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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88614	Pambotanologia. Sive Enchiridion botanicum. Or A compleat herball containing the summe of what hath hitherto been published either by ancient or moderne authors both Galenicall and chymicall, touching trees, shrubs, plants, fruits, flowers, &c. In an alphabeticall order: wherein all that are not in the physick garden in Oxford are noted with asterisks. Shewing their place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues, use, dose, danger and antidotes. Together with an [brace] introduction to herbarisme, &c. appendix of exoticks. Universall index of plants: shewing what grow wild in England. / By Robert Lovell St. C.C. Ox.	Lovell, Robert, 1630?-1690.	1659 (1659)	Wing L3243; Thomason E1858_1; Thomason E1859_1; ESTC R202783	202,597	420

5. parts of some emollient decoction and 1 or 2. of oile and some purging and stimulating electuaries or species c. in a double quantity to what is taken downwards Note oile is to be added when there is need of emollition and not when of purgation or revulsion Hereto belong Metrenchytes made of some distilled water decoction or juice c. to which way be added powders electuaries oiles c. as also other injections to be used with a syringe 7. Conditures are made of roots barkes stalkes fruits nuts and flowers of which the more grosse are to be mollifyed and dissected and then edulcorated or sweetened with purifyed and dissolved sugar and sometimes with clarifyed hony c. 8. Confections with sugar are made by dropping dissolved sugar by degrees on things to be prepared as seeds kernells spices roots barks as also flowers and tops of plants and they are canded with more grosse liquor 9. Conserves are made by stamping the matter in a stone morter and mixing the sugar therewith in a double proportion in things more humid and treble if more dry with a little distilled water thus are prepared flowers for the most part seldome herbs lesse often roots and fruits almost never and are then to be filtrated 10. Decoctions are made of all things that may communicate their vertue unto liquors as mineralls vegetables and animals or living creatures but Apozems chiefly of vegetables sc roots barkes herbes flowers berries fruits and woods with spring water whay hydromel or wine from a foure fold proportion of the liquor to twelve with a due preparation decoction and clarification with the white of an egge 11. Lambatives and ●ohochs are made of pectoralls sc powders conserves mucilages syrups decoctions honey pulps c. mixed to the consistence of honey note the proportion of powder is halfe an ounce to 2 of syrup 12. Electuaries sc the common or opiats are made of fine powders with warme clarified hony being set to ferment in some warme place after the mixture of the dissolved solubles but mixtures are made of powders electuaries conserves extracts and dissected confections with some convenient liquor or so much syrup as may suffice 13. Elixyrs are spirituous liquors of excellent faculties impregnated by infusion and agree for the most part with liquid tinctures 14. Emplaisters and cerots are made of fat things as oiles rosins grease marrow wax gums and sometimes powders to the wax melted are last added the proportion of oile fat or hony is three ounces to one of dry things of wax 1 pound of rosins 8 ounces thus are Cerotes made yet softer hereto belong Dropaces made of pitch a little oile other materialls as pepper pellitory rosemary euphorbium castor bitumen brimstone salts c. 15. Emulsions are made of the inward parts of fruits and milkie seeds as almonds the 4 greater cold seeds seeds of purslain lettuce pine apple kernells c. with spring or distilled water the decoction of barley liquorice raisins or jujubes being pounded strained and then sweetened avoiding things acid 16. Errhines are made of extracts liniments or powders 17. Epithemes are made of distilled waters juices decoctions emulsions c. alone or mixed with powders species electuaries c. and some wine vineger or spirits for penetration and so applyed with a spunge or linnen cloth c. the proportion is halfe a pound of liquors of powders from 1 dram to half an ounce of wine or spirits 1 ounce 18. Extracts are drawn out of mineralls vegetables and animalls by preparing them for infusion and then pouring the menstruum thereon to a convenient height sc the spirit of wine c. after which set it in a warme place and then extract it according to art 19. Faecula's are made of roots sometimes of leaves by pounding them in a morter and pouring on water till like a pulpe which is then to be pressed and set to settle 20. Flowers are made by chymicall separation by sublimation 21. Gargarismes and dentisrices are made for the most part of waters juices or convenient decoctions to which way be added of syrups or hony 2 3 or 4 ounces to 1 pound of water with a little vineger c. 22. Gellies are made of succulent fruits of hornes tender bones by decoction and filtration edulcoration and coagulation to which also may be added powders and extracts c. 23. Infusions are made of minerals and animals but chiefly of vegetables and such as are purging with their corrigents together with some distilled or spring water whay muscadell mede or wine c. to cover the matter 1 2 or 3. fingers which after steeping is to be pressed 24. Juleps are made of some potulent liquor as distilled or spring water corrected by a toste or some decoction as of harts horne liquorice or barley c. in which juyces and spirits may be dissolved and of syrrups 1 or 2 ounces may be added to a pint of liquor Hereunto belong morets made of spices and other confortatives with sugar or syrrups 25. Stones are made by digestion extraction and coagulation 26. Liquors are made by deliquium c. 27. Magisteries are made of animals vegetables and minerals prepared by solution in some convenient or acid liquor precipitation ablution in common water and gentle exiccation 28. Masticatories are usually made of mastick raisins bastard pellitory cubebs sage leaves agarick c. made into powder balls or troches with wax figgs turpentine or hony c. and so are to be chewed 29. Morsells and rolls may be made of all kinds of remedies as powders seeds conserves oiles extracts with sugar dissolved over the fire putting them in by degrees and stirring them after which it 's to be poured forth upon some plain thing and cut into tablets In those that are purging manna may be put in stead of hony things condited are to be first cut in pieces distilled oiles are last to be dropped in or used outwardly so muske and amber being dissolved in rose water Rolls also are thus made but the powders must be finer and in a lesse quantity and if there are acid juices they must be made only by mixture 30. Oiles as first the destilled are made of animals vegetables and minerals 2. Those by expression of seeds and certaine oleous kernells 3. By decoction the simples being cut and boiled in oile mixt with water wine or some convenient liquor untill the aqueous humidity be exhaled or by maceration in oile as that of olives or the omphacine if the simples are more dry 31. Pills may be made of any dry thing incorporated by some viscid and glutinous liquor as syrrups mucilages inspissate or thickened juices extracts c. or they may be made only of juices and inspissate extractions 32. Potions are made of syrrups electuaries extracts manna powders c. with decoctions infusions and chiefly distilled waters usually only by mixture 33. Pomanders are made of sweet powders to which oiles may be

kneaded together with aqua vitae or vineger 41. In Frontals to three or four pugills of flowers halfe an ounce of seeds if in a humid forme halfe an ounce of oiles to a sufficient quantity of unguentum populeon 42. In Oxyrrhodines to foure or six ounces of oiles two or three of vineger and foure of water being shaken together 43. In Cuoupha's of roots one ounce of dry leaves three handfulls of flowers two or three pugills of spices three drams or halfe an ounce of gums one or two drams of muske halfe a scruple or a scruple 24. In Moister Collyries of herbes appropriated to the eyes six or eight handfulls of seeds an ounce and halfe or two ounces of herbes for the head two handfulls of spices halfe an ounce or six drams of galls two ounces of urine halfe a pint or a quart of hony halfe a pound or a pinte of wine two pintes 45. In Apophlegmatismes the same quantity as in gargarismes 46. In Suffumigations of gums foure or six drams of powders three drams of amber muske and civet as every one pleaseth so in pomanders 47. In Stomack plaisters of mastick two ounces of powders half an ounce of sweet gums 2 drams of turpentine s q 48. In Pessaries of juyces 2 ounces or 3 of hony an ounce and halfe of powders halfe an cunce 49. In Injections for the Eares of powders halfe a scruple or a scruple of fats 2 drams of hony halfe an ounce c. For the Bladder of syrups one ounce of fine powders one or two drams II. As Compounds c. and so 1. Altering remedies if temperate they are given from 2 drams to 2 ounces if in the first degree from a scruple to an ounce if in the second from halfe a scruple to halfe an ounce if in the third from 5 graines to 2 drams if in the fourth degree from 2 graines and a halfe to a dram 2. Purging remedies in the first degree if in the first mansion from 2 ounces to 8 as syrups of roses and violets solutive in the second from 2 ounces and a halfe to 5. as the hony of roses and violets solutive in the third from two ounces to foure as the juyce of roses and violets and syrupe of peach flowers in the second degree if in the first mansion from halfe an ounce to two ounces as tamarindes and cassia in pulps in the second from halfe an ounce to an ounce and halfe as the seed of bastard saffron in infusion in the third from three drams to seaven as dodder of time in the third degree if in the first mansion from one dram to halfe an ounce as mirobalans or five drams as polypody in the second from two scruples to two drams as rhubarb agarick sene and bryonie of Mexico and Peru in the third from halfe a scruple to one dram as aloes hermodactiles turbith hedge hys●ope and jalap in the fourth degree if in the first mansion from ten graines to halfe a dram or two scruples as mezereon coccus Cnidius asarabacca and coloquintida in the second from five graines to fifteene as elaterium and the barke of black hellebore in the third from three graines to ten as euphorbium esula and scammonie 3. Apozems and distilled waters from two ounces and a halfe to five 4. Boles to one ounce 5. Clysters to those that are middle aged about a pinte to children two or three ounces or more c. 6. Confitures in the quantity of a wallnut so Conserves 7. Electuaries that are alterative and strengthening from one scruple to a dram and halfe the lenient from one dram to 4 the purging to an ounce or thereabouts 8. Elixyrs from halfe a scruple to a scruple halfe 9. Emulsions are to be taken often as need requireth 10. Extracts if harder and alterative from one scruple to a dram and halfe if cathartick or purging from one scruple to a dram 11. Liquors as of salts the like being dissolved from 5 drops to a scruple 12. Magisteries if corroborating and strengthening from halfe a dram to a dram the purging according to their efficacy 13. Morsells from one ounce to 2 or more 14. Oiles distilled from 2 graines to 15.15 Pills if laxative from halfe a dram to two drams if purging from 2 scruples to 4.16 Preparations from a scruple to a dram 17. Powders and species aromaticall or purging from a scruple and halfe to 4 scruples 18. Salts of vegetables from a scruple to a dram 19. Sapes and Syrups from one ounce to 3.20 Spirits if minerall from 3 graines to halfe a scruple or to 2 and more if weaker if of vegetables to a spoonefull when needfull 21. Troches to 4 scruples Here note that these quantities are proportioned for such as are strong and middle aged and for others they are to be moderated according to the ingredients and constitution of the patient as also that the more pleasant may be taken in a greater quantity and oftner but the unpleasant in a lesser and at once 11. The Chresiologie or use of them Thus Temperate remedies are used where there is no manifest distemper of the first qualities as heat and cold c. as also in fevers of flegme and to preserve the body in good temper strength and vigour and is to be done by such things that are appropriate thereunto The Rest as 1 The Hot if so in the first degree are used to reduce the body to naturall heat ease paines take away wearinesse and to help feavers as also to cause good digestion and breed good bloud if in the second to help moist stomacks remove obstructions and open the pores if in the third to cut tough humors provoke sweatings and to resist poyson if in the fourth to cause inflammations and raise blisters 2. The Cold if cold in the first degree they are used to qualifie the heat of food and asswage that of the intestines and bowells if in the second and third to asswage the heat of choller help the inflammations of hot swellings and to cause sleepe if in the fourth to mitigate paine by stupefying and dulling the senses 3. The Moist if so in the first degree to lenifie and lubrifie to help the cough and roughnesse of the threat if in the second to mitigate the sharpnesse of humours and loosen the belly and other parts 4. The Dry if so in the first degree to drink up moisture and stop fluxes and help the slipperinesse of the parts if in the second it strengtheneth the parts made feeble by too much moisture and disposeth them to action Remedies endued with the second qualities As 1. The Mollifying are used in scirrhus's and hard tumors and swellings 2. The Hardening are used to represse the heat of the humours in swellings and to hinder the flux of the thinner bloud and defluctions thereof 3. The Loosening are used in convulsions caused by cold and si●city 4. The Rarefying to open and dilate the pores that the vapours of the bloud may be