Being anointed vpoÌ„ the brain pan it remedieth y e destillatioÌ„ springing of y e reum of y e brain being anointed druÌ„k it taketh away y e griefs aches of y e heed .xiiii. It redresseth the y e things amis in the mouth if a maÌ„caÌ„ hold it in his mouth on y e night .xv. It helpeth y e il smel stink of y e noos the reum if a man holde it a whyle in his noos .xvi. It helpeth the diseases of the teeth .xvii. It cureth the maladies of y e hart and brest when it is drier or moyster then it should be or is sicke with the coughe or short fetching of breth c .xviii. It encreaseth the memory and taketh away forgetfulnes in a man that receyueth oftentimes by tymes no but one drop therof .xix. Scuruines skailes scabbednes byles wheales and what soeuer vncleannes elles vexeth the skin or elles the inward partes of the body it putteth it awaye and driueth out poyson being annoynted and drunken .xx. Being anoynted vpon the face any wyse it coÌ„serueth moderatly the colour and brighthnes of youth that a man of .iiii. score yeres old shall skars seme aboue 30 .xxi. It turneth awaye all leprosy that is a brieding Thies I had out of a certain wryten booke in the douch tong the author wherof was not named It maketh a man mery aswageth angar it is also commended against the pestilence The same and like affectes are attributed of other to other waters of vertues also or rather to diuers kyndes of aqua vitae composed whiche are destilled of spyces and odoriferous herbes c â–ª stieped in burning water of the best yea and almost vnto simple aqua vitae An other water of vertues Ten vnces of sage noble y e flowres of laueÌ„der .ii. vnces rew ginger cloues grains of paradys nutmegs of euery one an vnce half an vnce of cinamon Galingall longe peper of ether of them .ii. drames Spike CitriuÌ„ castorium wode of Aloes graines of paradice of euery one a dram when all these are beaten together let them be kepte in a tinnen vessell wyth a pound of oyle of Laurel an ale quart and a halfe of good wine .ix. daies or .xiii. and in the mene seson let them be .iii. or .iiii. tunes chafed and myxte together at the length destill them Other put to it not oyle of Laurel but an ounce of the beries of Laurel and as much Rew and a dram of maces They attribut vnto it the same vertues eueri one which we ascribed to the next going before about xx Some prepare the same or one like not wyth wine but with burning water A certain Aqua vitae suche as is made at Constantinople in the Emperoures court as the same writen boke hath Cloues Nutmegges ginger Coriander Galingall long peper iumper beries Arantia Sage Basilicus Roosemary Amaracus Mint Lettis bay leues peny royall Gentian the flours of Sambucus or elder white Rooses spikenard wode of Aloes cardomum Mugwort of euery like much A Pomgranate .ii. figs Passulâ—â— almonds dates of euerye one a little When these are pund mixt a part of hony and suger Stiepe theÌ„ al in good wine .v. daies destil theÌ„ That is the best liquor y t runs out first the next is weker y e. 3. wekest That which remaineth in y e bottoÌ„â—â—ke to on oyntmeÌ„t is profitable to mani cold diseases The first liquor is good for all blemishes spots of the eies rednes or blud coÌ„geled It coÌ„firmeth the stomak chereth y e mind remedieth the disease called gutta the drop the agewe the coughe the wombe and the wormes in the heade to conclude it maketh good colour Vlstadius describeth certain waters of life the most of them composed with burning water thre with wine in the chapters .xlvi. xlix and .lv. Peter Andrevv Matthaeolus Senensis teacheth to cure the french diseas that is sanguin and cholerick and but newly gotten with water whiche he calleth philosophicall the .lxx. leafe of the boke in time past printed at Basil composed of diuers medicines iuices syrups and wine for the space of .viii. dais stiept together destilled in a vessel of glas in a bath of hot water wherw t a quaÌ„ntity of sande is mixt together He receiueth .ii. maner of waters the firste cleare the seconde more red â–ª Afterward for the fleumatike or melancholy disease of Fraunce he putteth an other composition likewise to be destilled If so be it saith he thou desire a more effectual remedy against melan choly thou maist ad vnto it .iii. or iiii snakes long ons black ons flaine and the bowels taken oute well chafed both with a good deale of salt a good space and also with vineger that they may melte together for this is most chiefly profitable not only to the french disease but to the leper and mani other diseases which at this present we thoughte good to omit But the composition of this water the vse who so listeth shal read in the author him self He saith he hath cured certain him self at the teÌ„th time drinking of it other in longer space in whoÌ„e the disease was more greuous Io. Almenar in the .iiii. chapter of his booke of the way to cure the french pockes When the humors saithe he are once euacuated and purged a man muste procure an alteration of the members for the whiche intent let a bath or a stouf be made with swiet water wherein muste be boyled Mallowes Bismalua Melilot Chamaemel Roses Sorell Fumaria the third day after the purgacion And when the sick beginneth to sweat let him take this water hereafter described â„ž the rotes of greate Malowes or holy Hokes Fumiterrae Sorell Inula of euerye one of them halfe a pound when they are cut small put them in .iiii. pounds of Malmsey a day and a night theÌ„ put to it an vnce and a half of triacle .x. yere old or more Let them take .iii. vnces of this water destilled w t ii vnces of Buglos in the beginning as it is said And this stouf let it be vsed again euery day till vi or .vii. daies be finished drincking this water whiche is the best and singular and in thys disease a great secreat and the last remeadye and extreame refuge A vvater of certaine remedies for shortnes of breath and harde fetchinge of a mannes winde CAlamint Hyssop Adiantum Horhound Scabious Tussilago of euerye one an handfull round Aristolochia an ounce an ounce and a half of flour deluce as much of the sede of nettles Fenel rotes persly rotes of ether .ii. vnces .iii. vnces of the heauenly lily half a pound of inula campana musterd sede and cresses of ether of them an vnce and a halfe fiue drams of costus .x. of spike iiii ounces of bay beries an ounce and a halfe of nigella when they are beaten small let them staÌ„d vi daies in .vi. ale quartes of white wine then let them be destilled with a soft fire Thou shalt geue the
Porcellanas men call certain shelles and also pretious earthen vessels I haue vsed the mo wordes in this to geue some occasion to muentiue physicions to thinke y e more diligently vpon this thyng ⧠Of the manifold vse of lyquors destilled both in physick otherwyse I Do perciue a manifolde vse of destilled waters but chiefly and most of all for physicions whiche vse suche stilled liquors drest aright both within the body withoute alone or with other medicines They mixt burning water and hoate oyles chymistically drest and prepared with oyntmentes ether that they may haue the better sauour or els to make them hoater and that they may perce the sooner thei put moyst linnen clothes in thies voaters to coole and refreshe the partes of the body specially the bowels the forhead the temples the partes about the armes hoat fyrie swellinges Surgeons vse suche waters as drye mightily to washe woundes withall But the most common vse of longe tyme hath bene in mixture of syrups to be dronke and to zulapia or iulebs chiefly of roses violets Ther be that make diuerse kindes of liquors and oyles alonly for the good sauour Glasiars also that paint glasse in baking in their colours thei do vse burning waters Goldsmiths vse aqua fortis as they call it whiche signifieth a strong water Of suche vse of lyquores as is to chaunge metalles and to diuers colours paintinges also to poysoninges to kil hurtful beasts hear is no place to speake Raymund Lullus wryteth of y â— marueylous vse and coÌ„moditie of burning water euen in warres a little before the ioyning of battaile to styre and encourage y e souldiours mindes But of the vse of burning water I shall speake moare in his place Yea also wher there is lack of good and holsome waters that a man can gette none other but such as be salt foule â—nhoalsome to make thies apt and miet to be dronke the science and arte of destillation is necessary Sweet water may be separated from the salt in a great caudron with a great and hie keuer hauing a beacke or nose ¶ A way to purge and make clean troubled waters out of Bulcasis FIll a great pot with the puddled water A putting a soft fyre vnder it B lay two sticks or mo a crose C vpon the pot brinkes and vpon the stickes lay cleane wol D wel washt theÌ„ whatsoeuer the woll drinketh of y e vapors that ascend vp wring it out and kiep it and doo thus aslong as any vapor or fume will ascende Ther be some that still troubled and pudly water as though it were Rose water Other clarifie it putting some vynegar therin or els amiluÌ„ or meel for thies thinges go dounwarde and drawe with them to the bottome of the vessell the grose mattier of the water ¶ Of Balneum Mariae generally and of those destillations that be done by vapors of hoat water and in horse dong HOat water or els y e vapour of the same send les strength into the thing that is to be destilled then other fyre alone or els suche other dry meanes as are meÌ„cioned before for y t cause as Galen saith Diploma that is a double vessell the Apothecaries as the men that still lyquors also cal it Balneum Mariae melteth heateth seatheth those thinges whose strengthes the violence of fyre wil not dispers nor separate so suche thinges as be tender and geÌ„tle if we will haue them hoal we must destill them in hoat water or els in the vapour fume therof Whiche although men thinck they be not so durable they be yet les altered from their nature as is manifest by their former smell You must haue a fornace A of this sor vpon the whiche you shall set a great brasen vessel B ful of water in that brasen vessel set litle vessels C in a circle as many as it wil receiue in the botome of the which vessels the thinges that you will destill must be put Other builde y e fornace A otherwise as though it were a toure and in the sydes thereof they put long earthen vessels B in their broad bottoms staÌ„ding inward they conteine the thinges that they will destill the mouth without as though it wer a bottell being couered C in the which y e vapour caried vp by his open bely gathered together and by the long mouth of the same droppeth down Syluius But why remayneth not the smell of certain floures in the waters but in Iasmin and y e floures of Cariophillum and leâ—is the water commeth forthe w toute sauour the reason is declared otherwher bycause y t vnto so sclender and thinne substaunce no substancial and thick parte is ioyned Ther for in thies it shall do well if vnto the leaues of herbes voyde of smell being put by course vnto a thicker mattier but not suche as wil burn a smell be ioyned and then destilled and this is y e onely hope to get forth the smell when as suche thinges as are infused and put in waters doo not giue again their smel but putrify Cardan It appeareth without doubt that those floures shoulde be destilled in Balneo Mariae or in vessels of glas in the vapor of hoat water Balneum Mariae may be hansomly made hoate with a great pype of copper A set in the midst in the bottome wherof is a grate for y e B ashes to auoyde at men call it communly a stowe harry Vlstadius nameth it a furnace of sloth Vpon that pype do they make a couer of copper G w t a small pype comming out a shore to cary and conuey the smoke out at a window or some hoale So doo they also make warme house flors nowe a dayes to bathe in The coÌ„moditie of this pipe D is then chiefly when a maÌ„ list to vse many stillatories putting theÌ„ in a rouÌ„d circle E a ten or twelue at once to spare time labour and cost Some vse brasen cupping boxes to still withall in the Balneo Mariae glassen limbeckes whose noses if they bee to short or broken they ioyne other to them of copper with clay The herbes y t be to be destilled in a bathe or otherwise some doo pun them and let theÌ„ remaine so a whyle perauenture for certain dayes befor they still them thinking to haue more plenty of water therby if they woulde doo it in closed vessels specially in a hoat place it wer well but the most apothecaries and other that sieke most for lucre gayne therby leue it in cold places in open cofers till the herbes lose theyr smell and bee corrupted with a moyst and gros aire Some there be that put some sande also in the water of Balneum Mariae to thintent the heat mai be the greater and more vehement as Mathaeolê° of Sena in y e water that is called aqua philosophica against the frensh pocks And he affirmeth that in such a kind of destillation there may be gotten a double water
coles with water flaming wood with water and fire of cooles the first is the worst and yeildeth a water of the least smell the second is better then it the third then the second but the fourth is best of all The second and the third are mooste vsed And I will here describe thee third whiche is made with water and woode flaming as it is in vse w t the kinges of Aharach A. Thou shalt make therfore in a large house by a wall a litle berchile B so doth he cal the vessel that is filled with water the bottom and sides shal be of leede so wel closed that it leek not in anye place Then make meete a couering vnto this vessell of glas or glased earth and make two or three round hooles in it C C C moore or les according to the largnesse of the vessels and as you desire to ether muche or little water D then make a pot of bras like to the pot made in Balneo Mariae which thou shalt set vpoÌ„ the fornaice so that the Berchile aboue the furnaice be lower in situacion then the potte so that it maye conduite the heate of the fyre of the Berchyle to the pott but mee thinkes thies woordes dooe ether redounde or be depraued Thou shalt also make a chimney by the whiche the smooke maye auoyde hoolly out of the hous that it hurt not the rosewater Afterward fil a pot with water which may be in a well a great vessell made by the pot lyke a well in a bathe Then kindling the fyre vnder the pot thou shalt conuey the boyling water by a pype retching from the pot into the berchile and fill the pot again of other could water oute of the well In the berchile also shalt thou make a pype by the whiche the water when it is full may run out of the hous Thou shalt set the cucurbites or belies that is the stillatory vessels in the holes of the couering of the berchile and shalt bynd theÌ„ rouling linnen clothes about that they may staÌ„d stedfast in their hooles and the vapour of the water go not out Lykewyse the heades of them shalt thou bynd with a linnen cloth And let thies vessels be of glas or of glased earth Then put in the Roses and sette vpon euery one his couer and set vnder the nose of euery one a phiall to receiue the rose water that runneth out when the destillation is finished put away the first rooses put in freshe thus saith Bulcasis Some man would maruell that in suche a makinge of the fornace where the fyre is not put vnder the duble vessell or berchile as I coniecture seing he maketh the bottome and sydes of leed but at the syde of the fornace wherfore he should thinke it to skill anye thing whether the fyre put vnder the pot be made of wood or cooles Moorouer it is knowen saith Bulcasis in the same place that rosewater of wyld roses whiche growe by their own accord without any watering is swieter then that which is made of garden roses whiche are tilled and watered There is a destilled water made of thies with vs a shorter way then that before is this wyse A A brasen pot suche as diers vse is set to a wall wherunto a couer B made meet with hooles wherin the be lies ar put The pot is filled wâ—th water and a fyre is put vnder D it of the croppinges of vynes or suche lyke But in proces of the destillation thou shalt close the mouth of the furnace til the hoat destillation be finished In steede of wood if if thou burne cooles the water shal be the swieter Here is more reason then in the former because the fire here is made immediatly vnder the stillatory vessels The second way of destillacion with out water with fire of coles is such MAke a square or round fornace A with a couer wherin shal be set belies C made of glased earthe so that they may abide the fyre And when the cooles are kindled the water beginneth to destill shut the mouth of the fornace â–ª and leaue holes open for the smoke to go out at Ther is an other bridgemente of the third and fourthe waye A Brasen pot A ful of water is set ouer a fornace w t a couer bored B through so that it may receiue twoo or three belies of glas C more or les Put vnder fyr of the cropping of vines or cooles till the water sieth Saluiae SAge water keepeth reteineth his former smell Remaclus F. Brunsvvick saith that the members being rubbed with the water of Sage and so dryed by it selfe and often dronke is good against the palsy and also to drynke two ounces in the mornyg and at nyght is very good and helpeth against the Crampe he saieth further it is good against the dafing of the head Loke in the same authour Scabiosa SCabiose water is profitable geuen to drink to them that are diseased with any fistula and the very herbe pound is lykewyse put in Sedum THe water of y e least syngrien or houslieke is vsed of Surgeons too coule hoat partes Remaclus F. Brunsvvick reporteth that y e water of Scabiose dronke twyse or thryse a day an ounce and a half helpeth the stiches in the syde he sayeth further it healeth woundes inwarde outwarde being dronke .ix. daies together two ounces at once fastyng Loke in the same authour Solanum THe water of Solanum or Morrella is good against all agewes if the sick the daye of hys fitte abstaine from all meate and drincke and when hee is in greate heate and desyreth much to drink that he can not refrain him selfe any longer then let be geueÌ„ him a glas of this water Afterward let him be diligentlye couered and be kept in the heate by force and he shall swete a stinking sweet But he must abstain from the air that is to cold or to hot This water also is good for inflammations and concussions if a lynnen cloth be laid vpon it four fold and when it waxeth dry to be wet again Also to all strokes or wouÌ„des and other hot diseases if they be washt therewith and a cloth dipt in it be laid vpon It helpeth also the liuer that is hot and the lunges that are dried and greued with an Hecticke feuer Againste all these diseases it ought to be drunk with the third part of wine Lullus in his boke of waters Tilia OF the floures of Tilia whose smel is very plesaunt and lyke to the floure of vines in savour is destilled and muche vsed in Germany It is supposed to be a little hoot dry and perteining to plasters It is good to drinke against y e falling sicknes the treÌ„bling of the hart the grieues of the bely y e stone of the reines and blud gathered together or festerd in the body by chaunce or by reason of any stroke for the which medicine sum also mixt with it the cooles of
no hoope or verye lyttle of anye remeadye lette hym dryncke halfe an ounce of thys liquor and lyinge vppon a bedde couered moderatelye wyth clothes and tarye for sweate the chamber muste be cloose from any ayre entrynge in Wythin an houre and a halfe or there aboute the sweat wyll begin whyche a manne muste suffer and abyde iii. houres at the leaste it shall be better if they sleepe a lyttle more or .iiii. houres absteyninge from dryncke all the whyle and wypinge hys face euerye foote wyth a lynnen clothe After remouing the clothes by litle and litle and wiping the bodye when the sicke is risen let him eate sodden Barlye or a little meale of Oates broyled mixte wyth Vineger and Rose water or Vineger onlye whiche shall be mixt alway with his meate also for the space of a sennyghte For his drincke he shall take a decoction of Barlye with raisons and Licoris when it is wel couled let hym dryncke as much thereof as he liste Let him abstein from wine .iii. or .iiii. daies after let him put water to his wine Therefore when he hathe taken meat after swet let a newe bedde be prepared for the sicke man or suffer him if he be so disposed to tarye in a chamber but wythoute aire for the space of .iii. or .iiii. daies If so be it he perceiue yet anye inwarde heate by the menes of the sweate let him drincke the liquor destilled of coulinge thinges as wilde Poppye Mulberies or Blacke beries Endiue and Cikorye the floures of sambucus Eldar or Acetosa And if so be it while he sweteth the botch called authrax or bubo do rise as it chaunceth often times then thou shalt vse theese medicines Cut an Onyon on the one side make it hollowe and put triacle into it tormentil Dictamni diligently broken and punde in equall partes and put the cappe that you cut of the Onyon on agayne fold it in moyst towe then roaste it vnder the ashes by the space of .vi. houres then punne it in a morter and wrynge it throughe a lynnen clothe puttynge Vinegar made wyth Roose water vnto it then lay the moyst cloth to the place and as oft as it dryeth moysten it again If a man drinke once a moneth halfe an vnce of this liquor and sweat vpon it he shal be preserued It is very good also if a man hold a drop or twoo therof euery daye in his mouth in the morning Vlstadius in the .xlvi. chap. describeth an other aqua vitae commended both for the pestilence and for other diseases An aqua vitae or quint essence whose effect is redy and present against poyson specially lest by the byting or stinging of beastes described by Matthaeolus Senensis in his sixt booke of his commentaries vpon Dioscorides A pound of our antidotū now described the description wherof we let pas for briefnes sake a man may vse good triacle in the place of it or Mithridatū or an other effectuall antidotum and a pound of syrup of the barkes of citron mixt them with fiue poundes of aqua vitae so oft destilled till it cum to quint essence and put them in a cucurbita of glas as big againe as the thinges do occupy that is of .xiiii. poundes and when it is well clayed moue it moderatly softly so long till the antidotus be holly resolued mixt with the liquor So let it stand a moneth mouing and chafing it in lyke maner twys a wieke The moneth being ended power out softly by litle and litle the clere water whiche is ascended aboue the antidotus whiche is sattled in the bottom into an other vessell of glas and reseruith very well closed This liquor is so effectuall whiche I haue proued by innumerable tryales that if halfe an vnce therof be dronken with wyne or with any cōuenient water destilled or els alone it restoreth a man infected with the bytyng or stinging of any beast althoug he haue lost both his voyce and his sences and calleth him again to the great wondering of all mem For the moste parte also the humors nowe infected are auoyded by vomite The same vertue hath it against poysons which a mā hath reciued in meats or drinkes For y e strength of this liquor is so subtile and effectuall that euen in a moment and furthwith it peerceth al the vaynes of the body It healeth lykewyse also other many and diuers diseases as euery leerned physicion may consider by him self chiefly it resisteth the pestilence both by preseruing and also curing them that be infected This wryteth Mattheolus Aqua vitae for the diseases of the colike Take a great ale quart of aqua vitae rectified put therein half an vnce of cinamon .ii. or .iii. nutmegges cloues ii scruples all pund and let them stande a hooll daye when a water is destilled thereof in a limbeck of glas giue the sick man a sponfull therof Andro Furnerius Aqua vitae deuised by George Alapide Take cinamon cubebarum ginger nutmegges cloues galangal of euery one an ounce freshe sage .iiii. vnces wyn that is sublimated six tymes made of the best of the wyne not of the lyes as muche in weyght as all the rest that is .x. vnces Take so muche euery day of this water destilled in a lymbeck as a filberd nut wyll holde They saye that M. Gallus the physicion of the Emperour Charles vsed this and liued Cxxiiii yeares A moste noble water of vertues worthy to bee preferred before siluer and gold out of a certaine wryten booke Cloues cinamon maces galāgal zedoaria bay beries graynes of paradise of euery one halfe an vnce Peny royall sage hyssop rue betyny ceri folii camphorae serpentine or dragons of euery one half an vnce Inniper beries fenell sede percely sede the seede of aquilegiae withy of the mountaynes the flowers of costi the seede of apii of the herbe called paralysis castorei of euery one two drames Destill all thies in wyne for the space of .xiiii. dayes then dreyn the wyn oute and grynde the spyces then mixed againe with wyne and let them stande .viii. dayes then destyll them and at length cast in a fewe sage leaues freshe They asscribe the same vertues euery one vnto it whiche we mencioned before in waters of vertues and .xx. seuerall vertues or ther about ar asscribed to sum one of them The conseruation of health the restoring of youthe and other whiche also ar ascribed for y t most part to simple aqua vitae A certain kynd of aqua vitae is commended in a certain booke wryten against the leper and pestilence in the composicion whereof Fumetetrae the les netle the leaues of bedegnar let them bee stieped in wyne in Balneo Mariae a moneth then let them be destilled casting into them also a dram of gold beaten to pouder Afterward put to destilled wyn decocted and sodden with peper that there may be equal porcions of both liquors whiche ioyned together and stieped eight dayes together in
Balneo Mariae must be destilled again He willeth a sponefull of this water to be drunke euery day for the space of a moneth and the leprous places to be anoynted therwith They say it purgeth bloud dissolueth the congeled bloud and chaungeth the hoole temperature of the body and if a maÌ„ may beleue it it cureth well nye all diseases An aqua vitae of a certain practicioner coÌ„posed after a singular and excellent preparation for diuers diseases Take crow fote iuae moschatae sage the tender crope of ebulus betony saint Iohns wurt germander maioram chamepityos organy peniroyal hyssop rew caryophyllatae gentiaÌ„ rouÌ„d aristolochia of euery one halfe a handful Polypody squinaÌ„tum or schoenoanthuÌ„ spike cassiae ligneae folii of euery one a dram halfe a dram of bay beries two drames of chamaemall The kernelles of peeches balhamitae pimpernell selandin agrimony of euery one two vnces Rosemary an vnce Dictamni tormentil scabiosus whyte of euery one foure vnces an vnce a halfe of the great bursied Anissiede fenel serpyllum or sauery alkekengi iumper beries persely of euery one halfe an vnce Sauin cresses of ether halfe a handfull Carui cumin water withy of euery one half a dram Cineris vespertilionis tamariscus the route of y e floure deluce with y e flowers of euery one halfe an vnce Make a pouder of all these which shal be deuided into .vi. partes wherof thou shalt put one part in Aqua vitae thrise destilled and let it stand to sower or to be seasoned a naturall day then destil it afterward stiepe an other part of the pouder in this destilled water and destil it likewise And so forth euery one of the other partes when they are all stiepte destill them likewise and keepe the laste liquor Then take nutmegges Mace cardamonium folium cinnamon zedoarie of euerye one iii. ounces Agallochu Saunders white and red of euerye one two ounces one ounce of the bones of hartes hartes one ounce of olde Triacle ginger amomum cubebe and the graines of paradise Galangal peper of euery one .iiii. ounces one ounce or more of chosen Muscke at the leaste not les then half an ounce Pun all these and put them in the forsaide water .iii. daies then destyll theÌ„ againe with a slow fire in Balneo Marie thrise alwaies pouring the water drawn forthe vpon y â— dregs At length ad vnto this liquor half a pinte of mooste cleare oyle of Oliues and as muche of the best honye clarified and when they haue standed quietlye destill them as afore saide This lyquor is good for the headache fallinge sicknesse frensye swindle or turnsicknes duskishnes of the sight lack of hearing stuffing of the brest the disease of the hart called cardiaca also against poysoÌ„ gout of the hands or fete gutta arthrîtis It purgeth blud it taketh away al agues of cold causes it strengtheneth the stomack It cureth the colâ—k the debility of holding the vrin the obstruction stopping of the splene and liuer the swelling and watry dropsy and all diseases bred of cold causes To conclude it is a most chosen remedy for the coÌ„seruacion of y e body They geue men to drink ther of half a philberd full in a cup of pure white wine An other A pounde of clarified hony halfe a pound of Aqua vitae iii. ounces of ligni aloes ii vnces of gum Arabick Nutmegs Galengal cubebae cinnamon mastik cloues spicknard musk of euery one .iii. drams ii drams of amber beat all these together when they are mixt wyth y e moistures destil theÌ„ This water helpeth the stinking breth maketh the tethe white it cureth y e deafnes and tineaÌ„ capitis it healeth al woundes if you dip a linnen cloth therin lay it vpon the wound To coÌ„clude it coÌ„serueth youth reuoketh y e beuty lost A water of great vertue in the palsy whyche a certain frend let me haue the knowledge of as a thing known by trials and profe Cloues galangall zedoaria nutmegs both kindes of pepper iumper beries and bay beries the bark of the CitroÌ„ and arantii white ginger sage leaues basill rosmary maioraÌ„ mint peny royal gentian y e flours of sambucus red Roses and white spik lignum aloes cardamomum cubebae calamus aromaticê° stichas Arabica germander chamaepytis maces Mercury the sede of mugwort or motherwort carikes passulae dates without the stones almonds swiet and sour pinapples of euery one a dram both the kinds of camfrey tasil ben white red of euerye one .ii. drams Scolopendra a dram a half half a dram of Laureola v. draÌ„s of whit hony .iii. pouÌ„ds of triacle suger Mithridatum of ether .iiii. vnces Six pouÌ„ds of Aqua vitae destilled iiii times Let them be destilled in a double vessell with a slowe and continual fire til the colour be chaunged theÌ„ chaunge the receiuer and do that thrise Tvvo compositions of Aqua vite oute of the boke of Raimundus Lullus of waters IN the coÌ„posed waters of life folowing althoughe Raymundus do not expresse whether wine or burning water ought to be put to the medicins that they mai be destilled together yet we haue thoughte good to rehers them in this place because Raimundus seemeth vtterlye to wyll these medicines to be destilled in burning water theÌ„ in wine as one that alloweth euery where the more perfect liquors the oftest destilled Take the rotes of fenell rusci maidenheare sperage Rapes parsellye eryngii mill of the sunne scariolae of euerye one like much mixt them and destill them wyth a slowe fyre It appeareth that thys liquor is good to prouoke vrine and against the stone An other Take cloues Nutmegs mastik doronicum zedoaria galingal long peper y e bark of citron sage sambucus that is elder perauenture it shoulde be samsuchus that is Maioram dill spiknard Wood of Aloes cubebe cardamonuum Lauendula Mint Peniroyal organy calamus aromaticus both kindes of sticas germander chamepytis of euerye one like much and a litle muske Pun them and destil them The vertues be all one wyth simple Aquavite but farre more effectuall Or the same that are attributed before to other waters of life composed of many medicines Then foloweth a water composed of manye colde medicines not in hys place as it semeth which I made mencion of before in the colde quint essence Afterward is placed a most perfect Aqua vite as he calleth it that is because it is composed of verye manye thinges and that most hot Take Euphorbium SerapinuÌ„ opopanax pyretrum Capers squinanthum spodium bdellium long peper and white or blacke cubebe castoreum zedoaria of euery one equal portions to the which thou shalt put good Mastick and a little Amber Saffron and of the bone of a hartes hart Also take all the thinges aforsaide in the composed waters and let them be destilled with a slowe fire For it is a merueilous water the mother and chief of all medicines whose vertues are
half of the sede of Darnell for the space of .ii. daies let them be destilled An other causing slepe Take the seede of Darnell a pound half a pound of the sede of Henbane ii poundes of the sede of Purslan iii. vnces of the sede or rote of Mandrag as muche of Alkekengi wheÌ„ they are pund pour to theÌ„ a pouÌ„d of y e iuice of benes turned vp set down as much of the rotes or leues of Henbane half a pound of the iuyce of the leaues of black popy or if it be lacking or red minister an ounce of this water when it is destilled It is vehement and of great vertue A water called stony y e third of Aegidiê° becaus it breketh y e stone The sede of Pimpernel Petroselini Apii Ari otherwis Caryophylli Musterd sede leuing out Aro the bur also Apii bothe the herb the rote for the sede is named before burs Mastiches of eueri one like much wheÌ„ thei ar wel puÌ„d let theÌ„ be mixt w t the blud of a linx otherwis a he Gote better a little Vineger poured to it let theÌ„ stand a few daies in a vessel wel closed and theÌ„ at the last let them be destilled It is good for theÌ„ that be troubled with the stone what manner of stone so euer it be red white sharpe or plane if so be it the stone be confirmed gathered to some streÌ„gth let the pacieÌ„t drink of this water eueri dai for so shal it be brokeÌ„ brought into saÌ„d If so be icabd heds be washt once a day w t this water thei shal be made hole new heere 's shall spring the scabs shal be cured within .ix. dais otherwise any kind of scabs washt therw t is made hole w tin .iii. or .iiii. dais If it be droÌ„k fasting it maketh good blud good colour more theÌ„ any other medicin merueilouslye it strengtheneth the sinewes and taketh away the falling sicknes if it be druÌ„k twise a day Otherwise is added It heleth clene y e palsy if it be not dead in y e meÌ„bres Aegidius Lullê° An approued vvater for the sores of the raines and bladder by the cardinall of Tutellis CAudae equinae plantain red roses the grains of AlkekeÌ„gi the rotes of holy hok shauen or scraped licoris of eueri one an vnce IuiubaruÌ„ SebesteÌ„ of ether of theÌ„ .vi. draÌ„s bol armoniak half an vnce iiii cummen sedes could great cleÌ„sed of euery one .iii. draÌ„s the sede of white popy .vi. draÌ„s half an ounce of cytoniorum of the thinnest of gotes milk .vi. pound Let theÌ„ stand .ii. daies in the infusion or soking and after let them be destilled Geue the sick to drinck .iiii. vnces warm so longe as the disease continueth Epiphanius Empiricus An other water composed the second amongst the waters of Aegidius it is red of also in y e booke of Lullus of waters Rue Satyrion with y e hauds and stones Selandin otherwise Rue Agrimony Satyrion Chelidoni Suger otherwise Tutia the stone called Calaminaris al of like weight puÌ„d must be destilled with a slow fire This water excelleth in many vertues No disease of the eyes is so obstinate and great but it wil vanish awai and geue place to this medicin Being drunke it dryueth away all poyson other taken wyth meates for so it auoydeth the poyson by vomit It cureth y e dropsy it purgeth the stomak from al ill humors it quencheth y e holy fire in one day if flax dipt in it be laid vpoÌ„ y e sore It is good also against y e fire of a blak disposicioÌ„ white without or as a certain Dutch boke hath against y e inward heat of y e fire for if it appere red w tout it shal in no wise be conuenient to lay on a plaster It healeth the canker if aloes be mixt with it and a little towe of hempe dipt in it be laid like a plaster vpoÌ„ it twise a day A water composed the fyrste amongste Aegidius waters HIssop peny royal Charyo Cikory of euery one a draÌ„ let them be puÌ„d destilled After take tutiae persly of Alexan. Rue Zedoaria aloes the stone called calaminaris of euerye one a dram when they are pund sieth theÌ„ in y e forsaith water till y â— third part be wasted the liquor streyned with a cloth thou shalt kiep it in a glas diligently closed nyne days otherwyse .xl. Afterward let it be giuen in drink euery day in the morning before day other wyse by the space of .x. daies to the sick fasting It is proffitable against the falling sicknes if he that takes it continue fasting after it six houres And truly it is a moste effectuall remedy It heeleth al resolucion of the sinewes and the members are strengthened therby If it be drunck with Castorium it is good against all goutes whiche hath not taken rout yet in the members If it be drunk ix daies together fasting it puttes away all maner of agues what matter soeuer it cum of if it be drunk .ix. daies euery morning early This water is also moste profitable to wash wouÌ„des in which the sinues are cut An other of Aegidius the .ix. in number otherwyse they call it double The siede of Apii the sied of whyt Popy Apii ginger otherwise The sied of Apii whyte Popy sugar Carioph of euery one equall weght Pund in a morter put to it conseruatiue water that is destilled of persely and destill it This is the chiefest remedy for the cough and brest ill at eas If a man drinke it coulde fasting and in the euening as hoot as he can If it be drunken hoot with Castorio it is good against the disease called Apoplexia it healeth also the meÌ„bers sicke of the Palsy if so be the Palsy be not deed in the meÌ„bers It bringeth sliep rest easly it chereth all the members it driueth away il humors and strengtheneth the heed and the brayne An other the sixe in number amongst Aegidius waters Gladiolus Hyssop Sauin Sothernwood otherwys the sied of Sothernwood leuing out Sauin I like it not of euery one lyke much beate them together and let it stand a certain daies theÌ„ destill it This water is of greet streÌ„gth It with standeth all agues both hoot and cold It prouoketh wemens floures if it be drunk thrys but it is hurtfull to wemen with chyld and will destroy it It stauncheth the bluddy flyx and other flyx I would say rather that it styreth bloud rather euery where then to stop an other booke speeketh of nothing but stopping the flix of the bely It purgeth y e stomack froÌ„ ill humors It killeth worms being drunken fasting it cureth al the grief with Castorio it heeleth the palsy if it be drunke daily very hoot within .iii. daies The same descriptioÌ„ fynd I in the booke of Lullus of waters A vvater agrinst the Pestilence c. of the bloud of a Wether or gelded Ram out of a certain Duche
for the space of a natural daye that is xxiiii houres then let them be stilled in a limbeck The water that shal first run out is coÌ„pared vnto syluer the second vnto gould the third vnto baulm and this must bee diligently kepte in a glas Lullius A water for all the diseases of the eies that bee curable out of Aegidius and Lullius we haue described it before emongest the waters composed for diuers inward diseases A water composed for the eyes About the beginning of May gather Selandyn Veruin Rewe Fenell pun them seuerally and take .iii. vnces of the iuice of euery one of them then mixt them put to a litle of the grien braunches as the Frenche men call them the Pampes of Roses .iii. vnces of sugar candy .iiii. vnces of the best Tutia and as muche of Dragons bloud WheÌ„ all thies ar pund thou shalt mixt them together and destill them in alymbeck of glas The liquor that ruÌ„neth forth thou shalt let stande .ii. or .iii. daies in a receiuer then vse it It is of great vertue for eyes that bee ill at ease red or haue the web in the eye The water of the vyn together with hony sublimated by the fyre cureth the bleerednes of the eyes specially The munkes in Mesuen That is the water of the vyn say they whiche in vere the spryng tyme when the vynes are cut destilleth very cleer out of the places that are cut for certain daies This water without any destillacion putteth away the prickings and heet of the eyen and clarifieth the sight hindred by a hoot cause if a man put in both the corners of the eye one drop Rogerius A water or an oyll made of Sponsa solis sharpeneth the sight and cureth any disease of the eyes within fyue daies c. read after emongst the decking waters emongste them that be ordeined to the dying of the heare A water for eies in soÌ„mer to preserue the sight described by Io. Maynardus in his Epistles the .vi. iiii Three partes of Roses the herbs of Fenel and Rue of ether one part and let them be wel mixte together and after .iii. daies let a water be destilled other in onlye vapour of siething water or in the sun or in Balneo Mariae as they cal it so that a handful of the same herbes better if they be dried in mine opinion be put into the receiuing vessel that the drops maye fall vpon them and the mouth of the receiuer and the nose of the vpper vessel must be diligeÌ„tly ioyned together and closed that the vapors may not get oute Certaine vvaters for the eyes out of Rogerius FIl a stilful of the leaues of Agrimony Veruin Fennel Rue Memitha Leuisticus cut sprinkle vpon it a little white and cleare wine and destyll it in claied vessels This liquor represseth the swellinge of the eie lids of a colde cause it drieth vp the blearednes it stoppeth the flowinge of teares it cleareth the sight breaketh bleamishes or spottes I suppose he meaneth cornes or Pearles If thou wilt haue it stronger to breake spots or perls ad vnto it Gallitricum and Morsum Gallinae anagallis with red floures A man may get a water oute of Fenell also for the same causes For a liquor gathered of y e rotes and leaues of Fenell sod in water with a basen laid vpon the water while it yet sietheth is kept in a phiall and one drop is put in the corner of y e eie euery dai morning and euening for the forsaid causes by commun experience To breake the spot or perle mixt with the forsaid waters myrhe and Aloes pund put a drop of the liquor streined in ether corner of the eye early and late A water destilled of the floures of white thorn and willow putteth awaye prickinges heates or rednes of the eyes it stoppeth teares comming of a hot cause and breaketh the spottes or pearles of the same cause A water of the leaues flours of Eufragia stoppeth teares comming of a cold cause and maketh slender the eie lids that swell of the same cause it breaketh spots or pearles of the same cause and restoreth the sight that hath any impediment I wold say that Enphrag did not heate but wer temperate or els doth coule moderatly in the first degree and drieth in the second An excellent water for the debility of the sight described by Gordonius Take Selandin Fennell Rue water withy of the mountain Eufrage Veruin red Roses chosen of euery one a half pounde lib. s Cloues Longe Peper of ether two ounces When they are brused together destill them in a limbecke of glasse wyth a slowe fyre and put of it euery daye in the eyes An other of the same mans for Fistulaes which it is certaine it wyll heale Two pounde of good white wine destilled in the same vessell that Aqua vitae is the water of Rosemarye Sage of euerye one .v. poundes Suger .ii. pound when they are destilled againe put to them an ounce of Sage and as much of Rosemary When they are stiepte together eyghte dayes thou shalt strayne it and vse it A water for the Cancar in what part of the bodye so euer it be The herbe called Cancar which is also called Doue foote the floures of Quinces the floures of Cerifolium the bowes or leaues of the Breer Idaea which the frenchmen cal Frambosia and a few white Roses hony and white wine and the Alum whyche the Frenche men name of glasse Let all theese be destilled together Andreas Furnerius A water of a Moldwarpe c. for all kynde of Gutta or drop noli me tangere scalles of the head the roose drop and the wolfe reade afterwarde amongste the trimming or deckinge waters wher the waters inuented for the dyinge of heare are rehearsed We wyll referre amongste the trimmyng waters also those waters wherwith whelkes and little Pushes or Biles in the face are made hoale Of vvaters of svviet sauoure DIuers waters are made for the onli delectation of smel to sprinckle vppon the hands the face and heare bothe of theyr head and beard also vpon their linnen napkins or handkerchiefs garmeÌ„ts as wel that they weare as also their bed clothes wherunto it communicateth the pleasauntnesse of â—auour not only by sprinkling but also when it is hot by the vapoure Roose water also comes in vre to sauces of meates and onlye it as I thincke of all these kynde of waters for it is receyued bothe to season meates and is poured vppon rosted fleshe whyles it is yet hotte c. But of smellinge waters some are moore symple some composed of manye thynges Vnto bothe of them waters of vertue whyche oure countrye men call Golden may be ioyned and reckened for of these some are more simple other composed But golden waters for the mooste parte all are receiued wythin the bodye and all are made wyth hearbes or spyces infused in wine or burninge water Smellinge waters as we call them simplelye otherwise as it
fine linnen cloth and kepe it in a glas in y e which v. grains of Muske shal be put which once moistened and stieped with the water thou shalt stop the glas and set it in the sunne .v. daies So shalt thou haue a wonderful well smelling water A swiet water and vnknown wherof one part mixte with .x. partes of pure water maketh the hoole moste swiet .xx. graines or there aboute of Muske as the smel therof pleaseth the moore or les Nutmegs Cloues Galingal Spikenarde graines of paradise Mace CinamoÌ„ of euery one an ounce All theese pund let them be put into a glas mete to destil in with a pound a half or ther aboute of Roosewater poured vnto it Let it staÌ„d so for the space of .iiii. or .v. dayes afterwarde put to it thryse as muche Roosewater and destill all thys in a limbecke in a kettle full of water siething as in a Balneo Mariae Thou shalt kepe the water gathered therof diligently stopt for y â— same vse that the former serueth for An other excellent water Two pound of the water of the floures of Citri One pounde of the water of red Roses of Myrtus half a pounde Of muske Roses a good quantitye likewyse of Iasmin that is to say of the floures Of cloues halfe an vnce .iii. vnces of Assa dulcis well beaten one vnce of Vernicis Styrax calamita red Styrax of ether half an vnce All these pund mixt with water thou shalt destil them in a glasen limbeck the head and the receiuer diligently closed with clay with a soft fire or in a Balneo Mariae or in a kettle full of siething water A water of most swiet sauor with y e which oyl is destilled also The last being mixt with a hundreth times as much of pure water doth sauoure it all with the swietnes therof but this with a. M times as much A pound of Myrre chosen pure new and fat beaten into smal peces half a pound of the iuyce of Rooses when they are mixte together in a limbecke let them be destilled in ashes wher first thou shalt separate the water w t a slow fire theÌ„ make y e fire bigger separat y e oyl at last deuide the water from the oyl That water maketh the face brighte It closeth woundes effectuallye as well olde as newe The oyle is mooste precyous and dothe the same thynges that the water dothe but muche sooner as for example it dothe that in an houre that the water is aboute a hoole daye An ounce of thys water destilled mixt with certain hundred times as much of pure water maketh them all notably wel smelling but an ounce of the oyle if it be put to certayne hundred poundes of pure water doth the same A certaine Roosewater made wyth Muscke whiche is required and vsed also inother compositioÌ„s Put a .xii. graines or more of Muscke in a glas that is wide beneath and narowe aboue so closed with a parchmente set it in the sunne a iiii or .v. daies Afterwarde take an other glasse like vnto it full of Rooses dried and beaten stop y e mouth of it w t a fine thin cloth other linneÌ„ or of hear TheÌ„ put y e mouth of y e vessell y t conteineth y e roses into y e mouth of thother wherin the musk is conteined and stop it aboute diligentlye â—oyth clay and set it in the sun so that the glas with roses be the vppermost the other beneath in a windowe or other where where the heat of the sunne is vehement Thou maist also sprinkle the Roses moderatly dried and beaten with good Rose water and so put them into a still c. Thys water most swiet thou maist vse when thou wylt bothe alum and also mixt with other composicions VVaters destilled called Cosmeticall that is perteininge to garnishynge and deckinge DEstylled waters for garnishinge are deuyded also into certayne differences for some are for the face to make the coloure of it whyte ruddye bryghte to put awaye wrinckles to preserue and kepe it from Sunne burning or to abolish the spots and rusty roughnes in it Other pertain to the heares and to the chaunginge of the coloure in them Other make the tieth white Al the vse of Cosmetical and garnishing thinges oughte not to be taken for vnhonest and vndecent for a man that is wel instituted and godly mineded for Galen also the mooste famous of all phisicions prescribeth cosmeticall medicines not a few in his worcke of composicion accordinge to places and he declareth that the vse of theÌ„ is many times profitable and honest For the leudnesse of certain maried men is suche that for small and light faultes of their wiues they are turned from the loue of them vnto harlots and hores and certain faults or blemishes are such that a man of a bashful nature wold be ashamed to be sene abrode with them some also bring vexation or griefe or itch as certain whelks in the face c. I write not this vnto wemen or other men but vnto Phisicions only who should be good and discrete men y â— both otherwise they may vse these honest remeadies and medicins and chiefly wheÌ„ such as these be are required of the wife 's of tried honestye of Kinges Princes and noble men More of these thinges and what the art of garnishinge wherin honest garnishinge is soughte for differs for the commeticall and deceitfull thou shalt read in Galen of composi medic sec locos the first boke 2. ch Such Cosmetical waters as be simple we wil not declare heare as be the waters of Bean floures Strawberies Dew Gotes milke Read before of the water of strawberies and of the same and other in Brunsvvick or Riffius Yea Aqua vitae hath a certain cosmeticall and garnishing vertue as we rehersed in his place Waters destilled of the leues of the peeche tree and Willowe of lyk weight mixt together do he le the red whelkes in the face the Frenche men call them rubiz being moistened therwith A spyced wyne for the garnishing of wemen whiche maketh the skin whyt fyne pure and wel coloured Put Ginger and Cinamon in wyn and destill them as Rosewater It is holsome also against all could complexions and moste against palsy Arnold in his boke of wyne A garnishing water wherwith wemen amend their thick grose skyn black and skaly or skuruy with Quick siluer sod in a raw eg c. thou maist fynd in Nicolas Massa vpon the frenche disease in his .vi. booke .ii. chapter A water for the bewtifying of the face The spume of syluer half a pounde when it is beaten sift it and in two poundes of whyte vinegar sieth it till the third part be consumed sturring it with a stick when it is sod destill it At length ad to it half an vnce of Caphura Aphronitrum oyle of Tar taro clouen Alum of euery one an an vnce strein it through a cors cloth anoynt the face and
neck Epiphanius Empericus An other of the same mans for the brightnes of the face Take Lily routes Arus Dragons of euery one whyles they be fresh half a pound half a pound of the flowers of Beenes Eigth vnces of Roosewater destill them put to it Moschocarii Cinamon of ether two drames Washe the face therwith twyse a daye A very good water of the same mans for the same vse Take flowers of Beenes bitter AlmoÌ„des the leeues of Peeche trees of euery one .iii. vnces Gootes milke as muche as of all the rest When they ar destilled put six or eight whytes of egges sod which must be mixt with the water destilled by by destil it again and mixt with it .ii. drams of Caphura A frenche water for litle moules all scalynes freckmes of the face A pound of TartaruÌ„ or lyes of wyne burnd till they be whyt Mastick TragacaÌ„tha of ether half an â—nce Sir drams of Camphora iiii whytes of egs When they are pund mixt in Rosewater let theÌ„ be destilled They cure maruelously Epiphanius Empericus A water procuring vnto the face a Rooselyke and faire colour Take a pynt of Aqua vitae thrys destilled an vnce of PrasiliuÌ„ Cloues to the nuÌ„ber often as many grains of Paradys fiue Cubebas when they are all pund sifted heet them a litle with Aqua vitae in a vessel diligently couered that nothyng breeth out by any meanes Afterwarde when this mixtur is could again destill it in a leÌ„beck of glas with a very slow fyer and thou shalt haue a good water a cleer When thou wilt vse it wiet the face skyn of the person with a sponge moistened therewith for it maketh without all doubt a Roose colour fayre and bewtifull And this dying wyll continue a long time for .ii. or iii yeares If thou canst not haue Aqua vitae take reed wyne of Rupella the best thou canst fynde about the measure of Semiloti a dutche wourd for half an vnce for they call an vnce a loot for there must be more measure of wyne then Aqua vitae But Aqua vitae is much better to the preparing of this water This water garnisheth a mans skin subtilly maruelously Out of the writen booke the author wherof is not declared A lyke vnto this shal be declared by and by out of Gordonius An other that taketh away the wrinkles spots of the face and clarifieth the skinne of whytes of egges destilled Reede before emongest the simple waters destilled in Balneo Mariae A maruelous water that putteth away Napas litle whelkes or pushes or litle teetes sum call them Napas I thinke the Italians Lupinas acorns kurnelles Porros that is wartes what euel so euer groweth in any place of the body it taketh it away ii pounds of oyl de bay whyt frankensence Mastick elect Gum Arabick cleer Tur pintyn of euery one .iii. drams When they are beten mixt altogether and destil them in a lembeck And in this water thus destilled put half a pound of Cineris terrae destil it again and kiep this water as a tresure The author is nameles But it semeth that this liquor wil be rather an oyll then a water saue only that ashes is added vnto it it migth haue bien well asscribed vnto Balmes A cosmeticall water that bewtifieth the face breeketh the stoone is described before aboute the end of the title where we entreted generally of the vertues of liquors destilled Reed also Rogerius in his fourth tretise the fift chapter ¶ Certain Cosmeticall waters for the face shalt thou fynd also by and by in the waters that folow ascribed to the heares Ther be also emoÌ„gst the Balmes hereafter which serue to garnishing Certain vvaters Destilled for the garnishing of the face out of Andreas Furnerius in his Frenche booke of the bewtifying man kynde A Water for the brightnes and whytnes of the face The flowers of whyt Rooses of water Lily Elder Lilyes the chydes take out of Beenes of the flowers of euery one of thies a pound Half a pound of the water of Strawberies Crums of whyt bred as miche as you shall thynke good .xii. whytes of egs .ii. vnces of whyte Frankensence Into all thies let Cerussa pund be put for a nightes space Let them all bee destilled in a Lembeck of glas when the water is drawen out let it bee set in the sun and washe the face therwith morning and euening so that ye wype it not An other that the face and the other partes of the body may retein a faire and youthfull form .ii. vnces of Aqua vitae the water of of Been flowers Rose water of ether .iiii. vnces of Lily water .vi. ounces when they are all mixt put to them a draÌ„ of the whitest Tragacantha After this water hath stand in the sunne .vi. daies streine it throughe a faire linnen cloth The vse of it is in the morning so that it be not wipte of An other for the brightnesse and beautye of the face A water of the whites of egges newe laide made by a spunge with like measure of the â—ice of Limons destill it as rosewater Put vnto this water afterward about .ii. ounces of communly and the limoÌ„ beaten hole the skin puld of rather put it into the rest after .viii. daies wring out the iuyce from it and mixt it with water Let the face be washt first with pure water and wipt let it be washt with this water destilled It procureth an hansome beautye conserueth the skin and is vtterly the best An other which Isabella of Aragonia duches of Millen vsed knede the flour of whete Mele wyth a Sextarium almooste a pinte .xx. vnces of Gotes milke then bake the bread therof gentlelye in an ouen and draw it out afore it be to muche baked The crums of this bread cut in smal peces or els crumd betwixt ons fingers and put in other new gotes milk let it stand so .vi. houres Thou shalt mixt with it the water of .xii. whites of egs made with the spunge lime made of eg shels an ounce Camphora Suger Alum white corall of euerye ii drammes When all these are pund let them be mixt wyth the moyste thinges and destylled in a lembeck of glasse A notable good water shal com therof and most profitable to put away all vexacions growing in the face It maketh the beauty of the face as excellent as is possible to be made An other to beautifye the face The leaues of Roosemary white Tartary mixt them with whit wine and vse the water drawne oute of it by a limbecke as ye woulde do the former medicines for the same effect An other for the same Set the floures of beanes in good white wine a day or .ii. in a glas bottell then destill them wyth a softe fire The vse of it is to wash the face therwith morning and euening but you must washe it first with a decoction of Cerussa And you shal see it
the age of almost .xv. yeares Newe laid hens egges .xii. without the sheles an vnce of Cinamon a pound of Asses milke washe the face with that water destilled by a lembeck Certain cosmeticall thinges out of the Antidotorium of Gordonius TAke the routes of Lily the routes of Dragōs Arum blanushed Cicer Rys Amylum Cerussa washed frenche Soop of euery one .ii. vnces Let them be put in a new pot couered then sod or decocted in a furnace and beten Then take Tragacantha Gum Arabick of euery one an vnce put them in water of flowers of Beenes Then temper Porcellanas in water of Limons till they may be mollified put to half an vnce of Borax Al thies with a very litle of swines grees must bee mixte with water of Beenes With that whiche is made of this muche lyke an oyntment anoynt thy hool face morning and euening and washe it awaye with warm water strained through bran This medicine scoureth purgeth maketh whyt to bee short it maketh the face notable and marueylous faire plain equall gracious An other Lemons cut into .iii. or mo partes let them be sodde in whyt wyne wherwith let the face be washt An other to make y e apple of the chieck ruddy y e lyke also we described before Take Alum Brasill the graines wherewith the Peeche is made reed let them ve pund with the water of wyne destilled Therwith let the place be very muche annointed whiche ye lyst to make reed If so be it ye ad a litle water of salt Ammoniack destilled the colour should be the faster and abyde the lenger Yet take heed of this water Ammoniack bycause it fretteth euery body and if ye list to vse it take but a very litle lest it corrupt the medicine Whoso requireth mo liquors specially destilled for the puritie of the face brigthnes let hym reed Rogerius in his .iiii. treatise the .v. cha wher he describeth the water of Beenes and Limons whose vse is ether by it selfe or with a certain composition c. Also the water composed with Bryonia and Dragons simple of the herbe of strawberies of hasta regia of herba Muscata of the flowres of Nigellae c. VVaters for the dying of heares of the heed and other SPonsa solis beeten otherwyse the siedes of Solsosium beeten put it in milke of a woman that nurceth a boy ten otherwyse .xl. daies and then make an oyl This oyll sod with leued gold seething it gentely by the space of one day is maruelous for if a man washe his heares therwith they shall becum lyke gold If the face be wet and rubbed with the same it shal be plaine and cleare that it shall seme angellike continuinge for the space of .v. dayes It cleareth the sight also and cureth any disease of y e eies within ten otherwise iiii daies and al kind of tothache within .iii. daies and if the iawes be well rubbed with it the wormes fall oute and dy Aegidius amōgst whose waters thys is y e fourth If a man drinck of this water .ix. daies he is heled of the Palsy what cause so euer it come of although it haue endured the space of .iiii. yeares Lullius in his boke of waters It appeareth that this water is not made by destillacion but by expression that is wringing out only as I shall declare amongst oyle of sedes A water destilled of larde that the heares may be made long and yellow and shininge the face more elegant Scrape larde as muche as ye will and shaue it very small then beate it in a marble morter til it be like paste knoden Of thys destylled in a limbeck thou shalt gather a white liquor wherwith thou shalt annoynt thy heares and face for it wil make them very fair and bright A water destilled of honye maketh the heares fayre and longe Reade here after where we shall speake of simple quint essences and amongste waters that be destilled in Rosestilles A whitening water c. of a Mouldwarpe the vi amongste Aegidius waters Bryng a Moule into pouder with brimstone and the iuyce of Selandine put to it let it stande a certaine daies afterward destill it With this water washe a place anye beast what so euer it be and it shall be made white If thou mixte water otherwise the worde water is lefte oute aloes and waxe annoynt the place diseased and thou shalt heale al manner of Gutta and as they call it nolime tangere if thou lay a plaister made thereof vpon the soore Likewise it healeth the skalles of the head annoynted therewith and cureth the guttam rosaceam layde vppon it in manner of a plaister But mixt wyth the stone called Calaminaris and Aloes it healeth the Lupum perfitelye laying a plaister of it thervpō twise a day if also the superfluities be washt with the same mixture It must in no wise be taken inwardly within the body A water that dieth a Griene colour A poūd of cuperoos that is to say Vitriolum Half a poūd of Smerillum Destil them and anoynt Epiphanius Empericus The water of Capparorum Capers destilled maketh grene heares Cardanus A water commodious for purgyng the tethe Take Salte Ammoniak Salte Gemmae of euerye one thre ounces Suger Alum an ounce and a halfe Let them be destilled or soked .viii. daies in two pounde of water and strained rubbe and wash the tethe therewith Epiphanius Empericus Other .ii. like for the same purpose shalt thou find after next to the descripcion of Aqua fortis ¶ Howe waters of herbes floures and rotes be destilled by descencion that is downwarde A vvaye to destill svviete vvaters and effectuall oute of Flowers and Hearbes by descencion or goinge downwarde TAke an earthen vessell vppon the whyche straine or spread a thin and fine linnen cloth and vpon it sprynckle Rooses for so the Roosecake wil proue meruelous swiet or coueslops or other Floures or Hearbes Then muste ye haue a lidde to couer the vessell and aboue the bottom putte the fire So shalt thou destill not onlye a mooste swiet water but also moste effectuall and most strong The Rose cake is wont to be laide in the sunne closed that it maye be purged from the smoky smel when notwithstandinge it reteineth the smell of the Roose Cardanus Freshe Rooses laide vpon a linnen cloth strained vppon a Basin if they take a vessell full of hoate coales they destyll muche water and swiet into the Basin In like manner other flowers Syluius In my minde this kinde of destillacion is commodious for all suche thynges as be colde or oughte to coule chieflye if they lacke smell as the most part of binding thinges more also such as be cold moist to Yea also we shall haue much water in shorter time with les coste by this waye nether is there any ieoperdy that they should fume out But a man must geue diligente hede least the vessel laide vpon be to lyttle hotte and least it be left
thinges as are infused in wyne sumtymes stieped the vessell being very well shyt that they may render the very same sauour and tast as wormwood lyke as I shewed before Gentian Iuniper beries and spyces the waters destilled whereof our cuntreymen name goulden c. Then the destillacion of Aqua vitae is sumtimes repeted in whiche I haue obserued this that the better parte alwayes the purest issueth out first what so euer is flegmatyck or deed water as sum cal it which is vnproffitable hurtfull and almoste stinking foloweth last whiche is well perceiued and knowen in a glas heed for the still For whyle the purer matter that is the fyry and aery substance issueth no sygn apereth in the heed of the still but when the fleume comes once and tokens of the water folowing by straikes appeare manifestly as ye see them remoue the receiuing vessel and what so euer remaineth in the Cucurbita or bely of the stil poure it out as good for nothing and begin a new destillation of fresh and that must be repeted vntil no fleume appeare any more which chaunseth lightly in the fourth or fifthe destillation Afterwarde there nedeth no more destillation but circulacion that the liquor be rectified as they terme it and turned into heauen or quint essence Thinges destilled in the vapour of hot water retein more perfitly the vertues and qualities of of plantes but because they haue some coruption in them they can not be kept long Those thinges longar which by the heat of ashes or dros of metall beaten to pouder are destilled in vessels of stone or glas how many so euer they be vppon a long or round fornace couered with slates or tiles which may holde the hie sandes compassed wyth hie lead But these vessels muste be made hot by little and little not sodenly and couled likewise be fore they be opened to the colde aire or els they breake straight way Syluius Vlstadius prescribeth a certaine destillation in ashes wyth so softe a fyre that thou maiste number one .ii. iii. betwene one drop and an other Anye kynde of frute thou wilte when it is well ripe cut small and beaten thou shalt destill it in sand with a slow fire Vlstadius ¶ A certaine waye to make water by and by WAter is made also vppn a sodein whiles the iuice is made hot or skalding a glasen cup is set vpon it in the whiche the fume passeth into droppes and the droppes gathered therupon are driuen together into water By this meanes Vineger is easilye tourned into water Thys is holsome for spottes and blemishes in the eies and for the web to put them awaye speciallye if Rue be sod in white Vinegar Cardanus Som are put resinam larigenam in a trene vessell whose bottome must be made by a tornar as thin as is possible so that a man may see through it so in a hotte place the purer parte and the thinner destilleth Of rosaries that is to say instruments wherwith a destilled liquor maye be gotten oute of Roses and other medicines fyre being put vnder for the mooste parte wythoute anye meane betwixte either of cooles or of chippes FIre in destillacion dothe more procure the sauoure of adustion and brentnesse vnto the water that is to bee destilled then do cooles or water whiche thinge to auoide put sande in the pan in commun Rosaries or rather see that sande be betwixte the fyre and the panne and also aboute the pan and that it be glased or oyled as some call it if it be an earthen panne for it is made also of brasse The ioyning together of the pan and the lembecke thou shalt fense with clay that is to saye with a lynnen clout perieted or closed with clay and hansumlye laid aboute it and the receiuinge vessell with the nose of the lembecke likewise Brunsvvick Some nowe a daies make theese Rosarie pans of bras and vpon the sand they lay the hearbes that be to be destilled and round about the pan and within it also except I be deceiued they fill a voide space with water a pipe being made for the purpose to poure them in at They â—ut fire vnder it ether of coles or of very short chips because the flame of y e fire may seme to be able to do les hurt for the water that compasseth But withoute all doute all these shal be much better destilled in glasses or in Balneo Mariae or in ashes Vineger is made white wyth destillation as well for other vses of Chymistes and Phisycions as also to be mixte wyth Sirrupe of Vinnegar whereuppon I wyll reherse Bulcasis wordes Builde an Atanor like vnto that wherein Roosewater is destylled and euer take a stillatorye vessell of glasse or of earthe glased fyll three partes of it wyth good Vinegar that the fourthe parte of the Vessell aboue maye be emptye leaste when it doothe seethe the Vineger bee spilte and runne ouer Then couer the vessel with some Vessell vppon it as ye knowe hauynge a noose as the manner is in rosewater and make a light fire not greate nor stronge for if it be vehement the Vinegar shal not become so white The vineger that is destilled muste be of white wyne and verye sharpe So shalt thou gather a whyte and pure liquor which thou shalt keepe in store After y â— same maner may wine be destilled Thys writeth Bulcasis I destilled it once in glasen vessels in ashes which I kepe yet hitherto certaine yeares like to Vinegar not destilled bothe in sauoure and taste differing only in the coloure and substaunce where in it is like to pure water to see to Bulcasis seemeth to be of this opinion that vineger shoulde be destilled with fire or water not in a Balneo Mariae but in that maner that he maketh the first and second in destillinge of Rooses that is without water with fyre of woode or rather of cooles I haue destilled verye excellentlye in ashes Pearles eg shels stone of the rains and bladder are dissolued with strong vineger specially wheÌ„ it is destilled or with the iuice of limoÌ„s so is also both kinde of corals and they afterward dried are readily crumled praecipitatum and sublimatum and cinabrium and they retourne into quick siluer Syluius The Chymistes say metals are resolued with vinegar destilled also w t mans vrine destilled The leaues of hempe tourned into meale because they pearse the heade make drincke which wyll make a man pleasauntlye drounke Cardan It seemeth water shoulde be poured to it and when they are made dowe together then to bee destilled like as burninge water in a Rosarye or Rosestil or lyke instrument where the fyer is put vnder without any men and perauentur the destillacion should be twys or thrys repeted I wold say the same of Ootes water whereof lykewyse Cardanus wryteth The Moscouites saith he bycause they lack wyn vse water destilled of Ootes whiche enflameth and maketh a man drunken no les then wyne For Ootes being
it taketh all the spottes or fracknes from them out of hande if they be once washt therwith thre daies and maketh thē swiet smelling cleer This is called y e water of Balm or mother of Balm It oughte to be destilled in a lembeck in a baith with a slow fyer with Aqua vitae of the same weight And y e first water shall run furth odoriferous and maruelous whiche thou shalt receiue by it selfe then an other of the colour of safron the third at length lyke bloud The vertues of the first and of the secōd water are thies If the one of thē be poured in to a woūd whyles it is new there needeth none other remedy But within a naturall daye and a halfe at the moste it shal be made hool so be that it be no deed wounde All ill soores or byles Old roten Cankred Fistula Lupus Noli me tangere and lyke to them let them be washt with ether of thies waters and they shal be heeled within a fewe dayes One drop only dropped vpon a Carbuncle quensheth it within .iii. houres If an eye be diseased w t blerednes or the web or the naill or any swelling carnosity bred vpon it drop one drop of thies waters vpon it euery third day and within nyne daies it shal be hool except it be vtterly destroyed A drop of them drunk with a litle good wyne breketh the stone in the reines or in the bladdar or in the yard stopped and that within two houres deliuereth from the grief If deed flesh be washt away therwith the place is shortly made hool If a womā be sick of her womb or bely let her drink a litle of them with sum iuice If a man haue any grief of a stroke or by chaunce without any byll or heed let the place be bathed and washed with a litle of them and the grief shall go away within iii. houres By the like helpe a sinewe shrunken waxen hard or otherwyse ill at ease is restored The rest of their vertues a learned physicion shal imagin by him selfe The thirde and bloudy water whiche surnamed holy and blessed is so excellent in vertues that if one vse halfe a sponefull of it .xv. daies he shal be cured of the leprosy pthisick or consumptiō Astma or disease of short wynde the dropsy palsy Ischia or Sciatica the swounding the fallyng sicknes the drop in the ioyntes called the goute y e consuming feuer the strangury and many other diseases and that within two monethes It recouereth youth vnto old men a man that lyeth a dying out of all hope of the physicions it restoreth him if one drop of it let fall into his mouthe bee swalowed so that it may cum to the hart If so be it a man drinke a yeare together euery daye the quantitye of a wheate corne of this liquor with a sponefull of water of borage destilled like Rose-water after the yeare is ended he shall seeme as though he were made new in his flesh blud and hole body both in form and strength An other Artificial balm out of the same boke of Lullius of waters Turpentyn a pounde and a halfe Galbani two ounces Aloes Cicotrinae Mastik Cloues Galangall Cinnamon Nutmegs Cubebarum of euerye one an ounce gum of Iuy halfe an ounce When al is wel beaten mixt them and destill them in a lembeck of glas with a slow fire first and gather the first water by it self seuerallye then encreasing the fyre a water somwhat reddishe and afterwarde encreasynge it more an oyle of a redde coloure till nothinge runne anye more chaunginge the receiuer thryse This oyle hathe all the vertues of true Balme For it burneth in the water and courdeth milcke by and by for if one droppe of it warme be put into a pint of Milcke it shall forth with become courded The firste liquor is called water of Balme the second oyl of Balme the thirde Balme Artificiall The fyrste is profitable againste the runnynge of the eares if two or three droppes mornynge and eueninge be put into them Dropte into the eyes it amendeth the blearednesse and consumeth the teares It dothe meruelouslye restreine superfluous humors in anye parte of the bodye It taketh away the touthache if they be washt therwith and killeth the wormes if there be anye in them Ther third liquor wil suffer no venom is an vtter ennemy and destruction to spiders and Serpentes Two or .iii. drops let drop into anye venemous bitinge do make it hole streight If thou draw a circle with this liquor shit a venemous beaste therein it shall dye there rather then goe out of it To he short it doth the same thinges all that Triacle dothe but more effectually all thynges Being poured or put vpon any impostume within .ix. daies it healeth them and likewise a fistula be it neuer so ill and also a Noli me tangere All diseases bred of fleume and colde humors it healeth them if a linnē cloth dipped in it be laid vppon the place where the grief is It putteth away vtterly the Palsy and all tremblinge of mēbers it strengtheneth meruelouslye the sinewes It is hoter then the first and second If a mā put a drop of it in his hand it perceth streighte without grefe To cōclude it doth many other things and all diseases risen of a colde cause it healeth them if they vse it right A water strengtheuing the memorye Floures of Roosemarye Borrage Camomell Violettes Rooses of euerye one an ounce Stichadis Baye leaues Samsuchi Sage of euery one .ii. ounces When they are all cut small thou shalt soke them in the best wine and destill them by a lembecke After the liquor is destilled thou shalt mixt with it a pounde of Turpintyne .viii. ounces of Olibanum Mastik Bdelli Anacatdorum of enerye one an ounce when they are all beaten mixte them with the other and destill them again Then adde vnto them againe Nutmegs Mace Galangall Cubebarum Cardamomi of euerye one an ounce Agallochi Amber Muske of euery one .ii. vnces if the written booke be true when they are beaten and mixte let them stande .v. daies and destill them the third time encreasing the fire til the oyl seace droppinge Certain waters of life to be reckened amongst Balmes shalt thou finde in Vlstadius boke called Caelum Philosophorum the .xliiii. liī chap. A balme of an vncertaine author Turpentin halfe a pounde Frankensence .ii. ounces woode of Aloes Saffron of either of them an ounce Mastik Cloues Mace Galangall Cinnamon Zedoariae Cubebarum Nutmegges of euery one halfe an ounce Gumme of Iuy or Elemi vi ounces slating tiles quenched in oyl accordingli such as neuer water touched .iii. vnces Pūd those that ought to be pund first will water issue forthe secondly oyl of Balm thirdly balm artificiall Balm artificiall saith Matthaeolus Senensis in his commentaries vppon Dioscorides whyche I tried and found of maruelus strēgth against very many diseases haue I made cōposed in this wise Take rosin Larignae
purest partes Therfor in naturall digestion and siething whiche to melt the hardest thinges hath also the force of fyre and the strength of soft and easye bath in extenuating and lesning the same the more grosse and massy partes on broken into peces whiche can not be brought to pas with fyre The heat of the first degree whiche is moderate as of hors dong and Balneum Mariae is called the heat of digestion resolution putrefaction maceration and of circulation wherof wee shall speake more in place conuenient Of diuers wayes to destil by sublimation with water and withoute water looke within in Rose water out of Bulcasis Of destillation generally Gâ—ber an Arabian writ certayn thinges in 1. 4. 50. chapter of his booke callid Summa perfectionis Where he reasoneth excellently of many thinges chiefly of the difference and diuers affectes of destillation by water and by asshes In the same booke 39. chap. he teacheth of sublimatioÌ„ why it was inuented and so forth in the. 40. chap. what sublimation is and of thre degrees of fyre to be obserued in it and in the. 41. chap. of the moderating of the fyre in sublimation and how the reason of that thing is vnderstanded by putting wull of wode or bombice in to the vpper hoole of the aludel Of chusing of wode the. 43. chapter Brunsvvicke Suche coÌ„mune things as ar put into a rose still to be destilled it is best not to put myche in at once least they that be nethermost be dryed away and burnt those that lie aboue remainyng yet almost hoole and as they were put in And chiefly if thou destill any pretious or odorife rous thinges it shal be better to put in newe the ofter and so shall the water flow more pleÌ„teously Suche herbes flowres and other plantes and growyng thinges as ar to be destilled ought to be gathered when they ar perfectly rype chiefly whyle the mone encreasith when the wether is faire and in the day tyme to be laide in y â— shadow to be cut and if nede require to be brosyd also and by and by to be destilled ¶ Of the vertues of licores destilled generally MAnarde in his Epistles 15. booke 15. chapter saith thus when I perceiued in the commun waters that ar destilled out of plantes by fyre nether the smell nor the taste remaine but many times the contrary for the water of wormwode I perceyued to be sweet of Mint and Basill came water rather stinknyge then well smellyng whereby I well perceiued that the water alone had not the same vertues that the hoole herbe had I began carefully to muse and to consult also with those that of suche waters ar called communly chymici by what deuise bothe the smell and the tast might be preserued in thies waters that is founde in the hoole herbe It were longe to wryte all the ways whiche I proued to finde oute thies thinges yet one will I touche whiche semeth to me to be the best and the easiest waye That is by the vapoure and smoke of hoat water in a double vessell c. Syluius Waters destilled reteyne and kiepe still the vertues of the simples wheroute they be drawne sauing that they ar more pure stronge the oftener they be destilled whiche wee proue in the water of wyne for the most part very seldome in other thinges The vertues of licore destilled some doo alter and chaunge ether by smering the head of the still with some matter as hony Ladanum and suche like or els by putting it in y e nose of the stil which serueth for the most parte to the grace of the smel for thei bind muske cloues Caphura and such like in bundels and put them in the top of the nose that the licore passing thorow thies matters may get a swiet sauour A doubt If so be it y t fyre maketh al thinges hoat and drye all waters gotten by destillation ought to be hoat and drye Nether dothe the watery substance disproue this for when as brenning water is suche it doth both bren and mightly make hoat and dry mens bodies Again al waters be colde and moyste as long as the substance hath the vpper hande But nether of thies is alwayes true yea some of thies ar more lyke vnto those thinges wheroute they be taken as rose water bothe in smel tast and operation A phiall of plantain water is able to staunche bloud where so euer it runne forth Water of Lettis can not doo the same although it be muche colder A certain man of late endeuouring to encrease his memory infused and steept balm for the space of thre days in whyte wyne then lightly wringing oute the wyne destilled a water by the drinking wherof he thought to recouer his memory But hauing a hoat liuer had almost destroyed his health And this maner is called of the philosophers to sette Starres in the skye Therfor men be wont to axe whether these waters reteyne and kiep their owne propre vertues and strength Wee once saide whyles wee entreated of the euill maner of curing that they are no strengthes nor vertues because they are destitute of sauour and taste For water of wormwode nether smelleth like wormwode nor is bitter yea that is more wonder it is sumwhat swiete Yet burning water to speake nothing of Rose water well declareth that ther is a certaine vertue and efficacie in waters For if you will say it is suche because of fyre how commeth it to pas that none other water is like it for this doth marueilously make hoate dryeth perceth hath a sharp smell burneth It is plain therfore now that there is strength and vertues in waters but not in al waters nor equall with that they be drawn oute of for what things soeuer haue a thinne substaunce ioyned with colde gyue a water not vnlyke to theÌ„ selues as the Rose They that haue a thin and hoat substance giue a lyke water but burning withall as wyne and certain metals Suche as haue a grosse and hoat substance giue an vnlyke water and an euill as wormwod Such as haue grosse and colde they giue vnlyke but not euill as the Gourde According to this reason suche strengthes of waters as ar receiued with soft fyre ar easy to be learned for suche as require a vehemenr fyre doo all vehemently drye for the most parte also make hoate This saith Cardan But me thinkes thies thinges would be more diligently considered and weyed First wher he saieth that wormwode water is not bitter it is trew if a man destill it negligently as the coÌ„mun apothecaries ar wont in leaden limbeckes but destill it in Balneo Mariae and see whether it shall lacke his smell and tast or no. Yea it shall retain boeth and that effectuously not only this herbe but also any other plant whatsoeuer it be hauing any sauoure or taste if it be dried and weikte or stiept in wyne a few dayes then destilled in Balneo Mariae or by asshes gentely as I shall shewe
the first more thin and waterye the other more read The water of Balneum Mariae oughte to be no hoater then that a man may suffer his finger in it Brunsuicensis Vlstadius prescribeth the destillation of a certaine kinde of aqua vitae in Balneo Mariae to be done with so slow a fire that a man may tell one two three vntil seauen before a drop fall Of such things as pertain to the commun wai of Balneum Mariae you shall reade more with in where we make mention of aqua Camphorae out of Bulcasis and of Rose water out of the same This waye of destillation in Balneo Mariae is vsed also to the rectifying as they terme it of oyles to draw and purge the fleame from them for only the waters and nothing els may be lifted vp and drawn out by the heat of the bath the oyle remaining stil in the bottome The chief vse of dong or as som term it a hors belly is such that the mater which is to be destilled in a glasen vessell set in the dong maye be prepared by the heat therof as we shall declare more at large in his place wher we shall make mentiō of putrifactiō and rotting It is possible notwithstanding for destillation to be brought to pas in y ◠same if ether pouerty or ani other impediment be that a man can not haue fire Of this kinde of destillation see more within wheras we entreate of the prepation to destill The heate of hors donge because of the lime that is mixt therwith Brunsvvick supposeth to excede in the middle degree the heat of Balneum Mariae If you desire to haue a water destilled of the fleshe of any beast you shall strangle the beast y t it bleed not in any wise then take away al the fat and shred the fleshe in small pieces and so destill it in hors dōg or with a soft fire least the waters stink or sauour of brentnes which is wont easelye to chaunce wherefore it is best to destill them twise Brunsvvick The parts of beast or excrements as blud the liuer the lights eggs gall and oxe dong oughte to be destilled in hors dong with vessels not very close stopt but hony and milk a man may stop thē close least the water stink But if it chaunce to stink euen thus ordred then let it be destylled again in Balneo Mariae specially the water of excre mēts of oxen whose first destillatiō is scarse foūd without stench Brunsvvick It wold frame better if a man put to a litle curtsy of salt in the putrifying or destilling of dong that they maye corrupte the lesse Certain excellent simple vvaters destilled in Balneo Mariae first of plantes then of beests Absinthium OF Worme wode water Iohannes Mesuae hath made mencion and of it and of Rooses only as the Munks that writ apon Mesuae haue noted that it is to be supposed ther is a certain excellent vertue aboue other in thies .ii. destilled liquors if they be rightlye prepared but as commun apothecaries maketh them the wormwode water lacketh all odour and tast as is said before If so be it anye man desire to haue this liquor moore strong let him stiep the wormwood dry in win and destill it in Balneo Mariae or if yet strōger in ashes But such as be destilled first stiept in any liquor the waters of thies now ar not simple but compound of the which we shal write hereafter seuerally Alsine WHiche commonly they call Morsus Gallen Hēbain the water destilled is geuē to infantes children diseased with the falling sicknes ether alone or with spring water Wemen comend it greatly and som say they haue tried it them selues I saw it of late ministred in vain But that when I tasted it had like to haue made me vomit perauenture because it was somewhat to old or els because it was gathered in leeden lembeks Caepa THe whyt Onion destilled breketh the stone Martianus Sanctus Cerasus CHery water of what kynd soeuer they bee is drunke against to muche heate is ministred with out y e body but particularly of sweet black cheries whiche also is commended of many against the palsy if it be poured into the mouth and the mouth be wel washt therwith that it restoreth the vse of the tung lost They destill the flesh of it alone or the kernels also beaten together that y e liquor destilled therof may entye out the stony matter of the reines and bladdar The black and sower ar called Visula they yeild a water holsome in agues both other and also pestilent agues whiche couleth and confirmeth the strengthes it is profitable also against thirst and bluddye flixe Ryffius The water destilled of the swiete blacke and freshe Cheries is maruelously cōmended of Remaclus F. of Lymburg Assone saith he as it shal be powred into the mouth of one sick of the falling euill alredy taken with y e fit the potion of it is .iiii. drammes or moor by by he reuiueth refreshed neither is he any moor drawen together with any cramp til in the ordinary tyme as it is the custome of it after a fewe daies an other fit come vpon him whiche when it chaunceth it must be powred in again for it letteth taketh away and healeth the fit Camphora water therof or oyll is thus made Take one of the vessels for Rose water that is called baten that is a bely fill it with the sticks or cips of pynappull tree whiche hath great and brood leaues and let it be filled Siluius taketh it so as though the roose water should be poured to the chips of the pynappull tree but me thinkes y t the vessell of rose water is simply named heer for a cucurbita or bely that it may be a certayn repeticion of the same whiche he had spoken before and let it be couered with a vessell hauing a nose then put the bely into a brasen vessell ful of water ouer the fyre till it begin to boyl for an oyll shall destill and yet they denye that oyll may be lifted vp by the heat of water subtill of a good odour whiche is called water of Camphora Or if ye list destill it in a fornace of rosewater the same way that it is destilled Bulcasis But Belluensis sayth that water of Camphora according to the Arabians saith he is a water that runneth out of the tre that bryngeth the Camphora which as his tree also is of a hoot nature in third degree so Camphora it self is cold Monachi in Mesuae Put three litle bies in the vessel of glas wher the Camphora is whiche shall so be turned into water Fragaria SStraweberies shalt y ◠putrify in a Vessell of bras perauēture salt may be put to it or sugar and destill them This water saith Lullus in his .ii. booke of quintessence is holsō and diuine It comforteth nature expelleth poyson prouoketh we mens flowers asswageth burning humors strengtheneth the conceiuinge
Tilia beaten The dosis or quantitie of ministration is one or one and a halfe It asswageth the griefes of the eyes and healeth the places brent with fyre or any hoot matter that more surely if the inner barck al but tiliae be stiept in this water or in stede therof the grains or kernels of quinces or psyllium and the places be anoynted with the horines or mouldines that bredeth ther vpon Ryffius Some vse against the pestileÌ„re a liquor drawn by the force of fire oute of the bloude of a graye or badger Also of the blud of duckes againste poyson c. wherof thou shalt read more in the boke of destillarions of Ryffius writen in Dutch Some mixt the bloud of a goat with medicins againste the stone to be destilled A water composed of the blud of a barrow hog and other diuers medicens wil we describe hereafter in some place Of the water of wormes and of the kind of CaÌ„tharides whiche is surnamed as Mey lander Kaeser saith of the month of May read Brunsvvick A water to take away wrinkles and spots of y â— face to clere the skin Beat the whites of egges hard sod in water y t yolkes takeÌ„ away together in a morter destill them in a lymbek of glasse or other vessel of glas The vse of it is that y e face be a noynted therwith euery day thrise for the space of iii. or .iiii. dayes I would adioyne here a table of waters destilled of plantes whiche are described in the Dutche bokes of destillacions of Hierom of Brunsvvick for the most part all that Gaulterus Ryffius hathe borowed of him sauing that I studye to be shorte And surely it is nothing necessary to resite al wheÌ„ as liquors also may and are wonte to be destilled of all such plantes wherof there is any vse in phisicke But to recken vp also the vertues and faculties of euery of them as some do it is superfluous when as none other for the moste parte but euen the very same also be attributed and ascribed to y e waters whiche are vnto the plantes so that theese repetycions moue irckesomenesse to the reader yea euen if it be but meanly learned neuer a whit les then colewortes twise sod Yet because that some waters chieflye and before other are in vse with apothecaries as those with Remaclus F. hath described I wil ad hither a rehersall and table of them in like order as he vseth and hath recited them him self Absinthinm wormwod Apium Artemisia mugwort Agrimonia Althea the holy hok Acetosa Alkekengi Auricula muris mouse eare Basilicon Buglossos Balsamita that is mynte of Rome Betonica Betony Bursapastoris shepherds pouche Chamomilum Cammomill Calendula Mary goldes Carduusbenedictus Centaurium Centory Chelidonium Felandine Cichorium Cikory Capillus Veneris Maiden heer Caprifolium that is Pericly menon woodbinde Cucurbita Gourde Cuscuta Ebulus Walwort Endiuia Enula Euphragia Eiebright Foeniculum Fennel Fumaria Fumitory Gentiana Genista Browme Hepatica that is Lichen Liuerwort Hedera Iuy Hyssopus Hippuris that is horsetaile Lactuca Lett es Lauendula Lapathum Sorel Maiorana Maioram Melissa Baulme Marrubium Hoorhound Melilotus Melilot Millefolium Milfoyl or Yarow Menta Mint Malua Malowes Nemiphar bothe kindes with the flowers Nigella Origanum Organy Paeonia Pyonie Papauer satiuum sown Poppy Parietaria Pelitory Pentaphyllon Cinkfoyl Petroselinum Persly Pimpinella Pimpernel Pastinaca Parsnip Plantago Plantaine both kindes Portulaca Purslein Polygonos that is CeÌ„tumno dia. Pulegium Peniroyall Roses white and red Ruta Rew sown or set Rosmarinus Rosmary Rubea tincterum Madder set or sowne Raphanus Radish Saluia Sage Saxifragia Satureia Sauery SaÌ„bucus Elder the bark floures and leues Scabiosa Scolopendrium Solanum wherof seing there are many kinds Remaclus writeth that apothecaries draw water out of Halicaâ—abus only for the moste part that is Alkekengi Semperuiuum Singrien Serpillum Salix Willow Senecio Grounswell Thymus Time Berded Tapsus that is Verbastum Tauacetum Tormentilla Violae Violets Valeriana Valerian Virga pastoris that is Dipsacus Tasill Verbena Veruin Vermicularis y t is the les syngrien Vrtica nettell Of vvaters destilled of beastes or of their partes or excrementes and first of all of the hoole beastes A Water destilled of whelpes will make that heir shall not growe againe And Furnerius I geue litle credence to thies curious exquisite remedies and although they be true yet I do not alowe them specially where other many and easy to be gotten ar not lacking A yong Storck some bid strangle and destil it lyke rose water and therwith to anoint the partes taken with palsey or shronke together and at certain tymes to be washt away with a decoction of sea crabes without salt they saye it helpeth marueilously if a man continue it Some bid put an vnce of Camphora a dram of amber in a yonge storkes bely the bowels taken out but it must be one that neuer yet flew then in destilling to gather seuerally thre waters differing in color of thies they prayse the last best to make the face whyte and clear They destill also a water of a pye wherof read Brunsvvick Ryffius as also of them that folowe Of a Capon whereof wee will speake seuerally within for it is not made simpely and singly only but also composed many wayes Of Frogs Crabes Snayles Pismiers or Emers Of the bloud of a Duck a he Goat a Gray of a calfe looke in Ryffius and Brunsvvick Of mans bloud looke Brunsvvick and within also wher we make mention of Quintessence Of the liuer and lightes of a Calfe The liquor of milck destilled the chymistes destyllors do vse and sum that go about to make Borax or Crhysocollam It is a wonder that men say amongst the Tartarians water destilled of milke doth make men dronke The milke must therfor be somwhat thicker and tary somewhat long vpon the fyre Whiche thing peraduenture chaunseth in meares milke Albeit all water if it be oft destilled wil do the same for it waxeth hoat is attenuated and made more fyne and receiueth the force and nature of the fyre the more Carda Some vse water destilled of wyne and milke together against y e feuer quartain specially in England as Brudus Lusitanus writeth Some drink it against the iaundys as witnesseth Iohan. Goeurotus Also seuerally of Goates milke water is destilled Loke in Ryffius Water of an Oxe hyde see in the same author Of the whytes of egges and of the yolke In the same Of the spaun of Frogges founde in waters looke in Ryffius Of kowes donge loke in the same Some say that water destilled of mans donge wil heale fistulaes also fretting soores and such as are to be cured and cancres and the disease called Tinea or matering of the head that it wil also make skarres like vnto the other skin and put away the spots or white webbes of the eyes If it be druncke it is good for them that haue the falling sicknes it helpeth them that haue
wil abide the fire better and longer if they be wared that is if they be warmed don ouer twise or thrise w t molten wax Of the preparation for destillation FOr as much as in destillacioÌ„ we seke y e separation of the elemeÌ„ts either for one or mo of them or els to thinteÌ„t that they once put cleane away we maye get the quintessens separation truely can not be don withoute heate For heat vniteth and gathereth together suche thinges as be of one kinde and nature and they that do differ and disagree it separateth to thintent this might duely be broughte to passe both the Chymists and Phisicions haue inuented diuers meanes and waies They terme thys preparacion diuersly and geue it sundrye names digestion leauening putrifaction or rotening Digestion they call it respectinge the concoction that is done in the maw by the natural heate thereof which bringeth to pas y t al such things as are put into it are turned into one humor for it is well enough known y t they which speake not very aptly nor latinly take these wordes to digest and to coÌ„coct indifferently both in one sence If so be it a dri matter ioyned w t a liquor be so prepared we shall name it wyth a more apte word maceration y t is steping or weking or els infusioÌ„ a watring moi stening But leauening is proprely spoken wheras a certain inward vertue but increased or styred vp by an outward heat commeth vnto an humor or moisture so that a certaine coÌ„mune and generall qualitie be mixed and spred throughout the hâ—ole body with a hoat spirit one that moueth and breadeth bubles as it is in y e mixture of true leauen in dede knodeÌ„ with meale also in vinegar powred vpon the earth And this affect is the beginning of rotennes in suche thinges as haue superfluous humor That which is called putrifactioÌ„ or rotteÌ„nes should differ nothing froÌ„ this sauing that it is done by setting the vessell conteining the thinges to be destylled in some corrupting and rottenyng matter and that for none other cause then that one and the selfe same heate continually for a certayne dayes and equally should be conserued with litle labour and coste The sauour or other qualitie of y e putrifying matter in my mynde it is not possible it should infect the mixture that is put in a glasen cucurbita with the mouth very diligently stopt although some thinke yes For if the vessell be diligently stopt it it is not possible there should chaunce any defaul Notwithstanding it happeneth somtimes not because of the dong or other outward cause but bycause the matter in the vessell hath abundaunce of corrupt excrementall moisture whiche with any outward heate doeth easely roat The glasen vessell it selfe howe longe tyme so euer it shal tary in the donge it wyll bee nothing defyled nether darkened specially if it be of good glas as y e Venice glasse is for the common grene glasse will gather a certain duskishnes and as it were a skin Destillation that is done by rottennes or with horse dong both alone and with lime be sprinkled and oft chaunged or with barks watred or other rottening thinges how so euer it is profitable to the Chymistes and destillers many wayes a phisition not withstanding ought not to receiue it for a cause in rotten wod and euil smelling thorowe the rottennes or some other cause speciallye if the thinges destilled be to be ministred within the body for to be vsed withoute the bodye it skilleth the lesse Syluius Of thys kind of destillation in hors dong read before in the latter ende of those thinges whyche we writ of Balneum Mariae generally At thys present we shoulde entreat rather of rotening then of destillatioÌ„ But because of rotening also in hors donge semeth to be disalowed if destillacion in it be reproued it is not altogether from our purpose and others that I haue declared my mynd of this matter in this place Putrification or rotening in hors dong w t lime is otherwise done on thys wyse that the dong euery day or euery other daye or by longar distaunce be sprinkled with warme water otherwise without sprinkling when as the dung of it self serueth to be hot inough A pit or hole being digd in some corner of the house they lai one course of hors doÌ„g about a fote thick that is thre handbread then an other cours of lime only one hand thicke and so for the by course There is nede of thre burden for the most part of dong as much as a porter is hable to cary Some put the thynges that are to bee destylled speciallye suche as bee stiepte in wine into a tin botel and that they do set in vnslaki lime closed whiche they quenche at certaine times nowe a little and then a little with raine water Some mixte Oten strawe wyth the hors donge and sprinkling it with hoat water set in theyr vessell and then couer it cleane wyth towe harde wyth clothes or sackclothe in some parte of the house where colde can not come at it Other in grape kernels in haruest Other in the broken peces of Oliues that is in the relickes of Oliues after they be prest the best waye of all other as Cardanus teacheth If a manne couet but a light heate it shall be sufficiente to putte it simplye in chopte strawe Certaine of the Germaines that lyue in stouffes that is hot houses the winter time make in them lowe fornaices A. and in the vpperparte they set two or three glasen pottes C. vppon lytle yron barres and pariet and rubbe them ouer diligentlye with clay In thies filled full of fine sand or ashes bothe thynges maye be destilled whyche I woulde shoulde be tried and also certaine lyquors may be rectified or prepared c and by this meanes a man shall saue bothe labour and coste The time of this digestioÌ„ doth vary according to the matter whiche the more massy it is the longar time dothe it requyre newe herbes nede the lesse time when they are stiept or weekt in wine or other liquor for they be the tenderer and if they shoulde be let stand long they woulde haue a certaine hoarinesse the same dryed muste stande a little longar then the seedes last of all the rotes so that almoste double time is necessarye for them that folow to y t which goeth afore them as to new herbes .iii. dayes to dry seuen to sedes and most parte of spices twelue or fourtene to rootes eight and twenty or lesse if they be newe There be certaine Phisicions that bid let metals stande fortye dayes the chymists and destillers of liquors yet longar Thys is also to be considered whether the thinges brosed are straight wayes put in for they nede much shorter tyme perauenture by the half then those that be put in hole In goulding waters as they call them spices sometimes hole are wonte to be stiepte a fewe daies in wine then taken out and
brosed to be poured in againe and to stand yet a few dayes The putrification of herbes to be destilled in horsse donge is wonte to be done almoste by the space of .xiiii. daies but in Balneo Mariae ii or .iii. naturall daies Brunsvvick Suche thinges require chiefly putrification whose substance is somwhat dry gros thick raw haue les nied which are contrary wyse and ar digested and prepared by nature or the sun Putrification is soner done in cloudy wheather then in fayre Vlstadius To the moste parte of thinges that are prepared in hors dong some salt is cast as vnto beasts bloud to flesh to fyshe Guainerius To digest take a blynd lymbeck if the matter be pure as pure liquor then take a vessell for circulation of whiche sort the pelecan is the best although it can skarsly be made and not withoute great cost c. But in digestion or putrification the hoal vessell would be hid with hors dong or with the refuse of grapes c. To circulation the halfe of the vessell or at the least the third part must loke out into the free and cold aire as also to destillation Vlstadius chap .viii. wher as he teacheth at large of putrification in hors dong Of the rectification of liquors destilled WAters destilled in Balneo Mariae ought to be set in the sun and to bee rectified namely in a glasen vessell the mouthe wherof let it be bound aboute and stopt with lether full of the destilled water so that the third part muste be lefte empty then set it in hoat sand by the space of forty daies that all the fleme may be consumed the third part of the vessel must be hid in the sande Destilled waters of hot vertue poured first into wine or burning water least they should hurt a man by the meanes of theyr ouer muche heat let them stande for the space of a monthe or more if the water be hotter in moyste sand in a cold place Likewise the thirde parte of the vessell hid in the sand or two parts of the vessell two third partes let them be digd in the earth in some wine celler Brunsvvick Euery water if it be destilled again specially vppon the dregs and grounds well pund and broken it may so be rectified and the more the ofter it is destilled againe but for the most part of waters it is sufficiente to repete the destillation of them thrise or .iiii. times But you muste take heede that at euerye time the fleame be diligently remoued and separated whiche a man shall do if he receiue by it self the firste liquor or if burninge water be destilled the laste liquor which is watry c. The fleame once sepated last of all rectification by circulation wherof is spoken now last of all and more shal be spoken in the title of quintessens must be added But y e the brentnes y t is in these may brethe out it shal be best to kepe opē a while the phials wherin the liquors stande not withstanding you muste take hede that the grace of the smell in the meane season with it much of the strengthe and vertue therof do fume oute Syluius Destilled liquors of diuers sortes if a man mixte them together sometimes they become troubled and pudled like thin milke or whay and for the moste part an olde lyquor mixt with a new troubleth it But you shall make them cleare and pure againe if into three poundes you cast six or eight drops of white vinegar very sharp for they wil driue down the pudly matter to the bottom Brunsvvick Destillacion by a Filter or a list of Wollen cloth DEstillation by a filter is more in vre w t the Chymistes and destillers then wyth phisicions inuented to try out the lighter purer and more subtil part from the grosser and the dregges Therefore the iuyces of herbes may thus be destilled put in some vessell wherein a pece of wollen clothe muste be put the broder end wherof only must be in the vessell the narower part and that that is sharpe at the ende ether w t one poynt or deuided into .ii. or iii. muste hāg without the vessel the vessel must lean a litle towarde that side that the list hangeth on A man maye put in also aboute the brimme some lystes of clothe euerye one of almooste a foote longe by the which the liquor shall be deriued and conueyed into a vessell set vnderneathe If you wyll destill the same iuyce or liquor agayne or the thirde tyme in the same manner sette the vesselles vypon a payre of stayres The fyrste wherein the liquor is highest the seconde lower and so forthe wyth listes of clothe putte in euerye vessell and hangynge oute into the nether the laste the laste vessel onlye and lowest shall haue no listes whiche muste onlye receiue not yeld forthe The destillation by a filter is doone also in two croked vessels of glasse well clayed the one wher of must stand higher then the other when you wil draw precious and swiet smellinge liquors from the matter digested firste in Balneo Mariae as Vlstadius maketh mencion Chap. 56. To the sirrup which is made of the sower iuyce of the citron that iuyce muste a man destill by a clothe liste or filter or elsse it will gather into a courd when it waxeth colde and likewise y e iuyce of Lemons and Orenges By a liste some destill also the decoctions of herbes sod wyth a softe fyre whiche afterwarde by little and little they sieth till it be as thicke as hony as of the rotes of black Elleborus or beares foote Other thinck it sufficient only to sethe it or straine it Of burninge vvater or single Aqua vitae and of the strength therof and manifold vse BVrnynge water or Aqua vitae is drawne oute of wine but wyth vs out of the wine lies only speciallye of them that sell it and by this onli almost get their liuing And parauenture it is neuer a whit y e worse that it is drawne oute of lies for Lullus teacheth that it may be well destilled of corrupt wine yea if it be destilled often it shal be made the more effectuall that is to say hotter and drier for dregs also or lies brente are very hot and geue the hottest oyle which they call oyle de Tartaro but that burning water that is destilled out of wine me thinkes it shal be the swieter and more plesaunt bothe in smell and taste and without all brent taste besides that more apte also for quintessens Burning water is called also water of sapa of whiche oyl mingled together soope is made for it brenneth y e body This water is made as lie half or thre partes ashes and on lime and that is the strongest water that wil make an egge cast therin to swim highest without or aboue the water Therfore the first being so made is stronger then the second to the vse of searing or burning of woundes Monachus in Mesuaem Burning
destillacion Annoynt the heade therewith and it healeth wormes the scuruinesse and scabbes pusculs and skailes It putteth awaye the spottes in the face and other wher Broken egges or egges that that lacke a shell put them in Aqua vitae and it will sieth them It healpeth the numnesse of a mannes sences called Apoplexia swellings steames tenesmum or desire to the stoole and wearynesse It amendeth the morphew beinge drunken or annoynted theruppon It maketh the skinne softe and pure To conclude it is good againste the bitinge of a mad dog It will heale any wouÌ„d excellentlye if it be washte therewith and so that no euill effect shall come therafter by the meanes of the same wound I perceiuinge Aqua vitae to be hotte and to dry did sometime mixte with it honye whereby it was bothe swieter to dryncke and gentler profitable for the colde stomacke speciallye in wynter Som mixt it with water made w t honye or rather with mede called apomelâ— which with vs coÌ„monly they make of hony coÌ„bs c. Som wet figs ther in set them on fire then eat them hot A maÌ„ may also mixt any sirup therwith one or other according as y e disease shall requyre To preserue wine y â— it be not troubled nor putrified put to it the teÌ„th part of Aqua vitae in dede sulphur is far better for the same purpose but it bewrayeth the crafte and the smell there of The same will alum do but being bothe hurtfull they are verye noysome to the health Cardane If wine by the meanes of the sauour of the vessels or taste of the grapes be corrupte and soured poure Aqua vitae into it and it will restore it The same purgeth haÌ„ging wine that is new also wine that is putrified and soured also for it conuertes vineger To conclude it bringeth a good smel and tast also to any wine be it neuer so euel or corrupt and good wine also it makes it better Albertus as some alledge When the wine is to be drawen into an empty vessel most vse to put in a ball of brimston set a fyre other vse Aqua vitae dipping towe therein Wine that is made to haue anye taste or smell out of hand in a momente is both a curious thing for rich men cheiffy which wil aduaunt them of y e sortes of wine and also profitable For the qualities of diuers remedies may be communicated by this meanes with the wine Herbes sedes or spyces whatsoeuer they be let them be poured into Aqua vitae for the space of .xxiiii. houres for so the strength of them shal be drawen out Then y e waters so affected and died shall be mixt with a lyttle wine when ye wil drink Arnoldus de vâ—lla noua How that wine is made which they calcommoÌ„ly Hippocras with Aqua vitae and certaine spices stiept therein I will declare when I shall speake of wines Of the quintessens of wine I shall speake within in the title of quintessens Of such thinges as be destilled dry put into any liquor THe thinges that be dry can not be destilled except they be stiept in some liquor Of theis wil I write in this place Of those that whiles they be new be stiept and wet in some liquor befor thei be destilled I wil speake hereafter amongst waters compoundes in the beginning Although the waters wherof we speake here may be counted among the compoundes Dry thinges therfor first let them be broken and grounde then let them be stiept in some liquor wine vineger rain water or of the wel spring and those ether raw or destilled Vineger and wine are destilled for this purpose somtimes once sometimes ofter or in some other destilled liquor They maye be stiepte also in the iuyce of som herb or plant and that likewise ether rawe orels that is better destilled Aqua vitae rectified semeth to agre best to the stieping of spyces except we wil auoyd to much heat wherwith the thynges destilled in them myghte be infected withall when the liquor is drawne awaye Some still Cinnamon beaten with spring water poured to it as we shall shewe amongste Oyles Sedes also and other spices wheroute oyle is taken are stiept in some of the forsaid liquors It is best according to my iudgement to destill all these thinges dry thinges I meane infused and poured into anything in ashes with a softe fire Of waters of vertues or golden waters that are wont to be made with saudge other smelling herbes spices set in wine I wil speke within amongst the coÌ„pounded waters of them that are put in burning water emongst the composed waters of life It is to be considered also how long they staÌ„d to soke in wine for new thinges they y t be thin or opeÌ„ not massy nede les time theÌ„ dry grosse and thick beaten things theÌ„ hole the rotes then the sedes spices they againe les then the herbs Read befor wheÌ„ we gaue rules of y e preparacion of things to be destilled The coÌ„mon custom is to destil theÌ„ almost only dry set in wine first a fewe daies as spices smelling herbes But all other things also whose smel or tast what maner so euer it be we wil haue kept in the liquor destilled they are rightly destilled by soking in wine as I taughte afore also whereas I made mention of wormwod water of the preseruation of the vertues of remedies in y e waters destilled And surely in those which when they are new abound w t much moisture therfore haue y e les smel as gentian astrantia y e flour deluce y â— beries of iuniper other I wold more alow y e liquors of drithinges set in wine or other wher but if y e thinges be thin or slendar or of no sauor or ought to coul moisteÌ„ they should be destilled rather new Sometimes the time of the yeare causeth a man to take dryethinges because of the lacke or scarsity of fresh Gentian water Take .iiii. pounds of the fresh and new rotes or rather dry cut in small peces of great Gentian or white Gentian whose rotes are moste fat and beinge set in wine they nether corrupte them selues nor suffer the wine to corrupt as I haue tried my self by the space of these ii â–ª yeres set in a couple of great glasses in a stoufnie the fornace or hang them if you wil the glasses diligeÌ„tly stopt and put into them pure good wine so much that the wine be .ii. fingers aboue theÌ„ you shal euer put new wine vnto them stil til the rotes wil drinke no more and so the wine being aboue it a two fingars as I saide let the glasses stand a moneth and at length put theÌ„ into .ii. cucurbitas y e wine and the rotes destributed together destil them in Balneo Mariae or els in ashes with a soft fire Of the water of Centory y â— les and gentian together destilled in wine
reade within amongst composed waters Iuniper beries also dry set in wine geue a very good liquor swiet smellinge but wormwode soked a few daies geueth a water very effectuall and most bitter and the more if it be destilled in ashes which both waies I haue tried Pelitory other fresh or dry is set in wine or vineger destilled or vndestiâ—led â–ª These thynges also sookte in burnynge water as I sayde do communicate theyr strength wyth it but I heare it is done muche moore effectuallye if the thynges be beaten at the beginnynge and myxte wyth the lyes of wine redye to bee destylled for of theese rather then of wine the men of our country draw Aqua vitae So also did one teache me in counsell as a greate secreate that Wormwode water and other maye be best made I haue not tried it yet Water of Roses wyth drye Roses is so made Pour water to dry Roses not more theÌ„ is sufficient to stiep them in then put them from thence into glasen cucurbitas or leaden and destill them by little and little This water shall be profitable in medicins and also to garnishing and trimming or to the smel Ther was a certain man put to one pound of dry Roses ten pouÌ„d of water and destilled Rose water indifferente good But thys is not done saue when a man hathe not newe to make Rose water of Bulcasis If the Roses whyche we call commonly incarnation Roses dried moystned with the vapor of hot water be destilled they wil geue good Rose water Syluius The water of the nux vomica or spueinge nut or the iuice gotten out with fire is like the water in colour not in smel or tast the chiefest remedy against poysoÌ„ Cardanus in his second buke de subtilitate And a little after If the poyson newly taken remain yet in the stomake the best kind of remedies be they that prouoke much to vomit stroÌ„gly milke lie oyle the water of the spewing nut I suppose he meaneth by the iuyce gotten out by the fire nothinge els but the water destilled thereof For he nameth water that is like it in colour not in smel nor tast which agreeth with destilled waters But when as the spewing nut euery whit is most hard and dry it apeareth that his shel must be sookt in some liquor as water wine vineger Aqua vitae I wold soke it rather in vineger whiche by it self resisteth poyson and is good to prouoke vomitting Waters destilled of new and fresh plaÌ„ts saith Brunsvvick ought to be preferred whiche if they can not be had ether for some other cause or because they be brought out of straunge countryes only dry as spicknarde lauander stichae scoenantum the hard time c. Thou shalt destill oute of them dry in this manner In the month of May euery yere before the sunne rise when it hath not rained the hole night the sky is fair thou shalt gather dew out of som medow ful of diuers kind of herbes and flours no watery ground nor wet nor in a holow place but rather vpon some hil if it be possible Thou maist gather it thus draw a fair linnen cloth sprede abrode vpon the grasse til it haue dronken much of the dew then wryng it out into some vessell and draw it again and fill it euer wringing it out againe til thou haue gathred inough This dew thou shalt destil thrise in Balneum Mariae and rectifye it also in the sunne that is in hot sand for the space of xl daies and kepe it a yere TheÌ„ what time of the yere so euer thou lakst liquor of dry herbes do thus Take as many herbs as thou list dried in the shadow the leaues being taken away and kepte apart by theÌ„ selues put them in a glasse and pour vpon them thrise so much water of dewe or at thre times so that first thou power on so much that the herbes be sufficieÌ„tly ouercouered with water and againe twis so muche Then set it in hors dung twoo or three daies still it and putrifie it againe so that it be thrys putrified and destilled by course in order This water surely shal be muche better then if a man as Bulcasis wryteth to one pound of dry roses or other herbes or floures shall put ten pouÌ„d of common water and destill it by and by A certaine cunning phisicion wryteth that if water bee destilled out of dry thinges after this forsaid maner sooke in dew not thrys only destilled but nyn tymes it shal be better water then if it were made of freshe and newe thinges whiche haue muche fleame in them The same affirmeth that dew nyn times destilled doth drawe out the vertues out of the herbes that be put in it no les then aqua vitae Hitherto Brunsvvick And in the dew it selfe also there is a certaine medicinall vertue as Brunsvvick techeth in an other place to be in the water therof destilled In the falling sicknes if thou make a cake of meale knod with nighterly dew of saint Iohn and bake it vnder the ashes then giue it to the sicke to eate thei say it wil make him hoal AlexaÌ„der Benedictê° Of quint essence of remedies QVint essence they name to be the chief and the heauenliest power or vertue in any plant me tall beast or in the partes therof which by y e force and puritie of the hoale substaunce not by any elimentall or sensible qualitie although it be not without qualities conserueth the good health of mans body prolongeth a mans youthe differeth age and putteth away all maner of diseases Of this first of al meÌ„ writ RaimuÌ„dus Lullê° although it wer vnknowen to al the physicians of his time nether written of in any booke nor tryed or gone aboute in any vse After him foloweth besides other Iohannes de Rupe scissa whome one certain man thinkes he flourished before Lullus as I writ afore I iudge they were both in one tyme Hieronimus Brunsvvick Philippus Vlstadius and perauenture a few other whiche writ sumwhat of the same Sum kind therof is simple as y t moste famous quint essence of wyne or Aqua vitae of chelidony or selandyn of mans bloud of strawberys of Antimonii c. Other ar coÌ„pounde that is wheÌ„ certain remedies ar put to sum quint essence now perfited y t it may draw out y t vertues of theÌ„ wherunto gold y t may be drunken ought to be assribed But here springeth a doute saith Cardane whether a man may make y e water teÌ„perat which thei cal quint essence It wil be as I shal proue of the nature of the firmameÌ„t that is a most pure thin substance moueable which by the mouing reteineth a temperat heat very muche therof This thefor is of power to coÌ„serue al strengths topro long life For being most subtil it mixith it self w t the first moistur pearcing the massy thinges separateth the excremeÌ„ts which be coÌ„teined therin And because it hath much
e fire or set it on fire with a candle it wil burne but not cōsume nor waste nether leue any sign of burntnes in y e cloth If so be it part of this water when the sun shineth hot be put in a dishe or boule and thrown into thair with a strinkle it will make a great cloude and thicke sodenly and mitigateth the heat of the sunne for a great space It stauncheth the floures of wemen it kepeth a man from sweating it stirreth vp the appetite it putteth away the head ache speciallye that cometh of a hot cause or by the heat of the sunne It vtterly staūcheth and putteth awaye cleane the Canker To conclude it hath manye and great vertues for it is medicinable in hot causes as Aqua vitae in cold Wherfore the vse therof is good in all agues as well hoat as burning agues in all hoat diseases and grieues of the eyen and head that cōmeth of heat also againste the irkesumnes and lothsumnes of the stomack for the diseases called Lupus and the fistula and the pain of the syde the heat of the priuy members through the act of generation and all diseases aboute thies priuy partes what hot causes so euer thei cum of And after the deliueraunce of wemen it is very proffitable if a cloth be dipt in it and laid vpon the wombe or mother the preuy place and vpon the place where the grief is if the grief be outward if it be inward then take some of it and mynister it by the way of a glister If ther be any fault in the stomack take of it morning and euening half an egge shell full ▪ If a mans yard be sore within let therof be conueied in by a pype for that purpose Against the obstructions and stoppinges of the liuer splene and other diseases of hoat causes wette a linnen cloth therin and lay it to the diseased syde thrys a day for it purgeth the bloud very greatly but you must take good hede that the cloth that is moystened therwith roole not vpon the stomack nor cum nye it A certain water in Raymund Lullus booke of waters semeth to be of the lyke operation which he describeth in this wyse A water compounded accordinge to the contrary of Aqua vitae Take whyte Camphora roses whyt pople and blacke lettis cichory porsulane violets Solanū or night shade maidenhear cymbalaris singrene vermicularis rostrum porcinum cardicellum The leaues that be to be punned let them be punned and destilled Of the extracting and dravvyng forth of all the vertues of Chelidonia or selandine by the whiche example euery man of any vnderstanding may vse to drawe out the vertues also of other planetes BY the quint essence of selandin Ioan. Brasescus thinkes sumwhat els to be allegorically vnderstāded as I declared before wher we entreated of quint essence generally Chelidonia Selādin saith Vlst hath innumerable vertues and the quint essence therof which we wil teache here to get out goeth to the making of potable gold or gold that may be drunck Selandine when it is moste rype take it with the herbe routes and floures cut it small beate it in a morter then put it in a cucurbitam or body of a still of earth glased when the body is ful shit it close and clay it round aboute then set it in now hors dung for the space of iii. weekes After put it in a limbeck and destill it in Balneo Mariae with a slow fyre and the fleame shall auoyde out of it Then shall you drawe out the dregges and when they are very fine ground vpon a marble stone put thē again in a cucurbita with a blynde lymbeck and let them stand in Balneo Mariae a seuennight or in hors dung mo daies Afterwarde the matter by litle and litle being couled put on a nosed limbeck and destill it in ashes according as in the .x. chap. of the separation of oyle from the earth we haue spoken and there shall issue oute a clear water conteining in it selfe aire and water Thou shalt separate the water from the aire in a new cucurbita by Balneo Mariae with an easy fire for the fleam shall ascende and the oyle remayne whiche thou shalt reserue and kepe Then shalt thou grynde the dregges agayne vpon a marble stone and power .iiii. partes of the fleam to one of the dregges mixt them and incorporate thē and let them stande in Balneo Mariae seuen days at the last thou halt destill thē in sand with a great fire and the fleame shall issue oute first then a radishe water or rather an oyle whiche is the element of fyre from the whiche thou shalte separate the fleame in Balneo Mariae as is before sayde But the dregges that left whiche conteyne nothinge els but earth must bee vrged with a stronge fyre and brought vnto lyme by the space of ten daies that is in a fornace of calcination or reuerberation or a very lyme kiln as I haue taught in the tenth chap. Then grynd them again vpon a marble stoone and sooke them in the fleame and lette them be destilled in a limbeck vntill you see in the matter lyttle whyte stoones lyke salt And this salt must againe bee dissolued with water out of whiche you haue destilled it and after you shall destill it again and againe so ofte vntill the earth chaunce and put away from it all vncleane and earthy colour be brought to a very whyte to the whytnes of wax and so it shal be rectified earth The other elementes also ought to be rectified so that euerye one bee destilled seuen tymes powring euery time the fleam to the aire and fier and after separating them as is afore said When as thou wilt do this an easier way dissolue euery elemēt with his own water by equall portiōs c. whiche I let pas bycause they are declared sumwhat obscurely There is also an other way more subtill to reduce euery element to his perfection or quintessence but it must be presupposed that euery element be first iustified Then let it be put in a vessel of circulation in hors dung or in Balneo Mariae xxx daies and then destill it againe So shall the very body as a gros matter be chaunged into spirite or moste subtill and pure substance Sum do it with more ease taking foure partes of earth and one part of one of the foure elements whiche a man wil and by digesting after the forsaid maner and circulating .xxx. daies they dooe chaunge any element into quintessence The matter is iudged to be sufficiētly circulated whan the quintessence swimmeth aboue the other matter Of the vertues of euery one of the liquors of Selandine The element of the water is good for al the diseases of the body both hoat cold It tempereth also al the veines about the hart and driueth all ve nom from the hart it cureth al the diseases that chaunce vnto the lunges It
herbes seedes or routes and poure it again vpon his owne dreges then digest it by the space of seuen daies and afterwarde destill it by ashes the very same way as it is sayd afore of selandin that euery element may be had seuerally and that rectified Of quint essence of mans bloud egges fleshe and hony HOwe quint essence is gotten out of maÌ„s bloud egges and fleshe reade Vlstadi ' the xiiii chap. They put vnto them the tenth part of salt wherwith they ar wel mingled putrified and destilled and that four tymes by cours first the one then the other and at length they are perfited by long circulation vntil they come to the moste swietnes of sauoure and pure fynnes of substance Lullus also in his first booke the .iiii. chap. mencioneth of quint essence but the printed bookes left out that that salt must be added vnto it It semeth that salt may ryghtly be added to the destilling of moyste thinges specially those that woulde easely corrupte suche as chiefly the partes of beastes are A moste precious water of Albertus magnus as I found it in a certain wryten booke Destill the bloud of a healthfull man by a glas as men dooe rose water With this any disease of the body if it be anoynted therewith is made hoale and all inwarde diseases by the drinking thereof A small quantitie therof receiued restoreth theÌ„ that haue lost all their strength it cureth the palsey effectuously and preserueth the body from all sicknes Tobe short it healeth all kyndes of diseases All be it I can nether allow the making of medicines for men of mans bloud whiche although reason and experience would moue vs vnto it yet religioÌ„ semeth to forbid it namely when there is so many other medicines c. Nether yet do I lyke the preparation of this Albertus water if it be his when as he wylles it to be destylled only once and simpely The composition that followeth hath more reason with it whiche I founde also in the same written booke Holy oyle or lyfe oyle bycause it preserueth the lyfe of man of Hevve Gordones wherewith he cured many mooste greuous diseases Three pounde of read bloud of a helthfull man or helthfull men of .xxv. or thyrty yeare olde Spermaceti the mary of neet of ether a pounde Lette them be destilled in a lymbeck well clayed and closed and a water shall issue oute first whyte the next pale the thyrde yellowe the fourth read and sumwhat thycke An oyle so destylled when the moone encreaseth and decreaseth therefore they name it holy If so be it then gyue a sycke man that hath loost boeth all his strengthe and speeche three dropes with a lyttle wyne he shall bothe speake by and by and be stronger If a man euerye daye drynke a drop of this oyle with a sponfull of wyn he shall become lusty in mynde and strong in body throughoute all his membres and shall proroge and put of age very longe and shall be hurt with no poyson It cureth also fistulas old breaches and temporall byles if they become sumwhat drye before with the washyng of wyne Anoynt freshe woundes therewith and it healeth them in three dayes It cureth the fyges or blaines of the fundament without and within It healeth diuers diseases the Leprosy the Morphew the Palsy and other if a man fastyng drynke a droppe of it with whyte wyne Many boaste muche of mannes bloud sublimated as a certayne man Bartholomevve de Montaguana made at Padua but surely he was ignoraunt howe to prepare it whiche if thou wylt vse make it on this wyse Take the bloud of sanguin yong meÌ„ vsing a good diet whyles it is newly letten and let it stande a whyle and put away the water that swymmeth aboue theÌ„ with a litle salt punned chauf it a good and put it in a vessell well closed and clayed after set it in hors dung fortie daies At the length destill it certaine tymes euer powring the water againe vpon the dregs At the last thou shalt haue a marueilous water which being mixt with sum zulapio ielup as we call it is wonderfull proffitable to them that haue the hecticall feuer It shal be y e better if after it be destilled you put it to stiep again in hors dung fortie daies A man may also mixt other holsome medicines for the hectical persones together with the bloud Gnaynerius To draw out the foure elementes from mans bloud read the booke of Ioh. Geniuetus called the friend of physicions 4. 7. Of mans bloud destilled simpely read Brunsvvick in the duche booke of destillacioÌ„s He writeth that this water and the water of mans excrementes and ordure if they be mixt together will bryng to pas certain marueylous thinges My hart riseth against suche medicines and abhorreth them Io. Bracescus is of this opinion that the olde wryters woulde signify allegorically some other thing that of metall when they speake of mans bloud as I recited before wher I write of quint essence generally Vlstadius in the .x. chap. of his booke called the Heauen of philosophers wher he teacheth how quint essence of wine is made euery element drawne out apart by him self And thys sayth he which is destilled in the seuenth time is called mannes bloude whiche the destillers chieflye searche and it is verye ayre This saithe he In deede the liquor of the aire whiche in the mooste parte of destilled thinges is oylye semeth to be called by the name of mans bloude for as much as our bodye consisteth of foure humors as elements wherof the blud is compared to air hot moyst somwhat fatâ—y c. But Ihon Brasescus mans blud is a certain metally thing so called of the color For the extracting and drawinge out of quint essence from honi which goeth to y â— making of potable gold read Vlstadius the .xii. chap. and .xxii. whereas he prescribeth also diuers waies to gather thre maner of waters and reherseth the vertues wherof he spake nothinge in the .xii. chap. declared to get out only two diuers waters Of quint essence of metals IHon Brasescê° in the dialog of Raimund and Demogorgon when he had affyrmed that quint essence whiche is profitable to the preseruacion and lengethening of mannes life can not be had of anye other thing theÌ„ of metals only he addeth at leÌ„gth When as accordinge to the opinion of the auncient philosophers euery metall after theyr simiâ—itude vertue name coloure and proprietie are coÌ„prehended in euery metall as it is plainly declared in the boke of the expositioÌ„ of Gebrus bokes therfore this our medicin also although it be extracted and drawn out of som one metal only yet neuertheles it shall haue the vertue of al metals and plantes and the vertue ouer the hole bodye of man to heale manye infirmities that be curable Ioan de Rupescissa speking of our radical and naturall moisture and of quint essence vnder the name of Aqua vitae wolde signify the
same for he saith that burning water doth conteine in it selfe the good vertue of all metals and that it is not the water of the vine but of life because it geueth life vnto men He that will knowe more of thys thing and more plainly let him read the dialoge of the same Brasescus wherein he expoundeth Gebrus Of the dravving out of quint essence from Antimonia lead white lead out of Vlstadius QVint essence of antimonio is thus made Incorporate and mingle the pouder of antimonii most finely beaten with most sharpe vineger destilled and let it stande til the vineger be tourned into a very red colour Then driue the vinegar oute and in a cleane vessell put other destilled vinegar vppon the antimonium and set ouer a little fyre till the vineger be colored â–ª This shal you repete so ofte till the vinegar will be colored no more So much of the vinegar as is colored thou shalt destill it in a limbecke in ashes Firste the vineger it selfe will run oute after thys thou shalt see a matter issue forthe of a thousande couloures and thys is that quint essence whyche is called of the Philosophers Philosophers leade and of some virgines milke it differeth notwithstandinge from it whereof shall be spoken here after saithe Vlstadius it is almoste like blessed oyle in coloure Put thys in a Pellican to be circulated for the space of fortye dayes It dryeth vp woundes and is profitable for all woundes in steade of Balme for it cureth all woundes easelye and quicklye it is merueilous good for all impostumes Yea also quint essence is extracted and drawn oute of leade or white leade after the same manner as out of antimonio pouringe destilled vineger vpon it that the vineger be ouer it foure fyngers deepe after let it be digested in dunge as it is sayde of quint essence of hearbes and floures Then let it be destilled and fyrste ye shall see the vineger it selfe ascende vp after that a certaine liquor like to oyle And thys also is called oyle of lead or quint essence of leade and it hathe in it a certaine swietnesse lyke â–ª as the oyle of antimonii It is good againste all burnynges wyth fyre and hot water as also againste itches as ringe-wormes and chollericke bladders But a manne muste noote that the white lead oughte firste to bee washed often with water of Rooses dreiuynge it by a linnen clothe vntil none of the pouder of the white lead remain in it Then wheÌ„ it is dried reserue it to your vse So doth Bulcasis Ioan of Sanct Amandus vpon the Andidotarie of Io. Mesuae wil to be done Of the drawing forth of quint essence out of diuers metals as golde siluer lead tin vitriol or coproos iron coper brimston read orpment yalow ocker antimonio and marchaâ—â—ta leaden who so listeth let him read in Lullius in his booke of quint essence The spirit or quint essence of vitriol is coÌ„mended of certaine men against the falling sicknesse and Apoplexia or the benumninge of the sences The spirit of gold against the diseases of the lyuer The spirit of â—irall againste the stone of the raines and bledder But of these and certaine other we shall speake hereafter amongste oyles of metals and otherwhere Of diuers kindes of Aqua vitae composed VVAters of life composed are proprelye called when as certaine medicins are stieped in the veri Aqua vitae and destilled together improperly when as they are put to after not destilled together Ther be also waters of vertue or golden as they cal theÌ„ when as the medicins stieptfirst not in Aqua vitae but in wine but of which we wil write hereafter certain of these haue many things commun w t those that we describe here sauing that they are les vehement and les hoat and drye Sum sortes of aqua vitae are commauÌ„ded to be made simpely putting the medicines into y â— aqua vitae other into aqua vitae thrys or foure tymes destilled Sum there bee also to whome a certaine tyme of infusion or digestioÌ„ is prescribed as xiiii daies c. Sum are put in punned in the beginning â–ª other hoal and broken after a certain daies fermentacion and stieping Sum are destilled on ly once other twys or thrys And sum only in Balneo Mariae other in Balneo Mariae once ortwys thirdly in ashes as that which Vlsta describeth xlvi chap. although there is nothing elles done but infusioÌ„ in wyne In the same authour .xliiii. chap. Aqua vitae is described to be destilled thrys the first water wherof is called Blessed the secoÌ„d Aqua vitae the third the mother of balm Againe the destillatioÌ„ of certain is repeted twys or thrys that the water first destilled be always powred again vpon his groundes or dregges as Vlstad teacheth in the .xlix. and .lvi. chap. Also sum are commaunded to be drawen out with a slow fyre in Balneo Mariae Other in the same with a strong fyre as the the water described in Vlstadius xlvi chap. Many tymes in the first destillacion only freshe herbes and freshe seedes are put with the aqua vitae and dry swiet smelling thinges spyces and other also hony is added after to the water drawen out of the herbes or seedes and then are they destilled again afterward amber moske and camphora put vnto it thirdly folding the limbeck euery fote with moyst clothes with the whytes of egges and bran together Reade Vlstad li. chap. and .lvi. Concerning the matter none almoste is composed without spices vnto diuers also swiet smelling herbes are added vnto some bothe the flowers and the siedes sumtymes also other destilled waters Also malmsey hony sugar figes To conclude vnto some hoale peces of golde I suppose it to be added in vain except it be queÌ„shed in the liquor But all thies thinges shall appeare more plain by examples Vlstadius described .xiiii. kindes of aqua vitae composed whiche we let pas because of breuitie shortnes We reade in Vlsta the .liii. chap. of aqua vitae with spices and hony c to be destilled in Balneo Mariae and an other lykewyse but without hony the .liiii. chap. Vlstadius describeth a certain marueilous aqua vitae in the .lvi. chap. First he bids to digest diuers freshe and new medicines in Balneo Mariae xiii daies in aqua vitae powred vnto them then to bee destilled in ashes with a slow fire After he addeth spyces and other dry thinges and bids digest theÌ„ xiiii daies and destill them again in Balneo Mariae Afterward he added camphoram rhabarb safron amber and mosch If so be it saith he thou wilt haue the water yet better put vnto it certain precious and costly powders or spyces of confections made of amber made of mosen made of precious stones c. and a fewe ducates of the fynest gold with halfe a pounde of sugar and thou shalt digest it three daies in warm water of Balneo Mariae
afterwarde destill it by a filtrum or list of wollen cloth in croked glases well clayed so that the one glas stand higher then the other And this saith he is the moste excellent Aqua vitae amoÌ„gst all other An aqua vitae whiche may be a remedy against the moste part of diseases put rosemary cinamoÌ„ geloflowers ginger and maces and two or three peces of gold whiche will bee neuer a whit the wors for being thus vsed into aqua vitae foure tymes destilled Vse this water .iiii. tymes destilled morning and euenyng before slepee It dryueth awaye dyuers kyndes of diseases and restoreth youthe What aqua vitae can dooe wherein rosemary is stieped see hereafter where we make mencion of oyle of rosemary Take three vnces of Dianthos made with sugar put it in three poundes of wyne three dayes or in water of wyne destilled once for olde men that is that whiche cummeth furth first not that whiche runneth last moreouer lette it be destilled by a Filtrum Sum destil it in a lymbeck and keepe it vnto their vse Sum mixt the thyrd parte of Rosatae nouellae that they may asswage the heat and dryth of the Dianthos An aqua vitae against pestilence Take Rewe Sage the floures of lauendula maioran wormwod rosemary red roses blessed thistle pimpernell Tormentill valerian the beryes of Iuniper beries of baies terrae sigil that is grouÌ„d sill bole armoniack prepared of euery one two drames Dictamni angelica bistorta the bark of citron melissa commonly called baulm zeduaria inulae cam gentian rhaponticum or centory of euery one thre drames Coriander prepared flowers of borage buglose sandali or saunders whyt and red the sede of sorell basill rewbarbe ben whyte and read the graines of paradisi peper of euery one a dram and a halfe ginger two drammes Cinnamon saffroÌ„ spyces of confections against pestilence electuarii liberatis lectuarii of precious stones diamoschi y â— is swiet diacameron diambre diarhodon abbatis laetificantis Almansoris of euery one a dram Calami arom egloflowers maces nutmegges cubeba rum cardamomi galingall agallochi of euery two scrup The bon of the hart of a hart spiknard cam phora of euery one halfe a dram eight leaues of gold half a scrup of mosch chosen triacle .iiii. vnces Mithridaâ—ii two vnces Sublimated and rectified wyne two quartes Destill theÌ„ in a limbeck Aqua vite against pestilence proued and vsed with great and marueilous succes by a certain physicion of our tyme of Solodurn in Heluetia the yere of our Lord. 2547. In so much that scarsly euery tenth of them that receiued it died TAke the best perles Hyacinct of the east mother of perles corall whyte and read of euery one .ii. ounces halfe an ounce of the horne of an vnicorn saffron mirhe Boli armon terrae sigillatae zedoriae Venetae wode of aloes euory Mithridatii triacle of Alexandria chosen cinnamon ben white and red the barke of a citron and the sedes of euery one two ounces al sortes of saunders of euery one an ounce a half The litle bones of y e harte of a hart .xii. of them the kirnels of peony beries of iuniper of ether .xl. Conserue of buglos ii ounces The rotes of tormentil coÌ„mon dictaÌ„ni inulae astrantia selandine coÌ„mon Lybistici morsus diaboli ari Valeriane that kind of Saxifrage whiche the Germans call bibinel angelica of the rotes of euerye one of these hearbes .ii. ounces Sage Scabious Rew wild mint peny royall the les centauri Wormwode white Rooses and Red of euerye one a handfull Liquors destilled of Rosemary Gentian Melissa or baulme Betain wilde Roses sonchos or cicerbita called sowthistle or gose thistle of the Dutch menne or blessed thistle hyssope floures of Burrage bigger plantaine floure Deluice of euerye one .v. ounces These thus gathered together take the liquors of them destilled in Balneo Mariae accordinglye and mingle them with the best old Elseter wine or rather wyth .iiii. poundes of Aqua vitae vi times destilled put them in a stronge cucurbita of glasse that wil hold .iiii. good ale quartes which thou shalt claye well and let it stande in Balneo Mariae iiii daies Afterwarde then thou shalt burne the hyacinctes coralles Pearles and mother of perles into pouder as men do lim grind them vpon marble diligently til thou canst fele no roughnes in the pouder Put thys pouder into some vessell and make it with Rose water into a liquor what so euer remaineth sharp or rough which is not mixt with the water grinde it again and wash it the second time A man maye resolue the coralles into water when they are once pund or ground setting them in the iuice of Berberies which way is better theÌ„ the other After this beat the rotes meanly and likewise the sedes of the iuniper and paeony the herbes thou shalt cut Afterwarde put the herbes rotes and precious stones moystened and made liquid with the Rose water into a strong glasen cucurbita that will holde sixe great ale quartes there about I ges .vi. Dutche mooses to bee which I thinck he meaneth by MeÌ„suras and pour vpon them the Aqua vitae whych is dygested wyth the destylled liquors in Balneo Mariae and when the cucurbita is defended closed round about with clay of wisdom put it into a pit digged in a moyst place as in som celler vnder th earth .ii. cubits diep iiii cubites or there aboute wide and loÌ„g which thou shalt fil with hors duÌ„g and lime strawed and laid by courses now one lai er of the one now an other of the other til it be .ii. fote aboue the pit In the midst hereof thou shalt let the cucurbita stand for a monthe then take the dung away by little and litile and the matter whiche it conteineth to be destilled thou shalt destribute it into .vi. les cucurbitas and destil them in Balneo Mariae with so slow a fire that from the falling of one drop til the falling of an other thou maiste tell one .ii. iii .iiii. till thou come at ten For thou must in any wise take hede that the bath be not to hot wheÌ„ the destillacion is once ended stur the dregs that be left in euery one of the cucurbitas with a sticke moderatlye and poure the water that is drawne oute of them in againe and destill them again with a slow fire as before When this destillacion is once ended pour out all the dregs and distribute the liquors gathered in .vi. cucurbits into .ii. cucurbits of .iii. greate ale quartes a pece and destill them in Balneo Marie gentlelye So hast thou a treasure and an incomparable remedye againste the pestilence The vse thereof is bothe to preserue and also to cure prouokynge a sweete after the drinking therof So sone as any manne perceiueth him selfe enfected with the pestilence so that it bee wythin xxiiii houres that it enfecteth hym for after that tyme there is
merueilous and innumerable against al colde diseases It is made in this wise c. he describeth streight way the maner of destilling biserpentins as they call them he addeth also other thinges which all do agree with the simple Aqua vite in so much that I suppose the boke to be corrupted by the fault of the Printer VVhat medicines be mixt vvith Aqua vitae without any destillation first within the body then without MAny times instrumentes time or cost faileth a man that those medicines whose strength he wold haue in his aqua vitae as though it were by a certain metempsy chosin y â— is a transposinge of the soules or principal vertues he can not mixt them with it by destilation whiche onely waye is the chief and best of al other to mixt thinges together for both by disgestioÌ„ as though it were a preparation in a moderat heat first one mixture is made then in destillation twyse as muche first of the vapours by the least and moste pure partes of the spirites then by dropes when they gather together into water but circulatioÌ„ is it that bringeth a perfectnes and absolutnes to all mixtures and without doubt no mixtur that men deuise or inuent can more properly and ny imitate the naturall mixture whiche is plain by this argument taken of the ende and effect for thinges prepared in this wyse and mixed do les corrupt then by any other meanes and hauing gotten a certain moste simple and moste pure substaunce that they seme to the sence to be simple and of an airy or a fytte substaunce they attain vnto a certain incorruptioÌ„ as nye as may be This is euideÌ„t loke how much any thyng shall haue the partes wherof it consisteth les exactly and throughly mixt so muche the nerer it is to corruption whiche first and chiefly in those bodies that are called metâ—ora that is thinges bred on hy in the firmameÌ„t moreouer in many other thinges mixed ether by nature or by arte is easy to be vnderstanded But for so muche as in so diuers states of men sum for one hinderaunce sum for an other thei can not alwayes folow that whiche is best if quint essence can not be made at the least the second or the third or as many as may be let the destillacions be repeted with a slow fire for any mixture is done better by litle and litle and slowly then sodenly and violently And if a man can not destill together with the aqua vitae the medicines whose strengthe he desyreth to mixt with it yet at the least wyse let them be broken and stiept a whyle in it for it draweth vnto it the vertues of all thinges that are put in it There is a booke of Arnoldes de villa noua or rather of Rogerius whiche I haue written wher in is declared particularly to what diseases and sicknesses what medicines ought to be put to sooke into aqua vitae for euery part of the body which he doth attribute to the twelue signes of y e zodiak It is well knowen in many ages hitherto that gentian is the best preseruatiue against certaine moste greuous diseases and poysons but sum vse to power the pouder of the same with burning water as muche more effectual into the throotes of beastes whome they knowe or thinke to be hurte with poyson in their meet or drinke or els by byting or stinging and if gentian can not be gotten the burning water by it selfe To the remedy of certain sicknesses of man specially of the bulke or brest apomeli may be put for both certain men couÌ„t it otherwise for dainty to haue apomeli mixt with burning water also a toost of breed mixt therwith many take for a breekfast A maÌ„ may also against diuers sicknessess giue men to drinke the water of gentiaÌ„ artificially destilled with wyn mixt after with apomeli or swiet hypocras Wormwood wyn most excellent sum make on this wyse they power to the leaues of wormwod specially when it is dried the best burning water and so much malmsey Of this they take a little sponefull and mixt with a litle draught of wyn so giue it to drinke So is it made by and by and effectually and is long preserued I my self gaue it once to drinke for the colick and had good succes The same meanes a man may vse also in other as wel herbes as spices c. For both the vertue is drawen out so in a short space and the drink is also the more plesaunt and besides that it may be kept long inough Grien aqua vitae Take Melissa called baulm balsamita dried both in the shadowe of the first .iii. vnces of the other two vnces put them into .iiii. poundes of aqua vitae destilled fowre tymes in Balneo Mariae eight daies then vse it ether alone or mixting with it other kyndes of aqua vitae composed to comforte the stomake The herbes must bee dried in the shade that the colour may bee made grien and moste beutifull For if a man dry them in the sun the water shall proue darke as the iuice of any other herbe Vlstad lvi chap. A man may also dy it with other colours whiche may encrease both the grace of y e coloure and the strength of the medicin as with saffron with red or yallow parsnipes dried Sum put to it in summer black sower cheries whereby also the tast is made more plesant and the heet is les perauenture moor asswaged Sum put into burning water mint cut beaten and set it in the sun foure daies or fiue then sighe it and set it in the sun again With this they wiet the tip of their noos against corrupt and pestilent ayre ¶ Hereafter will I put the vse of burning water with other medicines without the body Many mixt a litle burning water with hoot oynmentes as Martiatum Arragon dialthaea at suche tyme as they should vse them and wil them so to be annoynted vpon the griefes A water that norysheth and restoreth the heat of the brayn wherewith the head is to be rubbed Two vnces of aqua vite Moschocarium Cloues maioram cubebe long peper of euery one halfe a dram When they are pound mixt them and rub them vpon the head a certain space Sum put to it a scruple of euphorbium Epiphanius a practicioner other put to other smellinge and hoot things as sage six vncees rew ginger graynes of paradys cinnamum flowers ot rosemary the bark of a citron of euery one half an vnce an vnce of oyle de bay a dram of spik a dram and a half of castoreum And in a destilled liquor they hang mosch amber of ether of theÌ„ a graine Thys they say is good to annoynt the hed and also with the smell it putteth away the palsy and apoplexia A merueylous water of the same mannes for the impostumes or botches of the priuye members Three yolkes of egges hard rosted and cut small pun them in
a morter poure in to them ten ounces of Aqua vitae wyth a scruple of Alam .ii. drams of Camphora and a halfe of rust all pund together when they are stiept a while streine thē wyth strength throughe a linnen cloth wet a linnen cloth in this liquor and laye it vpon the swelling .iii. or .iiii. times a daye thou shalt meruel at the working of it A vvater to vvashe the partes taken with the Palsey MYrrha aloes ladanum right turpentin castoreum of euery one .ii. drams zedoria Galangall cubaebae Nutmegs long peper pyretrum of euery one .iii. drams The little white Dasy with the red tops iua Arthritica stichas Arabica sage Maioram mint penye royall the les Centaurye Roosemarye of enerye one halfe an ounce when they are all punde poure them into .xii. poundes of destilled Aqua vitae iii. dayes As I founde in a certaine wrytten booke but perauenture there is to muche Aqua vitae For to euery pounde thereof vi drams only with a scruple perauenture of the species are put In the disease called the French pockes somtimes the iawes and throte are eaten wyth euyll destillaciōs whiche onles a man finde remeadye for oftentimes the gargil is wasted oftentymes the corruption passeth to the very bones Therefore a man muste purge them and turne them aside c. There is a marueylous water made for the same purpose They destill Triacle in Aqua vitae and vineger in a limbeck a most cleare water issueth out of many vertues but chiefly it helpeth where the strength of the medicine oughte to be conducted sōwhat diep if therfore thou dissolue in it bole armoniak or sphragida and touche the partes that be freten thou shalt both kil the cause of that contagion heale al the freting Fracastorius in his .iii. boke of contagions Of destilled vvaters composed but wyth other then wyth Aqua vitae SVche waters as are destilled of two or mooe medicines mixte together I call them composed Of thys sort some are vsed for medicine some for smellinge some are inuented for garnishinge trymmynge and deckynge There be some that wyll do two of these or all Notwithstandinge we wyll referre euerye one to one kynde that is wherein it excelleth mooste Againe of theim that be vsed in medicine some are receyued into the bodye other some are minystred onlye wythoute other some bothe wayes We will make onlye two Chapters for all thoughe some bee vsed bothe wayes yet they are moore vsed other wythin and wythoute Agayne of them that bee receyued into the bodye some are moore symple whyche wee shall fyrste descrybe secundarilye those that bee composed of moe Of the kyndes of Aqua vitae composed where the spices are sooked in pure and onlye Aqua vitae we haue written seuerallye by them selues Heare wyll we putte the other as I sayde and those which they call waters of caponum and one with certain medicines put into swines bloud To be sooked in wine and after to bee destylled it seemeth to bee ordeined chieflye for those hearbes and medicines whyche haue little iuyce of them selues as Sage Betanye Melissa called Baulme Wormewode c. whych more ouer by that meanes do retaine more firmlye theyr owne sauoure the wine drawing it and drinking it vp that it canne not dispersed for the thinnesse we shall speake heare of certayne thynges to bee stieped in wyne but whyle they be newe for wee haue entreated of .iiii. dry things stieped in wine other liquor and so destylled Betany commonly called betany and in dutch eerenbreyʒ is stiept in wine a few daies likewise melissa They shall haue the same vertues strengthes but more effectually and more subtil then the herbes by them selues alone Melissa that is citraria saith Lullus let it be put in wine to be destilled Let a man drinke a sponefull of this wine fasting It sharpneth the vnderstanding and the wit encreaseth the memory To a man that stutteth ▪ lay a linnen cloth wet in thys wyne vppon hys tounge and he shall speke right excepte he stut by nature He that is sycke of the palsey let hym drincke it fastinge wyth a litle triacle and he shall be cured perfectly It cureth the stinkinge breath and putteth away touth ache Fleshe or fyshe layde therin corrupte not and may be kepte as longe as a man will Being put into turned wine it restoreth it It breaketh the stone It prouoketh vrine and wemens floures It is good agaynste the fretting of the guttes and pain of the raynes It oughte to be drounken agaynst kirnels vnder the chin and a plaster to be made of the hearbe If it be drunken fastinge it breaketh all inwarde and hid impostumes It healeth all stitches whyche tende towarde the hart or sides It is repugnant against al kinds of worms with in the body It taketh away all corruption of the body quick or dead It healeth al that it toucheth and preserueth it in good health in good quart ▪ It cheareth the spirites it is good for al the members and healeth the kyndes of colde droppes Aboue all thynges it comforteth the synnewes It is moste profitable against scabbednes cumming of could It sharpeneth y e sight of him that drinketh it It taketh away duskishnes teares of and superfluous humors of the eies It is holsome for the brest profitable for cōcoction against euill humors that letteth it Drunken with good wyne it stireth the appetyt It putteth away spots and frakenes of the face that is washt therwith if so be it a litle baulm be put to it then the face washt tnerwith it maketh also good colour It healeth the iawe bones The smell of it killeth al gnates and wormes It cureth the dropsy cumming of a coulde cause and superfluous choler with drinking and washyng Al maner of woundes may be washt well with it and so they shal be preserued from all putrifying It healeth all kindes of agues but moste of all quartaines The drinking of this wyne letteth the diseas of saint Lazarus from encreasing It is good also for them whose brain is perished and for the frantik Also if a man eat a spider by chaunce and drinke this wyne stregthway vpon it he can not be hurt of the poyson Theis wryteth Lullus Melissa beaten is stieptin wyne a night Men say this water destilled and drunkē euery day and holden in the mouth it cureth the benumming of the senses all so the falling sicknes the dropsy the quartain ague and other diuers diseases of black choler or fleume It is ministred also to the strangleng of the wombe and toth ache Remaclus F. A water of the les centory worthy to be compa red vnto gold Take one part of gentian two partes of cētory when they are pund and sookt in wyne fiue daies destill them This water drunke morning and euening preserueth the body from all kyndes of diseases It putteth away all impostumes it maketh good colour It resisteth the pestilence it heleth the
sick of the phthisik it auoydeth the stuffed stomack it breaketh the stone in the reines it separateth and putteth away the watery humors of the splene it helpeth forwarde the flowers if it be drunken nyne daies together in the morning and purgeth the bely Also it purgeth al choler and corrupt bloud It heleth all woundes within the bely it clereth the sight it cureth poysoned bytings to the healing of woundes the pouder of centory also ought to be put vnto theÌ„ Lulliê° in his boke of waters Certain at this day stiep dry routs of geÌ„tian in wyn destil a most effecual water therout The sage and penroyall of ether lyke much when they are beten in a morter destill theÌ„ This water heeteth a man that is ouermuch cold WheÌ„ it is soden with castorium as oft as a maÌ„ drinkes it so many daies it prolongeth his lyfe vntyll the tyme ordeyned of God Nether is it possible for any man to be so greatly couled but if he drinke it with castoriuÌ„ nyn daies he shal be perfectly made hoole Drunken fasting it remoueth the disease of the bely all gutta scabbidnes it maketh good bloud the best colour in the face It is profitable to many other thinges drunk .iii. a day Aegidius A water of iuniper beries stiept in wyn whyles they be newe is destilled I soockt dry beries in wyne wherupon I had very good and swiet lyquor when they were destilled The routes of the flowr deluce beateÌ„ ar stiept in whyt wyne .ii. or .iii. daies and then destilled But the routes of any herbe a man will which are vsed in physick or may be vsed if they be cut small and stiept a certain daies in wyne they yeld a water of the same vertue force but more pure and subtill c. A man must put les wyne to new routes then to dry and perauentur les also to theÌ„ whiche ought to refrigerat and coule or els moderatly to heat wherfor we shall destill the same rather newe and freshe then dried to thintent they may nede y e les wyne or els if new can not be gotten we shall stiep the dried rather in water or in sum other conuenient liquor sumtimes vynegar specially if it be to be vsed without the body Gualterus Riffius reherseth the routes that bee stiept in wyne to bee destilled as hereafter followeth Garlike Angelica whiche sum thynke to be our Alexanders that is sowen and the other that is called water angelica arum hollow aristolochia as they call it coÌ„munly in Germany asaruÌ„ or asarabaccha bistorta bryonia carlina dragones eryngium hibiscus hirundinaria flowre deluce inula Sorrell Lilies Meu or yalowe caret Piony Parsnippes Petasita Pencedanum Pimpernel or rater Saxifrage PolygonatoÌ„ PyretruÌ„ coÌ„moÌ„ radish wild rapes rubia or rubea satyricuÌ„ Scrofularia the bigger Symphytum the bigger Valerian Here whyles he asscribeth to euery one his vertues he makes a hoole booke When as notwithstanding he bringes none other vertues then suche as be attributed to the medicines them selues alone and that before destillacion whiche if he had toucht with one word at the beginning it had been sufficient And truly I maruell seing he wryt forth his bookes with suche earnestnes and endeuoured by all meanes to augment his thinges vnto a huge greatnes why he left out other many routes yea rather why he rehersed not all that be in any vse of physick euery one with his vertues repeted and that he did it not I suppose he lackt no will but remembraunce hinderd with hast The wyld radyshe whiche communly they call the byggar cut small and stiept in wyne a certain daies I wold thinke it would giue an effectuall stilled liquor for it wil lose easely his byting tartnes and leue it of in the liquors wherin it is stiept in so much that euen certain swiet routs as Parsnipes sooked together with them in vinegar becum more tart the slices of Radish leue their tartâ—es Against the stone it may be stiept in vinegar together with the rout of percely and anyse sede c. and to be destilled in asshes The rout of Pyretrum fresh or also dry beaten and stiept in wyne is destilled or also for touthe ache and to cause one vomit vp fleume in vinegar other new or destilled as Riffius teacheth A profitable water againste rottennes of the tethe Mixte the rotes of Pyretrum beaten small with the best wine ye maye get and make a mixture that may be like to Aqua vitae composed WheÌ„ ye will vse it taste a sponefull holde it in youre mouthe in the morninge or whan ye will for ye shall perceiue remeady shortly It healeth weke tieth corrupted holow it pourgeth also and cleareth them It is good also for the putting awaye of all kind of rottennes or vnclennes to auoyd it by spitting one nameles A water against the falling sicknes whereof ii or .iii. sponefull oughte to be geuen in the verye fitte communicated vnto me verye latelye of a frend The water of Angelica which a man mai stiep first in good wine a .iii. daies and the water of Lauendula in equall portions mixte them and geue vnto the pacient Of wine and milcke destilled together it is wrytten before amongste the symple waters of beastes Certaine composed vvaters to be destilled other of the medicines by them selues or wyth well spryng water oute of the treatise of Rogerius 4. cha 6. A Water drawne oute of the leaues of hisop leuisticus sauery Horhound inula the floures of floure deluce and that trifolium whyche beareth many flours about the bignes of a gaule nut whose floures if they be sukt they geue a swiet iuice It dissolueth fleumaticke humors of the brest or chest it fineth the spettle furthers it and breakes it A water destilled of gum Arabeck white tragacanthum lycoris violets Malowes put in water and then destilled It represseth the heate of the brest and correcteth the drines A water of Plantaine quinqueruia Tormentill and Roofes if it be drouncke wyth hote wine it closeth the woundes of the brest of a hot cause and altereth any hot distemperance A water drawne oute of the leaues or floures of white or blacke Iacea Verbafcum Roses sauin the houked burre it amendeth the cold imtemperature of the cheaste and consumeth the fleumaticke humoures and the woundes of the cheaste comminge of a colde cause it healeth them and closeth them A water destilled of Minte Betain Melissa Balsamita Sauerye Sage Serpillum Polium Peny royall hasta regia of the leaues of euerye one it healeth the infirmities of the heade and stomacke comminge of a cold cause it stauncheth the flixe of the belly comming of the same cause it helpeth concoction A water of the floures of Violets and malows altereth and louseth Of vvaters of vertues or golden waters and certain other composed of many medicines destilled with wine WAters of vertues which the Germans name golden all are destilled
with spices and odoriferous herbes specially sage which semeth to be a foundacion in these waters composed put first a fewe dayes into wine they are in more vse to bee ministred without then receiued within the body specially to the comforting of the spirites with their odour and against the head aches c. Some bid simplely put theÌ„ in wine other in a vessel wel stopt som in a tin bottle set in a wine seller in hors dounge in Balneo Mariae in the sun in chaf or chopt straw in lime wherunto raine water must be sprinckled in a bottell Waters of vertue Guatlerius Ryffius in hys booke of destillacions describeth verye manye with burnynge water composed but verye fewe with spices and other medicines stieped in wine whyche not with standynge they seeme to be preferred where the diseases bee lesse greuous and the bodyes more drye and niâ—de lesse heate They are also made wyth lesse coste and sooner And a manne maye in theese also gather foure kyndes of waters differynge in vertue of the whych I would most chiefly allow the myddle For thys is truthe Aqua vitae commeth oute out more pure at the beginning of the destillacioÌ„ aboute the last end it runneth somwhat watery Of spices and gummes the parts that are more moistened ascend first the hotter and the drier folow which eueÌ„ the colour comming nie more and more vnto red declareth Moreouer they smell of brentnes and in tast they are les swiet plesant But without the body they are ministred effectually c. But a .iii. kinds of water is gathered better of dry spices and medicines only rectified not in wine but burning water which hath no manner of fleume more in the which likewise I wold chuse the midst With waters of vertues some also mixte well smelling sedes prouoking vrin and fenel violets parsly saxifrage mastik pomum araÌ„tium besides spices and odoriferous herbes sage costum rew sothernwod serpillum the lilly of the vally Thys is asscribed to one Arnold à Parisian There is without all dout a diuersity bothe in the kyndes of spyces and also in the number and weight Som vnto diuers spices as cloues nutmegs cinamoÌ„ of euery one half an ouÌ„ce wherunto other ad zedoaria galingal loÌ„g Peper grains of paradise of euery one .ii. drammes put as muche sage and Lauendula that the weighte of them ioyntlye maye counterpoys the weight of the spyces c. Three or foure droppes of thys water they counsell to mixte wyth the wine that menne dryncke at meeles or els mornyng and eueninge to be druncke seuerallye wyth a little wyne This water clereth the sight as they say confirmeth the brain and goodnes of the wit putteth away palsey maketh the face whyt and bright cleÌ„seth the skin and doth many other thinges Sum in the moneth of May or June when sage and lauender bee in their force take halfe of this sir vnces of the othe other twys as myche cut it small They put to it Cloues Ginger nutmeg mace graines of paradys cinamoÌ„ zedoaria galingall rosemary of euerye one halfe an vnce they be et them and when they are put in wyne they destill them This water they say is better at the .iii. yeres ende then at the first It hath all the same vertues whiche we reherseth before one by one to the number of the .xx. in an other water of vertues They say a certain Iew was the autor of this description who attributeth all thies vertues vnto it A maruelous water and of muche vertue Cariophyllata ginger rosemary in equall portioÌ„s put them in good wyne eight dayes and after destill them as aqua vitae It is good for the aking of the brest for a weake stomack for the griefes and gnawinges of the bely It killeth wormes in the body and bowelles If a man that is sumwhat gros desyreth to be made slender let him drinke this if any lean man desire to be in better plyte let him drinke it with sugar A water of vertues Sage Lauender rosemary carui and diuers spices when they are cut or pund thou shalt stiep them in very good wyne put in a bottell of tin whiche thou shalt hyd all ouer it vnslect lym .xiii. dayes and sprinckle vpon the lym rain water afterward thou shalt destill it lyke rose water In the heed ache thou shalt laye a linnen cloth wet in this water to the browes and forehead An other good and notable water Sage a pound and a half nutmegs ginger cloues graynes of paradys cinamon of euery one an vnce a half let theÌ„ be putrified in moste excellent wyn after the accustomed maner Then let the spyces be beaten and then de stilled hooll together Sum ad moreouer the flowers of borage red roses the barck df citron wode of aloes of euery one half an vnce in the best wyn whose weight shal be six tunes as much as the other let them be sookt .xiii. daies then when the wyne is dreyned out they beete the spices diligently in a stone morter and mixt it again with the wyne and they ether destill it by and by or let it stande yet a fewe daies Other put also halfe an vnce of newe and freshe sage I lyke better dry into the vessell that receiued the destilled water Thies vertues are sayd to be in it first It keepeth all kynd of fleshe fishe and other meates that it is sprinkled vpon sound and swiet from all maner of corruption with his own sauour and taste .ii. It amendeth all faultes in wynes as when they be troubled ar hanging or smel foysty or be otherwyse corrupted if a litle of it be dropt into it By this meanes thei recouer their taste and colour sum within seuen daies other within one neither corrupt they afterwarde any more nor yet is the remedy any thing perceiued .iii. Being sprinkled vpon spices it conserueth their force smell .iiii. It breeketh inward impostumes purgeth them downward before they cum to matter .v. Lykewyse outward impostumes if it be anoynted vpon them it openeth and breeketh them maketh them to run out and at length healeth them .vi. It cureth the blemishes or fautes of the eyes as blerednes bothe running and dry and wheales spottes or whyt skines or the web if it be stilled and dropt in moderatly with a fether .vii. What so euer groweth in the face besydes nature and maketh any suspicion of the beginning of the leper anoint it with this water with a fether it is made hoole .viii. Being drunke it cureth al inward diseases .ix. Also y â— faults of the liuer splen bowels bealy It taketh away al il humors bred of rawnes in y e stomack .x. It separateth quick siluer from trew siluer .xi. It heeleth al maner of wouÌ„des throughly that it is anoynted vpon also dry strokes beatinges the smellinges that cuÌ„ therupon .xii. It driueth away the dropsy being drunk anointed vpon the grief also the yelow iaundis .xiii.
saye of the salt with the which being burnt together y e golde is purged or with .ii. parts of the salt and one of Schistum kepte in an earthen pot and tempred wyth water annoynted vppon the face it healeth the disease beginning in the chin called Lichenes or like foul breakings out which shal be conueniently washt away with Beane meale It healeth also Fistulaes and they that be called Hemorods If so be it when it is beaten Spuma be put to it it amendeth corrupt and stinking biles and sores Decocted with hony and Melanthio and annointed vppon the nauell it lightlye â—oseth the bellye M. Varro saith it healeth wartes Here in the first woordes the ashes kepte and annoynted no man can doute but he speketh of ashes but that which foloweth of decoction and annoynting seme to be long to the gould it selfe But in my indgemente ought to be red so that those wordes decocted and annoynted be referred vnto the ashes as bothe the consequency of the text also the maner of the medicins do requyre For salt is vsed of phisicioÌ„s Diascordes other agaiÌ„st Lichenes ringworms itches against al maner of vucums red inflaÌ„macions tetters and broyled or parched with hony against running cankers c. The men of our country rub children warts with salte and soute And alum as Plini saith asswageth rotten sores and biles with fat the frettinge cankers of biles with vineger or burnt with as much in weight of gals with .ii. parts of salt in which maner of proportion also it is mixt for to purge gold the diseases that sprede abrode Moreouer by the name of Spuma which signifieth fome Plini vnderstaÌ„deth HalosachneÌ„ as also the. 31. of y e. 7. I find nothing noted by Hermolans or Gelenius vpon this place But as gold is purged w t alum so is also Misy as the same Plini witnesseth 34. 12. bi an other menes w t quick siluer rede Plini 33. 6. That it may be purged it is sod with leed the same 33. 3. An other way to pourge the same Cardanus describeth in his .vi. boke of subtilty Potable gould Take the hony combes of a swarm of yoÌ„g bees wherwith thou shalt mixt ambraÌ„ griseaÌ„ Sperma ceti AgallochuÌ„ loÌ„g peper Cariophyllos nuce moschata sauÌ„ders pure gold Let these staÌ„d in hors doÌ„g 30. dais After destil theÌ„ in a limbek in y e bath then grind y t mater y t is remaining vpoÌ„ a stone pour again vpoÌ„ it y â— water destilled destill it again in ashes This water dissolueth gold If the potable gold be hardned take of it y e bignes of a pees put it into an egge hard rosted y e yelk takeÌ„ out so shal it be resolued geue the sick this to drinke it strengtheneth by it selfe an author whose name is not exprest The chymistes make a lyquor of massy gould whiche drinke as they say cheereth the body George Agricola It lyketh wyse men that to eate meat drest in vessels of gould or with the decoctioÌ„ wherof plaites of gould were adioyned and to drinke wyne wherin plaites or mony of golde were quenched oftentimes procureth vnto the hart good state hath great force Arnold of conseruing youth In the Quint essence of wyne gould siluer peer les and precious stones also other metalles may be dissolued to make potable gould But this resolucion of gould belongeth moore to chymistes then to physicions Philip. Vlstad the .ix. chapter and furthermore where as who so list shall reed more of potable gould Wyne wherin plates of gould haue bien quenshed .xl. or .l. times is vsed of certain in the steede of potable gould Arnold de villa noua The same in his boke of wyn Wyne that hath gould quenshed therin saith he hath a great propertie in many condicions it is made by quenshing the plaites of gould in good wyne .iiii. or .v. tymes let it stande to cleere and when it is dilygently streined let it be kept for it hath vertue to comfort the hart and it drieth vp the superfluities of al other dregges from the bloud And it is able to lighten the substance of the hart and the spirit with his brigthnes to comfort it with his massynes and with the temperatnes therof to temper and preserue it to purge the bloud and with the ponderosity and weight therof to inclyne the superfluities to the partes of expulsion and to conserue youth It conserueth the vertues of the principall partes in his actions and by his temperatnes it louseth the vrine restreined It heeleth the falling sicknes and them that haue lost their sences it is holsome also for lepers Many at this tyme riche men and princes wil haue certain parcelles of gould to be sodde with their dishes â–ª other vse theÌ„ in Panellis with electuaries other in pouders for in the confection of Diacameron the fyling hoth of gould and of siluer is vsed Sum are wont to hold a piece of gold in their mouth and to swalowe the spetle It is plain that siluer kept in a mans mouthe quenshed the thirst and corrall comforteth the stomack both holden in the mouth and haÌ„ged about the neck so that it hang toward the stomack for I haue tried that it letteth the troubling therof Other conuert gould into a water that may be drunk which way without doubt is the best and other vse it otherwyse accordyng to the diuers condicions of men temperameÌ„tes Surely gold is a secret thing most perfect composed of an equall temperature marueylous proporcion of the elementall vertues whereunto no mixt body may be compared A wouÌ„d made with it is neuer inflamed in electuaries it comforteth the sight and maketh pure aboue all thinges the substance of the hart and the beginning of lyfe it clooketh the leprosy and refreineth it But thies vertues ought to be attributed to trewe gould in dede and natural not to chymisticall gould Elixir vitae which a certain friend of late coÌ„municated vnto me by his letters with thies wordes The descriptioÌ„ of this medicin was sent vnto me from Rome whiche whether it is able to dooe so much as it promiseth I haue not yet tried QueÌ„sh gould iii or .iiii. times in wyne or ofter according to the quantitie of the wyne Then destil it in Balneo Mariae foure times and thou shalt vse it in diuers diseases as well hoot as could adding hoot or could medicines and sumtimes sum good tryacle as the disease shall requyre Sum extoll prayse highly the spirit or Quint essence of gould for to heele the defaues of y e liuer Certain vvaters composed against the diseases of the eyes A Marueilous water to conserue y e sight and against the blemish or spot of the eyes The leeues of Rewe Mint red Roses Sage MaydeÌ„ heer other leue out Mint Sage and for them ad Fenell Veruin Eybright Betony water wythy of the mouÌ„tayne and Endiue of euery one syx handfull let them be put in in whyt wyne
shall be plaine by the example followinge Againe smellinge waters are ether destilled hoole or els after the destyllacion certaine precyous smelling thinges are added vnto them Som are made without any destillacion at all The Pouder of the Floure Deluce mixte wyth hotte water maketh it to smell and is vsed of Barbers The Floures of Lauendula or Lauender and muche rather of that whiche is communly called Spick both grien and drye are put into water or wyn or burning water in a vessel wel stopt set in the sun that thei may infect it with their smell But if they be yet fresh moyst they turn the wyn almoste into vynegar which if they be dry they do not so The liquor shal be made the more smelling if the flowers bee dryed in the sun in a glas closed and afterward whyt wyne be put to it If so be it a man desyer to haue a swiet water forthwith and by and by let him put a drop or two of oyle of Spick vnto a good deele of pure water and chauf it together in a glas with a narow mouth Al thies although they be made with out destillacion the same notwithstanding being right destilled specially if certayn other thinges be mixt with thē other precious ▪ as Muske Ambra ziuet Caphura Agallochū or meaner thinges as Assadubis Styrap and Stacte Myrh or any other spyces chiefly cloues or elles thinges of les estimation as Roses the barkes of flowers or leaues of Orenges Lymons Arentii Bay leaues commun swiet herbes Rosemary Amaracus Basill c. they shal be made much the swieter Saffron is to strong and stuffeth the heed Rosevvater vvith muske Saffron Cloues Caphura out of Bulcasis WIth Musk Put a croun of good Musk beten in two poūdes of Rosewater in the bely of a glas still And destill it by litle litle then put it in a glas well stopt It is a water marueilous swiet and conuenient for a king that their clothes may be sprinkled therwith With Saffron Put half an vnce of good Saffron in two poundes of Rose water for the space of one day and destill it This water is holsom to be mixt with medicins also for smel garnishing With Cloues Put half an vnce of Cloues beten in a pound and a halfe of Rose water .xxiiii. houres and destill it With Caphura Destill an vnce of Caphura w t a poūd of rosewater vse it in medicines for kings After the same maner is Roosed water made with Saunders and other spices swiet smelling what so euer a man will Sum destill all thies in pure water in stede of Rosewater A thre leued herb thei cal it Tribulū at Rome an herb most swiet of sauor which they destil for per fumes and to make diuers other wanton swiete sauoures The munkes in Mesuen A water of swiet sauour wherwith the strengthes of the heed hart and stomacke are reuiued ▪ foure handfull of the flowers of Lauendula Roses whyte and red of ether two handful Rosemary Caryophyllata newe and freshe Cyperus the barke of Citranguli of euery one a handful Mint Sage Tym Bay leues or Peny royall of euery one halfe a handfull .iiii. vnces of Cloues Galingall Nucis mosch Calamus Aromaticus Ginger Cinamon the flowers I thinke better the rootes of flower deluce of euery halfe an vnce Six poundes of whyte wyne or q. s that is as much as shall suffise When they are pund let thē be put into a glas well closed for the space of eight daies afterward vse them It is excellent to wash the handes if thou mixt a litle of it with a great dele of pure water A mā may vse it also destilled put in a scruple of musk Epiphanius Empericus An other of the same mans delectable with a maruelous swietnes of sauour ziuet Muske of ether a dram let it be tyed in a fyne linnen cloth let it be set to sooke in two poundes of Rose water a few daies in the sun An other of the same mans of a very swiet sauour Basill Mint Samsuchum or Maioram flower deluce Hyssop Balsamita I take it to be Sisymbrium Sauery Sage Melissa Lauender Rosemary of euery one halfe a handfull Cloues Cinamon Nutmegges of euerye one an vnce The pome Citrangula of the kynd of Citriorum the figure of an egg of a yeloowe wax colour iii. or .iiii. Let them be beeten and set .iii. daies in rose water then let them be destilled with a slowe fyre When the destillatiō is finished put to a scruple of Muske and set it in the sun An other of the same mans of most excellent sauour Thre poundes of Rosewater Cloues Cinamō Saūders Citrinorū of euery one .vi. drā .ii. handful of the flowers of Lauender .vi. drās of Assa dulcis Malmsey Aqua vitae of ether .ii. vnces Let it stand a moneth to soke in y e sun wel closed in a glas or vpon y e top of a furnace of a stouf Then destil it in Balneo Mariae and at half a drā of Muske to the destillacion Then let it stand .x. dayes in the sun or aboue the fornace so vse it It is marueylous pleasaunt in sauour VVaters of svviet sauour of Andreas Furnerius in his Frenche booke of the garnishyng of mans nature A Water of wonderous swietnes for the perfuming of the shietes of a bed wher by the hooll place shal haue a moste plesaunt sent Put into a litle phial of glas xviii or .xx. graines of Musk and ziuet and a litle of Ambra After filled full of Rosewater set it ouer the fyre and when it is hoot take it away thē let it stande to coule well cloosed after you haue let it stand soo a two daies you may vse it from thence forward It is as good as though it were destilled When thou wilt perfume thy shirt or other linnen put it in a vessell with a wyde mouth and spreed the clothes vpon it boyling that they may drinke vp the vapour and breth of it An other maner of swiet water whiche men call Cassoleptam that is Capsula Power into sum litle vessell of laton a litle Rosewater made with muske and a litle ziuet and Cloues Agallochum styrap calamita when they are all pund against a fyre mixt them and perfume any clothes that ye will with the vapour ascending there from It is a marueilous swiet sauour whiche if thou wilt kepe close the vessell diligently and when thou thinkest good put more Rosewater vnto it that it may be renued An other Thou shalt put into .iiii. poundes of Roosewater Assa dulcis somewhat grose beaten Stirax and Cloues Camphora Agallocum of euery one an vnce Musck Siuet of ether of thē xx grains Put these together in a glas shit with a parchment prickt through with .x. or .xii. small holes and let the vessel boile .iiii. houres in a kettle ful with water as thoughe it were in Balneo Mariae After when it is cold straine it throughe a
shortly worke An other that taketh away al maner of spots Put into a glas like muche of Cristall and Corall with water of Limones so much that it maye couer them and be a fingers bredth aboue them Stop this vessell and put it in some colde place in the earthe as in a wine seller a fewe dayes Then caste away the shelles and wash the snailes with water somewhat salt so ofte till all their slimines be washt away Then destill them and keepe the water Afterward thou shalt draw out a water of rapes cut small by a limbeck When thou wilt vse it take a sponeful of the firste water .iiii. of the second and .iiii. of the third mixt them and washe y e face which notwithstanding must first be washt with water and wipte An other maruelous for the same purpoose Take snailes wythoute theyr shelles and washe them as is before rehersed then sprinckle an vnce of Salte otherwise salte Gemmae beaten in a glasse and put the snailes there vpon then sprinkle other Salte vppon them againe and snailes vppon that and so shall you do continuallye layinge salte vppon Snailes and Snailes vppon salte till the thyrde parte of the vessell be fylled Then poure vnto them so muche of the iuyce of Snailes that it stande aboue the salt and Snailes two fingers thicke and destyll them vse thys water as is aboue rehersed If so be it thou canst not commodiouslye destill them set them all mixt together in a cloose vessell tyll they receiue the forme of an oyntmente and that shall you vse at euenynge as the other aboue wrytten Oyntementes the face fyrste washte and wipte and the seconde daye after washe the face wyth water of Beane floures This also did I reade in the Antidotary of Gordonius An other not destilled Twelue Snailes cut euerye one in .iiii. partes put in good white wine This liquor shalt thou vse as the aforesaide It shall come to good succes After thys followeth a destylled water of a yonge Storke of the same effecte and operation whyche I described amongste the symple Medicinall waters An other manner verye good and secreate or vnknowne Sixe newe laide Egges halfe a pounde of Malmsey a yong Pigion not yet holelye fetheared Chese new from the pres y t is made of vnskimmed milcke .viii. Arantia Poma oyle of Tartaro iii. ounces an ounce of Cerussa Let thē be beaten that maye be beaten and mixte altogether that they may be destilled wyth a slow fyre The vse of this water is like the other before It maketh a fair skin fine tender as is possible A washinge or Kynges water whyche abolysheth all spottes Take water of cleare Turpintine as muche as can be gotten out of .ii. pounds of it put therein halfe an ounce of Masticke iii. ounces of white Frankensence halfe an ounce of Tragacantha When they are pund mixte them wyth the water and destyll them keepe the water Then mealte Swines grease of a male Hog vnsaulted and strayne it throughe a double lynnen cloth Then take white Ginger Cloues Cinamon Euphorbium Spiknarde Camphora of euerye one two ounces three Nutmegges when all these are pund myxt wyth the strayned Swines grease put vnto these two ounces of quycke Siluer often times washte wyth salte and Vineger and wrounge throughe a piece of Leather and with this mixte the drosse la feuille ou de lauenre as it is wrytten in Frenche of quicke syluer de couppelle When all is mixte together destill them and keepe the water Afterwarde take vi ounces of the water of the forsaid Turpentin and of the latter water twise so much mixt them and when you wyll vse them washe the face fyrste wyth a decoction of Cerussa and wipe it Then poure about .vi. droppes of thys water mixt together into the palm of the hand and wher thou wilt anoynt couering the place anoynted or wet with a linnen cloth till it be dried A marueilous effect and operacion shall folowe therupon An other of Snailes .xxx. whyte Snailes .ii. pound of gootes milke .iii. vnces of swynes grece or els of a yong Kid a dram of Camphora pund let them be destilled in a lymbeck of glas An other Take six vnces of the crums of the whytest breed and wash it .ii. poundes of milke mixt it diligently and destill it as is aboue sayd and washe with it The water also of the whytes of egges destilstilled is thought good An other that purifieth the face two vnces of Mirh whyte Frankencence Mastich of ether halfe an vnce Gynger whyte .ii. drams one dram of Camphora a pound or a pound and a halfe of whytes of egges When all is diligently mixt let them be put in the bely of a yong hen and wellyking the bowelles taken out If thou wilt put to a hen simpely but flein and cut in small pieces Put to also Asses milke or Gootes milke aboute iii. Sextares that is .ii. pyntes a half .lx. vnces Destill thies in a lembeck of glas That the face may shyne elegantly .xxx. newe laid egges stiep them in vinegar the sharpest you can get for the space of .iii. daies and night then boor them through with a pyn that the humor w t in them may run al out Destill all this in a Rose-still that the face may be washt therwith A water clarifying the face Take the rout of Dragons made cleen and cut in to thin roundles stiep them .ix. daies in whyte wyne so that euery daye half a pound or more freshe wyn be powred vnto them then take the call of fat that is aboute the goutes in a kides bely taken in May to the number of six rys beeten and sod in .iii. poundes of black nightshad and a poūd of the meel of rys half a pound of the water of wylde plums or bullies blaūshed Beenes to seeth in the same water Put vnto this .xii. rotten Appuls and ten egges two handfull of the routes of common flower deluce or els the flower deluce of Florence a pound of Hony halfe a pounde of bitter Almondes Gum Arabick Sarcocolla Tragacantha Borage Camphora of euery one two drams shiepes milk six poundes Venice Turpentin .ii. vnces water of the floures of water Lily Let thies be destilled together in a lembeck with a smal fyer The water destilled therof let it be set in the sun and moued oftentymes An other that taketh away the spots of the skin and whitteneth it An vnce of Borage halfe a dram of Camphora thre drams of cōmun Alum Gum Arabick and Tragacantha of ether of them half an vnce Sarcocolla Assa dulcis of ether .ii. drames .iiii. vnces of Cerussa Pun all thies mixt them and put them into half a pound of Dragons water and as muche of water of floures of Lily together with water of the floures of Broum of Nightshade of water Lilyes of euery one foure vnces When they are mixt destill them in a lembeck of glas To make the face cleer and youthlyke that it seme lyke to
being shaken together it shal then run out hoolly first in a colour whyte as milke afterward yelowe Thou shalt perceiue by the tast whan the liquor that thou desirest beginneth to runne out when the colour is chaunged thou shal chaūge also the receiuer that thou maist receiue it seuerally for the last liquor is not so good and is to be vsed without the body but the first within the body Thies saith he I my selfe as I thinke sawe once oyll of the beries of Iuniper prepared in this wyse Suche destilled oyles as be to be ministred w t in the body al must be mixt with sum liquor wyn Meed or Syrup with sum destilled water or other medicine As wee shall declare also hereafter emong the balsameles And this is it that Practicioners dooe saye That vnto Oyles oyles as vnto spirites or soules sum body ought to be added Of oils of flovvers OYll of Saffron is prepared thus Thy matter is digested by sprinckling Aqua vitae vpon it and when the Aqua vitae is drawen out by destillacion the other liquor is wrong out with a pres as it is wryten afore of the generall destillacion of spyces out of Ryffius Oyl of Spick out of the Frenche booke of Furnerius Set the herb the flowers rather of Spik or Lauendar a whyle in the sun then drawe out the water in a lēbeck This set in the sun in summer in a very hoote place bringeth forth an oyl in the superficiall or vpper part of it whiche beyng separated now and then frō the water thou shalt reserue For it both smelleth moste swietly and is holsum against diuers diseases specially such as be could and taketh away painfull grieues An other way of the same mans Thou shalt stiep in a glas the flowers of Spick well rypened in as much as thou thinkest good of Oyll of swiet Almondes in hors dong .xl. daies Then destill them with a slowe fyer at last rectify them in the sun the vessel diligently stopt But if there be any smell of adustion or brentnes make .ii. or .iii. litle hooles in the couer So shall it remayne purged in the sun good and odoriferous The thirde waye of the same mannes Fyll a glasse with the floures of Spike well ripened shit it and euery day put as much to it as ye can Do this continually for the space of .viii. dayes then stop the vessell and putrifye it in hors donge iii. monthes At the length destill it a lembek with great diligence and when the oyl is drawne oute set it in the sunne so that thou seperat alway that is clearer and reserue it Some as soone as the matter is drawne forth from the fire so is it in the frenshe boke but I thincke it shoulde be from the dong that is the hors dong wherin it is stiept iii. monethes set it in the Sunne and the oyle that swimmeth aboue they remoue it awaye euerye foote But when the flowers haue lefte nowe yelding of oyl wring it as hard as ye can and the iuyce that is prest out let it stand in the sunne in a vessel set on the one side lening that the oyl swimming aboue maye the more easilye be separated So shall ye haue a wonderfull well smelling oyl withoute all discommoditie of adustion or brentnes Thus far Furnerius The same oyle Ryffius saithe is made as oyle of Roosemary the floures being cut and stiept in olde wine then destilled so that the spirites of the lembecke be couled c. Reade before in the oyl of Roosemary Some sell this oyle of Spike commonlye and name it Balme with tables wherin the vertues of it are described It is very hot and dry I knewe a woman whiche receiued into her body not past a drop or ii yet it put her in great ieopardy but therewith she auoyded manye wormes It is mixte with many thinges chieflye for the smelles sake One droppe of it chafed wyth a greate quantitye of water maketh it all swiete smellinge Phisicians also mixte it with Oyles and hotte oyntmentes bothe because of the sauoure that it maye encrease the pleasauntnesse of thinges that be somwhat swiet of them selues and to conserue them or els to hide and cloke an euill smell for it ouercometh all smels and perauenture a man shall not find anye liquor bothe so strong and so swiet smellinge It semeth that far swieter is made of Spike then of Lauender Oyle of Roosemarye that is in stied of Balme Take a Phiall full of the floures of Roosemary burye it in sande shitte with a double cerecloth or with waxe and a couer so that it maye brethe Atnold wyth a double linnen and then also wyth waxe to be closed Hollerius til the middle of the vessell and let it stande so a month or more vntil the floures be turned into water This water separated and set in the Sunne .x. or .xx. daies otherwise .xl. it will become thicke like Oyle It strengtheneth the harte the braine the sinnewes and the hoole bodye It putteth away the ragges of the eies and spottes of the face it conserueth youthe A drop of it put into balme water goeth to the bottome like Balme It is good for webs and teares otherwise spots and other diseases of the eien if one drop be put into the eyen twyse or thrise at the moost Members sick of the palsy it heateth them for the mooste parte and healeth them sometimes It resisteth salsfleem Fistulaes and Cancars that geue not place to other medicines it healeth them throughlye Aqua vitae destilled of wine wherin Rosemary is decocted and sod dothe the same thinges Lullius I would not sethe the Roosemary for the strength of the wine and quintessence dothe fume oute in vapours but I wolde stepe them in a vessell closed or putrifie them then firste in Balneo Mariae afterwarde in ashes pouring the water again vnto the dregges woulde I destill them And of my minde is Arnold de villa noua whiche in his booke of wine where he wryteth of the oyle also of Rosemarye the verye same thinges whiche we rehersed now out of Lullius if so be they be Lullius words Of tentimes saith he haue I tried that Aqua vitae made of wine wherin Rosmary hath bene mollified cureth salsfleum scabs cankar and the fistula whiche cannot be healed otherwise But thys oyl of Rosmary is made none otherwise then the oyl of the floures of Verbascum not by destillatiō Oyl of Rosemarye shoulde be made of floures cropt of with the toppes of the tender buddes or bowes wherin they are sprung pund and stiepte or putrified in veri good old wine They ought to be destilled with a slow fire so y ◠the spirits of the lembek be now and thē couled afterwarde to be circulated till y t all the gros matter be separated from the subtill as muche as is possible Gualterus Ryffius It may be destilled as I coniecture ether in a Cucurbita speciallye somewhat shorte with a limbeck or in
and one drop be poured into the eye for the eye shal be made hool within .iii. or .iiii. daies If it be drunck fasting it suffereth no venim to approche vnto a man that day If so be also a man wounded very sore and deadly drinke therof fasting he shall escape so be that the other care of y â— wound and cure be had accordingly Also beinge druncke fastinge and putteth awaye the Gutta or drop and all scabbednes and the dropsy sprunge of a colde cause if it be taken but two dayes To conclude it stirreth vp and restoreth all sliepy and benummed members taken with the Palsy being annoynted vpon Ruberta if it be right written perauenture of the coloure he so calleth it I woulde rather reade Sperma that is oyle of Nasturtium I would rather the seedes of Nasturtium as in other in the same place before and after the oyl moystened in sharp vineger dry it in the sunne and drawe out the oyl after the manner of the lay people This mixt with Aloes oyle of bayes cureth all scabbednes and the drop the places beinge anoynted Druncken with Aloes and cooles of an elme it healeth the Tercian and quartaine and all breches in the body Soden with a ptisan and drunken it stauncheth the bloudye flux and bindeth the belly Sod with bran and drunken it driueth away all droppes Oyle of the seedes of Pimpernell Put seedes in read wine a fewe dayes dry them punne them and make an Oyle after the laye manner Thys oyle drunke fastinge dissolueth breaketh and expelleth the sand and anye stone of the bladder yea if it be finished gathered to y â— form of a stone what matter so euer it bee of It lighteneth the wearied members of a mannes bodye These wryteth he Of oyle of the beries of Iuniper destilling first by ascencion then by descencion as I learned of my frendes TAke a pinte or a quarte full of the Bearies of Iuniper when they are beaten stiepe them two daies in well springe water then putte those beries together with the water wherin they wer sooked into a Cucurbita or bladder as they call it of Cooper whiche thou shalt fill till there be but ii or .iii. fingers thicke emptye then puttynge a measurable fyre vnder thou shalt destyll it in all poyntes like burninge water that is by a Pipe whiche maye passe throughe a vessell full of cold water It will yeilde plentye of water so that one receiuer shall not be inoughe At lenghte the oyle followeth whyche muste be â—uffered to runne into the water where vppon it will swimme thou shalt separate it toureninge the vessell wherein it is wyth a narrowe necke vpside downe so that the water be lette runne oute vntill a little be left whyche shall bee separated afterwarde by pouringe the oyle into an other vessell A sextarye or pinte of bearies as they call it in Alsatia aboute iiii ounces of oyle Other to separate the Oyle from the water put it into a drincking glas that hathe the foote taken awaye ether by commynge with a wyer of iron redde hotte or els by chaunce so that a little hoole in the bottome be lefte for the water passeth throughe and when it comes to the oyle the hoole is stopte and then the oyle maye be poured out into y e vessel wher it shal be kept SoÌ„e destill it in like manner but they moue the matter oftentimes in the stil least it be burned And they say spices beaten as Cloues and cinamon mai be rightlye destilled likewise Some as I heare saye destill in a crooked vessell not of glas but of Copper tinned in the inside whiche is put into a long pipe of coper as they do for burning water An other waye of preparing the same by descencion downewarde communicated and shewed vnto me as a secreate thing by a certain frend who prepared and made it so his selfe Gather Iuniper bearies well rypened and drye in harnest or a little befoore Haruest betwene the two Marye daies as they be appoynted in the Kalendar in the morninge at eighte or nyne of the clocke in greate plentye as manye as will fill a couple of bagges whiles it is fayre weather Oyll of the nuttes kernels of the pyn tree for the polishing putting away of wrinkles in womens skinnes is made by destillacioÌ„ dounward as oyll of y e wood of Iumper Syluius Of oyls of gums teeres or liquors thickened or congeled and rosines OYll of Mirh Looke before emongst the swiet waters of Furnerius where wee haue described one which is made with one part of Mirh and the half part of y e iuice of Roses moste odoriferous Liquors thikned by nature and gums as they call them of a hoot and dry temperatur that they may be prepared vnto destillacion when they are pund put them in a vessell wel stopt wyn also except I be deceiued may be a litle sprinkled vpon it and dig it in a could and moyst place so diep as a man is hy without putting to it any hoot matter and it must be left a good long space notwithstanding it should soner be resolued if thou put to it sum yolkes of hard rosted egs The gums so resolued yelded an oyll troubled and pudly whiche being destilled in a crouked still as they call it shal be made moore cleere and pure For al gums and Caphura also seing they contein a fat liquor and whyt that whiche by destillacion is drawen from them doo easely sauour of the iniury of the fyer faut of brentnes that although they be destilled in vessels very meen yet issueth forth a licour full of dregs gros brent of an vnplesaunt smell the vse wherof doth not plees me noo not without the body muche les within the body the strengthes vertues of them is not alyke When the matter is so resolued y u shalt straine it through a wolleÌ„ cloth or a hear cloth y t what so euer erthynes is in it may be separated from the sande and dros After y t whiche is streyned thou shalt leue it again in an indifferent warm place as many daies as thou wilt last of all destill it Thies maner of Oyles are verye subtill and of greate strength whan as nature it selfe firste hathe as it were gathered the chief vertues of trees suche as power forth any gums or teeres Thies for the moste part wryteth Ryffius in his first boke of destillacion The same Ryffius in the treatise of the same worke of oyles prescribeth no peculiar waye to drawe out oyl of gums but sendeth men vnto his first koke He describeth seuerally the vertues of oyles of Ammoniacum Belzoum Camphora Cloues Euphorbium Galbanum Ladanum Myrh Opopanax Sarcocolla Sagapenum Stirax liquid Calamita In the only oyll of Mastick he willeth the Mastick when it is pund to be resolued with old wyne and to be degested then destilled And the gum of Iuniper lykewyse to be resolued and stiept in wyne because of the drynes of
the substaunce therof and afterward to be destilled Oyl of Belzoum Thou shalt water a pound of Belzoum or more groos beeten with burning water and in a crouked stil with a receiuer set vnder thou shalt destill it in ashes with a slow fyer first and afterwarde with a great fyer This oyll hath an excellent and moste swiet smell The watery liquor that runneth out ought to be kept seuerally Furnerius Oyll of Styrax out of y e same Thou shalt beete somwhat groos Styrax Calamita that whiche is full of iuice and fat water it with the best Aqua vitae then destill it in a crouked still as the oyll before and kiep the water by it selfe This oyll excelleth with a marueilous fragraÌ„t swiet sauour Oyll of Camphora Looke before in the wawater of camphora amongste the simple waters destilled Of oyle of Turpentine or larigna resina PVt .iiii. pounde of Turpentin Rosin or of larix in a larg croked stil or cucurbita of glas and destilling it get out an oyl so that the cucurbita or croked stil be put in sand first of al with the water shall an oyl issue a thin and clere oyl secondly of the colour of gold last a duskish and thick take euery one of these by them selues and reserue them Valerius Cordus More of oyl of Turpentin and of the preparinge of it and of the hertues thereof wryteth Ryffius which I for shortnes sake let pas This is chiefly tobe taken hede of that in the destilling it sieth not as in hony also for they rise and swel quickly these liquors when they are made hot wherfor at the first the fire must be made very light scleÌ„der and encresed by litle and litle and the lembek according as the act requireth must be refrigerated and couled Some put vnto it slate tiles groselye beaten or white flints or sand washt and dried again or the leues of Iuye and a litle glas groose beaten such certain things are added also in the destilling of hony that they may let this risinge kepe iâ— froÌ„ sâ—thing ouer I woldad little peces of slates or flints wet with old oyl or som medicinable thing as in oyl Benedict y t by the same means both the â—iething might be letted and the vertue of the oyle incresed The descriptioÌ„ folowing maketh with me which I found in a certain wryten boke Take pure sande or little white and cleare flintes and put them ouer the fire in a vessell till they wax red hot then quench them in turpentin that they may drink wel and that sand quenched destil it in a lembeck Some commend oyl of turpentin for the grief of the stone Also those oyl of Turpentyn of a pound of Turpentyn an ounce of old tile slates or as Albucasis saithe newe tile slates because they may drink the more oyle and Mastik and Styrax of ether an ounce The tyles made red hot are slekt in oyl when they are queÌ„ched and pund they are mixte with the other in a lembeck of glas Thre liquors run out wherof y â— third is the best Iac. Hollerius amongst oils without smel for could greues Otherwise out of a writen boke In a cucurbita half ful of Turpintyn put a handfull of glasse pund and .ii. sponges of the quaÌ„tity of .ii. fingers the number is left out and put according to the art of Alchymistes fire about the cucurbita let the fire be continued .xxiiii. hours when the first destillacion is finished destill it again renuing y â— glas the cucurbita and the sponges To put awai skars or rather to asswage and mollifie them oyl of Turpentin doth chiefli profit except those that remain after warts For they that commend this oyl for the putting awaye the markes of wartes they are deceiued Brasalonus Oyl of Tartarum sublimated Put Tartarum beten in a vessell a cucurbita of glas parieted wyth claye or an earthen cucurbita and when it is put inalembek of glas destil it First of all water wil run forth then oyl whiche thou shalt receiue by it self encreasing the fire by little and little til it leue running The dutch writen boke Certain practicioners coÌ„mend the spirit or quintessence of Tartarum against inward impostumes kings euil Oiles of barkes OYl of Cinnamon is made as we declared before out of Cardanus how oyles be drawn out of woodes and like thinges as Cloues where is also described the instruments Or els as we described out of Ryffius of the drawing out of oyls of all kinds of spices CinnamoÌ„ may be stiept about viii daies in burninge water .vi. times destilled and theÌ„ be destilled as I was informed of a freÌ„d Here wil I rehearse also the waye to make water as they call it of Cinnamon for in the destillation also hereof oyl foloweth at length although but litle and because of the discommodity of adustion and breÌ„tnes vnprofitable to be vsed within the body but y e water is most noble most profitable y â— description wherof a certain freÌ„d of late seÌ„d vnto me on this wise The fornace instrumeÌ„ts must be in all poyntes suche as are vsed for burninge water with a pipe passing through a vessel full of colde water whyche excepte I be deceyued shall be better if it bee somewhat longe that is of the lengthe of .v. Romain fote what maner a one or rather longer an other shewed vs he had seene in the destillacion of this water but peraueÌ„ture it shal be les nied of such a long one wheÌ„ no great plenty of water is destilled It maye also be destilled in a Cucurbita of glas parieted with clay after the manner of Aqua fortis and perauenture it wold be best that way Put a pound of the best Cinamon pund not sifted in the bottome of a stil warely least the pouder sâ—ir abrode or cleue to the sides by and by pour to it a .iii. pintes of freash water the couer laid vpon it a receiuer set vnderneth make a litle fire of cooles The water y t runneth out first is soÌ„what thick like oyl but ther must be diligent hede taken that assone as it shal chaung the colour y t the receiuer also be chauÌ„ged The secoÌ„d water runs soÌ„what whiter theÌ„ chauÌ„g it again take an other receiuer so forth til the dregs issue out The water of the fourthe chaunging is most clere which when it begins to wax yelow streightway the couer the pipe muste be takeÌ„ away because y e busines is now ended al y e vertue of the Cinnamon is drawn out This hole matter may be don in .iii. or .iiii. houres but there must be a cople of meÌ„ about this destillacion the one to mark the alteration of the liquors and see that the fire be no bigger then it oughte and that the liquor run not to faste oute The other shall see that the Vessell wyth coulde water where through one part of the pipe passeth be according
be annoynted with this oyle they putrifye not When thou wilte comforte bodies that be extenuated and broughte lowe thou shalt mixte Roose water with it and annoynte it vppon the lower mansions and from the Nucha vnto the raines If the backe bone be annoynted therewith being somewhat warme an hour before the fit leauing vppon it the token of it with Pecia thou shalt put awaye the shakinge of wandering Agues and of any simple agues But quartaines and wanderinge Agues it helpeth at the beginnninge of the course this place and they which folow seme vnto some to bee corrupted in the printed bookes in the swoundinge or debilitie annoyntinge the extreame partes of the backe boone that the instrumente for the purpoose maye speake with voyce put vnder the tonge of the sicke a little of it and after in his eares and nosthrilles if nede require Thou shalt geue of the same when neede requireth in the Stranguling and Suffocation of the Matrix or mother and in the fallinge sickenesse manye other diseases It is ministred in weght tree I thincke he meaneth one grain with wine that hathe a good smell So it comforteth y e mind and nature and healeth manye diseases But chieflye and is good for them that be Melancholye sadde and whose strengthes and members be feeble as though they were beaten and wekened by force For consuminge Feuers thou shalt mixte with Oyle of Rooses or of Mastike and annoynte the backe boone of them in a baithe or withoute a baithe Hitherto wryteth Aponensis The same manne willeth to mixte thys composicion in the steede of true Opobalsamum wyth Triacle Mithridatium Diacurcuma Aurea Alexandrina This Oyle saithe he Epiphanius Empiricus vseth as the Mother of all remeadies to all diseases of the sinewes annoynting twise a day therewith the Nucha the back and inynts for it is plain by manifest proues specially in a colde matter The same man commaundeth to stil this oyl in Balneo Mariae which I like not There is an other composicion of VViliam Pla centinus whiche I finde in the bigger Luminarie in Diacurcuma or Diacrocu in this wise Take Turpentin .ii. pounds commun oyl .iii. pound oyl of bayes .xvi. onnces Cinnamon .iii. ounces Euphorbium Cloues Bay beries Gum of Iuy Serapinum Galbanum Aromatik Opopanax ofeuery one an ounce Franken sence Mastike of ether ii vnces Let such be beteÌ„ as shuld theÌ„ destilled These and certain other diuers balmes dothe Ryffius also in his boke of destillation describe A quickeninge water and one that procureth youth vnto an old man out of the boke of Lullius of waters Turpentyne a pounde honye halfe a pounde Aqua vitae thryse or foure times destilled iii. ounces Lignum Aloes welbeaten SaÌ„dali mustatelli of ether .iii. drams gumme Arabeck perauenture a dram Nutmegs Ambra ofether .ii. drams When they are all pund destill them wyth a slowe fyre till ye haue the firste water cleare And when the second beginneth to run oute whithe shal be like to a burning cole encrease the fire by and by and kepe that by it self TheÌ„ encrese the fire again gather the third which shal be black and thick like hony til al the liquor be run out Of these waters y e last is hoter then y e first seconde The first is called mother of Balm the secoÌ„d oyll of Balm the third Balm artificiall The first is ministred in drink with warm wyne The second aâ—d the third ar good to remoue maladies which newly gnawe the fleshe of mans body The fyrst drunke with warme whyt wyne purgeth the stomack from al il humors and withholdeth the water that it cum not at the hart or principal partes as it is plain by often experiment A fyne lynnen clooth moystened in this water and thrust into the noosthriles with the litle fingar whan y e sick goeth to bed and left there within cureth the reum Being drunck morning and euening it cureth a stinking breth what cause so euer it cum of The tieth washt therwith are strengthened and made whyt and ar deliuered from ache whether it cum of a humor or of putrified bloud Whatsoeuer shal be put into it it will kepe it sound and vncorrupt A linnen cloth moysted in it and laid vpon woundes first washed therwith or vpon a fistula and other angry and ill byles cureth them It resisteth the quartain ague if the back boone be rubbed therwith a fewe daies Scabbednes washt therwith is made hoole A linnen clooth moystened therin is very good to be layd to y e hemrodes Wol that groweth on tries or Bombase dipt lightly is this water is very good to put in the eares against any kynd of deafnes Being anoynted it cureth the rednes of the face the palsy of the tong and all cold diseases The second and third water are of strength against the disease called Noli me tangere against the kynges il and also the disseases of the neck and throot Also against the fistula and the ill disease called Malus morbus specially if it be yet but new for by washing it and wetting and oft laing a linneÌ„ cloth moystened therin vpoÌ„ it it is made hool They help also if a maÌ„be beten with stones or clubes or a staf No poyson can approche ny vnto them and a spyder touched therewith dyeth They be anoynted vpon moste proffitably against all palsyes They strengthen all the partes of the body being washt therwith It is to be noted that the first water of thies thre as generall conteineth all the vertues of the other But to fret the second and the thirde are better this more then the other To be short they heel all diseases that cum of bloud or putrified fleume In the same Lullius a marueilous water is made in this wyse Cloues Nutmegges Ginger Zedoaria Galangal bothe sortes of Peper Iuniper beries the pilles or barck of Citri or OreÌ„ges Sage Basilicum Roosemary Maioram round Mint Bay beries Peny royall Gentian Calamint y e flowers of Elder Roses Ammens Spick nard wood of Aloes Cubebae here semeth somwhat to be left out as well wyld as domekical or growing in gardines Cardamomum CinnamoÌ„ Calami aromatici Stichados Chamaedryos Chamaepity os Melissae Mastick Olibani Aloes hepaticae Anis siedes and flowers she siedes of Mug wurt of euery one an vnce Put vnto thies dry figges Rasins that cum froÌ„ beyond see Dait stones fat swiet Almondes of euery one an vnce Whyt old hony half a pound After twys as much Sugar as all the forsaid be All thies shalt thou put into Aqua vitae v. or .vi. times destilled in a leÌ„bek of glas y e Aqua vitae shal be as much as thrys y e weight of all the speces besides After thou hast lest them stand .ii. daies thou shalt destill theÌ„ with a slow fier The first water is moste cleer precious The second differeth in colour and must be receiued in an other vessel it is whyt good towhit ten the faces of wemen
so that it excede the Vitriol a little then seperate the burning water by destillacion in a phiall or in a croked stil or a bely laid on the one side When that is drawne out vrge the spirits of the Vitriol by litle and little encreasing the fire more and more til al y e spirits be ouer passed This liquor destilled put it again into som one of the .iii. maner of vessels aforsaid destil it in a kettle ful of water vntil whatso euer watry thing is in it be separated whiche thou shalt endeuor to bring to pas by al the witte thou hast that the watrines be clean gotten out ether by a leÌ„bek with a nose or a blind lembek whose nether skirt haue a hollow gutter or circle like vnto a leÌ„bek that is to say with a nose Endeuor that the water in the kettle sethe lightlye if so be it ought to sieth at all the dutch word siedeÌ„ semeth to be equiâ—ocal and may signify as wel se thing as boyling to thintent that the waterines alone may ascend and the oyl alwaies remain in the botom of the bely the which thing to bringe to pas you shall haue nied of two daies at the least Then afterward that oyl that is left in the belly put it into a bely or other of the forsaid vessels defensed with clay and destil it marke whether any water pas before the spirits For if there be any watrines yet mixt with it it shal be nedeful to set it afterward in y â— sun or hot place in a blind leÌ„bek y â— the watrines being eleuated and caried vp may remain in the hem skirt of the leÌ„bek This if y u repeete ofter then once this insolacioÌ„ I mene the oyl shall becom euer the swieter and better Ye also a man may repete the destillacion the second or third time for by that meanes the oyl is rectified more and more Thou maist minister .ii. or .iii. drops of this oyl against all manner of diseases ether by it self or with waters conuenient for euerye disease This oyl I haue tasted my selfe it is swiet pleasant and strong in colour if I remember wel somwhat white An other way Take .iiii. poundes of Vitriol of Rome dry it in an earthen vessel till it wax red after when it is beaten put it into a bely of glasse diligently defenced with clay as the maner is for Aqua fortis and first destilit with a soft fire encresing the degre of the fire by litle and little vntyll white fumes begin to issue out at the nose of y e bely then set a great receiuing vessel fensed w t clay and make a fire with wod continuing for y e space of .xii. hours and at leÌ„ght shal issue out red drops and heauye When the receiuer beginneth to bee clear the matter is finished wherfore then cease that the vessels may be couled Afterward y â— shalt put it in a litle lembek to separate and auoide the fleum and reserue the reast setting it in the sun a ix daies When thou wilt vse it minister it wyth white wine or Malmsy .vi. or .vii. drops so that nothinge after be eaten by the space of .iii. or .iiii. hours it mai be receiued also before slepe if a maÌ„ drink not vpon it This liquor is profitable for a sick stomack for lepers for them that be sicke of y e stone for the retention and keping of vrin for theÌ„ that be sicke of the Ague and in time of the pestilence with water of Acetosae somwhat warm putting vnto it half a dram of spices Diamargariton which is cold if it may be gotten An other way for the same that it may be the better made and purer Put in an earthen pot of earth of Crucibulorum glased within as muche Vitrioll of Rome as thou wilt and destill it in a fornace as is befor said with a fyer of Aqua fortis and there shall run out a whyte water of Vitriol After when it ceaseth thou shalt encreas the fyer and a grien water shall folow which wheÌ„ it hath left thou shalt make a moste strong and vehemeÌ„t fyer both aboue and beneth and a red oyl shall issue out Chaunge euer the receiuer according to the chauÌ„ging of the liquors Or els take those .iii. liquors in one vessel seperate the waters afterward from the oyl by destilling them and the oyll shall remain in the bely This separatioÌ„ is made y e bely staÌ„ding vpright with a head and a receiuer the first destillacion of y e oyl the bely lying ouerth warth as it is said If thou dip a litle drie woul or bombase in water of Vitriol of Rome and ther w t thouch any kind of diseases of y e mouth thou shalt easely heale them Out of a writen booke of a certain friend he semeth here to meane that water y t ruÌ„neth out first which is to be vsed only without the body not the very oyl of Vitriol which is more precious and pure and is kept to be ministred giuen to drinke against inward diseases Of the vertues of oyl of Vitriol out of y e same writen boke Drinck Malmsy with a litle oyll of Vitriol coÌ„tinually for the space of .v. or .viii. dais it riddeth a man from all obstructions it purgeth the bloud and driueth away the stone It healeth the il scab if it be drunck with water of fumitory and Myrobalana condite It reneweth a maÌ„ with water of endiue It healeth all maner of griefes of the head with water of Maioram or Buglos or Melissa also the turnsicknes if it be conteined any space With water of Agresta it healeth al maner of diseases the body being first purged It restoreth the memory with the water of Acorus or Fenell It mouith a man to slepe with the sied of Letis or Popy It is good for melancolyck persons with water of Bublos or Borage It cureth mad men with water of the water lily coÌ„tinuing y e vse of it also hoat impostums the sleping euil with water of wyld rewe It purgeth the body w t Aqua vitae It healeth y e palsy with water of wyld mint or sage Hyssop the cramp with water of Sage the sicknes of quaking with water of Basilicus diuers inward diseases with water of Trifolium all feblenes of the eyes with water of Fenell the reum from the head with water of Lily y e catar w t water of AdiantuÌ„ Hyssop the cough also the disease of the syde with water of PlaÌ„tain the Pleuresis w t water of maiden hear the feblenes wekenes of the stomack w t water of mint With water of Quinces it staunceth vomitting if the sick be of a moyst temperature or coÌ„plexion let it be giuen him with water of plantain or shep pardes purs with a litle Diarhodon It stinteth y e flux of the bely with the water of Plantain the co lyck with water of Rewe With water of wormwod it
resistith venemous bytings It healeth al maner of impostumes and dropsy continuing it It is good for the limes that be resolued if it bee chawfed vpon with an Ox gaull It helpeth the splen with Tamarindis with water of Radish and and sea bremble it expelleth the stoone openeth the stoppinges of theines It healeth all agues w t water of Agresta certain kyndes of leprosy coÌ„tinuing the vse of it This is the trew potable gold and the trew SelaÌ„dyn or Chelidonia more also in weigth it giueth not place to gold it hath the same as many vertues as potable gould A litle of it with a litle water of Roses drunk restoreth y e speche that is lost it stinteth the bleding at y e nose with Roses Of the burninge or broylinge of Chalcanthum that is Vitriol and his kindes Bulcasis writeth in a maner the same things in his thirde boke of the preparacion of medicines whiche we haue declared afoore in his preparacion for the makinge of Vitriol Zimor also he teacheth to prepare after the same maner But emongst diuers wayes of this oyl of Vitriol I lyke that best which I described last For the liquor that is destilled that way is the sharpest of all and also the tartest in so muche that it may be called vinegar of metal as me thinketh Wherfore of certain it is highly commended for the quenshing of thirst in somer tyme one drop of it put into a draught of wyne lyke as I found in a certain doutch writteÌ„ booke where as this also is added Vitriolum is destilled in a bely laid ouerthwart fensed w t clay in the flames of the fyer it runneth out skant the third day and first water An other way out of the same booke Stiep Vitriol in Aqua fortis whiche may drawe out all the fatnes therof from the which if thou separate the Aqua fortis by destillacion an oyll shall remaine But perauentur this way is to daungerous that a liquor so destilled should be receiued within the body But without the body and to the wheeles or cankar of the mouth it may well be ministred I remember I haue red in sum place in Lulliê° in his worke of Quintessence where he maketh meÌ„cion of oyl or Quintessence of Vitriol But in what sort it should be made I could neuer yet fynde in any booke that went abrode so greatly haue they all kept secret this thing as a marueylous mystery For the description whiche I will declare here after out of the boke of Nicolas Massa vpon the disease of Naples can not be receiued within y e body When the Chalcanthum that is the Vitriol or Mysis that is Vitriol of Rome is brent an oyll moste sharp hoat is drawen out of it by the force of the fyre in vessels of glas wherwith if a man touche wartes when they ar cut or wounded they will go away The same if a maÌ„ tast it it striketh the tong lyke as it were a hoat iron Yet the vse of it is to dry byles within that be out of hoope of recouery wher as thei be not much filthy as it chauÌ„ceth in certain that be diseased of Phthoe corrupcion matter without grief It serueth also to cut of cancars corrupt members with the wood Oliue anoynted with it Cardanus The same coniectur we wryte before that oyl of Mysis or arsnick anoynted without may seme to deliuer froÌ„ poysoÌ„ The spirit or Quintesseuce of Vitriol is praysed of certain practicioners against the falling sicknes and Apoplexia or benumming of sences Shomakers inck lowseth the bely both in hony and meed drunck to the weight of a dram also in wyne specially the oyll therof George Agricola in his .iii. boke of the nature of things digd out of the ground Oyl of Vitriol doth kill not only men but tries wherfor it must be made in sum out syd or place where no man dwelleth Albucasis other shew the way of making it Brassauolus In myne opinion not the oyl but y e smoke of Vitriol whyles it is brent with fier prepared vnto destillacioÌ„ is so hurtful And again of ChalcanthuÌ„ y t is vitriol oyl is made so burning that we vse it for poteÌ„tiall fyer for it is of a caustical y u is a burning nature with litle grief it cutteth members if they be touched with a knief anoited with Oliues Whyles y e oylis preparing ye must take hede of the smoke bycause it doth not only kyl men but also the tries that be nye it drieth theÌ„ vp The tryal wherof FraÌ„ciscus de MoÌ„te the notable bone setter whose tries of his archard euery one died w t the smoke of Vitriol whyles he prepared the oyll therof The oyl of Vitriol is maruelous burning lyke a hoat iroÌ„ without grief is made in this maner xxx vnces of Vitriol of Rome or of Cypres Salnitrum roche Alum of ether .iiii. vnces When they are all beten let them be calcionated with fier according to arte Afterward put this calcionated in a croked Bocia clayed for the fier of an alchymists fornace and by the fier thou shalt haue the oyl incresed in the receiuer which is a marueilous Cauterium or burning thing and hath no pere in any operacion and chiefly in takyng away of wens great wartes But the receiuer must be great if thou wilt make the forsaid oyl Nicolas Massa in his boke of the disease Naples and Thomas Philologus who taketh .xx. drames of Vitriol but of Alum and salt of ether xxiiii ¶ A water of diuers metals out of a certain dutch boke for the leprosi spots dunnes of the eies The filing of siluer coper stiele gould of euerye one as muche as ye can get the first daye put it in vryn whyles it is warm made by a boy or wenche that is a maide the next day in the crums of hoat bread the third in a whyte of an egge the fourth in the milke of a woman y t nurseth a wenche the fift in reed wyne Then put all thies into a still destill them with a litle fyer and kipe it For the vertue of it is incoÌ„parable It is good against the leprosy and al the spots in the face and it procureth vnto the face a youthfull brightnes it maketh also cleernes of y e sight thies shalt thou reed otherwyse in the Addicions vpon the Breuiarium or Bridgment of Arnold de Villa Nona 1. 18. Of Aqua fortis and such lyke _â—E described a litle before a certain water lyke Aqua fortis destilled of Vitriol Sal Nitrum and Alum against greate wartes c. But the commun Aqua fortis also and the simple oyl of Vitriol if a man put a drop of them in to a wen or warte first cut they take it away of the whiche thing I made a tryall in my self vpon a sied wart on my fyngars ende wherinto when I had first cut it with a razer I put a drop of
Aqua fortis and although it weÌ„t not away by by yet within a few wekes is was gon Aqua fortis or to separate metalles is thus made One part of Sal nitrum liquid or molten Alum that they call roche .iii. partes sand half a parte when they are dryed diligently and purged with the fyer let them be destilled in a vessell of glas It is gathered by it selfe that whiche issueth out first at length when the glas looketh lyke a safroÌ„ colour encrease the fyre and an other foloweth whiche is receiued in the first for the moste parte and yet if thou take it in water of the fountain or well it is yet so sharpe that neuer the les it dissolueth siluer and separateth it from Goulde It is separated in this wise Take a litle quantity of y e water drawn out and put into it the weight of xii grains of very pure siluer â–ª and set it vpoÌ„ ashes til the siluer be dissolued This shall send down into the bottom of the vessell groundes like vnto fine lime which taken awaye the pure water that remaineth put it to the hole water from the which thou druest it which in like maner shal it self also let down into the bottom groundes like the other which taken away thou shalt haue the hole water most pure and most strong to dissolue syluer and other metals except gould gould also I suppose is dissolued of Chymists with Aqua fortis but of another maner of making But seing it vanisheth away easili and consumeth it shal be kept in a glas diligentlye shut To a man that imagineth how great strengthes it hath which takinge water as I said of the wel yea withoute fyre in xxiiii hours doth bring siluer vnto water but w t a little heate of ashes in .ii. or .iii. houres there is no man but he wil graunt those last vapors and water wherunto they be tourned to haue maruelous strength or rather increadible Of the same kind is water that is made of the salts Ammoniak and Nitrum with Chalcanthum y t is coproos and Alum molten in equal porcions putting vnto them at last one fourth part of roust this made after the same maner spareth not very stones It yet a man ad and put to a litle of the obstracite stone called Smiris wherwith they polishe precious stones thou shalt haue more plenty of water and better because it wil not bee burned Theese things therfor receiued and found true by trials let vs see what shoulde be cause that this water becommeth so strong for manifest experience techeth that the drier part attenuated and fined by the force of the fire receiueth a firye and a fretting or gnawing strength But why burneth not the water of separatinge as burnyng water dothe Because that the burninge water is hotter and thinner and les drye therefore it maye bren and excellentlye heaten but not freate But the other can freat not burne and also heaten a little By like reason therfore the oyl that is takeÌ„ out of Chalcanthum by the force of the fire for as muche as it turneth the driest part into humor it is most sharpe and striketh the tounge like fire Cardan Let no manne thinke that this liquor perteineth only to Chymists and goldsmithes For it is profitable also for medicines vnto mans body It is dropped into warts that be cut and slit as I said afore Some dip the end of a little band in it and put it into a hollow touth from which they wolde take the sence feling of the grefe and mortify it I haue hard the suffusion or web of the eie to be cured in certain with the vertue of this liquor by the same quick siluer is precipitated as we shall now declare and the oyle of Chalcanthum or Coproos is drawn out by it as we said Take halfe an ounce of Aqua fortis mixt it with an ounce and a half of Roosewater soores of the throte palace iawes and lips let them be touched twise a daye with a little Cotton tide to the top of a sticke and moistned in this liquor Thom. Philologus Certain diuers maners of Aqua fortis maiste thou read after where we shall write of Mercury sublimated ¶ Burning water that a candle maâ— burne in the verye water Put a sextar or .xx. vnces of the eldest wine in a potte wide aboue and narow beneath wherunto thou shalt ad .ii. vnces of bothe kindes of Sulphur or brimstone that is of the quik and dead ii vnces and as much alum and as much of gros salt Let theÌ„ be sod together til the third part be consumed A tallowe or waxe candle annoynted with this shal burne in the water as well as in the aire If so be it thou sprinkle a heare or cloth therwith light it at the flame and it shall burne mooste manifestlye withoute hurte Oute of a written booke It wold appeare that a liquor destilled of this matter by the force of the fyre woulde be muche more effectuous to the same conclusion A water to whitten the tethe whiche Isabella of Arragonia the Duches of Millen did vse A pound of Salte purged and beaten an ounce of Glaâ—sye or Isly Alum let them bee destilled in a lembecke Mixt an ounce of this water with an vnce of Plantaine water and with a little wode wouldipte therein rub the teethe and they shall becom most bright Furnerius An other like out of the same boke Sall Ammo niak Sall Gemmae of ether iii ounces Suger Alum an ounce and a halfe commone Salte an ounce When they are beaten destil them in a lembecke of glasse and with the liquor drawne oute thereof rub the tethe with a stone and after wash the mouth with a litle white wine Read befor in the end of the Cosmeticall waters the same description but without common salt the vse wherof is declared without destillacion Aqua Angelica of a maruelous vertue against blearednesse Cankar and burninge with fyre Three ounces of vnâ—lekt lime and halfe a pound of raine water let them stande together in a vessell of glasse or tinne a .iii. daies Then mirtinge them sturre them together and let them settle again a .xxiii. hours or more in a vessell well couered Afterwarde straine them tenderly throughe a linnen clothe till it bee cleare Then put to it .x. drawmes of Sall Ammoniak the whitest thou caÌ„st finde and finest beaten and molten wyth longe mouing in the said water After when it is setled thou shalt straine certaine times the cleare water that standeth aboue or els destil it by a Filtrum Thys water healeth the clothe or spot La Toile in Frenche that is the webbe of the eyes three drops thrise a daye dropt into them continuinge till the eye be made hoole It taketh awaye also the teares of the eyes the rednesse and blearednesse also the Cankar and burnyng if it be rightlye ministred It taketh awaye all spots and steines of cloth both silke and woullen if they bee
searreth also euil sores eating them out euery where yea euen in the throte and letteth the sores from crieping and spreading namelye of the yarde and the wombe If it be to vehement mixte it with Roose water And I my selfe haue healed ill sores and biles of the throte touching them twise a dai with the saide water mixtinge with it half so muche of Rosewater and it is one of our secreates se more in the same the .vi. boke and .ii. chapter But this angelicall pouder had I of a certaine olde Alcumist and I made it before Iohannes de Vigo euer made anye mencion of it Thus farre Massa and parte Thom. Philologus out of him Of the making and commodities of this redde pouder read Iohannes de Vigo in his fifte boke of Additionum where he biddeth that the vessels rereceiuer shall be thrise as bigge as the bealye the xxxviii leafe b. And that white found with thys pouder is siluer sublimated from the redde like as is what so euer is yelowe or of a Saffron coloure And also in his booke entituled Capiosa the. Clxiii lefe a. Pouder of Mercury saithe Matthaeolus Senensis in his booke of the waye to heale the Frenche disease is made in this maner Take .iiii. pouÌ„ds of water wherewith gould is seperated from siluer a pound and a half of quick siluer Put these in a vessel of glas with a narow mouthe wyth a croked nek round about fensed with clay which shal be receiued of an other theÌ„ stop the ioynts of the vessels with potters clay diligently TheÌ„ put vnderfire made of coles so that it may euer wax bigger and bigger so long till all the water haue run out After this breake the phial and take out lightly the red cake that setleth in the bottome what white so euer sticks in it cast it away but y e red make it in pouder But for asmuch as throughe this pouder much harm might happen to theÌ„ shuld receiue it except it be duely prepared Take ii ounces of the said pouder and let them staÌ„d to soke in water of Plantaine and Acetosae of ether ii ounces the next morow early take the waters from thence and put new vnto it and set it to the fire in a vessel of bras or erth when they are hot cease not to stur them aboute with an iron or woden spattle or sâ—is vntil al becom pouder and that withoute anye difficultie of the which thou maist when thou list make such a recept against y e frenche disease aswel that is Flegmatike as Melancoly Take electuarii Conciliatoris this is made of diuers cordiall medicins and spices precious stones pearles gould siluer Camphora Ambra Mosch is described of him Differentia 196 half a scruple perls hyacincts of ether .v. grains the pouder of Praecipitatum v. grains pouder of Dâ—amuscum Diamargariton of ether halfe a scrupull Make .v. pils let theÌ„ be gilded Thom Philologê° who addeth Terrae Sigillatae and Boli Armeniae of euery .iii. grains let these be taken of the pacieÌ„t an hour before day let him kepe his bed .v. houres Shortly beleue me shal the french pocks be auoided with this receit For the fleum and blak choler also shal vanish away bothe by vomit and downwardes Besides this there are very many kinds of diseases that we haue cured with such a pouder For it puts not awaye onlye matter and rotten flesh being strawed vppon but also wythout any difficultie it bringeth sores biles vnto a skar the pestilence also with a little Triacle and with the iuice of the hearbe called Tuneci whiche they call Carduum Benedictum or w t an electuarye of precious stones if it be not yet confirmed stablished in the bodye it driueth it away meruelouslye Manye also that bee Limphatici that is mad or Melancolike whome they beleued commonly to be resorted vnto of Deuils we haue cured them with y e same What make I mani words We haue deliuered with this pouder those y t wer almost dead of the quartain putting vnto it Saccharum Buglossatum or triacle or Mithridatium som digestion made an hour before the fit in .v. or vii grains weight according to the age and streÌ„ght of the body of the diseased Yea also it is holsoÌ„ to be ministred amongst the griefes of the yard great guts for we haue cured some that auoyded their dung by their mouth leaninge to the moniments and sayings of Paulus Aegineta that saith how certain phisitioÌ„s haue ministred in that disease of the great guttes quicke siluer killed The same resisteth the taking as they cal it or inchaÌ„tment It hath besides this many notable vertues which when I haue more leisure I wil rehearse vnto thee he speketh to him y t talketh with him one by one perauenture then it shall delite me to expres in what sorte thou maist make pouder w t gould and quicke siluer or els the water declared before These he I hare of late that a certain phisicion or chymist at Athesin did prepare Mercurium praecipitatum with gould and sold it like gold which had suche vertue to eat oute gnawinge or grief Se those that we shal declare about the end of those that folow next after How Praecipitatum is made which is a remedy against all diseases growing of the rottennes of humors out of a certain writeÌ„ boke Make a water of equal porcions of Vitriol of Rome and Sal Nitrum with a heade and receiuer in the whiche thou shalt put the sixt-part of the weighte of rawe Mercury y t is to say if ther be 3. pouÌ„ds of Vitriol and Sal nitrum put .vi. vnces of Mercury Afterward suffer the water with his spirites to descend in to the receiuer Then auoyde all that is in the receiuer into a clean bely and that is claied vnder the whiche put a head with a receiuer and destill it again and wheÌ„ the water is in the receiuer put it againe in the bely in the whiche the Mercury remained Thou shalt repete this till the Mercury wax red Then when it is red washe it with Cordiall waters as Borage Balme and such lyke But first washe it often tymes in fountain water or well water destilled Mercury so prepared shalt thou giue to sick men within their bodies in this maner If the body be very strong giue .x. grains if it be mean .viii. weakes fiue if it be a chyld coÌ„sider diligently what is necessary to be done But vtterly mixt it with triacle so shalt thou giue it to him that is infected with poyson droysy pestileÌ„ce or taken with other infirmitie If a sounde man once a yeare or euery third yeare as it shall seme him good vse this Praecipitatum with a dew digestion of the humors that is with a preparacion of purgacion he shall preuent many diseases Note that in the stede of Mercury thou mayst vse Amal gama made of six partes of quick siluer and of one part of gold and so shalt thou worke
elect when they are all mixte together let them be prest cunninglye in a pres But my waye whyche I described afore and tried my selfe liketh me moore then the other There be many waies to make oyl of Rooses It is made ether with oyl and ripe Roses or bothe of them vnripe or the one ripe thother vnripe and so ther is .iiii. diuers waies Som in stead of commun oyle take oyl of Almondes Rasis in hys Antidotario seperato putteth .iii. waies Firste Take a pound of coÌ„mun oil washed wherin thou shalt put the fourthe parte of Grene Rooses in a glased vessell of glas rather which thou shalt set in the sun for the space of .iii. daies ye .xl. as Aegi neta hath Then straine it and put it in a glasse This waye is better then the other The second Take oyl and Roses as before and hang the vessell in a well so that it maye be touched of the water and after .ii. monethes take it oute straine it and kepe it The third Oyl and Roses as before put them in a glas anoynted within with honye which stopt thou shalt let it diep in y e erth wher it shall not be touched nether with water nor other moisture ii months This oyl wil be better smellinge then the other These writeth Rasis oute of Aegineta as it appeareth Aegineta biddeth in the xx chap. of the seuenth boke vnto a Sextarium or wine pint of oyl Omphacinum made of oliues not fully ripe to put .iii. ounces of red Roses the nails taken awai and for the space of .xxiiii. hours laid out in the air then the oyl to be set .xl. daies w tout dores in the sun not vpon the ground but vpon a borde ¶ Mesuae in the. 411. chapt describeth .iiii. waies First that fresh and new red roses be set in the sun .vii. daies then let them be sod in a double vessel .iii. houres then the Rose leaues wronge oute let other be put in and let them be set in the sun and sod as before Which wheÌ„ thou hast done thrise put to the oyl water of infusion of Rooses y t is wherin Rooses likewise haue staÌ„ded which he saithe we haue prescribed in the chapter of syrrups as it were the fourth of the oyl that is the fourth part as the Munkes haue it Syluius traÌ„slateth it as much as the oyl is which I like not so well So when it is set in the sunne .xl. daies straine it and sette it longe againe in the Sunne The second mixting with the oyl washt the iuyce of Roses and the water of their infusion and the leaues beaten together then setting it in the sun and chaunginge it as before c. The thirde that with swiet Almondes blaunshed exactly beaten in a morter leaues of Roses be beaten again theÌ„ make them in litle lumpes or caakes and keepe them in a hoat aire .xxiiii. houres Then beate theÌ„ again and kneed them in the morter very exactly pouring vnto it a litle hoat water of infusion of Roses At length prees out the oyll with a presse put in a glas couered set it to suÌ„ The fourth y â— it be made with Sesamum blaunshed after the same maner as with Almondes But Almondes are more mete for vnrype Rooses Sesama for rype Thies hath Mesue wher Syluius had it The first composition saith he of the .iiii. now rehersed is vsed of many but of the Parisians the composition of Nicolas whiche shal be declared in his Antidotary And againe I heare that oyll of Roses is is made moste odoriferous by putrifying the roses one moneth in dung in a vessell well stopt After the same maner of commun Mastick and Roses incarnate and Muske Roses and suche lyke I doubt not but it may be made most odoriferous without the mixture of any oyll ¶ Sieth Roses Wormwod or any other odoriferous herb in water with the fourth part of oyl til all the water be consumed and the oyll shall haue the strengthes and vertues of the herbes So shalt thou make oyll out of hand of any thing Cardanus out of Symeon ¶ There be sum that when the Rooses are beeten and sod in only water say there swimmeth a certain fat foom whiche may be streined or gathered with a fether ¶ An other certain man told me that the leaues of Roses new should be sod in water til they be thick as hony almost then crusht with a spoon that the oyll or foom may enter in to it but sum water wil be mixt also with it wherfore when it is gathered in a glas it is set in the sun y e oyl swiming aboue in y e top is separated Oyll of the flowers of Elder purgeth and maketh smouth the skin strengtheneth the sinewes and helpeth the griefes of them Furnerius Oyl of Spick moste holsome for theÌ„ that haue the gout in their fiet whiche a certain physicion of late did coÌ„municate Fill a glas with the flowers of Spick nard dryed in the sun and power vpon theÌ„ oyl of Oliues so that it be higher by a fingar bredth When it hath stande .iii. daies in the sun make it boyll in a kettell six or seuen waues and streine it with migth then put in other flowers dried set them in the sun .xvi. daies or more So shalt thou haue saith he an oyl to put away peyn or grief wurth gould as I haue tried with often experience Lay linnen cloothes moystened in it vnto the grief it misseth very seldoÌ„ yea although a man do not consider the humor offending See more in the Antidotary of Arnold de Villa noua Oyll of the flowers of Verbascum is made by settin them in the sun in a glas as also of the flowers of Rosemary moste coÌ„mended praysed for the gout of the fiet of other griefs specially hoat Oyl of violets is made as oyll of Roses but of grien oyâ—l or oyll of Almondes or Sasamin Mesue Paulus Aegineta maketh this oyll of purple Violeth or Leucoio that is yelowe or he setteth them in the sun couering the vessell exactly that it breth not through only ten daies the Violettes in the meane season thrys chaunged and at lengthe he addeth dry Violettes Of oyll of Tartarum that is the dry Lies of wyne OYll of Tartarum deuysed by Peter Argil lata serueth to clense the face and to smouth it Tartarum cleauing to the sydes of the vessell whyte rather then red made into pouder is stept in vinegar after it is folded in a linnen cloothe then lette it be put in Tow moystened with water vnder the ashes after that let it be laid in a dish hielding towad the one syde .iii. daies then shall a certaine humor sumwhat red destill Nicolas way to make oyl of Tartarum cleaning to the sydes of the vessels Take that TartaruÌ„ that is of good wyne beaten folded in a linnen cloth moysten it well with strong whyte vynegar sieth it vnder hoat ashes burn it til it wax black
haue .iiii. stoules But I hear that certaine when they had taken to muche as much perauentur as a beane they haue ben emptied to ofte by the bealye and vomiting and haue bene verye muche weakened whiche I to take heede of vsinge the counsell of a certaine learned Phisicion I woulde brynge to iuyce not the Elleborum alone but infused and decocted with other diuers medicines as I shall declare by and by I perceiue it skilleth little whether the rootes be taken grene or dry But a man must take a pouÌ„d at the leaste of the rotes Lullius and other Cardan haue made mention of the quintessence of Elleborum where vnto I thincke this iuice to bee nothing inferiour This truelye is worthye to be wondred at that the iuice so longe decocted is not onlye nothinge weaker but also muche stronger for it seemeth that I may speake of coniecture that one parte of this iuice to be tenne times and more stronger then Elleborus it selfe and yet nothing more daungerous or hurtful but the streÌ„gthe withoute harme is encreased And although I my selfe woulde haue remitted and asswaged his strengthe puttinge to manye medicines yet I can commende more this simple waye alreadye described where as nothinge but a little Mastik is added at the laste speciallye for more hard and greuous diseases where necessitie requireth extreame medicines and for Franticke persones and otherwise madde and dotinge whiche when they can not be compelled to take anye medicins they are the easier deceiued with so little a dosi in quantitye Yea also withoute the bodye for venemous bitinges and sinnewes hurte I canne beleue that the vertue of it shoulde be mooste excellent I finde no iuice made in this sorte in anye authors the iuice of Acatia and of Berberies in Bulcasis For the straininge of it onlye is decocted not that which is depressed oute also the iuice of Galbanus and Licoris but the water in them is not chaunged Other iuices are made all by expression and aresod til they gather into a Ielly as of Sâ—landine Poppy Wormwod nightshade Vinae Acerbae Memithae Agremony Hypocisthidis the barkes of the rotes of Mandrag The same Bulcasis also willeth to put to a little gum to certaine iuices that be prest out which are sod by them selues at the fire that the partes of theÌ„ may better cleue together as the iuice of wormwod gasid that is Eupatorium or nightshade also of Centaury and Gentian which is made of a decoction strained But Mastik is mixt with y e iuice of Elleborus not onlye for this cause but also to amende the venemous vertue therof and contrary to the stomak Moreouer in certain other medicins wher a maÌ„ list to encrease the strength and vertue of any medicin which is to be left and laid away in some liquor we chaung not the liquor but the medicin that is euer when the first is strained putting in new medicin into the same liquor as in many decoctions and oyles but here in the iuice of Elleborus we do contrary For keping the same rotes of the Elleborus we chaunge oft the liquor I maye tel the cause because y e rote of Elleborus aboue all other things hath most stroÌ„g vertues not in y e superficial other parts only but in y e hole substaÌ„ce imprinted vehemeÌ„tly fastly wherfore it may be also kept most long of al other I my self vsed it when it was .x. yeares olde in his full strengthe And certaine common Practicioners bidde men drinke for the lousinge of the belly the wine wher in a part of it hath sooked a nighte and the nexte daye is strained and the rotes to be dried again for they are nothing or veri litle weaker therwith although they be somewhat often repeated to the same vse and dried again But of Elleborus it self and what we haue tried and experimented therof perauenture we shal once haue an other place and occasion to wryte of Pils of blak Elleborus or rather of his iuice is to be taken euery seuenth day in the curing of the French disease that is Melancholy as Matthaeolus couÌ„selith Three drams of the rootes of blacke Veratrum or Elleborus fresh and new Dauci or yelow-Caret Anisi Peper of euery one a dram .vi. grains of Mosth ii scrupuls of Epithy mii or the harder time let all theese be lightlye beaten then when they haue stand to soke a day and a nighte v. poundes of Malmsye heare semeth to be som fault of the printer for it is to great a measure of wine let them be mightilye prest oute Take .iii. drams of this expression of the pouder of pils of Fumitory Cochiarum Aurearum of euery one ii drams and a half knede them together and then let them be dried Moreouer when they are dry made againe in pouder thou shalt stiepe them again in the same Malmsy as before .iiii. tymes The pilles thereof muste be taken at one time to the weight of one dram Oure iuice composed and made of Elleborus Two poundes of Blacke Elleborus newe cutte Liquoris scraped and brused with a pestil a pouÌ„d stiep them a night in a good quantitie of water The next day after sieth them an houre a halfe with a slow fyer or .ii. houres power it out straining it and put in to it other water warm which shal be redy in a chafer by the fyr for this purpose Repete this seuen tymes or more Then castyng away the routes take the hooll water streined or destilled by a Filtrum and sieth it by litle and litle and when as yet a litle of it shall remaine power vnto it this decoctioÌ„ Seuen handfull of Betain Agrimony two handfull Anisi iii. vnces stiep theÌ„ in water and sieth them till the consumpcion and wasting of the thirde parte pres it out strayne it twys or thrys at the length put to fiue vnces of Agaricum elect cut smal flower deluce two vnces and a half Cinamon six drams Ginger halfe an vnce sieth them to the half pres them out strain the water as befor Then power this decoction to the decoction of the Elleborus boyling moderatly and let them be â—od together to the thicknes of hony A litle before the ende put to .iiii. drams of the pouder of Mastick .ii. drammes of Scammonium thies dissolued together in a litle of the decoction of Elleborus that it may be lyke the substaunce of hony not muche before the end of the decotion power it in when the iuice shal be moderatly thyck or beginneth to be thick and thou shalt stur it about till the iuice be consumed Thou shalt trye now and then a drop of the iuice let it fall vpon a tinnen â—rencher and when it shal be so thick that it wil almost run no more abrode when thou leenest the trencher on the one syde or lifts it vp then is the iuice perfect But by the space of an houre or more before the ende thou shalt now and then
stur it about with a slow fyer lest it burn too Of this decoctioÌ„ I had almost .xi. vnces of iuice I thinck I should haue had skarsly y e fourth parte if I had sod Elleborum alone This iuice haue I vsed alredy sumtymes for I ministred it vnto a yonge man sik of the falling euill with good succes who now of long tyme God be thanked is well but with many other medicines also ther with as letting of bloud and sweeting c. And an other certain person molested for .iii. yeares with the Ascarides or litle round wormes breeding in the long gut many medicines tryed in vayne was restored with this iuice once receiued and a few dayes after taking hartes horn burnt Pilles of the bignes of a pees from .ii. to fiue may be ministred after supper that is from half a scrupull or there about to a hool But a man may try thies better in proces of time This doo I admonish physicions that be litle exercised that thei vse it not rashly but with diligent consideration for it is a vehement medicine It semeth to be conuenient and good for the quartain ague that is no more rawe and for other diuers great and long diseases specially for the scab cumming of black choler I gaue of laâ—â— to one sicke of a quartain fyue pylles of the bignes of a pees whereupon he perceyued great anguishe and was purged only by vomit voyded nothing downward nether was eased of the diseases I imputed the cause to the distemperaunce of the man I my self taking two pyles lyke peasen after sopper y e next day I felt no smal grief about my stomak I auoyded suÌ„tymes downward but I vomited not A man may more safly giue it to theÌ„ y t be sufficiently ful of flesh or fat of a moyst stomack and a stomack of moo exquisite sence Again of the iuice of black Elleborus and of the drawing out of the vertues out of purging medicines and certain other as I learned of a certin friend THis drawing oute was inuented for delicate persoâ—es and such as be of a weake stomack for theÌ„ that can not abyde nor beare a great potioÌ„ of any lousing medicine but ar loused w t the leest weight The extractioÌ„ of black Elleborê° iiii pouÌ„d of blak true Ellebo new fresh let theÌ„ be streight waies washt theÌ„ cut smal power vpoÌ„ theÌ„ this maner of streining y e iuice of Buglos Borrage of ether .ii. poundes let theÌ„ be purified strained moste diligeÌ„tly y â— they may be as pure as gold let theÌ„ be laid or set vp for a tyme. TheÌ„ take fenel rootes Cichori sperage persely of euery .iiii. vnc Iuiuba ruÌ„ sebesten of ether .ii. vnces Melon siedes cucumer siedes gourd siedes citrul siedes of euery an vnce sieth theÌ„ accordiÌ„g to art in 16. pouÌ„ds of rain water Vnto this straining power y e forsaide .iiii. pouÌ„des of iuice let theÌ„ boyll a litle at y â— fier afterward put in y â— cut beateÌ„ Ellebo sieth theÌ„ lightly by litle litle till y t the rootes appeare aboue theÌ„ pres theÌ„ out again strain theÌ„ through a filtruÌ„ sieth this strainiÌ„g to y e thiknes of hony w t a slow fier taking coÌ„tinually hied lest it â–ª be burnd to Afterward take it of the fier vse it trying experimeÌ„ting in the dosior quaÌ„titie of ministraâ—ioÌ„ from half a scrupul to a hool or further It is ministred to louse y e bely folded or moulded in a litle moystned dow vnleuened mixt with a drop or two of oyll of Anis The extraction of Rhabarbari Cut a pound of the pieces of Rhabarbarum elect small and beat it sumwhat gros and power to it y e clarified iuices of Borage and Buglos of ether two poundes let them stande .xxiiii. houres Afterward sieth them at a slowe fyer till the Rhabarbarum appeare and be higher then the rest Then pres it out strongly and put the decoction prest out through a wullen sight and pres it out that the substaunce may remaine in the sight Sieth this sighting to the thiknes of hony putting to it an vnce of y t best sugar Sum sieth in Balneo Mariae till it be thick lest it should put to whiche is better as lykewyse in a double vessell In purging giue it to be swalowed doun mixt with a drop of oyll of Cinamon and Anis foulded in vnleuened dow making a triall in the quantitie of ministracion from a scrupul to ii Sum bicause Rhabarbarum by it selfe doth not purge greatly do sharpen the hooll extraction w t a litle of the best Dacrydium which hurteth not An extractioÌ„ of pilles Take any lump or mas that y â—uo wil of pilles composed most diligently of the best medicines when it is broken into litle pieces stiep it eight daies in raine water iuice of Borage iuice of Fenell in equall porcions as muche as suffiseth Then sieth it in a glasen double vessell a hool daye then pres it out through a moste cleane wullen clothe that will lose none of his heares and sieth it againe in a bath and double vessel diligently to a conuenient thicknes and frame little pils whereof thou shalt geue .ii. scruples or ther about A matter drawne oute in this wise is most pure very tender and melteth easily in a mans hand In like maner may also the vertues of other purging medicins be drawne oute But hede must be taken that euer softening and slippery iuices be mixt therwith in the decoction such as they before are and it shall be muche the better if all be sod in a double vessel A description of a purging Electuari extracted whiche a certaine excellente Phisition at Norinberg did vse .xiii. drammes of Colocynthidis blak Elleborus senae Alexandrinae of ether an ounce of mooste white Agaricum an ounce Rhabarbarum Electum halfe an ounce or if the Rhabarbarum be not very good an ounce xiiii drams of Dacrydium Turbirh if I rede right Stichas Ara. of ether ii vnces a half ii drams of Cinamon red Roses Lignum Aloes Mastik red Mirrh Asarum spiknard Styrax liquid of euery .v. scrupuls Pour altogether and digest or putrify theÌ„ as they cal it .x. daies or .xiiii. in warm Aqua vitae thrise destilled The iuice prest out therof shal be ioyned and mixt with .iii. vnces of prepared Aloes But the Aloes did he prepare in this wise About apouÌ„d of Aloes is put into a basen caudron or pot putting therto vinegar made with Rosewater and Roosewater as much as shal be sufficient but so y t ther be more of the vinegar of Roses then of the water of Roses Let them boyle together with a slowe fire .ii. or .iii. boylinges then straine them pressing them strongly When it is strained let it boyle againe with a slow fire to the thicknes of Aloes sturring it continuallye with a slise When it is coulde let it be kepte for vse The species or particulers rehersed are firste cut
water oft destilled is broughte into such sharpnes y t it can not be drunk Cardan But this is commonly known they that sell it commoÌ„ly are wont to destil it only twise but to the vse of glasiers for the burning in of their colors in their glasses foure times except I be deceiued We declared afore how when it is once or twise destilled in serpentins or writhen or crouked vessels or in other accustomed vessels with pipes of brasse as big as a mans arme may afterward be perfected in ashes vntill all the steame be put awaye by the which meanes it is made not only hoter and more subtil and finned but also more pleasaunte bothe to the taste and smell Neither do all men vse one forme or fashion of the bodies and heades whiche they call limbeckse to destill all â—uyces for some draw the water out of wine put in a great brasen vessel standing vpon the fire the necke or mouthe wherof is great and broad vpon a three fote and vpon this necke standeth the heade of brasse also with a top like a spire steple a thing like a paile or bucket D. compassing it ful of cold water that the large vapoure maye be thickned the soner by the head made cold and least the water of y e wine should so resemble the fire Some vse in the stead of a necke or heade to receiue the vapoure wyth a pipe of white plate or other mettall verye longe writhen into manye boughtes and tourninges like vnto the maner of serpents wherupon they name them coÌ„monly serpentins the greatest part therof standing in water Some haue also yet an other fashion Syluius We did see diuers fashyons of vessels set out in figures to destill burning water or aqua vitae in Gualter Ryffius Andro Lo nicerus Bulcasis saith wine may be destilled after the same maner as vineger the destillacion wher of he described Read within streight after the title of destillacion in ashes Aqua vitae is thought then to be stilled inough that is after it be stilled foure tymes at the leaste and pourged from all his fleame whan as if a manne sette it a fyre it wyll consume euery whit wyth the flame that no token of moysture be lefte in the bottome of the vessell or elsse if a lynnen clothe dipte therein and sette a fyre it burne not the clothe whyche is a greatter token of perfectyon as that also if a droppe of Oyle bee lette fall into it it goeth to the bottome For Oyle is aierye wherefore a fyrie substaunce whereunto Aqua vitae soo ofte destylled shoulde atteyne oughte too bee lyghter then it But besydes the heate of so destylled it should also become thin and pure more more and when euery fire the thicker and grosser it is the more it burneth contrariwise the thinner the lesse that which is most thin should burn leaste of all By the same cause it commeth to passe that a drop of Aqua vitae poured in the palme of a mans hand the better it is the soner it vanisheth awaye and is consumed I heare that this is a laudable note of this water if succinum amber being set on fire and put to it into a spone do burn Whan wine saith Vlstadius 10 â–ª chapter is destilled twyse or thrise you shall cut a fine sponge into pieces so great that on euery side they may touch the cucur bita or bodye within the vpper parte that is in the inner circuit the spoÌ„g must be tied in thre or four stringes hanging withoute when you shall set on the limbeck so that the sponge can not fal into the bottome of the still let the sponge be dipt in oyle oliue and crushed out a little again least pexauenture the oyle should fall into the pot or body of the stil and be mixt with the matter then settinge the limbeck vpon it shit it close with wax as is aforesaid or with purified rosen By this spong the spirits shal be best destilled and the fleame shall not passe through because of the oyle by this menes shall a man do more with once destilling then otherwise with thrise Notwithstandinge the limbeck must be made withoute the gutter and circle within like to a blinde limbecke but it muste not lacke a nose Thus saith he That whiche remayneth of the lies and dregs destilled in the bottom y â— meÌ„ of our time call it dead water for it is vnsauery and stinking Such that is the stinking water whether it be yeilden of lies onlye or also of wine I haue not tried For the destillation of aqua vitae or burning water a man muste chuse the best wine blacke red or white Black and old yelds more plenty and also better water then any other The fire at y â— first must be light and soft after more vehemeÌ„t but you must take hede in anye wise y t the wine sethe not The water that is gotten theroute is surnamed burning or the soul and life of the wine and when it is destilled twise or thrise then they cal it flaming water Albertus as some alledge Of fiue partes of lies wheÌ„ it is twise destilled I heare one remaineth or somwhat les Whan y â— fleame is one cleane consumed nothing is lost after in the destilling but the hole is yeilded again Of .iiii. measures of wine for the moste parte one measure of burnyng water is gathered in the first destillacion or there about according to the goodnes of the wine Then in the next destillacion for one measure there commeth the halfe In y â— third one part offiue is coÌ„sumed In y â— fourth as much is yelded as you put in for the most part if the destillacion be done accordingly Notwithstanding if you continue destillinge the water shall be the more perfect in so much that at the ninth or tenth destillacion it shal come out most perfect But for as much as to the repeting of destillinge so ofte a man must bestow both more time and more coste for the most part we are content with the third or the fourthe destillacion and call it perfecte And surely it resteth much in the instrument that the water should be perfected soner or slower For the vapour is more destilled and perfected in the first destillacion in a serpentin that is in a croked and bowed pipe theÌ„ thrise destilled by a streight pipe Note further that ther diuers waters may be gathered in the first destillacion wherof the firste is perfit that is that whiche burneth and is consumed with the fire and a linnen cloth dipte therin and set on fire is not burnt You shall proue therfore nowe and then and when the water ceaseth burninge looke what remaineth in the still you may cast it away as vnprofitable The second is a meane betwene good and bad The thirde is good for nothinge saue that it cleareth the eyes and the face if thrise a day they be washte therin morninge noone and euening
but this vertue of the third water perauenture is true if the destillacion be made with wine but if it be with lies as they be wonte with vs it is not true More ouer the stil must not be filled aboue .ii. parts but that the third part may remaine emptye and that the vapoures maye haue their scoupe and romthe Hitherto Lullus Of the strengthes and vertues of Aqua vitae in the boke of Arnold De Villa noua which is written of Aqua vitae ARnold in his boke of Aqua vitae describeth many qualities therof both of it alone and also mixt with other medicins after the destillacion obseruing the order of the .xii. signes from the head to the fete for as he saith a man must minister much more effectuall remedies to the head if a man haue nede at such time as the mone is in the ram and likewise in the other which thinge how true I iudge it I wil not say at this time notwithstanding this wil I say the better learned any man is in oure time the les credit haue they geuen to suche perswacions as the Arabians haue broughte into phisicke Aqua vitae simple and alone saithe Arnold oute of one Theoricus I can not tel whome breaketh an impostume or recours of matter bothe within the body if it be dronke and without as botche if it be annoynted therwith It helpeth read and duskish eies It stauncheth the running and watering of the eies It is good for them that haue the falling sickns if they drink it It cureth the palsy if they be anoynted therwith It sharpneth y ewit it restoreth memori It maketh mē mery preserueth youth It putteth awai fracins ring worms al spots of y e face If it gargild it remedieth y ◠diseas in y e throte called synanchen y ◠squince the iuila faln down w t humors also the salt fleme the rose drop the touth ache It is merueylous profitable for frētik mē such as be melācholy It erpelleth poysō The smel therof burnt killeth flies cold creping beasts It doth sieth flesh kepeth fishes from roating It restoreth wine that is turned or putrified It draweth forth the vertues of herbes and rotes if they be laid in it .iiii. daies otherwise .iiii. houres excepte onlye the Violet It oughte to be set vp in a glasen or siluer vessell and to be wel stopt There is more of it better made of old wine pure and read This he He that desyreth more concerninge the vertues of Aqua vitae let him read that which we write aboue of y e vertues of certain liquors which our men call goldē and waters of vertues For they ascribe all those powers for the most part as well to Aqua vitae as to the other specially to simple Aqua vitae much more to compound or Aqua composita but chieflye to the quintessens therof Reade more ouer Lullus in the boke of waters I haue sene also a certaine broken worke ascrtbed to Albertus of the vertues of Aqua vitae But practicioners ignorant of thinges and times or els of a purpose to deceiue mē as many as they could haue most impudently fathered many things vpon Galen Hippocrates and Aristotle of the vertues of Aqua vitae or burnynge water as writen by them All kinde of cold passions or greues that be curable it helpeth in shorte space specially diseases of the brain sinewes and ioyntes Also wormes in the bellye biles and all scabbines if it be washt oft therwith it healeth it It helpeth y e splene it killeth all wormes It mēdeth a stinking breth It taketh awaye the disease of the loines The hurt members if they be anoynted therewith it will restore them to their former health It preserueth fishe and flesh from corrupting but before they be eaten they must be washte with common water Camphora put into it will dissolue If cōmon water be poured into it it goeth to the bottom and likewise oyle This writeth Albertus as some alledge The taste of it excedeth all other tastes and the smel all other smelles Lullus It comforteth the natural heat more then any other remeadye it is most holsom for the stomake the harte and the liuer it norysheth blud it agreeth meruelously and most with mans nature it openeth and purgeth y e mouthes and entrances of the membres vaines and poores of the body euery one it auoydeth all obstructions and comforteth them Yea it chaungeth the assections of the minde it taketh awaye sadnes and pensiuenes it maketh men meri witty and encreaseth audacitie Lullus Anoynte the head therwith and it helpeth it of the head ache it killeth the wormes drunken fasting it putteth away sowning it healeth the biles in the priuy mēbers if they be washt therwith it easeth them that be diseased in the stomacke it stauncheth all runninges it preserueth bodies from corruptinge by wormes It auoydeth and kepeth a man frō gray heares It is not permitted to women with child It redresseth the fleame and reume of the hed It encreaseth the ability of accompanying with voemen It is good against thick hearing poured into the eares Mixt with wine and drōk it healeth the falling sicknes If a man hold it longe it taketh away diuers kinde of touth ache It putteth away the blemishes and whit spots in the eies if it be poured into them and auoydeth the running and watering of the same if a man do but hold it in his mouth It letteth the leprosy a space and hideth it It helpeth rotten and materinge biles if linnen cloutes be dipt therin and laid vpon them With a little decoction of parcely it driueth away the stones in the bladder It maketh womē apt to conceiue but anoyeth them that be greate wyth childe It cureth diuers greues it is profitable to be laid vpon broken bones hot with towe or with some plaster It slaketh the cramp in the legs if a man anoynt them therwith He hath no name exprest that sheweth these qualities But the most of them seme to be taken out of Lullus I knew an old woman that was cold and Cathectica to be restored by a handkerchief made warm with Aqua vitae set a fire within it Some alledge the testimony of Constantine of the vertues of burning water Aqua vitae besides other things is commodious and profitable for the strangury and other diseases of the bladder for the tertian ague and quartain also which are ioyned wyth colde humors against the disease called the Wulfe againste wormes againste the sens or painefull fealinge of a mannes bodye lyke vnto biles It furthereth and prouoketh wemens floures It breaketh and putteth awaye the stone in the reins and expelleth a dead child without anye greate paine The issues of the bellye and fluxes it helpeth what so euer they be They say that Aqua vitae is perfite when often measures is made one whiche I suppose will come to passe in the thirde or fourthe
pacient to drink therof in the morning .iii. vnces Epiphanius Empericus A water for the stone of the raines and blader Sperage Ruscum Apium Fenel Perslye rubia of euery one halfe an ounce fiue of the siedes of diur etica ligusticum lithospermoÌ„ Ammi Radish seselis Masliliâ—sis daucê° Saxifrage of euery one .iii. drams adianthum matricaria ceterach scolopendrum trifolium gramen senecion I vnderstande cardaminam liuerwort the sede of peucedanum of euery one a handfull halfe an ounce of the floure Deluce .vi. drammes of Xilobalsanum two ounces of Licoris .iiii. of Cummun sedes colde greater cleansed of euery one halfe an ounce grounde Iuy Pimpernel of euery one a handful a half kirnels of Cheries stones an ounce spiknard .iii. drams the gum of Iuy .vi. drams Gotes bloude prepared an ounce as much of Cinnamon when they are beaten let them be put in .x. pouÌ„d of white wine or asmuch as shal suffise destil them A like water for the same purpose is described of Rogerius in his fourth treatise and .vi. chapter but destilled with vineger not with wine A vvater for the stone described by Epiphanius a practicioner SAint Iohns wurt Chamaedrios Chamepyteos senecionis not erigerontem but sisymbrium cardamine doth he vnderstaÌ„d the gras of sinkfoyl scolopendrium helxines verbenae eupatorium peny royall rew of euery one a handfull fiue routes of diuretica Acorus inula rubea asarus tamarix of euery one .iii. drammes Fine of the siedes of diuretica saxifrage lithospermon daucus radish persely of Macedonia ammiuÌ„ marathrum carus libisticus of euery one ii drams peeche kernels half a dram four of the cuÌ„mon siedes cold greater clensed of euery one a dram and a half Lycoris .ii. vnces Iuniper beries half an vnce When thies are beaten let them stande infused in fiue poundes of wyne then destill them with a slow fyre Giue the sick to drinck other after bathing early in the morning warm from halfe an vnce to two vnces Certain vvaters composed destilled with vinegar OF vinegar it selfe destilled reed before where we entreeted of waters destilled in Balneo Mariae A water that breaketh the stone in y e bladder described by Epiphanius a practicioner ii poundes of the iuice of saxifrage the iuice of milium of the sun Persely Anise of euery halfe a pound whyt vinegar eight vnces destill a water therof and giue it to drinke fasting A water of Swalowes is thus made Yonge Swalowes when they ar beaten to pouder mixt them with Castorio and a litle good vinegar and destill them this water drunke of one fasting is a trewe medicine of the falling sicknes what cause so euer it cum of And although a man haue had that disease .v. yeres he shal be heeled if he drinke of this water a litle for the space of foure daies he shal be heeled perfectly The phrenesey also if it be drunken fasting is cureth by it within nyne daies It maketh a good brain more then al other medicines It purgeth the stomacke it mollifieth the brest it coÌ„forteth the sinues it taketh the palsey away by the routs it encreaseth nature it heteth them that be couled Also sodde with Hyssop with a decoction of Hyssop doo I allowe rather and drunken it cureth the Dropsey sprung of cold and agues cotidians But let wemen with chylde absteyn from it leest their fruit be destroyed therwith Drunck with Hyssop it dryueth awaye the heed ache it maketh a man sliep easely and it forthereth concoction and the auoyding of the vrin otherwyse y e bely It putteth away hear whersoeuer it is anoynted vpon the pure skin so that they neuer grow again Lullius and Aegidius VVaters of Capons WAters of Capons as men call them ar giuen to drinke to restore the strengthe to women in chyldbed or old sickmen in diseases of great weacknes or through to muche euacuation They are wont to sieth the capon very long in water that al the flesh may fal from the bones and be destilled together with the liquor ether by it selfe or other precious waters put vnto it and spices gold syluer and precious stones Sum allow the capon the more the elder he is nether do they cut his throot but strangle chooke him nether do they pluck of his fethers by hoot water or skalding him but with their hands dry and so when his bowels are taken out and he is cut in small pieces they destill hym Other do not take away all but the guttes only A water of a capon restoritiue and sumwhat bynding Thou shalt sieth the capon in water according vnto the arte put to it a pounde of rose-water conserue of roses borage buglos of euery one an vnce Of both kyndes of corall of ether of them two drams of the spyces diarhodon abb a dram Small rasins without y â— curnels an vnce Coriander prepared half an vnce the fregmentes of all precious stones pearles of euerye one an vnce and a half Let them be destilled An other Let the Capon be sod with a pound of bief til it be sufficiently sodde whereunto thou shalt ad Malmsey Roose water of ether halfe a pounde white breade that it maye be sookte .iii. ounces thou shalt beat these without the bief and put to these spices folowing Spices electu of precious stones Diarhodon Abbatis Diamoschu that is swiet of euery a dram Diamargariton spices of confection agaynste the Pestilence of ether two scrup .viii. leaues of pure golde Mixte them all with the iuyce or brothe and let them be destylled wyth a slowe fyre Some dres this water with saffron and cinnamon c. for wemen in child bed whiche be bothe weake and theyr flours or loosenes of their body commeth not forwarde It is ministred ether alone or with suger Some also dres it withoute destillacion thus They sethe very long an old capon boyled drest accordingly then they beat smal the guts and the bones and in a tinnen or glasen vessel wel stopt set in a caudron ful of sethinge water they sieth it for the space of .vi. houres Som cast gold into it as rings or coynes of golde A certain water with a capon or a cock or a hen soden together with diuers coÌ„fortable medicins is described in Gnainerius in the chapter of curing y e hectical or coÌ„suming feuer not to be destiled but sodeÌ„ only in a glaseÌ„ vessel put in a ketle of water VVaters composed for diuers diseases within y e body chiefly wherof some are made of medicins and iuyces whiles they be yet newe other are infused and put into the iuices of plaÌ„ts or waters destilled whay or bloud A Water causing slepe .ii. vnces of Henbane an vnce of the rotes of Mandragora vi drams of Popy Gith Aumber of ether of them .ii. draÌ„s sedum the bigger and the les the water Lily Lett es of euery one an handful when they are pund let them be put in .ii. pouÌ„d of water of popy with an ounce and a