produce a better effect upon cold stomachs Wormwood Water the greater Composition Take of Roman and common Wormwood of each a pound Sage Mints Bawm of each two handfuls Galanga Ginger Aromarical reed Alicampane roots of each three drachms Liquoris an ounce Raisons of the Sun three ounces Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds of each six drachms Cinnamon Cloves Natmegs of each two drachms Cardamoms Cubebs of each one drachm Let the things be cut that are to be cut and the things bruised that are to be bruised all of them infused in 20. pints of Spanish wines for the space of 24. hours and then distilled in an Alembick according to 〈◊〉 and sweetned with Sugar A. This water is excellent good for cold stomachs taken with discretion helps digestion in such in whom it is weak it kills worms in the belly easeth pains in the teeth and given in convenient mixtures is profitable in feavers Angelica Water the greater Composition Take of Angelica two pounds Annis-seed half a pound Coriander Carawaies of each four ounces Zedoary bruised three ounces infuse them 24. hours in six congies of small wines then draw out the spirit and sweeten it with sugar A. It comforts the heart cherisheth the vital spirits resisteth the Pestilence and Infection Langius his Bezoar Water Take of Chelondine w th the roots three handfuls and an half Rue a handful Scordium two handfuls Dittany of Creet Carduus Benedictus of each one handful and an half Zedoary and Angelica roots of each three drachms Citron and Lemmon pils of each two drachms and an half Clove-gilliflowers Roses of each two drachms Cinnamon Cloves of each five drachms and an half Venice treacle three ounces Mithridate an ounce and an half Camphire two scruples Troches of Vipers Mace of each a drachm and an half Wood of Aloes two scruples Yellow sanders a drachm and an half Conserves of Clove-gilliflowers two ounces Carduus seeds an ounce Pouder of Electuary Liberantis five scruples Filings of Unicorns-horn or Harts horn a drachm and an half Let these Ingredients being cut and bruised be infused for three daies in the spirit of Wine and Malaga Wine of each three pound then stil'd in a Glasse-Stil in Balneo Mariae according to art After it is half stilled that which remains in the Stil may be strained through a linnen cloath and by evaporation reduced to the thicknesse of Honey and called by the name of Bezoartick Extraction After the same maner may Extractions be made of almost all Compound Waters A. Fxtracts have the same vertues with the waters they are made from only the different form is to please the quaint pallates of such whose fancy loaths any one particular form A. This Bezoar water strengtheneth the heart Arteries and spirit vital It provoketh sweat and is exceding good in pestilential feavers in health it withstands melancholly and consumptions and makes a merry blith cheerful creature Mathiolus his Bezoar Water Take of Mathiolus his great Antidote syrup of Citron pills of each one pound spirit of wine distilled five times over five pound put all these in a glasse 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 glasse to be kept for your use stopping it very close with wax and parchment else the strength will easily fly away in vapours 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 speedily cureth the bitings of any venemos beasts whatsoever that although the danger of death be such that the patient hath lost his speech sight almost al the rest of his sences yet wil he be roused 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 testify by experience in the commendations of it I have known it given in acute in peracute feavers with gallant successe as also in consumptions yea in Hecticks and in Gallens supposed Marasmos neither hath it missed the desired effects and therefore out of question it strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and the spirit vital 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 Capon Water Take a Capon the bowels and fat being taken away cut him in bits and boyl him sufficiently in a sufficient quantity of water according to art Take of this broth being strained two pound and an half Borrage and Buglosse water white Wine of each one pound and an half Flowers of Roses Violets Borrage and Buglosse of each two drachms Crumbs of new bread half a pound bruised Cinnamon an ounce distil it in Glasse Still according to art A. Divers Physitians have written several recepts of this water as Gesner Andr. é Lacuna Med. Florent and Coloniens But the truth is this recept although our Physicians conceal it was borrowed from the Augustan Physitians and only because they thought as I suppose a Gapon must not be eaten without bread they added the bread to it the rest is verbatim from the Augustan Physitians A. The Simples are most of them apropriated to the heart and in truth the Composition greatly nourisheth and strengtheneth such as are in consumptions and restoreth strength lost either by feavers or other sicknesse It is a soveraign remedy for Hectick feavers and marasmos which is nothing else but a consumption coming from them let such as are subject to these diseases hold it for a Jewel Cinnamon Water Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound and an half Spanish wine 12. pints Infuse the Cinnamon in the wine 24. hours then distil them in an Alimbick 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 A. The vertues are the same that Cinnamon it self hath to which I refer you Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound put it into a Glasse-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 24. hours then put on the Still-head lute it wel and distil it according to art A. Mathiolus appoints Wine of Creet 4. pints and that is al the
strengthens weak stomachs exceedingly and helps such as are prone to faimings and swoonings it strengthens such as are weakened by violence of sickness it helps bad memories quickens all the senses strengthens the brain and Animal spirit helps the falling sickness and succours such as are troubled with Asthmaes or other cold afflictions of the lungues A Preservative Pouder against the Pestilence Montagnan Take of all the Saunders the seeds of Bazil of each an ounce and an half Bole Armenick Cinnamon of each an ounce The roots of Dittany Gentian and Tormentil of each two drachms and an half the seeds of Citron and Sorrel of each two drachms Pearls Saphire bone of a Stags heart of each one drachm beat them into pouder according to art A. The title tels you the vertue of it besides it cheers the vital spirit and strengthens the heart Species Electuarii Rosatae Novellae Nicholaus Take of Roses Sugar Liquoris of each one ounce one drachm two scruples and an half Cinnamon two drachms two scruples and two grains Cloves Galanga Indian Spicknard Ginger Nutmegs Zedoary Styrax Cardamoms Smallage of each one scruple and eight grains Sugar so much as is sufficient make it first of all into a pouder then into an Electuary according to art A. Sure it was Dr. Oblivion and not the Colledge that was the Author of such a sleepy business to set Sugar twice in one receit A. It quencheth thirst and staies vomiting and the Author saith it helps hot and dry stomachs as also heat and driness of the heart liver and lungues yet is the pouder it self hot it strengthens the vital spirit takes away heart qualms provokes sweat and strengthens such as have labored long under Cronical diseases A Pouder to stop blood Gallen Take of Frankinsence one drachm Aloes half a drachm beat them into pouder and when you have occasion to use it mix so much of it with the white of an Eg as wil make it of the thicknesse of Honey then dip the wool of a Hare in it and apply it to the sore or part that bleedeth binding it on A. In my opinion this is a pretty medicine and will stick on till the sore be throughly healed and then will come off of it self I remember when I was a child we applied such a medicine only we left out the Aloes and Frankinsence and used only Coneys wool and the white of an Eg to kibed heels and alwaies with good success A Pouder for Scabs Take of Sulphur Vivum Niter the leaves of Marjoram of each two drachms Letharge of Gold black Hellebore roots of each one drachm Burnet half a drachm beat them into pouder according to art A. I cannot speak much in commendations of it and I dare not dispraise it because it comes from the Colledge therefore I will let it alone Pulvis Radulphi Hollandi Commonly known by the name of Holland Pouder Take of the seeds of Annis Caraway Fennel Cummin of Spicknard Cinnamon Galanga of each half an ounce Liquoris Gromwell of each one ounce Senna the weight of them all beat them all into pouder A. That this recept is gallantly composed none can deny and is an excellent purge for such bodies as are troubled with the wind Chollick or stoppage either of the guts or kidneyes two drachms taken in white-Wine will work sufficiently with any ordinary body Pulvis Sanctus Brasavola Take of Senna and Cremor tartar of each two ounces Cloves Cinnamon Galanga Bishops weed of each two drachms Diagrydium half an ounce beat them into pouder according to art In the want of seeds of Bishops Weed of which such as are fresh and good are many times not to be had you may put in Annis seeds in lieu of them Pulvis Senne Take of the best Senna two ounces Cremor tartar half an ounce Mace two scruples and an half Ginger Cinnamon of each one drachm and an half Sal Indi one drachm beat them into pouder according to art A. Both this and the former pouder purge melancholly and cleanse the head Montagnanus was the Author of this latter only the Colledg somthing altered the quantities of the Simples the former pouder works something violently by reason of the Scammony that is in it the latter is more gentle and may be given without danger even two drachm at a time to ordinary bodies I would not have the unskilful meddle with the former Diaturbith the greater without Rhubarb Take of the best Turbith an ounce Diagrydium Ginger of each half an ounce Cinnamon Cloves of each two drams Galanga long Pepper Mace of each one drachm beat them into pouder and with eight ounces and five drachms of white Sugar dissolved in succory water it may be made into an Electuary A. It purgeth flegm being rightly administred by a skilful hand Diaturbith with Rhubarb Montagnanus Take of the best Turbith and Hermodactills of each an ounce Rhubarb ten drachms Diagrydium half an ounce white and red Sanders Violets Ginger of each a drachm and an half Mastich Annis seed Cinnamon Saffron of each half a drachm beat them all into pouder and with white Sugar one pound two ounces and two drachms dissolved in Succory water you may make it into an Electuary according to art A. This also purgeth flegm and choller Once more let me desire such as are unskilful in the rules of Physick not to meddle with purges of this nature unless prescribed by a skilful Physitian lest they do themselves more mischeif in half an hour than they can claw off again in half a yeer A Pouder for the Worms Take of Worm seeds four ounces Senna one ounce Coriander seed prepared Hartshorn of each half a drachm Rhubarb half an ounce dried Rue two drachms beat them into pouder A. I like this pouder very well the quantity or to write more scholastically the dose must be regulated according to the age of the patient even from ten grains to a drachm and the manner of taking it by their pallat It is something purging ELECTVARIES Antidotus Analeptica Or Electuarium Resumptivum Fernelius TAke of Red-roses and Liquoris of each two drachms and five grains Gum Arabick and Traganth of each two drachms and two scruples Sanders white and red of each four scruples juyce of Liquoris white Starch the seeds of of white Poppies Purslain Lettice Endive of each three drachms of the four greater cold seeds the seeds of Quinces Mallows Cotton Violets Pine-Nuts fresh Fistick-Nuts sweet Almonds pulp of Sebestens of each two drachms Cloves Spodium Cinnamon of each one drachm Saffron five grains Penidies half an ounce let all of them being beaten into pouder be made into a soft Electuary with three times their weight in syrup of Violets A. Besides the inverting of the Order which is a matter of nothing here is Zedoary Ginger and Styrax calamitis of each two drachms left quite out by the Colledge or as I am of opinion
Galeni an ounce Mastich Citron Myrobalans of each half an ounce Aloes two ounces the syrup of Stoechas as much as is sufficient make of them a mass according to art A. It purgeth choller and flegm Pills of Bdellium Mesue Take of Bdellium ten drachms Myrobalans Bellericks Emblicks and blacks of each five drachms flakes of Iron Leek seeds of each three drachms Conchula Veneris burnt Corral burnt Amber of each a drachm and an half Pearls half an ounce dissolve the Bdellium in juyce of Leeks and with so much syrup of juyce of Leeks as is sufficient make it into a mass according to art Pills of Eupatorium Mesue Take of Citron Myrobalans the juyce of Eupatorium that is Ageratum of the juyce of Wormwood of each three drams Rhubarb three drachms and an half Mastich one drachm Saffron half a drachm of the best Aloes five drachms syrup of the juyce of Endive as much as is sufficient to make it into a mass into which form it according to art A. Having compared this recept of Mesue with reason I find it a gallant gentle purge and strengthening fitted for such bodies as are much weakened by diseases of choller The Author apropriates it to such as have tertian agues the yellow Jaundice obstructions or stoppings of the liver half a drachm taken at night going to bed will work with an ordinary body the next day by noon the truth is I am sparing in relating the doses of most purging physicks because they are to be regulated according to the strength of the patient c. Physick is not to be presumed upon by Dunces lest they meet with their matches and overmatches too Pilulae de Hiera cum Augarrico from the Agustine Physitians Mesue Take of Galens species hiera Picra Agrick Trochiscated of eace half an ounce of the best Aloes an ounce Honey-Roses às much as is sufficient to make it into a mass according to art A. I refer you to Species Hiera Picra Galeni and to Agrick in the simples for the vertues of them Pilulae Imperialis Fernelius Take of the best Aloes two ounces choice Rhubarb an ounce and an half Agrick trochiscated the leaves of Senna of each an ounce Cinnamon three drachms Ginger two drachms Nutmeg Cloves Spicknard Mastick of each one drachm with syrup of Violets make it into a masse according to art A. It cleanseth the body of mixt humors and strengthens the stomach exceedingly as also the bowels liver and natural spirit it is good for cold natures and cheers the spirits Mastich Pills Fernelius Take of Mastich two ounces Aloes four ounces Agrick trochiscated Species hiera simplicis Galeni of each one ounce and an half bring them into a mass with Malaga wine according to art A. They purge very gently but strengthen much both head brain eyes belly and reins Pestilential Pils Ruffus Take of the best Aloes two ounces choice Mirrh and Saffron of each one ounce with syrup of the juyce of Lēmons make them into a masse A. A scruple of these taken at night going to bed is a notable preservative in pestilential times Stomach pils Mesue Take of Aloes six drachms Mastich red Roses of each two drachms with syrup of Wormwood make them into a mass according to art A. They cleanse and strengthen the stomach they cleanse but gently strengthen much help digestion Pilulae de Succino Andreas Aurif Take of white Amber Mastich of each two drachms Aloes five drachms Agrick a drachm and an half long Birthwort half a drachm syrup of Wormwood so much as is sufficient to make it into a mass according to art A. It amends the evil state of a womans body strengthens conception and takes away what hinders it it gently purgeth choller and flegm and leaves a binding strengthening quality behind it You may take the pains in all such small recepts to look the Simples and then your reason will tell you the Compositions have the same effects I am unwilling to write tautology and as unwilling my book should swell too big Pills of Rhubarb Mesue Take of choyce Rhubarb three drachms Citron Myrobalans Trochisci Diarrhodon of each three drachms and a half juyce of Liquoris and juyce of Wormwood Mastich of each one drachm the seeds of Smallage and Fennel of each half a drachm Species Hiera picra Simp. Galeni ten drachms with juyce of Fennel not clarified and Honey so much as is sufficient make it into a mass A. It purgeth choller opens obstructions of the liver help the yellow Jaundice and dropsies in the beginning strengtheneth the stomach and lungues Pilulae extribus Fernelius Take of Mastich two ounces Aloes four ounces Agrick trochiscated Species Hiera simplex of each an ounce and an half choyce Rhubarb two ounces Cinnamon half an ounce with syrup of Cichory make it into a mass according to art A. View the Simples it may be in searching for this you may meet with something else may do you good Pills of Agrick Mesue Take of Agrick three drachms Orris roots Mastich Horehound of each a drachm Turbith five drachms Species Hiera Picra Galeni half an ounce Colocynthis Sarcocolla of each two drachms Mirrh one drachm Sapa so much as is sufficient to make it into a mass A. It was invented to cleanse the breast and lungues of flegm it works pretty tithly therefore requires a good headpiece to direct it Agregative Pills or Polychrestae Mesue Take of Citron Myrobalans of the best Rhubarb of each half an ounce juyce of Eupatorium and of Wormwood made thick of each two drachms Diagrydium five drachms Myrobalans Chebs and Indian Agrick Colocynthis Polypodium of each two drachms Turbith Aloes of each six drachms Mastich Roses Sal. Gem. Epithimum Annis seeds Ginger of each one d achm with syrup of Damask Roses so much as is sufficient make it up into a mass according to art A. It purgeth the head of Choller flegm and melancholly and that stoutly it is good against quotidian agues and faults in the stomach and liver yet because it is well corrected if you take but half a drachm at a time and keep your self warm I suppose you may take it without danger Pilulae Arabica Nicholaus Take of the best Aloes four ounces Briony roots Myrobalans Citrons Chebs Indian Bellerick and Emblick Mastich Diagrydium Asarabacca Roses of each an ounce Castorium three drachms Saffron one drachm with syrup of Wormwood make it into a mass according to art A. It helps such women as are not sufficiently purged in their labour helps to bring away what a careless Midwife hath left behind purgeth the head helps head-ach megrim vertigo and purgeth the stomach of vicious humours besides Author say it preserves the sight and hearing and preserves the mind in vigor and causeth joyfulness driving away melancholly 't is like it may but have a care you take not to much of it Pilulae Arthriticae Nicholaus Take of Hermodactills Turbith Agrick of each
each four drachms Aloes Succotrina one ounce Species diarhodon abbatis half an ounce let al be beaten the species excepted and but grosly neither and infused in the sun in the best Aqua vitae so much that it may over-top the pouders the breadth of eight fingers then infuse the Diarhodon abbatis in Aqua vitae in like manner for four daies then strain them strongly and mix both these liquors together and put them in a glasse Alembick and by distillation draw off the moisture till the substance at bottom be left of a fit thickness to make pills A. As this is the dearest so in my opinion is it most excellent in operation of all the pills in the Dispensatory being of a quick searching nature it cleanseth both head and body of Choller flegm and melancholly it must not be taken in any great quantity half a dram is sufficient for the strongest body let the weaker take less Pilulae Sine quibus esse Nelo. Nicholaus Take of wash'd Aloes fourteen drachms Myrobalans Citrons Chebuls Emblick Bellericks and Indian Rhubarb Mastich Wormwood red Roses Violets Senna Agrick Doddar of each a drachm Diagrydium fix drachms and an half with syrup of the juyce of Fennel made with Honey make it into a mass according to art A. It purgeth flegm choller and melancholly from the head makes the sight and 〈◊〉 good and giveth ease to a burdened brain Pills of Spurge Fernelius Take of the bark of the roots of Spurge the lesse steeped twenty four hours in vineger and juyce of Purslain two drachms grains of Palma Christi torrefied by number fourty Citron Myrobalans a drachm and an half Germander Chamepitys Spicknard Cinnamon of each two scruples being beaten into fine pouder with an ounce of Gum Traganth dissolved in Rose waeer and syrup of Roses so much as is sufficient let it be made into a mass A. I could say if I would and prove it too that the ounce of Gum Traganth so dislolved is enough to make six times so much into a mass but because the receit in my eyes seems more fitting for a horse than for a man I leave it Pills of Eupborbium Mesue Take of Euphorbium Colocynthis Agrick Bdellium Sagapenum of each two drachms Aloes five drachms with syrup made of the juyce of Leeks make it into a mass A. The pills are exceeding good 〈◊〉 dropsies pains in the loins and gouts coming of a moist cause Pills of Opopanax Mesue Take of Opopanax Sagapenum Hermodactils Bdellium Ammoniacum Colocynthis of each five drachms Saffron Castorium Mirrh Ginger black and long Pepper 〈◊〉 lignea Myrobalans Citrons Bellericks and Emblicks of each one drachm Scammony two drachms Turbith half an ounce Aloes twelve drams the Gums being infused in Colewort water make them up into a mass with syrup of the juyce of Coleworts A. It helps tremblings palfies gouts of all sorts cleanseth the joynts and is helpful for such as are troubled with cold afflictions of the nerves Pilulae turpeti Aurioe Mesue Take of the best Turbith sixteen drachms Aloes an ounce and an half Citron Myrobalans ten drachms red Roses Mastich of each six drams Saffron three drams beat them into pouder and with syrup of Wormwood make it-into a mass A. They purge choller and flegm and that with as much gentleness as can be desired also they strengthen the stomach and liver and help digestion Pilulae de Cynoglosso Fernelius Take of Mirrh six drams Olibanum five drams Opium the seeds of Henbane the roots of Houndstongue dry of each half an ounce Saffron Castorium of each a dram and an half with syrup of Stoechas make it into a mass according to art A. It staies hot rewms that fall down upon the lungnes therefore is good in Phthisicks also it mitigates pain a scruple is enough to take at a time going to bed Landanum Take of Thebane of Opium extracted in spirit of wine one ounce Saffron extracted in like manner a drachm and an half Castorium one drachm then let them all be taken with the tincture of half an ounce of the Species of Diambra new made in spirit of wine adding for pleasantness sake Amber greece and musk of each six grains oyl of 〈◊〉 ten drops then evaporate away the moisture in a warm bath and leave the 〈◊〉 for use A. It was invented and a gallant invention it is to mitigate violent pains stop the 〈◊〉 that trouble the brain in feavers but beware of Opiates in the beginnings of 〈◊〉 to provoke sleep take not above two gnains of it at a time going to bed if that provoke not sleep the next night you may make bold with three Pilulae Scribonii Take of Sagapenum and Mirrh of each two drachms Opium Cardamoms Castorium of each one drachm white pepper half a drachm Sapa so much as is sufficient to make it into a mass according to art A. It is apropriated to such as have phthisicks and such as spit blood but ought to be newly made a scruple is sufficient taken going to bed Galen was the Author of it Pills of Styrax Mesue Take of liquid Styrax Frankinsence Mirrh juyce of Liquoris Opium of each equal parts make them into a mass for pills with a sufficient quantity of syrup of Poppies according to art A. They help such as are troubled with defluxion of Rewm Coughs and provoke sleep to such as cannot sleep for coughing A. I have now done with pills only take notice that such as have Diagrydium otherwise called Scammony in them work violently and are to be taken early in the morning with discretion and administred with due consideration the other work more gently so that you may take a scruple of them at night going to bed and follow your emploiments next day without danger TROCHES A. IF any cavil at this name and think it hardly English let them give a better and I shall be thankful I know no other English name but will fall far below it A. They have gotten many Greek names almost as many as a Welch man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Latins besides the Greek names Trochisci call them Pastilli and Placentula A. Although a man may make them into what form he pleaseth yet they are usually made into little flat thin oakes of a 〈◊〉 or twenty grains in weight plus minus some print images as of a serpent upon troches of vipers upon them some gild them with leaf gold some do neither A. They were first invented by the Ancients that pouders being brought into this form may be kept pure the longer for the vertues of pouders will soon exhale by intromission of air which the thick body of Troches resist also such as are pectoral 〈◊〉 he easier carried in ones pocket Traches of Wormwood Mesue Take of red Roses Wormwood Annis of each two drams Rhubarb juyce of 〈◊〉 or Mandlin 〈◊〉 the seeds of 〈◊〉 bitter Almonds
alteratton A. The Authors own Judgment is That it strengthens the brain heart liver stomach lunges spleen and nerves quickens the sight resisteth poison 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 Cinnamon Water made by Infusion Take of Cinnamon bruised four ounces Spirit of Wine two pints infuse them together 4. daies in a large glasse close stopped with cork and a bladder shaking the glasse 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 fine rag and hung to the top of the glasse A. In my opinion this latter water is more prevalent for heart-qualms and faintings than Mathiolus his Aqua Ceolestis Mathiolus Take of Cinnamon an ounce Ginger half an ounce white red and yellow Sanders of each six drachms Cloves Gallanga Nutmegs of each two drachms and an half Mace Cubebs of each one drachm both sorts of Cardamoms Nigella seeds of each three drachms Zedoary half an ounce seeds of Annis Sweet-Fennel Wild-Parsneps Bazil of each a drachm and an half Roots of Angelica Avens Calamus Aromaticus Liquoris Valerian the lesse the leaves of Clary Time Calaminth Peny-royal Mints Mother of Time Marjoram of each two drachms the flowers of Red-Roses Sage Rosemary Betony Stoechas Bugloss Borrage of each one drachm and an half Citron pils three drachms Let the things be bruised that are to be bruised and infused 15. daies in 12 pints of the best spirit of wine in a glasse body wel stopped and then let it be distilled in Balneo Mariae according to art Adding to the distilled water Pouders of Diambra Diamoscu dulce Armaticum Rosatum Diamargariton frigidum Diarhodon Abbatis pouder of Electuary de gemmis of each three drachms yellow Sanders bruised two drachms Musk Ambergreese of each a scruple tied up in a fine ragg cleer Julip of Roses a pound shake them wel together stopping the glasse close with wax and parchment till it grow cleer to be kept for your use A. It comforteth and cherisheth the heart reviveth drooping spirits prevaileth against the plague and al malignant Feavers preserveth the sences and restoreth such as are in Consumptions A. Only take this Caution both concerning this and al other strong waters They are not safely given by themselves in Feavers because by their hot quallity they inflame the blood and ad fuel to the fire but mixed with other convenient cordials and consideration had to the strength complection habit age and sex of the patient for my own part I aim sincerely at the publick good in writing of this and 〈◊〉 as I would not have Physitians domineer so I would not have fools turn Physitians A Cordial Water Take of Angelica leaves half a pound Carduus leaves six ounces Bawm and Sage of each four ounces Angelica seeds six ounces sweet fennel seeds nine ounces let the herbs being dry and the seeds be bruised grosly to which add the pouders of Aromaticum Rosatum and Diamoseu Dulce of each an ounce and an half Infuse these two daies in 32. pints of Spanish wine then distill them according to art draw out ten pints of strong spirit which sweeten after two daies standing with a pound and an half of Sugar dissolved in Rosewater over the fire Of the smaller spirit you may draw out six pints or more if you please for the mixtures of other Cordials A. The chief end of composing this medicine was to strengthen the heart and resist infection and therefore is very wholsom in pestilentiall times and for such as walk in stinking aires Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxoniae Take of the juice of Borrage Buglosse Bawm Bistort Vervain Sharp pointed Dock Sorrel Goats-Rue Mirrhis or sweet Chervil Blew-bottle great and smal or the double quantity of the small Roses Marigolds Lemmons Citrons of each six ounces juice of Burnet and Cinkfoyl of each three ounces white wine Vinegar a pint Purslain-seeds Water-lillie Flowers of each two ounces Earth of Lemnos Silecia and Samos of each an ounce and an half Pouder called Diatrion Santalon six drachms Pearl prepared with juice of Citrons three drachms Infuse al the Pouders Flowers and Seeds the Earths and Pearls excepted in the juyces and Vinegar for three daies then distill it in water in a glasse-Still and add to the distilled water the Earths and Pearls in fine pouder shake it together and let it stand till it be cleer and keep it for your use A. It mightily cools the blood and therefore profitable in feavers and all diseases proceeding of heat of blood it provokes sleep Langius his Ant-Epileptical Water Take of the Flowers of Line tree three handfuls Lillies of the vally five handfuls peony seeds half an ounce infuse them eight daies in five pints of the best White-wine then distill them in Balneo Mariae with a gentle fire Afterward Take of the flowers of Rosemary half a handful of the flowers of Lavender a handful Rue a handful Betony half a handful Stoechas of Arabia one pugil Peony roots two drachms and an half Dictamny two drachms Squils prepared one drachm and an half Pellitory of Spain half a drachm Misletoe of the Oak two drachms Castorium one drachm Cubebs Cardamoms of each one scruple Mace half a dram Cloves two scruples Nutmegs one scruple let al these being bruised be infused in the water aforesaid and shaken wel together for six daies then distilled again in Balneo Mariae and the water kept in a glasse stopped You may with one and the same labor prepare an extract which wil be very efficacious A. If the authority of Erasius or daily experience will serve the turn then was this reciept chiefly compiled against the convulsion fits but the derivation of the word notes it to be prevalent against the falling sicknesse also for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek signifies the Falling sicknesse and indeed Erastus experience pleads for this also It is true the composition of Erastus differs from this and so doth another recited by Johannes Langius but it seems our Physitians for some reasons best known to themselves esteemed this the best A. Well then having now learned the vertues of the water a word or two of the use will not be amisse Erastus was of opinion that both these diseases were caused by the Moon and so am I of that opinion also for I know some at this time that are constantly troubled with the Falling-sicknesse only at the new and full Moons I could give reasons for this judgment of Erastus but I am unwilling to be tedious Then saith he if
of Creet sharp Vineger in which half an ounce of Rue seeds have been boyled of each two pound Venis Treacle and Methridate of each half a pound mix them all together and warm them a little either in the Sun or in a bath and keep the tincture for your use Aqua Theriacalis distilled Take of the juice of green Walnuts four pound the juyce of green Rue three pound juyces of Carduus Benedictus Marigolds Bawm of each two pound The roots of Patasites or Butter burs fresh and green a pound and an half the Roots of Burs one pound Roots of Angelica and Masterwort green of each six ounces Scordium four handfuls old Venis Treacle and Methridate of each eight ounces Canary Wine twelve pints white Wine Vineger six pints Juyce of Lemmons a quart Digest them for two daies in horse dung or else in a bath let the vessel be well stopped then distill it in sand and in the distillation you may make an Extract called Extractum theriacale A. That this latter water far exceeds the former in vertues every way I think no man that is well in his wits will deny therefore I quote only the vertues of this if any will use the former I will not burden their conscience A. This water is exceeding good in all Feavers especially pestilential it expelleth venemous humors by sweat it strengtheneth the heart and vitals it is an admirable counterpoyson special good for such as have the Plague or are poysoned or bitten by venemous beasts and expelleth virulent humors from such as have the French Pocks If you desire to know more vertues of it see the vertues of Venis Treatle Ordinary Aqua vitae Distill Ale and lees of Wine in an Alembick whose worm runs through cold water into small Wine in ten Congies of which infuse a pound of bruised Annis seeds for twenty four hours then still it again into strong water Aqua vitae compound Is made of small Wines in six congies of which infuse Annis seeds half a pound seeds of Fennel and Caraway of each two ounces Cloves Cinnamon and Ginger of each one ounce and then draw the strong spirit from it A. This is excellent good in my opinion for such as are troubled with wind Spirit of Castorium Take of Castorium four ounces Lavender flowers one ounce the Tops of Sage and Rosemary of each half an ounce Cinnamon six drachms Mace and Cloves of each two drachms Spirit of Wine rectified six pints Digest all these in a glasse being filled only to the third part stopped close with cork and bladder in warm ashes or sand then stil it in a glasse Alembick in Balneo Mariae well luted and let it be kept close stopped A. It resisteth poyson and helps such as are bitten by venemous beasts it causeth speedy delivery to women in travail and casteth out the after-birth it provokes the terms in women and helpeth the fits of the mother it helps lethargies convulsions and in some cases is profitable for mad people but in all let it be mixed with convenient medicine for the purposes Usquebach Take of strong Aqua vitae 24. pints in which for four daies infuse a pound of Liquoris Raisons of the Sun half a pound Cloves half an ounce Mace Ginger of each two drachms strain it and keep it for your use A. It strengthens the stomach and helps indigestion coming of flegm and cold Fallopius his Allum-Water Take of Plantane and Red-rosewater of each a pound viz. a pint Roch Allum Quick silver and Sublimatum of each two drachms grind the Allum and the Sublimate very fine then let them boyl altogether in a glasse with a narrow mouth till half be consumed then let it stand five daies that the Sublimate and the drosse of the Allum may sink to the bottom then pour off the cleer water and keep it for your use A. Fallopius invented this for an unction for the French-pocks but in my opinion it is but a childish recept for the Quick-silver will most assuredly fly out in boyling PHYSICAL VVINES Wormwood Wine PUT a handful of dried Wormwood into every Congie of Wine stop the vessel close and so let it stand in infusion A. It helps cold stomachs breaks wind helps the Wind-chollick strengtheneth the stomach kills worms and helps the green sickness Rosemary-flower-Wine is made after the same manner that Wormwood Wine is made A. It is good against all cold diseases of the head consumeth flegm strengtheneth the gums and teeth Eyebright-Wine is also made after the same manner A. It wonderfully cleers the sight being drunk and revives the sight of ancient men a cup of it in the morning is worth a pair of Spectacles All other Wines are prepared in the same manner when the Physitian shall see fit quoth the Colledge A. But what if there be never a Physician worth a 〈◊〉 in 20. 30. 40. or 50. miles as some such places may be found in this Nation must the poor country man lose his cure truly this charity is according to the saying of the vulgar Fervent cold in such cases let them veiw the vertues of the Simple the Wine is made of and then let them know the Wine of that Simple is far better and fitter for cold bodies and weak stomachs than the Simple it self A. And now I have veiwed the next recept a little you shall have first the recept 2. my opinion of it 3. the vertue of it Gallens Wine of Squils Take of white Squills of the mountains gathered about the rising of the Dog-star and cut in thin peices one pound dry them in the shaddow for ten daies then put them in a glasse and put to them twelve sextaries of old French Wine let it stand so fourty daies then take out the Squils and throw them away A. If admiration were not the daughter of ignorance I should most assuredly have admired at two things in this recept 1. At the time of gathering this same Squil It seems the whol Colledg laid al their learned heads together to hammer out the time when this Squil must be taken out of the earth the result of their consultations was That it must be gathered circiter Canis ortum about the rising of the Dog-star but which of the two Dog-stars they mean whether Syrius or Procyon or what rising of either whether Cosmical Acronyct or Heliacal I know not nor I think themselves neither a child in Astronomy cannot chuse but smile at their learned ignorance It seems they well observe that excellent maxime of Hippocrates in his Praefat ad Astron nemo debet c. No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physitian who is ignorant of Astrology because he is a Physitian of no value Indeed the truth is the roots are brought to us from beyond sea and we must be content with such as we can get A. 2. It seems somthing strang to me why this Squill must be dried in the
fantastical A. This quoth Avicenna is apropriated to women and in them to diseases incident to their matrix but his reasons I know not It is Cordial and heats the stomach Species Electuarii Diamargariton frigidi Nicholaus Take of the four greater cold seeds cleansed the seeds of Purflain white Poppies Endive Sorrel Citrons the three sorts of Sanders Lignum Aloes Ginger the flowers of red Roses water Lillies Bugloss Violets the berries of Mirtle the bone of a Stags heart Ivory Roman Doronicum Cinnamon of each a drachm both sorts of Corral of each half a drachm Pearls three drachms Amber greece Camphire of each 6. grains Musk two grains make of them a pouder according to art You must observe that the Poppie seeds and the four greater cold seeds ought not to be added before the pouder be appointed for use by the Physitian otherwise they will make the composition sour and so must you do in other pouders in which these seeds are A. Here may you see what a labarinth the Colledge have run themselves into through their fantasticalness viz. because they would seem to be singular in sailing contrary to wiser Physitians they run upon two dangerous rocks in this one recept 1. It is a costly cordial and not usually above a drachm of it very seldom half so much given at one time and these seeds excepted against in their caution and upon grounds just enough are not the tenth part of the composition which a drachm being prescribed is but six grains which six grains must be divided into five equal parts a nice point one part for each seed 2. If this rock were put off yet then can you not beat them into pouder alone because they are so moist A. As for the vertues of it Authors hold it to be restorative in consumptions to help such as are in hectick feavers to restore strength lost to help coughs Asthmaes and consumptions of the lungues and restore such as have labored long under languishing or pining diseases Species Electuarij Diambrae Mesue Take of Cinnamon Doronicum or Zedoary Cloves Mace Nutmegs Indian leaf Galanga of each three drachms Indiand Spicknard Cardamoms both greater and lesser of each one drachm Ginger a drachm and an half wood of Aloes yellow Sanders long pepper of each two drachms Ambergreece a drachm and an half Musk half a drachm beat them into pouder A. Mesue apropriates this to the head and saith it heats and strengthens the brain causeth mirth helps concoction cherrisheth the animal vital and natural spirit it strengthens the heart and stomach and resists all cold diseases and is therefore special good for women and old men Species Electuarij Diamoscu dulcis Mesue Take of Saffron Doronicum or Galanga Zedoary wood of Aloes Mace of each two drachms white Pearls raw Silk torrefied Amber red Corral Gallia moschata Bazil of each two drachms and an half Ginger Cubebs Long Pepper of each one drachm and an half both sorts of Been or if they be wanting take the roots of Avens and Tormentil in their stead Indian leaf or Cinnamon Indian Spicknard Cloves of each a drachm Musk two scruples beat them into pouder according to art and then if you please you may make it into an Electuary by adding four times the weight of the whol in Sugar dissolved in white Wine A. It wonderfully helps cold afflictions of the brain that come without a feaver melancholly and its attendance viz. sadness without a cause c. Vertigo or dissines in the head Falling-sickness Palfies resolution of the Nerves Convulsions Heart-qualms afflictions of the lungues and difficulty of breathing Species Electuarij Diamoscu amari Mesue To the former Ingredients in the same proportion adde Wormwood Roses of each three drachms the best Aloes washed half an ounce Cinnamon two drachms and an half Castorium Lovage of each one drachm make of them all a pouder A. Besides the vertues of the former it purgeth the stomach of putrified humours Species Electuarij Diantbon Nicholaus Take of Rosemary flowers an ounce red Roses Violets Liquoris of each six drachms Cloves Indian Spicknard Nutmegs Galanga Cinnamon Ginger Zedoary Mace wood of Aloes Cardamoms the seeds of Dill and Annis of each four scruples beat them all into pouder according to art A. It strengthens the heart and helps the passions thereof it causeth a joyful and cheerful mind and strengthens such as have been weakened by long sickness it strengthens cold stomachs and helps digestion notably Diapenidion Nicholaus Take of Penidies two ounces Pine-Nuts sweet Almonds blanched white Poppie seeds of each three drachms and one scruple Cinnamon Cloves Ginger juyce of Liquoris Gum Traganth Arabick white starch the four greater cold seeds husked of each a drachm an half Camphire seven grains white Sugar so much as is sufficient make it into a pouder and with syrup of Violets you may make it up in form of an Electuary A. I could tell Mr. Printer if I durst be so bold that he had more tongue than wit when he made that Apology at the latter end of the Colledges Master-Piece for at the last sentence of this recept here are certain words left out and amongst them the principal verb which how gross an Error it is Ileave to the consideration of every Scholer who is able to translate a piece of Latin into English A. It helps the vices of the breast coughs colds hoarsnesse and consumptions of the lungues as also such as spit matter Diarhodon Abbatis Nicholaus Take of white and red Sanders of each two drachms and an half Gum Traganth and Arabick Spodium of each two scruples Asarabacca Mastich Indian Spicknard Cardamoms Liquoris Saffron wood of Aloes Cloves Gallia 〈◊〉 Annis-seeds and sweet Fennel seeds Cinnamon Rhubarb the seeds of Bazil the stones of Barberries the seeds of Endive Purslain Gourds Cucumers Citruls Mellons and white Poppies of each a scruple Pearls Bones of a Stags Heart of each half a scruple Sugar Candy Red Roses of each an ounce and three drachms Camphire seven grains Musk four grains beat them all into a pouder also with eight times their weight in Sugar dissolved in Rose-water you may form it into an Electuary A. It cools the violent heat of the heart and stomach as also of the liver lungues and spleen easeth pains in the bowels and most infirmities coming to the body by reason of heat Diaspoliticum Gallen Take of Cummin seeds prepared Long-Pepper dryed Rue of each ounce salt Niter half an ounce beat them into pouder A. It is an admirable remedy for such whose meat is putrified in their stomachs it helps cold stomachs cold bellies and windy Species Electuarii Diatragacanthi frigidi Nicholaus Take of Gum Arabick one ounce and two drachms Gum Traganth two ounces white Starch half an ounce Liquoris the seeds of Melons white Poppies Citruls Cucumers Gourds of each two drachms Penidies three ounces Camphire half a scruple beat them into pouder according to art Also you may
Indian Spicknard 〈◊〉 Indian leaf or 〈◊〉 of eaah a drachm juyce of Succory as much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art A. They strengthen the stomach exceedingly open 〈◊〉 or stoppings of the belly or bowels strengthen digestion open the passages of the liver help the yellow Jaundice and consume 〈◊〉 of the body Trocbisci Alexiterii Renodaeus Take of the roots of Gentian Tormentill Orris Florentine Zedoary of each two dracums Cinnamon Cloves Mace of each half a drachm Ginger a drachm Angelica roots three drachms Coriander seeds prepared Roses of each one drachm dried Citron pills two drachms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all into pouder and with juyce of Liquoris softened in Hippocras six ounces make them into a soft past which you may form into either Troches or small rowles which you please A. It preserves and strengthens the heart exceedingly helps fainting and failings of the vital spirits resists poyson and and the pestilence and is an excellent medicine for such to carry about them whose occasions are to travail in pestilential places or corrupt air only taking a very small quantity now and then Trocbisci Aliptae Moschatae Nicholaus Take of pure Labdanum bruised three ounces 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half Benzoin an ounce wood of Aloes two drachms Ambergreece one drachm Camphire half a drachm Musk half a scruple Rofe water so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches A. It is singular good for such as are Asthmatick and can hardly fetch their breath as also for young children whose throat is so narrow that they can hardly swalow down their milk Troches of Annis seeds Mesue Take of Annis seeds the juyce of Maudlin made thick of each two drachms the seeds of Dil Spicknard Mastich Indian leaf or Mace the leaves of Wormwood Asarabacca Smallage bitter Almond of each half a drachm Aloes two drachms juyce of Wormwood so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art A. They open obstructions of the liver and that very gently and therefore diseases coming thereof help quartan agues Trocbisci 〈◊〉 albi or Pectoral Rowls Take of white Sugar a pound white Sugar Candy Penidies of each four ounces Liquoris six drachms the roots of Orris Florentine half an ounce white Starch an ounce and an half Mussilage of Gum Traganth made with Rose water so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches three grains of Musk and four grains of Amber greece being added to it also you may make it iuto rowls which they commonly call pectoral rowls and if you please you may make it without Musk and Amber greece Trocbisei 〈◊〉 nigri Rhafis Take of juyce of Liquoris white Sugar of each ten 〈◊〉 Gum Traganth sweet Almonds blanched of each six drams Mussilage of Quinces as much as is sufficient to make it into Troches A. Both this and the former will melt in ones mouth and in that manner to be used by such as are troubled with coughs colds 〈◊〉 or want of voice the former is most in use but in my opinion the last is most effectual Troches of Barberries Mesue Take of dried Barberries juyce of Liquoris Spodium Purslain seeds of each three drachms red Roses six drachms Indian Spicknard Saffron white Starch Gum Traganth of each one drachm Citrul seeds three drachms and an half Camphire half a drachm make it up with Manna made soft with the juyce of Barberries according to art They wonderfully cool the heat of the liver reins and bladder breast and stomach and stop loosness cools the heat in feavers Troches of Camphire Mesue Take of red Roses four drachms Spodium Liquoris of each two drachms of the four greater cold seeds Gum Traganth Saffron Gum Arabick Indian Spicknard of each one dram yellow Sanders two drachms and an half wood of Aloes Cardamoms the greater white starch Camphire of each two 〈◊〉 white Sugar Manna of each three drams Muisialage of the seeds of flea wort made with Rose water as much as is sufficient to make it into Troches A 〈◊〉 exceeding good in burning feavers heat of blood and chollen together with hot distempers of the stomach and liver and extream thirst coming thereby also it is good à gainst the yellow Jaundice Phthisicks and Hectique feavers Troches of Capers Mesue Take of the bark of Caper roots the seeds of Agnus Castus of each six drams Gum Ammoniacum Nigella seeds Calaminth Acorus juyce of Maudlin made thick bitter Almonds the leaves of Rue round Birthwort roots the seeds of Water cresses of each two drachms Coterach 〈◊〉 of Cyperus of each one drachm dissolve the 〈◊〉 in sharp Vineger then mix the rest of the pouders with it that so they may be made up into Troches A. They open stoppings of the liver and spleen and help diseases thereof coming as Rickets Hypocondriack melancholly c. Trochisci Cypheos Damocrat Take of the pulp of Raisons of the Sun Turpentine boiled of each three ounces Mirrh Schoenanthus of each one ounce and an half Calamus Aromaticus nine drachms Cinnamon half an ounce Bdellium Indian Spicknard Cassia lignea Cyperus Juniper berries of each three drachms Aspalathus or Lignum Aloes two drachms and an half Saffron one drachm clarified Honey so much as is sufficient let the Mirrh and Bdellium be ground so long in a mortar with a little wine till it be brought to the thickness of Honey then ad the Honey with the pulp of Raisons last of all all the rest beaten into fine pouder and so make them into Troches according to art A. It is excellent good against inward ulcers in what part of the body so ever they be Trochisci Diarhodon Mesue Take of the flowers of red Roses six drams Spicknard wood of Aloes of each two drachms Liquoris three drachms Spodium one drachm Saffron half a drachm Mastich two drachms make them up into Troches with white-Wine according to art A. They wonderfully ease feavers coming of flegm as quotidian feavers agues Epialos c. pains in the belly Trochisci de Eupatorio Mesue Take of Manna the juyce of Maudlin made thick of each an ounce red Roses half an ounce Spodium that is burnt Ivory three drachms and an half Indian Spicknard three drachms Rhubarb 〈◊〉 Annis seeds of each two drachms with Doddar water let them be made into Troches let the Manna be dissolved with the juyce then the rest of the pouders sprinkled in by degrees A. Obstructions or stoppings and swellings above nature both of the liver and spleen are cured by the inward taking of these Troches and diseases thereof coming as yellow and black Jaundice the beginning of dropsies c. Trochisci De Gallia Moschata Mesue Take of wood of Aloes five drachms Amber greece three drachms Musk one drachm with a sufficieut quantity of mussilage of Gum Traganth made in Rose water make them into Troches according to art and dry them in the shadow A. They strengthen the brain and heart and by consequence both
Maiden-hair five ounces infuse them in four pints of spring water boyl them gently strain the decoction strongly and with a pound and an half of white Sugar boyl it unto a syrup according to art A. It opens stoppings of the stomach strengthens the 〈◊〉 and helps the infirmities of them Syrup of Cinnamon Take of Cinnamon grosly bruised four ounces infuse it in a pint of white wine for three daies in a glasse by a gentle heat then having strained out the Cinnamon ad to it a pound and an half of white sugar boyl it gently to a syrup A. It hath the same vertues with Cinnamon water and being not so hot must needs be far better for hot bodies After the same manner may be made syrup of Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds Ginger Cloves Nutmegs c. A. If any will be so nice to make such 't is but veiwing the Simples and there you have the vertues of them Syrup of Corrall Simple Take of Red Corral finely poudered as much as you will dissolve it in a glasse in Balneo Mariae in such a quantity of the clarified juyce of Barberries that the juyce may swim above it the breath of four fingers stopping the glasse cloose with cork or wax when it hath stood in the glasse three daies pour off what is dissolved and pour in fresh juyce of Barberries clarified set it in the bath again till all the Correl be dissolved Then to one pound of this juyce ad one pound of Sugar and boyl it to the consistence of a syrup but in the Preparation of this Syrup it requireth a great deal of skill and dexterity lest you er Syrup of Corral Compound Take of Red Corral six ounces bring it into a pouder by grinding it upon a marble with a little rose water Then add to it Juyce of Lemmons clarified from the flegm in Balneo Mariae sixteen ounces juyce of Barberries clarified eight ounces sharp wine Vineger juyce of wood Sorrel clarified of each six ounces digest them in a bath or else in horsedung eight daies in a large glasse stopped close with cork and bladder shaking it every day then let it run through a brown paper of which take a pound and an half juyce of Quinces half a pound Sugar of Roses twelve ounces mix them all together and with the gentle heat of a bath draw off the superfluous liquor till it be left of the consistence of a Syrup to which ad Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers sixteen ounces together with half a drachm of Amber greece and four grains of Musk tied up in a cloath and hung into the glasse by a string 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 sicknesse it staies the terms in women and indeed it had need be good for something for it is exceeding costly Syrup of the Infusion of Clove-Gilliflowers Take a pound of Clove-Gilliflowers the white being cut off infuse them at 3. times in three pints of spring water al night afterwards with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art A. Which if you do it will be scarce worth your labour but will lose both colour and tast and by consequence vertue in boyling and then the Colledg themselves would say 't is naught for in all syrups which you would have keep colour of which this is one add two pound of Sugar to each pint of insusion and only melt it over the fire in a peuter vessel and I assure you if in prescribing this and many other medicines the Colledg did make use of the ablest Apothecaries for the manner of composition of the medicines either the ablest were very weak or very negligent but enough of this A. The Syrup is a fine temperate syrup it strengthens the heart liver and stomach it refresheth the vital spirits and is a good cordial in feavers Syrup of Citron pills Mesue Take of the thin outward pills of Citrons dried five ounces of the berries of Kermes or the juyce of them brought over from beyond sea two drachms spring water four pints set them in infufiou all night and the next morning boyl it till half be consumed strain it and add to the decoction two pound and an half of very good sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art which perfume with six grains of the best Musk wrapped up in fine linnen and hung into the syrup by a string A. It strengthens the stomach resists poyson strengthens the heart and refists the passions thereof palpitation faintings swoonings It strengthens the vital spirit restores such as are in consumptions and hectick feavers and strengthens nature much Syrup of Water-Lillie-flowers Simple Nicholaus Take of the whitest part of White-water-Lilly-flowers a pound infuse them for seven hours in three pound of warm water then boyl it a little and strain it and add the like quantity of fresh flowers use them in like manner as you did the former repeat this infusion three times then clarifie the infusion and having added the like quantity of sugar to it boyl it into a syrup according to art Syrup of Water-lillie-flowers the Compound Fernelius Take of Water-lillie-flowers half a pound the flowers of Violets two ounces Lettice two handfuls the seeds of Lettice Purslain and Gourds of each half an ounce boyl all these in four pints of water to the consumption of one pint and having strained it ad to the decoction Red Rose Water half a pint White Sugar four pound boyl it to a Syrup according to art A. They both are fine cooling Syrups they allay the heat of choller and provoke sleep they cool the body both head heart liver reins and matrix and therefore are profitable for hot diseases in either Syrup of Meconium Mesue A. Meconium The blush of which this Receipt carries in its frontispice is nothing else but the juyce of English Poppies boyled til it be thick as I am of opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of Poppies growing in hotter countries and therefore in al reason is colder in quality and therefore I speak purely of Meconium and Opium not of these Syrups though they be no edge-tools yet t is ill jesting with them Take of the heads of white Poppies meanly ripe and green eight ounces of the heads of black Poppies meanly ripe and green six ounces Rain-water four pints boyl them in the water til half of it be consumed then strain it and with fixteen ounces of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art and when you have done so you may use it if you please for Diacodium Syrup of 〈◊〉 the lesser Composition Take the heads of white Poppies and black when both of
rather by the Transcriber which is an easie thing together with want of a careful Corrector to be done I weigh not the vaporing of the Printer at the latter end of the book being confident if a thing were left out he knew it no more than a Hog knows how to fiddle A. It restores Consumptions and Hectick-feavers strength lost it nourisheth much and restores radical moisture opens the pores resists Choller takes away coughs quencheth thirst and resisteth feavers Confectio Alkermes Mesue Take of the juyce of sweet-sented Apples sweet Rosewater of each a pound and an half in which infuse the space of 24. hours raw Silk four ounces strain it out strongly and to the former juyces ad of the juyce of the berries of Kermes brought over to us a pound Sugar two pounds boyl it to the thickness of Honey then it being removed from the fire whilst it is yet hot ad to it half an ounce of Amber greece cut very small which being well melted put in these following things beaten into pouder choice Cinnamon wood of Aloes of the best Lapis lazuli burnt in a Crucible then beaten into pouder and washed first of all in common water then in Rose or Borrage water and that very often drying of it and washing of it again and let this be so often repeated till the water remain cleer after the washing of each six drachms Pearls prepared three drachms Leaves of Gold of the best Musk of each one drachm make them all up into an Electuary according to art A. Questionlesse this is a great Cordial and a mighty strengthener of the heart and spirit vital a restorer of such as are in Consumptions a resister of Pestilences and Poyson a great releef to languishing nature it is given with good successe in feavers but give not too much of it at a time lest it prove too hot for the body and too heavy for the purse Electuary of Bay-Berries Rhasis Take of dried Rue ten drachms the seeds of Bishops-weed Cummin Lovage Origanum Nigella Carrawaies Carrots Parsly of bitter Almonds Pepper black and long Hors-Mints Calamu Aromaticus Bay berries Castorium of each two drachms Sagapenum half an ounce Opopanax three drachms Clarified honey one pound and an half the things which are to be bruised being bruised let them al be made into an Electuary according to art the Gums being dissolved in Wine and added to it A. It is exceeding good either in the Chollick or Iliack passion or any other disease of the bowels coming of cold or wind it generally easeth pains in the bowels Athanasia Mithridatis Gallen Take of Cinnamon Cassia Schaenanth of each an ounce and an half Saffron Mirrh of each one ounce Costus Spignel Acorus Agrick Scordium Carrots Parsly of each half an ounce white Pepper eleven grains Honey so much as is sufficient to make it up into an Electuary according to art A. It prevails against poyson and the bitings of venemous beasts and helps such whose meat putrifies in their stomachs staies vomiting of blood helps old coughs and cold diseases in the liver Spleen bladder and matrix The Colledge hath made some petty alterations in the quantities of the Simples but not worth the speaking of Diacapparis Gilbert of England Take of Capers four ounces the roots of Agrimony Nigella seeds Squills Asarbacca Centaury Pellitory of Spain black Pepper Smallage Time of each one ounce Honey so much as is sufficient make it into an Electuary according to art A. They say it helps infirmities of the Spleen and indeed the name seems to promise so much it may be good for cold bodies if they have strength of Nature in them me thinks 't is but odly composed the next looks more lovely in my eyes which is Diacinnamomu Mesue Take of Cinnamon fifteen drachms Cassia lignea Elicampane roots of each half an ounce Galanga seven drachms Cloves long Pepper both sorts of Cardamom Ginger Mace Nutmegs wood of Aloes of each three drachms Saffron a drachm Sugar Candy five drachms Musk two scruples with clarified Honey two pound and eight ounces boyl it and make it into an Electuary according to art A. There is in the recept of Mesue Cummin seeds half an ounce which is here left out whether wittingly or unwittingly I neither know nor care out of question the recept is better they being in than being out also I can give no reason why it should be boyled if the Musk and Saffron be boyled they will be spoyled you had ten times better not boil them at all it may do harm cannot do good if there be too much Honey to make it up take less I cannot stand calculating the due proportion in every recept A. Diacinnamomum or in plain English a composition of Cinnamon heats the stomach causeth digestion provokes the terms in women strengthens the stomach and other parts that distribute the nourishment of the body a drachm of it taken in the morning fasting is exceeding good for ancient people and cold bodies such as are subject to dropsies and diseases of flegm or wind for it comforts and strengthens nature much Diacorallion Coloniens Take of Corral both white and red Bole Armenick Dragons blood of each a drachm Pearls half a drachm wood of Aloes red Roses Gum Traganth Cinnamon of each two scruple white and red Sanders of each a scruple beat them at into pouder and when you have so done you may make them into an Electuary according to art with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar dissolved in small Cinnamon water A. It comforts and strengthens the heart exceedingly and restores such as are in consumptions it is cooling therefore good in Hectick feavers very binding and therefore stops tuxes neither do I know a better medicine in all the Dispensatory for such as have a consumption accompanied with a loosness It stops the terms and whites in women if administred by one whose wits are not a woolgathering Diacorum Mesue Take of the roots of Sicers Calamus Aromaticus Pine-nuts of each a pound and an half let them all be cleansed boiled and beaten till they be like a Pultis then put to them Honey being clarified ten pounds boyl them continually stirring them till it be come to the just thickness then ad the roots of Acorns beaten and the Pinenuts chopped small and when you have well mixed them together ad to them these pouders following Take of black Pepper an ounce long Pepper Cloves Ginger Mace of each half an ounce Nutmegs Galanga Cardamoms of each three drachms mix them with the roots Honey so much is sufficient stirring it left the ingredients stick to the bottom and make them into an Electuary according to art A. The Electuary provokes lust heats the brain strengthens the nerves quickens the sences causeth an acute wit easeth pains in the head helps the falling sicknesse and convulsions Coughs Catharres and all diseases proceeding from coldness of the brain Electuarium è
part of salt Peter two parts dissolve them in a phial over warm ashes make brine of rain water and Baysalt as much as the water will dissolve filter it through a broun paper into this brine which must be strong enough to bear an eg put the former solution of the Mercury and forth with a white pouder will fall down to the bottom which is to be washed in cleer water till it have no tast then in cordial waters so dried and kept in a glass Mercurius vitae Take of oyl of Antimony before mentioned whilst it is in fat put it into cleer water and forth with it will appear like milk and a white pouder will fall down to the bottom which must be made sweet with much washing and kept for use Sacharum Saturni Take of red I ead as much as you will which being put into a phyal put so much distilled Vineger to it that it may overtop it the bredth of four fingers digest it in a bath or in dung twenty four hours seperate the sweet Vineger and put in fresh so long till no more sweetness can be drawn from it mix all the liquors together in a stone vessel which will endure the fire with a gentle fire exhale it so long away till there appear a skin at the top then set the vessel in a Cellar and take away the Christalline congealation then exhale it again till another skin be on the top and do as before till there grows no more there at last dissolve the sugar in distilled water filter it coagulate it to a sweet christalline sugar Salt of Vitriol of a fleshy colour Take of Vitriol so much as you wil put it in a wide Crucible and place the sire round about it till it come into a pouder of the colour of Violets let this be put into a large glass viol into common water distilled continually stirring it with a stick till the water which before was hot be cold so let it stand twenty four hours filter the liquor and exhale it away till it be dry and of a fleshy colour Salt of Vitriol white Let white Vitriol be dissolved in distilled water filtred and coagulated as the Sacharum Saturni was Turbith Minerale Take of crude Mercury oyl of Vitriol seperated from the flegm of each equal parts put them into a phial which being placed first of all in hot ashes then fire being added by degrees lest all the oyl of Vitriol flie away a white mass remaining in the bottom which being seperated from that portion of crude Mercury let it be put into rain water or else distilled water and forth with it will come yellow let it be often washed in warm water till it be sweet then in cordial waters then dried and kept Oleum Antimonij Take of bright Antimony as much as you will let it be beaten in very fine pouder and put into a large earthen vessel stirring it over the fire with an iron instrument till it grow into clots then beat it again set it over the fire as before repeat this till all the splendor of it be gone and it smoke no more and the Stibium be like white ashes let this pouder be put upon a red hot plate take a pound and an half of it Borax half an ounce or take three ounces of it and half a dram of Sal gem put it into a Crucible which being covered with a Tile set in a very hot fire til there flow a matter like water put that into a bason and keep it Tartarum Vitriolatum Take of Liquor Tartar prepared four ounces Oyl of Vitriol wel rectified two ounces drop it by drops upon the Liquor of Tartar so wil there a white pouder fall down to the bottom let the moisture swimming above be taken away by a gentle heat and the salt reserved for use Nepenthes Opiatum Take of tincture of Opium made with distilled Vineger then with spirit of Wine extraction of Saffron made with spirit of Wine of each an ounce Salt of Pearls and Coral of each half an ounce Tincture of the specics of Diambra of each seven drachms Ambergreece one drachm mix them together and with the heat of a bath make them into the form of pills THE VVAY OF MAKING EXTRACTS SEing many extol the praises of Extracts up to the skies l'though WE by daily experience see they never answer to those effects yet that He may not altogether be wanting to the desires of others We chose rather to give this general way of making of them than to stuff up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with idle and needless Recepts and out of vian glory impose then upon the unskilful Take of the masse of any pill or pouder what soever as much as you wil infuse them or any of them in distilled water such as the Physitian shall prescribe a sufficient quantity let them stand two daies in a bath or if the species be hard three daies til the tincture have drawn out all the vertue which if you would try let the first liquor run through a brown paper and put in new liquor digesting it again which having received its tincture proceed as before let the liquors so gathered be placed in Balnes Mariae and the moisture evaporated so wil the matter remain in the bottom of the thickness of honey which keep for your use that the extract may remain moist a long time put a little salt to it viz two scruples or half a drachm to an ounce of extract If you draw it with distilled water put in a little oyl of Vitriol or oyl of Sulphur so the extract wil be the better drawn and the pleasanter to the tast for the liquor being thereby made sharp will sooner penetrate the hard substances of the species and set a stop to the unbridled violence of a purging medicine Cordial Extracts Opiates and violent purges are usually drawn with spirit of Wine THE VVAY OF MAKING SALTS OF ANY KIND OF VEGETABLES THE Salt which is made of plants is twofold the one Volatle which is 〈◊〉 discussed by the violence of the fire and this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The other fixed which endures the fire and is left in the 〈◊〉 The way to make Volatle or Essential Salt Take a large quantity of any convenient plant which is fresh and full of juyce beat it in a wooden or stone mortar and 〈◊〉 poured cleer spring water to it boyl it till half be consumed strain it and press it strongly then boyl the decoction to the thickness of Honey then set it in a glass or stone 〈◊〉 glazed in a cold place for eight daies at the least and you shall find a christal line salt at the top of it like Sal gem take that and wash it in the water of the herb whereof it was made and dry it In this manner is made salt of Wormwood Carduns 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and other bitter herbs very easily but of 〈◊〉 herbs not 〈◊〉 much difficulty The way of
vital and animal spirit and cause a sweet breath Trochisci Gordonii Take of the four greater and four lesser cold seeds cleansed the seeds of white Poppies Mallows Cotton Purslain Quinces Mirtles Gum Traganth and Arabick Pinenuts fistick Nuts Sugar Candy Penids Liquoris French Barly mussilage of Fleawort sweet Almonds of each an ounce Bole Armenick Dragons blood Spodium Roses Mirrh of each two ounces let them being beaten into pouder be made into Troches with Hydromel A. They are held to be very good in ulcers of the bladder and all other inward ulcers whatsoever and ease feavers coming thereby being of a fine cooling slippery heating nature Trochisci 〈◊〉 Andromacus out of Galen Take of hearb Mastich Asarabacca Marjoram Aspalathus or yellow Sanders of each two drachms Schoenanth Calamus Aromaticus Valerian Xylobalsamum or wood of Aloes Opobalsamum or oyl of 〈◊〉 by expression Cinnamon Costus of each three drachms Mirrh Indian leaf or Mace Indian Spicknard Saffron Cassia lignea of each six drams Amomus or Cardamoms the smaller an ounce and an half Mastich a drachm Spanish wine as much as is sufficient first let the Saffron being in pouder be dilligently ground with the Wine let then the Mirrh and Mastich both in fine pouder be added then the Opobalsamum 〈◊〉 last of all the rest of the pouders and so made up into troches and dried in the shaddow A. They are very seldom or never used but in other compositions yet naturally they heat cold stomachs help digestion strengthen the heart and brain Trochisci Hysterici Renodaeus Take of Assa foetida Galbanum of each two drachms and in half Mirrh two drachms Castorium a drachm and an half Asarabacca Birthwort Savin Featherfew Nep of each one drachm Dittany half a drachm either with juyce of Rue or decoction of the same make it into troches according to art A. These troches are applied to the foeminine gender help fits of the mother expel both birth and after-birth cleanse women after labor and expel the relicts of a careless Midwife Trochisci de Lacca Mesue Take of Gum Lacca cleansed the juyces of Liquoris Maudlin Wormmood and Barberries all made thick Rhubarb long Birthwort Costus Asarabacca bitter Almonds Maddir Annis Smallage Schoenanth of each a drachm with the decoction of Birth wort or Schoenanth or the juyce of Maudlin or Wormwood make them into Troches according to art A. It helps stoppings of the liver and spleen and feavers thence coming it expels wind purgeth by urine and resists dropsies Troches of Terra Lemnia Mesue according to Fernelius Take of Dragons blood Gum Arabick torrefied Troches of Ramich red Roses the seeds of Roses white starch torrefied Spodium Acacia Hypocystis lapis Haematitis Balaustines Bolarmenick terra Lemnia red Corral Amber of each two drachms Pearls Gum Traganth black Poppy seeds of each a drachm and an half Purslain seeds a little torrefied Hartshorn burnt Frankinsense Cypres nuts Saffron of each two drachms either with juyce or water of Plantane make it into Troches according to art A. If you will have it with Opium saith Mesue you may add two drachms of it to the composition and indeed in external applications if any inflamation or feaver be I think it better with Opium than without A. It was invented to stop blood in any part of the body and for it it is excellent wel then for the bloody-flux take half a drachm of them inwardly being beaten into pouder in red wine every morning for spitting of blood use it in like manner in Plantane water for pissing of blood 〈◊〉 it into the bladder for bleeding at the nose either snuff it up or anoint your forehead with it mixed with oyl for the immoderate flowing of the terms inject it up the womb with a syringe but first mix it with plantane water for the hemorrhoids or wounds apply it to the place bleeding Troches of Mirrh Rhasis Take of Mirrh three drachms the flower of Lupines five drachms the leaves of 〈◊〉 Horse minus Penyroyal the seeds of Cummin the roots of Maddir Assafoetida Sagapenum Opopanax of each two drachms dissolve the 〈◊〉 in Vineger of Squils and with juyce of Mugwort make it up into Troches A. They provoke the terms in women and that with great ease to such as have them come down with pain Trochisci Polyidae Sphragis Andromacus out of Galen Take of Pomegranate flowers twelve drachms Allum three drachms Frankincense Mirrh of each half an ounce Copperis two drachms Bulls gall six drachms Aloes an ounce austere Wine so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art A. They are very good being outwardly applied both in green wounds and ulcers Pastilli Andronis Galen Take of Pomegranate flowers ten drachms Copperis twelve drachms unripe Galls Birthwort Frankinsence of each an ounce Allum Mirrh of each half an ounce Misy two drachms with eighteen ounces of austere Wine make it into Troches according to art A. This also is apropriated to wounds ulcers and fistulaes it cleers the ears and represseth all excressences of flesh cleanseth the filth of the bones Trochisci Musae Galen Take of Allum Aloes Copperas Mirrh of each six drams Crocomagma Saffron of each three drachms Pomegranate flowers half an ounce Wine and Honey of each so much as is sufficient to make it up into Troches according to art A. Their use is the same with the former Crocomagma of Damocrates Galen Take of Saffron a hundred drachms red Roses Mirrh of each fifty drachms white Starch Gum of each thirty drams Wine so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches A It is very expulsive heats and strengthens the heart and stomach Troches of wood of Aloes Take of wood of Aloes red Roses of each two drachms Mastich Cinnamon Cloves Indian Spicknard Nutmegs Cardamoms greater and lesser Cubebs Gallia Moschata Pasneps Citron pills Mace of each a drachm and an half Amber greece Musk of each half a Scruple with Honey of Raisons make them into Troches A. It strengthens the heart stomach and liver takes away heart-qualms faintings and stinking breath and resisteth the 〈◊〉 Trochisci 〈◊〉 Mesue Take of the juyce of Sorrel sixteen ounces red Rose leaves one ounce Mirtle berries two ounces boyl them a little together and 〈◊〉 them add to the decoction Gall well beaten three ounces boyl them again a little then put in these following things in fine pouder take of red Roses an ounce yellow Sander ten drachms Gum Arabick an ounce a half 〈◊〉 Spodium of each an ounce Mirtle berries four ounces wood of Aloes Cloves Mace Nutmegs of each half an ounce sour Grapes seven drachms mix them all together and let them dry upon a stone and grind them again into pouder and make them into small Troches with one drachm of Camphire and so much Rose water as is sufficient and perfume them with fifteen grains of Musk. A. They strengthen the stomach heart and liver as also the