they stick to your Fingers like Birdlime for they ought to penetrate the parts to be mollified and therefore many times if occasion be are 〈◊〉 Medicines mixed with them Chap. 2. Of Hardning Medicines GALEN in Lib. 5. De Simpl. Med. Facult Cap. 10. determins Hardning Medicines to be cold and moist and he brings some arguments to prove it against which other Physitians contest I shall not here stand to quote the Dispute only take notice That if softning Medicines be hot and moist as we shewed even now then hardning Medicines must needs be cold and dry because they are contrary to them The Universal course of Nature will prove it for driness and moisture are passive qualities neither can extremities consist in moisture as you may know if you do but consider that driness is not attributed to the Air nor Water but to the Fire and Earth 2. The thing to be congealed must needs be moist therefore the Medicine congealing must of necessity be dry for if cold be joyned with driness it contracts the pores that so the humors cannot be scattered Yet you must observe a difference between Medicines drying making thick hardning and congealing of which differences a few words will not do amiss 1. Such Medicines are said to dry which draw out or drink up the moisture as a 〈◊〉 drinks up water 2. Such Medicines are said to make thick as do not consume the moisture but ad driness to it as you make Syrups into a thick Electuary by adding Pouders to them 3. Such as congeal neither draw out the moisture not make it thick by adding driness to it but contract it by vehement cold as Water is frozen into Ice 4. Hardning disfers from all these for the parts of the Body swell and are filled with Flegmatick humors or Melancholly Blood which at last grows hard That you may cleerly understand this observe but these two things 1. What it is which worketh 2. What it worketh upon That which worketh is outward cold that which is wrought upon is a certain thickness driness of humors for if the humor were fluid as water is it might properly be said to be congealed by cold but not so properly hardned Thus you see cold drines to be the cause of hardning But enough of this perhaps some may think too much This hardning being so far from being useful that it is obnoxious to the Body of Man I pass it without more words I suppose when Galen wrote of hardning Medicines he intended such as make thick and therefore amongst them he reckons up Fleawort Purslain Housleek and the like which asswage the heat of the humors in Swellings and stop subtil and sharp Defluxious upon the Lungues but of these more anon CHAP. 3. Of Loosning Medicines BY Loosning here I do not mean Purging not that which is opposit to Astringency but that which is opposit to stretching I knew not suddenly what fitter English Name to give it than Loosning or Laxation which latter is scarce English The Members are distended or stretched divers waies and ought to be loosned as many for they are stretched sometimes by driness sometimes by cold sometimes by repletion or fulness sometimes by swellings and sometimes by some of these joyned together I avoid terms of Art as much as I can because it would profit my Country but little to give them the Rules of Physick in such English as they understand not I confess the Opinion of Ancient Physitians hath been various about these Loosning Medicines Galen's Opinion was That they might be referred either to moistning or heating or mollifying or evacuating Medicines and therefore ought not to be referr'd to a Chapter by themselves T is like they may and so may all other Medicines be referred to heat or coldness or dryness or moisture But we speak not here of the Particular properties of Medicines but of their Joyned properties as they heat and moisten Others they question how they can be distinguished from such as mollifie seeing such as are loosning and such as are emollient are both of them hot and moist To that thus Stetching and Loosning are ascribed to the movable parts of the Body as to the Muscles and their Tendons to the Ligaments and Membranae But softness and hardness to such parts of the Body as may be felt with the hand I shall make it cleer by a Similitude Wax is softned being hard but Fiddle-strings are loosned being stretched And if you say that the difference lying only in the parts of the Body is no true difference then take notice that such Medicines which loosen are less hot and more moistning than such as soften for they operate most by heat these by moisture The truth is I am of Opinion the difference is not much nay scarce sensible between Emollient and Loosning Medicines Only I quoted this in a Chapter by itself not so much because some Authors do as because it conduceth to the encrease of knowledge in Physick for want of which this poor Nation is almost spoiled The chief Use of Loosning Medicines is in Convulsions and Cramps and such like infirmities which cause distention or stretching They are known by the very same marks and tokens that Emollient Medicines are CHAP. 4. Of Medicines making thin and thick MEdicines which rarify or make thin are such which open the pores of the skin and make them wider they are not so moist as Emollient Medicines are but of thin and subtil parts they are hot but not so hot that they should draw the matter to them or discuss it as we shall shew when we come to speak of those Faculties Such as make thick are contrary to these these are cold and stop the pores of the skin These Galen would have to be moist neither is there any difference between his Description of hardning Medicines and such as make thick 1. The Use of Rarifying Medicines is to open the pores of the skin and make them wider that so the vapors arising from Blood overheated may pass out and that was the Reason Wrestlers in ancient times came to their exercise with their Bodies anoynted that so the vapors caused by stirring their Bodies might pass out and not cause Feavers or other mischief to the Bowels by being kept in 2. Rarifying Medicines conduce much to the mitigation of pain for the pores of the Skin being opened the matter causing the pain is the easier expelled Again In swellings it is not only the plenty of humors that causeth pain but the driness hardness or stretching of the Skin therefore seeing Medicines which rarify or make thin do both loosen and mollifie they must of necessity by these operations mitigate pain Also there is much profit in the use of thickning Medicines for they make the Skin firm thereby not only the better resisting cold but also they stop too much sweating and desolution of the spirits that way which often happens to them that are weak CHAP 5. Of Medicines
of it drives away venemous beasts so deadly an enemy is it to poyson it 's an admirable remedy against wounds and Gun-shot wounds made with poysoned weapons it draws out splinters broken bones c. The dose from halfe a drachm to a drachm They say the Goats and Deers in Creet being wounded with Arrows eat this herb which makes the Arrows fall out of themselves And from thence came the tale in Virgil * about Aeneas Dipsacus sativ sylv Teazles Garden and wild the leaves bruised and applied to the temples alay the heat in feavers qualifie the rago in frenzies the juyce dropped into the ears kill worms in them if there be any there to kill dropped into the eyes cleers the sight helps redness and pimples in the face being anointed with it Ebulus Dwarf-Elder or Walwort hot and dry in the third degree wasts hard swellings being applied in form of a pultis the hair of the head being anointed with the juyce of it turns black the leaves being applied to the place help inflamations burnings scaldings the bitings of mad-dogs mingled with Buls suet is a present remedy for the gout inwardly taken is a singular purge for the dropsie and gout Echium Vipers-buglosse Vipers-herb Snake-buglosse Wall-buglosse Wild-buglosse several Countries give it these several names it is a singular remedy being eaten for the biting of venemous beasts Continual eating of it makes the body invincible against the poyson of Serpents Toads Spiders c. however it be administred It comforts the heart expels sadness and melancholly It grows abundantly about the Castle walls at Lewis in Sussex The rich may make the flowers into a conserve and the herb into a syrup the poor may keep it dry both may keep it as a Jewel Empetron Calcifraga Herniaria c. Rupture-wort or Burst-wort the English name tels you it is good against Ruptures and so such as are bursten shall find it if they please to make trial of it either inwardly taken or outwardly applied to the place or both Also the Latin names hold it forth to be good against the stone which who so tries shall find true Enula Campana Elicampane Provokes Urine See the root Epithimum Dodder of Time to w ch ad cōmon Dodder w ch is usually that w ch grows upon Flax indeed every Dodder retains a vertue of that herb or plant it grows upon as Dodder that grows upon Broom provokes urin forcibly loosens the belly and is moister than that which grows upon Flax that which grows upon Time is hotter and dryer than that which grows upon Flax even in the third degree opens obstructions helps infirmities of the spleen purgeth melancholly releeves drooping spirits helps the rickets that which grows on Flax is excellent for agues in young children strengthens weak stomachs purgeth choller provokes urine opens stoppings in the reins and bladder that which grows upon Nettles provokes urine exceedingly The way of using it is to boyl it in white Wine or other convenient decoction and boyl it very little remembring what was told you before in 〈◊〉 Eruca Rocket hot and dry in the third degree being eaten alone causeth headach by its heat procureth lust Eupatorium See 〈◊〉 Euphragia Eybright somthing hot and dry the very sight of it refresheth the eyes inwardly taken it restores the sight and makes old mens eyes young a drachm of it taken in the morning is worth a pair of Spectacles it comforts and strengtheneth the memory outwardly applyed to the place it helps sore eyes Filix foemina Filicula polypodium See the Roots Filipendula Malabathrum Indian-leaf hot and dry in the second degree comforts the Stomach exceedingly helps digestion provokes urine helps inflamations of the eyes secures cloathes from moths Foeniculum Fennel Encreaseth milk in Nurses provokes Urine breaks the stone easeth pains in the Reins opens stoppings breaks wind provokes the terms You may boyl it in white Wine Fragaria Strawberry leaves are cold dry and binding a singular Remedy for inflamations and wounds hot diseases in the throat they stop fluxes and the terms cool the heat of the stomach and inflamations of the Liver The best way is to boyl them in barley water Fraxinus c. Ash-trees the leaves are moderately hot and dry cure the bitings of Adders and Serpents by a certain antipathy they say there is between them they stop loosness and stay vomittng help the Rickets open stoppages of the Liver and Spleen Fumaria Fumitory Cold and dry it openeth and clenseth by Urine helps such as are Itchy and Scabbed cleers the skin opens stoppings of the Liver and Spleen helps Rickets Hypochondriak Melancholly madness frenzies Quartan Agues loosneth the belly gently purgeth Melancholly and addust choller boyl it in white Wine and take this one general rule All things of a clensing or opening nature may be most commodiously boyled in white wine Remember but this and then I need not write one thing so often 〈◊〉 Goats-rue Temperate in quality resists Poyson kills Worms helps the Falling-sickness resisteth the Pestilence You may take a drachm of it at a time in pouder Galion Ladies-bedstraw dry and binding stancheth blood boyled in Oyl the Oyl is good to anoint a weary Traveller inwardly it provokes lust 〈◊〉 See the Root Genista Broom hot and dry in the second degree clens and open the Stomach break the Stone in the Reins and Bladder help the green sickness Let such as are troubled with heart-qualms or faintings forbear it for it weakens the Heart and Spirit Vital See the Flowers Geranium Cranebil the divers sorts of it one of which is that which is called Muscata and in Sussex barbariously Muscovy it is thought to be cool and dry helps hot swellings and by its smel amends a hot brain Geranium Columbinum Doves-foot helps the wind Chollick pains in the belly stone in the reins and bladder and is singular good in ruptures and inward wounds I suppose these are the general vertues of them all Gramen 〈◊〉 See the Root Gratiola Hedg Hysop purgeth water and flegm but works very churlishly Gesner commends it in Dropsies Asphodelus foem See the Root Hepatica Lichen Liverwort cold and dry excellent good for Inflamations of the Liver or any other Inflamations yellow Jaundice Hedera Arborea 〈◊〉 Tree and Ground-Ivy Tree-Ivy helps Ulcers Burnings Scaldings the bad effects of the Spleen the Juyce snuffed up in the nose purgeth the head it is admirable for surfets or headach or any other ill effects coming of drunkenness and therefore the Poets feigned Bacchus to have his head bound round with them Your best way is to boyl them in the same liquor you got your surfet by drinking Ground-Ivy is that which usually is called Alehoof hot and dry the Juyce helps noise in the ears fistulaes gouts stoppings of the Liver it strengthens the Reins and stops the terms helps the yellow Jaundice and other diseases coming of stopping of the Liver
them be cut and infused in Spirit of Wine and Malaga Wine of each three pound and an half Vineger of Clove-gilli-flowers juyce of Lemmons of each one pound and distilled in a glass stil in Balneo Mariae after it is half stilled off the residue may be strained through a linnen cloath and be reduced to the thickness of Honey and called the Bezoartick extract Culpeper A. Extracts have the same vertues with the waters they are made from only the different form is to please the quaint pallats 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 exceeding good in pestilential feavers in health it withstands melancholly and consumptions and makes a merry blith cheerful creature Of the extract you may take ten grains at a time or somewhat more if your body be not feaverish half a spoonful of water is sufficient at a time and that mixed with other cordials or medicines apropriated to the disease that troubles you which the Table at the latter end of the Book will direct you to And take this for a general rule when any thing is too hot to take it by it self resort to the Table of diseases which will amply furnish you with what to mix it and especially the cold waters the vertues of which you have amply in this third Edition This is Langius Receipt though the Colledg would have no body know it Aqua et Spiritus Lumbricorum Magistralis P. 34. L. B. Or Water and Spirit of Earth-worms The Colledg Take of Earth-worms wel clensed three pound Snails with shels on their backs clensed two Gallons beat them in a mortar and put them into a convenient vessel adding stinging Nettles roots and all six handfuls wild Angellica four handfuls Brank ursine seven handfuls Agrimony Betony of each three handfuls Rue one handful common Wormwood two handfuls Rosemary flowers six ounces Dock roots ten ounces the roots of Sorrel five ounces Turmerick the inner bark of Barberries of each four ounces Fenugreek seeds two ounces Cloves three ounces Harts-horn Ivory in gross pouder of each four ounces Saffron three drachms smal Spirit of Wine four gallons and an half after twenty four hours infusion distil them in an Alembick Let the four first pounds be reserved for Spirit the rest for water Culpeper A. 'T is a mess of Altogether it may be they intended it for an Universal medicine Aqua Gentianae composita Page 35. in the Latin B. Or Gentian Water Compound The Colledg Take of Gentian roots sliced one pound and an half the leaves and flowers of Centaâ—ry the less of each four ounces steep them eight daâ—â— in twelve pound of white Wine then distil them in an Alembick Culpeper A. It conduceth to preservation from ill air and pestilential feavers it opens obstructions of the Liver and helps such as they say are Liver grown it easeth pains in the stomach helps digestion and easeth such as have pains in their bones by ill lodging abroad in the cold it provokes appetite and is excellent good for the yellow jaundice as also for prickings or stitches in the sides it provokes the terms and expells both birth and after-birth it is naught for women with child If there be no feaver you may take a spoonful or taster full by it self if there be you may if you please mix it with some cooler medicine apropriated to the same use you would give it for Aqua Gilberti Page 35. in the Latin Book Or Gilberts Water The Colledg Take of Scabious Burnet Dragons Bawm Angellica Pimpernel with purple flowers Tormentil roots and all of each two handfuls let al of them being rightly gathered and prepared be steeped in four gallons of Canary Wine stil off three gallons in an Alembick to which ad three ounces of each of the cordial flowers Clove-gilli-flowers six ounces Saffron half an ounce Turmerick two ounces Galanga Bazil seeds of each one drachm Citron pills one ounce the seeds of Citrons and Cardus Cloves of each five drachms Harts-horn four ounces steep them twenty four hours and then distil them in Balneo Mariae to the stilled water add Pearls prepared an ounce and an half red Corral Crabs eyes white Amber of each two drachms Crabs claws six drams Bezoar Ambergreese of each two scruples steep them six weeks in the Sun in a vessel well stopped often shaking it then filter it you may keep the pâ—uders for Sp. cord temp by mixing twelve ounces of Sugar candy with six ounces of red Rose water and four ounces of Spirit of Cinnamon with it Culpeper A. I suppose this was invented for a cordial to strengthen the heart to releeve languishing nature it is exceeding dear I forbear the dose they that have money enough to make it themselves cannot want time to stady both the vertues and dose I would have Gentlemen men to be studious A. Only one thing I would demand of the Colledg that makes their brags so much of minding their Countryes good these same species which they appoint to be left after use in this medicine for Species Cordiales Temperatae Doth the vertue come out of them in this medicine or not if not why are they put in if yes then wil the Species cordiales Temperatae be like themselves viz. good for nothing but to deceive people Aqua Cordialis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Page 36. in Lat. B. The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Borrage Bugloss Bawm Bistort Tormentil Scordium Vervain Sharp-pointed dock Sorrel Goats Rue 〈◊〉 blew Bottle great and smal Roses Marigolds Lemmons Citrons of each six ounces Bnrnet Sinksoyl of each three ounces white Wine Vineger one pound Purslain seeds two ounces Citron and Cardus seeds of each half an ounce Water Lilly flowers two ounces the flowers of Borrage Bugloss Violets 〈◊〉 of each one ounce Diatrion Santalon six 〈◊〉 let all of them being rightly prepared be infused three daies then distilled in a glass still to the distilled Liquor add earth of Lemnos Siletia aud Samos of each one ounce and an half Pearls prepared with the juyce Citrons three drachms mix them and keep them together Culpeper A. No sooner had I translated their old Dispensatory which should have been Authentick til dooms day in the afternoon had not I done it to work go they and make another such a one as 〈◊〉 and then the old one is thrown by like an old Almanack out of 〈◊〉 some final alterations they have made in some medicines of which this is one not worth speaking of yet wil they serve to vapor with look here quoth they here 's such a thing altered here is a grain and an half put in where there was but a grain before the other is dangerous and destructive to the Common-wealth and so care not a straw for defaming their predecessors nay some of their own handy works so they may but uphold their own interests and unconscionable domineering thus they serve the poor
Purstain Plantane Ambrosia Pauls Betony of each a pound Hogs blood white Wine of each four pound Garden Snails two pound dried Tobacco Leaves eight pouder of Liquor is two ounces of Alicampane half an ounce of Orris an ounce Cotton seeds an ounce and 〈◊〉 half the greater cold seeds Annis seeds of each six drachms Saffron one drachm the flowers of red Roses six pugils of Violets and Borrage of each four 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them three daies warm and then distill them in a glass still in sand Culpeper It purgeth the lungues of flegm and helps consumptions there If you should happen to live where no beetter nor readier Medicine can be gotten you may use this Aqua Scordii Composita Page 29. in the L. Book Or Compound Water of Scordium The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Goats-rue Sorrel Scordium Citrons of each one pound London Treacle half a pound steep it three daies and distill it in sand Culpeper A. A tasterful taken in the morning preserves from ill airs Aqua Mariae Page 39. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Sugar candy a pound Canary Wine six ounces Rose water sour ounces boylit well into a Syrup and ad to it Imperial Water two pound Ambergreese Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fitfeen grains yellow Sanders infused in Imperial water two drachms make ae cleer water of it Culpeper A. The difference between this and their former Aqua Mariae is this Here they appoint Imperial Water and before Aqua 〈◊〉 which they very subtilly have left out here any tooth good Barber so we may hold up our honor and gains Both Receipts are very costly as far beyond the reach of a poor mans purse as of his brains Aqua Papaveris Composita Page 39. in L. Book Or Poppy Water Compound The Colledg Take of red Poppies four pound sprinkle them with white Wine two pound then distill them in a common still let the distilled Water be powred upon fresh flowers and repeated three times to which distilled water ad two Nutmegs sliced red Poppy flowers a pugil Sugar two ounces set it in the Sun to give it a pleasing sharpness if the sharpness be more than you would have it put some of the same water to it which was not set in the Sun and then it will be a pretty water good for nothing Aqua Juglandium Composita Page 40. in L. Book Or Walnut Water Compound The Colledg Take of green Walnuts a pound and an half Rhadish roots one pound green Asarabacea six ounces Rhadish seeds four ounces let all of them being bruised be steeped in three pound of white Wine for three daies then distilled in a leaden still till they be dry And when you have done so I pray ask the Colledg what it is good for in truth I know not Some Waters kind country men the Colledg have plaid the men and left out in their new Dispensatory which were in their old one and they are these Mathiolus his Bezoar Water The Colledg Take of Mathiolus his great Antielote Syrup of Citron Pills of each one pound spirit of Wine distilled five times over five pound put all these in a glass 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 glass to be kept for your use stopping it very close with wax and Parchment else the strength will easily fly away in vapors Culpeper 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 and speedily cureth the bitings of any venemous beasts whatsoever that although the danger of death be such that the patient have lost his speech sight and almost all the rest of his sences yet will he be rouzed 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 testifie by experience in the commendations of it I have known it given in acute in peracute feavers with gallant success and also in Consumptions yea in Hecticks and in Galens supposed incurabe Marasmos neither hath it missed the desired effects and therefore out of question it strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and the spirit vital It helps in the falling-sickness apoplexies and convulsion A. 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 It is too hot to be taken alone and half a drachm is the most may be taken at a time Cinnamon Water The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound and an half Spanish Wine twelve pints Infuse the Cinnamon in the Wine twenty four hours then distil them in an 〈◊〉 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 Culpeper A. The vertues are the same that Cinnamon it self hath to which I refer you Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound put it into a glass 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 twenty four hours then put on the still-head lute it well and distill it according to art Culpeper A. Mathiolus appoints Wine of Creet four pints and that is all the alteration A. The Authors own Judgment is That it strengthens the brain heart liver stomach lungues spleen and nerves quickens the sight resisteth poyson helpeth bitings by venemous beasts causeth a sweet breath bringeth down the terms in women and hath vertue attenuating opening digesting and strengthening A. The truth is I beleeve it prevails in cold diseases being orderly regulated in quantity according to the nature of the disease the age and strength of the patient and the season of the year have a care of taking too much of it in feavers Cinnamon Water made by Infusion The Colledg Take of Cinnamon bruised four ounces Spirit of Wine two pints infuse them together four daies in a large glass close stopped with Cork and a Bladder shaking the Glass twice a day Dissolve half a pound of white Sugar Candy in a quart of Rose water then mix both these liquors together then put into them four grains of Musk and half a scruple of Ambergreese tied up in a linnen
each one drachm old Wine and decoction of the five opening Roots so much as is sufficient to make it into troches according to art Culpeper A. They help pains in the stomach and ill digestion the Illiack passion Hectick feavers and dropsies in the beginning and cause a good colour Use them like the former Trochisci Diacorrallion Galen The Colledg Take of Bole Armenick red Corral of each an ounce Balaustins terra Lemnia white Starch of each half an ounce Hypocystis the seeds of Henbane Opium of each two drachms juyce of Plantane so much as is sufficient to make them into troches according to art Culpeper A. These also stop blood help the bloody-flux stop the terms and are a great help to such whose stomachs loath their victuals I fancy them not Trochisci Diaspermaton Galeni The Colledg Take of the seeds of Small age and Bishops weed of each an ounce Annis and Fennel seeds of each half an ounce Opium Cassia Lignea of each two drachms with rain Water make it into troches according to art Culpeper A. These also bind case pain help the pleuresie 〈◊〉 Pastilli Galen The Colledg Take of white Starch Balaustins earth of Samos juyce of Hypocistis Gum Saffron Opium of each two drachms with juyce of Plantane make them into troches according to art Culpeper A. The Operation of this is like the former Troches of Agrick The Colledg 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 Culpeper A. The vertues of both these are the same with Agrick only it may be more safely given this way than the other they clense the brain of flegm and the stomach of tough thick viscous humois The dose is one drachm at a time Of the Use of Oyls c. BEfore I begin with their Oyls Oyntments and Plaisters give me leave to swerve a little from the Colledges mode they swerve ten times more from the truth I would but give a few Rules for the Use of them and I had as good do it here as any where and to write but the truth many City Chyrurgians that I have talked with are scarce able to give reason for what they do 't is to be feared that those that live in the country far remote are far less able to do all these a curtesy do I candidly deliver these Rules and let me never be acconnted so basely bred as to forget those kind Ladies and Gentlewomen that for Gods sake help their poor wounded neighbors the great God reward them with a plentiful increase of estate in this world and eternal Beatitude in that to come The cheifest of all these Chyrurgicall Antidotaries I shall divide into these twelve Chapters which shall be treated of in this order Of Medicines Anodine 1 Repelling 2 Attracting 3 Resolving 4 Emollient 5 Suppuring 6 Clensing 7 Incarnative 8 Scarrifying 9 Glutinative 10 Cathereticks 11 Stanching blood 12 Chap. 1. Of ANODINES SUch Oyls Oyntments and Plaisters as ease pain are called by Physitians because you should not know what they mean Anodines All pain is caused by heat or driness or both for moisture seldom unless heat be joyned with it causeth pain Anodines also some divide into proper and improper improper Anodines if a man may call them Anodines they call Narcoticks for I assure you if crabbed words would cure 〈◊〉 our Physitians would come behind none in the world the truth is these words were borrowed from Galen and are Greek words and Galen writing in his mother tongue they were understood well enough there ours retain the same words only to blind peoples eyes that so they may not prie into the Mystery of their Monopoly for then all the fat were in the fire But to proceed Proper Anodines are either temperately hot or temperately cold Hot Anodines are Oyl of sweet Almonds Linseed Oyl Oyl of Eggs Oyl of Saint Johns-wort Hen-grease Ducks grease Goose grease Chamomel Melilot Fenugreek seeds Dill Bay leaves and berries Juniper berries Rosemary Oyles and Ointments made of them Oyle of Earth-worms Oyle of Elder Wax Turpentine Oyntment of Marshmallows Martiatum Arregon Resumptivum Oxycroceum If any external part of your body be pained these or any of these made into fomentations to both the part pained or into pultifses or Oyls or Oyntments by adding Hogs grease or Plaisters by adding Wax or Rozin or both to the Oyntment and applyiug it to the place ease pain But if together with the pain there be an inflamation then Anodines of a cooler nature are more convenient such be Oyl Omphacine viz. Oyl of Olives pressed from them before they be ripe Poppies Roses Violets Pellitory of the wall Fleawort these or any of these made into Pultisses Oyls Oyntments or Plaisters Oyntment of Roses Unguantnm Album Populeon Refrigerans Galeni c. Improper Anodines or Narcoticks which you please are Medicines of another nature and you may thank the Colledge of Physitians for training you up in such ignorance scarce fit for a vulgar use till they have learn'd more skill in Physick than yet they have yet be pleased to consider that in taking away pains three things are to be considered The cause the pain the part pained To these are medicines apropriated for some take away the cause but these belong not to my present scope others take away the pain and meddle not with the cause as those proper Anodines I mentioned before and some take away neither cause nor pain but only stupifie the sences that so it cannot be felt these are to be used with abundance of skill and discretion and never but in cases of necessity when the pain is so vehement that Nature is not able to bear it or a Feaver thereby threatned Of this Nature and for this use are Narcoticks Of these some are Simple As Mandrakes Henbane Poppies Opium Lettice Sengreen Nightshade Camphire Hemlock c. Compound are Oyls and Oyntments of these Philonium Persicum Philonium Romanum Pilulae è Cynoglosso or Pills of Houndstongue Pilulae è Styrace and most Opiates you meet withal in the Dispensatory Chap. 2. Of Repelling Medicines BY Repelling or Repulsive Medicines I mean either 1. Such as by a cold quality put back the humor Or 2. Such as by binding strengthen the part afflicted They are in quality 1. Hot and binding 2. Cold and binding They are devided into Simple and Compound Simple Repercussives which is another term they have are Mild binding Strong Hot and Mild Repulsives are Roses Endive Lettice Sorrel Navel-wort Purslain Violets Water-Lillies cold water Whey Coriander Cinkfoyl Trefoyl Pellitory of the Wall Apples Pears Whites of Eggs Horstail Woodbine Strong are Teazles Shepheards purse Plantane Nightshade Sengreen or Housleeks Melones Guords Citruls Duckmeat Fleawort Mirtles Quinces Pomegranat rinds and flowers Sanguis Draconis Poppy Opium Bole Armenick Ceruss Terra Sigillata Lead burnt and not burnt Cypress Nuts Hot and
Ounces make a Pound THe most usual Measures amongst us quoth the Colledg are these A Spoon which in Syrups holds half an ounce in distilled Waters three drachms A Taster which holds an ounce and an half A Congie which in their former Dispensatory held nine pound now holds but eight pound viz. just a Gallon To miss but one Pint in a Gallon is nothing with a Colledg of Physitians such Physitians as our times afford The reason I suppose is Because most Nations differ in the quantity of their Measures and they quoted their Congius from one Nation before and from another now for indeed their Dispensatory is borrowed a great part of it from Arabia part from Greece some from France some from Spain and some from Italy and now they vapor with it Oh brave should a man that borrowed his Cloathes from so many Broakers in Long-lane be proud of them Besides these they have gotten another antick way of MENSURATION which they have not set down here viz. By Handfuls and Pugils An Handful is as much as you can gripe in one Hand and a Pugil as much as you can take up with your Thumb and two Fingers and how much that is who can tell Intruth this way of Mensuration is as certain as the Weather-cock and as various as mens Fingers are in length and the things taken up in driness or form for an Handsul of green Herbs will not be half an Handsul or not above when they are dry and your mother-wit will teach you that you may take up more Hay in this manner than Bran and more Bran than Sand. And thus much for their Weights and also for their Measures both rediculous and contradictive Weights and Measures in the Old Dispensatory TWenty Grains do make a Scruple Three Scruples make a drachm commonly called a dram Right Drachms make an Ounce Twelve Ounces make a Pound As for the Colledges Measures I know not well what English Names to give them 〈◊〉 holds in Syrups half an Ounce in distilled Waters three Drachms 〈◊〉 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 Congie six Sextaties These Measures amongst the Romans contained not just the same quantities for their Cyathus contained an ounce and an half a drachm and a scruple Their Sextary contained but fourteen ounces three 〈◊〉 and half a quarter and among the Gracians not so much It is called a 〈◊〉 because it is the sixt part of a Congie Neither did the Roman Hemina contain altogether seven ounces and an half Their Libra I suppose to be that which Galen calls 〈◊〉 viz. A Vessel to measure with it was made of cleer Horn and by certain lines drawn round it like rings was divided into twelve equal parts each part containing an ounce DIRECTIONS ALthough I did what I could throughout the whol Book to express my self in such a language as might be understood by all and therefore avoided terms of Art as much as might be it being the task of the Colledg to write only to the Learned and the Nurslings of Apollo but of my Self to do my Country good which is the Center all my Lines tend to and I destre should terminate in Yet 1. Some words must of necessity fall in which need explanation 2. It would be very tedious at the end of every Receipt to repeat over and over again the way of administration of the Receipt or ordering your Bodies after it or to instruct you in the mixture of Medicines and indeed would do nothing else but stuff the Book full of 〈◊〉 To answer to both these is my task at this time To the first The words which need explaining such as are obvious to my Eye are these that follow 1. To distil in Balneo Mariae is the usual way of distilling in Water It is no more than to 〈◊〉 your Glass-Body which holds the matter to be distilled in a convenient vessel of Water when the Water is cold for fear of breaking put a wisp of Straw or the like under it to keep it from the bottom then make the Water boyl that so the Spirit may be distilled forth take not the Glass out till the Water be cold again for fear of breaking It is impossible for a man to learn how to do it unless he saw it done 2. Manica Hippocrates Hippocrates his Sleeve is a piece of woolen cloath new and white sewed together in form of a Sugar-loaf It s use is to strain any Syrup or Decoction through by powring it into it and suffering it to run through without pressing or crushing it 3. Calcination is a burning of a thing in a Crucible or other such convenient vessel that will endure the fire A Crucible is such a thing as your Gold-smiths melt Silver in and your Founders their Mettals you may place it in the midst of the fire with coals above below and on every side of it 4. Filtration is straining of a liquid body through a brown 〈◊〉 Make up the Paper in form of a Funnel the which having placed in a Funnel and placed the Funnel and the Paper in it in an empty Glass powr in the Liquor you would filter and let it run through at its leisure 5. Coagulation is curdling or hardning It is used in Physick for reducing a liquid body to hardness by the heat of the fire 6. Whereas you find Vital Natural and Animal Spirits often mentioned in the Vertues of Receipts I shall explain what they be and what their 〈◊〉 is in the Body of Man The actions or operations of the Animal Vertues are 1. Sensitive 2. Motive The Sensitive is 1. External 2. Internal The External Sences are 1. Seeing 2. Hearing 3. Tasting 4. Smelling 5. Feeling The Internal Sences are 1. Imagination to apprehend a thing 2. Judgment to Judg of it 3. Memory to remember it The seat of all these is in the Brain The Vital Spirits proceedeth from the Heart and causeth in Man Mirth Joy Hope Trust Humanity Mildness Courage c. and their opposites Viz. Sadness Fear Care Sorrow Despair Envy Hatred Stubbornness Revenge c. by heat Natural or not Natural The Natural Spirit nourisheth the Body 〈◊〉 as the Vital quickens it and the Animal gives it Sence and Motion Its office is to alter or 〈◊〉 Food into Chyle Chyle into Blood Blood into Flesh to Form Engender Nourish and Increase the Body 7. Infusion is to steep a gross body into one 〈◊〉 Liquid 8. Decoction is the Liquor in which any thing is boyled As for the manner of 〈◊〉 or ordering the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any sweating or purging Medicines or Pills or the like the Table at the latter end of the Vertues of the Medicines will direct you to what Pages you may find them in look but the word Rules there As also in the next Page The different forms of making up Medicines 〈◊〉 〈…〉 People that so Medicines might be
more delightfull or at least less burdensom in such a case the Table of Vertues at the latter end will universally furnish you with the generality of both Simples and Compounds apropriated to the Disease You may make the mixtures of them in what form you please only for your better instruction at present accept of these few Rules 1. Consider That all Diseases are cured by their contraries but all parts of the Body maintained by their likes Then if heat be the cause of the Disease give the cold Medicine apropriated to it if Wind see how many Medicines apropriated to that Disease expel Wind and use them 〈◊〉 〈…〉 for if your Brain be over heated and you use such Medicines as cool the Heart or Liver you may make mad work 3. The distilled Water of any Herb you would take for a disease is a sit mixture for the Syrup of the same Herb or to make any 〈◊〉 into a Drink if you affect such liquid Medicines best if you have not the distilled water make use of the Decoction 4. Diseases that lie in parts of the Body remot from the Stomach and Bowels it is in vain to think to carry away the cause at once and therefore you had best do it by degrees Pills and such like Medicines which are hard in Body are fittest for such a business because they are longest before they digest 5. Use no strong Medicines if weak will serve the turn you had better take one too weak by half than too strong in the least 6. Consider the Natural temper of the part of the Body afflicted and maintain it in that else you extinguish Nature as the Heart is hot the Brain cold or at least the coldest part of the Body 7. Observe this general Rule That such Medicins as are hot in the first degree are most habitual to our Bodies because they are just of the heat of our Blood 8. All opening Medicines and such as provoke Urine or the Terms or break the Stone may most conveniently be given in white wine because white Wine os it self is of an opening Nature and clenseth the Reins gallantly 9. Let all such Medicines as are taken to stop fluxes or 〈◊〉 be taken before meat about an hour before more or less that so they may strengthen the digestion and retentive faculty before the Food come into the Stomach But such as are subject to vomit up their meat let them take such Medicines as stay vomiting presently after meat at the conclusion of their Meals that so they may close up the mouth of the stomach and that is the reason why usually men eat a 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 after meat because by its sowrness and binding it closeth the mouth of the stomach thereby staying belching and vomiting 10. In taking Purges be very carefull and that you may be so observe these Rules 1. Consider what the humor offending is and let the Medicine be such as purgeth that humor else will you weaken Nature not the Disease 2. Take notice if the humor you would purge out be thin then gentle Medicines will serve the turn but if it be tough and viscous take such Medicines as are cutting and opening the night before you would take the Purge 3. In purging tough humors sorbear as much as may be such Medicines as leave a binding quality behind them 4. Have a care of taking Purges when your Body is astringent your best way is first to open it by a Clyster 5. In taking opening Medicines you may safely take them at night eating but a light supper three or four hours before and the next morning drinking a draught of warm Posset-drink and you need not fear to go about your business In this manner you may take Lenitive Electuary Diacatholicon Pulp of Cassia and the like gentle Electuaries as also all Pills that have neither Diagrydium nor Colocynthis in them But all violent Purges require a due ordering of the Body such ought to be taken in the morning after you are up and not to sleep after them before they have done working at least before night two hours after you have taken them drink a draught of warm Posset-drink or Broath and six hours after eat a bit of Mutton often walking about the Chamber let there be a good fire in the Chamber and stir not out of the Chamber till the Purge have done working or not till next day Lastly Take sweating Medicines when you are in bed covered warm and in the time of your sweating drink Posset-drink as hot as you can drink it if you sweat for a Feaver boyl Sorrel and red Sage in your Posset-drink sweat an hour or longer if your strength will permit then the chamber being kept very warm shift your self all but your Head about which the Cap which you sweat in being still kept on wrap a Napkin very hot to repell the vapors back I confess these or many of these Directions may be found in one place of the Book or other and I delight as little to write tautology as another but the Printer desiring they should be put here and I considering it might make for the publick good inserted them if notwithstanding any will be so mad to do themselves a mischief the fault is not mine The TRANSLATORS PREFACE to the Catalogue of SIMPLES BEfore I begin the Catalogue I thought good to premise a few words to the Reader 1. Let him have a care he mistake not one thing for another viz. Herbs for Roots or either of them for Flowers If he cast but his eye up to the top of the Page he shall there see which it is 2. Let a due time be observed cases of necessity excepted in gathering all Simples for which take these few Rules The time to gather all roots is before the hearb run up to seed for then they are softest as you may see by Radishes carrots parsneps c. the roots of which you may perceive hard when they run up to seed and not because the sap is then in the root as the vulgar hold for if the sap rose and fell as they hold then the root must grow in winter only as the branches do in Summer which experience will shew to be falce for the root grows only in Summer as the branches doe you see what a wooden Docter Tradition is Would not this make every one endevour to Study a reason for what he doeth and see how our forefathers have been lead by the noses by Tradition The truth is it is the Sun is the author of life and growth to the wholl Creation he was ordained of God for that end when he comes on this side of the Equator the trees spring when he passeth to the south side of the Equator they loose their verdant color and growth also till the revolution of time bring his presence to revive them but enough of this in this place Herbs are to be gathered when they are fullest of juyce which is before thy
away sadness and melancholly they are rather laxative than binding help swooning and heart-qualms breed special good blood help consumptions madness and such as are much weakned by sickness Bonus Henricus Good Henry or all good hot and dry clensing and scouring inwardly taken it loosens the belly outwardly it clenseth old sores and Ulcers Botrys Oak of Jerusalem hot and dry in the 〈◊〉 degree helps such as are short-winded cuts and wasts gross and tough flegm laid amongst cloaths they preserve them from moths and give them a sweet smel 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 Dropsies Vertigo or swimming in the Head Falling sickness c. Certainly it is a scurvy strong troublesom purge therefore ill to be tampered with by the unskilful outwardly in Oyntments it takes away freckles wrinkles morphow scars spots c. from the face Bursa pastoris Shepherds-purse is manifestly cold and dry though Lobel and Pena thought the contrary it is binding and stops blood the terms in women spiting and pissing of blood cools inflamations Buglossum Bugloss 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 〈◊〉 blood profitable for inward wounds helps the Rickets and other stoppings of the Liver outwardly it is of wonderful force in curing wounds and ulcers though festered as also gangreens and Fistulaes it helps broken bones and dislocations To conclude let my Country men esteem it as a Jewel Inwardly you may take it in pouder a drachm at a time or drink the decoction of it in white Wine being made into an oyntment with hogs grease you shall find it admirable in green wounds Buphthalmum c. Ox eye 〈◊〉 saith they are commonly used for black Hellebore to the vertues of which I refer you Buxus Boxtree The leaves are hot dry and binding they are profitable against the bitings of mad dogs both taken inwardly boyled and applied to the place besides they are excellent to cure horses of the bots Calamintha 〈◊〉 Palustris Mountain and Water Calamint For the Water Calamint see Mints than which it is accounted stronger Mountain Calamint is hot and dry in the third degree provokes urine and the terms hastens the birth in women brings away the after-birth helps cramps convulsions difficulty of breathing kills worms helps the leprosie outwardly used it helps such as holds their necks on one side half a drachm is enough at one time 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 Vineger Callitricum Maiden-hair See Adianthum Caprisolium Honysuckles The Leaves are hot and therfore naught for inflamations of the mouth and throat for which the ignorant people often give them and Galen was true in this let modern Writers write their pleasure If you chew but a leaf 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 barrenness and hinder conception outwardly they dry up soul ulcers and clense the face from morphew sunburning and freckles Carduncellus c. Groundsel Cold and moist according to Tragus helps the Chollick and pains or gripings in the belly helps such as cannot make water cleanseth the reins purgeth Choller and sharp humors the usual way of taking it is to boyl it in water with 〈◊〉 and so eat it I hold it to be a wholsom and harmless purge 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. Mariae Our Ladies Thistles They are far more temperate than Carduus Benedictus open obstructions of the liver help the Jaundice and Dropsie provoke Urine break the Stone Carduus Benedictus In plain English Blessed Thistle Though I confess it be better known by the Latin name it is hot and dry in the second degree clensing and opening helps swimming and giddiness in the head deasness strengthens the memory helps griping pains in the belly kills worms provokes sweat expels poyson helps inflamation of the liver is very good in pestilences and the French-pocks outwardly applied it ripens Plague-sores and helps hot swellings the bitings of mad-dogs and venemous beasts and foul filthy ulcers Every one that can but make a Carduus posset knows how to use it Carlina See the Roots under the name of white Chameleon Corallina A kind of Sea-Moss cold binding drying good for hot gouts inflamations also they say it kills worms and therefore by some is called Maw-wormseed Cassutha cuscuta potagralini Dodder See Epithimum Caryophyllata Avens or Herb Bennet Hot and dry they help the Chollick Rawness of the stomach Stitches in the sides Stoppings of the liver and Bruises Cataputia minor A kind of Spurge See Tithymalus Cattaria Nepeta Nep or Catmints The vertues are the same with Calaminth Cauda Equina Horse-tail is of a binding drying quality cures wounds and is an admirable remedy for sinnews that are shrunk yea Galen saith it cures sinnews though they be cut in sunder but Columbus holds that is incurable unless they be cut within the Muscle well then we will take Galen in the charitablest sense However this is certain it is a sure remedy for bleeding at the nose or by wound stops the Terms in women Fluxes Ulcers in the Reins or Bladder Coughs Ulcers in the Lungues Difficulty of breathing Caulis Brassica 〈◊〉 silvestris Coleworts or Cabbages Garden and Wild. They are drying and binding help dimness of the sight help the spleen preserve from drunkenness and help the evil effects of it provoke the terms they say being laid on the top of the head they draw the matrix upward and therefore are good for the falling out of the womb Chrysippus writes a whol treatise of them and makes them a universal medicine for every disease in every part of the body Centaurium majus minus Centaury the greater and lesser They say the greater will do wonders in curing wounds see the Root The lesser is that which is commonly in Sussex known by the name of Centaury and indeed so throughout that part of the nation that I have travailed over a present remedy for the yellow Jaundice opens stoppings of the liver gall and spleen purgeth choller helps the Gout cleers the sight purgeth the stomach helps the dropsie and green-sickness It is only the tops and flowers which are useful of which you may take a drachm inwardly in pouder or half
water is an admirable remedy for the Gout Crabs-eyes breaks the stone and open stoppings of the bowels The lungues of a Fox well dried but not burned is an admirable strengthner to the lungues See the Lohoch of Fox lungues The liver of a Duck stops fluxes and strengthens the liver exceedingly The liver of a Frog being dried and eaten helps quartan agues or as the vulgar call them third-day agues Cocks stones nourish mightily and refresh and restore such bodies as have been wasted by long sickness they are admirable good in Hectick feavers and Galens supposed incurable Marasmus which is a consumption attending upon a Hectick feaver they encrease seed and help such as are weak in the sports of Venus Castorium resists poyson the bitings of venemous beasts it provokes the terms and brings forth both birth and after birth it expels wind easeth pains and aches convulsions sighings lethargies the smell of it allaies the fits of the mother inwardly given it helps tremblings falling-sickness and other such ill effects of the brain and nerves A scruple is enough to take at a time and indeed spirit of Castorium is better than Castorium raw to which I refer you The yard of a stag helps fluxes the bitings of venemous beasts provokes urine and stirs up lust exceedingly A sheeps or Goats bladder being burnt and the ashes given inwardly helps the Diabetes or continual pissing Unicorns horn resists poyson and the pestilence provokes urine restores lost strength brings forth both birth and after-birth Ivory or Elephants tooth binds stops the whites in women it strengthens the heart and stomach helps the yellow-Jaundice and makes women fruitfull The vertues of Harts-horn are the same with Unicorns horn The bone that is found in the heart of a stag is as soveraign a Cordial and as great a strengthner to the heart as any is being beaten into pouder and taken inwardly also it resists pestilences and poyson The scull of a man that was never buried being beaten to pouder and given inwardly the quantity of a drachm at a time in Bettony water helps palsies and falling sickness That small Triangular bone in the Skul of a man Called Os triquetrum so absolutely cures the falling sickness that it will never come again saith Paracelsus Those small bones which are found in the fore feet of a Hare being beaten into pouder and drunk in Wine powerfully provoke urine A Ring made of an Elks Claw being worn helps the cramp The fat of a man is exceeding good to anoint such limbs as fall away in flesh Goose grease and Capons grease are both softning helps gnawing sores stifness of the womb and mitigate pain I am of opinion that the Suet of a Goat mixed with a little Saffron is as excellent an oyntment for the Gout especially the Gout in the knees as any is Bears grease staies the falling off of the hair Fox Grease helps pains in the ears Elks Claws or Hoofs are a Soveraign remedy for the falling sickness though it be but worn in a Ring much more being taken inwardly but saith Mizaldus it must be the Hoof of the right foot behind Milk is an extream windy meat therefore I am of the Opinion of Dioscorides viz. that it is not profitable in head-aches yet this is for certain that it is an admirable remedy for inward ulcers in any part of the body or any corrosions or excoriations pains in the reins and bladder but it is very bad in diseases in the liver spleen the falling sickness vertigo or dissiness in the head feavers and head aches Goats milk is held to be better than Cows for Hectick feavers Phtisicks and consumptions and so is Asses also Whey attenuateth and clenseth both choller and melancholly wonderfully helps melancholly and madness coming of it it opens stoppings of the bowels helps such as have the dropsie and are troubled with the stoppings of the spleen rickets and hypocondriack melancholly for such diseases you may make up your Physick with Whey Outwardly it denseth the skin of such deformities as come through choller or melancholly as scabs itch morphew leprosie c. Honey is of a gallant clensing quallity exceeding profitable in all inward ulcers in what part of the body soever it opens the veins clenseth the reins and bladder he that would have more of the vertues of it let him read Butler his Book of Bees a gallant experimental work I know no vices belonging to it but only it is soon converted into choller Wax softens heats and meanly fills sores with flesh it suffers not the milk to curdle in womens breasts inwardly it is given ten grains at a time against bloody-fluxes Raw-Silk heats and dries cheers the heart drives away sadness comforts all the spirits both Natural Vital and Animal As for Excrements there the Colledg makes shittin work and paddle in the turds like Jakes Farmers I will let them alone for fear the more I stir them the more they stink BELONGING TO THE SEA SPerma Caeti is well applied outwardly to eating Ulcers the marks which the small pocks leave behind them it cleers the sight provokes sweat inwardly it troubles the stomach and belly helps bruises and stretching of the nerves and therefore is good for women newly delivered Amber greese heats and dryes strengthens the brain and nerves exceedingly if the infirmity of them come of cold resists pestilence Sea-sand a man that hath the dropsie being set up to the middle in it it draws out all the water Red Corral is cold dry and binding stops the immoderate flowing of the terms bloody-fluxes the running of the reins and the whites in women helps such as spit and pisse blood helps witchcraft being carried about one it is an approved remedy for the falling sickness Also if ten grains of red Corral be given to a Child in a little breast-milk so soon as it is born before it take any other food it will never have the falling sickness nor convulsions The common dose is from ten grains to thirty Pearls are a wonderfull strengthner to the heart encrease milk in Nurses and amend it being naught they restore such as are in Consumptions both they and the red Corral preserve the body in health and resist feavers The Dose is ten grains or fewer more I suppose because it is dear than because it would do harm Amber viz. yellow Amber heats and dryes therefore prevails against moist diseases of the head it helps violent Coughs helps Consumptions of the lungues spitting of blood the whites in women it helps such women that are out of measure unwealdy in their going with child it stops bleeding at the nose helps difficulty of urine You may take ten or twenty grains at a time The Froath of the Sea it is hot and dry helps scabs itch and leprosie scald heads c. it clenseth the skin helps difficulty of urine makes the teeth white being rubbed with it the head being washed with it it helps baldness and trimly decks the head
Devils-bit Tobacco Parsly Burnet Plantane Rosemary Willow leaves Sage Sanicle Scabious Soldanella Vervain Dry in the third Degree Southern wood male and foemale Brooklime Angellica Briony white and black Calaminth Germander Chamepitys Sullendine Pilewort Fleabane Epithimum Dwarff Elder Bank cresses Clary Glaswort Lavender Lovage Horehound herb Mastich Mints Water-cresses Origanum Cinkfoyl hot Arsmart Poley mountain Sneezwort Peny-royal Rue or herb of Grace Savin winter and summer Savory mother of Time Lavender Spike Tansy Time Trefoyl In the fourth Degree Garden cresses wild Rue Leeks Onions Crowfoot Rosa solis Garlick Spurge Herbs moist in the first Degree 〈◊〉 Bugloss Marigolds Pellitory of the wall Mallows Bazil In the fourth Degree Chickweed Arach Daisies Lettice Duckmeat Purslain Sow thistles Violets Water-Lillies Herbs apropriated to certain parts of the body of man and so they Heat the Head as Maudlin Costmary Bettony Carduus Benedictus Sullendine Scurvy grass Eyebright Goats 〈◊〉 Cowslips Lavender Laurel Lovage herb Mastich Feather-few Melilot Sneezwort Peny royal Senna mother of Time Lavender Spike Time Vervain Rosemary Heat the Throat Archangel white and red otherwise called dead Nettles Devils-bit Heat the Breast Maidenhair white black common and Golden Distaffe thistle Time Betony Calaminth Chamomel Fennel Iudian leafe Bay leaves Hysop Bawm Horehound Oak of Jerusalem Germander Melilot Origanum Rue Scabious Peruinkles Nettles Heat the Heart Southernwood male and foemale Angellica Woodroofe Bugloss Carduus Benedictus 〈◊〉 Goats Rue Bay leaves Bawm Rue Senna Bazil Rosemary Alicampane Heat the Stomach Wormwood common and Roman Smallage Avens Indian leafe Broom Schenanth Bay leaves Bawm Mints Parsly Fennel Time mother of Time Sage Heat the Liver Agrimony Maudlin Pimpernel male and foemale Smallage Costmary or Alecost our Ladies thistles Centaury the less Germander Chamepiyts Sullendine Sampier Fox gloves Ashtree leaves Bay leaves Toad-flax Hops Hore-hound Water-cresses Parsly Poley mountaine Sage Scordium Senna mother of Time Soldanella Asarabacca Fennel Hysop Spicknard Heat the Bowels Chamomel Alehoofe Alexanders Heat the spleen All the four sorts of Maiden-hair Agrimony smallage Centaury the less Cetrach Germander Chamepitys Sampier Fox-gloves Epithimum Ashtree Bay leaves Toad flax Hops Hore-hound Parsly Poley mountain sage scordium senna mother of Time Tomaris Wormwood Water-cresles Harts-tongue Heat the Reins and Bladder Agrimony Maudlin Marshmallows Pimpernel male and foemale Brooklime Costmary Betony Chervil Germander Chamomel sampier Broom Rupture-wort Clary 〈◊〉 Bay leaves Toad-flax Hops Melilot Water-cresses Origanum Peny-royal scordium Vervain mother of Time Rocket Spicknard Saxifrage Nettles Heat the Womb. Maudlin Angellica Mugwort Costmary Calaminth Fleabanc May 〈◊〉 or Marg-weed Dittany of Creet Schenanth Archangel or dead Nettles Melilot Feather-few Mints Devils-bit Origanum Bazil Peny-royal Savin Sage Scordium Tansy Time Vervain Peruinkles Nettles Heat the Joynts Cowslips sciatica-cresses hot Arsmart Garden cresses Costmary Agrimony Chamomel Saiut Johns-wort Melilot Water-cresses Rosemary Rue Sage Stechas Herbs cooling the Head Wood sorrel Teazles Lettice Plantane Willow-leaves sengreen or Housleek strawberry leaves Violet leaves Fumitory Water-Lillies Cool the Throat Orpine strawberry leaves Privet Bramble leaves Breast Mulberry leaves Bramble leaves Violet leaves strawberry leaves sorrel Wood-sorrel Poppies Orpine Money-wort Plantane Colts-foot Heart Sorrel Wood sorrel Vipers Bugloss Lettice Burnet Violet leaves strawberry leaves Water-Lilles Stamach Sorrel Wood-sorrel succory Orpine Dandelion Endive strawberry leaves Violet leaves Hawkweed Lettice Purslain sow thistles Violet leaves Liver Sorrel Wood-sorrel Dandelion Endive succory strawberry leaves Fumitory Liver-wort Lettice Purslain Nightshade Water-Lillies Bowels Fumitoty Mallows Buckhorn-Plantane Orpine Plantane Burnet Spleen Fumitory Endive succory Lettice Reins and Bladder Knot-grass Mallows Yarrow Money-wort Plantane Endive succory Lettice Purslain Water-lillies Housleek or sengreen The Womb Wild Tansy Arach Burdocks Willow herb Mirtle Leaves Money-wort Purslain sow thistles Endive succory Lettice Water-Lillies sengreen The Joynts Willow leaves Vine leaves Lettice Henbane Nightshade sengreen or Housleek Herbs altering according to property in operation some Bind as Amomus Agnus Castus sheaphards purse Cypress Horstail Ivy Bay leaves Melilot Bawm Mirtles sorrel Plantane Knot-grass Comfry Cinkfoyl Fleawort Purslain Oak leaves Willow leaves sengreen or Housleek c. Open as Garlick Onions Wormwood Mallows Marsh-mallows Pellitory of the wall Endive succory c. Soften Mallows Marshmallows Beets Pellitory of the wall Violet leaves strawberry leaves Arach Cypress leaves Bay leaves Felawort c. Harden Purslain Nightshade Housleek or sengreen Duckmeat and most other Herbs that are very cold Extenuate Mugwort Chamomel Hysop Penyroyal Stoechas Time Mother of Time Juniper c. Discuss Southernwood male and foemale al the four sorts of Maiden-hair Marshmallows Dill Mallows Arrach Beets Chamomel Mints Melilot Pellitory of the Wal Chickweed Rue stoechas Marjoram Draw Pimpernel Birthwort Dittany Leeks Onions Garlick and also take this general Rule as all cold things bind and harden as is apparant by the frost binding and hardning water and mire so all things very hot are drawing as is cleer by the Sun who is the Original of heat drawing up the dew Suppure Mallaws Marsh-mallows white Lilly leaves c. Clense Pimpernel southernwood sparagus Cetrach Arrach Wormwood Beets Pellitory of the wal Chamepitys Doddar Liverwort Horehound Willow leaves c. Glutinate Marshmallows Pimpernel Centaury Chamepitys Mallows Germander Horstail Agrimony Maudlin strawberry leaves Woad Chervil Plantane Cinkfoyl Comfry Bugle self-heal Woundwort Tormentill Rupture-wort Knotgrass Tobacco Expel wind Wormwood Garlick Dill Smallage Chamomel Epithimum Fennel Juniper Marjoram Origanum Savory both winter and summer and that I am of opinion was the reason in ancient times women alwaies boyled Savory with their beans and pease viz. to expel the windiness of them it was a good fashion and therefore I would not have it left however this shews that in ancient times people were more studious in the nature of Simples or at the least Physitians were more honest I mean more free in imparting their knowledg for the benefit of the vulgar at last Honesty began to leave the Earth and then Ignorance quickly stepping up in the place of Knowledg people used them a while for custom sake at last they were esteemed superstitious and quite left off I care not greatly now I am at it if I quote one more of like nature I am confident were it my present scope I could quote an hundred and that is Tansy Tansie is excellent good to clense the stomach and bowels of tough viscous flegm and humors that stick to them which the flegmatick constitution of the Winter usually infects the body of man with and occasions gouts and other diseases of like nature and lasting long this was the original of that custom to eat Tansies in the Spring which afterwards grew to be superstitious and apropriated only to some certain daies as Palm-Sundaies c. and so at last the evils of observing daies being known and the vertues of the meat absconded it is quite almost left off For my part if any think it superstitious to eat a Tansie in the Spring I
Liver and clense the blood they are in their prime in May. Fumitory Water is usual with the City Dames to wash their faces with to take away morphew freckles and Sunburning inwardly taken it helps the yellow Jaundice and Itch clenseth the blood provokes sweat strengthens the stomach and clenseth the body of adust humors It is in its prime in May and June The Water of Nightshade helps pains in the head coming of heat take heed you distill not the deadly Nightshade instead of the common if you do you may make mad work let such as have not wit enough to know them asunder have wit enough to let them both alone til they do The Water of white Poppies extinguisheth al heat 〈◊〉 nature helps headaches coming of heat and too long standing in the Sun Distil them in June or July Colts-foot Watar is excellent for burns to wash the place with it inwardly taken it helps Phthisicks and other diseases incident to the lungues Distil them in May or June The Water of distilled Quinces strengthens the heart and stomach exceedingly staies vomiting and fluxes and strengthens the retentive faculty in man Demask Rose-water cools comsorts and strengthens the heart so doth red Rose-water only with this difference the one is binding the other loosening if your body be costive use Damask Rose-water because it is loosening if loose use red because it is binding White Rose-water is generally known to be excellent against hot rhewms and inflamations in the eyes and for this it is better than the former The Water of Red Poppy flowers called by many Corn-roses because they grow so freequently amongst corn cool the blood and spirits overheated by drinking or labor and is therefore excellent for surfets Green Walnuts gathered about the latter end of June or beginning of July and bruiled and so stilled strengthens the heart and resisteth the pestilence Plantane Water helps the headach being dropped into the ear it helps the toothach helps the Phthisick dropsie and fluxes and is an admirable remedy for 〈◊〉 in the reins and bladder to be used as common drink the herb is in its prime in May. Strawberry Water cooleth quencheth thirst clarifieth the blood breaks the stone helps al inward inflamations especially those in the reins bladder and passages of the urine it strengthens the Liver and helps the yellow Jaundice The distilled Water of Dog-grass or couch-grass as some cal it clenseth the 〈◊〉 gallantly and provokes urine opens 〈◊〉 of the Liver and spleen and kils worms Black Cherry Water provokes urine helps the dropsie It is usually given in diseases of the brain as convulsions falling sickness palsey and Apoplexy Betony is in its prime in May the distilled Water thereof is very good for such as are pained in their heads it prevails against the dropsie and al sorts of feavers it succors the Liver and spleen and helps want of digestion and evil disposition of the body thence arising it hastens travail in women with child and is excellent against the bitings of venemous beasts Distil Sage whilest the slowers be on it the Water strengthens the brain provokes the terms helps nature much in al its actions Marjoram is in its prime in June the distilled Water is excellent for such whose brains are too cold it provokes urine heats the womb provokes the terms strengthens the memory and helps the judgment causeth an able brain and therefore I commend it to the Colledg of Physitians Distil Chamomel Water about the beginning of June It easeth the chollick and pains in the belly it breaks the stone in the reins and bladder provokes the terms expels the dead child and takes away pains in the head Fennel water strengthens the heart and brain dilates the breast helps the cough provokes the terms encreaseth milk in nurses and if you wash your eyes with it it cleers the sight Calaminth Water hea t s and clenseth the womb provokes the terms and easeth the pains of the head distil it in May. The Distilled water of Rosemary slowers helps such as are troubled with the yellow Jaundice Asthma it clenseth the blood helps concoction strengthens the brain and body exceedingly Waters of the flowers of Lillies of the valley strengthens the brain and all the sences The water 〈◊〉 Cowslip flowers helps the palsey and thence they obtained the name Paralysis takes away pains in the head the vertigo and megrim and are exceeding good for women with child The eyes being washed every morning with Eyebright water most strangely cleers and strengthens the sight Maidenhair distilled in May the water clenseth both Liver and Lungues clarifies the blood and break the stone Hysop water clenseth the Lungues of flegm helps Coughs and Asthmaes distill it in August The water of Hore-hound helps the Cough and straitness of the breast it strengthens the breast Lungues and stomach and Liver distil it in June Carduus water succors the head strengthens the memory helps such as are troubled with vertigoes and quartan agues it provokes sweat strengthens the heart and is good in pestilences and all other feavers of choller it is in its prime in May and June Scabious water helps pleuresies and pains and prickings in the sides Apostthemes Coughs pestilence and straitness of the breast Water of Flower-de-luce is very profitable in dropsies an ounce being drnnk continually morning and evening as also pains and torments in the bowels Bawm water distilled in May restores memory when it is lost it quickens al the sences strengthens the brain heart and stomach causeth a merry mind and a sweet breath The water of Comfry sodders broken bones being drunk helps ruptures outwardly it stops the bleeding of wounds they being washed with it Wormwood water distilled cold about the end of May heats and strengthens the stomach helps concoction staies vomiting kills worms in the stomach and bowels it mitigates the pains in the teeth and is profitably given in feavers of Choller Mint water strengthens the stomach helps concoction and 〈◊〉 vomiting distil it in the latter end of May or beginning of June as the year is in forwardness or backwardness observe that in all the rest Chervil water distilled about the end of May helps ruptures breaks the stone dissolves congealed blood strengthens the heart and stomach The water of Mother of Time strengthens the brain and stomach gets a man a good stomach to his victuals provokes urine and the terms heats the womb it is in its prime about the end of June The water of Marigold flowers is apropriated to most cold diseases of the head Eyes and stomach they are in their vigor when the Sun is in the Lion Distilled water of Centaury comforts a cold stomach helps in feavers of choller which the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it kills worms and provokes appetite to victuals Maudlin and Costmary water distilled in May or June strengthens the Liver helps the yellow 〈◊〉 opens obstructions and helps the dropsie
Water-cresses distilled in March the water clenseth the blood and provokes 〈◊〉 exceedingly kils worms outwardly mixed with Honey it cleers the skin of morphew and Sunburning Distil Nettles when they are in flower the water helps coughs and pains in the bowels provokes urine and breaks the stone Saxifrage water provokes urine expels wind breaks the stone clenseth the reins and bladder of gravel distil them when they are in flower The water of Pellitory of the wal opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen by drinking an ounce of it every morning it clenseth the reins and bladder and easeth the gripings of the howels coming of wind distil it in the end of May or beginning of June Sinkfoyl water breaks the stone clenseth the reins and is of excellent use in putrified feavers distil it in May. The water of Radishes breaks the stone clenseth the reins and bladder provokes the terms and helps the yellow Jaundice Alicampane water strengthens the stomach and Lungues provokes urine and clenseth the passages of it from gravel Distil Burnet in May or June the water breaks the stone clenseth the passages of urine and is exceeding profitable in pestilential times Mugwort water distilled in May is excelleut in coughs and diseases proceeding from stoppage of the terms in women it warms the stomach and helps the dropsie Distil Peny-royal when the flowers are upon it the water heats the womb gallantly provokes the terms expels the Afterbirh cuts and casts out thick and gross humors in the breast easeth pains in the bowels and consumes flegm The water of Lovage distilled in May easeth pains in the head and tures ulcers in the womb being washed with it inwardly taken it expels wind and breaks the stone The tops of Hops when they are young being distilled the water clenseth the blood of addust and melancholly humors and therefore helps Scabs Itch and leprosie and such like diseases thence proceeding it open obstructions of the spleen helps the rickets and Hypocondriack melancholly The water of Borrage and Bugloss distilled when their flowers are upon them strengthen the heart and brain exceedingly clense the blood and takes away sadness greife and melancholly Doddar water clenseth the Liver and spleen helps the yellow jaundice Tamaris water opens the obstructions and helps the hardness of the spleen and strengthens it English Tobacco distilled the water is excellent good for such as have dropsies to drink an ounce or too every morning it helps ulcers in the mouth strengthens the Lungues and helps such as have Asthmaes The water of Dwarffe Elder hath the same effects Thus have you the vertues of enough of cold waters the use of which is for mixtures of other medicines whose operation is the same for they are very seldom given alone if you delight most in liquid medicines having regard to the disease and part of the body afflicted by it these will furnish you with where withal to make them so as will please your pallat best COMPOUNDS SPIRITS and COMPOND DISTILLED WATERS Culpeper A. BEfore I begin these I thought good to premise a few words They are all of them hot in operation and therefore not to be medled with by people of hot Constitutions when they are in health for fear of Feavers and adustion of blood but for people of cold constitutions as Melancholly and Flegmatick people If they drink of them moderately now and then for recreation due consideration being had to the part of the body which is weakest they may do them good yet in diseases of melancholly neither strong Waters nor Sack is to be drunk for they make the 〈◊〉 thin and then up to the head it flies where it fills the brain with foolish and fearful imaginations 2. Let all yong people forbear them whilst they are in health for their blood is usually hot enough without them 3. Have regard to the season of the year so shall you find them more beneficial in Summer than in in Winter because in Summer the body is alwaies coldest within and digestion weakest and that is the reason why men and women eat less in Summer than they do in Winter Thus much for people in health which drink strong waters for recreation As for the Medicinal use of them it shall be shewed at the 〈◊〉 end of every Receipt only in general they are due respect had to the humors afflicting and part of the body afflicted medicinal for diseases of cold and flegm chilliness of the spirits c. But that my Country men may not be mistaken in this I shall give them some Symptoms of each Complexion how a man may know when it exceeds its due 〈◊〉 Signs of Choller abounding Leaness of body costiveness hollow eyes anger without a cause a testy disposition yellowness of the 〈◊〉 bitterness in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pains in the 〈◊〉 the pulse 〈◊〉 and stronger 〈◊〉 ordinary the 〈◊〉 higher colourd thinner and brighter troublesom sleeps much dreaming of fire lightning anger and fighting Signs of Blood abounding The Veins are bigger or at least they seem so and fuller than ordinary the skin is red and as it were swollen pricking pains in the sides and about the temples shortness of breath headach the pulse great and full urine high coloured and thick dreams of blood c. Signs of Melancholly abounding Fearfulness without a cause fearful and 〈◊〉 imaginations the skin rough and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 want of sleep frightful dreams 〈◊〉 in the throat the pulse very weak solitariness thin 〈◊〉 urine often sighing c. Signs of Flegm abounding Sleepiness dulness slowness heaviness cowardliness forgetfulness much spitting much 〈◊〉 at the 〈◊〉 little appetite to meat and as bad 〈◊〉 the skin whiter colder and smoother than it was wont to be the pulse flow and deep the urine thick and low colored dreams of rain flouds and water c. These things thus premised I come to the matter The first the Colledg presents you with is Spiritus et Aqua Absinthii minus Composita Pag. 30. Or Spirit and Water of Wormwood the lesser Composition The Colledg Take of the Leaves of dried Wormwood two pound Annis seeds half a pound steep them in six gallons of small Wines twenty four hours then 〈◊〉 them in an Allembick 〈◊〉 to every 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 water two 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sugar Let the two first pound you draw out be called Spirit of Wormwood those which follow Wormwood Water the lesser Composition Culpeper A. I like this distinction of the Colledges very well because what is first stilled out is far stronger than the rest and therefore very fitting to be kept by it self you may take which you please according as the temperature of your body either to heat or cold and the season of the yeer requires A. It hath the same vertues Wormwood hath only fitter to be used by such whose bodies are chilled by age and whose natural heat abateth You may search the Herb for the vertues it heateth the stomach and helpeth
rag and hung to the top of the glass Culpeper In my opinion this latter water is more prevalent for heart-qualms and faintings than Mathiolus his neither is it half so hot therefore more safe Aqua Coelestis Mathiolus The Colledg Take of Cinnamon an ounce Ginger half an ounce white red and yellow Sanders of each six drachms Cloves Galanga Nutmegs of each two drachms and an half Mace Cubebs of each one drachm both sorts of Cardamoms Nigella seeds of each three drachms Zedoary half an ounce seeds of Annis sweet fennel wild Parsnips Bazil of each a drachm and an half Roots of Angelica Avens Calamus Aromaticus Liquoris Valerian the less the leaves of Clary Time Calaminth Penyroyal Mints Mother of Time Marjoram of each two drachms the flowers of red Roses Sage Rosemary Betony Stoechas Bugloss Borrage of each one drachm and an half Citron Pils three drachms Let the things be bruised that are to be bruised and infused fifteen daies in twelve pints of the best spirit of Wine in a glass body well stopped and then let it be distilled in 〈◊〉 Mariae according to art Adding to the distilled Water Pouders of Diambra 〈◊〉 dulce Aromaticum Rosatum Diamagariton frigidum Diathodon Abbatis pouder of Electuary de gemmis of each three drachms yellow Sanders bruised two drachms Musk Ambergreese of each a scruple tied up in a fine rag cleer Julip of Roses a pound shake them well together stopping the glass close with wax and Parchment till it grow cleer to be kept for your use Culpeper A. It comforteth and 〈◊〉 the heart reviveth drooping spirite prevaileth against the plague and all malignant feavers preserveth the Sences and restoreth such as are in Consumptions It is of a hot nature Let not the quantity taken at a time exceed half a drachm A. Only take this Caution both concerning this and all other strong waters They are not safely given by themselves in Feavers because by their hot quality they inflame the blood and ad fuel to the fire but mixed with other convenient Cordials and consideration had to the strength complexion habit age and sex of the patient for my own part I aim sincerely at the publick good in writing of this and therefore as I would not have Physitians domineer so I would not have fools turn Physitians Bawm Water The greater Composition The Colledg Take of 〈◊〉 a pound Time Penyroyal of each three drachms Cinnamon two drachms Cardamoms the less one drachm Grains of Paradice half an ounce Sweet Fennel seeds an ounce Nutmegs Ginger of each a drachm Galanga 〈◊〉 drachms 〈◊〉 Aromaticus Cyperus of each one 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 twenty four hours together and then distilled by an Alembick draw out of the stronger water three pints Culpeper A. The Simples seem chiefly apropriated to the stomach and therefore must needs strengthen cold and weak stomachs and help digestion besides Authors say It restoreth memory lost quickkens all the sences keeps away gray hairs and baldness 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 Rosa 〈◊〉 The Colledg Take of Nutmegs Annis seeds Coriander seeds of each one ounce Galanga Ginger Cloves of each half an ounce red Rose Leaves one bandful Ros-solis six handfuls Liquoris two ounces Cardamoms Zedoary Grains of Paradice Calamus Aromaticus of each one drachm 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 〈◊〉 strain it and ad to the Liquor one pound and an half of Sugar Culpeper 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 〈◊〉 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 The Colledg 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 Penyroyal Pellitory of the Wall Rosemary flowers of red Roses Chamomel Origanum Lavender of each one handful infuse them twelve hours in twelve 〈◊〉 of Gascoign Wine then with an Alembick draw three pints of strong Water from it Culpeper A. Authors hold it profitable for women in labor that it provokes the terms and brings away the after-birth Ordinary Aqua vitae The Colledg Distil Ale and Lees of Wine in 〈◊〉 Alembick whose worm runs through cold Water into small Wine in ten Congies of which 〈◊〉 one pound of bruised Annis seeds for twenty four hours then still it again into strong water Aqua vitae Compound The Colledg Is made of smal Wines in six congies of which infuse Annis seeds half a pound seeds of Fennel and Caraway of each two ounces Cloves 〈◊〉 and Ginger of each one ounce and then draw the strong Spirit from it Culpeper A. This is excellent good in my opinion for such as are troubled with wind Vsquebach The Colledg Take of strong Aqua vitae twenty four 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 Culpeper A. It strengthens the stomach and helps indigestion coming of flegm and cold A. It is possible I may have overslipped some others of their Alterations of Names my time is short and my understanding dull and the truth is their new model shews far more subtilty than honesty TINCTURES Tinctura Croci Page 41. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Saffron Colledg TAke two drachms of Saffron eight ounces of Treacle Water digest them six 〈◊〉 then strain it Culpeper A. See the Vertues of Treacle Water and then know that this strengthens the heart something more and keeps melancholly vapors thence by drinking a spoonful of it every morning Tinctura 〈◊〉 Page 41. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Castorium The Colledg Take of Castorium in pouder half an ounce Spirit of Castorium half a pound digest them ten daies cold strain it and keep the Liquor for Tincture Culpeper A. A learned invention 'T is something more prevalent than the Spirit Tinctura Fragorum Page 41. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Strawberries The Colledg Take of ripe Wood-Strawberries two pound put them in a Phiol and put so much small Spirit of Wine to them that it may oretop them the thickness of four fingers stop the vessel close and set it in the Sun two daies then strain it and press it but gently powr this Spirit to as many fresh Strawberries repeat this six times at
last keep the cleer Liquor for your use Culpeper A. A gallant fine thing for Gentlemen that have nothing else to do with their money and it will have a lovely look to please their eyes Tinctura Scordii Page 41. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Scordium The Colledg Take of the Leaves of Scordium gathered in a dry time half a pound digest them in six pound of small spirit of Wine in a vessel well stopped for three dates press them out gently and repeat 〈◊〉 infusion three times and keep the clarified Liquor for use So is made Tincture of Sullondine Rest-harrow Ros-solis Culpeper A. See the Herbs for the Vertues and then take notice that these are better for cold stomachs old bodies Tictura Theriacalis Vulgo Aqua Theriatalis Lugd. per infus Page 41. in Lat. Book Or Tincture of Treacle The Colledg Take of Canary Wine often times distilled Vineger in which half an ounce of Rue seeds have been boyled two pound choyce Treasle the best Mithridate of each half a pound mix them and set them in the Sun or heat of a Bath digest them and keep the Water for use Tinctura Cinnamomi vulgo Aqua Clareta Cinnam Page 42. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Cinnamon The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon two ounces rectified Spirit of Wine two pound infuse them four daies in a large glass stopped with Cork and Bladder shake it twice a day then dissolve half a pound of Sugar candy by it self in two pound of Rose Water mix both Liquors into which hang a Nodule containing Amber greese half a scruple Musk four grains Culpeper A. This was before amongst the Waters only there is four ounces of Cinnamon appointed and here but two Tictura Viridis Page 42. in the Latin Book Or A Green Tincture The Colledg Take of Vert-de-greece half an ounce Auripigmentum six drachms Allum three drachms boyl them in a pound of white uine till half be consumed adding after it is cold the Water of red Roses and Nightshade of each six ounces Culpeper A. This was made to clense ulcers but I fancy it not Aqua Aluminosa Magistralis Page 42. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Plantane and red Rose water of each a pound roch Allum and sublimatum of each two drachms Let the Allum and Sublimatum being in pouder boyl in the waters in a vessel with a narrow mouth till half be consumed when it hath stood five daies strain it Culpeper A. Now they have left out the Quicksilver as I bid them I like men will do as they are bid yet I fancy it not Follopius invented it but you must tell no body PHYSICAL WINES Vinum Absynthites Page 43. in the Latin Book Or Wormwood Wine Colledg TAke a handful of dried Wormwood for every gallon of Wine stop it in a vessel close and so let it remain in steep so is prepared Wine of Rosemary flowers and Eye-bright Culpeper A. It helps cold stomachs breaks wind helps the Wind Chollick strengtheneth the stomach kills worms and helps the green sickness A. Rosemary flower-Wine is made after the same manner that Wormwood Wine is made A. It is good against al cold diseases of the head consumeth flegm strengtheneth the gums and teeth A. Eyebright Wine is 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 A. All other Wines are prepared in the same manner when the Physitian shall see it fit quoth the Colledg in their former but here they left it out A. But what if there be never a Physitian worth a rush 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 vulgar Fervent cold in such cases let them view 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. The best way of taking any of these Wines is To drink a draught of them every morning You may if you find your body old or cold make Wine of any other herb the vertues of which you desire and make it and take it in the same manner I have done only I would know of the Colledg whether their wooden wits intend Sack or white Wine to be used in these Vinum Cerassorum Nigrorum Page 43. in Latin B. Or Wine of Black Cherries The Colledg Take a gallon of the juyce of black Cherries keep it in a vessel close stopped til it begin to work then filter it and an ounce of Sugar being added to every pound let it pass through Hippocrates his sleeve and keep it in a vessel close stopped for use Culpeper A. If ever I knew the like of the Colledg never trust me here they go and appoint the Wine of black Cherries with never a drop of Wine in it and the juyce will not keep without it above a week or so and so if you are minded to make it you may by that time sing Alack alack now have I lost My pains my labor and al my cost A. Or I know not it may be they followed their Patriarks the Papists as wel in this as in their reasons why Physick must not be printed in our mother tongue and they were minded to pop you off with the juyce and drink al the wine themselves Or to judge as modestly as can be judged they were so mad because I had translated their former that anger so besotted them in this that they knew not what they wrote Impedit Ira animum ne possit cernere verum Unbridled anger takes away mens knowledge And clouds the The truth and so it did the Colledg Vinum Helleboratum Page 43. in the Latin B. Or Wine Helleborated The Colledg Take of white Hellebore out smal four ounces Spanish Wine two pound steep it in the Sun in a Pbial close stopped in the Dog daies or other hot weather Culpeper A. And then it will make a dogged purge as like the Colledg as a pomewater is like an apple Vinum Rubellum Page 43. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Stibium in pouder one ounce Cloves sliced two drachms Claret Wine two pound keep it in a Phial close shut Vinum Benedictum Page 43. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Crocus Mettallorum in pouder one ounce Mace a drachm Spanish Wine one pound and an half steep it Vinum Antimoniale Pege 43. in the Latin Book Or Antimonial Wine The Colledg Take of Regulus of Antimony in pouder four ounces steep it in three pound of white Wine in a glass well stopped after the first shaking let the Regulus settle Culpeper A. These three last mentioned are vomits and vomits are fitting medicines for but a few as I told you before
Wormwood clarified Sugar of each four pound make it into a Syrup according to art After the same manner are prepared simple Syrups of Betony Borrage Bugloss Cardus Chamomel Succory Endive Hedg-mustard Strawberries Fumitory Ground-Ivy St. Johns wort Hops Mercury Mousear Plantane Apples Purslain Rasberries Sage Scabious Scordium Housleek Coltsfoot Pauls Betony and other Juyces not sour Culpeper A. See the Simples and then you may easily know both their vertues and also that they are pleasanter and fitter for delicate stomachs when they are made into Syrups Syrupus de Absinthio Compositus 49. in the Lat. B. OR Syrup of Wormwood Compound The Colledg Take of common Wormwood meanly dry half a pound red Roses two ounces Indian Spicknard three drachms old white Wine Juyce of Quinces of each two pound and an half steep them a whol day in an earthen vessel then boyl them gently and strain it and by adding two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art Culpeper A. Mesue is followed verbatim in this and the Receipt 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 urin It was Roman Wormwood before and so Mesue hath it and our Colledg is as well able to correct Mesue as the Pigmies were to beat Hercules Syrupus Acetosus Symplex Pag. 50. in the L. Book OR Syrup of Vinegar Simple The Colledg Take of cleer Water four pound white Sugar five pound boyl them in a glazed vessel over a gentle fire scumming it till half the water be consumed then by putting in two pound of Wine Vineger by degrees perfect the Syrup Culpeper A. That is Only melt the Sugar with the Vinegar over the fire scum it but boyl it not Syrupus Acetosus Simplicior Pag. 50. in the L. Book OR Syrup of Vineger more Simple The Colledg Take of white Sugar five pound white Wine Vinegar two pound by melting it in a bath make it into a Syrup Culpeper 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 humors in the stomach they cool the body quench thirst provoke urine and propare the stomach before the taking of a vomit If you take it as a prepatative for a vomit take half an ounce of it when you go to bed the night before you intend to vomit it will make you to vomit the easier but if for any of the foregoing occasins take it with a Liquoris stick Syrupus Acetosus Compositus Pag. 50. in the L. Book OR Syrup of Vinegar Compound The Colledg Take of the Roots of Smallage Fennel Endive of each three ounces the seeds of Annis Smallage Fennel of each one ounce of Endive half an ounce cleer Water six pound boyl it gently in an earthen vessel till half the Water be consumed then strain and clarifie it and with three pound of Sugar and a pound and an half of white wine Vinegar boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper A. This in my opinion is a gallant Syrup for such whose bodies are stuffed either with flegm or tough humors 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 〈◊〉 at their stomach Mesue prescribes ten 〈◊〉 of Water and a quart of Vineger let every one use which D r Experience tels him is best Syrupus de Agno Casto Pag. 50. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Agnus Castus The Colledg Take of the seeds of Rue and Hemp of each half a drachm of Endive Lettice Purslain Guords Melones of each two drachms of Fleawort half an ounce of Agnus Castus four ounces the Flowers of Water-Lillies the Leaves of Mints of each half a handful Decoction of seeds of Lentils and Coriander seeds of each half an ounce three pound of the Decoction boyl them all over a gentle fire til two pound be consumed ad to the residue being strained two ounces Juyce of Lemmons a pound and an half of white Sugar make it into a Syrup according to art A. A pretty Syrup and good for little Syrupus de Althaea Pag. 51. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Marsh-Mallows The Colledg Take of Roots of Marsh-Mallows two ounces the Roots of Grass Sparagus Liquoris Raisons of the Sun stoned of each half an ounce the tops of Mallows Marsh-Mallows Pellitory of the Wall Burnet 〈◊〉 Maiden-hair white and black of each a handful red 〈◊〉 an ounce of the four greater and four lesser cold seeds of each three drachms boyl them in six pound of cleerr Water till four remain which being strained boyl into a Syrup with four pound of white Sugar Culpeper 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 excellent 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 Clysters but for gravel or the stone drink it in convenient Medicines or by it self If both of them afflict you use it both waies I assure you this medicine will save those that are subject to such diseases both mony and misery Syrupus de Ammoniaco Pag. 51. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Ammoniacum The Colledg Take of Maudlin and Cetrach of each four handfuls common Wormwood an ounce the Roots of Succory Sparagus bark of Caper Roots of each two ounces after due preparation sleep them twenty four hours in three ounces of white Wine Rhadish and fumitory water of each 2. pound then boyl it away to one pound eight ounces let it settle in four ounces of which whilst it is warm dissolve by it self Gum Ammoniacum first dissolved in white Wine Vinegar two ounces boyl the rest with a pound and an half of white Sugar into a Syrup adding the mixtures of the Gum at the end Culpeper A. It cools the Liver and opens obstructions both of it and the Spleen helps old Surfets and such-like diseases as scabs itch leprosy and what else proceed from the Liver overheated you may take an ounce at a time Syrupus de Artemisia Pag.
when you need Rob de Cerasis Page 76. in the Latin Book Or Rob of Cherries The Colledg Take of the juyce of red Cherries somwhat sourish as much as you will and with half their weight in sugar boyl them like the former Culpeper A. See the vertues of Cherries and there have you a neat trick to keep them all the year Rob de Cornis Page 76. in the latin Book Or Rob of Cornels The Colledg Take of the juyce os Cornels two pound sugar a pound and an half boyl it according to art Culpeper 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 therefore good in fluxes bloody fluxes and the immoderate flowing of the terms in women Rob Cydoniorum Page 76. in the Latin Book Or Rob of Quinces The Colledg Take of the clarified juyce of Quinces boyl it till two parts be consumed and with its equal waight in Sugar boyl it into a Rob. Miva vel Gelatina Eorundem Page 76. in L. Book Or 〈◊〉 of Quinces The Colledg Take of the juyce of Quinces clarified twelve pound boyl it half away and ad to the remainder old white wine five pound consume the third part over a gentle fire taking away the scum as you ought let the rest settle and strain it and with three pound of sugar boyl it according to art Culpeper A. Both are good for weak and indisposed stomachs The Colledg Rob of sowr Plums is made as Rob of Quinces the use of sugar is indifferent in them both Rob of English Currence is made in the same manner let the juyce he clarified Culpeper A. The vertues are the same with Rob of Barberries Rob Baccarum Sambuci Page 77. in L. Book Or Rob of Elder Berries The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Elder Berries and make it thick with the help of a gentle fire either by its self or a quarter of its waight in sugar being added Culpeper Both Rob of Elder Berries and Dwarf-Elder are excellent for such whose bodies are inclining to Dropsies neither let them neglect nor despise it if they do 't is not my fault They may take the quantity of a Nutmeg each morning 't will gently purge the watry humor The Colledg In the same manner is made Rob of Dwars Elder Junipers and Pauls Betony only in the last the Sugar and Juyce must be equal in waight Succus Glycyrrhizae simplex Page 77. in Lat. Book Or Juyce of Liquoris simple The Colledg Infuse Liquoris Roots clensed and gently bruised three daies in spring water so much that it may oretop the Roots the breadth of three fingers then boyl it a little and press it hard out and boyl the Liquor with a gentle fire to its due thickness Culpeper A. It is vulgarly known to be good against coughs cold c. and a strengthener of the Lungues Succus Glycyrrhizae Compositus P. 77. in L. Book Or Juyce of Liquoris Compound The Colledg Take of the water of tender Oak leaves of Scabious of each four pounds English Liquoris scraped and bruised two pound boyl them by degrees till they be soft then press out the Liquor strongly in a press to which ad three pound of Juyce of Hysop and dry it away in the Sun in a broad Earthen vessel Culpeper A. The vertues are the same with the former but that the Colledg loves to be troublesom Succus Pronorum sylvestrum Page 78. in Lat. Book Or Juyce of Sloes called Acacia The Colledg Take of Sloes hardly ripe press out the Juyce and make it thick in a bath Culpeper A. It stops Fluxes and procures appetite The Colledg So are the juyces of Wormwood Maudlin and Fumitory made thick to wit the Herbs bruised while they be tender and the juyce pressed out and after it is clarified boyled over the fire to its just thickness LOHOCH OR ECLEGMATA Culpeper A. BEcause this word also is understood but by few we will first explain what it is A. 1. 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 somthing thicker than 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 Lungues 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 de Farfara Page 79. in the Latin Book Or Lohoch of Coltsfoot The Colledg Take of Coltsfoot roots clensed eight ounces Marsh-mallow roots four ounces clensed boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water and press the pulp out through a sive dissolve this again in the Decoction and let it boyl once or twice then take it from the fire and ad two pound of white sugar Honey of Raisons sourteen ounces juyce of Liquoris two drachms and an half stir them stoutly with a wooden pestel mean season sprinkle in saffron and Cloves of each a scruple cinnamon and Mace of each two scruples make them into a Lohoch according to art Culpeper A. It was invented by an uncertain or an unrevealed Author for the Cough and they that cannot get a better nor a cheaper may freely use this for the Colledg gives them leave if they appoint it not else those that have read the Augustan Physitians may reade a cheaper there and those that have not nor cannot may know if they please how they are led by the noses by a company of Colledg gulls Lohoch de Papavere Page 79. in the Latin Book Or Lohoch of Poppies The Colledg Take white Poppy seeds twenty four drachms sweet Almonds blanched in Rose water Pinenuts clensed Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each ten drachms juyce of Liquoris an ounce starch three drachms the seeds of Lettice Purslain Quinces of each half an ounce Saffron a drachm Penids four ounces Syrup of Meconium three pound make it into a Lohoch according to art Culpeper A. The right Worshipful the Colledg of Physitians having found a Medicine called by this name in the Augustane Dispensatory did as well as they could to alter it a little that so they might make fools beleev it was their own It helps salt sharp and thin distillations upon the Lungues it allaies the fury of such sharp humors which occasion both roughness of the throat want of sleep and feavers It is excellent for such as are troubled with
and an half Wood of Aloes yellow Sanders long Pepper of each two drachms Amber-greece a 〈◊〉 and an half Musk half a drachm make them all into pouder according to art Culpeper A. Mesue apropriates this to the head and saith it heats and strengthens the brain causeth mirth helps concoction cherisheth the Animal Vital and Natural Spirit it strengthens the heart and stomach and resists all cold diseases and is therefore special good for women and old men Your best way is to make it into an Electuary by mixing it with three times its waight of clarifyed Honey and take the quantity of a Nutmeg of it every morning Here also they have left out Doronicum and put in Angelica Roots sure they hate Doronicum as bad as they hate Honesty Diamoschu Dulce Page 92. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Saffron Galanga Zedoary Wood of Aloes Mace of each two drachms Pearls raw Silk tosted white Amber red Corral prepared Gallia Moschata Bazill of each two drachms and an half Ginger Cubebs long Pepper of each a dram and an half Nutmegs Indian Leaf or Cinnamon Cloves of each one drachm Musk two scruples make them into pouder according to art Culpeper A. It wonderfully helps cold afflictions of the brain that come without a feaver melancholly and its attendance viz. sadness without a cause c. Vertigo or dissiness in the head Falling-sickness Palsies resolution of the nerves Convulsions Heart-qualms afflictions of the Lungues and difficulty of breathing The dose of the pouder is half a drachm or two seruples or less according to the age or strength of him or her that takes it Mesue appoints it to be made into an Electuary with clarified Honey and of the Electuary two drachms is the dose the time of taking it is in the morning fasting Diamoschu Amarum Page 92. in the Latin Book The Colledg Is prepared by adding to the forenamed Wormwood dried Roses of each three drams Aloes half an ounce Cinnamon two drachms and an half Castorium and Lovage of each one drachm make them into pouder Culpeper A. Besides the vertues of the former it purgeth the stomach of putrified humors Species Dianthus Page 93. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Rosemary flowers an ounce red Roses Violets Liquoris of each six drachms Cloves Indian Spicknard Nutmegs Galanga Cinnamon Ginger Zedoary Mace Wood of Aloes Cardamoms the less the seeds of Dill and Annis of each four scruples make them into pouder according to art Culpeper A. It strengthens the heart and helps the passions thereof it causeth a joyful and cheerful mind and strengthens such as have been weakned by long sickness it strengthens cold stomachs and helps digestion notably The dose is half a drachm you may make it into an Electuary with Honey and take two drachms of that at a time Diapenidion Page 93. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Penidies two ounces Pine-nuts sweet Almonds blanched white Poppy seeds of each three drachms and a scruple Cinnamon Cloves Ginger which three being omitted it is Diapenidion without Species Juyce of Liquoris Gum Tragacanth and Arabick white Starch the four greater cold seeds 〈◊〉 of each a drachm and an half Camphire seven grains make them into pouder Culpeper A. It helps the vices of the breast coughs colds hoarsness and consumptions of the lungues as also such as spit matter You may mix it with any pectoral Syrup and take it with a Liquoris stick if you fancy the Pouder best but if the Electuary you may take a drachm of it upon a knifes point at any time when the cough comes Diarrhodon Abbatis Page 93. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Sanders white and red of each two drachms and an half Gum Tragacanth Arabick Ivory of each two scruples 〈◊〉 roots Maslick Indian Spicknard Cardamoms Liquoris Saffron Wood of Aloes Cloves Gallia Moschata Annis and sweet Fennel seeds Cinnamon Rhubarb Bazil Seeds Barberry seeds the seeds of Succory Purslain the four greater cold Seeds clensed white Poppy seeds of each one scruple Pearls bone of a Stags heart of each half a scruple red Roses exangulated one ounce and three drachms Camphire seven grains make them into pouder according to art Culpeper A. It cools the violent heat of the heart and stomach as also of the liver lungues and Spleen easeth pains in the body and most infirmities coming to the body by reason of heat The dose of the Pouder is half a drachm and two ounces of the Electuary into which with Sugar dissolved in Rose-water you may make it and can the Colledg justly say 't is destructive to the Common-wealth Diaspoliticum Page 94. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Cummin seeds steeped in Vineger and dried long Pepper 〈◊〉 leaves of each an ounce Niter half an ounce make them into pouder Culpeper A. It is an admirable remedy for such whose meat is putrified in their stomcahs it helps cold stomachs cold belchings and windy You may take half a drachm after meat either in a spoonful of Muskadel or in a Syrup of Mirtles or Quinces or any Cordial Water whose effects is the same Species Diatragacanthi srigidi Page 94. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Gum Tragacanth two ounces Gum Arabick an ounce and two drachms white starch half an ounce Liquoris the seeds of Melones and white Poppies of each three drachms the seeds of Citruls Cucumers and Guords of each two drachms Penids three ounces Camphire half a scruple make of them a Pouder according to art Also you may make an Electuary of them with a susficient quantity of Syrup of Violets but have a care of what was told you before Of the seeds quoth the Colledg Before when all honesty was not fled from them to Heaven A. If you please to put in the cold seeds which the Reverend Colledg appoints to be left out till the Pouder come to be used and then 't is impossible to put them in as I shewed before page 122. and so make it up into an Electuary then I can tell you what the vertues are It helps the faults of the breast and Lungs coming of heat and driness it helps Consumptions Leanness Inflamations of the sides Pleuresies c. hot and dry Coughs roughness of the Tongue and Jaws but how to make ought of the Receipt as the Colledg have ordered it belongs to another Oepidibus and not to me It is your best way to make the Electuary very moist and take now and then a little of it with a Liquoris stick Diatrion 〈◊〉 Page 94. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the three sorts of Peppers of each six drachms and fifteen grains Annis seeds 〈◊〉 Ginger of each one drachm beat them into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Culpeper A. It heats the stomach and expels wind Half a drachm in pouder or two drachms in Electuary for so Galen who was Author of it appoints it to be made with clarified Honey a sufficient quantity if
heart Harts-horn Ivory prepared of each four scruples Saphire Emerald Topas Pearls raw Silk Leaves of Gold and Silver of each two scruples Camphire Musk Ambergreese of each five grains with Syrup of Lemmons make it into a Confection according to art Culpeper A. It is a great Cordial and cool exceeding good in acute feavers and Pestilences 〈◊〉 mightily strengtheneth and cherrisheth the heart Never above half a drachm is given at a time very seldom so much not because of its offensiveness I suppose its chargableness Antidotum Haemagogum Page 103. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Lupines busked two drams black Pepper five scruples and six grains Liquoris four scruples long Birthwort Mugwort Cassia 〈◊〉 Macedonian Parsly seed Pellitory of Spain Rhue seed Spicknard Mirrh Penyroyal of each two scruples fourteen grains the seeds of Smallage Savin of each two scruples and thirteen grains Centaury the greater Cretish Carrots Nigella Carraway Annis Cloves Allum of each two scruples Bay-leaves one scruple one half scruple and three grains Wood of Aloes a scruple and fourteen grains Schaenanth one scruple and thirteen grains Asarabacca Calamus Aromaticus Amomum Centaury the less the seed of Orrach Peony Fennel of each one scruple and six grains Cyperus Alicampane Ginger Cappar roots Cummin Orobus of each one scruple All of them being beaten into very fine pouder let them be made into an Electuary according to art with four times their weight in Sugar let it stand one month before you use it Culpeper A. It provokes the terms brings away both birth and after-birth the dead child purgeth such as are not sufficiently purged after travail it provokes urine breaks the stone in the bladder helps the strangury disury 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 Hemorrhoids A. Nicholaus I take to be the Author of this fantastical Medicine though the Colledg give it a more general term and the vertues also are quoted from him The dose is from one dram to two drams Diasatyrion Page 104. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Satyrion Roots three ountes Dates bitter Almonds Indian nut Pinenuts Fistick Nuts green Ginger Eringo Roots preserved of each one ounce Ginger Cloves Galanga Pepper long and black of each three drachms Ambergreese one scruple Musk two scruples Penids four ounces Cinnamon Saffron of each half an ounce Malaga Wine three ounces Nutmegs Mace Grains of Paradice of each two drachms Ash-tree Keys the belly and loyns of Scinks Borax Benjamin of each three drachms Wood of Aloes Cardamoms of each two drachms the seeds of Nettles and Onions the roots of Avens of each a drachm and an half with two pound and an half of Syrup of green Ginger make them into an Electuary according to Art Electuarium Diaspermaton Page 104. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the four greater and lesser cold seeds the seeds of Sparagus Burnet Bazil Parsly Winter Cherries of each two drachms Gromwel Juyce of Liquoris of each three drachms Cinnamon Mace of each one drachm with eight times their weight in white Sugar dissolved in Marsh-mallow water make it into an Electuary according to Art Culpeper A. It breaks the stone and provokes urine Men may take half an ounce at a time and children half so much in Water of any Herbs or Roots c. or Decoction of them that break the stone which the last Catalogue in the Book viz. the Catalogue of Diseases will furnish you with I delight to have men studious Micleta Page 105. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the Barks of 〈◊〉 the Mirobalans torrefied of each two drachms and an half the seeds of Water-cresses Cummin Annis Fennel Ammi Caraway of each a drachm and an half bruise the seeds and sprinkle them with sharp white Wine Vineger then beat them into pouder and add the Myrobalans and these things that follow Spodium Balaustines Sumach Mastich Gum Arabick of each one drachm and fifteen grains mix them together and with ten ounces of Syrup of Mirtles make them into an Electuary according to Art Culpeper A. It gently easeth the bowels of the wind Chollick wringing of the guts infirmities of the spleen it stops fluxes the Hemorrhoids as also the terms in women A. A drachm or two of this taken in the morning had been a better remedy I say amongst their Hodg-podg than most they gave in the late Epidemical disease the bloody flux Electuarium Pectorale Page 105. in the Lat. Book Or A Pectoral Electuary The Colledg Take of the juyce of Liquoris sweet Almonds Hazel Nuts of each half an ounce Pine-nuts an ounce Hysop Maiden-hair Orris Netile seeds round Birthwort of each a drachm and an half black Pepper the seeds of Water-cresses the Roots of Alicampane of each half a drachm Honey fourteen ounces make them into an Electuary according to Art Culpeper A. It strengthens the stomach and lungs and helps the vices thereof Take it with a Liquoris stick Theriaea Diatessaron Page 105. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Gentian Bay-berries Mirrh round Birthwort of each two ounces Honey two pound make them into an Electuary according to Art Culpeper A. This is a gallant Electuary like the Author which was Mesue It wonderfully helps cold infirmities of the brain as convulsions falling-sickness dead palseys shaking palseys c. as also the stomach as pains there wind want of digestion as also stoppings of the Liver dropsies it resists the pestilence and poysons and helps the bitings of venemous beasts The dose is from half a drachm to two drachms according to the age and strength of the patient as also the strength of the diseases you may take it either in the morning or when urgent occasion cals for it Diascordium Page 106. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Cinnamon Cassia Lignea of each half an ounce Scordium one ounce Dittany of Creet Tormentil Bistort Galbanum Gum Arabick of each half an ounce Opium one drachm and an half Sorrel seeds one drachm and an half Gentian half an ounce Bole-Armenick an ounce and an half Earth of Lemnos half an ounce long Pepper Ginger of each two drachms clarified Honey two pound and an half Sugar of Roses one pound Canary Wine ten ounces make them into an Electuary according to Art Culpeper A. It is a well composed Electuary something apropriated to the nature of women for it provokes the terms hastens their labor helps their usual sickness at the time of their lying in I know nothing better it stops fluxes mightily strengtheneth the heart and stomach neither is so hot but it may safely be given to weak people and besides provokes sleep It may safely be given to young children ten grains at a time ancient people may take a dram or more It is given as an excellent
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 moderately heat and strengthen the stomach being anointed with it it procures appetite opens obstructions furthers digestion and kills worms A. Oyl of Dill doth moderately digest asswage 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 Cham omel strengthens the sinnews greatly asswageth pain and breaks the stone A. Oyl of Meliot hath the same effects A. Oyl of Walflowers asswageth pains in the breast and reins sinnews joynts 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 snuffed up the nose it purgeth the head of flegm A. Oyl of Emmats the privities being anointed with it provokes lust A. Oyl of Saint Johns-wort is as good a thing in green wounds as a man can use A. Oyl of Orris doth concoct and dissolve asswage pain of the womb liver and joynts also it strengthens the breast A. Oyl of Earthworms mollifie heat and asswage pains and is special good for such as have been bruised or hurt in their joynts 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 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 youthful A. Nard Oyl doth heat digest and strengthen resists all cold and windy diseases throughout the body A. Oyl of Water Lillies cools and asswageth the violent heat especially of the head reins and bladder thereby mitigating frenzies procuring sleep and is a good preservative against the stone and help such women their backs being anointed with it as are subject to miscarry through heat of their reins which they may easily know by continual pain in their backs and swelling of their legs Also Oyl of poppies have the same vertue A. Oyl of Rue heats and makes thin gross humors expelleth wind helps palsies cramps coldness of the womb and bladder A. Oyl of Violets cools inflamations easeth the Plurisie and pains of the breast A. Oyl of Nightshade hath the same effects with that of water Lillies A. Then remember that these Oyls must not be given inwardly as men take drink but outwardly applied or cast in as injections or Clysters One material Oyl only which was in their last Dispensatory which is Oyl of Mirrh which is thus made 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-Celler or some other cool place under the ground so will the melted Liquor of the Mirrh distil down into the inferior dish COMPOUND OYLS BY INFUSION AND DECOCTION Oleum Benedictum Page 146. in the Latin Book Or blessed Oyl Colledg TAke of the roots of Cardus and Valerian of each one ounce the flowers of Saint Johns wort two ounces Wheat one ounce and an half old Oyl four ounces Cipress Turpentine eight ounces Frankinsence in pouder two ounces infuse the roots and flowers being bruised in so much white Wine as is sufficient to cover them after two daies infusion put in the Oyl with the Wheat bruised boyl them together till the Wine be consumed then press it out and ad the Frankinsence and Turpentine then boyl them a little and keep it Culpeper A. It is apropriated to clense and consolidate wounds especially in the head Oleum de Capparibus Page 145. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Cappers The Colledg Take of the bark of Capper roots an ounce bark of 〈◊〉 the leaves of the same the seeds of Agnus Castus Cetrach or Spleenwort Cyperus roots of each two drachms Rue one drachm Oyl of ripe Olives one pound white Wine Vineger and white Wine of each two ounces cut them and sleep them and boyl them two daies being elapsed gently in a bath then the Wine and Vineger being consumed strain it and keep it Culpeper A. The Oyl is opening and heating absolutely apropriated to the spleen hardness and pains thereof and diseases coming of stoppings there as Hypocondriack melancholly the rickets c. Bath the breast and afflicted side with it hot by the fite and if you please to ad its like weight of oyntment of the opening juyces to it it will be the better then if you apply a Virginia Tobacco leaf to the place you shall find it an incomparable remedy Oyl of Castorium compound P. 146. in Latin book The Colledg Take of Castorium Styrax Calamitis Galbanum Euphorbium Opopanax Cassia Lignea Saffron Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Spicknard Costus of each two drachms Cyperus Squinanth Pepper long and black Savin Pelletory of Spain of each two drachms and an half ripe Oyl four pound Spanish Wine two pound the five first excepted let the rest be prepared as they ought to be and gently boyled in the Oyl and Wine while the Wine be consumed mean season the Galbanum Opopanax and Euphorbium beaten in fine pouder being dissolved in part of the Wine and strained let them be exquisitely mixed with it while the Oyl is warm by often stirring the boyling being finished put in the Styrax and Castorium Culpeper A. The vertues are the same with the Simple only it is held to be more effectual in the premises Oleum Catellorium Page 146. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Whelps The Colledg Take of Sallet Oyl four pound two Puppy Dogs newly whelped Earth worms washed in white Wine one pound boyl the 〈◊〉 till they fall in pieces then put in the worms a while after strain it then with three ounces of Cypress Turpentine and one ounce of Spirit of Wine perfect the Oyl according to art Culpeper A. It is excellent good to bath those limbs and muscles that have been weakned by wounds or bruises Oleum Costinum Page 146. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the roots of bitter Costus two ounces Cassia Lignea one ounce the tops of Marjorum eight ounces being bruised steep them two daies in twelve ounces of sweet white Wine then with three pound of Sallet Oyl washed in white Wine boyl
roughness of the skin and take away the the chops of the lips hands face or other parts Unguentum Potabile Page 158. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of butter without salt a pound and an half Spermaceti 〈◊〉 Tormentil roots Castorium of each half an ounce boyl them as you ought in a sufficient quantity of Wine till the Wine be consumed and become an Oyntment Culpeper A. I know not what to make of it Unguentum Resinum Page 158. in the Lain Book The Colledg Take of 〈◊〉 or Rosin of the pine tree of the purest Turpentine yellow Wax washed pure Oyl of each equal parts melt them into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It is as pretty a Cerecloath for a new sprain as most is and cheap Let it not be despised for I have known a gentlewoman in Sussex do much good with it even before their Dispensatory was ever hatched or in the Egge Unguentum Rosatum Page 158. in the Latin Book Or Oyntment of Roses The Colledg Take of fresh Hogs grease elensed a pound fresh Red roses half a pound juyce of the same three ounces make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. The Colledge give you but a short come off in this Oyntment they love to be breife and tedious last time when they were honester they taught you how to make it which was thus The Colledg Take of Hogs grease well clensed from the skins a pound wash it nine 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 boyl 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 boyled them at the last ad juyce of red Roses six ounces boyl them over a gentle fire till the juyce be consumed then strain it and make an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. You need do no more than let it stand till it is cold and you shall see it is Oyntment alone without any further making now compare but this with what I wrote before and see if they do not love to be breife and tedious A. It is of a fine cooling nature exceeding usefull in all gaulings of the skin and frettings accompanied with chollerick humors angry pushes tetters ringworms it mitigates diseases in the head coming of hear as also the intemperate heat of the stomach and liver 〈◊〉 Rubrum Page 158. in the Latin Book Or a drying red Oyntment The Colledg Take of Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound white Wax five ounces which being melted and put in a leaden Mortar put in Earth of Lemnos or Bole-Armenick Lapis Calaminaris of each four ounces Litharge of gold Ceruss of each three ounces Camphire one drachm make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It binds and restrains fluxes of humors and is as gallant an Oyntment to skin a sore as any is in the Dispensatory Unguentum è Solano Page 158. in the Lat. Book Or Oyntment of Nightshade The Colledg Take of juyce of Nightshade Litharge washed of each five ounces Ceruss washed eight ounces white Wax seven ounces Frankinsence in pouder ten drachms Oyl of Roses often washed in water two pound make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It was invented to take away inflamations from wounds and to keep people from scratching of them when they are almost well Unguentum Tutiae Page 158. in the Latin Book Or Oyntment of Tutty The Colledg Take of Tutty prepared two ounces Lapis Calaminaris often burnt and quenched in Plantane water an ounce make them being finely poudered into an Oyntment with a pound and an half of Oyntment of Roses Cul. A. It is a cooling drying Oyntment apropriated to the eyes to dry up hot and salt humors that flow down thither the eye-lids being anointed with it Valentia Scabiosae Page 159. in the Latin Book A famous Oyntment much in use 300. years ago The Colledg Take of the juyce of green Scabious pressed out with a scrue and strained through a cloath Hogs grease of each as much as you will beat the Hogs greas in a stone mortar not grind it putting in the juyce by degrees for the more commodious mixture and tincture afterwards set it in the Sun in a convenient vessel so as the juyce may overtop the grease nine daies being passed pour of the discoloured juyce and beat it again as before putting in fresh juyce set in the Sun again five daies which being elapsed beat it again putting in more juyce after 15 daies more do so again do so five times after which keep it in a glass or glazed vessel Tapsivalentia Page 159. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the juyce of Mullen Hogs grease of each as much as you will let the grease be clensed and cut in pieces and beat it with the juyce pressed and strained as you did the former Oyntment then keep it in a convenient vessel nine or ten daies then beat it twice once with fresh juyce until it be green and the second time without juyce beaten well pouring off what is discoloured and keep it for use Tapsimel Page 159. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the juyce of Sullendine and Mullen of each one part clarified Honey two parts boyl them by degrees till the juyce be consumed adding the Physitian prescribing Vitriol burnt Alum burnt Ink and boyl it again to an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. These three last was stolen out of the Manuscripts of Mr. John Ardern for a Chyrurgian at Newwark upon Trent though now the Colledg have the honesty to conceal his name you may know the vertues of the two former if you view but the Simples as for the latter he quotes a pretty passage of which is like to be the 〈◊〉 because the Colledge conceales it now and did not before it is this when you are troubled with the Itch put a little Tapsimel up your fundament and the Itching will presently Cease OYNTMENTS MORE COMPOUND Unguentum Agrippa Page 160. in the Lat. in Book The Colledg TAke of Briony roots two pound the roots of wild Cucumers one pound Squills half a pound fresh English Orris roots three ounces the roots of Male Fearn Dwarffe Elder water Caltrops or Aron of each two ounces bruise them all being fresh and steep them six or seven daies in four pound of old Oyl the whitest not rank then boyl them and press them out and in the Oyl me 〈◊〉 fifteen ounces of white wax and make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It purgeth excceedingly and is good to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies and if there be any humor of flegm in any part of the body that you know not how to remove provided the part be not too tender you may anoint it
called a Cerecloath The Colledg 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 〈◊〉 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 Culpeper A. It is a fine cooling thing for what denomination to give it I scarce know and exceeding good yea super-excellent to cure inflamations in wounds or tumors Unguentum è 〈◊〉 Aperitivis primum 〈◊〉 The Colledg Take of the juyce of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mints Wormwood Common Parsly Valerian of each three ounces oyl of Wormwood and Mints of each half a pound yellow Wax three ounces mix them together over the fire and make of them an Oyntment Sometimes is added also the pouders of Calamus Aromaticus Spicknard of each one drachm a little oyl of Cappers Culpeper A. It opens stoppages of the stomach and spleen easeth the Rickets the breast and sides being anointed with it 〈◊〉 Martiatum Nich. The Colledg Take of the Leaves of Bay and Rosemary of each eight ounces Rue seven ounces Tamaris fix ounces the Leaves of Dwarf-Elder Marjoram Savin Costmary or else 〈◊〉 ater-mints Sage Bazil Polcy-mountain Calaminth Mugwort Elicampane Betony 〈◊〉 Ursine Goose grass 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 Housleek the greater and lesser Yarrow Germander Centaury the less Plantane Strawberries Tetrahit or for want of it Golden-rod Cynksoyl of each four ounces and an half the roots of Marsh-mallows the seeds of Cummin Mirrh of each three ounces Foenugreck an ounce and an half the seeds of the greater Nettles of Violets red or erratick Poppies commonly called Corn-roses Garden Mints Sorrel wild Mints Maindenhair Carduus Benedictus Woodbind or Honeysuckles Valerian the greater sweet Cranebil or Muschata Wood-sorrel Harts-tongue Ox-eye Southernwood Marrow of a Stag Styrax Calamitys of each half an ounce Butter ten drachms Bears and Hens grease Mastich Frankinsence of each one ounce Nard Oyl two ounces Wax two pound let the Herbs being green be cut and insused 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 ad 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 heaten into pouder be put in last of all and when they 〈◊〉 all wil mixed together keep the Oyntment in a vessel Culpeper A. This long Receipt of Nich. Myrepsus is held to be profitable against cold afflictions of the brain nerves and joynts as shaking palsey dead palsey convulsions c. it helps numbness of the joynts the gout and hard tumors of the spleen An Oyntment for the Worms Foesius The Colledg Take of Oyl of Rue Savin Mints Wormwood and bitter Almonds of each an ounce and an half juyce of the flowers or leaves of Peaches and Wormwood of each half an ounce Pouder of Rue Mints Gentain Centaury the less Tormentill of each one drachm the seeds of Coleworts the Pulp of Colocynthis of each two drachms Aloes Hepatick three drachms the meal of Lupines half an ounce Mirrh washed in grass water a drachm and an half Bulls Gall an ounce and an half with juyce of Lemmons so much as is sufficient and an ounce and an half of Wax make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. The Belly being anointed with it kills the worms CERECLOATHS Ceratum de Galbano Page 169. in the Latin Book Or Cerecloath of Galbanum The Colledg TAke of Galbanum prepared an ounce and an half Assafaetid a half an ounce Bdellium a drachm Mirrh two drachms Wax two ounces 〈◊〉 seeds a scruple Featherfew Mugwort of each half a drachm dissolve the Gums in Vineger and make it a Cerecloath according to art Culpeper A. Being applied to the belly of a woman after labor it clenseth her of any 〈◊〉 accedentally left behind helps the fits of the mother and other accedents incident to women in that case Ceratum 〈◊〉 Page 169. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Oesypus ten ounces Oyl of Chamomel and Orris of each half a pound yellow Wax two pound Rozin a pound Mastich 〈◊〉 Turpentine of each an ounce Spicknard two drachms and an half Saffron a drachm and an half Styrax Calamitis half an ounce make them into a Cerecloath according to art Culpeper A. It mollifies and digests hard swellings of the liver spleen womb nerves joynts and other parts of the body and is a great easer of pain Ceratum Santalinum Page 169. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of red Sanders ten drachms white and yellow Sanders of each six drachms red Roses twelve drachms Bole Armenick seven drams Spodium four drachms Camphire two drachms white Wax washed thirty drachms Oyl of Roses Omphacine six ounces make it into a Cerecloath according to art Culpeper A. It wonderfully helps hot infirmities of the stomach liver and other parts being but aplied to them PLAISTERS Culpeper A I Hope no body is so simple to eat Plaisters The general 〈◊〉 of application is to the grieved place You may melt them in any earthen dish and so spread them upon a cloath or white leather Emplastrum ex Ammoniaco Page 170. in the Lat. B. Or A Plaister of Ammoniacum The Colledg Take of Amoniacum Bran well sifted of each an ounce Oyntmen t of Marshmallows Mellilot Plaister compound roots of Briony and Orris in pouder of each half an ounce the fat of Ducks Geese and Hens of each three drachms Bdellium Galbanum of each one drachm and an half Perrozin Wax of each five ounces Oyl of Orris Turpentine of eaah half an ounce boyl the Fat 's and Oyl with Mussilage of Linseed and Foenugreek seed of each three ounces to the consumption of the Mussilage strain it and add the Wax Rozin and Turpentine the Oyntment of Marshmallows with the Plaister of Meliot when it begins to be cold put in the Amoniacum dissolved in Vineger then the Bdellium in pouder with the rest of the pouders and make it into a Plaister according to art Culpeper A. By Plaister alwaies understand not a Plaister spread upon a cloath but a roll made to spread such a one withal A. It softens and asswageth hard swellings and scatters the humors offending applied to the side it softens the hardness of the spleen asswageth pains thence arising Emplaistrum è Baccis Lauri Page 170. in Lat. B. Or a Plaister of Bay berries The Colledg Take of Bay berries husked Turpentine of each two ounces Frankinsence Mastich Mirrh of each an ounce Cyperus Costus of each
to do one jot of this I know not And so play the Colledg here for the Alchymists have a better way by far to draw them the truth is I am in a manner tied to their method here from which I may not step aside if my Country kindly accept this which is the beginning of my labors I may happily put forth something else for the Ingenious to whet their wits upon Only here I quote the Oyls in the Colledg order and then quote the vertue of the chiefst of them that so the Reader may know by a penny how a shilling is coyned The Colledg In the same manner are prepared Oyls of Hysop Marjoram Mints garden water Cresses Origanum Peny-royal Rosemary Rue Savin Sage Savory Time c. the Flowers of Chamomel Lavender c. Culpeper A. I shall instance here only Oyl of Lavender commonly called Oyl of Spike which helps the running of the reins they being 〈◊〉 with it it expels worms two drops of it being taken in Wine the region of the back being anointed with it it helps the Palsey For all the rest see the vertues of the Herbs themselves After the same manner are made Oyl of dryed Barks The Colledg Of Orrenges Citrons Lemmons But it is better prepared of the Barks being green and full of Juyce seperated from the internal white part bruised and with a sufficient quantity of Simple distilled water so will the Oyl be drawn easter and in greater plenty and no less fitting for the Physitians use Oyl or fat of Roses commonly called Spirit of Roses The Colledg Take as many fresh Damask Roses as you will infuse them twenty four hours in a sufficient quantity of warm water after you have pressed them out repeat the infusion certain times till the Liquor be strong enough which distill in an Allembick with his refrigeratory or a Copper with his worm seperate the Spirit from the water and keep the water for another infusion So may you draw Spirit from Damask Roses pickled in Salt as also Spirit of red Roses Culpeper A. 'T is a good perfume OYL of SEEDS Oyl of Dill. Seeds The Colledg Take of Dill seeds bruised two pound spring Water twenty pound steep them twenty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 them in a Copper Stil or an Allembick with his 〈◊〉 seperate the Oyl from the Water with a 〈◊〉 and keep the water for a new distillation So also is prepared Oyl of the seeds of Annis Laraway Cummin Carrots Fennel Parsly Saxifrage c. Culpeper A. Oyl of Annls seeds although it be often given and happily with good success in vertigoes or dissiness in the head yet its chief operation is upon the breast and lungues it helps narrowness of the breast rawness and wind in the stomach all infirmities there coming of cold and wind strengthens the nerves six drops is enough at a time taken in broath or any other convenient liquor 〈◊〉 As Annis seeds are apropriated to the breast so are Fennel seeds to the head the Oyl of which clenseth the brain of cold infirmities 〈◊〉 iudisposition of the body numbness want of motion also it helps the stomach and expels wind A. Cummin seeds the Oyl of them is a great expeller of wind nothing better it also wonderfully caseth pains of the spleen pains in the reins and bladder stopping of urine especially if it come of wind and is a present remedy for the chollick for the way of taking of them see Annis seeds The Colledg So also are made Oyl of Spices as of Cinnamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Pepper c. Culpeper A. One or two drops of Oyl of Cinnamon is 〈◊〉 to take at a time and is exceeding good for such as are in consumptions See Cinnamon among the Simples A. Oyl of Maco is excellent good for Rhewms in the head and Oyl of Pepper for the Chollick The Colledg Also Oyls of Aromatical woods as of Sassafras and Rhodium c. OYL of BERRIES Oyl of Juniper Berries The Colledg Take of fresh Juniper berries fifty pound bruise them and part them in a wooden Vessel with twenty four pound of spring water sharp leaven one pound keep them in a Cellar three months the vessel being close stopped then distill them in an Allembick with a sufficient quantity of Simple water after the Oyl is separated keep the water for a new distillation After the same manner is made Oyl of Bay berries Ivy berries c. Or you may draw Oyl from the aforenamed berries bruised and steeped twenty four hours in warm water adding six pound of water or if the berries be very dry ten pound of water to each pound of berries and stilling them as before Culpeper A. Oyl of Juniper berries prevails wonderfully in pains of the yard and running of the reins the falling sickness it is a mighty preservative against the pestilence and all evil airs it purgeth the reins provokes urine breaks the stone helps the dropsie the quantity to be taken at a time in any convenient liquor is three or four drops outwardly by unction it helps the gout two or three drops dropped upon the navil helps the Chollick A. Oyl of Bay berries helps the Chollick and Illiack passion A. Oyl of Ivy berries helps cold 〈◊〉 of the joynts the 〈◊〉 one and provokes the terms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Use them as Juniper Oyl Oyl of Turpentine The Colledg Take of Venis Turpentine as 〈◊〉 as you will put it into an Allembick with four times its waight in common Water still it with a convenient fire and draw off a white thin Oyl like water the Colophonia will remain in the bottom of the vessel this Oyl 〈◊〉 be drawn into a bath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from burning in a 〈◊〉 still Culpeper A. It is wonderful good in cold afflictions of the nerves and all diseases coming of cold and wind it corrects the cold afflictions of the lungues as Asthmaes difficulty of breathing c. A drachm being taken in the morning outwardly it adorns the body takes away the prints of scabs and the small pocks chops in the skin and breasts of women and deafness being dropped into the 〈◊〉 Oyl of 〈◊〉 The Colledg Take of Mirth bruised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each six pound dissolve them in sixty pound of spring water and still them in a Copper still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bick Culpeper It keeps wounds and all things else 〈◊〉 Fioravantus from 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and youthful quickly cures wounds and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dropped into the ears Oyl of Guajacum The Colledg Take of 〈◊〉 in gross pouder as much as you will put it in a retort and still it in Sand the Oyl that cames first out because 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and sweeter keep it by its self which by 〈◊〉 with much water will yet be sweeter The same things are to be observed in the distillation of Box and Oak and other solid woods as also Oyl of Tartar with its 〈◊〉 Spirit which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be distilled out of Christal of Tartar in the same 〈◊〉 Oyl of Wax The
white crust at top and keep it for use Flos Sulphuris Page 196. in the Latin Book Or Flower of Brimstone Take of the best Brimstone and beat it with equal parts of Colcothar of Vitriol put it in a long earthen still a head of glass large enough being put over it give fire to it in sand by degrees stirring it with a Hares foot it will be the purer if you iterate it with new Colcothar Lapis infernalis Page 196. in the Latin Book Take of Ly of which black Sope is made and 〈◊〉 it to a stone in a frying Pan do not consume all the humor when it is cold cut it in the form of dice and keep it in a glass close stopped Otherwise Take of Vitriol calcined to redness two ounces Salarmoniack one ounce Tartar calcined to whiteness quick Lime of each three ounces sprinkle all of them being beaten with Ly made of Figtrees or Spurge or Sope strain it often till almost all the matter be dissolved then boyl it in a brass vessel till the moisture be consumed that which is left keep close stopped for use Lapis seu Sal Prunellae Page 196. in the Latin Book Take of pure salt peter one pound put it in a crucible and place coales round about it that the niter may flow like mettle then put in by degrees two ounces of flower of Brimstone after the Brimstone is consumed pour the Niter out into a brass bason when it is cold keep it in a glass close stopped Magisterum of Pearl and Corral Page 196. in L. B Take of Pearl or Corral as much as you will levigate it into very subtil pouder to which put such a quantity of Spirit of radicate Vineger that it may overtop it the breadth of three or four fingers digest it in ashes till it be dissolved then pour off the Liquor and put in fresh till the residue be dissolved filter it and put a little Liquor of Tartar to it so will a white pouder fall down to the bottom of the glass which being seperated from what is dissolved is to be washed first with spring water then with Bawm or Borrage water Radicate Vineger is that which is distilled with Bay Salt in Sand. Mercurius Sublimatus Corrosivus P. 197. in Lat. B. Mercury Sublimate Corrosiye Take of Vitriol purified by Solution Filtration and Coagulation and calcined till it be yellow one pound Bay Salt in like manner 〈◊〉 and dried 〈◊〉 in like 〈◊〉 purified of each half a 〈◊〉 crude Mercury clensed by straining through a 〈◊〉 one pound bruise them all in a wooden mortar with a wooden Pestle till the Salis are in pouder and no bits of the Mercury are seen which will be best 〈◊〉 if you do it at divers times as for example sake taking Vitriol and Mercury of each one ounce Salt and Nyter of each half an ounce at a time and so forth till the whole matter be brought into a pouder and mixt then put this matter into a glass body so capacious that it fill not above the one half of it place the glass a little above the middle in Sand in a conveniint Furnace give fire to it by degrees even to the height twelve or sixteen hours being passed the sublimated Mercury wil stick to the top of the glass which being seperated and bruised sublimate by it sels the second and third time and oftener if it be too impure till it be as white as snow and no dross mixed with it Mercurius dulcis Sublimatus Page 198. in Latin B. Take of Mercury sublimated as before four ounces crude Mercury three ounces bruise them and grind them in a wooden mortar with a wooden pestle till they be perfectly mixed put them into a long Phiol which place above the middle in Sand put first a gentle fire under it then encrease it by degrees six hours that the Mercury may be driven from the bottom into the middle region of the Phiall which being seperated from that at top and bottom sublime it the second time and the third if need be till it have lest its acromony and be freed from all impurity and be as white as snow Mercurius dulcis precipitated Page 198. in Latin B. Take of crude Mercury driven from Sea salt in a retort one part Aquafortis of our discription two parts make a dissolution according to art mean season provide brine of Sea salt and fair water as strong as you can make it filter it and put your solution of Mercury into this brine and forth with a white pouder will precipitate which is to be washed from its acrimony in Simple distilled water or warm spring water dried and kept in a glass for use Mercurius praecipitatus Corrosivus Page 198. in L. B. Or Corrosive precipitate Make a dissolution of crude Mercury and Aqua fortis as before then evaporate it till it be dry at last encrease the fire and stir the matter with an Iron till it be red keep it in a glass for use Mercurius vitae Page 198. in the Latin Book Take of butter of Antimony distilled according to our prescript put it into cleer water which will forthwith be white a milk white pouder will precipitate which is to be 〈◊〉 by much washing in warm water and dried by a gentle beat and kept for use Regulus Antimonii Page 199. in the Latin Book Take of crude Antimony Salt peter 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 equall parts beat the Antimony a part in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with an Iron Pestle then ad the rest in pouder put this pouder by degrees with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Crucible placed amongst 〈◊〉 coals after its 〈◊〉 shake the Crucible gently that the Regulus may sink to the bottom which being taken out and 〈◊〉 by degrees and freed from the dross keep for use Salcharum 〈◊〉 Page 199. in the Latin Book Put as much red Lead as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and put so much Vineger to it as may over 〈◊〉 it the breadth of four fingers warm it and stir it a good while after it is settled pour off the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and put 〈◊〉 do it so often 〈◊〉 no more sweetness be drawn from it put all the liquors 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let thom settle then exhale it away in a glass 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 consumed or until it being set in a Cellar the Cristal appear which having taken out exhale it again and set it in a Cellar or cold place till more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do so till no more appear then dissolve the Cristal in cleer water filter and coagulate it Sal Vitrioli Page 199. in the Latin Book Or Salt of Vitriol Reduce Ungarick or English Vitriol being 〈◊〉 in a crucible into 〈◊〉 of an obscure purple 〈◊〉 which pouder cast by degrees into a large glass in which is either distilled or other very cleer 〈◊〉 it continually with a stick till the water which was at first hot is cold then let it stand twenty four hours then filter it lastly 〈◊〉 it in a glass 〈◊〉 and coagulate it
according to art Turpethum Minerale Page 200. in the Latin Book Take of crude Mercury Oyl of Vitriol seperated from all the flegm of each equal parts still them in 〈◊〉 encreasing the fire by degrees till all the 〈◊〉 be flown up in the air a white Mass remaining in the bottom which being separated from the crude Mercury wash in spring water and forth with it wil 〈◊〉 yellow wash it in warm water from all its 〈◊〉 dry it and keep it for use Tartarum Vitriolatum Page 200. in the Latin B. Take of liquor of Tartar four ounces into which drop by drops two ounces of Oyl of Vitriol wel rectified so wil a white pouder fall to the bottom which dry and keep for use Vitriolum album depuratum Page 200. in the Lat. B. Or White Vitriol clensed Dissolve white Vitriol in cleer water filter it and coagulate it Vitrum Antimonii Page 200. in the Latin Book Take of good Antimony in fine pouder and put it 〈◊〉 a large stone vessel put fire under til it grow into clots beat it and do so again and again alwaies stirring it til it resemble white ashes smoke not at al then take of this half a pound Corax half an ounce put them in a crucible the which cover with a Tile set it in a strong fire till there flow a matter like water then put it into a brass or copper vessel and keep the glass for use THE GENERAL WAY OF MAKING EXTRACTS EXTRACTS may be made almost of every Medicine whether Simple as Herbs Flowers Seeds or Compound as Species or Pills Therefore take of any Medicine cut or bruised or prepared as the infusion requires and powr to it Spirit of Wine or distilled water as the Pbysition commands let it stand in infusion in the heat of a bath two daies more or less according as the thickness or thinness of the 〈◊〉 requires untill the tincture be sufficient then separate the liquor and put in more as before do so till the Medicine afford no more tincture put all these Liquors together and filter them and exhate the humidity to the heat of a bath till the matter be left at the bottom of the thickness of Honey to which if the Physitian prescribe you may add two scruples or half a dram of its own proper or other convenient 〈◊〉 to every ounce of Extract that so it may keep the longer THE WAY OF MAKING SALTS Salt Volatle or Essential is thus made TAke of any Plant when it is fresh and full of Juyce a sufficient quantity bruise it in a wooden Mortar and a great deal of cleer water being added boyl it till half be consumed strain 〈◊〉 decoction press it strongly and boyl it to the thickness of Honey set it in a glass or glazed vessel in a cold place eight daies at least and a Cristal Salt will arise like Sal. Gem. which gather and wash with its proper water and dry for your use Thus is Salt made of wormwood Cardus Mugwort and other bitter Herbs but of other Herbs with much difficnlty Salt fixed or Elementary is thus made It consists in four things Calcination Solution Filtration Coagulation Burn the matter you would make salt of into white ashes and berein sometimes you must have a care 〈◊〉 by too hasty burning they run to glass then with 〈◊〉 water make the ashes into ly to draw out the Salt filter the Ly and boyl it in an 〈◊〉 vessel by a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the water may be exhaled and the Salt left which Solution Filtration and Coagulation being repeated certain times it will be free from all impurity and be very white Thus is prepared Salt of Plants and parts of living Creatures amongst which these excel Salt of wormwood Time Rosemary Centaury the less 〈◊〉 Cardus Masterwort Parsly Rest-harrow Ash Dwarf Elder Box 〈◊〉 St. Johns wort Cichory Sullendine Scurvy-grass Betony Maudlin Bawm Cetrach c. PREPARATIONS OF CERTAIN SIMPLE MEDICINES The way of Preparing Fat 's TAke of fresh fat the veins strings and skins being taken away wash them so often in fair water till they be no longer bloody then beat them well and melt them in a double vessel strain them and powr off the water keep it in a glass in a cold place it will endure a yeer So is also prepared Marrow taken out of fresh bones especially in Autumn The burning of Brass Lay flakes of Brass in an earthen vessel interposing Salt or Brimstone between each of them so lay flake upon flake burn them sufficiently and wash the Ashes with warm water till they be sweet The washing of Aloes Put as much Aloes in pouder in a glass as you will putting a sufficient quantity of warm water to it that it may overtop it two or three fingers thickness stirring it about with a Spatule that the purer part of the Aloes may be mixed with the water that being poured off put in fresh warm water and stir it in like manner that the dross may be separated gather those waters together evaporate the Humidity nad keep the Mass. The preparation of Bole Armenick Grind it smal and dissolve it so often in Rose water till the dross and Sand be taken away dry it in the Sun and keep it being dryed Foecula Brioniae Take of Bryony roots scraped bruised and the juyce pressed out which being let it stand still a while in a vessel a white pouder like Starch will fall from the bottom from which pour the water and let it dry for use So is Gersa Serpentaria prepared of Aron roots and Foecula of the roots of Radishes and Orris May Butter About the latter end of May take fresh Butter without Salt and in a glazed earthen vessel set it in the Sun that it may be all melted strain it through a rag without pressing set it in the Sun again strain it again and keep it a year The preparations of Lapis Calaminaris Heat it red hot three times in the fire and quench it as often in Plantane and Rose water at 〈◊〉 levigate it upon a Marble and with the same waters make it into Balls The washing of Lime Bruise quicklime put it in a pan and mix it with sweet water and when it is settled to the bottom change the water and mix it again do so seven or eight times filtring it every time at last do it with Rose water and dry the Lime The preparation of Corral Pearls Crabs Eyes and other precious Stones Beat them in a steel mortar and levigate them on a Marble putting a little Rose water to them till they are in very fine pouder then make them into Balls The preparation of Coriander seed Steep them twenty four hours in sharp Vineger then dry them So may you prepare 〈◊〉 seed The burning of Harts horn Ivory and other bones Burn them in a crucible till they e white then beat them into pouder and wash them with Rose water at last levigate them on a Marble and
Diacrydium or Diagrydium Another way of Preparation of Scammony with Sulphur Take of Scammony 〈◊〉 small as much as you wil spread it upon a brown Paper and hold it over 〈◊〉 coals upon which you have put Brimstone stir the Scammony about all the while till it begin to melt or look white and this is called Scammony 〈◊〉 The Prepatation of Squils Take a great Squil whilst it is green casting away the outward rinds 〈◊〉 it in past and 〈◊〉 it in an oven till it be tender which you may know if you pierce it through with a Bodkin then take it out of the oven and take off all the slakes one by one leaving 〈◊〉 part which is hard behind draw a cord through them and bang them in a dry place at that distance the one from the other that one may not touch another til they be dryed yet take this caution along with you That you ought not to cut nor pierce them with any Iron Instrument but with Wood Ivory or Bone Washed Tartar Take of bruised Tartar as much as you will pour cold and cleer spring water to it stir it up and down then let it settle pour off that water and pour on more use it as before and repeat the usage so long till the water remain cleer after washing Boyled Turpentine Take of Venice Turpentine a pound to which pour twenty four pound of Water in which boyl it so long till it be thick and being cold may be rubbed in pouder like Rozin and beaten like Glass The Preparation of Tutty Tutty is prepared the same way that Lapis Calaminaris is tye it up in a clean Linnen cloath which shake up and down drawing it this way and that way in a vessel full of clean water till the thinner and more profitable part come out into the water and the thicker and impurer remain in the cloath then let it settle and powr off the water gently from it repeat this operation so often till nothing good for any thing remain in the cloath Then take what you bave purified sprinkle it with a little Rose water make it into Troches to be kept for use A CONCLUSION I Have now courteous Reader led thee through the Colledges reformed and refined Dispensatory I assure thee not led thereto by any envious principles against them for I bear them more good will and love them better than they love themselves only I hate selvishness in whomsoever I find it If thou findest me here and there a little lavish in such expressions as many like not I pray pardon that it is my Dialect I cannot write without it I assure thee it was not premediated If thou thinkest I did it for gain thou art so far wide from the truth that unless thou change thy opinion 't is to be feared truth and you will not meet again in a long time I have taken up this World as Travellers takes up an Inn not as a Freeholder takes a Dwelling I take no care for Victuals before I am hungry nor new Cloathes before my old lack mending I have read in some Authors that Mammon which signifies Covetousness is the master Devil over those that tempt men to sin and I partly beleeve it I have read also in Hosea 4. 12. That those that make the Earth their happiness go a whoring from under their God which made me terribly afraid lest in one act I should commit two evils forsake the fountain of Living-waters and buy my self a Cestern that would hold none I have a very simpathetical Spirit and could either weep with Heraclitus or laugh with 〈◊〉 to see men spend all their pains about the gains of this world and when they have done must die and leave it as Solomon saies they know not to whom whether he will be a wise man or a fool therefore mistake me not but judg of me as I am I desire not to spend the strength of an immortal Spirit in seeking after what hath no worth in it which may make me worse cannot make me better There was a tale lately told me of a Lady of a great estate that was so extream foolish that she would ride in the Coach-box and drive the Horses whilst the Coach-man rid in the Coach you think this was a great madness yet a greater madness by odds it is for a man that is Heir to an Eternal Being to make himself a slave to the Earth which must perish I will assure you it was a higher principle than all these moved me to write viz. Pure love to that Nation in which I was born and bred of which I may justly say If the Spirit of God said Israel was destroyed for want of knowledg when sin reigned but single how much more this Nation when it reigns by troops I weigh not the ill language of those that mind earthly things I wish them all the riches their hearts can desire for they have all their wit 〈◊〉 't is comfortable enough for me that I am beloved of the honest my reward I expect hereafter in that place whereinto no Earthly-minded nor selfish man shall come Nich. Culpeper FINIS A SINOPSIS of the KEY of GALENS Method of Physick Page THe Scope of the whol Work 301 Sect. 1. Of the Temperature of Medicines Of Temperate Medicines what they are 302 Their Use Ibid Of Hot Medicines Of Medicines hot in the first degree ibid Use 1. Reduce the body to natural heat ibid Use 2. To mitigate pain ibid Use 3. To take away weariness and help Feavers 303 A Caution ibid Use 4. To help digestion and breed good blood ibid Of Medicines hot in the second degree What they are ibid Use 1. To help moist 〈◊〉 ibid Use 2. To take away 〈◊〉 ibid Use 3. To open the pores ibid Of Medicines hot in the third degree Use 1. To cut tough humors ibid Use 2. To provoke sweat ibid Use 3. To resist poyson ibid Of Medicines hot in the fourth degree Use. To cause Inflamations and to cause Blisters ib. Of cold Medicines Of Medicines cold in the first degree Use 1. To qualifie the heat of food ibid Use 2. To asswage the heat of the Bowels ibid A Caution ibid Of Medicines cold in the second and third degrees Use 1. To asswage the heat of choller 394 Use 2. To take away the inflamations of hot swellings ibid Use 3. To cause sleep ibid Of Medicines cold in the fourth degree Use 1. To mitigate desperate pains by 〈◊〉 the Sences ibid Of Moistning Medicines Use 1. To help the roughness of the throat 304 Use 2. To make the inward parts of the body 〈◊〉 ibid Of Drying Medicines Use. To strengthen the Members of the Body 304 Cautions ibid Sect. 2. Of the Apropriation of Medicines to the several parts of the Body THe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Authors 305 Chap. 1 Of Medicines apropriated to the Head Their Difference ibid Cautions in their use ibid Of Medicines apropriated to the Brain ibid Directions in
Colledg Take of yellow Wax melted one pound with which mix three pound of Tiles in pouder draw out the Oyl in Sand with a 〈◊〉 which rectifie with water Culpeper A. I am of Opinion that Oyl of Wax is as singular remedy for burns and 〈◊〉 ulcers as any is or need to be The Colledg After the same manner is 〈◊〉 Oyl of Fat 's and Gums and Rosins which cannot be 〈◊〉 into pouder as Ammoniacum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sagapen Liquid Styrax Tacha 〈◊〉 c. Oleum Latericium Phylosophorum Page 190. in L. B. The Colledg Take of Bricks broken in pieces as big as an Hens egge heat them red hot and 〈◊〉 them in old Oyl where let them lie till they be 〈◊〉 then beat them into fine Pouder and still them in a glass retort with a fit receiver give fire to it by degrees and keep the Oyl in a glass Close stopped Culpeper A. The Oyl will quickly penetrate and is a soveraign remedy for the gout and all cold afflions in the joynts or nerves cramps epilepsies or falling sickness palsies it mollifies hard swellings dissolves cold swellings as also cold distempers of the spleen reins and bladder Oleum Succini Page 191. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Amber The Colledg Take of yellow Amber one part burnt Flints or pouder of Tiles two parts distil them in a retort in Sand keep the while cleer Oyl which comes out first by it self then distil it on till all come out keep both Oyls severally and rectifie them with water gather the Salt of Amber which sticks to the neck of the retort and being purged by Solution Filtration and Coagulation according to art keep it for use Culpeper A. It speedily helps all afflictions of the nerves and convulsions falling sickness c. Being given in convenient liquors it is a singular remedy against poyson and pestilent air diseases of the reins and bladder the fits of the mother the nose being anointed with it the chollick it causeth speedy labor to women in travail being taken in Vervain Water it strengthens the body exceedingly as also the brain and sences and is of an opening nature The Colledg 〈◊〉 is distilled oyl of Jet and of Gums and Rosins which may be poudered as Benjamin Mastich Frankinsence c. Culpeper A. Having perused these Oyls following I would willingly have left them quite 〈◊〉 I mean the manner allotted by the Colledge to make them A. 1. Because I fear they and the truth are Separatists A. 2. Because the Ignorant will know as well how to make them as they did before when I have done what I can A. 3. As to Alchymists to whose profession the making of them belongs I shall seem like Phormio the Phylosopher who never having seen 〈◊〉 undertook to 〈◊〉 Military 〈◊〉 before 〈◊〉 who was one of the best Soldiers in the world But I am in a manner forced to it He that is able to understand the Receipt is able to understand that the failings are not mine but the Colledges Oleum 〈◊〉 Butyrum Antimonii Page 191. in Lat. B. Oyl or Butter of Antimony The Colledg Take of crude Antimony Mercury sublimate of each one pound beat them into pouder and put them in a glass retort with a large neck give fire by degrees into a reverberatory or else in Sand the Fat will distil down into the receiver that part of which that sticks to the neck of the 〈◊〉 will 〈◊〉 be melted by putting a gentle fire under it let this fat be rectified in a small retort and kept either in an open Phiol or in a Celler or other moist place that it 〈◊〉 be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oyl which must be kept in a vessel close stopped Oleum Arsenici Page 191. in Lat. Book Or Oyl of Arsenick The Colledg Take of Christalline Arsenick first sublimated with Colcother alone mix it with an equal part of Salt of Tartar and Salt-peter calcine it between two pots the uppermost of which hath a hole through till no smoke 〈◊〉 dissolve the matter so calcined in warm water that you may draw out the salt moisten the Pouder which resides at the bottom with Liquor Tartari and dry it by the fire do so three times then dissolve the matter again that you may draw out the salt and there will remain a white pouder and fixed which being kept in a moist place will dissolve into a moist substance like Oyl or Butter Oleum Salis. Page 192. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Salt The Colledg Take of French or Spanish Bay salt as much as you will dissolve it in water and filter it and having then put it in a Copper vessel mix with the Brine fine Pouder of tiles 〈◊〉 bricks two or three times the weight of the Salt before it was dissolved and set it upon hot coals and let the water evaporate away continually stirring it till it be very dry 〈◊〉 put the Pouder into a glass Retort well luted placed in a furnace with a fit receiver giving fire by degrees to the height for the space of twelve hours so shall you have an Oyl or sharp spirit of Salt in the receiver rectifie this by separating the 〈◊〉 in a retort in sand and keep it close stopped for use Culpeper A. Being mixed with Turpentine and applied outwardly it helps the gout three drops taken every morning in convenient Liquor preserves youth consumes the dropsie resists feavers convulsions and the falling-sickness being mixed with Oyhtments it is exceeding good in ruptures and dislocations Oleum Sulphuris Page 192. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Sulphur The Colledg It is prepared in a Bell still by 〈◊〉 burning and consuming of Brimstone by which a sharp spirit beating against the sides of the still will turn into liquor and 〈◊〉 down like water or oyl the orderly disposing of the still and 〈◊〉 and other commodities belonging to this operation we leave to the 〈◊〉 of the Artificer Culpeper A. Prevails against diseases coming of cold putrifaction or wind feavers ague tertian quartan or quotidian pestilence wounds and ulcers affects of the brain mouth teeth liver stomach spleen matrix bladder entrails and arteries coming of abundance of humors or putrifaction outwardly applied it helps 〈◊〉 ulcers of the mouth and 〈◊〉 the way to take it inwardly is thus dip the top of a feather in the Oyl and wash it in the liquor or decoction you give it in in quotidian agues give it in wine in which Rosemary or Mints or both have been 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Centaury hath been boyled in quartan agues in Bugloss water in all of them a little before the fit come in pestilences in Wine in which Rhadishes have been boyled mingled with a little Venice Treacle in the falling-sickness with decoction of Betony or Peony in coughs with decoction of Nettle seed and Hysop both of them made with Wine for flegm in Wormwood Water for the wind chollick in Chamomel flower water for dropsies and cold
livers in Selondine water and Honey for the 〈◊〉 and stoppage of the spleen in Tamamaris Water for the French pox in Fumitory or Broom-flower water against worms in Grass or Wormwood water for the fits of the mother in decoction of Betony or Featherfew in Wine for suppression of Urine in decoction of Garlick with Wine for the gout in decoction of Chamepitys Wine in wounds and ulcers the place is lightly to be touched with a feather wet in the Oyl if a hollow toothach put a drop into it if all your teeth ach make a decoction of Mints in Wine and put a drop or two of this Oyl to it and hold it warm in your mouth Oleum Vitrioli Page 192. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Vitriol The Colledg Take Ungarick or English Vitriol of the best as much as you will melt it in an Earthen vessel glazed and exhale away all the moisture continually stirring it and so bring it into a yellow pouder which is to be put in earthen Retorts that will endure the fire placed in an open furnace give fire by degrees even to the height for three daies till the receiver which before was full of smoke be cleer rectifie the liquor from the 〈◊〉 in sand and keep the strong and pouderous Oyl by it self Culpeper A. It must be mixed with other medicines for it kills being taken alone it asswageth thirst allayeth the violent heat in feavers and pestilences and a few drops of it gives a pleasant grateful tast to any medicine Aqua fortis Page 192. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Vitriol prepared as for Oyl of Vitriol two pound Salt peter purged one pound beat them together and put them in a Retort well luted place it in a furnace with a large receiver and giving fire to it distill it by degrees for twenty four hours rectifie the water in sand Aqua Mellis Page 193. in Lat. Book Or Water of Honey The Colledg Take of the best Honey sour pound dry Sand two pound distill it in a glass still so capacious that the matter take up only the fist part of it draw off the flegm in a bath then encrease the fire and draw off the yellowish water Culpeper A. Paracelsus adviseth it to be drawn five times over and calls 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 Liquor seu Liquamen Tartari seu Oleum Tartari Per Deliquium Page 193. in Lat. Book Or Liquor of Tartar The Colledg Take of Tartar of white Wine calcined till it be white as much as you will put it in Hypocrates his sleeve and hang it in a moist Celler that the Tartar may dissolve putting a vessel under it to receive it dissolve what remains in the sleeve in common water filter it and evaporate it away till it begin to be like Allum then use that like the former Culpeper A. This is common to be had at every Apothecaries Virgins buy it to take away the Sunburn and freckles from their faces It takes off the rust from Iron and preserves it bright a long time Oleum Mirrhae per Deliquium Page 193. in L. B. Or Oyl of Mirrh The Colledg Boyl Hens Eggs till they be hard then cut them through the middle of the length take out the yolk and fill the Cavities half full of beaten Mirrh joyn them again and bind them gently with a threed place them between two dishes in a moist place a grate being put between so will the Liquor of the Mirrh distill down into the lower dish Culpeper A. You had both it and its vertues before Only Oyl of Tartar Chymical is left out Oyl of Tartar The Colledg Take of Tartar so much as you will put it into a large Retort with that proportion that 〈◊〉 the third part of the vessel be fid distill it in Sand with a strong fire afterwards the Oyl being first separated from the water or spirit of Tartar rectifie it with much water to correct the smell of it let it stand open a long time in the Sun CHYMICAL PREPARATIONS MORE FREQUENT IN USE Antimonium cum Nitro calcinatum Page 194. Or Antimony calcined with Niter Colledg TAke of the best Antimony one part pure Niter two parts bruise the Antimony then ad the Niter to it bring them both into Pouder which burn in a Crucible which will be most conveniently done if you put it in the red hot Crucible with a ladle or such a like instrument then take it out and beat it again and mix it with the same quantity of Niter as before put it into the Crucible upon hot coals and putting into it a live coal fire it stirring it with an iron thing that it may burn all about equally and when there needs put in more fresh coals bruise it the third time and with the like quantity of Niter use it as before at last beat it into pouder wash it in pure water and keep it for use Chalybs Praeparatus Page 194. in Lat. Book Or Steel prepared Take of filings of Steel clensed with a Loadstone as much as you will moisten them twelve times with sharp white Wine Vineger dry it in the Sun or a dry air beat it in an iron mortar and levigate it apon a Marble with a little Cinnamon water and so bring it into a very fine pouder and keep it for use Crystal of Tartar Page 195. in the Latin Book Take of Tartar of white or Rhenish Wine as much as you will beat it in gross pouder and wash it from the dross in water then boyl it in a sufficient quantity of spring water after you have taken away the scum filter it being somewhat warm through a brown paper into a glass warmed before least it break then place it in a Cellar that the Crystal may stick to the sides of the glass the which wash in pure water and keep for use Crocus Martis Page 195. in the Latin Book Heat pieces of Iron or Steel red hot and thrust them into a great heap of Brimstone a bazon of water being set underneath the mettle will run out like Wax which being separated from the Sulphur beat into very fine pouder in an Iron mortar which put into four-square earthen pans not above afingers bredth in deepness set it at the flame of a reverberatory three or four daies till it look red like a Sponge the tops of which take away with an Iron set the rest at the fire again till it look so all of it Crocus Metallorum Page 195. in the Latin Book Take of the best Antimony and salt Peter of each equal parts beat them into pouder severally then mix them together put them into a hot crucible with a ladle or other convenient instrument let it be beaten till the noyse ceaseth then remove it from the fire and cool it then the vessel being broken seperate it from the