produce a better effect upon cold stomachs Wormwood Water the greater Composition Take of Roman and common Wormwood of each a pound Sage Mints Bawm of each two handfuls Galanga Ginger Aromarical reed Alicampane roots of each three drachms Liquoris an ounce Raisons of the Sun three ounces Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds of each six drachms Cinnamon Cloves Natmegs of each two drachms Cardamoms Cubebs of each one drachm Let the things be cut that are to be cut and the things bruised that are to be bruised all of them infused in 20. pints of Spanish wines for the space of 24. hours and then distilled in an Alembick according to 〈◊〉 and sweetned with Sugar A. This water is excellent good for cold stomachs taken with discretion helps digestion in such in whom it is weak it kills worms in the belly easeth pains in the teeth and given in convenient mixtures is profitable in feavers Angelica Water the greater Composition Take of Angelica two pounds Annis-seed half a pound Coriander Carawaies of each four ounces Zedoary bruised three ounces infuse them 24. hours in six congies of small wines then draw out the spirit and sweeten it with sugar A. It comforts the heart cherisheth the vital spirits resisteth the Pestilence and Infection Langius his Bezoar Water Take of Chelondine w th the roots three handfuls and an half Rue a handful Scordium two handfuls Dittany of Creet Carduus Benedictus of each one handful and an half Zedoary and Angelica roots of each three drachms Citron and Lemmon pils of each two drachms and an half Clove-gilliflowers Roses of each two drachms Cinnamon Cloves of each five drachms and an half Venice treacle three ounces Mithridate an ounce and an half Camphire two scruples Troches of Vipers Mace of each a drachm and an half Wood of Aloes two scruples Yellow sanders a drachm and an half Conserves of Clove-gilliflowers two ounces Carduus seeds an ounce Pouder of Electuary Liberantis five scruples Filings of Unicorns-horn or Harts horn a drachm and an half Let these Ingredients being cut and bruised be infused for three daies in the spirit of Wine and Malaga Wine of each three pound then stil'd in a Glasse-Stil in Balneo Mariae according to art After it is half stilled that which remains in the Stil may be strained through a linnen cloath and by evaporation reduced to the thicknesse of Honey and called by the name of Bezoartick Extraction After the same maner may Extractions be made of almost all Compound Waters A. Fxtracts have the same vertues with the waters they are made from only the different form is to please the quaint pallates of such whose fancy loaths any one particular form A. This Bezoar water strengtheneth the heart Arteries and spirit vital It provoketh sweat and is exceding good in pestilential feavers in health it withstands melancholly and consumptions and makes a merry blith cheerful creature Mathiolus his Bezoar Water Take of Mathiolus his great Antidote syrup of Citron pills of each one pound spirit of wine distilled five times over five pound put all these in a glasse that is much to big to hold them stop it close that the spirit fly not out then shake it together that the Electuary may be well mingled with the spirit so let it stand a month shaking it together twice a week for the Electuary will settle to the bottom The month being ended powr off the cleer water into another glasse to be kept for your use stopping it very close with wax and parchment else the strength will easily fly away in vapours A. Mathiolus is very large in commendation of this water for quoth he four drachms that is half an ounce of this water being taken either by it self or in the like quantity of good wine or any other cordial water so absolutely speedily cureth the bitings of any venemos beasts whatsoever that although the danger of death be such that the patient hath lost his speech sight almost al the rest of his sences yet wil he be roused up like a man out of his sleep to the wonderful admiration of the beholders which he saith he hath proved a thousand times It draws away poyson from the heart and cures such as have drunk poyson it casts poyson out of the stomach by vomit and helps such as have the pestilence A. For my own particular part thus much I can testify by experience in the commendations of it I have known it given in acute in peracute feavers with gallant successe as also in consumptions yea in Hecticks and in Gallens supposed Marasmos neither hath it missed the desired effects and therefore out of question it strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and the spirit vital And then your own genius will tell you this is fittest for cold complexions cold diseases and such diseases as the heart is most afflicted in Capon Water Take a Capon the bowels and fat being taken away cut him in bits and boyl him sufficiently in a sufficient quantity of water according to art Take of this broth being strained two pound and an half Borrage and Buglosse water white Wine of each one pound and an half Flowers of Roses Violets Borrage and Buglosse of each two drachms Crumbs of new bread half a pound bruised Cinnamon an ounce distil it in Glasse Still according to art A. Divers Physitians have written several recepts of this water as Gesner Andr. é Lacuna Med. Florent and Coloniens But the truth is this recept although our Physicians conceal it was borrowed from the Augustan Physitians and only because they thought as I suppose a Gapon must not be eaten without bread they added the bread to it the rest is verbatim from the Augustan Physitians A. The Simples are most of them apropriated to the heart and in truth the Composition greatly nourisheth and strengtheneth such as are in consumptions and restoreth strength lost either by feavers or other sicknesse It is a soveraign remedy for Hectick feavers and marasmos which is nothing else but a consumption coming from them let such as are subject to these diseases hold it for a Jewel Cinnamon Water Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound and an half Spanish wine 12. pints Infuse the Cinnamon in the wine 24. hours then distil them in an Alimbick draw out three pints of strong waters and small as much as you think sufficient sweeten it with sugar sufficiently and so keep it for your use A. The vertues are the same that Cinnamon it self hath to which I refer you Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound put it into a Glasse-Still powring upon it four pints of Rose water a pint and an half of Spanish wine stop the Still body close and place it in a warm bath 24. hours then put on the Still-head lute it wel and distil it according to art A. Mathiolus appoints Wine of Creet 4. pints and that is al the
the disease come daily let a spoonful to it be taken morning and evening if weekly then let it be taken only at the new and full Moon and at her quartiles to the Sun if it begin to wear away then only twice a month viz. at the new and full Moon wil suffice It profits also in time of the fit by rubbing their temples nostrils and jaws with it Aqua Hysterica Take of the Juyce of Briony roots four pints the juyce of Rue and Mugwort of each a quart dried Savin leaves three handfuls Featherfew Nep Penyroyal of each two handfuls Basil Dictamny of Creet of each a handful and an half fresh Orange pills four ounces Mirrh two ounces Castorium one ounce Canary Wine twelve pints Infuse the simples in the Wine four daies then distill them in a bath and keep the distilled water for your use When it is half stilled you may prepare an Extraction of the residue for the same use the water is A. It wonderfully prevaileth against the fits of the mother and such like diseases incident to women and is a most excellent remedy to bring away dead children and the after birth a spoonful or two of it being given and therefore let Midwives make much of it Imperial Water Take of Citron pills dried Orange pills Nutmegs Cloves Cinnamon of each two ounces Cyperus Orris Florentine Calamus Aromaticus of each an ounce Zedoary Galanga Ginger of each one ounce Tops of Rosemary Lavender of each two handfuls The leaves of Bay Marjoram Hysop Bawm Mints Sage Time of each one handful fresh Roses White and Damask of each half a handful Rosewater four pints of the best white Wine eight pints The things to be bruised being bruised let them be infused twenty four hours in a glasse Still over hot ashes and then distilled according to art A. You must distill it in a bath and not in sand It seems the Colledge were but mean practicioners in Alchymy but in this and many other recepts 〈◊〉 to that monster called Tradition therefore take this for a general Aphorisme All grosse bodies stilled in sand will stinkegregiously A. It comforts and strengthens the heart against faintings and swoonings and it is held to be a preservative against consumptions and apoplexies Bawm Water The greater Composition Take of Bawm a pound Time Penyroyal of each three drachms Cinnamon two drachms Cardamoms the lesse one drachm Grains of Paradice half an ounce Sweet Fennel seeds an ounce Nutmegs Ginger of each a drachm Galanga six drachms Calamus Aromaticus Cyprus of each a drachm and an half Dictamni half a drachm let all of them be bruised and infused in eight pints of Spanish Wine and six pints of strong Ale for 24. hours together and then distilled by an Alembick draw out of the stronger water three pints A. The Simples seem chiefly apropriated to the stomach and therfore must needs strengthens cold weak stomachs help digestion besides Authors say It restoreth memory lost quickens all the sences keeps away gray hairs and baldnesse strengtheneth the brain makes the heart cheerful and helps the lisping of the tongue easeth the pains of the teeth and causeth a sweet breath Aqua Mariae Take of Sugar Candy a pound Canary Wine six ounces Rose Water four ounces boyl them to a Syrupe to which ad Aqua Coelestis two pound Amber-greece and Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fifteen grains Yellow Sanders two drachms make of them a cleer water A. It is of more vertue than Aqua Coelestis to resist feavers to strengthen the heart to releeve Languishing nature Aqua Mirabilis Take of Cloves Galanga Cubebs Mace Gardamoms Nutmegs Ginger of each one drachm juyce of Chelondine half a pound Aqua-vitae a pound White Wine three pints or three pound which you please Infuse them twenty four hours and then draw a quart of water from them by an Alembick A. The Simples also of this regard the stomack and therefore the water heats cold stomachs besides Authors say it preserveth from Apoplexies and restoreth speech lost Rosa-Solis Take of Nutmegs Annis seeds Coriander seeds of each an ounce Galanga Ginger Cloves of each half an ounce Red-rose leaves a handful Ros-solis six handfuls Liquoris two ounces Cardamoms Zedoary Grains of Paradice Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm Yellow Sanders two drachms Red Sanders Cinnamon of each an ounce and an half Of the best Aqua-vitae twelve pints make an infusion of them for eight daies then strain it and ad to the liquor a pound and an half of Sugar A. The Basis of this medicine seems to be the herb Ros-solis which is of a drying and binding quality and apropriated to the lungues and therefore must needs be available for Phtisicks or consumptions of the lungues and because this herb provokes lust exceedingly I suppose therefore the rose leaves were added which according to Authors resist lust Dr. Stephens Water Take of Cinnamon Ginger Galanga Cloves Nutmegs Grains of Paradice seeds of Annis Fennel Caraway of each one drachm Herbs of Time Mother of Time Mints Sage Pennyroyal Pellitory of the wall Rosemary Flowers of Red roses Chemomel Origanum Lavender of each one handful infuse them twelve hours in twelve pints of Gascoign Wine then with an Alembick draw three pints of strong water from it A. Authors hold it profitable for women in labour that it provokes the terms and brings away the afterbirth Aqua Protheriacalis Take of the leaves of Scordium Scabious Carduus Benedictus Goats Rue of each two handfuls Citron pills and Orrenge pills dried of each two ounces the seeds of Citrons Carduus Hartwort Treacle Mustard of each one ounce The Flowers of Marigolds and Rosemary of each a handful Let the things to be cut be cut the things to be brused be grosly bruised and infused in four pints of White Wine and a quart of Carduus Water and being put into a convenient glasse digested either by the heat of the sun or of the fire certain daies often shaking it Then distilled in Balneo Mariae reserve the two first pints by it self the remainder by it self at last with every pound mix an ounce of Julapium Alexandrinum and a spoonfull of Cinnamon Water It is not bid from our eyes that there are very many Simples in the Composition̄ of Treacle the vertues of which cannot be exactly drawn out by distillation in Balneo Mariae and therefore we of purpose subscribed this that the rational Physitian may at the time of giving it appoint Treacle or Diascordium or any convenient syrup notwithstanding lest we should seem different from all we have added on recept of Treacle water by distillation A. Aqua Protheriacalis signifies a Water for Treacle so then if you put Diascordium to it it is a water for Diascordium well then we will take it for a general water for all Physick Aqua Theriacalis by infusion Take of the best distilled Wine Wine
of the Sun Tamarinds Liquoris of each half an ounce Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds of each two drachms in Summer time ad of the four greater cold seeds of each two drachms of each of three of the cordial Flowers a pugil and an half boyl these in two pints of water till half be consumed A. This was Guainerius his recept whose works I neither have nor know where to borrow and therefore I can give you no other vertues of this Medicine than what the title affords it is a composition which with addition of other Medicines is fit for every thing but in it self is good for little A Decoction of Epithimum Mesue Take of Indian Myrabolans Stoechas of Arabia Raisons of the Sun Epithimum or Doddar of time of each an ounce Myrabolans chebs Fumitory of each half an ounce Senna an ounce Polypodium of the Oak six drachms White Turbith half an ounce Eupatorium five drachms Whey made of Goats or Heifers milk three pints let them all the Epithimum excepted boyl to the consumption of two pints then ad the Epithimum let it boyl a little together and having taken it from the fire ad to it black Hellebore a drachm Agrick half a drachm Sal Indi a drachm and an half let it stand close stopped in infusion eight or ten hours then strain it for your use A. It purgeth melancholly gallantly as also addust Choller It resisteth madnesse and all diseases coming of melancholly and therefore let melancholly people esteem it as a Jewel A Decoction of Flowers and Fruits Take five Figs fifteen Prunes Jujubes and Sebestens of each twenty Tamarinds an ounce the flowers of Roses Violets Borrage Buglos of each a drachm Maidenhair Hops Endive of each half a handful Liquoris two drachms being cut and bruised boyl them in three pints of spring water to the consumption of the third part A. It strengthens the lungues and opens obstructions A Pectoral Decoction Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned an ounce Sebesten Jujubes of each 15. Dates 6. Figs 4. French-Barly an ounce Liquoris half an ounce Maiden hair Hysop Scabious Coltsfoot of each half a handful cut them and boyl them in three pints of spring water till one pint be consumed A. The Medicine is chiefly apropriated to the lungues and therefore causeth a cleer voyce a long wind resisteth Coughs hoarsness Asthmaes c. A Decoction of Senna Take of Senna two ounces an half Ginger a drachm The flowers of Borrage Violets red Roses Rosemary-flowers of each 2. drams Polipodium of the Oak half an ounce Sebesten Prunes of each 12. Raisons of the Sun stoned two ounces make a decoction of them in four pints of spring water till half be consumed yet so as the Senna may boyl but little let it stand off from the fire close stopped six hours after it is boyled then strain it out for your use A. It is a common decoction for any purge by adding other Simples or Compounds to it according to the quality of the humour you would have purged yet in it self it chiefly purgeth melancholly Lac Virgineum Take of Allum four ounces boyl it in a quart of spring water to the third part Afterwards Take of Litharge half a pound white wine Vineger a pint and an half boyl it to a pint strain both the waters then mix them together and stir them about till they are white A. It takes away pimples redness freckles and sunburning the face being washed with it A Drink for wounded men Take of Crabs of the river calcined and beaten into very fine pouder two drachms the roots of round Aristolochiah and of Comfry the greater Self-heal Bay-berries lightly bruised of each a drachm ty them all up in a linnen cloath and boyl them in three pints of white Wine till the third part be consumed adding about the middle of the decoction one pugil of Perewincles then strain it for your use This decoction must be prepared only for the present when the Physitian appoints it as also must almost all the rest of the decoctions A. And therefore least my poor wounded Country man should perish for want of an angel to fee a Physitian or if he have it before the Physitian which in some places is very remote can come at him I have taken the pains to write the recept in his own mother tongue he may get any friend to make it SYRVPS BOTH SIMPLE AND COMPOVND WHICH ARE IN USE Syrup of Vineger Simple of London TAke of white Sugar five pound White-Wine-Vineger a quart melt them into a Syrup according to art A. That is Only melt the Sugar with the Vineger over the fire scum it but boyle it not Syrup of Vineger Simple of Mesue Take of White Sugar five pound Cleer Water sour pints boyl it into a Syrup scumming it well then put a quart of Vineger to it and boyl it again to a Syrup A. Of these two Syrups let every one use which he finds by experience to be best the difference is but little I hold the last to be the best of the two and would give my reasons for it but that I fear the Book will swell too big They both of them cut flegm as also tough hard viscous humours in the stomach they cool the body quench thirst provoke urine and prepare the stomach before the taking of a vomit Syrup of Vineger Compound Mesue Take of the roots of Smallage Fennel and Endive of each three ounces the seeds of Smallage Fennel Annis of each one ounce Endive seeds half an ounce Clear Water six pints boyl them in a vessel well glazed over a gentle fire till half the water be consumed then strain it and ad to it three pound of Sugar clarify it and then ad a pint and an half of white-wine-Vinegar to it and boyl it to a syrup A. This in my opinion is a gallant syrup for such whose bodees are stuffed either with flegm or tough 〈◊〉 for it opens obstructions or stoppings both of the stomach liver spleen and reins it cuts and brings away tough flegm and choller and is therefore a special remedy for such as have a stuffing at their stomach Syrup of the juyce of Citrons Mesue Take of the juyce of Citrons strained without expression and clarified a pint Sugar two pound and an half melt it into a syrup over the fire A. It prevails against all diseases proceeding from choller or heat of blood feavers both pestilential and not pestilential it resisteth poyson cools the blood quencheth thirst cureth the vertigo or dissines in the head After the same manner is made syrup of sour Grapes Cherries Quinces Pomegranates Lemmons Wood-Sorrel Sorrel English Currance and other sour juyces clarified A. If you look the Simples you may see the vertues of them they all cool and comfort the heart and strengthen the stomach syrup of Quinces staies vomiting so doth also
syrup of Grapes Syrup of Betony Simple Take of the juyce of Betony clarified three pound white Sugar three pound boyl them to a Syrup After the same manner is made syrup of the juyces of Borrage Bugloss Carduns benedictus Chamomel Endive Succory Strawberries Fumitory Alehoof St. Johns Wort Hops Mercury Plantane Apples Scabious Coltsfoot 〈◊〉 or Pauls Bettony A. Reader before we passe any further I thought good to advertise thee of these few things which indeed I had inserted at the beginning of the surups had I not forgotten it A. 1. A syrup is a Medicine of a liquid body compounded of decoction infusion or juyce with Sugar or hony and brought by the heat of the fire into the thicknesse of hony A. 2. Because all hony is not of a thicknesse understand new hony which of all other is thinnest A. 3. The reason why decoctions infusions and juyces are thus used is because thereby 1. They will keep the longer 2. They will tast the better A. 4 In boyling syrups have a great care of their just consistence for if you boyl them too much they will candy if too little they will sour A. 5. All Simple syrups have the vertues of the simples they are made of and are far more convenient for weak people and queazy stomachs Syrup of Bettony compound Take of Betony three handfuls Marjoram a handful and an half Time Roses of each a handful Violets Staechas Sage of each half a handful the seeds of Fennel Annis Bishopsweed of each half an ouuce the roots of Peony Polipodium and Fennel of each five drachms boyl them in six pints of water till half be consumed strain it and ad to the decoction Juyce of Bettony a quart Sugar three pound and an half boyl them into a syrup according to art A. It helps diseases coming of cold both in the head and stomach as also such as come of wind vertigoes madness it concocts melancholly it provokes the terms in women and so doth the Simple syrup more than the Compound A. This composition was borrowed word for word from the Augustan Physitians though our Physitians absconded it contrary to their promise in the epistle to the reader Syrupus Bizantinus Simple Mesue Take of the juyce of Endive and Smallage of each a quart Juyce of Hops and Buglosse of each a pint boyl them and clarifie them then to four pound of Juyces remaining ad four pound of the best Sugar boyling it to a syrup over agentle fire Syrupus Bizantinus Compound Mesue In four pound of the same Juyces as they are set down in the Simple syrup boyl red Rose leaves two ounces Liquoris half an ounce the seeds of Annis Fennel Smallage of each three drachms Spicknard two drachms strain it and ad to the decoction a quart of Vineger Sugar four pound boyl it to a syrup according to art A. They both of them viz. both Simple and Compound opens stopping in the stomach cuts and brings away tough flegm and helps the yellow Jaundice Mesue saith the Compound syrup is of more effect than the Simple for the same uses Syrup of Quinces Mesue Take of the Juyce of Quinces six pound boyl it over a gentle fire till half be consumed scumming it well then add to it three pints of red Wines four pound of Sugar boyl it again to the consistence of a syrup into which put a drachm and an half of Cinnamon Cloves and Ginger of each two scruples tied up in a fine linnen cloath and hung into the syrup A. It strengthens the stomach and retains the food in it It staies vomiting it stops the loosness of the belly and helps the bloody flux it stoppeth the immoderate flux of the terms in women and is a gallant astringent medicine no lesse pleasant then profitable Syrup of Fumitory the Compund Fernelius Take of Endive Roman Wormwood Hops Dodder Harts tongue of each a handful Epithimum or Dodder of Time an ounce and an half boyl them in four pints of water till half be consumed to the liquor being strained out ad of the juyce of Fumitory clarified a pint and an half of the juyce of both sorts of Buglosse of each half a pint white Sugar four pound boyl it into a syrup according to art A. The recept is a pretty concocter of melancholly and therefore a rational help for diseases 〈◊〉 thence both internal and external It helps diseases of the skin as Leprosies Cancers Warts Corns Itch Tetters Ringworms Scabs c. and it is the better to be liked because of its gentleness for in my experience I could never find a violent medicine do good but ever harm in a melancholly disease It also strengthens the stomach and liver opens obstructions and is a soveraign remedy for Hypochondriack melancholly Syrup of Purslain Mesue Take of the seeds of Purslain grosly bruised half a pound of the juyce of Endive boyled and clarified two pound Sugar two pound Vinegar nine ounces infuse the seeds in the juyce of Endive twenty four hours afterwards boyl it half away with a gentle fire then strain it and boyl it with the Sugar to the consistence of a syrnp adding the Vineger towards the latter end of the decoction A. It is a pretty cooling syrup fit for any hot diseases incident to the stomach reins bladder matrix or liver it thickens flegm cools the blood and provokes sleep Compound Syrup of Coltsfoot Renodaeus Take six handfuls of green Coltsfoot two handfuls of Maiden-hair one handful of Hysop and two ounces of Liquoris boyl them in four pints either of rain or spring water till the fourth part be consumed then strain it and clarifie it to which ad three pound of white Sugar boyl it to the perfect consistence of a syrup A. The composition is apropriated to the lungues and therefore helps the infirmities weaknesses or failings thereof as want of voyce difficulty of breathing coughs hoarsness cathars c. Julep of Alexandria Take of red Rose water four pints Sugar two pound make a Julep of them according to art Julep of Roses Mesue Ad three pound of Rose water to three pound of Sugar and boyl them to a Julep according to art Julep of Violets is made after the same manner A It is confessed both Arabian and Graecian Physitians have written of these Juleps they are fine cooling drinks in the heat of Summer for such as are rich and have nothing else to do with their mony Oxysaxccharum symplex Nicholaus Take of white Sugar a pound of the juyce of Pomegranates eight ounces white wine Vineger four ounces boyl them into a syrup with a gentle fire A. Whether it were Nicholaus Monardus or Nicholaus Myrepsus that wrote this recept or any other Nicholas I know not neither have I time to look but if you would know the vertues of it look the vertues of Pomegranates amongst the Simples and you have it Syrup of Maiden-hair Mesue Take of Liquoris two ounces
Maiden-hair five ounces infuse them in four pints of spring water boyl them gently strain the decoction strongly and with a pound and an half of white Sugar boyl it unto a syrup according to art A. It opens stoppings of the stomach strengthens the 〈◊〉 and helps the infirmities of them Syrup of Cinnamon Take of Cinnamon grosly bruised four ounces infuse it in a pint of white wine for three daies in a glasse by a gentle heat then having strained out the Cinnamon ad to it a pound and an half of white sugar boyl it gently to a syrup A. It hath the same vertues with Cinnamon water and being not so hot must needs be far better for hot bodies After the same manner may be made syrup of Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds Ginger Cloves Nutmegs c. A. If any will be so nice to make such 't is but veiwing the Simples and there you have the vertues of them Syrup of Corrall Simple Take of Red Corral finely poudered as much as you will dissolve it in a glasse in Balneo Mariae in such a quantity of the clarified juyce of Barberries that the juyce may swim above it the breath of four fingers stopping the glasse cloose with cork or wax when it hath stood in the glasse three daies pour off what is dissolved and pour in fresh juyce of Barberries clarified set it in the bath again till all the Correl be dissolved Then to one pound of this juyce ad one pound of Sugar and boyl it to the consistence of a syrup but in the Preparation of this Syrup it requireth a great deal of skill and dexterity lest you er Syrup of Corral Compound Take of Red Corral six ounces bring it into a pouder by grinding it upon a marble with a little rose water Then add to it Juyce of Lemmons clarified from the flegm in Balneo Mariae sixteen ounces juyce of Barberries clarified eight ounces sharp wine Vineger juyce of wood Sorrel clarified of each six ounces digest them in a bath or else in horsedung eight daies in a large glasse stopped close with cork and bladder shaking it every day then let it run through a brown paper of which take a pound and an half juyce of Quinces half a pound Sugar of Roses twelve ounces mix them all together and with the gentle heat of a bath draw off the superfluous liquor till it be left of the consistence of a Syrup to which ad Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers sixteen ounces together with half a drachm of Amber greece and four grains of Musk tied up in a cloath and hung into the glasse by a string A. Syrup of Corral both Simple and compound restore such as are in consumptions are of a gallant cooling nature especially the last and very cordial special good for Hectick feavers it stops fluxes the running of the reins and the whites in women helps such as spit blood and such as have the falling sicknesse it staies the terms in women and indeed it had need be good for something for it is exceeding costly Syrup of the Infusion of Clove-Gilliflowers Take a pound of Clove-Gilliflowers the white being cut off infuse them at 3. times in three pints of spring water al night afterwards with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art A. Which if you do it will be scarce worth your labour but will lose both colour and tast and by consequence vertue in boyling and then the Colledg themselves would say 't is naught for in all syrups which you would have keep colour of which this is one add two pound of Sugar to each pint of insusion and only melt it over the fire in a peuter vessel and I assure you if in prescribing this and many other medicines the Colledg did make use of the ablest Apothecaries for the manner of composition of the medicines either the ablest were very weak or very negligent but enough of this A. The Syrup is a fine temperate syrup it strengthens the heart liver and stomach it refresheth the vital spirits and is a good cordial in feavers Syrup of Citron pills Mesue Take of the thin outward pills of Citrons dried five ounces of the berries of Kermes or the juyce of them brought over from beyond sea two drachms spring water four pints set them in infufiou all night and the next morning boyl it till half be consumed strain it and add to the decoction two pound and an half of very good sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art which perfume with six grains of the best Musk wrapped up in fine linnen and hung into the syrup by a string A. It strengthens the stomach resists poyson strengthens the heart and refists the passions thereof palpitation faintings swoonings It strengthens the vital spirit restores such as are in consumptions and hectick feavers and strengthens nature much Syrup of Water-Lillie-flowers Simple Nicholaus Take of the whitest part of White-water-Lilly-flowers a pound infuse them for seven hours in three pound of warm water then boyl it a little and strain it and add the like quantity of fresh flowers use them in like manner as you did the former repeat this infusion three times then clarifie the infusion and having added the like quantity of sugar to it boyl it into a syrup according to art Syrup of Water-lillie-flowers the Compound Fernelius Take of Water-lillie-flowers half a pound the flowers of Violets two ounces Lettice two handfuls the seeds of Lettice Purslain and Gourds of each half an ounce boyl all these in four pints of water to the consumption of one pint and having strained it ad to the decoction Red Rose Water half a pint White Sugar four pound boyl it to a Syrup according to art A. They both are fine cooling Syrups they allay the heat of choller and provoke sleep they cool the body both head heart liver reins and matrix and therefore are profitable for hot diseases in either Syrup of Meconium Mesue A. Meconium The blush of which this Receipt carries in its frontispice is nothing else but the juyce of English Poppies boyled til it be thick as I am of opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of Poppies growing in hotter countries and therefore in al reason is colder in quality and therefore I speak purely of Meconium and Opium not of these Syrups though they be no edge-tools yet t is ill jesting with them Take of the heads of white Poppies meanly ripe and green eight ounces of the heads of black Poppies meanly ripe and green six ounces rain-Rain-water four pints boyl them in the water til half of it be consumed then strain it and with fixteen ounces of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art and when you have done so you may use it if you please for Diacodium Syrup of 〈◊〉 the lesser Composition Take the heads of white Poppies and black when both of
them are green of each six ounces the seeds of Lettice the flowers of Violets of each one ounce boyl them in eight pints of water till the vertue is out of the heads then strain them and with four pound of Sugar boyl the liquor to a Syrup Syrup of Popplyes the greater Composition Mesue Take of the heads of both white and black Poppies seeds and all of each 50. drachms Maiden-hair 15. drachms Liquoris 5. drachms Jujubies 30. by number Lettice seeds 40. drachms of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces tied up in a thin linnen cloath of each a drachm and an an half boyl these in eight pints of water til five pints be consumed when you have strained out the three pints remaining add to them Penidies and White Sugar of each a pound boyl them into a Syrup according to art A. All these former Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness such as these are are not fit to be given in the beginnings of Feavers nor to such whose bodies are costive ever remēber my former Motto Fools are not fit to make Physitians Yet to such as are troubled w th hot sharp Rheums you may safely give them and note this the last which is borrowed from Mesue is apropriated to the Lungus whose own words translation excepted of it are these It prevails against dry coughs Phtisicks hot and sharp gnawing Rhewms and provokes sleep Syrups of Red or Erratick Poppies A. by many called Corn-Roses Tak of flowers of red Poppies two pound infuse them 24. hours in four pints of spring water and with three pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. Some are of opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other beleeve them that list I know no danger in this syrup so it be taken with moderation and bread immoderatly taken hurts the syrup cools the blood helps surfets and may safely be given in Frenzies Feavers and hot agues Syrup of Peach flowers Take of fresh Peach-flowers a pound infuse them in three pints of warm water for the space of twelve hours then let them boyl a little and presse them out adding the like quantity of Peach-flowers and use them as the former do so five times at last to three pound of the infusion add two pound and an half of Sugar boyl it to a syrup A. It is a gentle purger of choller and may be given even in feavers to draw away the sharp chollerick humors according to the opinion of Andernacus whose recept all things considered differs little from this Syrup of dried Roses Mesue Take four pound of spring water in which being warm infuse a pound of dried red Rose leaves for the space of twenfour hours then presse them out and with two pound of white sugar boyl the infusion to a syrup A. I pray take a caution or two a long with you concerning this syrup and there is need enough unlesse it were penned more wisely than it is A. 1. You cannot infuse all the rose leaves at one time because there will not be water enough to wet them hardly you must then infuse them at diverse A man had need have a head as deep as a Colepit to reach their meaning in some of their recepts A. 2. If you boyl it it will lose both color and vertue and then who but the Colledg would first cry out against such paltry stuff I am weary with noting this in every receit therefore be pleased to accept of this one general rule It is not best to boyl any syrup made of infusions but by adding the double weight of Sugar viz. two pound of Sugar to each pint of Infusion melt it over a fire only A. Syrup of dried Roses strengthens the heart comforts the spirits bindeth the body helps fluxes and corrosions or gnawings of the guts it strengthens the stomach and staies vomiting Syrup of Roses Solutive Mesue Take of the infusions of Rofes made with fresh Damask Roses let the infusion be repeated nine times let it be made in that proportion that one pound of Rose flowers may be infused in four pints of water and those being taken out infuse as many more in the same water do so nine times six pound with four pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It loosneth the belly and gently bringeth out choller and flegm Syrup of Roses with Agrick Take of choice Agrick sliced thin an ounce Ginger sliced two drachms Sal gem one drachm Polipodium grosly bruised two ounces sprinkle them with white Wine then infuse them two daies in such infusion of damask Roses as you were taught to make the former receit a pound and an half warm by the fire then presse it out and with one pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art A. You had better ad twice so much Sugar as is of the infusion for fear the strength of the Agrick be lost in boyling A. It purgeth flegm from the head releeves the sences oppressed by it it provokes the terms in women It purgeth the stomach and liver and provoketh urine Syrup of Roses Solutive with Hellebore Montanus Take of the bark of all the Myrobalans of each four ounces bruise them grosly and infuse them in twelve pints of the infusion of Roses before prescribed 24. hours adding of Senna Epithimum and Polipodium of the Oak of each four ounces Cloves an ounce Citron seeds liquoris of each four ounces of the bark of black Hellebore roots six drachms boyl them all to the consumption of the fourth part to which ad five pound of white Sugar choice Rhubarb tied up in a linnen cloath sixteen drachms boyl them into a syrup according to art A. You must not boyl the black Hellebore at al or but very little if you do you had as good put none in me thinks the Colledg should have had either more wit or honesty than to have left recepts so woodenly penned to posterity or it may be they wrote as they say only to the learned or in plain English for their own ends or to satisfie their covetousness that a man must needs run to them every time his finger akes A. The Syrup rightly used purgeth melancholly resisteth madnesse Syrup of Violets Take of pick'd Violet flowers a pound Spring water heat hot a pound and an half or else a sufficient quantity infuse the Violets in the water let it stand warm and close stopped 24. hours then presse them very hard out and to one pound of the expression add two pound of fine Sugar only dissolve the Sugar and so keep the Syrup for your use Syrup of the juyce of Violets Make it up with just so much juyce of the flowers of violets as will dissolve the Sugar into a Syrup without boyling A. Which is two pound of Sugar to one pound of Juyce A. This latter Syrup is far more chargable than the
former and in all reason the better although I never knew it used they both of them cool and moisten and that very gently they correct the sharpness of choller and give ease in hot vices of the breast they quench thirst in acute feavers and resist the heat of the disease they comfort hot stomachs exceedingly cool the liver and heart and resist putrifaction pestilence and poyson COMPOUND SYRUPS WHOSE SIMPLES ARE NOT IN USE Syrup of Wormwood Mesue Take of Roman Wormwood half a pound red Rose leaves two ounces Indian spicknard three drachms old white Wine juyce of Quinces of each two pound and an half infuse them 24. hours in an earthen vessel then boyl them till half be consumed strain out the decoction and with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art A. Mesue is followed verbatim in this and the recept is apropriated to cold and flegmatick stomachs and in my opinion 't is an admirable remedy for it for it strengthens both stomach and liver as also the instruments of concoction a spoonful taken in the morning is admirable for such as have a weak digestion it provokes an Appetite to ones victuals it prevails against the yellow Jaundice breaks wind purgeth humors by urine Syrup of Marsh-Mallows Fernelius Take of Marsh-Mallow roots two ounces red Cicers an ounce the roots of Grasse Sparagus and Liquoris Raisons of the sun stoned of each half an ounce the branches of Marsh-mallows pellitory of the wall Burnet Plantane Maiden-hair both white and black of each a handful of the four greater and four lesser cold seeds of each three drachms boil them in six pints of water till only four remain to which ad four pounds of Sugar and boil it to a syrup A. It is a fine cooling opening slippery syrup and chiefly commendable for the chollick stone or gravel in the kidnies or bladder A. I shall only give you a caution or two concerning this syrup which for the forenamed effects I hold to be exceellent A. 1. Be sure you boyl it enough for if you boyl it never so little too little it will quickly be sour A. 2. For the chollick which is nothing else but an infirmity in the gut called Colon and thence it takes its name you had best use it in Clisters but for gravel or the stone drink it in convenient midicines or by it self If both of them afflict you use it both waies I assure you this midicine will save those that are subject to such diseases both mony and pain Syrup of Mugwort Matheus De Grad Take of Mugwort two handfuls Penyroyal Chamomel Origanum Bawm Ars-smart Dittany of Creet Savin Marjoram Germander St. Johns Wort Chamepytis Featherfew with flowers Centaury the lesse Rue Bettony Buglosse of each one handful the roots of Fennel Smalledge Parsly Sparagus Bruscus Saxifrage Alicampane Cyperus Madder Orris Peony of each an ounce Juniper berries the seeds of Lovage Parsly Small age Annis Nigella Carpobal samum or Cubebs Costus or Zedoary the roots of Asarabacca and Pellitory of Spain Cassia Lignea Cardamoms Calamus Aromaticus Valerian of each half an ounce Let these being bruised be infused for 24. hours in twelve pints of water afterwards boyled till half the water be consumed when it is pretty cool strain it and ad to the decoction Honey and sugar of each two pound sharp vineger four ounces boyl them into a syrup perfuming it with Cinnamon and Spicknard of each three drachms tied up in a rag and boyled a little in the syrup A. It helps the passions of the matrix and retains it in its place it dissolves the coldness wind and pains thereof it strengthens the nerves opens the pores corrects the blood it corrects and provokes the terms in women Syrupus Augustanus Or Syrup of Rhubarb of the Augustane Physitians Take of the best Rhubarb of Senna of each two ounces and an half Violet flowers a handful Cinnamon a drachm and an half Ginger half a drachm the waters of Betony Succory and Bugloss of each a pound and an half infuse them all night in the morning strain it and boyl it into a Syrup with two pound of white Sugar adding to it four ounces of the Syrup of Roses solutive following A. It cleanseth Choller and Melancholly very gently and therefore is fit for children old people and weak bodies Syrup of Roses solutive without Helibore Take of all the Myrobalans of each two ounces bruise them grolly rub them with a little oyl of sweet Almonds then infuse them in fifteen pound of infusion of Roses for 24. hours space then add to them Polypodium two ounces and an half the seeds of Carthamus or bastard Saffron an ounce and an half Annis sweet Fennel seeds of each six drachms Senna three ounces Epithimum an ounce and an half Citron pills an ounce Cloves half an ounce Nutmegs three drams infuse them again 24. hours which being elapsed strain them hard and ad one pound of sugar to every two pound of the liquor boyl it into a syrup This is the syrup which should be added to the former Syrup of Rhubarb Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb Take of whol Barley the roots of Smallage Fennel Sparagus of each two ounces Succory Dandelion Endive smooth Sow-thistle of each two handfuls Lettice Liverwort Fumatory tops of Hops of each a handful both sorts of Maiden-hair Cetrach Liquoris winter-Cherries Dodder of each six drachms boyl them in 12. pints of spring-spring-water til the third part be consumed then strain it and with six pound of Sugar boyl it to a syrup in which whilst it is bovling hang by a string six ounces of Rhubarb six drams of Spicknard tied up in a rag let it boyl a walm or two pressing it often and let it hang into the syrup perfectly boyled A. This Recept without a name was borrowed from Nicholaus Floâ— entinus the difference is only in the quantity of the Rhubarb and Spike besides the order inverted whose own approbation of it runs in these terms A. It cleanseth the body of venemous humors as Boyles Carbuncles and the like it prevails in pestilential Feavers it strengthens the heart and nutritive vertue purgeth by stool and urine it makes a man have a good stomach to his meat and provokes sleep A. But by my Authors leave I never yet accounted purges to be proper physick in Pestilential Feavers this I beleeve the Syrup cleanseth the liver well and is exceeding good for such as are troubled with Hypocondriack melancholly Syrupus Diasereos Andernacus Take of Endive and Succory of each a handful Maiden-hair both white and black Agrimony Cetrach Hops Fumitory of each half a handful winter Cherries Doddar of each three drachms The roots of Smalledg Fennel Sparagus of each half an ounce Polipodium of the Oak an ounce Liquoris six drachms the seeds of Bastard Safiron or Carthamus an ounce the four greater cold seeds of each two drachms French Barly
a pugil of seeds of Endive and Succory of each a drachm and an half Raisons of the sun an ounce Damask Prunes twenty The flowers of Borrage Buglosse Violets of each a pugil Myrobalans Citrons and Chebs of each an ounce and an half boyl them all in water till the third part be boyled away then in a pint and half of this decoction infuse all night Rubarb two ounces and an half Agrick Trochiscated an ounce Senna an ounce and an half Ginger Cinnamon of each a drachm strain it the second time and with a pound of the best Sugar and 3. ounccs of syrup of Roses solutive boile it gently to a syrup A. It purgeth choller and openeth obstructions in the bowels kills worms but let it not be given in feavers Syrup of Epithimum Mesue Take of Epithimum twenty drachms Myrobalans Citrons and Indian of each 15. drachms Doddar Fumitory of each ten drachms Time Calaminth Buglosse Staechas Liquoris Polipodium Agrick Myrobalans Emblicks and Belliricks of each six drachms red Roses sweet Fennel seeds and Annis seeds of each two drachms and an half sweet Prunes 20. Raisons of the sun the stones picked out four ounces Tamarinds two ounces and an half after they have been infused 24. honrs boil them in ten pints of water till four pints be consumed then let it be strained and ad to the decoction white Sugar five pounds boyl it to a syrup A. It is best to put in the Doddar Stoechas and Agrick towards the latter end of the decoction A. This recept was Mesue's only in stead of five pound of sugar Mesue appoints four pound of Sugar and two pound of Sapa the making of which shall be shewed in its proper place and truly of my opinion the recepts of Mesue are generally the best in al the Dispensatory because the simples are so pertinent to the purpose intended they are not made up of a messe of hodg-podg as many others are but to the purpose A. It purgeth melancholly and other humors it strengthens the stomach and liver cleanseth the body of addust choller and addust blood as also of salt humors and helps diseases proceeding from these as scabs itch tetters ringworms leprosie c. and the truth is I like it the better for its gentlenesse for I never fancied violent medicines in melancholly diseases Syrup of Eupatorium or Maudlin Mesue Take of the roots of Smallage Fennel and Succory of each two ounces Liquoris Schaenanth Dodder Wormwood Roses of each six drachms Maiden hair Bedeguar or instead thereof the roots of Carduus Mariae Suchaha or instead thereof the roots of Avens the flowers or roots of Buglosse Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds Ageratum or Maudlin of each five drachms Rhubarb Mastich of each three drams Spicknard Indian leaf or instead of it put Roman Spike of each two drachms boyl them in eight pints of water till the third part be consumed then strain the decoction and with four pound of Sugar clarified juyce of Smallage and Endive of each half a pound boil it into a syrup A. 'T is a strange clause and the stranger because it comes from a Colledg of Physitians that they should set Bedeguar or instead thereof Cardnus Mariae It is well known that the Bedeguar used here with us or rather that which the Physitians of our times use for Bedeguar is a kind of wild Rose but the Bedeguar of the Arabians was Cardnus Mariae and they knew well enough Mesue whose recept this was was an Arabian truly this is just as though they should say they would have ten shillings for a visit or instead of that an angel there being in deed and in truth as much difference between Bedeguar and Carduus-Mariae as between eight-pence and two groats A. It amends infirmities of the liver coming of cold opens obstructions helps the dropsie and evil state of the body it extenuates grosse humors strengthens the liver provokes urine and is a present succor for hypocondriack melancholly Syrup of Liquoris Mesue Take of green Liquoris scraped and bruised two ounces white Maiden-hair an ounce dried Hysop half an ounce Infuse them together for the space of 24. hours in four pints of warm rain water then boyl it till half the water be consumed strain the decoction and clarifie it and with eight ounces of honey and sixteen ounces of sugar boyl it to a syrup adding toward the latter end of the decoction six ounces of red rose water A. It cleanseth the breast and lungues and helps continuall coughs and Pleuresies Syrup of Hysop Mesue Take of spring water eight pints in which boyl half an ounce of French Barly the space of half an hour then put in the roots of Smallage Parsly Fennel Liquoris of each ten drachms let these boyl very gently about a quarter of an hour then add Jujubes and Sebestens of each thirty Raisons of the sun stoned an ounce and an half dry Figs and Dates of each ten afterwards put in the seeds of Mallows Quinces and Gum Traganth tied up in a linnen rag of each three drachms afterwards put in of Hysop meanly dried ten drachms Maiden hair six drachms boyl it to three pints and having clarified the decoction with two pound and an half of sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It mightily strengthens the breast and lungues causeth long wind cleer voyce is a good remedy against coughs Syrup of Jujubes Mesue Take of Jujubes sixty Violets and Mallow seeds of each five drachms Maiden hair Liquoris and French-Barly of each an ounce the seeds of white Poppies Mallows Lettice and Quinces Gum Traganth tied up in a rag of each three drachms boyl them in six pints of rain or spring water till half be consumed strain it and with two pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It is a fine cooling syrup very available in coughs hoarsness and pleurefies ulcers of the lungues and bladder as also in all inflamations whatsoever Syrup of Chamepitys or Iva Arthritica Take of Chamepitys two handfuls Sage Rosemary Darnel Origanum Calaminth wild Mints Peny-royal Hysop Time Garden and Wild Rue Betony and Mother of Time of each a handful the roots of Acorus Aristolochia or Birth wort both long and round Briony Dictamni Gentian Hogs-Fennel Valerian of each one ounce and an half the roots of Smallage Sparagus Fennel Parsly Bruscus of each one ounce Stoechas the seeds of Annis Bishops weed Caraway Fennel Lovage Hartwort of each three drachms Pellitory of Spain half an ounce Raisons of the Sun three ounces boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water and with hony and sugar of each two pounds prepare it and perfume it with Cinnamon Nutmegs and Cubebs according to art A. The Anthor is here concealed neither do I remember that ever I read it in any other or ever knew it made I know not the meaning of that word sufficient quantity of water nor how much it
must be boyled to here wants both the terminus a quo and the terminus ad quem as also the quantity of the Aromaticks so that if it had not been signed by the Colledge I should have thought it had been a pure piece of non-sense I would modestly desire the Colledg to look back to their Epistle to the Reader wherein they shall find that they have promised but how truly performed in this and others let themselves judg to appoint a certain measure or weight in all compositions which ought not to be added to nor taken from and their reason is very commendable viz. that the same medicines in all shops might have the same operation as being the self same composition ad unguem that so the Physitian may know what to prescribe but why this and others are not so I dare not say it was negligence for then I should offend the Colledg I dare not say it was forgetfulness for that ought not to be in a Physitian much lesse in a Colledg well then I know not what to say and so I leave it A. When I look upon the Simples me thinks the composition if it be any thing handsomly made is opening expels wind provokes the terms in women hastens the afterbirth and is very profitable for such women as are not well cleansed after labour A Magisterial Syrup against Melancholly Take of the Juyce of those sweet sented Apples which we in England usually call Permains a pound and an half the juyce of Borrage and Bugloss of each nine ounces choice Senna half a pound Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each three drachms Epithimum of Creet two ounces of the best Agrick and Rhubarb of each half an ounce Ginger Mace of each four scruples Cinnamon two scruples Saffron half a drachm Let the Agrick Senna seeds Ginger Mace and Epithimum be grosly bruised and cut and so infused in the juyces for the space of 24. hours then let them boyl over a gentle fire till the scum riseth then strain them through Hippocrates his sleeve to the decoction ad a pound and an half of white Sugar boyl them according to art scumming them al the while to the consistence of a syrup whilst it boyls let the Saffron being tied up in a linnen rag be often crushed into it then let the Rhubarb being sliced thin and the Cinnamon which ought to be ready infused all this while in white Wine and the juycs of the Apples of each two ounces and now strongly pressed out be mixed with it warm them a little together by the fire for the syrup A. Out of doubt this is a gallant syrup to purge addust choller and melancholly and to resist madnesse Syrup of Bawm Fernelius Take of the Roots of Dittany Cinkfoil Bettony Doronicum of each half an ounce The leaves of Bawm Scabious Devils bit the flowers of both sorts of Bugloss and Rosemary of each a handful the seeds of Citrons Sorrel Fennel Carduus Benedictus Bazil of each three drachms boyl these in four pints of water till two be consumed strain out the decoction and ad to it three pound of white Sugar juyce of Bawm and Rose water of each half a pound boyl them into a syrup which perfume with Cinnamon and yellow Sanders of each half an ounce A. Alwaies tie perfumes up in a rag and hang them into the syrup by a string when it boyls and hang them by a string in the vessel be it pot or glasse that you keep the syrup in being boyled A. It is an excellent cordial and strengthens the heart breast and stomach it resisteth melancholly revives the spirits is given with good successe in feavers it strengthens the memory and releeves languishing nature Syrup of Mints the greater Mesue Take of the juyce of Quinces between sweet and sour of the juyce of Pomegranates between sweet and sour of each a pound and an half and when you have mixed both these juyces together infuse in them for the space of 24. hours dried mints a pound and an half Red Roses dried two ounounces boyl it till half be consumed then strain it and with four pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup after it is boyled and cool perfume it with a drachm of Gallia moschata beaten and tied up in fine linnen and hung by a thrid into the vessel you keep your syrup in A. The Syrup is in quality binding yet it comforts the stomach much helps digestion staies vomiting and is in my opinion as excellent a remedy against sour or offensive belchings as any is in the Dispensatory Syrup of Mirtles Nicholaus Take of Mirtle berries two ounces and an half Sanders both white red Sumach Balaustines Barberries red Roses of each half an ounce Medlars half a pound bruise all these and having bruised them boyl them in eight pints of water till half be consumed strain it and ad to the decoction juyce of Quinces and sour Pomegranates of each six ounces Sugar three pound boyl it into a syrup according to art A. The syrup is of a very binding yet of a comforting nature it helps such as spit blood all fluxes of the belly or corrosions of the internal parts It strengthens the retentive faculty and stops the immoderate flux of the terms in women Syrup of Apples Fernelius Take of the juyce of our Apples commonly called Permains or Pippins four pound the juyce of both sorts of Buglosse Rose water the juyce of Violet leaves of each a pound boyl them together and clarifie them then with six pound of Sugar boil them into a syrup A. It is a fine cooling syrup for such whose hearts and stomachs are overpressed with heat and may safely be given in feavers for it rather loosens than binds it breeds good blood and isprofitable in hectick feavers and for such as are troubled with palpitation of the heart it quencheth thirst admirably in feavers and staies hiccoughs Syrupus de Pomis Regis Saporis Mesue Take of the juyce of Apples two pound the juyce of Borrage and Buglosse of each a pound and an half Senna two ounces Annis seeds half an ounce Saffron a drachm Infuse the Senna 24. hours in the juyces then let it boil a walm or two then strain it and with two pound of Sugar boil it into a syrup let the Saffron being tied up in a rag be crushed in the boiling A. Mesue appoints Senna cods viz. the husk that holds the seeds and the Colledg altered that and added the Annis seeds I suppose to correct the Senna and in so doing they did well A. The Syrup is a pretty cooling purge and tends to rectifie the distempers of the blood it purgeth choller and melancholly and therefore must needs be effectual both in yellow and black Jaundice It is very gentle and for that I commend both the Receit and Mesue the Author of it Syrup of Horehound Fernelius Take of white Horehound fresh two ounces Liquoris Polipodium
of the Oak the roots of Smallage and Fennel of each half an ounce white Maidenhair Origanum Hysop Calaminth Time Scabious Savory Coltsfoot of each six drachms the seeds of Annis and Cotton of each three drams Raisons of the sun stoned two ounces fat Figs ten boyl these altogether in Hydromel eight pints till half be consumed then when you have strained it boyl it into a syrup with Hony and white Sugar of each two pound perfume it with an ounce of the roots of Orris Florentine A. It is apropriated to the breast and lungues and is a fine cleanser to purge them from thick and putrified flegm it helps Phthisicks and coughs and diseases subject to old men and cold natures Syrup of Rhadishes Fernelius Take of Radish roots both Garden and Wild of each an ounce the roots of white Saxifrage Bruscus Lovage Fringo Rest harrow Parsly Fennel of each half an ounce the leaves of Bettony Burnet Pennyroyal the tender Tops of Nettles Watercresses Samphire Maiden hair of each a handful Winter cherrics Jujubes of each twenty the seeds of Bazil Burs Parsly of Macedonia Seseli Caraway Carrots Gromwell the bark of the roots of the bay tree of each two drams Raisons of the sun stoned Liquoris of each six drachms boil them according to art in twelve pints of water till eight remain in which being strained dissolve four pound of Sugar and two pound of Hony and boyl them into a cleer syrup the which perfume with an ounce of Cinnamon and half an onnce of Nutmegs A. The syrup is apropriated to the reins and bladder both which it powerfully cleanseth it breaketh and bringeth forth the stone it purgeth the reins of gravel it helpeth all supression and stopping of urine as Dysuria Iscuria c. Syrups of the five opening Roots Mesue Take of the roots of Smallage Fennel Parsley Brusous and Sparagus of each two ounces boyl them in six pints of spring-spring-water till the third part be consumed strain it and with three pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup adding eight ounces of white-Wine-Vineger towards the latter end of the decoction A. It cleanseth and openeth very well is profitable against obstructions provokes urine cleanseth the body of 〈◊〉 and is safely and profitably given in the beginning of Feavers A Magisterial syrup of Scabious Compound Take of the roots of Alicampane and Polipodium of the Oak of each two ounces infuse them 24. hours in white Wine Raisons of the sun stoned an ounce Sebesten 30. Coltfsoot Lunguewort Savory Calaminth of each a handful and an half Liquoris half an ounce one whol leaf of the best Tobacco the seeds of Nettles and Cotton of each three drachms boil them in a sufficient quantity of wine and water to eight ounces to which being strained ad of the juyce of Scabious clarified four ounces white Sugar ten ounces boyl it into a syrup clarified according to art adding to it twenty drops of oyl of Sulphur A. It is a cleansing syrup apropriated to the breast and lungues when you perceive them oppressed by flegm cruditiesor stoppings here 's your remedy Syrup of Hartstongue Fernelius Take of Polypodium of the Oak the roots of both sorts of Buglosse bark of Cappar roots bark of Tamaris of each two ounces Hartstongue three handfuls Hops Doddar Maiden-hair Bawm of each two handfuls boil them in nine pints of water till there remains but five strain it clarifie it and with four pound of white Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It helps stoppings of melancholly opens obstructions of the liver and spleen and is profitable against splenetick evils and therefore is a choice remedy for the disease which the vulgar call the rickets or livergrown Syrup of Stoechas Mesue Take of the flowers of Stoechas four ounces Time Calaminth Origanum of each an ounce and an half Sage Bettony Rosemary flowers of each half an ounce the seeds of Rue Peony and Fennel of each three drachms boyl them in ten pints of water till half be consumed strain it and boil the decoction into a syrup with Hony and Sugar of each two pound perfume it with Cinnamon Ginger and Calamus Aromaticus of each two drachms tied up in a thin rag and hung into the Syrup A. This recept looks like Mesue because the Simples are composed with such harmony I confesse I have found in his works one or two syrups of this name but not this same composition yet am I willing to think it his not so much because the Colledg saith it as because I can judg of the tree by the fruit A. Surely surely was this recept penned against cold infirmities of the brain Spinalis Medulla and their Handmaids or rather Officers the nerves helps both sence and motion anoyed by cold or melancholly I am curbed for being so larg therefore in general you if you try it shall find it an admirable remedy against palsies or tremblings of the limbs convulsions cramps falling-sicknesse and all other infirmities of the brain arising from cold moisture or melancholly and the composition is husbanded with such discreation and moderation that without all question it was distilled from the brain of a Mesue Syrup of Comfry Fernelius Take of the roots and branches both of the greater and lesser Comfry of each three handfuls red Roses Bettony Plantane Burnet Knot grasse Scabious Coltsfoot of each two handfuls let the joyce be pressed from them all being fresh and green and well beaten boyl it away to three pound scumming it well and with two pound and an half of Sugar boyl it to a syrup A. Were it not for fear my book would grow bigger than I would willingly have it I could easily prove that the syrup would be far better if the juyces were only clarified and not boyled at all but with their double weight in sugar melted only into a syrup A. The syrup is excellent for all inward wounds and bruises excoriations vomitings spittings or piffing of blood it unites broken bones helps ruptures and stops the terms in women A Cordial syrup or Julep Norimberg Take of Rhenish wine a quart Rose water two ounces and an half Cloves two scruples Cinnamon half a drachm Ginger two scruples of the best Sugar three onnces and an half boil it to the consistence of a Julep which perfume with three grains of Amber-greece and one grain of musk A. He that hath read thus far in this book and doth not know he must first boyl the Simples in the wine and then strain them out before he puts in the Sugar is a man that in my opinion hath not wit enough to be taught to make up a medicine A. If you would have this Julep keep long you may put in more Sugar and yet if close stopped it will not easily corrupt because it is made up only of wine indeed the wisest way is to order the quantity of Sugar according to the pallat of him that takes it A.
It restoreth such as are in consumptions comforts the heart cherisheth drooping spirits and is of an opening quality thereby carrying away those vapours which might otherwise anoy the brain SYRUPS MADE WITH HONEY AND VINEGER AND HONEY Diacaryon Or Dianucum Gallen Take of the juyce of green Walnuts two pound clarifie it and with a pound of Hony boyl it into a syrup A. It is an excellent preservative in pestilential times Diacodium Gallen Take of the heads of white Poppies neither too green nor too ripe by number twenty rain or spring water three pints infuse them twenty four hours then boil them till the vertue be out of the heads then strain it and with two pound of Hony boyl it to the consistence of a syrup some ad to it Sapa two pound juyce of Liquoris two ounces A. It works the same effects with the former syrups of Poppie Diamoron Nicholaus Take of the juyce of Mulberries and Blackberries neither of them being fully ripe of each a pound and an half boyl them with two pound of Hony over a gentle fire into a syrup A. It is vulgarly known to be good for sore mouths as also to cool inflamations there Hony of Rosemary flowers Mesue Take of Rosemary flowers a pound clarified Hony three pound put them together in a glasse that hath not a very wide mouth set them in the Sun to digest and being digested keep it for your use A. It hath the same vertues with Rosemary flowers to which I refer you only by reason of the hony it may be somewhat cleansing Honey of Mercury Take of the juyce of Herb Mercury three pound with two pound of Hony boil it into a syrup A. It is used as an Emollient in Clisters Honey of Raisons Nicholaus Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned two pounds infuse them 24. hours in fix pints of warm water then boyl them till half the water be consumed strain them and with two pound of Hony boil it into a syrup A. It is a pretty pleasing medicine for such as are in consumptions and are bound in body Honey of Roses Common Mesue Take of red Rose buds picked two pound Honey fix pound digest them in the sun like the Honey of Rosemary flowers Honey of Roses Nicholaus Take of the best Honey clarified ten pounds the Juyce of fresh red Roses one pound put them in a pan over the fire and when they begin to boyl ad four pound of fresh red Roses the whites being cut off let it boil till the juyce be consumed continually stirring it and so keep it for your use being strained A. They are both used for diseases in the mouth Honey Roses Solutive Take of the infusion of Damask Roses as you have formerly been shewed to make it five pounds clarified Honey four pounds boil it into the consistence of a syrup A. It is used as a laxative in Clisters and some Chyrurgians use it to cleanse wounds In the same manner may be prepared Honey of red Roses Honey of Violets is made in the same manner Oximel Simple Mesue Take of the best clarified honey three pound pure water and of the best Vineger of each two pound boyl them into the consistence of a syrup A. Your best way is to boyl the water and honey first into a syrup and add the Vineger afterwards and then boil it again into a syrup A. It cuts flegm and is a good preparative before a vomit Oximel Compound Mesue Take of the bark of the roots of Fennel Smallage Parsly Bruscus Sparagus of each two ounces The seeds of Smallage Parsly Fennel Annis of each one ounce and with six pound of water one pound and an half of vineger and three pound of Honey make it into a syrup A. First having bruised the roots and seeds boil them in the water till half be consumed then strain it and ad the honey and when it is almost boyled enough add the vineger A. It cuts thick and grosse humors and cleanseth the body of them it opens the stoppings both of the liver and spleen it purgeth the reins provokes urine and sweat Heleborated Oximel the greater Gesner Take of Rue true Time Dittany of Creet Hysop Penyroyal Horehound Carduus Benedictus the roots of Spicknard Celtick without leaves the inner bark of Elders of each a handful Mountain Nepp two pugils The seeds of Annis Fennel Basil Roman Nettles Dill of each two drachmas the roots of Angelica marsh Mallows Aron Squils prepared Aristolochiah or Birth wort long round and climing Turpeth our Orris Costus smelling like Violets or else Zedoary Polypodium Lemmon pills of each an ounce of the strings of the roots of Black Hellebore Spurge of each two drachms the bark of the root of white Hellebore half an ounce Agrick two drachms which you must put in towards the latter end of the decoction let all of them being dried and bruised be infused in eight pints of Posca viz. equal parts of water and vineger Sapa two ounces either in the Sun or in a Furnace either in a glasse or earthen vessel then boyl it either in an earthen or stone vessel till almost half be consumed strain it out but gently and ad to it hony roses in which two ounces of Citron pills have been infused a pound and an half then boil it till the Posca be consumed and so it come to the body of a syrup the which perfume with Cloves Saffron Ginger Galanga and Mace of each a a drachm tied in a rag keep it either in a glasse or a pot for your use A. It is such a mess of altogether that a man scarce knows what to do with it here are many Simples very cordial many provoke the terms some purge gently some violently and some cause vomiting being all put together I verily think if warily given it may be a fit purge in some cases for madness coming of melancholly provided they be not Phrenitick or as the vulgar say frantick for then purges are not fitting Oximel Julianizans Take of the bark of Cappar roots Orris roots the roots of Fennel Parsly Bruscus Succory Sparagus Cyperus of each half an ounce the leaves of Hartstongue Schoenanth Tamaris of each a handful sweet Fennel seeds half an ounce first infuse-them and then boyl them in three pints of sharp Posca to a pint and an half which boyl into the body of a syrup with Honey and course Sugar of each half a pound Posca is made of water and vineger and is either more or less sharp according to the intention of the Physician A. This medicine is very opening very good against Hypocondriack Melancholly and as fit a medicine as can be for that disease in Children called the Rickets Oximel of Squils Simple Nicholaus Take of clarified Honey three pound Vineger of Squils two pound boyl them into a syrup according to art A. They say they borrowed this receit of
Nicholaus but of what Nicholaus I know not the self same receit is word for word in Mesue whose commendations of it is this It cuts and divides humors that are tough and viscus and therefore helps the stomach and bowels afflicted by such humors and helps sour belchings A. View the Vineger of Squils and then your reason will tell you this is as wholsom and somewhat more toothsom Democritus his Vineger of Squills Mesue Take of Origanum dried Hysop Time Loyage Cardamoms Stoechas of each five drachms boyl them in three pints of water till two of them be consumed strain it and with two pound of hony half a pound of hony of Raisons juyce of Briony five ounces Vineger of Squils a pound and an half Boyl it into a syrup alwaies scumming it A. Mesue saith this is good against the falling sicknesse Megrim headach vertigo or swimming in the head and if these be occasioned by the stomach as many times they are I beleeve it is it helps the lungues obstructed by humors and is good for women not wel cleansed after labor it opens the passage of the womb Honey of Anacardium Azaravius Take of Anacardia or Beans of Malacca fresh bruise them and boil them in water till a kind of raddish substance like honey swim at top take off that and keep it for your use A. See the Fruit. Honey of Emblicks August Take sifty Emblick Myrobalans bruise them and boyle them in three pints of water till two be consumed strain it and with the like weight of honey boyl it into a syrup A. It is a fine gentle purger both of flegm and melancholly it strengthens the brain and nerves and sences both internal and external helps trembling of the heart staies vomiting provokes appetite ROB OR SAPA AND IVYCES A. ROB is somthing an uncouth word and happily formidable to the Ignorant Country-man and therefore in the first place I will explain the word A. 1. Rob or Sapa is the juyces of a fruit made thick by the heat either of the Sun or the fire that so it is capable of being kept safe from putrifaction A. 2. It s use was first invented for diseases in the mouth however or for whatsoever it is used now it matters not A. 3. It it usually made in respect of body something thicker than new honey A. 4. It may be kept about a year little more or lesse Simple Rob or Sapa Take twelve pints of new White-Wine boyl it over a gentle fire till but four remain or else till it be of the thickness of honey keep it either in a glasse or in an earthen pot glazed A. When ever you reade the word Rob or Sapa throughout the Dispensatory simply quoted in any medicine without any relation of what it should be made this is that you ought to use Rob of Barberries Take of the juyce of Barberries well strained eight pound boyl it with a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey and so lay it up in a glasse or earthen vessel you may also prepare it with Sugar by adding a pound of Sugar to every pound of Juyce and so boyling it to the thicknesse of Honey A. It quencheth thirst closeth the mouth of the stomach thereby staying vomiting and belching it strengthens stomachs weakened by heat and procures appetite Rob of Cornels Take of the juyce of Cornels two pound Sugar a pound and an half boyl it to the consistence of Honey A. Of these Cornel trees are two sorts male and foemale the fruit of the male Cornel or Cornelian Cherry is here to be used for the foemale is that which is called Dogberry in the North country they call it Gatter-wood and we in Sussex Dog-wood I suppose because the berries will make Dogs mad as some hold also it is very unwholsom wood specially for such as have been bitten by mad dogs A. The fruit of male Cornel binds exceedingly and is therefore good in fluxes bloody fluxes and the immoderate flowing of the terms in women Rob of Quinces Take six pound of the juyce of Quinces clarified boil it till two parts be consumed adding to it two pound of Sugar boil it to the thickness of Honey or you may prepare it without Sugar A. Its effects are the same with the former only I suppose it to be more cordial and not so cool but more strengthening to the stomach A Rob of the juyce of sour plums is made in the same manner as Rob of Quinces Rob of English Currance It is prepared as Rob of Barberries But that it may be well clarified first heat it then let it stand and grow cleer and use only what is cleer A. The effects are the same with that of Barberries Juyce of Sloes which is used for Acacia Take of the juyce of sloes clarifie it with the gentle heat of a bath adduce it to its just thicknesse A. It stops fluxes of the belly The juyces of wormwood Maudlin Fumitory and other herbs are made of the herbs when they are tender not too rank Beaten and pressed clarified and then boyled to their due height A. The vertue is the same with the herbs only here is diversity of waies to please diversity of palats Juyce of Liquoris Take of the roots of green Liquoris well scraped and well bruised infuse them in so much spring water that the water may over top them the bredth of two or three fingers for three daies then boyl them a little and strain them then boyl the decocton to a due thicknes and make it into what form you please A. It is vulgarly known to be good against coughs colds c. and a strengthener of the lungues Miua of Quinces Mesue Take of the juyce of Quinces clarified twelve pound boyl it till half be consumed then add to it five pints of old white Wine boil it over a gentle fire often scumming it till the third part be consumed then let it cool then strain it and with three pound of Sugar boil it to its due thickness A. It is something better for cold stomachs than Rob of Quinces and less binding else the effects are the same LOHOCHS A. BEcause this word also is understood but by few we will first explain what it is A. The word Lohoch is an Arabick word called in Greek 〈◊〉 in Latin Linctus and signifies a thing to be lick'd up A. 2. it is in respect of body something thicker then a syrup and not so thick as an Electuary A. 3. It s use it was invented for was against the roughness of the windpipe diseases and inflamations of the lungs difficulty of breathing colds coughs c. A. 4. It s manner of reception is with a Liquoris stick bruised at end to take up some and retain it in the mouth till it melt of its own accord Lohoch of Coleworts Gordonius Take a pound of the juyce of Coleworts clarified Saffron three drachms clarified Honey and Sugar
of each half a pound make of them a Lohoch according to art A. It helps hoarsness and losse of voice easeth surfets and head-ach coming of drunkenuess and opens obstructions of the liver and spleen and therefore is good for that disease in children which women call the Rickets Lohoch of Pappies Mesue Take of white Poppies twenty five drachms sweet Almonds Pinenuts Gum Arabick and Traganth juyce of Liquoris of each ten drachms white Starch three drachms the seeds of Purslain Lettice Quinces of each half an ounce Saffron one drachm white Penidies four ounces syrup of Poppies the lesser composition which you may find page 112 three pounds cut them and bruise them all and with the syrup make them into a Lohoch according to art A. It helps coughs and cathars proceeding of hot and sharp rheum it easeth pains in the stomach coming of heat Pleuresies and Phthisicks and provokes sleep Lohoch of Raisons Augustan Take of male peony roots half an ounce Hysop Bawm Hartstongue or Cetrach of each half a handful Liquoris half an ounce boyl them in a sufficient quantity of rain water strain it strongly and ad a pound of Raisons of the sun stoned and well beaten in a 〈◊〉 boil it again and strain it strongly and with a pound of Sugar boil the decoction into a Lohoch A. Although this medicine be seldom in use with us in England yet by report of Forraign Physitians it is very prevalent both against coughs consumptions of the lungues and other vices of the breast and is usually given to children for such diseases as also for the convulsions and falling-sickness and indeed the Simples testifie no less Lohoch of Pinenuts Mesue Take of Pinenuts thirty drachms sweet Almonds HasselNut-kernels roasted Gum Traganth and Arabick pouder of Liquoris and juyce of Liquoris white Starch Maidenhair Orris roots of each half an ounce of the pulp of Dates thirty five drachms Bitter Almonds three drachms Honey of Raisons white Sugar Candy fresh Butter of each four ounces of the best Honey three pound or else so much as is sufficient let the things which are to be disolved be disolved in a sufficient quantity of the decoction of Maidenhair and the rest added according to art that they may be made into a Lohoch A. The pouder of Liquoris is only added by the Colledg and the manner of making of it up both which are useful A. The medicine is excellent for continual coughs and difficulty of breathing it succours such as as are Asthmatick for it cuts and attenuates tough humors in the breast Lohoch of Fox lungues Mesue Take of Fox lungues prepared juyce of Liquoris Maiden-hair Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds of each an ounce Sugar clarified with Coltsfoot water fifteen ounces the things being beaten which may be beaten and brought into very fine pouder let them be made into a Lohoch with the Sugar A. Mesue appoints sixteen ounces of Honey and no Sugar nor uncertain quantity of Coltsfoot water and reason it self will tell you Honey is most cleansing A. It cleanseth and uniteth ulcers in the lungues and breast and is a present remedy in Phtisicks Lahoch sanum et expertum Mesue Take of Cinnamon dry Hysop Liquoris of each half an ounce Jujubes Sebestens of each thirty Raisons of the sun stoned dry Figs of each two ounces fat Dates two ounces Lin seed Foenugraeck seed of each five drachms Maidenhair a handfull Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds Orris roots Calaminth of each half an ounce boil them according to art in four pints of cleer water till half be consumed strain it and with two pound of white Sugar boil the decoction to a syrup afterward sprinkle in these following things being cut and beaten small Pinenuts sweet Almonds liquoris Gum traganth and Arabick white Starch of each three drachms Orris roots two drachms stir them all about dilligently and swiftly till it looks white A. Only Mesue appoints one drachm less of Lin-seeds and whereas they appoint white Sugar he appoints Penids else the recept is verbatim A. It succours the breast lungues throat and Trachaea Arteria oppressed by cold it restores the voice lost by reason of cold and attenuates thick and grosse humors in the breast and lungues Eclegma of Squils Mesue Take of the juyce of Squils and Honey both of them clarified of each two pound boyl them together according to art to the consistence of honey A. How the name of Mesue came to be obtruded upon this receit I know not this I am confident of Gallen was the Author of it neither is it probable the Colledg would have given it the name of Eclegma but Lohoch had it been the receit of an Arabian neither can it be the Printers faule for he vapors at the latter end of the Book that he hath made none and he hath done it in English that the vulgar may understand THAT in the book though nothing else A. For the Vertues of it see Vineger of Squils and Oximel of Squils only this is more mild and not so harsh to the throat because it hath no vineger in it and therefore is far more fitting for Asthmaes and such as are troubled with difficulty of breathing it cuts and carries away humors from the breast be they thick or thin and wonderfully helps indigestion of victuals and easeth pains in the breast and for this I quote the Authority of Gallen alwaies take this as a general Aphorisme in physick Sour things are offensive to the mind-pipe PRESERVES THere are condited or preserved with sugar dilligently clarified according to art The stalkes of Angelica Artichoaks Lettice The barks of Orrenges Cinnamon Citrons Guajacum Lemmons The flowers of Orrenges Borrage Citrons Broom-buds Prim-roses Rosemary Roses The fruits of Almonds Barberries Capers Cloves Cherries Cornels Citrons Quinces Apricocks Peaches Apples Medlars all the five sorts of Myrobalans Hassel-Nuts Walnuts Nutmegs Raisons of the Sun Pine-nuts Fistick-Nuts Olives Pepper in the branch from India Plums garden and wild Pears Grapes The pnlp of Cassia Citrons Guords Quinces The roots of Acorus Calamus aromaticus Galanga Angelica Borrage Bugloss Succory Sampier Alicampane Eringo Burnet Satyrion Artichoak Skirrets Comfry the greater Ginger Zedoary Others both young Branches and Seeds are preserved besides these The way or manner of conditing or preserving is this Such as are bitter in tast or hard in substance let them be steeped a while in cleer Lys made of wood-ashes afterwards in warm spring water till their bitterness be taken away or they begin to be tender then boyl them in water and sugar to a syrup and keep them in the syrup either in a glasse or stone pot glazed and you may perfume them with Musk and Amber greece if you please Those that are soft and not so bitter need no Ly to be infused in but only boyl them gently that they may drink in the sugar and preserve them
scoria ferri Rhasis Take of the flakes of Iron infused in Vineger seven daies and dried three drachms Indian Spicknard Schoenanth Cyperus Ginger Pepper Bishops Weed Frankinsence of each half an ounce Myrobalans Indian Bellericks and Emblicks Honey boiled with the decoction of Emblicks sixteen ounces mix them together and make of them an Electuary A. I wonder how the quantities of the Myrobalans escaped the great care labour pains and industry of the honorable Society the Authors of that book or the vigilancy of the vapouring Printer Rhasis an Arabian Physitian the Author of the recept appoints a drachm of each the medicine heats the spleen gently purgeth melancholly easeth pains in the stomach and spleen and strengthens digestion Diacidonium Simple Take of the pulp of Quinces boyled in fresh water to a sufficient thickness eight pound white Sugar scummed and boyled to its just thickness six pounds boyl them both together to a just thickness Diacydonium with Pouders Gallen Take of the juyce of Quinces and white Sugar of each two pound white-wine Vinegar half a pound added in the end of the decoction let them boil over a gentle fire and let the scum be taken off then ad Ginger two ounces white Pepper ten drachms and two scruples boil them again over a gentle fire to the thickness of Honey A. Is not this then more like a syrup than an Electuary Surely either the Colledge or I dote Diacydonium Compound of London Take of white Sugar six pound spring water four pound clarifie it with the white of an Egg and scum it dilligently then take of ripe Quinces the outward pill and the seeds being taken away and cut in four parts eight pound boil them in the said syrup till they be tender then strain the syrup through a Boulter boil them again in it to the consistence of a gelly adding towards the latter end four ounces of whit wine Vineger the syrup being removed from the fire put in these pouders following being but grosly bruised viz. Ginger an ounce white Pepper Cinnamon Nutmegs of each two drachms keep it in diverse boxs. After the same manner may you make Diacydonium Simple A. If a man void of partiality should compare this and the former recept together he would find but little difference between them only a little Cinnamon and Nutmegs added A. The vertues of all these three are they comfort the stomach help digestion stay vomiting belching c. stop fluxes and the terms in women Confectio De Hyacintho Take of Jacinth red Corral bole Armenick earth of lemons of each half an ounce the berries of Kermes the roots of Tormentil and Dictamni Citron seeds husked the seeds of Sorrel Purslain Saffron Mirrh red Roses all the sorts of Sanders Bone of a Stags heart Hartshorn lvory of each four scruples Saphire Emerald Topas Pearls arw Silk the leaves of Gold and Silver of each two scruples Camphire Musk Amber greece of each five grains with syrup of Lemmons make them into a Confection according to art A. It is a great cordial and cool exceeding good in acute feavers and pestilences it mightily strengtheneth and cherrisheth the heart Confectio Humain Mesue Take of Eyebright two ounces Fennel seeds five drachms Cloves Cinnamon Cubebs long Pepper Mace of each one drachm beat them all into pouder and with clarified Honey a pound in which boil juyce of Fennel an ounce juyce of Chelondine and Rue of each half an ounce and with the pouders make it up into an Electuary A. It is chiefly apropriated to the brain and heart quickens the sences especially the sight and resisteth the pestilence Antidoum Haemagogum Rom. Take of Lupines two drachms black Pepper five scruples and fix grains Liquoris four scruples long Birthwort Mugwort Cassia lignea the seeds of Macedonian Parsly Pellitory of Spain the seeds of Rue Spicknard Mirrh Penyroyal of each two scruples and fourteen grains the seeds of Smallage Savin of each two scruples thirteen grains Centaury the greater Carrots of Creet Nigella Caraway Annis Cloves Alum of each two scruples Bay leaves one scruple one half scruple and three grains wood of Aloes one scruple and fourteen grains Schoenanth one scruple and thirteen grains Asarabacca Acorus that is common Calamus Aromacicus Amomus Peony Centaury the less the seeds of Arrach and Fennel of each one scruple and six grains Cyperus Elicampane Ginger Capper roots Cummin Orobus of each one scruple beat them all into very fine pouder and with four times their waight of Honey make them up into an Electuary according to art A. It provokes the terms brings away both birth and afterbirth the dead child purgeth such as are not sufficiently purged after travail it provokes urine breaks the stone in the bladder helps the strangury dysury iskury c. helps indigestion the chollick opens any stoppings in the body it heats the stomach purgeth the liver and spleen consumes wind staies vomiting but let it not be taken by women with child nor such people as have the Hemorrhoyds A. Nicholaus I take to be the Author of this fantastical medicine though the Colledg give it a more general term and the vertues allo are quoted from him Diaireos Salomonis Nicholaus Take of Orris roots an ounce Penyroyal Hysop Liquoris of each six drachms Traganth white Starch bitter Almonds Pinenuts Cinnamon Ginger Pepper of each three drachms fat Figs the pulp of Raisons of the sun and Dates of each three drachms and an half Styrax Calamitis two drachms and an half Sugar dissoved in Hysop water and clarified Honey of each twice the weight of all the rest make them into an Electuary according to art A. The Electuary is chiefly apropriated to the lungues and helps cold infirmities of them as Asthmaes Coughs difficulty of breathing c. Diasatyrion Nicholaus Take of the roots of Satyrion fresh and sound Garden-Parsnips Eringo Pine-Nuts Indian-Nuts or if Indian Nuts be wanting take the double quantity of Pine Nuts Fistick-Nuts of each one ounce and an half Cloves Ginger the seeds of Annis Rocket Ash keys of each five drachms Cinnamon the tayls and loins of Scincus the seeds of Bulbus Nettles of each two drachms and an half Musk seven grains of the best Sugar dissolved in Malaga Wine three pounds make it into an Electuary according to art A. Either the Colledge or the Printer left out Cicer roots seven drachms which I think are proper to the recept they also added the loins of Scincus and the Nettle seeds and in so doing they did well A. It helps weaknesse of the reins and bladder and such as make water with difficulty it provokes lust exceedingly and speedily helps such as are impotent in the acts of Venus being indeed compiled to that end Diasatyrion more pleasant Coloniens Take of Satyrion roots three ounces the pulp of Dates sweet Almonds Indian Nuts Pine Nuts Fistick Nuts green Ginger Eringo roots preserved of each one ounce Ginger Cloves
Andromacus his Treacle Take of Troches of Squils eight and fourty drachms Troches of Vipers long Pepper Opium of Thebes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 os each twenty four drachms dried Rose leaves the whites being cut off Illyrick Orris juyce of Liquoris the seeds of sweet Navew Scordium Opobalsamum Cinnamon Agrick of each twelve drachms Mirrh sweet 〈◊〉 or Zedoary Saffron Cassia lignea Indian Spicknard Schaenanth Pepper white andblack Male Frankinsence Dittany of Creet Rhubarb Stoechas Horehound the seeds of Macedonian Parsly dried Calaminth Turpentine the roots of Cinkfoyl and Ginger of each six drachms the branches of Poley mountain Camaepitys Celtick Spicknard Amomus Styrax Calamitis the roots of Spignel the tops of Germander the roots of Rhapontick Earth of Lemnos Indian Leaf Chalcitis or in stead thereof Roman Vitriol burnt Gentian roots Gum Arabick juyce of Hypocistis Carpobalsamum or Nutmegs or Cubebs the seeds of Annis Fennel Seseli or Heartwort Cardamoms Acacia or in leiu thereof the juyce of Sloes made thick the seeds of Treacle Mustard the tops of St. John's wort the seeds of Bishop's weed Sagapenum of each four drachms Castorium the roots of long Birthwort bitumen Judaicum the seeds of Carrots Opopanax Centaury the lesse Galbanum of each two drachms old Canary Wine sufficient to dissolve the things that can be dissolved pure Honey three times the weight of the drie Simples mix them together according to art A. It is confessed many Physitians have commented upon this recept as Bartholomaeus Maranta Galen Medici Romani and 〈◊〉 Bononienses cum multis aliis But with little differencs The vertues of it are It resists poyson and the biting of venemous beasts inveterate headaches vertigo deafness the falling-sickness astonishment appoplexes dulness of sight want of voice Asthames old and new Coughs such as spit or vomit blood such as can hardly spit or breath coldness of the stomach wind the Chollik and Iliak passion the Yellow Jaundice hardness of the Spleen stone in the reins and bladder difficulty of urine ulcers in the bladder Feavers Dropsies Leprosies it provokes the terms brings forth both birth and afterbirth helps pains in the joints it helps not only the body but also the mind as vain fears melancholly c. and is a good remedy in pestilential feavers Thus Galen London Treacle Take of Hartshorn two ounces the seeds of Citron Sorrel Peony Bazil of each one ounce Scordium Corallina of each six drachms the roots of Angelica Tormentil Peony the leaves of Dictamni the berries of Juniper and Bay of each half an ounce the flowers of Marigolds Clovegilliflowers Rosemary flowers the tops of St. Johns wort Nutmegs Saffron of each three drachms the roots of Gentian Zedoary Ginger Mace Mirrh the leaves of Scabious Devils bit Carduus Benedictus of each two drachms Cloves Opium of each one drachm Canary Wine so much as is sufficient Honey three times the weight of the rest mix them together according to art A. The recept is a pretty cordial resists the pestilence and is a good antidote in pestilential times it resists poyson strengthens cold stomachs helps digestion and crudities of the stomach Benedicta Laxativa Nicholaus Take of choyce Turbith 10. drams Diagridium the bark of the roots of Spurg prepared Hermodactils Red Roses of each five drachms Cloves Spicknard Ginger Saffron Saxifrage long Pepper Amomus or for want of it Calamus Aromaticus Cardamoms the lesse the seeds of Smallage Parsly Caraway Fennel Sparagus Bruscus Gromwel Sal. Gem. Galanga Mace of each one drachm clarified Honey three times their weight make them into an Electuary according to art Also you may conveniently keep the Species by it self A. It purgeth flegm cheifly from the joynts also it purgeth the reins and bladder A. I willingly omit the quantity of these purges because I would not have foolish women and dunces do themselves and others a mischeif Carycostimum Bayr è Gal. Take of Cloves white Costus or Zedoary Ginger Cummin of each two drachms Hermodactils Diagrydium of each half an ounce with their double weight of Honey clarified in white wine mix them together and make them into an Electuary A. Authors say it purgeth hot Rewms and takes away inflamations in wounds I assure you the Electuary works violently and may safest be given in Clisters Cassia extracted for Clysters Augustani Take of the leaves of Violets Mercury Mallows Beets Pellitory of the wall the flowers of Violets of each a handful boil them in a sufficient quantity of water by the benefit of which let the Cassia be drawn with this decoction and the Canes washed and boyled again to a height a pound boil it to perfection according to art A. It is no more than breaking the Canes of the Cassia and pick out the pulp casting away the seeds boyl the pulp in a little of this decoction then press it through a pulping Sive the title shews the use of it or if you will take an ounce of it inwardly you shall find it work with great gentleness Electuarium Amarum Magistrale majus Take of white Agrick choice Turbith Species hiera simplex Galeni of the best Rhubarb of each a drachm choice Aloes washed two drachms Ginger Cremor Tartar of each two scruples Orris Florentine sweet Fennel seeds of each one scruple syrup of Roses solutive as much as is sufficient to make it into a bitter Electuary Electuarium Amarum minus Take of Epithimum half an ounce the roots of Angelica three drachms of Gentian Zedoary Acorus of each two drachms Cinnamon a drachm and an half Cloves Mace Nutmegs Saffron of each a drachm Aloes six ounces with syrup of Fumitory and Scabious with Sugar so much as is sufficient make them up into a soft Electuary according to art A. Both these purge choller the former flegm and this melancholly the former works strongest and this strengthens most and is good for such whose brains are anoyed Diacassia with Manna Take of damask Prunes two ounces Violet flowers a handfull and an half spring water a pound and an half let them boyl according to art till half the water be consumed then strain it and dissolve in the decoction pulp of Cassia six ounces Sugar of Violets Syrup of Violets of each four ounces pulp of Tamarinds one ounce Sugar Candy one ounce and an half of the best Manna two ounces mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art A. It is a fine cool purge for such as are bound in body for it works gently and without trouble it purgeth choller and may safely be given in feavers coming of choller but in in such cases if the body be much bound the best way is first to administer a Clyster and then the next morning an ounce of this will cool the body and keep it in due temper Cassia Extracted without the leaves of Senna Take of Prunes by number twelve Violet flowers a handful French Barly the seeds of Annis and Bastard Saffron Polipodium of the
Oak of each five drachms Maidenhair Time Epithimum of each half a handful Raisons of the Sun stoned half an ounce Fennel seeds two drachms the seeds of Purslain and Mallows of each three drachms Liquoquoris half an ounce boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water strain it and in the decoction dissolve pulp of Cassia two pounds Tamarinds one ounce Cinnamon three drams of the best Sugar a pound boyl them to a perfection according to art Cassia Extracted with the leaves of Senna Take of the Electuary of Cassia extracted without the leaves of Senna two pound the leaves of Senna in pouder two ounces mix them together according to art A. This is also a fine cool purge gentle cleansing the bowels of choller and melancholly without any griping very fit for feaverish bodies and yet the former is gentler than this Diacarthamum or Diacnicum Arnoldus de villâ novâ Take of Species diatragacanthi frigidi half an ounce pulp of preserved Quinces an ounce pulp of seeds of Carthamus or bastard Saffron half an ounce Ginger two drachms Diagrydium beaten by it self three drachms white Turbith six drachms Manna two ounces Honey Roses solutive Sugar Candy of each one ounce Hermodactils half an ounce white Sugar ten ounces and an half make of them a Liquid Electuary according to art A. I wonder what art it must be wherewith a man should make up an Electuary and have not wherewithal I tell you truly that to make up an Electuary of this without more moisture for here is not a quarter enough is a task harder than all Hercules his twelve labours abate me but his fetching Cerberus out of Hell or it may be they intend you should go back to Species Electuarii Diagalangae to fetch Honey from thence where they have appointed three times more than needs for my part I shall trouble the reader no further but leave the recept to Arnoldus and the Colledg for a pure piece of nonsence Diaphoenicon Mesue together with Feruelius Take of the pulp of Dates boyled in Hydronel and strained through a pulping Sive Penidies of each half a pound sweet Almonds blanched three ounces and an half let all of them be bruised and mixed then ad clarified Honey 2. pound boile them a little then sprinkle in Ginger Pepper Mace Cinnamon dryed Rue the seeds of Fennel and Carrots of each two drachms Turbith four ounces in fine pouder Diagrydium an ounce and an half make of them an Electuary according to art A. I cannot beleeve this is so profitable in feavers taken downwards as Authours say for it is a very violent purge Indeed I beleeve being mixed in Clysters it may do good in chollicks and infirmities of the bowels coming of Raw humours Diaprunum Simple more rightly called Lenitive Nicholaus Take a hundred Damask Prunes fresh and ripe boil them in a sufficient quantity of water till they be soft then draw the pulp of them through a Sive and in the liquor they were boiled in boil an ounce of Violet flowers strain it and in the Decoction dissolve two pound of Sugar and boyl it into a syrup then add of the pulp spoken of before a pound pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds of each an ounce then put in these following pouders of white and red Sanders Spodium Rhubarb of each three drachms Roses Violets the seeds of Purslain endive Barberries Gum Traganth Liquoris Cinnamon of each two drachms of the four greater cold seeds of each one drachm make them into an Electuary according to art A. It may safely and is with good successe given in acute burning and all other feavers for it cools much and loosens the body gently it is good in agues hectick feavers and Marasmos Diaprunum Solutive Nicholaus Take of Diaprunum lenitive whilst it is yet warm four pound Scammony prepared two ounces and five drachms mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art Seeing the Dose of the Scammony is encreased according to the Author in this medicine you may use a lesse weight of Scammony if you please A. And therein the Colledge said true for the medicine according to this recept is too strong violent corroding gnawing fretting and yet this is that which is commonly called Duaprunes which simple people take to give themselves a purge being fitter to do them mischeif poor souls than good unless ordered with more discretion than they have it may be they build upon the vulgar proverb that no carrion will kill a Crow Diacatbolicon Nicholaus Take of the pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds the leaves of Senna of each two ounces Polypodium Violets Rhubarb Annis Seeds Penidies Sugar Candy of each one ounce Liquoris the seeds of Guords Citruls Cucumers Melons of each three drachms Let the things to be beaten be beaten and take of fresh Polipodium three ounces Fennel seed six drams boyl them in four pints of rain or spring water to the consumption of the third part strain it and ad to the decoction two pound of the best Sugar boil it again with the pulps of Cassia and Tamarinds and the pouders being added in theend make it into an Electuary according to art A. It is a fine cooling purge for any part of the body and very gentle it may be given an ounce or half an ounce at a time according to the strength of the patient in acute in peracute diseases for it gently looseneth the belly and adds strength it helps infirmities of the liver and spleen gouts of all sorts quotidian tertian and quartan agues as also head-aches It is usually given in Clysters Diacrocuma or Species Electuarii de Croce Mesue Take of Saffron the roots of Asarabacca the seeds of Parsly Carrots Annis Smallage of each half an ounce Rhubarb the roots of Spignel Indian Spicknard of each six drachms Cassia lignea Costus Mirrh Schoenanth Cubebs the roots of Maddir the juyce of Wormwood and Maudlin made thick Opobalsamum or oyl of Nutmegs of each two drachms Cinnamon Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm and an half Scordium Stoechas juyce of Liquoris of each two drachms and an half Traganth one drachm make it up into an Electuary with eight times their weight in Sugar dissolved in Endive water and clarified according to art A. Mesue appoints clarified Honey it is exceeding good against cold diseases of the stomach liver or spleen corruption of humours and putrifaction of meat in the stomach ill favored colour of the body dropsies cold faults in the reins and bladder provokes urine Electuarium de Citro Solutive Take of preserved Citron pills conserves of Violets and Bugloss Diatragacanthum frigidum Diagridium of each half an ounce Turbith five drachms Ginger half a drachm the the leaves of Senna six drachms sweet Fennel seeds a drachm white Sugar dissolved in Rose water and boiled according to art ten ounces make them all into a sollid Electuary according to art A. Here are some things very cordial
travail Hiera with Agriok Take of Species Hiera Simple without Aloes Agrick trochiscated of each half an ounce Aloes not washed an ounce clarified Honey six ounces mix them together into an Electuary A. Look but the vertues of Agrick and add them to the vertues of the former receit so is the business done without any further trouble Hiera Logodii Nicholaus Take of the pulp of Colocynthis Polypodium of each two drachms Euphorbium Poley mountain the seeds of Thymelea of each one drachm and an half and six grains Wormwood Mirrh of each one drachm and twelve grains Centaury the less Agrick Gum Amoniacum Indian leaf or Mace Spicknard Squils prepared 〈◊〉 of each one drachm Aloes the leaves of Time Germander Cassia Lignea Bdellium Horehound of each one scruple and fourteen grains Cinnamon Opopanax Castorium long-Birthwort the three sorts of Pepper Saffron Sagapenum Parsly of each half a drachm Hellebore black and white of each six grains clarified Honey a pound and an half mix them together and make them into an Electuary according to art also you may keep the Species by it self A. It takes away by the roots daily evils coming of melancholly falling-sickness vertigo convulsions megrim leprosie and many other infirmities for my part I should be loth to take it inwardly unlesse upon desperate occasions or in Clysters Hiera Pachii or Diacolocynthides Nicholaus Alexandrinus Take of Colocynthis Agrick Germander Horehound Stoechas of each ten drachms Opopanax Sagapenum Parsly seeds round Birthwort roots white Pepper of each five drams Spicknard Cinnamon Mirrh Indian Leaf Saffron of each four drachms let the Gums be bruised in a mortar the rest fiefted all of them made into an Electuary with clarified Honey three pound three ounces and five drachms A. It helps the falling-sicknesse madness and the pain in the head called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pains in the breast and stomach whether they come by sickness or bruises pains in the loins and backbone hardness of womens breasts putrifaction of meat in the stomach and sour belchings Tryphera minor Foenon Mesue Take of Myrobalans Chebs Bellericks Indian and Emblicks Nutmegs of each five drachms the seeds of 〈◊〉 the roots of Asarabacca Origanum of Persia or Dictamni of Creet black Pepper Olibanum Bishops weed Ginger Tamaris Indian Spicknard Schoenanthus Cyperus roots of each half an ounce Steel prepared twenty drachms let the Myrobalans be rosted a little with fresh butter let the rest being poudered be sprinkled with a little oyl of sweet Almonds then ad to them Musk a drachm and with three times their weight in clarified Hony make them into an Electuary according to art A. It helps the imoderate flowing of the terms in women and the Hemorrhoyds in men it helps weaknes of the stomach and restores colour lost It frees the body from crude humors and strengthens the bladder helps melancholly and rectifies the distempers of the speen Tryphera Solutive Renodeus Take of Diagrydium ten drachms of the best Turbith an ounce and an half Cardamoms the less Cloves Cinnamon Mace of each three drachms Yellow Sanders Liquoris sweet Fennel seeds of each half an ounce Acorus Schaenanth of each a drachm preserved Citron pills Roses of each three drachms Violets two drachms Penedies four ounces Sugar-Candy half a pound Honey well clarified in juyce of Apples a pound make an Electuary of them according to art A. The Diagrydium and Turbith are purging the rest are all cordial but what to make of them put together I know not therefore I leave them and pass to PILLS A. PILLS in Greek are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Lattin Pilulae which signifies little Balls because they are made up in such a form that they may be the better swallowed down by reason of the offensiveness of their tast A. They were first invented for the purging of the head however Physitians have since ordered the businesse because the matter there offending is not so soon taken away by any other physick Pilulae Alephanginae or Aromatical Pills Mesue Take of Cinnamon Cloves Cardamoms Nutmegs Mace Calamus Aromaticus Carpobalsamum or the seeds of Angelica Schaenanth wood of Aloes yellow Sanders red Roses dried Wormwood of each half an ounce let these being grosly bruised be infused twenty four hours in four pints of water then boyl them over a gentle fire till the third part be consumed strain them and in the liquor dissolve a pound of Aloes then having drawn off the water either in hot ashes or a bath ad to it Mirrh and Mastich of each half an ounce Saffron two drachms syrup of Wormwood so much as is sufficient to make it up into a masse A. This recept differs much from that which Mesue left to posterity perhaps the Colledge followed Renodaeus more closely in it than they did Mesue but some question whether Renodaeus or the Colledg either can amend the recepts of Mesue the cheif alterations are Mastich Asarabacca roots and Indian Spicknard of each an ounce is totally left out besides all the Simples till you come to the Wormwood are set down but half so much in quantity as Mesue prescribed them some other smal alterations are also in most of the quantities But I must return to my scope A. It cleanseth both stomach and brain of gross and putrified humours and sets the sences free when they are thereby troubled it cleanseth the brain offended by ill humours wind c. helps vertigo and head-aches and strengthens the brain exceedingly helps concoction and strengthens the stomach I have often made experience of it upon my own body and alwales with good success in such occasions and therefore give me leave to commend it to my country men for a wholsom cleansing medicine strengthening no waies violent one drachm taken at night going to bed will work gently next day if the party be weak you may give less if strong more Aloe Rosata Hier. Fabr. ab Aquāp Take of cleer Aloes succotrina in pouder four ounces the juyce of Damask Roses clarified four pound mix them together and digest them in the sun or else in a bath till all the moisture is drawn away then infuse it again in so much more juyce and evaporate away the moisture again do so four times then keep the masse to be made into pills A. It is a gallant gentle purger of choller frees the stomach from superfluous humors opens stoppings and other infirmities of the body proceeding from choller or flegm as yellow Jaundice c. and strengthens the body exceedingly Pills of washed Aloes Augustani Take of Aloes washed with the juyce or Damask Roses an ounce Agrik trochiscated three drachms mastich two drams Species Diamoschu dulce half a drachm syrup of Damask Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into a mass according to art A. It purgeth both brain stomach bowels and eyes of putrified humors and also strengthens them Pilulae Assaireth Avicenna Take of Species Hiera Picra
in the like manner A. I am of opinion that this art of preserving was first invented for Delicacy sake yet is it of great moment in physick for hereby such simples as before were loathed by the stomach are made delicious and pleasing also many simples are better kept by far this way A. For the Vertues of them see the simples CONSERVES AND SVGARS OF HERBS LEAVES FLOWERS AND FRUITS COnserves of Wormwood Sorrel Woodsorrel Maiden hair Orrenges Bettony Borrage Bugloss Carduus Benedictus Centaury Ceterach Germander Clove Gilliflowers Succory Scurvigrass Comfry the greater Cynosbatus Citraria Elicampane Eyebright Fumitory Brooms not quite open Pomegranates white Lillies Lillies of the valley Mallows Water lillies Peaches Primroses Self heal Roses Red and Damask Rosemary flowers Sage Elder Scabious Stoechas Linetree Coltsfoot Violets Goats rue Hedge Hysop common Hysop Marjoram Bawm Mints Rue Savory Scordium Comfry A. Thus have I given you the Colledges Conserves or rather their confusion in English wherein they have made such a chaos of hearbs and flowers that to unweave it would unweave the Rete mirabile of my brain the truth is I want time only take notice of the Catalogue of Simples and there you may see whether the herb or flower be most in use as also what the use of it is A word is enough to a wise man I proceed Let the leaves and flowers be beaten very small and to every pound of them add three pound of white Sugar and beat them well together into a conserve But Barberries Prunella and other sour fruits are not made into conserves after this manner for example Take of Barberries as many as you will let them boil so long in a sufficient quantity of cleer water till the pulp may be drawn out by rubbing it through a sieve Then take six pounds of this same pulp thus strained which put in an earthen pan well glazed because if you do it in brass it will retain an illfavoured smatch of the mettal boil away the watry moisture of them with a gentle fire stirring it about continually with a stick lest the juyce burn then mix it with ten pound of white Sugar according to art boiling it to its due consistence A. Prunella indeed and in truth is Self-heal not Sloes as I am confident they intend it here because they place it among the sour juyces I was jealous they intended it so before therefore when I translated it self-heal I set the word Prunella in the margin Is it possible so many grave heads should so grosly mistake an herb for the fruit of a tree Prunella for Prunellus The Printer hath vindicated himself from so foul an Errour in the Latter end of their Dispensatory it remains in the Colledge to do the like it being a thing if not very preposterous I am sure extreamly dangerous to prescribe one thing for another in Physick If they can but produce an Author An Author though from Utopia where ever Prunella was taken for a Sloe or Sloe-tree I shall be content to bear the blame my self A. The vertues of al Conserves are the same with the herbs flowers or fruits whereof they are made and they are thus mixed with Sugar 1. to preserve them the longer 2. that they may be more pleasing to the pallat Lozenges of Poppies called Diacodium Solidum or Tabulatum Take twenty white Poppy heads of a mean bigness neiâ—â—â—â— too green nor too ripe spring-water three pints infuse them four and twenty hours then boyl them till the vertue is out of the heads then strain them out and with a sufficient quantity of Sugar boyl the liquor to that hardnesse that you may make Lozinges of it A. This recept is transcribed verbatim from the Augustan Physitians though the Colledge through forgetfulness or something else hide it the vertues are the same with the common Diacodium viz. to provoke sleep and help thin rewms in the head c. Manus Christi Simple and Pearled Take of the best Sugar a pound Damask-rose-water half a pint boil them together according to art to that thicknesse that it may be made into Lozenges and if toward the latter end of the decoctiom you ad half an ounce of Pearls prepared in pouder together with eight or ten leaves of gold it will be Manus Christi with pearls A. It is naturally cooling apropriated to the heart it restores lost strength takes away burning feavers and false imaginations I mean that with pearls for that without Pearls is ridiculous it hath the same vertues Pearls have Manus Christi against Worms Take of Rhubarb four scruples Agrick Trochiscated Corallina burnt Hartshorn Dittany of Creet Wormseed Sorrelseed of each a scruple Cinnamon Zedoary Cloves Saffron of each half a Scruple white Sugar a pound dissolve the Sugar in four ounces of Wormwood water and one ounce of Wormwood Wine and one spoonful of Cinnamon Water and then with the forenamed pouders make it into Lozenges A. The title shews you the vertues of it for my part I think in penning of it they made a long Harvest of a little Corn. Penidies Are made of Sugar and Barly water boiled in such a proportion and with such an art that it will not stick to ones fingers and yet one may draw it like birdlime into what form one will A. I remember country people were wont to take them for coughs and they are sometimes used in other compositions Confection of Frankinsence Norimberg Take of Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce Nutmegs white Frankinsence of each three drachms Liquoris Mastich of each two drachms Cubebs Hartshorn prepared of each one drachm Conserves of red Roses an ounce with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar make it into a Confection in bits of two drachms weight A. I cannot boast much neither of the rariety nor vertues of this receit Sugar of Roses Take of red Rose flowers not fully open an ounce cut off the white from them then dry them in the shaddow afterwards beat them in a stone mortar and with twelve ounces of the best Sugar dissolved in red Rose water boyl it according to art till the water be consumed then put the mass out upon a marble stone and make it into what form you please there be some that whilst it is boiling ad to it four ounces of Conserve of red Roses dilligently mixing them together by which means the Sugar will be both of the better colour and the pleasanter tast A. I am verily perswaded that the Colledge appoint this to be beaten in a stone mortar for fear a brass mortar should take away the colour of the Roses which is but the Embrion of an ignorant brain it is the boiling of it takes away the colour and nothing else if you do but boil the rose water and Sugar to a sufficient height before you put in the Roses in pouder the Sugar will be of colour good enough never fear it without the addition
quinces and the juyce viz put in fresh having strained out the former at last strain it and keep it for your use Oyl of Elicampane is made of the roots of Elicampane bruised and of the juyce of them and oyl of Almonds of each half a pound sweet wine three ounces boyled to the consumption of the wine Oyl of Euphorbium is made of Euphorbium half an ounce oyl of winter-Gilliflowers Wine of each five ounces boyled to the consumption of the wine Oyl of Emmats is made of winged Emmets two ounces oyl eight ounces set in the sun for fourty daies and so kept for your use Oyl of St. Johns wort Take of the tops of St. Johns wort four ounces steep them in a pound of old oyl Olive and six ounces of Wine for three daies either in the sun or in the heat of a bath then strain them out renew the infusion with fresh tops of Saint Johns wort the second and third time the last time let it be boyled almost to the consumption of the wine strain it out and ad to the oyl three ounces of Turpentine one scruple of Saffron boyl it a little and so keep it for vour use Oyl of Jasmine is made of the flowers and cleer oyl as oyl of Boses is Oyl of Orris Take of the roots of Orris Florentine a pound the flowers of white Lillies half a pound water in which other roots of Orris Florentine have been boyled so much as is sufficient sweet oyl six pound boyl them in a double vessel then put in fresh roots and flowers the former being cast away as in oyl of Roses Oyl of Earthworms Take of Earthworms half a pound wash them wel in Wine then add oyl of Olives two pound Wine eight ounces boyl them in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of Marjoram Simple is made of four ounces of the Herb infused in six ounces of Wine and a pound of oyl with insolation and two other infusions as in oyl of Roses evaporate away the Wine in a bath Oyl of Mastich Take of oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound Mastich three ounces Wine four ounces boyl them in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of mints is made of the hearb and Oyl Omphacine as Oyl of Roses Oyl of Mirtles is made of the berries of Mirtles bruised and sprinkled with red Wine a pound oyl Omphacine three pound let them be set in the sun eight daies then boyled infuse fresh ones and repeat both the infusion and insolation three times then boyl them in a double vessel and keep the oyl for your use Oyl of Mirrh Take certain new laid Egs and boyl them till they be hard then cut them through the middle the longest way take out the yolks and fill the hollow place half full of mirrh then joyn the whites together again and bind them gently with a string then place them between two dishes a small grate being between that they fall not to the bottom then place them in a wine Cellar or some other cool place under ground so wil the melted liquor of the Mirrh distil down into the inferiour dish Oyl of Daffadils is made of the flowers and oyl as oyl of Roses Nard oyl Simple is made of Spicknard three ounces sweet oyl a pound and an half Wine and Water of each two ounces and an half boyl them in a double vessel till the Wine and Water be consumed Oyl of water Lilly flowers is made of oyl Omphacine a pound white water Lilly flowers four ounces three times repeated as in oyl of Roses Oyl of Poppies is made of the heads flowers and leaves of Poppies and oyl Omphacine as oyl of Dill. Oyl of Rue simple of Rue boiled and sweet oyl as oyl of Roses Oyl of Savin is made as oyl of Roses So also is oyl of Elder flowers Oyl of Scorpions of Scorpions by number thirty 〈◊〉 of bitter Almonds two pound let them be infused for fourty daies in a warm place in a glass then strained out and the oyl kept for your use Oleum Sicyonium of wild Cucumerroots and their juyce of each six ounces oyl of ripe Olives a pound boyl them in a double vessel to the consumption of the juyce Oyl of Nightshade is made of the ripe berries of Nightshade four ounces boyled in a pint of oyl Oyl of Styrax is made of a pound of oyl Olive and three ounces of Styrax Wine so much as is sufficient boyl them after a sufficient maceration to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of Vervain is made of the herb and oyl as oyl of Mints is Oyl of Violets of the flowers of Violets and oyl Omphatine as oyl of Roses A. That most of these oyls if not all of them are used only externally is certain and as certain that they retain the vertues of the simples whereof they are made therefore the ingenious might help themselves but because we live in a frigid age I shall vouchsefe to quote the vertues of the chiefest of them A. Oyl of Roses the stomach being anointed with it strengthens it cools the heat of it thickens takes away inflamations abates swellings A. Oyl of Wormwood doth moderatly heat and strengthen the stomach being anointed with it it procures apetite opens obstructions furthers digestion and kills worms A. Oyl of Dill doth moderatly digest aswage the pains of the head and nerves and procures sleep A. Oyl of Castorium helps cold diseases of the nerves deafness being dropped into the ears and noise there A. Oyl of Chamomel strengthens the sinnews greatly aswageth pain and breaks the stone A. Oyl of melilot hath the same effects A. Oyl of Walflowers aswageth pains in the breast and reins sinnews joints and bladder A. Oyl of Quinces cools binds and strengthens stops vomiting loosness and sweating A. Oyl of Euphorbium hath the same effects with that of Castorium but works more forcibly being 〈◊〉 up the nose it purgeth the head of flegm A. Oyl of Emmets the privities being anointed with it provokes lust A. Oyl of St. Johns wort is as good a thing in green wounds as a man can use A. Oyl of Orris doth concoct and dissolve aswage pain of the womb liver aud joynts also it strengthens the breast A. Oyl of Earthworms mollifie heat and aswage pains and is special good for such as 〈◊〉 been bruised or hurt in their joints A. Oyl of Marjoram helps weariness cold diseases of the brain noise in the ears being dropped into them the bitings of venemous beasts and provokes the terms in women A. Oyl of Mastich strengthens the brain stomach and liver sinnews and veins staies vomiting and fluxes A. The stomach being anointed with oyl of Mints staies the weakness of it heats and strengthens it staies vomiting helps digestion and provokes appetite A. Oyl of Mirtles hath the same effects with Quinces A. Oyl of Mirrh preserves any thing from putrifying that is anointed with it makes the face fair and
a double vessel til the Wine be consumed if you infuse fresh buds once or twice before you boyl it the medicine will be the stronger then presse out the oyl and keep it A. It is a fine cool oyl but the ointment called by that name which follows hereafter is far better Oyl of Foxes Mesue Take a fat Fox of a middle age wearied with hunting and new killed the skin and bowels being taken away and the bones broken cut into many parts boyl him in white Wine and Conduit water of each six pound till almost half be consumed scumming it dilligently then mix with it four pound of old sweet Oyl common Salt three ounces the flowers of Sage Time of each a pound let it boyl till almost all the water be consumed then ad water wherein a handful of Dill and Time have been boyled eight pound boyl it again over a gentle fire to the consumption of the water then press out the Oyl and if any watry substance remain amongst it seperate it with a Funnel and keep the Oyl for your use A. It is exceeding good in pains of the joints gouts pains in the back and reins OYNTMENTS OYNTMENTS MORE SIMPLE Unguentum album Rhasis TAKE of oyl of Roses nine ounces good Ceruss washed in Rose water three ounces white Wax two ounces make them into an Ointment according to art and if you ad two drachms of Camphire then will it be camphorated A. Some hold it impossible to make it into an Ointment this way others hold it not convenient but instead of oyl of Roses they ad so much Hogs grease and leaving out the white Wax they make it into an Ointment without the help of the fire A. It is a fine cooling drying Ointment easeth pains and itching in wounds and ulcers and is a hundred times better with Camphire than without it Unguentum Aegiptiacum Mesue Take of Vert-de-greece five drachms Honey fourteen drachms sharp Vineger seven drachms boyl them all together till they come to be a thick Ointment of a reddish colour A. It cleanseth filthy ulcers and fistulaes forcibly and not without pain it takes away dead or proud flesh and dries the Chyrurgian of our daies use it commonly instead of Apostolorum to cleanse wounds it cleanseth more potently indeed and therefore may be sitter in sanious ulcers but it strengthens not so much Unguentum Anodinum Take of oyl of white Lillies six ounces oyl of Dill and Chamomel of each two ounces sweet Almonds one ounce Ducks grease and Hens grease of each two ounces white Wax three ounces mix them together according to art A. I take the Augustan Physitians to be the Authors of this for there it is to be found verbatim only they prescribe no certain quantity of Wax its use is to aswage pains in any part of the body especially such as come by inflamations whether in wounds or tumours and for that it is admirable Unguentum sive Linimentum Arceus Take of Gum Elenni Turpentine of the firr tree of each an ounce and an half sheep Suit tried two ounces hogs grease tried two ounces mix them together and make them into an Ointment according to art A. Although our Chyrurgians usually use this only for wounds and ulcers in the head yet he that makes trial shall find it excellent for ulcers if not too sanious in any part of the body though in the feet and they are at the greatest distance from the head it gently cleanseth and filleth up an ulcer with flesh it being of a mild nature and friendly to the body Unguentum Aureum Mesue Take of yellow Wax half a pound oyl two pound and an half Turpentine two ounces Rozin of the Pine tree cōmonly called Perrozin Colophonia of each an ounce a half Frankinsence Mastich of each an ounce Saffron a drachm make them up according to art A. If you remember the Colledg commends this Ointment to engender flesh in the beginning of the Compounds page 79. and indeed it doth so but if you please to take counsel of Dr. EXPERIENCE he will tell you that the former is worth two of it for that use Unguentum Basilicon majus Mesue Take of white wax Per-rozin Heifers Suit greek pitch Turpentine Olibanum Mirrh of each an ounce Oyl a pound or else a sufficient quantity to make it up into an Ointment Unguentum Basilicon minus Or Tetrapharmacum Mesue Take of yellow Wax Rozin greek Pitch of each half a pound Oyl two pound and four ounces only melt them that so they may be mixed together into the consistence of an Ointment A. Both this and the former heat moisten and digest procure matter in wounds I mean bring the filth or corrupted blood from green wounds they cleanse and ease pain Ointment of Bdellium Mesue Take of Bdellium six drachms Euphorbium Sagapenum of each four drachms Castorium three drachms Wax fifteen drachms Oyl of Elder or Walflower ten drachms the Bdellium and 〈◊〉 being dissolved in the water of wild Rue let the rest be united with warm water and made into an Ointment according to art A. I confess Mesue appoints it to be made up in the same manner I do not well know whether it be possible or not If not it may be done with the oyl A. It is exceeding good against palsies wry-mouths falling sickness and other cold of afflictions of the nerves Unguentum de Calce Foesius Take of Chalk at least seven times washed half a pound Oyl of Roses a pound 〈◊〉 them about well in a leaden mortar then ad to them three ounces of Wax A. It is exceeding good in burnings and scaldings Oyntment of Marsh-mallows Simple Nicholaus Take of Marsh mallow roots fresh and bruised two pound Linseed and Fenagreek seed bruised of each a pound steep them in eight pound of Water then boyl them a little gently and press out their mussilage of which take two pound and oyl four pound boyl them together till the mussilage be consumed then ad Wax a pound Rozin half a pound Turpentwo ounces boyl them into the consistence of an Ointment Oyntment of Marshmallows Compound Nichol. Take of Marshmallow roots two pound the seeds of Flax and Fenugreek of each one pound pulp of Squils half a pound Oyl four pound Wax one pound Turpentine Gum of 〈◊〉 Galbanum of each two ounces Colophonia Rozin of each half a pound let the roots be well washed and bruised as also the Linseed Foenugreek seed and Squils then steep them three daies in eight pints of water the fourth day boyl them a little upon the fire draw out the Mussilage of which take two pound and boyl it with the oyl to the consumption of the juyce afterwards ad the Wax Rozin and Colophonia when they are melted ad the Turpentine afterwards the Galbanum and gum of lvy dissolved in Vineger boyl them a little and having removed them from the fire 〈◊〉 them til they are cold that so they may be
by number eight let the fat 's being cleansed from their skins be washed in white Wine then put them into an earthen vessel glazed which is half full of Rose water let it boyl gently till almost all the water be consumed strain it into another earthen vessel sprinkled with Rose water and ad to it oyl of sweet Almonds six ounces white Wax four ounces melt it again by the fire and having strained it and washed it with Rose water keep it for your use A. I have seen many other receits to make Pomatum and all better than this which is very difficult if not impossible to be gotten in many places of this Nation but I have not that Latitude given me to quote any receits that are not in the Dispensatory only take notice that its general use is to soften and supple the roughness of the skin and take away the chops of the lips hands face or other parts Unguentum Potabile Foesius Take of fresh Butter whithout Salt a pound and in half Maddir Castorium Sperma Caeti Tormentil roots of each half an ounce let them boil in a sufficient quantity of Wine til the Wine be consumed and so made into an Oyntment An Oyntment against Scabs and Itch. Renodaeus Take of Sows grease often washed in juyce of Scabious half a pound the roots of sharp-pointed Dock boyled very soft in Vineger and pulped through a sieve Brimstone washed in the juyce of Lemmons of each an ounce and an half Vnguentum Populeon washed in juyce of Elicampane half an ounce mix them all together in a mortar unto an Oyntment according to art A. It is a wholsom though troublesom medicine for what the Title specifies Oyntment of Roses Mesue Take of Hogs grease well cleansed from the skins a pound wash it 9. times in warm water then as often in cold water fresh red Roses a pound mix them together and so let them stand seven daies then boil them over a gentle fire and strain out the Roses then mix with the Oyntment the like quantity of fresh red Roses and then let them stand together as many daies then strain them out having first boiled them at the last add juyce of red Roses six ounces boil them over a gentle fire till the juyce be consumed then strain it and make of it an Oyntment according to art A. You need do no more than let it stand till it is cold and you shall see it is an Oyntment alone without any further making A. It is of a fine cooling nature exceeding useful in all gaulings of the skin and frettings accompanied with chollerick humours angry pushes tetters ringworms it mitigates diseases in the head coming of heat as also the intemperate heat of the stomach and liver Unguentum Rubrum Desiccativum Nicholaus Take of oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound and an half white Wax five ounces melt them together and put them into a leaden mortar then put to them earth of Lemnos or else Bole Armenick Lapis Calaminaris exquisitely beaten into pouder of each four ounces Litharge of Gold Ceruss of each two ounces Camphire a drachm make them into an Oyntment according to art A. It binds and restrains fluxes of humours and is as gallant an oyntment to skin a sore as any is in the Dispensatory Common Oyntment of Tutty Take of Tutty prepared two ounces Lapis Calaminaris often heat red hot and as often quenched in Plantane water an ounce let them be beaten into very fine pouder and with Hogs grease often washed in Rose water a pound and an half let it be made into an Oyntment according to art Also you may prepare it with Oyntment of Roses instead of Hogs grease A. It is a cooling drying Oyntmet apropriated to the eyes to dry up hot and salt humours that flow down thither the eye lids being anointed with it OYNTMENTS MORE COMPOUND A Binding Oyntment Fernelius Take of Oyl of Roses often times washed in Allum water a pound and an half white Wax four ounces unripe Galls Cypress nuts Mirtle berries Balaustins Pomegranate pills Acorn cups Acacia Sumach Mastich of each an ounce let all of them being exactly beaten into pouder be steeped in the juyces of unripe Medlars and Services for four daies then dried by a gentle fire so with the oyl and wax let them be made into an Oyntment according to art A. Me thinks these are but wooden directions you had best as I suppose after they have been infused to boil the Oyl and Juyces till the Juyces be consumed then put in the Wax A. It bindeth and bringeth together the open parts of the body and compacteth the pores it stops fluxes staies issues of blood the falling out of the womb and fundament Unguentum Agrippe Nicholaus Take of Briony roots two pound wild Cucumer roots one pound Squills half a pound fresh Orris roots three ounces male Fearn roots dwarf Elder Water Caltrop or Aron of each 2. ounces let all of them being bruised be infused for six or eight daies in four pounds of sweet oyl then boyled over a gentle fire till the roots begin to be crisp then pressed out and in the Oyl melt fifteen ounces of white Wax and so bring it into the form of an Oyntment A. It purgeth exceedingly and is good to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies and if there be any humour of 〈◊〉 in any part of the body that you know not how to remove provided the part be not two tender you may anoint it with this Unguentum de Alabastro Ben. Vict. Favent Take of the juyce of Chamomel four ounces the juyce of red Roses two ounces the juyce of Rue and Bettony of each an ounce and an half the juyce of Marsh mallow roots two ounces Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound and an half pure Alablaster beaten into fine pouder three ounces infuse them all night then boyl them to the consumption of the juyce and with six ounces of white Wax make it an oyntment according to art Unguentum Apostolorum Avicenna Take of Turpentine Rozin white Wax 〈◊〉 of each fourteen drachms long Birthwort roots Olibanum Bdellium of each six drachms Mirrh Galbanum of each half an ounce Opopanax Vert-de-greece of each two drams Litharge nine drachms Oyl if in summer time two pound if in winter three pound Vineger so much as is sufficient to dissolve the Amoniacum Opopanax and Galbanum make it up into an oyntment according to art A. It consumes corrupt and dead flesh and makes flesh soft which is hard it cleanseth wounds ulcers fistulaes and restore flesh where it is wanting Unguentum Aregon Adjutorium Nicholaus Take of Rosemary Marjoram Mother of Time Rue Aron-roots the roots of wild Cucumers of each four ounces and an half the leaves of Bay Sage Savin the roots of Briony a Fleabane the greater and lesser or in defect of the lesser take the double quantity of the greater of each four ounces Laurel nine ouunces the
immoderate flowing of the terms and Hemorrhoids falling out of the fundament and womb finally for every occasion that requires binding I would if I were Eloquent commend it in the superlative degree Unguentum ad 〈◊〉 Norimberg Take of white starch Ceruss washed Litharge prepared Lead burnt Gum Traganth of each a drachm and an half Thebane Opium Camphire of each a scruple the white of one Egg oyl of Roses and Violets of each an ounce aud an half Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an oyntment A. It is apropriated to the Hemorrhoids as the title shews Unguentum Hemorrhoidale Saxoniae Take of mussilage of the seeds of Fleawort and Quinces drawn in the water of Nightshade of each an ounce oyl of Roses compleat an ounce the yolk of one Egg let them be stirred together in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestel adding a little melted Wax mix them together and make of them an oyntment according to art A. Its use is the same with the former Common oyntment of Baies Take of Bay leaves a pound Bay berries half a pound Cabbage leaves four 〈◊〉 Neats foot oyl five pound 〈◊〉 suet two pound the leaves and berries being bruised and boyled with the oyl and suet till their juyce be consumed let it be strained and kept A. It heats and expels wind it profitable for old aches and sprains but what good it should do in the itch for which simple people buy it I cannot imagin Unguentum Martiatum Nichol. Take of the leaves of Bay and Rosemary of each eight ounces Rue seven ounces Tamaris six 〈◊〉 the leaves of Dwarf-Elder Marjoram Savin Costmary or else Water-mints Sage Bazil Poley mountain Calaminth Mugwort Elicampane Bettony Brank-Ursine Goose grasse or Cleavers Anemone or Wind flower or for want of it Pellitory of the wall Burnet Agrimony Wormwood Cowslips garden Costus Elders Orphine the greater 〈◊〉 the greater and lesser Yarrow Germander Centaury the less Plantain Strawberries Tetrahit or for want of it Golden-rod Cvnkfoyl of each four ounces and an half the roots of 〈◊〉 the seeds of Cummin 〈◊〉 of each three ounces 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half the seeds of the greater Nettles of Violets red or errattick Poppies cōmonly called Corn-roses Garden Mints 〈◊〉 wild Mints Maiden-hair Carduus Benedictus Woodbind or Honey suckles Va lerian the greater sweet Cranebill or Muschata wood Sor rel Harts-tongue Ox-eye Southern wood Marrow of a Stag Styrax Calamitys of each half an ounce Butter ten drachms Bears and Hens 〈◊〉 Mastich Frankinsence of each one ounce Nard oyl two ounces Wax two pound let the herbs being green be cut and infused in eight pounds of oyl with wine for seven daies on the eighth day let them be boyled almost to the consumption of the wine then being removed from the fire let it be strained and the oyl put into the pan again to which being a little warmed 〈◊〉 the butter marrow fat nard oyl and wax then the styrax dissolved in wine and mixed with a little turpentine but let the Mastich Mirrh and Frankinsence being beaten into pouder be put in last of al and when they are all well mixed together keep the oyntment in a vessel A. This long recept of Nich Myrepsus is held to be profitaagainst cold afflictions of the brain nerves and joynts as shaking palsie dead palsie Convuliions c. it helps numbness of the joynts the gout and hard tumors of the spleen Mundificativum ex 〈◊〉 Take of the juyce of Smallage a pound Honey nine ounces Wheat flower three ounces boyl them over the fire to the thickness of an oyntment according to art A. It is a fine gentle cleansing oyntment Unguentum Neapolitanum Renodaeus Take of Sows grease washed with juyce of Sage one pound quicksilver strained through a cloath and well killed with falling spittle four ounces oyl of Bays Chamomel Earth-worm of each two ounces oyl of Spike an ounce and an half Aqua vitae an ounce yellow wax two ounces Turpentine washed in juyce of Elicampane three ounces pouder of Camaepitys and Sage of each two drachms make them into an oyntment according to art Unguentum Resinum Take of Per-rozin Turpentine yellow Wax pure Oyl of each equal parts mix them together A. It is as pretty a Careoloath for a new sprain as most is and cheap Unguentum Nervinum Take of the leaves and flowers of Cowslips Sage Camaepytis Rosemary Lavender Bay with the berries Chamomel Rue Smallage Melilot with the flowers Wormwood of each a handful Mints Bettony Penyroyal Parsly Centaury the less St. Johns wort of each half a handful Neats or sheeps foot Oyl five pound Sheep or Ox suet or else their marrow two pound Oyl of Spike half an ounce bruise the herbs and boyl them with the oyls and suet and make an oyntment of them according to art A. It is apropriated to the nerves and helps their infirmities coming of cold which you may find often enough related I do not love alwaies to harp upon the same string as also old bruises Unguentum Pactorale Nich. Take of fresh butter often washed in Violet water six ounces oyl of sweet Almonds four ounces oyl of Chamomel and Violets of each three ounces Goose and Ducks grease of each three ounces Orris roots two drachms Saflron half a dram white Wax three ounces let the Wax and fats be melted together in the oyl then often washed either in Barly or Hysop water add the Orris and Saffron being brought into fine pouder then bring them into an Oyntment according to art A. If you let the Butter boyl it will stink but the Colledge never thought of that having forgotten the old Grammer phraze 〈◊〉 est c. A. It strengthens the breast and stomach easeth the pains thereof helps pleuresies and consumptions of the lungues Unguentum Populneum Nich. Take of the buds of Poplar fresh gathered a pound and an half fresh Hogs grease three pound let the Poplar-buds be beaten and mixed with the grease till these following herbs can be gotten Take of the leaves of black Poppies and Mandrakes the tender branches of Maddir the leaves of Henbane Nightshade Lettice Sengreen the lesser and greater Violets Penywort or Kidneywort Burs of each three ounces let all of them being bruised be mixed with the grease and Poplar buds after ten daies put to them a pound of Rose water and boil them with a gentle fire till the water and all the liquor be consumed strain it and press it out and if need be boyl it again till it come to the consistence of an oyntment A. It is exceeding good in burnings scaldings and inflamations it aswageth the heat of the head and kidneyes the temple being anointed with it it provokes sleep Unguantum Resumptivum Nicholaus Take of fresh Hogs grease three ounces Hens Goose and Ducks grease of each two ounces Oesypus an ounce oyl of Violets Chamomel and Dill of each two ounces fresh Butter a pound
pith being taken away steep thē in juyce of Quinces three daies with a moderate heat then dry them and keep them The preparation of Goats blood Take a Goat of a middle age feed him a month with burnet Smallage Parsly Lovage Mallows and such like things then take the blood which flows out of his Arteries being opened let it settle then pour the water from it and dry the blood in a fornace the Goat must be killed towards the latter end of the summer about the Dog daies The way to burn Swallows Let young Swallows be so killed that the blood may run upon their wings then sprinkle them with a little salt and burn them in an earthen vessel well glazed and keep the Ashes for your use After the same manner are burnt Hedgehogs Toads and Frogs but without salt The preparation of Gum Lacca Take of Gum Lacca which is foul for it were labor in vain to wash what is clean bruise it a little and boyl it in water in which Schaenanth and Birthwort of each equal parts have been boyled til the purer part swims at top and the drosse is sunck to the bottom evaporate away the moisture from that purer part either in the sun or in a bath and so keep it for your use The preparation of Lapis Lazuli Take of Lapis Lazuli finely bruised and wash it in so many waters till the water remain cleer after washing and this preparation is enough when you put it in pills but when you use it in Confectio Alkermes it must first be burnt The preparation of Earth worms Take of Earth worms cut and cleansed as many as you will wash them so often in Wine till they are cleansed from their filth then dry them and keep them for your use The common way of preparing Pearls Beat Pearls into very fine pouder in an Iron or Steel mortar putting to them a little Rose water that so the more subtill parts may not fly à way In like manner is Coral and other precious stones prepared The preparation of Sows or Woodlice Take of Sows as many as you will wash them in white Wine then put them into a new glazed pot dry them in a fornace that so they may be 〈◊〉 into pouder The way to make Oesipus Take of wool cut off from the neck ribs and under the pits of the forelegs of a Sheep not washed but well wearied wash it in warm water so long till it have left all its 〈◊〉 in the water then press it out and lay it by let that fat and foul water be poured from on high out of one vessel into another a long time 〈◊〉 it be froathy then let the froath settle and take off the fat that swims on the top then pour the water to and fro again till neither more fat nor froath appears then wath the froath with the fat in cleer water till it be cleansed from the dross and will not bite your tongue if you touch it with it then keep it in a thick earthen clean pot in a cold place Washed lead Dioscorides I 〈◊〉 water being put in a leaden mortar be stirred up and down with a leaden pestel painfully till it look black and grow thick like lime then strain it through a linnen cloath putting 〈◊〉 to it that so whatsoever is dissolved may pass through when it is setled pour off that water and wash it in other 〈◊〉 water till no blackness remain in it at last make it up into balls to be kept for your use Furnt Lead Dioscorides Take very thin plates of lead put them in an earthen pot putting 〈◊〉 one between every plate so pile them up till the pot be 〈◊〉 then set 〈◊〉 in the fire 〈◊〉 the lead up and down till it be brought into ashes then shut your 〈◊〉 lest the steem either of the Brimstone or of the lead do you mischief take it off from the fire then wash it as you wash Ceruss Pouder of raw lead Fernelius Take very thin plates of Lead and cut them very small then steep them three 〈◊〉 in sharp Vineger changing the Vineger every day then dry them by the fire but burn them not so beat them into a fine pouder The preparation of Fox lungues Take of Fox lungues being fresh the Aspera Arteria being taken away wash them diligently with white Wine wherein Hysop and Scabious have been boyled dry it gently in an oven but burn it not then lay it up wrapped in Wormwood Horehound or Hysop dried Simple preparation of Scammony Take of Scammony in fine pouder a pound juyce of Quinces eight ounces mix them together and having stood in infusion twenty four hours evaporate away the juyce 2. Or take of Scammony in pouder and put it in a Quince the core being taken out and so roast it in the ashes or in an oven then take out the Scammony and keep it for your use Or 3. Take four ounces of Scammony put it in a glass viol cover it over with juyce of Quinces the breadth of three fingers let it stand in a bath till it look like milk then put out that and put in other juyce do so till it look no longer white let this liquor stand and settle and dry the setlings in the sun A. The Colledg here set down a way to prepare Squils for troches which they say is not unlike the former and comparing them together I find them as like as a Permain is like a Apple therefore I pass it The way to boyl Turpentine Take a pound of Venice Turpentine to which add a great quantity of water to wit twenty four pound in which let it be boyled so long till it loose its smell and be as hard as Rozin brittle as glass and white The preparation of Tutty Take of Tutty heat red hot three times in a crucible and as often quenched in Rose water then grind it very small and put it in a clean linnen cloath swing it up and down this way and that way in a vessel full of cleer water that the fine and profitable part thereof may come through into the water and the gross and filthy part remain still in the cloath let it settle and then pour off the water let this operation be repeated till nothing worth any thing be left in the cloath A CONCLUSION THus Courteous Reader have I gone through the whol Work I am not conscious to my self that I have justly given offence to any by translating this Work If any take offence it is to be shrewdly suspected it ariseth from self interests Once more let me advise the ignorant not to be too busie with what they have no skill in for as Physick as the never dying Hippocrates truly saith was never ordained for disorderly and disobedient persons so was the administration of it never ordained for dunces therefore let every one that administers physick seriously consider the great account must be made another day before God and the Lord Jesus Christ
that name a if you can get any such all those that ever I tasted were sour o see Directions in the beginning a the Eupatorum of Mesae for so you must take this the receit being his is the herb we call Maudlin and not Agrimonv The Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is not growing old because the flowers gathered in due time decay not by age ging quality b you had not best boyl the Senna altogether so much left it lose its 〈◊〉 c if you lack Sal-Indi you may take Sal-Gem d beaten into very fine pouder e burnt a birthwort b a sort of Comfry c the herb not the fish a too many Physitians in England being like Balaams Ass they will not speak unless they see an Angel yet I accuse not al. a to the liquor I mean not to the foeces o that is Grapes not ripe a this is the right ground Ivy it may be I may sometimes use the word permiscuously p Ribes a called also Lluellin by some Welchman or another and that 's the reason that Welchmen vapor so much of the vertues of this herb which is a quality most of that generation are excellent at 1 Ammi z Cassutha the Arabick name of Dodder a if you boyl the Dodder and 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 to long you had as good never put it in for a very little boiling takes out the vertues of them b melancholly is a sad sullen humor you had as good vex a nest of wasps asvex it o if I durst spend paper about it I cold easily prove spring-water to be the best by far a you may do it in warm water or a bath o the eross excepted which wil never dissolve while the world 〈◊〉 b you must first beat it into pouder else you may grind till your heartachs before you ob ain your purpose a I know not what fitter term to give that Arabick word Alkool b you must first beat it into pouder else you may grind till your heartachs before you ob ain your purpose c make the paper handsomly in form of a sunnel and so stick it in a suÌ„nel put the sunnel in another glass this is that they cal filtring a whether one one pound at three times or three pounds at three times might be som question yet not so great an one but experience wil decide it howsoever let it pass for one of the Colledges misty recepts o I rest coufident that the juyce if right is better by 20 parts and my confidence is built upon the rock of reason and not upon the sand of tradition d for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia e spring water is better a in all conscience especially as conscience goes now adaies here is too little sugar by half a let the water be warm else you may happen to lose your labor in syrups made o. decoctions the colour is not so material * pick the roses f take the roots themselves for if the bark be to be had it is very rare a blue violets not white * which is 〈◊〉 pints if your violets be good a 〈◊〉 some cal 〈◊〉 in English Cich pease c see in the begining of the book what they are c ground pine * Matricaria let others translate it by what name they wil I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that name I supose to be true a called by som 〈◊〉 broom in Suffix Knee-holly * hot or else you do nothing a viz. not husked * sliced thin or else you had almost as good hang in a stone a we want the terminus a quo unless we be as wise as Angels And the 1 Author hath t also in the very same words Howsoever if you boyl it away but to a pint and an half according to their rule you will not have water enough at the first to wet all the Simples they that are used to make Decoctionsknow how to make one for strength and this recept is not much in use o the manner shal be shewed in its proper place a would I could see theÌ„ truly if you would have them I doubt yon must go to Arabia for them where Mesue 〈◊〉 a would I could see theÌ„ truly if you would have them I doubt you must go to Arabioa for them where Mesuedwelâ—t a A kind of thorn growing in Egypt and Arabia * it is that we cal our Ladies thistle having white veins in the leaf and used to be eaten in the spring time * spring-water is better a bruise 〈◊〉 I the roots you boyl take that for a general rule unles the contrary be mentioned * by the brest I alwaies mean that which is called Thorax o a flag of a sweet smell som take it for Calamus Aromaticus c Peucedanum a Seseli o by all means let it be brought from thence yet some are of opinion that things growing in England are fitter for English bodies and can give reasons for it too * viz slice the Agrick cut the EpithimuÌ„ bruise the seeds ginger and mace a one kind of wolsebain b I suppose Fernelius means Borrag and Bugloss the natures of which are alike neither according to the opinion of some was the name Borrage known to the Ancient but called Bugloss and indeed it resembles an Neats tongue from whence the word was derived more than that we call Bugloss doth * see the making of it among the Troches c water and honey boyled together til it be scummed a I think they mean horse rhadishes Bruise the roots seeds and cut the herbs else you had almost as good boyla chip a bruise them first o Aqua mulsa * have a little patience and you shall be taught not only the way to make it but also the vertues of it which are not a few * see the simples if at any time you be put to a nonplus about them in the Compositions o else you had as good presse a log of wood * that latitude may be given safely in all compositions * before the shels be hard a if your eyes be in your head they wil teach youthat a Observe that the later it be before you ad the vineger to any syrup the sourer will it be so may you please yourself not offend the Colledge for they give you latitude enough o viz. Only throw away the hard pith in the middle and so you ought to do every time you use the roots z it differs a little from our ordinary Garden time an Herbal will shew you the difference o Calaminthacattaria a you shall be taught how to prepare theÌ„ in its proper place o whether this Orris be English or of that country wher Gesner lived is some question b Esula or Tythymal in sussex we call it Spurg and so I english it c and so you must both the Hellebores also or else you had as good put in a rush o first bruise the roots
redundant in which although we reverence the learned gray hairs of the ancient and have placed their recepts as it were in the front yet we neither reject nor 〈◊〉 the supplies of modern assusions but we have left them a place and corner in the reer that so they may serve as auxiltaries to the moddel of Physick Neither have we superfiously tied our selves to the sleps of the Ancient so as that we bring nothing new of our own for all here described is not transcribed we have not furnished our Apothecaries shop altogether with forraign wares but we have added some new ones and of our own which we bring forth into the publick as aproved by frequent use some we have changed in the ancient forms both the sence and name of the Author being preserved not moved thereto so much through desire of novelty as compelled thereto by necessity especially where such simples as are prescribed cannot easily be had in the place of which we prescribe others like unto them in vertue The like we have done in the composition of pils which if they were made into a mass after the ancient manner with juyces or waters they would soon be too dry therefore we have appointed it to be done with syrups also whereas in most Authors some things are totally left to the judgment of the Artificer especially in the quantity of Honey and Sugar under these two letters q. s. or words so much as is suffient whence it comes to pass that the same medicine hath neither the same consistence nor the same vertue we have for the future taken away this power from the Artificer and for this cause have taken some of the most skilful Apothecaries into counsel with us by whose help and pains we have agreed upon a certain manner of composition and have designed a certain quantity and dose which they may not ad to nor take from And lastly seeing in most Dispensatories both ancient and modern the use and vertue of every medicine is described whence ignorant fellows and Mountebanks may arm themselves for the practice of physick and so put a sword into a madmans hand for the destruction of the Common-wealth we have added nothing at all of the vertues for we write this to the learned only and to the 〈◊〉 rsiings of Apollo for the health not the understanding of the vulgar we need not give a reason why we dispose of it in this order we have placed the simple before the compound the internal before the external the liquid before the sollid We have digested them all into several Classes that so they may be brought into use and practice with little search Thus Courteous Reader thou hast both what we have done and why we have done it so It is a work to which all the Colledg have brought their Talents as all the gods did to Pandora in the play But under the auspicy of a most worthy President by whom not only as President but by whose counsel help and indefatigable study this building was finished which as it is friendly Reader we vow it to thine and the publick good and hope it will be commodious for thee and if it please thy palat use it and fare well From the Colledg of London Decemb. Anno. 1618 A brief of his MAIESTIES Royal Proclamation Commanding all Apothecaries of this Realm to follow this PHARMACOPOEIA lately compiled by the Colledg of Physitians of LONDON WHere is by Our especial Commandement the e hath been of late compiled in the Latin tongue by the Colledg of Physitians of London a Book entituled Pharmacâ—poeia Londinensis c. And whereas through the great care and industrie of the said Colledg the foresaid Pharmacopoeia Londin is now perfected and is a work greatly tending t the publick good of our subjects and we minding that all falshood differences varieties or incertainties in making or composing of Medicines and distilling of Oyls or Waters bereafter be utterly taken away and abolished and that in the time to come the manner and form prescrited in the said book should be generally and solely practised by Apothecaries in their compositions of Medicines and distillation of Waters for all such things as are therein named aud prescribed we therefore desirous in all things to provide for the common good of our subjects and intending to settle and establish the general use of the said Book in this 〈◊〉 of ENGLAND do hereby signifie and declare our Royal Will and pleasure to be and hereby straightly require charge and command all and singular Apothecaries within this our Realm of England or the dominions thereof that they and every of them immediately after the said Pharmacop Londin shall be printed and published do not compound or make any Medicine or medicinable receipt or prescription or distil any Oyl or Waters or other Extractions that are or shall be in the said Pharmacop Londin mentioned and named after the waies or means prescribed or directed by any other Books or Dispensatories whatsoever but after the only manner and form that hereby is or shall be directed prescribed and set down by the said book and according to the weights and measures that are or shall be therein limited and not otherwise c. upon pain of Our high displeasure and to incur such penalties and punishment as may he inflicted upon offenders herein for their contempt or neglect of this our Roial commandement Willing and commanding also hereby all Majors Sheriffs Iustices of peace Constables c. to be aiding and assisting Given at Our Palace of White-Hall 26. of April in the 16. yeer of Our Raign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland 51. 1618. VVEIGHTS TWenty grains do make a scruple three scruples a drachm commonly called a dram Eight drachms an ounce Twelve ounces a pound MEASVRES AS for the Colledges measures I know not well what English names to give them Cochlearium holds in syrups half an ounce in distilled waters three drachms Cyaibus holds an ounce and an half Hemina which also they call Cotyla contains nine ounces Libra holds twelve ounces A Sextary contains eighteen ounces A Congy six Sextaries These measures amongst the Romans contained not just the same quantities for their Cyathus contained an onnce and an half a drachm and a scruple Their Sextary contained but 14. ounces 3. quarters and half a quarter and amongst the Grecians not so much it is called a Sextary because it is the six part of a Congy Neither did the Roman Hemina contain altogether 7. ounces and an half Their Libra I suppose to that which Galen calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viz. a vessel to measure with it was made with cleer horn and by certain lines drawn round it like rings was divided into twelve equal parts each part containing an ounce Besides these the Colledge have gotten another foolish and incertain way of measuration not here set down viz. by handfuls and pugills what ahandful is is known to all but
Housleek or Sengreen cold in the third degree profitable against the Shingles and other hot creeping ulcers inflamations St. Anthonies fire frenzyes it cools and takes away hot rhewms in the eyes it takes away corns from the toes being bathed with the juyce of it and a skin of the leaf laid over the place stops fluxes helps scalds and burnings Bardana Clot bur or Burdock temperately dry and wasting something cooling it is held to be a good remedy against shrinking of the sinnews they ease pains in the bladder provoke urine Also Mizaldus saith that a leaf applied to the top of the head of a woman draws the Matrix upwards but applied to the soles of the feet draws it downwards and is therefore an admirable remedy for suffocations precipitations and dislocatious of the Matrix if a wise man have but the using of it Beta Alba nigra rubra Beets white black and red black Beets I have as yet as little skill in as knowledge of The white are something colder and moister than the red both of them loosen the belly but have little or no nourishment Simeon Sethi tels a large story of several diseases they breed in the stomach I scarce beleeve him this is certain the white provoke to stool and are more cleansing open stoppings of the liver and spleen help the vertigo or swimming in the head The red stay fluxes help the immoderate flowing of the terms in women and are good in the yellow Jaundice Benedicta Caryophyllata Avens hot and dry help the chollick and rawnesse of the stomach stitches in the sides help bruises and take away clotted blood in any part of the body Betonica vulgaris Common or wood Bettony hot and dry in the second degree helps the falling sicknesse and all head-aches coming of cold cleanseth the breast and lungues opens stoppings of the liver and spleen as the rickets c. procures appetite helps sour belchings provokes urine breaks the stone mitigates the pains of the reins and bladder helps cramps and convulsions resists poyson helps the gout such as pisse blood madnesse and headach kills worms help bruises and cleanseth women after their labor Betonica Pauli c. Pauls betony or male Lluellin to which ad Elatine or foemale Lluellin which comes afterwards they are pretty temperate stop defluxions of humors that fal from the head into the eyes are profitable in wounds helps filthy foul eating Cankers Pena tells of a man whose nose was almost eaten off that was cured by it I beleeve the industrious may find it an admirable hearb for such uses Betonica Coronaria c. Is clove gilliflowers see the flowers Bellis Daisyes are cold and moist in the second degree they ease all pains and swellings coming of heat in Clysters they loose the belly are profitable in Feavers and inflamations of the stones they take away bruises and blackness and blewness if a woman of a turbulent spirit should chance to stumble against her husbands fists they are admirable in wounds and inflamations of the lungus or blood Bliâ—um Blites some say they are cold and moist others cold and dry none mention any great vertues of them Borrago Porrage hot and moist comforts the heart cheers the spirits drives away sadness melancholly they are rather laxitive than binding help swooning and heart qualms breed special good blood help consumptions madnesse and such as are much weakened by sicknesse Bonus Henricus good Henry or all good hot and dry cleansing and scouring inwardly taked it loosens the belly outwardly it cleanseth old sores and ulcers Botrys Oak of jerusalem hot and dry in the second degree such as are short winded cuts and wasts grosse and tough flegm laid amongst cloaths they preserve them from moaths and give them a sweet smell Branca ursina Bears breech Brionia c. Briony white and black both are hot and dry in the third degree purge violently yet are held to be wholsom Physick for such as have dropsyes vertigo or swimming in the head falling-sicknesse c. Certainly it is a scurvy strong troublesom purge therefore ill to be tamperd with by the unskilful outwardly in ointments it takes away freckles whrinkles morphew scars spots c. from the face Bursa pastoris Shepheards-purse is manifestly cold and dry though Lobel and Pena thought the contrary it is binding and stops blood the terms in women spitting and pissing of blood cools inflamations Buglossum Buglosse its vertues are the same with Borrage Bugula Bugle or middle Comfry is temperate for heat but very drying excellent for falls or inward bruises for it dissolves congealed blood profitable for inward wounds helps the rikets and other stoppings of the liver outwardly it is of wonderful force in curing wounds and ulcers though festered as also gangrenes and fistulaes it helps broken bones and dislocations To conclude let my country men esteem it as a Jewel Buphthalmum c. Ox-eye Mathiolus saith they are commonly used for black Hellebore to the vertues of which I refer you Buxus Box-tree the leaves are hot dry and binding they are profitable against the bitings of mad-dogs both taken inwardly and boiled and applied to the place besides they are excellent to cure horses of the bots Calamintha Montana palustris Mountain and Water Calamint for the water Calamint see Mints then which it is accounted stronger Mountain Calamint is hot and dry in the third degree provoke urine and the terms hasten the birth in women brings away the after birth helps cramps and convulsions difficulty of breathing kills worms helps the Leprosie outwardly used it helps such as holds their necks on one side Calendula c. Marigolds the leaves are hot in the second degree and something moist loosen the belly the juyce held in the mouth helps the toothach and takes away any inflamation or hot swelling being bathed with it mixed with a little viniger Callitricum Maidenhair See Adianthum Caprifolium Honysuckles The leaves are hot and therefore naught for inflamations of the mouth and throat for which the ignorant people often give them and Gallen was true in this let modern Writers write theirpleasure If you chew but a leafe of it in your mouth experience will tell you that it is likelier to cause than to cure a sore throat they provoke urine and purge by urine bring speedy delivery to women in travail yet procure barrennesse and hinder conception outwardly they dry up foul ulcers and cleanse the face from morphew sunburning and freckles Carduncellus c. Groundsel cold and moist according to Tragus helps the Chollick and pains or gripins in the belly helps such as cannot make water cleanseth the reins purgeth Choller and sharp humors outwardly it easeth womens breasts that are swollen and inflamed or as themselves say have gotten an ague in their breasts as also inflamation of the joynts nerves or sinnews Carduus B. Alariae Our Ladies-thistles they are far more temperate than Carduus benedictus open
of Creet sharp Vineger in which half an ounce of Rue seeds have been boyled of each two pound Venis Treacle and Methridate of each half a pound mix them all together and warm them a little either in the Sun or in a bath and keep the tincture for your use Aqua Theriacalis distilled Take of the juice of green Walnuts four pound the juyce of green Rue three pound juyces of Carduus Benedictus Marigolds Bawm of each two pound The roots of Patasites or Butter burs fresh and green a pound and an half the Roots of Burs one pound Roots of Angelica and Masterwort green of each six ounces Scordium four handfuls old Venis Treacle and Methridate of each eight ounces Canary Wine twelve pints white Wine Vineger six pints Juyce of Lemmons a quart Digest them for two daies in horse dung or else in a bath let the vessel be well stopped then distill it in sand and in the distillation you may make an Extract called Extractum theriacale A. That this latter water far exceeds the former in vertues every way I think no man that is well in his wits will deny therefore I quote only the vertues of this if any will use the former I will not burden their conscience A. This water is exceeding good in all Feavers especially pestilential it expelleth venemous humors by sweat it strengtheneth the heart and vitals it is an admirable counterpoyson special good for such as have the Plague or are poysoned or bitten by venemous beasts and expelleth virulent humors from such as have the French Pocks If you desire to know more vertues of it see the vertues of Venis Treatle Ordinary Aqua vitae Distill Ale and lees of Wine in an Alembick whose worm runs through cold water into small Wine in ten Congies of which infuse a pound of bruised Annis seeds for twenty four hours then still it again into strong water Aqua vitae compound Is made of small Wines in six congies of which infuse Annis seeds half a pound seeds of Fennel and Caraway of each two ounces Cloves Cinnamon and Ginger of each one ounce and then draw the strong spirit from it A. This is excellent good in my opinion for such as are troubled with wind Spirit of Castorium Take of Castorium four ounces Lavender flowers one ounce the Tops of Sage and Rosemary of each half an ounce Cinnamon six drachms Mace and Cloves of each two drachms Spirit of Wine rectified six pints Digest all these in a glasse being filled only to the third part stopped close with cork and bladder in warm ashes or sand then stil it in a glasse Alembick in Balneo Mariae well luted and let it be kept close stopped A. It resisteth poyson and helps such as are bitten by venemous beasts it causeth speedy delivery to women in travail and casteth out the after-birth it provokes the terms in women and helpeth the fits of the mother it helps lethargies convulsions and in some cases is profitable for mad people but in all let it be mixed with convenient medicine for the purposes Usquebach Take of strong Aqua vitae 24. pints in which for four daies infuse a pound of Liquoris Raisons of the Sun half a pound Cloves half an ounce Mace Ginger of each two drachms strain it and keep it for your use A. It strengthens the stomach and helps indigestion coming of flegm and cold Fallopius his Allum-Water Take of Plantane and Red-rosewater of each a pound viz. a pint Roch Allum Quick silver and Sublimatum of each two drachms grind the Allum and the Sublimate very fine then let them boyl altogether in a glasse with a narrow mouth till half be consumed then let it stand five daies that the Sublimate and the drosse of the Allum may sink to the bottom then pour off the cleer water and keep it for your use A. Fallopius invented this for an unction for the French-pocks but in my opinion it is but a childish recept for the Quick-silver will most assuredly fly out in boyling PHYSICAL VVINES Wormwood Wine PUT a handful of dried Wormwood into every Congie of Wine stop the vessel close and so let it stand in infusion A. It helps cold stomachs breaks wind helps the Wind-chollick strengtheneth the stomach kills worms and helps the green sickness Rosemary-flower-Wine is made after the same manner that Wormwood Wine is made A. It is good against all cold diseases of the head consumeth flegm strengtheneth the gums and teeth Eyebright-Wine is also made after the same manner A. It wonderfully cleers the sight being drunk and revives the sight of ancient men a cup of it in the morning is worth a pair of Spectacles All other Wines are prepared in the same manner when the Physitian shall see fit quoth the Colledge A. But what if there be never a Physician worth a 〈◊〉 in 20. 30. 40. or 50. miles as some such places may be found in this Nation must the poor country man lose his cure truly this charity is according to the saying of the vulgar Fervent cold in such cases let them veiw the vertues of the Simple the Wine is made of and then let them know the Wine of that Simple is far better and fitter for cold bodies and weak stomachs than the Simple it self A. And now I have veiwed the next recept a little you shall have first the recept 2. my opinion of it 3. the vertue of it Gallens Wine of Squils Take of white Squills of the mountains gathered about the rising of the Dog-star and cut in thin peices one pound dry them in the shaddow for ten daies then put them in a glasse and put to them twelve sextaries of old French Wine let it stand so fourty daies then take out the Squils and throw them away A. If admiration were not the daughter of ignorance I should most assuredly have admired at two things in this recept 1. At the time of gathering this same Squil It seems the whol Colledg laid al their learned heads together to hammer out the time when this Squil must be taken out of the earth the result of their consultations was That it must be gathered circiter Canis ortum about the rising of the Dog-star but which of the two Dog-stars they mean whether Syrius or Procyon or what rising of either whether Cosmical Acronyct or Heliacal I know not nor I think themselves neither a child in Astronomy cannot chuse but smile at their learned ignorance It seems they well observe that excellent maxime of Hippocrates in his Praefat ad Astron nemo debet c. No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physitian who is ignorant of Astrology because he is a Physitian of no value Indeed the truth is the roots are brought to us from beyond sea and we must be content with such as we can get A. 2. It seems somthing strang to me why this Squill must be dried in the
shaddow In truth I cannot but wonder at the folly not only of the Physitians of our times but also of the ancient who build their faith upon tradition though as opposite to the truth as the East is to the West viz. that all herbs must or ought to be dried in the shaddow because they suppose the Sun draws away their vertue were it not I pray a notable peice of pollicy for a Farmer to dry his hay in the shaddow for fear the Sun should draw away the vertue of it doth noth not Experience a master worth ten ' of Tradition teach that the hotter Sun the Hay is dryed in the more vertue is in it and is Hay any thing else but a confusion of herbs he who drieth his herbs in the Sun shall find them 1. of a better colour 2. of a better tast 3. to yeild more salt and therefore must needs be best A. Now a word or two to the vertues according to Gallen from whom this recept was taken A. It conduceth wonderfully to health for it attenuateth the humours chiefly flegm neither doth it suffer it to remain in the stomach head belly liver spleen nerves or bones it suffers no obstruction to be in the body it purgeth the head loosens the belly and provokes urine it is given with good successe to such as have the gout or the falling-sicknesse thus Gallen A. It is true our Physitians have written the recept verbatim out of Gallen but yet me thinks they who boast they have taken so much pains in compiling this book might have taken a little more to have corrected the Authors failings PHYSICAL VINEGERS Distilled Vineger FILL a glasse body to the third part with the best Vineger still it in sand at first with a gentle fire till the flegm be drawn off then encrease the fire and draw out the spirit Vineger of Roses Mesue Take of Rose buds the whites being cut away gathered in a cleer dry day and dried in the shade three or four daies one pound Vineger eight sextaries set them fourty daies in the Sun then strain them and keep the vineger if you then put in fresh rose leaves and set it in the Sun 40. daies longer it will have the better smell After the same manner is prepared Vineger of Elder flowers Rosemary flowers Sage flowers Marigold flowers Clove gilliflowers c. let all the flowers be dried A. For the vertues of all vinegers take this one only observation they carry the same vertues with the flowers whereof they are made only as we said of wines that they were better for cold bodies than the bare simples whereof they are made so are vinegers for hot bodies Besides vinegars are often nay most commonly used externally viz. to bath the place then look amongst the simples and see what place of the body the simple is apropriated to and then you cannot chuse but know if you have but a grain of understanding more than a beast both what vineger to use and to what place to apply it Treacle Vineger Norimb Take of the roots of Chelondine the greater an ounce and an half of the roots of Angelica Masterwort Gentian Bistort Valerian Burnet Dictamni Elicampane Zedoary of each a drachm Plantan the greater one drachm and an halfe the leaves of Mousear Sage Scabious Scordium Dictamni of Creet Carduus Benedictus of each half a handful Pills and Seeds of Citrons of each a drachm and an half Bole Armenick one drachm Saffron three drachms Harts-horn a drachm and an half of these let the Saffron Dictamni Harts-horn and Bole Armenick be tied up in a linnin cloath and infused with the things prescribed in 5. pints of strong Vineger for certain daies in a glasse well stop'd and by a temperate heat then strain them out and dissolve in the Vineger five drachms of the best treacle shake them often together and so keep them for your use Treacle Vineger But the best Treacle-Vineger is prepared If you add to the Confection of Treacle-Water discribed in its proper place Cloves two ounces Lavender flowers an ounce and an half powr to it Vineger of Roses and of Elder flower of each four pints digest it in Hors-dung eight daies and then strain it through Hippocrates his Sleeve A. If you desire the vertues of these look both Treacle it self and Treacle-Water Only take notice that this is cooler Vineger of Squils Take of the flakes of a Squill which are between the outward bark the root cut them into smal pieces either with a Wooden or Ivory knife and lay them in the 〈◊〉 Sun or other remise heat for 30. or 40. daies then put a pound of them into a glasse and put six pounds of strong Vineger to them stop the glasse close that nothing exhale out and set it in the Sun 30. or 40. daies then strain it and keep it close stopped for your use A. Although they say they borrowed the receipt of Mesue yet be pleased to accept the Vertues of it from Gallen A. A little of this Medicine being taken in the morning fasting and walking half an hour after preserves the body in health to extream old age as Samius tryed who using no other medicine but this lived in perfect health till an hundred and seventeen yeers of age it maketh the digestion good along wind a cleer voice an acute sight a good colour it sufiers no offensive thing to remain in the body neither wind flegm choller melancholly dung nor urine but brings them forth it brings forth filth though it lie in the bones it takes away salt and sour belchings though a man be never so licentious in diet he shal feel no harm It hath cured such as have the Phtisick that have been given over by all Physitians It cures such as have the Falling-sickness Gouts and diseases and swellings of the Joynts It takes away the hardness of the Liver and Spleen We should never have done if we should reckon up the particular benefits of this Medicine Therefore we commend it as a wholsom medicine for soundness of body preservation of health and vigor of mind DECOCTIONS A Carminative Decoction TAke of the seeds of Annis Carrots Fennel Cōmin Carraway of each three drachms Camomel flowers half a handful Raisons of the Sun an ounce and an half boyl them in two pints of water till almost half be consumed A. It is commonly used in Clisters to such whose bodies are molested or oppressed with wind The common Decoction for Clisters Take of Mallows Violets Pellitory of the wall Beets Mercury of each a handful Fennel seeds half an ounce boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water to a pound A. This is the common decoction for all Clisters according to the quality of the humour abounding so you may ad what simples or syrupes or electuaries you please A common Decoction for a Medicine Take of French Barly a pugil six sweet Prunes Raisons
others purge violently both put together make a composition no way pleasing to me therefore I account it a pretty recept good for nothing Electuarium Elescoph Mesue Take of Scammony and the best Turbith of each six drams Cloves Cinnamon Ginger Emblick Myrobalans 〈◊〉 Polypodium of each two drachms and an half Sugar six ounces clarified Honey ten ounces mix them and make them into an Electuary according to art A. Mesue appoints only clarified Honey one pound and four ounces to make it up into an Electuary and saith it purgeth choller and flegm and wind from all parts of the body helps pains of the joints and sides the chollick it cleanseth the reins and bladder yet I advise you not to take too much of it at a time for it works pretty violently though well corrected by the pen of a Mesue let half an ounce be the most for such whose bodies are strong alwaies remembring that you had better ten times take too little then once to much Confectio Hamech Fernelius Take of the barks of Citron Myrobalans two ounces Myrobalans chebs and black Violets colocynthis Polipodium of the Oak of each an ounce and an half Wormwood Time of each half an ounce the seeds of Annis and Fennel the flowers of red Roses of each three drachms let all of them being bruised be infused for one day in two pints of Whey then boyl it to one pound rub it with your hands and then presse it out and ad to the decoction juyce of fumitory pulp of Prunes and Raisons of the sun of each half a pound white Sugar clarified Honey of each a pound boil them to the thickness of Honey sprinkled in towards the end Agrick Trochiscated Senna of each two ounces Rhubarb an ounce and an half Epithimum an ounce Diagridium six drachms Cinnamon half an ounce Ginger two drachms the seeds of Fumitory Annis Spicknard of each one 〈◊〉 make an Electuary of them according to art A. The recept is cheifly apropriated as a purge for melancholly and salt flegm diseases thence rising as Scabs Itch Leprosies Cancers infirmities of the skin it purgeth addust humours and is good against madness melancholly forgetfulness vertigo c. Electuarium Indum Minus Mesue Take of Turbith Sugar of each a hundred drachms Mace Pepper Ginger Cloves Cinnamon Cardamoms Nutmegs of each seven drachms Scammony prepared twelve drachms mix them with three times their weight the Sugar excepted of clarified Honey and so make them into an Electuary according to art A. It purgeth the bowels as also the joynts of putrified flegm it breaks wind is therefore profitable for the Chollick A. The Colledg have much altered the quantity of the Turbith and Sugar it purgeth violently Lenitive Electuary Take of Raisons of the sun stoned Polypodium of the Oak Senna of each two ounces Mercury one handful and an half Jujubes Sebestens by number twenty Maidenhair Violets French Barly of each a handful Damask Prunes stoned Tamarinds of each six drachms Liquoris half an ounce boil them according to art strain them out and dissolve in the decoction pulp of Cassia Tamarinds and fresh Prunes Sugar of Violets of each six ounce of the best Sugar two pound lastly ad an ounce and an half of Senna in pouder to every pound of the Electuary so bring it into a form according to art A. It gently opens and mollifies the bowels bringing forth choller flegm and melancholly and that without trouble It is cooling and therefore is profitable in Pleuresies and for wounded people a man of reasonable strength may take an ounce of it going to bed which will work next morning Electuarium Passulatum Take of Polypodium of the Oak three ounces the leaves of Senna the roots of marsh Mallows fresh of each two ounces Annis two drachms infuse them all in spring water a sufficient quantity in a glazed vessel and boil them according to art then strain them out and ad to the decoction pulp of Raisons of the Sun drawn through a Sive half a pound white Sugar and Manna of each four ounces boyl them again to the thicknesse of Marmilade and renew it four times a yeer A. The Colledge are so mysterious in this recept a man can hardly give directions how to make it for they give only incertainties A. You had best first boil the roots in three pints of water to a quart then put in the Senna and seeds boil it to a pint and an half then strain it and ad the rest the Manna will melt of it self as well as the Sugar indeed you had best dissolve the Manna by it self in some of the decoction and so strain it because of its dross A. It gently purgeth both choller and melancholly cleanseth the reins and bladder and therefore is good for the stone and gravel in the kidneys Electuary of the juyces of Roses Nicholaus Myrepsus Take of Sugar and the juce of Red Roses of each one pound and four ounces of the three sorts of Sanders of each six drachms Spodium three drachms Diagrydium twelve drachms Camphire a scruple make of them an Electuary according to art let the juyces be boyled with the Sugar to a just thickness then ad the other things in pouder A. It purgeth choller and is good in tertian agues and diseases of the joynts it purgeth violently therefore let it be warily given Electuarium Reginae Coloniens Take of the seeds of Saxifrage and Gromwel Juyce of Liquoris of each half an ounce the seeds of Caraway Annis Smallage Fennel 〈◊〉 of Macedonia Broom Carrots Bruscus Sparagus Lovage Cummin Juniper Rue Siler Mountain the roots of Acorus Penyroyal Cinkfoyl Bay Berries of each two drachms Indian Spicknard Schoenanth Amber Valerian Hogs Fennel Lapis Lincis of each a dram and an half Galanga Ginger Turbith of each two drachms Senna an ounce Goats blood prepared half an ounce mix them together first beat them into a pouder then make them into an Electuary according to art with three times their weight in Sugar dissolved in white Wine A. It is an excellent remedy for the stone and wind chollick a drachm of it being taken every morning I assure such as are troubled with such diseases I cannot but commend it to them as a Jewel Hiera Picra Simplex Galeni Take of Cinnamon Xylobalsamum or wood of Aloes Asarabacca Spicknard Mastich Saffron of each six drachms Aloes unwashed twelve ounces and an half clarified Honey four pound and three ounces make it up into an Electuary according to art also the Species is kept by it self in shops A. It is an excellent remedy for vicious juyces which lie furring the tunicle of the stomach and such idle fancies and symtomes which the brain fuffers thereby whereby some think they see others that they hear strange things especially when they are in bed and between sleeping and waking besides this it very gently purgeth the belly and helps such women as are not sufficiently purged after their
each four drachms Aloes Succotrina one ounce Species diarhodon abbatis half an ounce let al be beaten the species excepted and but grosly neither and infused in the sun in the best Aqua vitae so much that it may over-top the pouders the breadth of eight fingers then infuse the Diarhodon abbatis in Aqua vitae in like manner for four daies then strain them strongly and mix both these liquors together and put them in a glasse Alembick and by distillation draw off the moisture till the substance at bottom be left of a fit thickness to make pills A. As this is the dearest so in my opinion is it most excellent in operation of all the pills in the Dispensatory being of a quick searching nature it cleanseth both head and body of Choller flegm and melancholly it must not be taken in any great quantity half a dram is sufficient for the strongest body let the weaker take less Pilulae Sine quibus esse Nelo. Nicholaus Take of wash'd Aloes fourteen drachms Myrobalans Citrons Chebuls Emblick Bellericks and Indian Rhubarb Mastich Wormwood red Roses Violets Senna Agrick Doddar of each a drachm Diagrydium fix drachms and an half with syrup of the juyce of Fennel made with Honey make it into a mass according to art A. It purgeth flegm choller and melancholly from the head makes the sight and 〈◊〉 good and giveth ease to a burdened brain Pills of Spurge Fernelius Take of the bark of the roots of Spurge the lesse steeped twenty four hours in vineger and juyce of Purslain two drachms grains of Palma Christi torrefied by number fourty Citron Myrobalans a drachm and an half Germander Chamepitys Spicknard Cinnamon of each two scruples being beaten into fine pouder with an ounce of Gum Traganth dissolved in Rose waeer and syrup of Roses so much as is sufficient let it be made into a mass A. I could say if I would and prove it too that the ounce of Gum Traganth so dislolved is enough to make six times so much into a mass but because the receit in my eyes seems more fitting for a horse than for a man I leave it Pills of Eupborbium Mesue Take of Euphorbium Colocynthis Agrick Bdellium Sagapenum of each two drachms Aloes five drachms with syrup made of the juyce of Leeks make it into a mass A. The pills are exceeding good 〈◊〉 dropsies pains in the loins and gouts coming of a moist cause Pills of Opopanax Mesue Take of Opopanax Sagapenum Hermodactils Bdellium Ammoniacum Colocynthis of each five drachms Saffron Castorium Mirrh Ginger black and long Pepper 〈◊〉 lignea Myrobalans Citrons Bellericks and Emblicks of each one drachm Scammony two drachms Turbith half an ounce Aloes twelve drams the Gums being infused in Colewort water make them up into a mass with syrup of the juyce of Coleworts A. It helps tremblings palfies gouts of all sorts cleanseth the joynts and is helpful for such as are troubled with cold afflictions of the nerves Pilulae turpeti Aurioe Mesue Take of the best Turbith sixteen drachms Aloes an ounce and an half Citron Myrobalans ten drachms red Roses Mastich of each six drams Saffron three drams beat them into pouder and with syrup of Wormwood make it-into a mass A. They purge choller and flegm and that with as much gentleness as can be desired also they strengthen the stomach and liver and help digestion Pilulae de Cynoglosso Fernelius Take of Mirrh six drams Olibanum five drams Opium the seeds of Henbane the roots of Houndstongue dry of each half an ounce Saffron Castorium of each a dram and an half with syrup of Stoechas make it into a mass according to art A. It staies hot rewms that fall down upon the lungnes therefore is good in Phthisicks also it mitigates pain a scruple is enough to take at a time going to bed Landanum Take of Thebane of Opium extracted in spirit of wine one ounce Saffron extracted in like manner a drachm and an half Castorium one drachm then let them all be taken with the tincture of half an ounce of the Species of Diambra new made in spirit of wine adding for pleasantness sake Amber greece and musk of each six grains oyl of 〈◊〉 ten drops then evaporate away the moisture in a warm bath and leave the 〈◊〉 for use A. It was invented and a gallant invention it is to mitigate violent pains stop the 〈◊〉 that trouble the brain in feavers but beware of Opiates in the beginnings of 〈◊〉 to provoke sleep take not above two gnains of it at a time going to bed if that provoke not sleep the next night you may make bold with three Pilulae Scribonii Take of Sagapenum and Mirrh of each two drachms Opium Cardamoms Castorium of each one drachm white pepper half a drachm Sapa so much as is sufficient to make it into a mass according to art A. It is apropriated to such as have phthisicks and such as spit blood but ought to be newly made a scruple is sufficient taken going to bed Galen was the Author of it Pills of Styrax Mesue Take of liquid Styrax Frankinsence Mirrh juyce of Liquoris Opium of each equal parts make them into a mass for pills with a sufficient quantity of syrup of Poppies according to art A. They help such as are troubled with defluxion of Rewm Coughs and provoke sleep to such as cannot sleep for coughing A. I have now done with pills only take notice that such as have Diagrydium otherwise called Scammony in them work violently and are to be taken early in the morning with discretion and administred with due consideration the other work more gently so that you may take a scruple of them at night going to bed and follow your emploiments next day without danger TROCHES A. IF any cavil at this name and think it hardly English let them give a better and I shall be thankful I know no other English name but will fall far below it A. They have gotten many Greek names almost as many as a Welch man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Latins besides the Greek names Trochisci call them Pastilli and Placentula A. Although a man may make them into what form he pleaseth yet they are usually made into little flat thin oakes of a 〈◊〉 or twenty grains in weight plus minus some print images as of a serpent upon troches of vipers upon them some gild them with leaf gold some do neither A. They were first invented by the Ancients that pouders being brought into this form may be kept pure the longer for the vertues of pouders will soon exhale by intromission of air which the thick body of Troches resist also such as are pectoral 〈◊〉 he easier carried in ones pocket Traches of Wormwood Mesue Take of red Roses Wormwood Annis of each two drams Rhubarb juyce of 〈◊〉 or Mandlin 〈◊〉 the seeds of 〈◊〉 bitter Almonds
which the Arabians give to all medicines apropriated to the eyes of which this is one and a good one to dry up rewms there Agrick Trochiscated Mesue Take of choice Agrick four ounces with infusion of Ginger made in wine make it into Troches Troches of Agrick Take of choice Agrick three ounces Sal. Gem. six drachms Ginger two drachms with Oxymel Simplex so much as is sufficient make it into Troches according to art A. The vertues of both these are the same with Agrick only it may be more safely given this way than the other they cleanse the brain of flegm and the stomach of tough thick viscous humours Trochisci Alhandal Mesue Take of Colocynthis cleansed from the seeds ten ounces cut them small with a pair of shears and rub them a little with an ounce of oyl of Roses then make them into Troches with Mussilage made with Gum Arabick and Traganth and Bdellium of each six drachms then steep them four daies in Rosewater dry them in the shaddow then beat them into pouder again and with mussilage as you had before make them again into Troches A. They purge slegm violently but may more safely be given than the troches themselves Troches of 〈◊〉 Mesue Take of Rhubarb ten drachms the juyce of Maudlin made thick bitter Almonds of each half an ounce Roses three drachms Indian Spicknard Wormwood the seeds of Annis and Smallage the roots of Maddir and Asarabacca of each adrachm make them into Troches according to art either with Succory water or juyce of Maudlin clarified A. They gently cleanse the liver help the yellow Jaundice and other diseases coming of Choller and stoppage of the liver Troches of Violets Solutive Mesue Take of Violets meanly dried six drachms Turbith half an ounce juyce of Liquoris Scammony Manna of each two drachms make them into troches with syrup of Violets A. They purge flegm very violently SIMPLE OYLS MADE BY EXPRESSION Oyl of Sweet Almonds Mesue TAKE as many sweet Almonds as you will that are dry and not sour beat them very well and press out the oyl in a press without fire A. It helps roughness and soreness of the throat and stomach helps pleuresies encreaseth seed easeth Coughs and Hectick feavers by injection it helps such whose water scalds them ulcers in the bladdeer reins and matrix Oyl of bitter Almonds Mesue It is made in the same manner as oyl of sweet Almonds A. It opens stoppings helps such as are deaf being dropped into their ears it helps the hardness 〈◊〉 the nerves and takes away spots in the face Oyl of Hazel Nuts Mesue Take a sufficient quantity of Hazel nuts and cleanse them then bruise them well place them in a warm bath five or six hours then press out the oyl in a press A. You mast put them in a vessel viz. a glass or some such like thing and stop them close that the water come not to them when you put them into the bath A. The Oyl is good for cold afflictions of the nerves the gout in the joynts c. After the same manner is made oyl of Been called Oleum Bolaninum Of Mace Indian Nuts Nutmegs Walnuts Of the kernels of Cherries Apricocks Pears Pinenuts Prunes Fistick nuts Of the seeds of Orrenges Hemp Carthamus or bastard Saffron and is called Oleum Cnicinum Citrons Cucumers Guords Citruls dwarf Elder or Walwort Henbane Lettice Flax Melons Poppies Parsly Rhadishes Turneps Palma Christi and is called Oleum de Cherva Cicinum and Ricininum Sesami Mustard seed and of the stones of Grapes A. Because most of these oyls are out of use I took not the pains to quote the vertues of them if any lift to make them let them look the Simples and there they have them if the Simples be not to be found in the book there are other plentiful medicines conducing to the cure of al usual diseases which are Oyl of Bays Mesue Take of Bay berries fresh and ripe so many as you please bruise them sufficiently then boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water till the oyl swim at top which separate from the water and keep for your use A. It helps the Chollick and is a sovereign remedy for any diseases in any part of the body coming either of wind or cold Common oyl of Olives is pressed out of ripe Olives Oyl of Olives Omphacine is pressed out of unripe Olives Oyl of the Yolks of Egs. Mesue Take of the yolks of Egs boyled hard warm them well with a gentle fire in a glazed vessel but have a care you burn them not then press out the oyl with a press and if whilst they are warming you sprinkle them with a little Wine the Oyl will come out the better A. It is profitable in 〈◊〉 and malignant ulcers it causeth the hair to grow it cleers the skin and takes away deformities thereof viz. Tettars Ringworms Morphew Scabs SIMPLE OYLS BY INFUSION OR DECOCTION Oyl of Roses Omphacine Take of oyl Omphacine a pound in which infuse red Rose buds bruised four ounces put them in a glass or stone pot glazed stop them close and set them in the sun seven daies shaking them every day then boyl them gently in a double vessel and casting away those Roses viz having strained them out put in fresh Roses set it in the sun seven daies more then boil it again cast away those also and infuse fresh Roses and when they have also been digested in the sun seven daies and gently boyled according to art strain the oyl from them and keep it for your use Oyl of Roses compleat Mesue It is made in the same manner with the former only with sweet oyl Not Omphacine and red Roses full blown boiled twice as the former was only the third time that the Roses are put in let it stand fourty daies in the sun and then if you please you may keep the oyl and Roses in it and not press them out at all After the same manner is made oyl of Wormwood of the tops of Wormwood 〈◊〉 ounces Oyl three pound repeating the infusion three times adding at the last juyce of Wormwood four ounces boyl it gently till the juyce be consumed Also oyl of Dill of one pound of oyl and four ounces of the leaves and flowers of Dill infused three times Oyl of Castorium of one ounce of Castorium one pound of Oyl Wine so much as is sufficient boyl it to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of Chamomel Of Oyl and the flowers of Chamomel let them be set in the sun fourty daies In the same manner is Oyl of Meliot prepared Oyl of Winter-Gilliflowers or Wall flowers as we call them in Sussex is made as oyl of Dill is Oyl of Quinces is made of un-ripe Quinces pils and all and juyce of Quinces of each six ounces oyl Omphacine three pound let them stand in the sun in a glass fifteen daies then boyl them in a double vessel four hours afterwards chang the
Ducks Geese and Hens of each three drachms Bdellium Galbanum of each three drachms and an half Per rozin wax of each five ounces oyl of Orris Turpentine of each an ounce and an half let the fats and oyl boyl with a sufficient quantity of mussilage of Lin and 〈◊〉 seeds and that it may be brought to the due form of a plaister ad the Wax and Turpentine afterwards the Oynment of Marsh mallows and Melliot Plaister then the Gums dissolved in Vineger and lastly the pouders and per-Rozin in pouder mix them all well together and make it into plaister according to art A. By Plaister alwaies understand not a plaister spread upon a cloath but a rol made to spread such a one withal A. It softens and aswageth hard swellings and scatters the humours offending applied to the side it softens the hardness of the spleen and aswageth pains thence arising Album Coctum de Cerussa Ulms. Take of Ceruss ground into very fine pouder yellow Wax oyl of Olives of each equall parts the Ceruss being put into a brass pan let the oyl be added by degrees set it over a gentle fire stir it continually til they be incorporated then put in the Wax thin scraped neither put it in altogether at one time neither let it boyl til it be all melted then boil it all according to art till it begin to look black and be of a just thickness A. It helps burns dry scabs and hot ulcers and in general what ever sores abound with moisture A Plaister of Bayberries Mesue Take of Bayberries two ounces Frankinsence Mastich Mirrh of each one ounce Cyperus Costus of each half an ounce Turpentine an ounce clarified Honey so much as is sufficient to make it into a plaister according to art A. It is an excellent plaister to ease any pains coming of cold or wind in any part of the body whether stomach liver belly reins or bladder Emplastrum Barbarummagnum Galen Take of dry pitch eight pound yellow Wax six pound eight ounces Per-Rozin five pound four ounces Bitumen Judaicum or else Mummy four pound Oyl a pound and an half Vert-de-greece Litharge Ceruss of each three ounces Frankinsence half a pound roch Allum not burnt an ounce and an half roch Allum burnt four ounces Opopanax Scales of brass Galbanum of each twelve drachms Aloes Opium Mirrh of each half an ounce juyce of Mandrakes or else the bark of the roots of them dried six drachms Vineger five pound let the Litharge Ceruss and Oyl be boyled to the thickness of Honey the Pitch melted and incorporated with the pouder of the Bitumen then the other things added and boyled according to art till the Vineger be consumed and the composition brought to a due thickness A. It helps the bitings of men and beasts easeth the inflamations of wounds and helps infirmities of the joints and gouts in the beginning A Plaisier of 〈◊〉 Andernacus Take of green Bettony Burnet Agrimony Sage Penyroyal Yarrow Comfry the greater Clary of each 〈◊〉 ounces Frankinsence Mastich of each three drachms Orris round Birthwort of each six drachms white Wax Turpentine of each eight ounces Gum Elemni two ounces per-Rozin six ounces Venis Turpentine two ounces white Wine three pound let the herbs being bruised be boyled in the Wine strained and all the rest being added to the decoction boyl it to a plaister according to art A. It is a gallant plaister to unite the skul when it is cracked to draw out pieces of broken bones and cover the bones with flesh it draws filth from the bottom of deep ulcers restores flesh lost cleanseth digesteth and drieth Emplastrum 〈◊〉 Take of Bistort roots Cyperus Nuts red Roses the three 〈◊〉 of Sanders Mints Coriander seeds of each three drams 〈◊〉 half an ounce Hypocistis Acacia Dragons blood Terra Lemnia Bole Armenick red Corral of each two drams Turpentine washed in Plantane water four ounces oyl of 〈◊〉 twelve ounces the juyce of 〈◊〉 Plantane and Orpine of each an ounce yellow Wax a pound and an half let the Hypocistis and Acacia be dissolved with the juyces and boyled to a due height then add the rest and make them into a plaister according to art A. It is of a fine cool binding strengthening nature excellent good to repell hot rhewms or vapours that ascend up to the head the hair being shaved off and it applied to the crown Emplastrum Catagmaticum Vigo Take of the juyce of Marshmallow roots six ounces the bark of the root of Ash tree and the leaves of the tree the roots 〈◊〉 Comfry the greater and lesser with the leaues and al of each two ounces Mirtle berries an ounce and an half the leaves of Willow the tops of St. Johns wort of each a handful and an half the things to be bruised being bruised let them boil together in red Wine and water in which Smiths quench their 〈◊〉 of each two pound till half be consumed 〈◊〉 it and ad oyl of Mirtles Roses and Omphacine of each a pound and an half Goats suet melted eight ounces Litharge of gold and silver red Lead of each four ounces yellow Wax a pound Colophonia half a pound let them boyl again to the consumption of the decoction then add towards the end 〈◊〉 Frankinsence Mastich of each half an ounce cleer Turpentine two ounces Boie Armenick Earth of Lemnos of each an ounce stir them together till they are boiled enough to be made into a plaister according to art Catagmaticum Renodaeus Take of the roots of Comfry the less and Marshmallows 〈◊〉 of the Oak of each two ounces Plantane Chamaepitys St. Johns wort of each a handful boyl them in equal 〈◊〉 of red Wine and Water wherein Smiths quench their Iron 〈◊〉 half be consumed strain it and to the decoction ad 〈◊〉 of Quince seeds extracted in decoction of Tripes Oyl 〈◊〉 and Roses of each four ounces Virgins Wax a pound 〈◊〉 of Gold two ounces Turpentine three ounces Balaustins Roses Mirtles Acacia of each half an ounce 〈◊〉 the seeds of Tutsan Colophonia 〈◊〉 Amber of each six drachms Ship Pitch an ounce and an half Bole Armenick fine flower Frankinsence of each twelve drachms Dragons blood two ounces let the water and mussilage be boyled together till the moisture be consumed then put in the oyl then the Wax afterward the Litharge which being boyled united stirred and removed from the fire let first the Turpentine be added then the pouders so let all of them be mixed stirred and brought into the form of an Emplaster according to art A. Both this and the former are of a binding nature Emplasirum Cephalicum Take of cleer Rozin two ounces black Pitch one ounce Ladanum half an ounce Mirrh Mastich of each a drachm and an half Juniper Gum two drachms the flower of Beans and Orobus of each half an ounce Nigella three drachms Nutmegs two drachm Pidgeons dung two ounces let the Mirrh be dissolved in Malaga Wine and the
is 〈◊〉 boyl it in a quart of water till half be consumed then having strained it the things to be beaten being beaten into very fine pouder the roots and figs boyled and pulped and added to the decoctiō let them boyl alwaies stirring them that they burn not then the Oyls Turpentine Wax Suet and Rozin being melted together and the Gums dissolved in Vineger make up all into an Emplaster according to art A. It mollisies the hardness of the stomach liver spleen bowels and other parts of the body it wonderfully aswageth pain and easeth Hypocondriack melancholly and the rickets Emplastrum de Minio Compositum Vigo Take of oyl of Roses a pound and an half oyl of Mirtles Vnguentum Populeon of each four ounces Hens grease two ounces the suet of a Weather and a Heiser of each half a pound Hogs grease seven ounces Litharge of Gold and Silver of each three ounces and an half Ceruss four ounces red lead three ounces Turpentine ten ounces Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into a plaister tending to blackness according to art A. It potently cures wounds old and malignant ulcers Another plaister of Red Lead simple London Take of red Lead nine ounces oyl of red Roses one pound and an half white Wine Vineger six ounces boyl them to the perfect consistence of a plaister Also it is prepared without Vineger in this manner Take of red Lead a pound oyl of Roses a pound and an half Wax half a pound make it into a plaister according to art A. It is a fine cooling healing plaister Emplastrum Isis Epigoni Galen Take of yellow Wax an hundred drachms Turpentine two hundred grams scales of Copper Vert-de greese round Birth wort Frank in sence Sal Armoniack Ammoniacum burnt Brass of each eight drachms burnt Allum six drachms Aloes Mirrh 〈◊〉 of each an ounce and an half old Oyl a pound sharp Vineger so much as is sufficient let the mettals be dissolved in the sun with the Vineger then put in those things that may be melted last of al the pouders and make them al into 〈◊〉 Emplaster A. Galen Apropriates it to the head and ulcers there I know no reason but why it may as wel serve for other parts of the body A Plaister of Mastich Nich. Alex. Take of Mastich Ship Pitch Sagapenum Wax of each SI drachms Ammoniacum Turpentine Colophonia Saffron Aloes Frankinsence Mirrh of each three drachms Opopanax Galbanum Styrax Calamitis Allum Rondeletius appoints and we from him Bitumem Foenugreek of each two drachms the feces of liquid Styrax Bdellium Litharge of each half a drachm Let the Litharge being beaten into pouder be boyled in a sufficient quantity of water then add the pitch which being melted ad the wax and Ammoniacum afterwards let the Sagapenum Opopanax and Galbanum be put in then the Styrax and feces being mixed with the Turpentine last of al the Colophonia Mastich Frankinsence Bdellium Allum Mirrh and Foenugreek in pouder let them be made into a plaister A. It strengthens the stomach and helps digestion Emplastrum Metroproptoticon Take of Mastich an ounce and an half pure Galbanum dissolved in red Wine and strained six drachms Cypress Turpentine two drachms Cypress-Nuts Gals of each a drachm and an half Oyl of Nutmegs by expression a drachm Ship-Pitch two drachms and an half Musk two grains and an half let the Mastich Pitch Galbanum and Turpentine be lightly beaten in an hot mortar with an hot pestel in the end add the oyl of Nutmegs then the pouders sprinkled in by degrees then the Musk dissolved upon a marble with a little oyl of mastich mix them together exactly and make of them an Emplaster A. It was invented as I suppose to comfort and strengthen the retentive faculty in the stomach and belly and therefore staies loosness and vomiting and helps the fits of the mother Emplastrum nigrum August Called in High Dutch 〈◊〉 Take of Colophonia Rozin Ship Pitch White Wax Roman Vitriol Ceruss Olibanum Mirrh of each eight ounces oyl of Roses seven ounces oyl of Juniper berries three ounces oyl of Egs two ounces oyl of Spike one ounce white Vitriol red Coral Mummy of each two ounces Earth of Lemnos Mastich Dragons blood of each one ounce the fat of an Heron one ounce the fat of Timallus three ounces Loadstone prepared two ounces Earth-worms prepared Camphire of each one ounce make them into a plaister according to art A. It is very good say they in green wounds and pricks Emplaistrum Nervinum Vigo Take of oyl of Chamomel and Roses of each two ounces oyl of Mastich Linseed and Turpentine of each one ounce and an half boyled Turpentine four ounces the suet of a gelded Calf and an hee-Goat of each two ounces and an half the herbs of Rosemary Bettony and Horse tail Centaury the less of each one handful Earthworms washed in Wine and cleansed three ounces the leaves and seeds of St. Johns Wort of each a handful Mastich in pouder Gum Elemni of each ten drachms Maddir roots ten drachms Ship-Pitch Rozin of each an ounce and an half Litharge of Gold and Silver of each two ounces and an halfe red lead two ounces Galbanum Sagapenum Ammoniacum of each three drachms let the herbs roots and worms be boyled in a pint and an half of Wine till half be consumed then pressed out in the liquors boyl the oyl suets Litharge and red Lead til the Wine be consumed then ad the Gums dissolved in Wine afterward the Turpentine Rozin Pitch and Mastich and make of them a plaister according to art A. It strengthens the brain and nerves Emplastrum Oxycroceum Nicholaus Take of Saffron Ship-Pitch Colophonia Wax of each four ounces Turpentine Galbanum Ammoniacum Mirrh Olibanum Mastich of each an ounce and three drachms let this be the manner of making of it let the wax Colophonia and Turpentine be melted together then taking it from the fire ad the Pitch then the Galbanum Ammoniacum Frankinsence and Mirrh dissolved in Vineger afterward the Mastich then the Saffron in pouder well moistened in Vineger and so make them into a plaister according to art A. It is of a notable softening and discussing quality helps broken bones and any parts molested with cold old aches stifness of the limbs by reason of wounds ulcers fractures or dislocations Vigonis Oxycroceum in quo nil croci Prestantius In plain English thus Vigo his more excellent Plaister of Vineger and Saffron in which is no Saffron Take of oyl of Mirtles and Roses Omphacine of each a pound and an half juyce of Marsh-mallow roots two pound the roots and leaves of Ash tree and Comfry the lesser the the leaves of Mirtle of each a handful let all of them being bruised be boiled a little in red wine even till half be consumed with Mirrh and Frankinsence of each half an ounce strain it strongly and ad to the decoction Goats suit half a pound Turpentine two ounces Mastich
pestilences and a few drops of it gives a pleasant grateful tast to any medicine Aqua Mettis Take of pure Honey four pound dry sand two pound still them in a glass Still so capacious that the matter may fill only the fist part of the vessel first draw away the flegm then encreasing the fire draw off the water yellowish in colour and sharp in tast Paracelsus adviseth it to be drawn five times over and cals it Quintessence of honey and extols the vertues of it to the skies saith it will revive dying men which Mr. Charls Butler of Hamshire also affirms Aqua Fortis Take of dried Vitriol two pound Salt Peter cleansed one pound bruise them and place them in a reverberatory in a retort a large receiver being placed under it still it by degrees for twenty four hours together clarifie it with a drachm of silver according to art CHYMICAL PREPARATIONS MORE USUAL Steel prepared by the Sun A. It is just so prepared as shall be hereafter shewed only here they appoint it to be set in the sun there in the shaddow a parles difference Steel prepared by the fire Take of Steel cleansed from the filth heat it red hot and quench it a dozen times in sharp white Wine Vineger and as often in Canary or Malaga Wine then dry it and grind it upon a stone with oyl of Cinnamon and keep it for your use Cremor Tartar Take of Tartar made of White or Rhenish Wine as much as you wil beat it into fine pouder and sieft it then wash it in cold water three or four times til the filth be washed off from it then boyl it in cleer water in a large pan or earthen vessel gently take off the scum but the crust which is one the top after it hath covered the whole top take off with a wooden scummer spread it upon a brown paper wash it again in cold water and dry it well then grind it into fine pouder and keep it in a glasse close stopped that it may touch no mettal Crocus Martis Take of a bar of Iron or Steel which being heat very hot thrust into a great heap of brimstone a bason being placed underneath with cold water in it the Iron will run out like wax which being separated from the brimston grind it to pouder in an Iron mortar put the pouder in square earthen dishes which are not of above a fingers breadth in deepnesse place them at the hot fire of a Reverberatory for three or four daies so will the substance be reddish and like a spunge let the top be taken away with an Iron instrument and the rest driven up by the fire til it may be brought into a very fine pouder Also you may prepare it by the fire of a Reverberatory without brimstone Crocus Metallorum Take of Antimony shining with long veins salt-peter of each equal parts beat them into pouder severally then mix them together and put them into a brass or iron mortar then set fire to them by putting a coal in which wil burn with great noise on the top place a tile or an iron plate at least three fingers bredth distant from the matter burning when the noise is ceased let the mettal which wil look of a deep red colour be separated from that whitish crust at top and kept for your use being sweetned with clean distilled water Flos Sulphuris Take of yellow Brimstone which when you have rubbed it if you hold it to your ear will make an noise grind it with its equal part of Colcolthar of Vitriol viz. the residue of the distillation of the oyl put it in a long earthen pot putting to it a glass head large enough give fire to it in sand by degrees and drive up the flower stirring it with an hares foot It will be the better if you sublime it again with fresh Colcothar Lapis infernalis septicus Take of the lye in which black Sope is boyled burn it in a pan to a stone but yet take heed all the moisture be not consumed and it wax too dry when it is cold cut it in the form of dice and keep it close stopped Otherwise Take of Vitriol calcined to redness two ounces Sal Armoniack Tartar calcined to whiteness quick Lime of each three ounces put to them being bruised ly made of Fig-tree or Spurge or Sope dissolve them in it strain it and in a brass vessel boyl it to the consumption of the moisture keep the residence in a vessel close stopped Lapis prunellae or Niter purged with Brimstone Take of pure salt-peter a pound put it in a crucible w th coals round about it let it not burn but run like mettal that being melted put in two ounces of flower of Brimstone in little bits as big as hazel nuts which when it is consumed pour out the Niter into a brass bason and when it is cold keep it in a glass close stopped that the air come not to it to dissolve it Magisterium Perlarum et Corallorum in quo etiam sales eorum continentur Take of Pearls or Coral as much as you will grind them into exceeding fine pouder then pour upon them so much Radical Vineger that it may overtop them three or four fingers bredth digest them in ashes till they are dissolved pouring off the old liquor and pouring in fresh till all of them be dissolved filter the liquor through a broun paper and putting a little oyl of Tartar into it the Pearls which were dissolved will fall down to the bottom in white pouder which is to be seperated from the liquor and washed with cleer water till it be sweet at last washed with Cordiall waters Radical Vineger is that which is distilled in sand with Bay salt Mercurius Dulcis sublimatus Take of Sublimatum prepared with salt Vitriol two ounces crude Mercury purified with salt and Vineger and ground upon a Marble an ounce and an half let the Sublimatum be exactly mixed with the crude Mercury upon the same Marble then put the pouder into a phial of a foot in length place the phial being stopped well with Cotten or Bumbast up to the middle in sand at first let the fire be gentle then encreased by degrees for six hours that which ariseth up to the middle of the glass let it be taken for that which ascends up to the top is of an exceeding poysonous nature fit for nothing but ulcers that which remains in the bottom is of no use if that which is in the middle be sweet without any acrimony it is wel made if not you must sublime it again the second time that so you may seperate again what is at the top and the oftener you do it the more perfect will your medicine be Mercurius Dulcis precipitated Take of crude Mercury distilled in a retort with Bay salt or revived with common Cinnabarum one part Aqua fortis of two parts of Vitriol calcined and one
part of salt Peter two parts dissolve them in a phial over warm ashes make brine of rain water and Baysalt as much as the water will dissolve filter it through a broun paper into this brine which must be strong enough to bear an eg put the former solution of the Mercury and forth with a white pouder will fall down to the bottom which is to be washed in cleer water till it have no tast then in cordial waters so dried and kept in a glass Mercurius vitae Take of oyl of Antimony before mentioned whilst it is in fat put it into cleer water and forth with it will appear like milk and a white pouder will fall down to the bottom which must be made sweet with much washing and kept for use Sacharum Saturni Take of red I ead as much as you will which being put into a phyal put so much distilled Vineger to it that it may overtop it the bredth of four fingers digest it in a bath or in dung twenty four hours seperate the sweet Vineger and put in fresh so long till no more sweetness can be drawn from it mix all the liquors together in a stone vessel which will endure the fire with a gentle fire exhale it so long away till there appear a skin at the top then set the vessel in a Cellar and take away the Christalline congealation then exhale it again till another skin be on the top and do as before till there grows no more there at last dissolve the sugar in distilled water filter it coagulate it to a sweet christalline sugar Salt of Vitriol of a fleshy colour Take of Vitriol so much as you wil put it in a wide Crucible and place the sire round about it till it come into a pouder of the colour of Violets let this be put into a large glass viol into common water distilled continually stirring it with a stick till the water which before was hot be cold so let it stand twenty four hours filter the liquor and exhale it away till it be dry and of a fleshy colour Salt of Vitriol white Let white Vitriol be dissolved in distilled water filtred and coagulated as the Sacharum Saturni was Turbith Minerale Take of crude Mercury oyl of Vitriol seperated from the flegm of each equal parts put them into a phial which being placed first of all in hot ashes then fire being added by degrees lest all the oyl of Vitriol flie away a white mass remaining in the bottom which being seperated from that portion of crude Mercury let it be put into rain water or else distilled water and forth with it will come yellow let it be often washed in warm water till it be sweet then in cordial waters then dried and kept Oleum Antimonij Take of bright Antimony as much as you will let it be beaten in very fine pouder and put into a large earthen vessel stirring it over the fire with an iron instrument till it grow into clots then beat it again set it over the fire as before repeat this till all the splendor of it be gone and it smoke no more and the Stibium be like white ashes let this pouder be put upon a red hot plate take a pound and an half of it Borax half an ounce or take three ounces of it and half a dram of Sal gem put it into a Crucible which being covered with a Tile set in a very hot fire til there flow a matter like water put that into a bason and keep it Tartarum Vitriolatum Take of Liquor Tartar prepared four ounces Oyl of Vitriol wel rectified two ounces drop it by drops upon the Liquor of Tartar so wil there a white pouder fall down to the bottom let the moisture swimming above be taken away by a gentle heat and the salt reserved for use Nepenthes Opiatum Take of tincture of Opium made with distilled Vineger then with spirit of Wine extraction of Saffron made with spirit of Wine of each an ounce Salt of Pearls and Coral of each half an ounce Tincture of the specics of Diambra of each seven drachms Ambergreece one drachm mix them together and with the heat of a bath make them into the form of pills THE VVAY OF MAKING EXTRACTS SEing many extol the praises of Extracts up to the skies l'though WE by daily experience see they never answer to those effects yet that He may not altogether be wanting to the desires of others We chose rather to give this general way of making of them than to stuff up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with idle and needless Recepts and out of vian glory impose then upon the unskilful Take of the masse of any pill or pouder what soever as much as you wil infuse them or any of them in distilled water such as the Physitian shall prescribe a sufficient quantity let them stand two daies in a bath or if the species be hard three daies til the tincture have drawn out all the vertue which if you would try let the first liquor run through a brown paper and put in new liquor digesting it again which having received its tincture proceed as before let the liquors so gathered be placed in Balnes Mariae and the moisture evaporated so wil the matter remain in the bottom of the thickness of honey which keep for your use that the extract may remain moist a long time put a little salt to it viz two scruples or half a drachm to an ounce of extract If you draw it with distilled water put in a little oyl of Vitriol or oyl of Sulphur so the extract wil be the better drawn and the pleasanter to the tast for the liquor being thereby made sharp will sooner penetrate the hard substances of the species and set a stop to the unbridled violence of a purging medicine Cordial Extracts Opiates and violent purges are usually drawn with spirit of Wine THE VVAY OF MAKING SALTS OF ANY KIND OF VEGETABLES THE Salt which is made of plants is twofold the one Volatle which is 〈◊〉 discussed by the violence of the fire and this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The other fixed which endures the fire and is left in the 〈◊〉 The way to make Volatle or Essential Salt Take a large quantity of any convenient plant which is fresh and full of juyce beat it in a wooden or stone mortar and 〈◊〉 poured cleer spring water to it boyl it till half be consumed strain it and press it strongly then boyl the decoction to the thickness of Honey then set it in a glass or stone 〈◊〉 glazed in a cold place for eight daies at the least and you shall find a christal line salt at the top of it like Sal gem take that and wash it in the water of the herb whereof it was made and dry it In this manner is made salt of Wormwood Carduns 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and other bitter herbs very easily but of 〈◊〉 herbs not 〈◊〉 much difficulty The way of
making Fixed or Elementary Salt The method of making this consists in these four things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That this may be rightly done 〈◊〉 of all the ashes of 〈◊〉 herbs you would make salt of must be made white by calcination and herein have a care lest by too much burning either they go to glass or else the most subtill part fly out which often chanceth in the calcining of scurvy grass and other plants of like nature Then make a ly of the ashes by pouring to them cleer water and hot till all the saltness be drawn from them filter the ly and boyl it by a gentle fire till all the water be evaporated away and the salt left at the Bottom to which a further cleansing is requisite therefore dissolve it again in water and filter it and coagulate it again for by often so doing the salt will be cleansed from all its impurity and remain white and clean Thus are salts prepared of herbs fruits and trees of any kind as also of parts of living creatures calcined and some stones But this by the by Amongst fixed salts these excel salt of Wormwood Time Rosemary Centaury the less Mugwort Carduus Benedictus Masterwort Parsly Best-harrow Ash dwarf Elder or Walwort Guajacum Box Chamomel St. Johns wort Succory Sullondine Scurvy-grass Bettony Eupatorium Bawm Cetrach c. PREPARATIONS OF CERTAIN MEDICINES VERY NECESSARY FOR APOTHECARIES The burning of Brass TAKE flakes of Brass put them in an earthen vessel putting between every thin plate either common Salt or Brimstone in pouder in this manner lay flake upon flake till the pot be full then burn it sufficiently and sweeten it with warm water it will be reddish if prepared with salt black if with Brimstone The way to wash Aloes Take of Aloes beaten into very fine pouder as much as you will put it into a glazed pot and stir it up and down with a spatula in a sufficient quantity of boyling hot water so as the purer part of the Aloes may be mixed with the water pour off that and put in other warm water do so till nothing but the dross is left at bottom all the waters being added together evaporate away the moisture that the pure Aloes may be left in a mass at bottom The preparation of Spodium Take of choyce Ivory cut in big peices burn them in an earthen pot in a furnace till they look white then being beaten into fine pouder wash it in Rosewater let there be two pound of the water to one pound of the Ivory dry it and wash it again thrice the last time diffolve four drachms of Camphire in the Rose water then having dryed it grind it fine upon a marble and make it into troches to be kept for your use In the same manner may you prepare Hartshorn The Preparation of Bole Armenick The preparation of this is performed by many with Rose water by some with Vineger by others with Wine The Role being in fine pouder they wash so often till all the dross and sand be taken from it then they dry it in the air or in the sun and keep it close covered 〈◊〉 Brionie Take of 〈◊〉 roots as many as you will scrape them with a knife and press out the juyce strongly with a press which being kept without motion in a vessel after a few hours white foeces like Starch will settle the water swimming at top being poured off dry those Foeces in glazed vessels May Butler Take of sresh Putter without any salt at all about the middle of May or toward the latter end of them month place it in the sun in a broad earthen vessel well glazed that so it may be melted on every side which being well melted when the sun is at the hottest strain it through a thick linnen rag but press it not then set it in the san again at last when it is white you may keep it all the yeer 〈◊〉 of quick Lines The Lime being beaten let it be mixed with much sweet water especially in the Dog daies and much stirred and when it is setled at the bottom change the water and mix it again with other do so seven or eight times filtring it every time at 〈◊〉 put Rose water to it and so dry it and keep it for your use The way to burn River Crabs Take of River Crabs alive stew them in a brass pan over a temperate fire so long then having beaten them to pouder keep them in a clean box in a dry place so will they continue good a whol yeer The common preparation of filings of Steel Take of filings of Steel cleansed from the filth by a Loadstone washing them in clean water and drying them then sprinkle them well with sharp Wine Vineger stirring them well dry them in the shaddow often putting fresh Vineger to them so let it stand thirty daies afterwards beat it into very fine pouder and keep it for your use In such steel as is prepared by the fire with Brimstone you must note that unless after the burning it retain a smatch of the tast of Vittiol it hath lost all its opening saculty and is good for nothing The preparation of Coriander 〈◊〉 Steep Coriander seeds in sharp Vineger for twenty sour hours and then dry them and so if you please you may prepare Cummin seeds also The preparation of 〈◊〉 Take of wild Cucumers 〈◊〉 ripe as many as you will cut them 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 the juyce gently with your 〈◊〉 singers 〈◊〉 which let run through a very fine sive then let it stand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 part be setled at the bottom 〈◊〉 off 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 into another earthen glazed vesel ser the 〈◊〉 at the bottom being covered with a linnen cloath in the son till it be dry then keep it for your use The preparation of Spurge roots Infuse the bark of spurge roots being well cleansed in sharp wine Vineger then dry them and keep them for your use In the same manner is prepared the leaves of Laurel Merereon or spurge olive and the fruit of Thymelaea The preparation of Euphorbium Take of Euphorbium beaten into very fine pouder grind it upon a stone with oyl of sweet Almonds till it be like an unguent then let it be put into a Quince or Citron made hollow rolled up in past and baked in an oven keep the Euphorbium so prepared in a glass well stopped The manner of making Gersa or Cerussa Serpentaria Take of Aron roots in the beginning of the spring before their strength run up to leaves as many as you will wash them cleanse them from the outward bark then being beat in a stone mortar and the juyce pressed through a sive which being covered with a linnen cloath let it be dryed in the sun afterward washed in Rose water dryed again and kept for your use The preparation of black Hellebore Take of black Hellebore roots as we have them with us the woody
58 P Peach tree 59 R Rosemary 58 Roses 〈◊〉 58 S Saffron 58 Stoechas 57 Schaenanth 58 Succory 58 W Walflowers 58 Water Lillies 59 Winter Gilliflowers 58 FRUITS BUDS A Apricocks 61 B Bayberries 61 Barberries 61 Bitter Almonds 61 C Capers 60 Cassia fistula 62 Checkers 61 Cherries 61 Cloves 60 Cucumers 60 Cubebs 61 Currance English 61 D Dates 60 Figs 59 Galls 60 M Melones 61 Medlars 61 Myrobalans 62 Nutmegs 60 O Olives 61 P Pepper 60 Pears 60 Plums 60 Pinenuts 60 Pompions 61 Prunes 62 Q Quinces 60 R Raisons 60 S Sebestens 60 Services 61 Strawberries 62 T Tamarinds 62 W Walnuts 60 Winter cherries 62 SEEDS of A Annis 63 Ash-tree 65 B Bazil 63 Bishopsweed 63 Broom 65 C Cardamoms 63 Carrots 63 Coriander 62 Cummin 63 Cich pease 64 Citrons 65 D Dill 63 F Fenugreek 62 Fennel 63 French barly 64 Four greater cold seeds 64 G Gromwel 63 L Linseed 63 Lupines 63 Lettice 64 M Mallows 64 Mustard seed 64 N Nettles 63 Nigella 64 P Peony 65 Poppy 64 Purslain 64 R Rocket 63 Rue 64 S Smallage 63 Stavesager 64 Sorrel 64 Succory 64 W Watercresses 64 White Saxifrage 64 Worm seed 65 GUMS ROZINS A Aloes 65 〈◊〉 65 Ammoniacum 67 B 〈◊〉 66 Benzoin 65 C Camphire 67 D Diagridium 66 E 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 F Frankinsence ibid G Galbanum ibid L Ladanum 65 M Manna ibid 〈◊〉 66 〈◊〉 ibid O Olibannm ibid Opopanax ibid S Sanguis 〈◊〉 65 〈◊〉 66 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ibid T Traganth 〈◊〉 Turpentine ibid JUYCES of Citrons 67 Lemmons 67 Liquoris 67 Sugar 67 Of PLANTS Agrick 68 Misleto of the Oak 68 LIVING CREATURES Crábfish 69 〈◊〉 68 Eels 69 〈◊〉 ibid Hedg sparrows ibid Oylters ibid Pidgeons ibid Sows 68 Swallows 69 Vipers 68 Wood-lice ibid PARTS OF LIVING CREATURES Bears grease 71 Bone in a Stags heart 71 Bones of a Hares forehead ibid Brain of Sparrows 69 Brain of Hares ibid Cats head 70 Crabs eyes ibid Cocks stones ibid Castorium ibid Ducks liver ibid Ducks grease 71 Elks claws ibid Fox lungues 70 Frogs liver ibid Fox grease 71 Goats bladder 70 Goose grease 71 Goats suet ibid Hartshorn 70 Honey 73 Ivory 70 Kites head ibid Mans skull 71 Man 's fat ibid Milk ibid Os triquetrum 71 Stags pisle 70 Sheeps bladder ibid Raw silk 72 Unicorns horn 70 Wax 72 Whey ibid BELONGING TO THE SEA Amber 73 Ambergreece ibid Foam of the Sea ibid Pearls ibid Red Coral ibid Sea-sand ibid Spermacati 72 METTALS STONES AErites 76 Allum 74 Amethist 75 Bezoar ibid Carbuncle ibid Cocks-stone ibid Diamond ibid Emerald 74 Granate 75 Gold 73 Jacinth 74 Jasper 76 Iazuli ibid Lead 74 Litharge ibid 〈◊〉 75 Pompholix 74 Ruby 75 Saphir 74 Swallows stone 76 Toadstone 75 Topas ibid I quoted not the lattin 〈◊〉 because they lie 〈◊〉 in the Treatise A CATALOGVE OF THE COMPOVNDS IN THE ORDER THEY ARE set down in every CLASSES COMPOUND WATERS THE common way of making Waters 80 Wormwood water ibid Angelica water 81 Langius his Bezoar water ibid Mathiolus his bezoar water 82 Capon water 83 Cinnamon water ibid Mathiolus his Cinnamon water 84 Cinnamon water by infusion ibid Aqua Caelestis 85 A cordial water 86 Aqua cordialis frigida Saxonia ibid Langius his Ant-Epileptical water 87 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 88 Imperial water 〈◊〉 Pawm water 89 Aqua Mariae ibid Aqua 〈◊〉 90 Rosa Solis ibid Dr. Stephens water ibid Aqua Protheriacalis 91 Aqua Theriacalis by infusion ibid Aqua Theriacalis distilled 92 Ordinary Aqua vitae ibid Aqua vitae compound 93 Spirit of 〈◊〉 ibid Usquebach ibid Fallopius his Allum water 94 PHYSICAL WINES The common way of making Wines 64 Wormwood wine ibid Galen's wine of Squils 95 PHYSICAL VINEGERS The common way of making Vinegers 97 Distilled Vineger 97 Vineger of Roses ibid Treacle Vineger 98 Vineger of Squils ibid DECOCTIONS A Carminative decoction 99 The common decoction for Clisters 100 A common decoctiom for a medicine 100 A decoction of Epithimum ibid A decoction of flowers and fruits 101 A pectoral decoction ibid A decoction of Senna ibid Lac Virgineum 102 A drink for wounded men ib. SYRUPS Syrup of Vineger London 103 Syrup of Vineger Mesue ib. Syrup of Vineger compound ib. Syrup of the juyce of Citrons 104 Syrup of Bettony 105 Syrupus Bizantinus ib. Syrup of Quinces 106 Syrup of fumitory ib. Syrup of 〈◊〉 107 Syrup of Coltsfoot ibid Julep of Alexandria 108 Julep of Roses ibid Oxysaccharum simplex ib. Syrup of Maiden hair ib. Syrup of Cinnamon 109 Syrup of Coral ibid Syrup of Clovegilliflowers 110 Syrup of Citron pills 111 Syrup of water Lillies ib. Syrup of Meconium 112 Syrup of Poppies ibid Syrup of Corn roses 113 Syrup of Peach flowers ib. Syrup of dried Roses ib. Syrup of Roses solutive 114 Syrup of Roses with Agrick ibid Syrup of Roses with Hellebore 115 Syrup of Violets ibid COMPOUND SYRUPS Syrup of Wormwood 116 Syrup of Marshmallows ib. Syrup of Mugwort 117 Syrupus Augustanus or Syrup of Rhubarb 118 Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb 119 Syrupus Diasereos ibid Syrup of Epithimum 120 Syrup of Maudlin 121 Syrup of Liquoris 122 Syrup of 〈◊〉 122 Syrup of Jujubes 122 Syrup of Camepiys 123 A Magisterial syrup against Melancholly 124 Syrup of Bawm 125 Syrup of Mints ibid Syrup of Mirtles 126 Syrup of Apples ibid Syrupus de pomis Regis Saporis ib. Syrup of Horehound 127 Syrup of Rhadishes ib. Syrup of the 5. opening roots 128 Syrup of Scabious 128 Syrup of Harts-tongue 129 Syrup of 〈◊〉 129 Syrup of Comfry 130 A Cordial julep 130 SYRUPS MADE WITH HONEY 〈◊〉 131 Diacodium 131 Diamoron 131 Honey of Rosemary flowers 131 Honey of Mercury 132 Honey of Raisons 132 Honey of Roses 132 Oxymel simple 133 Oximel compound 133 Oximel Heleborated 133 Oximel Julianizans 134 Oximel of Squils 135 Honey of Anacardium ib. Honey of Emblicks 136 ROB. The meaning of the word 136 Simple Rob ibid Rob of Barberries 137 Rob of Cornels ib. Rob of Quinces ib. Rob of English Currance 138 Juyce of Sloes ibid Juyce of Liquoris ibid Miva of Quinces ibid LOHOCHS The signification of the word 139 Lohoch of Colworts ibid Lohoch of Poppies ib. Lohoch of Raisons 140 Lohoch of Pinenuts ibid Lohoch of Fox lungues 141 Lohoch Sanum expertum ibid Eclegma of Squills 142 PRESERVES The way to make them 143 CONSERVES The way to make them 144 Lozinges of Poppies 145 Manus Christi 146 Penidies ibid Confection of Frankinsence 147 Sugar of Roses ibid POUDERS Aromaticum Cariophylatum 148 Aromaticum Rosatum 149 Cordial pouder 150 A pouder for such as are bruised by falls 151 Species cordiales temperatae ib. Diacalaminthes Simplex ib. Compositum 152 〈◊〉 ib. Species Elect. Diacymini 152 Species Elect Diagalaxgae 153 Species Elect. de Gemmis 153 〈◊〉 Simplex 154 Dialacca 155 Diamargariton 155 〈◊〉 157 Diamoscu 157 Dianthon 158 Dia penidion 158 Diarrhodon Abbatis 159 Diaspoliticum ibid Diatragac 〈◊〉 ibid Diatrion Pipereon 160 Diatrion Santalon ibid Pulvis
well incorporated A. They both viz. this and the former heat and moisten the latter helps pains of the breast coming of cold and pleuresies Unguentum Enulatum Take of Elicampane roots while they are soft bruised and boyled in Vineger and drawn through a pulping sieve one pound Hogs Greas without salt one pound Common Oyl four ounces Wax two ounces Salt one ounce Quick-silver killed either with fasting spittle or juyce of Lemmons Turpentine washed with the decoction the Elicampane roots were boyled in of each two ounces let the 〈◊〉 and Wax be melted in the oyl then ad the pulp of Elicampane and Salt being finely poudered last of all ad the Quick silver killed labored much in a mortar with the Turpentine and a little Crease make them into an ointment according to art Also it ought to be prepared without Quicksilver A. My opinion of this oyntment is briefly this It was invented for the Itch without Quick silver it wil do no good with Quick-silver it may do harm Unguentum Diapompholigos nihili Nichol. Take of Oyl of Roses sixteen ounces Juyce of Nightshade six ounces let them boyl to the consumption of the juyce then ad white Wax five ounces Cerus washed two ounces Lead burnt and washed Pompholix prepared pure Frankinsence of each an ounce let them be brought into the form of an Ointment according to art A. It cools and binds dries and staies fluxes either of blood or humors in wounds and fils hollow ulcers with fiesh Unguentum Refrigerans Galenus It it also called a Cerecloath Take of white Wax four ounces Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound melt it in a double vessel then powr it out into another by degrees putting in cold water and often powring it out of one vessel into another stirring it till it be white last of all wash it in Rose water adding a little Rose water and Rose vineger A. It is a fine cooling thing for what denomination to give it I scarce know and exceeding good yea superexcellent to cure inflamations in wounds or tumors Unguentum de Minio Or Rubrum Camphoratum Take of oyl of Roses a pound and an ounce red Lead three ounces Litharge two ounces Ceruss an ounce and an half Tutty three drams Camphire 2. drams Wax in summer two ounces in winter one ounce make them into an oyntment in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestel the wax being first melted in the oyl over a gentle fire then the rest added in fine pouder A. This ointment is as drying as a man shall usually reade of one and withal cooling therefore good for sores and such as are troubled with defluxions I remember once Dr. Alexander Read applied it to my Mothers breast when she had a Cancer before it brake long time but to as much purpose as though he had applied a 〈◊〉 apple yet in the forgoing infirmities I beleeve it seldom fails Oyntment of Tobacco Joubertus Take of Tobacco leaves two pound fresh Hogs Grease dilligently washed one pound let the herb being bruised be infused a whol night in red Wine in the morning let it boil with a gentle fire to the consumption of the Wine strain it and ad to the Oyntment of the juyce of Tobacco clarified half a pound Rozin four ounces boil it to the consumption of the 〈◊〉 adding toward the end round 〈◊〉 roots in pouder two ounces new Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an Ointment A It would ask a whol Summers day to write the particular vertues of this Oyntment and my poor Genius is too weak to give it the hundreth part of its due praise It cures Tumours Aposthumes wounds ulcers Gun-shot botches scibs itch stinging with nettles bees wasps hornets venemous beasts wounds made with poisoned arrows c. Tush this is nothing paulo majora canamus It helps scaldings though made with oyl burnings though with lightening that without any scar It helps nasty rotten stinking putrified ulcers though in the legs whither the humours are most subject to resort in fistulaes though the bone be afflicted it shall scale it without any instrument and bring up the flesh from the very bottom Would you be fair your face being anointed with this soon will the redness pimples sunburning vanish a wound dressed with this will never putrifie a wound made with so small a weapon that no tent will follow anoint but with this and you need fear no danger If your head ake anoint your templss with this and you shal have ease The stomach being anointed with it no infirmity dares harbour there no not Asthmaes nor consumptions of the lungues The belly being anointed with it helps the chollick and Iliack passion the worms and what not it help the Hemorrhoids or piles and is the best Oyntment that is for gouts of all sorts finally there may be as universal a medicine made for all diseases of Tobacco as of any thing in the world the Phylosophers stone excepted O Joubertus thou shalt never want praise for inventing this medicine by those that use it so long as the Sun and the Moon endureth Unguentum 〈◊〉 or Crudum or of Litharge or Tripharmacum Mesue Take of Litharge of Gold beaten into very fine pouder half a pound Oyl of Roses a pound Vineger four ounces put in sometimes Oyl and sometimes Vineger stirring it about in a mortar so long till the Litharge have drunk up all the liquor and be made in the form of a whitish Oyntment A. It is of a cooling drying nature good for itching of wounds Itch and Scabs and such like deformities of the skin as Tetters Ringworms c. Unguentum Ophthalmicum Renodaeus Take of Bole Armenick washed in Rose water an ounce Lapis Calaminaris washed in Eyebright water Tutty prepared of each two drachms Pearls beaten into very fine pouder half a drachm Camphire half a scruple Opium fiue grains Oyntment of Roses fifteen ounces Oyl of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment according to art A. It is exceeding good to stop hot Rhewms that fall down into the eyes the eye-lids being but anointed with it Cuilielmus Placentinus his Liniment Simple Take of washed Cerus eight ounces white Wax seven ounces Litharge washed juyce of Nightshade of each five ounces Frankinsence in pouder ten drachms oyl of Roses often washed in common water two pound make of them a Liniment according to art A. It is cooling and also drying if you cast an eye to some of the former Oyntments of that nature you may see its use Oyntment of Lead Foesius Take of Lead burnt with Brimstone Litharge of each two ounces Ceruss Antimony of each one ounce Oyl of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment I et the Lead being filed to dust be burned in a pot with Brimstone Pomatum Take of the Suet of a Stag or else of a Kid two ounces the fat of a Sow a pound and an half Apples being cut and pared