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A97281	The Britannian magazine: or, A new art of making above twenty sorts of English wines viz, of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, plums, sloes, damasins, quinces, figgs, goosberries, mulberries, currens, blackberries, elderberries, roses, carnations, cowslips, scurvy-grass, mint, and balm, &c. More pleasant and agreeable to the English constitution than those of France. With the way of making brandy and other spirits: as likewise how to make artificial clarets, rhenish, &c. The second edition. To which is added, the foundation of the art of distillation: or the true and genuine way of making malt into low-wines, proof-spirits, and brandy-wines, compliant to the late act of Parliament concerning distillation. By W.Y. M.D.	Y-Worth, W. (William)	1694 (1694)	Wing Y214; ESTC R230793	82,523	252

proceeding until they are able Gramatically to demonstrate the root of Languages And althô this was originally but as a Mite in Philosophy or as an early born Babe just able to speak the innocent Language yet 't is now so nourished up that it may be said to be grown up to a Manly stature in Art and I am resolved to continue my favourable Aspect to it so as to make it become serviceable to its choicest Friends Therefore O ye Nobles and Gallants of this English World I thought it convenient to let the excellent Spirit amongst you know that we highly accept of your encouraging useful Arts which may be yet in a far higher degree perform'd than hitherto because your Land doth ri●hly abound with such growths and products as few Lands do excel For this Britanish Island brings forth that Chaos from whence ariseth the first Matter and Seed of the Mineral Kingdom out of which all those substantial Glories of the Mineral Kingdom and Medicinal Monarchy which the Philosophers have written of As to the Woollen Manufacturage it helps to cloath the Inhabitants of other Lands As to the Linen Manufacturage established by the Parliament since my last Impression under so honourable a Title gaves me great satisfaction since it is so industriously encouraged I can suppose no other but that it will so flourish as to abound As to Food it is with such great variety of Dishes as is not only sufficient to refresh but also pleasingly to answer the greatest Curiosity that the most difficult Palates may modestly require The like is to be understood concerning Wines and other Liquors which might be brought to a Superabundance and the more especially if the almost Sacred Law of Temperance was but duly regarded A Second Reason that obliged me was That although there was various Books of Distillation extant yet they are now of little service because the Basis they went on is overthrown and the Constitution of Distillation is so altered by the Parliament that no Wares are to be made or Sold but what is Distilled from sound Grain I have therefore offered to the Industrious and honest Minded some Considerations concerning the encouraging and erecting of a Brandy Manufacturage here in England and by such Manudactions we shall not only be able to supply our Defects at home but also upon such good and advantageous grounds that our Wares may become vendible in other Lands to the great advancement of our own and then we might in time expect the wast and Forrests and Hills to be couverted into fenced Fields and pleasant Gardens filled with all such sort of Growths viz. Orchards Vineyards Flax and Hemp Fields according as the natural Soil will best bring forth by this means many thousands of the Poor might be so employ'd as to reform therefrom a much more comfortable substance than otherwise For these and such like reasons was this Book Printed and taken a part from my Chymicus Rationalis which was composed from my serious review of that Art which way in time also see the Light Therefore I thought it● convenient to let the Reader know that as I have come amongst the Lovers of Art and ingenious Men so that Discourse of things of this kind have happen'd that some have been very d sirous that I would first in plain words communicate to them the Re●●ipts contain'd in the subject Matter here Treated of or else that I would be so publick spirited as to Print them Now for substantial Reasons I was not willing to deny both therefore I made choice of the latter for that the former would have attended me with Difficulties and Expence to have obliged the great variety of acquaintance and when this had been done 't would have fall'n short peradventure of satisfying the hundredth part of the Desires of Things of this Nature Therefore as 't is generally Publish'd so I hope 't will accordingly be accepted seeing I recommend not so much my self as those practical Essays in making Artificial Wines from those Growths which to our Knowledge was so fully demonstrated before and if they were it makes nothing against this seeing it is so generally acknowledged that there is nothing so well done but something may be added to it in any Art or Science and more especially in this of Man's Office in the great Field of Nature which if promoted in an acceptable way I have my desir'd Recompence and I shall labour in my Day and Time to be as serviceable as in me lies to the Sons of Men In the Resolutions of which I shall conclude this Introduction Subscribing my Self a Friend and Lover of all Industrious Imprevers of Art under what denomination soever Written and abundantly enlarged by the Author so that the Original Copy that was deliver'd a●● his House at the Collegium Chimicum at Rotterdam is not comparable to it c. And so Subscribes W. Y-WORTH Geboortigh Van Shipham Van Rotterdam Borger Now Resident at London June 6. 1691 at the Academia Spagirica Nova being Professor and Teacher of the said Art in all its parts Vale. THE CONTENTS OR CHIEF HEADS OF THE Ensuing Treatise CHAP. I. OF Vineyards Orchards and their Improvement with the best way of Planting Vineyards and how to make make the Wine with the Vertues that proceed from the Vinor growth in general CHAP. II. The Spagirick Way of dissecting Concrets and the offic●● of Essences in exalting Wine● CHAP. III. The way to make Wines of Apples Pears Peaches Cherries Plums Sloes Damasins Quinces Figgs also from Goosberries Mulberries Currens Blackberries and Elder-berries also from Roses Carnations Cowslips Scurvy-grass Mint and Balm and other Trees Shrubs Flowers and Herbs CHAP. IV. Observations in making Wines and how to make Artificial Wine Artificial Clarets and Rhenish and to make Mead c. with several other usefull receipts CHAP. V. Of the clause in the Act of Parliament concerning Distillation and how the six common Basis's as of Malt Beer Syder the Grounds of Beer and Syder Br●wers-wash Molassos Damnify'd Raisins low and flat Wines are now converted into the three general pillars of Distillation CHAP. VI. Aqua Vitae and English Spirits being made according to the late Act from thence to reduce good and wholsom Brandy little inferior to that of France and several considerations for the incouraging of a Brandy Manufacturage to be Erected here in England SECT II. The Office of these Spirits concerning making Cordial Waters as Cardamum Caraway Angellico Mint Balm Hearts-ease an excellent Plague Water Stomach-Water Irish Usquebaugh Aqua multa series a trible Water SECT III. To Dalcify Colour Refine and perfume Waters for Sale CHAP. VII Of Spirit of Elder Spirit of Scuray-grass and other high Spirits fit for China Japan and Lack Varnish with their several Vses CHAP. VIII A General Treatise of the Original and Nature of Diseases together with their Cure by S●agirick Medicines with an Advertisement concerning the Author 's other Books A Post script containing Rules

and decay'd ones or with the after running of Low Wines warmed and put into a cover'd Hogshead and ferment with Stum a pint to every Galson or for want of that Barme they being truly fermented draw off the Liquor and let the Dreggs be put in a Canvas Bag to press out all the moisture which some perform before they are fermented but however being ready they may be Distill'd as long as strength will come which after 6 or 7 days may be rectified to proof Spirit Observe that Stum which is the Flowers of Wine fermented kept in strong Vessels with Iron Hoops will make an excellent fermentation It is to be observed that from low Wines small Wines and Lees Brandys are made in France and Germany through Fermentation I cannot omit one thing which is too too much practised by the common Distillers in order to make their Spirits seem strong hot and fiery in the Mouth which to accomplish they add in the Distillation a pound or two of Spanish Grains which are sold at the Druggists and these perform their desire but this is little advantageous to the Spirit otherwise than to make it fiery in the Mouth Now these are the subject matters from which low Wines have been drawn hitherto but now the Constitution of Distillation is alter'd and reduced to three material Pillars viz. Well-brew'd Beer without any addition Syder and Perry to which and in which may be included all those Wines made and prepared from any of the growths of England because these have a greater adherence to and more proper for Medicinal use and therefore presented to Physitians Apothecaries and others which being made use will answer their desired end Now I say out of such growths the Customs may be well paid according to the Tenors of the said Act and the French Manufacturage may be considerably detrimented if that Distillation were but rightly encouraged because now all are free or as many as please to labour therein as may be seen by the conclusion of the said Act. Provided also and be it Enacted that all Charters and Letters-Patents already made or hereafter to be made or granted for the sole making of Brandy Spirits 〈◊〉 Strongwaters from Corn or any other sort or in any manner whatsoever as a new Invention or whereby the power and liberty given by this Act to all persons for the Distilling and making Brandy Spirits or Strong-waters from Corn shall be in any manner restrained shall be and are hereby declared and adjudged to be void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever CHAP. VI. Treats concerning English Spirits and Aqua-vitae being made according to the said Act from whence 't is easy to prepare good and wholsome Brandy little inferior to that of France with some considerations of the usefullness of erecting a Brandy Manufacturage here in England c. I Say then good and wholsome Beer being brew'd according to the said Act or from Cyder Perry or from the Wines of the English growths may be made from all and every one of these good wholsome and vendible Wares as low Wines proof Spirits and Aqua-vitae and artificial Brandy as we have often made mention of in this Treatise I say that I would have none think it strange or difficult to perform this from well brew'd Beer seeing we are able to bereave the strongest Vegetable Concrets many ways of its external Sulphur so that ●t shall only retain the taste and quallity of the Vita media and then it is not discernable from others and a proper Sulphur being introduced will perform the same all one as Rhenish Wine is converted into Muscodell by the Scartea to this agrees that profound Glauber where he saith that if you 'l make Corn Spirits into Brandy-Wine in a rellish like that made from Lees of Wine then you must rectify it upon the Lees of Wine for this way by the Oyl of Wine which is plentiful amongst the Lees the end is obtained and may in all things be used instead of that But now we have not in England the advantage o● Wine Lees as they have in Germany France and on the Rhine and Prohibition being made with France that which we have will be soon spent so that great business of Art is to perform this by the growths and products of England I say then that we know a way very advantageous in the sweeting of Spirits both in the action of Fermentation and Distillation to propose a middle way without any infusion or distillation of any of the Vinor twiggs to produce an artificial Brand 〈◊〉 wine in England and from its own growth so good and as vendible as that of France and so near in taste that none but the most acute pallates can discern the difference and this we are able to give publick demonstration of The way to perform it is in general thus The low Wine being made you are to bereave it of its gross Sulphur which is very easily done then its strong smell and taste will be lost as to the Specificated and Domineering qualities thereof this may be perform'd even on Rum which is the strongest in smell and taste of any other Vinor Spirit drawn from any of the Vegetable Concrets and then a middle nature must be introduced naturalizating it to that of Brandy we say then that Caparaticks and Signature thereof belongs to Venus and so do Vitriolicks but the Christals of Tartar and Alkalizates belong to the Sun to which Venus is near a kin for Venus is found to better the Tincture of Sol to which the Vine belongs now Parley and Malt belongs to Jupiter which must be warm'd by the friendly rays of Venus to be impregnated with the Idea's of Sol and what shall we say of Wheat seeing it is the staff of Man's Life whose Oyl hath a principal signature with the Vine having its sweet and friendly quallities from Jupiter its generating power from Venus and its strength from Sol and by its Lunar Milk the Chyle is strengthned from whence the Mercurial life proceeds But oh oh where are you got methinks the Man and the Mare is fled up in the Air and there to seek their Nests But however if so the Sun is there rarifying the same and giving forth of its solar Virtue to the lunar Matrix which is conveyed through the Air unto beings we say then that he who knows the Airy Life of beings and how to concatinate the pure Effluviums thereof so as to make it corporeal may boldly depend that he knows the nature of that by which a transmutation of form is made of this nature is Glaubers Sal Mirabilis Paracelsus's Sal Enixum and my Sal Panaristos We see 't is an easy matter to take the Garments off a poor man and give him more rich ones so 't is the same in this case if we have a true Knowledge of the Fountain of Nature And if the Philosophers in the Mineral Kingdom can transmute Jupiter into vendible Sol why

as Moses that chosen Prophet of God laid down Temperance through his Four Books as a main hinge of Salvation 't is the very same in the great World for a Temperate Season makes a Fruitfull Harvest and in some sence the whole Creation stands in an Harmony both in the greater and lesser World having a Sympathy and Fellow-feeling together so that if any one part rejoyce or suffer as 't is a member of the great body that will feel of the effect And if it be so as really it is why should not Temperance be observed in the right and moderate use of the Creature by which means health is wonderfully preserved and long Life expected for why the Spirits or the Chariots of Life being kept brisk serene or free and not burned with stupifying and obnoxious Vapours retain their power in preserving the qualities in a due and equal Temperature thence the Archeius and internal fire have power Spagirically to exereise the office in disso●ution fermentation seperation purification distillation exaltation digestion and maturation of the alimentary parts by which the fabrick of the body is supply'd in all its parts and maintain'd in due decorum nay by this means the Spirit Soul and Body are strengthned the mind so fitted and qualify'd as to search into the most obstruce Secrets of Nature and such by consequence may sooner expect to obtain Vniversal Science than others and understand what is delivered by Moses concerning the original Chaos viz. In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth and the Earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the Waters with a lux fiat which soon proclaims its embassage and separated all the distinct natures that lay unfruitfully hidden in the Pavillions of Confusion such was the activity of the All searching Spirit of God as to exalt from thence a World of substantial Harmony adorning every part with unexpressable beauty from which words it is plain to be conceived that the Original of all things was a Chaos void and without form yee a confused Mountain of Water which was potentially all things yet actually nothing from whence did not only proceed the World as is said but also that Fountain and Vniversal Spirit which preserveth nourisheth and maintaineth multiplying and succouring being to this very day from hence also proceedeth by the Fire of Conflagration the Chaos Magical the true Exaltation of which is the greatest of Spagirical Operations that ever the great God revealed to mankind For out of that proceeds not only the Authors Sal Panaristos but also Paracelsus's Sal Enixum and the Sal Mirabilis of the wise together with the Liquor Alkaest and Vniversal Mercury of the Philosophers with their Aurum potibile and grand Panacea as also the perpetual lights of the Magi with their Malleable Glass their Tyron purple and Crimson dye and other such like Mysteries which are only ordain'd for the wise in heart to enjoy For such by their temperate Life are not only fitted for a search but also when obtain'd know how to make a right use thereof and for their reward they have not only Wisdom but also Riches Honour and length of days so that Temperance is a virtue highly to be esteem'd of seeing it is an inlet to many others and such as will produce the most blessed Fruits that are to be enjoy'd on this side Immortality therefore recommended to all as a most precious Jewel which if received and practised that will find the wonderfull and effectual Virtues thereof and thus I shall conclude Temperance to be the cause of much good Now as to Intemperance it is on the other hand the cause of as many Evills For we see by experience that the Glutton never esteems the Benefies that proceed from Temperance for that he is never so well satisfied as when he is gormondising himself making his Belly his God as I may truly call it for that he riseth in the Morning and scarce ever ceaseth lifting his Hand to his Mouth untill he hath made himself drunk and absorb'd all his Faculties in the excess of the abomination of the Bestial nature nay worse than the Beast of the Field for they answer the end of the Creation taking that in Nature which is sufficient for their subsistence their general sauce that agitates them is the penetrating power of the Air they commonly have no other Bed but Earth or Canopy but Heaven when as the sensual Glutton hath all that is needfull even to a Superfluity he lies upon his Couches of Ivory and Beds of Delight and heeds not Mercy and is unmindful of his fellow Creatures even the cries of poor Lazarus which would accept of the Crumbs that fall from his Table and lies at his Gates the Dogs licking his Sores till he died The cruelty and unmercifulness of this Intemperance is so abominable that I want place to resent it therefore shall pass it by here only recommend it to their consideration the difference of the future Estate of these Two Lazarus was carried by the good Angels into Abraham's Bosom But Dives by the evil into Hell to be tormented c. Now there is another sort of Intemperance which in some sence may be said to be like that of the former viz. The Miser's Intemperance which is the making his Money his God caring not how he pines his Body so that he may be rich nor who he destroys so that he may but attain his end he will gripe it in with a thousand Lies taking all advantages catching and over reaching and out-witting by circumventing Bargains yet will wipe his Mouth with this That he is a wise Dealer and that these are lawful Profits and certainly the Blessing of God attends because he is so rich and so calls Riches that are gotten by such abominable ways God's Blessings and will further conclude that consequently he must be the Servant of God when alas he is a Bondslave to Satan who hath lull'd him asleep and thus puff'd him up with Pride which causes him to despise his Fellow-creatures which are not of the same Abilities with him let their acquirements be what they will they are esteem'd not worthy of his Converse and if they are exercis'd in their Spirits through the multiplicity of Care that attend this Life so as to cause some various changes in their Actions then for certain they are supposed to be Ideots Maggots or some pitiful Fellows that have committed some secret and hainous Sins for which they are attended with such Internal and External Judgments but I thought it convenient to let such rash Judgers know that they may for certain be mistaken for all this for as the Scripture says Whom God loveth he chastiseth and David said It was good for him that he was afflicted for before he was afflicted he went astray and the Gospel Commands are That we should hoard in Treasure in

Bodies viz. into Juices Blood Flesh and other parts as uphold the Fabrick of the body just so is it in the Mineral and Vegitable Kingdom for 't is as is said the fat and sulpherous vapour that nourisheth them and is by degrees converted into their own nature and if any of these want this nourishing vapour they soon decay pine and wither O how wonderful is nature in her operations and how many ways hath she unsearchable and past finding out for as the Phylosophers say Life is short and Art is long but let us return I say then that the Earth doth abound with this sulpherous fatness and sometimes is so over-gorg'd therewith that it spews it forth through the pores thereof as is evident by Petrelaeum an Oyl that flows naturally from the rocks and this we know that Art both may and often doth supply Nature's defects for if thou take pure Salt of Tartar and pour distill'd Vinegar thereon until 't is assatiated every time drawing off the Fleam and then distill it in a coated Retort by fire of degrees and lastly rectify the Oyl thorough the Spirit of Vitriol 't wil become lucid pleasant and fragrant grant of so great virtue that I call it my Olcum regeneratum With this Oyl much may be done for frutifying and nourishing the Vinor natures either externally or internally I have also much to write concerning the sulpherous Oyl of the Magnesia which will revive and cause to vegetate afresh the most declining Tree Shrub or Plant How wonderfull is the Operation and virtue of such sulpherous fatness in the nourishing of growths let it be judg'd of by the Judicious and let a determination be made therein only by the experienced Philosophers or true knowers of Natural things which are greatly discovered to us by our Spagirical Operation as they are made in Imitation of Nature and furthermore Wines may be wonderfully exalted by Essential Salts thus First Chymically seperate the Oyl of any Concret and the remainder Calcine to ashes the pure Salt extract and christalize from thence and reunite Spagirically the fixed Salt and the Essential Oyl and bring them to a Christalline Salt or with the Spirit of the Concret distill and cohobate so long untill it is all brought over in a Balsamick Spirit this Spirit being imbodied by the Essential Salt plainly manifesteth its Callidum innatum or drying enriching sulpher which gives life and sulpherous fatness and durable lasting and substantial virtues unto Wine exalting both the taste and smell thereof Thus the Salt or Essence of Wormwood will make rich Wormwood Wine the like will that of Mint Balm and Angellicoe c. It also gives fermentation thereunto and makes it pure Wine indeed as Wine refin'd from its Lees and gives it such qualities as deserves the highest of commendations as I could prove by undeniable reasons in philosophy which we must omit here lest this Volume should swell beyond its prefixed Volume and pass on to the meliorating and enriching Wines which is yet more highly to be performed by the Element of Fire of Venus which is made by seperating the Sulphur from the Mercury and mortifying the Sulphur and distilling of it into a Spirit and Glauber doth wonderfully commend the Element of Fire made from common yellow Sulphur and says that if it be put to defective Wine it is a present Medicine for if any one put a little of it in a Cask of Wine the Wine acquires a grateful tast and odour and will be so comforted as not easily to admit of changing or perishing as otherwise is wont to happen to common Rhenish Wine see more in his Works pag. 3. par 3. and I say that Wines are also enriched by essential and fragrant Oyls so prepared as to unite with Water or Spirit of Wine or other Wines for being dilated by a proper ferment they are easily united and so the Wines are enriched thereby thou may'st remember that I said in the last Chapter that the fumes of Sulphur Vive wonderfully preserves and enrich Wines and therefore such excellent Medicines as these cannot fail of performing much more high and that I may fully accomplish the desire of the Ingenious I think it convenient to speak concerning the Red Wine of the Philosophers which produceth and maketh my Sal Panaristos to appear for that is prepared from the three first principles christalliz'd in the three last contained in the fiery Spirit of Wine as Sandivogius says it burns up three and leaves one which is the Diamond like powder the true fixed Salt Nitre of the wise and as much may be perform'd by it as Glauber hath attributed to his Sal mirabilis But what shall I say I fear the time is not yet come to reveal such Secrets in for from hence proceeds the very Key to the chiefest of Arcana's and principally to Tinctures Essences or Elixirs universal or particular Medicines according to the specificated degrees of the exalted Sulphurs for as Basilius Valentine saith that the Spirit of Wine or the true Aquavitae of the wise hath been sought for by many but found by very few It is the Vegitable stone indeed and man loved Gold and Wine above all other creatures which may be beheld with Eyes Gold loveth man and Wine because it lets go its noble parts therein for if true Spirit of Wine be put to it being made potable it gives strength to man and prolongs his Life and Health For thus much I am bold to assert that an Aurum potabile is an Universal Medicine and without a true Spirit of Wine an Aurum potabile cannot be made for Wine bears affection to man as also to Gold because it easily unites with the Tinctures of Sol then it expells Melancholly and Sadness rejoycing Man's heart For there is originally three stones so call'd viz. the Urinous or Microcosmical one therefore called Animal which may be beheld in the beautiful Azoth or Lunar Oyl the Vegetable discern'd in the Vinor Spirit the Mineral in the golden Tincture or Sulphur of Laton The three Triumphant stones of the Wisemen viz. Medicinal Transmutative and Angelical the Triune stones or Universal most Universal the Caballistical Elixerating Tincture for Men and Mettals so much talk'd of but so little known for why they do not understand the true subject Matter from whence these three stones are obtained for it proceeds from one confused Chaos containing a spermatical Essence of all created beings the Book of Wonders and Looking-Glass of Nature wherein so many Mysteries may be discerned face to face that I dare not discover them here because time and place is too short I shall therefore conclude with the words of Basilius where 't is said He that catcheth this fiery Spirit hath got victory in this Chymical Battle c. because from hence proceedeth the foundation of all Spagirical Medicines and consequently the true exaltation of Wine which we have here candidly treated of and so shall pass on to the making

then may not the true Spagiricks in the Vegetable Kingdom change the nature of Saturn and Jupiter into that of Venus and the Sun seeing Transmutation is so generally allow'd and we suppose at this time of day no rational man makes doubt of its verity Thus much for the way of making Artificial Brandy-Wines We shall now offer some Considerations for the Encouragement of a Brandy Manufacturage to be established here in England The First Consideration that offers it self is that by such a Facturage great consumptions of Corn would be made and so the Tillage in this Kingdom would be considerably advanced the Malt-Corn and such other grain used would be advanced in its Price so that the Farmer might well live on it and yet make Just payments to his Landlord which is by many now found to the contrary and many Farms to our Knowledge are in divers places in this Kingdom vacant which might well be employed Another Consideration this being a publick thing the publick stocks of those concern'd therein would be able to uphold such a Facturage above all by-ends and self Interest of any particular person whatsoever so that Distill-houses and Ware-houses being erected in every County-Town in England or the Dominions thereunto belonging the Neighbouring Inhabitants might have easy recourse thereunto to bring in their Wares at Market price and receive either Wares or ready Money for the same so for Wood or other materials requisite by this means trading would be promoted and Money brought to circulate more freely Another Consideration is by this way and method abundance of Carriage and Recarriage would be saved and yet the Wares lye ready for Transportation for which reason they might be afforded abundantly more cheaper to all the Foreign Plantations than otherwise and by this means we should considerably out-do our Neighbouring Countries and yet very considerably advance our own Another Consideration is whereas Spirits are to be Distill'd from good and wholsome Beer we say then the first mashing is only sit to be distilled and the second mashing might be brew'd into very good 2d gallon Beer which would be of great service to the poor Inhabitants many of which now drink Water for want of conveniencies to brew we therefore wish it was united with and joyned to the Linen Manufacturage Then as to the Grains they might be fetch'd off while sweet to feed their Oxen Cattle and Hoggs withal by this means we say not only many thousands of poor would be employed and so Trading advanced and the Land enriched not that but the Kings Revenues as we touched at before more certain than otherwise We have many more Considerations to offer of this nature but we shall omit them till we see how these are received And so proceed to shew the Use and Application of these Low Wines Spirits and Aqua Vitae's in making several sort of Cordial Waters proper to be used in Families c. SECT II. WE shall here only lay down the way to make Aniseseed Caraway Cardamum Hearts-ease A●gelico Wormwood Mint Balm according to the simple Intentions thereof because 't is convenient to have their respective Virtues per se and in many cases better than those sold in snops but however if you are willing to make compounds we then refer you to a Book Entituled The London-Distiller To make Aniseseed water Take to Gallons of good Low Wines or Proof Spirits one pound of Aniseseed or more as you 'l have it in strength now if your Spirits are high proof you may add a little Water in the Distillation and then draw off the same quantity you put on this rule serves well for Seeds but only the quantity is diversified according as they be in strength for of Cardamums you must put two pound to the like quantity of Spirits as to the Herbs Angellico Mint Balm Wormwood and the like they ought to be gathered in their prime and gently dryed the proportion is more or less in quantity according as you will have the Water in strength of the Herb for one is stronger than another and an handfull of Wormwood will go further than 2 or 3 of another Herb. To make Hearts-ease Aqua Vitae or rather artificial Brandy Take as many Gallons as you please and to every Gallon add a pound of the Seeds of Hearts ease and the like of the Blossoms dryed in the Sun tye them up in a Bag and throw them in the Still and draw off as long as it comes pleasant then dulcify with a Syrrup made of Hearts-ease and white Sugar put it in the Cask adding 2 or 3 spoonfulls of Barm and the white of an Egg or two beaten up with Flour this will give it Fermentation and refine it fit to be drawn off for Sale Observe that in the Distillation of these Waters there will be apt to come over an Oyl or white thick Spirit thus to be sined as it comes Take a fine Holland-cloth and rub one side of it very well with Black-Lead and bind the side so rubb'd inwardly towards the end of the Worm and this will keep the thickness back as experience demonstrates these Instances may serve as general rules for all sorts of Waters of the first order but we shall only give you another instance Now if you 'l make any rich and Cordial Waters you had best make use of Brandify'd Spirit which is the Spirit of Mault or any others brewed of their taste and impregnated with an azural Salt of a Vinor nature and so will the Spirit taste more fragrant of the concret than otherwise Instance Take of the best Cinamon 5 pounds of artificial Brandy 5 Gallons Sugar of Honey one pound and half let them infuse 20 days and then distill off the Spirit which dulcify with its own Syrrup and we say then this is best and truest Spirit of Cinamon that can be made and most fit for Phisical use and thus much for Simple Spirits made per se SECT III. THE best and most proper way for dulcifying colouring and persuming of the ordinary Waters fit for Sale ℞ Of Two Quarts of the cold Distill'd Water of the Herb and of the dry'd Herb 2 Pound Brasil half a pound or more or less according as you 'd have your Water in height of colour to which add of Sugar six pounds stir them well together and put them into an earthen Pot with a close Cover and gently decoct them 2 or 3 Hours now and then stirring of it immediately shutting the Cover and lastly Clarify it with the White of an Egg well beaten and when 't is cold enough strain it through a Fustian Bag call'd a Canopy and to every Barrel of Water add 5 or 6 pints of this Syrrup with a Spoonful or two of Barm to work and clear it and in 20 days 't will be fit for sale A Syrrup for making a Red Water excelling that of London Take of the best Rose water 6 Pints of Red Sanders in Powder a Pound Rose

pressed out only adding its proper ferment and some Sugar and Honey to help it on Now these Spirits so distill'd if you design to have them strong in taste and smell of the Flowers then add fresh and taken in their prime and reiterate the Fermentation and Distillation and so wilt thou have an excellent fragrant Spirit purely impregnated with the vertue of the Concret according to its Ideal and Spiritual Qualities so then to every pound of this Spirit add an Ounce of its Salt and 2 of its Oyl and unite them Spagirically for this Operation belongs unto it Its Virtues These Powers abundantly excell any preparation of the Elder and it is now some years since I began to enquire after the Knowledge Virtues and Operative power of the Elder-Tree and the Dwarf-Elder and experience hath acquainted us that this said Tree is richly furnished with Medicinal qualities in all and every part thereof even from the Root to the most tender Buds and Branches thereof so that it stands parallel with any single E●s in the Vegetable Kingdom and if you consider the reason 't is no wonder it should be so for that this Tree hath its Character or Signature from the friendly Planet Venus and by her Circular correspondence abates Mars's fury in the Centre of which is the Sun who sends his Vertues to the Archeius thereof and furnisheth the Callidum Inatum with the bountiful concreting Sulphur which by Nature's Fermentation and artificial Circular Sublimation of those Juices through its Pipes with a kind of a Pulse hence proceedeth subtilty and purity to the fruit which returneth so richly loaden with a virtuous Tincture from the Fountain of Nature Now Tincture shews maturity and that brings Sanity and so by consequence other properties of health c. For this Tree hath to the Microcosme First a Cephalick Virtue Secondly an Elixipharmick and by consequence a Diuretick and Diaphoretick Finally a Balsamick and Paragorick thence prevalent in Fits Scurveys Dropsies Strangueries c. which may be evidently discern'd by another Authority besides mine for Herballs contain pages of the vertues thereof Nay the Judicious Houswife hath her remarks thereon which may easily be discerned by its various uses for out of its Buds is made a Spring-broath which cleanseth the Blood of Scorbutick and Hydroptical humours and is good in Obstructions the Wine wherein the Flowers are impregnated is most fragrant and an excellent Febrifuge cleansing the Blood of Acidity Venome and Putrifaction therefore a powerful Medicine in Surfeits Measles Small-Pox Swine-Pox and Pestilential Corruptions the Vineger made from the Flowers is used in the like causes also for Inflamations on any part of the Body The Distilled Water for weak Eyes and to clear the Skin The Oyl for Scorbutick Itches Bruises Sprains and good in the Piles also for Burnings and external pains of the Gout c. The inward bark of the Elder and Dwarf-Elder is generally prescribed in Dropsies the dry'd pith for Issues The Wood of the Tree is very durable whence may be an Oyl prepar'd for long Life and therefore pitty it should be used by so many Mechanick Artificers 't is also observable that from the innate Virtue 't is early in budding and late in declining Moreover the Berry or Fruit is made into Syrrup and preserved to be used in many Diseases there is also a Balsom of great virtue made hence Wherefore then should not the Powers of Elder seeing the Principles are therein radically united contain all the aforesaid Virtues and in great Superiority First because the Spirit is made by Fermentation and exalted to a Vinor ens wholly sulphureous and inslamable which to perform some have esteem'd so great a secret Secondly the Spirit is enriched by its own Oyl And Thirdly Strength and by the Salt so that these Powers are advanced so high as to contain the medicinal Virtue of the whole now perceiving of what general service these Powers might be I thought it convenient to publish it and the more especially discerning the things of single Virtue have taken place in the World by some kind of Service as namely the Spirit of Scurvy-grass and Spirit of Rosemary or Hungarian-water These Powers of Elder carry with a more general benefit and will manifest from their own central Virtues the popular service they have for the multitude especially for that they are so effectual against the contagious Diseases that now Reign Indeed should I be particular in every Virtue they have I might fill a Sheet but well knowing that their Operation is such that will demonstrate themselves beyond words I shall therefore leave the rest for the Patient and Prudent Experiencer thereof and so come to give their Use and Dose For the Diseases of the Head as Convulsions Falling-sickness Vertigo's Calentures and suddain Swoonings 't is very prevalent and therefore let those that Travel by Sea or Land never be without a Bottle of it For upon the approach of a Paroxisme if you drop 30 or 40 drops into a glass of Water and drink the same 't will wonderfully abate the violence thereof and strengthen Nature also you are to dip the end of your Handkerchie● in the Powers and snuff up the Savours thereof and strike the Temple● therewith repeating the same till relief is found For young Children 〈◊〉 or so drops is sufficient in a Spoonf●● of Water and sweetned with Sugar but let the Mother drink a full Dos● while the Child is sucking and the● their prevalency will be seen if th●● method be observed not only in cuting those that are afflicted but also prevents it in others They also abate the oppression of Wind which Children are so generally subject to They also are prevalent for the diseases of the Breast as Astma's Dropsies Consumptions spitting of Blood and the like and for those of the Stomack as want of Appetite and principally in Surfeits and in the beginning of Fevers let from 30 to 60 drops of these Powers be dropt into a glass of Water and sweetned with its own Syrrup and after taking of them drink a good hearty draught of Marigold Posset drink and sweat plentifully in Bed and as often as Nature thirsteth for refreshment let 20 drops betaken in the Liquor and by this means the offending Matter will be abated and carried off by Sweat and Urine These Powers are also prevalent for the Gripes of the Guts Cholick and Strangury and want of Rest you must take a Brandy Caudle and as 't is fit to drink put half a bottle therein and sweat in Bed and thus in few hours admirable relief will be found 'T is also prevalent for the Dropsy Hypocondriack Melancholy Scurvy Oppressions of Fear You are to take constantly of these Powers in your common Beer till relief is found 'T is also prevalent for such diseases as infect the whole mass of Blood as the Measles Small Pox and Swine Pox and other pestilential diseases for which you are to proceed thus Take of

Original Nature Variation and Cure of Diseases may therefore as we before said be comprehended and understood in a three-fold respect First in the Knowledge of the Microcosmical structure and how Diseases arise in human kinds so as to assault the Animal Life and sensitive Soul for we find that all the Diseasy Idea's are conveyed in the vehicle of the Spiritual Juices to the constitutive parts Secondly In knowing the proper Indications of Diseases and how changes and variations are made in simple and complicate ones for 't is very necessary that the concurrences in the Nature and Eventual accidents thereof be praeominated Thirdly these being understood we may boldly insist upon the Cure of Diseases by a Judicious Administration of proper Medicines and by such variations as are requisit for removing the Cause thereof But before we proceed to lay down the Rise and Nature of Diseases we think it convenient to make our Intention the more plain first to define what a Disease is a Disease therefore is defin'd to be an assault made upon the Spiritual Life in human kinds in order to make a breach of its natural Harmony For 't is plain to us that Diseases have their first Existence in the very principles of Life and sensitive Soul by which they are conveyed to the Archaeus who is as we say the central vital Spirit exalted to the highest state in the Microcosm which distributes a vital ray of which Ares is Specificator to all the parts and Members of the body which being assaulted by the Diseasy Idea's whether Superior Influences Epidemick Venoms or other accidents causing Terror Fury and Amazement whereby Nature becomes unmindful of her own office and admits of Diseases and sometimes death without resistance Because by such preternatural actions the wrathful quality is stirred up which otherwise lay silent in the Centre of the body for as we have said in our Medicina Rationalis the feed of Life and Death is placed and originally existeth in the Center of every Body and of Man in order to subdue him to fear and reverence his Creator for as the Apostle saith From Adam death reigned upon all men Now this Archaeus hath such a pure Central Life that it is immediately put into fury and distraction by those clouds the diseases Idea makes which being antipatherical to its purity it cannot but oppose endeavouring so long to cast them off till enraged thereby and so neglecting its own office many times immediately admits of death but if not so soon these untoward guests take place captivating and destroying and as they have admittance assume Matter and become corporeal whence according to its continuance proceed chronick diseases or such as be of difficult cure For this matter as we have said in our Spagirick Philosophy asserted is by degrees dissolved and spread through the Body and so universally assaults the whole Fabrick or at least wise some principal part or organ thereof whence somtimes proceed Obstructions Hypocondriack Melancholy and many others for the Humors especially the predominant have thereby power to overflow thence Diseases from the inequality of Humors which often are remotely promoted by the six Non-naturals We therefore assert these to be the accidental not the original or Procafarctick Cause of diseases as many will have them and that by these Nature is deprived of her own State and Office and led into that which is contrary to her which prevails so long as the Anatomia Essata hath power to Dart forth her venom in order to extinguish the Fountain of Life We shall therefore state this as a general Aphorism in Physick that if the Spirit the Fabricator and Conservor of Human Bodies stands clear and undefiled being not infected by the clouds of Diseases the Body which is the Receptacle of the Spirit must needs remain in a vigorous activity for no morbifick Matter can exist therein but by the Spirits Error which afterwards forms Matter and becomes corporeal For as Christ says Mat. 12.28 How can one enter into a strong Man's House and spoil his Goods except he first bind the strong Man In reference hereunto the Spirit may be said to be a strong Man and the Arche as the Watchman of the Microcosme which examins all therefore must be first bound and captivated before the House or Body can be destroy'd Thus much in general concerning the Original of Diseases and their forms impress'd by the Diseases Idea on the Spirit through which they become corporeal we shall now consider by what Medium they act We say then as the external Air of the Macrocosm is the Medium between Heaven and Earth containing the universal Spirit by whose Power Life proceeds from Generation to Generation and by the deprivation thereof Death Corruption and Destruction for being darkned corrupted and infected with divers Spiritual Forms whether Superior or Inferior by exhalation of corrupted Fumes for 't is a Matrix that receives all till over-burthen'd or infected thereby it sends forth its venom both on Man and Beast as is too too evident in Pestilential times c. So 't is in the Air of the Microcosm where the Spirit acts that being the medium between Life and Death and consequently the effective Instrument of Health and Diseases for that being over-burthened either by the superior Influences or Spirituality of the different exhalations proceeding either from a subsequent Cause or the immediate Passions and exasperation of the Mind by Anger Grief Fear or the like or of the Body by suddain motion or Cold by which the Spirit is too much inflamed or contracted or from the superabundance of Meat or Drink taken For althô these are the handmaids and nourisher of Life yet when taken in excess they many times become the very instrument of Death like as the most choice Panacea which by a ray of its light is able to cure all Diseases yet too many rays thereof will overpower the natural one and so extinguish it wFor as Sandivogius says a great Fire soon extinguishes a small one and that many of the Philosophers have destroy'd themselves by not knowing the right use of the grand Panacea for we are to receive things in Temperance so as to strengthen the natural heat and not to overcome it as we have touched at in the Preface 'T is no wonder indeed why there should be such variation in Diseases and so many new and complicate ones arise if we rightly consider how great the excess and intemperance this age abounds with is for from thence proceeds a debilitation of the Spirit a defect of the Spiritual Juices and an inlet to cacochamick ones and from thence corruption and this being united with the Debaucheries receiving from each other the Spiritual vapour of their poisonous Venom 's the Grand Pox is contracted which being not timely cured corrupts and stains the Vessels with its Diseases Malignancy and is often sent forth to the superficies of the Body and internally stains the radical moisture causing

an Impostumated Seed and decayed Body from whence in the act of another Generation it stamps its Ideas or its Matrix from hence hereditary Diseases and the cause of so many weak and imperfect Children which also in process of time produce the same effects and so cause such other new complicate Diseases such as become the amaze and astonishment of Physitians for 't is not only the Diseases varying and divers symptoms thereof appearing but also some new ones are commonly yearly produc'd vastly different from the other And this is observ'd and for a truth generally agreed upon by most of the Learned and Curious observing Physitians that I have met with in my European Travels And indeed the craziness and imperfectness of Bodies in this our Age are much to be pittied and lamented for let the Physitian come where he will he can seldom fail of discrning some Symptoms and evil Effects thereof and 't is much to be fear'd that the Intemperance of this Age will cause such evil Fermentations as to produce yet worse Diseases which I pray God the Inhabitants may prevent by timely Repentance for I dread the soreness of the Judgment c. From what hath been said 't is easie to be conceiv'd that Intemperance hath been as a Procatarctick Cause of many Diseases staining the Spirits corrupting the Humors and many times the principal Vessels causing similar organick and common Diseases For we say that one original Cause may in different Bodies or Constitutions produce different Effects and the more different symptoms according as it hath its situation or power to assault the Synteresis of Nature We shall therefore state another Aphorism viz. That the Spirit being the first admitter of disseasy Idea's those also must be Spiritual and carry with them their own Seed and forming Power or else no specification of a disease could be made Now this being so we are to consider what those diversity of Forms are that produce diversity of Diseases For we see that in Epidemick diseases which thô generally proceed from corrupted venoms yet each of them cause different Characters on the Body The Measles one the Small Pox another the Swine Pox another the Spotted Fever another and the Plague another For that hath the most raging power or violent burning painful Blains Carbuncles or Bubo's as a test of Rage changing the same in and with the solid parts to the blackness of a Coal or stinking Pus c. Now by all of these the Life is eminently threatned according as the Form hath power immediately to work upon and prevail against the light of Nature This diversity of diseasie Idea's may not seem difficult to be conceived if we but consider that the general matter of all things was originally one and that the diversity of Species came in the World by and from the character and stamp of Form in the Animal Mineral and Vegetable Kingdom in all the kinds thereunto belonging For as the Apostle saith every Body hath its own Seed and every Seed it s own Body In the vegetable Kingdom the Body is Salt the Form Sulphur or Oil which are discernably different in Tast and Smell one from another which whilst the Texture remained had power to retain its Form in multiplication of its kind through the power of the universal Spirit In the Mineral Kingdom the Body is Mercury but that which gives the various Forms is Sulphur which through the Medium of the Universal grow and are multiplied In the Animal Kingdom the Body is Flesh but the Form is that which makes the diversity according as 't is pure purer or most pure the most pure is Man being animated with the Divine Light the Pure is Fish and Foul and the less Pure is Flesh in its divers and brutish kinds yet all live increase and multiply through the Medium of the Universal Spirit Moreover Man being a Microcosme an Epitomy of all Forms a Compendium of all Powers and System of Superior and Inferior Beings must doubtless be acted upon by all Forms For as Legions of Angelical Spirits are for ministring Comfort to Man by the Rays of Light so on the other hand Are there Legions of Diabolical ones stirring up their Instruments to dart and poison him with the black cloud of Leath Therefore we say that as the Spirit of Man is acted upon by the divers diseasie I dea's yet the Primary Matrix of Diseases one viz. a moist mercurial poisonous Air which we call the Anatomia Essata whose existence is in all the urinous Spirits in the Body and is fed by the same in which the different Idea's Act and Form several Species by the Medium of the Spirit in the little World even as 't is in the Spirit of the great World Wherefore we say that all kind or species of Diseases are produced by the Spiritual Action of the dismal Form and according to the nature of the Humor acted upon or of the Vessel Organ or Passage that 't is incorporated in and as 't is nearer or more remote situated to the Archaius For we see that in the Itch and Scabs the Blood is corrupted and infected as also in the Scurvy and Scrofulous Humors yet each of these are considerably different one from another and all different from the former which still demonstrate diversity of Forms in the specification of Diseases And again in the French Pox which having its rise from complicate Vapors produceth in like manner complicate Symptoms which have some or other resemblance of various sort of Diseases Now if the Form is of a Saturnal Nature dull and languid in Motion from thence Hypocondriack Melancholy and inveterate Obstructions hard to be removed Now the further operation of these sulphurous Idea's or black Clouds will be more fully shewn in my Spagirick Philosophy asserted where the Original of Diseases is more fully demonstrated These things being rightly known and consider'd we may be able to make proper Indications of Diseases whether produced simply from one Cause or compounded with different Forms whence proceed rebellious and complicate Diseases Ex. Gr. The corruption of the Grand Itch in one uniting in Coitu with the acid or muriatick Partiticles in another produceth or bringeth forth a venemous Vapour which may prove as a Progenitor to the Pox and especially when 't is heighten'd by a volatile Acidity in a second Action The manner of which ought truly to be known And again when the Scurvy after the same manner unnites with the grand Pox it may cause such a violent fermentation in the blood as to produce a Feaver some of which I have known so violent that death hath immediately ensued These and many more of the like nature produce such complicate Diseases as have before been touch'd at so that the most learned of Physitians at the first sight by the Diagnosticks and Aetiologicks are put to an onset how rightly to give their Prognosticks which we shall endeavour to unfold according

this Book and in Page 31. we have said that one Receipt cannot be sufficient for all sort of Liquors for some kind of Fruits being made with Water into Wine will soon sour and rope as having not bodies sufficient for their subsistence and will not yield in Distillation Spirits sufficient for the making of Vinum Fortificatum or that which some call Syder or Wine Royal therefore I think it convenient for the full Instruction of those that design to Encourage or Advance these Liquors to give them these four following Observations concerning the most exact way of exalting the same First if you desire to have your Cyder Perry or Wine durable the Fruits must be gathered in such a time as no moisture is on them but that the Sun hath exhal'd the fame For to be sure if they are gather'd in wet weather they will be Musty now your Fruits are not to be gather'd Green nor rottenly ripe but in their turning and fullest richness c. Secodly Thou art to observe that your Fruit being well gather'd and taken from their Stems they may lye in a Tub three or four Days by which means being broken and pressed 't will sooner admit of Fermentation For 't is observable especially for Apples and Pears that they are not so fit for the Press till they have lain so long on heaps as to sweat and dry again for by such a natural Action their friendly Virtues are the more easily manifested For we have observed this in making our Vinum ribesium or Currant Wine and for every Gallon of Currans if we add Three Pints of Honey or Sugar-water or letting of them lye about 14 or 18 Hours the Wine will gain abundantly the stronger Body for a small quantity of Sugar acuates and strengthens the Water so as to cause it to draw forth the whole Virtues of the Fruits especially if they be well broken and mixed together and being press'd out you may let it refine from its first Setlings and then rack it off from those gros● Lees if you desire to make a Vinum Fortificatum thereof Thirdly These Wines being made must lye at the least 8 or 10 Weeks to come up to their full Body and Strength for 't is observable that no new Wine will give any more than an aqueous Phlegme in Distillation untill they have fully passed the Fermentation or Working and begin a little to sower for then they afford the greatest plenty of Spirit but I mean not so sower as to make Vinegar for then the Spirit is oylified and concentricated and again admits of its weakest part first therefore I mean such a Sower as manifests the Cessation of Fermentation only Fourthly Those Syrups or Sweets that you add to your Wines are most proper to be made from the cold Distill'd Water of the same in which the Body of the Fruits are macerated or else from the Juices decocted with Sugar and well clarified with Whites of Eggs from time to time until your Syrup becomes exceeding fine and pure this will being added to your Liquor better satisfie hungry Nature which must always have something to feed upon as we see by experience in Foreign Wines For there is no Champaigue Burgundy Frontineack Greek or Florence Wines but what are in some measure or other upheld by Art You may remember that I said in the Two First Chapters that the Fumes of burning Sulphur wonderfully preserves Wines For although you may observe all these aforesaid Observations yet if you meet with an improper Cask it may give an ill tang to your Wine In Holland the Method we have to prevent this is thus They make large Brimstone Matches and some dip them in Coriander Seeds and burn them in the empty Cask just before they put their Wines in and thus they do so often as they are racked and so you may do with your Ciders and Artificial Wines this being an excellent Expedient to prevent ill Tasts and Fermentation as also to preserve the Wine ☞ There are many other ways in preserving of Liquors amongst which my Spiritus Odontugosus is of wonderful efficacy For t is found a rare Preservative against Corruption recovering dying Beer Ale Cider or Wine from their decaying and a Cure for Beer when sick and roping and 't is not only a preserver for these but also for Flesh keeping it so long from corruption as that there is not any Embalming in the World can go beyond it for the keeping of a Dead Carkase nor no Salting comes near its efficacy as to Conserving Meat Fowls or Fish which by this means are not only kept considerably from corruption but made a Mummial Balsom which is it self a preservative to such as shall take thereof being a rarity very advantageous for such as have bad Digestions whence Corruptions do proceed c. The Wine that is preserv'd hath also m●ny excellent Virtues as is aforesaid as also prevalent in abating the Thirst in Fevers and taking off of Feverish Symptoms which we shall desist from here and come now to the advancing of small Wines into a Vinum Fortificatum which may be by the Quintescence of Wine or my Sal Panaristos be made Superior to Wine or Cyder-Royal as some name it whereof we shall now speak Vinum Fortificatum ℞ A Barrel or Hogshead of small Wine Cyder or any other and put it into a Copper Still and Distill ir as long as any goodness comes according as we have in Page 63 and in Page the 60th where we have advis'd that the Spirit should run through a Funnel into a Vessel placed under ground according to the Dutch method This Spirit having stood 10 or 12 days may be Distill'd a Second time which is call'd Rectification then proceed thus First draw out so many Beer pints from the full Cask or Hogshead as there are Gallons contained in it and fill it up with the Spirit only adding 5 or 6 pounds of its own Syrup made as before touched at and stir it all together then stop them down very close and once in 7 D●●● 〈◊〉 thereabouts give it Air to the Vent and in 10 Weeks time or thereabout 't will be fit to drink Observe that this mixture be put into good Wine Vessels for in Glass 't will not easily admit of Fermentation for that is prevented by the Salts from whence the Glass is made keeping out the spirituality of the Air which brings the Liquor to drink fragrant and well by reason of the hidden and internal Fermentation which gives it its ripeness and maturity and if you hang in this Liquor two Ounces of fixed Nitre put up in a Linen Rag into the Bung-hole at the top of the Cask and let hang down in the Liquor 't will soon ripen it or any other new Wines and render sower ones drinkable For this Art of bettering Wines we are beholding to the worthy and ingenious Glauber according to what is laid down in his Works Par. 1. p. 158. as we

Leaves a Pound Treacle Honey or rather Sugar 10 Pounds decoct as before directed and clarify it well with the White of 6 Eggs let this whole quantity be added to a Barrel of Aqua vitae and then make a small Bag and put therein the White of 3 Eggs a spoonful or two of Barme all beat together to which add a scruple of Musk 10 Grains of Ambergreece and let the said Bag hang by the Bung-hole in the Liquor and in 14 Days 't will be fit for Sale Now these following Simples are generally made use of for colouring your Liquors withal viz. Red Rose Leaves Poppy Leaves Turnsole Cochineel and the Root Alkaneet As we have thus prescrib'd Simple Waters useful in Families we shall now add proper compounded ones Right Irish Usquebagh Take the best Aqua vitae made from the strongest Beer Ten Gallons Aniseeds one Pound Cloves Two Ounces Nutmegs Ginger Caraway-seeds of each 4 Ounces and Distill them into proof Spirit S. A. then add to this Distill'd Liquor Spanish Liquorish Raisons of the Sun stoned of each Two Pounds let both be bruised of Date-stones the white skins plucked out 4 Ounces Cinamon 4 Ounces stop all close for three Days then add in Three Grains of Musk and Ambergreece dissolved and dulcified with 5 Pounds of Mevis Sugar stir them well together and after Ten Days let it run through Hypocrates's Sleeve and Fine it down with Whites of Eggs and Flower but some only draw it off the Lees into other Casks when Fine the Author hath a way of making Usquebagh-Royal worth Eight shillings a Quart a great Cordial in Nature wonderfully strengthening the Heart and all the principal Faculties Aqua-Corrob●rans or a Cordial Water Take Balme Sage Bettony Bugloss Cowslips all gathered in their prime of each an handful Low Wines Two Gallons Distill it into proof Spirit then add Galanga Nutmegs Cloves Mace Cubebes Cardamums Melolet flowers of each 6 Ounces the juice of Celandine 3 Pounds the proof Spirit the whole quantity White-wine or rather Current-wine a Gallon digest 24 hours and then Distill in Balneo till dry this is a great Cordial wonderfully strengthenging the Heart Stomach and principal Faculties being taken as a Cordial The Author 's Aqua Stomatica on Stomach water Take a Gallon of Gaskin-wine or instead thereof a midling Spirit of Wine Ginger Galanga Nutmegs Grains Cloves Anniseeds Fennel Carraway-seeds of each one Ounce Sage Mint Red Roses Thyme Pellitory Camomel Lavander Avens of each one handful bruise your Spices in a Mortar by themselves and cut your Herbs and put altogether into your Spirit or Wine and let them stand three Days in the cold keeping the Vessel very close and then Distill and Dulcify it with Syrrup of Rasberries The Author 's Aqua Pestilentia or Plague-water Take Angelica-leaves and Roots of Rue and Sage of each three handfuls long Pepper Nutmegs and white Ginger of each an Ounce and half the Spirit of Elder one Gallon Malaga wine two Quarts Venice-Treacle and Methridate of each four Ounces digest them Ten Days then Distil so long as 't will come pleasant and add to what comes over a pound of Hungarian Water and a pound of Syrrup of Vinegar and a piece of Loaf-Sugar and let it ferment with the white of an Egg and a little Flower ty'd up in a Bag 5 or 6 Days and then 't is fit for use It 's virtues This Water is an excellent preservative against the Plague Small Pox and Measles and all Pestilential Diseases two Spoonfuls being take 3 or 4 times a day as a Cordial 'T is good also for all cold Stomacks want of Digestion and the like The Author 's Aqua Multifaria or Water of many Virtues Take Balme Sage Bettony Bugloss Cowslips all gather'd in their prime of each one handful Motherwort Bay-leaves of each one handful and half of Marigold Flowers two handfuls Flowers of Rosemary Lavander Lillies of the Valley and Rosasolis of each handfuls the juice of Celau●●●e two pound ●●ffron two Ounces Lig●●● A●ce●● an Ounce and hal● T●●merick four Ounces Spirit of W●●●●●● Quatis d●●●st all six days and Distill it in Bal. Sal Art its virtues 'T is excellent in the Diseases of the Head Breast and Heart Liver and principal parts fortifying the Faculties and strengthening Nature so far as can be expected from simple Cordial Spirits without being enriched with some Mineral Sulphurs which will be shewn in our Spagirick Phylosophy asserted also in Spagirick Philosophy's Triumph Now by the way observe that most of these Waters or Spirits are too strong to be taken alone Nature not loving to ride in fiery Chariots 't is best to be dilated and reduced into Cordials the way by which 't is performed will be shewn in the succeeding Lines The Author 's Aqua Triplex or Triple Water Take Venice Turpentine four pound Frankincense Mastick of each two Ounces Aloes Epatica Date-stones Laudanum Castor the Roots of Bettony Elicampane of each two Ounces Cardemums Cloves Nutmegs Ginger Galingale Zedoare● Pepper Spiknard Laurel-berries Sma●● lage-seeds Mugwort-seeds F●nnel-seeds Annis-seeds Flowers of Brasil Elder-flowers Red and White Roses Lignum Aloes Cubebs Calamus Aromaticus Mace Germander Tormenmentil Juniper-berries Agrimony Centory Fumetory Pimpernel Dandelyon Eyebright Endive Seeds of Sorrel Yellow Sanders Fethersue Aloes-hepatick Ana of each 2 Ounces Rhubarb 3 Ounces dried Figgs Raisins Dates stoned sweet Almonds of each 4 Ounces Honey 6 pound Sugar 10 pounds Spirit of Elder highly rectified enough to over-top all sour Fingers breadth Musk and Ambergreece of each two Drachms Saffron 2 Ounces and half all being put into a Retort and its Mouth being very well clos'd with a Cork and then luted over and Lastly tyed fast to the Bladder and let it putrify 40 days in Horsedung and then remove it and Distill it in a strong Bal First will come a white Spirit then a Saffron colour and Lastly Red with some floating Oil let each be received apart and when the operation is over 〈◊〉 Baln thou mayst Distill it in violent Fire in Sand to see what more will be produced Its Virtues The first Water is proper for new Wounds old Aches and Plague Sores for weak Eyes and those that have a Pearl in them for the Strangury and Stone The Second Water for corrupted Blood and Leprosie for weak Members and for Agues The Third Water for a weak Brain and Catarrh and for the Palsie and Gout And what I have to say further is that these Bodies being opened by a proper Menstruum viz. The sweet Spirit of Salt or true Spirit of Tartar much might be expected from it for Wounds Ulcers Neli me tangere's Plague-sores Pearl in the Eyes Strangury and Stone Leprosie weak Members Agues Rheumes Impostumes Fistula's Hemorrhoids but now observe by means of the Menstruum they 'l not rise in those diversities but in an united Form ponderous and balsamick and yet more according to the degrees of exaltation impos'd thereon by the Spagyrick Physician To reduce

Spirits for the making of Cordials Reduction of Spirits is in order to bring them to a middle Temperature by uniting the Aquous part with the most Spiritual and fermenting to a Union as may be seen by the following Example Take a quart of Water and a pound of white Loaf Sugar boil them well together half an Hour or more then let it cool fit to put Barm to it but while it is Blood-warm put in Spices such as you best fancy as Jamaica-Pepper Cinamon Cloves or Orice roots sliced and and when cold enough add your Barm and let it work as Beer and after it hath well work'd you may use it for bottleing of Ale Mead Cyder and Wine if you add to every Bottle two Spoonfuls thereof a little Orice-root and a sew grains of the Chrystal of Tartar and a bit of Loaf-Sugar and being laid close 't will make it drink exceeding brisk A Cordial Take a pint of this Liquor and a pint of our Aqua Corroborans and 4 Ounces of the Syrrup of Balme and mix them together S. A. 〈◊〉 Another very M●dicinal Take Plantain and Balm-water of each a pound Cinamon half a pound digest three days and Distill off the Water and add of this to any strong Cordial Spirit equal parts and half the weight of Syrrup of Violets or Clove-gilly-flowers as you best like adding a little Cocheneel and thus you 've a Noble Cordial The way of making Cordial will be more largely shewn in my Chymicus rationalis and Medicina rationalis to which I shall refer 1 you CHAP. VII Treats concerning the exaltation of high Spirits and how to make the Powers of Scurvey-grass Elder-berries with their Virtues also to make other high Spirits fit for China Japan or Lack-varnish c. IN this Chapter we shall Treat concerning the highest Exaltation of Vinor Spirits viz. so perfectly bereaved of their Flegm as to fire Gunpowder Of this nature is the Spirit of Scurvy-grass and Spirit of Elder and Hungarian-water which I shall shew by several Examples beginning my Foundations from the Wines of the Third Chapter and First of Potestates Cochleariae or the powerful united Spirit of Scurvy-grass ℞ The Scurvy grass Wine and Distill therefrom its Spirit which put upon fresh Scurvy-grass and Distill again repeat this operation till it become very strong and fragrant of the Grass and will burn all away in a Spoon then by Distillation make the Oil of Scurvy-grass and by Calcination its fixed Salt and Spagirically re-unite these and so have you the Powers or whole Virtues thereof and if 't is rightly done 't will look very green by which the Authors may be known Its Virtues These Powers abundantly surpass the Spirit in Virtue being only originally prepared by me in Holland and presented to both Universities did parallel nay in some degrees outstripp'd that of the greatest Pretenders in the European Parts both for strength and pleasantness of Tast The Modus Operandi thereof I never fully discover'd but however for the popular Service I taught several of my Disciples in their Chymical course the true and genean Spirit and this I have observed That this very Spirit althô much inferior in preparation to the Powers hath been sophisticated and when brought to the Publick we have clearly discern'd that it hath not been Distill'd by Fermentation per se but they have supplyed their defects here by adding Horse-reddish which hath not affinity therewith this hath much lessen'd its value in coming short of its Original for too too many there be that care not how indifferent a thing is so they can but make it at a cheap rate and in great quantity especially if they have their Name up Now considering this together with the prevalent Arguments of Ingenious persons and of what great service the Powers of Scurvy-grass might be more than the Spirit if Publish'd I have in answer thereunto done it accordingly and the more especially seeing its virtue is such as to continue its use c. For the Powers of Scurvy grass have an excellent Virtue in many Diseases but particularly against the Scurvy because the Herb hath a singular signature against the Disease and thus much I will be bold to say of those my powers that they give Circulation to the Blood by dissolving and dissipating congealed humours for by their Alkalizated Nature they mundify and by their Vinor nature the Venoms are embib'd and the humours thin'd giving sanity to the principal Faculties for being duly taken they destroy not only the Saline but also the Acid and Crude humours from whence the Scurvy hath its original whether bred by the eating of Gross Raw or Crude ●ruit or Raw Herbs or Salt Fish of long continuance for they are Enemies to many as is plainly seen by the Incident of the disease upon Sea-faring persons and especially such as use long Voyages for through the multiplicity of Salt food the Scurvy there greatly abounds And 't is agreed upon by all the Learned Physitians as well Modern as Ancient which experience daily confirms that there is not one Herb in the Vegetable Kingdom of a more particular specifick Virtue for curing the Scurvy than the aforesaid Scurvy-grass for its internal Texture is made up of a volitile Armoniack and Vinor Essence united with a fragrant Vital and Medicinal Crasis as may be demonstrated by the true Powers Therefore the Scurvy withall its Symtoms may in great measure be abated were but these Powers duly taken in proper time and season not only for prevention but also for healing if the Disease is not by long continuance too Rebellious for these have a specifick Virtue both at Sea and Land where-ever this popular Disease reigneth as also in Camps and Armies against the Chill-bane and Rot which are usually there by which Men die as Chore-Sheep It s Vse and Dose For the Scurvy Jaundice Dropsy Consumption Phthisick or shortness of Breath these Powers may be used at all times the oftner the better The Dose is from 10 to 30 drops in a glass of Wine Beer Tea or Coffee as the Patient best likes and after the spending of three or four Bottles of these Powers take half a Bottle of the Golden or Purging Spirit once a Week keeping moderately warm and promoting its Operation by Water-Gruel or such warm supping the Patient best likes and this will carry off the Reliques of the Disease purifying the Blood and such crudities from whence Worms are bred c. Potestates Sambuci or the powerfull united Spirit of Elder ℞ The Wine of Elder made according to the Third Chapter adding thereunto Elder-flowers and ferment it a second time and be sure to take it at the nick of Fermentation and in the greatest fragrancy for for if you let it flat most of its strength will be lost put this in the Still and Distill it as long as goodness will come S. A. But observe that those Wines you make for Distillation ought to be made from the Juice