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
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
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
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
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
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
with ashes laid vpon slates as I described before in the mention of destillation by ashes a Cucurbita of glas so diep set in the asshes that they were not aboue the matter conteined in the vessell The vessell was ful to the middle able to receiue if it had been fild vp perauenture iiii poundes he continued this labour .iiii. or .v. daies nightes also neuer abating the fier He separated only .ii. liquors y e first whyt whiche was more plentifull and in gretter abundaunce then a redish whiche was yielded lesser by the .iii. part The clay wherwith the Cucurbita the lembeck and the receiuer are closed when it chauneth or chinketh must be by and by cloosed again with clay lest the matter issue out on any side therfore must it be watched also on the night and lest the fier should go out All the liquors also may be receiued in one vessel without chaunging the the receiuer and after be separated for the For the latter swimmeth aboue the first as the lighter This oyll he vsed vnto diuers diseases geuing them euery day one drop to drynke and conteining it a certayne dayes as fourtien sumtimes together so he sayd it was good to chronicall agues for the mooste part he mixed with it sum spyces as Ginger and Sugar with wyne the drop of the oyll that the sick should les perceiue that he dronk only a drop of the oyll sumtymes he would mixt nothing els with the wyne but one drop of this oyll specially to amende the defaut of a stinking breeth Sumtymes he gaue it in water other tymes he dropt it into a shyue of breed sumtymes to flegmatick and gros men with a sawce made of musterd and peper bidding them sweet after it he said it chauÌ„ced many tymes that they shoulde auoyde muche fleume therupon He commended it to be good for all suche thinges as triacle is vsed for and better also against poysons also to al woundes swellinges whatsoeuer they were saue only the dropsy to the Cramp to purge the tieth to strengthen the iawes against the Fallyng sicknes and poysons He affirmed if a Serpent were folded in a cloth wet therin it would kyll it The other liquor that was redysh to be a remedy for the Leprosy if the disease had not yet gotten the vpper hande and the men haue not yet their breeth corrupted Both the liquors in taste haue a sharpnes a Rosiny sauour and smoky in a maner but the latter moore He solde halfe an vnce to ryche men for seuen or eight grotes An oyll deuysed by VVilliam de Saliceto a Placentin whiche is in the fift booke of his Practice in the chapter of Oyles and supplyeth the place of balm as he saith Carpobalsamum Mirh the nut of Inde of euery one half an vnce ii drams of Hypericon or saint Iohns wurt When they are all beeten sumwhat groos let them stand in .iiii. vnces of old oyll six monethes and be destille d. An other moore noble of the same mans which is put in steed of Balm A pound and a halfe of oyll Myrh Xylobalsamum Opoponax Bdellium Aloes Carpobalsamum Ammoniack Serapinum the nut of Inde Hypericon Mace gum Arabick Frankencence Tragacantha of euery one an vnce broken tyll sherdes that neuer touched water â–ª red hoot and quenshed in thre vnces of coÌ„mune oyll vii vnces of cleen and cleer Turpintyn All pund and knoden together in a morter destil them lyke Rose water This water is proffitable against y e stoon being mixt with medicines against y e same Hardnesses aâ—d skares it maketh them euen and is vsed in euery thing in steed of Balm An other of the same mans more noble Myrh Carpobalsamum the nut of Inde of euery one half an vnce Hypericon or saint Iohns wurt a drame otherwyse twoo drames When they are pund sumwhat groos let them be mixt with fyue vnces of oyll and an vnce and an halfe of Turpintyn In the end put to fyue graines of Muske and. iii of Ambra and an vnce of oyll of tyll stones and let them be destilled as before It hath the same vertues that Balm hath may be vsed in all thinges in steed of it This Nic. Stokker also an excellent Physicion in Germany vsed but without Turpentin if mifrend sent me the descriptioÌ„ of it right when it was ready prest he addeth at lengthe the Musk and Ambra with oyl of tile stones and destilled them not as I think He hathe the former description in Luminari Maiore as also the nexte folowing of Montaguana A balm composed of Bartolomeus Montaguana out of his Antidotarie the first chapter whiche is of oyntmentes Turpentin a pounde white frankensence iiii ounces as much of bay beries gum Elemi vi ounces Mastik Galangal Cloues Cinamon Zedoaria Nutmeg Cubebae Lignum Aloes wel beaten of euery one an ounce Let all be destilled together first with a slow fyre and first shall runne oute a water called of Balme Then when the fire is encreased thou shalt gather an other water by it self And do so the third time TheÌ„ shal destil forth balm in all trials It shall be the stronger the oftener it is destilled Balme of Peter Aponensis in hys addicion vnto the booke of Mesues in the treatise of oyntinges for the diseases of the harte Mirrh elect Aloes Hepaticae Spieaenardi Sanguis Draconis FrankenseÌ„ce Mumiae Opopanax Serapinum Crocus Mastik Gumme Arabik liquid Styrax of euerye one two ounces two ounces and a halfe of Ladanum elect or Castoreum halfe a dramme of Muscke Turpentyn as muche as the weighte of all the reaste breake them that be to be broken and when they are all mixte with the Turpentyne destyll them wittelye by a lembeck the arte is lyke as of water of Rooses These saith Peter as the munkes that write vppon Mesuen saide they write it oute of written bookes farre truer then in the Printed bookes and it is had in Luminare maiore Aponensis saith we finde no mention made by the olde wryters of the annoyntinge of the backe bone perauenture not bycause they were ignoraÌ„t in so profitable and commendable a thing but be cause they woulde keepe it secreate For this is an excellente helpe preseruinge the subiect of life or that which coÌ„teineth the same For the original and beginning of bones and sinewes is Nucha it springeth of the brain c. Therfore things annoynted with this shalt thou comfort the cloking substaÌ„ce that is the cauls and cotes of the brain and the spiritual substance and sinues and al the bones helping also the Palsy all the diseases of the sinnewes also the panting trembling of the hart manifest werines and it is the chiefest medicin of all other in the swifte comforting of the harte After this describinge the thinge he addeth This oyle is verye nye vnto Balme and accordinge to this waye the moste subtill of Sophisters do counterfeit Balme for amongst all other wayes this is moste noble If deade coorses
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
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
vnce Coriander iii. vnces make sumwhat a gros pouder therof Wyne of small raisins whiche Arnold calleth honied is made siething â–ª the Rasins in wyne in must till it wax swiet whiche is put furthwith in to a vessell and the small rasins beaten are cast in to the same which go to the bottom into y e dregs But the same Arnold describeth an other also very excellent which he calleth Passulatu or made of small Raisins the Raisins sodde with Cinnamon in Must not much which afterward is powred to the other Must put in the vessell alredy Of Aromaticall vvynes that is made of Spices ARomaticall wynes are wont to be made two waies ether hanging the spices only in a litle bag within the vessel which is let stand in a wyne celler or also putting to hony that so muche as we would so muche may be made out of hande and the spyces beaten together sighed strained a few tymes through a streiner or Hippocras bag of wull as they call it This wyne may be called Mulsum or Melitum they cal it communly Claret and Nectar and Melicratium but improperly with whyte wyne If they put to sugar for hony with reed wyne they cal it Hippocras There are made at the Apothecaries thies spyced and aromatical wynes for the moste part in that proportion that .xiii. vnces of hony be put to .vii. drams of spices and .iiii. pouÌ„des of white odoriferous wine Or to .vi. drams of spices half a pound of most pure Suger .iiii. poundes of red wine or les other put to muche more suger and spices also Sometimes halfe a dram of saffron or much les is put to to couloure it specially vnto Mulsa that is such as are made with hony But before y e wine be streined it shuld be let stand in a hot place or in a stoue with y e spices infused certain hours .xxiiii. at the most Wine called Hippocras is of the kinde of made wines after an easye waye mooste acceptable to the Frenche men specially on this side the Alps. Cinnamon Suger and Carpesium are beaten brused in a bagge through it the wine is poured that in passinge throughe it maye dryncke and soke those qualities This is broughte forthe in principal feastes with Escharite pane in steade of banketing dishes the which fashion but with an other kinde of wine we read was peculier to the Athenians Hermolaus Barbarus Corollarii libr. 5. in the chapter of the Grape of oenanthe An other The inner barkes of Cinnamon vi drammes halfe an ounce of white Ginger hoole â–ª Nutmegges elect .ii. drammes Cloues graines of paradice of ether a dram Cardamomum Pepper Calamus Aromaticus Coriander prepared of euery one a scrupull mixte them and beate them somewhat groose Eight poundes of wine clarified honye .xxvi. ounces mixte all and strayne them accordinge to Arte. Some clarifye theese spiced wines with Almond milke An other for Cardiacall persons described by Alexander Benedict in his teÌ„th boke Take a pint of Austere and harde wine odoriferous white â—uger half a pound cinnamon Ginger of euery one half an ounce Galangall a dram An other of the same mannes for weakenesse of the stomacke Take Cinnamon half an ounce white Ginger two drammes Cloues long Pepper Nutmegge of euerye one two scrupulles when they are well beaten wyth halfe a pounde of white Sugar mixt them together in a .v. pintes of pure white wine and straine it for it is the chiefe remeadye for theim that bee dissolued in their stomacke An other Take an ounce of Cinnamon halfe an ounce of Ginger Galangal two drams Cloues a dramme Graines of Paradise two drammes white Suger viii ounces of the best wine q. s An other Cinnamon an ounce and a halfe Ginger halfe an ounce Cloues .ii. drammes Grames of Paradise Galangall of ether a dram Sugar a pounde and a halfe Red wine .ii. measures that is .viii. poundes mixte them and it wil become Hippocras An other An ounce of inner Cinnamone White Ginger halfe an ounce Graines of Paradise three drammes Clooues Moschocaryi of ether .ii. drammes Maces Galangall of ether a dramme and a halfe white Ginger halfe an oâ—nce Graines of Paradise .iii. drams Clooues Moschocaryi of ether two drammes Macis galangall of ether a dramme and a halfe long Peper a dramme Spiknard Folii of ether halfe a dramme make a pouder thereof To euery ounce of these put .ii. poundes of wine with a pounde of Suger and Tornsoll so called a kind of Purple wull to colour it q. s An other that semeth to be ordeined for the defaultes of the breast aâ—d lunges â„ž the best Cinamon scrapte from the groose barke an ounce Cloues an ounce and a half Anis Fennell of ether a dramme Lycoris .iii. drammes Maces Cardamomum Floure Deluce of euerye a dram and a halfe Suger most white .iii. ounces when euerye one are diligentlye pund let them be infused with these that followe Take Malmsye .ix. ounces a pound of water of Borage Rosewater an ounce and a half water of Melissa iii. vnces after they are let stand .iii. houres by the fornace or stoufe at length strain it oft through a Filter bag and it shal becom cleare Hippocras Hippocras Laxatiue A wine againste the Quartaine Quotidian and bastard Tertian iâ— concocteth and prepareth the humoures and leadeth the same by and by oute by the siege Take a pound of Esula Epithy mi. vi draÌ„s Polipodii cinamoÌ„ smal rasins of euery .iiii. draÌ„s Mastik gin Zedoria cloues of euery one an once Suger as much as nedeth Arnold Nectar in Arnold For a pinte of wyne take Ginger electe scraped Cloues Cinnamon scraped of euerye .ii. drammes graines of Paradise a dram Let it be made wine or Grekish which is better and in steade of honye put Sugar wyth a gran of Musk and it is moste noble A syrrup or Iulep is made of wine to conserue helth and youthe puttinge into .iii. poundes of good wine two poundes of Suger Let it be made a Sirup the vse wherof is with water It may stand in steade of meat and drink and refresheth nature Arnold in the boke of conseruacions of youth Wine made with Suger decocted is good for olde persones colde and feable and in whom the naturall moysture and heate are diminished for it norysheth and breedeth bloude and filleth the principall parts with spirits Take the best wine of Vernacia or Grekish or like vnto them .iii. pouÌ„des a pounde of white Suger Caffetini Let theÌ„ be sodde with a softe fire in manner of Syrrup keepe it and vse it with .ii. partes of water or otherwise as vse requyreth This wine or rather syrruppe of wyne Rabi Moysses in his booke of the maner of diet for olde men and such as are in recouering their helth doth approue and allow Of svviet vvines spiced OF wine made with suger spices it is alreadye spoken and also generallye of Mulsa or wynes made with hony and spices A man may in all the forsaid composicions both
bag w t in the wine mixt with hony or suger after .ii. or .iii. dais take it oute pres it wel But the former way is better finer Three vvaies to make Nectar wherof the first .ii. are called Gratia Dei the thirde Manus Dei oute of a writen boke TAke cinnamon .ix. drams ginger .iiii. drams nutmegs long Peper of ether .iii. draÌ„s GalaÌ„gal grains of paradice Maris or Folii cubebae of eueri .ii. draÌ„s cloues a draÌ„ spiknard a hole scrupul saffron a half suger a pouÌ„d or a pint of hony y t hath boyled in a litle water til the water be consumed wel skimmed Mixt them in a Lotum a half of wine Some ad Cardamomum and Carui of ether .ii. drams And this is the better Claret To the same â„ž Aristolochia round cinnamoÌ„ of ether an ounce Ginger half an ounce Galangall graines of Paradice Cloues Cubebae Macis Nutmegs of euery .ii. drams long pepper iii drams spiknard a scrupul Saffron a half Suger a pouÌ„d wine a Lotum If it be for the rich ad Agallochum of the best .ii. grains and musk halfe a grain Or according to other â„ž Cinnamon elect .ii. ounces Ginger one graines of Paradise longe Pepper of ether halfe an ounce Nuttemegs cloues Maces of ether .ii. drams Cubebae Cardamom of ether a dram Spiknard Schoenan thum Calamus aro of euery a scrupul When they are pund mixt them together with .iii. pounds of hony and a Lotum of wine as is said A drink named Manus Dei. â„ž Cinnamon an ounce and a half Ginger .iii. drams CardamomuÌ„ ii drams Folium Galangal of ether a draÌ„ spiknard Carui of ether half a dram long Pepper or blak .iiii. drams If it be made for rich men adde Cloues Nutmegs Maces Grains of paradice of euery .ii. drams clarified hony a pint a BurgeÌ„s Lotum of good wine And if thou canst in steade of hony put a pound of Suger If this drink be rightly made it shal be profitable against manye diseases specially cold and in old men and them that be somwhat weake feble vnto copulacion It shal be conuenient for Fleumaticke Melancholik persons meruelously that not withoute a cause it may be called Manus Dei that is the hand of God It putteth away dumpishnes sadnes and bringeth mirth It openeth the obstructions and stoppings of the splene It heleth the dropsy bringeth the stone out of the rains mightily if a litle Saxifrage of the stone called Lynx be added Spices for Zedoartical wine â„ž Zedoaria cinamon of ether half an ounce Galangall .ii. draÌ„s mixt them and make them into pouder For the wine that is surnamed of Scapa or Rappish â„ž Zedoaria halfe an ounce Coriander .iii. ounces galangal .v. vnces cinamon cloues of ether .ii. draÌ„s make a pouder therof soÌ„what grose Otherwise spices for Zedoartical wine which shal be inough for a mesure of wine that is called communlye at at Straszborovv Cinnamone .iii. vnces cloues nutmegs grains of pa. Cardamom of euery half an vnce Zedoariae vi drams Cubebae long Peper of ether a .ii. drams Beate them somwhat grose mixt them for a bag For the same cinnamon .ii. vnces ginger half an ounce cloues Longe Pepper Cardamom Cubebae Zedoria of euery one a dram Galangal graines of paradise of ether a dram and a halfe When they are beaten somwhat grose mixt them for a little bagge Of spiced vvines vvith burning water THat burning water doth drink in easily all y e odour and vertue both of other medicins and also of spices if they stand to stiep in it a few houres first beaten and a litle of it afterward be poured into simple wine and that diuers wines both in sauour and taste may be made by this meanes forthwith we did declare before out of Arnold in the descripcion of simple Aqua ardens or burning water ¶ The confection or making of the wine which they cal commoÌ„ly Hippocras Put into the name of the mesure is not exprest of burning water destilled .iii. or .iiii. times or more .ii. vnces of Cinamon Ginger half an vnce graines of paradise Peper of ether a dram and a half a dram of Cloues half a Nutmeg When they are al pund put them into a vessel wel closed for .iiii. dais and shake it about twise or thrise euery daye At laste strain it and kepe it it may be kept a longe time Put a meane sponefull of this into a measure or iiii pounds of good red wine and put a pound of Suger to it Yet if the wine be swiete there is no nede of Suger Furnerius A way to make Malmsy â„ž Galangall of the best Cloues Ginger Maces of euery one a draÌ„ Let al thies sumwhat grose beten staÌ„d 24. houres in a vessell of wood wel couered infused in water Then hang them in a linneÌ„ cloth by a thried into a vessell of a soom as they call it which is about the bignes of a hogshead or half a Soom of clear wyn .iii. daies And thou shalt haue wyne so good strong as is the very natural Malmsy or Traminuum A dutche writen booke A wyne that tasteth lyke Rhetish wyne In a vessell of glas or of earth glased hange a linnen cloth full of the spices hereafter folowyng and fill it with burning water stop it diligently let it stande at the lest .xii. houres when thou wouldest vse it wring out y e linnen cloth into sum gret glas whiche the wyne shal be powered into afterward so that the sydes of the pot may be wet with that spiced burning water or els y e liquor crusht out into the bottom by lening and rooling y e glas a syde may moysteÌ„ the sydes euery where Then power in the wyne whiche shall haue the taste of Rhetish The spices are thies Cinamon Ginger Cloues of euery one half a dram when they are sumwhat gros beaten let them be mixt and after be tied in the linnen cloth After the some maner is the tast of Muscatello wyne made take a Nutmeg with a litle Macis mixt them beaten as is before said Cloued wyne Beat half a dram of Cloues w t a litle CinnamoÌ„ tie it in a linnen cloth as is aforsaid The tast of Elseter wyne bynd sugar caÌ„â—y in a linnen cloth as is before said Or els mixt hony diligently clarified with burning water in a vessell well stopt when thou wilt vse it wringe out a linneÌ„ cloth dipt in this liquor into y e pot All thies haue we borowed out of a dutch boke writeÌ„ Of certain other Aromatical vvynes specially such as are made by hanging a litle bag in the vessell CLoued wyne is made hanging the cloues in a litle bag within the vessel with must It drieth much dissolueth coÌ„sumeth draweth vnto it it helpeth the old difficultie of fetching a mans breth cough in old men w t the corruption of the humors it is proffitable also in the falling sicknes swouning it strengtheneth the vertue
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
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
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
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
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
of coÌ„coction and reteining it maketh swiet breth As for y e drynes therof sugar licoris do aswage it much Arnold in his boke of wyne After the same maner any spyces medicins both cold dry may be hanged in a litle bag put in wyne or Must whiche we would haue seasoned with their vertues qualitie In the same place An aromatical wyne is made to coÌ„serue youth if spyces be put in a linnen bag vnbeten but cut in to partes so that the substaunce of the spyces be wandering in the litle bag and let it be put in the wyne the mouthe of the wyne diligently closed Arnoldus of the conseruation of youth An other way of aromaticall wyne for the confirming of the temperature and youth Cubebae Cloues Nutmegs small Rasines of euery one iii. drams let them boyll in a litle bag in .iii. pound of good wyne tyl the coÌ„sumpcion of y e third part put to Sugar and therof morning and euening gyue an vnce or other about at euery tyme to drinke Or elles let it be made lyke claret Arnoldus in the same place Saffrond wyne bryngeth mirthe and taketh away Melancholines Arnold in his booke of conseruing youth the .iii. chapt The maner of making it teacheth he in the second tretise of the same booke with thies wordes Put a litle Saffron well dryed in a large bag of very fine linnen clothe and let the wyne be powred vpon it or also Oyll for Oyll of Saffron after the maner of making Lye and let it be repeted till the colour and taste lyke you There may also other spyces be mixt w t it as ye think good Of Artificiall vvâ—nes vvhiche resem â–ª ble the tast of strange wynes bycause of the spyoes haÌ„ged in a litle bag within the vessel HOw diuers Aromaticall wynes be made and a counterfet tast of certain straunge wynes with burning water and spyces it is shewed before Here will we ad howe witty men may inuitate certaine strauÌ„ge wines without burning water not to thintent coue tous men may learne disceit thereby but that physicions may both gratify sumtymes proffit also the sick specially suche as be sumwhat delicate We haue taken al y â— folow out of a dutch writeÌ„ booke Grekish wyne is thus made Ginger galaÌ„gal of ether half a pouÌ„d grains of paradis cloues iii. vnc hang theÌ„ in a litle bag in a vessel of wyne of a mene bignes a pype Malmsy â„ž moshe AgallochuÌ„ of ether a dram cinnamoÌ„ CardamoÌ„ if I read right cloues of ether .ii. draÌ„s half an vnce of sugar caÌ„dy Wyne of Romania â„ž Succi lycoris cinnamoÌ„ of ether .ii. drams anis a dram macis half a dram sugar .iii. drams Muscatello wyne â„ž PolypodiuÌ„ ly coris anis of euery one .ii. draÌ„s nutmegs .iii. draÌ„s calamus aromatick one dram Red Muscatello shalt thou make thus The slowers of Sambucê° iiii vnc cinnamon half an vnce let them boyl in reed Must All such thinges ar thought to make y e smel of Muscatello that do resemble Muske in their own odour and such thinges as are surnamed of Muske as the nutmeg and the bark of it that is called Macis also the flowers of Sambucus or elder chiefly and Coriander Many also hang the herb called Sclarâ—a in wyne the flowers with the leeues whose sauour is vehement not vnpleasant yet sum thinke it to be vnholsum and to greue the head But such compositions without number may be made and it is sufficient for a man of wit actiuitie skilful in the nature of simple medicines spices sauces or seasoninges to haue a certain few formes as it were prescribed which he many wayes as occasion diuers circuÌ„stances shal serue may vary alter at his pleasure We geuing thankes to the immortall God vpon whome dependeth all the succes of medicines do here conclude make an end of this booke for this present FINIS
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