of conserves to it A. As for the vertues of this it strengthens weak stomachs weak hearts and weak brains restores such as are in consumptions restores lost strength staies fluxes easeth pains in the head ears eyes helps spitting vomiting pissing of blood After the same manner is made Sugar of Violets Bugloss Maiden hair Succory Orris Florentine Elicampane roots Comfry and other things SPECIES OR POVDERS A. GIve me leave to premise three or four things before come to the matter A. 1. Pouders are called by the Arabians Suffuf and Alkool 't is strange the Colledg inserted not these two strange names to puzzle the brains of the unlearned and make them beleeve wonders A. 2. I know not well what English name to give the word Species only thus the ancients used the word for such Pouders as were ready prepared for an Electuary but not yet mixed with any liquid substance but they called those Pouders which were alwaies kept dry for use A. 3. I would desire such as intend to take the pains themselves to make these pouders that they would make great hast in beating them lest the strength fly away in vapour through long keeping them in the air A. 4. That they would sift them through a very fine tiffany left the pouder be too gross and so part of its operation lost A. 5. That they would in keeping of them stop them very close in a glass with a narrow mouth lest the strength fly out in vapours after it is beaten Aromaticum Caryophyllatum Mesue Take of Cloves seven drachms Mace Zedoary Galanga the lesser yellow Sanders troches Diarhodon Cinnamon wood of Aloes Indian Spicknard long pepper Cardamoms of each a drachm red Roses four drachms Gallia moschata Liquoris of each two drachms Indian leaf Cubebs of each two scruples Ambergreece a drachm Musk half a scruple white Sugar as much as is sufficient make a pouder of them all being dilligently beaten and with as much syrup of Citrons as is sufficient you may make it into an Electuary A. It would make a horse break his halter to hear some of their recepts a boy of seven years old deserves to be whipped if he should transcribe a recept so scurvily as the Colledge hath done this I would fain know of them if they can tell me how much this sufficient quantity of Sugar is or of what use any'at all is amongst the pouder the truth is Mesue appoints the Sugar to help make it up into an Electtuary and they go and place it amongst the pouder whether there be an Electuary made of it or not A. Again seeing they vapour that they have taken so much pains in compiling the book the greatest part of which was in print above a hundred years before they were born they might I say have taken the pains to have explained Mesue his meaning viz. what syrup must be used whether syrup of the juyce of Citrons or of Citron pills but I shall let that pass as a matter either of ignorance or carlesness in them out of question it is syrup of Citron pills that Mesue here intended A. This pouder strengthens the heart and stomach helps digestion expelleth wind staies vomiting and cleanseth the stomach of putrified humours Aromaticum Rosatum Gabriel Take of Red-Roses fifteen drachms Liquoris seven drams wood of Aloes yellow Sanders of each three drachms Cinnamon five drachms Cloves Mace of each two drachms and an half Gum Arabick and Traganth of each two drachms and two scruples Nutmegs Cardamoms the lesser Galanga of each one drachm Indian Spicknard Amber-greece of each two scruples Musk one scruple beat them all into pouder according to art and keep the pouder for your use in a glasse or stone pot glazed By reason of the ill tast of the Spicknard you may prepare the pouder without it and so may you any other Cordiall pouder in which Spicknard is A. It strengthens the brain heart and stomach and all such internal members as help towards concoction it helps digestion consumes the watry excrements of the bowels strengthens such as are pin'd away by reason of the violence of a disease and restores such as are in a consumption The lesser Cordial Pouder Fernelius Take of Harts horn Unicorns-horn Pearls Ivory of each six grains beat them into fine pouder if you mean to keep it you may encrease the quantity analogically The greater Cordial Pouder Fernelius Take of the roots of Tormentil Dittany Clove gilliflowers Scabious the seeds of Sorrel Coriander prepared Citron Carduus Benedictus Endive Rue of each one dram of the three sorts of Sanders Been white and red or if you cannot get them take the roots of Avens and Tormentil in their heads Roman Doronicum Cinnamon Cardamoms Saffron The flowers of both sorts of Bugloss Red-Roses and Water Lillies wood of Aloes Mace of each two scruples Ivory Spodium Bone of a Stags heart red Corral Pearls Emerald 〈◊〉 Cranate of each one scruple Raw Silk torrefied Bole-Armenick Earth of Lemnos of each half a drachm Camphire Amber greece Musk of each six grains beat them into pouder according to art and with eight times their weight in white sugar disolved in Rose water you may make them into Lozinges if you please A. Both this and the former pouder are apropriated to the heart as the titles shew therefore do they strengthen that and the vital spirit and relieve languishing nature A Pouder for such as are bruised by a Fall The Augustan Physitians Take of Terra sigillata Sanguis Draconis Mummy of each two drachms Sperma Ceti one drachm Rhubarb half a drachm beat them into pouder according to art A. You must beat the rest into pouder and then add the Sperma Ceti to them afterwards for if you put the Sperma Coci and the rest altogether and go to beat them in that fashion you may as soone beat the morter into pouder as the Simples Indeed your best way is to beat them severally and then mix them altogether which being done makes you a gallant medicine for the infirmity specified in the title a drachm of it being taken in Muskadel and 〈◊〉 after it Species cordiales Temperatae Take of wood of Aloes and Spodium of each a drachm Cinnamon Cloves bone of a Stags heart Angelica roots both sorts of Been or in their stead the roots of Avens and Tormentill of each a drachm and an half Pearls prepared six drachms raw silk torrefied both sorts of Corral of each two drachms Jacinth Emerald Saphir of each half a drachm Saffron a scruple Ambergreece Musk of each half a drachm leaves of Gold and Silver of each ten make a pouder of these according to art A. The recept is questionlesse a great cordial a great strengthener both of the heart and brain Diacalaminthes Simplex Gallen Take of Calaminth of the mountains Penyroyal Origanum The seeds of Macedonian Parsly common Smallage Seseli of each two drachms 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 humours Troches of Bases Mesue 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 Schoenanth of each one dram old Wine and decoction of the five opening roots so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art A. They help pains in the stomach and ill digestion the Iliack passion Hectick feavers and dropfies in the beginning and cause a good colour Troches of Squils Galen Take a Squill gathered about the beginning of July of a mean bigness white and full the outward pill and that hard part to which the little roots stick being taken away wrap it up in past and roast it in an oven till the past be dry and Squill tender which you may know by searching it with a scuer or bodkin then take it out and beat it in a mortar and mix with it of the pouder of white Orobus or instead thereof red Cicers eight ounces to each pound of Squills make it into Troches of the weight of two drachms a piece dry them in the upper part of the house looking towards the south often turning of them till they be dry keep them in a peuter or glass vessel not in lead Troches of Spodium Mesue Take of red Roses twelve drachms Spodium ten drachms Sorrel seeds six drachms Purslain seeds Coriander seeds prepared pulp of Sumach of each two drachms and an half white Starch Balaustines Barberries of each two drachms Gum Arabick torrefied a drachm and an half with juyce of Grapes make them into Troches A. They are of a fine cooling binding nature excellent in feavers coming of Choller especially if they be accompanied with a loosness they also quench thirst Troches of Sanders Mesue Take of the three sorts of Sanders of each an ounce the seeds of Cucumers Gourds Citruls Purssain Spodium of each half an ounce Roses seven drachms Juyce of Barberries fix drachms Bole Armenick four drachms Camphire one drachm with Purslain water make it into Troches A. The vertues are the same with the former Troches of Vipers Andromacus out of Galen Take of the flesh of Vipers the skin bowels and fat head and tail being taken away boyled with Dill and a little salt eight ounces the crumbs of pure white bread two ounces make them into Troches with the broath in which the Vipers were boyled if you need liquor and anoint them with Opobalsamum or oyl of 〈◊〉 by expression and dried in the shaddow in an open place fifteen daies or something longer often turning them till they be well dried then lay them up in a glass or stone vessel glazed so may they be kept close stopped a whol yeer yet it is better to make Treacle so soon as you have them They which will keep them longer let them wipe off the dust which usually sticks to them which in time will eat them through and through so may you keep them three yeers Trochisci Viticis sive Agni Casti. Renodaeus Take of the seeds of Agnus Castus Roses Lettice Balaustins of each a drachm Ivory Amber of each a drachm and an half Bole Arminick washed in the water of 〈◊〉 grasse two drachms Plantan seed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sassafras two scruples with Mussilage of Quince seeds made with the water of water Lilly flowers make them into Troches according to art Trochisci albi Rhasis Take of Ceruss washed in Rose water ten drachms Sarcocolla three drachms white Starch two drachms 〈◊〉 Arabick and 〈◊〉 of each one drachm Camphire Opium of each half a drachm let them be made up into Troches with milk according to art Also if you please you may make them up without Opium A. They are cool without Opium but cooler with it as also very drying and are used in injections in Ulcers in the yard and the running of the reins c. Troches of Winter-Cherries Mesue Take of the berries of Winter-Cherries three drachms the seeds of Melons Cucumers Citruls Gourds of each three drachm and an half Gum Arabick Traganth Olibanum Dragons blood Pine nuts bitter Almonds white Poppy seeds white Starch juyce of Liquoris Bole Armenick of each six drams the seeds of Smallage and Henbane Amber Earth of Lemnos Opium of each two drams with juyce of the berries of fresh winter Cherries or else with their decoction make them up into Troches according to art Also you may prepare them without Opium A. They potently provoke urine and break the stone Trochisci de Carabe Mesue Take of Amber six drams burnt Hartshorn Gum Arabick torrefied red Correl burnt Gum traganth Acacia Hypoci stis 〈◊〉 Mastich Gum Lacca washed black Poppy seeds torrefied of each two drams Frankinsence Saffron Opium of each one dram and an half Missilage of the seeds of Flea-wort so much as is sufficient to make it up into Troches A. They were invented to stop fluxes of blood in any part of the body the terms in women the 〈◊〉 or piles they also help ulcers in the breast and lungues Trochisci Diacorrallion Galen Take of Bole Armenick red Corral of each an ounce Balaustins terra Lemnia white Starch of each half an ounce Hypocystis the seeds of Henbane Opium of each two drachms juyce of Plantane so much as is sufficient to make them into troches according to art A. These also stop blood help the bloody flux stop the terms and are a great help to such whose stomach loaths their victuals Trochisci Diaspermaton Galeni Take of the seeds of Smallage and Bishops weed of each an ounce Annis and Fennel seeds of each half an ounce Opium Cassia lignea of each two drams with rain-rain-water make it into troches according to art A. These also bind ease pain help the pleuresie Haemoptoici pastilli Galen Take of white Starch Balaustins earth of Samos juyce of Hypocistis Gum Saffron Opium of each two drams with 〈◊〉 of Plantane make them into troches according to art A. The operation of this is like the former Sief de Plumbo Mesue Take of Lead burnt and washed Brasse burnt Antimony Tutty washed Gum Arabick Traganth of each an ounce Opium half a dram with a sufficient quantity of rain-rain-water make them up into troches A. It fills up and cures ulcers in the eyes Trochisci de Succino Galen Take of Illirick Orris Amber Mastich Saffron of each two drachms Opium five drachms with mussilage made of the seeds of Fleawort make it into Troches according to art A. They cool bind and strengthen the stomach and provoke sleep Sief of Frankinsence Rhasis Take of Lapis 〈◊〉 Pompholix Frankin sence of each ten drachms Ceruss fourty drachms Gum Arabick Opium of each six drachms rain water so much as is sufficient to make it into balls according to art A. Sief is a general term
one ounce boyl them again with the Oyls to the consumption of the decoction strain it and then add Litharge of Gold and Silver of each three ounces Bole Armenick earth of Lemnos of each two ounces red Lead ten drachms boyl it with a gentle fire alwaies stirring it and with a sufficient quantity of wax make it into a plaister according to art A. Surely the Colledge quoted this recept which more properly might be called Vign his nonsense for Apothecaries to laugh at not to make the way of making of it up being almost as childish as the title it dries and binds Emplastrum de Ranis Vigo Take of oyl of 〈◊〉 Dil Spicknard Lillies of each two ounces oyl of Saffron see page an ounce Hogs grease a pound the fat of a Calf half a pound Euphorbium five drachms Frankinsence ten drachms oyl of Eaies an ounce and an half Vipers fat or for want of it take a Snakes two ounces and an half live Frogs by number six earth worms washed in Wine three ounces and an half the juyce of the roots of Walwort and Elicampane of each two ounces Schoenanth Stoechas Mugwort of each a handful Wine a quart Litharge of Gold a pound Turpentine two ounces yellow wax so much as is sufficient Liquid Styrax an ounce and an half Quick-Silver killed either with fasting spittle or juyce of Lēmons four ounces This is the manner of making it let the frogs worms herbs with their juyces the oyls of Dil Chāmomel Lillies grease and suet be boyled in a pound an half of Wine strain it then ad the Litharge Wax 4. ounces and the remainder of the Wine then boyl it till all the Wine be consumed and it stick not to your fingers then ad the oyl of Baies Saffron and Spike and the fat afterward the Euphorbium and Frankinsence last of all the quick Silver well mixed 〈◊〉 the liquid Styrax and Turpentine stir them all 〈◊〉 till they be incorporated take heed you put not in the quick Silver while the mass is too hot lest it fly out A. I have known it applied to the swelling in the throat called the Kings Evill but for my part I fancy not the recept neither for that nor any thing else Emplastrum Sanctum Andr. è Cruce Take of per-Rozin twelve ounces oyl of Baies Turpentine of each two ounces Gum Elemni four ounces let the Rozin and Gum be melted over the fire in a brass pan stirring it with a brass instrument then add the oyl of Baies 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 A. The vertues are of the same with Arceus his Liniment Sparadrapum seu Tela. Gualt de Renod. Take of oyl of Roses half a pound Rams suet four ounces Wax ten ounces Litharge Per-Rozin Frankinsence Mastich of each two ounces Bole Armenick fine flower of each an ounce boyl the Oyl Suet and Litharge together till the Litharge be well incorporated in which being warm you may dip your tents Emplastrum Stephaniaion Take of Ladanum half an ounce Styrax Calamitis Juniper Gum of each two drachms Amber Cypress Turpentine of each one drachm red Coral Mastich of each half a dram the flowers of Sage red Roses Orris Florentine of each one scruple Rozin washed in Rose water half an ounce let the Rozin Ladanum and Mastich the Styrax Juniper Gum and Turpentine be lightly beaten with a hot pestel in a hot mortar according to art so long putting in a little red Wine the while till you see them well incorporated then put in the pouders and make them up being well mixed into an Emplaster Emplastrum sine Pari. Take of Frankinsence Bdellium Styrax of each 〈◊〉 drachms Ammoniacum Galbanum of each one drachm and an half Ship Pitch six drachms the marrow of a Stag 〈◊〉 Hens and Geese of each two drachms Sulphur vivum 〈◊〉 in milk Hermodactils in pouder of each a drachm and an half let the Gums be dissolved in white Wine not in Vine ger because that is inimical to the nerves and with two parts of oyl of Roses compleat and one part of oyl of Egs and little oyl of Turpentine make it into a plaister according to art Slicticum Paracelsus Take of oyl of Olives six ounces Wax one ounce and an half Litharge four ounces and an half Ammoniacum Bdellium of each half an ounce Galbanum Opopanax 〈◊〉 Calaminarius oyl of Bayes both sorts of birthwort Mirrh Frankinsence of each two drachms pure Turpentine one ounce let the Oyl Wax and Litharge be boyled together till it will not stick to your fingers then being removed from the fire let it cool a little adding the gums dissolved in white-Wine Vineger which evaporate away by boyling then strain them last of all ad the pouders turpentine and oyl of bayes make them into a plaister according to art A. Both this and the former strengthen the nerves draw out corruption take away pains and aches restore strength to members that have lost it the last is most effectual A Plaister for the Stomach Mesue 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 Schaenanthus of each one drachm and an half with 〈◊〉 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 Another plaister for the Stomach Take of Mints Wormwood Stoechas Bay leaves of each one drachm Marjoram red Roses yellow Sanders of each two drachms Calamus Aromaticus wood of Aloes Lavender flowers Nutmegs Cubebs Galanga long Pepper Mace of each a drachm Mastich three drachms Cloves two drachms and an half oyl of Mints an ounce and an half 〈◊〉 oyl an ounce oyl of Spike one drachm Rozin Wax of each four ounces Ladanum three ounces liquid styrax half an ounce make them into a plaister according to art A. Both this and the former strengthen the stomach exceedingly help digestion and stay vomiting CERECLOATHS A Cerecloath of Ammoniacum Take of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger an ounce Vnguentum de 〈◊〉 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 Foenugreek seeds so much as is sufficient by adding Wax four ounces make it into a Cerecloath according to art A. It assawageth swellings or ripens and breaks them and easeth pains thereby coming A Cerecloath of Galbanum Take of Galbanum prepared one ounce and an half Affa foetida half an ounce Carrot seeds one scruple Mirrh two drachms Bdellium one dhachm Featherfew Mugwort of each half a drachm let the Gums
alteratton A. The Authors own Judgment is That it strengthens the brain heart liver stomach lunges spleen and nerves quickens the sight resisteth poison 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 Cinnamon Water made by Infusion Take of Cinnamon bruised four ounces Spirit of Wine two pints infuse them together 4. daies in a large glasse close stopped with cork and a bladder shaking the glasse twice a day Dissolve half a pound of white sugar Candy in a quart of rose-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 fine rag and hung to the top of the glasse A. In my opinion this latter water is more prevalent for heart-qualms and faintings than Mathiolus his Aqua Ceolestis Mathiolus Take of Cinnamon an ounce Ginger half an ounce white red and yellow Sanders of each six drachms Cloves Gallanga Nutmegs of each two drachms and an half Mace Cubebs of each one drachm both sorts of Cardamoms Nigella seeds of each three drachms Zedoary half an ounce seeds of Annis Sweet-Fennel Wild-Parsneps Bazil of each a drachm and an half Roots of Angelica Avens Calamus Aromaticus Liquoris Valerian the lesse the leaves of Clary Time Calaminth Peny-royal Mints Mother of Time Marjoram of each two drachms the flowers of Red-Roses Sage Rosemary Betony Stoechas Bugloss Borrage of each one drachm and an half Citron pils three drachms Let the things be bruised that are to be bruised and infused 15. daies in 12 pints of the best spirit of wine in a glasse body wel stopped and then let it be distilled in Balneo Mariae according to art Adding to the distilled water Pouders of Diambra Diamoscu dulce Armaticum Rosatum Diamargariton frigidum Diarhodon Abbatis pouder of Electuary de gemmis of each three drachms yellow Sanders bruised two drachms Musk Ambergreese of each a scruple tied up in a fine ragg cleer Julip of Roses a pound shake them wel together stopping the glasse close with wax and parchment till it grow cleer to be kept for your use A. It comforteth and cherisheth the heart reviveth drooping spirits prevaileth against the plague and al malignant Feavers preserveth the sences and restoreth such as are in Consumptions A. Only take this Caution both concerning this and al other strong waters They are not safely given by themselves in Feavers because by their hot quallity they inflame the blood and ad fuel to the fire but mixed with other convenient cordials and consideration had to the strength complection habit age and sex of the patient for my own part I aim sincerely at the publick good in writing of this and 〈◊〉 as I would not have Physitians domineer so I would not have fools turn Physitians A Cordial Water Take of Angelica leaves half a pound Carduus leaves six ounces Bawm and Sage of each four ounces Angelica seeds six ounces sweet fennel seeds nine ounces let the herbs being dry and the seeds be bruised grosly to which add the pouders of Aromaticum Rosatum and Diamoseu Dulce of each an ounce and an half Infuse these two daies in 32. pints of Spanish wine then distill them according to art draw out ten pints of strong spirit which sweeten after two daies standing with a pound and an half of Sugar dissolved in Rosewater over the fire Of the smaller spirit you may draw out six pints or more if you please for the mixtures of other Cordials A. The chief end of composing this medicine was to strengthen the heart and resist infection and therefore is very wholsom in pestilentiall times and for such as walk in stinking aires Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxoniae Take of the juice of Borrage Buglosse Bawm Bistort Vervain Sharp pointed Dock Sorrel Goats-Rue Mirrhis or sweet Chervil Blew-bottle great and smal or the double quantity of the small Roses Marigolds Lemmons Citrons of each six ounces juice of Burnet and Cinkfoyl of each three ounces white wine Vinegar a pint Purslain-seeds Water-lillie Flowers of each two ounces Earth of Lemnos Silecia and Samos of each an ounce and an half Pouder called Diatrion Santalon six drachms Pearl prepared with juice of Citrons three drachms Infuse al the Pouders Flowers and Seeds the Earths and Pearls excepted in the juyces and Vinegar for three daies then distill it in water in a glasse-Still and add to the distilled water the Earths and Pearls in fine pouder shake it together and let it stand till it be cleer and keep it for your use A. It mightily cools the blood and therefore profitable in feavers and all diseases proceeding of heat of blood it provokes sleep Langius his Ant-Epileptical Water Take of the Flowers of Line tree three handfuls Lillies of the vally five handfuls peony seeds half an ounce infuse them eight daies in five pints of the best White-wine then distill them in Balneo Mariae with a gentle fire Afterward Take of the flowers of Rosemary half a handful of the flowers of Lavender a handful Rue a handful Betony half a handful Stoechas of Arabia one pugil Peony roots two drachms and an half Dictamny two drachms Squils prepared one drachm and an half Pellitory of Spain half a drachm Misletoe of the Oak two drachms Castorium one drachm Cubebs Cardamoms of each one scruple Mace half a dram Cloves two scruples Nutmegs one scruple let al these being bruised be infused in the water aforesaid and shaken wel together for six daies then distilled again in Balneo Mariae and the water kept in a glasse stopped You may with one and the same labor prepare an extract which wil be very efficacious A. If the authority of Erasius or daily experience will serve the turn then was this reciept chiefly compiled against the convulsion fits but the derivation of the word notes it to be prevalent against the falling sicknesse also for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek signifies the Falling sicknesse and indeed Erastus 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 A. Well then having now learned the vertues of the water a word or two of the use will not be amisse 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-sicknesse only at the new and full Moons I could give reasons for this judgment of Erastus but I am unwilling to be tedious Then saith he if
of the Oak the roots of Smallage and Fennel of each half an ounce white Maidenhair Origanum Hysop Calaminth Time Scabious Savory Coltsfoot of each six drachms the seeds of Annis and Cotton of each three drams Raisons of the sun stoned two ounces fat Figs ten boyl these altogether in Hydromel eight pints till half be consumed then when you have strained it boyl it into a syrup with Hony and white Sugar of each two pound perfume it with an ounce of the roots of Orris Florentine A. It is apropriated to the breast and lungues and is a fine cleanser to purge them from thick and putrified flegm it helps Phthisicks and coughs and diseases subject to old men and cold natures Syrup of Rhadishes Fernelius Take of Radish roots both Garden and Wild of each an ounce the roots of white Saxifrage Bruscus Lovage Fringo Rest harrow Parsly Fennel of each half an ounce the leaves of Bettony Burnet Pennyroyal the tender Tops of Nettles Watercresses Samphire Maiden hair of each a handful Winter cherrics Jujubes of each twenty the seeds of Bazil Burs Parsly of Macedonia Seseli Caraway Carrots Gromwell the bark of the roots of the bay tree of each two drams Raisons of the sun stoned Liquoris of each six drachms boil them according to art in twelve pints of water till eight remain in which being strained dissolve four pound of Sugar and two pound of Hony and boyl them into a cleer syrup the which perfume with an ounce of Cinnamon and half an onnce of Nutmegs A. The syrup is apropriated to the reins and bladder both which it powerfully cleanseth it breaketh and bringeth forth the stone it purgeth the reins of gravel it helpeth all supression and stopping of urine as Dysuria Iscuria c. Syrups of the five opening Roots Mesue Take of the roots of Smallage Fennel Parsley Brusous and Sparagus of each two ounces boyl them in six pints of spring-water till the third part be consumed strain it and with three pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup adding eight ounces of white-Wine-Vineger towards the latter end of the decoction A. It cleanseth and openeth very well is profitable against obstructions provokes urine cleanseth the body of 〈◊〉 and is safely and profitably given in the beginning of Feavers A Magisterial syrup of Scabious Compound Take of the roots of Alicampane and Polipodium of the Oak of each two ounces infuse them 24. hours in white Wine Raisons of the sun stoned an ounce Sebesten 30. Coltfsoot Lunguewort Savory Calaminth of each a handful and an half Liquoris half an ounce one whol leaf of the best Tobacco the seeds of Nettles and Cotton of each three drachms boil them in a sufficient quantity of wine and water to eight ounces to which being strained ad of the juyce of Scabious clarified four ounces white Sugar ten ounces boyl it into a syrup clarified according to art adding to it twenty drops of oyl of Sulphur A. It is a cleansing syrup apropriated to the breast and lungues when you perceive them oppressed by flegm cruditiesor stoppings here 's your remedy Syrup of Hartstongue Fernelius Take of Polypodium of the Oak the roots of both sorts of Buglosse bark of Cappar roots bark of Tamaris of each two ounces Hartstongue three handfuls Hops Doddar Maiden-hair Bawm of each two handfuls boil them in nine pints of water till there remains but five strain it clarifie it and with four pound of white Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It helps 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 livergrown Syrup of Stoechas Mesue Take of the flowers of Stoechas four ounces Time Calaminth Origanum of each an ounce and an half Sage Bettony Rosemary flowers of each half an ounce the seeds of Rue Peony and Fennel of each three drachms boyl them in ten pints of water till half be consumed strain it and boil the decoction into a syrup with Hony and Sugar of each two pound perfume it with Cinnamon Ginger and Calamus Aromaticus of each two drachms tied up in a thin rag and hung into the Syrup A. This recept looks like Mesue because the Simples are composed with such harmony I confesse I have found in his works one or two syrups of this name but not this same composition yet am I willing to think it his not so much because the Colledg saith it as because I can judg of the tree by the fruit A. Surely surely was this recept penned against cold infirmities of the brain Spinalis Medulla and their Handmaids or rather Officers the nerves helps both sence and motion anoyed by cold or melancholly I am curbed for being so larg therefore in general you if you try it shall find it an admirable remedy against palsies or tremblings of the limbs convulsions cramps falling-sicknesse and all other infirmities of the brain arising from cold moisture or melancholly and the composition is husbanded with such discreation and moderation that without all question it was distilled from the brain of a Mesue Syrup of Comfry Fernelius Take of the roots and branches both of the greater and lesser Comfry of each three handfuls red Roses Bettony Plantane Burnet Knot grasse Scabious Coltsfoot of each two handfuls let the joyce be pressed from them all being fresh and green and well beaten boyl it away to three pound scumming it well and with two pound and an half of Sugar boyl it to a syrup A. Were it not for fear my book would grow bigger than I would willingly have it I could easily prove that the syrup would be far better if the juyces were only clarified and not boyled at all but with their double weight in sugar melted only into a syrup A. The syrup is excellent for all inward wounds and bruises excoriations vomitings spittings or piffing of blood it unites broken bones helps ruptures and stops the terms in women A Cordial syrup or Julep Norimberg Take of Rhenish wine a quart Rose water two ounces and an half Cloves two scruples Cinnamon half a drachm Ginger two scruples of the best Sugar three onnces and an half boil it to the consistence of a Julep which perfume with three grains of Amber-greece and one grain of musk 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 wit enough to be taught to make up a medicine A. If you would have this Julep keep long you may put in more Sugar and yet if close stopped it will not easily corrupt because it 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.
strengthens weak stomachs exceedingly and helps such as are prone to faimings and swoonings it strengthens such as are weakened by violence of sickness it helps bad memories quickens all the senses strengthens the brain and Animal spirit helps the falling sickness and succours such as are troubled with Asthmaes or other cold afflictions of the lungues A Preservative Pouder against the Pestilence Montagnan Take of all the Saunders 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 drachms 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 A. The title tels you the vertue of it besides it cheers the vital spirit and strengthens the heart Species Electuarii Rosatae Novellae Nicholaus Take of Roses Sugar Liquoris of each one ounce one drachm two scruples and an half Cinnamon two drachms two scruples and two grains Cloves Galanga Indian Spicknard Ginger Nutmegs Zedoary Styrax Cardamoms Smallage of each one scruple and eight grains Sugar so much as is sufficient make it first of all into a pouder then into an Electuary according to art A. Sure it was Dr. Oblivion and not the Colledge that was the Author of such a sleepy business to set Sugar twice in one receit A. It quencheth thirst and staies vomiting and the Author saith it helps hot and dry stomachs as also heat and driness of the heart liver and lungues yet is the pouder it self hot it strengthens the vital spirit takes away heart qualms provokes sweat and strengthens such as have labored long under Cronical diseases A Pouder to stop blood Gallen Take of Frankinsence one drachm Aloes half a drachm beat them into pouder and when you have occasion to use it mix so much of it with the white of an Eg as wil make it of the thicknesse of Honey then dip the wool of a Hare in it and apply it to the sore or part that bleedeth binding it on A. In my opinion this is a pretty medicine and will stick on till the sore be throughly healed and then will come off of it self I remember when I was a child we applied such a medicine only we left out the Aloes and Frankinsence and used only Coneys wool and the white of an Eg to kibed heels and alwaies with good success A Pouder for Scabs Take of Sulphur Vivum Niter the leaves of Marjoram of each two drachms Letharge of Gold black Hellebore roots of each one drachm Burnet half a drachm beat them into pouder according to art A. I cannot speak much in commendations of it and I dare not dispraise it because it comes from the Colledge therefore I will let it alone Pulvis Radulphi Hollandi Commonly known by the name of Holland Pouder Take of the seeds of Annis Caraway Fennel Cummin of Spicknard Cinnamon Galanga of each half an ounce Liquoris Gromwell of each one ounce Senna the weight of them all beat them all into pouder A. That this recept is gallantly composed none can deny and is an excellent purge for such bodies as are troubled with the wind Chollick or stoppage either of the guts or kidneyes two drachms taken in white-Wine will work sufficiently with any ordinary body Pulvis Sanctus Brasavola Take of Senna and Cremor tartar of each two ounces Cloves Cinnamon Galanga Bishops weed of each two drachms Diagrydium half an ounce beat them into pouder according to art In the want of seeds of Bishops Weed of which such as are fresh and good are many times not to be had you may put in Annis seeds in lieu of them Pulvis Senne Take of the best Senna two ounces Cremor tartar half an ounce Mace two scruples and an half Ginger Cinnamon of each one drachm and an half Sal Indi one drachm beat them into pouder according to art A. Both this and the former pouder purge melancholly and cleanse the head Montagnanus was the Author of this latter only the Colledg somthing altered the quantities of the Simples the former pouder works something violently by reason of the Scammony that is in it the latter is more gentle and may be given without danger even two drachm at a time to ordinary bodies I would not have the unskilful meddle with the former Diaturbith the greater without Rhubarb Take of the best Turbith an ounce Diagrydium Ginger of each half an ounce Cinnamon Cloves of each two drams 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 A. It purgeth flegm being rightly administred by a skilful hand Diaturbith with Rhubarb Montagnanus Take of the best Turbith and Hermodactills of each an ounce Rhubarb ten drachms Diagrydium half an ounce white and red Sanders Violets Ginger of each a drachm and an half Mastich Annis seed Cinnamon Saffron of each half a drachm beat them all into pouder and with white Sugar one pound two ounces and two drachms dissolved in Succory water you may make it into an Electuary according to art A. This also purgeth flegm and choller Once more let me desire such as are unskilful in the rules of Physick not to meddle with purges of this nature unless prescribed by a skilful Physitian lest they do themselves more mischeif in half an hour than they can claw off again in half a yeer A Pouder for the Worms Take of Worm seeds four ounces Senna one ounce Coriander seed prepared Hartshorn of each half a drachm Rhubarb half an ounce dried Rue two drachms beat them into pouder 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 drachm and the manner of taking it by their pallat It is something purging ELECTVARIES Antidotus Analeptica Or Electuarium Resumptivum Fernelius TAke of Red-roses and Liquoris of each two drachms and five grains Gum Arabick and Traganth of each two drachms and two scruples Sanders white and red of each four scruples juyce of Liquoris white Starch the seeds of of white Poppies Purslain Lettice Endive of each three drachms of the four greater cold seeds the seeds of Quinces Mallows Cotton Violets Pine-Nuts fresh Fistick-Nuts sweet Almonds pulp of Sebestens of each two drachms Cloves Spodium Cinnamon of each one drachm Saffron five grains Penidies half an ounce let all of them being beaten into pouder be made into a soft Electuary with three times their weight in syrup of Violets A. Besides the inverting of the Order which is a matter of nothing here is Zedoary Ginger and Styrax calamitis of each two drachms left quite out by the Colledge or as I am of opinion
redundant in which although we reverence the learned gray hairs of the ancient and have placed their recepts as it were in the front yet we neither reject nor 〈◊〉 the supplies of modern assusions but we have left them a place and corner in the reer that so they may serve as auxiltaries to the moddel of Physick Neither have we superfiously tied our selves to the sleps of the Ancient so as that we bring nothing new of our own for all here described is not transcribed we have not furnished our Apothecaries shop altogether with forraign wares but we have added some new ones and of our own which we bring forth into the publick as aproved by frequent use some we have changed in the ancient forms both the sence and name of the Author being preserved not moved thereto so much through desire of novelty as compelled thereto by necessity especially where such simples as are prescribed cannot easily be had in the place of which we prescribe others like unto them in vertue The like we have done in the composition of pils which if they were made into a mass after the ancient manner with juyces or waters they would soon be too dry therefore we have appointed it to be done with syrups also whereas in most Authors some things are totally left to the judgment of the Artificer especially in the quantity of Honey and Sugar under these two letters q. s. or words so much as is suffient whence it comes to pass that the same medicine hath neither the same consistence nor the same vertue we have for the future taken away this power from the Artificer and for this cause have taken some of the most skilful Apothecaries into counsel with us by whose help and pains we have agreed upon a certain manner of composition and have designed a certain quantity and dose which they may not ad to nor take from And lastly seeing in most Dispensatories both ancient and modern the use and vertue of every medicine is described whence ignorant fellows and Mountebanks may arm themselves for the practice of physick and so put a sword into a madmans hand for the destruction of the Common-wealth we have added nothing at all of the vertues for we write this to the learned only and to the 〈◊〉 rsiings of Apollo for the health not the understanding of the vulgar we need not give a reason why we dispose of it in this order we have placed the simple before the compound the internal before the external the liquid before the sollid We have digested them all into several Classes that so they may be brought into use and practice with little search Thus Courteous Reader thou hast both what we have done and why we have done it so It is a work to which all the Colledg have brought their Talents as all the gods did to Pandora in the play But under the auspicy of a most worthy President by whom not only as President but by whose counsel help and indefatigable study this building was finished which as it is friendly Reader we vow it to thine and the publick good and hope it will be commodious for thee and if it please thy palat use it and fare well From the Colledg of London Decemb. Anno. 1618 A brief of his MAIESTIES Royal Proclamation Commanding all Apothecaries of this Realm to follow this PHARMACOPOEIA lately compiled by the Colledg of Physitians of LONDON WHere is by Our especial Commandement the e hath been of late compiled in the Latin tongue by the Colledg of Physitians of London a Book entituled Pharmacâ—poeia Londinensis c. And whereas through the great care and industrie of the said Colledg the foresaid Pharmacopoeia Londin is now perfected and is a work greatly tending t the publick good of our subjects and we minding that all falshood differences varieties or incertainties in making or composing of Medicines and distilling of Oyls or Waters bereafter be utterly taken away and abolished and that in the time to come the manner and form prescrited in the said book should be generally and solely practised by Apothecaries in their compositions of Medicines and distillation of Waters for all such things as are therein named aud prescribed we therefore desirous in all things to provide for the common good of our subjects and intending to settle and establish the general use of the said Book in this 〈◊〉 of ENGLAND do hereby signifie and declare our Royal Will and pleasure to be and hereby straightly require charge and command all and singular Apothecaries within this our Realm of England or the dominions thereof that they and every of them immediately after the said Pharmacop Londin shall be printed and published do not compound or make any Medicine or medicinable receipt or prescription or distil any Oyl or Waters or other Extractions that are or shall be in the said Pharmacop Londin mentioned and named after the waies or means prescribed or directed by any other Books or Dispensatories whatsoever but after the only manner and form that hereby is or shall be directed prescribed and set down by the said book and according to the weights and measures that are or shall be therein limited and not otherwise c. upon pain of Our high displeasure and to incur such penalties and punishment as may he inflicted upon offenders herein for their contempt or neglect of this our Roial commandement Willing and commanding also hereby all Majors Sheriffs Iustices of peace Constables c. to be aiding and assisting Given at Our Palace of White-Hall 26. of April in the 16. yeer of Our Raign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland 51. 1618. VVEIGHTS TWenty grains do make a scruple three scruples a drachm commonly called a dram Eight drachms an ounce Twelve ounces a pound MEASVRES AS for the Colledges measures I know not well what English names to give them Cochlearium holds in syrups half an ounce in distilled waters three drachms Cyaibus 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 Congy six Sextaries These measures amongst the Romans contained not just the same quantities for their Cyathus contained an onnce and an half a drachm and a scruple Their Sextary contained but 14. ounces 3. quarters and half a quarter and amongst the Grecians not so much it is called a Sextary because it is the six part of a Congy Neither did the Roman Hemina contain altogether 7. ounces and an half Their Libra I suppose to that which Galen calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viz. a vessel to measure with it was made with cleer horn and by certain lines drawn round it like rings was divided into twelve equal parts each part containing an ounce Besides these the Colledge have gotten another foolish and incertain way of measuration not here set down viz. by handfuls and pugills what ahandful is is known to all but
of the Sun Tamarinds Liquoris of each half an ounce Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds of each two drachms in Summer time ad of the four greater cold seeds of each two drachms of each of three of the cordial Flowers a pugil and an half boyl these in two pints of water till half be consumed A. This was Guainerius his recept whose works I neither have nor know where to borrow and therefore I can give you no other vertues of this Medicine than what the title affords it is a composition which with addition of other Medicines is fit for every thing but in it self is good for little A Decoction of Epithimum Mesue Take of Indian Myrabolans Stoechas of Arabia Raisons of the Sun Epithimum or Doddar of time of each an ounce Myrabolans chebs Fumitory of each half an ounce Senna an ounce Polypodium of the Oak six drachms White Turbith half an ounce Eupatorium five drachms Whey made of Goats or Heifers milk three pints let them all the Epithimum excepted boyl to the consumption of two pints then ad the Epithimum let it boyl a little together and having taken it from the fire ad to it black Hellebore a drachm Agrick half a drachm Sal Indi a drachm and an half let it stand close stopped in infusion eight or ten hours then strain it for your use A. It purgeth melancholly gallantly as also addust Choller It resisteth madnesse and all diseases coming of melancholly and therefore let melancholly people esteem it as a Jewel A Decoction of Flowers and Fruits Take five Figs fifteen Prunes Jujubes and Sebestens of each twenty Tamarinds an ounce the flowers of Roses Violets Borrage Buglos of each a drachm Maidenhair Hops Endive of each half a handful Liquoris two drachms being cut and bruised boyl them in three pints of spring water to the consumption of the third part A. It strengthens the lungues and opens obstructions A Pectoral Decoction Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned an ounce Sebesten Jujubes of each 15. Dates 6. Figs 4. French-Barly an ounce Liquoris half an ounce Maiden hair Hysop Scabious Coltsfoot of each half a handful cut them and boyl them in three pints of spring water till one pint be consumed A. The Medicine is chiefly apropriated to the lungues and therefore causeth a cleer voyce a long wind resisteth Coughs hoarsness Asthmaes c. A Decoction of Senna Take of Senna two ounces an half Ginger a drachm The flowers of Borrage Violets red Roses Rosemary-flowers of each 2. drams Polipodium of the Oak half an ounce Sebesten Prunes of each 12. Raisons of the Sun stoned two ounces make a decoction of them in four pints of spring water till half be consumed yet so as the Senna may boyl but little let it stand off from the fire close stopped six hours after it is boyled then strain it out for your use A. It is a common decoction for any purge by adding other Simples or Compounds to it according to the quality of the humour you would have purged yet in it self it chiefly purgeth melancholly Lac Virgineum 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 stir them about till they are white A. It takes away pimples redness freckles and sunburning the face being washed with it A Drink for wounded men Take of Crabs of the river calcined and beaten into very fine pouder two drachms the roots of round Aristolochiah and of Comfry the greater Self-heal Bay-berries lightly bruised of each a drachm ty 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 Perewincles 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 A. And therefore least my poor wounded Country man should perish for want of an angel to fee a 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 recept in his own mother tongue he may get any friend to make it SYRVPS BOTH SIMPLE AND COMPOVND WHICH ARE IN USE Syrup of Vineger Simple of London TAke of white Sugar five pound White-Wine-Vineger a quart melt them into a Syrup according to art A. That is Only melt the Sugar with the Vineger over the fire scum it but boyle it not Syrup of Vineger Simple of Mesue Take of White Sugar five pound Cleer Water sour pints boyl it into a Syrup scumming it well then put a quart of Vineger to it and boyl it again to a Syrup 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 humours in the stomach they cool the body quench thirst provoke urine and prepare the stomach before the taking of a vomit Syrup of Vineger Compound Mesue Take of the roots of Smallage Fennel and Endive of each three ounces the seeds of Smallage Fennel Annis of each one ounce Endive seeds half an ounce Clear Water six pints boyl them in a vessel well glazed over a gentle fire till half the water be consumed then strain it and ad to it three pound of Sugar clarify it and then ad a pint and an half of white-wine-Vinegar to it and boyl it to a syrup A. This in my opinion is a gallant syrup for such whose bodees are stuffed either with flegm or tough 〈◊〉 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 stuffing at their stomach Syrup of the juyce of Citrons Mesue Take of the juyce of Citrons strained without expression and clarified a pint Sugar two pound and an half melt it into a syrup over the fire 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 dissines in the head After the same manner is made syrup of sour Grapes Cherries Quinces Pomegranates Lemmons Wood-Sorrel Sorrel English Currance and other sour juyces clarified 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
a pugil of seeds of Endive and Succory of each a drachm and an half Raisons of the sun an ounce Damask Prunes twenty The flowers of Borrage Buglosse Violets of each a pugil Myrobalans Citrons and Chebs of each an ounce and an half boyl them all in water till the third part be boyled away then in a pint and half of this decoction infuse all night Rubarb two ounces and an half Agrick Trochiscated an ounce Senna an ounce and an half Ginger Cinnamon of each a drachm strain it the second time and with a pound of the best Sugar and 3. ounccs of syrup of Roses solutive boile it gently to a syrup A. It purgeth choller and openeth obstructions in the bowels kills worms but let it not be given in feavers Syrup of Epithimum Mesue Take of Epithimum twenty drachms Myrobalans Citrons and Indian of each 15. drachms Doddar Fumitory of each ten drachms Time Calaminth Buglosse Staechas Liquoris Polipodium Agrick Myrobalans Emblicks and Belliricks of each six drachms red Roses sweet Fennel seeds and Annis seeds of each two drachms and an half sweet Prunes 20. Raisons of the sun the stones picked out four ounces Tamarinds two ounces and an half after they have been infused 24. honrs boil them in ten pints of water till four pints be consumed then let it be strained and ad to the decoction white Sugar five pounds boyl it to a syrup A. It is best to put in the Doddar Stoechas and Agrick towards the latter end of the decoction A. This recept was Mesue's only in stead 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 of my opinion the recepts of Mesue are generally the best in al the Dispensatory because the simples are so pertinent to the purpose intended they are not made up of a messe of hodg-podg as many others are but to the purpose A. It purgeth melancholly and other humors it strengthens the stomach and liver cleanseth 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 gentlenesse for I never fancied violent medicines in melancholly diseases Syrup of Eupatorium or Maudlin Mesue Take of the roots of Smallage Fennel and Succory of each two ounces Liquoris Schaenanth Dodder Wormwood Roses of each six drachms Maiden hair Bedeguar or instead thereof the roots of Carduus Mariae Suchaha or instead thereof the roots of Avens the flowers or roots of Buglosse Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds Ageratum or Maudlin of each five drachms Rhubarb Mastich of each three drams 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 each half a pound boil it into a syrup 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 Cardnus 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 kind of wild Rose but the Bedeguar of the Arabians was Cardnus Mariae and they knew well enough Mesue whose recept this was was an Arabian truly this is just as though 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 eight-pence 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 grosse humors strengthens the liver provokes urine and is a present succor for hypocondriack melancholly Syrup of Liquoris Mesue Take of green Liquoris scraped and bruised two ounces white Maiden-hair an ounce dried Hysop half an ounce Infuse them together for the space of 24. hours in four pints of warm rain water then boyl it till half the water be consumed strain the decoction and clarifie it and with eight ounces of honey and sixteen ounces of sugar boyl it to a syrup adding toward the latter end of the decoction six ounces of red rose water A. It cleanseth the breast and lungues and helps continuall coughs and Pleuresies Syrup of Hysop Mesue Take of spring water eight pints in which boyl half an ounce of French Barly the space of half an hour then put in the roots of Smallage Parsly Fennel Liquoris of each ten drachms let these boyl very gently about a quarter of an hour then add Jujubes and Sebestens of each thirty Raisons of the sun stoned an ounce and an half dry Figs and Dates of each ten afterwards put in the seeds of Mallows Quinces and Gum Traganth tied up in a linnen rag of each three drachms afterwards put in of Hysop meanly dried ten drachms Maiden hair six drachms boyl it to three pints and having clarified the decoction with two pound and an half of sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It mightily strengthens the breast and lungues causeth long wind cleer voyce is a good remedy against coughs Syrup of Jujubes Mesue Take of Jujubes sixty Violets and Mallow seeds of each five drachms Maiden hair Liquoris and French-Barly of each an ounce the seeds of white Poppies Mallows Lettice and Quinces Gum Traganth tied up in a rag of each three drachms boyl them in six pints of rain or spring water till half be consumed strain it and with two pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It is a fine cooling syrup very available in coughs hoarsness and pleurefies ulcers of the lungues and bladder as also in all inflamations whatsoever Syrup of Chamepitys or Iva Arthritica Take of Chamepitys two handfuls Sage Rosemary Darnel Origanum Calaminth wild Mints Peny-royal Hysop Time Garden and Wild Rue Betony and Mother of Time of each a handful the roots of Acorus Aristolochia or Birth wort both long and round Briony Dictamni Gentian Hogs-Fennel Valerian of each one ounce and an half the roots of Smallage Sparagus Fennel Parsly Bruscus of each one ounce Stoechas the seeds of Annis Bishops weed Caraway Fennel Lovage Hartwort of each three drachms Pellitory of Spain half an ounce Raisons of the Sun three ounces boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water and with hony and sugar of each two pounds prepare it and perfume it with Cinnamon Nutmegs and Cubebs according to art A. The Anthor is here concealed neither do I remember that ever I read it in any other or ever knew it made I know not the meaning of that word sufficient quantity of water nor how much it
make an Electuary of them with a sufficient quantity of syrup of violets but have a care of what was told you before Of the cold seeds quoth the Colledge A. If you please to put in the cold seeds which the Reverend Colledge appoints to be left out till the pouder come to be used and then 't is impossible to put them in as I shewed before pag. 156. and so make it up into an Electuary then I can tell you the vertues are It helps the faults of the breast and lungues coming of heat and driness it helps consumptions leaness inflamations of the recept pleuresies c. hot and dry coughs roughness of the tongue and jaws but how to make ought of the recept as the Colledge have ordered it belongs to another Oedipus and not to me Species Electuarij Diatrion Piperion Galeni Take of the three sorts of Pepper of each six drachms and fifteen grains Annis seeds Time Ginger of each one drachm beat them into pouder and with Sugar dissolved in Rose-mary-flower-water or Honey as the case shall require it may be made into an Electuary A. It heats the stomach and expels wind Species Electuarii Diatrionsantalon Nicholaus Take of the three sorts of Sanders red Roses Sugar Candy of each three drachms Rhubarb Spodium juyce of Liquoris Purslain seeds of each two drachms and fifteen grains white Starch Gum Arabick and Traganth the seeds of Melones Cucumers Citruls Gourds Endive of each a drachm and an half Camphire a scruple beat them all into pouder and with eight times their weight in Sugar dissolved in Rose water you may make it into an Electuary A. It is very profitable against the heat of the stomach and liver besides it wonderfully helps such as have the yellow Jaundice and consumptions of the lungues Pulvis Haly Take of white Poppy seeds ten drachms Gum Arabick white Starch Traganth of each three drachms the seeds of Purslain marsh Mallows Mallows of each five drachms the seeds of Cucumers Melons Guords Citruls Quinces of each seven drachms Spodium Liquoris of each three drachms Penidies the weight of them all beat them into a pouder A. It is a gallant cool pouder fit for all hot imperfections of the breast and lungues as consumptions pleurefies c. Laetificans ascribed to Gallen Take of the flowers of Clove Bazil or else the seeds thereof Saffron Zedoary wood of Aloes Cloves Citron pills Galanga Mace Nutmegs Styrax Calamitis of each two drachms and an half shavings of Ivory Annis seeds Time Epithimum of each one dram bone of a Stags heart Pearls Camphire Amber greece Musk of each half a drachm leaves of Gold and Silver of each half a scruple beat them into pouder according to art so steep them dilligently for your use A. It causeth a merry heart a good colour helps digestion and keeps back old age Species confectionis Liberantis Take of the roots of Tormentil the seeds of Sorrel Endive Coriander prepared Citrons of each a drachm and an half the three sorts of Sanders white Dictamni of each one dram Bole Armenick Terra Lemnia of each three drachms Pearls both sorts of Corral white Amber Ivory Spodium bone of a Stags heart both sorts of Been or in heiu of them the roots of Avens and Tormentil Angelica roots Cardamoms Cinnamon Mace wood of Aloes Cassia lignea Saffron Zedoaary of each half a drachm Penidies Sugar Candy raw silk torrified Emeralds Jacinth Granate of each two scruples the flowers of water Lillies Bugloss and red Roses of each a scruple Camphire seven grains Musk and Amber greece of of each three grains beat them into pouder according to art A. It is exceeding good in pestilential feavers and preserveth from ill airs and keepeth the humours in the body from corruption it cools the heart and blood and strengtheneth such as are oppressed by heat to conclude it is a gallant cool cordial though costly Lithontribon Nicholaus according to Fernelius Take of Spicknard Ginger Cinnamon black Pepper Cardamoms Cloves Mace of each halfa drachm Costus Liquoris Cyperus Traganth Germander of each two scruples the seeds of Bishops weed Smallage Sparagus Bazil Netles Citrons Saxifrage Burnet Caraway Carrots Fennel Bruscus Parsly of Macedonia Burrs Seseli Asarabacca of each one drachm Lapis spongiae Lyncis Cancri Judaici of each a drachm and an half Goats blood prepared an ounce and an half beat them all into pouder according to art A. The truth is the Colledg have altered this recept much and I am perswaded have made it much better Neque enim benfact a maligne detract are meum est A. It heats the stomack and helps want of digestion comming through cold it easeth pain in the belly and loynes the Iliack passion powerfully breaks the stone in the reins and bladder it speedily helps the chollick strangury and dysury Pulvis Saxonicus Take of the roots of both sorts of Angelica Swallow-wort Garden Valerian Polipodium of the Oak the roots of marsh Mallows Nettles of each half an ounce the bark of German Mezereon two drachms the berries of herb True-love or One-berry by number twenty four The flowers of the same branch and all by number thirty six steep the roots in Vineger then dry them beat them all into pouder A. It seems to be as great an expeller of poyson and as great a preservative against it and the pestilance as one shall usually read of A Pouder against the bitings of Mad-dogs Take of the leaves of Vervain Rue Sage Plantan Polipodium Common Wormwood Mints Mugwort Bawm Bettony St Johns wort Centaury of each equal parts let all these be gathered at what time they are in their greatest strength which is usually about the ful Moon in June then let them be dryed severally in brown papers in such a place where neither sun nor rain comes and when you have dryed them then keep them for the use above said but upon this condition that you renew them every year When you have need to use them beat an equal weight of them into pouder A. A Drachm of this pouder is sufficient to take every morning Pleres Arconticon Nicholaus Take of Cinnamon Cloves Galanga wood of Aloes Indian Spicknard Nutmegs Ginger Spodium Schoenanthus Cyperus Roses Violets of each one drachm Indian-leafe or Mace Liquoris Mastich Styrax Calamitis Marjoram Costmary or water Mints Bazil Cardamoms long and white Pepper Mirtle berries and Citron pills of each half a Drachm and six grains Pearls Been white and red or if they be wanting take the roots of Avens and Tormentill in their steads red Corral torrified silk of each eighteen grains Musk six grains Camphire four grains beat them into pouder according to art and with ten times their weight of Sugar dissolved in Bawm water you may make them into an Electuary A. It is exceeding good for sad melancholly lumpish pensive greiving vexing pining sighing sobbing fearful careful spirits it
Oak of each five drachms Maidenhair Time Epithimum of each half a handful Raisons of the Sun stoned half an ounce Fennel seeds two drachms the seeds of Purslain and Mallows of each three drachms Liquoquoris half an ounce boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water strain it and in the decoction dissolve pulp of Cassia two pounds Tamarinds one ounce Cinnamon three drams of the best Sugar a pound boyl them to a perfection according to art Cassia Extracted with the leaves of Senna Take of the Electuary of Cassia extracted without the leaves of Senna two pound the leaves of Senna in pouder two ounces mix them together according to art A. This is also a fine cool purge gentle cleansing the bowels of choller and melancholly without any griping very fit for feaverish bodies and yet the former is gentler than this Diacarthamum or Diacnicum Arnoldus de villâ novâ Take of Species diatragacanthi frigidi half an ounce pulp of preserved Quinces an ounce pulp of seeds of Carthamus or bastard Saffron half an ounce Ginger two drachms Diagrydium beaten by it self three drachms white Turbith six drachms Manna two ounces Honey Roses solutive Sugar Candy of each one ounce Hermodactils half an ounce white Sugar ten ounces and an half make of them a Liquid Electuary according to art A. I wonder what art it must be wherewith a man should make up an Electuary and have not wherewithal I tell you truly that to make up an Electuary of this without more moisture for here is not a quarter enough is a task harder than all Hercules his twelve labours abate me but his fetching Cerberus out of Hell or it may be they intend you should go back to Species Electuarii Diagalangae to fetch Honey from thence where they have appointed three times more than needs for my part I shall trouble the reader no further but leave the recept to Arnoldus and the Colledg for a pure piece of nonsence Diaphoenicon Mesue together with Feruelius Take of the pulp of Dates boyled in Hydronel and strained through a pulping Sive Penidies of each half a pound sweet Almonds blanched three ounces and an half let all of them be bruised and mixed then ad clarified Honey 2. pound boile them a little then sprinkle in Ginger Pepper Mace Cinnamon dryed Rue the seeds of Fennel and Carrots of each two drachms Turbith four ounces in fine pouder Diagrydium an ounce and an half make of them an Electuary according to art A. I cannot beleeve this is so profitable in feavers taken downwards as Authours 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 humours Diaprunum Simple more rightly called Lenitive Nicholaus Take a hundred Damask Prunes fresh and ripe boil them in a sufficient quantity of water till they be soft then draw the pulp of them through a Sive and in the liquor they were boiled in boil an ounce of Violet flowers strain it and in the Decoction dissolve two pound of Sugar and boyl it into a syrup then add of the pulp spoken of before a pound pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds of each an ounce then put in these following pouders of white and red Sanders Spodium Rhubarb of each three drachms Roses Violets the seeds of Purslain endive Barberries Gum Traganth Liquoris Cinnamon of each two drachms of the four greater cold seeds of each one drachm make them into an Electuary according to art A. It may safely and is with good successe 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 Diaprunum Solutive Nicholaus Take of Diaprunum lenitive whilst it is yet warm four pound Scammony prepared two ounces and five drachms mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art Seeing the Dose of the Scammony is encreased according to the Author in this medicine you may use a lesse weight of Scammony if you please A. And therein the Colledge said true for the medicine according to this recept is too strong violent corroding gnawing 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 mischeif 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 Diacatbolicon Nicholaus Take of the pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds the leaves of Senna of each two ounces Polypodium Violets Rhubarb Annis Seeds Penidies Sugar Candy of each one ounce Liquoris the seeds of Guords Citruls Cucumers Melons of each three drachms Let the things to be beaten be beaten and take of fresh Polipodium three ounces Fennel seed six drams boyl them in four pints of rain or spring water to the consumption of the third part strain it and ad to the decoction two pound of the best Sugar boil it again with the pulps of Cassia and Tamarinds and the pouders being added in theend make it into an Electuary according to art 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 tertian and quartan agues as also head-aches It is usually given in Clysters Diacrocuma or Species Electuarii de Croce Mesue Take of Saffron the roots of Asarabacca the seeds of Parsly Carrots Annis Smallage of each half an ounce Rhubarb the roots of Spignel Indian Spicknard of each six drachms Cassia lignea Costus Mirrh Schoenanth Cubebs the roots of Maddir the juyce of Wormwood and Maudlin made thick Opobalsamum or oyl of Nutmegs of each two drachms Cinnamon Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm and an half Scordium Stoechas juyce of Liquoris of each two drachms and an half Traganth one drachm make it up into an Electuary with eight times their weight in Sugar dissolved in Endive water and clarified according to art A. Mesue appoints clarified Honey it is exceeding good against cold diseases of the stomach liver or spleen corruption of humours and putrifaction of meat in the stomach ill favored colour of the body dropsies cold faults in the reins and bladder provokes urine Electuarium de Citro Solutive Take of preserved Citron pills conserves of Violets and Bugloss Diatragacanthum frigidum Diagridium of each half an ounce Turbith five drachms Ginger half a drachm the the leaves of Senna six drachms sweet Fennel seeds a drachm white Sugar dissolved in Rose water and boiled according to art ten ounces make them all into a sollid Electuary according to art A. Here are some things very cordial
each four drachms Aloes Succotrina one ounce Species diarhodon abbatis half an ounce let al be beaten the species excepted and but grosly neither and infused in the sun in the best Aqua vitae so much that it may over-top the pouders the breadth of eight fingers then infuse the Diarhodon abbatis in Aqua vitae in like manner for four daies then strain them strongly and mix both these liquors together and put them in a glasse Alembick and by distillation draw off the moisture till the substance at bottom be left of a fit thickness to make pills A. As this is the dearest so in my opinion is it most excellent in operation of all the pills in the Dispensatory being of a quick searching nature it cleanseth both head and body of Choller flegm and melancholly it must not be taken in any great quantity half a dram is sufficient for the strongest body let the weaker take less Pilulae Sine quibus esse Nelo. Nicholaus Take of wash'd Aloes fourteen drachms Myrobalans Citrons Chebuls Emblick Bellericks and Indian Rhubarb Mastich Wormwood red Roses Violets Senna Agrick Doddar of each a drachm Diagrydium fix drachms and an half with syrup of the juyce of Fennel made with Honey make it into a mass according to art A. It purgeth flegm choller and melancholly from the head makes the sight and 〈◊〉 good and giveth ease to a burdened brain Pills of Spurge Fernelius Take of the bark of the roots of Spurge the lesse steeped twenty four hours in vineger and juyce of Purslain two drachms grains of Palma Christi torrefied by number fourty Citron Myrobalans a drachm and an half Germander Chamepitys Spicknard Cinnamon of each two scruples being beaten into fine pouder with an ounce of Gum Traganth dissolved in Rose waeer and syrup of Roses so much as is sufficient let it be made into a mass A. I could say if I would and prove it too that the ounce of Gum Traganth so dislolved is enough to make six times so much into a mass but because the receit in my eyes seems more fitting for a horse than for a man I leave it Pills of Eupborbium Mesue Take of Euphorbium Colocynthis Agrick Bdellium Sagapenum of each two drachms Aloes five drachms with syrup made of the juyce of Leeks make it into a mass A. The pills are exceeding good 〈◊〉 dropsies pains in the loins and gouts coming of a moist cause Pills of Opopanax Mesue Take of Opopanax Sagapenum Hermodactils Bdellium Ammoniacum Colocynthis of each five drachms Saffron Castorium Mirrh Ginger black and long Pepper 〈◊〉 lignea Myrobalans Citrons Bellericks and Emblicks of each one drachm Scammony two drachms Turbith half an ounce Aloes twelve drams the Gums being infused in Colewort water make them up into a mass with syrup of the juyce of Coleworts A. It helps tremblings palfies gouts of all sorts cleanseth the joynts and is helpful for such as are troubled with cold afflictions of the nerves Pilulae turpeti Aurioe Mesue Take of the best Turbith sixteen drachms Aloes an ounce and an half Citron Myrobalans ten drachms red Roses Mastich of each six drams Saffron three drams beat them into pouder and with syrup of Wormwood make it-into a mass 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 Pilulae de Cynoglosso Fernelius Take of Mirrh six drams Olibanum five drams Opium the seeds of Henbane the roots of Houndstongue dry of each half an ounce Saffron Castorium of each a dram and an half with syrup of Stoechas make it into a mass according to art A. It staies hot rewms that fall down upon the lungnes therefore is good in Phthisicks also it mitigates pain a scruple is enough to take at a time going to bed Landanum Take of Thebane of Opium extracted in spirit of wine one ounce Saffron extracted in like manner a drachm and an half Castorium one drachm then let them all be taken with the tincture of half an ounce of the Species of Diambra new made in spirit of wine adding for pleasantness sake Amber greece and musk of each six grains oyl of 〈◊〉 ten drops then evaporate away the moisture in a warm bath and leave the 〈◊〉 for use A. It was invented and a gallant invention it is to mitigate violent pains stop the 〈◊〉 that trouble the brain in feavers but beware of Opiates in the beginnings of 〈◊〉 to provoke sleep take not above two gnains of it at a time going to bed if that provoke not sleep the next night you may make bold with three Pilulae Scribonii 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 A. It is apropriated to such as have phthisicks 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 Pills of Styrax Mesue Take of liquid Styrax Frankinsence Mirrh juyce of Liquoris Opium of each equal parts make them into a mass for pills with a sufficient quantity of syrup of Poppies according to art A. They help such as are troubled with defluxion of Rewm Coughs and provoke sleep to such as cannot sleep for coughing A. I have now done with 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 emploiments next day without danger TROCHES 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 Welch man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Latins besides the Greek names Trochisci call them Pastilli and Placentula A. Although a man may make them into what form he pleaseth yet they are usually made into little flat thin oakes of a 〈◊〉 or twenty grains in weight plus minus some print images as of a serpent upon troches of vipers upon them some gild 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 〈◊〉 he easier carried in ones pocket Traches of Wormwood Mesue Take of red Roses Wormwood Annis of each two drams Rhubarb juyce of 〈◊〉 or Mandlin 〈◊〉 the seeds of 〈◊〉 bitter Almonds
Indian Spicknard 〈◊〉 Indian leaf or 〈◊〉 of eaah a drachm juyce of Succory as much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art A. They strengthen the stomach exceedingly open 〈◊〉 or stoppings of the belly or bowels strengthen digestion open the passages of the liver help the yellow Jaundice and consume 〈◊〉 of the body Trocbisci Alexiterii Renodaeus Take of the roots of Gentian Tormentill Orris Florentine Zedoary of each two dracums Cinnamon Cloves Mace of each half a drachm Ginger a drachm Angelica roots three drachms Coriander seeds prepared Roses of each one drachm dried Citron pills two drachms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all into pouder and with juyce of Liquoris softened in Hippocras six ounces make them into a soft past which you may form into either Troches or small rowles which you please A. It preserves and strengthens the heart exceedingly helps fainting and failings of the vital spirits resists poyson and and the pestilence and is an excellent medicine for such to carry about them whose occasions are to travail in pestilential places or corrupt air only taking a very small quantity now and then Trocbisci Aliptae Moschatae Nicholaus Take of pure Labdanum bruised three ounces 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half Benzoin an ounce wood of Aloes two drachms Ambergreece one drachm Camphire half a drachm Musk half a scruple Rofe water so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches A. It is singular good for such as are Asthmatick and can hardly fetch their breath as also for young children whose throat is so narrow that they can hardly swalow down their milk Troches of Annis seeds Mesue Take of Annis seeds the juyce of Maudlin made thick of each two drachms the seeds of Dil Spicknard Mastich Indian leaf or Mace the leaves of Wormwood Asarabacca Smallage bitter Almond of each half a drachm Aloes two drachms juyce of Wormwood so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art A. They open obstructions of the liver and that very gently and therefore diseases coming thereof help quartan agues Trocbisci 〈◊〉 albi or Pectoral Rowls Take of white Sugar a pound white Sugar Candy Penidies of each four ounces Liquoris six drachms the roots of Orris Florentine half an ounce white Starch an ounce and an half Mussilage of Gum Traganth made with Rose water so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches three grains of Musk and four grains of Amber greece being added to it also you may make it iuto rowls which they commonly call pectoral rowls and if you please you may make it without Musk and Amber greece Trocbisei 〈◊〉 nigri Rhafis Take of juyce of Liquoris white Sugar of each ten 〈◊〉 Gum Traganth sweet Almonds blanched of each six drams Mussilage of Quinces as much as is sufficient to make it into Troches A. Both this and the former will melt in ones mouth and in that manner to be used by such as are troubled with coughs colds 〈◊〉 or want of voice the former is most in use but in my opinion the last is most effectual Troches of Barberries Mesue Take of dried Barberries juyce of Liquoris Spodium Purslain seeds of each three drachms red Roses six drachms Indian Spicknard Saffron white Starch Gum Traganth of each one drachm Citrul seeds three drachms and an half Camphire half a drachm make it up with Manna made soft with the juyce of Barberries according to art They wonderfully cool the heat of the liver reins and bladder breast and stomach and stop loosness cools the heat in feavers Troches of Camphire Mesue Take of red Roses four drachms Spodium Liquoris of each two drachms of the four greater cold seeds Gum Traganth Saffron Gum Arabick Indian Spicknard of each one dram yellow Sanders two drachms and an half wood of Aloes Cardamoms the greater white starch Camphire of each two 〈◊〉 white Sugar Manna of each three drams Muisialage of the seeds of flea wort made with Rose water as much as is sufficient to make it into Troches A 〈◊〉 exceeding good in burning feavers heat of blood and chollen together with hot distempers of the stomach and liver and extream thirst coming thereby also it is good à gainst the yellow Jaundice Phthisicks and Hectique feavers Troches of Capers Mesue Take of the bark of Caper roots the seeds of Agnus Castus of each six drams Gum Ammoniacum Nigella seeds Calaminth Acorus juyce of Maudlin made thick bitter Almonds the leaves of Rue round Birthwort roots the seeds of Water cresses of each two drachms Coterach 〈◊〉 of Cyperus of each one drachm dissolve the 〈◊〉 in sharp Vineger then mix the rest of the pouders with it that so they may be made up into Troches A. They open stoppings of the liver and spleen and help diseases thereof coming as Rickets Hypocondriack melancholly c. Trochisci Cypheos Damocrat Take of the pulp of Raisons of the Sun Turpentine boiled of each three ounces Mirrh Schoenanthus of each one ounce and an half Calamus Aromaticus nine drachms Cinnamon half an ounce Bdellium Indian Spicknard Cassia lignea Cyperus Juniper berries of each three drachms Aspalathus or Lignum Aloes two drachms and an half Saffron one drachm clarified Honey so much as is sufficient let the Mirrh and Bdellium be ground so long in a mortar with a little wine till it be brought to the thickness of Honey then ad the Honey with the pulp of Raisons last of all all the rest beaten into fine pouder and so make them into Troches according to art A. It is excellent good against inward ulcers in what part of the body so ever they be Trochisci Diarhodon Mesue Take of the flowers of red Roses six drams 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 A. They wonderfully ease feavers coming of flegm as quotidian feavers agues Epialos c. pains in the belly Trochisci de Eupatorio Mesue Take of Manna the juyce of Maudlin made thick of each an ounce red Roses half an ounce Spodium that is burnt Ivory three drachms and an half Indian Spicknard three drachms Rhubarb 〈◊〉 Annis seeds of each two drachms with Doddar water let them be made into Troches let the Manna be dissolved with the juyce then the rest of the pouders sprinkled in by degrees A. Obstructions or stoppings and swellings above nature both of the liver and spleen are cured by the inward taking of these Troches and diseases thereof coming as yellow and black Jaundice the beginning of dropsies c. Trochisci De Gallia Moschata Mesue Take of wood of Aloes five drachms Amber greece three drachms Musk one drachm with a sufficieut quantity of mussilage of Gum Traganth made in Rose water make them into Troches according to art and dry them in the shadow A. They strengthen the brain and heart and by consequence both
well incorporated A. They both viz. this and the former heat and moisten the latter helps pains of the breast coming of cold and pleuresies Unguentum Enulatum Take of Elicampane roots while they are soft bruised and boyled in Vineger and drawn through a pulping sieve one pound Hogs Greas without salt one pound Common Oyl four ounces Wax two ounces Salt one ounce Quick-silver killed either with fasting spittle or juyce of Lemmons Turpentine washed with the decoction the Elicampane roots were boyled in of each two ounces let the 〈◊〉 and Wax be melted in the oyl then ad the pulp of Elicampane and Salt being finely poudered last of all ad the Quick silver killed labored much in a mortar with the Turpentine and a little Crease make them into an ointment according to art Also it ought to be prepared without Quicksilver A. My opinion of this oyntment is briefly this It was invented for the Itch without Quick silver it wil do no good with Quick-silver it may do harm Unguentum Diapompholigos nihili Nichol. Take of Oyl of Roses sixteen ounces Juyce of Nightshade six ounces let them boyl to the consumption of the juyce then ad white Wax five ounces Cerus washed two ounces Lead burnt and washed Pompholix prepared pure Frankinsence of each an ounce let them be brought into the form of an Ointment according to art A. It cools and binds dries and staies fluxes either of blood or humors in wounds and fils hollow ulcers with fiesh Unguentum Refrigerans Galenus It it also called a Cerecloath Take of white Wax four ounces Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound melt it in a double vessel then powr it out into another by degrees putting in cold water and often powring it out of one vessel into another stirring it till it be white last of all wash it in Rose water adding a little Rose water and Rose vineger A. It is a fine cooling thing for what denomination to give it I scarce know and exceeding good yea superexcellent to cure inflamations in wounds or tumors Unguentum de Minio Or Rubrum Camphoratum Take of oyl of Roses a pound and an ounce red Lead three ounces Litharge two ounces Ceruss an ounce and an half Tutty three drams Camphire 2. drams Wax in summer two ounces in winter one ounce make them into an oyntment in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestel the wax being first melted in the oyl over a gentle fire then the rest added in fine pouder A. This ointment is as drying as a man shall usually reade of one and withal cooling therefore good for sores and such as are troubled with defluxions I remember once Dr. Alexander Read applied it to my Mothers breast when she had a Cancer before it brake long time but to as much purpose as though he had applied a 〈◊〉 apple yet in the forgoing infirmities I beleeve it seldom fails Oyntment of Tobacco Joubertus Take of Tobacco leaves two pound fresh Hogs Grease dilligently washed one pound let the herb being bruised be infused a whol night in red Wine in the morning let it boil with a gentle fire to the consumption of the Wine strain it and ad to the Oyntment of the juyce of Tobacco clarified half a pound Rozin four ounces boil it to the consumption of the 〈◊〉 adding toward the end round 〈◊〉 roots in pouder two ounces new Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an Ointment A It would ask a whol Summers day to write the particular vertues of this Oyntment and my poor Genius is too weak to give it the hundreth part of its due praise It cures Tumours Aposthumes wounds ulcers Gun-shot botches scibs itch stinging with nettles bees wasps hornets venemous beasts wounds made with poisoned arrows c. Tush this is nothing paulo majora canamus It helps scaldings though made with oyl burnings though with lightening that without any scar It helps nasty rotten stinking putrified ulcers though in the legs whither the humours are most subject to resort in fistulaes though the bone be afflicted it shall scale it without any instrument and bring up the flesh from the very bottom Would you be fair your face being anointed with this soon will the redness pimples sunburning vanish a wound dressed with this will never putrifie a wound made with so small a weapon that no tent will follow anoint but with this and you need fear no danger If your head ake anoint your templss with this and you shal have ease The stomach being anointed with it no infirmity dares harbour there no not Asthmaes nor consumptions of the lungues The belly being anointed with it helps the chollick and Iliack passion the worms and what not it help the Hemorrhoids or piles and is the best Oyntment that is for gouts of all sorts finally there may be as universal a medicine made for all diseases of Tobacco as of any thing in the world the Phylosophers stone excepted O Joubertus thou shalt never want praise for inventing this medicine by those that use it so long as the Sun and the Moon endureth Unguentum 〈◊〉 or Crudum or of Litharge or Tripharmacum Mesue Take of Litharge of Gold beaten into very fine pouder half a pound Oyl of Roses a pound Vineger four ounces put in sometimes Oyl and sometimes Vineger stirring it about in a mortar so long till the Litharge have drunk up all the liquor and be made in the form of a whitish Oyntment A. It is of a cooling drying nature good for itching of wounds Itch and Scabs and such like deformities of the skin as Tetters Ringworms c. Unguentum Ophthalmicum Renodaeus Take of Bole Armenick washed in Rose water an ounce Lapis Calaminaris washed in Eyebright water Tutty prepared of each two drachms Pearls beaten into very fine pouder half a drachm Camphire half a scruple Opium fiue grains Oyntment of Roses fifteen ounces Oyl of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment according to art A. It is exceeding good to stop hot Rhewms that fall down into the eyes the eye-lids being but anointed with it Cuilielmus Placentinus his Liniment Simple Take of washed Cerus eight ounces white Wax seven ounces Litharge washed juyce of Nightshade of each five ounces Frankinsence in pouder ten drachms oyl of Roses often washed in common water two pound make of them a Liniment according to art A. It is cooling and also drying if you cast an eye to some of the former Oyntments of that nature you may see its use Oyntment of Lead Foesius Take of Lead burnt with Brimstone Litharge of each two ounces Ceruss Antimony of each one ounce Oyl of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment I et the Lead being filed to dust be burned in a pot with Brimstone Pomatum Take of the Suet of a Stag or else of a Kid two ounces the fat of a Sow a pound and an half Apples being cut and pared
immoderate flowing of the terms and Hemorrhoids falling out of the fundament and womb finally for every occasion that requires binding I would if I were Eloquent commend it in the superlative degree Unguentum ad 〈◊〉 Norimberg Take of white starch Ceruss washed Litharge prepared Lead burnt Gum Traganth of each a drachm and an half Thebane Opium Camphire of each a scruple the white of one Egg oyl of Roses and Violets of each an ounce aud an half Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an oyntment A. It is apropriated to the Hemorrhoids as the title shews Unguentum Hemorrhoidale Saxoniae Take of mussilage of the seeds of Fleawort and Quinces drawn in the water of Nightshade of each an ounce oyl of Roses compleat an ounce the yolk of one Egg let them be stirred together in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestel adding a little melted Wax mix them together and make of them an oyntment according to art A. Its use is the same with the former Common oyntment of Baies Take of Bay leaves a pound Bay berries half a pound Cabbage leaves four 〈◊〉 Neats foot oyl five pound 〈◊〉 suet two pound the leaves and berries being bruised and boyled with the oyl and suet till their juyce be consumed let it be strained and kept A. It heats and expels wind it profitable for old aches and sprains but what good it should do in the itch for which simple people buy it I cannot imagin Unguentum Martiatum Nichol. Take of the leaves of Bay and Rosemary of each eight ounces Rue seven ounces Tamaris six 〈◊〉 the leaves of Dwarf-Elder Marjoram Savin Costmary or else Water-mints Sage Bazil Poley mountain Calaminth Mugwort Elicampane Bettony Brank-Ursine Goose grasse or Cleavers Anemone or Wind flower or for want of it Pellitory of the wall Burnet Agrimony Wormwood Cowslips garden Costus Elders Orphine the greater 〈◊〉 the greater and lesser Yarrow Germander Centaury the less Plantain Strawberries Tetrahit or for want of it Golden-rod Cvnkfoyl of each four ounces and an half the roots of 〈◊〉 the seeds of Cummin 〈◊〉 of each three ounces 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half the seeds of the greater Nettles of Violets red or errattick Poppies cōmonly called Corn-roses Garden Mints 〈◊〉 wild Mints Maiden-hair Carduus Benedictus Woodbind or Honey suckles Va lerian the greater sweet Cranebill or Muschata wood Sor rel Harts-tongue Ox-eye Southern wood Marrow of a Stag Styrax Calamitys of each half an ounce Butter ten drachms Bears and Hens 〈◊〉 Mastich Frankinsence of each one ounce Nard oyl two ounces Wax two pound let the herbs being green be cut and infused in eight pounds of oyl with wine for seven daies on the eighth day let them be boyled almost to the consumption of the wine then being removed from the fire let it be strained and the oyl put into the pan again to which being a little warmed 〈◊〉 the butter marrow fat nard oyl and wax then the styrax dissolved in wine and mixed with a little turpentine but let the Mastich Mirrh and Frankinsence being beaten into pouder be put in last of al and when they are all well mixed together keep the oyntment in a vessel A. This long recept of Nich Myrepsus is held to be profitaagainst cold afflictions of the brain nerves and joynts as shaking palsie dead palsie Convuliions c. it helps numbness of the joynts the gout and hard tumors of the spleen Mundificativum ex 〈◊〉 Take of the juyce of Smallage a pound Honey nine ounces Wheat flower three ounces boyl them over the fire to the thickness of an oyntment according to art A. It is a fine gentle cleansing oyntment Unguentum Neapolitanum Renodaeus Take of Sows grease washed with juyce of Sage one pound quicksilver strained through a cloath and well killed with falling spittle four ounces oyl of Bays Chamomel Earth-worm of each two ounces oyl of Spike an ounce and an half Aqua vitae an ounce yellow wax two ounces Turpentine washed in juyce of Elicampane three ounces pouder of Camaepitys and Sage of each two drachms make them into an oyntment according to art Unguentum Resinum Take of Per-rozin Turpentine yellow Wax pure Oyl of each equal parts mix them together A. It is as pretty a Careoloath for a new sprain as most is and cheap Unguentum Nervinum Take of the leaves and flowers of Cowslips Sage Camaepytis Rosemary Lavender Bay with the berries Chamomel Rue Smallage Melilot with the flowers Wormwood of each a handful Mints Bettony Penyroyal Parsly Centaury the less St. Johns wort of each half a handful Neats or sheeps foot Oyl five pound Sheep or Ox suet or else their marrow two pound Oyl of Spike half an ounce bruise the herbs and boyl them with the oyls and suet and make an oyntment of them according to art A. It is apropriated to the nerves and helps their infirmities coming of cold which you may find often enough related I do not love alwaies to harp upon the same string as also old bruises Unguentum Pactorale Nich. Take of fresh butter often washed in Violet water six ounces oyl of sweet Almonds four ounces oyl of Chamomel and Violets of each three ounces Goose and Ducks grease of each three ounces Orris roots two drachms Saflron half a dram white Wax three ounces let the Wax and fats be melted together in the oyl then often washed either in Barly or Hysop water add the Orris and Saffron being brought into fine pouder then bring them into an Oyntment according to art A. If you let the Butter boyl it will stink but the Colledge never thought of that having forgotten the old Grammer phraze 〈◊〉 est c. A. It strengthens the breast and stomach easeth the pains thereof helps pleuresies and consumptions of the lungues Unguentum Populneum Nich. Take of the buds of Poplar fresh gathered a pound and an half fresh Hogs grease three pound let the Poplar-buds be beaten and mixed with the grease till these following herbs can be gotten Take of the leaves of black Poppies and Mandrakes the tender branches of Maddir the leaves of Henbane Nightshade Lettice Sengreen the lesser and greater Violets Penywort or Kidneywort Burs of each three ounces let all of them being bruised be mixed with the grease and Poplar buds after ten daies put to them a pound of Rose water and boil them with a gentle fire till the water and all the liquor be consumed strain it and press it out and if need be boyl it again till it come to the consistence of an oyntment A. It is exceeding good in burnings scaldings and inflamations it aswageth the heat of the head and kidneyes the temple being anointed with it it provokes sleep Unguantum Resumptivum Nicholaus Take of fresh Hogs grease three ounces Hens Goose and Ducks grease of each two ounces Oesypus an ounce oyl of Violets Chamomel and Dill of each two ounces fresh Butter a pound
Ducks Geese and Hens of each three drachms Bdellium Galbanum of each three drachms and an half Per rozin wax of each five ounces oyl of Orris Turpentine of each an ounce and an half let the fats and oyl boyl with a sufficient quantity of mussilage of Lin and 〈◊〉 seeds and that it may be brought to the due form of a plaister ad the Wax and Turpentine afterwards the Oynment of Marsh mallows and Melliot Plaister then the Gums dissolved in Vineger and lastly the pouders and per-Rozin in pouder mix them all well together and make it into plaister according to art A. By Plaister alwaies understand not a plaister spread upon a cloath but a rol made to spread such a one withal A. It softens and aswageth hard swellings and scatters the humours offending applied to the side it softens the hardness of the spleen and aswageth pains thence arising Album Coctum de Cerussa Ulms. Take of Ceruss ground into very fine pouder yellow Wax oyl of Olives of each equall parts the Ceruss being put into a brass pan let the oyl be added by degrees set it over a gentle fire stir it continually til they be incorporated then put in the Wax thin scraped neither put it in altogether at one time neither let it boyl til it be all melted then boil it all according to art till it begin to look black and be of a just thickness A. It helps burns dry scabs and hot ulcers and in general what ever sores abound with moisture A Plaister of Bayberries Mesue Take of Bayberries two ounces Frankinsence Mastich Mirrh of each one ounce Cyperus Costus of each half an ounce Turpentine an ounce clarified Honey so much as is sufficient to make it into a plaister according to art A. It is an excellent plaister to ease any pains coming of cold or wind in any part of the body whether stomach liver belly reins or bladder Emplastrum Barbarummagnum Galen Take of dry pitch eight pound yellow Wax six pound eight ounces Per-Rozin five pound four ounces Bitumen Judaicum or else Mummy four pound Oyl a pound and an half Vert-de-greece Litharge Ceruss of each three ounces Frankinsence half a pound roch Allum not burnt an ounce and an half roch Allum burnt four ounces Opopanax Scales of brass Galbanum of each twelve drachms Aloes Opium Mirrh of each half an ounce juyce of Mandrakes or else the bark of the roots of them dried six drachms Vineger five pound let the Litharge Ceruss and Oyl be boyled to the thickness of Honey the Pitch melted and incorporated with the pouder of the Bitumen then the other things added and boyled according to art till the Vineger be consumed and the composition brought to a due thickness A. It helps the bitings of men and beasts easeth the inflamations of wounds and helps infirmities of the joints and gouts in the beginning A Plaisier of 〈◊〉 Andernacus Take of green Bettony Burnet Agrimony Sage Penyroyal Yarrow Comfry the greater Clary of each 〈◊〉 ounces Frankinsence Mastich of each three drachms Orris round Birthwort of each six drachms white Wax Turpentine of each eight ounces Gum Elemni two ounces per-Rozin six ounces Venis Turpentine two ounces white Wine three pound let the herbs being bruised be boyled in the Wine strained and all the rest being added to the decoction boyl it to a plaister according to art A. It is a gallant plaister to unite the skul when it is cracked to draw out pieces of broken bones and cover the bones with flesh it draws filth from the bottom of deep ulcers restores flesh lost cleanseth digesteth and drieth Emplastrum 〈◊〉 Take of Bistort roots Cyperus Nuts red Roses the three 〈◊〉 of Sanders Mints Coriander seeds of each three drams 〈◊〉 half an ounce Hypocistis Acacia Dragons blood Terra Lemnia Bole Armenick red Corral of each two drams Turpentine washed in Plantane water four ounces oyl of 〈◊〉 twelve ounces the juyce of 〈◊〉 Plantane and Orpine of each an ounce yellow Wax a pound and an half let the Hypocistis and Acacia be dissolved with the juyces and boyled to a due height then add the rest and make them into a plaister according to art A. It is of a fine cool binding strengthening nature excellent good to repell hot rhewms or vapours that ascend up to the head the hair being shaved off and it applied to the crown Emplastrum Catagmaticum Vigo Take of the juyce of Marshmallow roots six ounces the bark of the root of Ash tree and the leaves of the tree the roots 〈◊〉 Comfry the greater and lesser with the leaues and al of each two ounces Mirtle berries an ounce and an half the leaves of Willow the tops of St. Johns wort of each a handful and an half the things to be bruised being bruised let them boil together in red Wine and water in which Smiths quench their 〈◊〉 of each two pound till half be consumed 〈◊〉 it and ad oyl of Mirtles Roses and Omphacine of each a pound and an half Goats suet melted eight ounces Litharge of gold and silver red Lead of each four ounces yellow Wax a pound Colophonia half a pound let them boyl again to the consumption of the decoction then add towards the end 〈◊〉 Frankinsence Mastich of each half an ounce cleer Turpentine two ounces Boie Armenick Earth of Lemnos of each an ounce stir them together till they are boiled enough to be made into a plaister according to art Catagmaticum Renodaeus Take of the roots of Comfry the less and Marshmallows 〈◊〉 of the Oak of each two ounces Plantane Chamaepitys St. Johns wort of each a handful boyl them in equal 〈◊〉 of red Wine and Water wherein Smiths quench their Iron 〈◊〉 half be consumed strain it and to the decoction ad 〈◊〉 of Quince seeds extracted in decoction of Tripes Oyl 〈◊〉 and Roses of each four ounces Virgins Wax a pound 〈◊〉 of Gold two ounces Turpentine three ounces Balaustins Roses Mirtles Acacia of each half an ounce 〈◊〉 the seeds of Tutsan Colophonia 〈◊〉 Amber of each six drachms Ship Pitch an ounce and an half Bole Armenick fine flower Frankinsence of each twelve drachms Dragons blood two ounces let the water and mussilage be boyled together till the moisture be consumed then put in the oyl then the Wax afterward the Litharge which being boyled united stirred and removed from the fire let first the Turpentine be added then the pouders so let all of them be mixed stirred and brought into the form of an Emplaster according to art A. Both this and the former are of a binding nature Emplasirum Cephalicum Take of cleer Rozin two ounces black Pitch one ounce Ladanum half an ounce Mirrh Mastich of each a drachm and an half Juniper Gum two drachms the flower of Beans and Orobus of each half an ounce Nigella three drachms Nutmegs two drachm Pidgeons dung two ounces let the Mirrh be dissolved in Malaga Wine and the
part of salt Peter two parts dissolve them in a phial over warm ashes make brine of rain water and Baysalt as much as the water will dissolve filter it through a broun paper into this brine which must be strong enough to bear an eg put the former solution of the Mercury and forth with a white pouder will fall down to the bottom which is to be washed in cleer water till it have no tast then in cordial waters so dried and kept in a glass Mercurius vitae Take of oyl of Antimony before mentioned whilst it is in fat put it into cleer water and forth with it will appear like milk and a white pouder will fall down to the bottom which must be made sweet with much washing and kept for use Sacharum Saturni Take of red I ead as much as you will which being put into a phyal put so much distilled Vineger to it that it may overtop it the bredth of four fingers digest it in a bath or in dung twenty four hours seperate the sweet Vineger and put in fresh so long till no more sweetness can be drawn from it mix all the liquors together in a stone vessel which will endure the fire with a gentle fire exhale it so long away till there appear a skin at the top then set the vessel in a Cellar and take away the Christalline congealation then exhale it again till another skin be on the top and do as before till there grows no more there at last dissolve the sugar in distilled water filter it coagulate it to a sweet christalline sugar Salt of Vitriol of a fleshy colour Take of Vitriol so much as you wil put it in a wide Crucible and place the sire round about it till it come into a pouder of the colour of Violets let this be put into a large glass viol into common water distilled continually stirring it with a stick till the water which before was hot be cold so let it stand twenty four hours filter the liquor and exhale it away till it be dry and of a fleshy colour Salt of Vitriol white Let white Vitriol be dissolved in distilled water filtred and coagulated as the Sacharum Saturni was Turbith Minerale Take of crude Mercury oyl of Vitriol seperated from the flegm of each equal parts put them into a phial which being placed first of all in hot ashes then fire being added by degrees lest all the oyl of Vitriol flie away a white mass remaining in the bottom which being seperated from that portion of crude Mercury let it be put into rain water or else distilled water and forth with it will come yellow let it be often washed in warm water till it be sweet then in cordial waters then dried and kept Oleum Antimonij Take of bright Antimony as much as you will let it be beaten in very fine pouder and put into a large earthen vessel stirring it over the fire with an iron instrument till it grow into clots then beat it again set it over the fire as before repeat this till all the splendor of it be gone and it smoke no more and the Stibium be like white ashes let this pouder be put upon a red hot plate take a pound and an half of it Borax half an ounce or take three ounces of it and half a dram of Sal gem put it into a Crucible which being covered with a Tile set in a very hot fire til there flow a matter like water put that into a bason and keep it Tartarum Vitriolatum Take of Liquor Tartar prepared four ounces Oyl of Vitriol wel rectified two ounces drop it by drops upon the Liquor of Tartar so wil there a white pouder fall down to the bottom let the moisture swimming above be taken away by a gentle heat and the salt reserved for use Nepenthes Opiatum Take of tincture of Opium made with distilled Vineger then with spirit of Wine extraction of Saffron made with spirit of Wine of each an ounce Salt of Pearls and Coral of each half an ounce Tincture of the specics of Diambra of each seven drachms Ambergreece one drachm mix them together and with the heat of a bath make them into the form of pills THE VVAY OF MAKING EXTRACTS SEing many extol the praises of Extracts up to the skies l'though WE by daily experience see they never answer to those effects yet that He may not altogether be wanting to the desires of others We chose rather to give this general way of making of them than to stuff up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with idle and needless Recepts and out of vian glory impose then upon the unskilful Take of the masse of any pill or pouder what soever as much as you wil infuse them or any of them in distilled water such as the Physitian shall prescribe a sufficient quantity let them stand two daies in a bath or if the species be hard three daies til the tincture have drawn out all the vertue which if you would try let the first liquor run through a brown paper and put in new liquor digesting it again which having received its tincture proceed as before let the liquors so gathered be placed in Balnes Mariae and the moisture evaporated so wil the matter remain in the bottom of the thickness of honey which keep for your use that the extract may remain moist a long time put a little salt to it viz two scruples or half a drachm to an ounce of extract If you draw it with distilled water put in a little oyl of Vitriol or oyl of Sulphur so the extract wil be the better drawn and the pleasanter to the tast for the liquor being thereby made sharp will sooner penetrate the hard substances of the species and set a stop to the unbridled violence of a purging medicine Cordial Extracts Opiates and violent purges are usually drawn with spirit of Wine THE VVAY OF MAKING SALTS OF ANY KIND OF VEGETABLES THE Salt which is made of plants is twofold the one Volatle which is 〈◊〉 discussed by the violence of the fire and this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The other fixed which endures the fire and is left in the 〈◊〉 The way to make Volatle or Essential Salt Take a large quantity of any convenient plant which is fresh and full of juyce beat it in a wooden or stone mortar and 〈◊〉 poured cleer spring water to it boyl it till half be consumed strain it and press it strongly then boyl the decoction to the thickness of Honey then set it in a glass or stone 〈◊〉 glazed in a cold place for eight daies at the least and you shall find a christal line salt at the top of it like Sal gem take that and wash it in the water of the herb whereof it was made and dry it In this manner is made salt of Wormwood Carduns 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and other bitter herbs very easily but of 〈◊〉 herbs not 〈◊〉 much difficulty The way of