Ounces make a Pound THe most usual Measures amongst us quoth the Colledg are these A Spoon which in Syrups holds half an ounce in distilled Waters three drachms A Taster which holds an ounce and an half A Congie which in their former Dispensatory held nine pound now holds but eight pound viz. just a Gallon To miss but one Pint in a Gallon is nothing with a Colledg of Physitians such Physitians as our times afford The reason I suppose is Because most Nations differ in the quantity of their Measures and they quoted their Congius from one Nation before and from another now for indeed their Dispensatory is borrowed a great part of it from Arabia part from Greece some from France some from Spain and some from Italy and now they vapor with it Oh brave should a man that borrowed his Cloathes from so many Broakers in Long-lane be proud of them Besides these they have gotten another antick way of MENSURATION which they have not set down here viz. By Handfuls and Pugils An Handful is as much as you can gripe in one Hand and a Pugil as much as you can take up with your Thumb and two Fingers and how much that is who can tell Intruth this way of Mensuration is as certain as the Weather-cock and as various as mens Fingers are in length and the things taken up in driness or form for an Handsul of green Herbs will not be half an Handsul or not above when they are dry and your mother-wit will teach you that you may take up more Hay in this manner than Bran and more Bran than Sand. And thus much for their Weights and also for their Measures both rediculous and contradictive Weights and Measures in the Old Dispensatory TWenty Grains do make a Scruple Three Scruples make a drachm commonly called a dram Right Drachms make an Ounce Twelve Ounces make a Pound As for the Colledges Measures I know not well what English Names to give them 〈◊〉 holds in Syrups half an Ounce in distilled Waters three Drachms 〈◊〉 holds an ounce and an half Hemina which also they call Cotyla contains nine Ounces Libra holds twelve Ounces A Sextary contains eighteen Ounces A Congie six Sextaties These Measures amongst the Romans contained not just the same quantities for their Cyathus contained an ounce and an half a drachm and a scruple Their Sextary contained but fourteen ounces three 〈◊〉 and half a quarter and among the Gracians not so much It is called a 〈◊〉 because it is the sixt part of a Congie Neither did the Roman Hemina contain altogether seven ounces and an half Their Libra I suppose to be that which Galen calls 〈◊〉 viz. A Vessel to measure with it was made of cleer Horn and by certain lines drawn round it like rings was divided into twelve equal parts each part containing an ounce DIRECTIONS ALthough I did what I could throughout the whol Book to express my self in such a language as might be understood by all and therefore avoided terms of Art as much as might be it being the task of the Colledg to write only to the Learned and the Nurslings of Apollo but of my Self to do my Country good which is the Center all my Lines tend to and I destre should terminate in Yet 1. Some words must of necessity fall in which need explanation 2. It would be very tedious at the end of every Receipt to repeat over and over again the way of administration of the Receipt or ordering your Bodies after it or to instruct you in the mixture of Medicines and indeed would do nothing else but stuff the Book full of 〈◊〉 To answer to both these is my task at this time To the first The words which need explaining such as are obvious to my Eye are these that follow 1. To distil in Balneo Mariae is the usual way of distilling in Water It is no more than to 〈◊〉 your Glass-Body which holds the matter to be distilled in a convenient vessel of Water when the Water is cold for fear of breaking put a wisp of Straw or the like under it to keep it from the bottom then make the Water boyl that so the Spirit may be distilled forth take not the Glass out till the Water be cold again for fear of breaking It is impossible for a man to learn how to do it unless he saw it done 2. Manica Hippocrates Hippocrates his Sleeve is a piece of woolen cloath new and white sewed together in form of a Sugar-loaf It s use is to strain any Syrup or Decoction through by powring it into it and suffering it to run through without pressing or crushing it 3. Calcination is a burning of a thing in a Crucible or other such convenient vessel that will endure the fire A Crucible is such a thing as your Gold-smiths melt Silver in and your Founders their Mettals you may place it in the midst of the fire with coals above below and on every side of it 4. Filtration is straining of a liquid body through a brown 〈◊〉 Make up the Paper in form of a Funnel the which having placed in a Funnel and placed the Funnel and the Paper in it in an empty Glass powr in the Liquor you would filter and let it run through at its leisure 5. Coagulation is curdling or hardning It is used in Physick for reducing a liquid body to hardness by the heat of the fire 6. Whereas you find Vital Natural and Animal Spirits often mentioned in the Vertues of Receipts I shall explain what they be and what their 〈◊〉 is in the Body of Man The actions or operations of the Animal Vertues are 1. Sensitive 2. Motive The Sensitive is 1. External 2. Internal The External Sences are 1. Seeing 2. Hearing 3. Tasting 4. Smelling 5. Feeling The Internal Sences are 1. Imagination to apprehend a thing 2. Judgment to Judg of it 3. Memory to remember it The seat of all these is in the Brain The Vital Spirits proceedeth from the Heart and causeth in Man Mirth Joy Hope Trust Humanity Mildness Courage c. and their opposites Viz. Sadness Fear Care Sorrow Despair Envy Hatred Stubbornness Revenge c. by heat Natural or not Natural The Natural Spirit nourisheth the Body 〈◊〉 as the Vital quickens it and the Animal gives it Sence and Motion Its office is to alter or 〈◊〉 Food into Chyle Chyle into Blood Blood into Flesh to Form Engender Nourish and Increase the Body 7. Infusion is to steep a gross body into one 〈◊〉 Liquid 8. Decoction is the Liquor in which any thing is boyled As for the manner of 〈◊〉 or ordering the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any sweating or purging Medicines or Pills or the like the Table at the latter end of the Vertues of the Medicines will direct you to what Pages you may find them in look but the word Rules there As also in the next Page The different forms of making up Medicines 〈◊〉 〈…〉 People that so Medicines might be
51. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Mugwort The Colledg Take of Mugwort two handfuls Penyroyal Calaminth Origanum Bawm Arsmart Dictani of Creet Savin Marsoram Germander St. Johns Wort 〈◊〉 Featherfew with the Flowers Centaury the less Rue Bettony Bugloss of each a handful the Roots of Fennel Smallage Parsly Sparagus Bruscus Saxifrage Alicampane Cyperus Maddir Orris Peony of each an ounce Juniper Berries the seeds of Lovage Parsly Smallage Annis Nigella Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Costus Cassia Lignea Cardamoms Calamus Aromaticus the Roots of Asarabacca Pellitory of Spain Valerian of each half an ounce being clensed cut and bruised let them be infused twenty four hours in fourteen pound of cleer water and boyled till half be consumed being taken off from the fire and rubbed between your hands whilst it is warm strain it and with Honey and Sugar of each two pound sharp Vineger four ounces boyl it to a Syrup and perfume it with Cinnamon and Spiknard of each three drams Culpeper A. It helps the passion of the matrix and retains it in its place it dissolves the coldness wind and pains thereof it strengthens the nerves opens the pores corrects the blood it corrects and provokes the terms in women You may take a handful of it at a time Syrupus de Betonica Compositus Pag. 52. In L. Book O R Syrup of Betony Compound The Colledg Take of Betony three handfuls Marsoram a handful and an half Time red Roses of each a handful Violets Stoechas Sage of each half a handful the seeds of Fennel Annis and Ammi of each half an ouce the roots of Peony Polypodium and Fennel of each five drachms boyl them in six pound of river water to three pound strain it and ad juyce of Betony two pound Sugar three pound and an half make it into a Syrup Culpeper A. It helps diseases coming of cold both in the head and stomach as also such as come of wind vertigoes madness it concocts melancholly it provokes the terms in women and so doth the Simple Syrup more than the Compound The Composition was framed by the Augustan Physitians Certainly our Physitians have but shallow brains that they are fain to trot as far as Ausberg in Germany to steal Receipts Syrupus Byzantinus Simple Page 53. In the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the Juyce of the Leaves of Endive and Smallage of each two pound of Hops and Bugless of each one pound boyl them together and scum them and to the clarified Liquor ad four pound of white Sugar to as much of the Juyces and with a gentle fire boyl it to a Syrup Syrupus Byzantinus Compound Page 53. In the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the Juyces so ordered as in the former four pound in which boylred Roses two ounces Liquoris half an ounce the seeds of Annis Fennel and Smallage of each three drachms Spicknard two drams strain it and to the three pound remaining ad two pound of Vineger four pound of Sugar make it into a Syrup according to art Culpeper A. They both of them viz. both Simple and Compound opens stoppings of the stomach liver and spleen help the Rickets in children cuts and brings away tough flegm and helps the yellow Jaundice Mesue saith the Compound Syrup is of more effect than the Simple for the same uses You may take them with a Liquoris stick or take a spoonful in the morning fasting Syrupus Botryos Page 53. In the Latin Book O R Syrup of Oak of Jerusalem The Colledg Take of Oak of Jerusalem Hedg-mustard Nettles of each two handfuls Coltsfoot an handful and an half boyl them in a sufficient quantity of cleer Water till half be consumed to two pound of the Decoction ad two pound of the Juyce of Turneps baked in an Oven in a close pot and with three pound of white Sugar boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper This Syrup was composed against Coughs shortness of breath and other the like infirmities of the breast proceeding of cold for which if you can get it you may take it with a Liquoris stick Syrupus Capillorum Veneris Pag. 53. In L. Book O R Syrup of Maidenhair The Colledg Take of Liquoris two ounces Maidenhair five ounces steep them a natural day in four pound of warm water then after a gentle boyling and strong straining with a pound and an half of fine Sugar make it into a Syrup Culpeper A. It opens stoppings of the stomach strengthens the Lungues and helps the infirmities of them This may be taken also either with a Liquoris stick or mixed with the pectoral Decoction like Syrup of Coltsfoot Syrupus Cardiacus vel Julepum Cardiacum Pag. 53. O R A Cordial Syrup The Colledg Take of Rhenish Wine two pound Rose water two ounces and an half Cloves two seruples Cinnamon half a drachm Ginger two scruples Sugar three ounces and an half boyl it to the consistence of a Julep adding Amber-greese three grains Musk one grain Culpeper A. He that hath read thus far in this Book and doth not know he must first boyl the Simples in the Wine and then strain them out before he puts in the Sugar is a man that in my opinion hath not 〈◊〉 enongh to be taught to make up a Medicine and the Colledg in their new Master-piece hath left it out A. If you would have this Julip keep long you may put in more Sugar and yet if close stopped it will not easily corrupt because 't is made up only of Wine indeed the wisest way is to order the quantity of sugar according to the pallat of him that takes it A. It restoreth such as are in Consumptions comforts the heart cherisheth the drooping spirits and is of an opening quality thereby carrying away those vapors which might otherwise anoy the brain and heart You may take an ounce at a time or two if you please Syrupus infusionis Floram Caryophillorum Pag. 54. O R Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers The Colledg Take a pound of Clove-gilliflowers the whites being cut off infuse them a whol night in two pound of Water then with four pound of sugar melted in it make it into a Syrup without boyling Culpeper A. In their former they added three pound of Water if you would infuse them you must do it at several times A. The syrup is a fine temperate syrup it strengthens the heart liver and stomach it refresheth the vital spirits and is a good cordial in feavers and usually mixed with other Cordials you can hardly err in taking it it is so harmless a syrup Syrupus de Cinnamomo Pag. 54. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Cinnamon The Colledg Take of Cinnamon grosly bruised four ounces steep it in white Wine and small Cinnamon water of each half a pound three daies in a glass by a gentle heat strain it and with a pound and an half of Sugar boyl it gently to a syrup Culpeper A. This comes something neerer the Augustan Dispensatory than their
those whose bodies are subject to scabs and Itch. If you please you may take two ounces by it self every morning Syrupus de Glycyrrhiza Pag. 56. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Liquoris The Colledg Take of green Liquoris scraped and bruised two ounces white Maidenhair an ounce dryed Hysop half an ounce steep these in four pound of hot water after 24. hours boyl it till half be consumed strain it and clarifie it and with Honey Peuids and Sugar of each eight ounces make it into a syrup adding before it be perfectly boyled red Rose-water six ounces Culpeper A. It clenseth the breast and lungues and helps continual Coughs and Pleuresies You may take it with a Liquoris stick or ad an ounce of it or more to the pectoral Decoction Syrupus Granatorum cum Aceto vulgo Oxysaccharum simplex Page 57. in the Latin Book O R Syrup of Pomegranates with Vineger The Colledg Take of white Sugar a pound and an half Juyce of Pomegranates eight ounces white Wine Vineger four ounces boyl it gently into a Syrup Culpeper A. Look the Vertue of Pomegranates amongst the Simples Syrupus de Hyssopo Page 57. in the Latin Book O R Syrup of Hysop The Colledg Take eight pound of spring Water half an ounce of Barley boyl it about half an hour then ad the Roots of smallage Parsly Fennel Liquoris of each ten drams Jujubes Sebestens of each fifteen Raisons of the sun stoned an ounce and an half Figs Dates of each ten the seeds of Mallows and Quinces Gum Tragacanth tyed up in a rag of each three drachms Hysop meanly dried ten drachms Maiden-hair six drachms boyl them together yet so that the Roots may precead the Fruits the Fruits the Seeds and the Seeds the Herbs about a quarter of an hour at last five pounds of Water being consumed boyl the other three being first strained and clarified into a syrup with two pound and an half of Sugar Culpeper A. You may thank Mesue for it not the Colledg A. It mightily strengthens the breast and lungs causeth long wind cleer voice is a good remedy against coughs Use it like the syrup of Liquoris Syrupus Ivae arthriticae sive Chamaepityos Pag. 57. O R Syrup of Chamepitys The Colledg Take of Chamepitys two handfuls Sage Rosemary Poley mountain Origanum Calaminth wild mints Peniroyal Hysop Time Rue Garden and wild Betony Mother of Time of each a handful the roots of Acorus Birthwort long and round Briony Dittany Gentian Hogs Fennel Valerian of each half an ounce the roots of smallage sparagus Fennel Parsly Bruscus of each an ounce Pellitory of Spain an ounce and an half stoechas the seeds of Annis Ammi Carraway Fennel Lovage Hartwort of each three drachms Raisons of the sun two ounces boyl them in ten pound of water to four to which ad Honey and Sugar of each two pound make it into a syrup to be persumed with sugar Nutmegs and Cubebs of each three drachms Culpeper A. I bid them mend this for shame last time and the truth is so they have before it was a Hodg-podg that could not be made and now 't is a Hodg-podg only not worth the making Syrupus Jujubinus Page 58. in the Latin Book O R Syrup of Jujubes The Colledg Take of Jujubes Violets five drachms Maiden-hair Liquoris French Barley of each an ounce the seeds of Mallows five drachms the seeds of white Poppies Melones Lettice seed of Quinces and Gum Tragacanth tyed up in a rag of each three drachms boyl them in six pound of rain or spring water till half be consumed strain it and with two pound of sugar make it into a syrup Culpeper A. Those that adore the Colledg as so many little God-a-mighties let them ask them what part of the Violets must be put in for they must operate as neer to their meanings as the men of Benjamin could throw a stone and not miss others that do not may be pleased to make use of the Flowers A. It is a fine cooling syrup very available in Coughs Hoarsness and Pleuresies Ulcers of the Lungues and Bladder as also in all inflamations whatsoever You may take a spoonful of it once in three or four hours or if you please take it with a Liquoris stick Syrupus de Meconio sive Diacodium Page 58. Syrup of Meconium or Diacodium The Colledg Take of white Poppy heads with their seeds gathered a little after the flowers are fallen off and kept three daies eight ounces black Poppy heads so ordered six ounces rain Water eight pound steep them twenty four hours then boyl and press them gently boyl it to three pounds and with twenty four ounces of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art Syrupus de Meconio Compositus Page 59. in L. Book Syrup of Meconium Compound The Colledg Take of white and black Poppy heads with their seeds fifty drachms maindenhair fifteen drachms Jujubes thirty the seeds of Lettice fourty drachms of Mallows and Quinces tied up in a rag a drachm and an half Liquoris five drachms Water eight pound boyl it according to art strain it and to three pound of Decoction ad sugar and penids of each a pound make it into a syrup Culpeper A. Meconium The blush of which this Receipt carries in its frontispiece is nothing else but the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick As I am of opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of Poppies growing in hotter Countries and therefore in all reason is colder in quality and therefore I speak purely of Meconium and Opium not of these syrups though they be no edg-tools yet 't is ill jesting with them A. All these former syrups of Poppies provoke sleep but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness such as these are are not fit to be given in the beginning of Feavers nor to such whose bodies are costive ever remember my former Motto Fools are not fit to make Physitians Yet to such as are troubled with hot sharp Rhewms you may safely give them and note this the last which is borrowed from Mesue is apropriated to the Lungues whose own words translation excepted of it are these It prevails against dry Coughs Phtisicks hot and sharp gnawing Rhewms and provokes sleep It is an usual fashion for Nurses when they have heat their milk by exercise or strong liquor no marvel then if their children be froward then run for syrup of Poppies to make their young ones sleep I would fain have that fashion left therefore I forbear the dose let Nurses keep their own bodies 〈◊〉 and their children will sleep well enough never fear Syrupus 〈◊〉 Page 59. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Bawm The Colledg Take of the Bark of Bugloss Roots an ounce the 〈◊〉 of white Dittany sinksoyl scorzonera of each half an ounce the Leaves of Bawm scabious Devils-bit the 〈◊〉 of both sorts of Bugloss and Rosemary of
shall find this one Receipt worth the price of the whol Book Syrupus de Stoechade Page 65. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Stoechas The Colledg Take of Stoechas flowers four ounces Rosemary flowers half an ounce Time Calaminth Origanum of each an ounce and an half Sage Betony of each half an ounce the seeds of Rue Pcony and Fennel of each three drachms spring water ten pound boyl it till half be consumed and with Honey and sugar of each two pound boyl it into a syrup which perfume with Cinnamon Ginger and Calamus Aromaticus of each two drachms tyed up in a rag Syrupus de Symphyto Page 65. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Comfry The Colledg Take of the Roots and Tops of Comfry the greater and lesser of each three handfuls red Roses Betony Plantane Burnet Knot-grass scabious Coltsfoot of each two handfuls press the Juyce out of them all being green and bruised boyl it scum it and strain it ad its weight of sugar to it that it may be made into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. The syrup is excellent for all inward wounds and bruises excoriations vomitings spittings or pissings of blood it unites broken bones helps ruptures and stops the terms in women you cannot er in taking of it Syrupus Violarum Page 65. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Violets The Colledg Take of Violet Flowers fresh and picked a pound cleer water made boyling hot two pound shut them up close together in a new glazed pot a whol day then press them hard out and in two pound of the Liquor dissolve four pound and three ounces of white Sugar take away the scum and so make it into a syrup without boyling Syrup of the Juyce of Violets is made with its double waight of Sugar like the former Culpeper A. This latter syrup is far more chargable than the former and in all reason is better although I never knew it used they both of them cool and moisten and that very gently they correct the sharpness of choller and give ease in hot vices of the breast they quench thirst in acute feavers and resist the heat of the disease they comfort hot stomachs exceedingly cool the liver and heart and resist putrifaction pestilence and poyson It is so harmless a syrup you shall hurt your purse by it sooner than your body The Colledg Julep of Violets is made of the water of Violet flowers and sugar like Julep of Roses Culpeper A. It is cooling and pleasant for the Gentry when they are hot with walking for few of them much trouble their study PURGING SYRUPS Syrupus de Cicborio cum Rhabarbaro Page 67. Or Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb The Colledg TAke of whol Barley the Roots of Smallage Fennel and Sparagus of each two ounces Succory Dandelyon Endive smooth Sowthistles of each two handfuls Lettice Liverwort Fumitory tops of Hops of each one handful Maiden-hair white and black Cetrach Liquoris Winter Cherries Dodder of each six drachms to boyl these take sixteen pound of spring water strain the liquor and boyl in it six pound of white Sugar adding towards the end six ounces of Rhubarb six drachms of Spicknard bound up in a thin and slack rag the which crush often in boyling and so make it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. This Receipt without a name was borrowed from Nicholaus Florentinus the difference is only in the quantity of the Rhubarb and Spike besides the order inverted whose own aprobation of it runs in these terms A. It clenseth the body of venemous humors as Boyls Carbuncles and the like it prevails against pestilential Feavers it strengthens the heart and nutritive vertue purgeth by stool and urine it makes a man have a good stomach to his meat and provokes sleep A. But by my Authors leave I never accounted purges to be proper Physick in Pestilential Feavers this I beleeve the syrup clenseth the liver well and is exceeding good for such as are troubled with Hypocondriack Melancholly The strong may take two ounces at a time the weak one or you may mix an ounce of it with the Decoction of Senna Syrupus de Epithymo Page 67. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Epithimum The Colledg Take of Epithimum twenty drams Mirobalans Citron and Indian of each fifteen drams Emblicks Bellericks Polypodium Liquoris Agrick Time Calaminth Bugloss Stoechas of each six drams Dodder Fumitory of each ten drachms red Roses Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each two drachms and an half sweet Prunes ten Raisons of the sun stoned four ounces Tamarinds two ounces and an half after twenty four hours infusion in ten pints of spring water boyl it away to six then take it from the fire and strain it and with five pound of fine Sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. It is best to put in the Dodder Stoechas and Agrick towards the latter end of the Decoction A. This Receipt was Mesue's only instead of five pound of Sugar Mesue appoints four pound of Sugar and two pound of Sapa the making of which shall be shewed in its proper place and truly in my opinion the Receipts of Mesue are generally the best in all the Dispensatory because the Simples are so pertinent to the purpose intended they are not made up of a mess of Hodgpodg as many others are but to the purpose A. It purgeth Melancholly and other humors it strengtheneth the stomach and Liver clenseth the body of addust choller and addust blood as also of salt humors and helps diseases proceeding from these as scabs itch tetters ringworms leprosie c. and the truth is I like it the better for its gentleness for I never fancied violent Medicines in Melancholly diseases A mean man may take two ounces at a time or ad one ounce to the Decoction of Epithimum Syrupus è Floribus Persicorum Page 68. in L. Book Or Syrup of Peach-flowers The Colledg Take of fresh Peach-flowers a pound steep them a whol day in three pound of warm water then boyl it a little and strain it out repeat this infusion five times in the same 〈◊〉 in three pound of which dissolve two pound and an half of Sugar and boyl it into a syrup Culpeper A. It is a gentle Purger of choller and may be given even in feavers to draw away the sharp chollerick humors according to the opinion of Andernacus whose Receipt all things considered differs little from this Syrupus de Pomis Purgans Page 68. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Apples purging The Colledg Take of the Juyce of sweet smelling Apples two pound the juyce of Borrage and Bugloss of each one pound and an half Senna two ounces Annis seeds half an ounce Saffron one drachm let the 〈◊〉 be sleeped in the Juyce's twenty four hours and after a walm or two strain it and with two pound of white sugar boyl it to a syrup according to art the Saffron
Wine Vineger of each two pound boyl them in an earthen vessel taking the scum off with a wooden Scummer till it be come to the consistence of a Syrup Culpeper A. Your best way is to boyl the Water and Honey first into a Syrup and ad the Vineger afterwards and then boyl it again into a Syrup Observe that the later it be before you ad the Vineger to any Syrup the sowrer will it be so may you please your self and not offend the Colledg for they give you latitude enough A. It cuts flegm and it is a good preparative against a vomit Oxymel Compound Page 73. in the L. Book The Colledg Take of the Bark of the Root of Fennel Smallage Parsly Bruscus Sparagus of each two ounces the Seeds of Fennel Smallage Parsly Annis of each one ounce steep them all the Roots being first clensed and the Seeds bruised in six pound of cleer water and a pound and an half of wine Vineger the next day boyl it to the consumption of the third part boyl the rest being strained with three pound of Honey into a liquid Syrup according to art Culpeper A. First having bruised the Roots and Seeds boyl them in the water till half be consumed then strain it and ad the Honey and when it is almost boyled enough add the Vineger and with all my heart I will put it to Dr. Reason to judg which is the best way of making of it the Colledges or mine Oxymel Helleboratum Page 74. in the Latin Book Or Oximel Helleborated The Colledg Take of Rue Time Dittany of Creet Hysop Penyroyal Horebound Cardus the Roots of Celtick Spicknard without Leaves the inner bark of Elders of each a handful mountain Calaminth two pugils the Seeds of Annis Fennel Bazil Romane Nettles Dill of each two drachms the Roots of Angelica Marsh-Mallows Aron Squils prepared Birthwort long round and climing Turbith English Orris Costus Polypodium Lemmon Pills of each an ounce the strings of black Hellobore Spurge Agrick added at the end of the Decoction of each two drams the bark of white Hellebor half an ounce let al of them being dried bruised be digested in a Glass or glazed vessel close stopped in the heat of the Sun or of a Furnace Posca made of equal parts of Water and Vineger eight pound Sapa two ounces three daies being expired boyl it a little more than half away strain it pressing it gently and ad to the liquor a pound and an half of Honey-Roses wherein two ounces of Citron Pills have been infused boyl it to the thickness of Honey and perfume it with Cloves Saffron Ginger Galanga Mace of each a drachm Culpeper A. It is such a mess of altogether that a man scarce knows what to do with it here are many Simples very Cordial many provoke the terms some purge gently some violently and some cause vomiting being all put together I verily think the labor and cost if put in an equal ballance would outweigh the benefit but the Apothecaries must make it the Colledg commands it Oxymel Julianizans Page 75. in Lat. Book The Colledg Take of the bark of Caper Roots the Roots of Orris Fennel Parsly Bruscus Cichory Sparagus Cyperus of each half an ounce the Leaves of Harts-tongue Schaenanth Tamaris of each half a handful sweet Fennel Seed half an ounce infuse them in three pound of Posca which is somthing sowr afterwards boyl it till half be consumed strain it and with Honey and Sugar clarified of each half a pound boyl it to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. This Medicine is very opening very good against Hypocondriack Melancholly and as fit a Medicine as can be for that disease in children called the Rickets Children are as humorsom as men and they are humorsom enough Experience the best of all Doctors teacheth some love sweet things let them take Syrup of Harts-tongue others cannot abide sweet things to their natures this Syrup suits being taken in the same manner The Colledg Oximel of Squils simple is made of three pound of clarified Honey Vineger of Squils two pound boyl them according to art Culpeper A. They say they borrowed this Receipt of Nicholaus but of what Nicholaus I know not the self same Receipt is word for word in Mesue whose commendations of it is this It cuts and divides humors that are tough and viscus and therefore helps the stomach and bowels afflicted by such humors and helps sour belchings If you take but a spoonful in the morning an able body will think it enough A. View the Vineger of Squils and then your reason will tell you this is as wholsom and somwhat more toothsom Oxymel Scilliticum Compositum Page 75. in L. Book Or Oximel of Squils Compound The Colledg Take of Origanum dried Hysop Time Lovage Cardamoms the less Stoechas of each five drachms boyl them in three pound of Water to one strain it and with two pound of Honey Honey of Raisons half a pound Juyce of Briony five ounces Vineger of Squils a pound and an half boyl it and scum it according to art Culpeper A. Mesue saith this is good against the Falling-sickness Megrim Head-ach Vertigo or swimming in the head and if these be occasioned by the stomach as many times they are it helps the Lungues obstructed by humor and is good for women not well clensed after labor it opens the passage of the womb 'T is too churlish a purge for a Country man to meddle with If the ignorant will be medling they will meet with their matches and say I told them so A. Such Syrups as are in their rejected Dispensatory and left out in this for they love to reject the best and chuse the worst as though they were born for nothing else but to do mischief are these that follow Culpeper A. REader before we begin I thought good to advertise thee of these few things which indeed I had inserted at the beginning of the Syrups had I not forgotten it A. 1. A Syrup is a Medicine of a liquid body compounded of Decoction Infusion or Juyce with Sugar or Honey and brought by the heat of the fire into the thickness of Honey A. 2. Because all Honey is not of a thickness understand new Honey which of all other is thinnest A. 3. The Reason why Decoctions Infusions and Juyces are thus used is because thereby 1. They will keep the longer 2. They will tast the better A. 4. In boyling Syrups have a great care of their just consistance for if you boyl them too much they will candy if too little they will sour A. 5. All Simple Syrups have the vertues of the Simples they are made of and are far more convenient for weak people and queazy stomachs Syrup of Purslain Mesue The Colledg TAke of the seeds of Purslain grosly bruised half a pound of the Juyce of Endive boyled and clarified two pound Sugar two pound Vineger nine ounces infuse the seeds in the juyce of Endive twenty four
hours afterwards boyl it half away with a gentle fire then strain it and boyl it with the Sugar to the consistence of a Syrup adding the Vineger towards the latter end of the Decoction Culpeper A. It is a pretty cooling Syrup fit for any hot diseases incident to the stomach reins bladder matrix or liver it thickens flegm cools the blood and provokes sleep You may take an ounce of it at a time when you have occasion Compound Syrup of Coltsfoot Renodaeus The Colledg Take six handfuls of green Coltsfoot two handfuls of Maiden-hair one handful of Hysop and two ounces of Liquoris boyl them in four pints either of rain or spring water till the fourth part be consumed then strain it and clarifie it to which ad three pound of white Sugar boyl it to the perfect consistence of a Syrup Culpeper A. The Composition is apropriated to the Lungues and therefore helps the infirmities weaknesses or failings thereof as want of voice difficulty of breathing coughs hoarsness cathars c. The way of taking it is with a Liquoris stick or if you please you may ad an ounce of it to the pectoral Decoction before mentioned Syrup of Poppies the lesser Composition The Colledg Take the heads of white Poppies and black when both of them are green of each six ounces the seeds of Lettice the Flowers of Violets of each one ounce boyl them in eight pints of Water till the vertue is out of the heads then strain them and with four pound of Sugar boyl the Liquor to a syrup Syrup of Poppies the greater Composition Mesue The Colledg Take of the heads of both white and black Poppies seeds and all of each fifty drachms Maiden-hair fifteen drachms Liquoris five drachms Jujubes thirty by number Lettice seeds fourty drams of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces tied up in a thin linnen cloath of each one drachm and an half boyl these in eight pints of water till five pints be consumed when you have strained out the three pints remaining ad to them Penides and white Sugar of each a pound boyl them into a Syrup according to art Culpeper A. All these former Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of Caution and wariness such as these are are not fit to be given in the beginnings of Feavers nor to such whole bodies are coslive ever remember my former Motto Fools are not fit to make Physitians Yet to such as are troubled with hot sharp Rhewms you may safely give them and note this the last which is borrowed from Mesue is apropriated to the Lungues whose own words translation excepted of it are these It prevails against dry Coughs Phtisicks hot and sharp gnawing Rhewms and provokes sleep It is an usual fashion for Nurses when thcy have heat their Milk by exercise or strong liquor no marvel then if their children be froward then run for Syrup of Poppies to make their yong ones sleep I would fain have that fashion left therefore I forbear the dose let Nurses keep their own bodies temperate and their children will sleep well enough never scar. Syrup of Eupatorium or Maudlin Mesue The Colledg Take of the Roots of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Succory os each two 〈◊〉 Liquoris 〈◊〉 Dodder 〈◊〉 Roses os each six drachms Maiden-hair 〈◊〉 or instead thereof the Roots of 〈◊〉 Mariae 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 thereof the Roots of Avens the flowers or roots of Bugloss Annis seeds sweet 〈◊〉 seeds Ageratum or Maudlin of each five drachms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each three drachms Spicknard Indian Leaf or instead of it put Roman Spike of each two drachms boyl them in eight pints of water till the third part be consumed then strain the Decoction and with four pound of Sugar clarified juyce of Smallage and Endive of 〈◊〉 half a pound boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper A. 'T is a strange clause and the stranger because it comes from a Colledg of Physitians that they should set Bedeguar or instead thereof Carduus Mariae It is well known that the Bedeguar used here with us or rather that which the Physitians of our times use for Bedeguar is a thing that grows upon wild Roses but the Bedeguar of the Arabians was Carduus Mariae and they knew well enough Mesue whose Receipt this was was an Arabian truly this is just as if they should say they would have ten shillings for a visit or instead of that an angel there being in deed and in truth as much difference between Bedeguar and Carduus Mariae as between eightpence and two groats A. It amends infirmities of the Liver coming of cold opens obstructions helps the Dropsie and evil state of the body it extenuates gross humors strengthens the Liver provokes urine and is a present succour for Hypocondriack Melancholly You may take an ounce at a time in the morning it opens but purgeth not Honey of Emblicks Augustanus The Colledg Take fifty Emblick Myrobalans bruise them and boyl them in three pints of water till two be consumed strain it and with the like weight of Honey boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper A. It is a fine gentle purger both of flegm and Melancholly it strengthens the brain and nerves and sences both internal and external helps tremblings of the heart staies vomiting provokes appetite You may take a spoonful at a time ROB OR SAPA AND JUYCES Culpeper A. ROB is somthing an uncouth word and happily formidable to the ignorant Country-man in these thieving times and therefore in the first place I will explain the word A. 1. Rob or Sapa is the Juyces of a Fruit made thick by the heat either of the Sun or the Fire that it is capable of being kept safe from putrifaction A. 2. It s use was first invented for Diseases in the mouth however or for whatsoever it is used now it matters not A. 3. It is usually made in respect of body somthing thicker than new Honey A. 4. It may be kept about a year little more or less Rob sive Sapa simplex Page 76. in the L. Book Or Simple Rob or Sapa The Colledg Take of Wine newly pressed from white and ripe Grapes boyl it over a gentle fire to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. When ever you reade the word Rob or Sapa throughout the Dispensatory simply quoted in any medicine without any relation of what it should be made this is that you ought to use Rob de Berberis Page 76. in the Latin Book Or Reb of Barberries The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Barberries strained as much as you will boyl it by it self or else by adding half a pound of Sugar to each pound of Juyce to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. It quencheth thirst closeth the mouth of the stomach thereby staying vomiting and belching it strengthens stomachs weakened by heat and procures appetite Of any of these Robs you may take a little on the point of a knife
Wormwood clarified Sugar of each four pound make it into a Syrup according to art After the same manner are prepared simple Syrups of Betony Borrage Bugloss Cardus Chamomel Succory Endive Hedg-mustard Strawberries Fumitory Ground-Ivy St. Johns wort Hops Mercury Mousear Plantane Apples Purslain Rasberries Sage Scabious Scordium Housleek Coltsfoot Pauls Betony and other Juyces not sour Culpeper A. See the Simples and then you may easily know both their vertues and also that they are pleasanter and fitter for delicate stomachs when they are made into Syrups Syrupus de Absinthio Compositus 49. in the Lat. B. OR Syrup of Wormwood Compound The Colledg Take of common Wormwood meanly dry half a pound red Roses two ounces Indian Spicknard three drachms old white Wine Juyce of Quinces of each two pound and an half steep them a whol day in an earthen vessel then boyl them gently and strain it and by adding two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art Culpeper A. Mesue is followed verbatim in this and the Receipt is apropriated to cold and flegmatick stomachs and in my opinion 't is an admirable remedy for it for it strengthens both stomach and liver as also the instruments of concoction a spoonful taken in the morning is admirable for such as have a weak digestion it provokes an appetite to ones victuals it prevails against the yellow Jaundice breaks wind purgeth humors by urin It was Roman Wormwood before and so Mesue hath it and our Colledg is as well able to correct Mesue as the Pigmies were to beat Hercules Syrupus Acetosus Symplex Pag. 50. in the L. Book OR Syrup of Vinegar Simple The Colledg Take of cleer Water four pound white Sugar five pound boyl them in a glazed vessel over a gentle fire scumming it till half the water be consumed then by putting in two pound of Wine Vineger by degrees perfect the Syrup Culpeper A. That is Only melt the Sugar with the Vinegar over the fire scum it but boyl it not Syrupus Acetosus Simplicior Pag. 50. in the L. Book OR Syrup of Vineger more Simple The Colledg Take of white Sugar five pound white Wine Vinegar two pound by melting it in a bath make it into a Syrup Culpeper A. Of these two Syrups let every one use which he finds by experience to be best the difference is but little I hold the last to be the best of the two and would give my reasons for it but that I fear the Book will swell too big They both of them cut flegm as also tough hard viscous humors in the stomach they cool the body quench thirst provoke urine and propare the stomach before the taking of a vomit If you take it as a prepatative for a vomit take half an ounce of it when you go to bed the night before you intend to vomit it will make you to vomit the easier but if for any of the foregoing occasins take it with a Liquoris stick Syrupus Acetosus Compositus Pag. 50. in the L. Book OR Syrup of Vinegar Compound The Colledg Take of the Roots of Smallage Fennel Endive of each three ounces the seeds of Annis Smallage Fennel of each one ounce of Endive half an ounce cleer Water six pound boyl it gently in an earthen vessel till half the Water be consumed then strain and clarifie it and with three pound of Sugar and a pound and an half of white wine Vinegar boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper A. This in my opinion is a gallant Syrup for such whose bodies are stuffed either with flegm or tough humors for it opens obstructions or stoppings both of the stomach liver spleen and reins it cuts and brings away tough flegm and choller and is therefore a special remedy for such as have a 〈◊〉 at their stomach Mesue prescribes ten 〈◊〉 of Water and a quart of Vineger let every one use which D r Experience tels him is best Syrupus de Agno Casto Pag. 50. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Agnus Castus The Colledg Take of the seeds of Rue and Hemp of each half a drachm of Endive Lettice Purslain Guords Melones of each two drachms of Fleawort half an ounce of Agnus Castus four ounces the Flowers of Water-Lillies the Leaves of Mints of each half a handful Decoction of seeds of Lentils and Coriander seeds of each half an ounce three pound of the Decoction boyl them all over a gentle fire til two pound be consumed ad to the residue being strained two ounces Juyce of Lemmons a pound and an half of white Sugar make it into a Syrup according to art A. A pretty Syrup and good for little Syrupus de Althaea Pag. 51. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Marsh-Mallows The Colledg Take of Roots of Marsh-Mallows two ounces the Roots of Grass Sparagus Liquoris Raisons of the Sun stoned of each half an ounce the tops of Mallows Marsh-Mallows Pellitory of the Wall Burnet 〈◊〉 Maiden-hair white and black of each a handful red 〈◊〉 an ounce of the four greater and four lesser cold seeds of each three drachms boyl them in six pound of cleerr Water till four remain which being strained boyl into a Syrup with four pound of white Sugar Culpeper A. It is a fine cooling opening slippery Syrup and chiefly commendable for the chollick stone or gravel in the kidnies or bladder A. I shall only give you a Caution or two concerning this Syrup which for the forenamed effects I hold to be excellent A. 1. Be sure you boyl it enough for if you boyl it never so little too little it will quickly be sour A. 2. For the Chollick which is nothing else but an infirmity in the gut called Colon and thence it takes its name you had best use it in Clysters but for gravel or the stone drink it in convenient Medicines or by it self If both of them afflict you use it both waies I assure you this medicine will save those that are subject to such diseases both mony and misery Syrupus de Ammoniaco Pag. 51. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Ammoniacum The Colledg Take of Maudlin and Cetrach of each four handfuls common Wormwood an ounce the Roots of Succory Sparagus bark of Caper Roots of each two ounces after due preparation sleep them twenty four hours in three ounces of white Wine Rhadish and fumitory water of each 2. pound then boyl it away to one pound eight ounces let it settle in four ounces of which whilst it is warm dissolve by it self Gum Ammoniacum first dissolved in white Wine Vinegar two ounces boyl the rest with a pound and an half of white Sugar into a Syrup adding the mixtures of the Gum at the end Culpeper A. It cools the Liver and opens obstructions both of it and the Spleen helps old Surfets and such-like diseases as scabs itch leprosy and what else proceed from the Liver overheated you may take an ounce at a time Syrupus de Artemisia Pag.
former did it is not altogether the same for then people would have said they did nothing whereas now 't is apparent they did something though to little purpose It refresheth the vital spirits exceedingly and cheereth both heart and stomach languishing through cold it helps digestion exceedingly and strengthens the whol body You may take a spoonful at a time in a Cordial The Colledg Thus also you may conveniently prepare syrups but only with white Wine of Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds Cloves Nutmegs Ginger c. Syrupus Acetositatis Citriorum Pag. 54. In L. Book O R Syrup of Juyce of Citrons The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Citrons strained without expression and clensed a pound sugar two pound make it into a syrup like syrup of Clove-gilliflowers Culpeper A. It prevails against all diseases proceeding from Choller or heat of blood feavers both pestilential and not pestilential it resisteth poyson cools the blood quencheth thirst cureth the Vertigo or dissiness in the head The Colledg After the same manner is made syrup of Grapes Orrenges Barberries Cherries Quinces Lemmons Woodsorrel Mulberries Sorrel English Currence and other sour Juyces Culpeper A. If you look the Simples you may see the vertues of them they all cool and comfort the heart and strengthen the stomach syrup of Quinces staies vomiting so doth also syrup of Grapes Syrupus Corticum Citriorum Pag. 54. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Citron Pills The Colledg Take of flesh yellow Citron Pills five ounces the Berries of Chermes or the Juyce of them brought over to us two drachms spring water four pound steep them all night boyl them till half be consumed taking off the scum strain it and with two pound and an half of sugar boyl it into a syrup let half of it be without Musk but perfume the other half with three grains of Musk tyed up in a rag Culpeper A. It strengthens the stomach resists poyson strengthens the heart and resists the passions thereof palpitation faintings swoonings it strongthens the vital spirits restores such as are in Consumptions and Hectick Feavers and strengthens nature much You may take a spoonful at a time Syrupus è Coralliis Simplex Pag. 55. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Corral Simple The Colledg Take of red Corral in very fine pouder four ounces dissolve it in clarified Juyce of Barberries in the boat of a bath a pound in a glass well stopped with wax and Cork a digestion being made three or four daies pour off what is dissolved put in fresh clarified Juyce and proceed as before repeat this so osten till all the Corral be dissolved lastly to one pound of this Juyce ad a pound and an half of sugar and boyl it to a syrup gently Syrupus è Coralliis Compositus Pag. 55. In L. Book O R Syrup of Corral Compound The Colledg Take of red Corral six ounces in very fine pouder and levigated upon a marble ad of clarified juyce of Lemmons the flegm being drawn off in a bath sixteen ounces clarified 〈◊〉 of Barberries eight ounces Sharp wine Vinegar and juyce of Wood-sorrel of each six ounces mix them together and put them in a glass stopped with Cork and Bladder shaking it every day till it have digested eight daies in a bath or horsdung then filter it of which take a pound and an half juyce of Quinces half a pound Sugar of Roses twelve ounces make them into a syrup in a bath adding syrup of Clove-gilliflowers sixteen ounces keep it for use omitting the half drachm of Ambergrees and four grains of Musk till the Physitian command it Culpeper A. Syrup of Corral both Simple and Compound restore such as are in Consumptions are of a gallant cooling nature especially the last and very Cordial special good for Hectick feavers it stops fluxes the running of the reins and the whites in women helps such as spit blood and such as have the Falling-sickness it staies the terms in women And indeed it had need be good for somthing for it is exceeding costly Half a spoonful in a morning is enough for the body and it may be too much for the purse Syrupus Cydoniorum Pag. 56. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Quinces The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Quinces clarified six pound boyl it over a gentle fire till half of it be consumed scumming it adding red Wine three pound white sugar four pound boyl it into a syrup to be perfumed with a drachm and an balf of Cinnamon Cloves and Ginger of each two scruples Culpeper A. It strengthens the heart and stomach staies loosness and vomiting releeves languishing nature for loosness take a spoonful of it before meat for vomiting after meat for both as also for the rest in the morning Syrupus de Erysimo Pag. 56. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Hedg-mustard The Colledg Take of Hedgmustard fresh six handfuls the Roots of Alicampane Coltsfoot Liquoris of each two ounces Borrage succory Maiden-hair of each a handful and an half the Cordial Flowers Rosemary and Betony of each half a handful Annis seeds half an ounce Raisons of the Sun stoned two ounces let all of them being prepared according to art be boyled in a sufficient quantity of barley Water and Hydromel with six ounces of juyce of Hedgmustvrd to two pound and an half the which with three pound of sugar boyl into a Syrup according to art Culpeper A. It was invented against cold afflictions of the breast and Lungues as Astmaes hoarceness c. you may take it either with a Liquoris stick or which is better mix an ounce of it with three or four ounces of pectoral decoction and drink it off warm in the morning Syrupus de Fumaria Pag. 56. In the L. Book O R Syrup of Fumitory The Colledg Take of Endive common Wormwood Hops Dodder Hartstongue of each a handful Epithimum an ounce and an half boyl them in four pound of Water till half be consumed strain it and ad the juyce of Fumitory a pound and an half of Borrage and Bugloss of each half a pound white Sugar four pound make them into a Syrup according to art Culpeper A. The Receipt is a pretty concocter of melancholly and therefore a rational help for diseases arising thence both internal and external It helps diseases of the skin as Leprosies Cancers Warts Corns Itch Tetters Ringworms Scabs c. and it is the better to be liked because of its gentleness For in my experience I could never find a violent Medicine do good but ever harm in a Melancholly disease It also strengthens the stomach and liver opens obstructions and is a soveraign remedy for Hypocondriack Melancholly You may ad an ounce of this to the decoction of Epithimum before mentioned and order your body as you were taught there It helps surfets exceedingly clenseth cooleth and strengtheneth the liver and causeth it to make good blood and good blood cannot make bad flesh I commend this Receipt to
each a handful the seeds of sorrel Citrons Fennel Cardus Bazil of each three drachms boyl them in four pound of water till half be consumed strain it and ad three pound of white sugar Juyce of Bawm and Rose Water of each half a pound boyl them to a syrup the which perfume with Cinnamon and yellow sanders of each half an ounce Culpeper A. The scorzonera Roots and Bugloss Roots are added and the Bettony Roots left out and Fernelius his name buried in oblivion that is all the Alteration If the name of the wicked shall rot 't is more likely to happen upon themselves than Fernelius A. Alwaies tie perfumes up in a rag and hang them into the syrup by a string when it boyls and hang them by a string in the veslel be it pot or glass that you may keep the syrup in being boyled A. It is an excellent Cordial and strengthens the heart breast and stomach it resisteth Melancholly revives the spirits is given with good success in Feavers it strengtheneth the memory and relievs langushing nature You may take a spoonful of it at a time Syrupus de Mentha Page 59. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Mints The Colledg Take of the juyce of Quinces sweet and between sweet and sowr the juyce of Pomegranates sweet between sweet and sowr and sowr of each a pound and an half dryed mints half a pound red Roses two ounces let them lie in steep one day then boyl it half away and with four pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art perfume it not unless the Physitian command Culpeper A. The syrup is in quality binding yet it comforts the stomach much helps digestion staies vomiting and is in my opinion as excellent a remedy against sowr or offensive belchings as any is in the Dispensatory Take a spoonful of it after meat Syrupus de Mucilaginibus Page 60. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Mussilages The Colledg Take of the seeds of Marsh-Mallows Mallows Quinces of each an ounce Gum Tragacanth three drachms let these infuse six hours in warm Decoction of Mallows white Poppy seeds and Winter-cherries then press out the Mussilage to an ounce and an half with which 〈◊〉 and three ounces of the aforesaid Decoction and two ounces of sugar make a syrup according to art Culpeper A. A spoonful taken by it self or in any convenient Liquor is excellent for any sharp corroding humors be they in what part of the body soever Phtisicks bloody Flux stone in the Reins or Bladder or Ulcers there it is excellent good for such as have taken Purges that are to strong for their bodies for by its slippery nature it helps corrosians and by its cooling helps inflamations Syrupus Myrtinus Page 60. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Mirtles The Colledg Take of Mirtle berries two ounces and an half Sanders white and red sumach Balaustines Barberry stones red Roses of each an ounce and an half Medlars half a pound bruise them in eight pound of water to four strain it and ad juyce of Quinces and sour Pomegranates of each six ounces then with three pound of sugar boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper A. The syrup is of a very binding yet comforting nature it helps such as spit blood all fluxes of the belly or corrosions of the internal parts it strengthens the retentive faculty and stops immoderate flux of the terms in women A spoonful at a time is the dose Syrupus Florum Nymphaeae simplex Page 60. Or Syrup of Water-Lilly-flowers simple The Colledg Take of the whitest of white Water-lilly-flowers a pound steep them in three pound of warm Water six or seven hours let them boyl a little and strain them out put in the same waight of Flowers again the second and third time when you have strained it the last time ad its waight of sugar to it and boyl it to a syrup Syrupus Florum Nymphaeae compositus Page 60. Syrup of Water-lilly-Flowers compound The Colledg Take of white Water-lilly-Flowers half a pound Violets two ounces Lettice two handfuls the seeds of Lettice Purslain and Guords of each half an ounce boyl them in four pound of cleer water till one be consumed strain it and ad half a pound of red Rose water white sugar four pound boyl it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. They both are fine cooling syrups they allay the heat of Choller and provoke fleep they cool the body both head heart liver reins and matrix and therefore are profitable for hot diseases in either you may take an ounce of it at a time when your stomach is empty Syrupus de Papavere Erratico sive Rhubro Page 61. Or Syrup of Eratick Poppies The Colledg Take of the fresh Flowers of red Poppies two pound steep them in four pound of warm spring Water the next day strain it and boyl it into a syrup with its equal waight in Sugar Culpeper A. I know no danger in this syrup so it be taken with moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts the syrup cools the blood helps surfets and may safely be given in Frenzies Feavers and hot Agues Syrupus de Pilosella Page 61. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Mousear The Colledg Take of Mousear three handfuls the Roots of Ladies mantle an ounce and an half the Roots of comsry the greater Maddir white Dittany Tormentil Bistort of each an ounce the Leaves of Wintergreen Horstail Ground-Ivy Plantane Adders tongue Strawberries St. Johns Wort with the Flowers Golden rod Agrimony Bettony Burnet Avens Sinkfoyl the greater red Coleworts Balaustines red Roses of each a handful boyl them gently in six pound of of Plantane Water to three then strain it strongly and when it is setled ad Gum Tragacanth the seeds of Fleawort Marsh-mallows and Quinces made into a Mussilage by themselves in strawberry and Bettony Water of each three ounces white sugar two pound boyl it to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. Certainly they intended an universal Medicine of this and may prove as good as Chrysippus his Coleworts It is profitable for wounded people to take for it is drying and healing and therefore good for Ruptures Syrupus insusionis Florum Paeoniae Page 62. Or Syrup of the infusion of Peony Flowers The Colledg It is prepared just for all the world like syrup of Clove-gilliflowers Culpeper A. See syrup of Meconium for the vertues Syrupus de Paeonia Compositus P. 62. in L. Book Or Syrup of Peony Compound The Colledg Take of the Roots of both sorts of Peony taken up at the full Moon cut in slices and steeped in white Wine a whol day of each an ounce and an half Contra yerva half an ounce Siler mountain six drachms Elks Claws an ounce Rosemary with the Flowers on one handful Bettony Hysop Origanum Chamepitys Rue of each three drachms Wood of Aloes Cloves Cardamoms the less of each two drachms Ginger Spicknard of each a drachm stoechas Nutmegs of each two drachms
and an half boyl them after one daies warm digestion in a sufficient quantity of distilled Water of Peony Roots to four pouud in which being strained through Hippocrates his sleeves put four pound and an half of white sugar and boyl it to a syrup Culpeper A. It is somewhat costly to buy and as troublesom to make a spoonful of it taken helps the Falling-sickness and Convulsions Syrupus de Pomis alterans Page 62. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Apples The Colledg Take four pound of the juyce of sweet scented Apples the juyce of Bugloss garden and wild of Violet Leaves Rose water of each a pound boyl them together and clarifie them and with six pound of pure sugar boyl it into a syrup according to Art Culpeper A. It is a fine cooling syrup for such whose hearts and stomachs are overpressed with heat and may safely be given in feavers for it rather loosens than binds it breeds good blood and is profitable in Hectick feavers and for such as are troubled with palpitation of the heart it quencheth thirst admirably in Feavers and staies Hiccoughs You may take an ounce of it at a time in the morning or when you need Syrupus de Prasio Page 62. In the Latin Book Or Syrup of Horehound The Colledg Take of white Horehound fresh two ounces Liquoris Polipodium of the Oak Fennel and smallage Roots of each half an ounce white Maiden-hair Origanum Hysop Calaminth Time savory scabious Coltsfoot of each six drachms the seeds of Annis and Cotton of each three drachms Raisons of the sun stoned two ounces fat Figs ten boyl them in eight pound of Hydromel till half be consumed boyl the Decoction into a syrup with honey and sugar of each two pound and perfume it with an ounce of the Roots of Orris Florentine Culpeper A. It is apropriated to the breast and lungues and is a fine clenser to purge them from thick and putrified flegm it helps Phtisicks and Coughs and diseases subject to old men and cold natures Take it with a Liquoris stick Both this Receipt and the former Fernelius was the Author of Syrupus de quinque Radicibus Page 63. In L Book Or Syrup of the sive opening Roots The Colledg Take of the Roots of smallage Fennel Parsly Bruscus Sparagus of each two ounces spring Water six pound boyl away the third part and make a syrup with the rest according to art with three pound of sugar adding eight ounces of white white Wine Vinegar towards the latter end Culpeper It clenseth and openeth very well is profitable against Obstructions provokes Urine clenseth the body of flegm and is safely and profitably given in the beginning of Feavers An ounce at a time upon an empty stomach is a good dose Syrupus Raphani Page 63. In the L. Book Or Syrup of Rhadishes The Colledg Take of Garden and wild Rhadish Roots of each an ounce the Roots of white Saxifrage Lovage Bruscus Eringo Restharrow Parsly Fennel of each half an ounce the Leaves of Bettony Burnet Penyroyal Nettles Watercresses Sampier Maidenhair of each a handful Winter Cherries Jujubes of each ten the seeds of Bazil Bur Parsly of Macedonia Hartwort Caraway Carrots Gromwel the Bark of the Root of Bay-tree of each two drachms Raisons of the sun stoned Liquoris of each six drachms boyl them in twelve pound of water to eight strain it and with four pound of Sugar and two pound of Honey make it into a syrup and perfume it with an ounce of Cinnamon and half an ounce of Nutmegs Culpeper A. A tedious long Medicine for the stone I wonder why the Colledg affect such LONG Receipts surely it will be LONG enough before they be wiser Syrupus Regius aliàs Julapium Alexandrinum P. 64 Or Julep of Alexandria The Colledg Boyl four pound of Rose water and one pound of white sugar into a Julep Julep of Roses is made with Damask Rose water in the very same manner Culpeper Two fine cooling drinks in the heat of summer for them that have nothing else to do with their money Syrupus de Rosis siccis Page 64. In the L. Book Or Syrup of dried Roses The Colledg Make four pound of spring Water hot in which infuse a pound of dried Roses by some at a time press them out and with two pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. If you boyl it it will lose both colour and vertue and then who but the Colledg would first cry out against such paltry stuff I am weary with nothing this in every Receipt therefore be pleased to accept of this one general Rule It is not best to boyl any syrups made of Infusions but by adding the double weight of Sugar viz. two pound of sugar to each pint of infusion melt it over a fire only A. Syrup of dried Roses strengthens the heart comforts the spirits bindeth the body helps fluxes and corrosions or gnawings of the guts it strengthens the stomach and staies vomiting You may take an ounce at a time before meat if for fluxes after meat if for vomiting Syrupus Scabiosae Page 64. In the L. Book Or Syrup of Scabious The Colledg Take of the Roots of Alicampane and Polypodium of the Oak of each two ounces Raisons of the the sun stoned an ounce sebestens twenty Coltsfoot Lungwort savory Calaminth of each a handsul and an half Liquoris Spanish Tobacco of each half an ounce the seeds of Nettles and Cotton of each three drachms boyl them all the Roots being infused in white Wine the day before in a sufficient quantity of Wine and Water to eight ounces strain it and adding four ounces of the Juyce of Scabious and ten ounces of sugar boyl it to a syrup adding to it twenty drops of oyl of Sulphur Culpeper A. It is a clensing syrup apropriated to the breast and lungues when you perceive them oppressed by flegm crudities or stoppings your remedy is to take now and then a spoonful of this syrup it is taken also with good success by such as are itchy or scabby Syrupus de Scolopendrio Page 64. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Hartstongue The Colledg Take of Hartstongue three handfuls Polypodium of the Oak the Roots of both sorts of Bugloss bark of the roots of Capars Tamaris of each two ounces Hops Doddar Maiden-hair Bawm of each two handfuls boyl them in nine pound of spring water to five and strain it and with four pound of white sugar make it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. It helps the stoppings of Melancholly opens obstructions of the Liver and spleen and is profitable against splenetick evils and therefore is a choice remedy for the disease which the vulgar call the Rickets or Liver-grown A spoonful in a morning is a precious Remedy for children troubled with that disease Men that are troubled with the spleen which is known by pain and hardnes in their left side may take three or four spoonfuls they
being tyed up in a rag and often crushed in the boyling Culpeper A. Mesue appoints Senna Cods and so do the Augustan Physitians viz. the husk that holds the seeds and the Colledg altered that and added the Annis seeds I suppose to correct the Senna and in so doing they did well A. The syrup is a pretty cooling purge and tends to rectifie the distempers of the blood it purgeth choller and melancholly and therefore must needs be effectual both in yellow and black Jaundice madness scurf Leprosie and scabs It is very gentle and for that I commend both the Receipt and Mesue the Author of it The dose is from one ounce to three according as the body is in age and strength An ounce of it in the morning is excellent for such children as break out in scabs Syrupus de Pomis Magistralis Page 68. in L. Book Or Syrup of Apples Magisterial The Colledg Take of the Juyce and Water of Apples of each a pound and an 〈◊〉 the Juyce and Water of Borrage and Bugloss of each nine ounces Senna half a pound Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each three 〈◊〉 Epithimum of Creet two ounces Agrick Rhubarb of each half an ounce Ginger Mace of each four scruples Cinnamon two scruples Saffron half a drachm Infuse the Rhubaib and Cinnamon apart by it self in white Wine and Juyce of Apples of each two ounces let all the rest the Saffron excepted be sleeped in the Waters above mentioned and the next day put in the Juyces which being boyled 〈◊〉 and strained then with four ounces of white Sugar boyl it into a syrup crushing the Saffron in it being tyed up in a linnen rag the infusion of the Rhubarb being added at the latter end Culpeper A. Out of doubt this is a gallant syrup to purge addust Choller and Melancholly and to resist madness I know no better purge for such as are almost or altogether distracted by Melancholly than one ounce of this mixed with four ounces of the Decoction of Epithimum ordering their bodies as they were taught Syrupus de Rhabarbaro Page 69. in the Lat. Book Or Syrup of Rhubarb The Colledg Take of the best Rhubarb and Senna of each two ounces and an half Violet Flowers a handful Cinnamon one drachm and an half Ginger half a drachm Betony Succory and Bugloss Water of each one pound and an half let them be mixed together warm all night and in the morning strained and boyled into a syrup with two pound of white sugar adding towards the end four ounces of syrup of Roses Culpeper A. It clenseth choller and melancholly very gently and therefore is fit for children old people and weak bodies You may ad an ounce of it to the 〈◊〉 of Epithimum or to the Decoction of Senna It is a very pretty Receipt made by the Augustan Physitians Syrupus Rosaccus Solutivus Page 69. in L. Book Or Syrup of Roses Sclutive The Colledg Take of spring water boyling hot four pound Damask Rose leaves fresh as many as the Water will contain let them remain twelve hours in insusion close stopped then press them out and put in 〈◊〉 Rose leaves do so nine times in the same liquor encreasing the quantity of the Roses as the Liquor encreaseth which will be almost by the third part every time Take six parts of this Liquor and with four parts of white Sugar boyl it to a syrup according to art Culpeper A. It loosneth the belly and gently bringeth out choller and flegm but leaves a binding quality behind it Syrupus e Succo Rosarum Page 70. in the Lat. Book Or Syrup of the Juyce of Roses The Colledg It is prepared without steeping only with the Juyce of Damask Roses pressed out and clarified and an equal proportion of Sugar added to it Culpeper A. This is like the other Syrupus Rosaccus Solutivus cum Agarico Page 70. Or Syrup of Roses Solutive with Agrick The Colledg Take of Agrick cut thin an ounce Ginger two drachms Sal-Gem one drachm Polypodium bruised two ounces sprinkle them with white wine and steep them two dates over warm oshes in a pound and an half of the infusion of Damask Roses prescribed before and with one pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to Art Culpeper A. You had better ad twice so much sugar as is of the infusion for fear the strength of the Agrick be lost in the boyling A. It purgeth flegm from the head relieves the sences oppressed by it it provokes the terms in women it purgeth the stomach and Liver and provoketh urin Some hold it an universal purge for all parts of the body a weak body may take an ounce at a time and a strong two ounces guiding himself as he was taught in Decection of Epithimum Syrupus Rosaccus Solutivus cum Helleboro Page 70. Or Syrup of Roses Solutive with Hellebore The Colledg Take of the bark of all the Myrobalans of each four ounces bruise them grosly and steep them twenty four hours in twelve pound of the infusion of Roses before spoken Senna Epithimum Polypodium of the Oak of each four ounces Cloves an ounce Citron seeds Liquoris of each four ounces the bark of black Hellebore roots six drachms let the fourth part of the Liquor gently exhale strain it and with five pound of Sugar and sixteen drachms of Rhubarb tyed up in a 〈◊〉 rag make it into a syrup according to Art Culpeper A. You must not boyl the black Hellebore at all or but very little if you do you had as good put none in me thinks the Colledg should have had either more wit or honesty than to have left Receipts so woodenly penned to posterity or it may be they wrote as they say only to the Learned or in plain English for their own ends or to satisfie their covetousness that a man must needs run to them every time his finger akes A. The syrup rightly used purgeth melancholly resisleth madness I wish the ignorant to let it alone for fear it be too hard for them and use them as coursly as the Colledg hath done Syrupus Rosaccus Solutivus cum Sena Page 70. Or Syrup of Roses Solutive with Senna The Colledg Take of Senna six ounces Caraway and sweet Fennel seeds of each three drachms sprinkle them with white Wine and infuse them two daies in three pound of the infusion of Roses aforesaid then strain it and with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper A. It purgeth the body of choller and melancholly and expels the relicts a disease hath left behind it the dose is from one ounce to two you may take it in a Decoction of Senna it leaves a binding quality behind it Surupus de Spina Cervina Page 71. Or Syrup of Purging Thorn The Colledg Take of the Berries of Purging Thorn gathered in September as many as you will bruise them in a stone Mortar and press out the 〈◊〉 let the fourth part
heats the stomach and helps want of digestion coming through cold it easeth pain in the belly and loyns the Illiack passion powerfully breaks the stone in the reins and bladder it speedily helps the chollick strangury and disury The dose is from a drachm to half a drachm take it either in white Wine or Decotion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the same purposes Pleres Arconticon Nicholaus The Colledg Take of Cinnamon Cloves Galanga wood of Aloes Indian Spicknard Nutmegs Ginger Spodium Schoenanthus Cyperus 〈◊〉 Violets of each one dcachm Indian Leaf or Mace Liquoris Mastich Styrax Calamitis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Water-Mints Bazil Cardamoms long and white Pepper Mirtle berries and Citron pills of each half a drachm and six grains 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 white and red or if they be 〈◊〉 take the roots of Avens and Tormentil in their steads red Corral 〈◊〉 Silk of each eighteen grains Musk six grains Camphire four grains beat them into pouder according to 〈◊〉 and with ten times their weight in Sugar dissolved in Bawm water you may make them into an Electuary Culpeper A. It is exceedingly good for 〈◊〉 melancholly lumpish pensive grieving vexing pining sighing sobbing fearful careful spirits it strengthens weak stomachs exceedingly and helps such as are prone to faintings and swoonings it strengthens such as are weakned by violence of sickness it helps bad memories quickens all the sences strengthens the brain and Animal spirit helps the falling-sickness and succours such as are troubled with Asthmacs or other cold afflictions of the lungs It will keep best in an Electuary of which you may take a drachm in the morning or more as age and strength requires A Preservative Pouder against the Pestilence Montagnan The Colledg Take of all the Sanders the seeds of Bazil of each an ounce and an half Bole Armenick Cinnamon of each an ounce the Roots of Dittany Gentian and Tormentil of each two drams and an half the seeds of Citron and Sorrel of each two drachms Pearls Saphire bone of a Stags heart of each one drachm beat them into pouder according to art Culpeper A. The title tels you the vertue of it Besides it cheers the vital spirit and strengthens the heart You may take half a dram every morning either by it self or mixed with any other convenient composition whether Syrup or Electuary Diaturbith the greater without Rhubarb The Colledg Take of the best Turbith an ounce Diagridium Ginger of each half an ounce Cinnamon Cloves of each two drachms Galanga long Pepper Mace of each one drachm beat them into Pouder and with eight ounces and five drachms of white Sugar dissolved in Succory Water it may be made into an Electuary Culpeper A. It purgeth flegm being rightly administred by a skilful hand I fancy it not A Pouder for the worms The Colledg Take of Wormseed four nunces Senna one ounce Coriander seed prepared Harts horn of each half a drachm Rhubarb half an ounce dried Rue two drachms beat them into Pouder Culpeper A. I like this Pouder very well the quantity or to write more Scholastically the dose must be regulated according to the age of the patient even from ten grains to a dram and the manner of taking it by their pallat It is something purging ELECTUARIES Antidotus analeptica Page 99. in the Latin Book Colledg TAke of red Roses Liquoris of each two drachms and five grains Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each two drachms and two scruples Sanders white and red of each four scruples Juyce of Liquoris white Starch the seeds of white Poppies Purslain Lettice and Endive of each three drachms the four greater cold seeds husked the seeds of Quinces Mallows Cotton Violets Pinenuts fistick nuts sweet Almonds Pulp of Sebestens of each two drachms Cloves Spodium Cinnamon of each one drachm Saffron five grains Penids half an ounce being beaten make them all into a soft Electuary with three times their weight in Syrup of Violets Culpeper A. It restores Consumptions and Hectick 〈◊〉 strength lost it nourisheth much and restor es radical moisture opens the pores resists choller takes away coughs quencheth thirst and resisteth feavers For the quantity to be taken at a time I hold it needless to trouble the Reader you may take an ounce in a day by a drachm at a time if you please you shall sooner hurt your purse by it than your body Consectio Alkermes Page 99. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Apples Damask rose-Rose-water of each a pound and an half in which infuse for twenty four hours raw Silk four ounces strain it strongly and ad syrup of the Berries of Chermes brought over to us two pound Sugar one pound boyl it to the thickness of Honey then removing it from the fire whilst it is warm ad Ambergreese cut smai half an ounce which being well mingled put in these things following in pouder Cinnamon Wood of Aloes of each six drachms Pearls prepared two 〈◊〉 Leaf-Gold a drachm Musk a scruple make it up according to art Culpeper A. They have added the double quantity of Juyce of Chermes whereby the Medicine is made both hotter and stronger and if they had doubled the quantity of Sugar also that so it need not have boyled away so much they had done better also they have subtracted from the quantity of Musk there being a drachm appointed before but why they have done so neither I nor I think themselves know and as little reason can be given why they should leave out the Lapis Lazuli unless it be for an Apish opinion they hold that Lapis Lazuli purgeth whereas indeed it strengthens the heart exceedingly against Melancholly vapors Their former Composition contained of it being first burnt in a Crucible then often washed in Rose-water till it be clean six drachms A. Questionless this is a great Cordial and a mighty strengthner of the heart and spirit vital a restorer of such as are in consumptions a resister of pestilences and poyson a great relief to languishing nature it is given with good success in feavers but give not too much of it at a time lest it prove too hot for the body and too heavy for the purse You may mix ten grains of it with other convenient Cordials to children twenty or thirty to men Electuarium è Sassaphras Page 100. in L. Book Or Electuary of Sassafras The Colledg Take of Sassafras two ounces common Water three pound boyl it to the consumption of the third part adding towards the end Cinnamon bruised half an 〈◊〉 strain it and with two pound of white Sugar boyl it to the thickness of a Syrup putting in in pouder Cinnamon a drachm Nutmegs half a scruple Musk three grains Ambergreese two and thirty grains ten Leaves of Gold Spirit of Vitriol four drops and so make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. It opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen helps cold Rhewms or defluxions from the head to the lungs or teeth or eyes it
Turbith four ounces Diacridium an ounce and an half make of them an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. I cannot beleeve this is so profitable in Feavers taken downwards as Authors say for it is a very violent purge Indeed I beleeve being mixed in Clysters it may do good in Chollicks and infirmities of the bowels coming of Raw humors and so you may give half an ounce at a time Diaprunum Lenitive Page 114. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take one hundred Damask Prunes boyl them in water till they be soft then pulp them and in the Liquor they were boyled in boyl gently one ounce us Violet flowers strain it and with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup then ad half a pound of the aforesaid pulp the pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds of each one ounce then 〈◊〉 with it these Pouders following 〈◊〉 white and red Spodium Rhubarb of each three drachms red Roses Violets the seeds of Purslain Succory Barberries Gum Tragacanth Liquoris Cinnamon of each two drachms the four greater cold seeds of each one drachm make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. It may safely and is with good success given in acute burning and all other feavers for it cools much and loosens the body gently it is good in agues hectick feavers and Marasmos You may take an ounce of it at a time at night when you go to bed three hours after a light supper neither need you keep your chamber next day unless the weather be very cold or your body very tender Diaprunum Solutive Page 114. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Diaprunum Lenitive whilst it is warm four pound Scammony prepared two ounces and five drachms mix them together and make them into an Electuary according to art Seeing the dose of Scammony is encreased according to the Author in this Medicine you may use a less weight of 〈◊〉 if you please Culpeper A. 〈◊〉 they left out now and left their honesty withal 〈◊〉 therein the Colledg said true for the Medicine according to this Receipt is too strong violent corroding 〈◊〉 fretting and yet this is that which is commonly called Duaprunes which simple people take to give themselves a purge being fitter to do them mischief poor souls than good unless ordered with more discretion than they have it may be they build upon the vulgar proverb That no carrion will kill a Crow Let me intreat them to have a greater care of themselves and not meddle with such desperate Medicines Let them not object to me they often have taken it and felt no harm they are not capable of knowing what harm it may do them a long time after let them remember the old proverb The pitcher never goes so often to the well but it comes broke home at last Catholicon Page 114. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds the Leaves of Senna of each two ounces Polipodium Violets Rhubarb of each one ounce Annis seeds Penids Sugar Candy Liquoris the seeds of Guords Citruls Cucumers Melones of each two drachms the things to be bruised being bruised take of fresh Polypodium three ounces sweet Fennel seeds six drachms boyl them in four pound of water till the third part be consumed strain it and with two pound of Sugar boyl the Decoction to the thickness of a Syrup then with the pulps and pouder make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. It is a fine cooling purge for any part of the body and very gentle it may be given an ounce or half an ounce at a time according to the strength of the patient in acute in peracute diseases for it gently looseneth the belly and adds strength it helps infirmities of the liver and spleen gouts of all sorts quotidian tertain and quartan Agues as also headaches It is usually given in Clysters If you list to take it inwardly you may take an ounce at night going to bed in the morning drink a draught of hot posset drink and go about your business A. They have altered the quantities of some of the Simples that are harmless for they do wonders as fast as Bell in the Apocripha eat Mutton Electuarium de Citro Solutivum Pag. 115. in L. B. Or Electuary of Citrons Solutive The Colledg Take of Citron Pills preserved Conserves of the flowers of Violets and Bugloss Diatragacanthum frigidum Diacrydium of each half an ounce Turbith five drachms Ginger half a drachm Senna six drachms sweet Fennel seeds one drachm white Sugar dissolved in Rose water and boyled according to art ten ounces make a sollid Electuary according to art Culpeper A. Here are some things very cordial others purge violently both put together make a composition no way pleasing to me therefore I account it a pretty Receipt good for nothing Electuarium Elescoph Page 115. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Diacrydium Turbith of each six drachms Cloves Cinnamon Ginger Myrobalans Emblicks Nutmegs Polypodium of each two drachms and an half Sugar six ounces clarified Honey ten ounces make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. Mesue appoints only clarified Honey one pound and four ounces to make it up into an Electuary and saith it purgeth choller and flegm and wind from all parts of the body helps pains of the joynts and sides the Chollick it clenseth the reins and bladder yet I advise you not to take too much of it at a time for it works pretty violently though well corrected by the pen of a Mesue let half an ounce be the most for such whose bodies are strong alwaies remembring that you had better ten times take too little than once too much You may take it in white wine and keep your self warm If you would have my opinion of it I do not like it Consectio Hamech Page 115. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the bark of Citron Myrobalans two ounces Myrobalans Chebs and blacks Violets Colocynthis Polypodium of the Oak of each one ounce and an half Wormwood Time of each half an ounce the seeds of Annis and Fennel the flowers of red Roses of each three drachms Let all of them being bruised be infused one day in six pound of Whey then boyled till half be consumed rubbed with your hands and pressed out to the Decoction add juyce of Fumitory pulp of Prunes and Raisons of the Sun of each half a pound White Sugar clarified Honey of each one pound boyl it to the thickness of Honey strewitg in towards the end Agrick Trochiscated Senna of each two ounces Rhubarb one ounce and an half Epithimum one ounce Diacrydium six drams Cinnamon half an ounce Ginger two drachms the seeds of Fumitory and Annis Spicknard of each one drachm make it into an Electuary according to Art Culpeper A. The Receipt is chiefly apropriated as a purge for Melancholly and salt flegm and diseases thence arising as Scabs Itch Leprosies Cancers infirmities of the skin it
each ten drachms Opopanax Sagapen Parsly seeds round Birthwort roots white 〈◊〉 of each five drachms Spicknard Cinnamon Mirrh Indian leaf or Mace Saffron of each four drachms bruise the Gums in a mortar sist the rest and with three pound of clarified Honey three onnces and five drachms make it an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. It helps the falling sickness madness and the pain in the head called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pains in the breast and stomach whether they come by sickness or bruises pains in the loins or backbone hardness of womens breasts putrifactions of meat in the stomach and sour belchings It is but used seldom 〈◊〉 therefore hard to be gotten Triphera the greater Page 110. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Myrobalans Chebs Bellericks Inds and Emblicks Nutmegs of each five drachms Watercress seeds Asarabacca roots Persian Origanum or else Dittany of Creet black Pepper Olibanum Ammi Ginger Tamaris Indian Nard Squinanth Cyperus roots of each half an ounce filings of Steel prepared with Viniger twenty drams let the Myrobalans be rosted a little with fresh butter let the rest being poudered be sprinkled with Oyl of sweet Almonds then add Musk one drachm and with their trebble waight in Honey make it into an Electuary according to art C. A. It helps the immoderat flowing of the terms in women and the Hemorrhoids in men it helps weakness of the stomach and restores colour lost It frees the body from crude humors and strengthens the bladder helps melancholly and rectifies the distempors of the spleen You may take a drachm in the morning or two if your body be any thing strong and by that you have read this you cannot chuse but see a reason why they set a binding Electuary amongst the Purges as also why the name is changed from Triphera the less to Triphera the greater viz. Because a great piece of ignorance to set it here they are like to give Medicines to good purpose when they know the operations no better Triphera Solutive Page 119. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Diacrydium ten drachms Turbith an ounce and an half Cardamoms the less Cloves Cinnamon Honey of each three drachms yellow Sanders Liquoris sweet Fennel seeds of each half an ounce Acorus Schenanth of each a dram Red-Roses Citron pills preserved of each three drachms Violets two drachms Penids four ounces white Sugar half a pound Honey clarified in juyce of Apples one pound make an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. The Diacrydium and 〈◊〉 ate a couple of untoward purges the rest are all Cordials but what to make of them all together I know not and as little reason do I know why they should put Honey in twice unless they mistook honey for Mace they have a blessed turn in this world 't is lawful for them to mistake but for no body else ELECTUARIES left out in their new Master-piece which is famous for its baseness Athanasia Mithridatis Galen Colledg TAke of Cinnamon Cassia Schoenanth of each an ounce an half Saffron Mirrh of each one ounce Costus Spignel Acorus Agrick Scordium Carrots Parsly of each half an ounce white Pepper eleven grains Honey so much as is sufficient to make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. It prevails against poyson and the bitings of venemous beasts and helps such whose meat putrifies in their stomach staies vomiting of blood helps old coughs and cold diseases in the liver spleen bladder and matrix The Colledg hath made some petty alterations in the quantities of the Simples but not worth the speaking of The dose is half a drachm Electuarium è scoria ferri Rhasis The Colledg Take of the flakes if Iron infused in Viniger seven daies and dried three drams Indian Spicknard Schoenanth Cyperus Ginger Pepper Bishops Weed Frankinsence of each half an ounce Myrocalans Indian Bellericks and Emblicks Honey boyled with the decoction of Emblicks sixteen ounces mix them together and make of them an Electuary Culpeper A. I wonder how the quantities of the Myrobalans escaped the great care labor pains and the industry of the honorable Society the Authors of that Book or the vigilancy of the vaporing Printer Rhasis an Arabian Physitian the Author of the Receipt appoints a drachm of each the medicine heats the spleen gently purgeth melancholly easeth pains in the stomach and spleen and stre ngthens digestion People that are strong may take half an ounce in the morning fasting and weak people three drams It is a good remedy for pains and hardness of the spleen Cónfectio Humain Mesue The Colledg Take of Eyebright two ounces Fennel seeds five drachms Cloves Cinnamon Cubebs long Pepper Mace of each one drachm beat them all into pouder and with clarified Honey one pound in which boyl juyce of Fennel one ounce juyce of Celondine and Rue of each half an ounce and with the pouders make it up into an Electuary Culpeper A. It is chiefly apropriated to the brain and heart quickens the sences especially the sight and resisteth the pestilence You may take half a drachm if your body be hot a drachm if cold in the morning fasting Diaireos Salominis Nich. The Colledg Take of Orris roots one ounce Penyroyal Hysop Liquoris of each six drams Traganth white Starch bitter Almonds Pine Nuts Cinnamon Ginger Pepper of each three drachms fat Figs the pulp of Raisons of the Sun and Dates of each three drachms and an half Styrax Calamitis two drachms and an half Sugar dissolved in Hysop water and clarified Honey of each twice the weight of all the rest make them into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. The Electuary is chiefly apropriated to the lungues and helps cold infirmities of them as asthmaes coughs difficulty of breathing c. You may take it with a 〈◊〉 stick or on point of a Knife a little of it at a time and often Diasatryon Nich. The Colledg Take of the roots of Satyrion fresh and sound Garden Parsnips Eringo Pine Nuts Indian Nuts or if Indian Nuts be wanting take the double quantity of Pine Nuts Fistich Nuts of each one ounce and an half Cloves Ginger the seeds of Annis Rockit Ash Keys of each five drachms Cinnamon the tayls and loins of Scincus the seeds of Bulbus Nettles of each two drachms and an half Musk seven grains of the best Sugar dissolved in 〈◊〉 three pounds make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. Either the Colledg or the Printer left out Cicer roots seven drachms which I think are proper to the Receipt they also added the loins of Scincus and the Nettle seeds and in so doing they did well A. It helps weakness of the reins and bladder and such as make water with difficulty it provokes lust exceedingly and speedily helps such as are impotent in the acts of Venus You may take two drachms or more at a time Mathiolus his great Antidote against Poysou
of Wormwood make it into a Mass. Culpeper A. It amends the evil state of a womans body strengthens conception and takes away what hinders it it gently purgeth choller and flegm and leaves a binding strengthening quality behind it Take them as Imperial Pills Pilulae ex Tribus Pag. 127. in the Latin Book Or Pills of three things The Colledg Take of Mastich two ounces Aloes four ounces Agrick Hiera Simple of each an ounce and an half Rhubarb two ounces Cinnamon two drachms wth Syrup of Succory make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. They gently purge choller and help diseases thence arising as itch Scabs wheals c. They strengthen the stomach and Liver and open obstructions as also help the yellow Jaundice You may take a scruple or half a drachm at night going to bed according as your body is in strength neither need you fear next day to go about your business Pilulae Turpeti Aureae Page 127. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Turbith two ounces Aloes an ounce and an half Citron Myrobalans ten drams Red Roses Mastich of each six drachms Saffron three drachms Beat them all into pouder and with Syrup of Wormwood bring them into a Mass. Culpeper A. They purge choller and flegm and that with as much gentleness as can be desired also they strengthen the stomach and liver and help digestion Take a setuple or half a drachm according as your body and the season of the yeer is at night you may follow your business next day Laudanum Page 127. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Thebane Opium extracted in Spirit of Wine one ounce Saffron alike extracted a drachm and an 〈◊〉 Castorium one drachm Let them be taken in tincture of half an ounce of Species Diambrae newly made in Spirit of Wine add to them Amber greese Musk of each six grains Oyl of Nutmegs ten drops Evaporate the moisture away in a bath and leave the Mass. Culpeper A. It was invented and a gallant invention it is to mitigate violent pains stop the sumes that trouble the brain in feavers but beware of Opiates in the beginning of Feavers to provoke sleep take not above two grains of it at a time going to bed if that provoke not sleep the next night you may make bold with three Have a care how you be too busie with such medicines lest you make a man sleep till dooms-day Nepenthes Opiatum Page 128. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Tincture of Opium made first with distilled Vineger then with Spirit of Wine Saffron extracted in spirit of Wine of each an ounce Salt of Pearl and Corral of each half an ounce Tincture of Spec. Diambrae seven drachms Amber greese one drachm 〈◊〉 them into the form of Pills by the gentle heat of a bath Culpeper A. The Operation is like the former only 't is dearer and not a whit better This is for the Gentry that must pay dear for a thing else 't is not good The PILLS left out by the Colledg in their New piece of Wit are these Pilulae Assaireth Avicenna The Colledg Take of Species Hiera Picra Galeni an ounce Mastich Citron Myrobalans of each half an ounce Aloes two ounces the Syrup of Stoechas as much as is sufficient Make of them a Mass according to art Culpeper A. It purgeth choller and 〈◊〉 and strengtheneth the whol body exceedingly being very precious for such whose bodies are weakened by surfers or ill diet to take half a drachm or a scruple at night going to bed Tills of Bdellium Mesue The Colledg Take of Bdellium ten drachms Myrobalans Bellericks Emblicks and Blacks of each five 〈◊〉 flakes of Iron Leek seéds of each three drachms Choncula Veneris burnt Corral burnt Amber of each a drachm and an half 〈◊〉 half an ounce Dissolve the Bdellium in juyce of Leeks and with so much Syrup of juyce of Leeks as is sufficient make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. Both this and the former are seldom used and therefore are hardly to be had Those that please may easily make the former this is more tedious but the Printer will have it put in to stop the mouth of Momus Pills of Rhubarb Mesue The Colledg Take of choyce Rhubarb three 〈◊〉 Citron Myrobalans Trochisci Diarhodon of each three drachms and an half Juyce of Liquoris and Juyce of Wormwood Mastich of each one drachm the seeds of Smallage and Fennel of 〈◊〉 half a dram Species Hiera Picra Simp. Galeni 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with juyce of Fennel not clarified and Honey so much as is sufficient make it into a Mass. Culpeper A. It purgeth choller opens obstructions of the Liver helps the yellow jaundice and dropsies in the beginning strengtheneth the stomach and lungues Take them as Pilulae Imperiales They are never the worse because the Colledg left them out Pilulae Arabica Nicholaus The Colledg Take of the best Aloes four ounces Briony Roots Myrobalans Citrons Chebs Indian Bellerick and Emblick Mastich Diagrydium Asarabacca Roses of each an ounce Castorium three drachms Saffron one dram with Syrup of Worm-wood make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. It helps such women as are not sufficiently purged in their labor helps to bring away what a careless Midwife hath left behind purgeth the head helps head-ach megrim vertigo and purgeth the stomach of vicious humors besides Authors say it preserves the sight and hearing and preserves the mind in vigor and causeth joyfulness driving away melancholly 't is like it may but have a care you take not too much of it a scruple is enough to take at a time or half a drachm if the body be strong take it in the morning about four of the clock and if you can sleep an hour or two after keep your self warm by the fire and order your self as after other purges I pray be not too busie with it and say I warned you of it Pilulae Arthriticae Nicholaus The Colledg Take of Hermodactils Turbith Agrick of each half an ounce Cassia Lignea Indian Spicknard Cloves Xylobalsamum or wood of Aloes Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Mace Galanga Ginger Mastich Assafoetida the seeds of Annis Fennel Saxifrage Sparagus Bruscus Roses Gromwel Sal. gem of each two drachms Scammony one ounce of the best Aloes the weight of them all Juyce of Chamepitys made thick with Sugar so much as is sufficient or Syrup of the Juyce of the same so much as is sufficient to make it into a Mass. Culpeper A. As I remember the Author appoints but a drachm of Scammony which is but the eighth part of an ounce and then will the Receipt be pretty moderate whereas now it is too too violent I know well enough it is the opinion of Doctors that Aloes retards the violent working of Scammony I could never find it and I am the worst in the world to pin my faith upon another mans sleeve and I would as willingly trust my
by its use which is to dry up that humidity that is between the lips of a wound that so it may be healed They are all usually drying in the second degree Aglutinatives Simple are Mastich Sarcocolla Frankincense Mirrh Colophonia Bole Armenick Dragons blood terra Lemnia Saint Johns-wort Rosemarry flowers Knot-grass Comfry Marjoram Gum Tragacanth Gum of Ivy Gum Elemni red Wine Vervain Yarrow wild Tansy Cranebil Sanicle Cobwebs Horse tail Sinkfoyl Compounds are the Compositions of these Diapalma Emplastrum de minio And now by comparing these with the Scarrifying medicines you may see that they are as like as one eg is like another and what a multitude of rules Physitians have imposed upon you that so they might make their way difficult to you Chap. 11. Of Cathereticks Septicks and Causticks They all being as neer of kin as a man and his brother I have put them all together but before I treat of them I care not greatly if I explain their degrees Therefore take notice that they are all such medicines as have force to corrode the flesh or skin Of these Cathereticks are meanly strong Septicks stronger Causticks strongest The mean if there be any meaness in them or a more propper term is those w ch are least violent for all that are violent are called Catheritica or Corrosives by vehement drying these consume the excressences of flesh They are usually applied to ulcers that have dead flesh in them They are Simple Compound Simple are Vert-de-greece Coperas or Vitriol Allum burnt and not burnt burnt Salt Antimony Mercury Sublimate and Precipitate Emphorbium Compound are Unguentum Egiptiacum and that which the Devil and his Imps attribute to the Apostles as though they performed their cures by Oyntments and not by the Spirit of God All Oyntments that have the Simples before mentioned in them The stronger the Greeks call Septica or Putrifactive Medicines By their vehement heat they ulcerate the skin and yet with little pain Such are Arsenick Crowfoot Spurge Mustard-seed Cantharides Euphorbium Causticks are the strongest and those the Greeks cal Escarotica These have got a faculty to consume all they come neer Such are Quicklime sublimated Arsenick Strong be Lapis infernalis I shall give you the use of them all in a very few words as few as can be imagined The First Eat away dead flesh Second is used to Draw Blisters Third Make Issues Chap. Ult. Of Medicines used to stop Blood SUch are Bole Armenick terra Sigillata Dragons blood Crocus Martis Chalk Eggshels 〈◊〉 Litharge Frankinsence Mastick Aloes Rozin white starch stones of Raisons Purslain Housleek or Sengreen Horstail the Herb I alwaies mean so called not the tail of a Horse the Herb Mousear not the ears of a Mouse Fleawort white and red Corral Lapis Hematitis the Blood-stone dried blood Gum Tragacanth and Arabick Knotgrass Cobwebs I have now done with my Proaemium to the Oyls Oyntments and Plaisters I desire you to excuse me for not following one and the same Author in the Simples and here the more you know the variety of Authors the better Physitians in time you may come to be Ville suum enique est nec voto vivitur uno and according to these Rules so understand the Oyls Oyntments and Plaisters following OYLS SIMPLE OYLS BY EXPRESSION Oyl of sweet Almonds Colledg TAke of sweet Almonds not corrupted as many as you will cast the shells away and blanch them beat them in a stone Mortar heat them in a double Vessel and press out the Oyl without heat Culpeper A. It helps roughness and soreness of the throat and stomach helps Pleuresies encreaseth seed easeth coughs and Hectick feavers by injection it helps such whose water 〈◊〉 them ulcers in the bladder reins and matrix You may either take half an ounce of it by it self or mix it with half an ounce of Syrup of Violets and so take a spoonful at a time still shaking them together when you take them only take notice of this If you take it inwardly let it be new drawn for it will be sowr in three or four daies A. In their new Moddel they bid you heat them in a double vessel and then ptess out the Oyl without the help of heat Oh Heavens did ever the Sun shine upon such rediculous creatures who would think a whol Colledg of Physitians should dote so young Oyl of bitter Almonds The Colledg It is made like Oyl of sweet Almonds but that you need not blanch them nor have such a care of heat in pressing out the Oyl Culpeper A. It opens stoppings helps such as are deaf being dropped into their ears it helps the hardness of the nerves and takes away spots in the face It is seldom or never taken inwardly Oyl of Hazel Nuts The Colledg It is made of the Kernels clensed brused and heat and 〈◊〉 like Oyl of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Culpeper A. You must put them in a vessel viz a glass or some such like thing and stop them close that the water come not to them when you put them into the bath A. The Oyl is good for cold afflictions of the nerves the gout in the joynts c. The Colledg So is Oyl of Been Oyl of 〈◊〉 and Oyl of Mace drawn Oleum Caryinum The Colledg Is prepared of Walnut Kernels in like manner save only that in the making of this somtimes is required dried old and rank Nuts Oleum Chrysomelinum The Colledg Is prepared in the same manner of Apricocks so is also Oyls of the Kernels of Cherry 〈◊〉 Peaches Pine-nuts Fistick nuts Prunes the seeds of Orienges Hemp 〈◊〉 Saffron 〈◊〉 Cucumers Guords 〈◊〉 Dwarf Elder Henbane Lettice Flax Melones Poppy Parsly Rhadishes Rapes Ricinum Sesani Mustard Seed and Grape stones Culpeper A. Because most of these Oyls is out of use I took not the pains to quote the Vertues of them if any list to make them let them look the Simples and there they have them if the Simples be not to be found in the Book there are other plentiful Medicines conducing to the cure of all usual diseases which are Oyl of Bays The Colledg Take of Bay-berries ripe and new gathered being bruised let them be boyled in water and pressed in a press then bruise them again and boyl them as before and take away the Oyl that swims at top of the water according to art It will soon be rank Culpeper A. This is different from their former manner of Extraction and in my opinion worse Their former manner was thus The Colledg Take of Bay berries fresh and ripe so many as you please bruise them sufficiently then boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water till the Oyl 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 top which separate from the water and keep for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Culpeper A. It helps the Chollick and is a soveraign remedy for any diseases in any part of the body coming either of wind or cold For the Chollick you may take a few drops inwardly in any Compound apropriated to the
with this but yet be not too busie with it for I tell you plainly 't is not very safe Unguentum de Alabastro Page 160 in the Latin B. Or Oyntment of Alabaster The Colledg Take of of the juyce of Chamomel four ounces the juyce of red Roses Marshmallow roots of each two ounces the juyce of Rue and Bettony of each an ounce and an half Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound and an half Alabaster in very fine pouder three ounces mix them and let them alone till the next day then boyl it till the juyce be consumed then with six ounces of white Wax make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. I never knew it made neither know I what to make of it t is amongst Victorius his Empericks to be found and a hundred to one but he saith 't is good for something but I know not for what There he quotes abundance of Receipts and it seems this is one I have about a hundred of them but this is none of them Unguentum Amarum Page 160 in the Latin Book Or a bitter Oyntment The Colledg Take of Oyl of Rue Savin Mints Wormwood bitter Almonds of each one ounce and an half juyce of Peach flowers and leaves and Wormwood of each half an ounce pouder of Rue Mints Centaury the less Gentian Tormentil of each one drachm the seeds of Coleworts the pulp of Colocynthis of each two drachms Aloes Hepatick three drams meal of 〈◊〉 half an ounce Mirrh washed in grass Water a drachm and an half Bulls gall an ounce and an half with a sufficient quantity of juyce of Lemmons and an ounce and an half of Wax make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. Do but so much as compare the simples of this Oyntment with my rules at the beginning of the Oyls and you sh all see pretty sport to laugh at the Simples making as great a discord as a Second and a Seventh in Musick which can hardly be reduced to harmony but agrees like a harp and a harrow Unguentum Apostolorum Page 161. in the Latin B. Or Oyntment of the Apostles The Colledg Take of Turpentine yellow Wax Rosin Amoniacum of each fourteen drachms long Birthwort roots Olibanum Bdellium of each six drachms Mirrh Galbanum of each half an ounce Opopanax Vert-de-greese of each two drachms Litharge nine drachms Oyl two pound Vineger enough to dissolve the gums make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It consumes corrupt and dead flesh and makes flesh soft which is hard it clonseth wounds Ulcers and Fistulaes and restores flesh where it is wanting A. Here is our Colledges Religion ad unguem King James is their god Harts-ease their Trinity their Divinity and holiness in a couple of Plaisters these twelve ingredients are their Apostles their Colledge in Amen Corner where they all sing Allelujah Anglice Woodsorrel together Unless their hand of Christ which is made of Rosewater and Sugar help them I know not what will become of them they have no other remedy to fly too but their Plaister called the grace of god to see if that will help at a dead lift Unguentum Aregon Page 161. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Rosemary Marjoram mother of Time Rue the roots of Aron and wild Cucumers of each four onnces and an half the leaves of Bay sage Savin Briony roots of each three ounces 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each nine ounces the leaves of wild Cucumers Nep of each half a pound let all of them being gathered in May clensed and bruised be steeped seven daies in six pound of Sallet Oyl and a pound of Spirit of Wine boyl them gently till the Spirit be consumed then strain the Oyl in which melt Wax sixteen ounces Bears grease Oyl of Bayes of each three ounces Moschaleum half an ounce Peter-Oyl an ounce Butter four ounces stir them and put in these following things in pouder Mastich Olibanum of each seven drachms Pellitory of Spain Euphorbium Ginger Pepper of each an ounce make them into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It mightily digesteth and maketh thin and 〈◊〉 not without some purging quality and is very comodious against cold afflictions of the body but especially of the sinnews convulsions falling sickness pains of the joynts and great guts I cannot much commend it unless I should commend it for its length and tediousness Unguentum de Artanita Page 162. in Lat. Book Or Oyntment of Sow-bread The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Sowbread or for want of it a strong decoction of the roots three pound juyce of wild Cücumers Heifers Butter of each a pound Oyl of Orris two pound Pulp of Coloquintida four ounces Polypodium six ounces Euphorbium half an ounce the things to be bruised being bruised let them be steeped in a glazed vessel close shut eight daies afterwards boyled in a double vessel till the Juyce be almost consumed then press it out and dissolve in the Liquor yellow Wax five ounces whilst it is warm mix with it Sagapen dissolved in Vineger Bulls gall boyled in a bath to the thickness of Honey of each an ounce then put in these things following in Pouder Scammony Turbith Coloquintida berries or leaves of Mezereon Aloes of each seven drachms Sal. Gem. half an ounce Euphorbium long Pepper Mirrh Ginger Chamomel flowers of each three drachms make them into an oyntment according to art Culpeper A. The stomach being anointed with it it purgeth by vomit the Belly anoynted with it it purgeth by stool the truth is it is a desperate kind of purge yet I hold it as fitting as can be to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies because I conceive it especially purgeth water and the water in dropsies lie neer the skin They have altered it a little and to as little purpose I fancy not such violent Remedies sometimes they kill and sometimes they cure Unguentum Catapsoras Page 162. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Ceruss washed in Purslain water then in Vinegar wherein wild Rhadish Roots have been steeped and pressed out Lapis Calaminaris Chalcitis of each six drachms burnt Lead Goats blood of each half an ounce Quick-silver sublimated an ounce the juyce of Housleek Nightshade Plantane of each two ounces Hogs grease clensed three pound Oyl of Violets Poppies Mandrakes of each an ounce first let the Sublimate and Exungia then the Oyls Juyces and Pouders be mixed and so made into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. The Title shews it to be invented against scabs and itch But I delight not in such kind of Medicines they are Collegiates that appoint them and may do what they list nemine contradicence Unguentum Citrinum Page 163. in the Lat. Book Or A Citron Oyntment The Colledg Take of Borax an ounce Camphire a drachm white Corral half an ounce Allum Plume an ounce Umbilicus Marinus Tragacanth white Starch of each three drachms Cristal Dentalis Eutalis Olibanum Niter white Marble of
more delightfull or at least less burdensom in such a case the Table of Vertues at the latter end will universally furnish you with the generality of both Simples and Compounds apropriated to the Disease You may make the mixtures of them in what form you please only for your better instruction at present accept of these few Rules 1. Consider That all Diseases are cured by their contraries but all parts of the Body maintained by their likes Then if heat be the cause of the Disease give the cold Medicine apropriated to it if Wind see how many Medicines apropriated to that Disease expel Wind and use them 〈◊〉 〈…〉 for if your Brain be over heated and you use such Medicines as cool the Heart or Liver you may make mad work 3. The distilled Water of any Herb you would take for a disease is a sit mixture for the Syrup of the same Herb or to make any 〈◊〉 into a Drink if you affect such liquid Medicines best if you have not the distilled water make use of the Decoction 4. Diseases that lie in parts of the Body remot from the Stomach and Bowels it is in vain to think to carry away the cause at once and therefore you had best do it by degrees Pills and such like Medicines which are hard in Body are fittest for such a business because they are longest before they digest 5. Use no strong Medicines if weak will serve the turn you had better take one too weak by half than too strong in the least 6. Consider the Natural temper of the part of the Body afflicted and maintain it in that else you extinguish Nature as the Heart is hot the Brain cold or at least the coldest part of the Body 7. Observe this general Rule That such Medicins as are hot in the first degree are most habitual to our Bodies because they are just of the heat of our Blood 8. All opening Medicines and such as provoke Urine or the Terms or break the Stone may most conveniently be given in white wine because white Wine os it self is of an opening Nature and clenseth the Reins gallantly 9. Let all such Medicines as are taken to stop fluxes or 〈◊〉 be taken before meat about an hour before more or less that so they may strengthen the digestion and retentive faculty before the Food come into the Stomach But such as are subject to vomit up their meat let them take such Medicines as stay vomiting presently after meat at the conclusion of their Meals that so they may close up the mouth of the stomach and that is the reason why usually men eat a 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 after meat because by its sowrness and binding it closeth the mouth of the stomach thereby staying belching and vomiting 10. In taking Purges be very carefull and that you may be so observe these Rules 1. Consider what the humor offending is and let the Medicine be such as purgeth that humor else will you weaken Nature not the Disease 2. Take notice if the humor you would purge out be thin then gentle Medicines will serve the turn but if it be tough and viscous take such Medicines as are cutting and opening the night before you would take the Purge 3. In purging tough humors sorbear as much as may be such Medicines as leave a binding quality behind them 4. Have a care of taking Purges when your Body is astringent your best way is first to open it by a Clyster 5. In taking opening Medicines you may safely take them at night eating but a light supper three or four hours before and the next morning drinking a draught of warm Posset-drink and you need not fear to go about your business In this manner you may take Lenitive Electuary Diacatholicon Pulp of Cassia and the like gentle Electuaries as also all Pills that have neither Diagrydium nor Colocynthis in them But all violent Purges require a due ordering of the Body such ought to be taken in the morning after you are up and not to sleep after them before they have done working at least before night two hours after you have taken them drink a draught of warm Posset-drink or Broath and six hours after eat a bit of Mutton often walking about the Chamber let there be a good fire in the Chamber and stir not out of the Chamber till the Purge have done working or not till next day Lastly Take sweating Medicines when you are in bed covered warm and in the time of your sweating drink Posset-drink as hot as you can drink it if you sweat for a Feaver boyl Sorrel and red Sage in your Posset-drink sweat an hour or longer if your strength will permit then the chamber being kept very warm shift your self all but your Head about which the Cap which you sweat in being still kept on wrap a Napkin very hot to repell the vapors back I confess these or many of these Directions may be found in one place of the Book or other and I delight as little to write tautology as another but the Printer desiring they should be put here and I considering it might make for the publick good inserted them if notwithstanding any will be so mad to do themselves a mischief the fault is not mine The TRANSLATORS PREFACE to the Catalogue of SIMPLES BEfore I begin the Catalogue I thought good to premise a few words to the Reader 1. Let him have a care he mistake not one thing for another viz. Herbs for Roots or either of them for Flowers If he cast but his eye up to the top of the Page he shall there see which it is 2. Let a due time be observed cases of necessity excepted in gathering all Simples for which take these few Rules The time to gather all roots is before the hearb run up to seed for then they are softest as you may see by Radishes carrots parsneps c. the roots of which you may perceive hard when they run up to seed and not because the sap is then in the root as the vulgar hold for if the sap rose and fell as they hold then the root must grow in winter only as the branches do in Summer which experience will shew to be falce for the root grows only in Summer as the branches doe you see what a wooden Docter Tradition is Would not this make every one endevour to Study a reason for what he doeth and see how our forefathers have been lead by the noses by Tradition The truth is it is the Sun is the author of life and growth to the wholl Creation he was ordained of God for that end when he comes on this side of the Equator the trees spring when he passeth to the south side of the Equator they loose their verdant color and growth also till the revolution of time bring his presence to revive them but enough of this in this place Herbs are to be gathered when they are fullest of juyce which is before thy
A. 7. If they can make a shift to make it which is a task almost if not altogether as hard as to piss down Pauls how or which way the vertues of it wil countervail the one half of the charge and cost to leave the pains and trouble out 〈◊〉 Dr. Ignoramus followed Matthias and never considered he lived in a different Climate Spiritus Castorii Page 32. in the Latin Book Or Spirit of Castorium The Colledg Take of fresh Castorium four ounces Lavender flower an ounce the tops of Sage and Rosemary of each half an ounce Cinnamon six drams Mace Cloves of each two drachms Spirit of Wine rectified six pound digest them in a Phial filled only to the third part close stopped with cork and bladder in warm ashes for two daies then distilled in Balneo Mariae and the distilled water kept close stopped Culpeper A. By reason of its heat it is no waies fit to be taken alone but mixed with other convenient medicines apropriated to the diseases you would give it for It resists poyson and helps such as are bitten by venemous beasts it causeth speedy deliver y to women in travail and casteth out the after birth it helps the fits of the mother Lethargies and Convulsions being mixed with white Wine and dropped into the ears it helps deafness if stopping be the cause of it the dose to be given inwardly is between one drachm and half a drachm according to the age and strength of the patient Aqua Petasitidis composita Page 32. in Latin Book Or Compound water of 〈◊〉 Burrs The Colledg Take of the fresh roots of Butter Burr bruised one pound and an half the roots of Angelica and Master-wort of each half a pound steep them in ten pints of strong Ale then distil them till the change of the tast gives testimony that the strength is drawn out Culpeper A. This water is very effectual being mixed with other convenient cordials for such as have pestilential feavers also a spoonful taken in the morning may prove a good preservative in pestilential times it helps the fits of the mother and such as are short winded and being taken inwardly dries up the moisture of such sores as are hard to be cured Aqua Raphani Composita Page 33. in the Latin B. Compound water of Rhadishes The Colledg Take of the leaves of hoth sorts of Scurvy-grass of each six pound having bruised them press the 〈◊〉 out of them with which mix of the Juyce of Brooklime and Water-cesses of each one pound and an half of the best white wine eight pound twelve whole Lemmons pills and all fresh 〈◊〉 roots four pound the roots of wild Raddishes two pound Capt. winters Cinnamon half a pound Nutmegs four ounces steep them altogether and then distil them Culpeper A. In their former Dispensatory when they had that Ingenuity left to confess where they had their medicines I gave them a modest term and said they borrowed them from such or such an Author but now all ingenuity hath left them and nothing but Self remains in them and they abscond their Authors I know not what to say unless I should say they stole them whether this be their own or not I know not 't is something like them a churlish medicine to a churlish Colledg I fancy it not and so I leave it I suppose they intended it for purgation of women in childbed and 't is as fit for it as a Sow is for a Saddle Aqua Peoniae Composita Page 33. in the Latin B. Or Compound water of Peony The Colledg Take of the flowers of Lillies of the vally one pound infuse them in four gallons of Spanish Wine so long til the following flowers may be had fresh Take of the fore named flowers half a pound Peony flowers four ounces steep them together fourteen daies then distil them in Balneo Mariae til they be dry in the distilled liquor infuse again male Peony roots gathered in due time two ounces and an half white Dittany long Birthwort of each half an ounce the leaves of Misleto of the Oak and Rue of each two handfuls Peony seeds husked ten drachms Rue seeds three drachms and an half Castorium two scruples Cubebs Mace of each two drachms 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half Squils prepared three drachms Rosemary flowers six pugils Arabian 〈◊〉 Lavender of each four pugils the flowers of Betony Clove-gilli-flowers and Cowslips of each eight pugils then adding four pound of the Juyce of black cherries Distil it in a glass stil til it be dry Culpeper A. It seems the Colledg was shrewdly put to it to alter the name of this Receipt from Langius his Antepileptical water to Compound water of Peony a new trick to cheat the world and they have also altered some few things not worth the noting A. If the Authority of Erastus or daily experience wil serve the turn then was this Receipt chiefly compiled against the Convulsion fits but the derivation of the word notes it to be prevalent against the falling sickness also for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek signifies Falling sickness and indeed Erastus and experience pleads for this also It is true the Composition of Erastus differs from this and so doth another recited by Johannes Langius but it seems our Physitians for some reasons best known to themselves esteemed this the best at this time for their minds are mutable A. Well then having now learned the vertues of the Water a word or two of the Use will not be amiss Erastus was of opinion that both these diseases were caused by the Moon and so am I of that opinion also for I know some at this time that are constantly troubled with the falling sickness only at the new and full Moons I could give reasons for this judgment of Erastus but I am unwill ing to be tedious Then saith he if the disease come daily let a spoonful to it be taken morning and evening if weakly then let it be taken only at the new and ful Moon and at her quartiles to the Sun if it begin to wear away then only twice a month viz. at the new and full Moon wil suffice It profits also in time of the fit by rubbing their temples nostrils and jaws with it Aqua Bezoartica 34. in the Latin Book Or Bezoar Water The Colledg Take of the leaves of Sullendine roots and al three handfuls and an half Rue two handfuls Scordium four handfuls Dittany of creet Carduus of each one handful and an half Zedoary and Angellica roots of each three drachms Citrons and Lemmon pills of each six drachms Clove-gilliflowers one ounce and an half red Roses Centaury the less of each two drachms Cinnamon Cloves of each three drachms Venis Treacle three ounces Mithridate one ounce and an half Camphire two scruples Troches of vipers two ounces Mace two drachms wood of Aloes half an ounce yellow Sanders one drachm and an half Cardus seeds one ounce Citron seeds six drachms let
them be cut and infused in Spirit of Wine and Malaga Wine of each three pound and an half Vineger of Clove-gilli-flowers juyce of Lemmons of each one pound and distilled in a glass stil in Balneo Mariae after it is half stilled off the residue may be strained through a linnen cloath and be reduced to the thickness of Honey and called the Bezoartick extract Culpeper A. Extracts have the same vertues with the waters they are made from only the different form is to please the quaint pallats of such whose fancy loaths any one particular form A. This Bezoar water strengtheneth the heart Arteries and spirit vital It provoketh sweat and is exceeding good in pestilential feavers in health it withstands melancholly and consumptions and makes a merry blith cheerful creature Of the extract you may take ten grains at a time or somewhat more if your body be not feaverish half a spoonful of water is sufficient at a time and that mixed with other cordials or medicines apropriated to the disease that troubles you which the Table at the latter end of the Book will direct you to And take this for a general rule when any thing is too hot to take it by it self resort to the Table of diseases which will amply furnish you with what to mix it and especially the cold waters the vertues of which you have amply in this third Edition This is Langius Receipt though the Colledg would have no body know it Aqua et Spiritus Lumbricorum Magistralis P. 34. L. B. Or Water and Spirit of Earth-worms The Colledg Take of Earth-worms wel clensed three pound Snails with shels on their backs clensed two Gallons beat them in a mortar and put them into a convenient vessel adding stinging Nettles roots and all six handfuls wild Angellica four handfuls Brank ursine seven handfuls Agrimony Betony of each three handfuls Rue one handful common Wormwood two handfuls Rosemary flowers six ounces Dock roots ten ounces the roots of Sorrel five ounces Turmerick the inner bark of Barberries of each four ounces Fenugreek seeds two ounces Cloves three ounces Harts-horn Ivory in gross pouder of each four ounces Saffron three drachms smal Spirit of Wine four gallons and an half after twenty four hours infusion distil them in an Alembick Let the four first pounds be reserved for Spirit the rest for water Culpeper A. 'T is a mess of Altogether it may be they intended it for an Universal medicine Aqua Gentianae composita Page 35. in the Latin B. Or Gentian Water Compound The Colledg Take of Gentian roots sliced one pound and an half the leaves and flowers of Centaâ—ry the less of each four ounces steep them eight daâ—â— in twelve pound of white Wine then distil them in an Alembick Culpeper A. It conduceth to preservation from ill air and pestilential feavers it opens obstructions of the Liver and helps such as they say are Liver grown it easeth pains in the stomach helps digestion and easeth such as have pains in their bones by ill lodging abroad in the cold it provokes appetite and is excellent good for the yellow jaundice as also for prickings or stitches in the sides it provokes the terms and expells both birth and after-birth it is naught for women with child If there be no feaver you may take a spoonful or taster full by it self if there be you may if you please mix it with some cooler medicine apropriated to the same use you would give it for Aqua Gilberti Page 35. in the Latin Book Or Gilberts Water The Colledg Take of Scabious Burnet Dragons Bawm Angellica Pimpernel with purple flowers Tormentil roots and all of each two handfuls let al of them being rightly gathered and prepared be steeped in four gallons of Canary Wine stil off three gallons in an Alembick to which ad three ounces of each of the cordial flowers Clove-gilli-flowers six ounces Saffron half an ounce Turmerick two ounces Galanga Bazil seeds of each one drachm Citron pills one ounce the seeds of Citrons and Cardus Cloves of each five drachms Harts-horn four ounces steep them twenty four hours and then distil them in Balneo Mariae to the stilled water add Pearls prepared an ounce and an half red Corral Crabs eyes white Amber of each two drachms Crabs claws six drams Bezoar Ambergreese of each two scruples steep them six weeks in the Sun in a vessel well stopped often shaking it then filter it you may keep the pâ—uders for Sp. cord temp by mixing twelve ounces of Sugar candy with six ounces of red Rose water and four ounces of Spirit of Cinnamon with it Culpeper A. I suppose this was invented for a cordial to strengthen the heart to releeve languishing nature it is exceeding dear I forbear the dose they that have money enough to make it themselves cannot want time to stady both the vertues and dose I would have Gentlemen men to be studious A. Only one thing I would demand of the Colledg that makes their brags so much of minding their Countryes good these same species which they appoint to be left after use in this medicine for Species Cordiales Temperatae Doth the vertue come out of them in this medicine or not if not why are they put in if yes then wil the Species cordiales Temperatae be like themselves viz. good for nothing but to deceive people Aqua Cordialis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Page 36. in Lat. B. The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Borrage Bugloss Bawm Bistort Tormentil Scordium Vervain Sharp-pointed dock Sorrel Goats Rue 〈◊〉 blew Bottle great and smal Roses Marigolds Lemmons Citrons of each six ounces Bnrnet Sinksoyl of each three ounces white Wine Vineger one pound Purslain seeds two ounces Citron and Cardus seeds of each half an ounce Water Lilly flowers two ounces the flowers of Borrage Bugloss Violets 〈◊〉 of each one ounce Diatrion Santalon six 〈◊〉 let all of them being rightly prepared be infused three daies then distilled in a glass still to the distilled Liquor add earth of Lemnos Siletia aud Samos of each one ounce and an half Pearls prepared with the juyce Citrons three drachms mix them and keep them together Culpeper A. No sooner had I translated their old Dispensatory which should have been Authentick til dooms day in the afternoon had not I done it to work go they and make another such a one as 〈◊〉 and then the old one is thrown by like an old Almanack out of 〈◊〉 some final alterations they have made in some medicines of which this is one not worth speaking of yet wil they serve to vapor with look here quoth they here 's such a thing altered here is a grain and an half put in where there was but a grain before the other is dangerous and destructive to the Common-wealth and so care not a straw for defaming their predecessors nay some of their own handy works so they may but uphold their own interests and unconscionable domineering thus they serve the poor
Purstain Plantane Ambrosia Pauls Betony of each a pound Hogs blood white Wine of each four pound Garden Snails two pound dried Tobacco Leaves eight pouder of Liquor is two ounces of Alicampane half an ounce of Orris an ounce Cotton seeds an ounce and 〈◊〉 half the greater cold seeds Annis seeds of each six drachms Saffron one drachm the flowers of red Roses six pugils of Violets and Borrage of each four 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them three daies warm and then distill them in a glass still in sand Culpeper It purgeth the lungues of flegm and helps consumptions there If you should happen to live where no beetter nor readier Medicine can be gotten you may use this Aqua Scordii Composita Page 29. in the L. Book Or Compound Water of Scordium The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Goats-rue Sorrel Scordium Citrons of each one pound London Treacle half a pound steep it three daies and distill it in sand Culpeper A. A tasterful taken in the morning preserves from ill airs Aqua Mariae Page 39. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Sugar candy a pound Canary Wine six ounces Rose water sour ounces boylit well into a Syrup and ad to it Imperial Water two pound Ambergreese Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fitfeen grains yellow Sanders infused in Imperial water two drachms make ae cleer water of it Culpeper A. The difference between this and their former Aqua Mariae is this Here they appoint Imperial Water and before Aqua 〈◊〉 which they very subtilly have left out here any tooth good Barber so we may hold up our honor and gains Both Receipts are very costly as far beyond the reach of a poor mans purse as of his brains Aqua Papaveris Composita Page 39. in L. Book Or Poppy Water Compound The Colledg Take of red Poppies four pound sprinkle them with white Wine two pound then distill them in a common still let the distilled Water be powred upon fresh flowers and repeated three times to which distilled water ad two Nutmegs sliced red Poppy flowers a pugil Sugar two ounces set it in the Sun to give it a pleasing sharpness if the sharpness be more than you would have it put some of the same water to it which was not set in the Sun and then it will be a pretty water good for nothing Aqua Juglandium Composita Page 40. in L. Book Or Walnut Water Compound The Colledg Take of green Walnuts a pound and an half Rhadish roots one pound green Asarabacea six ounces Rhadish seeds four ounces let all of them being bruised be steeped in three pound of white Wine for three daies then distilled in a leaden still till they be dry And when you have done so I pray ask the Colledg what it is good for in truth I know not Some Waters kind country men the Colledg have plaid the men and left out in their new Dispensatory which were in their old one and they are these Mathiolus his Bezoar Water The Colledg Take of Mathiolus his great Antielote Syrup of Citron Pills of each one pound spirit of Wine distilled five times over five pound put all these in a glass that is much to big to hold them stop it close that the spirit fly not out then shake it together that the Electuary may be well mingled with the Spirit so let it stand a month shaking it together twice a week for the Electuary will settle to the bottom The month being ended powr off the cleer water into another glass to be kept for your use stopping it very close with wax and Parchment else the strength will easily fly away in vapors Culpeper A. Mathiolus is very large in commendation of this Water for quoth he four drachms that is half an ounce of this water being taken either by it self or in the like quantity of good Wine or any other Cordial Water so absolutely and speedily cureth the bitings of any venemous beasts whatsoever that although the danger of death be such that the patient have lost his speech sight and almost all the rest of his sences yet will he be rouzed up like a man out of his sleep to the wonderful admiration of the beholders which he saith he hath proved a thousand times It draws away poyson from the heart and cures such as have drunk poyson it casts poyson out of the stomach by vomit and helps such as have the pestilence A. For my own particular part thus much I can testifie by experience in the commendations of it I have known it given in acute in peracute feavers with gallant success and also in Consumptions yea in Hecticks and in Galens supposed incurabe Marasmos neither hath it missed the desired effects and therefore out of question it strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and the spirit vital It helps in the falling-sickness apoplexies and convulsion A. And then your own genius will tell you this is fittest for cold complexions cold diseases and such diseases as the heart is most afflicted in It is too hot to be taken alone and half a drachm is the most may be taken at a time Cinnamon Water The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound and an half Spanish Wine twelve pints Infuse the Cinnamon in the Wine twenty four hours then distil them in an 〈◊〉 draw out three pints of strong Waters and small as much as you think sufficient sweeten it with Sugar sufficiently and so keep it for your use Culpeper A. The vertues are the same that Cinnamon it self hath to which I refer you Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound put it into a glass still powring upon it four pints of Rose water a pint and an half of Spanish wine stop the still body close and place it in a warm bath twenty four hours then put on the still-head lute it well and distill it according to art Culpeper A. Mathiolus appoints Wine of Creet four pints and that is all the alteration A. The Authors own Judgment is That it strengthens the brain heart liver stomach lungues spleen and nerves quickens the sight resisteth poyson helpeth bitings by venemous beasts causeth a sweet breath bringeth down the terms in women and hath vertue attenuating opening digesting and strengthening A. The truth is I beleeve it prevails in cold diseases being orderly regulated in quantity according to the nature of the disease the age and strength of the patient and the season of the year have a care of taking too much of it in feavers Cinnamon Water made by Infusion The Colledg Take of Cinnamon bruised four ounces Spirit of Wine two pints infuse them together four daies in a large glass close stopped with Cork and a Bladder shaking the Glass twice a day Dissolve half a pound of white Sugar Candy in a quart of Rose water then mix both these liquors together then put into them four grains of Musk and half a scruple of Ambergreese tied up in a linnen
pound Culpeper A. This is the common Decoction for all Clysters according to the quality of the humor abounding so you may ad what Simples or Syrups or Electuaries you please only half a score Linseeds and a handful of Chamomel flowers are added Decoctum Fpythimi Page 47. in the Latin Book Or A Decoction of Epithimum The Colledg Take of Myrobalans Chebs and Inds of each half an ounce 〈◊〉 Raisons of the Sun stoned Epithimum Senna of each one ounce Fumitory half an ounce Mandlin five drachms Polipodium six drachms Turbith half an ounce Whey made with Goats milk or Heisers milk four pound let them all boyl to two pound the Epithimum excepted which boyl but a walm or two then take it from the 〈◊〉 and ad black Hellebore one drachm and an half Agrick half a drachm Sal. Gem. one drachm and an half sleep them ten hours then press it strongly out Culpeper A. Here is half a drachm of black Hellebore added and I like the Receipt never the better for that A. It purgeth melancholly gallantly as also addust choller it resisteth madness and al diseases coming of melanchelly and therefore let melancholly people esteem it as a jewel A. I cannot but commend it to such of my Countey men as abound with melancholly humors Let them take a quarrer of a pint of this in the morning and keep by the fire side al day imagine they take it at six of the Clock then let them drink a draught of posset-drink at eight and eat a bit of hot Mution at twelve if their bodies be strong for people oppressed with Melancholly usually go hardly to stool by reason it is a retentive humor Let them mix those Syrups which I shal quote when I come to them with it and I dare hazard that small credit I have in Physick that it shall in a few mornings fetch them out of their Melancholly dumps which though they may seem pleasing yet are no way profitable to the body of man especially if the body be troubled also with ill tumors I know not what better word to give Cacochynna Decoctum Sennae Gereonis Page 47. in the Lat. Book Or A Decoction of Senna The Colledg Take of Senna two ounces Pollipodium half an ounce Ginger one drachm Raisons of the Sun stoned two ounces Se bestens Prunes of each twelve the flowers of Borrage Violets Roses and Rosemary of each two drachms boyl them in four pound of water till half be consumed Culpeper A. It is a common Decoction for any purge by adding other Simples or Compounds to it according to the quality of the humor you would have purged yet in its self it chiefly purgeth melancholly I shal quote it when I come at such Compounds as are fit to mix with it Decoctum Pectorale Page 48. in the Latin Book Or A Poctoral Decoction The Colledg Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned an ounce Seb oftens Jujubes of each fifteen Dates six Figs four french Barly one ounce Liquoris half an ounce Maiden-hair Hysop Scabious Colts-foot of each one handful boyl them in three pound of water till two remain Culpeper A. The medicine is cheifly apropriated to the Lungues and therefore causeth a cleer voice a long wind resisteeh coughs hoarceness Asthmaes c. You may drink a quarter of a pint of it every morning without keeping any diet for it purgeth not I shall quote some Syrups fitting to be mixed with it when I come to the Syrups Decoctum Trumaticum Page 48. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Agrimony Mugwort wild Angelica St. Johns wort Mousear of each two handfuls Wormwood half a handful Southernwood Betony Bugloss 〈◊〉 the greater and lesser roots and all Avens both sorts of Plantane Sanicle Tormentil with the roots the buds of Rasberries and Oak of each a handful all these being gathered in May or June and dilligently dried let them be cut and put up in skins or papers against the time of use then take of the fore named Herbs three handfuls boyl them in four pound of Conduit water and two pound of white Wine gently till half be consumed strain it and a pound of Honey being added to it let it be scummed and kept for use Culpeper A. 〈◊〉 sight of a Medicine will do you good this is as like to do it as any I know Some they have left out in their new Model which are these that follow A Carminative Decoction Colledg TAke of the seeds of Annis Carrots Fennel Cummin and Caraway of each three drachms Chamomel flowers half a handful 〈◊〉 of the Sun an ounce and an half boyl them in two pints of water till almost half 〈◊〉 sumed Culpeper A. It is commonly used in Clysters to such whose bodies are molested or oppressed with wind these seeds being added to the former Decoction A Decoction of Flowers and Fruits The Colledg Take five Figs fifteen Prunes Jujubes and 〈◊〉 of each twenty Tamarinds an ounce the flowers of Roses Violets Borrage Bugloss of each a drachm Maidenhair Hops Endive of each half an handful Liquoris two drachms being cut and bruised boyl them in three pints of spring Water to the consumption of the third part Culpeper A. It strengthens the Lungues and helps Obstruction Lac Virgineum The Colledg Take of Allum four ounces boyl it in a quart of spring Water to the third part Afterwards Take of Litharge half a pound white Wine Vineger a pint and an half boyl it to a pint strain both the waters then mix them together and 〈◊〉 them about till they are white Culpeper A. It takes away Pimples redness freckles and sunburning the face being washed with it A Drink for wounded men The Colledg Take of Crabs of the River calcined and beaten into very fine pouder two drachms the roots of round Birthwort and of Comfry the greater Self-heal Bay-berries lightly bruised of each one drachm tie them all up in a linnen cloath and boyl them in three pints of white Wine till the third part be consumed adding about the middle of the Decoction one pugil of Perewinkles then strain it for your use This Decoction must be prepared only for the present when the Physitian appoints it as also must almost all the rest of the Decoctions Culpeper A. And therefore left my poor wounded Country man should perish for want of an Angel to fee 〈◊〉 Physitian or if he have it before the Physitian which in some places is very remote can come at him I have taken the pains to write the Receipt in his own Mother tongue he may get any friend to make it He may drink half a pint of it in the morning or if he please to boyl it in smal Ale instead of Wine he would be well the sooner if he drunk no other drink SYRUPS ALTERING SYRUPS Syrupus de Absinthio Symplex Pag. 49. in Lat. Book OR Syrup of Wormwood Simple The Colledg TAke of the clarified Juyce of common
when you need Rob de Cerasis Page 76. in the Latin Book Or Rob of Cherries The Colledg Take of the juyce of red Cherries somwhat sourish as much as you will and with half their weight in sugar boyl them like the former Culpeper A. See the vertues of Cherries and there have you a neat trick to keep them all the year Rob de Cornis Page 76. in the latin Book Or Rob of Cornels The Colledg Take of the juyce os Cornels two pound sugar a pound and an half boyl it according to art Culpeper A. Of these Cornel trees are two sorts male and foemale the fruit of the male Cornel or Cornelian Cherry is here to be used for the foemale is that which is called Dogberry in the North Country they call it Gatter-wood and we in Sussex Dog-wood I suppose because the Berries will make Dogs mad as some hold also it is very unwholsom wood specially for such as have been bitten by mad Dogs A. The fruit of male Cornel binds exceedingly and therefore good in fluxes bloody fluxes and the immoderate flowing of the terms in women Rob Cydoniorum Page 76. in the Latin Book Or Rob of Quinces The Colledg Take of the clarified juyce of Quinces boyl it till two parts be consumed and with its equal waight in Sugar boyl it into a Rob. Miva vel Gelatina Eorundem Page 76. in L. Book Or 〈◊〉 of Quinces The Colledg Take of the juyce of Quinces clarified twelve pound boyl it half away and ad to the remainder old white wine five pound consume the third part over a gentle fire taking away the scum as you ought let the rest settle and strain it and with three pound of sugar boyl it according to art Culpeper A. Both are good for weak and indisposed stomachs The Colledg Rob of sowr Plums is made as Rob of Quinces the use of sugar is indifferent in them both Rob of English Currence is made in the same manner let the juyce he clarified Culpeper A. The vertues are the same with Rob of Barberries Rob Baccarum Sambuci Page 77. in L. Book Or Rob of Elder Berries The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Elder Berries and make it thick with the help of a gentle fire either by its self or a quarter of its waight in sugar being added Culpeper Both Rob of Elder Berries and Dwarf-Elder are excellent for such whose bodies are inclining to Dropsies neither let them neglect nor despise it if they do 't is not my fault They may take the quantity of a Nutmeg each morning 't will gently purge the watry humor The Colledg In the same manner is made Rob of Dwars Elder Junipers and Pauls Betony only in the last the Sugar and Juyce must be equal in waight Succus Glycyrrhizae simplex Page 77. in Lat. Book Or Juyce of Liquoris simple The Colledg Infuse Liquoris Roots clensed and gently bruised three daies in spring water so much that it may oretop the Roots the breadth of three fingers then boyl it a little and press it hard out and boyl the Liquor with a gentle fire to its due thickness Culpeper A. It is vulgarly known to be good against coughs cold c. and a strengthener of the Lungues Succus Glycyrrhizae Compositus P. 77. in L. Book Or Juyce of Liquoris Compound The Colledg Take of the water of tender Oak leaves of Scabious of each four pounds English Liquoris scraped and bruised two pound boyl them by degrees till they be soft then press out the Liquor strongly in a press to which ad three pound of Juyce of Hysop and dry it away in the Sun in a broad Earthen vessel Culpeper A. The vertues are the same with the former but that the Colledg loves to be troublesom Succus Pronorum sylvestrum Page 78. in Lat. Book Or Juyce of Sloes called Acacia The Colledg Take of Sloes hardly ripe press out the Juyce and make it thick in a bath Culpeper A. It stops Fluxes and procures appetite The Colledg So are the juyces of Wormwood Maudlin and Fumitory made thick to wit the Herbs bruised while they be tender and the juyce pressed out and after it is clarified boyled over the fire to its just thickness LOHOCH OR ECLEGMATA Culpeper A. BEcause this word also is understood but by few we will first explain what it is A. 1. The word Lohoch is an Arabick word called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Linctus and signifies a thing to be lick'd up A. 2. It is in respect of Body somthing thicker than a Syrup and not so thick as an Electuary A. 3. It s use it was invented for was against the roughness of the windpipe diseases and inflamations of the Lungues difficulty of breathing Colds Coughs c. A. 4. It s manner of reception is with a Liquoris stick bruised at end to take up some and retain it in the mouth till it melt of its own accord Lohoch de Farfara Page 79. in the Latin Book Or Lohoch of Coltsfoot The Colledg Take of Coltsfoot roots clensed eight ounces Marsh-mallow roots four ounces clensed boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water and press the pulp out through a sive dissolve this again in the Decoction and let it boyl once or twice then take it from the fire and ad two pound of white sugar Honey of Raisons sourteen ounces juyce of Liquoris two drachms and an half stir them stoutly with a wooden pestel mean season sprinkle in saffron and Cloves of each a scruple cinnamon and Mace of each two scruples make them into a Lohoch according to art Culpeper A. It was invented by an uncertain or an unrevealed Author for the Cough and they that cannot get a better nor a cheaper may freely use this for the Colledg gives them leave if they appoint it not else those that have read the Augustan Physitians may reade a cheaper there and those that have not nor cannot may know if they please how they are led by the noses by a company of Colledg gulls Lohoch de Papavere Page 79. in the Latin Book Or Lohoch of Poppies The Colledg Take white Poppy seeds twenty four drachms sweet Almonds blanched in Rose water Pinenuts clensed Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each ten drachms juyce of Liquoris an ounce starch three drachms the seeds of Lettice Purslain Quinces of each half an ounce Saffron a drachm Penids four ounces Syrup of Meconium three pound make it into a Lohoch according to art Culpeper A. The right Worshipful the Colledg of Physitians having found a Medicine called by this name in the Augustane Dispensatory did as well as they could to alter it a little that so they might make fools beleev it was their own It helps salt sharp and thin distillations upon the Lungues it allaies the fury of such sharp humors which occasion both roughness of the throat want of sleep and feavers It is excellent for such as are troubled with
Pleuresies to take now and then a little of it Lohoch è Passulis Page 80. in the Latin Book Or Lohoch of Raisons The Colledg Take of male Peony Roots Liquoris of each half an ounce Hysop 〈◊〉 Hartstongue or Cetrach of each half a handful boyl them in spring water and press them strongly and by adding a pund of Raisons bruised boyl it again pressing it through a linnen cloath then with a pound of white Sugar make it into a Lohoch according to art Culpeper A. Although this Medicine be seldom in use with us in England yet by report of forraign Physitians it is very prevalent both against coughs consumptions of the Lungues and other vices of the breast and is usually given to children for such diseases as also for the convulsions and falling sickness and indeed the simples testifie no less Lohoch è Pino Page 80. in the Latin Book Or Lohoch of Pinenuts The Colledg Take of Pinenuts fifteen drachms sweet Almonds Hazel nuts gently rosted Gum Arabick and Tragacanth pouder and juyce of Liquoris white starch Maiden-hair Orris Roots of each two drachms the pulp of Dates seventeen drachms bitter Almonds one drachm and an half Honey of Raisons white Sugar-Condy fresh Butter of each two ounces Honey one pound and an half dissolve the Gums in so much Decoction of Maiden-hair as is sufficient let the rest be mixed over a gentle fire and stirred that so it may be made into a Lohoch Culpeper A. Before the Colledg followed the Augustan Physitians to a hair and indeed who can blame them for following wiser men than themselves now they have altered the quantities of the simples and if you ask them the reason why they did so you shall have the same answer Balaam gave when he disputed with his Ass `` Oh that there were a sword in `` my hand that I might kill thee A. The Medicin is excellent for continual coughs and difficulty of breathing it succours such as are Asthmatick for it cuts and attenuates tough humors in the breast Lohoch de Portulaca Page 80. in the Latin Book Or Lohoch of Purslain The Colledg Take of the strained juyce of Purslam two pound Troches of terra Lemnla two drams Troches of Amber Gum-Arabick Dragons blood of each one drachm Lapis Hematitis the wool of a Hare tosted of each two scruples white Sugar one pound mix them together that so you may make a Lohoch of them Culpeper A. The Medicine is so terribly binding that it is better let alone than taken unless in inward bruises when men spit blood then you may safely take a little of it if you would know whence they stole it it was from Ausberg you shall shortly hear the Augustan Physitians come with Hu and Cry after the Colledg and cry STOP THEEVES Lohoch è Pulmone Vulpis Page 81. in Lat. Book Or Lohoch of Fox Lungs The Colledg Take of Fox Lungues rightly prepared juyce of Liquoris Maiden-hair Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds of each equal parts Sugar dissolved in Coltsfoot and Scabious water and boyled into a Syrup three times their waight the rest being in fine pouder let them be put to it and strongly stirred together that it may be made into a Lohoch according to art Culpeper A. Look what pains the Colledg hath taken in altering this Receipt here is a little Scabious water added and that 's all Why should they think themselves wiser than Mesue when they are not God knows half so honest A. Mesue appoints sixteen ounces of Honey and no Sugar nor uncertain quantity of any thing and reason it self will tell you Honey is most densing A It clenseth and uniteth ulcers in the Lungs and breast and is a present remedy in Phtisicks Lohoch sanum et Expertum Page 81. in L. Book Or A sound and well Experienced Lohoch The Colledg Take of dried Hysop and Calaminth of each half an ounce Jujubes Sebestens the stones being taken out fifteen Raisons of the Sun stoned fat Figs Dates of each two ounces Linseed Fenugrick seed of each five drachms Maiden-hair one handful Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds Orris Roots cut Liquoris Cinnamon of each an ounce boyl them all according to art in four pound of cleer water till half be consumed and with two pound of 〈◊〉 boyl it into a syrup afterwards cut and bruise very smal Pinenuts five drachms sweet Almonds blanched Liquoris Gum Tragacanth and Arabick white Starch of each three drachms let these be put into the Syrup when it is off from the fire and stir it about swiftly with a wooden Pestel till it look white Culpeper A Only Mesue appoints one drachm less of Linseeds and whereas they appoint white Sugar he appoints Penids else the Receipt is verbatim A It succours the Breast Lungs Throat and Trachaea Arteria oppressed by cold it restores the voice lost by reason of cold and attenuate thick and gross humors in the Breast and Lungs Lohoch Scilliticum Page 81. in the Latin Book Or Lohoch of Squils The Colledg Take three drachms of a Squill baked in past Orris Roots two drachms Hysop Horehound of each one drachm Saffron Mirrh of each half a drachm Honey two ounces and an half bruise the Squill after it is baked in a stone Mortar and after it hath boyled a walm or two with the Honey put in the rest of the things in pouder dilligently stirring it and make it into a Lohoch according to art Culpeper A. In their former Edition if they be not ashamed to own it as they need not for they cannot mend it they quoted another Lohoch of Squills and said it was Mesue's but they were beside the cushion it was this Eclegma of Squils Mesue The Colledg Take of the juyce of Squils and Honey both of them clarified of each two ponud boyl them together according to art to the consistence of Honey A. And my Descant upon it was this A. How the name of Mesue came to be obtruded upon this Receipt I know not this I am confident of Galen was the Author of it neither is it probable the Colledg would have given the name of Eclegma but Lohoch had it been the Receipt of an Arabian neither can it be the Printers fault for he vapors at the latter end of the Book that he hath made none and he hath done it in English that the vulgar may understand THAT in the Book though nothing else A. Ah ha quoth they have we got the rong Sow by the ear and hath he found out our knavery it cannot be holp we will leave out that here and steal one from Mesue to put instead of it which is what they prescribed but now and just as I was writing of this I heard my neighbors dogs howl it may be it was because he was ashamed of their baseness or else because if they had that trick they had others worse A. For the vertues of it see Vineger of Squils and Oximel of Squils only
this is more mild and not so harsh to the throat because it hath no Vineger in it and therefore is far more fitting for Asthames and such as are troubled with difficulty of breathing it cuts and carries away humors from the breast be they thick or thin and wonderfully helps indigestion of victuals and easeth pains in the breast and for this I quote the Authority of Galen Alwaies take this as a general Aphorism in Physick Sour things we offensive to the Wind-pipe A. Lohochs left out in their new Moddel because they must be doing Lohoch of Coleworts Gordonius The Colledg Take one pound of the Juyce of Coleworts clarified Saffron three drachms clarified Honey and Sugar of each half a pound make of them a Lohoch according to art Culpeper A. It helps hoarsness and loss of voice easeth surfets and Headach coming of drunkenness and opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and therefore is good for that disease in children which women call the Rickets PRESERVED ROOTS STALKS BARKS FLOWERS FRUITS PULPS TAke of Eringo Roots as many as you will clense them without and within the Pith being taken out steep them two daies in cleer water shifting the water somtimes then dry them with a cloth then take their equal waight in white Sugar and as much Rose water as will make it into a syrup which being almost boyled put in the Roots and let them boyl till the moisture be consumed and it be brought to the due body of a Syrup Not much unlike to this are preserved the Roots of Acorus Angelica Borrage Bugloss Succory Alicampane Burnet Satyrion Sicers Comfry the greater Ginger Zedoary Take of the Stalks of Artichokes not too ripe as many as you will and contrary to the Roots take only the pith of these and preserve them with their equal waight in Sugar like the former So is prepared the Stalks of Angelica Burs Lettice c. before they be too ripe Take of fresh Orrenge Pills as many as you will take away the exteriour yellowness and steep them in spring water three daies at the least often renewing the water then preserve them like the former In like manner are Lemmon and Citron Pills preserved Preserve the Flowers of Citrons Orrenges Borrage Primroses with Sugar according to art Take of Apricocks as many as you will take away the outer skin and the Stones and mix them with their like waight in Sugar after four hours take them out and boyl the Sugar without any other Liquor then put them in again and boyl them a little Other Fruits have the same manner of being preserved or at least not much unlike to it as whol Barberries Cherries Cornels Citrons Quinces Peaches common Apples the five sorts of Myrobalans Hazel Nuts Walnuts Nutmegs Raisons of the Sun Pepper brought green from India Plums Garden and wild Pears Grapes Pulps are also preserved as of Barberries Cassia Fistula Citrons Cynosbatus Quinces and Sloes c. Take of Barberries as many as you will boyl them in spring Water till they are tender then having pulped them through a sive that they are free from the stones boyl it again in an Earthen vessel over a gentle fire often stirring them for fear of burning till the watry humor be consumed then mix ten pound of Sugar with six pound of this Pulp boyl it to its due thickness Broom Buds are also preserved but with Brine and Vineger and so are Olives and Capars Lastly Amongst the Barks Cinnamon amongst the Flowers Roses and Marigolds amongst the Fruits Almonds Cloves Pinenuts and Fistick Nuts are said to be preserved but with this difference they are encrusted with dry sugar and are more called Consects than Preserves CONSERVES AND SUGARS The Colledg CONSERVES of the Herbs of 〈◊〉 Sorrel Woodsorrel the Flowers of 〈◊〉 Borrage Bugloss Bettony Marigolds the tops of 〈◊〉 the Flowers of Centaury the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 flowers Germander Succory the Leaves of 〈◊〉 the Flowers of 〈◊〉 the greater 〈◊〉 Cynosbati the roots of Spurge Herbs and Flowers of Eyebright the tops of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Flowers of Broom not quite open Hysop Lavender white Lillies Lillies of the Valley Marsoram Mallows the tops of Bawm the Leaves of Mints the Flowers of water Lillies red Poppies Peony Peaches Primroses Roses damask red Rosemary the leaves of Rue the flowers of Sage Elder Scabious the Leaves of Scordium the flowers of Lime-tree Coltsfoot Violets with all these are Conserves made with their trebble proportion of white Sugar yet note that all of them must not be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some of them must be cut 〈◊〉 and gently 〈◊〉 some neither cut beaten nor boyled and some admit but one of them which every Artist in his Trade may find out by this Premonition and avoid errour Culpeper A. What a half-faced order to make up Conserves do the Colledg here leave Indeed it belongs to the Apothecaries Trade Is it not sufficient for a gentle man to go to a Smith and bid him shoo his Horse but he must go about to teach him how to make his shoos and nails would he not by medling with what he hath no skill in quickly shew what a Lubber he is and what then can one say of the Colledg Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur SUGARS Diacodium Solidum sive Tabulatum Page 86. The Colledg Take of white Poppy heads meanly ripe and newly gathered twenty steep them in three pound of warm spring water and the next day boyl them till the vertue is out then strain out the Liquor and with a sufficient quantity of good Sugar boyl it according to art that you may make it into Lozenges Culpeper A. This Receipt is transcribed verbatim from the Augustan Physitians though the Colledg through forgetfulness or something else hide it the vertues are the same with the common Diacodium viz. to provoke sleep and help thin Rhewms in the head coughs and roughness of the Throat and may easily be carried about in ones pocket 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Simplex et Perlatum P. 86. Or 〈◊〉 of Sugar both Simple and 〈◊〉 The Colledg The first is made by pouring the Sugar out upon a Marble after a sufficient boyling in half its 〈◊〉 of Damask Rofe water And the latter by adding to every pound of the former towards the latter end of the Decoction Pearls prepared and bruised half an ounce with eight or ten Leaves of Gold Culpeper A. Here the Colledg have left out that blasphemous speech which I cannot write without horror nor an honest man read without trembling viz. To call a little Rose-water and Sugar boyled together THE HAND OF CHRIST The truth is if they had left out the rest of the blasphemies I should have had some hopes they would in time turn honest but I see to my grief they remain especially that abominable blasphemy in their Dedicatory Epistle to King James which they having not 〈◊〉 enough to alter 〈◊〉 let stand or else it was because like Sodom they would
is excellent in coughs and other cold afflictions of the lungues and breast it helps digestion expels wind and the gravel of the kidneys it provokes the terms warms and dries up the moisture of the womb which is many times the cause of barrenness and is generally a helper of all diseases coming of cold raw thin humors you may take half a drachm at a time in the morning Electuarium de Baccis Lauri Page 100. Or Electuary of Bay-berries The Colledg Take of the Leaves of dried Rhue ten drachms the seeds of Ammi Cummin Lovage Origanum Nigella Carraway Carrots Parsly Bitter Almonds Pepper black and long wild Mints Calamus Aromaticus Bay-berries Castorium of each two drachms Sagapenum half an ounce Opopanax three drachms clarified Honey a pound and an half the things to be beaten being beaten and the Gums dissolved in uine make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. It is exceeding good either in the chollick or iliack passion or any other disease of the bowels coming of cold or wind it generally easeth pains in the bowels You may give a drachm in the morning fasting or half an ounce in a Clyster according as the disease is Diacapparis Page 101. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Capars four 〈◊〉 Agrimony Roots Nigella seeds Squils Asarabacca Centaury black Pepper Smallage Time of each an ounce Honey three times their weight make into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. They say it helps infirmities of the spleen and indeed the name seems to promise so much it may be good for cold bodies if they have strength of nature in them me thinks 't is but odly composed the next looks more lovely in my eyes which is Diacinnamomu Page 101. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Cinnamon fifteen drachms Cassia Lignea Alicampane roots of each half an ounce Galanga seven drachms Cloves Long Pepper both sorts of Cardamoms Ginger Mace Nutmegs Wood of Aloes of each three drachms Saffron one drachm Sugar five drachms Musk two scruples added according to the prescript of the Physitian and by adding three pound eight ounces of clarified Honey boyl it and make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. Diacinnamomum or in plain English a Composition of Cinnamon heats the stomach causeth digestion provokes the terms in women strengthens the stomach and other parts that distribute the nourishment of the body a drachm of it taken in the morning fasting is exceeding good for ancient people and cold bodies such as are subject to dropsies and diseases of flegm or wind for it comforts and strengthens nature much If you take it to help digestion take it an hour before meat do so in all things of like quality Diacorallion Page 101. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Corral white and red Bole Armenick Dragons blood of each one drachm Pearls half a drachm Wood of Aloes red Roses Gum Tragacanth Cinnamon of each two scruples Sanders white and red of each one scruple with four times its weight in Sugar dissolved in smal Cinnamon water make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. It comforts and strengthens the heart exceedingly and restores such as are in consumptions it is cooling therefore good in Hectick feavers very binding and therefore stops fluxes neither do I know a better Medicine in all the Dispensatory for such as have a consumption accompanied with a loosness It stops the terms and whites in Women if administred by one whose wits are not a woolgathering Take but a drachm at a time every morning because of its binding quality except you have a loosness for then may you take so much two or three times a day Diacorum Page 101. In the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the roots of Cicers Acorus or Calamus Aromaticus Pine-nuts of each a pound and an half let the Cicers roots being clensed cut boyled and pulped be added to ten pound of clarified Honey and boyled stirring it to its just thickness then being removed from the fire ad the Acorus roots beaten the Pine-nuts cut and these following in pouder Take of black Pepper an ounce Long Pepper Cloves Ginger Mace of each half an ounce Nutmegs Galanga Cardamoms of each three drachms mix them with the Roots and Honey into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. The Electuary provokes lust heats the brain strengthens the nerves quickens the sences causeth an acute wit easeth pains in the head helps the falling-sickness and convulsions coughs cathars and all diseases proceeding from coldness of the Brain Half a drachm is enough to take at one time because of its heat Diacydonium Simple Page 102. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the flesh of Quinces cut and boyled in fair water to a thickness eight pound white Sugar six pound boyl it to its just thickness Diacydonium with Species Page 102. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the 〈◊〉 of Quinces Sugar of each two pound white 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 half a pound added at the end of the Decoction it being gently boyled and the scum taken away ad Ginger two ounces white Pepper ten drachms and two scruples bruise them grosly and boyl it again to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. Is not this then more a Syrup than an Electuary Surely either the Colledg or I doted when we set this among the Electuaries and would not be beaten out of our follies Diacydonium Compound Magisterial Page 102. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of white Sugar six pound spring water four pound clarifie them well with the white of an Eg scumming them then take of ripe Quinces clensed from the rind and seeds and cut in four quarters eight pound boyl them in the foregoing Syrup till they be tender then strain the Syrup through a linnen cloath vocata Anglice boulter boyl them again to a Gelly adding four ounces of white Wine Vineger towards the end remove it from the fire and whilst it is warm put in these following Species in gross pouder Ginger an ounce white Pepper Cinnamon Nutmegs of each two drachms keep it in diverse bones Culpeper A. If a man void of partiality should compare this and the former Receipt together 〈◊〉 would find but little difference between them only a little Cinnamon and Nutmegs added A. The vertues of all these three are They comfort the stomach help digestion stay vomiting belching c. stop fluxes and the terms in women They are all harmless you may take the quantity of a Nutmeg of them at a time before meat to help digestion and fluxes after meat to stay vomiting in the morning for the rest Consectio de Hyacintho Page 103. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Jacinth red Corral Bole Armenick Earth of Lemnos of each half an ounce the Berries of 〈◊〉 the Roots of Tormentil and Dittany the seeds of Citrons Sorrel and Purstain Sassron Mirrh red Roses exungulated all the sorts of Sanders bone of a Stags
life in the hands of a wild bear as in the hands of that Monster called TRADITION If but a drachm of Scammony be put in then may a man safely if not too much weakned take a drachm of it at a time about four in the morning ordering your self as in the former but made up as the Colledg prescribes I durst not take them my self therefore will I not prescribe them to others It helps the gout and other pains in the joynts comforts and strengthens both brain and stomach and consumes diseases whose original comes of flegm Pilulae Cochiae with Hellebore The Colledg Take of the pouder of the Pills before prescribed the pouder of the bark of the roots of 〈◊〉 Hellebore one ounce make it into a Mass with Syrup of Stoechas according to art Culpeper A. The former purgeth the head of flegm and therefore is fit for Lethargies this of Melancholly and is therefore fit for mad people if Melancholly be the cause Pills of Fumitory Avicenna The Colledg Take of Myrobalans Citrons Chebs and Indian 〈◊〉 of each five drachms Aloes 〈◊〉 drachms Let all of them being bruised be thrice moistened with juyce of Fumitory and thrice suffered to dry then brought into a Mass with Syrup of Fumitory Culpeper A. It purgeth Melancholly from the liver and spleen sharp chollerick and addust humors salt flegm and therefore helps 〈◊〉 and itch Take but half a drachm at a time in the morning and keep by the fire Be not too busie with it I beseech you Pilulae Indae Mesue out of Haly. The Colledg Take of Indian Myrobalans black Hellebore Polypodium of the Oak of each five drams Epithimum Stoechas of each six drachms Agrick Lapis Lazuli often washed Troches Alhandal Sal. Indi of each half an ounce Juyce of Maudlin made thick Indian Spicknard of each two drachms Cloves one drachm Species hiera picra Simplex Galeni 〈◊〉 drachms with Syrup of the Juyce of Smallage make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. It wonderfully prevails against afflictions coming of Melancholly Cancers which are not ulcerated Leprosie Evils of the mind coming of melancholly as sadness fear c. quartan agues jaundice pains and infirmities of the spleen I advise to take but half a drachm or a scruple at a time and take it often for melancholly infirmities are not easily removed upon a sudden take it in the morning and keep the house Pilulae Lucis majores Mesue The Colledg Take of Roses Violets Wormwood Colocynthis Turbith Cubebs Calamus Aromaticus Nutmegs Indian Spicknard Epithimum Carpobalsamum or instead thereof Cardamoms Xylobalsamum or wood of Aloes the seeds of Seseli or Hartwort Rue Annis Fennel and Smallage Schaenanthus Mastich Asarabacca roots Cloves 〈◊〉 Cassia Lignea Saffron Mace of each two drachms Myrobalans Citrons Chebuls Indian Bellerick and Emblick Rhubarb of each half an ounce Agrick Senna of each five drachms Aloes succotrina the weight of them all with Syrup of the juyce of 〈◊〉 make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. It purgeth mixt humors from the head and 〈◊〉 it of such excrements as hinder the sight You may take a drachm in the morning keep your self warm and within doors you shall find them strengthen the brain and visive vertue If your body be weak take less Pills of Spurge Fernelius The Colledg Take of the Bark of the roots of Spurge the less steeped twenty four hours in Vineger and juyce of Purslain two drachms Grains of Palma Christi torrefied by number fourty Citron Myrobalans one drachm and an half Germander Chamepitys Spicknard Cinnamon of each two scruples being beaten into fine pouder with an ounce of 〈◊〉 Traganth dissolved in Rose water and syrup of Roses so much as is sufficient let it be made into a Mass. Culpeper A. I could say if I would and prove it too that the ounce of Gum Traganth so dissolved is enough to make six times so much into a Mass but because the Receipt in my eyes seems more fitting for a horse than for a man I leave it Pills of Euphorbium Mesue The Colledg Take of Euphorbium Colòcynthïs Agrick Bdellium Sagapenum of each two drachms Aloes five drachms with Syrup made of the juyce of Leeks make it into a mass Culpeper A. The Pills are exceeding good for dropsies pains in the loins and Gouts coming of a moist cause Take not above half a drachm at a time and keep the house Pilulae Scribonii The Colledg Take of Sagapenum and Mirrh of each two drachms Opium Cardamoms Castorium of each one drachm white Pepper half a drachm Sapa so much as is sufficient to make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. It is apropriated to such as have Phtisicks and such as spit blood but ought to be newly made a scruple is sufficient taken going to bed Galen was the Author of it A. I have now done with the Pills only take notice that such as have Diagrydium otherwise called Scammony in them work violently and are to be taken early in the morning with discretion and administred with due consideration the other work more gently so that you may take a scruple of them at night going to bed and follow your imployments next day without danger A. I put in these only to satisfie the desires of the curious being confident that the Colledg quoted more by half than needed and Apothecaries must have them all in a readiness because the Colledg appoints them for if a Master bid his boy quench out the fire and make a new one he must do it because he is commanded Oh! that they would once be so wise to see their slavery TROCHES Culpeper A. IF any cavil at this name and think it hardly English let them give a better and I shall be thankful I know no other English name but will fall far below it A. They have gotten many Greek names almost as many as a Welchman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Latins besides the Greek name Trochisci and Pastilli and Placentulae A. Although a man may make them into what form he pleaseth yet they are usually made into little flat thin cakes of a scruple or twenty grains in weight plus minus some print Images as of Serpents upon Troches of Vipers upon them some guild them with Leaf-Gold some do neither A. They were first invented by the Ancients that Pouders being brought into this form may be kept pure the longer for the vertues of Pouders will soon exhale by intromission of air which the thick body of troches resist also such as are pectoral are the 〈◊〉 carried in ones pocket A. Few of them are taken by themselves but mixed with other Compositions Trochisci de Absinthio Page 129. in the Latin Book Or Troches of Wormwood The Colledg Take of Red Roses Wormwood leaves Annis seeds of each two drachms Juyce of Maudlin made thick The roots of 〈◊〉 Rhubarb Spicknard Smallage seeds bitter
a drachm Citrull seeds elensed three drachms and an half Camphire half a drachm with Manna dissolved in juyce of Barberies make them into Troches according to art Culpeper A. They wonderfully cool the heat of the liver reins and bladder breast and stomach and stop loosness cools the heat in feavers They are very fit for bodies that are distempered with heat to carry about with them when they travail they may take them at any time I suppose their mothers wit will teach them that it is best to take them when the stomach is empty I cannot write every thing neither if I did should I please every body I had as leeve undertake with the Sicilian Phylosopher to teach an Ass to speak as to teach a Dunce physick Trochisci de Camphora Page 131. in the Lat. Book Or Troches of Camphire The Colledg Take of Camphire half a drachm Saffron two drachms white Starch three drachms red Roses Gum Arabick and Tragacanth Ivory of each half an ounce the seeds of Cucumers husked of Purslain Liquor is of each an ounce with Mussilage of the seeds of Fleawort drawn in Rose water make them into Troches Culpeper A. It is 〈◊〉 good in burning feavers heat of blood and choller together with hot distempers of the stomach and Liver and extream thirst coming thereby also it is good against the yellow Jaundice Phtisicks and Hectick feavers You may use these as the former They have much altered this for they must be doing though to little purpose Trochisci de Capparibus Pag. 132. in L. Book Or Troches of Cappers The Colledg Take of the Bark of Cappar roots the seeds of Agnus Castus of each six drachms Ammoniacum half an ounce the seeds of Water-cresses and Nigella the Leaves of Calaminth and Rue the roots of Acorus and long Birthwort the juyce of Maudlin made thick bitter Almonds of each two drachms Harts-tongue the roots of round Cyperus Maddir Gum Lac. of each one drachm Being bruised let them be made into Troches according to art with Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger and boyled to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. They open stoppings of the liver and spleen and help diseases thereof coming as Rickets Hypocondriack Melancholly c. Men may take a drachm children a scruple in the morning you need not ask how children should take it 't is well if you can get them to take it any how Trochisci de Carabe Page 132. in the Latin Book Or Troches of Amber The Colledg Take of Amber an ounce Harts-born burnt Gum Arabick burnt red Corral burnt Tragacanth Acacia Hypocistis Balaustines Mastich Gum Lacca washed black Poppy seeds rosted of each two drachms and two scruples Frankinsence Saffron Opium of each two drachms with a sufficient qantity of Mussilage of the seeds of Fleawort drawn in Plantane water make them into Troches according to art Culpeper A. They were invented to stop fluxes of blood in any part of the body the terms in women the Hemorrholds or piles they also help ulcers in the breast and lungues The dose is from ten grains to a scruple Trochisci Cypheos for Methridate Page 132. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Pulp of Raisons of the sun 〈◊〉 Turpentine of each three ounces Mirrh Squinanth of each an ounce and an half Cinnamon half an ounce Calamus Aromaticus nine drachms the roots of round Cyperus and Indian 〈◊〉 Cassia Lignea Juniper Berries 〈◊〉 Aspalathus or wood of Aloes two drachms and an half Saffron one drachm clarified Honey as much as is sufficient Canary Wine a little Let the 〈◊〉 and Bdellium be ground in a Mortar with the Wine to the thickness of liquid Honey then ad the 〈◊〉 then the pulp of Raisons then the Pouders at last with the Honey let them all be made into Troches Culpeper A. It is excellent good against inward ulcers in 〈◊〉 part of the body soever they be It is chiefly used 〈◊〉 Compositions as 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Trochisci de Eupatorio Page 133. in the Lat. Book Or Troches of Maudlin The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Mandlin made thick Manna of each an ounce red Roses half an ounce Spodium three drachms and an 〈◊〉 Spicknard three drachms Rhubarb Asarabacca roots Annis seeds of each two drachms Let the Nard Annis seeds and Roses be beaten together the Spodium Asarabacca and Rbubarb by themselves then mix the Manna and Juyce of Maudlin in a Mortar add the pouders and with new juyce make it into Troches Culpeper A. Obstructions or stoppings and swelling above nature both of the liver and spleen 〈◊〉 cured by the inward taking of these Troches and diseases thereof coming as yellow and black jaundice the beginning of dropsies c. Take them as Troches of Wormwood Throches of Gallia Moschata Page 133. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Wood of Aloes five drams Ambergreece three drachms Musk one drachm with Muscilage of Gum Tragacanth made in Rose water make it into Troches according to art Culpeper A. They strengthen the brain and heart and by consequence both vital and animal spirit and cause a sweet breath They are of an extream price therefore I pass by the dose Trochisci Gordonli Page 133. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the four greater cold seeds busked the seeds of white Poppies Mallows Cotton Pierstain Quinces Mirtles Gum 〈◊〉 and Arabick Fistick Nuts Pine nuts Sugar-candy Penids Liquoris French 〈◊〉 arley 〈◊〉 of Fleawort seeds sweet Almonds blanched of 〈◊〉 two drachms Bole Armenick Dragons blood Spodium red Roses 〈◊〉 of each half an ounce with a sufficient quantity of Hydromel make it into Troches according to art Culpeper A. They are held to be very good in ulcers of the bladder and all other inward ulcers whatsoever and case feavers coming thereby being of a fine cooling slippery heating nature You may mix half a drachm of them with Syrup of Marsh-mallows or any other Syrup or Water apropriated to these uses they ease the pains of the stomach much They have left out the four lesser cold seeds of each two drachms and altered some of the quantities of the rest if you ask them a reason they can scarce give you a wise one Trochisci Hedychroi Galen for Treacle Page 134. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Aspalatbus or yellow Sanders the leaves of Mastich the roots of Asarabacca of each two drachms Rhupontick Castus Calamus Aromaticus Wood of Aloes Cinnamon Squinancth Opobalsamum or Oyl of Nutmegs by expression of each three drachms Cassia Lignea Indian Leaf or Mace Indian Spicknard Mirrh Saffron of each six drachms Amomus or Cardamoms the 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half Mastich a drachm Canary Wine as much as is sufficient Let the Mirrh be dissolved in the Wine then add the Mastich and Saffron well beaten then the Opobalsamum then the rest in pouder and with the Wine make them up into Troches and dry them gently Culpeper A. They are very seldom or never used but in other
to the place bleeding Sief de Thure Page 137. in the Latin Book Or Sief of Frankinsence The Colledg Take of Frankinsence Lap. 〈◊〉 Pompholix of each ten drachms Ciruss fourty drachms Gum Arabick Opium of each six drachms with sair water make it into Balls dry them and keep them for use Culpeper A. Sief is a general term which the Arabians give to all medicines apropriated to the eyes of which this is one and a good one to dry up rewms there Trochisci è Violis Solutivi P. 137. in Lat. Book Or Troches of Violets Solutive The Colledg Take of Violet flowers meanly dry six drachms Turbith one ounce and an half juyce of Liquoris Scammony Manna of each two drachms with Syrup of Violets make it into Troches Culpeper A. They are not worth talking of much less worth cost the cost and labor of making Trochisci de Vipera ad Theriacam P. 137. in L. B. Or Troches of Vipers for Treacle The Colledg Take of the flesh of Vipers the skin entrals head sat and taill being taken away boyled in water with dill and a little Salt eight ounces white bread twice baked grated and sifted two ounces make it into Troches your hands being anoynted with Opobalsamum or Oyl of Nutmegs by expression dry them upon a sieve turned the bottom upwards in an open place often turning them till they are well dried then put them in glass or stone pot glazed stopped close they will keep a year yet is it far better to make Treacle not long after you have made them Culpeper A. They expel poyson and are excellent good by a certain Sympatheticall vertue for such as are bitten by an Adder Trochisci de Agno Casto Pag. 138. in Lat. Book Or Troches of Agnus Castus The Colledg Take of the seeds of Agnus Castus Lettice redRose flowers Balaustins of each a dram Ivory white Amber Bole Armenick washed in knot grass water two drams Plantane seeds four scruples Sassafras two scruples with Mussilage of quince seeds extracted in water of Water lilly flowers let them be made into Troches Culpeper A. Very pretty Troches and good for little These Troches they have left out and left to be spoyled in the Apothecaries Shops it is the wisest way to keep those poor you would make slaves of Trochisci Alexiterii Renodaeus Colledg TAke of the roots of Gentain Tormentil Orris Florentine Zedoary of each two drachms Cinnamon Cloves Mace of each half a dram Angelica roots three drachms Coriander seeds prepared Roses of each one drachm dried Citron pills two drachms beat them all into pouder and with juyce of Liquoris softened in Hippocras six ounces make them into a soft Past which you may from into either Troches or small rowls which you please Culpeper A. It preserves and strengthens the heart exceedingly helps fainting and failings of the vital spirits resists poyson and the pestilence and is an excellent medicine for such to carry about them whose occasions are to travail in pestilential places and corrupt air only taking a very small quantity now and then Troches of Annis seeds Mesue The Colledg Take of Annis seeds the juyce of Maudlin made thick of each two drachms the seeds of Dill Spicknard Mastich Indian leaf or Mace the leaves of Wormwood Asarabacca Smallage bitter Almonds of each half a drachm Aloes two dtams 〈◊〉 of Wormwood so much as is sufficient to make it into Trocbes according to art Culpeper A. They open obstructions of the liver and that very gently and therefore diseases coming thereof help quartan agues You can scarce do amiss in taking them if they please but your pallat Trochisci Diarhodon Mesue The Colledg Take of the flowers of red Roses six drachms Spicknard wood of Aloes of each two drachms Liquoris three drachms Spodium one drachm Saffron half a drachm Mastich two drachms make them up into Troches with white Wine according to art Culpepeper A. They wonderfully ease feavers coming of flegm as quotidian feavers agues Epialos c. pains in the belly Trochisci de Lacca Mesue The Colledg Take of Gum Lacca clensed the juyce of Liquoris 〈◊〉 Wormwod and Barberries all made thick Rhubarb long Birthwort Costus Asarabacca Bitter Almonds Maddir Annis Smalbage Schoenanth of each one drachm With the Decoction of Birth-wort or Schoenanth or the juyce of Maudlin or Wormwood make them into troaches according to art Culpeper A. It helps stoppings of the liver and spleen and feavers thence coming it expels wind purgeth by urine and resists dropsies The dose is between half a drachm and a drachm according to the age and strength of the patient Pastilli Adronis Galen The Colledg Take of Pomegranate flowers ten drachms Copper is twelve drachms 〈◊〉 Galls Birthwort Frankinsence of each an ounce Allum Mirrh of each half an ounce Misy two drachms With eighteen ounces of austere Wine make it into 〈◊〉 according to art Culpeper A. This also is apropriated to wounds ulcers and fistulaes it clears the ears and represseth all excressences of flesh clenseth the filth of the bones Trochisci Musae Galen The Colledg Take of Allum Aloes Copperis Mirrh of each six drachms Crocomagma Saffron of each three drachms Pomegranate flowers half an ounce Wine and Honey of each so much as is sufficient to make it up into troches according to art Culpeper A. Their use is the same with the former Crocomagma of Damocrates Galen The Colledg Take of Saffron a hundred drams red Roses Mirrh of each fifty drachms white Starch Gum of each thirty drachms Wine so much as is sufficient to make it into troches Culpeper A. It is very expulsive heats and strengthens the heart and stomach Trochisci Ramich Mesue The Colledg Take of the juyce of Sorrel 〈◊〉 ounces red Rose Leaves an ounce 〈◊〉 berries two ounces boyl them a little together and strain them ad to the decoction Galls well beaten three ounces boyl them again a little then put in these following things in fine pouder take of red Roses an ounce yellow Sanders ten drachms Gum Arabick an ounce and an half Sumach Spodium of each an ounce Mirtle berries four ounces wood of Aloes Cloves Mace Nutmegs of each half an ounce sour Grapes seven drachms mix them all together and let them dry upon a stone and grind them again into pouder and make them into smal troches with one drachm of Camphire and so much Rose water as is sufficient and perfume them with fifteen grains of Musk. Culpeper A. They strengthen the stomach heart and liver as also the bowels they help the chollick and fluxes of blood as also bleeding at the nose if you snuff but up the pouder of them disburden the body of salt fretting chollerick humors You may carry them about you and take them at your pleasure Troches of Roses Mesue The Colledg Take of red Roses half an ounce wood of Aloes two drachms Mastich a drachm and an half Roman Wormwood Cinnamon Indian Spicknard Cassia Lignea Schaenanth of
pains in the head and to recruit an 〈◊〉 brain helps green wounds 〈◊〉 inflamations strengthens the liver Emplastrum Isis Epigoni 〈◊〉 The Colledg Take of 〈◊〉 wax an hundred drachms Turpentine two hundred drachms scales of Copper 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each eight drachms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 half 〈◊〉 Oyl 〈◊〉 pound sharp Vineger 〈◊〉 much 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let the mettals 〈◊〉 dissolved in the Sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 put in those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 last of all the 〈◊〉 and make them all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Culpeper A. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ulcers 〈◊〉 I know no 〈◊〉 but why it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 well serve for other parts of the body A 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Nich. 〈◊〉 The Colledg Take of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each six 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each three 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Styrax Calamitis Allum Rondeletius appoints and we for him Bitumen Foenugreek of each two drams the feeces of Liquid Styrax Bdellium Litharge of each half a drachm Let the Litharge being beaten into Pouder be boyled in a sufficient quantity of Water then add the Pitch which being 〈◊〉 ad the Wax and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and feeces being mixed with the Turpentine last of all the Colophonia Mastich Frankinsence Bdellium Allum Mirrh and Foenugreck in Pouder let them be made into a Plaister Culpeper A. It strengthens the stomach and helps digestion Emplastrum nigrum August Called in High Dutch Stichpflaster The Colledg Take of Colophonia Rozin Ship-Pitch white Wax Roman Vitriol Ceruss Olibanum Mirrh of each eight ounces Oyl of Roses seven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mummy of each two ounces Earth of Lemnos Mastich Dragons blood of each one ounce the fat of an Heron one ounce the fat of Timullus three ounces Loadstone prepared two ounces Earth-worms prepared Campbire of each one ounce make them into a Plaister according to art Culpeper A. It is very good say they in green wounds and pricks Emplastrum Sanctum Andr. è Cruce A. A holy Plaister composed by Andrew of the Gollows The Colledg Take of Per-rozin twelve ounces Oyl of Bays Turpentine of each two ounces Gum 〈◊〉 four ounces Let the Rozin and Gum be melted over the fire in a brass pan stirring it with a brass instrument then ad Oyl of Bays and Turpentine boyl it a little then put it in a linnen bag and that which drops through keep in a glazed pot for your use Culpeper A. The vertues are the same with Arceus his Liniment Emplastrum sine Pari. The Colledg Take of Frankinsence Bellium Styrax of each three drachms Ammoniacum Galbanum of each one drachm and an half Ship pitch six drachms the Marrow of a Stag sat of Hens and Geese of each two drachms Sulphur 〈◊〉 washed in Milk Hermodactils in pouder of each a drachm and an half Let the Gums be dissolved in white Wine not in Vineger because that is inimical to the nerves and with two parts of Oyl of Roses compleat and one part of Oyl of Eggs and a little Oyl of Turpentine make it into a Plaister according to art A Plaister for the Stomach Mesue The Colledg Take of wood of Aloes Wormwood Gum Arabick Mastick Cyperus Costus Ginger of each half an ounce Calamus Aromaticus Olibanum Aloes of each three drachms Cloves Mace Cinnamon Spicknard Nutmegs Gallia Moschata Schananthus of each one drachm and an half with Rob of Quinces make it into an Emplaster And when you have spread it upon a Cloath perfume it with wood of Aloes and apply it to your stomach A Cerecloath of Ammoniacum The Colledg Take of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger an ounce Unguentum de Althaeae Melilot Plaister of each half an ounce Bran an ounce pouder of the Roots of Briony and Orris of each half an ounce the Grease of Ducks Geese and Hens of each three drachms Oyl of Orris one ounce and an half Let them boyl gently in the Mussilages of Lin and Foenugrelk seeds so much as is sufficient by adding Wax four ounces make it into a Cerecloath according to art Culpeper A. It asswageth swellings or ripens und breaks them and easeth pains thereby coming Ceratum Stomachium Galen The Colledg Take of red Roses Mastich of each twenty drachms dried wormwood fifteen drachms Spicknard ten drachms Wax four ounces Rose Water so much as is sufficien Oyl of Roses a pound and an half Let it boyl so till it be like an Oyntment Then ad Oyl of Roses eight ounces Wax fourteen ounces the Pouders afore mentioned excepting the Mastich which must be melted in the Oyl of Roses of all of them used in this manner make a Cerecloath according to art Culpeper A. It strengthens the stomach and liver easeth their pains provokes appetite to ones meat and helps digestion A. And thus you see I have left out Vigo his nonsence or his most excellent Plaister of Vineger and Saffron in which is no Saffron there being other things in the book rediculous enough if you are disposed to laugh CHYMICAL OYLS AND OTHER CHYMICAL LIQUORS OYL of HERBS and FLOWERS Culpeper A. I Desire you to take notice before I begin that Chymical Oyls generally are not to be taken alone by themselves by reason of their vehement heat and burning but mixed with other convenient medicines A. 2. They carry the very same vertues the Simples do but are far more prevalent as having far more spirit in them and far less earthly dross A. 3. The generall way of taking them is to drop two or three drops of them in any convenient liquor or other medicine which the last Table will fit you with and so take it for some of them are so hot as Oyl of Cinnamon that two or three drops will make a dish of pottage so hot of the Simple that you can hardly eat them Oyl of Wormwood The Colledg Take of dried Wormwood a pound spring water twenty pound steep them twenty four hours and distill them in a great Alembick with his refrigeratory or a Copper one with a Worm let the Oyl be separated from the Water with a Funnel or seperating glass as they call it and let the Water be kept for another distillation Let two or three of the first pounds of Water be kept for the Physitians use both in this and other Chymical Oyls drawn with Water Culpeper A. Your best way to learn to still Chymical Oyls is to learn of an Alchymist for I rest confident the greatest part of the Colledg had no more skill in Chymistry than I have in building houses but having found out certain models in old rusty Authors tell people S O they must be done I can teach a man S O how to build a house first he may lay the foundation then rear up the sides then joyn the rafters then build the Chimneyes tile the top and plaister the walls but how
they stick to your Fingers like Birdlime for they ought to penetrate the parts to be mollified and therefore many times if occasion be are 〈◊〉 Medicines mixed with them Chap. 2. Of Hardning Medicines GALEN in Lib. 5. De Simpl. Med. Facult Cap. 10. determins Hardning Medicines to be cold and moist and he brings some arguments to prove it against which other Physitians contest I shall not here stand to quote the Dispute only take notice That if softning Medicines be hot and moist as we shewed even now then hardning Medicines must needs be cold and dry because they are contrary to them The Universal course of Nature will prove it for driness and moisture are passive qualities neither can extremities consist in moisture as you may know if you do but consider that driness is not attributed to the Air nor Water but to the Fire and Earth 2. The thing to be congealed must needs be moist therefore the Medicine congealing must of necessity be dry for if cold be joyned with driness it contracts the pores that so the humors cannot be scattered Yet you must observe a difference between Medicines drying making thick hardning and congealing of which differences a few words will not do amiss 1. Such Medicines are said to dry which draw out or drink up the moisture as a 〈◊〉 drinks up water 2. Such Medicines are said to make thick as do not consume the moisture but ad driness to it as you make Syrups into a thick Electuary by adding Pouders to them 3. Such as congeal neither draw out the moisture not make it thick by adding driness to it but contract it by vehement cold as Water is frozen into Ice 4. Hardning disfers from all these for the parts of the Body swell and are filled with Flegmatick humors or Melancholly Blood which at last grows hard That you may cleerly understand this observe but these two things 1. What it is which worketh 2. What it worketh upon That which worketh is outward cold that which is wrought upon is a certain thickness driness of humors for if the humor were fluid as water is it might properly be said to be congealed by cold but not so properly hardned Thus you see cold drines to be the cause of hardning But enough of this perhaps some may think too much This hardning being so far from being useful that it is obnoxious to the Body of Man I pass it without more words I suppose when Galen wrote of hardning Medicines he intended such as make thick and therefore amongst them he reckons up Fleawort Purslain Housleek and the like which asswage the heat of the humors in Swellings and stop subtil and sharp Defluxious upon the Lungues but of these more anon CHAP. 3. Of Loosning Medicines BY Loosning here I do not mean Purging not that which is opposit to Astringency but that which is opposit to stretching I knew not suddenly what fitter English Name to give it than Loosning or Laxation which latter is scarce English The Members are distended or stretched divers waies and ought to be loosned as many for they are stretched sometimes by driness sometimes by cold sometimes by repletion or fulness sometimes by swellings and sometimes by some of these joyned together I avoid terms of Art as much as I can because it would profit my Country but little to give them the Rules of Physick in such English as they understand not I confess the Opinion of Ancient Physitians hath been various about these Loosning Medicines Galen's Opinion was That they might be referred either to moistning or heating or mollifying or evacuating Medicines and therefore ought not to be referr'd to a Chapter by themselves T is like they may and so may all other Medicines be referred to heat or coldness or dryness or moisture But we speak not here of the Particular properties of Medicines but of their Joyned properties as they heat and moisten Others they question how they can be distinguished from such as mollifie seeing such as are loosning and such as are emollient are both of them hot and moist To that thus Stetching and Loosning are ascribed to the movable parts of the Body as to the Muscles and their Tendons to the Ligaments and Membranae But softness and hardness to such parts of the Body as may be felt with the hand I shall make it cleer by a Similitude Wax is softned being hard but Fiddle-strings are loosned being stretched And if you say that the difference lying only in the parts of the Body is no true difference then take notice that such Medicines which loosen are less hot and more moistning than such as soften for they operate most by heat these by moisture The truth is I am of Opinion the difference is not much nay scarce sensible between Emollient and Loosning Medicines Only I quoted this in a Chapter by itself not so much because some Authors do as because it conduceth to the encrease of knowledge in Physick for want of which this poor Nation is almost spoiled The chief Use of Loosning Medicines is in Convulsions and Cramps and such like infirmities which cause distention or stretching They are known by the very same marks and tokens that Emollient Medicines are CHAP. 4. Of Medicines making thin and thick MEdicines which rarify or make thin are such which open the pores of the skin and make them wider they are not so moist as Emollient Medicines are but of thin and subtil parts they are hot but not so hot that they should draw the matter to them or discuss it as we shall shew when we come to speak of those Faculties Such as make thick are contrary to these these are cold and stop the pores of the skin These Galen would have to be moist neither is there any difference between his Description of hardning Medicines and such as make thick 1. The Use of Rarifying Medicines is to open the pores of the skin and make them wider that so the vapors arising from Blood overheated may pass out and that was the Reason Wrestlers in ancient times came to their exercise with their Bodies anoynted that so the vapors caused by stirring their Bodies might pass out and not cause Feavers or other mischief to the Bowels by being kept in 2. Rarifying Medicines conduce much to the mitigation of pain for the pores of the Skin being opened the matter causing the pain is the easier expelled Again In swellings it is not only the plenty of humors that causeth pain but the driness hardness or stretching of the Skin therefore seeing Medicines which rarify or make thin do both loosen and mollifie they must of necessity by these operations mitigate pain Also there is much profit in the use of thickning Medicines for they make the Skin firm thereby not only the better resisting cold but also they stop too much sweating and desolution of the spirits that way which often happens to them that are weak CHAP 5. Of Medicines
the mouth being ordained to take in nourishment not to cast out excrements and to regulate a mans body in vomiting and doses of of vomits requires a deeper study in Physick then I doubt the generality of people yet have I omit it therefore at this time not because I gruteh it my Country but because I would not willingly have them do themselves a mischeife I shal shortly teach them in what diseases vomits may be used and then and not til then the use of vomits Vinum Scilliticum Page 44. in the Latin Book Or Wines of Squils The Colledg Take of a white Squil of the mountains gathered about the rising of the 〈◊〉 starre cut in thin peices and dryed for a month one pound put it in a glass bottle and pour to it eight pound of french Wine and when it hath stood so four daies take out the Squil Culpeper A. I told told them before that Squils grew by the Sea side and not upon mountains but a man shall as soon knock a Spunge into a milstone as any wit into the head of a conceited fool and then again it must be gathered at the rising of the dog-star yes forsooth by al means truly right worshipful against the time you are minded to play the anticks again I will give you as much directions in this business as is needful to give men of your Rank and quallity Therefore know that the dogs are two constellations between the Equator and the South pole consisting of divers Stars two of which are most remarkable and of the first magnitude whereof that in the great dog is called Syejus that in the 〈◊〉 Procyon each of these two Stars hath three risings Acronical Cosmical and Heliacal and as many settings I dare pass my word it is not the Heliacal rising here meant If it be I hope so learned a Colledg is not to seek of finding such a 〈◊〉 out Procyon riseth Acronically upon the fifteen or sixteen of January Syejus upon the twenty six or twenty seven of the same month Procyon riseth Cosmically upon the ninteenth of July and 〈◊〉 upon the last day of the same month the next time you write pray lay your noddles together to study out at which of these times the Squil must be gathered A. The vertues of this are the same with Vineger of Squils only 't is hotter PHYSICAL VINEGERS Acetum Distillatum Page 45. in the Latin Book Or Distilled Vineger Colledg FIll a glass or stone Alembick with the best Vineger to the third part separate the 〈◊〉 with a gentle fire then encrease the fire by degrees and perform the work Acetum Rosatum Page 45. in the Latin Book Or Rose Vineger The Colledg Take of red Rose buds gathered in a dry time the whites cut off dried in the shaddow three or four daies one pound Vineger eight Sextaries set them in the Sun fourty daies then strain out the Roses and repeat the infusion with fresh ones After the same manner is made Vineger of Elder-flowers Rosemary flowers and Clove-gilli-flowers Culpeper A. For the vertues of al Vinegers take this one only observation they carry the same vertues with the flowers whereof they are made only as we said of Wines that they were better for cold bodies than the bare Simples whereof they are made so are Vinegers for hot bodies Besides Vinegers are often nay most commonly used externally viz. to bath the place then look a mongst the Simples and see what place of the body the Simple is apropriated to and then you cannot chuse but know if you have but a grain of understanding more than a beast both what Vineger to use and to what place to apply 〈◊〉 Acetum Scilliticum Page 45. in the Latin Book Or Vineger of Squils The Colledg Take of that part of the Squil which is between the outward bark and the bottom cut in thin slices and placed thirty or fourty daies in the Sun or some remiss heat then a pound of them being cut smal with a knife made of Ivory or some white wood being put in a vessel and six pound of Vineger put to them set the vessel being close stopped in the Sun thirty or fourty daies afterwards strain it and keep it for use Culpeper A. A little of this medicine being taken in the morning fasting and walking half an hour after preserves the body in health to extream old age as Sanius tryed who using no other medicine but this lived in perfect health til an hundred and seventeen years of age it maketh the digestion good a long wind a cleer voice an acute sight a good colour it suffers no offensiye thing to remain in the body neither wind flegm choller melancholly dung nor urine but brings them forth it brings forth filth though it lie in the bones it takes away salt and sour belchings though a man be never so licentious in diet he shal feel no harm It hath cured such as have the Phtisick that have been given over by al Physitians It cures such as have the Falling-sickness gouts and diseases and swellings of the Joynts It takes away the hardness of the liver and spleen We should never have done if we should reckon up the particular benefits of this medicine Therefore we commend it as a wholsom medicine for soundness of body preservation of health and vigor of mind thus 〈◊〉 Acetum Theriacale Norimberg Page 46. in Lat. B. Or Treacle Vineger The Colledg Take of the roots of Sullendine the greater one ounce and an half the roots of Angellica Master-wort Gentian Bistort Valerian Burnet white Dittany Alicampane Zedoary of each one drachm of Plantane the greater one drachm and an half the leaves of Mousear Sage Scabious Scordium Dittany of Creet Cardus of each half a handful bark and seeds of Citrons of each half a drachm Bole Armenick one drachm Saffron three drachms Harts-born one drachm and an half of these let the Saffron Harts-horn Dittany and Bole be tied up in a ragge and steeped with the things before mentioned in five pints of Vineger for certain daies by a temperate heat in a glass well stopped strain it and ad six drachms of the best Treacle to it shake it together and keep it for your use Acetum Theriacale 46. in the Latin Book Or Treacle Vineger The Colledg Add to `the description of Treacle water Clove-gilli-flowers two ounces Lavender flowers an ounce and an half Rose and Elder flower Vineger of each four pound digest it without boyling three daies then strain it through Hippocrates his sleeve Culpeper A. See Treacle water for the vertues only this is a little more cool a little more phantastical DECOCTIONS Decoctum Commune pro Clystere Page 47. in Lat B. Or A common Decoction for a Cylster The Colledg Take of Mallows Violets Pellitory Beets and Mercury Chamomel flowers of each one handful sweet Fennel seeds half an ounce Linseeds two drachms boyl them in a sufficient quantiiy of common water to a
of it evaporate away in a bath then to two pound of it ad sixteen ounces of 〈◊〉 Sugar boyl it into a Syrup which perfume with 〈◊〉 Cinnamon Nutmegs Annis seeds in fine pouder of each three drachms Culpeper A. Tragus and Pena commend it much against the Dropsie I know nothing of it by experience and I am confident the Colledg when they writ it knew as little and therefore I hold it modesty to let it alone as an upstart Medicine appointed to try experiences upon poor mens bodies and if it kill them their friends by Law cannot question a Collegiate SYRUPS MADE WITH VINEGER AND HONEY Mel Anthosatum Page 72. in the Latin Book Or Honey of Rosemary Flowers TAke of fresh Rosemary Flowers a pound clarified Honey three pound mix them in a glass with a narrow mouth set them in the sun and keep them for use Culpeper A. It hath the same vertues with Rosemary flowers to which I refer you only by reason of the Honey it may be somwhat clensing Mel Helleboratum Page 72. in the Latin Book Or Honey Helleborated The Colledg Take of white Hellebore Roots bruised a pound cleer water fourteen pound after three daies infusion boyl it till half be consumed then strain it diligently and with three pound of Honey boyl it to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. What a monstrum horrendum horrible terrible Receipt have we got here A pound of white Hellebore boyled in fourteen pints of Water to seven I would ask the Colledg if they would not be angry or if they be I cannot help it whether the Hellebore will not lose its vertue in the twentieth part of this infusion and decoction for it must be infused forsooth three daies to a minute if a man may make so bold as to tell them the truth A Taylors Goose being boyled that time would make a Decoction near as strong as the Hellebore but this they will not beleeve well then be it so imagine the Hellebore still to retain its vigor after being so long tired out with a tedious boyling for less boyling would boyl an Ox what should this Medicine do purge Melancholly say they but from whom from men or beasts for the Medicine would be so strong the Devil would not take it unless it were powred down his throat with a horn I will not say they intended to kill men cum privilegio that 's too gross I charibly judg thus They fearing their monopoly would not hold as being built upon a rotten foundation intended when it failed to turn Horse-Doctors and so provided this Receipt against a wet day For A. Either the vertue of the Hellobore will fly away in such a martyrdom or else it will remain in the Decoction A. If it evaporate away then is the Medicine like themselves good for nothing A. If it remain in it is enough to spoil the strongest man breathing A. 1. Because it is too strong A 2. Because it is not corrected in the least and because they have not corrected that therefore I take leave to correct them Mel Mercuriale Page 72. in the Latin Book Or Honey of Mercury The Colledg Boyl three pound of the Juyce of Mercury with two pound of Honey to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. It is used as an Emollient in Clysters Mel Mororum vel Diamoron Page 72. in L. Book Or Honey of Mulberries The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Mulberries and black berries before they be ripe gathered before the Sun be up of each a pound and an half Honey two pound boyl them to their due thickness Culpeper A. It is 〈◊〉 known to be good for sore mouths as also to cool inflamations there Mel Nuceum aliàs 〈◊〉 et Dianncum P. 72. Or Honey of Nuts The Colledg Take of the Juyce of the outward bark of green 〈◊〉 gathered in the dog daies two pound boyl it gently till it be thick and with one pound of Honey boyl it to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. It is a good preservative in peftilential times a spoonful being taken so soon as you are up Mel Passulatum Page 72. in the Latin Book Or Honey of Raisons The Colledg Take of Raisons of the Sun clensed from the stones two pound steep them in six pound of warm water the next day boyl it half away and press it strongly and with two pound of Honey let the expressed liquor boyl to its thickness Culpeper A. It is a pretty pleasing Medicine for such as are in Consumptions and are bound in body Mel Rosatum commune sive Foliatum Page 73. Or Common Honey of Roles The Colledg Take of red Roses not quite open two pound Honey six pound set them in the Sun according to art Mel Rosatum Colatum Page 73. in the Latin Book Or Honey of Roles strained The Colledg Take of the best clarified Honey ten pound Juyce of frish red Roses one pound set it handsomly over the fire and when it begins to boyl put in four pound of fresh red Roses the whites being cut off the Juyce being consumed by boyling and stirring strain it and keep it for use Culpeper A. They are both used for diseases in the mouth Mel Rosatum Solutivum Page 73. in L. Book Or Honey of Roses Solutive The Colledg Take of the often Infusion of Damask Roses five pound Honey rightly clarified four pound boyl it to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. It is used as a laxative in Clysters and some Chyrurgians use it to clense wounds The Colledg After the same manner is prepared Honey of the Infusion of red Roses Mel Scilliticum Page 73. In the Latin Book Or Honey of Squils The Colledg Take one Squill full of Juyce cut it in bits and put it in a glass vessel the mouth close stopped and covered with a skin set it in the Sun fourty daies to wit twenty before and after the rising of the Dog Star then open the vessel and take the Juyce which lies at the bottom and preserve it with the best Honey Culpeper A. A man never shews his folly so much as in medling with things he hath no skill in Were it not folly in me to go teach a Smith how to make nails or a Farmer how to mend his Land And what then is it for our learned Colledg to write of Astronomy which is a Science they have as much skill in as Banks his horse I told them of it last Edition and now they have mended it as the Fletcher mended his Bolt made two faults for one before what should a Common-wealth do with such creatures that know nothing and are too proud to learn It belongs to their slaves viz. the Company of the Apothecaries to ask them 1. Which Dog Star they mean 2. Which rising whether Acronical Cosmical or Heliacal The Colledg Honey of Violets is prepared like as Honey of Roses Oxymel Simple Page 73. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the best Honey four pound cleer water and white