the animall drooping spirits resisteth poyson provoketh sneezing it is anodyne and moves Womens courses from hence it is profitable in the Lethargy Apoplexie Epilepsie Palsie Vertigo trembling of the members defluxions to the joynts suffocation of the matrix the Colick both inwardly and outwardly used Moreover it helpeth the noise of the ears and difficulty of hearing put into the ear and the tooth-ach N. 1. In the suffocation it is used divers wayes it is applyed to the nostrils tyed under the arme pits put into the Navill N. 2. It correcteth the malignity of Opium N. 3. The skin helpeth the Gowty and Paralytick prepared and worn Preparat 1. The Oyl of Bever infused Vide Disp August Norimberg 2. The distilled Oyl Take Castoreum as much as thou wilt dissolve it in Vinegar or infuse it in Wine or its spirit then distill it with a gentle fire in a glasse Retort N. 1. Rectifie it with Vinegar N. 2. The same proceeding may be in this as in the Philosophers Oyl imbibing red hot bricks c. N. 3. The Electuary called Diacastoreum Vide Dispenstor 4. The extract is made after the common manner with spirit of wine rectified N. Others extract it with Vinegar which being again abstracted they do it again with spirit of Wine Quercetan useth a convenient distilled water as of Balm Marygolds Piony and like Antepileptick and Cephalick herbs and infuseth it in B. M. 4. or 5. dayes The Dose from 5. grains to 12. XV. Catus Domesticus the House Cat IS a lustful Animal quick of sight Whence we have in use 1. The grease 2. The bloud 3. The head 4. The dung 5. The skin 6. The secondine The vertues 1. The grease of a lib'd Cat heateth mollifyeth discusseth and wonderfully helpeth the griefs of the joynts N. The grease of a wilde Cat is best 2. Three drops of the bloud out of the vein of a male Cat under the tail cure the Falling sickness drunk also the bloud drawn from the ear anoynted upon the Shingles is not without successe 3. The head of a black Cat burnt to powder is a most excellent remedy for the diseases of the eyes pin web specks c. if it be blown thereinto three times a day as writeth Misaldus N. The poyson which is attributed to Cats remains in the head alone and brain in no other part of the body as that which is made meat of many 4. The dung with as much mustard and anoynted with Vinegar cures the shedding of the hair and helps the Gowt 5. The skin is worne to warm the stomach and contracted joynts 6. They hang the secundine about the neck for the diseases of the eyes They prefer that of a Cat that first hath young and also black XVI Catus Zibethinus the Civet Cat IS a strange beast brought to our Coasts and is of some nourished for delight and pleasure Civet which is his excrement or sweat concrete together betwixt the testicles is wrapped in a bladder out of which being cut is the Civet taken The vertues It is hot moist and anodyne it is used frequently in the Colick anointed upon the navil in the belly-ach of Infants in the suffocation of the matrix applyed to the matrix or the hollownesse of the navil XVII Cervus the Hart IS a beast of a very long life living 100 years most swift in running casting his horns yearly in April goeth to rut in August and September and the female brings forth young the eighth moneth after From him we borrow for Physical practise 1. The horn 2. The skin 3. Bone of the heart 4. Pisle 5. The testicles 6. The bloud 7. The teares 8. The marrow 9. The tallow 10. The huckle bone 11. The stone Their vertues in particular 1. The crude horn and unprepared resisteth putrefaction correcteth malignity provoketh sweat strengtheneth mans Balsome whereupon the use of it is profitable in the Measels Small Pocks putrid and malignant Feavers and other diseases where there is need of sweating it may be boyled in Decoctions or infused in Infusions because given in substance it is in a manner cast out crude or unchanged N. That is commended which is gathered betwixt the two Lady days viz. betwixt the 15. of August and the 8. of September Preparation of the horn 1. Harts horn burnt till after blacknesse it become white 2. Harts horn prepared is made of the burnt which is made smooth and small with some cordial water according to Art The vertues By its drying force it resists putrefaction it stayes fluxes of the belly kills Worms moves sweat and it is a medicine very fit for Infants The Dose from a scruple to a dram and more 3. Harts horn Philosophically calcined thus The horns are hanged or put in the head or upper part of a Bladder which is filled with some quantity of water then is there a fire put under that the vapour being lift up by the force of the fire piercing the horns may by little and little make them friable and white N. It is a work almost of three days It moves sweat and helps malignant diseases The Dose to half a dram 4. A Magistery The rasped horns are dissolved in Vinegar precipitated with Oyl of Tartar or Vitriol and made sweet by washing with water then being dryed are kept for use N. 1. Others dissolve them with Spirit of Niter which being again abstracted they sweeten the Magistery left in the bottom In the abstraction of the Spirit of Niter there is heed to be taken lest the flame which may easily happen bring losse therefore they proceed more warily who on four ounces of the dissolution pour one measure of Fountain water and filter it and having filtred it if need be do precipitate it by instilling Oyl of Tartar N. 2. Others dissolve them with Aqua fortis precipitate them with Spirit of Vitriol and sweeten them N. 3. The Magistery precipitated with Oyl of Tartar is yellow on the contrary with any mineral Oyl as of Vitriol is white 5. Gelly Take shavings of Harts horn digest them a while in common or some proper distilled water then boyl them and filter the liquor hot and make it into gelly 6. The liquor or Spirit which is drawn by a Retort luted with the force of fire 7. The Oyl N. See the description of the true Oyl of Harts horn in Kesler 8. The Volatile Salt Some digest the Salt of Harts horn fixed two ounces with one ounce of Spirit of Wine rectified twelve days and then abstract the Spirit of Wine to the half and keep the remainder under the notion of the tincture of the Salt of Harts horn The Dose from 5 grains to 10. The Extract of Harts horn is made by pouring upon the branches of the horns a proper water and extracting the Tincture by a Menstrual digestion 9. Water of the new horns of a Hart. Take the tender horns of a Hart having a bloudy juyce in them cut them into pieces and distil them in
and dryes moderately binds cuts strengthens the inward parts stayes the whites It is good for the Jaundise it chaseth away Worms it is good for inveterate obstructions it takes away the pains and weakness of the stomach it heals the Epilepsie drives away Melancholy resists rottenness and poysons It is used rasped in infusions and the powder is given in substance The Dose half a dram Preparat 1. Burnt Ivory called Spodium and to distinguish it from the Minerall Spodium Spodium of Ivory 2. Trochilces of Spodium vid. Dispensat N. Some commend Ivory for fruitfulness yet seeing the beast is of a small issue and slowly brings forth going with young two years it is imagined rather to conduce to barrenness and the retention of the birth then to advance conception XXI Equus the Horse WHence in Physicall use we borrow 1. The bloud 2. The runnet 3. The milk 4. The dung 5. Lichenes 6. The testicles 7. The fat of the neck 8. The hoofs 9. The hairs 10. The foam 11. The teeth 12. The stone Their vertues in particular 1. The bloud some would have it to be of Mares having been covered with the Stallion is mixed with Causticks 2. The runnet is specially good for the Celiack and Dysenterick 3. The milk is accounted good for the Epileptick Consumptive those that Cough and the Asthmatick 4. The dung outwardly restrains breaking out of blouâ— as well raw as burnt expels the dead childe and the secundine in a fume Inwardly it is taken in the Colick and suffocation of the matriz and in like manner in expelling the dead childe and afterbirth N. That is best which is of a Horse fed with Oats not gelded 5. Lichenes callous excrements growing on the legs of Horses are chiefly commended against the suffocation of the Matrix a fume made below as also against the Falling-sicknesse and the Stone the powder drunk Preparat The extract of these is made of them dryed with spirit of Wine or some other appropriate spirit The Dose from 5 grains to half a scruple N. Hartman makes the Menstruum of Balm and Wine of each three pounds which he distils by a Retort in ashes upon two ounces of Amber and Jet with a fire hot in the end then he useth the water separated from the Oyl 6. The testicles are a most present Remedy to expell the secundine made into powder they are also commended in the Colick The fat of the neck is fitly anointed on weak joynts 8. The hoof expels the dead birth in fume it drives away Lice in fume 9. The hairs restrain the flux of bloud 10. The foam of the mouth drunk three dayes cures the Cough abates the heat of the jawes N. Cold water falling out of the mouth of a stoned horse when he drinks in a river and suddenly taken in a platter helpes sterility drunk once and again 11. The teeth first growing are said to facilitate childrens toothing hung about the neck they whiten the teeth the ashes rubbed on them 12. The stone called Hippolithus found in the ventricle or bowels of some horses as it is like to the Occidental Bezoar in figure and structure so in vertues XXII Erinaceus the Hedg-hog IS a Beast set with pricks in the winter it is hid in the hollow of trees eating mice walnuts apples pears and the like Hence in use we have 1. The Hedg-hog it self 2. The liver 3. The grease 4. The ventricle Their vertues 1. The Hedge-hog boyled or made into ashes and drunk helps those that pisse against their will it is grateful to the stomach and moveth the belly and urine Outwardly annointed it helps the shedding of hair 2. The liver or the body also dryed and taken with Oxymel is a help to the disease of the Kidneys it cures the Cachexy Dropsie Convulsions and Leprosie It dryes up the fluxes of the belly 3. The grease most happily cures Ruptures 4. The inner coat of the stomach is commended against the Colick taken XXIII Homo Man and Woman HEnce we have in Medicine either from the parts of the living body of a man 1. The hairs 2. The nails 3. The spittle 4. The ear-wax 5. Sweat 6. Milk 7. The Flowers 8. The after-birth 9. The urine 10. The ordure 11. The seed 12. The bloud 13. The stones 14. The Membrane compassing the head of the Infant Or from the parts of the dead body of a man 1. The whole corps or flesh 2. The skin 3. The fat or grease 4. The bones 5. The skull 6. The mosse of the skull 7. The brain 8. The gall 9. The heart The vertues of these follow I. The hairs are commended for the growth of hairs the liquor from thence distilled and anointed with honey for the Jaundise the powder drunk for members out of joynt the ashes anointed with Sheeps suet for bleeding of wounds N. Some for a Quartain take the hair of the patient and mixing them with other hairs dispersed on the body put them into an egge and having boyled it hard cast it to be devoured of birds by which means they would have the Quartain cured Preparat It is distilled by it self in a Retort in sand with no very strong fire II. The nails move vomit taken inwardly both in powder and infusion they are said to draw away the waters of the Hydropick cut from the hands and feet and tyed to the navill N. 1. Some to cure the Fever put the parings of the hands and feet into an egge and lay it to be carryed away of the birds Others wrap the same in wax and fasten it to the gate in the morning before the rising of the sun Others binde them on the back of a living Crevise and then commit it to the river N. 2. For recovering the strength they put the hairs and nails into the root of a Cherry tree and cover the wound with dung Preparat Take the parings of the nails in powder one dram Wine one pound infuse them till they become mucilaginous then filter it and having added one ounce of spirit of Wine keep it for use The Dose from one dram to 6 or an ounce III. The spittle of a man fasting is commended against the venomous bitings of Serpents mad-dogs and the like IV. Ear-wax is accounted a most present Remedy for the Colick if taken in drink Outwardly it cures the stinging of Scorpions conglutinates wounds clefts and chaps of the skin V. Sweat is good against the Evill if mixed with the herb and root of Mullein it be wrapped in a leaf and made hot in the ashes be applyed VI. The milk refrigerates mitigates ripens and helps the redness of the eyes Preparat 1. The vitriolated water of milk Take milke and white Vitriol of each a like distill them that the Phlegme may only ascend the sharper spirits left behind The vertues It wonderfully helps the redness of the eyes and other inflamations 2. The butter It is an excellent eye-salve VII The menstruous bloud being dryed is commended inwardly
Alexipharmacal and very much resisteth rottenness it is also commended for the diseases of the breast the Asthma Consumption c. N. The remaining feces are very Anodyne 2. The Tincture or Elixir of Mumy Croll It is made of the Mumy of the more modern with the spirit of Wine or spirir of Elder N. Of this Crollius makes Treacle of Mumy which takes of the tincture of Mumy half a pound Treacle of Andromach 4 ounces oyl Olive mumiated 2 ounces salt of Corall and Pearl of each 2 drams sealed earth 2 ounces Musk one dram digest them a moneth The vertues It is commended against all poysons and infections it preserves from the Plague taken the quantity of a scruple and cures it taken the quantity of a dram or a dram and half N. In poysons it may be given with oyl of sweet Almonds to provoke vomit 3. The Tincture Alcolisated or Elixir of Mumy Take Mumy mans flesh dryed cut into thin slices powre upon it the spirit of Turpentine and set it in an Hermetical vessell close stopt for a moneth to putrefie Poure some spirit of Wine rectified upon the expression received in beasts bladders Put it in a blind Alembeck upon a gourd the joynts very well fenced so that the gourd being set into cold water the sand and coals about the Alembeck may do their office with a gentle heat by the benefit whereof the liquor or Quintessence in a very subtle manner with the spirit of Wine fals through the bladder The remaining matter is to be reverberated and by sublimation to be brought into salt and at length to be united with the Quintessence by the means of circulation after it be separated from the spririt of Wine by B. M. which being finished the Quintessence of the Mumy may further be digested with the treacle and the musk and so kept in the form of an Elixir The vertues It is a present Remedy both of the plague as also of other venomous medicines or things N. There is a report of a tincture of Mumy of its four elements separated from themselves by course and again joyned together which who desires to see may in Tetzel in Med. Diastat 4. Another tincture or secret of Mans flesh 1. The rectified spirit of Wine is powred upon Mans flesh for four dayes the spirit of Wine being decanted the same is again moistned 2. The spirit of Salt at severall times that it may drink up a great quantity thereof then dry it thou hast the flesh seasoned very profitable 3. From this extract the Tincture with Spirit of Wine brought by the force of digestion to the highest fragrancy Defecate it by circulation extract the Salt from the feces calcined and that being cleared mingle it with the tincture and extract it 5. Oyl Olive mumiated Take Mumy first prepared or hardned cut it into pieces and digest it with Oyl Olive in an Hermetical vessell close shut for a moneth Then powre it into a glasse gourd and let the Mercury exhale in B. M. untill no stench come forth and all the Mumy be dissolved Digest the solution 20 dayes with spirit of Wine afterward abstract the same and there remains a red and odoriferous oyl N. Quercetan takes fresh Mumy The vertues It hath all the vertues and properties of naturall Balsom it is good in venomous and pestilent affects 6. An Oyl exalted Oyl after the said manner prepared may be further exalted if it be digested with spirit of Wine and the spirit of Wine again abstracted and so repeated 3 or 4 times The vertues This tincture or exalted Oyl of Mumy is said to excell with such a reviving faculty that there is not a past which it pierceth not no Ulcer no corruption which it cures not if you give thereof dayly twise for some continuance of time 4 or 5 grains with a convenient decoction N. Libavius to the fresh flesh cut into pieces addes a little salt and spirit of Turpentine infuses it in a close vessell strains it and suffers the stink to exhale the vessell being open afterward he distils it by a Retort or a straight Alembick and adding musk and spirit of Wine he digesteth it 7. The divine water Take a whole carkasse with the bone flesh bowels of one kild by a violent death let it be cut into pieces very small and all the parts of the body so pounded that nothing remain unmixed then distill it two times The vertues Some extoll this divine Water for its Magnetick vertue As thus They mingle some drops of bloud 3 or 9 drawn from some patient with a part a dram of the said water and they set it to the fire if the bloud and water be mixed together they promise health within a short space 24 hours but if they shall remain unmixt they affirm death to follow shortly For want of the bloud they proceed in the same manner with the excrements urine ordure sweat corrupted matter or the like which yet they use in a greater Dose II. The skin is commended in hard labour and diseases Hystericall if the belly be bound therewith in the withering and contraction of the joynts if gloves be made thereof and worn III. The fat or grease corroborates discusses asswages pains removes shrinkings mitigates the hardnesse of skars fils the pits left after Smal-pox Preparat A Liniment mingle the grease with spirit of Vitrioll whence is left a certain clammy substance The vertues It is piercing and is used in Blastings IV. Mans bones do dry discusse binde stay all fluxes and are profitable in Catarrhes flowing of the Menstrues Dysentery Lientery Moreover they mitigate the aches of the joynts N. 1. It is usuall to mix them with purging medicines N. 2. The teeth pluckt out of the jaw of one dead are used and commended against diseases by Witchcraft in fume and to pull out worm-eaten teeth if they be often touched therewith Preparat 1. The powder or ashes made after the common manner by calcination in a Potters furnace 2. The bones prepared are made after the common manner by making them smooth with a convenient water 3. The Magistery may be made after the common manner 4. The Oyl is made by Distillation in a Retort The Vertues It discusses it is anodyne and therefore an excellent medicine against the Gowt V. The marrow of the bones is chiefly commended against the shrinking of members VI. The skull is found to prevail against the diseases of the head and namely the Epilepsie whence it is that it entreth many Antepilepticall compositions The triangular bone of the temples is very much commended as a specificall Remedy against the Epilepsie Preparat 1. The skull calcined is made after the common manner in Potters furnace 2. The skull prepared is made of the calcined with an Antepileptick water as of water of the Linden tree 3. The Magistery of the skull is made after the common manner dissolving it in some acid spirit as of Vitrioll and precipitating it The Dose a
forth a water of no great vertue unless that being more fully wrought it is used of some to extract the Salt let the rest be driven out bâ— a Retort in ashes the joynts well closed Let that which is distilled be poured again upon the feces and cohobation be made nine times that a red colour may follow N. In distilling observe that thou burn not the feces with too much fire and bring them to a coal and therefore thou must only distil them to drynesse The vertues It is accounted of very great force to refresh the sick 4. An Antipodagrical Balsome or Oyl of Mans bloud Alcasitated It is made after the same manner Take mans bloud while it is hot one measure putrefie it 9 days then distil it out of sand by degrees first with an easie fire then with a stronger by a Retort and there shall come forth a red Oyl and stinking the Volatile Salt sticking to the joynts of the neck Rectifie the Oyl by the Colcothar out of a Cucurbit with the heat of sand distilling it often from the fresh Colcothar at length dissolve the Salt in this corrected Oyl and keep it for use The vertues It is of wonderful force in the Gout anoynted twice or thrice a day for six days together It appeaseth the pain the tumor and rednesse vanishing away N. Of like vertue is the Balsom drawn from the bloud of Goats and Harts in which it is requisite to add the bowels viz. the lights heart and liver 5. An Antepileptick spirit Take the spirit of mans bloud dephlegmated and rectified three times two pounds Infusion of Lavender flowers in Wine two pounds mingle and distill tâ—em in B. M. to the half repeat it thrice then add Spirit of Wine rectified two ounces and keep it for use The vertuâ—s It cures the Apoplexy Palsie Asthma c. N. Beguïnus hath other preparations of Mans bloud which may be seen in the Author 6. An Alexiterian Mummy of life Is the bloud of a lusty and healthful man dryed with a gentle fire impregnated with the Spirit of Limons and Spirit of Vitriol and with a little myrrh made into Trochisces The vertues It is very efficacious in curing Carbuncles The Dose half a dram in water of Cinamon drunk in the morning fasting 7. The Arcanum of mans bloud see it in Faber his Myrothec the 8 chapter Bylnick of the nature of Spagyr n. 66. XIII The stone dissolves Tartar viz. the stone in all parts and causes it to be driven out and therefore it helps all obstructions The Dose of the powder one dram Preparat 1. A Crystalline salt Take the stone very well calcined that the hardnesse be softned boyl it in water and it will be dissolved into a certain coloured water Then the filtrature being evaporated there remains the salt in the bottom which calcine again if you please and dissolve it in boyling water coagulate it and set it to Crystallize N. The calcination may be ordered diversly some calcine it with Niter 6 hours some with Sulphur and Niter others with twise as much of beechen coals Sennertus calcines the stone powdered with a circular fire then reverberatory and at length with beechen coals in a potters furnace Instit lib. 5. p. 3 s 3. cap. 5. 2. Oyl or liquor It is made if the Salt be dissolved in the moist air The Dose from 6 grains to 10. N. Sennertus calcines it with Niter then extracts the Salt with Spirit of Wine and the Spirit of Wine being separated he sets the Salt to melt 3. The Essence or Elixir Take the Salt of the stone crystallized volatize it with Spirit of Wine then abstract with a gentle heat the Spirit of Wine and the Oyl remains The Dose from 5 grains to 10. XIV The Membrane which covers the head of some children is said to have very great vertue against the pain of the Colick Of a Carcasse or Dead Man I. The whole carkasse or flesh in shops comes under the name of Mumy This dissolves coagulated bloud two drams taken and it is said to be good for purging the head punction of the milt cough puffing up of the body the courses obstructed and other affects of the womb and the like Outwardly it is used in consolidating wounds N. Mumy commonly signifies four things 1. The Mumy of the Arabians which is a concrete liquor sweating in Sepulchres out of carkasses condited with myrrhe Aloes and Balsome 2. Of the Egyptians which is a liquor from carkasses condited with Pissalphaltum for with this the carkasses of the meaner rank being preserved are to be sold 3. Pissalphaltum counterfeit i. e. Bitumen mixt with Pitch which they sell for Mumy 4. A carkasse in the sand scorched with the heat of the Sun It happens that in the land of the Hammonians which is betwixt the land of Cyrene and Alexandria the heaps of sands heaved up by the whirlwind over-whelm the heedlesse travellers whence their carkasses are scorched with the burning heat of the Sun 5. To these may the Mumy of the more modern be added which is thus made Let there be chosen the carkasse of a red hair'd man because in such the bloud is accounted thinner and in that respect the flesh more excellent in t re new without blemish about 24 years of age killed by a violent death not a disease hang it in the beams of the Luminaries by day and night when the weather is clear Of this cut the musculous parts into little pieces and sprinkle them with the powder of Myrrh and a little Aloes afterward imbibe it by infusion in Spirit of Wine for some days then let it be hanged up 6 or 10 hours and be again imbibed with Spirit of Wine at length let the pieces dry being hanged in a dry air and shady place then is it like to flesh hardened with smoak without stench N. Of these kindes of Mumy now rehearsed although I derogate not from the former if they can be had from sound bodies especially the first which yet I scarse believe is brought to us notwithstanding I affirm the two latter are to be preferred before the other as in whom we are free from the fear which Renodeus intimates affirming the Mumy of the shops to be nothing but the juyce of a rotten carkasse pressed out and thickned and therefore sold to the great hurt of man-kinde Preparat The common medicines in which the Mumy of the shops is an ingredient do every where occur And they are The powder for a fall or bruise Athanasia the great the Balsom of Peter de Ebano the sympathetick oyntment the black Emplaister called of the Apostles The Cerot for those that are bursten Laudanum Opiat c. Besides the lesse common are 1. The tincture or extract of Mumy Quercet It is made of common Mumy extracting it with spirit of Wine and Turpentine of each a like quantity and again separating the menstruum to the consistence of honey The vertues It is
scruple or half a dram 4. The compound Magistery or essentificated spirit of the skull is made if with the acid liquor Oyl or volatile salt there be joyned the fixed salt drawn out of the dead head and afterward be digested and united together in ashes for a Philosophicall moneth The vertues It is Antepileptick whose vertues far exceed ordinary Antepilepticks 5. The Oyl is made by distilling the bruised skuls in a Retort there comes forth an oyl and a volatile salt N This vulgar Oyl in shops is uncorrected but it were better to rectifie it with spirit of Wine The Dose from 4 grains to 6. 6. The Volatile salt is gotten by the same labour with the Oyl 7. The extract or tincture of the skull Take 2 or 3 skuls grossely beaten digest them 14 dayes and cohobate them with spirit of Juniper or Sage powred 4 or 5 fingers high infuse them in a viall with a long neck very well joyned in B. V. 12 13 or 14 dayes then presse them very strongly through a presse and there will come forth a red oyly liquor strain it and abstract it in B. V. to the consistence of Sapa or Rob. The vertues This extract digested and perfectly purifyed is to be carefully kept as a pretious treasure against the Epilepsie The Dose half a scruple to a scruple with its proper sublimated water 8. The extract or gelly of Theophrastus Take the filings of the skull digest them with spirit of Wine saged 15 dayes then distill it in a Retort and having infused them 15 dayes cohobate 3 times at length circulate 5 or 6 dayes and the spirit of Wine being separated in B. M. keep the essence which will be like Rennet The Dose 5 or 6 grains daily VII The Vsnea of the skull i. e. the mosse growing on the skull of one slain and exposed to the air is very astringent And it is of great use in staying every flux of bloud as of the nose put in N. 1. Some affirm that the Mosse holden in the hands like a charm stayes all bleeding N. 2. There growes also upon other bones laid in the air a certain Vsnea which some account inferiour but it is found by experience to have also a great power of astringing The Vsnea of the skull enters the Composition of the Sympathetick or Magnetick oyntment VIII Of the brain are made 1. The spirit of Mans brain called the golden water Take the brain of a young man not 24. years old healthfull kild by a violent death with all the membrains arteries veins and sinews with all the marrow of the back bone bruise them and upon them powre of Cephalick waters flowers of the Linden Peony Betony Black-cherry Lavander Lilly Convall chiefly Diaphoretick in acute diseases as much as is sufficient to 4 or 5 fingers height leave it for a time afterward distill it by Cohobes out of the calcined feces draw the Salt which after joyn with the spirit and keep all carefull The vertues It is accounted a notable Antepileptick The Dose from one scruple to 4. N. Of the brain of an Alce in like manner may an excellent Antepileptick be prepared 2. Oyl of the brain Mingle with the substance of the brain some common Salt and distill it by a Retort of glasse in sand The vertues It is also an excellent Antepileptick and very much comforts the head N. Almost the whole substance of the brain may be brought to Oyl then there is little Salt to be expected 3. An Antepileptick water Take of mans brain 3 pounds water of Lilly Convall of Lavander of primrose of Malmesey of each three pounds let them stand in infusion 5 dayes and be then distilled in B. M. IX Of mans gall is made an extract with spirit of Wine which dropped into the ear wonderfully helps deafness X. The heart helps the Epilepsie dryed and given And these are the medicines taken from Man which the straightnesse of an Epitome would give leave to describe he that desires more at large may finde plenty in Authors Daniel Berker hath written a whole Treatise thereof XXIV Lepus the Hare IS a very fearfull creature and fruitfull engendering at any time Whence we have many medicinals 1. The ashes of a Hare 2. The head 3. The eye 4. The bloud 5. The lungs 6. The brain 7. The heart 8. The liver 9. The gall 10. The kidneys 11. The testicles 12. The matrix 13. The rennet 14. The ancle-bone 15. The fat 16. The dung 17. The hairs Their vertues 1. The ashes is made of a whole Hare burnt that is best which is taken in the spring or of the whole skin incinerated It is a most excellent medicine in the Stone The Dose to one scruple and half dram or dram It cures also shedding of hair and kibed heels N. Laurenburg calcines not the Hare but cuts off the head and dryes it in a pot in an Oven and useth the powder 2. The head helps the shedding of the hair the ashes anoynted with honey whitens the teeth the ashes in Dentifrices 3. The eyes of a Hare taken in March are good for hard travell in childe-birth drives out the mole and secundine dryed with pepper without any compression and applyed on the crown of the head that the pupill may touch the crown 4. The bloud anoynted cures the diseases of the skin of the face as pimples and the morphew rosted it stayes Dysenteries and Celiack purging it breaks the stone 5. The lungs help those that are troubled with sighing It is also said to cure the Epilepsie seasoned with brine and dayly eaten with Myrrhe for a moneth it cures kibes applyed 6. The brains rubbed on the gums of Infants facilitates their toothing mends the trembling members rosted and eaten 7. The heart is said also to cure the Epilepsie used as the lungs to ease the pains of the womb the powder taken in speciall manner to cure the Quartain cut into three parts and generall evacuation having gone before a third part drunk in the beginning of three fits every time 8. The liver stops the flux of the belly and helps the Liver-grown 9. The gall is an excellent Ophthalmick and Odontalgick medicine 10. The kidneys and testicles are given to those that are troubled with the Stone dryed they further conception taken after the termes they help involuntary pissing 11. The Testicles free from the incontinency of urine help the diseases of the bladder conduce to conception powdered and taken 12. The matrix in like manner conduces to conception dryed and taken after the terms 13. The Rennet disperseth congealed bloud helps conception after the termes applyed on the Matrix with Butter but being drunk it kils the childe drives away the Epilepsie c. N. That is most excellent which is taken before the young have tasted any other thing but the Mothers milk 14. The little bone of the ancle is commended against gravel the Colick Epilepsie and the throwes in childe-bearing powdered and taken N. The same
Vipers 3 pounds of Oyl of Sesama one Sextary and a half let them be boyled in a glased vessel with a narrow mouth well stopt lest the vapor exhale till the flesh fall from the bones then when they are cold let them be laid up N. Others by descent draw it out of Vipers without the head tayl c. The vertues It cleanseth the skin heals Tetters and other diseases of that sort 2. Theriacal Salt See August Dispensatory Quecetan 3. Trochisces of Vipers See the Dispensatory N. 1. Some have made Treacle of the blinde worm and with very good successe have given it once or twice in the time of the Plague to provoke sweat N. 2. There may also be made Vipers Wine that is in which Vipers are killed famous against the Leprosie drunk 4. Thou shalt finde another excellent powder in Poterius his Pharmacop 5. The Essence of Vipers in Myroth Fabri Salt of Vipers Volatile Oyl Spirit and Salt fixed Let dryed Vipers be cut into pieces and lightly bruised together with the heart and liver be put into a Retort armed till it be filled Distil them into a vessel with a large receiver by degrees It affords a phlegm and spirit the Volatile Salt sticks to the sides of the Receiver and the neck of the Retort and at length comes a fetid and grosse Oyl which is to be separated with a paper let the Salt taken out be purified by subliming it in a large Vial in sand with a moderate fire left any waterinesse follow the Salt which useth to happen when the fire is increased The sublimed parts of this Salt are of a more piercing odor then the rest and therefore must be kept in an Alembeck very well closed It is a medicine very piercing driving away putrifaction resolves all Fevers and Quartanes if it be given to drink one or two hours before the fit in a proper liquor which may somewhat blunt not destroy its Acrimony as in Emulsions of seed of Melons or sweet Almonds adding a part of Rose-water or Cinamon and white Sugar The Dose from 6 grains to half a scruple It is fixed as the Salt Volatile of the Microcosme except that in stead of the proper spirit of the fixed Salt which is little in Vipers and is drawn out of the dead head is taken the Spirit of common Salt The vertues Thus fixed it is an unchangeable medicine going over all the body for it resolves all excrements and cleanseth them clean like Sope in what place soever they stick not assimilated that they may easily and conveniently be repulsed from the matter either by sweat insensible transpiration or which for the most part happens by Urine Therefore in every melancholick Gowt the Stone of the reyns and bladder all obstructions of the bowels and rottennesse it is a most present remedy In decayed strength it reacheth to the parts affected it comforts nature helps by purging it and resolving the excrements contrary to nature The Dose from half to a whole scruple The Essence of Vipers Take the livers and hearts of Vipers in number 100 dryed and bruised with Spirit of Wine rectified 3 or 4 days digest and extract them according to Art The Distillations being joyned adde to one pound of the Essence one ounce of Volatile Salt half ounce of the fixed Digest them that they may be very well united one or two moneths and thou shalt have the chiefest medicine that can be expected from Vipers N. These medicines are very usual in Italy and are said to be used with good successe and applause of the people XXXVIII Vitulus a Calf WHence in medicine are 1. The Marrow 2. Dung The vertues 1. The marrow is next in goodnesse to the Harts it hath vertue to mollifie hard and schirrous bodies whether the hardnesse happen to the muscles or tendons or ligaments Moreover pessaries are made thereof softning the womb 2. The dung helps an Erysipelas new and anoynted XXXIX Unicornis the Unicorn IS said to be a Beast not unlike to an Horse in respect of his body with cloven feet having an horn in his fore-head In medicine the Horn is used which may be distinguished from Ivory by the threads or fibres which are more subtle It is also more solid and more heavy in other things it is like unto Ivory The vertues It is Sudorifick Alexipharmacal and cordial hence it is that it is commended good against poysons infectious diseases c. It is also accounted profitable in the Epilepsie of Infants The Dose from 4 grains to half a scruple sometimes a whole scruple and more XL. Ursus a Bear IS a cruel Beast catarrhous phlegmatique with a weak head most strong loyns lascivious It is at enmity with Hâ—rts Asses Lyons it sleeps certain weeks together Whence we use 1. The fat 2. Gall. 3. The Eye The vertues 1. The fat heats resolves mollifies discusses c. It is chiefly used in the shedding of the hair anoynted with a burnt Mouse it helps the aches of the Gowt the swellings behinde the ear and other tumors made into a playster with Bulls suet and Wax of each a like quantity it heals the Ulcers of the thighes and legs N. 1. In the Rupture Enterocele and the falling out of the womb it is an ordinary medicine of women anoynted on the back viz. on the os sacrum N. 2. It is fit to observe that in the external use of this fat it makes hairs white 2. The gall is inwardly commended against the Falling-sicknesse Asthma and the Jaundise Outwardly against Cancrous and creeping Ulcers anoynted against the Tooth-ach dimnesse of the Eyes c. N. In Finland where there is plenty of Bears it is ordinary for the common people to give the gall dryed as a Panacea and by sweat ensuing thereon I have heard that many diseases have been cured 3. The right eye taken out dryed and hanged about the neck of Infants is said to drive away the frighting wherewith they are vexed in sleep Some say that the eye of a Bear tyed to the left arm heals a Quartane XLI Vulpes the Fox IS a very crafty Beast in a manner partaker of the nature of the Dog In medicinal use are 1. The grease 2. The lungs 3. The liver 4. The gall 5. The milt 6. The skin 7. The bloud 8. The whole Fox 9. The dung The vertues 1. The grease helps Convulsions Contractions Tremblings c. anoynted the pain of the ears wounds of the head and shedding of hair 2. The lungs consolidate cleanse and from hence they are good against the diseases of the lungs and straitnesse of the breast dryed and taken 3. The liver helps the Hepatick and Splenetick used as the lungs 4. The gall helps the Haw of the eyes anoynted 5. The milt heals the hardnesse and swelling of the milt laid on or applyed to it 6. The hairy skin is successefully applyed on cold members and troubled with the Gowt 7. The bloud dryed and powdered heals the Stone
the Stone resolve the Tartar and clodded bloud Wherefore they are of great use in the Stone-colick Pleurisie Asthma Colick c. whether they be taken raw and powdered or burnt and prepared they serve likewise for cleansing the teeth 3. The shell hath the same vertue with the eyes Moreover it cures the scab of children arising from salt humors mixt with Oyl of Roses and anoynted It drives away the fits of intermitting Fevers N. The thin new one is best after they have yearly cast the thicker Preparat 1. The ashes of Crabs that is Crabs burnt are drying they excel by property against the biting of a mad Dog taken with root of Gentian with Honey they mollifie the chaps of the feet the knobs and Cancers of the fundament Some give burnt Crabs in a Dysentery N. Galen very highly commends this kinde of medicine which he confesseth that he learned of Aeschrion the Emperick against the biting of a mad Dog And saith that Aeschrion burnt the Crabs alive in a brazen vessel till they might be brought into a smooth powder and that about the rising of the Dog-star the Sun passing into Leo. The Dose one little spoonful for 40 days 2. The eyes of Crabs prepared are made after the common manner making them smooth with water of Fennel 3. The Magistery of Crabs eyes 4. The water of Crabs is made of Crabs distilled in B. M. or ashes The vertues It moves Urine wasts the Stone quenches thirst N. Quercetan steeps Crabs in water of housleek for a day then he distilleth them using three cohobations and applyeth it to inflamation burnings and Cancers which he saith they help much especially if the water be impregnated with the Salt elixiviated from the reliques 5. The Oyl or liquor of Crabs eyes is made after the common manner per deliquium Otherwise Take Crabs eyes 5 ounces Oyl of Tartar per deliquium 6 ounces digest them in Horse dung 13 days then coagulate and extract with the Spirit of Wine at length abstract the Spirit of Wine and there remains the Oyl The Dose from 4 grains to 6. V. Carpio the Carp IS a known fish living in mud and slyme Whence we use 1. The gall 2. The grease 3. The triangular stone 4. The long stones The vertues 1. The gall helps the dulnesse and the cloud of the eyes 2. The grease helps the hot diseaseas of the sinews 3. The triangular stone found in the head of a Carp is holden to be good against the Colick Stone and Falling-sicknesse 4. The two stones appearing above the eyes are commended against the Epilepsie VI. Cetus a Whale WHich name generally signifies huge fishes bringing forth living young yet in particular it is taken for the greatest species of them which for its vast bignesse and shape is like a four-footed Beast In use is the grease which heals the scab anoynted N. Some would have the Sperma Ceti of the shops to be taken out of this fish but falsely Others account Amber-greese as taken from hence but falsely Manati Among the kindes of Whales is reckoned a fish called Manati from the two former feet which only it represents and these the Spaniards call hands whence also they call it the handed fish The Germans for the likenesse of its head whereby it resembleth a Cow call it a Sea-cow In use is the stone of the Manati which is a crusty bone taken out of its head and it is of divers shapes for some time it represents the teeth and of some is called the tooth of a Sea-cow sometime the â—ones of the ears and are called the bones of hearing Preparat 1. Preparation is made of it calcined or burn N. It is good to bedew it with some convenient water as of Fennel c. The vertues It is very much commended for breaking the Stones of the veins and bladder for asswaging the Nephritick and Colick pains The Dose 1 dram and upward N. Some ascend to an ounce 2. A Magistery may be made by dissolving it with Spirit of Salt or Niter and precipitating it with water VII Concha the Shell-fish IS a kinde of Fish wanting an head entrenched within shells whether it be a single or double shell Of this kinde are also those that have Pearl in them It comprehends under it divers species for the most part having names according to their figure and colour or distinguished by a speciall name N. 1. The Concha increaseth and decreaseth with the Moon N. 2. Amongst water Animals none is accounted to be taken with a greater desire of eating mans flesh than this In medicinal use are 1. The shells 2. The flesh 3. The Pearls The Vertues 1. The shells have the vertue to dry to move sweat to cleanse c. Hence their internal use chiefly is in Fevers which they cure by sweat Outwardly they are good in dentifrices in repressing the swellings of the fundament the ashes applyed Preparat The shells are used both powdered only and also calcined and powdered or prepared after the common manner and made smooth with water of Carduus Benedictus and the like Of the shells of the long sort is made that famous medicine of Crollius against the Fever after this manner Pour Vinegar upon the shells let it stand for a night then it extracteth the filth which being scraped off calcine the shells to whitenesse and keep the powder The vertues It moves sweat in abundance and therefore used the fit approaching chiefly in a Tertian it dissolves Fevers especially if used the second or third time The Dose from one scruple and half to a dram N. Crollius gives it in a draught of hot Ale with a little Butter 2. The flesh that is to say the eatable substance belongs chiefly to Kitchens and in meat is said to be good for Quartanes 3. Pearls are round stones found in many Shell-fishes of the same excrement where of their shells are made They are accounted twofold Oriental and Occidental the former are more bright and are preferred before the rest the latter are white and lesse bright they are found also in many places of Europe as in Scotland Silâ—sia Bohemia Frisia and other Maritine lands but they are of lesse worth In like manner the greater and those which have a hole through them are esteemed riper and more excellent than the lesse and not perforated The vertues They make a most excellent Cordial by which the Balsom of life oppressed and strength decayed are notably refreshed and comforted therefore they resist poyson the Plague and putrefaction they exhilarate the minde and for this cause they are in such repute that the last help even of those that are ready to die is usually from thence expected Preparat 1. They are prepared after the common manner by making them smooth upon a Marble now and then sprinkling them with Cordial water as of Roses Balm and the like 2. Salt of Pearls is made by dissolving them in Vinegar or in the juyce of Barberies and Limons
thickning the filtration to the remaining of Salt and being thick by washing or dissolving it again purifying it and sweetning it N. They need not be powdered because whole and without digestion they yeeld to Vinegar N. 2. Pearls washed and if you please bruised are dissolved in the juyce of Citrons poured on to the height of four fingers by digestion on the dissolution is poured May dew distilled or Balm water and the dissolution is poured off Then new juyce of Citrons is infused digested and May dew is again infused or Balm water and decanted c. And this work is often repeated till the Pearls be almost wholly dissolved a very few feces remaining At lâ—st the dissolution is made thick with a gentle fire to the remaining of the powder The Dose from 6 grains to 10. in the water of May dew distilled with Manna or in Cinamon water with Rose water N. Paâ—acalsus attributes great vertues to the Salt of Pearl as to other medicines thereof prepared the processes quoth he of these though simple yet wonderful is the operation of them yet this action of vertues is not made by Art but is in their very nature Which is hid in the grosse substance and cannot operate as a dead body but after dissolution is made its body is revived 2. Unto this is very like the Salt or Magistery of Pearls of Riverius Take Pearls most finely powdered as much as thou wilt make a paste thereof with juyce of Citrons or Oranges and let it alone for a time Then dissolve it with Vinegar distilled according to Art till the Pearls be almost altogether dissolved mingle the Vinegar with a third pâ—rt of River water distill it in sand with a gentle fire then with a stronger being distilled pour it again upon the Caput mortuum remaining and dissolve it again then filter it and evaporate it very easily and the remainder will be the Magistery of the Pearls The vertues Besides the vertues above said it is a chief Preservative against the Gowt The Dose one scruple at the most 3. The Magistery of Pearls 1. Common is made by dissolving it with Vinegar distilled and precipitating it with Oyl of Tartar 2. Butter is made as that Buttery Magistery of Coral thus Dissolve Pearls in the Spirit of May dew or in distilled Vinegar precipitate it with Oyl of Sulphur per C then sweeten and digest it for a time with Spirit of Wine which being abstracted thou hast a Magistery melting in the mouth like Butter 3. The feathery Dissolve Pearls according to art in spirit of Niter then filter it pouring distilled rain water upon it then precipitate it with Oyl of Sulphur per C. sweeten and dry it The vertues Are to be gathered out of the aforesaid The Dose from 6 grains to 15. 4. The Oyl or liquor of pearls Is made per Deliquium the manner is easie 5. The Essence Tincture Arcanum of Pearls Take Pearls as much as thou wilt dissolve them with distilled Vinegar and make a Salt purifie the salt thus made by frequent dissolutions in Vinegar and coagulations the feces always cast away until no more feces shall remain after the last dissolution and the Pearls by that freed from all uncleannesse then dissolve them with rain water or May dew and by distillation abstract the humidity and repeat this so often till the Pearls become sweet this the sweetnessse of the water last distilled sheweth This Salt so freed from the feces digest in a close vessel in M. B. 8 or 10 days with Spirit of Wine poured on to the height of two fingers so the Pearls in that time will send their Essence like thick Oyl to the top of the Spirit of Wine which warily separate and pouring on new Spirit of Wine repeat the labour as oft as thou pleasest for almost all the Salt is converted a very few feces left into an Essence This circulate a fresh with Spirit of Wine for a time afterward by gentle distillation in B. M. separate the Spirit of Wine and keep it for use The vertues Are according to the rest but stronger by far in respect of its very great subtilty The Dose from 6 grains to 14. A secret by the Spirit of Guaiacum Take of Pearls powdered very small as much as thou wilt extract according to Art a most red tincture with the Spirit of Guaiacum rectified the remaining powder calcine gently and extract again twice or thrice with new Spirit of Guaiacum Coagulate the Extracts in B. M. to the appearance of a divers coloured thin skin which is a sign that the phlegm being abstracted there remains in a coagulated form the sole secret or Essence of Pearls with the Spirit of Guaiacum N 1. This Essence and Spirit can scarse be separated asunder N. 2. The same Essence or Arcanum of Pearls is suddenly dissolved with water of Balm and the like a sufficient quantity and is turned into a red transparent colour of an excellent tast The vertues It cleansâ—th the bloud excellently and is of great vertue in the French disease The Dose from 6 grains to 14. Another Tincture Take Pearls half ounce Spirit of Salt a sufficient quantity dissolve them according to Art decant abstract that it may become like pap which wash off by a distilled water circulate with Spirit of Wine 6 weeks then abstract the Spirit of Wine with a gentle heat of B. M. 5. The flowers of Pearls Pearls are dissolved with distilled Vinegar the dissolution is digested for a moneth then the Vinegar is abstracted and at length the flowers are elevated with a stronger fire 6. The Spirit of Pearls or the pearled Spirit of the earth Take of the Salt or Magistery of Pearls 6 ounces terra sigillat one pound mingle and imbibe with a sufficient quantity of Oyl of Pearls and make Balls which being dryed by a Retort as the Spirit of Salt is distilled rectifie it and keep it for use The vertues It is a very great secret in the Gowt LIII Dentalium Entalium IS a little Shell-fish somewhat long rough on the outside smooth within hollow after the manner of a reed and in one part having a chink like a Dogs tooth whence it is called Dentalium N. Not a fish but a long and slender worm is the Inhabitant of the Dentalium It grows to Rocks of the Sea and to old Shell-fishes The Entalium is a Sea Shell-fish long like a little horn right and hollow chamfered without smooth within seldom exceeding the length of ones finger N. It seems to be the Dactylus of Pliny The vertues Though both of these are hitherto little used in Medicine but only in the Citrine Unguent yet is it likely that they may be used with other kindes of shells to the like affects IX Halec the Hering IS a Sea-fish ordinary in the Baltick Sea and other Seas of Germany In medicinal use are 1. The roes 2. The hering it self 3. The brine or pickle The vertues 1. The roes in number
vertues Honey is accounted hot and dry in the second degree the white is thought lesse hot It nourisheth cleanseth openeth is good for the lungs moves Urine cures the Cough resists putrefaction Outwardly it discusseth the dimnesse of the eyes and helps other diseases of them A caution 1. Because honey is easily turned into Choler it is not so profitable for the liver or hot bodies 1. Crude honey puffes up the belly provokes Cough and causeth nauseousnesse N. Honey according to Galen is the juyce of heavenly dew gathered of Bees according to Paracelsus it is a certain rosinous thing of the earth transplanted into a vegetable kinde by the vertue of the Planets and heavenly influences and gathered from hence of Bees and further digested Hence it varyeth 1. For the variety of Plants in which respect that is accounted best of Bees living among Roses or Lillies 2. For the diversity of the influence So honey is best which is made in the Spring and Summer the year being clear and wholesome It is called of Quercetan dew or heavenly Mâ—nna and from hence he prepares his Philosophicall Vinegars Preparat 1. Clarified honey Take honey as much as thou wilt powre a quantity of water thereon as much as the honey or twice as much or thrice as much if it be very impure or if free from impurity without adding any thing boyl it and skim it with a spoon N. If by this means it be not sufficiently purified it may be done with whites of egges to every pound one white N. 2. Conrad Kunrath disallowes the aforesaid clarifying of honey because by it the better spirits wherewith it is very much impregnated vanish into aire therefore he appoints this Take Virgin honey not set to the fire together with the Combes put it into Hippocrates his sleeve and hang it in a warme place of the Sun or in a stove made hot with watery vapors that the honey may flow thorough 2. Distilled honey Whence 1. Water of honey Spirit and Oyl Take one pound of honey adde thereto salt or flints bruised or sand three ounces others adde chips of Juniper wood distill it by a Retort by degrees and there goes out a white water then a yellow with Oyl as also a spirit which may be rectified divers times Others draw out first a water in a gourd by B. M. to the honey remaining in the gourd they add sand or calcined flints broken in pieces and distill by a Retort a yellow water with Oyl these they digest divers times 5 or 6 dayes then they distill them and at length separate the oyl swimming about from the water N. 1. Some think but not rightly that this yellow water is the Menstruum of Franc. Auton N. 2. Sand is added or flints or glasse that the fervency to which honey is most inclinable may be prevented which others do by putting in little bags full of sand N. 3. Some powre the water first drawn upon new Honey and rectifie it The vertues Both the white and the yellow water heal Cataracks and white spots of the eyes they are good for making hair grow They serve for drawing out the tincture of Coralâ— Inwardly they unlock obstructions moves urine wasts the stone The Oyl which burnes like Aqua vitae hath admirable vertues chiefly if it be circulated some dayes with spirit of Wine for that spirit of Wine separated again there remains a sweet Oyl and of a most pleasant tast very good for wounds by gunshot and running sores It is also singular for mitigating Podagricall aches it discusses the blemishes of the face with Oyl of Camphire 2. The Compound Oyl of Honey Take Honey 2 pounds Vitrioll Calcined one pound spirit of Wine rectified half a pound Tartar one pound distill it by a Retort first there comes forth phlegm then the spirit Force it 20 hours The vertues It asswages the ach of the Gowt if the place affected be therewith anoynted 3. Vinegar of honey Take of the best honey one part River water 8 parts boyl them to the half afterward hang therein the seed of Rocket in a cloth and set it in a hot place or the Sun till they be hot It becomes by little and little very sharpe Vinegar which may be distilled The vertues Besides other uses it dissolves flints and other stones even without any precedent calcination 4. Tincture of Honey Beguinus extracts the tincture out of raw honey pasted with sand and gives it to the consumptive for nourishment 5. The Quintessence of honey Take Honey with the Combes as much as thou wilt draw a water in B. M. then let there remain the water in a boyling B. M. 5 dayes then secondly pour water thereon and extract according to art the Tincture and being decanted purifie it by digestion and setling at length distill the Tincture in B. M. to drynesse the distilled is called the element of air the remaining essence fire Thirdly out of the feces burnt to ashes the Oyl first taken out by descent or a Retort if it seem good extract the salt with common water after the usuall manner and purifie it very well it is called the element of earth Fourthly now joyn all together and distill them in ashes by an Alembeck cohobating them so often untill all be volatile and transcend the Alembeck so thou hast the Quintessence of honey The vertues It may be in lieu of a Panacea The Dose 3 4 5 grains c. 6. The Elixir of Honey Take Honey purified through Hippocrates his sleeve draw the Water Oyl and Salt The Salt drawen moisten by course with its own water then with the Oyl untill it hath drunk up all and there be a coagulation The vertues It hath the same vertues with the Quintessence of Honey 6. There are sundry Medicines in Shops which own Honey both as the basis as the kinds of Hydromels and also a means of preservation as many syrups c. 3. Wax holds in a manner a mean betwixt heating cooling moistning and drying yet so that it inclines to heat It is of parts in some respect thick and emplastick and therefore digests ripens c. N. It is so usuall in shops that scarce thou canst finde an Emplaster of which it doth not afford the consistence Preparat 1. Oyl of Wax is distilled out of a gourd or a glasse Retort by ashes or sand mixed either with bricks made into powder or with calcined flints or with ashes or sand that the Oyl may more easily ascend The vertues It is diuretick and is given inwardly The Dose 3 4 or 5 drops Oyl of Wax of a good odor and colour Is made if it be rectified upon fresh pieces of wax by a fire of ashes Of it is made 2. A vulnerary Balsome By a menstrual infusion of the flowers of St. Johns Wort and the rose of Comfrey 3. The Magistery of Wax Is made of it being dissolved in spirit of Wine and filtered that it remain in the paperlike Butter which being sweetned
and given to drink to one dram excellently prevails against a Dysentery 4. Propolis is a rude and grosse matter or glew found at the entrance of the hives That is to be chosen which is yellow representing Styrax or Galbanum The vertues It heats in the second or beginning of the third degree it gently cleanses and draws it extracts pricks and all things fastned in the body it concocts hard things it asswages aches it fils up desperate Ulcers In an old Cough it helps by fume II. Araneus the Spider IS a poysonful Insect hurtfull by her prickings There are divers sorts very usuall For there is a Spider which is greater of divers colours or lesser of a black colour they are distinguished by their sex they couple in the Spring and beginning of Sommer and sometime in Autumn and beginning of Winter whereupon it is that they are accounted more hurtfull at those seasons they live on flies for the taking of which they spread their nets In medicinall use are 1. The Spiders 2. The Spiders web The vertues 1. The Spider is said to drive away the fits of Fevers applyed to the wrists or the temples but especially it is commended against the Quartane inclosed in a nutshell and hanged about the neck or arme 2. The web astringes conglutinates and therefore is vulnerary restraining bloud and preventing inflamation It is used not only outwardly but also inwardly boldly enough to drive away Feverish fits Preparat The Oyl of Spiders simple and compound may be made by infusion as the Oyl of Scorpions The vertues It is an ingredient in the Emplaister against the Fever III. Aselli Cheeslips BReed in moist place Cellars and the like under stones and vessels full of water if they be touched they contract and gather themselves round The vertues They are of thin parts they digest make thin cleanse open Whereupon they are specially profitable in dissolving the Tartarous mucilage and bringing the stone to mucilage in opening the obstructions of the bowels in the Kings evill in the Nephritick pain difficulty of making water in the Colick and in the appetite empaired by the mucilage of the stomach in the Asthma c. Outwardly the powder is commended for the diseases of the eyes pains of the ears and Quinsie anoynted with honey A living one applyed on a Phagedena or running sore kils it The Dose from a scruple to a dram in powder with Wine or any Nephritick water Preparat Some wash them in Wine and dry them and again wash and dry them then they powder them and moysten them with spirit of Vitrioll The Dose 4 5 6 drops Others beat them with Wine strain them and use them Others only infuse them in Wine and strain them N. 1. I go not beyond one scruple neither continue I their use because by their exceeding resolving quality they may cause no small inconveniences N. As the naturall stony place shews that they are good against the stone so their aptnesse and inclination to contract themselves declare that peradventure they may not be unprofitable against Convulsions IV. Bombyx the Silk-worm BReeds both of its own accord as also of egges N. It undergoeth a wonderfull Metamorphosis of little egges is produced a small creature not unlike to the Palmer-worm This worm nourished with the leaves of the berries of the Elme encreaseth daily till it shine again with swelling then being put into a box it girds it self with a silken web till it die after a while it revives having wings as a butterflie and after three dayes copulation and then the male presently dies the female bringeth forth egges in abundance and dyeth In Physicall use are 1. The Silk-worm 2. The Silk 3. The silken-pouches The vertues 1. Silk-worms dryed and powdered are sprinkled on the crown of the head to help the Vertigo and Convulsion 2. The silken web is temperate in heat and cold some say hot in the first degree dry in the first it strengthens the heart refreshes the vital natural and animal spirits Preparat It is sometimes burned that being dryer it may be brought into a smooth powder sometimes it is mixed with decoctions but it is better to use it raw and only cut There are usuall medicines whose composition it enters as Confect Algermes Diamosch c. N. In Physical use also is the Skarlet silk dyed with grains of Kermes and is used for staying of bloud astringing wounds drying and sowing them together Moreover it is used of the vulgar for an Erysipelas tyed about it 3. The silken pouches have the same vertues with the web N. Take heed of those which are defiled with the filth of their excrements or in whom as yet a Necydalus lies dead and eaten with worms The wilde Bombyx is a certain kinde of green Palmer-worm changeable after the manner of Domestick Silk-worms V. Cantharides Spanish-flies or French-flies ARe bred of certain kinde of Worms not unlike to Palmer-wormes which grow from moisture sticking on the leaves of Ash Poplar Privet and Wheat They are accounted best which are found in Corne or Medows of divers colours and which have yellow lines overthwart on their wings with a long body thick and fresh They are killed with the vapor of very sharpe Vinegar which exhales while it is hot Then are they dryed and kept for two years The vertues They are hot and very dry corrosive or blistering Diuretick emetick wherefore they are frequently used in vesicatories Their inward use is very rare because they are commonly reckoned among poysons Verily they are so offensive to the bladder that outwardly tyed to the skin they do exulcerate the same But some are so bold that they dare mix them with diureticks There are also wicked harlots which by them do kill and drive forth the tender Infant N. 1. The later Physitians cut away the wings feet and heads only reserving the body for use N. 2. Galen useth the wings and feet for an antidote against their own poyson N. 3. Oyl of Cantharides is drawn by the spirit of Wine and is profitable against the Stone VI. Cicada the Grashopper IS an Insect like to a Cricket very stridulous living on dew N. This only creature of those that live hath no mouth for in lieu of it it hath a sharpe pointed thing in its breast with which it lickes the dew In Italy it is commonly known not so with us In Physicall use are dryed Grashoppers The Vertues We use dryed Grashoppers against the Colick with so many grains of Pepper viz. 3 5 7. Others use them burnt to those whose bladder is diseased The ashes notably wast the stone VII Cicendela the Gloe-worm IS a feathered Insect shining in darknesse like fire It is unknown in shops except that Cardanus seems to attribute an Anodyne vertue thereto lib. 9. subtil Others commend it in the stone N. Roderick Castrens 4. Book of Meteors Microcosm 16. Chapter saith Gloe-wormes having their heads and wings cut off are set in the sun