well incorporated A. They both viz. this and the former heat and moisten the latter helps pains of the breast coming of cold and pleuresies Unguentum Enulatum Take of Elicampane roots while they are soft bruised and boyled in Vineger and drawn through a pulping sieve one pound Hogs Greas without salt one pound Common Oyl four ounces Wax two ounces Salt one ounce Quick-silver killed either with fasting spittle or juyce of Lemmons Turpentine washed with the decoction the Elicampane roots were boyled in of each two ounces let the 〈◊〉 and Wax be melted in the oyl then ad the pulp of Elicampane and Salt being finely poudered last of all ad the Quick silver killed labored much in a mortar with the Turpentine and a little Crease make them into an ointment according to art Also it ought to be prepared without Quicksilver A. My opinion of this oyntment is briefly this It was invented for the Itch without Quick silver it wil do no good with Quick-silver it may do harm Unguentum Diapompholigos nihili Nichol. Take of Oyl of Roses sixteen ounces Juyce of Nightshade six ounces let them boyl to the consumption of the juyce then ad white Wax five ounces Cerus washed two ounces Lead burnt and washed Pompholix prepared pure Frankinsence of each an ounce let them be brought into the form of an Ointment according to art A. It cools and binds dries and staies fluxes either of blood or humors in wounds and fils hollow ulcers with fiesh Unguentum Refrigerans Galenus It it also called a Cerecloath Take of white Wax four ounces Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound melt it in a double vessel then powr it out into another by degrees putting in cold water and often powring it out of one vessel into another stirring it till it be white last of all wash it in Rose water adding a little Rose water and Rose vineger A. It is a fine cooling thing for what denomination to give it I scarce know and exceeding good yea superexcellent to cure inflamations in wounds or tumors Unguentum de Minio Or Rubrum Camphoratum Take of oyl of Roses a pound and an ounce red Lead three ounces Litharge two ounces Ceruss an ounce and an half Tutty three drams Camphire 2. drams Wax in summer two ounces in winter one ounce make them into an oyntment in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestel the wax being first melted in the oyl over a gentle fire then the rest added in fine pouder A. This ointment is as drying as a man shall usually reade of one and withal cooling therefore good for sores and such as are troubled with defluxions I remember once Dr. Alexander Read applied it to my Mothers breast when she had a Cancer before it brake long time but to as much purpose as though he had applied a 〈◊〉 apple yet in the forgoing infirmities I beleeve it seldom fails Oyntment of Tobacco Joubertus Take of Tobacco leaves two pound fresh Hogs Grease dilligently washed one pound let the herb being bruised be infused a whol night in red Wine in the morning let it boil with a gentle fire to the consumption of the Wine strain it and ad to the Oyntment of the juyce of Tobacco clarified half a pound Rozin four ounces boil it to the consumption of the 〈◊〉 adding toward the end round 〈◊〉 roots in pouder two ounces new Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an Ointment A It would ask a whol Summers day to write the particular vertues of this Oyntment and my poor Genius is too weak to give it the hundreth part of its due praise It cures Tumours Aposthumes wounds ulcers Gun-shot botches scibs itch stinging with nettles bees wasps hornets venemous beasts wounds made with poisoned arrows c. Tush this is nothing paulo majora canamus It helps scaldings though made with oyl burnings though with lightening that without any scar It helps nasty rotten stinking putrified ulcers though in the legs whither the humours are most subject to resort in fistulaes though the bone be afflicted it shall scale it without any instrument and bring up the flesh from the very bottom Would you be fair your face being anointed with this soon will the redness pimples sunburning vanish a wound dressed with this will never putrifie a wound made with so small a weapon that no tent will follow anoint but with this and you need fear no danger If your head ake anoint your templss with this and you shal have ease The stomach being anointed with it no infirmity dares harbour there no not Asthmaes nor consumptions of the lungues The belly being anointed with it helps the chollick and Iliack passion the worms and what not it help the Hemorrhoids or piles and is the best Oyntment that is for gouts of all sorts finally there may be as universal a medicine made for all diseases of Tobacco as of any thing in the world the Phylosophers stone excepted O Joubertus thou shalt never want praise for inventing this medicine by those that use it so long as the Sun and the Moon endureth Unguentum 〈◊〉 or Crudum or of Litharge or Tripharmacum Mesue Take of Litharge of Gold beaten into very fine pouder half a pound Oyl of Roses a pound Vineger four ounces put in sometimes Oyl and sometimes Vineger stirring it about in a mortar so long till the Litharge have drunk up all the liquor and be made in the form of a whitish Oyntment A. It is of a cooling drying nature good for itching of wounds Itch and Scabs and such like deformities of the skin as Tetters Ringworms c. Unguentum Ophthalmicum Renodaeus Take of Bole Armenick washed in Rose water an ounce Lapis Calaminaris washed in Eyebright water Tutty prepared of each two drachms Pearls beaten into very fine pouder half a drachm Camphire half a scruple Opium fiue grains Oyntment of Roses fifteen ounces Oyl of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment according to art A. It is exceeding good to stop hot Rhewms that fall down into the eyes the eye-lids being but anointed with it Cuilielmus Placentinus his Liniment Simple Take of washed Cerus eight ounces white Wax seven ounces Litharge washed juyce of Nightshade of each five ounces Frankinsence in pouder ten drachms oyl of Roses often washed in common water two pound make of them a Liniment according to art A. It is cooling and also drying if you cast an eye to some of the former Oyntments of that nature you may see its use Oyntment of Lead Foesius Take of Lead burnt with Brimstone Litharge of each two ounces Ceruss Antimony of each one ounce Oyl of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment I et the Lead being filed to dust be burned in a pot with Brimstone Pomatum Take of the Suet of a Stag or else of a Kid two ounces the fat of a Sow a pound and an half Apples being cut and pared
alteratton A. The Authors own Judgment is That it strengthens the brain heart liver stomach lunges spleen and nerves quickens the sight resisteth poison helpeth bitings by venemous beasts causeth a sweet breath bringeth down the terms in women and hath vertue attenuating opening digesting and strengthening A. The truth is I beleeve it prevails in cold diseases being orderly regulated in quantity according to the nature of the disease the age and strength of the patient and the season of the year Cinnamon Water made by Infusion Take of Cinnamon bruised four ounces Spirit of Wine two pints infuse them together 4. daies in a large glasse close stopped with cork and a bladder shaking the glasse twice a day Dissolve half a pound of white sugar Candy in a quart of rose-Rose-water then mix both these liquors together then put into them four grains of musk and half a scruple of Ambergreese tied up in a fine rag and hung to the top of the glasse A. In my opinion this latter water is more prevalent for heart-qualms and faintings than Mathiolus his Aqua Ceolestis Mathiolus Take of Cinnamon an ounce Ginger half an ounce white red and yellow Sanders of each six drachms Cloves Gallanga Nutmegs of each two drachms and an half Mace Cubebs of each one drachm both sorts of Cardamoms Nigella seeds of each three drachms Zedoary half an ounce seeds of Annis Sweet-Fennel Wild-Parsneps Bazil of each a drachm and an half Roots of Angelica Avens Calamus Aromaticus Liquoris Valerian the lesse the leaves of Clary Time Calaminth Peny-royal Mints Mother of Time Marjoram of each two drachms the flowers of Red-Roses Sage Rosemary Betony Stoechas Bugloss Borrage of each one drachm and an half Citron pils three drachms Let the things be bruised that are to be bruised and infused 15. daies in 12 pints of the best spirit of wine in a glasse body wel stopped and then let it be distilled in Balneo Mariae according to art Adding to the distilled water Pouders of Diambra Diamoscu dulce Armaticum Rosatum Diamargariton frigidum Diarhodon Abbatis pouder of Electuary de gemmis of each three drachms yellow Sanders bruised two drachms Musk Ambergreese of each a scruple tied up in a fine ragg cleer Julip of Roses a pound shake them wel together stopping the glasse close with wax and parchment till it grow cleer to be kept for your use A. It comforteth and cherisheth the heart reviveth drooping spirits prevaileth against the plague and al malignant Feavers preserveth the sences and restoreth such as are in Consumptions A. Only take this Caution both concerning this and al other strong waters They are not safely given by themselves in Feavers because by their hot quallity they inflame the blood and ad fuel to the fire but mixed with other convenient cordials and consideration had to the strength complection habit age and sex of the patient for my own part I aim sincerely at the publick good in writing of this and 〈◊〉 as I would not have Physitians domineer so I would not have fools turn Physitians A Cordial Water Take of Angelica leaves half a pound Carduus leaves six ounces Bawm and Sage of each four ounces Angelica seeds six ounces sweet fennel seeds nine ounces let the herbs being dry and the seeds be bruised grosly to which add the pouders of Aromaticum Rosatum and Diamoseu Dulce of each an ounce and an half Infuse these two daies in 32. pints of Spanish wine then distill them according to art draw out ten pints of strong spirit which sweeten after two daies standing with a pound and an half of Sugar dissolved in Rosewater over the fire Of the smaller spirit you may draw out six pints or more if you please for the mixtures of other Cordials A. The chief end of composing this medicine was to strengthen the heart and resist infection and therefore is very wholsom in pestilentiall times and for such as walk in stinking aires Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxoniae Take of the juice of Borrage Buglosse Bawm Bistort Vervain Sharp pointed Dock Sorrel Goats-Rue Mirrhis or sweet Chervil Blew-bottle great and smal or the double quantity of the small Roses Marigolds Lemmons Citrons of each six ounces juice of Burnet and Cinkfoyl of each three ounces white wine Vinegar a pint Purslain-seeds Water-lillie Flowers of each two ounces Earth of Lemnos Silecia and Samos of each an ounce and an half Pouder called Diatrion Santalon six drachms Pearl prepared with juice of Citrons three drachms Infuse al the Pouders Flowers and Seeds the Earths and Pearls excepted in the juyces and Vinegar for three daies then distill it in water in a glasse-Still and add to the distilled water the Earths and Pearls in fine pouder shake it together and let it stand till it be cleer and keep it for your use A. It mightily cools the blood and therefore profitable in feavers and all diseases proceeding of heat of blood it provokes sleep Langius his Ant-Epileptical Water Take of the Flowers of Line tree three handfuls Lillies of the vally five handfuls peony seeds half an ounce infuse them eight daies in five pints of the best White-wine then distill them in Balneo Mariae with a gentle fire Afterward Take of the flowers of Rosemary half a handful of the flowers of Lavender a handful Rue a handful Betony half a handful Stoechas of Arabia one pugil Peony roots two drachms and an half Dictamny two drachms Squils prepared one drachm and an half Pellitory of Spain half a drachm Misletoe of the Oak two drachms Castorium one drachm Cubebs Cardamoms of each one scruple Mace half a dram Cloves two scruples Nutmegs one scruple let al these being bruised be infused in the water aforesaid and shaken wel together for six daies then distilled again in Balneo Mariae and the water kept in a glasse stopped You may with one and the same labor prepare an extract which wil be very efficacious A. If the authority of Erasius or daily experience will serve the turn then was this reciept chiefly compiled against the convulsion fits but the derivation of the word notes it to be prevalent against the falling sicknesse also for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek signifies the Falling sicknesse and indeed Erastus experience pleads for this also It is true the composition of Erastus differs from this and so doth another recited by Johannes Langius but it seems our Physitians for some reasons best known to themselves esteemed this the best A. Well then having now learned the vertues of the water a word or two of the use will not be amisse Erastus was of opinion that both these diseases were caused by the Moon and so am I of that opinion also for I know some at this time that are constantly troubled with the Falling-sicknesse only at the new and full Moons I could give reasons for this judgment of Erastus but I am unwilling to be tedious Then saith he if
shaddow In truth I cannot but wonder at the folly not only of the Physitians of our times but also of the ancient who build their faith upon tradition though as opposite to the truth as the East is to the West viz. that all herbs must or ought to be dried in the shaddow because they suppose the Sun draws away their vertue were it not I pray a notable peice of pollicy for a Farmer to dry his hay in the shaddow for fear the Sun should draw away the vertue of it doth noth not Experience a master worth ten ' of Tradition teach that the hotter Sun the Hay is dryed in the more vertue is in it and is Hay any thing else but a confusion of herbs he who drieth his herbs in the Sun shall find them 1. of a better colour 2. of a better tast 3. to yeild more salt and therefore must needs be best A. Now a word or two to the vertues according to Gallen from whom this recept was taken A. It conduceth wonderfully to health for it attenuateth the humours chiefly flegm neither doth it suffer it to remain in the stomach head belly liver spleen nerves or bones it suffers no obstruction to be in the body it purgeth the head loosens the belly and provokes urine it is given with good successe to such as have the gout or the falling-sicknesse thus Gallen A. It is true our Physitians have written the recept verbatim out of Gallen but yet me thinks they who boast they have taken so much pains in compiling this book might have taken a little more to have corrected the Authors failings PHYSICAL VINEGERS Distilled Vineger FILL a glasse body to the third part with the best Vineger still it in sand at first with a gentle fire till the flegm be drawn off then encrease the fire and draw out the spirit Vineger of Roses Mesue Take of Rose buds the whites being cut away gathered in a cleer dry day and dried in the shade three or four daies one pound Vineger eight sextaries set them fourty daies in the Sun then strain them and keep the vineger if you then put in fresh rose leaves and set it in the Sun 40. daies longer it will have the better smell After the same manner is prepared Vineger of Elder flowers Rosemary flowers Sage flowers Marigold flowers Clove gilliflowers c. let all the flowers be dried A. For the vertues of all vinegers take this one only observation they carry the same vertues with the flowers whereof they are made only as we said of wines that they were better for cold bodies than the bare simples whereof they are made so are vinegers for hot bodies Besides vinegars are often nay most commonly used externally viz. to bath the place then look amongst the simples and see what place of the body the simple is apropriated to and then you cannot chuse but know if you have but a grain of understanding more than a beast both what vineger to use and to what place to apply it Treacle Vineger Norimb Take of the roots of Chelondine the greater an ounce and an half of the roots of Angelica Masterwort Gentian Bistort Valerian Burnet Dictamni Elicampane Zedoary of each a drachm Plantan the greater one drachm and an halfe the leaves of Mousear Sage Scabious Scordium Dictamni of Creet Carduus Benedictus of each half a handful Pills and Seeds of Citrons of each a drachm and an half Bole Armenick one drachm Saffron three drachms Harts-horn a drachm and an half of these let the Saffron Dictamni Harts-horn and Bole Armenick be tied up in a linnin cloath and infused with the things prescribed in 5. pints of strong Vineger for certain daies in a glasse well stop'd and by a temperate heat then strain them out and dissolve in the Vineger five drachms of the best treacle shake them often together and so keep them for your use Treacle Vineger But the best Treacle-Vineger is prepared If you add to the Confection of treacle-Treacle-Water discribed in its proper place Cloves two ounces Lavender flowers an ounce and an half powr to it Vineger of Roses and of Elder flower of each four pints digest it in Hors-dung eight daies and then strain it through Hippocrates his Sleeve A. If you desire the vertues of these look both Treacle it self and Treacle-Water Only take notice that this is cooler Vineger of Squils Take of the flakes of a Squill which are between the outward bark the root cut them into smal pieces either with a Wooden or Ivory knife and lay them in the 〈◊〉 Sun or other remise heat for 30. or 40. daies then put a pound of them into a glasse and put six pounds of strong Vineger to them stop the glasse close that nothing exhale out and set it in the Sun 30. or 40. daies then strain it and keep it close stopped for your use A. Although they say they borrowed the receipt of Mesue yet be pleased to accept the Vertues of it from Gallen A. A little of this Medicine being taken in the morning fasting and walking half an hour after preserves the body in health to extream old age as Samius tryed who using no other medicine but this lived in perfect health till an hundred and seventeen yeers of age it maketh the digestion good along wind a cleer voice an acute sight a good colour it sufiers no offensive thing to remain in the body neither wind flegm choller melancholly dung nor urine but brings them forth it brings forth filth though it lie in the bones it takes away salt and sour belchings though a man be never so licentious in diet he shal feel no harm It hath cured such as have the Phtisick that have been given over by all Physitians It cures such as have the Falling-sickness Gouts and diseases and swellings of the Joynts It takes away the hardness of the Liver and Spleen We should never have done if we should reckon up the particular benefits of this Medicine Therefore we commend it as a wholsom medicine for soundness of body preservation of health and vigor of mind DECOCTIONS A Carminative Decoction TAke of the seeds of Annis Carrots Fennel Cōmin Carraway of each three drachms Camomel flowers half a handful Raisons of the Sun an ounce and an half boyl them in two pints of water till almost half be consumed A. It is commonly used in Clisters to such whose bodies are molested or oppressed with wind The common Decoction for Clisters Take of Mallows Violets Pellitory of the wall Beets Mercury of each a handful Fennel seeds half an ounce boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water to a pound A. This is the common decoction for all Clisters according to the quality of the humour abounding so you may ad what simples or syrupes or electuaries you please A common Decoction for a Medicine Take of French Barly a pugil six sweet Prunes Raisons
of the Sun Tamarinds Liquoris of each half an ounce Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds of each two drachms in Summer time ad of the four greater cold seeds of each two drachms of each of three of the cordial Flowers a pugil and an half boyl these in two pints of water till half be consumed A. This was Guainerius his recept whose works I neither have nor know where to borrow and therefore I can give you no other vertues of this Medicine than what the title affords it is a composition which with addition of other Medicines is fit for every thing but in it self is good for little A Decoction of Epithimum Mesue Take of Indian Myrabolans Stoechas of Arabia Raisons of the Sun Epithimum or Doddar of time of each an ounce Myrabolans chebs Fumitory of each half an ounce Senna an ounce Polypodium of the Oak six drachms White Turbith half an ounce Eupatorium five drachms Whey made of Goats or Heifers milk three pints let them all the Epithimum excepted boyl to the consumption of two pints then ad the Epithimum let it boyl a little together and having taken it from the fire ad to it black Hellebore a drachm Agrick half a drachm Sal Indi a drachm and an half let it stand close stopped in infusion eight or ten hours then strain it for your use A. It purgeth melancholly gallantly as also addust Choller It resisteth madnesse and all diseases coming of melancholly and therefore let melancholly people esteem it as a Jewel A Decoction of Flowers and Fruits Take five Figs fifteen Prunes Jujubes and Sebestens of each twenty Tamarinds an ounce the flowers of Roses Violets Borrage Buglos of each a drachm Maidenhair Hops Endive of each half a handful Liquoris two drachms being cut and bruised boyl them in three pints of spring water to the consumption of the third part A. It strengthens the lungues and opens obstructions A Pectoral Decoction Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned an ounce Sebesten Jujubes of each 15. Dates 6. Figs 4. French-Barly an ounce Liquoris half an ounce Maiden hair Hysop Scabious Coltsfoot of each half a handful cut them and boyl them in three pints of spring water till one pint be consumed A. The Medicine is chiefly apropriated to the lungues and therefore causeth a cleer voyce a long wind resisteth Coughs hoarsness Asthmaes c. A Decoction of Senna Take of Senna two ounces an half Ginger a drachm The flowers of Borrage Violets red Roses Rosemary-flowers of each 2. drams Polipodium of the Oak half an ounce Sebesten Prunes of each 12. Raisons of the Sun stoned two ounces make a decoction of them in four pints of spring water till half be consumed yet so as the Senna may boyl but little let it stand off from the fire close stopped six hours after it is boyled then strain it out for your use A. It is a common decoction for any purge by adding other Simples or Compounds to it according to the quality of the humour you would have purged yet in it self it chiefly purgeth melancholly Lac Virgineum Take of Allum four ounces boyl it in a quart of spring water to the third part Afterwards Take of Litharge half a pound white wine Vineger a pint and an half boyl it to a pint strain both the waters then mix them together and stir them about till they are white A. It takes away pimples redness freckles and sunburning the face being washed with it A Drink for wounded men Take of Crabs of the river calcined and beaten into very fine pouder two drachms the roots of round Aristolochiah and of Comfry the greater Self-heal Bay-berries lightly bruised of each a drachm ty them all up in a linnen cloath and boyl them in three pints of white Wine till the third part be consumed adding about the middle of the decoction one pugil of Perewincles then strain it for your use This decoction must be prepared only for the present when the Physitian appoints it as also must almost all the rest of the decoctions A. And therefore least my poor wounded Country man should perish for want of an angel to fee a Physitian or if he have it before the Physitian which in some places is very remote can come at him I have taken the pains to write the recept in his own mother tongue he may get any friend to make it SYRVPS BOTH SIMPLE AND COMPOVND WHICH ARE IN USE Syrup of Vineger Simple of London TAke of white Sugar five pound White-Wine-Vineger a quart melt them into a Syrup according to art A. That is Only melt the Sugar with the Vineger over the fire scum it but boyle it not Syrup of Vineger Simple of Mesue Take of White Sugar five pound Cleer Water sour pints boyl it into a Syrup scumming it well then put a quart of Vineger to it and boyl it again to a Syrup A. Of these two Syrups let every one use which he finds by experience to be best the difference is but little I hold the last to be the best of the two and would give my reasons for it but that I fear the Book will swell too big They both of them cut flegm as also tough hard viscous humours in the stomach they cool the body quench thirst provoke urine and prepare the stomach before the taking of a vomit Syrup of Vineger Compound Mesue Take of the roots of Smallage Fennel and Endive of each three ounces the seeds of Smallage Fennel Annis of each one ounce Endive seeds half an ounce Clear Water six pints boyl them in a vessel well glazed over a gentle fire till half the water be consumed then strain it and ad to it three pound of Sugar clarify it and then ad a pint and an half of white-wine-Vinegar to it and boyl it to a syrup A. This in my opinion is a gallant syrup for such whose bodees are stuffed either with flegm or tough 〈◊〉 for it opens obstructions or stoppings both of the stomach liver spleen and reins it cuts and brings away tough flegm and choller and is therefore a special remedy for such as have a stuffing at their stomach Syrup of the juyce of Citrons Mesue Take of the juyce of Citrons strained without expression and clarified a pint Sugar two pound and an half melt it into a syrup over the fire A. It prevails against all diseases proceeding from choller or heat of blood feavers both pestilential and not pestilential it resisteth poyson cools the blood quencheth thirst cureth the vertigo or dissines in the head After the same manner is made syrup of sour Grapes Cherries Quinces Pomegranates Lemmons Wood-Sorrel Sorrel English Currance and other sour juyces clarified A. If you look the Simples you may see the vertues of them they all cool and comfort the heart and strengthen the stomach syrup of Quinces staies vomiting so doth also
a pugil of seeds of Endive and Succory of each a drachm and an half Raisons of the sun an ounce Damask Prunes twenty The flowers of Borrage Buglosse Violets of each a pugil Myrobalans Citrons and Chebs of each an ounce and an half boyl them all in water till the third part be boyled away then in a pint and half of this decoction infuse all night Rubarb two ounces and an half Agrick Trochiscated an ounce Senna an ounce and an half Ginger Cinnamon of each a drachm strain it the second time and with a pound of the best Sugar and 3. ounccs of syrup of Roses solutive boile it gently to a syrup A. It purgeth choller and openeth obstructions in the bowels kills worms but let it not be given in feavers Syrup of Epithimum Mesue Take of Epithimum twenty drachms Myrobalans Citrons and Indian of each 15. drachms Doddar Fumitory of each ten drachms Time Calaminth Buglosse Staechas Liquoris Polipodium Agrick Myrobalans Emblicks and Belliricks of each six drachms red Roses sweet Fennel seeds and Annis seeds of each two drachms and an half sweet Prunes 20. Raisons of the sun the stones picked out four ounces Tamarinds two ounces and an half after they have been infused 24. honrs boil them in ten pints of water till four pints be consumed then let it be strained and ad to the decoction white Sugar five pounds boyl it to a syrup A. It is best to put in the Doddar Stoechas and Agrick towards the latter end of the decoction A. This recept was Mesue's only in stead of five pound of sugar Mesue appoints four pound of Sugar and two pound of Sapa the making of which shall be shewed in its proper place and truly of my opinion the recepts of Mesue are generally the best in al the Dispensatory because the simples are so pertinent to the purpose intended they are not made up of a messe of hodg-podg as many others are but to the purpose A. It purgeth melancholly and other humors it strengthens the stomach and liver cleanseth the body of addust choller and addust blood as also of salt humors and helps diseases proceeding from these as scabs itch tetters ringworms leprosie c. and the truth is I like it the better for its gentlenesse for I never fancied violent medicines in melancholly diseases Syrup of Eupatorium or Maudlin Mesue Take of the roots of Smallage Fennel and Succory of each two ounces Liquoris Schaenanth Dodder Wormwood Roses of each six drachms Maiden hair Bedeguar or instead thereof the roots of Carduus Mariae Suchaha or instead thereof the roots of Avens the flowers or roots of Buglosse Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds Ageratum or Maudlin of each five drachms Rhubarb Mastich of each three drams Spicknard Indian leaf or instead of it put Roman Spike of each two drachms boyl them in eight pints of water till the third part be consumed then strain the decoction and with four pound of Sugar clarified juyce of Smallage and Endive of each half a pound boil it into a syrup A. 'T is a strange clause and the stranger because it comes from a Colledg of Physitians that they should set Bedeguar or instead thereof Cardnus Mariae It is well known that the Bedeguar used here with us or rather that which the Physitians of our times use for Bedeguar is a kind of wild Rose but the Bedeguar of the Arabians was Cardnus Mariae and they knew well enough Mesue whose recept this was was an Arabian truly this is just as though they should say they would have ten shillings for a visit or instead of that an angel there being in deed and in truth as much difference between Bedeguar and Carduus-Mariae as between eight-pence and two groats A. It amends infirmities of the liver coming of cold opens obstructions helps the dropsie and evil state of the body it extenuates grosse humors strengthens the liver provokes urine and is a present succor for hypocondriack melancholly Syrup of Liquoris Mesue Take of green Liquoris scraped and bruised two ounces white Maiden-hair an ounce dried Hysop half an ounce Infuse them together for the space of 24. hours in four pints of warm rain water then boyl it till half the water be consumed strain the decoction and clarifie it and with eight ounces of honey and sixteen ounces of sugar boyl it to a syrup adding toward the latter end of the decoction six ounces of red rose water A. It cleanseth the breast and lungues and helps continuall coughs and Pleuresies Syrup of Hysop Mesue Take of spring water eight pints in which boyl half an ounce of French Barly the space of half an hour then put in the roots of Smallage Parsly Fennel Liquoris of each ten drachms let these boyl very gently about a quarter of an hour then add Jujubes and Sebestens of each thirty Raisons of the sun stoned an ounce and an half dry Figs and Dates of each ten afterwards put in the seeds of Mallows Quinces and Gum Traganth tied up in a linnen rag of each three drachms afterwards put in of Hysop meanly dried ten drachms Maiden hair six drachms boyl it to three pints and having clarified the decoction with two pound and an half of sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It mightily strengthens the breast and lungues causeth long wind cleer voyce is a good remedy against coughs Syrup of Jujubes Mesue Take of Jujubes sixty Violets and Mallow seeds of each five drachms Maiden hair Liquoris and French-Barly of each an ounce the seeds of white Poppies Mallows Lettice and Quinces Gum Traganth tied up in a rag of each three drachms boyl them in six pints of rain or spring water till half be consumed strain it and with two pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It is a fine cooling syrup very available in coughs hoarsness and pleurefies ulcers of the lungues and bladder as also in all inflamations whatsoever Syrup of Chamepitys or Iva Arthritica Take of Chamepitys two handfuls Sage Rosemary Darnel Origanum Calaminth wild Mints Peny-royal Hysop Time Garden and Wild Rue Betony and Mother of Time of each a handful the roots of Acorus Aristolochia or Birth wort both long and round Briony Dictamni Gentian Hogs-Fennel Valerian of each one ounce and an half the roots of Smallage Sparagus Fennel Parsly Bruscus of each one ounce Stoechas the seeds of Annis Bishops weed Caraway Fennel Lovage Hartwort of each three drachms Pellitory of Spain half an ounce Raisons of the Sun three ounces boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water and with hony and sugar of each two pounds prepare it and perfume it with Cinnamon Nutmegs and Cubebs according to art A. The Anthor is here concealed neither do I remember that ever I read it in any other or ever knew it made I know not the meaning of that word sufficient quantity of water nor how much it
in the like manner A. I am of opinion that this art of preserving was first invented for Delicacy sake yet is it of great moment in physick for hereby such simples as before were loathed by the stomach are made delicious and pleasing also many simples are better kept by far this way A. For the Vertues of them see the simples CONSERVES AND SVGARS OF HERBS LEAVES FLOWERS AND FRUITS COnserves of Wormwood Sorrel Woodsorrel Maiden hair Orrenges Bettony Borrage Bugloss Carduus Benedictus Centaury Ceterach Germander Clove Gilliflowers Succory Scurvigrass Comfry the greater Cynosbatus Citraria Elicampane Eyebright Fumitory Brooms not quite open Pomegranates white Lillies Lillies of the valley Mallows Water lillies Peaches Primroses Self heal Roses Red and Damask Rosemary flowers Sage Elder Scabious Stoechas Linetree Coltsfoot Violets Goats rue Hedge Hysop common Hysop Marjoram Bawm Mints Rue Savory Scordium Comfry A. Thus have I given you the Colledges Conserves or rather their confusion in English wherein they have made such a chaos of hearbs and flowers that to unweave it would unweave the Rete mirabile of my brain the truth is I want time only take notice of the Catalogue of Simples and there you may see whether the herb or flower be most in use as also what the use of it is A word is enough to a wise man I proceed Let the leaves and flowers be beaten very small and to every pound of them add three pound of white Sugar and beat them well together into a conserve But Barberries Prunella and other sour fruits are not made into conserves after this manner for example Take of Barberries as many as you will let them boil so long in a sufficient quantity of cleer water till the pulp may be drawn out by rubbing it through a sieve Then take six pounds of this same pulp thus strained which put in an earthen pan well glazed because if you do it in brass it will retain an illfavoured smatch of the mettal boil away the watry moisture of them with a gentle fire stirring it about continually with a stick lest the juyce burn then mix it with ten pound of white Sugar according to art boiling it to its due consistence A. Prunella indeed and in truth is Self-heal not Sloes as I am confident they intend it here because they place it among the sour juyces I was jealous they intended it so before therefore when I translated it self-heal I set the word Prunella in the margin Is it possible so many grave heads should so grosly mistake an herb for the fruit of a tree Prunella for Prunellus The Printer hath vindicated himself from so foul an Errour in the Latter end of their Dispensatory it remains in the Colledge to do the like it being a thing if not very preposterous I am sure extreamly dangerous to prescribe one thing for another in Physick If they can but produce an Author An Author though from Utopia where ever Prunella was taken for a Sloe or Sloe-tree I shall be content to bear the blame my self A. The vertues of al Conserves are the same with the herbs flowers or fruits whereof they are made and they are thus mixed with Sugar 1. to preserve them the longer 2. that they may be more pleasing to the pallat Lozenges of Poppies called Diacodium Solidum or Tabulatum Take twenty white Poppy heads of a mean bigness neiâ—â—â—â— too green nor too ripe spring-water three pints infuse them four and twenty hours then boyl them till the vertue is out of the heads then strain them out and with a sufficient quantity of Sugar boyl the liquor to that hardnesse that you may make Lozinges of it A. This recept is transcribed verbatim from the Augustan Physitians though the Colledge through forgetfulness or something else hide it the vertues are the same with the common Diacodium viz. to provoke sleep and help thin rewms in the head c. Manus Christi Simple and Pearled Take of the best Sugar a pound damask-rose-Damask-rose-water half a pint boil them together according to art to that thicknesse that it may be made into Lozenges and if toward the latter end of the decoctiom you ad half an ounce of Pearls prepared in pouder together with eight or ten leaves of gold it will be Manus Christi with pearls A. It is naturally cooling apropriated to the heart it restores lost strength takes away burning feavers and false imaginations I mean that with pearls for that without Pearls is ridiculous it hath the same vertues Pearls have Manus Christi against Worms Take of Rhubarb four scruples Agrick Trochiscated Corallina burnt Hartshorn Dittany of Creet Wormseed Sorrelseed of each a scruple Cinnamon Zedoary Cloves Saffron of each half a Scruple white Sugar a pound dissolve the Sugar in four ounces of Wormwood water and one ounce of Wormwood Wine and one spoonful of Cinnamon Water and then with the forenamed pouders make it into Lozenges A. The title shews you the vertues of it for my part I think in penning of it they made a long Harvest of a little Corn. Penidies Are made of Sugar and Barly water boiled in such a proportion and with such an art that it will not stick to ones fingers and yet one may draw it like birdlime into what form one will A. I remember country people were wont to take them for coughs and they are sometimes used in other compositions Confection of Frankinsence Norimberg Take of Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce Nutmegs white Frankinsence of each three drachms Liquoris Mastich of each two drachms Cubebs Hartshorn prepared of each one drachm Conserves of red Roses an ounce with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar make it into a Confection in bits of two drachms weight A. I cannot boast much neither of the rariety nor vertues of this receit Sugar of Roses Take of red Rose flowers not fully open an ounce cut off the white from them then dry them in the shaddow afterwards beat them in a stone mortar and with twelve ounces of the best Sugar dissolved in red Rose water boyl it according to art till the water be consumed then put the mass out upon a marble stone and make it into what form you please there be some that whilst it is boiling ad to it four ounces of Conserve of red Roses dilligently mixing them together by which means the Sugar will be both of the better colour and the pleasanter tast A. I am verily perswaded that the Colledge appoint this to be beaten in a stone mortar for fear a brass mortar should take away the colour of the Roses which is but the Embrion of an ignorant brain it is the boiling of it takes away the colour and nothing else if you do but boil the rose water and Sugar to a sufficient height before you put in the Roses in pouder the Sugar will be of colour good enough never fear it without the addition
scoria ferri Rhasis Take of the flakes of Iron infused in Vineger seven daies and dried three drachms Indian Spicknard Schoenanth Cyperus Ginger Pepper Bishops Weed Frankinsence of each half an ounce Myrobalans Indian Bellericks and Emblicks Honey boiled with the decoction of Emblicks sixteen ounces mix them together and make of them an Electuary A. I wonder how the quantities of the Myrobalans escaped the great care labour pains and industry of the honorable Society the Authors of that book or the vigilancy of the vapouring Printer Rhasis an Arabian Physitian the Author of the recept appoints a drachm of each the medicine heats the spleen gently purgeth melancholly easeth pains in the stomach and spleen and strengthens digestion Diacidonium Simple Take of the pulp of Quinces boyled in fresh water to a sufficient thickness eight pound white Sugar scummed and boyled to its just thickness six pounds boyl them both together to a just thickness Diacydonium with Pouders Gallen Take of the juyce of Quinces and white Sugar of each two pound white-wine Vinegar half a pound added in the end of the decoction let them boil over a gentle fire and let the scum be taken off then ad Ginger two ounces white Pepper ten drachms and two scruples boil them again over a gentle fire to the thickness of Honey A. Is not this then more like a syrup than an Electuary Surely either the Colledge or I dote Diacydonium Compound of London Take of white Sugar six pound spring water four pound clarifie it with the white of an Egg and scum it dilligently then take of ripe Quinces the outward pill and the seeds being taken away and cut in four parts eight pound boil them in the said syrup till they be tender then strain the syrup through a Boulter boil them again in it to the consistence of a gelly adding towards the latter end four ounces of whit wine Vineger the syrup being removed from the fire put in these pouders following being but grosly bruised viz. Ginger an ounce white Pepper Cinnamon Nutmegs of each two drachms keep it in diverse boxs. After the same manner may you make Diacydonium Simple A. If a man void of partiality should compare this and the former recept together he would find but little difference between them only a little Cinnamon and Nutmegs added A. The vertues of all these three are they comfort the stomach help digestion stay vomiting belching c. stop fluxes and the terms in women Confectio De Hyacintho Take of Jacinth red Corral bole Armenick earth of lemons of each half an ounce the berries of Kermes the roots of Tormentil and Dictamni Citron seeds husked the seeds of Sorrel Purslain Saffron Mirrh red Roses all the sorts of Sanders Bone of a Stags heart Hartshorn lvory of each four scruples Saphire Emerald Topas Pearls arw Silk the leaves of Gold and Silver of each two scruples Camphire Musk Amber greece of each five grains with syrup of Lemmons make them into a Confection according to art A. It is a great cordial and cool exceeding good in acute feavers and pestilences it mightily strengtheneth and cherrisheth the heart Confectio Humain Mesue Take of Eyebright two ounces Fennel seeds five drachms Cloves Cinnamon Cubebs long Pepper Mace of each one drachm beat them all into pouder and with clarified Honey a pound in which boil juyce of Fennel an ounce juyce of Chelondine and Rue of each half an ounce and with the pouders make it up into an Electuary A. It is chiefly apropriated to the brain and heart quickens the sences especially the sight and resisteth the pestilence Antidoum Haemagogum Rom. Take of Lupines two drachms black Pepper five scruples and fix grains Liquoris four scruples long Birthwort Mugwort Cassia lignea the seeds of Macedonian Parsly Pellitory of Spain the seeds of Rue Spicknard Mirrh Penyroyal of each two scruples and fourteen grains the seeds of Smallage Savin of each two scruples thirteen grains Centaury the greater Carrots of Creet Nigella Caraway Annis Cloves Alum of each two scruples Bay leaves one scruple one half scruple and three grains wood of Aloes one scruple and fourteen grains Schoenanth one scruple and thirteen grains Asarabacca Acorus that is common Calamus Aromacicus Amomus Peony Centaury the less the seeds of Arrach and Fennel of each one scruple and six grains Cyperus Elicampane Ginger Capper roots Cummin Orobus of each one scruple beat them all into very fine pouder and with four times their waight of Honey make them up into an Electuary according to art A. It provokes the terms brings away both birth and afterbirth the dead child purgeth such as are not sufficiently purged after travail it provokes urine breaks the stone in the bladder helps the strangury dysury iskury c. helps indigestion the chollick opens any stoppings in the body it heats the stomach purgeth the liver and spleen consumes wind staies vomiting but let it not be taken by women with child nor such people as have the Hemorrhoyds A. Nicholaus I take to be the Author of this fantastical medicine though the Colledg give it a more general term and the vertues allo are quoted from him Diaireos Salomonis Nicholaus Take of Orris roots an ounce Penyroyal Hysop Liquoris of each six drachms Traganth white Starch bitter Almonds Pinenuts Cinnamon Ginger Pepper of each three drachms fat Figs the pulp of Raisons of the sun and Dates of each three drachms and an half Styrax Calamitis two drachms and an half Sugar dissoved in Hysop water and clarified Honey of each twice the weight of all the rest make them into an Electuary according to art A. The Electuary is chiefly apropriated to the lungues and helps cold infirmities of them as Asthmaes Coughs difficulty of breathing c. Diasatyrion Nicholaus Take of the roots of Satyrion fresh and sound Garden-Parsnips Eringo Pine-Nuts Indian-Nuts or if Indian Nuts be wanting take the double quantity of Pine Nuts Fistick-Nuts of each one ounce and an half Cloves Ginger the seeds of Annis Rocket Ash keys of each five drachms Cinnamon the tayls and loins of Scincus the seeds of Bulbus Nettles of each two drachms and an half Musk seven grains of the best Sugar dissolved in Malaga Wine three pounds make it into an Electuary according to art A. Either the Colledge or the Printer left out Cicer roots seven drachms which I think are proper to the recept they also added the loins of Scincus and the Nettle seeds and in so doing they did well A. It helps weaknesse of the reins and bladder and such as make water with difficulty it provokes lust exceedingly and speedily helps such as are impotent in the acts of Venus being indeed compiled to that end Diasatyrion more pleasant Coloniens Take of Satyrion roots three ounces the pulp of Dates sweet Almonds Indian Nuts Pine Nuts Fistick Nuts green Ginger Eringo roots preserved of each one ounce Ginger Cloves
a double vessel til the Wine be consumed if you infuse fresh buds once or twice before you boyl it the medicine will be the stronger then presse out the oyl and keep it A. It is a fine cool oyl but the ointment called by that name which follows hereafter is far better Oyl of Foxes Mesue Take a fat Fox of a middle age wearied with hunting and new killed the skin and bowels being taken away and the bones broken cut into many parts boyl him in white Wine and Conduit water of each six pound till almost half be consumed scumming it dilligently then mix with it four pound of old sweet Oyl common Salt three ounces the flowers of Sage Time of each a pound let it boyl till almost all the water be consumed then ad water wherein a handful of Dill and Time have been boyled eight pound boyl it again over a gentle fire to the consumption of the water then press out the Oyl and if any watry substance remain amongst it seperate it with a Funnel and keep the Oyl for your use A. It is exceeding good in pains of the joints gouts pains in the back and reins OYNTMENTS OYNTMENTS MORE SIMPLE Unguentum album Rhasis TAKE of oyl of Roses nine ounces good Ceruss washed in Rose water three ounces white Wax two ounces make them into an Ointment according to art and if you ad two drachms of Camphire then will it be camphorated A. Some hold it impossible to make it into an Ointment this way others hold it not convenient but instead of oyl of Roses they ad so much Hogs grease and leaving out the white Wax they make it into an Ointment without the help of the fire A. It is a fine cooling drying Ointment easeth pains and itching in wounds and ulcers and is a hundred times better with Camphire than without it Unguentum Aegiptiacum Mesue Take of Vert-de-greece five drachms Honey fourteen drachms sharp Vineger seven drachms boyl them all together till they come to be a thick Ointment of a reddish colour A. It cleanseth filthy ulcers and fistulaes forcibly and not without pain it takes away dead or proud flesh and dries the Chyrurgian of our daies use it commonly instead of Apostolorum to cleanse wounds it cleanseth more potently indeed and therefore may be sitter in sanious ulcers but it strengthens not so much Unguentum Anodinum Take of oyl of white Lillies six ounces oyl of Dill and Chamomel of each two ounces sweet Almonds one ounce Ducks grease and Hens grease of each two ounces white Wax three ounces mix them together according to art A. I take the Augustan Physitians to be the Authors of this for there it is to be found verbatim only they prescribe no certain quantity of Wax its use is to aswage pains in any part of the body especially such as come by inflamations whether in wounds or tumours and for that it is admirable Unguentum sive Linimentum Arceus Take of Gum Elenni Turpentine of the firr tree of each an ounce and an half sheep Suit tried two ounces hogs grease tried two ounces mix them together and make them into an Ointment according to art A. Although our Chyrurgians usually use this only for wounds and ulcers in the head yet he that makes trial shall find it excellent for ulcers if not too sanious in any part of the body though in the feet and they are at the greatest distance from the head it gently cleanseth and filleth up an ulcer with flesh it being of a mild nature and friendly to the body Unguentum Aureum Mesue Take of yellow Wax half a pound oyl two pound and an half Turpentine two ounces Rozin of the Pine tree cōmonly called Perrozin Colophonia of each an ounce a half Frankinsence Mastich of each an ounce Saffron a drachm make them up according to art A. If you remember the Colledg commends this Ointment to engender flesh in the beginning of the Compounds page 79. and indeed it doth so but if you please to take counsel of Dr. EXPERIENCE he will tell you that the former is worth two of it for that use Unguentum Basilicon majus Mesue Take of white wax Per-rozin Heifers Suit greek pitch Turpentine Olibanum Mirrh of each an ounce Oyl a pound or else a sufficient quantity to make it up into an Ointment Unguentum Basilicon minus Or Tetrapharmacum Mesue Take of yellow Wax Rozin greek Pitch of each half a pound Oyl two pound and four ounces only melt them that so they may be mixed together into the consistence of an Ointment A. Both this and the former heat moisten and digest procure matter in wounds I mean bring the filth or corrupted blood from green wounds they cleanse and ease pain Ointment of Bdellium Mesue Take of Bdellium six drachms Euphorbium Sagapenum of each four drachms Castorium three drachms Wax fifteen drachms Oyl of Elder or Walflower ten drachms the Bdellium and 〈◊〉 being dissolved in the water of wild Rue let the rest be united with warm water and made into an Ointment according to art A. I confess Mesue appoints it to be made up in the same manner I do not well know whether it be possible or not If not it may be done with the oyl A. It is exceeding good against palsies wry-mouths falling sickness and other cold of afflictions of the nerves Unguentum de Calce Foesius Take of Chalk at least seven times washed half a pound Oyl of Roses a pound 〈◊〉 them about well in a leaden mortar then ad to them three ounces of Wax A. It is exceeding good in burnings and scaldings Oyntment of Marsh-mallows Simple Nicholaus Take of Marsh mallow roots fresh and bruised two pound Linseed and Fenagreek seed bruised of each a pound steep them in eight pound of Water then boyl them a little gently and press out their mussilage of which take two pound and oyl four pound boyl them together till the mussilage be consumed then ad Wax a pound Rozin half a pound Turpentwo ounces boyl them into the consistence of an Ointment Oyntment of Marshmallows Compound Nichol. Take of Marshmallow roots two pound the seeds of Flax and Fenugreek of each one pound pulp of Squils half a pound Oyl four pound Wax one pound Turpentine Gum of 〈◊〉 Galbanum of each two ounces Colophonia Rozin of each half a pound let the roots be well washed and bruised as also the Linseed Foenugreek seed and Squils then steep them three daies in eight pints of water the fourth day boyl them a little upon the fire draw out the Mussilage of which take two pound and boyl it with the oyl to the consumption of the juyce afterwards ad the Wax Rozin and Colophonia when they are melted ad the Turpentine afterwards the Galbanum and gum of lvy dissolved in Vineger boyl them a little and having removed them from the fire 〈◊〉 them til they are cold that so they may be
by number eight let the fat 's being cleansed from their skins be washed in white Wine then put them into an earthen vessel glazed which is half full of Rose water let it boyl gently till almost all the water be consumed strain it into another earthen vessel sprinkled with Rose water and ad to it oyl of sweet Almonds six ounces white Wax four ounces melt it again by the fire and having strained it and washed it with Rose water keep it for your use A. I have seen many other receits to make Pomatum and all better than this which is very difficult if not impossible to be gotten in many places of this Nation but I have not that Latitude given me to quote any receits that are not in the Dispensatory only take notice that its general use is to soften and supple the roughness of the skin and take away the chops of the lips hands face or other parts Unguentum Potabile Foesius Take of fresh Butter whithout Salt a pound and in half Maddir Castorium Sperma Caeti Tormentil roots of each half an ounce let them boil in a sufficient quantity of Wine til the Wine be consumed and so made into an Oyntment An Oyntment against Scabs and Itch. Renodaeus Take of Sows grease often washed in juyce of Scabious half a pound the roots of sharp-pointed Dock boyled very soft in Vineger and pulped through a sieve Brimstone washed in the juyce of Lemmons of each an ounce and an half Vnguentum Populeon washed in juyce of Elicampane half an ounce mix them all together in a mortar unto an Oyntment according to art A. It is a wholsom though troublesom medicine for what the Title specifies Oyntment of Roses Mesue Take of Hogs grease well cleansed from the skins a pound wash it 9. times in warm water then as often in cold water fresh red Roses a pound mix them together and so let them stand seven daies then boil them over a gentle fire and strain out the Roses then mix with the Oyntment the like quantity of fresh red Roses and then let them stand together as many daies then strain them out having first boiled them at the last add juyce of red Roses six ounces boil them over a gentle fire till the juyce be consumed then strain it and make of it an Oyntment according to art A. You need do no more than let it stand till it is cold and you shall see it is an Oyntment alone without any further making A. It is of a fine cooling nature exceeding useful in all gaulings of the skin and frettings accompanied with chollerick humours angry pushes tetters ringworms it mitigates diseases in the head coming of heat as also the intemperate heat of the stomach and liver Unguentum Rubrum Desiccativum Nicholaus Take of oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound and an half white Wax five ounces melt them together and put them into a leaden mortar then put to them earth of Lemnos or else Bole Armenick Lapis Calaminaris exquisitely beaten into pouder of each four ounces Litharge of Gold Ceruss of each two ounces Camphire a drachm make them into an Oyntment according to art A. It binds and restrains fluxes of humours and is as gallant an oyntment to skin a sore as any is in the Dispensatory Common Oyntment of Tutty Take of Tutty prepared two ounces Lapis Calaminaris often heat red hot and as often quenched in Plantane water an ounce let them be beaten into very fine pouder and with Hogs grease often washed in Rose water a pound and an half let it be made into an Oyntment according to art Also you may prepare it with Oyntment of Roses instead of Hogs grease A. It is a cooling drying Oyntmet apropriated to the eyes to dry up hot and salt humours that flow down thither the eye lids being anointed with it OYNTMENTS MORE COMPOUND A Binding Oyntment Fernelius Take of Oyl of Roses often times washed in Allum water a pound and an half white Wax four ounces unripe Galls Cypress nuts Mirtle berries Balaustins Pomegranate pills Acorn cups Acacia Sumach Mastich of each an ounce let all of them being exactly beaten into pouder be steeped in the juyces of unripe Medlars and Services for four daies then dried by a gentle fire so with the oyl and wax let them be made into an Oyntment according to art A. Me thinks these are but wooden directions you had best as I suppose after they have been infused to boil the Oyl and Juyces till the Juyces be consumed then put in the Wax A. It bindeth and bringeth together the open parts of the body and compacteth the pores it stops fluxes staies issues of blood the falling out of the womb and fundament Unguentum Agrippe Nicholaus Take of Briony roots two pound wild Cucumer roots one pound Squills half a pound fresh Orris roots three ounces male Fearn roots dwarf Elder Water Caltrop or Aron of each 2. ounces let all of them being bruised be infused for six or eight daies in four pounds of sweet oyl then boyled over a gentle fire till the roots begin to be crisp then pressed out and in the Oyl melt fifteen ounces of white Wax and so bring it into the form of an Oyntment A. It purgeth exceedingly and is good to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies and if there be any humour of 〈◊〉 in any part of the body that you know not how to remove provided the part be not two tender you may anoint it with this Unguentum de Alabastro Ben. Vict. Favent Take of the juyce of Chamomel four ounces the juyce of red Roses two ounces the juyce of Rue and Bettony of each an ounce and an half the juyce of Marsh mallow roots two ounces Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound and an half pure Alablaster beaten into fine pouder three ounces infuse them all night then boyl them to the consumption of the juyce and with six ounces of white Wax make it an oyntment according to art Unguentum Apostolorum Avicenna Take of Turpentine Rozin white Wax 〈◊〉 of each fourteen drachms long Birthwort roots Olibanum Bdellium of each six drachms Mirrh Galbanum of each half an ounce Opopanax Vert-de-greece of each two drams Litharge nine drachms Oyl if in summer time two pound if in winter three pound Vineger so much as is sufficient to dissolve the Amoniacum Opopanax and Galbanum make it up into an oyntment according to art A. It consumes corrupt and dead flesh and makes flesh soft which is hard it cleanseth wounds ulcers fistulaes and restore flesh where it is wanting Unguentum Aregon Adjutorium Nicholaus Take of Rosemary Marjoram Mother of Time Rue Aron-roots the roots of wild Cucumers of each four ounces and an half the leaves of Bay Sage Savin the roots of Briony a Fleabane the greater and lesser or in defect of the lesser take the double quantity of the greater of each four ounces Laurel nine ouunces the
immoderate flowing of the terms and Hemorrhoids falling out of the fundament and womb finally for every occasion that requires binding I would if I were Eloquent commend it in the superlative degree Unguentum ad 〈◊〉 Norimberg Take of white starch Ceruss washed Litharge prepared Lead burnt Gum Traganth of each a drachm and an half Thebane Opium Camphire of each a scruple the white of one Egg oyl of Roses and Violets of each an ounce aud an half Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an oyntment A. It is apropriated to the Hemorrhoids as the title shews Unguentum Hemorrhoidale Saxoniae Take of mussilage of the seeds of Fleawort and Quinces drawn in the water of Nightshade of each an ounce oyl of Roses compleat an ounce the yolk of one Egg let them be stirred together in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestel adding a little melted Wax mix them together and make of them an oyntment according to art A. Its use is the same with the former Common oyntment of Baies Take of Bay leaves a pound Bay berries half a pound Cabbage leaves four 〈◊〉 Neats foot oyl five pound 〈◊〉 suet two pound the leaves and berries being bruised and boyled with the oyl and suet till their juyce be consumed let it be strained and kept A. It heats and expels wind it profitable for old aches and sprains but what good it should do in the itch for which simple people buy it I cannot imagin Unguentum Martiatum Nichol. Take of the leaves of Bay and Rosemary of each eight ounces Rue seven ounces Tamaris six 〈◊〉 the leaves of Dwarf-Elder Marjoram Savin Costmary or else Water-mints Sage Bazil Poley mountain Calaminth Mugwort Elicampane Bettony Brank-Ursine Goose grasse or Cleavers Anemone or Wind flower or for want of it Pellitory of the wall Burnet Agrimony Wormwood Cowslips garden Costus Elders Orphine the greater 〈◊〉 the greater and lesser Yarrow Germander Centaury the less Plantain Strawberries Tetrahit or for want of it Golden-rod Cvnkfoyl of each four ounces and an half the roots of 〈◊〉 the seeds of Cummin 〈◊〉 of each three ounces 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half the seeds of the greater Nettles of Violets red or errattick Poppies cōmonly called Corn-roses Garden Mints 〈◊〉 wild Mints Maiden-hair Carduus Benedictus Woodbind or Honey suckles Va lerian the greater sweet Cranebill or Muschata wood Sor rel Harts-tongue Ox-eye Southern wood Marrow of a Stag Styrax Calamitys of each half an ounce Butter ten drachms Bears and Hens 〈◊〉 Mastich Frankinsence of each one ounce Nard oyl two ounces Wax two pound let the herbs being green be cut and infused in eight pounds of oyl with wine for seven daies on the eighth day let them be boyled almost to the consumption of the wine then being removed from the fire let it be strained and the oyl put into the pan again to which being a little warmed 〈◊〉 the butter marrow fat nard oyl and wax then the styrax dissolved in wine and mixed with a little turpentine but let the Mastich Mirrh and Frankinsence being beaten into pouder be put in last of al and when they are all well mixed together keep the oyntment in a vessel A. This long recept of Nich Myrepsus is held to be profitaagainst cold afflictions of the brain nerves and joynts as shaking palsie dead palsie Convuliions c. it helps numbness of the joynts the gout and hard tumors of the spleen Mundificativum ex 〈◊〉 Take of the juyce of Smallage a pound Honey nine ounces Wheat flower three ounces boyl them over the fire to the thickness of an oyntment according to art A. It is a fine gentle cleansing oyntment Unguentum Neapolitanum Renodaeus Take of Sows grease washed with juyce of Sage one pound quicksilver strained through a cloath and well killed with falling spittle four ounces oyl of Bays Chamomel Earth-worm of each two ounces oyl of Spike an ounce and an half Aqua vitae an ounce yellow wax two ounces Turpentine washed in juyce of Elicampane three ounces pouder of Camaepitys and Sage of each two drachms make them into an oyntment according to art Unguentum Resinum Take of Per-rozin Turpentine yellow Wax pure Oyl of each equal parts mix them together A. It is as pretty a Careoloath for a new sprain as most is and cheap Unguentum Nervinum Take of the leaves and flowers of Cowslips Sage Camaepytis Rosemary Lavender Bay with the berries Chamomel Rue Smallage Melilot with the flowers Wormwood of each a handful Mints Bettony Penyroyal Parsly Centaury the less St. Johns wort of each half a handful Neats or sheeps foot Oyl five pound Sheep or Ox suet or else their marrow two pound Oyl of Spike half an ounce bruise the herbs and boyl them with the oyls and suet and make an oyntment of them according to art A. It is apropriated to the nerves and helps their infirmities coming of cold which you may find often enough related I do not love alwaies to harp upon the same string as also old bruises Unguentum Pactorale Nich. Take of fresh butter often washed in Violet water six ounces oyl of sweet Almonds four ounces oyl of Chamomel and Violets of each three ounces Goose and Ducks grease of each three ounces Orris roots two drachms Saflron half a dram white Wax three ounces let the Wax and fats be melted together in the oyl then often washed either in Barly or Hysop water add the Orris and Saffron being brought into fine pouder then bring them into an Oyntment according to art A. If you let the Butter boyl it will stink but the Colledge never thought of that having forgotten the old Grammer phraze 〈◊〉 est c. A. It strengthens the breast and stomach easeth the pains thereof helps pleuresies and consumptions of the lungues Unguentum Populneum Nich. Take of the buds of Poplar fresh gathered a pound and an half fresh Hogs grease three pound let the Poplar-buds be beaten and mixed with the grease till these following herbs can be gotten Take of the leaves of black Poppies and Mandrakes the tender branches of Maddir the leaves of Henbane Nightshade Lettice Sengreen the lesser and greater Violets Penywort or Kidneywort Burs of each three ounces let all of them being bruised be mixed with the grease and Poplar buds after ten daies put to them a pound of Rose water and boil them with a gentle fire till the water and all the liquor be consumed strain it and press it out and if need be boyl it again till it come to the consistence of an oyntment A. It is exceeding good in burnings scaldings and inflamations it aswageth the heat of the head and kidneyes the temple being anointed with it it provokes sleep Unguantum Resumptivum Nicholaus Take of fresh Hogs grease three ounces Hens Goose and Ducks grease of each two ounces Oesypus an ounce oyl of Violets Chamomel and Dill of each two ounces fresh Butter a pound
redundant in which although we reverence the learned gray hairs of the ancient and have placed their recepts as it were in the front yet we neither reject nor 〈◊〉 the supplies of modern assusions but we have left them a place and corner in the reer that so they may serve as auxiltaries to the moddel of Physick Neither have we superfiously tied our selves to the sleps of the Ancient so as that we bring nothing new of our own for all here described is not transcribed we have not furnished our Apothecaries shop altogether with forraign wares but we have added some new ones and of our own which we bring forth into the publick as aproved by frequent use some we have changed in the ancient forms both the sence and name of the Author being preserved not moved thereto so much through desire of novelty as compelled thereto by necessity especially where such simples as are prescribed cannot easily be had in the place of which we prescribe others like unto them in vertue The like we have done in the composition of pils which if they were made into a mass after the ancient manner with juyces or waters they would soon be too dry therefore we have appointed it to be done with syrups also whereas in most Authors some things are totally left to the judgment of the Artificer especially in the quantity of Honey and Sugar under these two letters q. s. or words so much as is suffient whence it comes to pass that the same medicine hath neither the same consistence nor the same vertue we have for the future taken away this power from the Artificer and for this cause have taken some of the most skilful Apothecaries into counsel with us by whose help and pains we have agreed upon a certain manner of composition and have designed a certain quantity and dose which they may not ad to nor take from And lastly seeing in most Dispensatories both ancient and modern the use and vertue of every medicine is described whence ignorant fellows and Mountebanks may arm themselves for the practice of physick and so put a sword into a madmans hand for the destruction of the Common-wealth we have added nothing at all of the vertues for we write this to the learned only and to the 〈◊〉 rsiings of Apollo for the health not the understanding of the vulgar we need not give a reason why we dispose of it in this order we have placed the simple before the compound the internal before the external the liquid before the sollid We have digested them all into several Classes that so they may be brought into use and practice with little search Thus Courteous Reader thou hast both what we have done and why we have done it so It is a work to which all the Colledg have brought their Talents as all the gods did to Pandora in the play But under the auspicy of a most worthy President by whom not only as President but by whose counsel help and indefatigable study this building was finished which as it is friendly Reader we vow it to thine and the publick good and hope it will be commodious for thee and if it please thy palat use it and fare well From the Colledg of London Decemb. Anno. 1618 A brief of his MAIESTIES Royal Proclamation Commanding all Apothecaries of this Realm to follow this PHARMACOPOEIA lately compiled by the Colledg of Physitians of LONDON WHere is by Our especial Commandement the e hath been of late compiled in the Latin tongue by the Colledg of Physitians of London a Book entituled Pharmacâ—poeia Londinensis c. And whereas through the great care and industrie of the said Colledg the foresaid Pharmacopoeia Londin is now perfected and is a work greatly tending t the publick good of our subjects and we minding that all falshood differences varieties or incertainties in making or composing of Medicines and distilling of Oyls or Waters bereafter be utterly taken away and abolished and that in the time to come the manner and form prescrited in the said book should be generally and solely practised by Apothecaries in their compositions of Medicines and distillation of Waters for all such things as are therein named aud prescribed we therefore desirous in all things to provide for the common good of our subjects and intending to settle and establish the general use of the said Book in this 〈◊〉 of ENGLAND do hereby signifie and declare our Royal Will and pleasure to be and hereby straightly require charge and command all and singular Apothecaries within this our Realm of England or the dominions thereof that they and every of them immediately after the said Pharmacop Londin shall be printed and published do not compound or make any Medicine or medicinable receipt or prescription or distil any Oyl or Waters or other Extractions that are or shall be in the said Pharmacop Londin mentioned and named after the waies or means prescribed or directed by any other Books or Dispensatories whatsoever but after the only manner and form that hereby is or shall be directed prescribed and set down by the said book and according to the weights and measures that are or shall be therein limited and not otherwise c. upon pain of Our high displeasure and to incur such penalties and punishment as may he inflicted upon offenders herein for their contempt or neglect of this our Roial commandement Willing and commanding also hereby all Majors Sheriffs Iustices of peace Constables c. to be aiding and assisting Given at Our Palace of White-Hall 26. of April in the 16. yeer of Our Raign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland 51. 1618. VVEIGHTS TWenty grains do make a scruple three scruples a drachm commonly called a dram Eight drachms an ounce Twelve ounces a pound MEASVRES AS for the Colledges measures I know not well what English names to give them Cochlearium holds in syrups half an ounce in distilled waters three drachms Cyaibus holds an ounce and an half Hemina which also they call Cotyla contains nine ounces Libra holds twelve ounces A Sextary contains eighteen ounces A Congy six Sextaries These measures amongst the Romans contained not just the same quantities for their Cyathus contained an onnce and an half a drachm and a scruple Their Sextary contained but 14. ounces 3. quarters and half a quarter and amongst the Grecians not so much it is called a Sextary because it is the six part of a Congy Neither did the Roman Hemina contain altogether 7. ounces and an half Their Libra I suppose to that which Galen calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viz. a vessel to measure with it was made with cleer horn and by certain lines drawn round it like rings was divided into twelve equal parts each part containing an ounce Besides these the Colledge have gotten another foolish and incertain way of measuration not here set down viz. by handfuls and pugills what ahandful is is known to all but
all the poyson to it it is known to be a true one by this hold it neer to any toad and she will make proffer to take it away from you if it be right else not There is a stone of the bignesse of a bean found in the gizzard of an old Cock which makes him that bears it beloved constant and bold valiant in fighting beloved by women potent in the sports of Venus Nephriticus lapis helps pains in the stomach and is of great force in breaking and bringing away the stone and gravel concerning the powerful operation of which I shall only qnote you one story of many out of Monardus a Physitian of note A certain noble man quoth he very well known to me by only bearing this stone tyed to his arm voided such a deal of gravel that he feared the quantity would do him hurt by avoiding so much of it wherefore he laied it from him and then he avoided no more gravel but afterwards being again troubled with the stone he ware it as before and presently the pain eased and he avoided gravel as before and was never troubled with the pain of the stone so long as he ware it Jasper being worn stops bleeding easeth the labour of women stops lust resists feavers and dropsies AEtites or the stone with child because being hollow in the middle it contains another little stone within it it is found in an Eagles nest and in many other places this stone being bound to the left arm of women with child staies their miscarriage or abortiō but when the time of their labor comes remove it from their arm and bind it to the inside of their thigh and it brings forth the child and that almost without any pain at all Young swallows of the first brood if you cut them up between the time they were hatched and the next full moon you shall find two stones in their ventricle one reddish the other blackish these being hung about the neck in a piece of stags leather help the falling-sickensse and feavers The truth is I have found the reddish one my self without any regard to the lunation but never tried the vertues of it Lapis Lazuli purgeth melancholly being taken inwardly outward worn as a Jewel it makes men cheerful fortunate and rich And thus I end the stones the vertues of which if any think incredible I answer 1. I quoted the Authors where I had them 2. I know nothing to the contrary but why it may be as possible as the sound of a trumpet is to incite a man to valour or of a fidle to dauncing and if I have added a few Simples which the Colledg left out I hope my fault is not much or at least wise venial A CONCLUSION to the Catalogue of SIMPLES THVS Courteous Reader have I led thee by the band through the Catalogue of Simples contained in this Dispensatory For what intent the Colledge quoted them I cannot tell considering they quoted neither English names nor Vertues and the Lattin names most part of them may be found here and there throughout the Dispensatory It is true I willingly omitted the vertues of many of them partly because I would not have the Book too big partly because they are not easily gotten and many of the operations I buried in silence for fear knaves should put them in practice to do mischief Remembring a speech once in a Sermon of Bishop Latimers I could saith he reprove other sins from this text but I wil not for fear you knowing what they be should practise them Thus I send this Treatise of Simples into the merciless world being not careful of the Slanders or Envy of traducing tongues or brains of ill Common-wealths men my own Conscience bearing me witness that I sincerely aimed at the Publick good of my Country in it and to all ingenious people shall never cease to remain theirs whilst my own NICH. CULPEPER COMPOVNDS CONTAINED IN THE DISPENSATORY A PREFACE I Shall desire only to give the Reader notice 1. That I left out all the Simple distilled waters quoted by the Colledge many of which were ridiculous the simples being not to be obtained green in this Land And sure none in Bedlam are so mad as to go about to distil simple water out of dry things 2. If any desire to know the vertues of distilled waters let them repair to the Herbs themselves part of the vertues of which the Waters have though I am of opinion not so much as people think they have 3. The best way that I know to distil Simple Waters is To bruise the Herbs or Flowers of what you would distil and having pressed out the juyce distil it in a Glass-stil in sand and so will the Water be better by odds than if distilled in a Peuter-stil as usually they do 4. Only and barely the Receipts themselves were quoted by the Colledge the Vertues of them as also the Marginal Notes and whatsoever sentences are marked with a capital A. are Additions The Colledge when they made this Dispensatory never intending their Country so much good as to quote the Vertues AN INTERPRETATION OF CERTAIN COMMON NAMES The five Cordial Flowers The five Capillary Herbs Of Roses Violets Borrage Buglosse Rosemary or Bawm-flowers The four sorts of Maiden-hair Cetrach The five Emollient Herbs The four Pluretical Waters Marshmallows Mallows Beets or Brank-Ursine Mercury Violets or Pellitory of the wall Of our Ladies-Thistle Dandelion Carduus-Benedictus Scabios The four greater hot Seeds Common hot flowers Of Annis Fennel Caraway Commin Of Chamomel Meliot Orris The four lesser hot Seeds Three stomach Oyls Of Bishops-weed Amomum Smallage Carrots Of Wormwood Quinces Mastich The four greater cold Seeds Four hot Ointments Of Gourds Cittuls Cucumers Melons Of Agrippa Althea Aregon Martiatum The four lesser cold Seeds Four cold Ointments Of Endive Succory Lettice Purslain Album Camphoratum Populion Refrigerans Galeni Rosatum The five greater opening Roots Four Ointments fit for Chyrurgians Of Smallage Sparagus Fennel Parsly Bruscus Basilicon to digest The two Roots Viride Apostolorū to clense Of Fennel Parsly Aurium to breed flesh The five lesser opening Roots Album to skin Of Grass Eringo Capers Rest-harrow Madir Precious Fragments  Of Saphire Granate Emerald Jacynth Sardine Ruby Pearls Amethist COMPOVND VVATERS Wormwood Water the lesser Composition TAKE of dried Wormwood two pound Annis seeds bruised half a pound infuse them in six congies of smal wines for 24. hours then draw out the spirit with an Alembick adding to the distillation so much Sugar as is sufficient After the same manner is drawn Water of Angellica Roots Annis-seed Water Orrange pill Water Lemmon-pill Water Bawm Water Mint Water Rosemary Water Sage Water c. A. If you desire the vertues of these waters see the vertues of the herbs and pills c. and then your reason will tell you the waters have the same opperations and may happily
produce a better effect upon cold stomachs Wormwood Water the greater Composition Take of Roman and common Wormwood of each a pound Sage Mints Bawm of each two handfuls Galanga Ginger Aromarical reed Alicampane roots of each three drachms Liquoris an ounce Raisons of the Sun three ounces Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds of each six drachms Cinnamon Cloves Natmegs of each two drachms Cardamoms Cubebs of each one drachm Let the things be cut that are to be cut and the things bruised that are to be bruised all of them infused in 20. pints of Spanish wines for the space of 24. hours and then distilled in an Alembick according to 〈◊〉 and sweetned with Sugar A. This water is excellent good for cold stomachs taken with discretion helps digestion in such in whom it is weak it kills worms in the belly easeth pains in the teeth and given in convenient mixtures is profitable in feavers Angelica Water the greater Composition Take of Angelica two pounds Annis-seed half a pound Coriander Carawaies of each four ounces Zedoary bruised three ounces infuse them 24. hours in six congies of small wines then draw out the spirit and sweeten it with sugar A. It comforts the heart cherisheth the vital spirits resisteth the Pestilence and Infection Langius his Bezoar Water Take of Chelondine w th the roots three handfuls and an half Rue a handful Scordium two handfuls Dittany of Creet Carduus Benedictus of each one handful and an half Zedoary and Angelica roots of each three drachms Citron and Lemmon pils of each two drachms and an half Clove-gilliflowers Roses of each two drachms Cinnamon Cloves of each five drachms and an half Venice treacle three ounces Mithridate an ounce and an half Camphire two scruples Troches of Vipers Mace of each a drachm and an half Wood of Aloes two scruples Yellow sanders a drachm and an half Conserves of Clove-gilliflowers two ounces Carduus seeds an ounce Pouder of Electuary Liberantis five scruples Filings of Unicorns-horn or Harts horn a drachm and an half Let these Ingredients being cut and bruised be infused for three daies in the spirit of Wine and Malaga Wine of each three pound then stil'd in a Glasse-Stil in Balneo Mariae according to art After it is half stilled that which remains in the Stil may be strained through a linnen cloath and by evaporation reduced to the thicknesse of Honey and called by the name of Bezoartick Extraction After the same maner may Extractions be made of almost all Compound Waters A. Fxtracts have the same vertues with the waters they are made from only the different form is to please the quaint pallates of such whose fancy loaths any one particular form A. This Bezoar water strengtheneth the heart Arteries and spirit vital It provoketh sweat and is exceding good in pestilential feavers in health it withstands melancholly and consumptions and makes a merry blith cheerful creature Mathiolus his Bezoar Water Take of Mathiolus his great Antidote syrup of Citron pills of each one pound spirit of wine distilled five times over five pound put all these in a glasse that is much to big to hold them stop it close that the spirit fly not out then shake it together that the Electuary may be well mingled with the spirit so let it stand a month shaking it together twice a week for the Electuary will settle to the bottom The month being ended powr off the cleer water into another glasse to be kept for your use stopping it very close with wax and parchment else the strength will easily fly away in vapours A. Mathiolus is very large in commendation of this water for quoth he four drachms that is half an ounce of this water being taken either by it self or in the like quantity of good wine or any other cordial water so absolutely speedily cureth the bitings of any venemos beasts whatsoever that although the danger of death be such that the patient hath lost his speech sight almost al the rest of his sences yet wil he be roused up like a man out of his sleep to the wonderful admiration of the beholders which he saith he hath proved a thousand times It draws away poyson from the heart and cures such as have drunk poyson it casts poyson out of the stomach by vomit and helps such as have the pestilence A. For my own particular part thus much I can testify by experience in the commendations of it I have known it given in acute in peracute feavers with gallant successe as also in consumptions yea in Hecticks and in Gallens supposed Marasmos neither hath it missed the desired effects and therefore out of question it strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and the spirit vital And then your own genius will tell you this is fittest for cold complexions cold diseases and such diseases as the heart is most afflicted in Capon Water Take a Capon the bowels and fat being taken away cut him in bits and boyl him sufficiently in a sufficient quantity of water according to art Take of this broth being strained two pound and an half Borrage and Buglosse water white Wine of each one pound and an half Flowers of Roses Violets Borrage and Buglosse of each two drachms Crumbs of new bread half a pound bruised Cinnamon an ounce distil it in Glasse Still according to art A. Divers Physitians have written several recepts of this water as Gesner Andr. é Lacuna Med. Florent and Coloniens But the truth is this recept although our Physicians conceal it was borrowed from the Augustan Physitians and only because they thought as I suppose a Gapon must not be eaten without bread they added the bread to it the rest is verbatim from the Augustan Physitians A. The Simples are most of them apropriated to the heart and in truth the Composition greatly nourisheth and strengtheneth such as are in consumptions and restoreth strength lost either by feavers or other sicknesse It is a soveraign remedy for Hectick feavers and marasmos which is nothing else but a consumption coming from them let such as are subject to these diseases hold it for a Jewel Cinnamon Water Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound and an half Spanish wine 12. pints Infuse the Cinnamon in the wine 24. hours then distil them in an Alimbick draw out three pints of strong waters and small as much as you think sufficient sweeten it with sugar sufficiently and so keep it for your use A. The vertues are the same that Cinnamon it self hath to which I refer you Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound put it into a Glasse-Still powring upon it four pints of Rose water a pint and an half of Spanish wine stop the Still body close and place it in a warm bath 24. hours then put on the Still-head lute it wel and distil it according to art A. Mathiolus appoints Wine of Creet 4. pints and that is al the
the disease come daily let a spoonful to it be taken morning and evening if weekly then let it be taken only at the new and full Moon and at her quartiles to the Sun if it begin to wear away then only twice a month viz. at the new and full Moon wil suffice It profits also in time of the fit by rubbing their temples nostrils and jaws with it Aqua Hysterica Take of the Juyce of Briony roots four pints the juyce of Rue and Mugwort of each a quart dried Savin leaves three handfuls Featherfew Nep Penyroyal of each two handfuls Basil Dictamny of Creet of each a handful and an half fresh Orange pills four ounces Mirrh two ounces Castorium one ounce Canary Wine twelve pints Infuse the simples in the Wine four daies then distill them in a bath and keep the distilled water for your use When it is half stilled you may prepare an Extraction of the residue for the same use the water is A. It wonderfully prevaileth against the fits of the mother and such like diseases incident to women and is a most excellent remedy to bring away dead children and the after birth a spoonful or two of it being given and therefore let Midwives make much of it Imperial Water Take of Citron pills dried Orange pills Nutmegs Cloves Cinnamon of each two ounces Cyperus Orris Florentine Calamus Aromaticus of each an ounce Zedoary Galanga Ginger of each one ounce Tops of Rosemary Lavender of each two handfuls The leaves of Bay Marjoram Hysop Bawm Mints Sage Time of each one handful fresh Roses White and Damask of each half a handful Rosewater four pints of the best white Wine eight pints The things to be bruised being bruised let them be infused twenty four hours in a glasse Still over hot ashes and then distilled according to art A. You must distill it in a bath and not in sand It seems the Colledge were but mean practicioners in Alchymy but in this and many other recepts 〈◊〉 to that monster called Tradition therefore take this for a general Aphorisme All grosse bodies stilled in sand will stinkegregiously A. It comforts and strengthens the heart against faintings and swoonings and it is held to be a preservative against consumptions and apoplexies Bawm Water The greater Composition Take of Bawm a pound Time Penyroyal of each three drachms Cinnamon two drachms Cardamoms the lesse one drachm Grains of Paradice half an ounce Sweet Fennel seeds an ounce Nutmegs Ginger of each a drachm Galanga six drachms Calamus Aromaticus Cyprus of each a drachm and an half Dictamni half a drachm let all of them be bruised and infused in eight pints of Spanish Wine and six pints of strong Ale for 24. hours together and then distilled by an Alembick draw out of the stronger water three pints A. The Simples seem chiefly apropriated to the stomach and therfore must needs strengthens cold weak stomachs help digestion besides Authors say It restoreth memory lost quickens all the sences keeps away gray hairs and baldnesse strengtheneth the brain makes the heart cheerful and helps the lisping of the tongue easeth the pains of the teeth and causeth a sweet breath Aqua Mariae Take of Sugar Candy a pound Canary Wine six ounces Rose Water four ounces boyl them to a Syrupe to which ad Aqua Coelestis two pound Amber-greece and Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fifteen grains Yellow Sanders two drachms make of them a cleer water A. It is of more vertue than Aqua Coelestis to resist feavers to strengthen the heart to releeve Languishing nature Aqua Mirabilis Take of Cloves Galanga Cubebs Mace Gardamoms Nutmegs Ginger of each one drachm juyce of Chelondine half a pound Aqua-vitae a pound White Wine three pints or three pound which you please Infuse them twenty four hours and then draw a quart of water from them by an Alembick A. The Simples also of this regard the stomack and therefore the water heats cold stomachs besides Authors say it preserveth from Apoplexies and restoreth speech lost Rosa-Solis Take of Nutmegs Annis seeds Coriander seeds of each an ounce Galanga Ginger Cloves of each half an ounce Red-rose leaves a handful Ros-solis six handfuls Liquoris two ounces Cardamoms Zedoary Grains of Paradice Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm Yellow Sanders two drachms Red Sanders Cinnamon of each an ounce and an half Of the best Aqua-vitae twelve pints make an infusion of them for eight daies then strain it and ad to the liquor a pound and an half of Sugar A. The Basis of this medicine seems to be the herb Ros-solis which is of a drying and binding quality and apropriated to the lungues and therefore must needs be available for Phtisicks or consumptions of the lungues and because this herb provokes lust exceedingly I suppose therefore the rose leaves were added which according to Authors resist lust Dr. Stephens Water Take of Cinnamon Ginger Galanga Cloves Nutmegs Grains of Paradice seeds of Annis Fennel Caraway of each one drachm Herbs of Time Mother of Time Mints Sage Pennyroyal Pellitory of the wall Rosemary Flowers of Red roses Chemomel Origanum Lavender of each one handful infuse them twelve hours in twelve pints of Gascoign Wine then with an Alembick draw three pints of strong water from it A. Authors hold it profitable for women in labour that it provokes the terms and brings away the afterbirth Aqua Protheriacalis Take of the leaves of Scordium Scabious Carduus Benedictus Goats Rue of each two handfuls Citron pills and Orrenge pills dried of each two ounces the seeds of Citrons Carduus Hartwort Treacle Mustard of each one ounce The Flowers of Marigolds and Rosemary of each a handful Let the things to be cut be cut the things to be brused be grosly bruised and infused in four pints of White Wine and a quart of Carduus Water and being put into a convenient glasse digested either by the heat of the sun or of the fire certain daies often shaking it Then distilled in Balneo Mariae reserve the two first pints by it self the remainder by it self at last with every pound mix an ounce of Julapium Alexandrinum and a spoonfull of Cinnamon Water It is not bid from our eyes that there are very many Simples in the Composition̄ of Treacle the vertues of which cannot be exactly drawn out by distillation in Balneo Mariae and therefore we of purpose subscribed this that the rational Physitian may at the time of giving it appoint Treacle or Diascordium or any convenient syrup notwithstanding lest we should seem different from all we have added on recept of Treacle water by distillation A. Aqua Protheriacalis signifies a Water for Treacle so then if you put Diascordium to it it is a water for Diascordium well then we will take it for a general water for all Physick Aqua Theriacalis by infusion Take of the best distilled Wine Wine
of Creet sharp Vineger in which half an ounce of Rue seeds have been boyled of each two pound Venis Treacle and Methridate of each half a pound mix them all together and warm them a little either in the Sun or in a bath and keep the tincture for your use Aqua Theriacalis distilled Take of the juice of green Walnuts four pound the juyce of green Rue three pound juyces of Carduus Benedictus Marigolds Bawm of each two pound The roots of Patasites or Butter burs fresh and green a pound and an half the Roots of Burs one pound Roots of Angelica and Masterwort green of each six ounces Scordium four handfuls old Venis Treacle and Methridate of each eight ounces Canary Wine twelve pints white Wine Vineger six pints Juyce of Lemmons a quart Digest them for two daies in horse dung or else in a bath let the vessel be well stopped then distill it in sand and in the distillation you may make an Extract called Extractum theriacale A. That this latter water far exceeds the former in vertues every way I think no man that is well in his wits will deny therefore I quote only the vertues of this if any will use the former I will not burden their conscience A. This water is exceeding good in all Feavers especially pestilential it expelleth venemous humors by sweat it strengtheneth the heart and vitals it is an admirable counterpoyson special good for such as have the Plague or are poysoned or bitten by venemous beasts and expelleth virulent humors from such as have the French Pocks If you desire to know more vertues of it see the vertues of Venis Treatle Ordinary Aqua vitae Distill Ale and lees of Wine in an Alembick whose worm runs through cold water into small Wine in ten Congies of which infuse a pound of bruised Annis seeds for twenty four hours then still it again into strong water Aqua vitae compound Is made of small Wines in six congies of which infuse Annis seeds half a pound seeds of Fennel and Caraway of each two ounces Cloves Cinnamon and Ginger of each one ounce and then draw the strong spirit from it A. This is excellent good in my opinion for such as are troubled with wind Spirit of Castorium Take of Castorium four ounces Lavender flowers one ounce the Tops of Sage and Rosemary of each half an ounce Cinnamon six drachms Mace and Cloves of each two drachms Spirit of Wine rectified six pints Digest all these in a glasse being filled only to the third part stopped close with cork and bladder in warm ashes or sand then stil it in a glasse Alembick in Balneo Mariae well luted and let it be kept close stopped A. It resisteth poyson and helps such as are bitten by venemous beasts it causeth speedy delivery to women in travail and casteth out the after-birth it provokes the terms in women and helpeth the fits of the mother it helps lethargies convulsions and in some cases is profitable for mad people but in all let it be mixed with convenient medicine for the purposes Usquebach Take of strong Aqua vitae 24. pints in which for four daies infuse a pound of Liquoris Raisons of the Sun half a pound Cloves half an ounce Mace Ginger of each two drachms strain it and keep it for your use A. It strengthens the stomach and helps indigestion coming of flegm and cold Fallopius his Allum-Water Take of Plantane and Red-rosewater of each a pound viz. a pint Roch Allum Quick silver and Sublimatum of each two drachms grind the Allum and the Sublimate very fine then let them boyl altogether in a glasse with a narrow mouth till half be consumed then let it stand five daies that the Sublimate and the drosse of the Allum may sink to the bottom then pour off the cleer water and keep it for your use A. Fallopius invented this for an unction for the French-pocks but in my opinion it is but a childish recept for the Quick-silver will most assuredly fly out in boyling PHYSICAL VVINES Wormwood Wine PUT a handful of dried Wormwood into every Congie of Wine stop the vessel close and so let it stand in infusion A. It helps cold stomachs breaks wind helps the Wind-chollick strengtheneth the stomach kills worms and helps the green sickness Rosemary-flower-Wine is made after the same manner that Wormwood Wine is made A. It is good against all cold diseases of the head consumeth flegm strengtheneth the gums and teeth Eyebright-Wine is also made after the same manner A. It wonderfully cleers the sight being drunk and revives the sight of ancient men a cup of it in the morning is worth a pair of Spectacles All other Wines are prepared in the same manner when the Physitian shall see fit quoth the Colledge A. But what if there be never a Physician worth a 〈◊〉 in 20. 30. 40. or 50. miles as some such places may be found in this Nation must the poor country man lose his cure truly this charity is according to the saying of the vulgar Fervent cold in such cases let them veiw the vertues of the Simple the Wine is made of and then let them know the Wine of that Simple is far better and fitter for cold bodies and weak stomachs than the Simple it self A. And now I have veiwed the next recept a little you shall have first the recept 2. my opinion of it 3. the vertue of it Gallens Wine of Squils Take of white Squills of the mountains gathered about the rising of the Dog-star and cut in thin peices one pound dry them in the shaddow for ten daies then put them in a glasse and put to them twelve sextaries of old French Wine let it stand so fourty daies then take out the Squils and throw them away A. If admiration were not the daughter of ignorance I should most assuredly have admired at two things in this recept 1. At the time of gathering this same Squil It seems the whol Colledg laid al their learned heads together to hammer out the time when this Squil must be taken out of the earth the result of their consultations was That it must be gathered circiter Canis ortum about the rising of the Dog-star but which of the two Dog-stars they mean whether Syrius or Procyon or what rising of either whether Cosmical Acronyct or Heliacal I know not nor I think themselves neither a child in Astronomy cannot chuse but smile at their learned ignorance It seems they well observe that excellent maxime of Hippocrates in his Praefat ad Astron nemo debet c. No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physitian who is ignorant of Astrology because he is a Physitian of no value Indeed the truth is the roots are brought to us from beyond sea and we must be content with such as we can get A. 2. It seems somthing strang to me why this Squill must be dried in the
syrup of Grapes Syrup of Betony Simple Take of the juyce of Betony clarified three pound white Sugar three pound boyl them to a Syrup After the same manner is made syrup of the juyces of Borrage Bugloss Carduns benedictus Chamomel Endive Succory Strawberries Fumitory Alehoof St. Johns Wort Hops Mercury Plantane Apples Scabious Coltsfoot 〈◊〉 or Pauls Bettony A. Reader before we passe any further I thought good to advertise thee of these few things which indeed I had inserted at the beginning of the surups had I not forgotten it A. 1. A syrup is a Medicine of a liquid body compounded of decoction infusion or juyce with Sugar or hony and brought by the heat of the fire into the thicknesse of hony A. 2. Because all hony is not of a thicknesse understand new hony which of all other is thinnest A. 3. The reason why decoctions infusions and juyces are thus used is because thereby 1. They will keep the longer 2. They will tast the better A. 4 In boyling syrups have a great care of their just consistence for if you boyl them too much they will candy if too little they will sour A. 5. All Simple syrups have the vertues of the simples they are made of and are far more convenient for weak people and queazy stomachs Syrup of Bettony compound Take of Betony three handfuls Marjoram a handful and an half Time Roses of each a handful Violets Staechas Sage of each half a handful the seeds of Fennel Annis Bishopsweed of each half an ouuce the roots of Peony Polipodium and Fennel of each five drachms boyl them in six pints of water till half be consumed strain it and ad to the decoction Juyce of Bettony a quart Sugar three pound and an half boyl them into a syrup according to art A. It helps diseases coming of cold both in the head and stomach as also such as come of wind vertigoes madness it concocts melancholly it provokes the terms in women and so doth the Simple syrup more than the Compound A. This composition was borrowed word for word from the Augustan Physitians though our Physitians absconded it contrary to their promise in the epistle to the reader Syrupus Bizantinus Simple Mesue Take of the juyce of Endive and Smallage of each a quart Juyce of Hops and Buglosse of each a pint boyl them and clarifie them then to four pound of Juyces remaining ad four pound of the best Sugar boyling it to a syrup over agentle fire Syrupus Bizantinus Compound Mesue In four pound of the same Juyces as they are set down in the Simple syrup boyl red Rose leaves two ounces Liquoris half an ounce the seeds of Annis Fennel Smallage of each three drachms Spicknard two drachms strain it and ad to the decoction a quart of Vineger Sugar four pound boyl it to a syrup according to art A. They both of them viz. both Simple and Compound opens stopping in the stomach cuts and brings away tough flegm and helps the yellow Jaundice Mesue saith the Compound syrup is of more effect than the Simple for the same uses Syrup of Quinces Mesue Take of the Juyce of Quinces six pound boyl it over a gentle fire till half be consumed scumming it well then add to it three pints of red Wines four pound of Sugar boyl it again to the consistence of a syrup into which put a drachm and an half of Cinnamon Cloves and Ginger of each two scruples tied up in a fine linnen cloath and hung into the syrup A. It strengthens the stomach and retains the food in it It staies vomiting it stops the loosness of the belly and helps the bloody flux it stoppeth the immoderate flux of the terms in women and is a gallant astringent medicine no lesse pleasant then profitable Syrup of Fumitory the Compund Fernelius Take of Endive Roman Wormwood Hops Dodder Harts tongue of each a handful Epithimum or Dodder of Time an ounce and an half boyl them in four pints of water till half be consumed to the liquor being strained out ad of the juyce of Fumitory clarified a pint and an half of the juyce of both sorts of Buglosse of each half a pint white Sugar four pound boyl it into a syrup according to art A. The recept is a pretty concocter of melancholly and therefore a rational help for diseases 〈◊〉 thence both internal and external It helps diseases of the skin as Leprosies Cancers Warts Corns Itch Tetters Ringworms Scabs c. and it is the better to be liked because of its gentleness for in my experience I could never find a violent medicine do good but ever harm in a melancholly disease It also strengthens the stomach and liver opens obstructions and is a soveraign remedy for Hypochondriack melancholly Syrup of Purslain Mesue Take of the seeds of Purslain grosly bruised half a pound of the juyce of Endive boyled and clarified two pound Sugar two pound Vinegar nine ounces infuse the seeds in the juyce of Endive twenty four hours afterwards boyl it half away with a gentle fire then strain it and boyl it with the Sugar to the consistence of a syrnp adding the Vineger towards the latter end of the decoction A. It is a pretty cooling syrup fit for any hot diseases incident to the stomach reins bladder matrix or liver it thickens flegm cools the blood and provokes sleep Compound Syrup of Coltsfoot Renodaeus Take six handfuls of green Coltsfoot two handfuls of Maiden-hair one handful of Hysop and two ounces of Liquoris boyl them in four pints either of rain or spring water till the fourth part be consumed then strain it and clarifie it to which ad three pound of white Sugar boyl it to the perfect consistence of a syrup A. The composition is apropriated to the lungues and therefore helps the infirmities weaknesses or failings thereof as want of voyce difficulty of breathing coughs hoarsness cathars c. Julep of Alexandria Take of red Rose water four pints Sugar two pound make a Julep of them according to art Julep of Roses Mesue Ad three pound of Rose water to three pound of Sugar and boyl them to a Julep according to art Julep of Violets is made after the same manner A It is confessed both Arabian and Graecian Physitians have written of these Juleps they are fine cooling drinks in the heat of Summer for such as are rich and have nothing else to do with their mony Oxysaxccharum symplex Nicholaus Take of white Sugar a pound of the juyce of Pomegranates eight ounces white wine Vineger four ounces boyl them into a syrup with a gentle fire A. Whether it were Nicholaus Monardus or Nicholaus Myrepsus that wrote this recept or any other Nicholas I know not neither have I time to look but if you would know the vertues of it look the vertues of Pomegranates amongst the Simples and you have it Syrup of Maiden-hair Mesue Take of Liquoris two ounces
Maiden-hair five ounces infuse them in four pints of spring water boyl them gently strain the decoction strongly and with a pound and an half of white Sugar boyl it unto a syrup according to art A. It opens stoppings of the stomach strengthens the 〈◊〉 and helps the infirmities of them Syrup of Cinnamon Take of Cinnamon grosly bruised four ounces infuse it in a pint of white wine for three daies in a glasse by a gentle heat then having strained out the Cinnamon ad to it a pound and an half of white sugar boyl it gently to a syrup A. It hath the same vertues with Cinnamon water and being not so hot must needs be far better for hot bodies After the same manner may be made syrup of Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds Ginger Cloves Nutmegs c. A. If any will be so nice to make such 't is but veiwing the Simples and there you have the vertues of them Syrup of Corrall Simple Take of Red Corral finely poudered as much as you will dissolve it in a glasse in Balneo Mariae in such a quantity of the clarified juyce of Barberries that the juyce may swim above it the breath of four fingers stopping the glasse cloose with cork or wax when it hath stood in the glasse three daies pour off what is dissolved and pour in fresh juyce of Barberries clarified set it in the bath again till all the Correl be dissolved Then to one pound of this juyce ad one pound of Sugar and boyl it to the consistence of a syrup but in the Preparation of this Syrup it requireth a great deal of skill and dexterity lest you er Syrup of Corral Compound Take of Red Corral six ounces bring it into a pouder by grinding it upon a marble with a little rose water Then add to it Juyce of Lemmons clarified from the flegm in Balneo Mariae sixteen ounces juyce of Barberries clarified eight ounces sharp wine Vineger juyce of wood Sorrel clarified of each six ounces digest them in a bath or else in horsedung eight daies in a large glasse stopped close with cork and bladder shaking it every day then let it run through a brown paper of which take a pound and an half juyce of Quinces half a pound Sugar of Roses twelve ounces mix them all together and with the gentle heat of a bath draw off the superfluous liquor till it be left of the consistence of a Syrup to which ad Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers sixteen ounces together with half a drachm of Amber greece and four grains of Musk tied up in a cloath and hung into the glasse by a string A. Syrup of Corral both Simple and compound restore such as are in consumptions are of a gallant cooling nature especially the last and very cordial special good for Hectick feavers it stops fluxes the running of the reins and the whites in women helps such as spit blood and such as have the falling sicknesse it staies the terms in women and indeed it had need be good for something for it is exceeding costly Syrup of the Infusion of Clove-Gilliflowers Take a pound of Clove-Gilliflowers the white being cut off infuse them at 3. times in three pints of spring water al night afterwards with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art A. Which if you do it will be scarce worth your labour but will lose both colour and tast and by consequence vertue in boyling and then the Colledg themselves would say 't is naught for in all syrups which you would have keep colour of which this is one add two pound of Sugar to each pint of insusion and only melt it over the fire in a peuter vessel and I assure you if in prescribing this and many other medicines the Colledg did make use of the ablest Apothecaries for the manner of composition of the medicines either the ablest were very weak or very negligent but enough of this A. The Syrup is a fine temperate syrup it strengthens the heart liver and stomach it refresheth the vital spirits and is a good cordial in feavers Syrup of Citron pills Mesue Take of the thin outward pills of Citrons dried five ounces of the berries of Kermes or the juyce of them brought over from beyond sea two drachms spring water four pints set them in infufiou all night and the next morning boyl it till half be consumed strain it and add to the decoction two pound and an half of very good sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art which perfume with six grains of the best Musk wrapped up in fine linnen and hung into the syrup by a string A. It strengthens the stomach resists poyson strengthens the heart and refists the passions thereof palpitation faintings swoonings It strengthens the vital spirit restores such as are in consumptions and hectick feavers and strengthens nature much Syrup of Water-Lillie-flowers Simple Nicholaus Take of the whitest part of White-water-Lilly-flowers a pound infuse them for seven hours in three pound of warm water then boyl it a little and strain it and add the like quantity of fresh flowers use them in like manner as you did the former repeat this infusion three times then clarifie the infusion and having added the like quantity of sugar to it boyl it into a syrup according to art Syrup of Water-lillie-flowers the Compound Fernelius Take of Water-lillie-flowers half a pound the flowers of Violets two ounces Lettice two handfuls the seeds of Lettice Purslain and Gourds of each half an ounce boyl all these in four pints of water to the consumption of one pint and having strained it ad to the decoction Red Rose Water half a pint White Sugar four pound boyl it to a Syrup according to art A. They both are fine cooling Syrups they allay the heat of choller and provoke sleep they cool the body both head heart liver reins and matrix and therefore are profitable for hot diseases in either Syrup of Meconium Mesue A. Meconium The blush of which this Receipt carries in its frontispice is nothing else but the juyce of English Poppies boyled til it be thick as I am of opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of Poppies growing in hotter countries and therefore in al reason is colder in quality and therefore I speak purely of Meconium and Opium not of these Syrups though they be no edge-tools yet t is ill jesting with them Take of the heads of white Poppies meanly ripe and green eight ounces of the heads of black Poppies meanly ripe and green six ounces rain-Rain-water four pints boyl them in the water til half of it be consumed then strain it and with fixteen ounces of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art and when you have done so you may use it if you please for Diacodium Syrup of 〈◊〉 the lesser Composition Take the heads of white Poppies and black when both of
them are green of each six ounces the seeds of Lettice the flowers of Violets of each one ounce boyl them in eight pints of water till the vertue is out of the heads then strain them and with four pound of Sugar boyl the liquor to a Syrup Syrup of Popplyes the greater Composition Mesue Take of the heads of both white and black Poppies seeds and all of each 50. drachms Maiden-hair 15. drachms Liquoris 5. drachms Jujubies 30. by number Lettice seeds 40. drachms of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces tied up in a thin linnen cloath of each a drachm and an an half boyl these in eight pints of water til five pints be consumed when you have strained out the three pints remaining add to them Penidies and White Sugar of each a pound boyl them into a Syrup according to art A. All these former Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness such as these are are not fit to be given in the beginnings of Feavers nor to such whose bodies are costive ever remēber my former Motto Fools are not fit to make Physitians Yet to such as are troubled w th hot sharp Rheums you may safely give them and note this the last which is borrowed from Mesue is apropriated to the Lungus whose own words translation excepted of it are these It prevails against dry coughs Phtisicks hot and sharp gnawing Rhewms and provokes sleep Syrups of Red or Erratick Poppies A. by many called Corn-Roses Tak of flowers of red Poppies two pound infuse them 24. hours in four pints of spring water and with three pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. Some are of opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other beleeve them that list I know no danger in this syrup so it be taken with moderation and bread immoderatly taken hurts the syrup cools the blood helps surfets and may safely be given in Frenzies Feavers and hot agues Syrup of Peach flowers Take of fresh Peach-flowers a pound infuse them in three pints of warm water for the space of twelve hours then let them boyl a little and presse them out adding the like quantity of Peach-flowers and use them as the former do so five times at last to three pound of the infusion add two pound and an half of Sugar boyl it to a syrup A. It is a gentle purger of choller and may be given even in feavers to draw away the sharp chollerick humors according to the opinion of Andernacus whose recept all things considered differs little from this Syrup of dried Roses Mesue Take four pound of spring water in which being warm infuse a pound of dried red Rose leaves for the space of twenfour hours then presse them out and with two pound of white sugar boyl the infusion to a syrup A. I pray take a caution or two a long with you concerning this syrup and there is need enough unlesse it were penned more wisely than it is A. 1. You cannot infuse all the rose leaves at one time because there will not be water enough to wet them hardly you must then infuse them at diverse A man had need have a head as deep as a Colepit to reach their meaning in some of their recepts A. 2. If you boyl it it will lose both color and vertue and then who but the Colledg would first cry out against such paltry stuff I am weary with noting this in every receit therefore be pleased to accept of this one general rule It is not best to boyl any syrup made of infusions but by adding the double weight of Sugar viz. two pound of Sugar to each pint of Infusion melt it over a fire only A. Syrup of dried Roses strengthens the heart comforts the spirits bindeth the body helps fluxes and corrosions or gnawings of the guts it strengthens the stomach and staies vomiting Syrup of Roses Solutive Mesue Take of the infusions of Rofes made with fresh Damask Roses let the infusion be repeated nine times let it be made in that proportion that one pound of Rose flowers may be infused in four pints of water and those being taken out infuse as many more in the same water do so nine times six pound with four pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It loosneth the belly and gently bringeth out choller and flegm Syrup of Roses with Agrick Take of choice Agrick sliced thin an ounce Ginger sliced two drachms Sal gem one drachm Polipodium grosly bruised two ounces sprinkle them with white Wine then infuse them two daies in such infusion of damask Roses as you were taught to make the former receit a pound and an half warm by the fire then presse it out and with one pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art A. You had better ad twice so much Sugar as is of the infusion for fear the strength of the Agrick be lost in boyling A. It purgeth flegm from the head releeves the sences oppressed by it it provokes the terms in women It purgeth the stomach and liver and provoketh urine Syrup of Roses Solutive with Hellebore Montanus Take of the bark of all the Myrobalans of each four ounces bruise them grosly and infuse them in twelve pints of the infusion of Roses before prescribed 24. hours adding of Senna Epithimum and Polipodium of the Oak of each four ounces Cloves an ounce Citron seeds liquoris of each four ounces of the bark of black Hellebore roots six drachms boyl them all to the consumption of the fourth part to which ad five pound of white Sugar choice Rhubarb tied up in a linnen cloath sixteen drachms boyl them into a syrup according to art A. You must not boyl the black Hellebore at al or but very little if you do you had as good put none in me thinks the Colledg should have had either more wit or honesty than to have left recepts so woodenly penned to posterity or it may be they wrote as they say only to the learned or in plain English for their own ends or to satisfie their covetousness that a man must needs run to them every time his finger akes A. The Syrup rightly used purgeth melancholly resisteth madnesse Syrup of Violets Take of pick'd Violet flowers a pound Spring water heat hot a pound and an half or else a sufficient quantity infuse the Violets in the water let it stand warm and close stopped 24. hours then presse them very hard out and to one pound of the expression add two pound of fine Sugar only dissolve the Sugar and so keep the Syrup for your use Syrup of the juyce of Violets Make it up with just so much juyce of the flowers of violets as will dissolve the Sugar into a Syrup without boyling A. Which is two pound of Sugar to one pound of Juyce A. This latter Syrup is far more chargable than the
former and in all reason the better although I never knew it used they both of them cool and moisten and that very gently they correct the sharpness of choller and give ease in hot vices of the breast they quench thirst in acute feavers and resist the heat of the disease they comfort hot stomachs exceedingly cool the liver and heart and resist putrifaction pestilence and poyson COMPOUND SYRUPS WHOSE SIMPLES ARE NOT IN USE Syrup of Wormwood Mesue Take of Roman Wormwood half a pound red Rose leaves two ounces Indian spicknard three drachms old white Wine juyce of Quinces of each two pound and an half infuse them 24. hours in an earthen vessel then boyl them till half be consumed strain out the decoction and with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art A. Mesue is followed verbatim in this and the recept is apropriated to cold and flegmatick stomachs and in my opinion 't is an admirable remedy for it for it strengthens both stomach and liver as also the instruments of concoction a spoonful taken in the morning is admirable for such as have a weak digestion it provokes an Appetite to ones victuals it prevails against the yellow Jaundice breaks wind purgeth humors by urine Syrup of Marsh-Mallows Fernelius Take of Marsh-Mallow roots two ounces red Cicers an ounce the roots of Grasse Sparagus and Liquoris Raisons of the sun stoned of each half an ounce the branches of Marsh-mallows pellitory of the wall Burnet Plantane Maiden-hair both white and black of each a handful of the four greater and four lesser cold seeds of each three drachms boil them in six pints of water till only four remain to which ad four pounds of Sugar and boil it to a syrup A. It is a fine cooling opening slippery syrup and chiefly commendable for the chollick stone or gravel in the kidnies or bladder A. I shall only give you a caution or two concerning this syrup which for the forenamed effects I hold to be exceellent A. 1. Be sure you boyl it enough for if you boyl it never so little too little it will quickly be sour A. 2. For the chollick which is nothing else but an infirmity in the gut called Colon and thence it takes its name you had best use it in Clisters but for gravel or the stone drink it in convenient midicines or by it self If both of them afflict you use it both waies I assure you this midicine will save those that are subject to such diseases both mony and pain Syrup of Mugwort Matheus De Grad Take of Mugwort two handfuls Penyroyal Chamomel Origanum Bawm Ars-smart Dittany of Creet Savin Marjoram Germander St. Johns Wort Chamepytis Featherfew with flowers Centaury the lesse Rue Bettony Buglosse of each one handful the roots of Fennel Smalledge Parsly Sparagus Bruscus Saxifrage Alicampane Cyperus Madder Orris Peony of each an ounce Juniper berries the seeds of Lovage Parsly Small age Annis Nigella Carpobal samum or Cubebs Costus or Zedoary the roots of Asarabacca and Pellitory of Spain Cassia Lignea Cardamoms Calamus Aromaticus Valerian of each half an ounce Let these being bruised be infused for 24. hours in twelve pints of water afterwards boyled till half the water be consumed when it is pretty cool strain it and ad to the decoction Honey and sugar of each two pound sharp vineger four ounces boyl them into a syrup perfuming it with Cinnamon and Spicknard of each three drachms tied up in a rag and boyled a little in the syrup A. It helps the passions of the matrix and retains it in its place it dissolves the coldness wind and pains thereof it strengthens the nerves opens the pores corrects the blood it corrects and provokes the terms in women Syrupus Augustanus Or Syrup of Rhubarb of the Augustane Physitians Take of the best Rhubarb of Senna of each two ounces and an half Violet flowers a handful Cinnamon a drachm and an half Ginger half a drachm the waters of Betony Succory and Bugloss of each a pound and an half infuse them all night in the morning strain it and boyl it into a Syrup with two pound of white Sugar adding to it four ounces of the Syrup of Roses solutive following A. It cleanseth Choller and Melancholly very gently and therefore is fit for children old people and weak bodies Syrup of Roses solutive without Helibore Take of all the Myrobalans of each two ounces bruise them grolly rub them with a little oyl of sweet Almonds then infuse them in fifteen pound of infusion of Roses for 24. hours space then add to them Polypodium two ounces and an half the seeds of Carthamus or bastard Saffron an ounce and an half Annis sweet Fennel seeds of each six drachms Senna three ounces Epithimum an ounce and an half Citron pills an ounce Cloves half an ounce Nutmegs three drams infuse them again 24. hours which being elapsed strain them hard and ad one pound of sugar to every two pound of the liquor boyl it into a syrup This is the syrup which should be added to the former Syrup of Rhubarb Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb Take of whol Barley the roots of Smallage Fennel Sparagus of each two ounces Succory Dandelion Endive smooth Sow-thistle of each two handfuls Lettice Liverwort Fumatory tops of Hops of each a handful both sorts of Maiden-hair Cetrach Liquoris winter-Cherries Dodder of each six drachms boyl them in 12. pints of spring-water til the third part be consumed then strain it and with six pound of Sugar boyl it to a syrup in which whilst it is bovling hang by a string six ounces of Rhubarb six drams of Spicknard tied up in a rag let it boyl a walm or two pressing it often and let it hang into the syrup perfectly boyled A. This Recept without a name was borrowed from Nicholaus Floâ— entinus the difference is only in the quantity of the Rhubarb and Spike besides the order inverted whose own approbation of it runs in these terms A. It cleanseth the body of venemous humors as Boyles Carbuncles and the like it prevails in pestilential Feavers it strengthens the heart and nutritive vertue purgeth by stool and urine it makes a man have a good stomach to his meat and provokes sleep A. But by my Authors leave I never yet accounted purges to be proper physick in Pestilential Feavers this I beleeve the Syrup cleanseth the liver well and is exceeding good for such as are troubled with Hypocondriack melancholly Syrupus Diasereos Andernacus Take of Endive and Succory of each a handful Maiden-hair both white and black Agrimony Cetrach Hops Fumitory of each half a handful winter Cherries Doddar of each three drachms The roots of Smalledg Fennel Sparagus of each half an ounce Polipodium of the Oak an ounce Liquoris six drachms the seeds of Bastard Safiron or Carthamus an ounce the four greater cold seeds of each two drachms French Barly
of the Oak the roots of Smallage and Fennel of each half an ounce white Maidenhair Origanum Hysop Calaminth Time Scabious Savory Coltsfoot of each six drachms the seeds of Annis and Cotton of each three drams Raisons of the sun stoned two ounces fat Figs ten boyl these altogether in Hydromel eight pints till half be consumed then when you have strained it boyl it into a syrup with Hony and white Sugar of each two pound perfume it with an ounce of the roots of Orris Florentine A. It is apropriated to the breast and lungues and is a fine cleanser to purge them from thick and putrified flegm it helps Phthisicks and coughs and diseases subject to old men and cold natures Syrup of Rhadishes Fernelius Take of Radish roots both Garden and Wild of each an ounce the roots of white Saxifrage Bruscus Lovage Fringo Rest harrow Parsly Fennel of each half an ounce the leaves of Bettony Burnet Pennyroyal the tender Tops of Nettles Watercresses Samphire Maiden hair of each a handful Winter cherrics Jujubes of each twenty the seeds of Bazil Burs Parsly of Macedonia Seseli Caraway Carrots Gromwell the bark of the roots of the bay tree of each two drams Raisons of the sun stoned Liquoris of each six drachms boil them according to art in twelve pints of water till eight remain in which being strained dissolve four pound of Sugar and two pound of Hony and boyl them into a cleer syrup the which perfume with an ounce of Cinnamon and half an onnce of Nutmegs A. The syrup is apropriated to the reins and bladder both which it powerfully cleanseth it breaketh and bringeth forth the stone it purgeth the reins of gravel it helpeth all supression and stopping of urine as Dysuria Iscuria c. Syrups of the five opening Roots Mesue Take of the roots of Smallage Fennel Parsley Brusous and Sparagus of each two ounces boyl them in six pints of spring-water till the third part be consumed strain it and with three pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup adding eight ounces of white-Wine-Vineger towards the latter end of the decoction A. It cleanseth and openeth very well is profitable against obstructions provokes urine cleanseth the body of 〈◊〉 and is safely and profitably given in the beginning of Feavers A Magisterial syrup of Scabious Compound Take of the roots of Alicampane and Polipodium of the Oak of each two ounces infuse them 24. hours in white Wine Raisons of the sun stoned an ounce Sebesten 30. Coltfsoot Lunguewort Savory Calaminth of each a handful and an half Liquoris half an ounce one whol leaf of the best Tobacco the seeds of Nettles and Cotton of each three drachms boil them in a sufficient quantity of wine and water to eight ounces to which being strained ad of the juyce of Scabious clarified four ounces white Sugar ten ounces boyl it into a syrup clarified according to art adding to it twenty drops of oyl of Sulphur A. It is a cleansing syrup apropriated to the breast and lungues when you perceive them oppressed by flegm cruditiesor stoppings here 's your remedy Syrup of Hartstongue Fernelius Take of Polypodium of the Oak the roots of both sorts of Buglosse bark of Cappar roots bark of Tamaris of each two ounces Hartstongue three handfuls Hops Doddar Maiden-hair Bawm of each two handfuls boil them in nine pints of water till there remains but five strain it clarifie it and with four pound of white Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It helps stoppings of melancholly opens obstructions of the liver and spleen and is profitable against splenetick evils and therefore is a choice remedy for the disease which the vulgar call the rickets or livergrown Syrup of Stoechas Mesue Take of the flowers of Stoechas four ounces Time Calaminth Origanum of each an ounce and an half Sage Bettony Rosemary flowers of each half an ounce the seeds of Rue Peony and Fennel of each three drachms boyl them in ten pints of water till half be consumed strain it and boil the decoction into a syrup with Hony and Sugar of each two pound perfume it with Cinnamon Ginger and Calamus Aromaticus of each two drachms tied up in a thin rag and hung into the Syrup A. This recept looks like Mesue because the Simples are composed with such harmony I confesse I have found in his works one or two syrups of this name but not this same composition yet am I willing to think it his not so much because the Colledg saith it as because I can judg of the tree by the fruit A. Surely surely was this recept penned against cold infirmities of the brain Spinalis Medulla and their Handmaids or rather Officers the nerves helps both sence and motion anoyed by cold or melancholly I am curbed for being so larg therefore in general you if you try it shall find it an admirable remedy against palsies or tremblings of the limbs convulsions cramps falling-sicknesse and all other infirmities of the brain arising from cold moisture or melancholly and the composition is husbanded with such discreation and moderation that without all question it was distilled from the brain of a Mesue Syrup of Comfry Fernelius Take of the roots and branches both of the greater and lesser Comfry of each three handfuls red Roses Bettony Plantane Burnet Knot grasse Scabious Coltsfoot of each two handfuls let the joyce be pressed from them all being fresh and green and well beaten boyl it away to three pound scumming it well and with two pound and an half of Sugar boyl it to a syrup A. Were it not for fear my book would grow bigger than I would willingly have it I could easily prove that the syrup would be far better if the juyces were only clarified and not boyled at all but with their double weight in sugar melted only into a syrup A. The syrup is excellent for all inward wounds and bruises excoriations vomitings spittings or piffing of blood it unites broken bones helps ruptures and stops the terms in women A Cordial syrup or Julep Norimberg Take of Rhenish wine a quart Rose water two ounces and an half Cloves two scruples Cinnamon half a drachm Ginger two scruples of the best Sugar three onnces and an half boil it to the consistence of a Julep which perfume with three grains of Amber-greece and one grain of musk A. He that hath read thus far in this book and doth not know he must first boyl the Simples in the wine and then strain them out before he puts in the Sugar is a man that in my opinion hath not wit enough to be taught to make up a medicine A. If you would have this Julep keep long you may put in more Sugar and yet if close stopped it will not easily corrupt because it is made up only of wine indeed the wisest way is to order the quantity of Sugar according to the pallat of him that takes it A.
It restoreth such as are in consumptions comforts the heart cherisheth drooping spirits and is of an opening quality thereby carrying away those vapours which might otherwise anoy the brain SYRUPS MADE WITH HONEY AND VINEGER AND HONEY Diacaryon Or Dianucum Gallen Take of the juyce of green Walnuts two pound clarifie it and with a pound of Hony boyl it into a syrup A. It is an excellent preservative in pestilential times Diacodium Gallen Take of the heads of white Poppies neither too green nor too ripe by number twenty rain or spring water three pints infuse them twenty four hours then boil them till the vertue be out of the heads then strain it and with two pound of Hony boyl it to the consistence of a syrup some ad to it Sapa two pound juyce of Liquoris two ounces A. It works the same effects with the former syrups of Poppie Diamoron Nicholaus Take of the juyce of Mulberries and Blackberries neither of them being fully ripe of each a pound and an half boyl them with two pound of Hony over a gentle fire into a syrup A. It is vulgarly known to be good for sore mouths as also to cool inflamations there Hony of Rosemary flowers Mesue Take of Rosemary flowers a pound clarified Hony three pound put them together in a glasse that hath not a very wide mouth set them in the Sun to digest and being digested keep it for your use A. It hath the same vertues with Rosemary flowers to which I refer you only by reason of the hony it may be somewhat cleansing Honey of Mercury Take of the juyce of Herb Mercury three pound with two pound of Hony boil it into a syrup A. It is used as an Emollient in Clisters Honey of Raisons Nicholaus Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned two pounds infuse them 24. hours in fix pints of warm water then boyl them till half the water be consumed strain them and with two pound of Hony boil it into a syrup A. It is a pretty pleasing medicine for such as are in consumptions and are bound in body Honey of Roses Common Mesue Take of red Rose buds picked two pound Honey fix pound digest them in the sun like the Honey of Rosemary flowers Honey of Roses Nicholaus Take of the best Honey clarified ten pounds the Juyce of fresh red Roses one pound put them in a pan over the fire and when they begin to boyl ad four pound of fresh red Roses the whites being cut off let it boil till the juyce be consumed continually stirring it and so keep it for your use being strained A. They are both used for diseases in the mouth Honey Roses Solutive Take of the infusion of Damask Roses as you have formerly been shewed to make it five pounds clarified Honey four pounds boil it into the consistence of a syrup A. It is used as a laxative in Clisters and some Chyrurgians use it to cleanse wounds In the same manner may be prepared Honey of red Roses Honey of Violets is made in the same manner Oximel Simple Mesue Take of the best clarified honey three pound pure water and of the best Vineger of each two pound boyl them into the consistence of a syrup A. Your best way is to boyl the water and honey first into a syrup and add the Vineger afterwards and then boil it again into a syrup A. It cuts flegm and is a good preparative before a vomit Oximel Compound Mesue Take of the bark of the roots of Fennel Smallage Parsly Bruscus Sparagus of each two ounces The seeds of Smallage Parsly Fennel Annis of each one ounce and with six pound of water one pound and an half of vineger and three pound of Honey make it into a syrup A. First having bruised the roots and seeds boil them in the water till half be consumed then strain it and ad the honey and when it is almost boyled enough add the vineger A. It cuts thick and grosse humors and cleanseth the body of them it opens the stoppings both of the liver and spleen it purgeth the reins provokes urine and sweat Heleborated Oximel the greater Gesner Take of Rue true Time Dittany of Creet Hysop Penyroyal Horehound Carduus Benedictus the roots of Spicknard Celtick without leaves the inner bark of Elders of each a handful Mountain Nepp two pugils The seeds of Annis Fennel Basil Roman Nettles Dill of each two drachmas the roots of Angelica marsh Mallows Aron Squils prepared Aristolochiah or Birth wort long round and climing Turpeth our Orris Costus smelling like Violets or else Zedoary Polypodium Lemmon pills of each an ounce of the strings of the roots of Black Hellebore Spurge of each two drachms the bark of the root of white Hellebore half an ounce Agrick two drachms which you must put in towards the latter end of the decoction let all of them being dried and bruised be infused in eight pints of Posca viz. equal parts of water and vineger Sapa two ounces either in the Sun or in a Furnace either in a glasse or earthen vessel then boyl it either in an earthen or stone vessel till almost half be consumed strain it out but gently and ad to it hony roses in which two ounces of Citron pills have been infused a pound and an half then boil it till the Posca be consumed and so it come to the body of a syrup the which perfume with Cloves Saffron Ginger Galanga and Mace of each a a drachm tied in a rag keep it either in a glasse or a pot for your use A. It is such a mess of altogether that a man scarce knows what to do with it here are many Simples very cordial many provoke the terms some purge gently some violently and some cause vomiting being all put together I verily think if warily given it may be a fit purge in some cases for madness coming of melancholly provided they be not Phrenitick or as the vulgar say frantick for then purges are not fitting Oximel Julianizans Take of the bark of Cappar roots Orris roots the roots of Fennel Parsly Bruscus Succory Sparagus Cyperus of each half an ounce the leaves of Hartstongue Schoenanth Tamaris of each a handful sweet Fennel seeds half an ounce first infuse-them and then boyl them in three pints of sharp Posca to a pint and an half which boyl into the body of a syrup with Honey and course Sugar of each half a pound Posca is made of water and vineger and is either more or less sharp according to the intention of the Physician A. This medicine is very opening very good against Hypocondriack Melancholly and as fit a medicine as can be for that disease in Children called the Rickets Oximel of Squils Simple Nicholaus Take of clarified Honey three pound Vineger of Squils two pound boyl them into a syrup according to art A. They say they borrowed this receit of
Nicholaus but of what Nicholaus I know not the self same receit is word for word in Mesue whose commendations of it is this It cuts and divides humors that are tough and viscus and therefore helps the stomach and bowels afflicted by such humors and helps sour belchings A. View the Vineger of Squils and then your reason will tell you this is as wholsom and somewhat more toothsom Democritus his Vineger of Squills Mesue Take of Origanum dried Hysop Time Loyage Cardamoms Stoechas of each five drachms boyl them in three pints of water till two of them be consumed strain it and with two pound of hony half a pound of hony of Raisons juyce of Briony five ounces Vineger of Squils a pound and an half Boyl it into a syrup alwaies scumming it A. Mesue saith this is good against the falling sicknesse Megrim headach vertigo or swimming in the head and if these be occasioned by the stomach as many times they are I beleeve it is it helps the lungues obstructed by humors and is good for women not wel cleansed after labor it opens the passage of the womb Honey of Anacardium Azaravius Take of Anacardia or Beans of Malacca fresh bruise them and boil them in water till a kind of raddish substance like honey swim at top take off that and keep it for your use A. See the Fruit. Honey of Emblicks August Take sifty Emblick Myrobalans bruise them and boyle them in three pints of water till two be consumed strain it and with the like weight of honey boyl it into a syrup A. It is a fine gentle purger both of flegm and melancholly it strengthens the brain and nerves and sences both internal and external helps trembling of the heart staies vomiting provokes appetite ROB OR SAPA AND IVYCES A. ROB is somthing an uncouth word and happily formidable to the Ignorant Country-man and therefore in the first place I will explain the word A. 1. Rob or Sapa is the juyces of a fruit made thick by the heat either of the Sun or the fire that so it is capable of being kept safe from putrifaction A. 2. It s use was first invented for diseases in the mouth however or for whatsoever it is used now it matters not A. 3. It it usually made in respect of body something thicker than new honey A. 4. It may be kept about a year little more or lesse Simple Rob or Sapa Take twelve pints of new White-Wine boyl it over a gentle fire till but four remain or else till it be of the thickness of honey keep it either in a glasse or in an earthen pot glazed A. When ever you reade the word Rob or Sapa throughout the Dispensatory simply quoted in any medicine without any relation of what it should be made this is that you ought to use Rob of Barberries Take of the juyce of Barberries well strained eight pound boyl it with a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey and so lay it up in a glasse or earthen vessel you may also prepare it with Sugar by adding a pound of Sugar to every pound of Juyce and so boyling it to the thicknesse of Honey A. It quencheth thirst closeth the mouth of the stomach thereby staying vomiting and belching it strengthens stomachs weakened by heat and procures appetite Rob of Cornels Take of the juyce of Cornels two pound Sugar a pound and an half boyl it to the consistence of Honey A. Of these Cornel trees are two sorts male and foemale the fruit of the male Cornel or Cornelian Cherry is here to be used for the foemale is that which is called Dogberry in the North country they call it Gatter-wood and we in Sussex Dog-wood I suppose because the berries will make Dogs mad as some hold also it is very unwholsom wood specially for such as have been bitten by mad dogs A. The fruit of male Cornel binds exceedingly and is therefore good in fluxes bloody fluxes and the immoderate flowing of the terms in women Rob of Quinces Take six pound of the juyce of Quinces clarified boil it till two parts be consumed adding to it two pound of Sugar boil it to the thickness of Honey or you may prepare it without Sugar A. Its effects are the same with the former only I suppose it to be more cordial and not so cool but more strengthening to the stomach A Rob of the juyce of sour plums is made in the same manner as Rob of Quinces Rob of English Currance It is prepared as Rob of Barberries But that it may be well clarified first heat it then let it stand and grow cleer and use only what is cleer A. The effects are the same with that of Barberries Juyce of Sloes which is used for Acacia Take of the juyce of sloes clarifie it with the gentle heat of a bath adduce it to its just thicknesse A. It stops fluxes of the belly The juyces of wormwood Maudlin Fumitory and other herbs are made of the herbs when they are tender not too rank Beaten and pressed clarified and then boyled to their due height A. The vertue is the same with the herbs only here is diversity of waies to please diversity of palats Juyce of Liquoris Take of the roots of green Liquoris well scraped and well bruised infuse them in so much spring water that the water may over top them the bredth of two or three fingers for three daies then boyl them a little and strain them then boyl the decocton to a due thicknes and make it into what form you please A. It is vulgarly known to be good against coughs colds c. and a strengthener of the lungues Miua of Quinces Mesue Take of the juyce of Quinces clarified twelve pound boyl it till half be consumed then add to it five pints of old white Wine boil it over a gentle fire often scumming it till the third part be consumed then let it cool then strain it and with three pound of Sugar boil it to its due thickness A. It is something better for cold stomachs than Rob of Quinces and less binding else the effects are the same LOHOCHS A. BEcause this word also is understood but by few we will first explain what it is A. The word Lohoch is an Arabick word called in Greek 〈◊〉 in Latin Linctus and signifies a thing to be lick'd up A. 2. it is in respect of body something thicker then a syrup and not so thick as an Electuary A. 3. It s use it was invented for was against the roughness of the windpipe diseases and inflamations of the lungs difficulty of breathing colds coughs c. A. 4. It s manner of reception is with a Liquoris stick bruised at end to take up some and retain it in the mouth till it melt of its own accord Lohoch of Coleworts Gordonius Take a pound of the juyce of Coleworts clarified Saffron three drachms clarified Honey and Sugar
strengthens weak stomachs exceedingly and helps such as are prone to faimings and swoonings it strengthens such as are weakened by violence of sickness it helps bad memories quickens all the senses strengthens the brain and Animal spirit helps the falling sickness and succours such as are troubled with Asthmaes or other cold afflictions of the lungues A Preservative Pouder against the Pestilence Montagnan Take of all the Saunders the seeds of Bazil of each an ounce and an half Bole Armenick Cinnamon of each an ounce The roots of Dittany Gentian and Tormentil of each two drachms and an half the seeds of Citron and Sorrel of each two drachms Pearls Saphire bone of a Stags heart of each one drachm beat them into pouder according to art A. The title tels you the vertue of it besides it cheers the vital spirit and strengthens the heart Species Electuarii Rosatae Novellae Nicholaus Take of Roses Sugar Liquoris of each one ounce one drachm two scruples and an half Cinnamon two drachms two scruples and two grains Cloves Galanga Indian Spicknard Ginger Nutmegs Zedoary Styrax Cardamoms Smallage of each one scruple and eight grains Sugar so much as is sufficient make it first of all into a pouder then into an Electuary according to art A. Sure it was Dr. Oblivion and not the Colledge that was the Author of such a sleepy business to set Sugar twice in one receit A. It quencheth thirst and staies vomiting and the Author saith it helps hot and dry stomachs as also heat and driness of the heart liver and lungues yet is the pouder it self hot it strengthens the vital spirit takes away heart qualms provokes sweat and strengthens such as have labored long under Cronical diseases A Pouder to stop blood Gallen Take of Frankinsence one drachm Aloes half a drachm beat them into pouder and when you have occasion to use it mix so much of it with the white of an Eg as wil make it of the thicknesse of Honey then dip the wool of a Hare in it and apply it to the sore or part that bleedeth binding it on A. In my opinion this is a pretty medicine and will stick on till the sore be throughly healed and then will come off of it self I remember when I was a child we applied such a medicine only we left out the Aloes and Frankinsence and used only Coneys wool and the white of an Eg to kibed heels and alwaies with good success A Pouder for Scabs Take of Sulphur Vivum Niter the leaves of Marjoram of each two drachms Letharge of Gold black Hellebore roots of each one drachm Burnet half a drachm beat them into pouder according to art A. I cannot speak much in commendations of it and I dare not dispraise it because it comes from the Colledge therefore I will let it alone Pulvis Radulphi Hollandi Commonly known by the name of Holland Pouder Take of the seeds of Annis Caraway Fennel Cummin of Spicknard Cinnamon Galanga of each half an ounce Liquoris Gromwell of each one ounce Senna the weight of them all beat them all into pouder A. That this recept is gallantly composed none can deny and is an excellent purge for such bodies as are troubled with the wind Chollick or stoppage either of the guts or kidneyes two drachms taken in white-Wine will work sufficiently with any ordinary body Pulvis Sanctus Brasavola Take of Senna and Cremor tartar of each two ounces Cloves Cinnamon Galanga Bishops weed of each two drachms Diagrydium half an ounce beat them into pouder according to art In the want of seeds of Bishops Weed of which such as are fresh and good are many times not to be had you may put in Annis seeds in lieu of them Pulvis Senne Take of the best Senna two ounces Cremor tartar half an ounce Mace two scruples and an half Ginger Cinnamon of each one drachm and an half Sal Indi one drachm beat them into pouder according to art A. Both this and the former pouder purge melancholly and cleanse the head Montagnanus was the Author of this latter only the Colledg somthing altered the quantities of the Simples the former pouder works something violently by reason of the Scammony that is in it the latter is more gentle and may be given without danger even two drachm at a time to ordinary bodies I would not have the unskilful meddle with the former Diaturbith the greater without Rhubarb Take of the best Turbith an ounce Diagrydium Ginger of each half an ounce Cinnamon Cloves of each two drams Galanga long Pepper Mace of each one drachm beat them into pouder and with eight ounces and five drachms of white Sugar dissolved in succory water it may be made into an Electuary A. It purgeth flegm being rightly administred by a skilful hand Diaturbith with Rhubarb Montagnanus Take of the best Turbith and Hermodactills of each an ounce Rhubarb ten drachms Diagrydium half an ounce white and red Sanders Violets Ginger of each a drachm and an half Mastich Annis seed Cinnamon Saffron of each half a drachm beat them all into pouder and with white Sugar one pound two ounces and two drachms dissolved in Succory water you may make it into an Electuary according to art A. This also purgeth flegm and choller Once more let me desire such as are unskilful in the rules of Physick not to meddle with purges of this nature unless prescribed by a skilful Physitian lest they do themselves more mischeif in half an hour than they can claw off again in half a yeer A Pouder for the Worms Take of Worm seeds four ounces Senna one ounce Coriander seed prepared Hartshorn of each half a drachm Rhubarb half an ounce dried Rue two drachms beat them into pouder A. I like this pouder very well the quantity or to write more scholastically the dose must be regulated according to the age of the patient even from ten grains to a drachm and the manner of taking it by their pallat It is something purging ELECTVARIES Antidotus Analeptica Or Electuarium Resumptivum Fernelius TAke of Red-roses and Liquoris of each two drachms and five grains Gum Arabick and Traganth of each two drachms and two scruples Sanders white and red of each four scruples juyce of Liquoris white Starch the seeds of of white Poppies Purslain Lettice Endive of each three drachms of the four greater cold seeds the seeds of Quinces Mallows Cotton Violets Pine-Nuts fresh Fistick-Nuts sweet Almonds pulp of Sebestens of each two drachms Cloves Spodium Cinnamon of each one drachm Saffron five grains Penidies half an ounce let all of them being beaten into pouder be made into a soft Electuary with three times their weight in syrup of Violets A. Besides the inverting of the Order which is a matter of nothing here is Zedoary Ginger and Styrax calamitis of each two drachms left quite out by the Colledge or as I am of opinion
rather by the Transcriber which is an easie thing together with want of a careful Corrector to be done I weigh not the vaporing of the Printer at the latter end of the book being confident if a thing were left out he knew it no more than a Hog knows how to fiddle A. It restores Consumptions and Hectick-feavers strength lost it nourisheth much and restores radical moisture opens the pores resists Choller takes away coughs quencheth thirst and resisteth feavers Confectio Alkermes Mesue Take of the juyce of sweet-sented Apples sweet rose-Rosewater of each a pound and an half in which infuse the space of 24. hours raw Silk four ounces strain it out strongly and to the former juyces ad of the juyce of the berries of Kermes brought over to us a pound Sugar two pounds boyl it to the thickness of Honey then it being removed from the fire whilst it is yet hot ad to it half an ounce of Amber greece cut very small which being well melted put in these following things beaten into pouder choice Cinnamon wood of Aloes of the best Lapis lazuli burnt in a Crucible then beaten into pouder and washed first of all in common water then in Rose or Borrage water and that very often drying of it and washing of it again and let this be so often repeated till the water remain cleer after the washing of each six drachms Pearls prepared three drachms Leaves of Gold of the best Musk of each one drachm make them all up into an Electuary according to art A. Questionlesse this is a great Cordial and a mighty strengthener of the heart and spirit vital a restorer of such as are in Consumptions a resister of Pestilences and Poyson a great releef to languishing nature it is given with good successe in feavers but give not too much of it at a time lest it prove too hot for the body and too heavy for the purse Electuary of Bay-Berries Rhasis Take of dried Rue ten drachms the seeds of Bishops-weed Cummin Lovage Origanum Nigella Carrawaies Carrots Parsly of bitter Almonds Pepper black and long Hors-Mints Calamu Aromaticus Bay berries Castorium of each two drachms Sagapenum half an ounce Opopanax three drachms Clarified honey one pound and an half the things which are to be bruised being bruised let them al be made into an Electuary according to art the Gums being dissolved in Wine and added to it A. It is exceeding good either in the Chollick or Iliack passion or any other disease of the bowels coming of cold or wind it generally easeth pains in the bowels Athanasia Mithridatis Gallen Take of Cinnamon Cassia Schaenanth of each an ounce and an half Saffron Mirrh of each one ounce Costus Spignel Acorus Agrick Scordium Carrots Parsly of each half an ounce white Pepper eleven grains Honey so much as is sufficient to make it up into an Electuary according to art A. It prevails against poyson and the bitings of venemous beasts and helps such whose meat putrifies in their stomachs staies vomiting of blood helps old coughs and cold diseases in the liver Spleen bladder and matrix The Colledge hath made some petty alterations in the quantities of the Simples but not worth the speaking of Diacapparis Gilbert of England Take of Capers four ounces the roots of Agrimony Nigella seeds Squills Asarbacca Centaury Pellitory of Spain black Pepper Smallage Time of each one ounce Honey so much as is sufficient make it into an Electuary according to art A. They say it helps infirmities of the Spleen and indeed the name seems to promise so much it may be good for cold bodies if they have strength of Nature in them me thinks 't is but odly composed the next looks more lovely in my eyes which is Diacinnamomu Mesue Take of Cinnamon fifteen drachms Cassia lignea Elicampane roots of each half an ounce Galanga seven drachms Cloves long Pepper both sorts of Cardamom Ginger Mace Nutmegs wood of Aloes of each three drachms Saffron a drachm Sugar Candy five drachms Musk two scruples with clarified Honey two pound and eight ounces boyl it and make it into an Electuary according to art A. There is in the recept of Mesue Cummin seeds half an ounce which is here left out whether wittingly or unwittingly I neither know nor care out of question the recept is better they being in than being out also I can give no reason why it should be boyled if the Musk and Saffron be boyled they will be spoyled you had ten times better not boil them at all it may do harm cannot do good if there be too much Honey to make it up take less I cannot stand calculating the due proportion in every recept A. Diacinnamomum or in plain English a composition of Cinnamon heats the stomach causeth digestion provokes the terms in women strengthens the stomach and other parts that distribute the nourishment of the body a drachm of it taken in the morning fasting is exceeding good for ancient people and cold bodies such as are subject to dropsies and diseases of flegm or wind for it comforts and strengthens nature much Diacorallion Coloniens Take of Corral both white and red Bole Armenick Dragons blood of each a drachm Pearls half a drachm wood of Aloes red Roses Gum Traganth Cinnamon of each two scruple white and red Sanders of each a scruple beat them at into pouder and when you have so done you may make them into an Electuary according to art with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar dissolved in small Cinnamon water A. It comforts and strengthens the heart exceedingly and restores such as are in consumptions it is cooling therefore good in Hectick feavers very binding and therefore stops tuxes neither do I know a better medicine in all the Dispensatory for such as have a consumption accompanied with a loosness It stops the terms and whites in women if administred by one whose wits are not a woolgathering Diacorum Mesue Take of the roots of Sicers Calamus Aromaticus Pine-nuts of each a pound and an half let them all be cleansed boiled and beaten till they be like a Pultis then put to them Honey being clarified ten pounds boyl them continually stirring them till it be come to the just thickness then ad the roots of Acorns beaten and the Pinenuts chopped small and when you have well mixed them together ad to them these pouders following Take of black Pepper an ounce long Pepper Cloves Ginger Mace of each half an ounce Nutmegs Galanga Cardamoms of each three drachms mix them with the roots Honey so much is sufficient stirring it left the ingredients stick to the bottom and make them into an Electuary according to art A. The Electuary provokes lust heats the brain strengthens the nerves quickens the sences causeth an acute wit easeth pains in the head helps the falling sicknesse and convulsions Coughs Catharres and all diseases proceeding from coldness of the brain Electuarium è
Galanga long and black Pepper of each 3. drams Amber greece one scruple Musk two scruples Penidies four ounces Cinnamon Saffron of each half an ounce Malaga Wine three ounces Nutmegs Mace grains of Paradice of each two drachms Ash-tree seeds the bellies and loins of Scincus Borax Benzoin of each three drachms wood of Aloes Cardamoms of each two drachms Been white and red or in leiu of them the roots of Avens and Tormentil of each one drachm and an half Let all the Simples being beaten into pouder be made up into an Electuary with two pound and an half of syrup of green Ginger according to art A. This also encreaseth Seed causeth desire of Copulation and breaks wind Electuarium Diaspermaton Fernelius Take of the four greater and four lesser cold seeds The seeds of Sparagus Burnet Bazill Parsly the berries of winter-Cherries of each two drachms Gromwel juyce of Liquoris of each three drachms Cinnamon Mace of each one drachm white Sugar dissolved in distilled water of march-Mallows eight times their weight make of them an Electuary according to art A. It breaks the Stone and provokes Urine A Pectoral Electuary August Take of the juyce of Liquoris sweet Almonds Hazel-Nuts of each half an ounce Pine Nuts an ounce Hysop Maiden-hair Orris Nettle seeds round Birthwort of each one dram and an half black Pepper the seeds of Water-Cresses the roots of Elicampane of each half a drachm Honey fourteen ounces make them up into an Electuary according to art A. It strengthens the stomach and lungues and helps the vices thereof Micleta Nicholaus Take of all the Myrobalans of each two drachms and an half the seeds of Water-Cresses and Fennel Cummin Bishops weed Annis Carraway of each one drachm and an half let them al be bruised and sprinkled with sharp White-Wine-Vineger then beaten into pouder after add these things following Spodium Pomegranate flowers Sumach Mastich Gum Arabick of each one drachm and fifteen grains let them all be mixed with three times their weight of syrup of Mirtles boyled to the thickness of Honey i.e. ten ounces more or lesse make them np into an Electuary according to art A. It gently easeth the bowels of the Wind-Chollick wringing of the Guts infirmities of the Spleen it stops fluxes the Hemorrhoids as also the terms in women Theriaca Diatessaron Mesue Take of Gentian Bay berries Mirrh round Birthwort of each two ounces Honey two pound mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art A. You must first beat them into pouder before you mix them with the Honey else you will make an Electuary to choak Daws with A. This is a gallant Electuary like the Author It wonderfully helps cold infirmities of the brain as Convulsions falling sickness dead Palseyes shaking Palseyes c. as also the stomach as pains there wind want of digestion as also stoppings of the liver dropsies it resists the pestilence and poysons and helps the bitings of venemous beasts 〈◊〉 his great Antidote against Poyson and Pestilence Take of Rhubarb Rhu-pontick Valerian roots the roots of Acorus or Calamus Aromaticus Cyperus Cinkfoil Tormentil round Birthwort male Peony Alicampane Costus Illirick Orris white Chamelion or Avens of each three drachms the roots of Galanga Masterwort white Dictamni Angelica Yarrow Filipendula or dropwort Zedoary Ginger of each 2. drachms Agrick 3. drams Rosemary Gentian Devils-bit of each two drachms and an half the seeds of Citrons and Agnus Castus the berries of Kermes the seeds of Ash tree Sorrel wild Parsneps Navew Nigella Peony the male Bazil hedg Mustard Treacle Mustard Fennel Bishops weed of each two drachms the berries of Bay-Juniper and Ivy Sarsaparilla or for want of it the double weight of Cubebs Cubebs of each a drachm and an half the leaves of Scordium Germander Chamaepitys Centaury the lesse 〈◊〉 Celtick Spicknard Calaminth Rue Mints Bettony Vervain Scabious Carduus Benedictus Bawm of each a drachm and an half Dirtany of Creet three drachms Marjoram St. Johns wort Schoenanth Horehound Goats Rue Savin Burnet of each two drachms Figs Walnuts Fistick nuts of each three ounces Emblick Myrobalans half an ounce the flowers of Violets Borrage Buglosse Roses Lavender Sage Rosemary of each four scruples Saffron three drachms Cassia lignea ten drachms Cloves Nutmegs Mace of each two drachms and an half black Pepper long Pepper all the three sorts of Sanders wood of Aloes of each one drachm and an half Hartshorn half an ounce Unicorns horn or in its stead Beazor stone one drachm bone in a Stags heart Ivory Stags pizzle Castorium of each four scruples earth of Lemons three drachms Opium one drachm and an half Orient Pearls Emerald Jacinth red Corral of each a drachm and an half Camphire two drachms Gum Arabick Mastich Frankincence Styrax Turpentine Sagapenum Opopanax Laserpitium or Mirrh of each two drachms and an half Musk Ambergreece of each one dram Oyl of Vitriol half an ounce Species cordiales temperatae Diamargeriton Diamoschu Diambra Electuarii De gemmis troches of Camphire of Squils of each two drachms an half Troches of Vipers two ounces the juyce of Sorrel Sowthistles Scordium Vipers Bugloss Borrage Bawm of each half a pound Hypocistis two drachms of the best Treacle and Mithridate of each six ounces Old wine three pound of the best Sugar or choyce Honey eight pound six ounces these being all chosen and prepared with Dilligence and Art let them be made into an Electuary just as Treacle or Mithridate is A. The Title shews you the scope of the Author in compiling it I beleeve it is excellent for those uses I want time to examine what alterations the Colledg hath made in it or whether any or none for particular vertues to avoid Tautology I refer you to his Bezoar water page twenty eight Diascordium Fracastorius Take of Cinnamon Cassia lignea of each half an ounce Scordium an ounce Dittany of Creet Tormentil Bistort Galbanum Gum Arabick of each half an ounce opium a drachm and an half Styrax Calamitis four drachms and an half Sorrel seeds one drachm and an half Gentian half an ounce Bole Armenick one ounce and an half Terra Lemnis half an ounce long Pepper Ginger of each two drachms clarified Honey two pound and an half conserves of Roses a pound Canary Wine half a pound make them into an Electuary according to art A. It is a well composed Electuary something apropriated to the nature of women for it provokes the terms hastens their labour and helps their usual sickness at the time of their lying in I know nothing better it stops fluxes mightily strengtheneth the heart and stomach neither is so hot but it may safely be given to weak people and besides they say it provokes sleep but I beleeve it is per accidens then not perse viz. by removing what causeth watching for the composition looked upon in the bulk is hot and not cold and hot things
Andromacus his Treacle Take of Troches of Squils eight and fourty drachms Troches of Vipers long Pepper Opium of Thebes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 os each twenty four drachms dried Rose leaves the whites being cut off Illyrick Orris juyce of Liquoris the seeds of sweet Navew Scordium Opobalsamum Cinnamon Agrick of each twelve drachms Mirrh sweet 〈◊〉 or Zedoary Saffron Cassia lignea Indian Spicknard Schaenanth Pepper white andblack Male Frankinsence Dittany of Creet Rhubarb Stoechas Horehound the seeds of Macedonian Parsly dried Calaminth Turpentine the roots of Cinkfoyl and Ginger of each six drachms the branches of Poley mountain Camaepitys Celtick Spicknard Amomus Styrax Calamitis the roots of Spignel the tops of Germander the roots of Rhapontick Earth of Lemnos Indian Leaf Chalcitis or in stead thereof Roman Vitriol burnt Gentian roots Gum Arabick juyce of Hypocistis Carpobalsamum or Nutmegs or Cubebs the seeds of Annis Fennel Seseli or Heartwort Cardamoms Acacia or in leiu thereof the juyce of Sloes made thick the seeds of Treacle Mustard the tops of St. John's wort the seeds of Bishop's weed Sagapenum of each four drachms Castorium the roots of long Birthwort bitumen Judaicum the seeds of Carrots Opopanax Centaury the lesse Galbanum of each two drachms old Canary Wine sufficient to dissolve the things that can be dissolved pure Honey three times the weight of the drie Simples mix them together according to art A. It is confessed many Physitians have commented upon this recept as Bartholomaeus Maranta Galen Medici Romani and 〈◊〉 Bononienses cum multis aliis But with little differencs The vertues of it are It resists poyson and the biting of venemous beasts inveterate headaches vertigo deafness the falling-sickness astonishment appoplexes dulness of sight want of voice Asthames old and new Coughs such as spit or vomit blood such as can hardly spit or breath coldness of the stomach wind the Chollik and Iliak passion the Yellow Jaundice hardness of the Spleen stone in the reins and bladder difficulty of urine ulcers in the bladder Feavers Dropsies Leprosies it provokes the terms brings forth both birth and afterbirth helps pains in the joints it helps not only the body but also the mind as vain fears melancholly c. and is a good remedy in pestilential feavers Thus Galen London Treacle Take of Hartshorn two ounces the seeds of Citron Sorrel Peony Bazil of each one ounce Scordium Corallina of each six drachms the roots of Angelica Tormentil Peony the leaves of Dictamni the berries of Juniper and Bay of each half an ounce the flowers of Marigolds Clovegilliflowers Rosemary flowers the tops of St. Johns wort Nutmegs Saffron of each three drachms the roots of Gentian Zedoary Ginger Mace Mirrh the leaves of Scabious Devils bit Carduus Benedictus of each two drachms Cloves Opium of each one drachm Canary Wine so much as is sufficient Honey three times the weight of the rest mix them together according to art A. The recept is a pretty cordial resists the pestilence and is a good antidote in pestilential times it resists poyson strengthens cold stomachs helps digestion and crudities of the stomach Benedicta Laxativa Nicholaus Take of choyce Turbith 10. drams Diagridium the bark of the roots of Spurg prepared Hermodactils Red Roses of each five drachms Cloves Spicknard Ginger Saffron Saxifrage long Pepper Amomus or for want of it Calamus Aromaticus Cardamoms the lesse the seeds of Smallage Parsly Caraway Fennel Sparagus Bruscus Gromwel Sal. Gem. Galanga Mace of each one drachm clarified Honey three times their weight make them into an Electuary according to art Also you may conveniently keep the Species by it self A. It purgeth flegm cheifly from the joynts also it purgeth the reins and bladder A. I willingly omit the quantity of these purges because I would not have foolish women and dunces do themselves and others a mischeif Carycostimum Bayr è Gal. Take of Cloves white Costus or Zedoary Ginger Cummin of each two drachms Hermodactils Diagrydium of each half an ounce with their double weight of Honey clarified in white wine mix them together and make them into an Electuary A. Authors say it purgeth hot Rewms and takes away inflamations in wounds I assure you the Electuary works violently and may safest be given in Clisters Cassia extracted for Clysters Augustani Take of the leaves of Violets Mercury Mallows Beets Pellitory of the wall the flowers of Violets of each a handful boil them in a sufficient quantity of water by the benefit of which let the Cassia be drawn with this decoction and the Canes washed and boyled again to a height a pound boil it to perfection according to art A. It is no more than breaking the Canes of the Cassia and pick out the pulp casting away the seeds boyl the pulp in a little of this decoction then press it through a pulping Sive the title shews the use of it or if you will take an ounce of it inwardly you shall find it work with great gentleness Electuarium Amarum Magistrale majus Take of white Agrick choice Turbith Species hiera simplex Galeni of the best Rhubarb of each a drachm choice Aloes washed two drachms Ginger Cremor Tartar of each two scruples Orris Florentine sweet Fennel seeds of each one scruple syrup of Roses solutive as much as is sufficient to make it into a bitter Electuary Electuarium Amarum minus Take of Epithimum half an ounce the roots of Angelica three drachms of Gentian Zedoary Acorus of each two drachms Cinnamon a drachm and an half Cloves Mace Nutmegs Saffron of each a drachm Aloes six ounces with syrup of Fumitory and Scabious with Sugar so much as is sufficient make them up into a soft Electuary according to art A. Both these purge choller the former flegm and this melancholly the former works strongest and this strengthens most and is good for such whose brains are anoyed Diacassia with Manna Take of damask Prunes two ounces Violet flowers a handfull and an half spring water a pound and an half let them boyl according to art till half the water be consumed then strain it and dissolve in the decoction pulp of Cassia six ounces Sugar of Violets Syrup of Violets of each four ounces pulp of Tamarinds one ounce Sugar Candy one ounce and an half of the best Manna two ounces mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art A. It is a fine cool purge for such as are bound in body for it works gently and without trouble it purgeth choller and may safely be given in feavers coming of choller but in in such cases if the body be much bound the best way is first to administer a Clyster and then the next morning an ounce of this will cool the body and keep it in due temper Cassia Extracted without the leaves of Senna Take of Prunes by number twelve Violet flowers a handful French Barly the seeds of Annis and Bastard Saffron Polipodium of the
others purge violently both put together make a composition no way pleasing to me therefore I account it a pretty recept good for nothing Electuarium Elescoph Mesue Take of Scammony and the best Turbith of each six drams Cloves Cinnamon Ginger Emblick Myrobalans 〈◊〉 Polypodium of each two drachms and an half Sugar six ounces clarified Honey ten ounces mix them and make them into an Electuary according to art A. Mesue appoints only clarified Honey one pound and four ounces to make it up into an Electuary and saith it purgeth choller and flegm and wind from all parts of the body helps pains of the joints and sides the chollick it cleanseth the reins and bladder yet I advise you not to take too much of it at a time for it works pretty violently though well corrected by the pen of a Mesue let half an ounce be the most for such whose bodies are strong alwaies remembring that you had better ten times take too little then once to much Confectio Hamech Fernelius Take of the barks of Citron Myrobalans two ounces Myrobalans chebs and black Violets colocynthis Polipodium of the Oak of each an ounce and an half Wormwood Time of each half an ounce the seeds of Annis and Fennel the flowers of red Roses of each three drachms let all of them being bruised be infused for one day in two pints of Whey then boyl it to one pound rub it with your hands and then presse it out and ad to the decoction juyce of fumitory pulp of Prunes and Raisons of the sun of each half a pound white Sugar clarified Honey of each a pound boil them to the thickness of Honey sprinkled in towards the end Agrick Trochiscated Senna of each two ounces Rhubarb an ounce and an half Epithimum an ounce Diagridium six drachms Cinnamon half an ounce Ginger two drachms the seeds of Fumitory Annis Spicknard of each one 〈◊〉 make an Electuary of them according to art A. The recept is cheifly apropriated as a purge for melancholly and salt flegm diseases thence rising as Scabs Itch Leprosies Cancers infirmities of the skin it purgeth addust humours and is good against madness melancholly forgetfulness vertigo c. Electuarium Indum Minus Mesue Take of Turbith Sugar of each a hundred drachms Mace Pepper Ginger Cloves Cinnamon Cardamoms Nutmegs of each seven drachms Scammony prepared twelve drachms mix them with three times their weight the Sugar excepted of clarified Honey and so make them into an Electuary according to art A. It purgeth the bowels as also the joynts of putrified flegm it breaks wind is therefore profitable for the Chollick A. The Colledg have much altered the quantity of the Turbith and Sugar it purgeth violently Lenitive Electuary Take of Raisons of the sun stoned Polypodium of the Oak Senna of each two ounces Mercury one handful and an half Jujubes Sebestens by number twenty Maidenhair Violets French Barly of each a handful Damask Prunes stoned Tamarinds of each six drachms Liquoris half an ounce boil them according to art strain them out and dissolve in the decoction pulp of Cassia Tamarinds and fresh Prunes Sugar of Violets of each six ounce of the best Sugar two pound lastly ad an ounce and an half of Senna in pouder to every pound of the Electuary so bring it into a form according to art A. It gently opens and mollifies the bowels bringing forth choller flegm and melancholly and that without trouble It is cooling and therefore is profitable in Pleuresies and for wounded people a man of reasonable strength may take an ounce of it going to bed which will work next morning Electuarium Passulatum Take of Polypodium of the Oak three ounces the leaves of Senna the roots of marsh Mallows fresh of each two ounces Annis two drachms infuse them all in spring water a sufficient quantity in a glazed vessel and boil them according to art then strain them out and ad to the decoction pulp of Raisons of the Sun drawn through a Sive half a pound white Sugar and Manna of each four ounces boyl them again to the thicknesse of Marmilade and renew it four times a yeer A. The Colledge are so mysterious in this recept a man can hardly give directions how to make it for they give only incertainties A. You had best first boil the roots in three pints of water to a quart then put in the Senna and seeds boil it to a pint and an half then strain it and ad the rest the Manna will melt of it self as well as the Sugar indeed you had best dissolve the Manna by it self in some of the decoction and so strain it because of its dross A. It gently purgeth both choller and melancholly cleanseth the reins and bladder and therefore is good for the stone and gravel in the kidneys Electuary of the juyces of Roses Nicholaus Myrepsus Take of Sugar and the juce of Red Roses of each one pound and four ounces of the three sorts of Sanders of each six drachms Spodium three drachms Diagrydium twelve drachms Camphire a scruple make of them an Electuary according to art let the juyces be boyled with the Sugar to a just thickness then ad the other things in pouder A. It purgeth choller and is good in tertian agues and diseases of the joynts it purgeth violently therefore let it be warily given Electuarium Reginae Coloniens Take of the seeds of Saxifrage and Gromwel Juyce of Liquoris of each half an ounce the seeds of Caraway Annis Smallage Fennel 〈◊〉 of Macedonia Broom Carrots Bruscus Sparagus Lovage Cummin Juniper Rue Siler Mountain the roots of Acorus Penyroyal Cinkfoyl Bay Berries of each two drachms Indian Spicknard Schoenanth Amber Valerian Hogs Fennel Lapis Lincis of each a dram and an half Galanga Ginger Turbith of each two drachms Senna an ounce Goats blood prepared half an ounce mix them together first beat them into a pouder then make them into an Electuary according to art with three times their weight in Sugar dissolved in white Wine A. It is an excellent remedy for the stone and wind chollick a drachm of it being taken every morning I assure such as are troubled with such diseases I cannot but commend it to them as a Jewel Hiera Picra Simplex Galeni Take of Cinnamon Xylobalsamum or wood of Aloes Asarabacca Spicknard Mastich Saffron of each six drachms Aloes unwashed twelve ounces and an half clarified Honey four pound and three ounces make it up into an Electuary according to art also the Species is kept by it self in shops A. It is an excellent remedy for vicious juyces which lie furring the tunicle of the stomach and such idle fancies and symtomes which the brain fuffers thereby whereby some think they see others that they hear strange things especially when they are in bed and between sleeping and waking besides this it very gently purgeth the belly and helps such women as are not sufficiently purged after their
which the Arabians give to all medicines apropriated to the eyes of which this is one and a good one to dry up rewms there Agrick Trochiscated Mesue Take of choice Agrick four ounces with infusion of Ginger made in wine make it into Troches Troches of Agrick Take of choice Agrick three ounces Sal. Gem. six drachms Ginger two drachms with Oxymel Simplex so much as is sufficient make it into Troches according to art A. The vertues of both these are the same with Agrick only it may be more safely given this way than the other they cleanse the brain of flegm and the stomach of tough thick viscous humours Trochisci Alhandal Mesue Take of Colocynthis cleansed from the seeds ten ounces cut them small with a pair of shears and rub them a little with an ounce of oyl of Roses then make them into Troches with Mussilage made with Gum Arabick and Traganth and Bdellium of each six drachms then steep them four daies in Rosewater dry them in the shaddow then beat them into pouder again and with mussilage as you had before make them again into Troches A. They purge slegm violently but may more safely be given than the troches themselves Troches of 〈◊〉 Mesue Take of Rhubarb ten drachms the juyce of Maudlin made thick bitter Almonds of each half an ounce Roses three drachms Indian Spicknard Wormwood the seeds of Annis and Smallage the roots of Maddir and Asarabacca of each adrachm make them into Troches according to art either with Succory water or juyce of Maudlin clarified A. They gently cleanse the liver help the yellow Jaundice and other diseases coming of Choller and stoppage of the liver Troches of Violets Solutive Mesue Take of Violets meanly dried six drachms Turbith half an ounce juyce of Liquoris Scammony Manna of each two drachms make them into troches with syrup of Violets A. They purge flegm very violently SIMPLE OYLS MADE BY EXPRESSION Oyl of Sweet Almonds Mesue TAKE as many sweet Almonds as you will that are dry and not sour beat them very well and press out the oyl in a press without fire A. It helps roughness and soreness of the throat and stomach helps pleuresies encreaseth seed easeth Coughs and Hectick feavers by injection it helps such whose water scalds them ulcers in the bladdeer reins and matrix Oyl of bitter Almonds Mesue It is made in the same manner as oyl of sweet Almonds A. It opens stoppings helps such as are deaf being dropped into their ears it helps the hardness 〈◊〉 the nerves and takes away spots in the face Oyl of Hazel Nuts Mesue Take a sufficient quantity of Hazel nuts and cleanse them then bruise them well place them in a warm bath five or six hours then press out the oyl in a press A. You mast put them in a vessel viz. a glass or some such like thing and stop them close that the water come not to them when you put them into the bath A. The Oyl is good for cold afflictions of the nerves the gout in the joynts c. After the same manner is made oyl of Been called Oleum Bolaninum Of Mace Indian Nuts Nutmegs Walnuts Of the kernels of Cherries Apricocks Pears Pinenuts Prunes Fistick nuts Of the seeds of Orrenges Hemp Carthamus or bastard Saffron and is called Oleum Cnicinum Citrons Cucumers Guords Citruls dwarf Elder or Walwort Henbane Lettice Flax Melons Poppies Parsly Rhadishes Turneps Palma Christi and is called Oleum de Cherva Cicinum and Ricininum Sesami Mustard seed and of the stones of Grapes A. Because most of these oyls are out of use I took not the pains to quote the vertues of them if any lift to make them let them look the Simples and there they have them if the Simples be not to be found in the book there are other plentiful medicines conducing to the cure of al usual diseases which are Oyl of Bays Mesue Take of Bay berries fresh and ripe so many as you please bruise them sufficiently then boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water till the oyl swim at top which separate from the water and keep for your use A. It helps the Chollick and is a sovereign remedy for any diseases in any part of the body coming either of wind or cold Common oyl of Olives is pressed out of ripe Olives Oyl of Olives Omphacine is pressed out of unripe Olives Oyl of the Yolks of Egs. Mesue Take of the yolks of Egs boyled hard warm them well with a gentle fire in a glazed vessel but have a care you burn them not then press out the oyl with a press and if whilst they are warming you sprinkle them with a little Wine the Oyl will come out the better A. It is profitable in 〈◊〉 and malignant ulcers it causeth the hair to grow it cleers the skin and takes away deformities thereof viz. Tettars Ringworms Morphew Scabs SIMPLE OYLS BY INFUSION OR DECOCTION Oyl of Roses Omphacine Take of oyl Omphacine a pound in which infuse red Rose buds bruised four ounces put them in a glass or stone pot glazed stop them close and set them in the sun seven daies shaking them every day then boyl them gently in a double vessel and casting away those Roses viz having strained them out put in fresh Roses set it in the sun seven daies more then boil it again cast away those also and infuse fresh Roses and when they have also been digested in the sun seven daies and gently boyled according to art strain the oyl from them and keep it for your use Oyl of Roses compleat Mesue It is made in the same manner with the former only with sweet oyl Not Omphacine and red Roses full blown boiled twice as the former was only the third time that the Roses are put in let it stand fourty daies in the sun and then if you please you may keep the oyl and Roses in it and not press them out at all After the same manner is made oyl of Wormwood of the tops of Wormwood 〈◊〉 ounces Oyl three pound repeating the infusion three times adding at the last juyce of Wormwood four ounces boyl it gently till the juyce be consumed Also oyl of Dill of one pound of oyl and four ounces of the leaves and flowers of Dill infused three times Oyl of Castorium of one ounce of Castorium one pound of Oyl Wine so much as is sufficient boyl it to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of Chamomel Of Oyl and the flowers of Chamomel let them be set in the sun fourty daies In the same manner is Oyl of Meliot prepared Oyl of Winter-Gilliflowers or Wall flowers as we call them in Sussex is made as oyl of Dill is Oyl of Quinces is made of un-ripe Quinces pils and all and juyce of Quinces of each six ounces oyl Omphacine three pound let them stand in the sun in a glass fifteen daies then boyl them in a double vessel four hours afterwards chang the
quinces and the juyce viz put in fresh having strained out the former at last strain it and keep it for your use Oyl of Elicampane is made of the roots of Elicampane bruised and of the juyce of them and oyl of Almonds of each half a pound sweet wine three ounces boyled to the consumption of the wine Oyl of Euphorbium is made of Euphorbium half an ounce oyl of winter-Gilliflowers Wine of each five ounces boyled to the consumption of the wine Oyl of Emmats is made of winged Emmets two ounces oyl eight ounces set in the sun for fourty daies and so kept for your use Oyl of St. Johns wort Take of the tops of St. Johns wort four ounces steep them in a pound of old oyl Olive and six ounces of Wine for three daies either in the sun or in the heat of a bath then strain them out renew the infusion with fresh tops of Saint Johns wort the second and third time the last time let it be boyled almost to the consumption of the wine strain it out and ad to the oyl three ounces of Turpentine one scruple of Saffron boyl it a little and so keep it for vour use Oyl of Jasmine is made of the flowers and cleer oyl as oyl of Boses is Oyl of Orris Take of the roots of Orris Florentine a pound the flowers of white Lillies half a pound water in which other roots of Orris Florentine have been boyled so much as is sufficient sweet oyl six pound boyl them in a double vessel then put in fresh roots and flowers the former being cast away as in oyl of Roses Oyl of Earthworms Take of Earthworms half a pound wash them wel in Wine then add oyl of Olives two pound Wine eight ounces boyl them in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of Marjoram Simple is made of four ounces of the Herb infused in six ounces of Wine and a pound of oyl with insolation and two other infusions as in oyl of Roses evaporate away the Wine in a bath Oyl of Mastich Take of oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound Mastich three ounces Wine four ounces boyl them in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of mints is made of the hearb and Oyl Omphacine as Oyl of Roses Oyl of Mirtles is made of the berries of Mirtles bruised and sprinkled with red Wine a pound oyl Omphacine three pound let them be set in the sun eight daies then boyled infuse fresh ones and repeat both the infusion and insolation three times then boyl them in a double vessel and keep the oyl for your use Oyl of Mirrh Take certain new laid Egs and boyl them till they be hard then cut them through the middle the longest way take out the yolks and fill the hollow place half full of mirrh then joyn the whites together again and bind them gently with a string then place them between two dishes a small grate being between that they fall not to the bottom then place them in a wine Cellar or some other cool place under ground so wil the melted liquor of the Mirrh distil down into the inferiour dish Oyl of Daffadils is made of the flowers and oyl as oyl of Roses Nard oyl Simple is made of Spicknard three ounces sweet oyl a pound and an half Wine and Water of each two ounces and an half boyl them in a double vessel till the Wine and Water be consumed Oyl of water Lilly flowers is made of oyl Omphacine a pound white water Lilly flowers four ounces three times repeated as in oyl of Roses Oyl of Poppies is made of the heads flowers and leaves of Poppies and oyl Omphacine as oyl of Dill. Oyl of Rue simple of Rue boiled and sweet oyl as oyl of Roses Oyl of Savin is made as oyl of Roses So also is oyl of Elder flowers Oyl of Scorpions of Scorpions by number thirty 〈◊〉 of bitter Almonds two pound let them be infused for fourty daies in a warm place in a glass then strained out and the oyl kept for your use Oleum Sicyonium of wild Cucumerroots and their juyce of each six ounces oyl of ripe Olives a pound boyl them in a double vessel to the consumption of the juyce Oyl of Nightshade is made of the ripe berries of Nightshade four ounces boyled in a pint of oyl Oyl of Styrax is made of a pound of oyl Olive and three ounces of Styrax Wine so much as is sufficient boyl them after a sufficient maceration to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of Vervain is made of the herb and oyl as oyl of Mints is Oyl of Violets of the flowers of Violets and oyl Omphatine as oyl of Roses A. That most of these oyls if not all of them are used only externally is certain and as certain that they retain the vertues of the simples whereof they are made therefore the ingenious might help themselves but because we live in a frigid age I shall vouchsefe to quote the vertues of the chiefest of them A. Oyl of Roses the stomach being anointed with it strengthens it cools the heat of it thickens takes away inflamations abates swellings A. Oyl of Wormwood doth moderatly heat and strengthen the stomach being anointed with it it procures apetite opens obstructions furthers digestion and kills worms A. Oyl of Dill doth moderatly digest aswage the pains of the head and nerves and procures sleep A. Oyl of Castorium helps cold diseases of the nerves deafness being dropped into the ears and noise there A. Oyl of Chamomel strengthens the sinnews greatly aswageth pain and breaks the stone A. Oyl of melilot hath the same effects A. Oyl of Walflowers aswageth pains in the breast and reins sinnews joints and bladder A. Oyl of Quinces cools binds and strengthens stops vomiting loosness and sweating A. Oyl of Euphorbium hath the same effects with that of Castorium but works more forcibly being 〈◊〉 up the nose it purgeth the head of flegm A. Oyl of Emmets the privities being anointed with it provokes lust A. Oyl of St. Johns wort is as good a thing in green wounds as a man can use A. Oyl of Orris doth concoct and dissolve aswage pain of the womb liver aud joynts also it strengthens the breast A. Oyl of Earthworms mollifie heat and aswage pains and is special good for such as 〈◊〉 been bruised or hurt in their joints A. Oyl of Marjoram helps weariness cold diseases of the brain noise in the ears being dropped into them the bitings of venemous beasts and provokes the terms in women A. Oyl of Mastich strengthens the brain stomach and liver sinnews and veins staies vomiting and fluxes A. The stomach being anointed with oyl of Mints staies the weakness of it heats and strengthens it staies vomiting helps digestion and provokes appetite A. Oyl of Mirtles hath the same effects with Quinces A. Oyl of Mirrh preserves any thing from putrifying that is anointed with it makes the face fair and
whil strain it strongly and having cast away the former ad other flowers do so the second time as you did the first and the third time then strain it out and to every pound of infusion add four pound of old Oyl Turpentine six ounces oyl of Wormwood three ounces Dittany Gentian Carduus Benedictuus Tormentil or Ladies Thistle or Carline Thistle Calamus Aromaticus of each two drachms Earthworms often washed in Wine two ounces the things to be bruised being grosly bruised let them be set in the sun thirty or fourty daies and being well strained be kept for your use A. Besides the vertues of the Simple Oyl of St. Johns wort which this performs more effectually it is an excellent remedy for old bruises aches and sprains Oyl of Orris Compound Nich. Alex. Take of old oyl fifteen pound water four pound and an half the roots of Orris Florentine three pound and four ounces white Lilly flowers fifteen ounces fresh Cyperus roots six ounces Alicampane roots three ounces Alkanet roots two ounces Cinnamon Spicknard Benzoin or Asadulcis of each an ounce let the roots and the rest of the Simples be bruised and infused in the oyl and water five daies either in the Sun or some warm place afterwards boyled in a double vessel till the water be consumed then let it cool strain it out and keepit for your use A. The effects are the same with the Simple Oyl of Marjoram Compound Actuarius Take of the leaves of Marjoram four handfuls Mother of Time two handfuls the flowers of Mirtles or else their berries one handful Southernwood watermints of each a handful Cassia lignea two ounces Oyl Omphacine three pound all of them being cut and bruised and put into a glass the oyl poured to them the mouth of the glass stopped let them beset in the sun or another hot place eight daies then let them be pressed out and fresh Simples put to the Oyl use it in like manner repeat their infusion three times then keep it for your use A. It helps weariness and diseases of the brain and nerves coming of cold it helps the dead palsey the back viz. the region along the back bone being anointed with it being snuffed up in the nose it helps Spasmus Cynicus which is a wrying the mouth aside it helps noise in the ears being dropped into them it provokes the terms and helps the bitings of venemous beasts Oyl of Mandrakes Nicholaus Take of common oyl two pound the juyce of the Apples of Mandrakes or if you cannot get them take the juyce of Mandrake leaves the juyce of white Henbane two ounces the juyce of the heads of black Poppies three ounces the juyce of Violets and Hemlock of each one ounce Opium Styrax Calamitis of each half an ounce let the Juyces and Oyl be infused ten daies in the sun then boyled in a double vessel to the consumption of the juyces strain it then let the Opium being dissolved in som of the juyces and the Styrax being dissolved in a little Turpentine be well mixed with it according to art A. It is probable the Author studied to invent an Oyl extreamly cold when he invented this I am of opinion it may be used safely no way but only to anoint the temples and noses of such as have a frenzy Oleum Moschelinum Take two Nutmegs Musk a drachm Indian leaf or Mace Spicknard Costus Mastich of each six drachms Styrax Calamitis Cassia lignea Mirrh Saffron Cinnamon Cloves Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Bdellium of each two drachms pure oyl three pound generous Wine three ounces the things to be beaten being beaten according to art and mixed let them boyl to the consumption of the Wine and having strained the Oyl keep it for your use A. It is exceeding good against all diseases of cold especially those of the stomach it helps diseases of the sides they being anointed with it the strangury chollick and vices of the nerves and afflictions of the reins A. The recept was made by Nicholaus Alexandrinus only the Colledg something altered the quantities and that not worth speaking of Nard Oyl Mesue Take of Spicknard three ounces Marjoram two ounces Wood of Aloes Elicampane Indian leaf or Mace Calamus Aromaticus Bay leaves Cyperus Schoenanthus Cardamoms of each an ounce and an half let them be grosly bruised then infused in Wine and Water of each fourteen ounces and oyl of Sesanus or oyl Olive four puund and an half for 24. hours then boyled in a double vessel with a gentle fire six hours continually stirring it A. It heats attenuates digests and moderately binds and therefore helps all cold and windy afflictions of the brain stomach reins spleen liver bladder and womb being snuffed up the nose it purgeth the head and gives a good colour and smel to the body Oleum Nicodemi Take of the seeds or tops of St. Johns wort old Turpentine of each a pound Licharge six drams Aloes Hepatick Tuty of Alexandria of each three drachms Saffron an ounce of the best white Wine four pound old Oyl two pound boyl them all together in a double vessel till the fourth part be consumed then bury them in sand in the dogdaies for ten daies afterwards strain them through a clean rag seperate the Wine from the oyl and keep them both apart A. Both Wine and Oyl are exceeding drying that the Wine is more cleansing and the Oyl best to skin a sore your genius though never so dull will tell you and therefore excellent for sores and ulcers that run much as for scabs itch small pocks swine pocks c. Oyl of Tobacco Take of juyce of Tobacco common oyl of each a pound boyl them together to the consumption of the juyce A. It is as gallant a remedy for deep wounds scabs or itch as any is under the Cope of Heaven and no way prejudicial Oyl of Peppers Mesue Take of long black and white Pepper of each three drams Myrobalans Chebul Bellerick Emblick and Indian of each five drachms the roots of Smallage and Fennel of each three drachms and an half Sagapenum Opopanax Ammoniacum white Henbane of each to drachms and an half Turbith two drachms Ginger three drachms the branches of green Time and green Rue of each a handful insuse them according to art in a sufficient quantity of Aquavitae oyl of Wallflowers otherwise called Winter Gilliflowers two pound then boil them to the consumption of the Aquavitae A. It helps cold diseases of the nerves as Palsies falling sickness convulsions wry-mouths trembling or shaking palsie likewise cold afflictions of the reins and bladder yard and womb gouts and all diseases of the joints it heats makes thin and cleanseth and therefore it opens obstructions or stoppings and breaks the stone Cleuon Populeum Nichol. Take of fresh Poplar buds three pound Wine four pound common oyl seven pound two ounces beat the Poplar buds very well then steep them seven daies in the oyl and Wine then boil them in
leaves of wild Cucumers and Nep of each half a pound all of them being gathered in the month of May let them be beaten when they are green and steeped seven daies in six pound of the best oyl and one pound of Aqua vitae then boyled till the water be consumed let the Oyl be strained in which melt sixteen ounces of Wax Bears grease and Oyl of Baies of each three ounces Oleum Moschellinum half an ounce Petroleum an ounce Butter four ounces these being stirred together sprinckle in these pouders Mast 〈…〉 Olibanum of each seven drachms Pellitory of Spain Ginger Euphorbium Pepper of each an ounce bring them all into the form of an Oyntment according to art A. It mightily digesteth and maketh thin and that not without some purging quality and is very commodious against cold afflictions of the body but especially of the sinews convulsions falling sickness pains of the joints and great guts Unguenivm è succis Aperitivis primum Foesius Take of the juyce of Smallage Endive Mints Wormwood common Parsly Valerian of each three ounces oyl of Wormwood and Mints of each half a pound yellow Wax three ounces mix them together over the fire and make of them an Oyntment sometimes is added also the pouders of Calamus Aromaticus Spicknard of each one drachm a little oyl of Cappars A. It opens stoppages of the stomach and spleen easeth the Rickets the breast and sids being anointed with it Unguentum Aperitivum Secundum Foesius Take of the juyce of Dwarf Elder or Walwort eight ounces the juyces of Parsly and Smallage of each four ounces the juyces of Wormwood and Orris of each five ounces common Oyl half a pound oyl of white Lillies ten ounces oyl of Wormwood and Chamomel of each six ounces the fat of Ducks and Hens of each two ounces boyl them all together to the consumption of the juyces afterwards strain them and with seven ounces of white Wax and a little Vineger make it into an Oyntment according to art Unguentum de Artanita majus Mesue Take of the juyce of Artanita or Sow bread or for want of it a strong decoction of the roots three pound the juyce of wild Cucumers Butter of each one pound Oyl of Orris two 〈◊〉 pulp of Colocynthis four ounces Polipodium six ounces 〈◊〉 half an ounce let the things to be bruised be bruised and infused in the juyces and oyl for eight daies in a glazed vessel well stopped then boyled in a double vessel almost to the consumption of the juyces strain them and add to the liquor Wax two ounces Bulls Gall seven drachms and an half let them boyl together till the wax be melted then ad Sagapenum seven drachms and an halfe Mirrh three drachms being dissolved in Vineger stir them together till they are almost cold then sprinkle in by degrees the pouders of these following simples being well mixed together Scammony Aloes Colocynthis the leaves of Mezereon or the berries thereof Turbith of each seven drachms and an half Sal. Gem. four drachms and an half Euphorbium long Pepper Ginger Chamomel of each three drachms mix them together and make of them an Oyntment according to art A. The stomach being anointed with it it purgeth by vomit the belly anointed with it it purgeth by stool the truth is it is a desperate kind of purge yet I hold it as sitting as can be to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies because I conceive it especially purgeth water and the water in dropsies lies neer the skin Unguentum Catapsoras Take of Ceruss washed first in Purslain water then in Vineger mixed with the juyce of wild Rhadishes and then strained Lapis Calaminaris Chalcitis of each six drachms Litharge of lead two ounces burnt lead goats blood of each two ounces Mercury Sublimate an ounce the juyces of Sengreen or Housleek Nightshade Plantane of each two ounces Hogs grease cleansed from the skins two pound oyl of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Mandrakes of each an ounce first let the Sublimatúm and Hogs grease be well mingled and incorporated then add the oyl and juyces and last of all the pouders and of all of them mixed make an oyutment according to art A. The Title shews it to be invented against scabs and itch Unguentum Citrinum Nichol. Take of Borax an ounce Camphire a drachm 〈◊〉 Corall half an ounce Plaister of a wall an ounce Vmbilicus marinus Gum Traganth white Starch of each three 〈◊〉 Cristal Entalis Dentalis Olibanum Salt Niter white Marble of each two drachms Gersa serpentaria an ounce common Ceruss six ounces fresh Hogs grease cleansed a pound and an half Goats suet prepared an ounce and an half Hens grease two ounces and an half let the things to be poudered be brought into very fine pouder according to art many of them will be best beaten by themselves then make up the ointment thus put the Hogs grease and Hens grease into an earthen pot that is glazed into which put two Citrons of a middle bigness together with the pulp and juyce cut in bits stop the vessel and place it in a warm bath for seven daies then strain out the Citrons and cast them away then the Goats grease being melted with the other sprinkle in the pouders by degrees but let the Camphire and Borax be put in last alwaies stirring it till it come into the form of an ointment A. It takes away pimples redness freckles and other deformities of the face scabs in any part of the body it takes away the redness of the eyes and makes a rough skin smooth Unguentum 〈◊〉 Varignan Take of the middle bark of 〈◊〉 Chestnuts Oak and beans Mirtle berries Hors-tail Gauls the stones of Grapes unripe Services or Checkers dried unripe Medlars dried the leaves of Sloe tree the roots of Bistort and Tormentill of each an ounce and an half let them be grosly bruised and boyled in eight pints of Plantane water til half be consumed strain it then take of yellow Wax eight ounces and an half 〈◊〉 it with simple oyl of Mirtles two pound and an half then wash it nine times with the foregoing 〈◊〉 putting in fresh decoction so often as you wash it afterwards sprinkle in these following Simples being beaten into fine pouder take of the middle bark of Acorns Chestnuts and Oak Galls of each an ounce juyce of 〈◊〉 ashes of the bones of an Ox leg Mirtle berries the stones of unripe Grapes unripe Services or Checkers dried of each half an ounce Trochisci de 〈◊〉 two ounces mix them with the aforesaid wax and oyl of Mirtle being washed adding oyl of Mastich not washed so much as is sufficient to bring it into the form of an oyntment according to art A. It seems in my eyes a gallant binding oyntment composed neatly by a judicious brain the belly and reins being anointed with it it staies 〈◊〉 or miscarriage in women though already begun it strengthens weak backs exceedingly and stops the
white Wax six ounces mussilage of Gum Traganth the seeds of Quinces and Linseeds the roots of Marsh-mallows and Gum Arabick of each half an ounce let the mussilages be made in Rose water and the rest added and so made into an ointment according to art A. It mightily molllfies without any manifest heat and is therefore a fit ointment for such as have agues asthmaes hectick feavers or consumptions Unguentum splenicum Take of Oyl of Capers an ounce oyl of Lillies and Chamomel fresh Butter juyce of Briony and Sowbread of each half an ounce let the oyl boyl to the consumption of the juyces adding Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger two drachms and an half Hens grease the marrow of the leg of a Calf Oesypus of each half an ounce the bark of the roots of Tamaris and Cappars Cetrach the roots of Fearn of each one dram pouder of the seeds of Agnus Castus and Broom of each one scruple Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into the form of an Oyntment Unguentum aliud splenicum Magistrale Take of the barks of Cappar roots six drachms Briony roots Crris Florentine Fennel seed in pouder Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger of each half an ounce the tops of Wormwood the flowers of Chamomel of each one drachm Vng è succis aperitiois Foesius viz. the second description Oyntment of Orrenge flowers of each six drachms oyl of Oris and Cappars of each an ounce and an half let the things to be beaten being beaten and sifted and the rest added let it be made into an oyntment in a hot mortar There are some that cannot abide oyntments yet can easily bear plaisters therefore when occasion is given you may make up the oyntment in form of a plaister by adding a little Wax Ship Pitch Cyperus Turpentine A. Both these oyntments are apropriated to the spleen and ease the pains thereof the sides being anointed with them Valentia Scabiosa John Ardern of Newark Take of the juyce of Scabious in the Summer time strained through a Linnen cloath and with Hogs grease cleared from the skins let them be beaten in a mortar not ground alwaies pouring in the juyce by little and little that the grease may drink it in well and be green which done put it in some vessel and so much juyce to it that it may cover the grease let it stand so nine daies after the ninth day take the said grease with the juyce and beat it again and pour off the thin watry substance which hath lost its colour and so let it stand five daies after the 〈◊〉 day take new juyce of Scabious and beat again with the aforesaid juyce let it stand in some vessel fiften other daies which being ended beat it again and purge it from the watry substance as before then putting fresh juyce to it let it stand other fifteen daies and if it be green enough after it is well beaten keep it in an earthen or glass vessel for your use A. Thus the Author now comes the Colledges animadversions upon it Of the quantity both of the Hogs grease and juyce you need not doubt every Apothecary may use what quantity he pleaseth let it be done in that proportion and so often till he see the Oyntment look very green Only thus much we would warn him of that so much the more green it is so much the more effectual it is Also if the Scabious be gathered a day or two before it be beaten that so it may loose some of its watriness Also if it be set in the sun so many or more daies than the Author appointed provided that the 〈◊〉 swim above the grease the bredth of two fingers and the vessel be well stopped we protest we are taught by experience the oyntment will be the greener and the vertues the greater Tapsivalentia Of the same Author Take of Tapsus Barbatus or Mullen and with Hogs suet cleansed from the skin let it be well beaten in a mortar till the grease be well mixed with the juyce which when you have done let it stand nine daies or more till the grease look green which when 〈◊〉 doth let it be beaten with new juyce and 〈◊〉 it is well coloured with the juyce powr off the juyce which is superfluous and beat it again with other juyce and keep it for your use in an earthen vessel but you must note this medicine ought to be beaten once a month and in beating of it put in a little oyl of Roses Violets and Chamomel that the oyntment may drink it in and if you add a little Populeon it will be the stronger A. It is no more than looking the Simples viz. Scabious and Mullen and then you have the vertues of both these ointments But here follows another strange one of the same Author how true it is I know not which is Tapsimel Take of the juyce of Sullondine and Mullen of each a like clarified Honey so much as is of the juyces let them boyl to the consumption of the juyce then take them from the fire and keep them for your use and when you would use it for the itch take of it and mix it with burnt vitriol and burnt Allum in pouder and if there be necessity boyl it till it be 〈◊〉 then put a little of it up in your fundament and certainly the itch will cease in every part of the body and this Oyntmet is called Tapsimel from Tapsus Barbatus and Mell and is for certain a noble Oyntment This is word for word from the old Manuscript quoth the Colledge Let the Apothecary take heed he burn not the Honey in boiling it A Stomach Oyntment Norimberg Take of Oyl of Wormwood Mastick Spicknard of each an ounce red Roses red Corral Cloves Cinnamon wood of Aloes Mastich Mints Schoenanth of each a drachm Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oynmtent according to art A. It strengthens the stomach and liver provokes appetite and help digestion An Oyntment for the Worms Foesius Take of Oyl of Rue Savin Mints Wormwood and bitter Almonds of each an ounce and an half juyce of the flowers or leaves of Peaches and Wormwood of each half an ounce pouder of Rue Mints Gentian Centaury the less Tormentil of each a drachm the seeds of Coleworts the pulp of Colocynthis of each two drachms Aloes Hepatick three drachms the meal of Lupines half an ounce Mirrh washed in grass-grass-water a drachm and an half Bulls gall an ounce and an half with juyce of Lemmons so much as is sufficient and an ounce and an half of Wax make it into an Oyntment according to art A. The belly being anointed with it kills the Worms PLAISTERS AND CERECLOATHS A Plaister of Ammoniacum Take of Ammoniacum an ounce Oyntment of Marshmallows and Melilot plaister of each half an ounce Bran or as we in Sussex call it Cheezel of corn well fiefted an ounce the pouder of Briony and Orris root of each half an ounce the fat of
Ducks Geese and Hens of each three drachms Bdellium Galbanum of each three drachms and an half Per rozin wax of each five ounces oyl of Orris Turpentine of each an ounce and an half let the fats and oyl boyl with a sufficient quantity of mussilage of Lin and 〈◊〉 seeds and that it may be brought to the due form of a plaister ad the Wax and Turpentine afterwards the Oynment of Marsh mallows and Melliot Plaister then the Gums dissolved in Vineger and lastly the pouders and per-Rozin in pouder mix them all well together and make it into plaister according to art A. By Plaister alwaies understand not a plaister spread upon a cloath but a rol made to spread such a one withal A. It softens and aswageth hard swellings and scatters the humours offending applied to the side it softens the hardness of the spleen and aswageth pains thence arising Album Coctum de Cerussa Ulms. Take of Ceruss ground into very fine pouder yellow Wax oyl of Olives of each equall parts the Ceruss being put into a brass pan let the oyl be added by degrees set it over a gentle fire stir it continually til they be incorporated then put in the Wax thin scraped neither put it in altogether at one time neither let it boyl til it be all melted then boil it all according to art till it begin to look black and be of a just thickness A. It helps burns dry scabs and hot ulcers and in general what ever sores abound with moisture A Plaister of Bayberries Mesue Take of Bayberries two ounces Frankinsence Mastich Mirrh of each one ounce Cyperus Costus of each half an ounce Turpentine an ounce clarified Honey so much as is sufficient to make it into a plaister according to art A. It is an excellent plaister to ease any pains coming of cold or wind in any part of the body whether stomach liver belly reins or bladder Emplastrum Barbarummagnum Galen Take of dry pitch eight pound yellow Wax six pound eight ounces Per-Rozin five pound four ounces Bitumen Judaicum or else Mummy four pound Oyl a pound and an half Vert-de-greece Litharge Ceruss of each three ounces Frankinsence half a pound roch Allum not burnt an ounce and an half roch Allum burnt four ounces Opopanax Scales of brass Galbanum of each twelve drachms Aloes Opium Mirrh of each half an ounce juyce of Mandrakes or else the bark of the roots of them dried six drachms Vineger five pound let the Litharge Ceruss and Oyl be boyled to the thickness of Honey the Pitch melted and incorporated with the pouder of the Bitumen then the other things added and boyled according to art till the Vineger be consumed and the composition brought to a due thickness A. It helps the bitings of men and beasts easeth the inflamations of wounds and helps infirmities of the joints and gouts in the beginning A Plaisier of 〈◊〉 Andernacus Take of green Bettony Burnet Agrimony Sage Penyroyal Yarrow Comfry the greater Clary of each 〈◊〉 ounces Frankinsence Mastich of each three drachms Orris round Birthwort of each six drachms white Wax Turpentine of each eight ounces Gum Elemni two ounces per-Rozin six ounces Venis Turpentine two ounces white Wine three pound let the herbs being bruised be boyled in the Wine strained and all the rest being added to the decoction boyl it to a plaister according to art A. It is a gallant plaister to unite the skul when it is cracked to draw out pieces of broken bones and cover the bones with flesh it draws filth from the bottom of deep ulcers restores flesh lost cleanseth digesteth and drieth Emplastrum 〈◊〉 Take of Bistort roots Cyperus Nuts red Roses the three 〈◊〉 of Sanders Mints Coriander seeds of each three drams 〈◊〉 half an ounce Hypocistis Acacia Dragons blood Terra Lemnia Bole Armenick red Corral of each two drams Turpentine washed in Plantane water four ounces oyl of 〈◊〉 twelve ounces the juyce of 〈◊〉 Plantane and Orpine of each an ounce yellow Wax a pound and an half let the Hypocistis and Acacia be dissolved with the juyces and boyled to a due height then add the rest and make them into a plaister according to art A. It is of a fine cool binding strengthening nature excellent good to repell hot rhewms or vapours that ascend up to the head the hair being shaved off and it applied to the crown Emplastrum Catagmaticum Vigo Take of the juyce of Marshmallow roots six ounces the bark of the root of Ash tree and the leaves of the tree the roots 〈◊〉 Comfry the greater and lesser with the leaues and al of each two ounces Mirtle berries an ounce and an half the leaves of Willow the tops of St. Johns wort of each a handful and an half the things to be bruised being bruised let them boil together in red Wine and water in which Smiths quench their 〈◊〉 of each two pound till half be consumed 〈◊〉 it and ad oyl of Mirtles Roses and Omphacine of each a pound and an half Goats suet melted eight ounces Litharge of gold and silver red Lead of each four ounces yellow Wax a pound Colophonia half a pound let them boyl again to the consumption of the decoction then add towards the end 〈◊〉 Frankinsence Mastich of each half an ounce cleer Turpentine two ounces Boie Armenick Earth of Lemnos of each an ounce stir them together till they are boiled enough to be made into a plaister according to art Catagmaticum Renodaeus Take of the roots of Comfry the less and Marshmallows 〈◊〉 of the Oak of each two ounces Plantane Chamaepitys St. Johns wort of each a handful boyl them in equal 〈◊〉 of red Wine and Water wherein Smiths quench their Iron 〈◊〉 half be consumed strain it and to the decoction ad 〈◊〉 of Quince seeds extracted in decoction of Tripes Oyl 〈◊〉 and Roses of each four ounces Virgins Wax a pound 〈◊〉 of Gold two ounces Turpentine three ounces Balaustins Roses Mirtles Acacia of each half an ounce 〈◊〉 the seeds of Tutsan Colophonia 〈◊〉 Amber of each six drachms Ship Pitch an ounce and an half Bole Armenick fine flower Frankinsence of each twelve drachms Dragons blood two ounces let the water and mussilage be boyled together till the moisture be consumed then put in the oyl then the Wax afterward the Litharge which being boyled united stirred and removed from the fire let first the Turpentine be added then the pouders so let all of them be mixed stirred and brought into the form of an Emplaster according to art A. Both this and the former are of a binding nature Emplasirum Cephalicum Take of cleer Rozin two ounces black Pitch one ounce Ladanum half an ounce Mirrh Mastich of each a drachm and an half Juniper Gum two drachms the flower of Beans and Orobus of each half an ounce Nigella three drachms Nutmegs two drachm Pidgeons dung two ounces let the Mirrh be dissolved in Malaga Wine and the
that bears sour Grapes red Roses Yellow Sanders Trochisci Ramich Mirrh Wood of Aloes of each half an ounce Wax four ounces Turpentine washed with Rose water an ounce and an half oyl of Roses ten ounces Austere Wine so much as is sufficient make it into a plaister according to art It strengthens the belly and liver helps concoction in those parts and distribution of humours staies vomiting fluxes Emplastrum Divinum Nich. Take of Loadstone four ounces Ammoniacum three ounces and three drachms Bdellium two ounces Galbanum 〈◊〉 of each ten drachms Olibanum nine drachms Opopanax Mastich long Birthwort Vert-de-greece of each an ounce Litharge a pound and an half common Oyl a pound and an half new Wax eight ounces mix them according to art first let the Litharge be stirred with the Oyl a long time then boiled to a thickness then let the Wax be added that being melted let it be taken from the fire and put in the Gums dissolved either in Wine or Vineger boyled and strained then the pouder of the Mastich Mirrh Frankinsence Birthwort and Loadstone last of all the Vert-de-greece lest that being too much boyled make the plaister black thus make it into a Plaister according to art A. It is of a cleansing nature exceeding good against malignant ulcers it consumes corruption engenders new flesh and brings them to a scar. Emplastrum de gummi Elemni Take of Gum Elemni three ounces Per-Rozin pure Wax Ammoniacum of each two ounces Turpentine three ounces and an half Malaga Wine so much as is sufficient boyl the rest to the consumption of the Wine then ad the Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger A. The operation is the same with Linimentum Arceus before mentioned Emplastrum Gracia Dei Nicholaus Take of Turpentine half a pound Rozin a pound white Wax four ounces Mastich an ounce fresh Bettony Vervain and Burnet of each a handful let the herbs being bruised be sufficiently boyled in white Wine the liquor pressed out in which let the Wax and Rozin be boyled to the consumption of the liquor being taken from the fire let the Turpentine be mixed with it lastly the Mastich in pouder and so make of them a plaister according to art A. It is excellent good in wounds and green ulcers for it keeps back inflamations cleanseth and joyneth wounds fills up ulcers with flesh Emplastrum Griseum of Lapis Calaminarie Take of Lapis Calaminaris an ounce Litharge two ounces Ceruss half an ounce Tutty a drachm Turpentine six drams white Wax an ounce and an half Stags Suet two ounces Frankinsence five drachms Mastich three drachms Mirrh two drachms Camphire a drachm and an half Wax and Stags suet so much as is sufficient to make it into a Plaister according to art A. I wonder of thirty four Physicians the compiler of this book not one of them could see Stags suet was set down twice would not a sober man think they minded much what they were about A. It dries fils and skins ulcers Emplastrum ad Hirniam Fernclius Take of Galls Cypress nuts Pomegranate pils Balaustins Acacia the seeds of Plantane Fleawort and water-Cresses Acorn cups Beans roasted long and round Birthwort Mirtle Berries of each half an ounce let all these being poudered be steeped four daies in Rose Vineger then dried then take Comfry the greater and lesser Hors-tail Woad Cetrach Osmond royal fearn of each an ounce Frankinsence Mirrh Aloes Mastich Mummy of each two ounces Bole Armenick washed in Vineger Lapis Calaminaris prepared Litharge of Gold Dragons blood of each three ounces Ship pitch two pound Turpentine six ounces or so much as is sufficient to make it up into a plaister according to art A. The plaister is very binding and knitting apropriated to ruptures or burstness as the title of it specifies it strengthens the reins and womb and stayes abortion or miscariage in women it consolidates wounds and helps all diseases coming of cold and moisture Emplastrum Hystericum Nichol. Praep. according to Renod. Take of Bistort roots a pound wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Nutmegs Barberry kernels Anthera of each an ounce Cinnamon Cloves Schoenanthus Chamomel flowers of each half an ounce Frankinsence Mastich Alipta Moschata Gallia moschata Styrax Calamitis of each a drachm of the best 〈◊〉 half a drachm Wax a pound and an half Turpentine half a pound Oleum Moschelinum four ounces Ladanum four pound Ship pitch three pound let the Wax and pitch be melted the Ladanum and Turpentine added to them then the Styrax and last of al the rest beaten into pouder and so made into a plaister according to art A. I know not justly what they mean by that word Anthera in the recept unless they mean the hairy threeds in the middle of the Rose which usually country people call though falsly Rose seeds as I take it Apothecaries call them by an apish name Anthera Rosarum of the Greek words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the flowers of Roses But indeed the Ancients as Galen c. gave the word Anthera to many compound medicines that had no roses at all in them but I cannot stand to dispute the story here The plaister being applied to the navil 〈◊〉 a means to withstand the fits of the mother in such women as are subject to them Emplastrum de Janua or of Bettony Nicholaus Take of the Juyce of Bettony Plantane and Smallage of each a pound Wax Pitch Rozin Turpentine of each half a pound boyl the Wax and Rozin in the Juyces with a gentle fire continually stirring them till the juyce be consumed then add the Turpentine and Pitch continually stirring it till it be brought into the consistence of a plaister according to art A. I take Mesue indeed to be the Author of it or else I am mistaken it matters not much which it is a gallant plaister for pains in the head and to recruit an addle brain helps green wounds ceaseth inflamations strengthens the liver A Plaister of Mastich Renodaeus Take of Mastich three ounces Bole Armenick washed in red Wine an ounce and an half red Roses six drachms Ivory red Corral of each half an ounce Turpentine two ounces Wax oyl of Mirtles of each half a pound make of them a plaister according to art by adding Colophonia or else Tacamahaca Ladanum of each two ounces A. It is a binding Plaister strengthens the stomach A. Plaister of Melilot Mesue Take of Melilot flowers six ounces Chamomel flowers 〈◊〉 seed Marsh-mallow roots Bayberries Marjoram tops of Wormwood of each three drachms Smallage seed Cardamoms Orris Cyperus Spicknard Cassia lignea the seeds of Bishops weed of each a drachm and an half Ammoniacum ten drachms Styrax Calamitis 〈◊〉 of each five drachms Turpentine one ounce and an half fat Figgs by number twelve Goats suet Rozin of each two ounces and an half Wax six ounces oyl of 〈◊〉 and Spicknard of each so much as is sufficient then take of fresh Melilot Foenugreek and Chamomel of each so much as
be dissolved in Vineger and with a sufficient quantity of Wax made into a Cerecloath according to art A. Being applyed to the belly of a woman after labor it cleanseth her of any relicts accidentally left behind helps the fits of the mother and other accidents incident to women in that case Ceratum Oesypatum Galen Take of Oesypus ten ounces oyl of Chamomel and Orris of each half a pound yellow Wax two pound Rozin one pound Mastich Turpentine of each one ounce Spicknard two drachms and an half Saffron a drachm and an half Ammoniacum an ounce Styrax Calamitis half an ounce make them into a Cerecloath according to art A. It mollifies and digests hard swellings of the liver spleen womb nerves joynts and other parts of the body and is a great easer of pain Ceratum Santalinum Mesue Take of Rose twelve drachms red Sanders ten drachms white and yellow Sanders of each six drachms Bole Armenick seven drachms Spodium four drachms Camphire two drachms white Wax washed thirty drachms oyl of Roses six ounces make it into a Cerecloath according to art A. It wonderfuly helps hot infirmities of the stomach liver and other parts being but applied to them Ceratum Stomachicum Galen Take of red Roses Mastich of each twenty drachms dried Wormwood fifteen drachms Spicknard ten drachms Wax four ounces Rose water so much as is sufficient oyl of Roses a pound and an half let it boyl so till it be like an oyntment then ad oyl of Roses eight ounees Wax fourteen ounces the pouders afore mentioned excepting the Mastich which must be melted in the oyl of Roses of all them used in this manner make a Cerecloath according to art A. It strengthens the stomach and liver easeth their pains provokes apetite to ones meat and helps digestion Emplastrum à Nostralibus Commonly called Flower of Oyntments Take of Rozin Per-Rozin Wax Sheeps suet of each half a pound Olibanum four ounces Turpentine two ounces and an half Mirrh Mastich of each one ounce Camphire two drachms white Wine half a pint boyl them together into the form of a Cerecloath A. I found this recept in an old manuscript written in the year 1513. the quantity of the ingredients but very little altered except analogically and the vertue of it thus described verbatim Yt ys well clensande and well sowdande and generande the flesh and heland more yn eight days then ony other 〈◊〉 woll doe yn a monyth for yt wyll soffer noe corrupcion yn a wounde ne noe dead flesh to byde 〈◊〉 also yt ys good for headache and for wynde yn the brayne and for all mannyr posthymes yn the head or in the body for swelling of the eares or of the cheekes for all mannyr of synowes that ys greived or breysyd or sprong and yt woll draw out yrne or splynts of trees or thornes or broken bones or ony other thyngs that may grow yn a wound and yt ys good for bytyng of venemos 〈◊〉 and yt rotts and healls all mannyr of boches without fawt and yt ys good for fester or canker and for nolime 〈◊〉 2nd yt drawys out al mannyr of akyng yn the lyver or reynes or mylt and helpyth the emerauds CHYMICAL OYLS A. 1. I Desire you to take notice before I begin that Chymical oyls generally are not to be taken alone by themselves by reason of their vehement heat and burning but mixed with other convenient medicines A. 2. They carry the very same vertue the Simples do but are far more prevalent as having far more spirit in them and far less earthly dross OYL OF HERBS Oyl of Wormwood Take of dried Wormwood a pound spring water twenty pound infuse the Wormwood in the water twenty four hours then distill it in a great Alembick with his refrigeratory so shall you draw out the oyl with the water which you may seperate with a funnel keep the water for another distillation A. Your best way to learn to still Chymical oyl is to learn of an Alchymist for I rest confident the greatest part of the Colledge had no more skill in Chymistry than I have in building houses but having found out certain models in old rusty Authours tell people SO they must be done I can teach a man SO how to build a house first he must lay the foundation then rear up the sides then joyn the rasters then build the chimneyes tile the top and plaister the walls but how to do one 〈◊〉 of this I know not And so play the Colledge here for the Alchymists have a better way by far to draw them the truth is I am in a manner tyed to their method here from which I may not step aside if my country kindly accept this which is the beginning of my labours I may happily put forth somthing else for the Ingenious to whet their 〈◊〉 upon Only here I quote the oyls in the Colledg order and then quote the vertue of the 〈◊〉 of them that so the reader may know by a peny how a shilling is coyned After the same manner is prepared oyl of Chamomel flowers Chelondine Eyebright Hysop Lavender Marjoram Mints Watercresses Origanum Penyroyal Roses Rosemary Rue Savin Sage Savory Time Verbascum and all other flowers and hot hearbs A. I 〈◊〉 instance here only in oyl of Lavender commonly called oyl of Spike which helps the ranning of the reins they being anointed with it it expels worms two drops of it being taken in Wine the region of the back being anointed with it it helps the palsey for all the rest see the vertues of the herbs themselves OYL OF SEEDS Oyl of Dill Seeds Take of Dill seeds bruised two ponnd spring water sixteen pints steep them for twenty four hours then distill them in a great Allembick with his Refrigeratory draw out the water and oyl which you may seperate with a funnel In the same manner is prepared oyl of the seeds of Annis Caraway Cmmmin Carrots Fennel Wheat Parsly Rue Saxifrage c. A. Oyl of Annis seeds although it be often given and happily with good success in vertigoes ordissines in the head yes its cheif operation is upon the breast and lungues it helps narrowness of the breast rawness and wind in the stomach all infirmities there coming of cold and wind strengthens the nerves six drops is enough at a time taken in broath or any other convenient liquor A. As Annis seeds are apropriated to the breast so are Fennel seeds to the head the oyl of which cleanseth the brain of cold infirmities lethargies indisposition of the body numbness want of motion also it helps the stomach and expels wind A. Cummin seeds the oyl of them is a great expeller of wind nothing better it also wonderfully easeth pains of the spleen pains in the reins and bladder stopping of urine especially if it come of wind and is a present remedy for the chollick for the way of taking of them see Annis seeds OYL OF BERRIES Oyl of Juniper Berries Take of
fresh Juniper berries fifty pound bruise them and put them in a wooden vessel with twenty four pints of water adding to them a pound of sour Leven stop the vessel close and let them stand in a Cellar three months then distill them in an Alembick with a sufficient quantity of water seperate the oyl and reserve the water for another distillation In the same manner is made oyl of Bay berries and Ivy berries A. Oyl of Juniper berries prevails wonderfully in pains of the yard and running of the reins 〈◊〉 falling sickness it is a mighty preservative against the pestilence and all evill airs it purgeth the reins provokes urine breaks the stone helps the dropsie the quantity to be taken at a time in any convenient liquor is three or four drops outwardly by unction it helps the gout two or three drops dropped upon the navil helps the Chollick A. Oyl of Bay berries helps the Chollick and Iliack passion A. Oyl of Ivy berries helps cold diseases of the joynts the stone and provokes the terms in women OYL OF SPICES Oyl of Cinnamon Take of bruised Cinnamon five pound spring water fifty pints steep them twenty four hours then distill them with an Alembick After the same manner is made Oyl of 〈◊〉 Mace Nutmegs Pepper A. One or two drops of Oyl of Cinnamon is enough to take at a time and is exceeding good for such as are in Consumptions See Cinnamon among the simples A. Oyl of Mace is excellent good for Rheums in the head and oyl of Pepper for the Chollick OYL OF BARKS Oyl of the dryed Barks of Orrenges 〈◊〉 Lemmons is prepared as oyl of Herbs OYL OF WOODS Oyl of Guajacum Oyl of Guajacum is made of the wood by a retort in a close Reverberatory let the sweeter and thinner part be separated from the grosser and rectified with salt or Tartar 〈◊〉 or Colcolthar or sand After the same manner is made oyl of Box Oak and other sollid woods Oyl of Sassafras is made like oyl of Cinnamon and so is made oyl of Rhodium Juniper Rosemary Ivy. OYL OF THINGS TO BE MELTED Oyl of Wax Take of yellow Wax one pound melt it and ad to it three pound of Tiles beaten into pouder mix them and put them into a retort and draw out the oyl with a convenient fire it is rectified in a retort without tiles adding water to it After the same manner is prepared Oyl of all 〈◊〉 A. I am of opinion that oyl of Wax is as singuler a remedy for burns and burning ulcers as any is or need to be OYL OF GUMS AND ROZINS Oyl of Mirrh Take of Mirrh bruised six pound Conduit Water thirty pound Bay salt six pound mix them together and distil them in an Alembick A. It keeps wounds and all things else saith Fior avantus from putrifaction it makes the face fair and youthful quickly cures wounds and deafness being dropped into the ears Oyl of Turpentine Take of Venice Turpentine eight and twenty pound spring water ninety six pound distil them in a Copper vessel with his Refrigeratory so will the Oyl come out thin and white and the Colophonia will remain at bottom if the fire be increased This white Oyl may commodiously be drawn in Balneo Mariae without burning A. It is wonderful good in cold afflictions of the nerves and al diseases coming of cold and wind it corrects the cold afflictions of the lungues as Asthmaes difficulty of breathing c. A drachm being taken in the morning outwardly it adorns the body takes away the prints of 〈◊〉 and the small pocks chops in the skin and breasts of women and deafness being dropped into the ears Oyl of Balsum Take of Mirrh Aloes Spicknard Dragons blood 〈◊〉 Mummy Opopanax Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Bdellium Ammoniacum Sarcocolla Saffron Mastich Gum Arabick liquid Styrax of each two drachms Ladanum Castorium of each two drachms and an half Musk half a dram Turpentine the weight of them all the things to be bruised being bruised let them be mixed and distilled in an Alembick according to art A. It 〈◊〉 lost strength and preserves carkases from putrifaction the back bone being 〈◊〉 with it keeps back the rigor of feavers it takes away the falling-sickness and such diseases the fits of the mother melancholly and sadness without a cause c. Oleum Latiricium 〈◊〉 Mesue Take of Bricks made of red earth beaten into peices of the bigness of an Apple these being heat red hot quench in oyl 〈◊〉 Rosemary or old Sallet oyl letting them remain in till they are full then take them out and beat them into pouder then still them in a 〈◊〉 retort well luted stop the oyl close and keep it for your use A. The oyl will quickly penetrate and is a soveraign remedy for the gout and all cold afflictions in the joynts or nerves cramps epilepsies or falling sickness 〈◊〉 it mollifies hard 〈◊〉 dissolves cold swellings as also cold distempers of the spleen reins and bladder Oyl of Lovage 〈◊〉 made of the flowers of Lovage four ounces old oyl ten ounces Oyl of white Lillies of the flowers of white Lillies and 〈◊〉 as oyl of Roses but 〈◊〉 off what is yellow Oyl of Lillies of the vally is made like to it Oyl of Frankinsence Take as much Frankinsence 〈◊〉 will put it in a 〈◊〉 and draw 〈◊〉 the oyl with a convement 〈◊〉 then rectifie 〈◊〉 either by it self or with sand or salt In the same manner is made oyl of Ammoniacum Benzoin Caranna Jet Mastich Opopanax Sagapenum 〈◊〉 Styrax 〈◊〉 OYL OF MINERALS AND STONES A. Having perused these oyls following I would willingly have left them quite out I mean the manner allotted by the Colledg to make them 1. Because I fear they and truth are Separatists 2. Because the ignorant will 〈◊〉 as well how to make them as they did before when I have done what I can 3. As to Alchymists to whose profession the making of them belongs I shall seem like Phormio the Phylosopher who having never seen battle undertook to read a Military lecture before 〈◊〉 who was the best Souldier in the world but I am in a manner forced to it He that is able to understand the recepts is as able to understand that the failings are not mine but the Colledges Oyl of Antimony Take of crude Antimony Mercury Sublimate of each a pound beat them into pouder and put them in a glass retort with a wide neck give fire to them by degrees in a Reverberatory so will a fat distill into a receiver part of which sticking to the neck of the retort will easily be melted a gentle fire being held under it let this fat be rectified in a small Allembick or retort and let the curd be kept if you would have it liquid set it in a Cellar in an open glass and it will turn to water or oyl which keep in a glass well stopped Oyl of Arsenick Take of Christalline Arsenick first 〈◊〉 with
Colcothar mix it with an equal part of Salt 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 tartar let them be calcined between two little 〈◊〉 the uppermost having a hole 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they have done smoking dissolve the 〈◊〉 thus calcined in warm water that so the Salt may be 〈◊〉 out the pouder which remains at bottom moisten with oyl of Tartar and dry it by the fire do so three 〈◊〉 again dissolve it in warm water that you may take out the salt then will there remain a very white pouder and fixed which being set in a moist place wil dissolve into an oyl much like butter Oyl of Salt Take of French bay-salt made with the heat of the sun not of the fire as much as you will dry it by the fire to which ad its weight in burnt bricks beat them together in a mortar before they be altogether cold put them into a retort with a long neck lute a capacious receiver very wel to it give fire to it by degrees and in twelve or fourteen hours you shall have the oyl in the Receiver when the furnace is cold and the smoak wel ceased powr out the oyl and keep it from the air in a glasse well stopped and rectifie it from the flegm But the best oyl of salt is better made if you make the salt into brine of such strength that it wil bear an eg then quench the Bricks being red hot in this brine til they have drunk up al the liquor then beat them into pouder and put them into a Retort wel luted and give fire to it even to the highest degree and then rectifie it from the flegm A. Being mixed with Turpentine and applied outwardly it helps the gout three drops taken every morning in convenient liquor preserves youth consumes the dropsie resists feavers convulsions the falling sickness being mixed with oyntments it is exceeding good in ruptures and dislocations Oyl of Amber Take of yellow Amber four ounces beat it into pouder to which being put in a large Viol or a Retort pour as much sharp wine vineger digest it eight daies in horse dung then add to it twise its weight in dry sand distil it in sand adding the fire by degrees rectifie it from the sand with salt or Tartar calcined then with water A. It speedily helps all afflictions of the nerves as Convolsions Falling-sickness c. Being given in convenient liquors it is a singuler remedy against poyson and pestilent air diseases of the reins and bladder the fits of the mother the nose being anointed with it the chollick it causeth speedy labour to women in travail being taken in Vervain water it strengthens the body exceedingly as also the brain and sences and is of an opening nature Oyl of Sulphur Take a glass bel-still which will hold sixteen pound at least for the larger it is so much the better it is place it upon an earthen vessel which hath three or four upholders to which the bell may be commodiously fitted then putting a sufficient quantity of Brimstone into the earthen vessel burn it under the bell putting in fresh Brimstone when the first is consumed let this be done in some obscure place where neither wind nor sun comes The oyl will be more in quantity if the vessel that holds the Brimstone stand upon a furnace and a fire be under it Before you put on the bell perfume it with the smoke of Sage A. Prevails against diseases coming of cold putrifaction or wind feavers agues tertian quartan or quotidian Pestilence wounds and ulcers affects of the brain mouth teeth liver stomach spleen matrix bladder entrails and arteries coming of abundance of humours or putrifaction outwardly applied it helps fistulaes ulcers of the mouth and gangrens the way to take it inwardly is thus dip the top of a feather in the oyl and wash it in the liquor or decoction you give it in in 〈◊〉 agues give it in wines in which rosemary or mints or both have been boyled in tertian agues in Wine in which centaury hath been boyled in quartan agues in Bugloss water in all of them a little before the fit come in pestilences in Wine in which Rhadishes have been boyled mingled with a litle Venice Treacle in the falling-sickness with decoction of Bettony or Peony in coughs with decoction of Nettle seed and Hysop both of them made with Wine for flegm in Wormwood water for the wind chollik in Chamomel flower water for dropsies and cold livers in Selondine water and Honey for the rickets and stoppage of the spleen in Tamaris water for the French pocks in Fumitory or Broomflower water against worms in Grass or Wormwood water for the fits of the mother in decoction of Bettony or Featherfew in Wine for suppression of urine in decoction of Garlick with wine for the gout in decoction of Chamepitys with Wine in wounds and ulcers the place is lightly to be touched with a feather wet in the oyl it a hollow tooth ake put a drop into it if all your teeth ake make a decoction of mints in Wine and put a drop or two of this oyl to it and hold it warm in your mouth Oyl of Tartar Take of Tartar so much as you wil put it into a large retort with that proportion that but the third part of the vessel be filled distill it in sand with a strong fire afterwards the oyl being first seperated from the water or spirit of Tartar rectifie it with much water to correct the smell of it let it stand open a long time in the sun Liquor Tartari commonly called oyl of Tartar Take of Tartar so much as is sufficient fill an earthen vessel not glazed almost full of it let it be calcined in a furnace twelve hours when it is cold put it in Manica Hippocratis which hang in a moist Cellar that it may dissolve placing a vessel under it to receive it that which remains and will not dissolve in the hanging dissolve in water and evaporate away the moisture till it begin to look like Allum A. This is common to be had at every Apothecaries and Virgins buy it to take away the sunburn and freckles from their faces it takes off the rust from Iron and preserves it bright a long time Oyl of vitriol Take of the best Vitriol as much as you will melt it in a pan then divide it into thick pieces the which burn in the fire till they look reddish then beat them into pouder and sprinkle them with the best spirit of Wine put them into earthen retorts which will bear the fire increase the fire to them by degrees for three daies till the receivers which were obscured with smoke come to be cleer rectifie that distilled liquor and seperate by themselves the spirit of Wine the sour spirit of Vitriol and the strong and ponderous oyl A. It must be mixed with other medicines for it kils being taken alone it a swageth thirst allaieth the violent heat in feavers and
pestilences and a few drops of it gives a pleasant grateful tast to any medicine Aqua Mettis Take of pure Honey four pound dry sand two pound still them in a glass Still so capacious that the matter may fill only the fist part of the vessel first draw away the flegm then encreasing the fire draw off the water yellowish in colour and sharp in tast Paracelsus adviseth it to be drawn five times over and cals it Quintessence of honey and extols the vertues of it to the skies saith it will revive dying men which Mr. Charls Butler of Hamshire also affirms Aqua Fortis Take of dried Vitriol two pound Salt Peter cleansed one pound bruise them and place them in a reverberatory in a retort a large receiver being placed under it still it by degrees for twenty four hours together clarifie it with a drachm of silver according to art CHYMICAL PREPARATIONS MORE USUAL Steel prepared by the Sun A. It is just so prepared as shall be hereafter shewed only here they appoint it to be set in the sun there in the shaddow a parles difference Steel prepared by the fire Take of Steel cleansed from the filth heat it red hot and quench it a dozen times in sharp white Wine Vineger and as often in Canary or Malaga Wine then dry it and grind it upon a stone with oyl of Cinnamon and keep it for your use Cremor Tartar Take of Tartar made of White or Rhenish Wine as much as you wil beat it into fine pouder and sieft it then wash it in cold water three or four times til the filth be washed off from it then boyl it in cleer water in a large pan or earthen vessel gently take off the scum but the crust which is one the top after it hath covered the whole top take off with a wooden scummer spread it upon a brown paper wash it again in cold water and dry it well then grind it into fine pouder and keep it in a glasse close stopped that it may touch no mettal Crocus Martis Take of a bar of Iron or Steel which being heat very hot thrust into a great heap of brimstone a bason being placed underneath with cold water in it the Iron will run out like wax which being separated from the brimston grind it to pouder in an Iron mortar put the pouder in square earthen dishes which are not of above a fingers breadth in deepnesse place them at the hot fire of a Reverberatory for three or four daies so will the substance be reddish and like a spunge let the top be taken away with an Iron instrument and the rest driven up by the fire til it may be brought into a very fine pouder Also you may prepare it by the fire of a Reverberatory without brimstone Crocus Metallorum Take of Antimony shining with long veins salt-peter of each equal parts beat them into pouder severally then mix them together and put them into a brass or iron mortar then set fire to them by putting a coal in which wil burn with great noise on the top place a tile or an iron plate at least three fingers bredth distant from the matter burning when the noise is ceased let the mettal which wil look of a deep red colour be separated from that whitish crust at top and kept for your use being sweetned with clean distilled water Flos Sulphuris Take of yellow Brimstone which when you have rubbed it if you hold it to your ear will make an noise grind it with its equal part of Colcolthar of Vitriol viz. the residue of the distillation of the oyl put it in a long earthen pot putting to it a glass head large enough give fire to it in sand by degrees and drive up the flower stirring it with an hares foot It will be the better if you sublime it again with fresh Colcothar Lapis infernalis septicus Take of the lye in which black Sope is boyled burn it in a pan to a stone but yet take heed all the moisture be not consumed and it wax too dry when it is cold cut it in the form of dice and keep it close stopped Otherwise Take of Vitriol calcined to redness two ounces Sal Armoniack Tartar calcined to whiteness quick Lime of each three ounces put to them being bruised ly made of Fig-tree or Spurge or Sope dissolve them in it strain it and in a brass vessel boyl it to the consumption of the moisture keep the residence in a vessel close stopped Lapis prunellae or Niter purged with Brimstone Take of pure salt-peter a pound put it in a crucible w th coals round about it let it not burn but run like mettal that being melted put in two ounces of flower of Brimstone in little bits as big as hazel nuts which when it is consumed pour out the Niter into a brass bason and when it is cold keep it in a glass close stopped that the air come not to it to dissolve it Magisterium Perlarum et Corallorum in quo etiam sales eorum continentur Take of Pearls or Coral as much as you will grind them into exceeding fine pouder then pour upon them so much Radical Vineger that it may overtop them three or four fingers bredth digest them in ashes till they are dissolved pouring off the old liquor and pouring in fresh till all of them be dissolved filter the liquor through a broun paper and putting a little oyl of Tartar into it the Pearls which were dissolved will fall down to the bottom in white pouder which is to be seperated from the liquor and washed with cleer water till it be sweet at last washed with Cordiall waters Radical Vineger is that which is distilled in sand with Bay salt Mercurius Dulcis sublimatus Take of Sublimatum prepared with salt Vitriol two ounces crude Mercury purified with salt and Vineger and ground upon a Marble an ounce and an half let the Sublimatum be exactly mixed with the crude Mercury upon the same Marble then put the pouder into a phial of a foot in length place the phial being stopped well with Cotten or Bumbast up to the middle in sand at first let the fire be gentle then encreased by degrees for six hours that which ariseth up to the middle of the glass let it be taken for that which ascends up to the top is of an exceeding poysonous nature fit for nothing but ulcers that which remains in the bottom is of no use if that which is in the middle be sweet without any acrimony it is wel made if not you must sublime it again the second time that so you may seperate again what is at the top and the oftener you do it the more perfect will your medicine be Mercurius Dulcis precipitated Take of crude Mercury distilled in a retort with Bay salt or revived with common Cinnabarum one part Aqua fortis of two parts of Vitriol calcined and one
part of salt Peter two parts dissolve them in a phial over warm ashes make brine of rain water and Baysalt as much as the water will dissolve filter it through a broun paper into this brine which must be strong enough to bear an eg put the former solution of the Mercury and forth with a white pouder will fall down to the bottom which is to be washed in cleer water till it have no tast then in cordial waters so dried and kept in a glass Mercurius vitae Take of oyl of Antimony before mentioned whilst it is in fat put it into cleer water and forth with it will appear like milk and a white pouder will fall down to the bottom which must be made sweet with much washing and kept for use Sacharum Saturni Take of red I ead as much as you will which being put into a phyal put so much distilled Vineger to it that it may overtop it the bredth of four fingers digest it in a bath or in dung twenty four hours seperate the sweet Vineger and put in fresh so long till no more sweetness can be drawn from it mix all the liquors together in a stone vessel which will endure the fire with a gentle fire exhale it so long away till there appear a skin at the top then set the vessel in a Cellar and take away the Christalline congealation then exhale it again till another skin be on the top and do as before till there grows no more there at last dissolve the sugar in distilled water filter it coagulate it to a sweet christalline sugar Salt of Vitriol of a fleshy colour Take of Vitriol so much as you wil put it in a wide Crucible and place the sire round about it till it come into a pouder of the colour of Violets let this be put into a large glass viol into common water distilled continually stirring it with a stick till the water which before was hot be cold so let it stand twenty four hours filter the liquor and exhale it away till it be dry and of a fleshy colour Salt of Vitriol white Let white Vitriol be dissolved in distilled water filtred and coagulated as the Sacharum Saturni was Turbith Minerale Take of crude Mercury oyl of Vitriol seperated from the flegm of each equal parts put them into a phial which being placed first of all in hot ashes then fire being added by degrees lest all the oyl of Vitriol flie away a white mass remaining in the bottom which being seperated from that portion of crude Mercury let it be put into rain water or else distilled water and forth with it will come yellow let it be often washed in warm water till it be sweet then in cordial waters then dried and kept Oleum Antimonij Take of bright Antimony as much as you will let it be beaten in very fine pouder and put into a large earthen vessel stirring it over the fire with an iron instrument till it grow into clots then beat it again set it over the fire as before repeat this till all the splendor of it be gone and it smoke no more and the Stibium be like white ashes let this pouder be put upon a red hot plate take a pound and an half of it Borax half an ounce or take three ounces of it and half a dram of Sal gem put it into a Crucible which being covered with a Tile set in a very hot fire til there flow a matter like water put that into a bason and keep it Tartarum Vitriolatum Take of Liquor Tartar prepared four ounces Oyl of Vitriol wel rectified two ounces drop it by drops upon the Liquor of Tartar so wil there a white pouder fall down to the bottom let the moisture swimming above be taken away by a gentle heat and the salt reserved for use Nepenthes Opiatum Take of tincture of Opium made with distilled Vineger then with spirit of Wine extraction of Saffron made with spirit of Wine of each an ounce Salt of Pearls and Coral of each half an ounce Tincture of the specics of Diambra of each seven drachms Ambergreece one drachm mix them together and with the heat of a bath make them into the form of pills THE VVAY OF MAKING EXTRACTS SEing many extol the praises of Extracts up to the skies l'though WE by daily experience see they never answer to those effects yet that He may not altogether be wanting to the desires of others We chose rather to give this general way of making of them than to stuff up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with idle and needless Recepts and out of vian glory impose then upon the unskilful Take of the masse of any pill or pouder what soever as much as you wil infuse them or any of them in distilled water such as the Physitian shall prescribe a sufficient quantity let them stand two daies in a bath or if the species be hard three daies til the tincture have drawn out all the vertue which if you would try let the first liquor run through a brown paper and put in new liquor digesting it again which having received its tincture proceed as before let the liquors so gathered be placed in Balnes Mariae and the moisture evaporated so wil the matter remain in the bottom of the thickness of honey which keep for your use that the extract may remain moist a long time put a little salt to it viz two scruples or half a drachm to an ounce of extract If you draw it with distilled water put in a little oyl of Vitriol or oyl of Sulphur so the extract wil be the better drawn and the pleasanter to the tast for the liquor being thereby made sharp will sooner penetrate the hard substances of the species and set a stop to the unbridled violence of a purging medicine Cordial Extracts Opiates and violent purges are usually drawn with spirit of Wine THE VVAY OF MAKING SALTS OF ANY KIND OF VEGETABLES THE Salt which is made of plants is twofold the one Volatle which is 〈◊〉 discussed by the violence of the fire and this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The other fixed which endures the fire and is left in the 〈◊〉 The way to make Volatle or Essential Salt Take a large quantity of any convenient plant which is fresh and full of juyce beat it in a wooden or stone mortar and 〈◊〉 poured cleer spring water to it boyl it till half be consumed strain it and press it strongly then boyl the decoction to the thickness of Honey then set it in a glass or stone 〈◊〉 glazed in a cold place for eight daies at the least and you shall find a christal line salt at the top of it like Sal gem take that and wash it in the water of the herb whereof it was made and dry it In this manner is made salt of Wormwood Carduns 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and other bitter herbs very easily but of 〈◊〉 herbs not 〈◊〉 much difficulty The way of
pith being taken away steep thē in juyce of Quinces three daies with a moderate heat then dry them and keep them The preparation of Goats blood Take a Goat of a middle age feed him a month with burnet Smallage Parsly Lovage Mallows and such like things then take the blood which flows out of his Arteries being opened let it settle then pour the water from it and dry the blood in a fornace the Goat must be killed towards the latter end of the summer about the Dog daies The way to burn Swallows Let young Swallows be so killed that the blood may run upon their wings then sprinkle them with a little salt and burn them in an earthen vessel well glazed and keep the Ashes for your use After the same manner are burnt Hedgehogs Toads and Frogs but without salt The preparation of Gum Lacca Take of Gum Lacca which is foul for it were labor in vain to wash what is clean bruise it a little and boyl it in water in which Schaenanth and Birthwort of each equal parts have been boyled til the purer part swims at top and the drosse is sunck to the bottom evaporate away the moisture from that purer part either in the sun or in a bath and so keep it for your use The preparation of Lapis Lazuli Take of Lapis Lazuli finely bruised and wash it in so many waters till the water remain cleer after washing and this preparation is enough when you put it in pills but when you use it in Confectio Alkermes it must first be burnt The preparation of Earth worms Take of Earth worms cut and cleansed as many as you will wash them so often in Wine till they are cleansed from their filth then dry them and keep them for your use The common way of preparing Pearls Beat Pearls into very fine pouder in an Iron or Steel mortar putting to them a little Rose water that so the more subtill parts may not fly à way In like manner is Coral and other precious stones prepared The preparation of Sows or Woodlice Take of Sows as many as you will wash them in white Wine then put them into a new glazed pot dry them in a fornace that so they may be 〈◊〉 into pouder The way to make Oesipus Take of wool cut off from the neck ribs and under the pits of the forelegs of a Sheep not washed but well wearied wash it in warm water so long till it have left all its 〈◊〉 in the water then press it out and lay it by let that fat and foul water be poured from on high out of one vessel into another a long time 〈◊〉 it be froathy then let the froath settle and take off the fat that swims on the top then pour the water to and fro again till neither more fat nor froath appears then wath the froath with the fat in cleer water till it be cleansed from the dross and will not bite your tongue if you touch it with it then keep it in a thick earthen clean pot in a cold place Washed lead Dioscorides I 〈◊〉 water being put in a leaden mortar be stirred up and down with a leaden pestel painfully till it look black and grow thick like lime then strain it through a linnen cloath putting 〈◊〉 to it that so whatsoever is dissolved may pass through when it is setled pour off that water and wash it in other 〈◊〉 water till no blackness remain in it at last make it up into balls to be kept for your use Furnt Lead Dioscorides Take very thin plates of lead put them in an earthen pot putting 〈◊〉 one between every plate so pile them up till the pot be 〈◊〉 then set 〈◊〉 in the fire 〈◊〉 the lead up and down till it be brought into ashes then shut your 〈◊〉 lest the steem either of the Brimstone or of the lead do you mischief take it off from the fire then wash it as you wash Ceruss Pouder of raw lead Fernelius Take very thin plates of Lead and cut them very small then steep them three 〈◊〉 in sharp Vineger changing the Vineger every day then dry them by the fire but burn them not so beat them into a fine pouder The preparation of Fox lungues Take of Fox lungues being fresh the Aspera Arteria being taken away wash them diligently with white Wine wherein Hysop and Scabious have been boyled dry it gently in an oven but burn it not then lay it up wrapped in Wormwood Horehound or Hysop dried Simple preparation of Scammony Take of Scammony in fine pouder a pound juyce of Quinces eight ounces mix them together and having stood in infusion twenty four hours evaporate away the juyce 2. Or take of Scammony in pouder and put it in a Quince the core being taken out and so roast it in the ashes or in an oven then take out the Scammony and keep it for your use Or 3. Take four ounces of Scammony put it in a glass viol cover it over with juyce of Quinces the breadth of three fingers let it stand in a bath till it look like milk then put out that and put in other juyce do so till it look no longer white let this liquor stand and settle and dry the setlings in the sun A. The Colledg here set down a way to prepare Squils for troches which they say is not unlike the former and comparing them together I find them as like as a Permain is like a Apple therefore I pass it The way to boyl Turpentine Take a pound of Venice Turpentine to which add a great quantity of water to wit twenty four pound in which let it be boyled so long till it loose its smell and be as hard as Rozin brittle as glass and white The preparation of Tutty Take of Tutty heat red hot three times in a crucible and as often quenched in Rose water then grind it very small and put it in a clean linnen cloath swing it up and down this way and that way in a vessel full of cleer water that the fine and profitable part thereof may come through into the water and the gross and filthy part remain still in the cloath let it settle and then pour off the water let this operation be repeated till nothing worth any thing be left in the cloath A CONCLUSION THus Courteous Reader have I gone through the whol Work I am not conscious to my self that I have justly given offence to any by translating this Work If any take offence it is to be shrewdly suspected it ariseth from self interests Once more let me advise the ignorant not to be too busie with what they have no skill in for as Physick as the never dying Hippocrates truly saith was never ordained for disorderly and disobedient persons so was the administration of it never ordained for dunces therefore let every one that administers physick seriously consider the great account must be made another day before God and the Lord Jesus Christ
that name a if you can get any such all those that ever I tasted were sour o see Directions in the beginning a the Eupatorum of Mesae for so you must take this the receit being his is the herb we call Maudlin and not Agrimonv The Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is not growing old because the flowers gathered in due time decay not by age ging quality b you had not best boyl the Senna altogether so much left it lose its 〈◊〉 c if you lack Sal-Indi you may take Sal-Gem d beaten into very fine pouder e burnt a birthwort b a sort of Comfry c the herb not the fish a too many Physitians in England being like Balaams Ass they will not speak unless they see an Angel yet I accuse not al. a to the liquor I mean not to the foeces o that is Grapes not ripe a this is the right ground Ivy it may be I may sometimes use the word permiscuously p Ribes a called also Lluellin by some Welchman or another and that 's the reason that Welchmen vapor so much of the vertues of this herb which is a quality most of that generation are excellent at 1 Ammi z Cassutha the Arabick name of Dodder a if you boyl the Dodder and 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 to long you had as good never put it in for a very little boiling takes out the vertues of them b melancholly is a sad sullen humor you had as good vex a nest of wasps asvex it o if I durst spend paper about it I cold easily prove spring-water to be the best by far a you may do it in warm water or a bath o the eross excepted which wil never dissolve while the world 〈◊〉 b you must first beat it into pouder else you may grind till your heartachs before you ob ain your purpose a I know not what fitter term to give that Arabick word Alkool b you must first beat it into pouder else you may grind till your heartachs before you ob ain your purpose c make the paper handsomly in form of a sunnel and so stick it in a suÌ„nel put the sunnel in another glass this is that they cal filtring a whether one one pound at three times or three pounds at three times might be som question yet not so great an one but experience wil decide it howsoever let it pass for one of the Colledges misty recepts o I rest coufident that the juyce if right is better by 20 parts and my confidence is built upon the rock of reason and not upon the sand of tradition d for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia e spring water is better a in all conscience especially as conscience goes now adaies here is too little sugar by half a let the water be warm else you may happen to lose your labor in syrups made o. decoctions the colour is not so material * pick the roses f take the roots themselves for if the bark be to be had it is very rare a blue violets not white * which is 〈◊〉 pints if your violets be good a 〈◊〉 some cal 〈◊〉 in English Cich pease c see in the begining of the book what they are c ground pine * Matricaria let others translate it by what name they wil I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that name I supose to be true a called by som 〈◊〉 broom in Suffix Knee-holly * hot or else you do nothing a viz. not husked * sliced thin or else you had almost as good hang in a stone a we want the terminus a quo unless we be as wise as Angels And the 1 Author hath t also in the very same words Howsoever if you boyl it away but to a pint and an half according to their rule you will not have water enough at the first to wet all the Simples they that are used to make Decoctionsknow how to make one for strength and this recept is not much in use o the manner shal be shewed in its proper place a would I could see theÌ„ truly if you would have them I doubt yon must go to Arabia for them where Mesue 〈◊〉 a would I could see theÌ„ truly if you would have them I doubt you must go to Arabioa for them where Mesuedwelâ—t a A kind of thorn growing in Egypt and Arabia * it is that we cal our Ladies thistle having white veins in the leaf and used to be eaten in the spring time * spring-water is better a bruise 〈◊〉 I the roots you boyl take that for a general rule unles the contrary be mentioned * by the brest I alwaies mean that which is called Thorax o a flag of a sweet smell som take it for Calamus Aromaticus c Peucedanum a Seseli o by all means let it be brought from thence yet some are of opinion that things growing in England are fitter for English bodies and can give reasons for it too * viz slice the Agrick cut the EpithimuÌ„ bruise the seeds ginger and mace a one kind of wolsebain b I suppose Fernelius means Borrag and Bugloss the natures of which are alike neither according to the opinion of some was the name Borrage known to the Ancient but called Bugloss and indeed it resembles an Neats tongue from whence the word was derived more than that we call Bugloss doth * see the making of it among the Troches c water and honey boyled together til it be scummed a I think they mean horse rhadishes Bruise the roots seeds and cut the herbs else you had almost as good boyla chip a bruise them first o Aqua mulsa * have a little patience and you shall be taught not only the way to make it but also the vertues of it which are not a few * see the simples if at any time you be put to a nonplus about them in the Compositions o else you had as good presse a log of wood * that latitude may be given safely in all compositions * before the shels be hard a if your eyes be in your head they wil teach youthat a Observe that the later it be before you ad the vineger to any syrup the sourer will it be so may you please yourself not offend the Colledge for they give you latitude enough o viz. Only throw away the hard pith in the middle and so you ought to do every time you use the roots z it differs a little from our ordinary Garden time an Herbal will shew you the difference o Calaminthacattaria a you shall be taught how to prepare theÌ„ in its proper place o whether this Orris be English or of that country wher Gesner lived is some question b Esula or Tythymal in sussex we call it Spurg and so I english it c and so you must both the Hellebores also or else you had as good put in a rush o first bruise the roots
a Saccharum dispumarum it may be they mean Molossus viz. that which the vulgar call Treacle b where shall we in England get such out of questiō the dried ones are far more hot and worse the the green a if these be boyled with suger I would know but one yea the least difference between it and a syrup if none then if you please it shall run thus a syrup called Rob of Cornels o oh Heavens was ever the like seen two parts of how many to that I must write Ignoramus a I know not how better to translate sogeneral a word as prunum a Eupatorium o an Arabick word and in English is plain Juyce o I supose the seeds It is confessed Mesue hath it word forword as it is here a have a speciall care they be nor black ones a the same that we call Consumption of the lungues a or springwater else in a dry summer you cannotget the Lohoch if it were to save your life o the difference of which two diseases is not much o Asthma is a disease when thick tough flegm sticks in the lappets of the lungues a Phtisick is an ulceration of the lungues and the very same disease usually called a consumptiō of the lungues c I take those we call bluefigs to be intended by the Colledg but not by Mesue for he apoints fat figs. * those which we in Sussex call flour-de-luce a viz. the kernels only nonhusks and all for that would make a composition sooner to choak than to help a mans throat o or windpipe b blanched o or pils a or Lignum vitae such as they make Bowls of the wood of * I am of opinion that it you would learn to preserve neatly your best way is to learn of a Consumaker * I suppose they mean the flowers c som hold it to be white-thorn of which judgement are Tragus Dodonenus others hold it to be sweet-Bryar Truly I know no other way to know what the Colledge intend by it than to ask them o Prunella e I know not what they mean by it unless they mean Bawm i not cut as they prescribe i six pound will serve the turn * you shall be taught hereafter how to make it o and why wil not a brassemorter serve the turn c and this is but a slovenly art take my word for it * viz. white red yellow a a kind or wolf-bane o viz. Borrage and Bugloss o viz. Borrage and Bugloss c dried or rosted by the fire e a new name for earth of Lemnos a Dragons blood so called though it be nothing less but only the gum of a tree This receit is borrowed frō Alex. Bened. only the name is absconded som of the quantities not considerable are changed o but how big must they 〈◊〉 a there is nothing 〈◊〉 than that all their pouders will keep better in Electuarys than they will in pouders and most part of them were quoted Electuaries by the Authors whence they had them * viz. black long white * Bishops-weed * round Zedoary The Colledg made a great cry of a little wooll here 's a title as big as the recept a Maudlin * Mesue appoints honey o Mesue something alters the proportiō but not much * viz. long white and black * red white and yellow * I take that to be the greatest sort of Bazill called once before Ocimum Citratum and here Caryophillatum Citron or Clove Bazil a Ammi e or hartwort o a disease that causeth men to vomit up their excrements s widdowwail Ielt out by Gesner Crato and others and in my opinion it makes the recept the the worse and not the better t whether they intend the flower thereby distinguishing it from one leaf of the flower or whether they mean the flower and branch is very difficult if not impossible to judge for their word cum toto comprehends all both root branch leaf and flower a who dares affirm that our Collegiates ar no Astrologers b Learnedly written c Red-roses out of question yet it seems the Colledge either did not know or did not care wch * white red and yellow a red-roses where was the Colledges care b excellently penned c forgetfulnes a beat the white of the egg well first o this is notable they should have added two grains and an halt half a quarter * and could they not have given the Latin name as well as the Greek name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Pistacia b an hundred to one but it is Permains they mean or else Pippins for they quote no other Apples o Meum p water-flag perhaps they mean see the Roots in the Catalogue of Simples a see the Simples o in water saith Mesue though the Colledg left it out you might boyl them in piss and yet not swerve from theit recept I hope they do not hold Arbitrary Government they make such Arbitrary receipts a I know no reason why this might not have been left out considering the quantity of Honey was prescribed before b Scoria ferri is properly those flakes which Smiths beat off from iron when it is red hot a Terra sigillata a bare weight b I suppose they mean the seeds of these following a look the roots in the Simples and there you shal find these directions you have need enough of b the Author appoints but seven drams c viz the seeds within them d I know not what English name to give it a commonly called Benjamin a I suppose the seeds b Balaustins b the roots I suppose are intended a Irio b I think they mean that by smilax aspera a see the way to make these in their proper places * Ecchium b a wise man wil take Hony a the seeds out of question * a little hard wax will serve if you make not the hole too large a there is nothing like to hot Embers b Butter-bur it growscom monly by ditcnes sides bears no stalks at all but broad leaves and the flower apears before the leaf c I take it to be 〈◊〉 wort not 〈◊〉 bane the 〈◊〉 look 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a This is that which commonly is called Venice-treacle b Take it alwaies for red-Roses when the other are not mentioned c 〈◊〉 a viz. dissolve the Opium a it is something mysterious why sugar should be added to the syrups a must the Cinnamon be dissolved too a water and hony c beat them first into pouder d they might have been a little plainer and set down howmuch decoction there must be I suppose you may boyl the violets in three pints till one be consumed a bruise the Polipodium else you had as good boyl a 〈◊〉 b Ageratum a viz. the middle bark wich is thick a that is only the stones cast away b four pints is little enough I assure you you shall as soon eat a load of loggs as