ounces let them be well stirred together with a spattle vntil the oyle and Sope bée wel incorporated together After this put thereto Venis Ceruse and Lytharge of each 2. ounces euer mingling and stirring them with a spattell of Vitriol calcined til it be red and pouldred one ounce Of 〈◊〉 halfe an ounce When any of the aforesaid things are put in stirre it wel til it come to a conuenient thicknesse for a playster which thou shalt apply to the knots it helpeth not onely these but also of callous and hollow vlcers and pockes An excellent water to the same effect TAke Vnsâ—ickt-Lime let it lye in Spring water fiue 〈◊〉 sixe dayes that thou mayest draw out the Salt Let the water be foure or fiue fingers aboue the Lyme Of this water take 3. pound in the which thou shalt quench a red hote plate of Stéele twelue times and oftener After this thou shalt put therein of burnt copper brought into pouder 3. ounces of Cinabar halfe and ounce Let them stand by the space of foure or fiue dayes in which time the water will be of a gréene colour by meanes of the inward vitriol of the burnt copper This water is an excellent remedy to qualifie and alay suddenly all manner aches and paines A remedy to dissolue the Stone AFter some conuenient gentle purgation let the patient grieued with the Stone take one little spoonefull of this poulder following which not onely openeth the conduits prouoking vrine but also diminisheth and hindereth the growing of the Stone Take of the kernels which are in Medlars Gromel called Milium Solis the séedes of the great Burre Saxifrage Hollyhock Auis séedes Fennel-séedes of each thrée drammes of Christall stones and of Tartar fix drammes of the stones which are called commonly Crabbes eyes halfe an Ounce of the Salt of ground Furze one drachme of Cinamon one Ounce and a halfe of Violated Suger two Ounces and a halfe mingle these and make a poulder This poulder being taken let the partie drinke vpon it a little wine Iuniperated or of this water following Take of the rootes of Eryngium of ground Furze and of the fiue rootes apertiue of each one Ounce of the barke of Lemons one Ounce and a halfe of the foure greater cold séedes of the séedes of Mallowes and Hollihock of each thrée Ounces of the séedes of Saxifrage of Gromel of the greater Radish of the Burdock and of ripe Iunipar Berries of each Drachmes six of Askakeng Berries twenty in number of Iuiâ—bes six couple of Dictam of the flowers of Broome of Saint Iohns woort of Betonie of the greatest Mallow of each two gripes with the thomb and two fingers of liquirice two ounces and a halfe of the wood of Caffia one Ounce beate and poulder that which is to be pouldered and let them be stéeped or infused in water of siluer wéed called wilde Tansey and of Parietory of the wall of each one pound and a halfe of the best white wine two pound and that by the space of foure daies in Bal. M. hote and then let it be strongly strained Into the liquor put of the Species of Diatragaganthum Frigidum and of the Trochiscks of Alkakenge without Opium of each one Ounce Let them be digested againe at the fire of Baln Mar by the space of one or two dayes and let them be distilled by a glasse Allembic according to Art This water also taken by it selfe alone câ—â—teth and thinneth grosse matters and clenseth the raynes and sucking-vaines and the bladder from the stopping of sand and grauel and frâ—eth them from grosse humours Of this water by it selfe alone the dose to be giuen at one time is two Ounces with some conuenient syrrup An other excellent water against the Stone TAke the Iuice of Radish of Lâ—â—tâ—ns of each one pound and a halfe of the waters of Betonie of wild Tansey of Saxifrage of Veruaine of each one pound of Hydromel and of Malmesey two pound In these liquors mixed together infuse by the space of foure or fiue dayes at a gentle fire of Baln Mar Iunipar Berries ripe and newe gathered being bruised thrée Ounces of Gromel of the séede of the Burdock of the greater Radish of Saxifrage of Nettels of Onions of Anis of Fenel of each one Ounce and a halfe the foure cold séedes the séedes of great mallowes of each six drachâ—â—es the species of Lithontri the Electuarie Duis Iustini Nicolai of each halfe one Ounce the Calxe of Egge-shels Cinamon of each thrée Drachmes of Camphore two Drachmes Let all againe be well distrained and then distilled by ashes Two ounces of this water taken doth wonderfully clense the Counduits prouoke vrine and wil breake and expell the Stone To this if you adde his proper Salt or one scruple of the extract of Betonie it will be a more effectual remedy The conclusion of this Treatise ALchymie or Spagyrick which some account among the foure pillers of medicine and which openeth and demonstrateth the compositions and dissolutions of all bodies together with their preparations alterations and exaltations the same I say is she which is the inuenter and Schoole-mistresse of distillation For Alchymie vseth seuen workes which are as it were certaine degrées by which as it were by certaine necessary instruments she ordereth and finisheth the transmutations of things By transmutation I meane when any thing so forgoeth his outward forme and is so changed that it is vtterly vnlike to his former substance and woonted forme but hath put on another forme and hath assumed an other essence another colour another vertue and another nature and properly As for example when linnen rags are turned into paper metall into glasse skins or leather into glue an hearbe into ashes ashes into Salt Salt into water and Mercury so moueable into a fixed body as into Sinabar and poulder The seauen degrees of working are these mentioned before in the Practise 1 Calcination Which is the bringing of any thing to ashes 2 Digestion Is a dissoluing of that which is thick into thinne to be purified 3 Fermentation Is a mixing of kindly matter for multiplication or the kindly seasoning or leauining of a thing 4 Distiliation Is an extraction of a liquor from a body by heate 5 Circulation Is to rectifie any thing to a higher perfection 6 Sublimation Is the lifting vp of moyst matter to make it more pure and dry 7 Fixation Is to make that which is flying to abide with his body Beside these there are diuers other workings as DissolutioÌ„ is to dissolue yâ— which is grosse Putrifaction is the meane to generation Exaltation is euaporation of the impure humour Rectification is a reiterated Distillation to perfection CoagulatioÌ„ is the congealing of moisture CohobatioÌ„ is a repetition of Distillation by which the liquor distilled is powred vpon the feces and distilled againe Distillations are diuers according to the diuersities of reasons maners and of subiects whereupon arise sundry differences of distillation The first difference is taken
conserue health Then againe put to thy Receyuer and increase thy fire by degrées as thou didst before so long vntil at the first there distill foorth a yealow oyle after that a red oyle the matters in the Matrat remaining drie and yet not throughly drie least the liquor which shall distil foorth doe smel of burning These things done take that most cléere water which came forth first of all in good plentie powre it vpon the feces remayning and make them to digest together by the space of 6. or 7. dayes at the heate of Baln-marie vntil the water be coloured and waxe yellow that is to say vntill it hath attracted the more fierie and oylie portion of the matter and the feces which shall remaine when they haue yéelded their whole tincture to the foresaid water reserue and kéepe apart to such vse as herafter shal be declared But if you think good you may reserue a portion of euery of the said liquors to such medicinable vses as is before shewed and vse the rest in the progresse of the foresaid worke and in the subsequent After you haue drawne the foresaid liquors that also which tooke last tincture from the feces thou shalt mixe them together that from thence thou mayest extract a farre more Elixir of life than the former and most precious procéeding in manner following When thou haste mixed the foresaid thrée liquors together thou shalt distil them by a Corrnute or by a glasse Allembic pretermitting al digestion vsing in other than the sayd mixture vse and follow the same way order which thou diddest before seperating the Elements and beginnings of liquors For thou shalt draw out of the first most cleare water which thou shalt reserue by it selfe namely at such time as thou shalt perceiue the receiuer to be darkened with a cloudie fume then chaunging the Receiuer and putting too fire as thou didst before thou shalt continue it so long vntil thou sée the liquor to issue foorth of yealow colour the which also thou shalt kéepe apart as thou diddest the former In the meane time while the foresaide distillations or seperations of Elements that is to say of the two beginnings Mercurie and Sulphur are in hand thou shalt calcine at a Reuerberatorie fire the Feces which thou reseruedst before out of the which being brought to ashes thou shalt extract salt according to Arte with thy first most cleare water the water seasoned with his Salt shal be mingled with the other two liquors which were reserued that so at the least out of a Tryangle thou mayest make a Circle O as Philosophers speake that is to say that out of those thrée seueral waters by circulation in a Pellican made according to Arte there may come foorth one essence and so by that meanes that great Elixir of life and admirable secret shal be made And not onely made but also by so short a way so easie and so well knowen to true Philosophers that they know thereby how and in what order to make Elixirs out of all things The vertues of this Elixir are vnspeakable both to the curing also to the preuenting of giddinesses in the head the Falling sickenesse Apoplexies Palsies madnes Melancholy the Asthma and diseases of the Lungs faintings and soundings traunces weakenesse of the stomach and of other parts consumptions procéeding of an euil disposition of the bodies passions procéeding from the gaule and such like heauie and lamentable griefes Certaine droppes onely of this being giuen in some conuenient breath and fitting for the sicknesse As for example against the Epilepsie with water of Peonie of Lillyes Connally or of flowers of the Linden trée Against the palsie with the water Mary goldes against the pestilence with the water of Goates beard or of water of Cardus Benedictus against the Asthma or Tissick with the water of Scabiose or of Fole-foote or such like Moreouer this Elixir is of force to restore and conserue our radial Balsam if fower or fiue droppes thereof be giuen in broath wine or other conuenient liquor But peraduenture thou wilt say that the preparation of this Elixir requireth too much labour is too tedious But it is much better and more necessarie to spend the time in things so admirable and of so great importance than about Medicines that are altogether vnprofitable And yet to serue euery mans turne I wil set downe the preparation of an other Eilxir more easie and peraduenture more pleasing to conserue health and to prolong life Another Elixir of life most easie to be made TAke the Rootes of Gentian slit in pieces and dryed with a gentle heate also the roote of the lesser Centaurie of each thrée ounces Galanga Cinimon Mace Cloues of each one ounce Flowers of Sage of S. Iohns woort of each two grypes with two fingers and a thumbe Of the best white wine 6. pound Infuse these in a glasse Matrate wel stopped by the space of eight dayes at a gentle fire of Balne-Marie Then let them be wel streined so distilled by a glasse Allembic in ashes til nothing remaine but drynesse Then powre the water distilled vppon the feces that from them thou mayest drawe away the whole tincture in a milke warme Balne-Mary Bring the Feces after the drawing away of the tincture into ashes which thou shalt put into Hyppocrates bag powring the said coloured water oftentimes vpon the ashes that it may draw vnto it the proper salt Giue of this Elixir the fourth part of a spoonefull in some conuenient liquor Vse it a long time It is a special remedie for all consumptions for the weaknesse of the stomache which it purgeth from tough and slimy humours which cleane to the same It stayeth the breeding of wormes and kéepeth the body in health Take of this twise in one wéeke and continue with it A Treacle-water for the head helping all paines of the same proper for the Apoplexie Epilepsie Palseyâ— and such like TAke of the rootes of Peony of Misselto of common Acorns or Cane of each thrée ounces Of ripe Iuniparberryes and of the séeds of Peony of each one ounce Of Cloues and Maces of each 6. drachmes Of Castoreum halfe an ounce Of the flowers of Stechados Mary-gold Rosemary Sage Lillyes coâ—â—ally of the Linden trée of each two grypes with two fingers and the thumbe Cut that which is to bee cut and beate that which is to bée beaten and infuse them by the space of 3. dayes by the heat of a hote Balne in white wine of the best 2. pound and with the waters of Peony Sage and of Mary-goldes of each one pound Then straning them hard To this liquor adde of Treacle of Alexandria ounces 4. of Anacardine confectionem Meâ—u one ounce and a halfe of Diamosch and Aromatici Gabriel of each halfe an ounce Stéepe or infuse these againe by the space of two or thrée dayes at the fire gentle of Blan M. Then straine them againe
Trimegistus as doth also Diodorus Siculus who affirmeth that the Aegiptians were the first inuentors of Sciences taking their originall and infallible grounds from the same Hermes or Mercury whose diuine monuments are to be séene at this day From this ancient Author Hermes which liued in the first worldes haue sprung vp all our Hermetical Philosophers and Physitions whose traditions haue bene receiued and imbraced not onely of all sorts of learned men in all countries but also by the most noble and famous Princes and Kings both Gréekes Arabians and Latines Yet it must be confessed that the most ancient learned Philosophers neither haue nor could deliuer such a general knowledge wherin there was not something wanting and whereof themselues were not ignorant For to vse the words of learned Guido we are infants carried vpon the shoulders of those great and lofty Gyants frō whose eminence we do behold not onely those things which they saw but many other misteries also which they saw not For no man is so sottish as to imagin that those first founders of Physicke had attained to the exact perfect knowledge of Medicine or of any other Science which Hypocrates himselfe acknowledged in his Epistle to Democritus The same Hypocrates howsoeuer otherwise singularly learned and of all learned men for his monuments of Medicine to be had in great reputation and reuerence yet hath bewrayed his ignorance in mineralls and metalline misteries as appeareth in his booke of Simp. where he intreating of Quick-siluer affirmeth that he neuer made tryail thereof neither inwardly taken nor outwardly applyed bewraying his error in thinking that Hydrargyre Quick-siluer were two seueral things supposing that it was a medicine of Siluer dissolued into water like vnto potable golde Hereby I say he hath bewrayed his ignorance in metalline substance in that he knew not Hydrargyre and Quick-siluer to be all one Whereof neuer any man doubted except he were so addicted to his teacher that he wold say black is white because his master saith so which none of meane wit will do For as we thinke them worthy of blame which with newe found phantasies toyes do go about to burne couer the errors of the reuerend fathers ancients as do many Empiricks and deceiuers vnder the name and profession of Paracelsians who also do too stiffely and falsely ascribe to Paracelsus as to the onely author the knowledge of hidden things causes the finding out of mysteries the true preparation of al remedies and medicines so in like manner they are to be reprehended which holde it sufficient so as they talke of Galen without all reason and affirme that he was ignorant of nothing and that he came to the full knowledge of Medicine It is therefore well said of a learned wel experienced lawyer that it is a token of great rashnes for wise men either at the first to subscribe error or to subuert that which might please moderated with a temperate resolution And yet learned men against all truth do oftentimes barke against auncient writers thinking it great honour and praise vnto them if they be able in any sort to contend with their greatnesse Those Phylosophers which haue written of Chymistrie haue to maintaine their Science Nature Arte and Experience by auncient practise deriued from the Hebrues Chaldeis Aegiptians Persians Greekes Latines and Arabians This Science therefore is not grounded as some suppose vpon a vaine an imaginarie speculation but is found most certaine and infallible to the procuring of health and length of dayes to many by the goodnesse of Almighty God Neither doth this Science onely affoord common extractions of oyles and waters by ordinary Distillations as many Emperis doe imagine but also most precious Elipirs Quintessences much laboured circulated and wrought by digestious concoctions and fermentations by the meanes whereof all impure and corrupt matter is defeked and separated the euil quality corrected amended that which is bitter is made swéet Without the which operations our bread béere wine the ordinary and most principal meanes of our nourishment become hurtful pernicious vnto vs. For if we should eat raw wheate or hoyled onely in water what how many diseases would grow in vs For this cause we separate the pure from the impure that they may be profitable for vs as the meale from the bran the which meale or flower we mixe with water we leauen and bake whereof ariseth a great magistery namely bread fit for nourishment and by his artifice apt to passe and turne into our flesh in the working whereof if there be but a little error it wil not be so pleasing to the tast nor so fitting to nourishment as is to be séene in bread either ill seasoned or not wel baked the which we reiect through these defaults The like practise worke is to be vsed in wines if we desire to haue them fitte for our vse For the pure must be separated from the impure by boylings digestions and firmentations separating from the kernells and skinnes the liquor of the grapes that it may be brought into pure wine This done and being put into vessels it worketh newe seperations fermentations disgestions and purgations seperating the dregges and lées from the pure substance of the wine the which so seperated it becommeth fine and cleare and is fit to be dranke for nourishment Whereas otherwise taken with the lees not fined it bréedeth dissenterie fluxes the stone paine in the head and procureth such like diseases Chymists therfore immitating nature in these kind of workings and haue learned them in her schoole finding by effect in natures worke that if common ordinary meates drinkes vnprepared vnseasoned rude cannot be taken into our bodies without perill then Physitians and Apothecaries ought to prepare seperate purge those simples which they shal vse for medicine by arte seperating the crosse impurity that they may not be more hurtful to the weake and sick then profitable If Hypocrates or Galen himselfe were now againe aliue they would excéedingly reioyce to sée art so inlarged augmented by so great and noble addition and would patronize and vpholde with their owne hands that which was hidden from the old fathers in former ages and reiecting many of these things which before pleased them yéelding to reason and experience would gladly imbrace the new For it is euident by their writings how vncertaine and doubtful they be in many things by reason of the weakenesse of the foundation whereon they haue builded Whose buldings notwithstanding vtterly to ouerthrow no wise and modest Phhlosopher wil goe about but will rather endeuour to vphold them that posterity may well and assuredly knowe that we were not barren but endued with the same wit that they had and that our mindes were seasoned with that more noble salt The which shall appeare it not reiecting the writings of our elders we shall inrich and adorne them with newe inuentions For artes come by
like if so be there be put to it a certaine matter of the same kind the which spirit diligent Physitians or naturalists seperating from gold at the fier by a certaine sublimation they wil put the same to any kind of metall and make it quick Thus it is plaine by the authority of this learned author that there is a vitall spirit in gold and a vertue to procreate the like to it selfe as also it is confirmed by the testimony of Virgil in the sixt of his Aeneidos where the Poet saith that gold doth mount and arise by his vertue into a trée whose golden boughes doe spread far and wide If the mineral corall trée by his life natural doe growe and increase why is it not as like that gold and other metals do grow by the same life Séeing metals doe draw their beginnings from minerals minerals from waters and waters from the sea Now if fishes shels pearles and corall receiue life from their element which is the sea why may it not giue vital spirits vnto gold There are sundry sorts of life yea things which haue neither motion nor sense haue life Our daily foode doth teach vs this from the vertue wherof we drawe sustenance and preserue life albeit the flesh of beastes and fowles whereof we féede be first depriued of life and motion So that there is nothing vtterly deuoid of life as we said before but that which is vtterly brought to nothing For out of the very rottennesse of wood which doth shewe and threaten the final destruction thereof wormes of diuers sorts are bred and ingendered What néede many wordes when as Phylosophy teacheth vs that out of the corruption of one thing commeth the generation of another And why then may not the generation of a vital metall be brought forth out of the corruption of a metallick body and which is brought into his first matter when as life in the body is the last that dyeth if it may dye It is plaine then that there is life in metals But now let vs see whether this life which is in metals may be made fit to preserue our life in such sort that it may not be extinguished by diseases The which I wil briefly handle and declare Those things which continue longest in their being haue a more constant and permanent life then haue those things which dye in a moment This is in plants the other in metals for plants and hearbes doe wyther and vanish away in a moment but metalls wil continue a thousand yeares and more Now how can hearbs promise long life helpe of continuance which they themselues doe want Contrariwise for so much as metalls doe so long preserue themselues by their long life why shuld they not performe the same being taken into mens bodies The Phylosophers say that gold of all other metalls is most temperat by the temperatures wherof the balsam which is in vs waxing sicke that is to say degenerating from his temperature by the force of sicknesses is restored holpen in such wise that the vertue of his medicine doth recall him to his temper and doth so increase him with strength that he easily ouercoÌ„meth sicknesse Gold is consecrated to the Sunne for his colour and brightnesse and to Iupiter for his temperature therefore it can wonderfully temper the natural heate with moysture preserue the humours from corruption and bring the Solary and Iouial vertue to the spirits and members The best way to make potable gold is without mixture of any other thing The next vnto potable gold is that which is beaten into thin leaues which for want of the other may be vsed in medicine cordial to comfort the heart The tincture of gold being extracted doth clense and restore the blood So that hereby the homogenial and kindly parts are gathered together and the Heterogenial or vnkindly are seperated For ther is nothing vnder heauen to be found more homogenial or simular of more thinne substance of more temperate nature lesse subiect to corruption or putrifaction then the very pure substance of metalls or quick-siluer What therefore can be more fit for our Balsam then that spirituall medicine purged from all impuritie and brought to exquisite subtiltie Doth not a spirituall nature reioyce and imbrace a spirituall nature Why is not gold impayred in the fier but doth rather ioy therein and is made more pure Is it not because it is fier For fier is not thrust out with fier but they imbrace one the other as being of one kind So in like manner for so much as our Balsam of life is most pure and resembleth the nature of fier why should it not receiue his like and be strengthened thereby For Geber saith that gold is a medicine which maketh the heart merry preserutâ—h the body in youth the which medicine is no other thing but a natural heat multiplyed in the fixed substance of Mercury the vertue of which heat is to gather together as it is said afore yâ— kindly to disceuer and put away all things that are vnkindly conseruing the spirits and humours in a man sooner then in the nature of metalls because a man by his proper natural heat doth seperate the vnkindly superfluities which metalls by their vnnatural heat cannot seperate But let the reader vnderstand that our meaning is not to prescribe this Aurum potabile for continual foode but for medicine onely in time of néede For it will suffice if it be taken once or twise in the yeare to prolong our dayes to Nestorian yeares without the yrkesomnesse of sicknesse The Phylosophers haue not onely called this medicine Aurum potabile but also the water of life the Tincture the pretious stone the medicine which worketh wonderfully vpon thrée sorts of things namely vpon the animal vegetable and minerall for the which cause it is called the Animal Vegetable and Mineral Stone and the Arabian Astrologians call it the great Elixir Wonderful is the vertue of this medicine for herewith the body of man being sick is restored to health imperfect metals are turned into gold or siluer and vegetables albeit they are dry and withered being moystened with this liquor doe waxe fresh and greene againe This Medicine being a quintessence is almost incorruptible and immortal temperate purified by the elements themselues and seperated from the dregs and grosse matter of the fower elements which are the most chiefe cause of corruption as the Phylosophers affirme which therefore maketh a temperate and sound body because it is as it were the spirit of life by whose force and helpe nature doth digest all that is indigested or expulse the superfluous and offending humours it suppresseth their qualities it quickeneth the spirit it maketh the soft hard and the hard soft the thick thinne and the thinne thick the leane fat and the fat leane it maketh the cold hote and the hote cold it moysteneth the dry and drieth the moyst to conclude it confirmeth and strengtheneth the natural heate
moysture And as all Phylosopers doe write with one consent it is an vniuersal medicinable body whereunto all the particularities of medicines are reduced and infused For this cause it is as it were a fineth nature or essence a most thinne soule most purgatiue much resisting for a very long time putrifaction or corruption freed from al mortal concretion a celestial and simple substance of the Elements brought to to this spiritual nature by Chymical sublimation And yet for al this we affirme not that this medicine is altogether incorruptible for as much as it is made and consisteth of natural things Neuerthelesse it is brought to that subtiltie thinnesse and simplicitie spiritual that it séemeth to containe nothing in it that is Heterogenial or vnkindely whereby it may be corrupted whereby also it commeth to passe that being giuen to the sicke it preserueth them a long time in health And for this cause the Philosophers haue had this in so great estéeme and haue wholy addicted themselues to seeke and search out the same not to make themselues rich by turning imperfect metals into gold and siluer when as many of them willingly embraced pouertie but rather to heale the diseases and sicknesses of men and to defende and preserue their liues in long health without griefe vnto the time which God hath appointed But leauing this great mysterie which very fewe attaine vnto I wil in charitie and good wil deliuer here vnto thee an easie prescription how to make certaine waters of great vertue which I found written in the Latine tongue in an auncient coppy seruing to kéepe the body in health and to deliuer it from many infirmities which I thought good here to insert as very pertinent so this Treatise which concerneth as you haue heard the vertue of Minerals Take of Aqua vitae distilled with red Wine lib. 4. Of burnt Salt lib. 2. Of dead Sulphur lib. 2. Of white Tartar z. 2. Of the coales of Flaxe which groweth in Abella a Towne of Campania in Italie z. 3. Of Salt Peter z. 4. Beate al these into fine pouder seare them and being mingled together powre on them the aforesaid Aqua vitae and so put the whole masse to distillation The Vertues of the Distillation THe first Distilation hath vertue of a Balsam to conserue both flesh and Fish from putrifaction It clenseth the face from all freckles and spots clearing the skinne and making if fairer It cleanseth the body from Itch and Scabbes and dryeth vp the teares and watrinesse of the eyes The second distillation expelleth impostumations and superfluities of the body fasteneth the téeth which are loose and taketh away the windinesse of the Liuer The third taketh away a stinking breath and purgeth tough flegme out of the Stomach and whatsoeuer is not wel digested The fourth expelleth blood which is congealed in the body The fifth healeth and taketh away from man the faling sicknesse The sixt distillation helpeth al paines about the throate The seuenth cureth the paine of the Goute The eight is an excellent Balsam which sée thou kéepe well The ninth distillation comforteth and preserueth the Liuer if a little gold be dissolued therein After euery of the former distillations the feces must be beaten and searced as in the beginning Another Water by which a Phisitian may worke wonders TAke the fylings of Siluer of Brasse of Iron of Leade of Steele of Gold the summe or froth of Golde and of Siluer and of Storax so much of all these as the abilitie of the man can wel affoorde put these the first day in the vrine of seuen yeares of age the second day in white Wine made hote the third day into the Iuice of Fennel the fourth day into the white of an Egge the fifth day into womans milke which giueth a boy sucke the sixth day into red wine the seuenth day in seuen whites of Egges Then put all this into a cupel and distil it with a soft and gentle fyer That which is distilled kéepe in a Siluer or golden vessel There cannot bée spoken enough in the praise of this water It cureth all sortes of Leprosie and wonderfully clenseth the body It maketh youth to continue long Vse it to thy comfort and to the good of thy neighbour CHAP. XVIII Shewing by what remedies sicknesses are to be cured IT is alleaged out of the authoritie of Hypocrates and Galen that contraries are cured by contraries But hée which affirmeth that contraries are cured by contraries hée shall neuer easily finde out a remedie for sicknesse neither was this Hypocrates meaning as shall bée shewed anon It is out of question that sicknesses doe arise from the disagrement of the beginnings and so often as those beginnings doe decline from their temper which is then called a distemperature and the one being seperated from the consort of the other taking vp his standing by himselfe procureth sicknesse For when it is not in mixture with the other which being ioyned together do maintaine concord they then make warre vpon the body without any stoppe or let I speake not here of simple and bare qualities but of the very essences wherein are those powers and faculties whereof Hypocrates speaketh which preserue the health of their Balsam or to restore it when it is lost Seing therefore the séedes and properties both of health and of sicknesses lye hid in the essences it followeth that they are to be cherished with essences and not with qualities The which essences forsomuch as they are méere acting spirits they are to be repelled with spirits not with bodyes which are not like them or which are contrary to them But it is obiected that al things consist of Elements therefore our bodies also If then the Element of ayer do suffer and be out of course in vs shal the same be holpen with the Element of earth Why then haue Phisitians so fewe remedies against the pestilence Is it because there are none at al I confesse when God wil punish hée taketh away the vertue from remedies and medicines That is not the cause I meane the want of remedies but because ignorant Phisitians know not the causes of the pestilence and therefore dâ—e not rightly prouide to preuent the same For séeing they oppose against the pestilence comming of the corruption of the Ayer a medicine taken from earth water or ayer or from the earth hauing a watery original what maruayle is it if there follow no effect thereof when as they doe not driue away those things which are to bée mixed together but those things which doe easily agrée and are gathered together For how can the heauen and the earth bée mingled together to helpe the distemperature of the Heauen betwéene the which there is so great distance as there is betwéen diuisible and indiuisible as Plato spake Therefore celestiall things are to be mingled with celestial things waterie with waterie and earthie with earthie and not contrariwise otherwise there can be no agréement Consider wel
it a combustible Sulphur out of the impure feces or lées of the wine Seperate this tincted fleame by inclination and kéepe it by it selfe if you will for such vses as hereafter shall bee shewed After that againe powre a newe quantitie of fleame vppon the same feces in seueral allembickes if there be great plenty of them as is shewed afore that which is tincted with red seperate againe as afore and powre it to that which is already tincted and seperated Thou shalt continue this so often vntill the fleame will drawe no more rudenesse with it and that the feces are now become somewhat white or Christalline The which that thou maiest the more easily knowe powre vpon it an other fleame and with thy finger or a cleane sticke stirre them together that thereby thou mayest sée whether any more tincture remaineth For all must bée cleane extracted that the least fleame being powred vpon it will tinct or colour no more By which proofe thou shalt certainly know that the residence is very well depured which in another place wée will call the Chrystal of tartar because out of all common lées and by a more easie method the like christalls are extracted This is a most pleasant and swéete remedy and if any in the world bée acceptable it is this It doth very readily clense the stomack the liuer and the spléene from their impurities prouoking vrine and mouing one or two sieges extraordinarily But let vs returne to our worke The â—eces aforesaide being now rightly and conueniently prepared and depured as is saide must bee put into diuers smal cucurbits with long neckes and into euery one of them put of the rectified spirit of wine so much as that it may stand ouer it three fingers thicke presently set vppon euery one of them a smal cappe or couer with his receiuer strongly and well luted Hermetically closed rounde about that nothing breathe through then set them vppon the hote ashes that they may boyle and distill powring in againe the same which shall distill forth and so let them boyle againe After that suffer all to coole Then as warily as thou canst by inclination seperate the spirit that nothing thick or troubled passe forth therewith And then againe powre into euery cucurbittel another spirit of wine and doe as thou diddest afore This thou shalt doe so often and continue it vntill the feces which by their owne proper nature are calcined beginne to waxe blacke and to smoake if they be put vpon a red hote plate For this is a signe that the first Phylosophycall calcination is finished and that the spirit by the same worke is now become animate by reason of the tarte Balsam and Ferment of nature contained in the foresaid feces reduced into Christal as is said These animated spirits ioyned together and very well reserued that they breathe not nor issue forth thou shalt put the foresaide feces into vessels which are called Matrats like vnto round globes hauing straite neckes by which the matter is powred in These vessels being Hermetically closed and stopt that nothing may vapour forth let them bee couered in sand in the Furnace of Athanor which will yéelde flame round about the compasse of the foresaide vessell Then put fire thereunto by the continuance of fiue or sixe dayes vntill the earth doe become as white as snowe and is well calcined and fixed The which that thou maiest make the more volatil or flying and maiest also make the Sulphur and Mercury of the Phylosophers thou mayest if thou wilt diuide this thy callixe into two or thrée cucurbittils of conuenient greatnesse first waighing the waight of euery of the calxes and powring vpon euery of them a forth part of the spirit of wine animated as aforesaide Put a smal head vpon each of the cucurbittels with their seueral receiuers wel fitted as afore Place them in B. M. which is moyst by the space of one day After that the same vessels being set in ashes put thereto a meane fire that the liquor may distill forth which whereas afore it was most ardent and most sharpe now it shal come forth altogether without taste hauing no other relish vppon the tongue and palat then hath common wel-wel-water the reason hereof is for that the foresaid spirit hath left and forsaken his Balsamic Salt which afore being mixed with the spirit stilled forth with the Salt of the foresaid Calx For nature loueth nature and followeth her in her nature as Phylosophers teach Then againe thou shalt powre on another spirit of wine animate as afore in the same proportion and the former order of distillation obserued vntill in taste thou finde the foresaide animate spirit to come forth and to distil as strong in taste and relish as it was then when thou powredst it on For this shall be a signe that the foresaide fixed Salt hath retained out of the volatil so much as shal be sufficient and conuenient to retaine And now if thou waigh and counterpoyse thy matters thou shalt finde that they are increased a third part in waight as if there were one ounce in euery vessell of Calxe thou shalt finde that euery of them doth waigh thrée ounces or more The which is diligently to bée obserued for sublimation and for the last working which as yet resteth to bee done that the volatill may transcende and ouercome the fixed In the which businesse that thou maiest procéede the more safely thou must take sâ—me of the foresaide Phylosophycal Calxe vine and cast it vppon a red hote plate of yron and if thou sée all the saide Calxe to vapour away and to vanish in smoake like Salarmoniack thou hast an absolute and perfect woorke If otherwise thou must begin the foresaide worke againe and continue it vntil the foresaid signe doe appeare This done thou shalt put these matters into smal long Lymbeckes in forme of a Sublimatorie with heads vpon them and receiuers to receiue the spiritual sulphurus humiditie and then thou shalt distil it in ashes with a gentle fire by the space of a whole day afterward thou shalt increase the fire by a further degrée more more so long vntil about the end of eightéene houres or twenty the fire bée made sublimatorie and that thou see the vessels to bèe no more obsucred or darkenes with spirites or with white fumes And then shal yée sée the sublimated matter cleaning to the sides of the glasses fayre and bright and transparent like vnto pearles or such like Vppon this matter beaten into pouder in a Purphorie morter of smal bignesse thou shalt pouder the sulphurus spirit distilled moystening it by little and little and boyling or straining the whole by the space of foure dayes in a strong Athanor And thus thou shalt haue a pearelike matter a Balsam radical extracted from a Vegetable the Mercurie of the Phylosophers the Sulpur Balsamick and to conclude that fire of Nature so much commended and so hidden by al the
Philosophers which with one consent say Ignis azoc tibi sufficient Let Fire and the Matter suffice thée This onely Balsam is the vniuersal medicine to defend and conserue health if it be giuen with some conuenient liquor to the quantitie of one or two graines Great and admirable is the vertue thereof to restore our radical Balsam the which wée affirme to be the Medicine of diseases euen by the common consent of al Physitians But our Lullie and other Phylosophers are not content with this but procéeding further do dissolue the forsaid Phylosophical Sulphur in a conuenient portion of the spirit of wine rectified to perfection as afore and suffer them to be vnited and very well coupled together by way of Circulation in a Pellican Hermetically stopt or closed and within fewe dayes the water is made azure like or Celestial which béeing distilled is of force to dissolue gold and doth reduce it into the true Calxe of the Phylosophers into a precious liquor which itterated circulations and distillations can also passe by the necke of the Allembic or by Retort In the which working if thou procéede as thou shouldst thou shalt be able to separate from gold already phylosophically dissolued and animated thy phylosophical dissoluing which wil continually serue for newe dissolutions For very little is lost in euery dissolution And so thou hast the true potable golde the vniuersal Medicine which neuer can bée valued béeing inestimable nor yet sufficiently commended After the same manner thou shalt make the dissolutions of Pearles and of pretious stones most general remedies and deseruing to be placed among the chiefe if they bée dissolued after the order and manner aforesaid with a natural dissoluing Remedies I say which can much better confirme and strengthen our nature than if according to the common manner they bée onely powdred and searced as is wont to bée done in those our common preparations and cordial powders But some paraduenture wil say that these kinde of preparations are too hard or such as they vnderstand not or at least care not to vnderstand But this is a vaine obiection to preuent for excuse of their ignorance the difficultie of these preparations and the protract al time when as the thing is neither difficile nor long to them which know how to take it in hand These things are not to bée estéemed nor labour is to bée spared to attaine so excellent precious medicine which in so little smal a dose as in the quantitie of one or two graines can worke so great and wonderful effects which bringeth great commendation and honour to the Physitian and to the sicke perfect health and vnspeakable sollace and ioy But to conclude I wil say with Cicero in his Tusculans There is no measure of seeking after the truth and to be wearie of seeking is disgrace wheÌ„ that which is sought for is most excellent CHAP. VI. The way to prepare and make the Balsamick Medicine out of all things BY the foresaid preparation of sulphur Balsamick vegetable which wée haue before taught faithfully plainly and manifestly it is easie to vnderstand after what manner the same Sulphur may bée extracted out of euery mixed body In the wich bodie that I may summarily gather al things together there is first found a liquor without al odour or rellishing taste which is called Phlegme or passiue water Then commeth a liquor which hath taste colour odour and other impressions of vertual qualities which is called the Hercurial liquor And after that commeth foorth an oylie liquor which floteth aloft and conceiuing flame which is called Sulphur After the extraction of these thrée seueral moystures there remaineth nothing but ashes or dry part out oâ— the which ashes béeing wel calcined Salt is extracted with his proper Phlegme messhing oftentimes and powring water warmed vpon the foresaid ashes put into Hypocrates bagge and repeating this so often times til you perceiue a Salt water to come which hath a brinish taste after the same manner as women are woont to make their lye-wash This béeing done let the moyst be distilled and the salt wil remaine in the bottome The which salt notwithstanding in this first preparation is not made cleane enough nor sufficiently purified Wherefore the same distilled water is to be powred vp againe that the Salt may againe bée dissolued in the same the which so dissolued filter it or straine it through a bag oftentimes as afore til it be most cleare then coagulate it at a gentle heate And after this maner thou mayst extract a Salt cleare pure out of al vegetable ashes Vppon this Salt being put into an Allembic powre al his mercurial sharpe water let them be digested by the space of one or two dayes in the gentle heate of the Balme and then let them be distilled by ashes and so the water wil distil forth without taste or rellish Because whatsoeuer it contained of the volatile Salt wil reside in the bottome with his per fixed salt Goe forward therefore in thy working as before I taught thée concerning the wine Or if thou wilt not worke so exactly meshe vp againe al the mercurial liquor and make it passe through the foresaid Salt which wil take into it al that vitriol impression which that water shal haue and the water or liquor shal haue neither rellish nor taste but shal be altogether like to common water But if thou adde so much that the volatile part doe excéed the fixed that is to say that there be more of the volatile than of the fixed the which thou shalt easily know by waight because it wil be increased thréefold or by trial vpon a red hote copper or Iron plate when this matter béeing cast vppon the same vapoureth and passeth away in smoke then thou must sublime it and it wil become the Sal Aâ—moniack of the Philosophers so it pleaseth them to cal this matter which wil bée cleare and transparant like pearles Vppon this powdred matter thou shalt powre by little and litle the oylie liquor purified and thou shalt boyle this matter that of volatil it may be fixed againe Neuerthelesse that which shal be fixed shal be of nature more fusible than waxe and consequences wil more easily communicate with spirits and with our natural Balsam when it is seperated from his passiue water and passiue earth which are vnprofitable Both which matters the Phylosophers cal the passiue Element because they containe no propertie in them neither doe they shew forth any action And thus a body or nature is made wholely homogenical simple albeit there are to bée séene thrée distinct natures the which notwithstanding are of one or the same essence and nature And so a body shal bée compounded exactly pure out of those three hypostatical beginnings namely salt Mercurie and Sulphur The which Sulphur in some part is answerable to truely simple and Elementarie fire Mercurie to Ayre and to Water in like manner most
remedy is made to stop the fluxes hepatic Lienterie and Dyssenterie where the liuer hath néed of spéedy corroboration But they must necessarily be prepared according to Art But now time and reason perswadeth vs that we say somewhat concerning the contrarie faculty of this sharpnesse which is contrary to the other coagulating effect To doe this little wit and lesse labour wil serue For they which are but meanely séene in the Spargerick Art and haue bene Chymists a very short time or if they be but common Apothecaries they know this and haue séene it in the preparation of quicksiluer whose liquor and running nature no exterior coldnesse no Elementall frost how great soeuer the same be congeale or fixe But if it be sublimed with Vitriol onely meanely calcined it will come to passe that Mercury or quick-siluer which desireth his coagulation as his perfection by a certaine magnetical vertue draweth into it selfe that Sulphur or that Salt Armoniac sharpe of nature by the benefit whereof of running it is made solid and firme so as thou maiest easily handle it Being brought into this forme it is commonly called Sublimate But to make it yet more perfect those which are careful and skilfull workmen reiterate their sublimations adding to this new Vitriol that by his Salt Armoniac of nature it may be impregnated And thus at the last it becommeth solid and cleare as any Christal Venis-glasse Spargeric Phylosophers can so dispoyle againe this Mercurie so prepared of his coagulation or of his sharpe Salt Armoniac of nature that he shal returne to his former state and of fixed shal become moueable and running But he is now perfectly clenâ—ed and is now no more commoÌ„ Mercury or Hydrargyre but the Phylosophers Mercury And now if the foresaid water be exhaled or vapored that there may remaine nothing but a sharpe liquor like vnto the spirit of Vitriol thou shalt haue a liquor more excellent then any Vitriolated spirit and truly spiritual And so in stéede of a great poyson which was mixed with Mercurie which was then nothing but a certaine terrestrial corrosiue fire thou shalt now haue the true spirit of Vitriol whose greater and better part vaporeth away is consumed and lost if it bee extracted according to the common manner with that great and violent fire by Retort This spirit prepared after the saide manner excéeding good and a special commaunder of the Epilepste if it be administred by a skilful Physitian not by an Emperick with proper and conuenient liquor And this is one tryal of the vertue of coagulating Mercury The same coagulating force of his doth manifestly appeare in those preparations which are called precipitations which are made with the sharpe spirits of Vitriol and of Sulphur by the meanes whereof it may be brought into a poulder which cannot be easily done by fire But that it may appeare that this coagulating power of Armoniac of nature is not oâ—ely vppon Mercurie ouer whome it can exercise this power but nothing at all vpon the spirits Niter Sulphurus of our bodies with the which quick-siluer hath no simpathy or conuenience we wil shew it by a certaine other manifest demonstration and the same most true as shall appeare to them which will try it And in the same experiment I wil also teach a very excellent remedy against Gangrena and all sorts of cankerous Vlcers if any bee loth to take it inwardly into the body because of the vrine ingredient Take the vrine of a boy betwéene the age of ten and sixtéene which drinketh wine in good quantity let it be depured according to Art Adde hereunto of Romane or Hungarian Vitriol for by these the operation wil be the better I say of the Vitriol twise so much Put it to digestion in Balneo Mar which is moyst by the space of fixe or eight dayes in one or in seueral glasse Allembicks For there is required much matter This digestion being ended thou shalt increase the fire of Balne til the water 〈◊〉 Presently set on a head with a receiuer and distill the water And the same which first commeth forth is an excellent Ophthalmick water for the eyes The second something more sharp then the former is excellent good to asswage the paines of the Gout Thus goe forward brging the heate of the Balne or else by hote ashes vntill the matter in the bottom of the Alembic remaine like vnto hony The which afterward thou shalt put into an yron vessel and putting fire vnder it stirre it continually with an yron spattle that it cleane not too this thou shalt continue so long vntil all the liquor is vapored away and that there remaineth onely the Salt of Vitriol and of the vrine dry in the bottome and in a certaine masse This being pouldred put it into a cornute wel luted hauing a wide receiuer wel closed that the spirits issue not forth Then put to a vehement fire such as is néedful for the making of strong water or the spirit of Vitrioll But the fire must bee moderated by degrées vntill it come to the highest degrée as Art requireth And then at the last you shall sée the receiuer filled euery where with white spirits which in that great heate will be congealed as it were into Isâ—-â—ickels hauing all bout the body of the receiuer much like vnto the hayse or white thréedes which in time of frost are congealed out of foggy mistes and doe hang vpon the trées These are the spirits of the Salt which through the vehement heate of the fire are thus formed This Ise may be kept after the maner of Salt Niter Wherof if thou giue one scruple or halfe a scruple in broath wine or other conuenient liquor it will shewe it selfe an excellent remedy against all obstructions of the Liuer and of the spleene it prouoketh vrines and is also a special remedy against the Stone The same Ise being brought into water for it will easily be dissolued is a principal remedy for Inflamations and Gangrenas which very sodainly it extinguisheth Out of this so faire and noble experient euery true Phylosopher and Physitian will take occasion of séeking and searching further then the common sort are woont and so he may more certainly finde out the causes of stones congealed which are ingendred of the same salts or tartarous matter in diuers parts of our body He will also haue more quick insight into many other diseases which come by the coagulation of the foresaid sharp and Vitciolated spirits or else of the euaporations of other most sharpe spirits from whence Inflamations and gouty paines with swellings doe spring by the inward vertue of the thickened spirits aforesaid These things being thus knowne a remedy wil easily be found to mittigate and to dissolue such calculous and stony matter if we marke and consider diligently where that sharpe vertue lyeth hidden and wherein also the coagulatiue propertie of the said spirits are Also
blood draweth his first beginning of his composition That tartar or lées is of the blood which cleaueth to the vessels of the bowels Now the feces of the Chylus are nothing else but that huge heape of excrements of diuers sorts which are in that nourishment existing in diuers parts of the body And when those Niter-Sulphurus and tartarous impurities cannot by nature be digested ouercome and expelled they stuffe the bowels they are made the seminarie and store-house of most grieuous sicknesses so that if we will confesse the truth we must of necessity say with great Hipocrates that sicknesses haue both their séedes and also their rootes in our bodies the which most euidently appeareth by the foresaide comparison of wine and blood The which standeth vpon apparant and sensible foundations and not vpon doubtfull figments and Imaginations And as we sée in the spring times when nature putteth forth her flowers that the lées of wine are mixed with the wine it selfe and doe trouble it and oftentimes corrupt it and that as in the excéeding heate of the Sommer Sunne the more hote Sulphurus part of the same wine that is the spirit may and is woont to vapour away whereof followeth the corruption of the same wine euen so also about the same seasons and times the feces and tartarous heape mixed with our blood doth at the last peruert and corrupt it hereof commeth the occasion and multiplication of sicknesses For the spirit of blood being disprearced and seperated both by external and also by internal heate it must needes bée corrupted to the which corruption arising of the said causes the cause of many sicknesses is rather to be referred then to those bare simple qualities of hote and cold dry and moyst As therefore we haue taught in the seperation of the true spirit of wine which resembleth the celestiall and spiritual Nectar of our life many impurities thereof doe manifestly appeare euen so and after the very same sort it fareth with wheate with fruits and with meates and drinkes prepared of them and generally with all other vegetable things procéeding after the same maner as we haue said concerning wine For they haue no light proportion with our blood according to this saying We are nourished with those things whereof we consist which thou maiest aptly turne and say we consist of those things wherewith we are nourished But the one partaketh of the other or of this or of that more then of the other as for example of the spirit of the Mercurial liquor of Salt of the feces of the stinking vnprofitable excremēts which is the reason that out of this or that more commendable kinde of meate the more worthy and commendable blood is generated Therefore to adde one example more in stéed of a surplussage of waight let it not be forgotten that out of Hydromel Cider Ale or such like kind of drinkes out of their feces the same preparations and seperations as wel of a commendable liquor as of feces may be made after the same maner as we haue before shewed to be done concerning wine and that the beginnings and heterogeneall and vnnaturall parts may in the same sort be extracted out of these as out of that other To conclude thou maiest with better successe learne the beginnings of sicknesses by making a comparison betwéene the preparation and seperation of those things which giue nourishment vnto man and our blood then if according to the cōmon maner thou haue recourse to the humours bare qualities and so to séeke out and discerne the causes originals of sicknesses by a certaine witty contemplation rather then by that which is more true and infallible Thus we haue thought good to set down these things by way of anticipation concerning the exact and internal anatomy of humours concerning also the artificiall examining of them both that thereby it might appeare from whence the natural impressions of things the infallible causes of diseases are to be sought as also that the true Philosophers Physitians may vnderstand thereby the way to cōpound prepare and administer artificially medicines and remedies which now we intend to shew euen according to the order and method of the Dogmatickes So as wée thinke it not good vtterly to reiect the olde nor wholy to followe the newe but to restore the old forme of composition of Medicines increased and amended with many of our inuentions experiments and compositions for the publique good and for the health of the sicke as also for the instruction of some ignorant Physitians An Elixir of our description A wonderfull remedy to cure inueterate and almost desperate diseases and to conserue health and to prolong life as followeth TAke of the roote of Zedoary of Angelica of Gentian of Valerian Tormentil or Setfoyle Goates beard Galanga the wood Aloes and citrine or yeallow Sanders of each thrée Ounces Of Baume of red Mint Maioran Basil Hysope Germander Chamepithis of each halfe a handfull of Lawrell Berries Iuniper of the séedes Peony of Seseli or Comin of Anis of Mugwoort of Cardus-Benedictus of each two ounces the barke of Citrine of Missel of the oake and of all the Mirabolans of each one Ounce Cloues Cinamum Mace Ginger Cubebs Cardamony Pepper long and round Spikenard of each one ounce and a halfe Aloes Hepat Myrrhe Olebanum Mastic of each sixe Drachmes The flowers of Rosemary of Sage of Stechados of Mary-golds of Saint Ihons woort of centaury the lesser of Betonie of the Linden tree of each so many as yée can gripe with two fingers and the thumbe at twise of the flowers of Chicory commonly called Suckary of red Roses and of Buglosse of each one gripe in like sort onely of gruat hony and of white Suger of each one pound Of Aqua-Vitae after the best maner rectified ten pound Cut that which is to be cut and beate that which is to be beaten All these things being put into a large Matrat and close stopt that no breath come forth set in horse-dung meanely hote by the space of eight or ten dayes to putrifie Being putrified let them be hard and well pressed or strained and put the liquor distrained into an Allembic and distill it by a Cornute at aconuenient fire The first water which commeth forth from the distrained liquor wil be most cleare kéepe it by it selfe for it is precious Thy Receiuer being of glasse must be of good receit and must be passing wel closed with the Cornute by the necke that the least vapour come not forth And when the Receyuer beginneth to bée darkened and to be filled with white spirits thou shalt increase thy fire by degrées a little and a little according to arte vntil the said whited spirits appeare no more Then take away the Receiuer that thou mayst put by it self that water which commeth foorth the second time and kéepe it wel it is called the mother of Balsam being very profitable to roote out many sicknesses and to
and distil them vpon ashes to drinesse and thereof a treacle-Treacle-water will bée made A very smal spoonefull of this is sufficient to be giuen at once against the diseases before expressed Another Treacle-water cordiall and comfortable for the heart very good against al pestiferous effects therof vsed with great profite TAke of the rootes of Angelica of Cloues of Goates beard of Tormentil or Set-foyle of Bifolium or two-blades of Enula campans of each two ounces Of yealow Sanders and of the barke of the same of each one ounce and a halfe Of white Diptani of Scabiose of Rus of Goates beard otherwise called Méedwoort of each one handfull Of the Flowers of the lesse Centaure of S. Iohns-woort of Broome of Violets of Borage of Buglosse of Water-Lyllie of Red Roses of each a thrée finger gripe Put these into 3. pound of Malmesie infused by the space of 4. dayes set vpon the fire of Baln M. and the Iuice of Lemons the water Melissa Aeetouse and of Roses mingled with the sayd Wine of each one pound Then strayne them In the liqnor distrained put of Treacle ounces thrée of the confection of Hiacinth one ounce Of the confection Alchermes 6. drachmes Of Diamargarit friged Diatria Santali of each 3. drachmes of Diambre and Diacoral of each two drachmes of Saffron and Myrrhe of each halfe a drachme Infuse them againe by the space of two or thrée dayes at the same fire of Baln M. Then distil them to drinesse by fire of ashes and it will be a Treacle water But to make it the more effectuall the Salt must be extracted out of the feces which remaine according to arte and then mingeled with the foresaid water A water against Poysons and against all pestilentiall effects TAke of the Rootes of Angelica of the Carline-thistle of Set-foyle of the Barke of the Olibian Trée of each two ounces of Cardus Benedictus of Méede-woort called Goates beard of all the Sanders of each halfe an ounce the Treacles of Mythridate and the confection of Hiacinth of each 2 ounces the speces of Diamarg Frigid Camphor of each 2. Drachmes Let these be grossely beaten or brused put into a glasse Allembic powring thereon 3. pound of rectified Aqua vitae Then let them be digested in a vessel wel closed so distilled by ashes or a vaporous Baln This water is wonderfull effectuall against poysonful and pestilential effects The quantitie which must be giuen is halfe a spoonfull An excellent water to be giuen against Feuers burning and pestilentiall TAke of the rootes of Angelica Buglosse of Scorzonerae Acâ—â—y one ounce of the Treacle Alexandrine 2 ounces of the Iuice of Lemons clensed of the waters Fumetarie Gotes beard and Cardui Benedictus and of the lesser centaure of each ounces 4. Diamarâ—â— Frigid halfe an ounce Let these lye infused by the space of thrée or 4. dayes then let them be distrained and distilled Of the which let the sicke drinke 4. ounces and then being well couered in his bed he shal sweate more than ordinary Principall Remedies to ease the torments and extreame paines of the Goute TAke of the leaues of Missel which groweth on the Apple-trée cut or shred very smal halfe a pound the flowers of white Mulline of Chamomil of Lyllies of Wallwoort or Danewoort all the kindes of Poppey with their cases which containe the séed new gathered and before they be full ripe of each one gripe of the 2. fingers and the thumbe of gréene Frogs or in stéed of them the Ielly or sperme of Frogges which is to be found in standing waters in the Moneth of March one pound the séed of white Poppey brused 4. ounces of Crabbes of Crafishes shelles and all beaten or crushed together 20. in number of red Snailes and Earth-wormes both wel washed in good white wine of each 4. ounces of Badgers grease â—xe ounces of Sperma Ceti 4. ounces of the oyle of violets or water Lilly newly made 6 pound or if you wil in steede of these oyles take so much of oyle Oliue Put these into a glasse vessel for that purpose conuenient and close stopt set it in horse dung by the space of 7. or 8. dayes But if néed require more haste let them boyle in a Copper vessel ouer the fire by the space of two houres and then straine them strongly The which also you shalt doe if they stand in Horse dung to be digested Thou then shalt seperate the oyle from the watery part thereof according to arte to the which oyle thou shalt adde of Saffron 2. ounces of Camphyre hale an ounce Put all these into a glasse vessel and set them againe in Horse dung or in Balneo or in the Sunne by the space of 5. dayes and thou shalt haue a most excellent Balsam to asswage and qualifie all paines of the Goute and in the ioynts I wish that all Apothecaries would prepare this to be reary at al times for present vse for that they cannot appoint themselues of any thing better than this which my selfe haue found true by experience A plaister to helpe and easie all paines of the Goute TAke the marrow or pulpe of Cassia foure ounces of new Treacle the newer the better halfe an ounce The meale of Barley and Oates of each three ounces The crumbes of white breadâ— foure ounces of Cowe-milke two or thrée pound Let al these be sodden in the forme of a Cataplasme which thou shalt apply warme to the grieued parts It thou shalt adde one ounce of vitriol calcined and beaten into the pouder thou shalâ— make it much better Another Cataplasme TAke the distilled water of whyte Mulleyn and of Ferne of each halfe a pound of calcined vitriol as before one ounce and a halfe of Oate meale 4. ounces Of Saffron two 〈◊〉 make a Cataplasme A water against the paine of the Coute THis water following prepared in due time wil much auaile against the greatest paines of the Gout where there appeareth rednesse and much heatâ— Take of the distilled water of the sperme of Frogges of Hightaper of Ferne of each one pound and a halfe In these infuse Tuttie and Lytharge of each two ounces Vitriol calcined and Allum of each one ounce Let the grieued parts be moystened with linnen cloâ—â—es wet in the same applyed warme renuing the same diuers times Another excellent water against the Goute TAke of the Sope of Genua that which is white and good one ounce Of liquid Salt made to runne at a strong fire one ounce and a halfe of Vitriol one ounce of Acatia halfe an ounce Let them all boyle together in a pinte of Rose vinegar or of common vinegar With this liquor wash both the greiued partes An excellent playster which being layed vpon the knots and puffes of the Gout dissolueth them TAke of the oyle of Apple Missel of our description one or two pound warme it in a vessel at the fire béeing made warme put into it of shaued or scrapings of Sope 4.