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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58319	The urinal of physick By Robert Record Doctor of physick. Whereunto is added an ingenious treatise concerning physicians, apothecaries, and chyrurgians, set forth by a Dr. in Queen Elizabeths dayes. With a translation of Papius Ahalsossa concerning apothecaries confecting their medicines; worthy perusing and following.	Record, Robert, 1510?-1558.; Pape, Joseph, 1558-1622. Tractatus de medicamentorum praeparationibus. English. aut	1651 (1651)	Wing R651; ESTC R221564	102,856	271

strength of Roses is rather placed in the earthy part Quercetan erreth whilest he would have the digestion of the juyce at length drawn or prest forth to be repeated in Balneo and that which is clear to be seperated adding thereto the earthy parts But plenty of the said flowers being wanting infusion in boyling water the vessell being well closed up hath the next place nor then is there any need of Balneum it sufficeth to be placed in a warme place for certain houres or if you had rather use the distilled water of Roses it ought not to boyle forth but to be placed a while in Balneo with the Roses There is also a salt made or prepared by decoction out of salt waters It is the propriety of Salt to bind and be sharp brachish and of a watry of spring by which name it receiving into it self a moist aire forthwith melteth as also others which from their first origine are rather watry then earthy From hence it followeth that no true Salt can be got out or Plants yea even from them which abound with Saltness Such as are Kaly or Saltwort and Sea-grape or knotted Kaly For which cause we refuse and altogether reject those white Powders which are made of sodden lyes whilest lye filtered is stilled till there remaineth in the bottome a thicknese like Hony which is dryed at the sunne or by the Fornace and at length for whiteness sake is burnt by a moderate fire in a Gold smiths pot when they want a native genuine saltness and if there be any it is much inferiour to that in naturall Salt when in like manner the lye retaineth nothing of the nature of a Medicine besides sharpness much lesse the foresaid Powders unless peradventure those which are void of all sharpness may be usefull gently to dry but will not answer the labour of making them and cost in their operation Neither can true Salt be gotten or made out of urine For if it be boyled or stilled till the watery moisture is resolved into vapours and the dregs be calcined there ariseth a Powder with an odious taste and if you poure water upon the thing calcined and after draw it by distillation you may truly wash away the stinke but you will have remaining rather the taste of Salt-peter then of Salt But what madness is it to reckon Vitriall Allum and Sugar in the number of Salts where is their faltness shall then likeness make all things the same In like manner also by decoction almost are prepared your Lohochs your Electuaries candid things Morsels Pils Trochisces Glisters Suppositories Ointments Pultesse and Cerots In making your Medicines which are called Lumbitives and Arteriacks from the rough artery a Wind-pipe they mollifie The Arabians call those Medicines Lohochs which have power to mollifie the Brest stay Catarrhes or Rheumes and cut flegme and they make a decoction first to clamminess then adde Sugar Pennels and boil it to the thicknesse of honey and after expression when it begins to cool mingle the rest in a morter without decoction as Vine kernels sweet Almonds husked juyce of Liquorice Tragacanth and Gum Arabick Ireos Roots and white Starch Because their strength will rather be weakned by decoction then drawn forth But seeing the cutting faculty is extream contrary to tough and thickning and that the one weakneth the strength of the other sometimes they are wont with great oversight to be mixed together In like manner in Electuaries they are first boyled in the same order of which I have formerly advised you those things whose faculty may fitly be drawn forth by decoction to the consumption of their parts there is after added a third part of Sugar and then it is boiled up again to a consistence as well for taste as lasting and last of all such things are added which are not fit to be boyled such as are conserves flowers of Cassia pulp of Prunes Tamarindes c. or Sena leaves Rubarb Agarick Coloquintida are infused into the boyling decoction and about twelve hours after they may bestreined with expression and the expression forthwith boyled up to a consistence with Sugar the rest as I have said being added Those things which we will preserve we first cleanse and throw away that in the roots which is woody and by decoction we soften hard things and take away the bitterness from bittter things though this rather serve for gluttonie then Physicall intentions and being lightly dryed we put Sugar to them warm boyled up to a fit thicknesse for too much heat shrinketh the fruit till they are well covered and then if any of the waterie moistnesse appear that being separate and reboyled is poured on but some fruits as for example sake Cherries are presently dipped into the said Sugar The soundnesse of the Flowers is conserved from whence they are called conserves if unto them being small bruised a double part of Sugar carefully poudered be mingled and exposed to the Sun to drie up the watry moisture and therefore they are to be gathered in fair and dry weather and the whites are to be clipt off from the roses for their bitternesse Some times to gratifie the sick we mingle powders simple or compound or distilled oiles with sugar and also medicines cut into small parts If the pouder be pleasant or purging that the purgative power may not be weakned by too great a proportion of sugar we mingle an ounce of it dissolved and perfectly boyled with a dram of the said sugar in odoriferous water or such as shall serve for our purpose but with pouders lesse gratefull one dram with two ounces of Sugar but of oile one scruple with half a pound of Sugar and the Sugar being boyled enough remove it from the fire beat it a good while with a Pestle untill the pouders or oile are well mixed together and then poure it forth upon a Table and frame out round pellets or four square Tablets or Lozenges or Long which they call Bits Sometimes to the Sugar poudered we mingle onely some few drops of distilled oile without any decoction but this we have referred unto our Infusions Pills called Cataphotia because they are swallowed are made up either of Extracts or Pouders moistned with some lost humour of such a bignesse as any one may swallow them an that they may not offend in smell or taste let them bee guilded The close is esteemed by the working of the Ingredient v. g. The scone of the golden pills of Nicolaus is to purge all humours which Scammony performeth but more slow flegme therefore Coloquintida is added to it But Aloes though it loosen the belly yet it is chiefly here inserted because according to the opinion of Mesue it strengtheneth all the bowels but especially the Stomack and liver by opening this and cleansing that and by his thicknesse correcteth the acrimonie or the rest Mastich and Tragacanth by their clamminess corrected the sharpnesse the seed of Fennell and Annise Saffron and Roses

correct the power which is offensive to stomack brain and heart and also prepare and fit the flegm by cutting and cleansing it Aloes Parseley seed and the other seed And because gentle purgatives are mixed with strong and vehement pursers there is almost the same quantity of correctors that is ten dragms as of Purgatives which are eleven drams And whereas a dose of Pills ought not to exceed four scruples this Masse ought to be divided into about 20. drams by which name there shall be in every dose of Aloes Scammonie Coloquintida whose highest dose is ij â„¥ and 12. grains of each 15. grains and 3. grains And to every Pill shall have of vehement Purgers 18. grains which dose is therefore the greater because the correctors doe not a little dull and weaken the strength of the Purgers By the like reason round orbicular Pellets or Trochises are framed the strength of Agarick being an enemy to the stomack is corrected by wine in which ginger is macerated and with Tragacanth which is slow and dull an Union is made of the broken and scattered parrs And the sharpness and malignitie of Coloquintida in the Trochises of Alhandal For ten ounces some read evilly so many Dragms for otherwise the Purgatives should be much overcome by the Correctives which were saulty are rubbed with oyle of sweet Almonds for one whole dupe and then they are reduced into a Maste or body by the infusion of four ounces of Rosewater of Bdellium Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each nine Dragms The Masse being again dryed in the shadow being very small beaten is at length with the said infusion brought into a paste Clysters are profitable in vomiting when the sick hold not those things which they receive at the mouth or when they can receive nothing by the mouth They are good in a hard belly to loosen it and the dregs or excrements and in a fluid or moist to binde the same and to thicken the excrements or mollifie the sharpe For Ulcers in the guts to cleanse and glew them together and for diseases of the belly of the reines and bladder for they can work strongly upon these parts by discussing the vapours and windiness Loosning may be caused in one of full age by a pinte of flesh pottage of decoction of milk barly or emollient herbes of water or whey strained that the passages may be cleansed and of Sugar or hony boyled least windiness may be moved halfe an ounce strained for cleanness sometimes instead of hony we take purgative Electuaries in the same or lesse quantity according to their faculty and the Patients strength and by reason of the disease of oyle or fat by reason of the dryness of the intestines and excrements three ounces or five then we add when the sharpness of the rest is not sufficient to provoke and advance the worke or the sense is duller in the night gut about a dram of salt sometimes we add a yolke or two to wash and cleanse the guts that they may not be hurt by the sharpness of the humours or to dull the stirring or provoking faculty Sometimes if there be no obstruction present for otherwise heat by drying causeth and increaseth obstruction in a cold distemper a Glister is made of Muscadine or Spanish wine with an ounce of seeds discussing winde boyled and strained hot and mingled with halfe an ounce of Treacle So you may gather by these the use of the rest When we would have Clisters kept a good while we exhibite them in a lesser quantity decocted and avoid all sharpe things When either age or custome will not endure Glisters as 1. They that ace troubled with piles or Ulcers of the Fundament are offended with Glysters or if Glysters and Purges doe not work we will draw them from the head or the midriffe as in old diseases or of the stomach then we put up Suppositories into the Fundament of young women to loosen them of Butter or Larde 2. And unto people of full age provoking and cleansing of the root or Beet scraped annoynted with a littie Butter sprinckled with a little Salt and Hony boyled up into hardness whew the Fundament doth not perfectly feele or is moved wee 'l put on it a little purging Powder or otherwise frame some of fit and conveinent matter When Oyles will not cleave or fasten on the parts Art hath invented Ointments which may stick and hold closer to and work stronger Therefore either oyle distilled is mixed with Waxe Manna or the like Aieriall matter for cause of a more exacter mingling by reason of their simpathy and a terrestriall matter by reason of his making up in forme of a liniment 1. And it is called a Balsome because it commeth very near to the nature of a true Balsome 2. Or the juycie parts of the plants are boyled with oyle or butter rather then their juyce pressed out because if they have oylie or spirituous parts in them by this meanes that and the strength of it is extracted and drawn forth which is not in the watry juyce 3. The dry plants are sod with equall portions of Wine Butter Oyle that the aquosity or watrynesse of the Wine may as well restraine the collection of foule corrupt matter and that the fire by insinuating his heat may not change the temper of the ointment and that the spirituous parts peircing by their thinnesse may draw out the spirituous and oylse part which is in them and may com municate it to the oyle Either decoction is drawn to the consumption or the Watry juyce Wine When the watrynes is not mixed with the oyle and gives occasion of Putrefaction By Olives of which oile omphocine is made we understand the wild boyled in oyle according as Theophrastu and Atheneus conceive in their writings because Astringent oile cannot be pressed forth neither from ripe nor putrified Olives nor from unripe which rather yeeld a watery juyce astringent Emollient pultisses are made with emollient decoctions bran and pouders and oyle butter fat honey and the decoction strained forth is mixed with pouders that which is fat is poured upon the hot for that must not be boyled till all things mingled come into the form of a pultiss But those which draw from the inward parts to the Superficies as heat nourishment c. are made of sharp mustard seed and dry figs because they draw and restrain that the mustard seed burn not too much which the day before are macerated in varm water and is bruised and brought into a Masle When we would draw lesse violently we take equall parts of both or two of figs and mustard one of mustard and of figs. Cerots are of a thicker and dryer consistence besides pouders oiles and fatts they take up waxe and rosin which makes them stick and cleave faster especially Turpentine or hard Rosin for the mildnesse and sweetness and they are boyled so long till they soil not the hands The matter of them is various