highly commendeth to open the obstructions of the liver and milt to provoke urine and dissolve the stone as also to allay Inflamations and Gangrenes 5. The Magistery of Urine Take Urine putrified as already said and cleared from the dregs distil it with a gentle fire out of B. M. until all the phlegm be come forth then cease and rectifie the Spirit out of a Vial with a long neck so shalt thou have a Volatile salt which gather and the phlegm cast away Distil the remainder out of sand and there shall ascend a Volatile salt out of the Colcothar elixiviate the fixed salt and coagulate it to drynesse and being mixt with thrice as much clay and made into balls after the balls be dryed distil by a Retort as the spirit of Salt is distilled upon this spirit pour the former spirit by drops on the Volatile Salt until the crack cease then give fire of Sublimation in sand and there shall be sublimed a most excellent Salt of Urine and pleasant to the sight The vertues This Sublimate works more efficaciously then the former by cutting the Tartar of the whole body and expelling it by sweat urine or the belly it cures many diseases arising from thence or at least eases them as are Atrophy c. it preserves also from the pain of the Stone if it be taken every moneth before the new Moon The Dose 7. 8. 9. 10. grains in a convenient liquor The dayly use thereof may be continued for some time 6. The Oyl of Ludus That is to say of the tartareous matter which sticketh to the Chamber-pot is made by calcining and by dissolving in a moist place The vertues It is excellent to dissolve the Stone The Dose is one scruple X. The ordure mollifies procures matter and is Anodyne It is of notable use to mitigate dolors from Incantations applyed on the place to procure matter in Plague sores to cure the Squinsie dryed powdered and anointed on with Honey to remedy the Inflamations of wounds Moreover it is inwardly used of many in the Squinsie burnt and given to drink in Fevers to prevent the fits taken in the manner The Dose two drams in the Epilepsie which as the report is the first ordure of an Infant dryed and powdered and given for many days doth pull up by the roots Preparat 1. The distilled water is made with the Oyl with one and the same labour The vertues It is said to cure the nayl or web of the eye and other diseases of the white of the eye one or two drops instilled to procure a good colour to the face to beget hairs to cure corroding Ulcers and Fistulaes and to take away the skars of the hands It is accounted inwardly to profit those that have the Falling-sickness and the Dropsie it drives out the Stone of the reyns and bladder and helps the bitings of a mad Dog and of venomous beasts 2. The Oyl Take the ordure of a young man not a boy as much as you will let be it dryed in the air or in an Oven with an easie fire then distil it by an Alembeck first with a gentle fire so there shall come forth a phlegm and at length with the white Spirits an Oyl let both be rectified by B. M. Poterius makes it thus Take a great quantity of mans ordure let it putrifie of it self and be turned into certain little creatures and then let it passe almost into air This ordure thus prepared distil out of a Retort first with an easie fire after with a stronger so there shall come forth an Oyl and water N. The strong smell of both is taken away by repeated rectifications and cohobations The vertues It helps sores of the Head Erysipelas ulcerated Tetters anointed it easeth pains of the Gout it cures and mortifies the Cancer Inwardly it cures the Jaundise 3. The Western Civet is nothing else but ordure brought to a sweetnesse by digestion by which it resembles Civet XI The seed or sperm we finde this used of many not only to unloose the bewitched ligature of Venus but also thereof a Magnetick Mumy made by which the heat of love is procured Moreover from hence doth Paracelsus feign his homunculus or little man XII The bloud fresh and drunk hot is said to avail against the Epilepsie if being drunk there be used a more violent motion and swift pace to the breaking out of sweat It stays all bleeding drunk new or made into powder Moreover outwardly it heals the eruption of bloud especially at the nostrils the powder put up or the fresh bloud anointed on the fore-head that there it may be dryed N. 1. The drinking of the bloud requires great caution because it not only brings a Truculency to the takers but also the Epilepsie N. 2. The bloud of a child-bed woman heals the running scab being fresh and anointed once or twice with the secundine Preparat 1. The water distilled is made with one labour with the Oyl The vertues It is profitable in Consumptive and withered bodies an ounce drunk and rubbed on the members it is good in cleansing and healing Fistulaes and cooling burnt places N. There is also distilled a water of bloud and womans milk of each a like quantity and it is commended for taking away the spots of the skin 2. The Oyl distilled Take a great quantity of young mens bloud extracted in the Spring Alcohol of Wine one third part the vials wel closed digest in Horses dung 40 days then distill it in an Alembeck out of ashes and with the water there comes forth an Oyl rectifie both the water by M.B. the Oyl by a Retort out of ashes distilling it 9 or 10 times The vertues It is very much commended for rooting out the Epilepsie if half a scruple thereof be taken every day for a whole moneth beginning at the new of the Moon and afterward every new Moon once in a year a scruple for the Palsey Apoplexy Lungs ulcerated Pleurisie N. The distillation of mans bloud is not found ordered after the same manner For some distil it fresh and as yet hot and that two ways of it self and without addition and with some part of spirit of Wine rectified mixt with it Others distil it not fresh and new but either dryed or digested for some time some make the digestion of the bloud alone adding a little salt others of the bloud with spirit of Wine rectified The Anatomy of bloud affords first a water 2. A Spirit that is water rectified 3. An Oyl that is a thicker liquor 4. A Volatile Salt 5. A fixed Salt but we mention only the more usual 3. The Oyl rectified Take the bloud of a healthful young man drawn from a vein in May receive it in a Cucurbit that only a fourth part be filled then let it be kept in the vessel being shut in an indifferent heat that by the swelling of the bloud the whole Cucurbit may be filled then let the Distillation be made and first comes
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
tumors in the Dropsie VIII Canis the Dog IN medicine are used of this Animal 1. The whole dog 2. The head 3. The grease 4. The gall 5. The bloud 6. The dung 7. The urine 8. The tooth 9. The skin 10. The hair The Vertues 1. The whole living Whelp laid on the belly asswages the pains of the Colick bathing in the Decoction of Whelps and the grease gathered from this Decoction comforts Paralytick members 2. The head viz. the brain pan burnt to ashes dryeth Ulcers heals the diseases of the fundament chaps and the swelling of the testicles Inwardly used it cures the Jaundise 3. Dogs grease is hotter than the rest and it is inwardly used in cleansing and consolidating wounds and Exulcerations and in a Consumption and dissolving clotted bloud from a fall Outwardly it is good in asswaging the aches of the Gowt and of the ears driving away the nits of the head recovering hearing helping the Scab and Itch. 4. The gall of a black Whelp wonderfully cures the Epilepsie being new and drunk with Vinegar or given in powder Outwardly it cleanseth the spots of the face anointed with the dung of a Calf it helps white specks of the eyes anointed with Honey 5. The bloud is commended against the poyson of Witches and it is said to be drunk with successe against the biting of a mad Dog and against poyson 6. The dung called Album Graecum in shops dries cleanses disperses opens breaks Apostumes cleanses Exulcerations and therefore profits in a Dysentery Colick and the like Outwardly it helps the Squinsie blown into the throat malignant Ulcers sprinkled on them it softens hard tumors in playster it draws forth Hydropick waters anointing the belly it puts away Warts the ashes applyed of themselves or with the Oyl of Roses N. That is accounted best which is gathered in July the Dog being fed with bones it being white pure and not stinking 7. The urine helps Warts cleanses the running Ulcers and skales of the head 8. The ashes of the teeth anointed with Honey or Butter on the Mandibles facilitates the Toothing of children asswages the Tooth-ach being mixed in Gargarisms 9. The skin prepared mitigates the Itch of the hands and mollifies the contracted sinews Gloves worn 10. The hair cures the bitings of Dogs applyed on the place Preparat Balsom of Whelps compound Is made of Whelps strangled in white Wine and boyled with Nervall herbs Oyls and Rosin into a Balsom This heals contracted members mitigates the Sciatick and Arthritick aches IX Caper the Buck Goat IS a Beast chearful swift proud quick of hearing greedy c. subject to Feavers Plague and the like whereof we have in medicine 1. The horn 2. The bloud 3. The milt 4. The marrow 5. The tallow 6. The milk 7. Little stones 8. The dung 9. The urine 10. The bladder 11. The caule 12. The skin 13. The Gall. The vertues 1. The horn as also the hairs we use in fumes in the time of the Plague as likewise to raise up the Lethargick and Epileptick 2. Goats bloud is accounted Alexipharmacal it obstructs it is good for the Dysenterick dissolves concreted bloud dryed and given wasteth the Stone Outwardly it ripens tumors N. They feed at home for a moneth a Goat of a middle age about four years old giving him nothing but herbs proper for breaking the Stone then they kill him when the Sun is entred into Cancer and dry in an Oven the arterious bloud casting away the corrupt or mattery parts Vid. Disp Aâ—g Norimb Of Goats bloud no lesse than of other kinds of bloud may be made a Spirit Oyl which is highly commended against the Stone and a Salt but excellent above the rest is an Antipodagrical Balsom of the bloud which as in manner of making so in vertues agrees with that made of the bloud of an Hart. Vid. suo loco N. Some of this make a Tincture most excellent against the Stone and concreted bloud 3. The milt They bind the milt of a she Goat upon the milt of the Patient for a day and the next day they hang it in the Sun or to the heat of an Oven as much as it shall be dryed so much do they affirm the milt of the Patient to be lessened Thesaur Pauperum Petr. Hispan 4. Goats marrow is sharper and dryer then the rest and therefore more effectual 5. Goats suet or tallow disperseth most forcibly helps the Gowt easeth the Strangury put into the Navil mitigates the pain of the Hemroids in a Suppository 6. Goats milk nourisheth and cleanseth it is very good for those that are in a Hectick Feaver Consumptive and grown decayed The Whey thereof is more excellent then other Wheys it openeth cleanseth divideth it is laxative whereupon it is frequently received into infusions for purging of Melancholy 7. The little stones found in the ventricle and gall are commended for their Diaphoretick and dissolving vertue 8. The dung heateth dryeth cleanseth digesteth openeth and is of a sharp operation The use thereof is in hard tumors of the milt and other parts in swelling of the Almonds and Botches in consolidating desperate Ulcers strained with old Wine and applyed in the Dropsie it is applyed on the belly in the Sciatica being burnt it is of a more thin substance and is available to all affects which need cleansing as to Alopecia Tetter c. Inwardly it helps the Splenetick it is used likewise in the Jaundise in the suppression of the flowers and the like diseases 9. The urine of a Buck Goat is commended above all other for breaking of the Stone and moving of Urine drunk hot as it comes from the Goat It is useful also in the Dropsie c. distilled 10. The urinary bladder dryed and powdered is said properly to heal the incontinencie of urine The Dose one Dram. 11. The caule mitigateth the fierce and boyling spirits applyed hot it is profitable in the Colick Madness c. besides it moves the Urine obstructed applyed on the belly 12. The skin asswageth the Diarrhoea the decoction thereof drunk stayeth bleeding and chiefly of the nosthrils the ashes of the hairs sprinkled N. A Kid is a young Goat not above six moneths old as it hath the same nature so the same vertues with the Goat which notwithstanding are weaker in respect of its tender age 13. The gall cures a Quotidian with bread The white of an Egge and oyl of Bay made into a Pultise and applyed to the belly X. Capra Alpina seu Rupicapra the wilde Goat or Rock goat IS a kinde of wilde Goat like to the tame in greatnesse and figure loving the high mountains feeding on mountainous herbs that grow out of the gravell and especially the black root of Doronicum Of which these are medicinable 1. The bloud 2. The tallow 3. The liver 4. The gall 5. The dung 4. The stone Their vertues 1. The new bloud cures the Vertigo if drunk 2. The suet helpes the Consumption and ulceration of the lungs taken
for the stone and Epilepsie Outwardly it appeases the Gowt anointed with beasts tallow it is also said to profit in the Plague Apostemes and Carbuncles a linen cloth applyed which was moistned in Vinegar or Rose-water impregnated with the menstruous bloud It extinguishes Erysipelas and cleanses the spots of the face N. 1. That menstruum is commended which breaks out the first time N. 2. For restraining the immoderate flux of the flowers some put a cloth imbrued in the menstruous bloud at a certain time into the root of a Cherry tree opened in the bark and they again cover up the wound VIII The secundine or in stead thereof the navil of the childe is much commended for the taking away of the strumes of the throat calcined and every day given in water of Sothernwood to half a dram the moon decreasing for the Epilepsie and restraining Philtres for expelling the mole and birth and also for killing Animals which through witchcraft are in man Hartman commends it against spots marks or moles from the mother Others against the pain of the Colick worne in stead of an Amulet IX Vrine heateth dryeth resolveth cleanseth discusseth mundifyeth resisteth putrefaction and therefore is of speciall use inwardly in the obstruction of the Liver Milt Gall preserving from the Plague Dropsie Jaundise Moreover urine of the husband drunk is said to facilitate the hard travell Outwardly it dryeth the scab resolveth tumors mundifyeth wounds though venomous prevaileth against the Gangrene looseth the belly in a Glyster cleanseth the scales of the head mixt with Niter restraineth Feverish paroxysmes applyed to the pulse healeth exulcerated ears the urine of a boy dropped in helpeth the redness of the eyes dropped in takes away the trembling of the joynts in a lotion discusseth the swelling of the Uvula gargled mitigateth the pains of the Milt made into a poultise with ashes Preparat 1. A spirit volatile a salt volatile Take the Urine of a boy twelve years old who drinks good wine Distill it in an Alembeck in a hot Baln M. then by cohobation distill it again upon the feces and there shall come a spirit of urine mixed with its phlegm which separate from the phlegm if thou please and thou shalt have the spirit This if thou elevate in the viall thou shalt obtain a most white salt The vertues It is accounted of very great force to expell the Stone drunk with a proper liquor but it stincks grievously N. 1. It is most famous for the blew tincture of the Emarald to whose preparation it is a menstruum with the phlegme N. 2. Libanius rectifies it and applies it to the Gowty Asthmatick and to those that are troubled with the Stone He injects is into the bladder by a syringe but it is impregnated first with the essence of such as break the Stone as for example of the Crystal stone of the Lynx and the like 2. Another way a fiery Spirit of Urine or Volatile Salt Take the urine of a boy that drinks Wine as much as is sufficient let it evaporate with a very gentle fire to the consistence of a syrup put this in a vial with a very long neck and distil it in a cold air that it may be condensed in the Alembeck in ashes or sand and there will come forth a Spirit like snow heaving up it self coagulable by cold but easily melted by a little heat Oswald N. 1. If thou joyn this Spirit to its purified salt elixiviated out of the feces and make it volatile by some cohobations thou hast an excellent Menstruum to draw Vitriol out of Metals and specially out of Luna N. 2. The same Spirit of Salt very well purified by dissolutions and coagulations if for 8 days thou digest in Baln vapor it will be dissolved the dissolution if thou again shalt moysten with Spirit of Wine 8 days thou art made partaker of a Menstruum fit for dissolving Sol. 3. A Spirit by putrefaction Take the urine of a childe twelves years old that drinks Wine a great quantity set it into Horses dung or Baln M. 40 days to putrifie then decant it from the faeces and distil it by an Alembeck or bladder in sand so long till all the moisture be drawn away by distilling this humidity cohobate three times from its Caput mortuum At length it being distilled in a Cucurbite with a long neck set it to the heat yet so that the Alembeck may always be cold so there ascends a spirit like Crystal without any moisture rectifie the Crystals by dissolving them in rain water distilled and by distilling them in a Vial as before six times always pouring on new rain water distilled afterward digest the Crystals in an Hermetical vial shut 15 days with a gentle fire until they change into a most clear liquor N. 1. Sennertus from the Urine defecated after the said manner by distilling draws at least a fourth or sixth part it being sublimated after the said manner with a gentle heat in a glasse with a long neck N. 2. Others distil the Urine putrified in a Cucurbit whose orifice they stop with a threefold paper imbrewed â—ith Oyl or a Spunge moistned in like manner by which the fiery Spirit of the Urine only may passe N. 3. Because Urine by distilling doth easily boyl over thou must warily use the fire N. 4. Some to correct the stench which also by the aforesaid manner is in some manner corrected pour on the Spirit of Wine and again abstract it with a gentle fire and they do it often always pouring on new Spirit of Wine but the Salt of Urine by this means corrected deserves to be called not the simple Salt of Urine but rather the Magisterium that is Salt of Urine impregnated with Salt of Wine See concerning these distillations Hartman in his Prax. and upon Crollius Sennertus in his Instit kesl in his first book and second chapter fourth book and twenty fourth chapter c. The vertues It is an excellent Anodyne in aches if rubbed on with some convenient liquor it opens also the tartareous obstructions of the bowels and Mesentery whence the use of it might be great in the Scurvy Hypochondriack Cachexy yellow and black Jaundise it wasts the stone of the kidneys and of the bladder and mitigates the pains arising from thence c. The same Salt if it be dissolved in spirit of Vitriol and again distilled in sand there comes a liquor most efficacious in the Epilepsie The same spirit very well purified dissolving it often in rain water and distilling it and joyned with spirit of Wine of each alike dissolveth Sol whence is potable Sol. 4. The Antepileptick Spirit of Urine is made of Urine and twice as much Vitriol digested and distilled N. Quercetan Of the signature of things describes it in many words and by the same labor draws it in Baln M. 1. An Ophthalmick Phlegm first coming out 2. An Antipodagrick 3. By a Retort an Icy spirit i. e. coagulable which he
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
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
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
the circumcised Forest. in Chirurg 17. The bones are used of some for the strengthning of the bowels and driving away the Epilepsie Preparat 1. A water called The water of all flowers is distilled in Balneo M. or out of ashes in the Spring or May of the fresh dung of a Cow feeding on herbs Hence there also comes an oil The vertues It cools dissolves it is used inwardly in the Colick the inflammation of the Kidneys suppression of Urine Fevers c. Outwardly it is applyed on pained places as abovesaid it is also commended against cancrous Ulcers c. 2. A water of the bloud is made in May in Balneo M. The vertues It mightily mitigates the Gowt 3. The Decoction of the milt of an Ox is thus made Take the whole milt of an Ox or Cow cut into pieces one ounce of Cinamon grossely beaten half an ounce of Cloves two drams of Saffron white Wine or Malmesey as much as is sufficient put all into a capacious glasse which being well covered must boyle 24 hours in a very hot Balneó M. untill the milt be boyled into very little bits and there remain a great quantity of broth excellently boyled and most fragrant The vertues This is a proper medicine for the hardnesse and obstruction of the milt and suppression of the flowers in Women The dose 4 ounces continuing 4 or 5 dayes when the flowers used to flow Quercetan 4. The extract of the milt of an Ox. N. Crollius Takes the milt of a young Ox cuts it into thin slices infuses it a few dayes in spirit of wine essentificated with Myrrhe afterward he dryes it in the aire then according to art extracts the essence thereof with spirit of Wine and for the more efficacy addes a few drops of the distilled oyl of Angelica The vertues It dispatches the obstructions of the milt and provokes the flowers in Women The dose one scruple in some proper water N. It may fitly be dryed in an Oven 5. The oyl of Butter 6. The tincture of the gall of a Bull. Take the gals of Buls dryed leasurely in the sun then extract the tincture with spirit of wine The vertues It is a most excellent beautifying medicine procuring miraculously a most pleasant whiteness It is anointed on the place and suffered to remain three or four dayes so that they expose not themselves to the air then let it be washed off with the water of the flowers of Beans Water-lillies or Knot-grasse and the like Hartman VI. Bubulus the Buffle IS like to an Ox in figure and nature yet greater and more cruell and black of colour Of which in Physick and Chirurgery we have 1. Horns and hoofs 2. Tallow and dung c. The vertues 1. The horns and hoofs cure the Cramp a ring made thereof worn on the finger or toe 2. The suet and the dung hath the vertues of the Oxes c. Preparat The extract of the liver of the Buffle is made after the same manner that the extract of the milt of the Ox is N. It is accounted more excellent if the proper salt extracted out of the Caput mortuum be mixed with it The vertues It is of the same use with the extract of the milt of the Ox but more efficacious The Dose is also the same Hartman VII Bufo the Toad THere is a very great Antipathy betwixt Toads and Spiders if a Toad be set under a Spider she presently descends with might and force to destroy him In Physicall use are 1. Toads themselves 2. The Toad stone 1. Toads are dryed in the air being thrust thorow the head or neck and being dryed are kept for use The vertues Though a Toad be a venomous and abominable Animal yet shuns it not Physical practice and that both inwardly and also outwardly A certain Hydropick man despairing of recovery used the powder of Toads by which he experimentally found that the waters were vented by the urine and he beyond all hope attained his health Petraeus in Nosolog Wierus in Observat The Dose half a dram N. I allow of a lesse quantity Outwardly a Toad is applyed to biles a little infused in Vinegar to draw out the venom which it so well performs that it swels with the venom so attracted to it it is an ingredient in Amulets ordained for driving away contagious aire By certain experience it stayes bleeding at nose if it be applyed behind the ears of it self or be kept in the hand to grow warm or put under the arm-pits or appended to the neck The same is the ashes or powder reported to do sprinkled on the place affected Applyed on the kidneys it is said to drive out by urine the intercutall water tyed to the navill it draweth back and restraineth hysterick fluxes applyed to the soles of the feet it is thought to help the diseases of the head and heart the Phrensie and Fevers 2. The Toad-stone is like a bubble of water hollow on one part and convex on the other of a dark pale colour sometime black white which is better green of divers colours N. They are found in the fields yet others affirm that they are bred in the heads of old Toads which live among brambles and bushes and thorns but the greatness of some of them disswade me from giving credit to this opinion The vertues It is commended as a Soveraign remedy against the Plague and poison Yea some affirm that those who wear it are safe from poison and that by gentle rubbing it disperseth swellings occasioned by venomous beasts and drawes away all poyson Caspar Baubin de lap Bezord cap. 3. N. This stone is said to change its colour and to sweat when a poysoned cup is present Preparat 1. Amulets of divers descriptions The ashes of a Toad a Toad burnt cures involuntary pissing arising from the tearing of the neck of the bladder hanged about the neck Observat Henr. ab Heer 18. 2. The powder is made by only rubbing whereby Toads very well dryed are brought into powder N. I had rather have Toades burnt to ashes 3. Salt may be drawn out of Calcined Toads and be used in lieu of the powder in the Dropsie The Dose to grains iij c 4. Simple Oyl of Toads Take living Toads in number three or four boyl them one hour in two pounds of Oyl Olive strain it and keep it for use The Vertues It is very highly commended in cleansing the spots of the face morphew and other affects or inveterate Ulcers by the spotted signature the Toad is judged to avail against spots it is to be anointed every day once N. I would prefer spotted Frogs 5. The compounded Oyl of Toads Take Oyl of Sheeps feet as much as you will let it boyl with Sulphur powdered till it become a red Oyl then let the Sulphur be separated from the Oyl into which while it is as yet hot let Toads be put and suffocated and after pressing out distilled The Vertues It is most excellent in digesting
of the reyns and bladder The same is the fresh bloud reported to do better drunk to the quantity of a cyath or anoynted on the belly privities groins and reyns 8. The whole Fox or the flesh burnt is commended against the diseases of the breast A Fox boyled very well in water or Oyl healeth the diseases of the sinews Convulsions and aches of the joynts if the place affected be therewith bathed 9. The dung cures the ruggednesse of the skin anoynted with Vinegar Preparat Oyl of Foxes See the Dispensatory Looch of Foxes lunges See the Dispensatory The lungs prepared or washed and dryed The End of the First Classis The Second Classis OF BIRDS I. Accipiter the Hauk IS a ravenous greedy and daring bird of a strong sight In medicine we use 1. The whole Hauke 2. The fat 3. The excrements The vertues 1. The whole Hauk helps the diseases of the eyes boyled in Oyl and anointed on the eye 2. The same is to be thought of the fat Moreover it cures all the diseases of the skin anoynted 3. The excrements excell with such a heating quality that of Galen they are debarred from Physick notwithstanding some do use them in the diseases of the eyes others to provoke childebirth given or used in a fumigation Hippocrates and Pliny give them to help barrennesse II. Alauda the Lark HEnce we have 1. The heart or whole Lark 2. The bloud The vertues 1. The heart of the Lark with the combe tyed to the thigh drives away the Colick The same is reported of the new or fresh heart swallowed down as also of the whole Lark roasted or made into ashes with the feathers which in the Dose of an ounce or the quantity of one or two spoonfuls may be used for some dayes 2. The fresh bloud drunk with sharpe Vinegar or hot Wine helps most effectually those that are troubled with the Stone III. Alcedo the Kings fisher IS a beautifull Bird bigger then a Sparrow with a long bill sometime purple sometime blew sometime green of colour living by the edges of Rivers The heart is used which being dryed and hung about the neck of Infants drives away the falling sicknesse IV. Anas a Duck or Drake IS a Bird fit for the Kitchen it begets grosse melancholick and superfluous humors In Physicall use are 1. The living Duck. 2. The fat or grease 3. The bloud 4. The dung The vertues 1. A living Duck asswageth the pain of the Colick if it be applyed to the belly the part deplumed 2. The grease heats moystens softens digests resolves whereupon we use it in inward aches and outward viz. of the sides joynts in the cold distemper of the sinews c. N. This grease hath the preheminence above others chiefly that of the wilde Duck. 3. The bloud is Alexipharmacall and is brought sometimes into the composition of Antidotes 4. The dung is applyed upon the biting of venomous beasts V. Anser the Goose IS a Bird very much used in the Kitchen affording an excrementitious and melancholick nourishment Whence we use 1. The grease 2. The bloud 3. The dung 4. The thin skin of the feet The vertues 1. The grease exceeds Swines grease in heat and in respect of its subtlety more readily pierceth and resolveth and therefore is rightly cast into the fundament to blunt the gnawing in the body it fils Alopecies with hairs it cures the chaps of the lips it helps the ringing of the ears put thereinto it cures Convulsion and stiffe sinews the fat of a Goose stuffed with the flesh of a Cat and other nervall herbs and rosted it looseth the belly chiefly of Infants put into the Navill or applyed on the belly 2. The bloud is accounted Alexipharmacal The Dose to 2 drams 3. The dung heats and dryes very much cuts opens moves powerfully the termes secundine and urine Hence it is of great use in the Evill Scurvey Dropsie with a spoonfull of the urine of a Goat or Calf distilled the use hereof may be continued for 8 dayes The same is also accounted to heal the cough N. 1. It heats so much that it burns the grasse where it lies whereupon it is judged of Galen to be unprofitable N. 2. The green is best gathered in the spring in medowes which being dryed with a moderate heat and powdered may be given from half a dram to a whole dram Others give it new in drink strained with a convenient liquor The Dose one or two drams 4. The skin of the feet dryed and powdered for its astringent faculty is commended in staying the flowing of the termes The Dose half a dram Outwardly it is with good successe applyed on kibed heels N. Some mix it with Antictericall medicines VI. Ardea the Heron. OF which is used the fat or grease but the use hereof is rare yet is it said to mitigate the pain of the Gowt to disperse the clouds of the eyes and to clear the sight anoynted it also profits those that are subject to deafnesse put into the eares N. It is good for Fishers who thereby may allure Fishes for the Fishes because they hate the Heron at the smell hereof run together ready to set upon the Heron as their enemy VII Ciconia the Stork WHence we use 1. The Stork it self 2. The dung 3. The ventricle 4. The grease 5. The gall The vertues in particular 1. The Stork hath an excellent Alexipharmacall quality so that it is thought most efficacious against poysons of all sorts and especially against the Plague eaten or the ashes thereof taken Moreover it helps diseases of the sinews and joynts 2. The dung if it be drunk with water is thought to help the Falling sickness and other diseases of the head 3. The stomach dryed and powdered is accounted for the greatest secret in poysons N. Others approve of the inner coat or skin only 4. The grease is profitably anoynted on Gowty and trembling joynts 5. The gall is commended against the diseases of the eyes Preparat 1. An Antepileptick water Is made of a whole young stork deplumed and the guts taken out and cut into pieces other Antepilepticks added and distilled in B. M. 2. An Oyl distilled which it yeelds in abundance 3. A volatile salt 4. Crollius his Alexipharmacall secret of a Stork VIII Columba the Pigeon IS a very fruitfull Bird very hot living on Corn. In use are 1. The whole Pigeon 2. The bloud 3. The thin coat of the ventricle 4. The dung The vertues 1. A living Pigeon cut into two and applyed to the head while the bloud is hot mitigates sharp and raging humors discusses melancholick sadnesse Hence it is a most convenient medicine in the Phrensie Head-ach melancholy Gowt 2. The warm bloud instilled into the eyes asswages pain and bloud-shotnesse discusses suffusions and bloud heals green wounds It specially restrains bloud breaking out of the membranes of the brain it asswages the Gowt-ach N. 1. The bloud of a male Pigeon is best and that taken out of
this sperm and dryed is kept for use others put the same sperm in a pot under the earth till it be turned into water Preparat 1. The ashes sprinkled stays the flowing of bloud of wounds and nosthrils It restrains the Bloudy flux of the womb by fume it is with liquid pitch anoynted on Alopecies Inwardly it stayes a Gonorrhea one dram taken 2. Distilled water of Frogs Is made of living Frogs taken about the end of March or beginning of April by an Alembeck 3. The distilled water of the sperm Is made by an Alembeck of the sperm gathered in March N. 2. They use to adde Salt Vertues They are manifest from the precedent besides which it is a notable medicine for the bladder ulcerated from the acrimony of humors It is also good to beat back and stay the issue of bloud and rednesse of the face it cures Tetters Erisypelas and Gangrene 4. The Oyl Is made by boyling Frogs with common Oyl or Oyl of Roses 5. The compound powder of the sperm Take good Myrrhe male Frankincense of each two ounces Saffron powdered half a dram Camphire three drams powder all and mingle them miosten this powder with the distilled water of the sperm of Frogs twenty or thirty times yet so that the former be always dryed of its own accord then keep it for use N. The sperm is to be gathered about three dâ—ys before the new Moon in March then it stinks not and is to be distilled in B. M. The vertues It is a chief remedy against bleeding of the nose throat womb because by its coldnesse it coagulates the bloud It helps also if it be dissolved with Vinegar and applyed on Erisypelas and hot Gowts It likewise stays the bleeding of wounds it kills Impostumation under the nayls The Dose 4 5 6 7 8. grains N. 1. If the bleeding arise from the corruption of the bloud it is no ill medicine because it drives away rottennesse but in the diseases of the womb for the Myrrhe and Saffron I had rather use another N. 2. When Frogs and their sperm or Snayls Worms and Crabs are to be distilled they are to be inclosed in a clean linnen cloth and hanged in the middle of the vessel otherwise the waters will partake of the stench and in the same linnens will remain the powder of the said creatures very well prepared to which for the better correcting of it instill some few drops of spirit of Wine and dry it again or extract the tincture with the said spirit of Wine N. 2. Fabricius de Gangr commends the powder as good against malign ulcers and to restrain all inflamations XVII Sepia the Cuttle IN Physical use are 1. The Cuttle bone 2. The black humor 3. The egges The vertues 1. The bone dryeth cleanseth powdered or burnt to ashes it cures the spots moles the moist scab it is good for the eyes the ashes put in with Honey it helps the swoln gums in dentrifices it is a remedy for the Asthmatick taken it stays the running of the reins it expels stones it moves urine the powder taken to the quantity of a scruple 2. The black humor found within a bladder in the body is said to move the belly taken 3. The egges cleanse the reins and ureters move the terms and urine XVIII Sturio the Sturgeon IS a fish set with pricks on the back and belly loving both fresh and salt waters of a great bignesse The vertues The bones of the Sturgeon are commended in the running Gowt used As also in discussing the pains of the Colick XIX Testudo the Tortoyse IS a creature living as well in the water as on land of the kinde of shell-fishes having a shell-buckler on his back In medicinal use are 1. The shanks 2. The bloud 3. The gall The vertues 1. The shanks are used for a most approved Amulet against the Gowt Take a male Tortoyse he is known among other things from the difference of his tail and a litttle slit under the inner shell when the Moon shall be in the wane before she be joyned with the Sun Let his shanks be cut off he being alive and being sowed in bags made of a Kids skin let them be tyed to the patients members so that the right shank of the Tortoyse answer to the right thigh of the patient and the left to the left and in like manner the right shank of the former leg be applyed to the right arm and the left to the left 2. The bloud of a Sea and Land Tortoyse in inward medicines is given for an Antidote to 2 drams The bloud of a land Tortoyse is used against the Hectick new and raw to an ounce being dryed it is commended against the Epilepsie 3. The gall is good for the eyes XX. Thymallus called Pagrus IN use is the fat or grease The vertues It cleanseth the spots and web of the eyes melted in the Sun and mixed with Honey it takes away the spots of the skin and fills up the pits remaining after the Small pocks anoynted XXI Tinca the Tench IS a slimy fish loving Fenny waters and muddy it is bred both by propagation and also of its own accord It loves the Lucy In Physical use are 1. The whole fish 2. The gall The vertues 1. The whole fish cut into two parts is laid upon the pulses of the hands and soles of the feet to mitigate the heat of Fevers or to divert the pestilential venom In like manner it is used in the pain of the head and joynts Living Tenches one after another applyed on the navel and liver until they dye are said to cure the Jaundise for they attract the yellow colour I have seen a Tench burnt to ashes especially the skin with successe given in the whites of women 2. The gall is commended against the diseases of the ears 3. In the head it hath a stone as the Carp which may be used for the same diseases that the stone of the Carp is XXII Truta the Trout IS a fish very much used in kitchens and much commended In use is the fat which is anoynted on the chaps of the fundament The End of the Third Classis The Fourth Classis OF INSETCS I. Apes the Bee IS an Insect that makes honey living both on the dew of herbs and also of the honey made of that dew In medicine we use 1. The Bee 2. The Honey 3. The wax 4. Bee-glew 1. Bees dryed and powdered restore hair on Alopecies anointed therewith 2. Honey is to be chosen yellow transparent pleasant in smell and tast neither thick in consistence nor very thin but in every part united the white is next to the yellow which is not to be contemned if the rest of the signs be not wanting which betoken its goodnesse But in the choice of honey shun the combe full of Spider webs that which is called Virgins honey is best of all that is it which young and tender Bees make being of colour white and yellow The
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