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A76199	The ladies cabinet enlarged and opened: containing many rare secrets, and rich ornaments of several kindes, and different uses. Comprized under three general heads. Viz. of [brace] 1. Preserving, conserving, candying, &c 2. Physick and chirurgery. 3. Cookery and houswifery. Whereunto is added, sundry experiments, and choice extractions of waters, oyls, &c. / Collected and practised; by the late Right Honorable and learned chymist, the Lord Ruthuen. With a particular table to each part.; Ladies cabinet opened.	M. B.; Forth and Brentford, Patrick Ruthven, Earl of, 1573?-1651.	1654 (1654)	Wing B135; Thomason E1528_1; ESTC R16539	109,847	253

hours shaking it together three or four times then take it out and being cold pour it forth and put almost as much more of the mixed spirits digested as before in a gentle heat by Balneo then put it forth to the first extracted and adde halfe as much more spirits the third time and digest it again and then have you extracted all the special part of the Amber and leave nothing but a black dead earth of no value Then take a pint of the spirit of what herb you will use and dissolve therein one pound of pure white sugar candy or at the least twelve ounces very finely powdered and searced thorow a fine searcer for the speedier resolution thereof It is best to dissolve it cold This dissolution must be twice filtered thorow a thin cap paper to make it very perfect clear then take three parts of this dulcified spirit to one of your extract of Amber drawn with spirit of wine then shake them well together and let them stand in a square glasse very close stopped untill it shall be perfectly clear one drachm of this extraction of Amber will serve to dulcifie and make fit two quarts of the spirit of Mints or Clary or the like and give it a most excellent taste and efficacious vertues 23 Spirit and water of wormwood the lesser Composition Take of the leaves of dried Wormwood two pound Annis-seeds halfe a pound steep them in six gallons of small wines 24 houres then distill them in an Allembick adding to every pound of the distilled water two ounces of the best sugar Let the two first pound you draw out be called Spirit of Wormwood those which follow Wormwood water the lesser Composition 24 Spirit and water of Wormwood the greater Composition Take of common and Roman Wormwood of each a pound Sage Mints Bawm of each two handfuls the roots of Gallanga Ginger Calamus-aromaticus Alacampane of each three drachms Liquoris one ounce Raisins of the Sun stoned three ounces Annis-seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each three drachms Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs 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 24 pints of Spanish Wines for 24 hours then distilled in an Allembick adding two ounces of white sugar to everie pint of distilled waters Let the first pint be called Spirit of Wormwood the geater Composition 25 Spirit and water of Angelica Take of the leaves of Angelica eight ounces of Carduus Benedictus six ounces of Bawm and Sage of each four ounces Angelica seeds six ounces sweet Fennel seeds nine ounces Let the herbs being dried and the seeds be grossy bruised to which add of the spices called Aromaticum Rosatum and of the spices cal'd Diamoscha dulce of each an ounce and a half infuse them two daies in thirtie two pints of Spanish wine then distil them with a gentle fire and with everie pound mix two ounces of sugar dissolved in Rosewater Let the three first pound be called by the name of Spirit the rest by the name of Water 26 Spirit of Wine extraordinarie Take the finest paper you can get or else some virgin parchment strain it very right and stiffe over the glass body wherein you put your Sack Malmsie or Muscadine oyl the paper or virgin parchment with a pensil moistned in the oyle of Ben and distill it in Balneo with a gentle fire and by this means you shall purchase only the true spirit of Wine You shall not have above two or three ounces at the most out of a gallon of wine which ascendeth in the form of a cloud without any dew or veins in the helm Lute all the joynts well in this distillation This pirit will vanish in the air if the glasse stand open 27 Quintessence of Snakes Adders or Vipers Take of the biggest and fatest Snakes Adders or Vipers which you can get in June or July cut off their heads take off their skins and unbowel them then cut them into small pieces and put them into a glasse of a wide mouth and set them in a warme Balneo that they may be well dryed which they wil be done in three or four dayes then take them out and put them into a bolt head and pour on them of the best alcolizated Wine as much as wil cover them six or eight fingers breadth stop the glasse he metically and digest them fifteen daies in Balneo or so long til the Wine be sufficiently covered which pour forth then pour on more of the foresaid spirit of wine til all the quintessence be extracted Then put all the tinged spirits together and draw off the spirit in a gentle Balneo til it be thick at the bottome on this pour the spirit of Wine caryophilated and stir them wel together and digest them in a Circulatory ten daies then abstract the spirit of wine and the quintessence remaineth at the bottome perfect This quintessence is of extraordinary vertue to purifie the blood flesh and skin and consequently all diseases therein It cures the falling sicknesse strengthens the braine sight and hearing and preserveth from gray hairs reneweth youth preserveth women from Abortion cureth the Gout Consumption causeth sweat is very good in and against pestilentiall infections 28 A liquor against the tooth Ach. Take of oyle of Cloves well rectified half an ounce in it dissolve half a drachm of Camphire adde to them of the spirit of turpentine four times rectified in which half a drachm of Opium hath been infused half an ounce A drop or two of this liquor put into a hollow tooth with some lint easeth the tooth ach presently 29 A Liquor to comfort smelling and preserve the head Take Lignum aloes two ounces Annis-seed four ounces Calamus aromaticus one ounce Calamint dried three ounces common hony two pound strong white wine twelve pound let all these be infused for four daies and then distil it in Balneo and when you distil it put into the Receiver six grains of Musk dissolved in two ounces of Rosewater and distil away but three pound the which keep in a glasse close stopped and when you will comfort the smelling wash the face and beard therewith and you shall smell a savour of marvellous effect which comforteth nature marvelousty it comforteth the stomacke and helps a stinking breath it helpeth the mouth being ulcerated and those that have the rupture in short time if you wash it twice a day therewith it helpeth also women that are troubled with descension of the Matrix if you wet a cloth in it and lay it upon the mother in short space it restores great health Also it helpeth those that are troubled with the Meagrum or paines in the head coming of cold or winde if you wash the head with the said liquor it presently giveth ease It hath divers other vertues which I will not now recite 30 To make an Antimonial

distill it by degrees for 24 hours rectifie the water in sand 13 Water of Snails Take of the juyce of ground Ivy Coles foot Stabious Lungwort of each one pound and a half the juyce of Purslain Plantane Ambrosia Pauls Betony of each a pound Hogs blood White wine of each four pound Garden snails two pound dryed Tobacco leaves eight pouder of Liquorice two ounces Alicampane half an ounce of On is an ounce Cotton seeds an ounce and half the greater cold seeds Annise-seeds of each six drachms Saffron one drachm the flowers of red Roses six pugils of Violets and Borage of each four pugils steep them three days warm and then distil them in a glass Still in sand 14. An excellent VVater against the Stone in the Kidnies Take of the middle rind of the root of Ash bruised two pound Juniper Berries bruised three pound Venice Turpentine that is very pure two pound and a half put these into is pints of spring water in a glass Vessel well closed and there let them putrifie in Horse dung for the space of three months then distil them in ashes and there will come forth an oil and a water separate the one from the other Ten or twelve drops of this oyle being taken every morning in four or six spoonfulls of the said water dissolves the gravel and stone in the Kidnies most wonderfully 15 A water for outward or inward VVounds Impostumes and ulcers and a sore mouth Take Plantain Ribwort Bone-wort wild Angelica red Mints Betony Egtimony Sanacle Blue-bottles White-bottles Scabious Dandelion Avens Honey-suckle leaves Bramble buds Hawthorn buds and leaves Mugwort Daisie roots leaves and flowers Wormwood Southernwood of each one handful Boil all these in a pottle of white wine and as much spring water till one half be wasted and when it is thus boiled strain it from the herbs and put to i● half a pound of Honey and let it boil a little after and put it into bottles and keep it for your use Note that these Herbs must be gathered i● May onely but you may keep them dry and and make your water at any time If the wound be inward 3 or four spoonfuls morning and evening will in a short time ease cure if not too far gone as almost nothing can recover the Patient If outward it must be washed therewith and linnen clothes wet in the same applyed thereto 16. A very excellent Water against Worms Take of Wormseed bruised eight ounces the shavings of Harts-horn two ounces of Peach flowers dryed an ounce of Aloes bruised half an ounce pour on these the water of Tansie Rue Peach flowers and of wormwood of each a pint and a half let them being put into a glass vessel be digested the space of three days then distil them cohobate this water three times This Water may be given from half an ounce to three ounces according to the age of the Patient 17 An Excellent sweet VVater Take a quart of Orange flower water as much Rosewater add thereto of Musk mallow seeds grosly bruised four ounces of Benjamin two ounces of Storax an ounce of Libdanum six drachms of Lavender flowers and sweet Marjoram of each two pugils of Calamus Aromaticus a drachm distil all these in a glasse Still in balneo the vessels being very well closed that no vapour breath forth But upon urgent or sudden occasion you may make a sweet water in an instant by putting a few drops of some distilled oyls together in to some Rosewater and brewing them well together 18 How to make artificial Tunbridg water This water proceeding from an Iron Mine as is granted by all is thus made Take of the Mine or Ore of Iron beat it very small and put it into the Furnace expressed in p. 83. of John French his Art of Distillation and there will come forth an acid spirit and flowers which you must mix together till the acid spirit extracts the salt out of the flowers then decant off the cleer liquor which will have a strong taste and smell of Iron A few drops of this liquor put into a glasse full of fountain water give it the odour and taste of Tunbridg water and communicates the same operations to it It opens obstructions purgeth by Urine cleanseth the Kidnies and Bladder helps pissing of blood and difficulty of making water it allayeth all sharp humours cureth inward Ulcers and Impostumes cleanseth and strengtheneth the Stomack and Liver c. The dose is from one pint to six but by de-degrees Use moderate exercise after taking it and fast seven or eight hours till the water be gone out of the body 19 How to make artificial Epsome water Take of the mine of Allom or Allom stones powder it very small and distill it in the furnace expressed in page 83. of John French his Art of Distillations and there will distil over a certain acid alluminish water which must be mixed with a double quantity of Nitre-water For Epsom water hath a certain kind of acid taste which is partly nitrous and partly alluminous which proceedeth from nitrous air and vapours arising from the fermentation of alluminous mines being first mixed together and then mixed with the fountains passing through the earth A few drops of this water put into a glass full of fountain water will give it the odour and taste of Epsome water so that the smell or operation will scarcely be discerned from it This water purgeth sharp burning humours cools an inflamed and opens an obstructed body cleanseth the Kidnies and Bladder cureth inward Ulcers and Impostumes and is a very good preservative against the Consumption c. Fountain water made acid with this liquor may be taken from one to six pints after it use moderate exercise and fast till the water be out of the body Onely some thin warm suppings may be taken to help its working some take this water warm 20 Spirit of Confection of Alkermes its Vertues It is an excellent comforter of the Spirits vital natural and animal in weak and delicate persons and against all trembling pensiveness and sudden qualms of the heart 21 Spirits of Saffron its vertues It is good to comfort the vital Spirits against passions trembling and pensiveness of the heart and helpeth all malignity oppressing it and expelleth winde suppresseth fumes which arise from the spleen and go up to the head and openeth the obstructions of it It is excellent against all Melancholy and very good for women in travel for it comforteth and hastneth delivery The dose is morning and evening one spoonfull for three dayes together 22 Extract of Ambergreece Take a drachm of Amber-greece grinde it very small on a Tainters stone then put it into a bolt head then take of the best spirit of Wine either Canary or Malago Sack half a pound spirit of Clary two ounces mingle them together well and pour of the Menstrua one pint to this proportion of Amber set them to digest in a gentle Balneo about eight