the Author must be kept as your life and above all earthly treasure must be taken to the quantity of a spoonful or two morning and evening if you be already infected and sweat thereupon if you be not infected a spoonful is sufficient half in the morning and half at night all the plague time under God saith the Author trust to this for there was never man woman or child that failed of their expectation in taking of it This is also of the same efficacy not only against the plague but pox measles surfets c. Crollius his Treacle water Camphorated Take of Andromachus his Treacle five ounces The best Myrrhe two ounces and half The best Saffron half an ounce Camphire two drams Mix them together then pour upon them ten ounces of the best spirit of wine and let them stand 24 hours in a warm place then distill them in Balneo with a graduall fire cohobate the spirit three times This spirit causeth sweat wonderfully and resists all manner of infection It may be taken from a dram to an ounce in some appropriate Liquor A distilled Treakle Vinegar Take of the roots of Bistort Gentian Angelica Tormentill of each ten drams Pimpernell Bay berries Juniper berries of each an ounce Nutmeg five drams The shavings of Sassafras two ounces Zedoary half a dram White Sanders three drams The leaves of Rue Wormwood Scordium of each half a handfull The flowers of Wall-flower Buglosse of each a handful and half Andromachus Treacle Mithridate of each six drams Infuse them all in three pints of the best White wine vinegar the space of eight dayes in Frigido in glass vessels then distill them in Balneo This Spirit is very good to prevent them that are free from infection and those that are already infected from the danger thereof if two or three spoonful thereof be taken once in a day with sweating after for those that are infected but without sweating for others An excellent water against the Stone in the Kidneys Take of the middle rind of the root of Ash bruised two pound Juniper berries bruised three pound Venice turpentine that is very pure 2 pound and a half Put these into twelve pints of spring water in a glass vessell well closed and there let them putrifie in horse dung for the space of three months then distill them in ashes and there will come forth an oil and a water separate the one from the other Ten or twelve drops of this oil being taken every morning in four or six spoonfuls of the said water dissolves the gravell and stone in the kidneys most wonderfully Another water for the same use Take the juice of Radish Lemmons of each a pound and half Waters of Betony Tansey Saxifrage and Vervin of each a pint Hydromell and Malmsey of each two pound In these Liquors mixed together infuse for the space of four or five days in a gentle Balneo Juniper berries ripe and newly gathered being bruised three ounces the seed of Gromel Bur-dock Radish Saxifrage Nettles Onions Anise and Fennell of each an ounce and half the four cold seeds the seed of great Mallows of each six drams the Calx of Eg-shels Cinnamon of each three drams of Camphire two drams let all be well strained and distilled in ashes Two ounces of this water taken every morning doth wonderfully cleanse the Kidneys provoke Urine and expell the Stone especially if you calcine the feces and extract the Salt thereof with the said Water To make an excellent Wound water Take Plantain Rib-wort Bone-wort wild Angelica Red-mints Betony Egrimony Sanacle Blew-bottles White-bottles Scabius Dandelion Avens Honey-suckle leaves Bramble buds Hawthorn buds and leaves Mugwort Dasie roots leaves and flowers Wormwood Southernwood of each one handfull Boil all these in a pottle of White wine and as much Spring water till one half be wasted and when it is thus boiled strain it from the hearbs and put to it half a pound of hony and let it boil a little after then put it into bottles and keep it for your use Note that these hearbs must be gathered in May only but you may keep them dry and make your water at any time This water is very famous in many Counties and it hath done such cures in curing outward and inward Wounds Imposthumes and Ulcers that you would scarce beleeve it if I should recite them to you also it is very good to heal a sore mouth The Patient must take three or four spoonfuls thereof morning and evening and in a short time he shall finde ease and indeed a cure unless he be so farre declined as nothing almost can recover him If the wound be outward it must be washed therewith and linnen cloths wet in the same be applyed thereto Dr. Matthias his Palsie water is made thus Take of Lavender flowers a gallon pour upon them of the best spirit of wine three gallons the vessell being close stopped let them be macerated together in the Sun for the space of six days then distill them in an Alembick with its refrigeratory then take the flowers of Sage Rosemary Betony of each a handfull Borage Bugloss Lillie of the valley Cowslips of each two handfuls Let all the flowers be fresh and seasonably gathered and macerated in a gallon of the best spirits of Wine and mixed with the aforesaid spirit of Lavender adding then the leaves of Balm Motherwort Orange tree newly gathered the flowers of Stechados Oranges Bay berries of each an ounce After a convenient digestion let them be distilled again then adde the outward rinds of Citrons six drams the seed of Piony husked six drams Cinnamon Nutmegs Mace Cardamums Cububs of yellow Sanders of each half an ounce Lignum Aloes one dram the best Jujubs the kernels taken out half a pound Let them be digested for the space of six week then strain and filtre the Liquor to which adde of prepared Pearl two drams prepared Emrald a scruple Amber Gryse Musk Saffron Red Roses Sanders of each an ounce Yellow Sanders Rinds of Citrons dryed of each a dram Let all these species be tyed in a silken bag and hanged in the foresaid spirit A Scorbuticall water or a compound water of Horse radish is made thus Take the leaves of both sorts of Scurvie-grass being made very clean of each six pound let these be bruised and the juice pressed forth to which adde the Juice of Brook-lime Water-cresses of each half a pound of the best White wine eight pints twelve whole Lemons cut of the fresh roots of Briony four pound Horse Radish two pound of the bark of Winteran half a pound of Nutmegs four ounces Let them be macerated three days and distilled Three or four spoonfuls of this water taken twice in a day cures the Scurvy presently Spirit of Castor is made thus Take of fresh Castoreum two ounces flowers of Lavender fresh half an ounce Sage Rosemary of each two drams Cinnamon three drams Mace Cloves of each a dram the best
against the Falling sicknesse CHAP. XXXII Water of Flower The great quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth and put it into a wide mouthed Pot or other Vessell stopt very close Take those severall flowers following in their seasons and being clean pickt put them to the spirit in the Pot viz. Cowslips Wood bine Stock gilly flower of all three sorts Damask Musk Roses Sweet Brier flowers Clove July flowers Llilium Convallium Jasmine Citron Orange flowers or pils dry Tillia Flowers Garden Limon Wild Thyme flowers Lavender Marigold Chamomile Mellilot Elder Flowers of each half a pound Being furnished with all your flowers as above when you would distill them adde to them Aniseeds 2 pound Coriander 1 pound bruise the seeds It were best to bruise all the flowers as you put them up into the spirit for their more orderly working distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art then adde to the distilled water Roses July flowers Elder flowers of each 1 pound after twelve dayes infusion it may be drawn off then dulcifie it with white Sugar 10 pound and being fine it may be drawn for use The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon and put it into a wide mouthed pot or other vessel stopt very close take those severall flowers following in their seasons and being clean pickt put them to the spirit in the pot viz. Cowslips Wood bine Stock Gilly flower of the 3 sorts Damask Musk Roses Sweet Brier flowers Clove July flowers Lilium Convallium Jasmine Citron Orange flowers or pils dry Tillia flowers Garden Limon Wild Thyme flowers Lavender Marigold Chamomile Mellilot Elder Flowers of each 6 drams and a half Being furnished with all your flowers as above when you would distil them adde to them Aniseeds 3 ounces a dram and half Coriander 1 ounce 5 drams bruise the seeds it were best to bruise all the flowers as you put them up into the spirit for their more orderly working distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art Then adde to the distilled water Roses July flowers Elder flowers of each 1 ounce 5 drams after 12 dayes infusion it may be drawn off then dulcifie it with white Sugar 1 pound and being fine it may be drawn for use CHAP. XXXIII Water of Fruits The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Juniper berries 4 pound Quince Pipping parings dry of each 2 pound Limon pils Orange pils dry of each 1 pound Nutmegs four ounces Aniseeds 2 pound Cloves 2 ounces distil them into Proof spirit according to Art to the spirit add Strawberries Raspisses bruised of each 5 pound stir them well together and after ten dayes it being clear may be drawn off then dulcifie with syrup made as is hereafter taught and so let it stand till it be clear and then draw it off for use The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Juniper berries 6 ounces 3 drams and a quarter Quince Pipping parings dry of each 3 ounces a dram and half Limon pils Orange pils dry of each 1 ounce 5 drams Nutmegs 3 drams and a quarter Aniseeds 3 ounces a dram and half Cloves 1 dram and a half distil them into Proof spirit according to Art to the spirit adde Strawberries Raspisses bruised of each 8 ounces stir them well together and after 10 dayes it being clear may be dawn off then dulcifie it with syrup made as is hereafter taught and so let it stand till it be clear and then draw it off for use CHAP. XXXIV Avens Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Avens roots 4 pound Orris roots Nutmeg Yellow Sanders Mace of each 2 ounces Lignum Rhodium Saffron Storax Benjamine of each 1 ounce Angelica roots 3 ounces Limon pils green half a pound Sweet Fennell seed Aniseeds of each 1 pound Cloves 10 drams Roman Wormwood Mint dry of each 3 handfuls Red Roses Stoechas flowers of each 4 handfuls Sweet Marjoram Balm Burnet Thyme all dry of each 6 handfuls Alkermes berries 2 ounces Bruise them all that are to be bruised distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with Syrupâ— thus made Take Rose water 4 pound white sugar 10 pound boile it to a syrup hight then strain it and put it to the fire again adde thereto confection of Alkerms 4 ounces Syrup of Gilly flowers 1 pound Ambergreese dissolved in Rose water 1 dram and so let these boil a little till they be incorporated with the Syrup and so keep it for use The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gal Avens roots 6 ounces 3 drams and a quarter Orris roots Nutmeg Yellow Sanders Mace of each a dram and half Lignum Rhodium Saffron Storax Benjamine of each 3 quarters of a dram Angelica roots 2 drams and a half Limon pils green 6 drams and a half Sweet Fennell seeds Aniseeds of each 1 ounce 5 drams Cloves 1 dram Roman Wormwood Mint dry of each what snfficeth Red Roses Stoechas flowers of each what sufficeth Sweet Marjoram Balm Barnet Thyme all dry of each what sufficeth Alkermes berries a dram and half Bruise them all that are to be bruised distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with Syrups thus made Take Rose water 6 ouuces 3 drams and quarter White Sugar 1 pound boil it to a Syrup hight then strain it and put it to the fire again add thereto Confection of Alkerms 3 drams and a half Syrup of Gilly flowers 1 ounce 5 drams Ambergreese dissolved in Rose water 6 grains and so let these boil a-little till they be incorporated with the Syrup and so keep it for use Avens water is a great Cordiall strengtheneth the Spirit comforteth all the inward parts and preserveth from Consumptions and Mesadnesse Additions to inrich these precedent Chapters to which by Numbers these are referred Additions to the first and second Chapters TAke July flowers Roses Poppy and Sanders or any of them severally what sufficeth and inâ—use them in Aqua vitae or Proof spirit till the tincture be be drawn out then draw off the spirit and reserve it close stopt for use When you have occasion to use it take 8 ounces thereof to 7 pound and a half of this water and you will give it a sufficient colour or you may take more at pleasure without inconveniency Additions to the third Chapter The greater quantity Take Aniseeds White Sugar according to Art of each five pound or what sufficeth The lesser quantity Take Aniseeds White Sugar according to Art 8 ounces Additions to the fourth Chapter The greater quantity Take Caraway seeds Coriander seeds of each 3 ounces Calamus Aromaticus Zedoary of each 4 ounces Aniseeds Cassia lignea of each 8 ounces Angelica Rootes 8 ounces or Hearb Angelica 2 pound white Sugar 2 pound and half or what sufficeth The lesser quantity Take Caroway seeds Coriander seeds of each 2 drams and a half Calamus Aromaticus Zedoary of each 3 drams and 3 quarters Aniseeds Cassia lignea of
stink thereof is fixed by the acid spirit of the Salt for acid Spirits and volatile Salts are contrary the one to the other and spirit of Urine or any volatile Salt will precipitate any metall as well as salt of Tartar These oyls will remain clear and have far more vertue then the ordinary sort of oyls have As for common ordinary distilled oyls they need not if they be well separated from the water with which they were distilled any rectifying at all and if you goe about to rectifie them you will lose good part of them and make that which remains not at all the better But if there be any better then another for rectifying of them it is by digestion by which means there will be a separation of what is flegmatick which you may separate afterwards and by this means you shall lose none of the oyls Of Compound Waters and Spirits BOOK II. A Dissolving Menstruum TAke Cyprus Turpentine and the best spirit of wine of each two pound distill them in a glass gourd either in Balneo or Ashes Separate the oil from the spirit with a tunnel or separating glass distill the spirit agaim and so often untill it favour no more of the oyl of Turpentine and then it is sufficiently prepared This Menstruum dissolves any hard stones presently and extracts the tincture of Corall A Glass Gourd with its head Another dissolving Menstruum or acetum Philosophicum Take Honey Salt melted of each a pound of the strongest spirit of Vineger two pound digest them for the space of a fortnight or more then distill them in ashes Cohobate the Liquor upon the feces three or four times then rectifie the spirit Note that they must be done in a large glass Gourd This is of the same vertue as the former if not more powerfull Another dissolving Menstruum Take of the best rectified Spirit of Wine with which imbibe the strongest unslaked lime until they be made into a paste then put them into a glass gourd and distill off the spirit in ashes This spirit pour on more fresh Lime and doe as before do this three or four times and thou shalt have a very subtile spirit able to dissolve most things and to extract the vertue out of them Paracelsus his Elixir Subtilitatis Take oil Olive Honey rectified spirit of Wine of each a pint distill them all together in ashes then separate all the flegm from the oyls which will be distinguished by many colours put all these colours into a Pelican and adde to them the third part of the Essence of Balm and Sallendine digest them for the space of a month Then keep it for use This Liquor is so subtile that it penetrateth every thing Vsque-bath or Irish Aqua vitae is made thus Take a Gallon of smal Aqua vitae put it into a glass vessel put thereto a quart of Canary sack two pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned but not washed two ounces of Dates stoned and the white skins thereof pulled out two ounces of Cinnamon grossely bruised four good Nutmegs bruised an ounce of the best English Licorish sliced and bruised stop the vessels very close and let them infuse in a cold place six or eight days then let the Liquor run through a bag called Manica Hippoeratis made of white cotton This Liquor is commonly used in surfets being a good Stomach water Aqua Celestis is made thus Take of Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs Ginger Zedoary Galingall Long-pepper Citron-pill Spicknard Lignum-aloes Cububs Cardamums Calamus aromaticus Germander Ground-pine Mace White Frankincense Tormentill Hermodactyls the pith of Dwarf Elder Juniper Berries Bay Berries the seeds and flowers of Motherwort the seeds of Smallage Fennell Annise the leaves of Sorrell Sage Felwort Rosemary Marjoram Mints Penny-royall Stechados the flowers of Elder Roses red white of the leaves of Scabious Rue the lesser Moonwort Egrimonie Centory Fumitary Pimpernell Sowthistle Eye-bright Maiden-hair Endive Red Saunders Aloes of each two ounces Pure Amber the best Rhubarb of each two Drams dryed Figs Raisins of the Sun Dates stoned Sweet-Almonds Grains of the Pine of each an ounce Of the best Aqua vitae to the quantity of them all of the best hard Sugar a pound of white Honey half a pound then adde the root of Gentian flowers of Rosemary Pepper-wort the root of Briony Sowbread Wormwood of each half an ounce Now before these are distilled quench gold being made red hot oftentimes in the foresaid water put therein oriental Pearls beaten small an ounce and then distil it after 24 hours infusion This is a very Cordiall water good against faintings and infection Aqua imperialis is made thus Take of the rind of Citrons dryed Take of the rind of Oranges dryed Nutmeg Cloves Cinnamon of each two ounces the roots of Flower-de-luce Cyprus Calamus aromaticus Zedoary Galingall Ginger of each half a pound of the tops of Lavender Rosemary of each two handfull the leaves of the Bay-tree Marjoram Balm Mints Sage Thyme flower of Roses white Damask of each half a handfull Rose-water four pints the best White-wine a gallon Bruise what must be bruised then infuse them all 24 hours after which distill them This is of the same vertue as the former Aqua Mirabilis is made thus Take of Cloves Galingall Cubebs Mace Cardamums Nutmegs Ginger of each a dram the juice of Salendine half a pint Spirit of Wine a pint White-wine three pints Infuse all these 24 hours and then distill off two pints by an Alembick This water is very good against wind in the stomach and head Dr. Stephens water is made thus Take a Gallon of Gascoign Wine Ginger Galingale Cinnamon Nutmegs Grains Anniseeds Fennell seeds Carroway seeds of each a dram Sage Red Mints Red Roses Thyme Pellitory Rosemary Wild Thyme Camomil Lavender of each a handfull Beat the spices small and bruife the Hearbs letting them macerate twelve hours stirring them now and then distill them by an Alembick or copper Still with its refrigeratory keep the first pint by it self and the second by it self Note that the first pint will be the hotter but the second the stronger of the ingredients This water is well known to comfort all the principal parts A famous Surfet Water Take of red Poppie cakes after the water hath been distilled from them in a cold Stil not over dryed two pound pour upon them of the water of red Poppie a gallon and 〈◊〉 Canary wine three pints adde to them of Coriander seeds bruised four ounces of Dill seed bruised two ounces of cloves bruised half an ounce of Nutmegs sliced an ounce of Rosemary a handful three Orenges cut in the middle distill them in a hot Still to the water put the juice of six Orenges and hang in it half an ounce of Nutmegs sliced and as much Cinamon bruised two drams of cloves a handfull of Rosemary cut small sweet Fennell seeds bruised an ounce of Raisins in the Sun stoned half a pound being all put into
a bag which may be hanged in the Water the vessell being close stopt the space of a month and then be taken out and cast away the Liquor thereof being first pressed out into the foresaid Water This Water is of wonderfull vertue in Surfets and Pleurisies composeth the Spirits causeth rest helpeth digestion if two or three or four ounces thereof be drunk and the patient compose himself to rest A Pectorall Water Distill green hysop in a cold Still till you have a gallon and half of the Water to this put four handfull of dryed Hysop a handfull of Rue as much of Rosemary and Hore-hound Elecampanie-root bruised and of Horse-radish root bruised of each four ounces of Tobacco in the leaf three ounces Anniseed bruised two ounces twoâ—quarts of Canary wine let them all stand in digestion two days then distill them and in the water that is distilled put half a pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned of Licorish two ounces sweet Fennel seeds bruised two ounces and a half Ginger sliced an ounce and a half and let them be infused in Frigido the space of ten days then take them out This water sweetned with Sugar-candie and drunk to the quantity of three or four ounces twice in a day is very good for those that are ptificall it strengtheneth the Lungs attenuates thick flegm opens obstructions and is very good to comfort the stomach A very excellent water against the worms Take of Wormseed bruised eight ounces the shavings of Harts horne two ounces of Peach flowers dryed an ounce of Aloes bruised half an ounce pour on these the water of Tansie Rue Peach flowers and of Wormwood of each a pint and half let them being put into a glass vessell be digested the space of three dayes then distill them cohobate this water three times This water is very excellent against the worms it may be given from half an ounce to three ounces according to the age of the patient A Water against the Convulsions Take of Ros vitrioli which is that water that is distilled from Vitriall in the calcining thereof two quarts in this put of Rue a handfull of Juniper berries bruised an ounce of Bay berries bruised half an ounce Piony berries bruised six drams Camphire two drams Rhubarb sliced an ounce digest these four days in a temperate Balneo then distill them in a glass vessel in ashes and there will come over a water of no small vertue It cures convulsions in children especially it helps also the Vertigo the Hystericall passion and Epilepsie it is very excellent against all offensive vapours and wind that annoys the head and stomach It may be taken from two drams to two ounces An Hydropicall water Take of Wormwood Broom blossomes of each a like quantity bruise them and mix with them some leaven and let them stand in fermentation in a cold place the space of a week then distill them in a cold Still till they be very dry Take a gallon of this water and half a gallon of the Spirit of Urine pour them upon two pound of dryed Broom blossoms half a pound of Horse Radish roots dryed three ounces of the best Rhubarb sliced two ounces of sweet Fennell seed bruised and an ounce and an half of Nutmegs let them digest a week being put into a glass vessell in a temperate Balneo then press the Liquor hard from the feces put this Liquor in the said vessell again and to it put three ounces of sweet Fennel seeds bruised Licorish sliced two ounces digest them in a gentle heat the space of a week then pour it off from the feces and keep it close stopt This water being drank from the quantity of an ounce to four ounces every morning and at four of the clock in the afternoon doth seldome fail in curing the dropsie it strengtheneth also the Liver is very good against gravel in the back stone cures the Scurvy Gout and such diseases as proceed from the weakness and obstructions of the Liver A Water against the Colick Take of Aniseed three ounces Cummin seed three drams Cinnamon half an ounce Mace Cloves Nutmeg of each a dram Galingall three drams Calamus Aromaticus dryed half an ounce The dryed rind of Orenges two ounces Bay berries half an ounce Let all these being bruised be macerated in six pints of Mallago wine 48 hours then be distilled in Balneo till all be dry This water being dranke to the quantity of an ounce or two at a time doth ease the gripings of the belly and stomach very much A Water against the Vertigo and Convulsions Take of black cherries bruised with their kernels a gallon of the flowers of Lavander three handful half an ounce of white Mustard seed bruised mix these together then put some ferment to them and let them stand close covered the space of a week then distill them in Balneo till all be dry This water being dranke to the quantity of an ounce or two or three doth much relieve the weaknesse of the head and helps the Vertigo thereof as also strengthen the sinews and expell windiness out of the head and stomach A compound Water of Burre root causing sweat Take the root of the great Burre fresh Swallow wort fresh The middle rind of the root of the Ash tree of each two pound cut them small and infuse them 24 hours in the best White wine and Rue vinegar of each five pints then distill them in Balneo til all be dry put to the water as much of the Spirit of Sulphur per Campanam as wil give it a pleasant acidity and to every pint of the water put a scruple and a half of Camphire cut small and tyed up in a bag which may continually hang in the water This was a famous water in Germany against the plague pestilence and Epidemical diseases it causeth sweat wonderfully if two or three ounces thereof be drank and the patient compose himself to sweat Another excellent Sudorifick and plague water Take of the best spirit of Wine a gallon Andromachus treacle six ounces Myrrhe two ounces The roots of Colts-foot three ounces Sperma Cett Terra Sigillata of each half an ounce The root of swallow wort an ounce Dittany Pimpernel Valerian root of each two drams Camphire a dram Mix all these together in a glass vessell and let them stand close stopt the space of eight dayes in the Sun Let the Patient drink of this a spoonful or two and compose himself to sweat Dr. Burges his plague water Take three pints of Muscadine and boil in it Sage and Rue of each a handfull till a pint be wasted then strain it and set it over the fire again put therto a dram of long Pepper Ginger and Nutmeg of each half an ounce being all bruised together then boil them a little and put thereto half an ounce of Andromachus treacle and three drams of Mithridate and a quarter of a pint of the best Angelica water This water which as saith
rectified Spirit of Wine three pints Let them be digested in a Glass two parts of three being empty stopt close with a bladder and Cork two dayes in warm ashes then distill the spirit in Balneo and keep it in a glass close stopt If you would make it stronger take a pint of this spirit and an ounce of the powder of Castoreum put them into a glasse and digest them into a cold place for the space of ten dayes and then strain out the Spirit This spirit is very good against fits of the Mother passions of the heart which arise from vapours c. Bezoard water is made thus Take of the leaves of the greater Sallandine together with the roots thereof three handfuls and a half Rue two handfuls Scordium four handfull Dittany of Crete Carduus of each a handfull and half Root of Zedoary Angelica of each three drams The outward rind of Citrons Lemmons of each six drams The flower of Wall-gilly-flower an ounce and half Red Roses the lesser Centory of each two drams Cinnamon Cloves of each three drams Andromachus his Treacle three ounces Mithridate an ounce and half Camphire two scruples Trochisces of Vipers two ounces Mace two drams Lignum aloes half an ounce Yellow Sanders a dram and half The seeds of Carduus an ounce Citron six drams Cut those things that are to be cut and let them be macerated three days in the best Spirit of Wine and Muscadine of each three pints and half vinegar of Wall gilly-flowers and the juice of Lemmons of each a pint let them be distilled in a glazed vessell in Balneo After half the Liquor is distilled off let that which remains in the vessell be strained through a linnen cloth and vapoured away to the thickness of honey which may be called A Bezoard Extract This water is a great Cordial and good against any infection To make a specificall Sudorifick Take of Ginger a pound long Pepper and black Pepper of each half an ounce of Cardamums three drams of Grains an ounce powder them and put them into a glass with half an ounce of the best Camphire distilled vinegar two pound digest them a month then separate the vinegar by expression which must putrefie a month and then be circulated for the space of a week then filter it and thou hast as powerfull a Sudorifick as ever was or can be made The dose is from a dram to half an ounce and to be drank in a draught of posset-drink Treacle-water is made thus Take of the juice of the green shales of Walnuts four pound the juice of Rue three pints Carduus Marygold Balm of each two pints the root of Butter-burre fresh a pound and half Burre Angelica Master-wort fresh of each half a pound the leaves of Scordium four handfull old Andromachus treacle Mithridate of each eight ounces the best Canary twelve pints the sharpest Vinegar six pints the juice of Lemmons two pints Digest them two days in horse dung the vessell being close stopped then distill them in sand Aqua Mariae is made thus Take of Sugar candid one pound Canarie Wine six ounces Rose water four ounces Make of these a Syrup and boil it well to which adde of Aqua Imperialis two pints Amber gryse Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fifteen grains yellow Sanders infused in Aqua Imperialis two drams The Mother water commonly called Hystericall water is made thus Take of the juice of the root of Briony four pound the leaves of Rue Mugwort of each two pound Savin dryed three handfull Mother-wort Nippe Penny-royall of each two handfull Garden basill Cretensian Dittany of each a handfull and half the rind of yellow Oranges fresh four ounces Myrrhe two ounces Castoreum an ounce the best Canary wine twelve pints Let them be digested four dayes in a fit vessell then distill them in Balneo A vomiting water is made thus Take of the best Tobacco in leaves cut small four ounces Squils two ounces Nutmegs sliced half an ounce put these into three pints of spring water a pint of White wine vinegar distill them in a hot Still or Alembick If thou wouldst have it stronger thou mayest put this water on fresh ingredients and distill it again A little quantity of this water is a most safe and effectuall vomit and may be taken from the eldest to the youngest if so be you proportion the quantity to the strength of the Patient You may dulcifie it with sugar or syrup if you please A vomiting Water made by Platerus Take green Walnuts gathered about Midsummer Radish roots of each bruised two parts of distilled Wine vinegar four parts digest them five dayes then distill them in Balneo This being taken to the quantity of two spoonfull or three causeth easie Vomiting A distilled water that purgeth without any pain or griping Take of Scammony an ounce Hermodactyls two ounces the seeds of Broom of the lesser Spurge of Dwarf Elder of each half an ounce the juice of Dwarf Elder of wild Asses cucumber of black Hellebore the fresh flower of Elder of each an ounce and half Polypodium 6 ounces of Sene 3 ounces Red sugar 8 ounces common distilled Water 6 pints Let all these be bruised and infused in the water 24 hours then be distilled in Balneo This water may be given from 2 drams to 3 ounces and it purgeth all manner of humours opens all obstructions and is pleasant to be taken and they whose stomachs loath all other physick may take this without any offence After it is distilled there may be hanged a little bag of Spices in it as also it may be sweetned with sugar or any opening syrup A specificall Liquor against the tooth-ach Take of oil of Cloves well rectified half an ounce in it dissolve half a dram of Camphire adde to them of the Spirit of Turpentine four times rectified in which half a dram of Opium hath been infused half an ounce A drop or two of this Liquor put into a hollow tooth with some lint easeth the tooth-ach presently Of MINERALS BOOK III. Spirit of Salt is made thus TAke of the best Bay-salt as much as you please let it be dissolved in spring water and filtred mix with this brine in a Copper vessell of the powder of Bricks or Tiles twice or thrice as much as the Salt before its dissolution was in weight let the water vapour away over the fire continually stirring of it untill it be dry Then put this powder into a glass Retort well luted or an earthen Retort and put it into a Furnace a large Receiver joined to it according to art then give fire to it by degrees untill it will bear an open fire for the space of 12 hours Thou shalt have a very acid oil or spirit in the Receiver That Liquor being put into a little Retort in sand may be rectified by the vapouring away of the flegm then keep it for use in a glass very well stopt that no air goe in Spirit of Salt
Spear Mint Rosemary tops Costmary Sweet Marjoram Wild Thyme all dry of each 2 ounces Nutmegs Cinamon of each 2 ounces and an half Cubebs Cardamums of each 1 ounce and an half Sweet Fennell seeds Coriander seeds of each 5 ounces Aniseeds a pound and half bruise them all that are to be bruised Distil them into strong Proof spirit Dulcifie with white Sugar ten pound according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Calamus Aromaticus 5 drams Guaiacum green Bark Avens roots dry Galingale of each 4 ounces Citron pils dry Orange pils dry White Cinamon of each 3 drams and a quarter Wormwood Common dry Wormwood Roman dry Spear Mint Rosemary tops Costmary Sweet Marjoram Wild Thyme all dry of each a dram and half Nutmegs Cinamon of each 2 drams Cubebs Cardamums of each a dram and a quarter sweet Fennell seeds Coriander seeds of each half an ounce Aniseeds 2 ounces 3 drams Bruise them all that are to be bruised distil them into strong Proof spirit Dulcifie with white Sugar 16 ounces according to Art CHAP. XII Marjoram Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Sweet Marjoram dry 3 pound Aniseeds 16 ounces Caraway 4 ounces Calamus Aromaticus 6 ounces bruise them distil and dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Sweet Marjoram dry 5 ounces Aniseeds 1 ounce 5 drams Caraway 3 drams and a quarter Calamus Aromaticus 5 drams bruise them distil and dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces according to Art Marjoram water is good against the infirmities of the Liver and Spleen causeth freenesse of breathing and strengtheneth the Stomach and inward parts CHAP. XIII Vsquebach The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Aniseeds 1 pound Cloves 2 ounces Nutmeg Ginger Caraway seeds of each four ounces distil them into strong proof Spirit according to Art Then adde to the distilled water Licorice Spanish Raifins solis of each 2 pound bruise the Licorice and Raisins dulcifie with brown Sugar 5 pound stir them well together and so let it stand ten dayes and then being fine draw it off and keep it for use The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Aniseeds 1 ounce 5 drams Cloves a dram and half Nutmeg Ginger Caraway seeds of each 3 drams distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art then adde to the distilled water Licorice Spanish Raisins solis of each 3 ounces a dram and half bruise the Licorice and Raisins dulcifie with brown Sugar 8 ounces stir them well together and so let it stand ten dayes and then being fine draw it off and keep it for use Vsquebach cureth the infirmities of the lungs warmerh the Stomach and causeth expectoration CHAP. XIV Balsamint Water The greater quantity Take strong proof Spirit what sufficeth Balsamint dry two pound Aniseeds best 1 pound Caraway seeds 4 ouncâ—s Limon pils dry 8 ounces bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into Proof spirit Dulcifie with white Sugar 5 pound according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Balsamint dry 3 ounces a dram and half Aniseeds best one ounce 5 drams Caraway seeds 3 drams Limon pils dry 6 drams and an half bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces according to Art Balsamint water comforteth the Stomach and expelleth wind CHAP. XV. Rosa solis The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Cinamon of the best 8 ounces Cloves 2 ounces Nutmegs Ginger Caraway seeds of each 4 ounces Marigold flowers Aniseeds of each 16 ounces bruise them distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art then adde to the distilled water Licorice Spanish 1 pound Raisins solis Brown Sugar of each 5 pound Red Sanders four ounces bruise che Licorice and Raisins stir them well together and let them stand 12 dayes then being clear it may be drawn for use The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Cinamon of the best 6 drams and an half Cloves a dram and half Nutmegs Ginger Caraway seeds of each 3 drams Marigold flowers Aniseeds of each 1 ounce and 5 drams bruise them distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art then adde to the distilled water Licorice Spanish an ounce 5 drams Raisins solis Brown Sugar of each 8 ounces Red Sanders 3 drams bruise the Licorice and Raisins stir them well together and let them stand twelve dayes then being clear it may be drawne for use This Rosasolis is good against cold infirmities of the Stomach helpeth digestion and expelleth wind CHAP. XVI Clove Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Cloves of the best 10 ounces Aniseeds 16 ounces distil them into strong Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 5 pound The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Cloves of the best 1 ounce Aniseeds 1 ounce and 5 drams distil them into strong Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces Clove water helpeth digestion breaketh wind provoketh Vrine comforteth the Heart and strengtheneth the Stomach Liver and all the inward parts CHAP. XVII Cinamon Water Common The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Cinamon of the best 5 pound Aniseeds 10 ounces distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 7 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Cinamon of the best 8 ounces Aniseeds 1 ounce distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 12 ounces CHAP. XVIII Cinamon water Proper The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Cinamon best large ten pounds distil them into Proof spirit according to Art take white Sugar 12 pound and an half Rose water four pound make them into a Syrup and dulcifie therewith according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Cinamon best large 16 ounces distil them into Proof spirit according to Art take white Sugar 20 ounces Rose water 6 ounces 3 drams make them into Syrup and dulcifie therewith according Art Cinamon water is good against loathing of the Stomach and a stinking breath It also strengtheneth the Heart Liver Lungs and Spleen and comforteth the Brain and Sinews CHAP. XIX Sweet Fennell seed Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons sweet Fennell seeds five pound Caraway seeds 4 ounces Aniseeds 16 ounces distil them into Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 5 pound The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Sweet Fennell seeds 8 ounces Caraway seeds 3 drams Aniseeds an ounce and five drams distil them into Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces Fennell water is good against the naseousnesse of the Stomach and easeth the pain thereof digesteth Flegm and expelleth Wind. CHAP. XX. Marigold Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Marigold flowers new gathered pickt
clean 2 pecks heaped bruise them Sweet Fennell seeds Aniseeds of each 10 ounces distil them into strong Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar five pound The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Marigold flowers new gathered pickt clean what sufficeth bruise them Sweet Fennell seeds Aniseeds of each 1 ounce distil them into strong Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces Marigold water comforteth the inward parts and is good against infection CHAP. XXI Caraway Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Caraway seeds 30 ounces Aniseeds 10 ounces Rosemary dry 4 ounces Limon pils dry Cloves of each 3 ounces distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar five pound The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Caraway seeds three ounces Aniseeds 1 ounce Rosemary dry 3 drams Limon pils dry Cloves of each 2 drams and an half distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces Caraway water is profitable against the cold grief of the Stomach and Bowels comforteth them and breaketh wind CHAP. XXII Nutmeg Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Nutmeg 20 ounces Aniseeds 10 ounces bruise them distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 5 pound The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Nutmegs best 2 ounces Aniseeds 1 ounce bruise them distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces Nutmeg water comforteth the Spirits discusseth wind Aromatizeth the Stomach causeth a sweet breath and provoketh Vrine CHAP. XXIII Pretious Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit ten gallons Enula Campana Avens Angelica Cyprus Calamus Aromaticus Sassafras Roots of each 5 ounces Zedoary Galingale of each 4 ounces Cassia lignea Lignum Rhodium Yellow Sander of each 3 ounces Citron Orange pils dry of each 6 ounces Cinamon White Nutmegs Maces Ginger of each 5 oun Cinamon best 20 ounces Cloves Cardamums Cubebs of each 2 ounces and an half Sweet Chervile seeds Basil seeds of each 3 ounces and an half Coriander seeds Sweet Fennell seeds of each ten ounces Aniseeds 20 ounces bruise them distil them into Proof spirit and dulcifie with fine Sugar 15 pound according to Art Let it stand till it be fine then draw it off and adde Musk one dram Ambergreese 4 drams then let it clear and draw it for use The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Enula Campana Avens Angelica Cyprus Calamus Aromaticus Sassafras Roots of each half an ounce Zedoary Galingale of each 3 drams Cassia lignea Lignum Rhodium Yellow Sanders of each 2 drams and an halfe Citron Orange pils dry of each 4 drams and 3 quarters Cinamons White Nutmegs Maces Ginger of each half an ounce Cinamon best 2 ounces Cloves Cardamums Cubebs of each 2 drams Sweet Chervile seeds Basil seeds of each three drams Coriander seeds Sweet Fennell seeds of each 1 ounce Aniseeds 2 ounces bruise them distil them into Proof spirit and dulcifie with fine Sugar 24 ounces according to Art let it stand till it be fine then draw it off and adde Musk 6 grains Ambergreese 24 grains then let it clear and draw it for use Pretious water is good against the Plague and Malignant â—eavers It also comforteth the Spirit strengtheneth the Heart preserveth the Senses and relieveth languishing Nature CHAP. XXIV Wind Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Enula Campana roots dry Aniseeds of each 1 pound Cyprus roots Bark of the roots of Bay tree or as much leaves Sassafras with the Bark Cinamon white of each 6 ounces Calamus Aromaticus Orange pils dry of each 4 ounces Clary Red Mints Calamint Elder flowers Camomile flowers of each 5 ounces Sweet Fennel seeds Caraway seeds Angelica seeds of each 3 ounces and an half Coriander seeds Cardamums Cubebs Grains of Paradise Cloves Ginger of each 2 ounces and a half Pepper long and white of each 10 drams bruise them all grossely distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 10 pound draw it for use when it is perfectly clear The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Enula Campana roots dry Aniseeds of each 1 ounce 5 drams Cyprus roots Barks of the root of Bay tree or as much leaves Sassafras with the Bark Cinamon white of each 4 drams and 3 quarters Calamus Aromaticus Orange pils dry of each 3 drams Clary Red Mints Calamint Elder flowers Camomile flowers of each half an ounce Sweet Fennell seeds Caraway seeds Angelica seeds of each 3 drams Coriander seeds Cardamums Cubebs Grains of Paradise Cloves Ginger of each 2 drams Pepper long and white of each 1 dram bruise them all grossely distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 16 ounces draw it for use when it is perfectly clear CHAP. XXV Water to procure Sweat The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Butter-bur-roots dry 2 pound Valerian common Roots Aniseeds of each one pound Vincetoxicum roots Sassafras roots with the Barke of each 8 ounces Angelica hearb dry Carduus Benedictus Great Valerian Hearb and Roots all dry Scordium of each twelve ounces Cowslip Marigold flowers of each 10 ounces Juniper Berries 20 ounces bruise them all distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar ten pound The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Butter-bur-roots dry 3 ounces a dram and half Valerian common Roots Aniseeds of each 1 ounce 5 drams Vincetoxicum roots Sassafras roots with the Bark of each 6 drams and a half Angelica Hearb dry Carduus Benedictus Great Valerian Hearb and Roots all dry Scordium of each one ounce a dram and halfe Cowslip Marigold flowers of each 1 ounce Juniper Berries 2 ounces bruise them all distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 16 ounces CHAP. XXVI Surfeit Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Juniper berries two pound Enula Campana Roots dry 1 pound Calamus Aromaticus Galingale of each 4 ounces Wormwood Spear Mint Red Mint all dry of each 2 ounces and an half Caraway seeds Angelica seeds of each 2 ounces Sassafras Roots with the Bark White Cinamon of each 3 ounces Nutmegs Mace Cloves Ginger of each 1 ounce Red Ropy flower 4 pound Aniseeds 2 pound and an half bruise them all distil them into strong Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 10 pound The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Juniper berries 3 ounces a dram and half Enula Campana Roots dry 1 ounce 5 drams Calamus Aromaticus Galingale of each 3 drams Wormwood Spear Mint Red Mint all dry of each 2 drams Caraway seeds Angelica seeds of each a dram and a half Sassafras Roots with the Bark White Cinamon of each 2 drams and a half Nutmegs Mace Ginger Cloves of each 3 quarters of a dram Red Poppy
flower 6 ounces and a half Aniseeds 4 ounces bruise them all distil them into strong Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 16 ounces CHAP. XXVII Scorbuticall Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Horse Reddish roots dry 2 pound Enula Campana roots dry Aniseeds of each 1 pound Water Winter Garden Cresses Taragon Balsamint Scurvigrasse Garden Wormwood Brookelime Trefoile Water Sweet Chervile of each 6 ounces Arsmart 8 ounces Mustard Bank-cresse Rocket Reddish seed of each 3 ounces Citron Orange pils dry Cinamon White Mace of each 4 ounces Bruise them all distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art Dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth for use take 7 parts of this Spirit and 1 part of juice of Limons or more mingle them together and dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Horse Reddish roots dry 3 ounces a dram and half Enula Campana roots dry Aniseeds of each 1 ounce 5 drams Water Winter Garden Cresses Tarragon Balsamint Scurvygrasse Garden Wormwood Brookelime Trefoile Water Sweet Chervile of each half an ounce and three quarters of a dram Arsmart three quarters of an ounce and half a dram Mustard Bank-cresse Rocket Reddish seeds of each 2 drams and an half Citron Orange pils dry Cinamon White Mace of each 3 drams and a quarter bruise them all distil them into strong Proof spirit according to art dulcifie with white Sugar 1 pound for use take 7 parts of this spirit and 1 part of juice of Limons or more mingle them together and dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth CHAP. XXVIII Plague Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Butter-bur-roots dry 1 pound Garden Common Valerian roots dry Angelica roots Imperatoria Gentian Enula Campana Snake-grasse roots of each 6 ounces Contra Yarva Zedoary Galingale of each 4 ounces Rue leaves dry White Horehound Scordium Carduus Benedictus of each 5 ounces Elder flowers Lavender Maces of each 3 ounces Citron pils dry Juniper berries of each 8 ounces Green Walnuts with the husks 1 pound Venus Triacle Mithridate of each 2 ounces Aniseeds best a pound and half Camphire 1 ounce distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 10 pound For use let the party infected take of this water 1 ounce mingled with warm Posset drink or any water proper in that case and be kept very warm and sweat well thereon The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Butterbur roots dry 1 ounce and 5 drams Garden Common Valerian roots dry Angelica roots Imperatoria Gentian Enula Campana Snake-grasse roots of each half an ounce and 3 quarters of a dram Contra Yarva Zedoary Galingale of each 3 drams and a quarter Rue leaves dry White Horehound Scordium Carduus Benedictus of each half an ounce Elder flowers Lavender Mace of each 2 drams and a half Citron pils dry Juniper berries of each 6 drams and a half Green Walnuts with the husks 1 ounce 5 drams Venus Triacle Mithridate of each a dram and half Aniseeds best 2 ounces 3 drams and a half Camphire 3 quarters of a dram distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth For use let the party infected take of this water 1 ounce mingled with warm posset drink or any water proper in that case and be kept very warm and sweat well thereon CHAP. XXIX Lavender Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Lavender leaves dry three pound Lavender flowerrs dry 2 pound Maces half a pound or Nutmegs 1 pound Lavender Coffen dry 2 pound Stoechados half a pound bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Lavender leaves dry 4 ounces 3 quarters and half a dram Lavender flowers dry 3 ounces a dram and half Mace 6 drams and a half Nutmeg one ounce 5 drams Lavender Cotten dry 3 ounces a dram and half Stoechados 6 drams and a half bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into proof Spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 16 ounces Lavender water helpeth the passions of the Heart Palsies Cramps Apoplexies and restoreth the speech lost CHAP. XXX Sage Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Great Sage dry 3 pound Red Sage dry 2 pound Lavender flowers Sage flowers of each 1 pound Lavender Cotten dry Southernwood dry of each 8 ounces Nutmegs ten ounces Bruise or beat them as is most proper distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Great Sage dry 4 ounces 3 quarters and half a dram Red Sage dry 3 ounces a dram and a half Lavender flowers Sage flowers of each 1 ounce a half and 1 dram Lavender Cotten dry Southern wood dry of each 6 drams and a half Nutmegs what sufficeth Bruise or beat them as is most proper distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 16 ounces Sage wattr is good for such as are of a cold and flegmatick constitution and for such as are heavy and dull of spirit CHAP. XXXI Ros solis Proper The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Ros solis gathered in due season and clean pickt 4 pound Juniper berries 3 pound Sassafras rooted with the Bark Caraway seeds of each four ounces Marigold flowers 1 pound Aniseeds 1 pound and an half Bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art Take hereof 7 pound adde thereto 1 pound of water treated of in the 23 Chapter dulcified Licorice bruised one pound dulcifie with white Sugar ten pound If you adde none of the aforesaid water then in stead thereof take Musk 1 dram Ambergreese 3 drams colour it with the tincture of July flower or Roses what sufficeth according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Ros solis gathered in due season and clean pickt six ounces 3 drams and a quarter Juniper berries 4 ounces 6 drams and a half Sassafras roots with the Bark Caraway seeds of each 3 drams and a quarter Marigold flowers 1 ounce a half and 1 dram Aniseeds 2 ounces 3 drams and a half Bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art Take hereof ten ounces 1 dram and a half adde thereto 1 ounce 5 drams of water treated of in the 23 Chapter dulcified Licorice bruised 1 ounce 5 drams dulcifie with white sugar what sufficeth If you add none of the aforesaid water then in stead thereof take Musk six grains Ambergreese 18 grains colour it with the tincture of July flower or Roses what sufficeth according to Art Ros soâ—â—s proper openeth obstruction relieveth decaying Nature comforteth the Stomach quickneth Appetite and is good
Red Roses a handfull and a half Cassia Lignea Cinamon of each 3 drams for the first distillation then take Turpentine 1 pound Mastick 3 drams pure Rozen 6 ounces Cinamon Cloves of each 2 drams Pomgranate rinds half an ounce Cyprus Nuts 1 ounce and a half White Copperas two ounces Allum 3 ounces Olibanum 4 ounces Sanguis draconis an ounce and a half Aqua Balsam veri 1 pound for the second distillation Afterwards Take Flowers of St. Johns Wort Sage Rosemary Carduus Benedictus Centaury of each 1 ounce Mastick Red Sanders of each 3 drams Wood of Aloes 2 scruples Cubebs one dram Aqua vitae half a pound Burnt Allum White Tartar of each an ounce and a half Myrrhe half an ounce Earth Wormes in powder 1 dram the middle Bark of the Oak 6 ounces Cassia lignea three drams White Copperas 1 ounce Rindes of Pomgranates half an ounce Cinamon 2 drams Flowers of Pomgranates 1 dram Guaiacum four ounces Carpobalsamum Xylobalsamum of each 1 dram Myrtles Mummie of each 2 drams Borax half an ounce Cloves 2 drams Tormentill Gentian of each 2 drams and a half Round Birt-wort This is for the last distillation afterwards adde Burnt Allum half an ounce White Copperas 2 drams Mastick 1 ounce in fine powder and then keep it for use CHAP. XX. A water for hollow Wounds Take Fountain water Red Wine of each 2 ounces an half Red Roses 4 ounces Pomgranat flowers Pomgranate rindes of each 2 ounces and a half Sumach 2 ounces Sage 1 handfull both the Coâ—feries of each a handfull Allum half a pound Sarcocoll 3 ounces Mastick 2 ounces Olibanum 1 ounce Honey 1 pound water of Turpentine a pound and a half Prepare the Ingredients according to Art and then distil them all together in a glasse lembick with a gentle fire CHAP. XXI A water for Wounds and Vlcers Take Calx vive extinct in Fountain water 8 pound Plantain water four ounces Rose water 2 pound Heat all these together afterward let them stand and clear pour forth all the clear to the lembick and put to it Honey 2 pound Allum 1 ounce Borax Mastick of each three ounces Olibanum four ounces the middle Bark of the Oak dryed 3 ounces powder what is to be powdred and distil them according to Art CHAP. XXII A water to make the Teeth white Take the first distilled water of Honey which is white one pound Allum half a pound Sal Nitre White Salt of each one ounce Water of Lentisk leaves 1 pound Mastick two ounces White Vineger White Wine of each 2 ounces Mix and distil them according to Art reserve the water CHAP. XXIII A water against the Colick Take Muscadell or Malmsey four pound Nutmegs Galls of each 1 dram Cinamon Cloves Grains of each two drams Powder the ingredients grossely and infuse them in the wine 24 houres then with a soft fire draw off the water according to Art CHAP. XXIV A water for a cold Stomach Take Citron and Orange pils dryed of each 2 ounces Rosemary Mints of each one handfull Cinamon Cloves Cubebs Cardamums Nutmegs Ginger of each a dram and a half Sage Pennyroyall Thyme of each one handfull Caraway seeds Aniseeds Fennell seeds of each four drams Bruise what is to be bruised and infuse them all the space of 24 houres in Canary wine four pints then distil them in Balneo according to Art CHAP. XXV Water of Sage Compound Take Sage Marjoram Thyme Lavender Epithâ—â—um Betâ—â— of each 1 ounce Cinamon half an ounce Ireos Roots of Cyprus Calamus Aromaticus of each 1 ounce Storax Benjamin of each a dram and a half Infuse them four dayes in four pound of spirit of Wine then distil them in Balneo CHAP. XXVI Lavender water Compound Take flowers of Lavender Lilly of the Valley of each 24 handfuls Piony Tillia Flowers of Rosemary Sage of each half a handfull Cinamon Ginger Cloves Cubebs Galingale Calamus Aromaticus Mace Messelto of the Oak of each a dram and a half Piony roots one ounce and a half of the best Wine what sufficeth infuse them in the Wine two dayes then distil them in Balneo Mariae This water is good against the Falling sicknesse Convulsion fits and the infirmities of the Brain CHAP. XXVII A Pectorall Water Take the Liver of a Calf the Lungs of a Fox of each number 1 Liverwort Longwort Sage Rue Hyssop of each one handfull Roots of Enula Gladiol of each half an ounce Seeds of Anise Caraway Fennell of each half an ounce Flowers of Borage and Buglosse of each two drams infuse them the space of 24 houres in rich old Wine what sufficeth Water of Scabius Carduus Benedictus of each four ounces Hysop 2 ounces then distil it in Balneo Mariae Another Take leaves of Scabius Veronica of each two handfuls Venus Hair Sage Hysop Horehound Liverwort Licorice of each one handfull Flowers of Borage Buglosse Violets of each half a handfull Roots of Enula Campana Licorice Flowers of Ireos of each half an ounce Aniseeds Fennell seeds of each one dram Choyse Cinamon orientall Saffron of each half a dram let them be bruised and cut be digested in water of Scabius Veronica of each one pound water of Hysop half a pound white Wine 3 pound let them digested two days be distilled in Balneo Mariae adde Sugar Candy what sufficeth This water openeth the obstructions of the Liver and Lungs and strengtheneth them CHAP. XXVIII Aqua Splenetica Take roots of Fern 2 ounces roots of Parsley Polypody of each an ounce and a half roots of Round Birt wort Lovage Calamus Aromaticus Acorns of the water of each 1 ounce chosen Rubarb barks of Tamarisk Copperas Ash of each half an ounce Lovage Seeds of Caraway Cummin Anise of each two drams Scolopendria tops of Wormwood Fumiterre Dodder leaves of Agrimony Ceterach of each a handfull and a half Rich Wine 8 pound let them be digested two dayes and then distil them in Balneo Mariae This water strengtheneth the Spleen openeth and provoketh Vrine CHAP. XXIX Aqua Febrifuga Take roots of Vipers grasse Cinquefoil Tormentill Dictamum of each 6 drams Seeds of Citron excorticated Carduus Benedictus Carduus Mariae Sorrel of each half an ounce of all the Sanders of each 1 dram of the Cordiall flowers of each 1 handfull Goats Rue one handfull Harts horn rasped half an ounce pour upon them bruised water of Tormentill Cychorie Carduus Benedictus Carduus Mariae Wild Poppy of each what sufficeth let them be macerated three dayes in a glasse close shut afterward adde Citrons bruised number six Juice of Endive Carduus Benedictus Plantain of each one pound Borage Scordium of each half a pound let them be distilled in Balneo Mariae This water is convenient in Feavers especially malignant Feavers because it driveth away the malignity and resisteth putrefaction CHAP. XXX Aqua Damascena Odorifera Take Ireos Flowers Cloves Cubebs Cinamon Grains of Paradise Calamus Aromaticus of each one ounce Marjoram Thyme
THE ART OF DISTILLATION OR A TREATISE OF THE Choicest Spagiricall PREPARATIONS Performed by way of DISTILLATION Together with the Description of the Chiefest FVRNACES VESSELS Used by Ancient and Moderne CHYMISTS ALSO A Discourse of divers Spagiricall Experiments and Curiosities And the Anatomy of GOLD and SILVER with the Chiefest Preparations and Curiosities thereof together with their Vertues All which are contained in VI. BOOKES Composed by JOHN FRENCH Dr. of Physick THE SECOND EDITION To which is added The LONDON-DISTILLER Exactly and truly shewing the way in words at length and not in mysterious Characters and Figures to DRAW all Sorts of SPIRITS and strong-STRONG-WATERS To which is added their VERTUES With the Additions of other Excellent Waters LONDON Printed by E. Cotes for Thomas Williams at the 〈◊〉 of the BIBLE in Little-britain without Aldersgate 16â—â— To my much honoured friend TOBIAS GARBRAND Doctor of Physick and Principall of Glocester-hall in OXFORD SIR IT is my ambition to let the world know upon what score it is that I do especially honour men It is not Sir as they are high born Heirs of the great Potentates for which most honour them and upon which account I also shall not deny them their due but as they excell in honesty and are friends to Art That poor Philosophers should take no delight in riches and rich men should take great delight in Philosophy is to me an argument that there is more delight honor and satisfaction in the one then in the enjoyment of the other I once read of a Noble mans Porter that let in all that were rich apparelled but excluded a poor Philosopher but I should if I had been in his place have rather let in the Philosopher without the gay cloathes then the gay cloathes without the Philosopher As long as I have sense or reason I shall improve them to the honour of Art especially that of Alchymie In the perfection thereof there are riches honour health and length of dayes by it Artesius lived 1000. years Flammell built 28 Hospitalls with large revenues to them besides Churches and Chappels for it both they and divers more were accounted Philosophers and wise men which sounds more honourable in my eares then all the ratling and empty titles of honour whatsoever besides In the perfection of this Art I mean the accomplishing of the Elixir is the Sulphur of Philosophers set at liberty which gratifies the releasers thereof with three Kingdomes viz. Vegetable Animall and Minerall and what cannot they do and how honourable are they that have the command of these They may command Lead into Gold dying plants into fruitfulnesse the sick into health old age into youth darknesse into light and what not A month would fail to give you an account of their power and dominations Now for the effecting of this I shall besides what I have advised in the Epistle to the Reader say only this Court the Mother and you winne the Daughter prevail with Nature and the fair Diana of the Philosophers is at your service Now if you cannot prevaile with Nature for the fairest of her daughters viz. the Mercury of Philosophers yet she hath other Daughters of wonderfull beauty also as are the Essences and Magisteries of Philosophers which also are endowed with riches honour and health and any of these you may more easily prevail with their mother Nature for This Art of Alchymie is that Sâ—lary Art which is more noble then all the other six Arts and Sciences and if it did once throughly shine forth out of the clouds whereby it is eclipsed would darken all the rest as the Sun doth the other six planets or at least swallow up their light This is that true naturall Philosophy which most accurately anatomizeth Nature and naturall things and ocularly demonstrates the principles and operations of them That empty naturall philosophy which is read in the Universities is scarce the meanest hand-maid to this Queen of Arts. It is pity there is such great encouragement for many empty and unprofitable Arts and none for this and such like ingenuities which if promoted would render an University far more flourishing then the former I once read or heard of a famous University beyond Sea that was faln into decay through what cause I know not but there was a generall councell held by the learned how to restore it to its primitive glory The Medium at last agreed upon was the promoting of Alchymie and encouraging the Artists themselves But I never expect to see such rationall actings in this Nation till shadows vanish substances flourish and truth prevail which time I hope is at hand and desired by all true Artists and to my knowledge especially by your self upon which account I truly honour you Now to your selfe therefore I crave leave to adumbrate something of that Art which I know you will be willing for the publick good to promote I dedicate this Treatise to you not that it is worthy your acceptance but that it may receive worth by your accepting of it I present it to you as men bring lead to Philosophers to be tinged into gold to receive the stamp of your favour and approbation that it may past currant with acceptance amongst the sons of Art whereby you will continue to oblige him who is London Nove. 25. 1650. SIR Your most obliged Servant JOHN FRENCH To the Reader THere is a glut of Chymicall books but a scarcity of Chymicall truthes Nature and Art affords variety of Spagyricall preparations but they are as yet partly undisâ—overed partly dispersed in many books and those of divers Languages and partly reserved in private mens hands When therefore I considered what need there is of and how acceptable a generall treatise of Distillations might be especially to our English Nation and the rather since Baker upon Distillations is by reason of the description of a few furnaces and vessels therein besides which there is small variety either of preparations or curiosities sold at such a high rate I thought I could do them no better service then to present them with such a treatise of that subject which should contain in it the choisest preparations of the selectest Authors both ancient and moderne and those of severall languages and which I have attained by my own long and manuall experience together with such as I have by way of exchange purchased out of the hands of private men â—hich they had monopolized as great secrets But on the other hand when I considered what a multitude of Artists there are in this Nation from many of which more and better things might be expected then from my self I was at a nonplus in my resolutions fearing it might be accounted an unpardonable presumption in me to undertake that which might be better performed by others But for the avoiding of this aspersion be pleased to understand that I present not this to the world under any other notion then of a rough draught which indeed is the worke
the flowers of Jasmin Honey-suckles or Woodbine Violets Lillies c. retain the smell of their flowers The reason why these flowers in the common way of distillation yeeld a water of no fragrancie at all although they themselves are very odoriforous are either because if a stronger fire be made in the distilling of them the grosser and more earthy spirit cometh out with the finer and troubleth it as it is in case the flowers be crushed or bruised where the odour upâ—â— the same account is lost or because the odoriferous spirit thereof being thin and very subtle riseth with a gentle heat but for lack of body vapours away The aâ—â—therefore that is here required is to prevent the mixtion of the grosser spirit with the finer and to give such a body to the finer that shall not embase it and it is thus Take of either of the aforesaid flowers gathered fresh and at noon in a fair day let them not at all be bruised Infuse a handfull of them in two quarts of White-wine which must be very good or else you labour in vain for the space of half an hour then take them forth and infuse in the same wine the same quantity of fresh flowers this do eight or ten times but still remember that they be not infused above half an hour for according to the rule of infusion a short stay of the body that hath a fine spirit in the liquor receiveth the spirit but a longer stay confoundeth it because it draweth forth the earthy part withall which destroyeth the finer then distill this liquor all the flowers being first taken out in a glass gourd in a very gentle Balneo or over a vapour of hot water the joints of the glass being very well closed and thou shalt have a water of a most fragrant odour By this means the spirit of the wine which serves to body the fine odoriferous spirit of the flowers ariseth as soon as the fine spirit it self without any earthiness mixed with it Note that in defect of Wine Aqua vitae will serve also strong beer but not altogether so well because there is more gross earthiness in it then in wine The water of either of these flowers is a most fragrant perfume and may be used as a very delicate sweet water and is no small secret A Furnace with his vessels to distil liquors with the steam of boyling water A Shews the head of the Alembick B The body thereof placed in a brasse vessel made for that purpose C A brasse vessel perforated in many places to receive the vapor of the water This vessel shal contain the Alembick compassed about with sawdust not only that it may the better and longer retain the heat of the vapour but also lest it should be broken by the hard touch of the brazen vessel D Shews the brasse vessel containing the water as it is placed in the Furnace E The Furnace containing the vessel F A Funnel by which you may now and then pour in water in stead of that which is vanisht and dissipated by the heat of the fire G The Receiver The delineation of a Baln Mâ—r. which may also serve to distill with ashes A Shews the Furnace with the hole to take forth the ashes B Shews another furnace as it were set in the other now it is of brass runs through the midst of the kettle made also of brass that so the contained water or ashes may be the more easily â—eated C The kettle wherein the water ashes or sand are contained D The Alembick set in the water ashes or sand with the mouths of the receivers E The bottome of the second brass Furnace whose top is marked with B which contains the fire A water out of Berries is made thus TAke of what Berries you please being full ripe put them into a gourd glass strewing upon them a good quantity of powdered sugar cover them close let them stand three weeks or a month then distill them in Balneo After this manner Strawberries Raspberries Elderberries and black Cherries may be distilled But note that such as have stones must first be bruised together with their stones A sweating water made of Elderberries TAke of Elder berries as many as you please press out the juice thereof to every gallon thereof put a pint of White-wine vinegar of the lees of Whitewine a pint let them stand in a wooden vessell which thou must then set in some warm place near the fire side for the space of a week then distill them in a hot Still or Alembick The Furnace for a Balneum Mariae with the Alembicks and their reâ—eivers A Shews the brass Kettle full of water B The cover of the Kettle perforated in two places to give passage forth to the Vessels C A Pipe or Chimney added to the Kettle wherein the fire is contained to heat the water D The Alembick consisting of its body and head E the Receiver whereinto the distilled liquor runs The effigies of another Baln Mar. not so easie to be removed as the former A Shews the vessell or Copper that contains the water B The Alembick set in water But lest the bottom of the Alembick being half ful should float up and down in the water and so strike against the sides of the Kettle I have thought good to shew you the way and means to prevent that danger A Shews the vessel or glass Alembick B A plate of lead whereon it stands C Strings that bind the Alembick to the plate D Rings through which thestrings are put to fasten the Alembick In defect of a Furnace for a Balneum you may make use of a pot set upon a trevet after this manner An ounce or two of this water of Elder berries is a very excellent sudorifick and is very good in all diseases that require sweat as also in hydropicall diseases Water out of rotten apples is made thus TAke as many rotten apples as you please bruise them and distill them either in a common cold Still or gourd glasses in Balneo This water is of greater use in feavers and hot distempers then the common distilled waters of any cold vegetables It is very good in any hot distemper of the reines and sharpness of Urine It is very good in the inflammations of the eyes How to make Aqua vitae and spirit of Wine out of Wine TAke of what wine you please put it into a copper Still two parts of three being empty distill it with a worm untill no more spirit come off then this spirit will serve for the making of any spirits out of vegetables but if thou wouldst have it stronger distill it again and half will remain behind as an insipid flegm and if thou wouldst have it yet stronger distill it again for every distillation wil leave behind one moity of flegm or thereabouts So shalt thou have a most pure and strong spirit of wine A hot Still A Sheweth the bottome which ought to be of
be wearyed and then suddenly strangled the feathers being plucked off without out putting of it into water and being thus plucked bare and the bowels taken out cut the flesh bones gizard liver heart and pour upon it as much water as will be sufficient with what spices and hearbs thou pleasest then set it over a gentle fire in an earthen vessel glazed the space of 24 houres then put the head upon it and lute it close and there wil distil off a comfortable restorative water Water or Liquor is made out of flesh thus Take of what flesh you please or feathered fowl prepared as before bruise it smal and put it into a copper vessell tinned within side without any water being put to it put a cover to it and lute it close and set it in Balneo or over the vapour of seething water and if the flesh be tender it will be turned into a clear liquor the space of 12 hours if harder it will require a longer time You may put in what spices or hearbs you please to give it a good relish and odour after all is done you may strain it and keep it for use being very restaurative and good for weak stomachs that cannot concoct hard meat If this be digested in a Pelican or bolt head a fortnight it will be far better After this manner may be preserved Snails Worms and such like which are very medicinable A very excellent restorative Liquor Take of the heart lungs and liver of a Calf the same parts of a Fox new killed cut them smal put to them a quart of Shel Snails wel scoured in salt water let them be put into a copper vessel tinned within side and covered close that no vapour come forth set this vessel over the vapour of seething water and in 24 hours or thereabouts they wil be for the most part of them turned into a Liquor of themselves then take out this Liquor and put it into a large Pelican or Bolt-head putting to them a quart of old Mallago wine Rosemary flowers Betony flowers Marygold flowers Marsh wallow-flowers of each a handful half a pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned Mace and Nutmeg of each two drams digest all these together the space of a fortnight then pour off that which is clear from the feces and sweeten it with sugar or syrup of Gilly flowers and let the Patient thereof five or fix spoonfuls three or four times in a day This Liquor recovereth the decaying strength wonderfully they that by reason of their weakness can neither eat or digest any manner of common meat will in a short time be sensibly strengthened if they drink a quarter of a pint of this morning and evening It is very good in consumptions and repairs the radical moisture marvellously A Balsame made of Bears fat Take of Bears fat a pound distil it in a Retort and rectifie it three or four times to this thus rectified put the tincture of Rosemary and Sage made with spirit of Wine of each three ounces mix them wel together in these infuse Cloves Cinnamon Saffron Nutmegs of each three drams in warm ashes the space of a night then strain them and put to the oyl four ounces of the best wax melted and mingled wel together This is a most incomparable balsame for the Gout and Palsie The Oyl of Snakes and Adders Take Snakes or Adders when they are fat which will be in June or July cut off their heads and take off their skins and unbowel them and put them into a glass gourd and pour on so much of the pure spirit of Wine wel rectified that it may cover them four or five fingers breadth stop the glass wel and set it in Balneo til all their substance be turned into an oyl which keep wel stopt for your use This oyl doth wonderfull cures in recovering hearing in those that be deaf if a few drops thereof be put warm into the ears A Noble man of Germany that was famous for curing the deaf used this as his chiefest medicine by which they say he cured those that were born deaf The Quintessence of Snakes Adders or Vipers Take of the biggest and fattest Snakes Adders or Vipers which you can get in June or July cut off their heads take off their skins and unbowel them then cut them into smal pieces and put them into a glass of a wide mouth and set them in a warm Balneo that they may be well dryed which wil be done in three or four days Then take them out and put them into a bolt head and pour on them of the best alcolizated Wine as much as wil cover them six or eight fingers breadth Stop the glass hermetically and digest them fifteen days in Balneo or so long til the Wine be sufficiently covered which pour forth then pour on more of the foresaid spirit of Wine til all the quintessence be extracted Then put all the tinged spirits together and draw off the spirit in a gentle Balneo til it be thick at the bottome on this pour spirit of Wine Caryophyllated and stir them wel together and digest them in a Circulatory ten days then abstract the spirit of Wine and the quintessence remaineth at the bottome perfect This quintessence is of extraordinary vertue for the purifying of the bloud flesh and skin and consequently of all diseases therein It cures also the Falling-sickness and strengthens the brain sight and hearing and preserveth from Gray hairs reneweth Youth preserveth Women from Abortion cureth the Gout Consumption causeth sweat is very good in and against pestilential infections Viper wine is made thus Take the best fat Vipers cut off their heads take off their skins and unbowel them then put them into the best Canary Sack four or six according to their bigness into a gallon Let them stand two or three months then draw off your wine as you drink it Some put them alive into the Wine and there suffocate them and afterwards take them out and cut off their heads take off their skins and unbowel them and then put them into the said Wine again and doe as before This Wine hath the same vertue as the foregoing quintessence it also provoketh to Venery and cures the Leprosie and such like corruption of bloud Kunrath's famous Water called Aqua Magnanimitatis Take of Pismires or Ants the biggest that have a sowrish smel are the best two handsuls spirit of wine a gallon digest them in a glass vessel close shut the space of a month in which time they wil be dissolved into a Liquor then distil them in Balneo til all be dry Then put the same quantity of Ants as before digest and distil them in the said Liquor as before doe this three times then aromatize the spirit with some Cinnamon Note that upon the spirit will float an oyl which must be separated This spirit is of excellent use to stir up the Animal spirit in so much that John Casimire Palsgrave of the
with a gentle fire distil off the water till no more will distill A compound water of the Sperm of Frogs Take of the sperm of Frogs gathered in March about the new of the Moon four pound of Cow dung fresh six pound mix them well together and let them stand the space of a day then distil them in ashes This water allays all hot pains both inward and outward especially of the Gout Another compound water of the sperm of Frogs Take of the Sperm of Frogs gathered in March two pound and half the Urine of a young man three pints new Treacle two ounces and a half white Vitrial Salt Allum of each four ounces then distil them and put to the water an ounce and half of the Salt of Vitriall Camphire and Saffron of each an ounce This water being applyed outwardly helpeth all pains especially of the Gout and such like also allayeth hot or cold swellings It also stancheth bleeding A Miscellany of Spagyricall Experiments and Curiosities BOOK V. The Spagyricall Anatomie of Water WAter seems to be a body so very Homogeneall as if neither Nature or Art could discover any Heterogeneity in the parts thereof thus indeed it seems to the eye of the vulgar but to that of a Philosopher far otherwise as I shall endeavor to make credible by presenting to your consideration a twofold process of the discovering the dissimilary parts thereof whereof the one is naturall only and the other artificiall But before I speak of either it must be premised that in the element of Water there is great plenty of the spirit of the World which is more predominant in it then in any other element for the use and benefit of universall nature and that this spirit hath three distinct substances viz. Salt Sulphur and Mercury Now by salt we must understand a substance very dry vitall and radicall having in it the beginning of corporisication as I may so call it by Sulphur a substance ful of light and vital heat or vivifying fire containing in it self the beginning of motion by Mercury a substance abounding with radical moisture with which the Sulphur of life or vital fire is cherished and preserved Now these substances which are in the Spirit of the World make all Fountaines and Waters but with some difference according to the predominancy of either This several predominancy therefore is the ground of the variety of productions I say of productions because all things are produced out of Water for Water is both the Sperme and the Menstruum of the World the former because it includes the seed of every thing the latter because the Sperme of Nature is put refied in it that the seed included in it should be actuated and take upon it the divers Formes of things and because by it the seed it self and all things produced of seed grow and are encreased Now this being premised I shall shew you what the naturall processe is which I shal make plain by instancing in three several productions viz. of the spawn of Frogs of Stones and of Vegetables The Spawne of Frogs is produced after this manner viz. The Sulphur which is in the Water being by the heat of the Sun resolved and dissolved is greedily and with delight conceived by the Element of Water even as the Sperme of a Male is by the Matrix of the Female and that upon this account The Water wants siccity which the Sulphur hath and therefore exceedingly desiring it doth greedily attract it to it self Sulphur also wants humidity and therefore attracts the humidity of the Water Moreover the humidity of the Water hath the humidity of the Salt laid up occultly in it also the Sulphur cherisheth the humidity of the fire and desires nothing more then the humidity of the Salt that is in the Water Sulphur also contains the siccity of the Salt whence it is that Salt requires a siccity from the Sulphur And thus do these attractive vertues mutually act upon each others subject Now by this means there is a conception made in the water which now begins to be turgid puffed up and troubled as also to be grosser and more slimie until out of the spermatick vessels the spermes be cast upward in which spermes after a while appeare black specks which are the seed of the Frogs and by the heat of the Sun are in a short time turned into the same by which it appears there are dissimilary parts in Water 2 Stones are produced out of Water that hath a Mucilaginous Mercury which the Salt with which it also abounds fixeth into Stones This you may see cleared by putting stones into the water for they wil after a time contract a mucilaginous slimy matter which being taken out of the water and set in the Sun becomes to be of a stony nature And whence come those stones gravel and sand which we see in Springs they are not washed down out of the Mountains and Hils as some think from whence the waters spring neither were they in the earth before the Springs brake forth as some imagine and now appear by washing away of the earth from them for if you dig round about the springs even beyond the heads of them you shal find no stones at all in the earth only in the veins thereof through which the water runs Now the reason of the smalnesse of these stones is the continual motion of the water which hinders them from being united into a continued bignesse I shall make a further confirmation of this in the artificial processe of manifesting the Heterogeneity of Water I shal here only adde the assertion of Heâ—â—ont saying that with his Altahest all stones and indeed all things may be turned into Water If so then you know what the Maxime is viz. All things may be resolved into that from whence they had their beginning 3 Vegetables are produced out of Water as you may clearly see by the Waters sending forth Plants that have no roots fixed in the bottome of which sort is the Heart called Duck-weed which putteth forth a little string into the Water which is as it were the root thereof For the confirmation of this that this Heart may be produced out of meer Water there is a Gentleman at this time in the City of no small worth that saith he had fair water standing in a glass divers yeares and at last a Plant sprang out of it Also if you put some Plants as Water-mint c. into a glass of fair water it wil germinate and shoot out into a great length and also take root in the Water which root will in a short time be so encreased and extended as to fill up the glass but you must remember that you put fresh water into the glasse once in two or three dayes Hereunto also may be added the experiment of Helmont concerning the growth of a tree For saith he I took two hundred pound weight of earth dryed in an oven and put it into a vessel in
which I set a Willow tree which weighed five pound which by the addition of water to the earth did in five yeares time grow to such a bignesse as that it weighed one hundred sixty nine pound at which time I also dryed and weighed the earth and within two ounces it retained its former weight Besides the ancients have observed that some Hearbs have grown out of snow being putrefied and do not we see that all Vegetables are nourished and increased with an insipid water for what else is their juice If you cut a Vine in the month of March it wil drop divers gallons of insipid water which water if it had remained in the trunk of the Vine would in a little time have been digested into leaves stalks and grapes which grapes also by a further maturation would have yeelded a Wine out of which you might have extracted a burning spirit Now I say although this insipid water be by the specificall Sulphur and Salt of the Vine fixed into the stalks leaves and grapes of the vine yet these give it not a corporificative matter for that it had before and an aptitude and potentiality to become what afterwards it proves to be for indeed stalks leaves and grapes were potentially in it before all which now it becomes to be actually by vertue of the Sun and of the aforesaid Sulphur and Salt whereof the two latter were originally in the smal seed and therefore as I said could not adde any bulk to them Moreover doe not we see that when things are burnt and putrefied they ascend up into the air by way of vapour and fume and then descend by way of insipid dew or rain Now what do all these signifie but that from water are all things produced and in it are dissimilary parts 2 The artificiall processe is this take of what water you please whether Well water Fountaine River or Raine water as much as you please let it settle three or four houres untill the slime thereof separates it selfe then digest it the space of a month after which time evaporate the fourth part by a very gentle heat and cast it away being but the flegm then distil off the remainder of the water till the feces only be left which feces will be a slimy saltish substance this middle substance distill again as before casting away every time the fourth part as flegme and keeping the feces by themselves for a further use and this doe seven times Note that after the fourth or fifth distillation the water will distil over like milke colouring the head of your Still so that it can hardly be washed or scoured off This pure water after the seventh distillation will leave no feces behind and if you digest it three months it will be coagulated into Stones and Crystals which some magnifie very much for the cure of inward and outward putrefactions out of which also may be made a dissolving spirit Note that as this water stands in digestion you may see divers curious colours Now as for the feces which I spake of which indeed all waters even the sweetest leave at the bottome being as I said a saltish slime and in taste as it were a Medium betwixt Salt and Nitre take them and distill them in a Retort in sand and there will first come forth a white fume which being condensed descendeth in a straight line to the bottome next will come over a red Oyl of great efficacy exceeding the vertues of the spirit of Salt or Nitre For confirmation of part of this processe take May dew gathered in a morning when it hath not rained the night before and put it into a glass vessel covered with a parchment pricked full of holes and set it in the heat of the Sun for the space of four months and there will store of green feces fall to the bottome the residue of the water being white and clear Now by all this you may conclude what manner of dissimilarity there is in the parts of water I shall adde but one observation more and so conclude this subject Take a slint out of River water and put it into a gourd glasse poure upon it as much River Water as will fill the glasse evaporate this water till the flint be drye then poure on more fresh water doe this so long till the flint will fill up the glass for in a little time it will fill it up and become to be of the forme or figure of the glasse for it attracts to it selfe the mucilaginousnesse of the water which indeed is a slimy saltish matter and the true matter of Stones And thus thou shalt have that done by Art in few dayes which Nature would have been perfecting many yeares and indeed just such a flint as is produced in the Rivers Any one that should see this flint in the glasse would wonder how it should come in there You may break your glasse and take out the flint There are divers such processes which may be used but in effect they demonstrate but little more concerning the potentiall Heterogeneity of water and therefore to avoid tediousnesse I shall here end with the Anatomy of Water concerning which if any one can make a further illustration let him be candid and impart it and I shall be glad to learn of him and in the meane time let him accept of these my endeavours The Spagyricall Anatomy of Wine I Shall not speak here of the juice of grapes as being naturally divided into Wine Tartar and Lees but of Wine as artificially divided into pure Spirit Flegm and Feces 1 The spirit is that hot subtle pure clear cordiall and balsamicall substance which ariseth with a small heat after four or five distillations being indeed but the twentieth part of the Wine This spirit is not that inebriating substance of the Wine as most think for a man may drink the spirit that is extracted out of ten pints of Wine without distempering of his brâ—in at all when as perhaps he would be distempered with drinking a pint or two of the Wine Now this spirit contains in it a subtle Armoniack and essentiall Sulphur inseparably conjoined which indeed are the life of the spirit and may be separated from the Mercuriall or watery part thereof which after separation of them remains inspid but yet of wonderfull subtility They may be separated thus First rectifie the spirit as high as you can the ordinary way then rectifie it once or twice in thâ—se following vessels Now this spirit or Aqua vitae is in all Vegetables as you may see in Malt and Vegetables that are put refied before they be distilled which then yeeld a burning spirit yet it is in Wine more then in any other Liquors I say Liquors for if you take eight gallons of Sack and as much Wheat which is a solid body the Wheat being malted will yeeld more Aqua vitae then the Sack 2 The flegm is that which remains after the spirit is distilled off
and is a putrid insipid cold narcotick and inebriating Liquor debilitating the stomach and offending the head A few spoonfuls of this will presently make a man drunk nay the flegm of half a pint of Wine will make a man drunk when as two pints of Wine it selfe would hardly doe it whence you may collect what a great corrector of Malignant spirits and vapours the spirit of Wine is which whilest it is mixed with the flegm before distillation doth temper and correct this inebriating quality thereof and as it doth thus so also being given I mean the pure deflegmated spirit to them that are already inebriated doth much allay their distemper This flegm therefore being of so narcotick a quality is the cause of Palsies and such like distempers Moreover it is to be observed that when this flegm is to be distilled off there remains at the bottom a viscous corrosive matter which by reason of its viscosity is the cause of obstructions and by reason of its corrosivenesse the cause of the gout colick stone c. 3 This feces being distilled yeelds a sharp spirit and fetid oyl which leave behind them a saltish substance out of which when the salt is extracted there remains an insipid earth Now if any shall object against what I have asserted and say that Aqua vitae or spirit of Wine are inebriating the causes of Palfie stone gout colick weak stomachs and such like as we see by dayly experience in those that are given to the drinking of these Liquors to which I answer it is true but then I must distinguish of Aqua vitae and spirit of Wine for there is a common Aqua vitae and spirit of Wine of which also they make Aniseed water by putting a few Aniseeds thereunto and other such like waters as Clove Angelica Lemmon c. With which this Nation is most abominably cheated and their health impaired But these are not rectified throughly but three parts of four of them are an insipid Narcotick flegm containing in it the feces I spake of all which I can in a day separate from the true pure spirit which spirit rather prevents then causes such distempers And the truth is all the goodnesse of the Wine is from this pure spirit The famous Arcanum or restorative Medicament of Paracelsus called his Homunculus FIrst we must understand that there are three acceptions of the word Homunculus in Paracelsus which are these 1 Homunculus is a superstitious image made in the place or name of any one that it may contain an Astrall and invisible man wherefore it was made for a superstitious use 2 Homunculus is taken for an artificiall man made of SpermÌ„a humamum Masculinum digested into the shape of a man and then nourished and encreased with the essence of mans bloud and this is not repugnant to the possibility of Nature and Art But is one of the greatest wonders of God which he ever did suffer mortall man to know I shall not here set down the full processe because I think it unfit to be done at least to be divulged besides neither this nor the former is for my present purpose 3 Homuncuâ—us is taken for a most excellent Arcanum or Medicament extracted by the spagyricall Art from the chiefest staffe of the naturall life in man and according to this acception I shall here speak of it But before I shew you the processe I shall give you an account why this Medicament is called Homunculus and it is this No wise man will deny that the staffe of life is the nutriment thereof and that the chiefest nutriment is Bread and Wine being ordained by God and Nature above all other things for the sustentation thereof Besides Paracelsus preferred this nutriment for the generation of the bloud and spirits and the forming thence the Sperm of this Homunculus Now by a sutable allusion the nutriment is taken for the life of man and especially because it is transmuted into life and again the life is taken for the man for unlesse a man be alive he is not a man but the carcasse only of a man and the basest part thereof which cannot perfectly be taken for the whole man as the noblest part may In as much therefore as the nutriment or aliment of life may be called the life of man and the life of man be called man this nutriment extracted out of Bread and Wine and being by digestion exalted into the highest purity of a nutritive substance and consequently becoming the life of man being so potentially may Metaphorically be called Homunculus The processe which in part shall be set down allegorically is thus Take the best Wheat and the best Wine of each a like quantity put them into a glasse which you must hermetically close then let them putrefie in horse dung three days or until the Wheat begin to germinate or to sprout forth which then must be taken forth and bruised in a Mortar and be pressed through a linnen cloth and there will come forth a white juice like milk you must cast away the feces Let this juice be put into a glasse which must not be above half full stop it close and set it in horse dung as before for the space of fifty days If the heat be temperate and not exceeding the naturall heat of a man the matter will be turned into a spagyricall bloud and flesh like an Embryo This is the principal and next matter out of which is generated a twofold sperm viz. of the father and mother generating the Homunculus without which there can be made no generation whether humane or animall From the bloud and flesh of this Embryo let the water be separated in Balneo and the air in ashes and both be kept by themselves Then to the feces of the latter distillation let the water of the former distillation be added both which must the glasse being close stopt putrefie in Balneo the space of ten days after this distill the water the second time which is then the vehiculum of the first together with the fire in ashes then distill off this water in a gentle Balneo and in the bottom remains the fire which must be distilled in ashes Keep both these a part And thus you have the four Elements separated from the Chaos of the Embryo The feculent earth is to be reverberated in a close vessel for the space of four dayes In the interim distil off the fourth part of the first distillation in Balneo and cast it away the other three parts distill in ashes and pour it upon the reverberated earth and distill it in a strong fire cohobate it four times and so you shall have a very clear water which you must keep by it self Then pour the air on the same earth and distil it in a strong fire and there will come over a clear splendid odoriferous water which must be kept apart After this pour the fire upon the first water and putrefie them
purifie and give an excellent smell and tast unto oil Olive that they that loath it may delight to eat it Take of a good sort of oil Olive though not of the best put the same into a vessell of earth or copper that hath a little hole in the bottome thereof which you may stop with wax or a cork to open at your pleasure In this vessell for every quart of oil adde four quarts of fair water and with a woodâ—n spatle or spoon beat them well together for a quarter of an houres space and when you have so done opâ—n the hole in the bottome and let out the water for the oil doth naturally fleet above as being the lighter body and assoon as the water is passâ—d away stop the hole and put in other cold water and begin a new agitation as before and worke in the like manner divers times as you did at the first till in the end the oil be well cleansed and clarified If the last time you work it with Rose-water it will be so much the better then hang in the midst of the oil a course bag full of Nutmegs sliced and Cloves bruised and the rinds of Orenges and Lemons cut small and set the vessell in Balneo for two or three houâ—es and I suppose he that loaths oil will be easily by this meanes drawn to a liking of it Another way Set oil Olive in the sunne in summer-time untill there settle good store of foule and grosse Lees from the which by declination poure out the clear oil and keep it till the next winter and after the same hath been congealed with some frosty weather the oil will be most sweet and delectable to the tast After this manner you may clarifie all thick oils and all kinds of grease but then you must use warme water in stead of cold To purifie Butter that it shall keep fresh and sweet a long time and be most wonderfull sweet in tast Dissolve butter in a clean glazed or silver vessell and in a pan or kettle of water with a slow and gentle fire then pour the same so dissolved into a bason that hath some faire water therein and when it is cold take away the curds and the whay that remain in the bottome And if you will be at the charge thereof you may the second time for it must be twice dissolved dissolve the Butter in Rose-water working them well together the Butter thus clarified will be as sweâ—t in tast as the marrow of any beast by reason of the great impurity that is removed by this manner of handling the fift paâ—t thereof being drosse which makes the Butter many times offensive to the stomach To make Butter tast of any vegetable without altering the colour thereof When the Butter is taken out of the cherne and well worked from the serâ—us part thereof mix with the said Butter as much of the oil oâ— that vegetable which you like best till the same be strong enough in tast to your liking then temper them well together If you do in the month of May mix some oil of Sage with your Bâ—tter it may excuse you from eating Sage with your butter If you mix the oil with the aforesaid clarified Butter it will be farre better and serve for a most dainty dish and indeed a great rarity To make Cheese tast strong of any vegetable without discolouring of it You may mix the distilled oil of what vegetable you would have the Cheese tast of with the curd before the whay be pressed out but be sure you mix them very well that all places may tast alike of it you may make it tast stronger or weaker of it as you please by putting in more or lesse of the oil To purifie and refine Sugar Make a strong Lixiuium of Calx vive whereing dissolve as much course Sugar as the Livivium will beare then put in the white of Egges of 2 to every part of the Liquor being beaten into an oil stir them well together and let them boyl a little and there will arise a scum which must be taken off as loâ—g as any will arise then poure all the Liquor through a great Wollen cloth bag and so the feces will remain behinde in the bag then boyl the Liquor again so long till some drops of it being put upon a cold plate will when they be cold be congealed as hard as salt Then pour out the Liquor into pots or moulds made for that purpose having a hole in the narrower end thereof which must be stopped for one night after and after that night be opened and there will a moist substance drop forth which is called Molosses or Treakle then with potters clay cover the ends of the pot as that clay sinketh down by reason of the sinking of the Sugar fill them up with more clay repeating the doing thereof till the Sugar shrink no more Then take it out till it be hard and dryed then bind it up in papers To make a vegetablâ— grow and become more glorious then any of its species Reduce any vagetable into its three first principles and then joyne them together again being well purified and put the same into a rich earth and you shall have it produce a vegetable far more glorious then any of its species Note how to make such an essence look into the first book and there you shall see the processe thereof To make a Plant grow in two or three houres Take the ashes of Mosse moisten them with the juice of an old dunghill being first pressed forth and streined then dry them a little and moisten them as before do this four or five times put this mixture being neither very dry nor very moist into some earthen or metalline vessell and in it set the seeds of Lettice Purslain or Parsly because they will grow sooner then other Plants being first in pregnated with the essence of a vegetable of its own species the processe whereof you shall find Book 1. page 32 33. till they begin to sprout forth then I say put them in the said earth with that end upwards which sprouts forth Then put the vessell into a gentle heat and when it begins to dry moisten it with some of the said joyce of dung Thou maiest by this meanes have a Sallet grow whilest supper is making ready To make the Idea of any Plant appear in a glasse as if the very plant it selfe were there The processe of this thou maist see pag. 32. and therefore I need not here again repeat it only remember that if you put the flame of a candle to the boâ—tome of the glasse where the essence is by which it may be made hot you wil see that thin substance which is like impalpable ashes or salt send forth from the bottome of the glasse the manifest forme of a vegetable vegetating and growing by little and little and putting on so fully the forme of stalkes leaves and flowers in such perfect
then it is fit for medicine The processe of the Elixir according to Divi Leschi Genus Amo. TAke of oâ—r earth through eleaven degrees eleaven graines of our gold and not of the vulgar one graine of our lune not of the vulgar graines two but be thou admonished that thou take not the gold and silver of the vulgar for they are dead but take ours which are living then put them into our fire and there will thence be made a dry Liquor First the earth will be resolved into water which is called the Mercury of Philosophers and in that water it will resolve the bodies of the Sunne and Moone and consume them that there remaine but the tenth part with one part and this will be the Humidum Radicale Metallicum Then take the water of the salt Nitre of our earth in which there is a living streame if thou diggest the pit knee deep take therefore the water of it but take it clear and set over it that Humidum Radicale and put it over the fire of putrefaction and generation but not such as was that in the first operation Governe all things with a great deale of discretion untill there appeare colours like to the taile of a Peacock govern it by digesting of it and be not weary till these colours cease and there appeare throughout the whole a green colour and so of the rest and when thou shalt see in the bottome ashes of a fiery colour and the water almost red open the vessell dip in a feather and smeere over some iron with it if it tinge have in readiness that water which is the menstruum of the world out of the spheare of the Moone so often rectified untill it can calcine gold put in so much of that water as was the cold aire which went in boyl it again with the former fire untill it tinge again The processe of the Philosophers stone according to Pontanus TAke the matter and grinde it with a physicall contrition as diligently as may be then set it upon the fire and let the proportion of fire be known viz. that it only stirre up the maâ—ter and in a short time that fire without any other laying on of hands will accomplish the whole work because it will putrefie corrupt generate and perfect and make to appeare the three principall colours black white and red And by the meanes of our fire the medicine wil be multiplied if it be joyned with the crude matter not only in quantity but also in vertue Withall they might therefore search out this fire which is minerall equall continuall vapours not away except it be too much stirred up partakes of sulphur is taken from elsewhere then from the matter pulleâ—h downe all things dissolveth congealeth and calcines and is artificiall to find out and that by a compendious and neer way without any cost at least very small is not transmuted with the matter because it is not of the matter and thou shalt attaine thy wish because it doth the whole work and is the key of the Philosophers which they never revealed The Smaragdine table of Hermes from whence all Alchymie did arise TRue without all falsity certaine and most true That which is inferiour is as that which is superiour and that which is superiour is as that which is inferiour for the accomplishing of the miracles of one thing And as all things were from one by the mediation of one so all things have proceeded from this one thing by adaptation The Father therefore is the Sun and the Mother thereof the Moon the wind carried it in its belly The Nurse thereof is the earth The father of all the perfection of the whole world is this The vertue thereof is entire if it be turned into earth Thou shalt separate the earth from the fire the subtle from the thick sweetly with a great deale of judgement It ascends from the earth up to heaven and againe descends down to the earth and receives the powers of superiours and inferiours So thou hast the glory of the whole world Therefore let all obscurity fly from thee This is the strong fortitude of the whole fortitude because it shall overcome every thing that is subtle and penetrate every solid thing as the world is created Hence shall wonderfull adaptations be whereof this is the manner wherefore I am called Hermes Trismegistus having three parts of the philosophy of the whole world It is compleat what I have spoken of the operation of the Sun FINIS THE London-Distiller Exactly and truly shewing the way in words at length and not in mystesterious CHARACTERS and FIGURES to draw all SORTS OF SPIRITS AND STRONG-WATERS To which is added their Vertues with Additions of many Excellent WATERS LONDON Printed by E. Cotes for Thomas Williams at the Sign of the Bible in Little-Britain 1652. THE DISTILLER OF LONDON OR Rules and Directions for extracting and drawing of Low-Wines and Spirits to be redistilled into Rich-Spirits Strong-Waters or Aqua-vitae WHereas some of the Professours of Distillation in and about London have heretofore usually drawn Strong waters and Aqua vitae c. out of Wines Low wines and Small Spirits c. by one alone immediate extraction operation or distillation contrary to the most approved form of working in this our Art and have been so opinionated of their own hereditary erroneous wayes that they have esteemed the manner and order here taught to be altogether unnecessary and improvident in that there is here required Redistillation which they have ever thought to be superfluous Not considering that what they save by their seeming thrift they lose double in the excellency of their Wares and otherwise Wherefore that such may not onely acquit themselves of an aspersion of ignorance not undeservedly cast upon them but also vindicate both their own the Companies reputation for time to come The directions following are henceforth by them and every Member of the Company and their Successours duly and exactly to be observed and practised from time to time for ever hereafter That all Wines Lees of Wines Low Wines and Spirits under proof whatsoever intended for making of rich or high Spirits Strong Waters or Aqua vitae c. be first distilled extracted or drawn into strong Proof-Spirit whereâ—y they may be corrected and cured of their natural harsh distasteful unsavory or evil qualities before they be compounded with ingredients or extracted and drawn into rich or high Spirits Strong waters or Aqua vitae according to Art and as is required in the ensuing Rules And because many grosse absurdities have been frequently practised in adulterating some and abusing others of the materials used in Distillation and otherwise by Distillers by such as onely respect their own particular gain regarding neither the profit or credit of Distillers that have been necessitated to make use of such their il-conditioned Wares Wherefore that these grievances may be removed for time to come the Directions following are strictly to be
each 6 drams and a half Angelica roots 6 drams and a half or Hearb Angelica 3 ounces a dram and half White Sugar 4 ounces or what sufficeth Additions to the fifth Chapter The greater quantity Take Cinamon Cubebs of each 4 ounces Sweet Fennell seeds Aniseeds of each 8 ounces Cloves Caraway seeds Nutmegs of each 3 ounces Wormwood dry 10 ounces White Sugar 2 pound and a half or what sufficeth The lesser quantity Take Cinamon Cubebs of each three drams and a quarter Sweet Fennel seeds Aniseeds of each 6 drams and a half Cloves Caraway seeds Nutmegs of each 2 drams and a half Wormwood dry 1 ounce white Sugar 4 ounces or what sufficeth Additions to the sixth Chapter The greater quantity Take Garden Thyme Penny royall of each 3 handfuls Cardamums 2 ounces Sweet Fennell feeds Aniseeds of each eight ounces Balm dry 1 pound Nutmeg Ginger Calamus Aromaticus Galingale Cinamon of each 4 ounces The lesser quantity Take Garden Thym Penny royall of each what sufficeth Cardamums a dram and half Sweet Fennell seeds Aniseeds of each 6 drams and an half Balm dry 1 ounce 4 drams Nutmeg Ginger Calamus Aromaticus Galingale Cinamon of each 3 drams and a quarter Additions to the seventh Chapter The greater quantity Take Spear Mint dry Aniseeds of each one pound Calamus Aromaticus 4 ounces White Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Spear Mint dry Aniseeds of each 1 ounce 5 drams Calamus Aromaticus 3 drams and a quarter White Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the eight Chapter The greater quantity Take Sweet Fennell seeds Cinamon of each 8 ounces Aâ—â—seeds Rosemary dry of each 1 pound Caraway 2 ounces Spear Mint dry 2 handfuls White Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Sweet Fennell seeds Cinamon of each 6 drams and a half Aniseeds Rosemary dry of each 1 ounce five drams Caraway 1 dram and a half Spear Mint dry what sufficeth White Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the ninth Chapter The greater quantity Take Caraway seeds 4 ounces Aniseeds Limon pils dry of each 1 pound White Sugar 2 pound and a half in like manner and quantity make your Composition with Orange pils dry according to Art The lesser quantity Take Caraway seeds 3 drams and 3 quarters Aniseeds Limon pils dry of each 1 ounce 5 drams White Sugar 4 ounces In like manner and quantity make your Composition with Orange pils dry according to Art Additions to the twelfth Chapter The greater quantity Take Cinamon 5 ounces Cloves 2 ounces Limon pils dry 3 ounces Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Cinamon half an ounce Cloves a dram and halfe Limon pils dry 2 drams and a half Sugar 4 ounces Addition to the fourteenth Chapter The greater quantity Take Sweet Fennell Cinamon of each 5 ounces Nutmeg 3 ounces Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Sweet Fennell Cinamon of each 4 drams Nutmegs 2 drams and a half Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the fifteenth Chapter Take and adde to the spirit half as much as the rule of every particular Ingredient therein expressed and in stead of Sanders give it the tincture of Roses July flowers or Poppy what sufficeth according to Art Additions to rhe eighteenth Chapter The greater quantity Take Musk Ambergreese of each half a dram White Sugar candy in stead of common white Sugar what sufficeth according to Art In respect that Musk in some cause may give offence to the receiver it is requisite to omit the use there of in some of your water of this kind to serve for such speciall uses The lesser quantity Take Musk Ambergreese of each 3 grains White Sugar Candy in stead of Common white Sugar what sufficeth according to Art In respect that Musk for some causes may give offence to the receiver it is requisite to omit the use thereof in some of your water of this kind to serve for such speciall uses Additions to the ninteenth Chapter The greater quantity Take Sweet Fennell seeds 5 pound Caraway seeds four ounces Aniseeds 1 pound Cinamon eight ounces Cloves 2 ounces Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Sweet Fennell seeds 8 ounces Caraway seeds three drams and a quarter Aniseeds 1 ounce 5 drams Cinamon 6 drams and a half Cloves a dram and half Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the twentieth Chapter The greater quantity Take Cinamon Sweet Fennell of each 5 ounces Caraway Cloves of each 2 ounces Marigolds 2 gallons Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Cinamon Sweet Fennell of each 4 drams Caraway Cloves of each a dram and half Marigolds what sufficeth Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the twenty third Chapter The Syrup for dulcifying the water is thus to be made Take Apricots Quinces Cherries English Currants of each what sufficeth all full ripe and of equall weight when they are thus prepared as followeth The Furnace used in the drawing of the preceding Spirits and waters A Sheweth the bottome which ought to be of Copper C The barrell filled with cold water to refrigerate and condensate the water and oyle that run through it D A pipe of brasse or pewter or rather a worm of Tin running through the barrell E The Alembick set in the furnace with the fire under it Excellent Waters for severall uses CHAP. I. A water to cause Hair faln to grow again TAke Mountain Hysop Mountain Calamint leaves of Southernwood of each two handfuls Canary Wine Urine Hony Milk of each two pound Mustard seed half a ponud bruife what is to be bruised Macerate them three dayes then distil them in Balneo CHAP. II. A water to cause hair taken off never to grow again Take seeds of Henbane bruised 2 pound lay it a while in some moist place then adde great stone-crop half a pound distil it according to Art Another Take bloud of Frogs Terrae Sigillatae Sumach Roses Sorrell Housleeks what is sufficient Macerate them together 24 houres then distil them in Balneo CHAP. III. A water to take away spots in the Face Take Asses Milk four pound White wine 1 pound the inside of two new loaves 12 Egges with the shels Sugar-Candy 3 drams Mix them well together and distil them CHAP. IV. A water against Scabs Take Sorrell water 2 pound Juice of Plaintane Rose water of each 4 ounces Juice of Limons 2 ounces Lytharge 6 ounces Ceruse Sublimate of each half an ounce Sulphure vive 3 drams bruise them that are to be bruised then infuse them 24 houres and after distill them according to Art CHAP. V. A water to preserve the Sight Take Fennell Vervains Eye-bright Endive Betonies Red Roses Venus Hair of each three handfuls Bruise the Hearbs and macerate them 24 houres in white wine as much as is sufficient then distil them in a limbeck in Balneo Another Take Fennell Celandine Sage Rosemary Vervain Rue of each equall parts Prepare as it before CHAP. VI. A water to restore the sight decayed Take
Fennell Celandine Vervaine Rue Leaves of Enula Fullers Teesell Milfoile of each one handfull Camphire half a dram Bruise them and distil them in an Alembick CHAP. VII A water against the Gout Take Licorice half a pound Aniseeds 1 pound Cinamon 3 ounces Galingale Ginger Roots of Iroes Enula Campana Seeds of Fennell Caraway Amomum Ammi Piony Basil Savory Marjoram of each one ounce Juniper Berries 2 ounces Ground Ivie half a handfull Long Pepper Calamus Spikenard Mace of each 3 drams Valerian 1 dram Roots of Angelica half an ounce Cyprus 4 ounces Lignum Aloes half an ounce Sugar 4 ounces Maliga Wine or strong Ale 32 pound Prepare and distil them according to Art This water taken inwardly strengthens cold and weak Stomachs and breaks the Stone Outwardly applyed it easeth the Gout enlargeth Sinews that are shrunk and is good against all aches and passion proceeding from melancholy and cold CHAP. VIII A Water for the Web and spots in the Eyes Take Rue Plantaine Red roses Red Poppies Vervaine Celandine leaves of each 1 ounce Red rose water 1 pound Rich white wine 1 pound and an half Tutia prepared 1 dram Aloes Hepatick an ounce and a half Cloves 1 ounce Powder prepare and distil them according to Art Drop the water into the Eyes morning and evening CHAP. IX A water for Tetters Fistulas Cankers c. Take strong white Wine Vinegar 8 pound Wood Ashes 1 pound Infuse them 3 dayes naturall and stir them twice a day then put thereto unslaked lime 1 pound let it stand other three dayes and stir it as before when it is well setled Filtre off the clear Lee and put thereto Sal Gemme Salt Alkali Salis Vitae Salt Armoniac Salt of Tartar of each one dram Calx of Egge shels and Calx vive of each 1 dram Grind all these together and temper them with the said Lee put them into a Glass lembick and distil them in Balneo give it the first 24 houres no more heat then will make it and keep it warm after that distil it off according to Art CHAP. X. A water agoinst rednesse of the Face and to beautifie the Skin Take Wild Purslaine Mallows Nightshade Plantain with the seeds of each three handfuls The Whites of 12 Egges Limons number 12 Roch Allum 4 ounces prepair and distil them according to Art Another Take Calx of Egge shels White Corall pulverized of each 2 ounces Salt calcinated and Borax of each 6 ounces Gum Tragagant 5 ounces Roots of white Lillies number 6 White Sope 8 pound Styrax Calamita Belzoin of each 4 ounces Mix and distil them by Alembick Another of the same vertue Take Wine Vinegar half a pound Lytharge of gold 1 ounce and a half Ceruse 1 ounce Sal Gem 6 drams Roch Alum half an ounce Borax Sulphure vive Salt Nitre of each three drams Camphire half a dram prepare and distil them according to Art CHAP. XI A water against the inordinate Flux of Teares Take ripe Strawberries as many as you please set them to digest in Horse dung 15 dayes then distil them in Balneo Or thus Take Flowers of the white Thorn Leaves or tops of the Willow Eye-bright of each what sufficeth distil them as before CHAP. XII A water against rednesse of the Eyes Take juice of Celandine Rue Vervaine Fennel of each three ounces Tops and leaves of Roses of each what sufficeth Sugar Candy 3 ounces of the best Tutia Sanguis Dracâ—nis of each four ounces Bruise them that are to be bruised and distil them according to Art CHAP. XIII A Water to clense and dry a sharp Vlcer Take Crude Allum 2 ounces white of Egges number 15. Juice of Purslaine Plantaine Nightshade Nicotian Houseleek Water of Meadsweet Trinity grasse Roses of each 4 ounces Labour them well together and draw off the Water by an Alembick of Glasse in Balneo CHAP. XIV A water to make the Teeth white Take Allum 6 ounces Common Salt 3 ounces Myrrhe Mastick Cloves of each 6 drams Mix bruise and distil them according to Art CHAP. XV. A Water to take away the marks of the Small Pox. Take Mastick Myrrhe Aloes Hepatick Nard Sanguis Draconis Olibanum Opopanax Bdelium Carpobal samum Saffron Gum Arabick Liquid Storax of each 2 drams and a handful Beat what is to be beaten then adde thereto of clear Turpentine equall weight distil them according to Art CHAP. XVI A Water to Cicatrize Vlcers Take red Wine 2 pound Plantaine water half a pound Rose water four ounces Juice of Plantaine Vervaine Shepheards Purse Knotgrasse Centaury the lesse Comfery the greater and lesser of each 2 ounces Crude Allum 1 pound Cypresse Nuts 3 ounces Pomgranate flowers half an ounce Pomgranate pils 3 ounces Gals half an ounce Bark of the Oak Sumach of each five drams Turpentine 3 ounces Crude Honey half a pound Mastick Olibanum of each ten drams Sarcocoll 2 ounces Burnt Vitriol Burnt lead of each 1 dram Bole Armoniack 3 ounces Cassia lignea halfan ounce Round Birtwort 3 ounces Powder what is to be powdred then mix and distil them Another Take Mastick Myrrhe Olibanum Sarcocoll Mummie of each 3 drams Frankincense 1 ounce Nutmegs Cinamon Cloves Cubebs of each 2 drams Cyprus Nuts half an ounce Flowers Barkes of Pomgranates of each 1 dram Bole Armoniack 1 ounce Sanguis Draconis half an ounce Red Roses 3 drams Roch Allum 1 pound Vitriol 7 drams Clarifiâ—d Honey 1 ounce Aqua vitae a pound and half White Wine 1 pound Juice of Plantaine Nightshade Comfery of the greater and lesser of each 4 ounces Water wherein iron hath been quenched 4 pound Powder what is to be powdred and infuse them all night in Aqua vitae in the morning draw forth the water by Alembick CHAP. XVII A Water for Vlcers Take White Wine 4 pound Plantain water 2 pound Allum half a pound White Copperas 5 ounces Crude Honey 1 pound Licorice Rasped 1 pound Bole Armoniack 5 ounces Camphire an ounce and half Mercury sublimated 2 drams Bruise what is to be bruised and distil them by Alembick CHAP. XVIII A Water for hollow Vlcers Take Fountaine water Red Wine of each 2 pound and a halt Red Roses four ounces Flowers Rindes of Pomgranates of each 2 ounces and a half Sumach 2 ounces Sage a handfull Comfery the greater and lesser of each half a handfull Sarcocoll 3 ounces Mastick 2 ounces Olibanum 1 ounce Honey 1 pound water of Turpentine a pound and a half bruise what is to be bruised and distil them through a lembick of Glasse with a gentle fire CHAP. XIX A Cicatrizing Water Take water wherein Iron hath been quenched four pound Aqua Balsami veri four pound Turpentine a pound and half Crude Honey 1 pound Allum 10 ounces white Copperas five ounces Bole Armoniack 7 ounces Mercury sublimated half a dram leaves of Plantain Comfery the greater middle and lesser Teasill Knotgrasse St. Johns Wort of each a handful and a half Frankincense 2 ounces Olibanum White Sanders of each half an ounce
Bay leaves Rosemary Flowers Red Roses of each a handfull Lavender flowers three drams of the best Wine 3 measures let them be macerated â—nd distilled to the distilled liquor add Musk half a scruple Civet 6 grains This water beateth dryeth cutteth discusseth and chiefly strengtheneth the Heart and Head CHAP. XXXI Aqua Hysterica Take roots of Dictamnum seeds of Daucus of each one ounce Cinamon Cassia lignea Balm of each two scruples Orientall Saffron 1 scruple New Castorium 1 scruple and a half of all these mixt make a powder to which let be poured water of Rue two pound and a half let them stand in infusion four dayes and then distil them in Balneo Mariae CHAP. XXXII Aqua Nephretica Take roots of Enula Campaâ—a Cammock Pimpernell Radish of each one ounce Parsley Lovage of each 7 drams leaves of Lovage Parsley of each one handfull Saxifrage cum toto two ounces Flowers of Broom Balm Rosemary of each half a handfull Elder one handfull Berries of Juniper Myrtle Alcakengie Anifeeds of each 2 ounces cut them and infuse them the space of 8 dayes in 12 pound of the best white Wine then let them be distilled This water openeth and provoketh Vrine the dose is one spoonfull CHAP. XXXII Aqua Aperitiva Take roots of Eringo Vipers graffe Fern the greater Centaury of each half an ounce roots of Fennell Banks of Cappâ—ris Tamarisk Ash of each three drams Barks of Citrons two drams and a half Seeds of Carduus Benedictus Cichorie of each half an ounce Seeds of Endive Cresses Citrons Scariol of each two drams Polytricon Adianthum Ceterach Dodder Scolopendria Betony Endive of each a handfull and a half Tops of Thyme Epithymum Hops Flowers of St. Johns Wort Broome Borage Balm of each 1 handfull Small Raisins 1 ounce Cinamon 1 dram and a half Spec. Dialace half a dram Carduus Benedictus Water of Hops Scolopendria Pauls Betony of each one pound Rhenish Wine two pound and a half let them stand two days in a warm place in a vessel close stopped afterward distil them in Balneo This water openeth the obstructions of the whole body but especially of the Liver Spleen and Mesentery FINIS A Catalogue of the Materials and Ingredients used in the precedent Rules ROOTS ANgelica Avens Butter-Bur Calamus Arâ—maticus Cyperus long Contra-yerva Enula-campana Galingal Gentian Ginger Horse Radish Imperitoria Licorice Lovage Orris Sassafras Scordium Snake-grasse Valerian Common Garden Great Vincetoxicum Zedoary WOODS LIgnum Rhodium Sanders Red Yellow BARKS and PILLS BAy-tree Roots Cassia Lignea Cinamon Common White Citron Guaiacum Limon Orange Pippins Quinces Sassafras HEARBS ANgelica Arsmart Bay-leaves Balm or Bawm Burnet Brooklime Balsamint or Costmary Carduus Benedictus Chervile sweet Clary Calamint Cresses Water Garden Winter Bank Costmary or Balsamint Horehound white Lavender leaves Lavender Cotton Mint Speir Red Marjoram Sommer Peny Royal Rosemary Rocket Ros solâ—s Rue Sage Red Great Scurvygrasse Common Garden Stoechados Southernwood Scordium Thyme Wilde Garden Limon Tarragon Trefoil Water Valerian great Wormwood Common Romane FLOWERS COwslip Citron Camomile Elder Gilliflowers Clove Giâ—iflowers Stock three sorts Jasmine Lavender Lillium Convallium Marygold Melilot Orange Poppy Red Roses Red Damask Musk Bryer Saffron Sage Stoechas Tillia or Lindentree Thyme Garden Limon Wilde Woodbine or Honey-suckle SEEDS ANise Angelica Basil Caroway Cardamums Cresse Bank Chervile sweet Coriander Cummin Fennel sweet Grains of Paradise Mustard Radish Rocket Scurvy-grasse Garden Wormwood common FRUITS APricotes Alkerms Berries Barley Maulted Barley Maulted Cardamums Cherries Currans Forain English Cubebs Cloves Grapes Hops Juniper Berries Maces Nutmegs Pepper White Long Quinces Raspis Red Raysins sol Strawberries Saffron Walnuts green with husks Zedoary JUICES LImons Walnuts green with the Husks Others of divers kindes AMbergreese Allum Benjamin Camphire Confection of Alkermes Mithridate Musk Treakle Venice Syrup of Gilliflowers Storax Sugar of divers sorts Liquid Materials WInes of all kindes Beer and Ale After-Worts or Wash Sugar-Waters Tilts Dregs Lees or Grounds of Beer or Ale Lees of Wines Spirits of Wine Rose-water FINIS An Alphabeticall Table of all the Oils Waters Experiments and Curiosities contained in the six foregoing Bookes A. OYle of Adders 97 Quintessence of Adders 98 Air in the heat of the summer and the heat of the day to condense into water 137 The form of an Alembick 31 Oile of Amber 38 Spirit of Ambergreese 123 Oile or Butter of Antimony 70 Water of Antimony 71 Spirit Essence of Antimony 72 An Antimoniall Cup to make 165 Water of rotten Apples 24 Aqua vitae of Wine 24 Aqua vitae of Beere 25 Aqua vitae to rectifie 26 Aqua vitae Irish 45 Aqua fortis 69 Another 70 Aqua Regia Another 69 Tearms of Art Explained 8 Oile of Arsenick 68 Aurum Poâ—abile of Doctor Anthony 175 Aurum Fulmâ—nans 180 B. THe Delineation of a Balneum Mariae 21 Another 22 Another 23 A Balneum of Wood 29 Balsam of Bears Fat 97 For Baths a new Invention 152 A Hot Bath Artificiall from the same principles as the Naturall Bath is 154 Bellowes Philosophicall 150 Water of Berries 21 Oyl of Berries 35 Bezoard Water 58 Bezoard Extract 59 A dead Bird to raise to life 118 Oyl Water Magistery of Bloud 89 Oil of Bole Armoniack 79 Oil of Bones 101 Essence of mans Brains 90 Doctor Burgesse Plvgue Water 53 Burnt-root water compound 52 To purifie Butter And to make Butter tast of any Vegetable without altering its color 125 C. Oyle of Camphire severall wayes to make 37 A Candle that shall last long 148 Spirit of Castor 58 To make Cheese tast strong of any vegetable without discoloring it 125 Aqua Coelestis 46 Water against the Colâ—ck 51 Water against Convulsions 50. 51 Water of Corall 81 Water of Crabs 102 Oil of Crabs Eyes 103 Spirit of Cranium Humanum 91 D. DIstillation and its kinds 1 Vessels for Distillation 3 Rules for Distillation 12 Common distilled Waters 17 Distilling in wooden Vessels 29 To Distill Spirits of Minerals Vegetables Bones Horns c. 76 Water of Dung Doves Dung Cow Dung Horse Dung 100. 101. E. OIle Water of Egs 102 To engrave upon an Egge or Peble with wax or Grease 132 The four Elements to make appeare in a Glasse 128 Water of Elder Berries 21 Elixir Subtilitatus of Paracelsus 45 The Processe of the Elixir according to Paracelsus 188 according to Divi leschi Genus Amo 189 F. FIre to keep Fire in a Glasse that whilest the Glasse is shut will not burn but as soon as it is opened will be enflamed 144 For Fire an excellent invention 151 To make Firre trees appear in Turpentine 127 Water of Flesh 95. 96 Flesh to make Artificially 118 Water of the Spawn of Frogs simple and compound 103. 104 Furnaces the Matter and Form 2 A Furnace to distill liquor with the steam of Boyling water 20 Furnaces for four rectifications at once 28 A Furnace to distill per descensum 41 A Furnace for Reverberation 71 A Furnace that shall of it self
without any vessels to contain the matter being put into it sublime Minerals and distill all manner of Oils and Spirits 82 A lamp Furnace 146. 148 G. GLasses to nip or seal Hermetically 7 A Glasse Gourd 44 To reduce Glasse into Sand and Salt 132 Oile Tincture of Gold 166. 167. 178. 179. To make Gold grow in a Glasse 181. 182. To make Gold increase in the Earth Observations upon a Golden Marchasite 182 The vertues of the preparations of Gold 183 Oil of Gums 36. 37. H. WAter and Oil of Hair 92 Spirit of Harts-horn 91 A sudorifick of the young buds of Harts-horn 101 Harts horn seemingly to grow in a Glasse 128 To reduce the whole Hearb into a liquor 32 To make the Idea of any Hearb appear in a Glasse 32 To make the Quintâ—ssence of any Hearb 32 Homunculus of Paracelsus 114 Water Quintessence of Honey 93 Essence of Honey 94 Vinegar of Honey 95 An Hydropicall water 50 Hypocras Aromaticall 120 A Triple Hypocras bag Hypocras Wine made in an instant 121. 122 Hystericall water 61 I. OIl of Jasmine 40 Aqua Imperialis 47 Spirit of Ivory 91 K. Kunraths Aqua Magnanimitatis 99 L. WAter of Lapis Armenus 81 Oil of Lapis Calaminaris 79 Spirit of Lead 72 Spirit of Lime unstaked 80 Liquor restorative 96 Liquor thick and muddy to purifie 143 To fortifie a Loadstone that it shall be able to draw a Nail out of a peece of Wood 131 Lutes for Glasses 4 M. A Qua Magnanimitalis of Kunrath 99 Aqua Magnanimitatis another 100 Malmsey Artificiall 120 Spirit of Manna 33 Aqua Mariae 60 Mead or Metheglin to make Stale in a Fortnight 123 A Medicine that half a grain taken every morning will keep the body soluble 138 Dissolving Menstruums 44 45 Oil of Mercury To turn Mercury into water 74 Oil of Metals 71 Any Metal to melt in ones hand without burning of the hand 134 To prove what kind of Metall is in any Ore by a few grains of it 164 Water of Milk 92 Aqua Mirabilis 48 From the rays of the Moon to extract a Milkie substance 136 Mother water 61 A perpetuall Motion in a Glasse 129 Golden Mountaine to make appear in a Glasse 128 Elixir of Mummie 90 Oil of Myrrhe 38 Oil of Myrrhe per deliquium 39 O. OIls by expression Oils vomitive and purging 39 Oil per descensum 40 Oâ—ls thick black and stinking to rectifie 43 Oils of minerals to rectifie 88 Oil Olive to make smell and tast sweet 124 Oils to distill out of any Hearb Seed c. in an instant without a Furnace 140 Oil lasting and durable 149 P. PAlsey water of Matthias 56 Pearl Artificiall 132 Pectorall water 49 The form of a Pellican 27 A Perfume minerall 132 Plague water 52 To make a Plant grow in two or three Houres 126 To make the Idea of a Plant appear in a Glasse 127 A Powder that by spitting upon shall be inflamed 130 A cheap Powder like unto Aurum Fulminans 165 Purging water operating without pain 62 Q TO turn Quicksilver into water without mixing any thing withâ—t 73 To make Quick silver Malleable in 7 houres 131 R. OIl of Rosins c. 37 Retorts 64 Spirit of Roses 34 S. SPirit of Salt 63 Another 64 Salt Peter water Spirit of Salt Armoniac 65 Spirit of Salt to dulcifie 66 How two volatile Salts will be fired by joining them together 137 An observation upon the melting of Salt Armoniack and Calx vive together 165 Oil of Sand Flints c. 132 Scorbuticall water 57 Oyl of Seeds 35 The preparation of Silver A green Tincture of Silver 185 A green oil of Silver Oil of Silver per deliquium A liquor of Silver that shall make the glasse where in it is so cold that no man is able to hold his hand on it any long time 186 S. TO make Silver as white as Snow The Silver tree of Philosophers 187 A Cold Still 17 A Hot Still 25 The Smaragdine table of Hermes from whence all Alchimy did arise 191 Oil of Snakes 97 Quintessence of Snakes 98 Oil of Soot Water of Soot 41 Spirits to rectifie 42. 88. To make Steel grow in a Glasse like a Tree 134 Doctor Stephens water 48 Stone in the Kidneys a water against 54. 55. Pretious Stones Artificiall of all sorts ond colours 162 The processe of the Philosophers Stone according to Pontanus 190 A specificall Sudorifick 59 A Sudorificall water 87 Oil of Sugar 38 Sugar to refine 126 Oil of Sulphur per Campanum 67 Oil of Sulphur Essence of Sulphur 68 An observation upon the heat of the Sun and heat of the fire how they adde weight to the Metalline and Minerall bodies 135 Surfeit water 48 Water of Swallows 101 T. OIl of Talk 78. 79 Oil of Tartar per deliquium 39 Spirit of Turpentine 36 Oil of Tile stones 80 A Tincture Cordiall Stomachicall and purgative 138. 139 An observation upon the melting of Tin and Copper together 164 Liquor against the Tooth ach 62 Treacle water 60 Treacle water Camphorated of Crollius 53 Treacle Vinegar 54 To reduce distilled Turpentine into its body again 140 V. TO make a Vapour in a Chamber that he that enters into it with a Candle shall think the room on fire 130 Any Vegetable spirit to make 30 Spirit of Vegetables to make suddenly at any time of the year To make a Vegetable yeeld his Spirit quickly 31 Essence Quintessence of any Vegetable 33 Chymicall oil of any Vegetable 34 To make Vegetables yeeld their Oiles easily 36 To make a Vegetable become more glorious then any of its species 126 Water and Tincture of any Vegetable to make at the same time 141 Water against the Vertigo 51 Quintessence of Vipers Viper Wine 98 Oil or Spirit of Vitrioll 65 Oil of Vitriol 66 Spirit of Vitrioll to dulcifie 66 Liquor of Vitrioll vomitive 66 Ros Vitrioli 86 Green Oil of Vitrioll 86 Sulphur of Vitrioll 87 An Unguent that outwardly applyed will cause vomiting or loosenesse which you please 137 Vomiting water Vomiting water of Platerus 61 Spirit of Urine simple 92 Spirit of Urine compound 93 Usquebath 45 W. TO make Water in a cold Still which shall have the smell and vertue of the vegetable 17 Anotherway Another 18 To make Water at any time of the year in a cold Still without green Hearbs so that the Water shall smell strong of the Hearb 18 To make Water of Jasmine Violets c. retain the smell of the Flower 19 Water per descensum 40 Water against wormes 50 Water for wounds 55 Anatomy of Water Spagyricall 105 Sweet Water 123 Luminous Water to give light by night 129 To separate fresh Water from Salt 141 To purifie muddy Water 142 Tumbridge and Epsome Water Artificiall 160 Oil of Wax 95 Spirit of Wine to rectifie Magistery of Wine 26 Another Oil of Wine 27 Spirit of Wine to extract by Spirit of Wine Spirit of Wine very subtle at the first distilling 28 Anatomy of Wine Spagyricall 111