one Ounce put them into a stone or well-glazed Earthen Vessel with as much boiling Water as will moisten them drop in leasurely four Scruples of Spirit of Vitriol continually agitating and moving the Rose leaves after which pour upon them four Pints of boiling Water cover it close until it be cold then let it run through a Flannel Cloth or Filter Bag and add to the Liquor half a Pound of VVhite Sugar Barly Water TAke two Ounces of French Barly boil it a Turn or more in two Quarts of Spring VVater then throw it away and put to the Barly so much more VVater boiling it the second time as at first throw away that VVater likewise and Once more add to it the like quantity which boil gently till a third part be consumed let it stand to settle after which pour off the clear VVater into a Bottle and mix with it Syrrup of Violets and Wood-Sorrel of each three Spoonfuls Spirit of Vitriol thirty or fourty drops It moistens cools and cleanses the body allays the Acrimony of sharp humours and is an excellent Drink in Feavers hot affections of the Stomach Liver Reins or any other part It may be used for all those intents and purposes to which the Tincture of Roses doth conduce and should be taken in a large quantity at a time by which small and gentle means extraordinary effects have been oftentimes produced for as fierce and blustering winds and tempests are frequently allayed by a suddain shower of Rain so in like manner the greatest commotion imaginable in the Microcosm discovering it self by continual Vomitings Purgings and Swoonings have been many times quelled by such drinks as this and the former when the highest Cordials have procured no better an effect than the return of the fainting Fit If the Constitution of body and the Disease require it you may mix Cinamon or Bezoar water Spirit of Elder or of Mints in such a proportion that the largest Dose of them may serve for as much of the Barly water as you take at once The Decoction of Hartshorn in the next place to be spoken of greatly avails being mixed and used in all respects as Barly water RAsped Hartshorn helps Putrefaction corrects Malignity provokes Sweat stops Vomiting Fluxes of the Womb and Bowels kills Worms and strengthens the Natural Balsom in our bodies is very good in the Small Pox and Measles in Putrid and Malignant Feavers allayeth all sharp humours and is exceeding useful for Children as well as for persons of riper years Take one Ounce of Rasped Hartshorn boil it in two quarts of water close covered to one quart strain it and add half an Ounce of Sugar with two or three spoonfuls of Rose-water then let it be bottled and give it plentifully instead of drink Being boyled with Vinegar it helpeth Ring-worms being warmed and steeped in Vinegar and applied to the Gumms it strengthens them helps the pain of the Jaws caused by the breeding of Teeth and also fastens loose Teeth THe Hartshorn Balls are very good for Children and those of riper years in the Small Pox Measles Feavers Worms and in any Malignant Distemper They are good in all Fluxes Loosnesses Spitting of Blood and Dysentery they dry up all moist humours strengthen much and may safely be given to Children in any Disease that shall happen unto them Take from ten to sixty Grains Mornings and Evenings or once in six hours in any convenient mixture or in a spoonful of the above-prescribed Drink taking a draught of it presently after If you mix them with Unguentum Pomatum and anoint the Lids and Corners of the Eyes with it it helps their Ulcers and Defluxions The Teeth being rubbed with the powder of the Balls upon a cloth every day will be whitened by it and the Gumms strengthned SPirit of Hartshorn is an excellent Remedy to cleanse the whole mass of Blood by Urine and Sweat and by insensible Transpiration It is a true Specifick against the Scurvy and all other Diseases which proceed from alteration of the blood It refisteth Putrefaction comforteth Nature and openeth Obstructions Good effects have been found by it in Feavers Plurisies stoppings of the Spleen Coughs distempers of the Brain Epileptical Fits Madness the Worms Quartan Agues c. It may be taken from six drops to twelve in Carduus water sweetned with Sugar or in Beer and Sugar A Child may take one two or more drops according to the age but before the use of it it is good to cleanse the body by some purging Medicine in those cases where it may be done safely THe Hysterical water is very good against Fits of the Mother provokes the Terms and cleanses the Womb exceedingly It expels both Birth and After-birth and is likewise an excellent Remedy if afterwards any stoppage happens or Nature be defective in throwing forth what it ought in Child-birth to forward the birth and when there appears an inability in Nature to expel it you may giue three spoonfuls of this with a spoonful or two of Cinamon water and in this case once taking of it doth oftentimes produce the defired effect provided that it be made use of in due time for if otherwise used whether too soon or out of season the aforesaid effects cannot be expected The same quantity may be taken for expelling the After-birth and for removing any stoppage occasioned by taking cold or other accident In Fits of the Mother and such like affects it may be used as often as there shall be cause Women with Child must by no meanes meddle with it until the fullness of time be come for the Child to be born TReacle water is very good in Feavers of all sorts especially Pestilential It is an admirable Remedy against the Plague Poyson the biting of Adders or any Venomous Beasts It expelleth Venomous Humours by Sweat fortifieth the Heart and Spirits against them and is of singular use in the Small Pox and Measles One two three or four spoonfuls may be taken in Carduus water sweetned with Syrup of Gillislowers and lye to Sweat PLague water is a Soveraign Cordiall for the Heart and an excellent Antidote against the Plague Pestilential and Malignant Feavers Poyson the biting of Mad Dogs also stinging of Adders and may be used with good success before the Fits of Agues to hinder their coming and to drive them away 'T is an Excellent Remedy for a Surfeit also for the Wind and other cold griefs of the Stomach It helps inward Bruises and discusses Congealed Blood Take two or three spoonfuls of it for a Surfeit once in six hours until the undigested matter in the Stomach be concocted For the Wind and all other griefs of the Stomach and to comfort the heart a spoonful may be taken at a time or more when cause shall be seen In all other cases three spoonfuls or more may be taken in warm Posset or some proper water when you first find your self to be ill being covered warm in the bed to
sweat well afterwards Cinamon Water is very Cordial comforteth a weak and cold Stomach helpeth Griping pains in the Bowels occasioned by cold causeth a fresh and lively colour in the Face provoketh Urine and the Terms It sweetneth the Breath resisteth Poyson stops Fluxes and Vomitings hastens the Birth helps the fainting Spirits and trembling of the Heart strengthens the Retentive Faculty comforts the Brain and Sinews and is exceeding good for Cold and Moist bodies Spirit of Mints comforts the Head and Memory warms the Stomach and Bowels expels Superfluous Humours causes Digestion stirs up the Appetite stays Vomiting and the Hiccough helps a Cold Liver and removes its Obstructions It is also good for women in Child-bearing in their hard and sore labours BEzoar water is a very great Cordial it expels from the Heart and Spirits evil Vapours and Humours which annoy them It drives forth Pestilential and Malignant Feavers by Sweat resists Melancholy and wonderfully relieves the Spirits being overwhelmed therewith It is Excellent in Swooning Fits a spoonful being taken at a time mixt with Borrage water and a little Syrup of Gilliflowers it may be taken otherwise alone or in Sack or in any Cordial water but in Swoonings and to provoke Sweat if there be cause two or three spoonfuls may be taken at a time AQua Coelestis doth exceedingly help such as are loaden and oppressed with Melancholy by expelling annoyances from the Heart and cheering the Spirits It enlivens the dull and stupid Senses is available in all Malignant Feavers and in swoonings half a spoonful being taken at a time in a draught of the Decoction of Hartshorn or in cold distilled Cordial or Imperial Water and sweetned with Syrup of Gilliflowers AQua Mirabilis comforts and strengthens the Heart Stomach and Brain and is of great use in Faintings and Swoonings and for Women in Travail with Child for which purpose mix with it Cinamon water Spirit of Mints Bezoar water or Aqua Coelestis and Imperial water which being sweetned with Syrup of Gilliflowers or fine Loaf Sugar give two or three spoonfuls at a time as often as there shall be cause IMperial water is of a Milde and Moderate Temper and may safely be used two or three spoonfuls with Syrup of Gilliflowers at any time against Faintings and Swoonings and is a Preservative against Consumptions TIncture of Ambergreise Strengthens Comforts Warms and Refreshes the Brain and Senses exceedingly quickens the dulness of them eases the pains of the Head dissolveth the Cold Defluxions of Humours which fall thereon and on the Nerves and Sinews It likewise strengthens the Memory and is very beneficial to the Heart and Fainting Spirits takes away the Passions and Tremblings of the Heart making it Merry and Joyfull It expells Sadness removes Barrenness proceeding from a cold cause and is accounted conducible to Venereous actions it most conveniently agrees with Aged Persons for it Warms Comforts and Strengthens their Cold Decayed Spirits A few Drops of this Tincture will Perfume any Cordial water Wine or other thing and impregnate it with its Virtue It is made thus Take of Ambergreise two Drams Musk half a Dram let the Amber be very finely shaved or cut as thin as may be put it into a thin Linnen bag tye it close and let it ly in a strong Glass bottle with half a Pint of the best Spirit of Wine stop it well with Cork and Bladder and set it in a warm Bath or in the Sun for a Fortnights space then pour off the Tincture and keep it in a Bottle close stopped for use put to the Ambergreise half a Pint more of Spirit of Wine stop it close and set it in the Sun as before after which preserve it for your use BEzoar Stones are much commended against the bitings of Venomous Beasts stinging of Vipers and against all Contagious Diseases as the Small Pox Measles Pestilence Malignant Feavers and the like They also cure Swoonings long Sorrows Hysterical Passions with many other ill Affections A Man or Woman may take ten or twenty Grains at a time A Child three or four Grains or more according to the Age. GAscoign Powder is good in all sorts of Feavers in the Small Pox Measles Swoonings and Tremblings of the Heart It cheers the Heart and Vital Spirits exceedingly and is a safe and harmless Medicine which may be given in any case six eight or ten Grains at a time to Children and twenty or thirty Grains to Persons of full Age. Take it in any thing you like best once in six hours as long as there shall be cause THe Red Cordial Powder is a special remedy and is given with great success in all Malignant and Pestilential Diseases in Feavers of all sorts Small Pox and Measles It is very profitable against Poyson and stinging of Adders resists Putrefaction strengthens the Heart and Brain purifies the whole Mass of Blood and is an excellent powder to dissolve congealed Blood occasioned by Falls Bruises Imposthumes and the like It may be taken from Ten to Sixty Grains according to the age in any convenient mixture which is most proper to the occasion MEtheglen is a Drink which the ancient Britains did put an high value upon keeping it in their Houses as Nectar and affirming thar it was more pretious than Malmsey for when it is old 't is reckon'd a wine most agreeable to the Stomach which it strengthens exceedingly it potently concocts cold Humours hinders Crudities restores the lost Appetite and is good for those who are troubled with the Cough and shortness of Breath It helps Expectoration Expells Wind Mitigates the Pains of the Colick is profitable in the Yellow Jaundies in Diseases of the Brain and in those which proceed from Melancholy as the Quartan Ague Scurvy c. It conduceth much to cold Constitutions is very nourishing to the Body and by the use of it many have lived to extream old Age Pertinent hereunto is that relation of one of an Hundred Years Old who being demanded by Augustus Caesar what means he chiefly used to preserve that Vigor of mind and Body which he was observed at that time very briskly to retain made this reply to the Emperor that he imputed his long continued health to nought besides this Drink which he verily thought to be the greatest cause thereof Mr. Butler discoursing of it in his Treatise of Bees saith that as good and Old Metheglen Excelleth all VVines both for pleasantness of tast and preserving of Health so being burnt it is better than any burnt Wine whatsoever to comfort and settle a Weak Stomach and to procure natural heat The manner of burning it is first to set on the Fire a deep Skillet or Kettle almost full of Water when it boils put in a Pewter Pot full of Metheglen which you must Skum before it begins to boil and put into it two or three bruised Cloves with a branch of Rosemary then beat the Yolk of an Egg in a Dish and mix with it
It helps a Stomach that is Weak Cold Weak Cold Stomachs of hard digestion 〈◊〉 and of Hard Digestion and doth greatly strengthen the same Consumes corrupt Phlegm and helps concoction being taken with White-Bread and Sugar two or three spoonfuls at a time A double Linnen cloath may be dipped in the warm Spirit and applied to the Cold and Weak Stomach for it helps difficulty of concoction stops vomittings and mitigates all pains and Sobbings or Hickoughs which proceed from a cold temper or windy humour It is observable that weak and cold Stomachs are oftentimes oppressed after moderate eating and sometimes the strong Surfeit by some contrary meat or ill Cookery whence proceed Surfeirs which if not prevented many times beget Feavers and so death Very large experience of this Spirit hath been found in this case for many years it never failing to remove any such inconvenience from the Stomach if timely used for which purpose take One or Two Ounces once in 6 hours or 12 hours until no more of the undigested matter remains in the Stomach which it commonly expels at first or second taking It is of great virtue in Diseases of the Intestines Bowels for by means of its Diaphoretick quality it dissipateth not only in the Stomach but also in the bowels all tough and clammy Phlegm with other viscid thin or serous humours It warmeth by its penetrating heat the Entrals Cholick made cold by drink air or other accidents expels wind and both inwardly taken outwardly applyed it asswageth those vehement pains which arise from the Colick which Disease hath been in a short time dissipated by this means in one with whom it was familiar and upon the least occasion bred It is of great profit in all Fluxes of the Bowels Lienter Diarhaea Diseuter which are occasioned by the weakness of the retentive faculty of the Stomack Intestines proceeding for the most part from a cold and moist distemper therefore two or three spoonfuls of it may be given in Sugar as often as shall be needful with a Tost of Rye or Wheat bread and let a double Linnen cloath be moistened in it and applyed warm to the Stomach and Bowels In the obstructions of the Mesentery â—â—â—â—ructions 〈…〉 Meâ—â—â—â—ry Liver and Spleen Liver and Spleen from whence proceed the Scurvy Yellow and Black Jaundice after the humours have been sufficiently carried away by proper Medicines this Spirit very fitly takes place which opens the stoppages and crammings of the Mesentery Liver Milt and Gall cuts and prepares the thickness of humours and by its penetrating virtues provokes Sweat In the Scurvy after purging and cutting Medicines Scurvy the greatest hope of health is placed in evacuating the Serosities by sweating for which purpose a quantity of this Spirit may be taken according to the Constitution as often as need shall require In the Dropsie and Timpany Dropsie when the Body is emptied by proper Medicines as aforesaid if the Liver be not hot nor the Urine red this Spirit may be used with good success two or three spoonfuls more or less in two or three ounces of the water of Elder Flowers and one ounce of the Syrrup of Elder berryes Then in bed provoke Sweat Also two or three spoonfulls of the Spirit may be taken alone at any time with a Tost made of white bread and sweetned with Sugar In the stoppage of the Monthly Terms Terms stopâ—â—â—â— after the body hath been disburthened by some Purging Physick of that putrid filth which is occasioned by the obstruction this Spirit is very usefull which by its subtility passes through the whole body and through the least Vessels thereof cutting and attenuating the grossness of the humours it may be taken the same time the Courses use to flow one two or three spoonfuls in White-wine and Sugar Mornings and Evenings In the Suffocation of the Matrix Suffocation of the Matrix the Womb being first purged of the malignant and foetid humours one or more spoonfuls of this Spirit greatly availeth both out and in time of the Fitt for it powerfully discusses those cold and poisonous vapours evacuates by Urine vindicates the more noble Entrals from their infection and restores freer breathing Take of the Pith that is in the middle of the Elder-stick Stone and of Juniper berries of each four ounces which put together into a strong glass bottle that will hold a pottle pour thereon a quart of this Spirit stop it very close and let it stand 7 daies in a bath of warm water or in the Sun at Summer then dress it strongly and keep it in a glass close stopped The use of this is excellent in breaking and expelling the Stone some spoonfuls of it being taken in a glass of White-wine and Sugar as often as there shall be occasion the Stomach and bowels having by purging Medicines been first cleansed of the thick slimy Phlegm and Tartarous humours The Gout is so stiff and stubborn a Disease Gout that oftentimes it contemns the best prescriptions wherefore to hinder the increase of those serous humours which most commonly do occasion it and also to evacuate those which are already sprung up Purging Medicines must be often taken at the Spring and Fall and sweating used once or twice a Month after the body hath been treated with some convenient Purgative The serous matter gathered in the body is easily discussed by sweat and assoon as natural or artificial sweat appears there is great hopes of safety for which purpose take one ounce of this Spirit with â—ntimon Diaphoret and Hartshorn prepared without burning of each ten Grains in a glass of good wine in the morning cover your self warm in your bed and sweat after as long as may be convenient If it be taken a little before the Fitt it disappoints it It hath been the common practice of some for many years assoon as any one is taken suddenly sick whether Children or Persons of riper years to give from one spoonful of this Spirit to six spoonfuls according to the age and Constitution and to cover them warm on their bed which soon expells whatever hurtful matter occasioned their sickness although they have oftentimes appeared to be affected with much violence THe Tarter Dyet drink opens all obstructions in any part of the body cleanses and purifies the Blood causes a fresh and lively habit of the body procures a chearful frame of Spirit corrects all evil humours and effectually purges Choler Phlegm Melancholy and waterish humours from all parts It frees the head from what ever annoyeth it quickens the senses removes any humours which affect the Sromach Heart Lungs Liver Spleen and Bowels strengthning them exceedingly It is very available in Agues of all sorts the use of it hath oftentime cured Quartans in the Hypocondriack Melancholy Scurvy Madness Jaundies Green-sickness Dropsie Sciatica Gout pain in the Joynts Cholick Fluxes the Kings-Evil Rheumes Coughs Shortness of