcers in the joynts Mustard seed heats extenuates and draws moisture from the brain the head being shaved and anointed with Mustard is a good remedy for the lethargy it helps filthy ulcers and hard swellings in the mouth it helps old aches coming of cold French Barly is cooling nourishing and breeds milk Sorrel seeds potently resist poyson helps fluxes and such stomachs as loath their meat Succory seed cools the heat of the blood extinguisheth lust openeth stoppings of the liver and bowels it allaies the heat of the body and produceth a good colour it strengthens the stomach liver and reins Poppy seeds ease pain provoke sleep Your best way is to make an Emulsion of them with Barly-water Mallow seeds ease pains in the bladder Cich-Pease are windy provoke lust encrease milk in Nurses provoke the terms outwardly they help scabs itch and inflamations of the stones ulcers c. White-Saxifrage seeds provoke urine expel wind and break the stone Boyl them in white Wine Rue seeds help such as cannot hold their water Lettice seed cool the blood restrains lust Also Gourds Citruls Cucumers Mellons Purslain and Endive Seeds cool the blood as also the stomach spleen and reins and allay the heat of feavers Use them as you were taught to do Poppy seeds Wormseed expels wind kills worms Ash-tree Keyes ease pains in the sides help the dropsie releeve men weary with labor provoke lust and make the body lean Peony seeds help the Ephialtes or the disease the vulgar call the Mare as also the fits of the mother and other such like infirmites of the womb stop the terms and help Convulsions Broom seed potently provoke urine breaks the stone Citron seeds strengthen the heart cheer the vital spirit resist pestilence and poyson TEARS LIQUORS AND ROZINS LAdanum is of a heating molifying nature it opens the mouth of the veins staies the hair from falling off helps pains in the ears and hardness of the womb It is used only outwardly in 〈◊〉 Asa foetida is commonly used to allay the fits of the mother by smelling to it they say inwardly taken it provokes lust and expels
shall not burden their consciences they may make the Herb into a Conserve with Sugar or boyl it in Wine and drink the Decoction or make the Juyce into a Syrup with Sugar which they will But to proceed Herbs breed seed Clary Rocket and most Herbs that are hot and moist and breed Wind. Provokes the Terms Southernwood Garlick al the sorts of Maidenhair Mugwort Wormwood Bishopsweed Cabbages Bettony Centaury Chamomel Calaminth Germander Dodder Dittany Fennel St. Johns-wort Marjoram Horehound Bawm Water-cresses Origanum Basil Penyroyal Poley-mountain Parsly smallage Rue Rosemary Sage Savin Hartwort Time Mother of Time Scordium Nettles Stop the Terms Shepheards-purse strawberries Mirtles Water-Lillies Plantane Housleek or sengreen Comfry Knotgrass Resist Poyson Southernwood Wormwood Garlick al sorts of Maiden-hair smallage Betony Carduus Benedictus Germander Calaminth Alexanders Carline thistle Agrimony Fennel Juniper Horehound Origanum Penyroyal Poley-mountain Rue scordium Plantane Discuss swellings Maiden-hair Cleavers or Goosgrass Mallows Marshmallows Docks Bawm Water-cresses Cinkfoyl scordium c. Ease pain Dil Wormwood Arrach Chamomel Calaminth Chamepitys Henbane Hops Hogs Fennel Parsly Rosemary Rue Marjoram Mother of Time Herbs Purging Choller Groundsel Hops Peach Leaves Wormwood Centaury Mallows senns Melancholly Ox-eye Epithimum Futhitory senna Dodder Flegm and Water Briony white and black spurge both work most violently and are not therefore fit for a vulgar use Dwarf Elder Hedg Hysop Laurel Leaves Mercury Mezereon also purgeth violently and so doth 〈◊〉 Elder Leaves senna For the particular operations of these as also how to order the body after purges the quantity to be taken at a time you have been in part instructed already and shal be more fully hereafter The FLOWERS which the Colledg acquaints you with the Latin names of only are these Colledg VV Ormwood Agnus Castus Amaranthus Dill Rosemary Columbines Orrenges Balaustins or Pomegranate flowers Betony Borrage Bugloss Marigolds Woodbine or Honey suckles Clove gilliflowers Centaury the less 〈◊〉 winter-gilliflowers or Walflowers succory Comfry the greater saffron Blewbottle great and small Cynosbatus Tragus and Dedonaeus hold our white thorn to be it Cordus and Marcellus think it to be Bryars and Lugdunensis takes for the sweet Bryar but what our Colledg takes it for I know not Cytinus Dioscorides calleth the Flowers of the Manured Pomgranates Cytinus but Pliny calleth the Flowers of the wild kind by that name Fox gloves Vipers Bugloss Rocket Eye-bright Beans Fumitory Broom Cowslips St. Johns-wort Hysop Jasmine or shrub Trefoyl Archangel or dead Nettles white and red Lavender Walflowers or Winter-gilliflowers Privet Lillies white and of the vally Hops Comon and tree Mallows Featherfew Woodbine or Honeysuckles Melilot Bawm Walnuts Water-Lillies white and yellow Origanum Poppies white and red or erratick Poppies or corn Roses so called because they grow amongst Corn Peony Honey-suckles or Woodbine Peach-flowers Prim-roses self-heal sloebush Rosemary flowers Roses white Damask and red sage E lder white saxifrage scabious siligo I think they mean wheat by it Authors are not agreed about it stoechas Tamaris Tansy Mullen or Higtaper Line-tree Clove-Gilli-flowers Colts-foot Violets Agnus Castus dead-Nettles white and red That these may be a little explained for the Publique good be pleased to take notice that of these Some are hot in the first degree as Borrage Bugloss Betony Ox-eye Melilot Chamomel stoechas Hot in the second degree Amomus saffron Clove-gilli-flowers Rocket Bawm spicknard Hops schenanth Lavender Jasmine Rosemary In the third degree Agnus Castus Epithimum Winter-gilli-flowers or Wal-flowers Woodbine or Honey-suckles Cold in the first degree Mallows Roses red white and Damask Violets In the second 〈◊〉 or wind-flower Endive succory Water-Lillies both white and yellow In the third Balaustins or Pomegranate flowers In the Fourth Henbane-and all the sorts of Poppies only whereas Authors say field Poppies which some call red others erratick and corn Roses are the coldest of all the others yet my opinion is that they are not cold in the fourth degree Moist in the first degree Borrage Bugloss Mallows succory Endive In the second Water-Lillies Violets Dry in the first degree Ox-eye saffron Chamomel Melilot Roses In the second Wind-flower Amomus Clove-gilli-flowers Rocket Lavender Hops Peony Rosemary spicknard In the third Woodbine or Honey-suckles Balaustines Epithimum Germander Chamepitys The Temperature of any other flowers not here mentioned are of the same temperature with the herbs you may gain skil by searching there for them you can lose none For parts of the Body they are apropriated to some heat The Head as Rosemary flowers selt-heal Chamomel Betony Cowslips Lavinder Melilot Peony sage stoechas The Breast Betony Bawm seabious schaenanth The Heart Bawm Rosemary-flowers Borrage Bugloss sasfron spicknard The Stomach Rosemary-flowers spicknard schaenanth The Liver Centaury schaenanth Elder Betony Chamomel spicknard The Spleen Betony Wal-flowers The Reins and Bladder Betony Marshmallows Melilot schaenanth spicknard The Womb Betony squinanth or schaenanth sage Orris or Flower-de-luce The Joynts Rosemary-flowers Cowslips Chamomel Melilot Flowers as they are cooling so they cool The head Violets Roses the three sorts of Poppies and Water-Lillies The breast and heart Violets red-Roses Water-lillies The stomach Red-Roses Violets The Liver and spleen Endive and Succory Violets Botrage and Bugloss moisten the heart Rosemary flowers Bawm and Betony dry it According to property so they Bind Balaustins Saffron succory Endive red-Roses Melilot Bawm Clove-gilliflowers Agnus Castus Discuss Dill Chamomel Marshmallows Mallows Melilot stoechas c. Clense Damask-roses Elder flowers Bean-flowers c. Extenuate Orris or Fower-de-luce Chamomel Melilot stoechas c. Mollify Saffron white Lillies Mallows Marshmallows c. Suppure Saffron white Lillies c. Glutinate Balaustins Centaury c. Provoke the terms Betony Centaury Chamomel Schoenanth Walflowers Bawm Peony Rosemary Sage Stop the terms Balaustins or Pomegranate flowers Water-Lillies Expell wind Dill Chamomel Schoenanth Spicknard Help burnings White Lillies Mallows Marhmallows Resist poyson Betony Centaury Ease pain Dill Chamomel Centaury Melilot Rosemary Flowers purge Choller Peach flowers Damask Roses Violets Flegm Broom flowers Elder flowers If you compare but the quallities of the Flowers with the Herbs and with the Explanation of these terms at the latter End you may easily find the temperature and property of the rest As for the vertues of the flowers there were but few quoted before and those very briefly I think the reason was because the Printer was afraid the book would be too big I shall therefore give a supply here to what was wanting there and where I was too briefe there I shall be more large here The Flowers of Ox-eye being boyled into a pultis with a little barly meal take away swellings and hardness of the flesh being applied warm to the place Chamomel flowers heat discuss Loosen and rarifie boyled in Clisters they are excellent in the wind chollick boyled in Wine and the decoction drunk purgeth the reins breaks the stone opens the pores casts out chollerick humors succors the heart and easeth pains and aches or
and eat them whether they be good meat or no I know not but I am sure 't is a good medicine for the biting of Serpents An Oyl made of it is excellent good for the stifness of the Tendons and the falling off of hair Before I come to the Compounds lest any should think I go about to hide from them any thing that might do them good I have here inserted the living Creatures and Excrements c. in the order the Colledg left them for impose them they could not for want of Authority Alack alack the King is dead and the Colledg of Physitians want power to impose the Turds upon men The use of the Fat 's and Suets you shel have if you please but to stay til I come to the Oyls and Oyntments the other which you think not useful for Physick will serve to laugh at the reading of them may make you 〈◊〉 though the smell of them might turn your stomach My self cannot chuse but smile to think in what part of the Apothecaries Shop the Colledg would have them kept they had need place them neer the Civit pot Therefore consider that the Colledg gave the Apothecaries a Catalogue of what Parts of Living Creatures and Excrements they must keep in their Shops Viz. Colledg THE Fat Grease or Suet of a Duck Goose Ecl Bare Herron Thymallos if you know where to get it Dog Capon 〈◊〉 wild Cat Stork Coney Horse Hedg-hog Hen Man Lyon Hare Pike or 〈◊〉 if they have any fat I am 〈◊〉 't is worth twelve pence a grain Wolf Mouse of the Mountains if you can catch them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Serpent Badger 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 Bear Fox Vultur if you can catch them Album 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Dogs Turd the 〈◊〉 of a Hare and a Hog East and West 〈◊〉 Butter not 〈◊〉 and salted stone taken out of a mans Bladder Vipers flesh fresh Cheese Castorium white yellow and virgins wax the Brain of Hares and Sparrows Crabs claws the Rennet of a Lamb Kid a Hare and a Calf and a Horse too quoth the Colledg They should have put in the Rennet of ah Ass to make a Medicine for their adle brains the next time they alter their Dispensarory let them go take council of the Butchers and allow them a place in their Colledg-Garden in Amen-Corner as they have done their learned Alchymist truly they would have knocked down such an Earor like an Ox and told them no creatures had Rennets but only such as sucked to proceed The Heart of a Bullock a Stag a Hog and a Weather the Horn of an Elk a Hart a Rhinocerot an Unicorn the skull of a Man killed by a violent death a Cocks comb to hang upon their learned heads the Tooth of a Bore an Elephant and a Sea-horse Ivory or Elephants Tooth the skin a Snake hath cast off the gall of a Hawk Bullock a shee Goat a Hare a Kite a Hog a Bull a Bear the cases of Silk-worms the Liver of a Wolf an Otter a Frog Ising-glass the guts of a Wolf and a Fox the milk of a shee Ass a shee Goat a Woman an Ewe a Heifer East and West Bezoar the stone in the head of a Carp and a Pearch if there be any stone in an Ox Gall stone in the Bladder of a Man the Jaw of a Pike or Jack Pearls the marrow of the Leg of a Sheep Ox Goat Stag Calf common and virgin Honey Musk Mummy a Swallows nest Crabs eyes the Omentum or Call of a Lamb Ram Weather Calf the whites yolks and shells of Hens Egs Emets Egs bone of a Stags Heart an Ox Leg Ossepiae the inner skin of a Hens Gizzard the Wool of Hares the feathers of Partridges that which Bees make at the entrance of the Hive to keep out cold if they make any thing at all for I assure you I could never find any yet and have been a diligent searcher after it the pizzle of a Stag of a Bull Fox Lungues fasting spittle the blood of a Pidgeon of a Cat of a hee Goat of a Hare of a Partridg of a Sow of a Bull of a Badger of a Snail they might have been a little plainer Testudo which is their word signifies any shell-fish as also snails that have shels on their backs any thing will serve to cheat the people with Silk Whey the suet of a Bullock of a Stag of a hee Goat of a Sheep of a Heiser Sperma 〈◊〉 a Bullocks Spleen the skin a Snake hath cast off the Turds of a Goose of a Dog of a Goat of Pidgeons of a stone-horse of a Hen of Swallows of Men of Women of Mice of Peacocks of a Hog of a Heiser the Ancle of a Hare of a Sow Cobwebs Water shels as Blatta Bizantia Buccinae Crabs Cockles Dentalis Entalis mother of Pearl Mytuli purpurae Os sepiae Umbilicus Marinus the stones of a Horse of a Cock the hoof of an Elk of an Ass of a Bullock of a Horse of a Lyon the piss of a Bore of a shee Goats of a Man or Woman that is a Maid and that is not a Maid the Moss on a Mans skull Zibeth Culpeper A. The Liver of a Hedg-hog being dried and beaten into pouder and drunk with Wine strengthens the Reins exceedingly and helps the dropsie convulsions and the Falling-sickness together with all fluxes of the Bowels The Liver being in like manner brought into pouders strengthens the Liver exceedingly and helps the dropsie The Heart of a Frog being applied to the Region of the Heart in a burning Feaver mitigates the fits to admiration The Heart of a Lark being bound to the Thigh of those that have the Chollick helps them it doth the like also being eaten Then the Colledge tells you these things may be taken from the SEA As Coll. AMber-greese Sea water Sea sand Bitumen Amber white and yellow Jet Carallinae Corral white and red Fome of the Sea Spunge stone Pumice Sea salt Spunges Amber METTALS STONES SALTS and other MINERALS VErt-de-greese scales of Brass Aetitis Alana Terra Alabaster Alectorious Allum Scisile and Roch Amethist Amianth Ampheliles Antimony Leaves and filings of Silver Quick-silver Lapis Armenius native Arsenick both white and red artifieial Arsnick white and realgar Argilla Asteria Leaves and filings of Gold Belemnites Beril Bole-armenick Borax Toads-stone Lapis Calaminaris Cadmia Lime quick and quenched Vitriol white blew and green Steel Borax 〈◊〉 Crysopus Cinabaris native and artificial whetstones Chalk white and green Cristal Diphriges the rust dust scales and flakes of Iron Granate Morter such as walls are daubed with Hematites Heliotropium Jacinth Hibernicus Jasper Lapis Judaicus Tiles Lapis Lazuli Lapis Lincis 〈◊〉 Litharge of Silver and Gold Loadstone Marchasite or fire-stone Marble red Lead native and artificial Myst Naphtha Lapis Nephriticus Niter Oaker yellow and red Onyx Opalus Ophytes Osteocolla Lead white and black Plumbago Pompholix Marchasite realgar Ruby red Oaker Sal Armoniack Sal Gem and Sal Niter Saphir and Sardine Selenites
few it were easily answered They did it in Latin to animate people to bring up their children to learning which is a thing I wish from my heart were done what the Colledg doth I know not 2. Because they have here left out some Oyntments the use of which they would not have the Chyrurgians know the most part of which are no Scholars the more is the pity and that they know well enough it were a brave trick if they could catch old birds with chaff KIND READERS THE Right VVorshipful the Colledg of Physitians of London in their new Dispensatory give you free leave to distill these common VVaters that follow but they never intended you should know what they are good for SIMPLE DISTILLED WATERS Of Fresh Roots of BRiony Onions Alicampane Orris or Flower-de-luce Turneps Of Flowers and Buds of Southernwood both sorts of Wormwood Wood-sorrel Ladies-Mantle Marsh-mallows Angelica Pimpernel with purple flowers Smallage Columbines Sparagus Mousear Borrage Shepheards-purse Calaminth wood-bine or Honey-suckles Carduus Benedictus our Ladies thistles Knotgrass Succory Dragons Coltsfoot Fennel Goats-rue Grass Hysop Lettice Lovage Toadflax Hops 〈◊〉 Mallows Horehound Feathersew Bawm Mints Horsemints Water-cresses English Tobacco white Poppies Pellitory of the wall Parsly Plantane 〈◊〉 Self-heal Penyroyal Oak Leaves Sage Scabious Figwort or Throatwort Housleek or 〈◊〉 the greater and lesser Mother of Time Nightshade Tansie 〈◊〉 Valerian Of Flowers of Orrenges if you can get them Blew-bottle the greater Beans Water-lillies Lavender Nut-tree Cowslips Sloes Rosemary Roses white 〈◊〉 and red Satyrion Line-tree Clove-gilliflowers Violets Of Fruits of Orrenges black cherries 〈◊〉 Quinces Cucumers Strawberries Winter Cherries Lemmons Rasberries unripe Walnuts Apples Of parts of living creatures and their Excrements Lobsters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Snails 〈◊〉 Bullocks dung made in May Swallows Earthworms Magpies spawm of Frogs SIMPLE WATERS DISTILLED being digested beforehand Of the fresh Roots of Nettles Of the Leaves of Agrimony Wild Tansie or Silverweed Mugwort Betony Marigolds Chamomel Chamepitis Sullondine Pilewort Scurvy grass Comfry the greater Dandelyon Ashtree leaves Eyebright Fumitory Alehoof or ground Ivy Horstail St. Johns wort Yarrow Moneywort Restharrow Solomons seal Ros solis Rue Savin Saxifrage Hartstongue Scordium Tamaris Mullin Vervain Pauls Betony Mead sweet Nettles Of the Flowers of Mayweed Broom Cowslips Butter-bur Peony Elder Of the Berries of Broom Elder Culpeper A. Then the Colledg gives you an Admonition concerning distilling these such a one as it is which being converted into your native language is as followeth We give you warning that these common waters be better prepared for time to come either in common stills putting gaod store of Ashes underneath the Roots and Herbs being dryer c. Or if they be full of Juyce by distilling the Juyce in aconvenient Bath that so burning may be avoided which hitherto hath seldom been But let the other Herbs Flowers or Roots be bruised and by adding Tartar common Salt or Leven be digested then putting spring water to them distill them in an Alembick with his refrigeratory or Worm till the change of the tast shew the vrtue to be drawn off then let the Oyl if any be be seperated from the Water according 〈◊〉 Into the number of these Waters may be ascribed The Teares of Vines The Liquor of the birch tree May dew Culpeper A. That my Country may receive the benefit of these Waters I shall first shew the Temperatures secondly the vertu es of the most usual most easie to come by If any should take exceptions that I mention not all for itis imposible to write to please every body I answer first I me ntion enough secondly Who ever makes this objection they shew extream ingratitude for had I mentioned but only one I had revealed more to them than ever the Colledg intended they should know or con me thanks for doing but the best is I respect their love and fear their hatred much at one The quallities and apropriation of the simple distilled Waters Simple distilled Waters either cool or heat Such as cool either cool the blood or Choller Waters cooling the blood Lettice Purslain Water-Lillies Violets Sorrel Endive Succory Fumitory Waters cooling and repressing chollerick humors or vapors in the head Nightshade Lettice Water-Lillies Plantane Poppies viz. The flowers both of white black and red Poppies black Cherries The breast and lungues Violets Poppies all three sorts Colts-foot In the heart Sorrel Quinces Water-Lillies Roses Violets green or unripe Walnuts In the stomach Quinces Roses Violets Nightshade Housleek or Sengreen Lettice Purslain In the River Endivc Succory Nightshade Purslain Water Lillies In the Reins and bladder Endive Succory winter Cherries Plantane Water-Lillies Strawberries Housleek or Sengreen black Cherriea In the Womb. Endive Succory Lettice Water-Lillies Purslain Roses Simple Waters which are hot concoct either flegm or Melancholly Waters concocting flegm in the Head are of Betony Sage Marjoram Chamomel Fennel Calaminth Rosemary flowers Primroses Eye-bright In the Breast and Lungues Maidenhair Betony Hysop Hore-hound Carduus Bnedictus Scabious Orris or Flower-de-luces Bawm Self-heal c. In the heart Bawm Rosemary In the stomach Wormwood Mints Fennel Chervil Time mother of Time Marigolds In the Liver Wormwood Centaury Origanum Marjoram Maudlin Costmary Agrimony Fennel In the Spleen Water-cresses Wormwood Calaminth In the reins and bladder Rocket Nettles 〈◊〉 Pellitory of the wall Alicampane Burnet In the Womb. Mugwort Calaminth Peny-royal Savin mother of Time Lovage Waters concocting Melancholly in the head are of Hops Fumitory The Breast Bawm Carduus Benedictus The Heart Borrage Bugloss Bawm Rosemary The Liver Endive Cichory Hops The Spleen Dodder Harts-tongue Tamaris Time Having thus ended the apropriation I shall speak breifly of the vertues of distilled Waters Lettice Wat er cools the blood when it is overheated for when it is not it needs no cooling it cools the head and Liver staies hot vapors ascending to the head and hi ndring sleep it quencheth immoderate thirst and breeds milk in nurses Distill it in May. Purslain Water cools the blood and Liver quencheth thirst helps such as spit blood have hot coughs or pestilences The distilled Water of water Lilly-Flowers cools the blood and the bowels and al internal parts of the body helps such as have the yellow Jaundice hot coughs or pleuresies the headach coming of heat feavers pestilential and not pestilential as also hectick feavers The Water of Violet flowers cools the blood the heart Liver and Lungnes overheated and quencheth an insatiable desire of drinking they are in their prime about the latter end of March or begining of April according as the year fals out The Water of Sorrel cools ths blood heart Liver and spleen if Venis Treacle be given with it it is profitable in pestilential feavers distil it in May. Endive and Succory Water are excellent against heat in the stomach If you take an ounce of either for their operation is the same morning and evening four daies one after another they cool the
Liver and clense the blood they are in their prime in May. Fumitory Water is usual with the City Dames to wash their faces with to take away morphew freckles and Sunburning inwardly taken it helps the yellow Jaundice and Itch clenseth the blood provokes sweat strengthens the stomach and clenseth the body of adust humors It is in its prime in May and June The Water of Nightshade helps pains in the head coming of heat take heed you distill not the deadly Nightshade instead of the common if you do you may make mad work let such as have not wit enough to know them asunder have wit enough to let them both alone til they do The Water of white Poppies extinguisheth al heat 〈◊〉 nature helps headaches coming of heat and too long standing in the Sun Distil them in June or July Colts-foot Watar is excellent for burns to wash the place with it inwardly taken it helps Phthisicks and other diseases incident to the lungues Distil them in May or June The Water of distilled Quinces strengthens the heart and stomach exceedingly staies vomiting and fluxes and strengthens the retentive faculty in man Demask Rose-water cools comsorts and strengthens the heart so doth red Rose-water only with this difference the one is binding the other loosening if your body be costive use Damask Rose-water because it is loosening if loose use red because it is binding White Rose-water is generally known to be excellent against hot rhewms and inflamations in the eyes and for this it is better than the former The Water of Red Poppy flowers called by many Corn-roses because they grow so freequently amongst corn cool the blood and spirits overheated by drinking or labor and is therefore excellent for surfets Green Walnuts gathered about the latter end of June or beginning of July and bruiled and so stilled strengthens the heart and resisteth the pestilence Plantane Water helps the headach being dropped into the ear it helps the toothach helps the Phthisick dropsie and fluxes and is an admirable remedy for 〈◊〉 in the reins and bladder to be used as common drink the herb is in its prime in May. Strawberry Water cooleth quencheth thirst clarifieth the blood breaks the stone helps al inward inflamations especially those in the reins bladder and passages of the urine it strengthens the Liver and helps the yellow Jaundice The distilled Water of Dog-grass or couch-grass as some cal it clenseth the 〈◊〉 gallantly and provokes urine opens 〈◊〉 of the Liver and spleen and kils worms Black Cherry Water provokes urine helps the dropsie It is usually given in diseases of the brain as convulsions falling sickness palsey and Apoplexy Betony is in its prime in May the distilled Water thereof is very good for such as are pained in their heads it prevails against the dropsie and al sorts of feavers it succors the Liver and spleen and helps want of digestion and evil disposition of the body thence arising it hastens travail in women with child and is excellent against the bitings of venemous beasts Distil Sage whilest the slowers be on it the Water strengthens the brain provokes the terms helps nature much in al its actions Marjoram is in its prime in June the distilled Water is excellent for such whose brains are too cold it provokes urine heats the womb provokes the terms strengthens the memory and helps the judgment causeth an able brain and therefore I commend it to the Colledg of Physitians Distil Chamomel Water about the beginning of June It easeth the chollick and pains in the belly it breaks the stone in the reins and bladder provokes the terms expels the dead child and takes away pains in the head Fennel water strengthens the heart and brain dilates the breast helps the cough provokes the terms encreaseth milk in nurses and if you wash your eyes with it it cleers the sight Calaminth Water hea t s and clenseth the womb provokes the terms and easeth the pains of the head distil it in May. The Distilled water of Rosemary slowers helps such as are troubled with the yellow Jaundice Asthma it clenseth the blood helps concoction strengthens the brain and body exceedingly Waters of the flowers of Lillies of the valley strengthens the brain and all the sences The water 〈◊〉 Cowslip flowers helps the palsey and thence they obtained the name Paralysis takes away pains in the head the vertigo and megrim and are exceeding good for women with child The eyes being washed every morning with Eyebright water most strangely cleers and strengthens the sight Maidenhair distilled in May the water clenseth both Liver and Lungues clarifies the blood and break the stone Hysop water clenseth the Lungues of flegm helps Coughs and Asthmaes distill it in August The water of Hore-hound helps the Cough and straitness of the breast it strengthens the breast Lungues and stomach and Liver distil it in June Carduus water succors the head strengthens the memory helps such as are troubled with vertigoes and quartan agues it provokes sweat strengthens the heart and is good in pestilences and all other feavers of choller it is in its prime in May and June Scabious water helps pleuresies and pains and prickings in the sides Apostthemes Coughs pestilence and straitness of the breast Water of Flower-de-luce is very profitable in dropsies an ounce being drnnk continually morning and evening as also pains and torments in the bowels Bawm water distilled in May restores memory when it is lost it quickens al the sences strengthens the brain heart and stomach causeth a merry mind and a sweet breath The water of Comfry sodders broken bones being drunk helps ruptures outwardly it stops the bleeding of wounds they being washed with it Wormwood water distilled cold about the end of May heats and strengthens the stomach helps concoction staies vomiting kills worms in the stomach and bowels it mitigates the pains in the teeth and is profitably given in feavers of Choller Mint water strengthens the stomach helps concoction and 〈◊〉 vomiting distil it in the latter end of May or beginning of June as the year is in forwardness or backwardness observe that in all the rest Chervil water distilled about the end of May helps ruptures breaks the stone dissolves congealed blood strengthens the heart and stomach The water of Mother of Time strengthens the brain and stomach gets a man a good stomach to his victuals provokes urine and the terms heats the womb it is in its prime about the end of June The water of Marigold flowers is apropriated to most cold diseases of the head Eyes and stomach they are in their vigor when the Sun is in the Lion Distilled water of Centaury comforts a cold stomach helps in feavers of choller which the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it kills worms and provokes appetite to victuals Maudlin and Costmary water distilled in May or June strengthens the Liver helps the yellow 〈◊〉 opens obstructions and helps the dropsie
Purstain Plantane Ambrosia Pauls Betony of each a pound Hogs blood white Wine of each four pound Garden Snails two pound dried Tobacco Leaves eight pouder of Liquor is two ounces of Alicampane half an ounce of Orris an ounce Cotton seeds an ounce and 〈◊〉 half the greater cold seeds Annis seeds of each six drachms Saffron one drachm the flowers of red Roses six pugils of Violets and Borrage of each four 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them three daies warm and then distill them in a glass still in sand Culpeper It purgeth the lungues of flegm and helps consumptions there If you should happen to live where no beetter nor readier Medicine can be gotten you may use this Aqua Scordii Composita Page 29. in the L. Book Or Compound Water of Scordium The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Goats-rue Sorrel Scordium Citrons of each one pound London Treacle half a pound steep it three daies and distill it in sand Culpeper A. A tasterful taken in the morning preserves from ill airs Aqua Mariae Page 39. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Sugar candy a pound Canary Wine six ounces Rose water sour ounces boylit well into a Syrup and ad to it Imperial Water two pound Ambergreese Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fitfeen grains yellow Sanders infused in Imperial water two drachms make ae cleer water of it Culpeper A. The difference between this and their former Aqua Mariae is this Here they appoint Imperial Water and before Aqua 〈◊〉 which they very subtilly have left out here any tooth good Barber so we may hold up our honor and gains Both Receipts are very costly as far beyond the reach of a poor mans purse as of his brains Aqua Papaveris Composita Page 39. in L. Book Or Poppy Water Compound The Colledg Take of red Poppies four pound sprinkle them with white Wine two pound then distill them in a common still let the distilled Water be powred upon fresh flowers and repeated three times to which distilled water ad two Nutmegs sliced red Poppy flowers a pugil Sugar two ounces set it in the Sun to give it a pleasing sharpness if the sharpness be more than you would have it put some of the same water to it which was not set in the Sun and then it will be a pretty water good for nothing Aqua Juglandium Composita Page 40. in L. Book Or Walnut Water Compound The Colledg Take of green Walnuts a pound and an half Rhadish roots one pound green Asarabacea six ounces Rhadish seeds four ounces let all of them being bruised be steeped in three pound of white Wine for three daies then distilled in a leaden still till they be dry And when you have done so I pray ask the Colledg what it is good for in truth I know not Some Waters kind country men the Colledg have plaid the men and left out in their new Dispensatory which were in their old one and they are these Mathiolus his Bezoar Water The Colledg Take of Mathiolus his great Antielote Syrup of Citron Pills of each one pound spirit of Wine distilled five times over five pound put all these in a glass that is much to big to hold them stop it close that the spirit fly not out then shake it together that the Electuary may be well mingled with the Spirit so let it stand a month shaking it together twice a week for the Electuary will settle to the bottom The month being ended powr off the cleer water into another glass to be kept for your use stopping it very close with wax and Parchment else the strength will easily fly away in vapors Culpeper A. Mathiolus is very large in commendation of this Water for quoth he four drachms that is half an ounce of this water being taken either by it self or in the like quantity of good Wine or any other Cordial Water so absolutely and speedily cureth the bitings of any venemous beasts whatsoever that although the danger of death be such that the patient have lost his speech sight and almost all the rest of his sences yet will he be rouzed up like a man out of his sleep to the wonderful admiration of the beholders which he saith he hath proved a thousand times It draws away poyson from the heart and cures such as have drunk poyson it casts poyson out of the stomach by vomit and helps such as have the pestilence A. For my own particular part thus much I can testifie by experience in the commendations of it I have known it given in acute in peracute feavers with gallant success and also in Consumptions yea in Hecticks and in Galens supposed incurabe Marasmos neither hath it missed the desired effects and therefore out of question it strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and the spirit vital It helps in the falling-sickness apoplexies and convulsion A. And then your own genius will tell you this is fittest for cold complexions cold diseases and such diseases as the heart is most afflicted in It is too hot to be taken alone and half a drachm is the most may be taken at a time Cinnamon Water The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound and an half Spanish Wine twelve pints Infuse the Cinnamon in the Wine twenty four hours then distil them in an 〈◊〉 draw out three pints of strong Waters and small as much as you think sufficient sweeten it with Sugar sufficiently and so keep it for your use Culpeper A. The vertues are the same that Cinnamon it self hath to which I refer you Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound put it into a glass still powring upon it four pints of Rose water a pint and an half of Spanish wine stop the still body close and place it in a warm bath twenty four hours then put on the still-head lute it well and distill it according to art Culpeper A. Mathiolus appoints Wine of Creet four pints and that is all the alteration A. The Authors own Judgment is That it strengthens the brain heart liver stomach lungues spleen and nerves quickens the sight resisteth poyson helpeth bitings by venemous beasts causeth a sweet breath bringeth down the terms in women and hath vertue attenuating opening digesting and strengthening A. The truth is I beleeve it prevails in cold diseases being orderly regulated in quantity according to the nature of the disease the age and strength of the patient and the season of the year have a care of taking too much of it in feavers Cinnamon Water made by Infusion The Colledg Take of Cinnamon bruised four ounces Spirit of Wine two pints infuse them together four daies in a large glass close stopped with Cork and a Bladder shaking the Glass twice a day Dissolve half a pound of white Sugar Candy in a quart of Rose water then mix both these liquors together then put into them four grains of Musk and half a scruple of Ambergreese tied up in a linnen
former did it is not altogether the same for then people would have said they did nothing whereas now 't is apparent they did something though to little purpose It refresheth the vital spirits exceedingly and cheereth both heart and stomach languishing through cold it helps digestion exceedingly and strengthens the whol body You may take a spoonful at a time in a Cordial The Colledg Thus also you may conveniently prepare syrups but only with white Wine of Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds Cloves Nutmegs Ginger c. Syrupus Acetositatis Citriorum Pag. 54. In L. Book O R Syrup of Juyce of Citrons The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Citrons strained without expression and clensed a pound sugar two pound make it into a syrup like syrup of Clove-gilliflowers Culpeper A. It prevails against all diseases proceeding from Choller or heat of blood feavers both pestilential and not pestilential it resisteth poyson cools the blood quencheth thirst cureth the Vertigo or dissiness in the head The Colledg After the same manner is made syrup of Grapes Orrenges Barberries Cherries Quinces Lemmons Woodsorrel Mulberries Sorrel English Currence and other sour Juyces Culpeper A. If you look the Simples you may see the vertues of them they all cool and comfort the heart and strengthen the stomach syrup of Quinces staies vomiting so doth also syrup of Grapes Syrupus Corticum Citriorum Pag. 54. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Citron Pills The Colledg Take of flesh yellow Citron Pills five ounces the Berries of Chermes or the Juyce of them brought over to us two drachms spring water four pound steep them all night boyl them till half be consumed taking off the scum strain it and with two pound and an half of sugar boyl it into a syrup let half of it be without Musk but perfume the other half with three grains of Musk tyed up in a rag Culpeper A. It strengthens the stomach resists poyson strengthens the heart and resists the passions thereof palpitation faintings swoonings it strongthens the vital spirits restores such as are in Consumptions and Hectick Feavers and strengthens nature much You may take a spoonful at a time Syrupus è Coralliis Simplex Pag. 55. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Corral Simple The Colledg Take of red Corral in very fine pouder four ounces dissolve it in clarified Juyce of Barberries in the boat of a bath a pound in a glass well stopped with wax and Cork a digestion being made three or four daies pour off what is dissolved put in fresh clarified Juyce and proceed as before repeat this so osten till all the Corral be dissolved lastly to one pound of this Juyce ad a pound and an half of sugar and boyl it to a syrup gently Syrupus è Coralliis Compositus Pag. 55. In L. Book O R Syrup of Corral Compound The Colledg Take of red Corral six ounces in very fine pouder and levigated upon a marble ad of clarified juyce of Lemmons the flegm being drawn off in a bath sixteen ounces clarified 〈◊〉 of Barberries eight ounces Sharp wine Vinegar and juyce of Wood-sorrel of each six ounces mix them together and put them in a glass stopped with Cork and Bladder shaking it every day till it have digested eight daies in a bath or horsdung then filter it of which take a pound and an half juyce of Quinces half a pound Sugar of Roses twelve ounces make them into a syrup in a bath adding syrup of Clove-gilliflowers sixteen ounces keep it for use omitting the half drachm of Ambergrees and four grains of Musk till the Physitian command it Culpeper A. Syrup of Corral both Simple and Compound restore such as are in Consumptions are of a gallant cooling nature especially the last and very Cordial special good for Hectick feavers it stops fluxes the running of the reins and the whites in women helps such as spit blood and such as have the Falling-sickness it staies the terms in women And indeed it had need be good for somthing for it is exceeding costly Half a spoonful in a morning is enough for the body and it may be too much for the purse Syrupus Cydoniorum Pag. 56. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Quinces The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Quinces clarified six pound boyl it over a gentle fire till half of it be consumed scumming it adding red Wine three pound white sugar four pound boyl it into a syrup to be perfumed with a drachm and an balf of Cinnamon Cloves and Ginger of each two scruples Culpeper A. It strengthens the heart and stomach staies loosness and vomiting releeves languishing nature for loosness take a spoonful of it before meat for vomiting after meat for both as also for the rest in the morning Syrupus de Erysimo Pag. 56. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Hedg-mustard The Colledg Take of Hedgmustard fresh six handfuls the Roots of Alicampane Coltsfoot Liquoris of each two ounces Borrage succory Maiden-hair of each a handful and an half the Cordial Flowers Rosemary and Betony of each half a handful Annis seeds half an ounce Raisons of the Sun stoned two ounces let all of them being prepared according to art be boyled in a sufficient quantity of barley Water and Hydromel with six ounces of juyce of Hedgmustvrd to two pound and an half the which with three pound of sugar boyl into a Syrup according to art Culpeper A. It was invented against cold afflictions of the breast and Lungues as Astmaes hoarceness c. you may take it either with a Liquoris stick or which is better mix an ounce of it with three or four ounces of pectoral decoction and drink it off warm in the morning Syrupus de Fumaria Pag. 56. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Fumitory The Colledg Take of Endive common Wormwood Hops Dodder Hartstongue of each a handful Epithimum an ounce and an half boyl them in four pound of Water till half be consumed strain it and ad the juyce of Fumitory a pound and an half of Borrage and Bugloss of each half a pound white Sugar four pound make them into a Syrup according to art Culpeper A. The Receipt is a pretty concocter of melancholly and therefore a rational help for diseases arising thence both internal and external It helps diseases of the skin as Leprosies Cancers Warts Corns Itch Tetters Ringworms Scabs c. and it is the better to be liked because of its gentleness For in my experience I could never find a violent Medicine do good but ever harm in a Melancholly disease It also strengthens the stomach and liver opens obstructions and is a soveraign remedy for Hypocondriack Melancholly You may ad an ounce of this to the decoction of Epithimum before mentioned and order your body as you were taught there It helps surfets exceedingly clenseth cooleth and strengtheneth the liver and causeth it to make good blood and good blood cannot make bad flesh I commend this Receipt to