them be cut and infused in Spirit of Wine and Malaga Wine of each three pound and an half Vineger of Clove-gilli-flowers juyce of Lemmons of each one pound and distilled in a glass stil in Balneo Mariae after it is half stilled off the residue may be strained through a linnen cloath and be reduced to the thickness of Honey and called the Bezoartick extract Culpeper A. Extracts have the same vertues with the waters they are made from only the different form is to please the quaint pallats of such whose fancy loaths any one particular form A. This Bezoar water strengtheneth the heart Arteries and spirit vital It provoketh sweat and is exceeding good in pestilential feavers in health it withstands melancholly and consumptions and makes a merry blith cheerful creature Of the extract you may take ten grains at a time or somewhat more if your body be not feaverish half a spoonful of water is sufficient at a time and that mixed with other cordials or medicines apropriated to the disease that troubles you which the Table at the latter end of the Book will direct you to And take this for a general rule when any thing is too hot to take it by it self resort to the Table of diseases which will amply furnish you with what to mix it and especially the cold waters the vertues of which you have amply in this third Edition This is Langius Receipt though the Colledg would have no body know it Aqua et Spiritus Lumbricorum Magistralis P. 34. L. B. Or Water and Spirit of Earth-worms The Colledg Take of Earth-worms wel clensed three pound Snails with shels on their backs clensed two Gallons beat them in a mortar and put them into a convenient vessel adding stinging Nettles roots and all six handfuls wild Angellica four handfuls Brank ursine seven handfuls Agrimony Betony of each three handfuls Rue one handful common Wormwood two handfuls Rosemary flowers six ounces Dock roots ten ounces the roots of Sorrel five ounces Turmerick the inner bark of Barberries of each four ounces Fenugreek seeds two ounces Cloves three ounces Harts-horn Ivory in gross pouder of each four ounces Saffron three drachms smal Spirit of Wine four gallons and an half after twenty four hours infusion distil them in an Alembick Let the four first pounds be reserved for Spirit the rest for water Culpeper A. 'T is a mess of Altogether it may be they intended it for an Universal medicine Aqua Gentianae composita Page 35. in the Latin B. Or Gentian Water Compound The Colledg Take of Gentian roots sliced one pound and an half the leaves and flowers of Centaâ—ry the less of each four ounces steep them eight daâ—â— in twelve pound of white Wine then distil them in an Alembick Culpeper A. It conduceth to preservation from ill air and pestilential feavers it opens obstructions of the Liver and helps such as they say are Liver grown it easeth pains in the stomach helps digestion and easeth such as have pains in their bones by ill lodging abroad in the cold it provokes appetite and is excellent good for the yellow jaundice as also for prickings or stitches in the sides it provokes the terms and expells both birth and after-birth it is naught for women with child If there be no feaver you may take a spoonful or taster full by it self if there be you may if you please mix it with some cooler medicine apropriated to the same use you would give it for Aqua Gilberti Page 35. in the Latin Book Or Gilberts Water The Colledg Take of Scabious Burnet Dragons Bawm Angellica Pimpernel with purple flowers Tormentil roots and all of each two handfuls let al of them being rightly gathered and prepared be steeped in four gallons of Canary Wine stil off three gallons in an Alembick to which ad three ounces of each of the cordial flowers Clove-gilli-flowers six ounces Saffron half an ounce Turmerick two ounces Galanga Bazil seeds of each one drachm Citron pills one ounce the seeds of Citrons and Cardus Cloves of each five drachms Harts-horn four ounces steep them twenty four hours and then distil them in Balneo Mariae to the stilled water add Pearls prepared an ounce and an half red Corral Crabs eyes white Amber of each two drachms Crabs claws six drams Bezoar Ambergreese of each two scruples steep them six weeks in the Sun in a vessel well stopped often shaking it then filter it you may keep the pâ—uders for Sp. cord temp by mixing twelve ounces of Sugar candy with six ounces of red Rose water and four ounces of Spirit of Cinnamon with it Culpeper A. I suppose this was invented for a cordial to strengthen the heart to releeve languishing nature it is exceeding dear I forbear the dose they that have money enough to make it themselves cannot want time to stady both the vertues and dose I would have Gentlemen men to be studious A. Only one thing I would demand of the Colledg that makes their brags so much of minding their Countryes good these same species which they appoint to be left after use in this medicine for Species Cordiales Temperatae Doth the vertue come out of them in this medicine or not if not why are they put in if yes then wil the Species cordiales Temperatae be like themselves viz. good for nothing but to deceive people Aqua Cordialis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Page 36. in Lat. B. The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Borrage Bugloss Bawm Bistort Tormentil Scordium Vervain Sharp-pointed dock Sorrel Goats Rue 〈◊〉 blew Bottle great and smal Roses Marigolds Lemmons Citrons of each six ounces Bnrnet Sinksoyl of each three ounces white Wine Vineger one pound Purslain seeds two ounces Citron and Cardus seeds of each half an ounce Water Lilly flowers two ounces the flowers of Borrage Bugloss Violets 〈◊〉 of each one ounce Diatrion Santalon six 〈◊〉 let all of them being rightly prepared be infused three daies then distilled in a glass still to the distilled Liquor add earth of Lemnos Siletia aud Samos of each one ounce and an half Pearls prepared with the juyce Citrons three drachms mix them and keep them together Culpeper A. No sooner had I translated their old Dispensatory which should have been Authentick til dooms day in the afternoon had not I done it to work go they and make another such a one as 〈◊〉 and then the old one is thrown by like an old Almanack out of 〈◊〉 some final alterations they have made in some medicines of which this is one not worth speaking of yet wil they serve to vapor with look here quoth they here 's such a thing altered here is a grain and an half put in where there was but a grain before the other is dangerous and destructive to the Common-wealth and so care not a straw for defaming their predecessors nay some of their own handy works so they may but uphold their own interests and unconscionable domineering thus they serve the poor
shall find this one Receipt worth the price of the whol Book Syrupus de Stoechade Page 65. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Stoechas The Colledg Take of Stoechas flowers four ounces Rosemary flowers half an ounce Time Calaminth Origanum of each an ounce and an half Sage Betony of each half an ounce the seeds of Rue Pcony and Fennel of each three drachms spring water ten pound boyl it till half be consumed and with Honey and sugar of each two pound boyl it into a syrup which perfume with Cinnamon Ginger and Calamus Aromaticus of each two drachms tyed up in a rag Syrupus de Symphyto Page 65. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Comfry The Colledg Take of the Roots and Tops of Comfry the greater and lesser of each three handfuls red Roses Betony Plantane Burnet Knot-grass scabious Coltsfoot of each two handfuls press the Juyce out of them all being green and bruised boyl it scum it and strain it ad its weight of sugar to it that it may be made into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. The syrup is excellent for all inward wounds and bruises excoriations vomitings spittings or pissings of blood it unites broken bones helps ruptures and stops the terms in women you cannot er in taking of it Syrupus Violarum Page 65. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Violets The Colledg Take of Violet Flowers fresh and picked a pound cleer water made boyling hot two pound shut them up close together in a new glazed pot a whol day then press them hard out and in two pound of the Liquor dissolve four pound and three ounces of white Sugar take away the scum and so make it into a syrup without boyling Syrup of the Juyce of Violets is made with its double waight of Sugar like the former Culpeper A. This latter syrup is far more chargable than the former and in all reason is better although I never knew it used they both of them cool and moisten and that very gently they correct the sharpness of choller and give ease in hot vices of the breast they quench thirst in acute feavers and resist the heat of the disease they comfort hot stomachs exceedingly cool the liver and heart and resist putrifaction pestilence and poyson It is so harmless a syrup you shall hurt your purse by it sooner than your body The Colledg Julep of Violets is made of the water of Violet flowers and sugar like Julep of Roses Culpeper A. It is cooling and pleasant for the Gentry when they are hot with walking for few of them much trouble their study PURGING SYRUPS Syrupus de Cicborio cum Rhabarbaro Page 67. Or Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb The Colledg TAke of whol Barley the Roots of Smallage Fennel and Sparagus of each two ounces Succory Dandelyon Endive smooth Sowthistles of each two handfuls Lettice Liverwort Fumitory tops of Hops of each one handful Maiden-hair white and black Cetrach Liquoris Winter Cherries Dodder of each six drachms to boyl these take sixteen pound of spring water strain the liquor and boyl in it six pound of white Sugar adding towards the end six ounces of Rhubarb six drachms of Spicknard bound up in a thin and slack rag the which crush often in boyling and so make it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. This Receipt without a name was borrowed from Nicholaus Florentinus the difference is only in the quantity of the Rhubarb and Spike besides the order inverted whose own aprobation of it runs in these terms A. It clenseth the body of venemous humors as Boyls Carbuncles and the like it prevails against pestilential Feavers it strengthens the heart and nutritive vertue purgeth by stool and urine it makes a man have a good stomach to his meat and provokes sleep A. But by my Authors leave I never accounted purges to be proper Physick in Pestilential Feavers this I beleeve the syrup clenseth the liver well and is exceeding good for such as are troubled with Hypocondriack Melancholly The strong may take two ounces at a time the weak one or you may mix an ounce of it with the Decoction of Senna Syrupus de Epithymo Page 67. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Epithimum The Colledg Take of Epithimum twenty drams Mirobalans Citron and Indian of each fifteen drams Emblicks Bellericks Polypodium Liquoris Agrick Time Calaminth Bugloss Stoechas of each six drams Dodder Fumitory of each ten drachms red Roses Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each two drachms and an half sweet Prunes ten Raisons of the sun stoned four ounces Tamarinds two ounces and an half after twenty four hours infusion in ten pints of spring water boyl it away to six then take it from the fire and strain it and with five pound of fine Sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. It is best to put in the Dodder Stoechas and Agrick towards the latter end of the Decoction A. This Receipt was Mesue's only instead of five pound of Sugar Mesue appoints four pound of Sugar and two pound of Sapa the making of which shall be shewed in its proper place and truly in my opinion the Receipts of Mesue are generally the best in all the Dispensatory because the Simples are so pertinent to the purpose intended they are not made up of a mess of Hodgpodg as many others are but to the purpose A. It purgeth Melancholly and other humors it strengtheneth the stomach and Liver clenseth the body of addust choller and addust blood as also of salt humors and helps diseases proceeding from these as scabs itch tetters ringworms leprosie c. and the truth is I like it the better for its gentleness for I never fancied violent Medicines in Melancholly diseases A mean man may take two ounces at a time or ad one ounce to the Decoction of Epithimum Syrupus è Floribus Persicorum Page 68. in L. Book Or Syrup of Peach-flowers The Colledg Take of fresh Peach-flowers a pound steep them a whol day in three pound of warm water then boyl it a little and strain it out repeat this infusion five times in the same 〈◊〉 in three pound of which dissolve two pound and an half of Sugar and boyl it into a syrup Culpeper A. It is a gentle Purger of choller and may be given even in feavers to draw away the sharp chollerick humors according to the opinion of Andernacus whose Receipt all things considered differs little from this Syrupus de Pomis Purgans Page 68. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Apples purging The Colledg Take of the Juyce of sweet smelling Apples two pound the juyce of Borrage and Bugloss of each one pound and an half Senna two ounces Annis seeds half an ounce Saffron one drachm let the 〈◊〉 be sleeped in the Juyce's twenty four hours and after a walm or two strain it and with two pound of white sugar boyl it to a syrup according to art the Saffron
Wine Vineger of each two pound boyl them in an earthen vessel taking the scum off with a wooden Scummer till it be come to the consistence of a Syrup Culpeper A. Your best way is to boyl the Water and Honey first into a Syrup and ad the Vineger afterwards and then boyl it again into a Syrup Observe that the later it be before you ad the Vineger to any Syrup the sowrer will it be so may you please your self and not offend the Colledg for they give you latitude enough A. It cuts flegm and it is a good preparative against a vomit Oxymel Compound Page 73. in the L. Book The Colledg Take of the Bark of the Root of Fennel Smallage Parsly Bruscus Sparagus of each two ounces the Seeds of Fennel Smallage Parsly Annis of each one ounce steep them all the Roots being first clensed and the Seeds bruised in six pound of cleer water and a pound and an half of wine Vineger the next day boyl it to the consumption of the third part boyl the rest being strained with three pound of Honey into a liquid Syrup according to art Culpeper A. First having bruised the Roots and Seeds boyl them in the water till half be consumed then strain it and ad the Honey and when it is almost boyled enough add the Vineger and with all my heart I will put it to Dr. Reason to judg which is the best way of making of it the Colledges or mine Oxymel Helleboratum Page 74. in the Latin Book Or Oximel Helleborated The Colledg Take of Rue Time Dittany of Creet Hysop Penyroyal Horebound Cardus the Roots of Celtick Spicknard without Leaves the inner bark of Elders of each a handful mountain Calaminth two pugils the Seeds of Annis Fennel Bazil Romane Nettles Dill of each two drachms the Roots of Angelica Marsh-Mallows Aron Squils prepared Birthwort long round and climing Turbith English Orris Costus Polypodium Lemmon Pills of each an ounce the strings of black Hellobore Spurge Agrick added at the end of the Decoction of each two drams the bark of white Hellebor half an ounce let al of them being dried bruised be digested in a Glass or glazed vessel close stopped in the heat of the Sun or of a Furnace Posca made of equal parts of Water and Vineger eight pound Sapa two ounces three daies being expired boyl it a little more than half away strain it pressing it gently and ad to the liquor a pound and an half of honey-Honey-Roses wherein two ounces of Citron Pills have been infused boyl it to the thickness of Honey and perfume it with Cloves Saffron Ginger Galanga Mace of each a drachm Culpeper A. It is such a mess of altogether that a man scarce knows what to do with it here are many Simples very Cordial many provoke the terms some purge gently some violently and some cause vomiting being all put together I verily think the labor and cost if put in an equal ballance would outweigh the benefit but the Apothecaries must make it the Colledg commands it Oxymel Julianizans Page 75. in Lat. Book The Colledg Take of the bark of Caper Roots the Roots of Orris Fennel Parsly Bruscus Cichory Sparagus Cyperus of each half an ounce the Leaves of Harts-tongue Schaenanth Tamaris of each half a handful sweet Fennel Seed half an ounce infuse them in three pound of Posca which is somthing sowr afterwards boyl it till half be consumed strain it and with Honey and Sugar clarified of each half a pound boyl it to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. This Medicine is very opening very good against Hypocondriack Melancholly and as fit a Medicine as can be for that disease in children called the Rickets Children are as humorsom as men and they are humorsom enough Experience the best of all Doctors teacheth some love sweet things let them take Syrup of Harts-tongue others cannot abide sweet things to their natures this Syrup suits being taken in the same manner The Colledg Oximel of Squils simple is made of three pound of clarified Honey Vineger of Squils two pound boyl them according to art Culpeper A. They say they borrowed this Receipt of Nicholaus but of what Nicholaus I know not the self same Receipt is word for word in Mesue whose commendations of it is this It cuts and divides humors that are tough and viscus and therefore helps the stomach and bowels afflicted by such humors and helps sour belchings If you take but a spoonful in the morning an able body will think it enough A. View the Vineger of Squils and then your reason will tell you this is as wholsom and somwhat more toothsom Oxymel Scilliticum Compositum Page 75. in L. Book Or Oximel of Squils Compound The Colledg Take of Origanum dried Hysop Time Lovage Cardamoms the less Stoechas of each five drachms boyl them in three pound of Water to one strain it and with two pound of Honey Honey of Raisons half a pound Juyce of Briony five ounces Vineger of Squils a pound and an half boyl it and scum it according to art Culpeper A. Mesue saith this is good against the Falling-sickness Megrim Head-ach Vertigo or swimming in the head and if these be occasioned by the stomach as many times they are it helps the Lungues obstructed by humor and is good for women not well clensed after labor it opens the passage of the womb 'T is too churlish a purge for a Country man to meddle with If the ignorant will be medling they will meet with their matches and say I told them so A. Such Syrups as are in their rejected Dispensatory and left out in this for they love to reject the best and chuse the worst as though they were born for nothing else but to do mischief are these that follow Culpeper A. REader before we begin I thought good to advertise thee of these few things which indeed I had inserted at the beginning of the Syrups had I not forgotten it A. 1. A Syrup is a Medicine of a liquid body compounded of Decoction Infusion or Juyce with Sugar or Honey and brought by the heat of the fire into the thickness of Honey A. 2. Because all Honey is not of a thickness understand new Honey which of all other is thinnest A. 3. The Reason why Decoctions Infusions and Juyces are thus used is because thereby 1. They will keep the longer 2. They will tast the better A. 4. In boyling Syrups have a great care of their just consistance for if you boyl them too much they will candy if too little they will sour A. 5. All Simple Syrups have the vertues of the Simples they are made of and are far more convenient for weak people and queazy stomachs Syrup of Purslain Mesue The Colledg TAke of the seeds of Purslain grosly bruised half a pound of the Juyce of Endive boyled and clarified two pound Sugar two pound Vineger nine ounces infuse the seeds in the juyce of Endive twenty four
of Wormwood make it into a Mass. Culpeper A. It amends the evil state of a womans body strengthens conception and takes away what hinders it it gently purgeth choller and flegm and leaves a binding strengthening quality behind it Take them as Imperial Pills Pilulae ex Tribus Pag. 127. in the Latin Book Or Pills of three things The Colledg Take of Mastich two ounces Aloes four ounces Agrick Hiera Simple of each an ounce and an half Rhubarb two ounces Cinnamon two drachms wth Syrup of Succory make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. They gently purge choller and help diseases thence arising as itch Scabs wheals c. They strengthen the stomach and Liver and open obstructions as also help the yellow Jaundice You may take a scruple or half a drachm at night going to bed according as your body is in strength neither need you fear next day to go about your business Pilulae Turpeti Aureae Page 127. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Turbith two ounces Aloes an ounce and an half Citron Myrobalans ten drams Red Roses Mastich of each six drachms Saffron three drachms Beat them all into pouder and with Syrup of Wormwood bring them into a Mass. Culpeper A. They purge choller and flegm and that with as much gentleness as can be desired also they strengthen the stomach and liver and help digestion Take a setuple or half a drachm according as your body and the season of the yeer is at night you may follow your business next day Laudanum Page 127. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Thebane Opium extracted in Spirit of Wine one ounce Saffron alike extracted a drachm and an 〈◊〉 Castorium one drachm Let them be taken in tincture of half an ounce of Species Diambrae newly made in Spirit of Wine add to them Amber greese Musk of each six grains Oyl of Nutmegs ten drops Evaporate the moisture away in a bath and leave the Mass. Culpeper A. It was invented and a gallant invention it is to mitigate violent pains stop the sumes that trouble the brain in feavers but beware of Opiates in the beginning of Feavers to provoke sleep take not above two grains of it at a time going to bed if that provoke not sleep the next night you may make bold with three Have a care how you be too busie with such medicines lest you make a man sleep till dooms-day Nepenthes Opiatum Page 128. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Tincture of Opium made first with distilled Vineger then with Spirit of Wine Saffron extracted in spirit of Wine of each an ounce Salt of Pearl and Corral of each half an ounce Tincture of Spec. Diambrae seven drachms Amber greese one drachm 〈◊〉 them into the form of Pills by the gentle heat of a bath Culpeper A. The Operation is like the former only 't is dearer and not a whit better This is for the Gentry that must pay dear for a thing else 't is not good The PILLS left out by the Colledg in their New piece of Wit are these Pilulae Assaireth Avicenna The Colledg Take of Species Hiera Picra Galeni an ounce Mastich Citron Myrobalans of each half an ounce Aloes two ounces the Syrup of Stoechas as much as is sufficient Make of them a Mass according to art Culpeper A. It purgeth choller and 〈◊〉 and strengtheneth the whol body exceedingly being very precious for such whose bodies are weakened by surfers or ill diet to take half a drachm or a scruple at night going to bed Tills of Bdellium Mesue The Colledg Take of Bdellium ten drachms Myrobalans Bellericks Emblicks and Blacks of each five 〈◊〉 flakes of Iron Leek seéds of each three drachms Choncula Veneris burnt Corral burnt Amber of each a drachm and an half 〈◊〉 half an ounce Dissolve the Bdellium in juyce of Leeks and with so much Syrup of juyce of Leeks as is sufficient make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. Both this and the former are seldom used and therefore are hardly to be had Those that please may easily make the former this is more tedious but the Printer will have it put in to stop the mouth of Momus Pills of Rhubarb Mesue The Colledg Take of choyce Rhubarb three 〈◊〉 Citron Myrobalans Trochisci Diarhodon of each three drachms and an half Juyce of Liquoris and Juyce of Wormwood Mastich of each one drachm the seeds of Smallage and Fennel of 〈◊〉 half a dram Species Hiera Picra Simp. Galeni 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with juyce of Fennel not clarified and Honey so much as is sufficient make it into a Mass. Culpeper A. It purgeth choller opens obstructions of the Liver helps the yellow jaundice and dropsies in the beginning strengtheneth the stomach and lungues Take them as Pilulae Imperiales They are never the worse because the Colledg left them out Pilulae Arabica Nicholaus The Colledg Take of the best Aloes four ounces Briony Roots Myrobalans Citrons Chebs Indian Bellerick and Emblick Mastich Diagrydium Asarabacca Roses of each an ounce Castorium three drachms Saffron one dram with Syrup of Worm-wood make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. It helps such women as are not sufficiently purged in their labor helps to bring away what a careless Midwife hath left behind purgeth the head helps head-ach megrim vertigo and purgeth the stomach of vicious humors besides Authors say it preserves the sight and hearing and preserves the mind in vigor and causeth joyfulness driving away melancholly 't is like it may but have a care you take not too much of it a scruple is enough to take at a time or half a drachm if the body be strong take it in the morning about four of the clock and if you can sleep an hour or two after keep your self warm by the fire and order your self as after other purges I pray be not too busie with it and say I warned you of it Pilulae Arthriticae Nicholaus The Colledg Take of Hermodactils Turbith Agrick of each half an ounce Cassia Lignea Indian Spicknard Cloves Xylobalsamum or wood of Aloes Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Mace Galanga Ginger Mastich Assafoetida the seeds of Annis Fennel Saxifrage Sparagus Bruscus Roses Gromwel Sal. gem of each two drachms Scammony one ounce of the best Aloes the weight of them all Juyce of Chamepitys made thick with Sugar so much as is sufficient or Syrup of the Juyce of the same so much as is sufficient to make it into a Mass. Culpeper A. As I remember the Author appoints but a drachm of Scammony which is but the eighth part of an ounce and then will the Receipt be pretty moderate whereas now it is too too violent I know well enough it is the opinion of Doctors that Aloes retards the violent working of Scammony I could never find it and I am the worst in the world to pin my faith upon another mans sleeve and I would as willingly trust my
pains in the head and to recruit an 〈◊〉 brain helps green wounds 〈◊〉 inflamations strengthens the liver Emplastrum Isis Epigoni 〈◊〉 The Colledg Take of 〈◊〉 wax an hundred drachms Turpentine two hundred drachms scales of Copper 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each eight drachms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 half 〈◊〉 Oyl 〈◊〉 pound sharp Vineger 〈◊〉 much 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let the mettals 〈◊〉 dissolved in the Sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 put in those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 last of all the 〈◊〉 and make them all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Culpeper A. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ulcers 〈◊〉 I know no 〈◊〉 but why it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 well serve for other parts of the body A 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Nich. 〈◊〉 The Colledg Take of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each six 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each three 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Styrax Calamitis Allum Rondeletius appoints and we for him Bitumen Foenugreek of each two drams the feeces of Liquid Styrax Bdellium Litharge of each half a drachm Let the Litharge being beaten into Pouder be boyled in a sufficient quantity of Water then add the Pitch which being 〈◊〉 ad the Wax and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and feeces being mixed with the Turpentine last of all the Colophonia Mastich Frankinsence Bdellium Allum Mirrh and Foenugreck in Pouder let them be made into a Plaister Culpeper A. It strengthens the stomach and helps digestion Emplastrum nigrum August Called in High Dutch Stichpflaster The Colledg Take of Colophonia Rozin Ship-Pitch white Wax Roman Vitriol Ceruss Olibanum Mirrh of each eight ounces Oyl of Roses seven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mummy of each two ounces Earth of Lemnos Mastich Dragons blood of each one ounce the fat of an Heron one ounce the fat of Timullus three ounces Loadstone prepared two ounces Earth-worms prepared Campbire of each one ounce make them into a Plaister according to art Culpeper A. It is very good say they in green wounds and pricks Emplastrum Sanctum Andr. è Cruce A. A holy Plaister composed by Andrew of the Gollows The Colledg Take of Per-rozin twelve ounces Oyl of Bays Turpentine of each two ounces Gum 〈◊〉 four ounces Let the Rozin and Gum be melted over the fire in a brass pan stirring it with a brass instrument then ad Oyl of Bays and Turpentine boyl it a little then put it in a linnen bag and that which drops through keep in a glazed pot for your use Culpeper A. The vertues are the same with Arceus his Liniment Emplastrum sine Pari. The Colledg Take of Frankinsence Bellium Styrax of each three drachms Ammoniacum Galbanum of each one drachm and an half Ship pitch six drachms the Marrow of a Stag sat of Hens and Geese of each two drachms Sulphur 〈◊〉 washed in Milk Hermodactils in pouder of each a drachm and an half Let the Gums be dissolved in white Wine not in Vineger because that is inimical to the nerves and with two parts of Oyl of Roses compleat and one part of Oyl of Eggs and a little Oyl of Turpentine make it into a Plaister according to art A Plaister for the Stomach Mesue The Colledg Take of wood of Aloes Wormwood Gum Arabick Mastick Cyperus Costus Ginger of each half an ounce Calamus Aromaticus Olibanum Aloes of each three drachms Cloves Mace Cinnamon Spicknard Nutmegs Gallia Moschata Schananthus of each one drachm and an half with Rob of Quinces make it into an Emplaster And when you have spread it upon a Cloath perfume it with wood of Aloes and apply it to your stomach A Cerecloath of Ammoniacum The Colledg Take of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger an ounce Unguentum de Althaeae Melilot Plaister of each half an ounce Bran an ounce pouder of the Roots of Briony and Orris of each half an ounce the Grease of Ducks Geese and Hens of each three drachms Oyl of Orris one ounce and an half Let them boyl gently in the Mussilages of Lin and Foenugrelk seeds so much as is sufficient by adding Wax four ounces make it into a Cerecloath according to art Culpeper A. It asswageth swellings or ripens und breaks them and easeth pains thereby coming Ceratum Stomachium Galen The Colledg Take of red Roses Mastich of each twenty drachms dried wormwood fifteen drachms Spicknard ten drachms Wax four ounces Rose Water so much as is sufficien Oyl of Roses a pound and an half Let it boyl so till it be like an Oyntment Then ad Oyl of Roses eight ounces Wax fourteen ounces the Pouders afore mentioned excepting the Mastich which must be melted in the Oyl of Roses of all of them used in this manner make a Cerecloath according to art Culpeper A. It strengthens the stomach and liver easeth their pains provokes appetite to ones meat and helps digestion A. And thus you see I have left out Vigo his nonsence or his most excellent Plaister of Vineger and Saffron in which is no Saffron there being other things in the book rediculous enough if you are disposed to laugh CHYMICAL OYLS AND OTHER CHYMICAL LIQUORS OYL of HERBS and FLOWERS Culpeper A. I Desire you to take notice before I begin that Chymical Oyls generally are not to be taken alone by themselves by reason of their vehement heat and burning but mixed with other convenient medicines A. 2. They carry the very same vertues the Simples do but are far more prevalent as having far more spirit in them and far less earthly dross A. 3. The generall way of taking them is to drop two or three drops of them in any convenient liquor or other medicine which the last Table will fit you with and so take it for some of them are so hot as Oyl of Cinnamon that two or three drops will make a dish of pottage so hot of the Simple that you can hardly eat them Oyl of Wormwood The Colledg Take of dried Wormwood a pound spring water twenty pound steep them twenty four hours and distill them in a great Alembick with his refrigeratory or a Copper one with a Worm let the Oyl be separated from the Water with a Funnel or seperating glass as they call it and let the Water be kept for another distillation Let two or three of the first pounds of Water be kept for the Physitians use both in this and other Chymical Oyls drawn with Water Culpeper A. Your best way to learn to still Chymical Oyls is to learn of an Alchymist for I rest confident the greatest part of the Colledg had no more skill in Chymistry than I have in building houses but having found out certain models in old rusty Authors tell people S O they must be done I can teach a man S O how to build a house first he may lay the foundation then rear up the sides then joyn the rafters then build the Chimneyes tile the top and plaister the walls but how
Ounces make a Pound THe most usual Measures amongst us quoth the Colledg are these A Spoon which in Syrups holds half an ounce in distilled Waters three drachms A Taster which holds an ounce and an half A Congie which in their former Dispensatory held nine pound now holds but eight pound viz. just a Gallon To miss but one Pint in a Gallon is nothing with a Colledg of Physitians such Physitians as our times afford The reason I suppose is Because most Nations differ in the quantity of their Measures and they quoted their Congius from one Nation before and from another now for indeed their Dispensatory is borrowed a great part of it from Arabia part from Greece some from France some from Spain and some from Italy and now they vapor with it Oh brave should a man that borrowed his Cloathes from so many Broakers in Long-lane be proud of them Besides these they have gotten another antick way of MENSURATION which they have not set down here viz. By Handfuls and Pugils An Handful is as much as you can gripe in one Hand and a Pugil as much as you can take up with your Thumb and two Fingers and how much that is who can tell Intruth this way of Mensuration is as certain as the Weather-cock and as various as mens Fingers are in length and the things taken up in driness or form for an Handsul of green Herbs will not be half an Handsul or not above when they are dry and your mother-wit will teach you that you may take up more Hay in this manner than Bran and more Bran than Sand. And thus much for their Weights and also for their Measures both rediculous and contradictive Weights and Measures in the Old Dispensatory TWenty Grains do make a Scruple Three Scruples make a drachm commonly called a dram Right Drachms make an Ounce Twelve Ounces make a Pound As for the Colledges Measures I know not well what English Names to give them 〈◊〉 holds in Syrups half an Ounce in distilled Waters three Drachms 〈◊〉 holds an ounce and an half Hemina which also they call Cotyla contains nine Ounces Libra holds twelve Ounces A Sextary contains eighteen Ounces A Congie six Sextaties These Measures amongst the Romans contained not just the same quantities for their Cyathus contained an ounce and an half a drachm and a scruple Their Sextary contained but fourteen ounces three 〈◊〉 and half a quarter and among the Gracians not so much It is called a 〈◊〉 because it is the sixt part of a Congie Neither did the Roman Hemina contain altogether seven ounces and an half Their Libra I suppose to be that which Galen calls 〈◊〉 viz. A Vessel to measure with it was made of cleer Horn and by certain lines drawn round it like rings was divided into twelve equal parts each part containing an ounce DIRECTIONS ALthough I did what I could throughout the whol Book to express my self in such a language as might be understood by all and therefore avoided terms of Art as much as might be it being the task of the Colledg to write only to the Learned and the Nurslings of Apollo but of my Self to do my Country good which is the Center all my Lines tend to and I destre should terminate in Yet 1. Some words must of necessity fall in which need explanation 2. It would be very tedious at the end of every Receipt to repeat over and over again the way of administration of the Receipt or ordering your Bodies after it or to instruct you in the mixture of Medicines and indeed would do nothing else but stuff the Book full of 〈◊〉 To answer to both these is my task at this time To the first The words which need explaining such as are obvious to my Eye are these that follow 1. To distil in Balneo Mariae is the usual way of distilling in Water It is no more than to 〈◊〉 your Glass-Body which holds the matter to be distilled in a convenient vessel of Water when the Water is cold for fear of breaking put a wisp of Straw or the like under it to keep it from the bottom then make the Water boyl that so the Spirit may be distilled forth take not the Glass out till the Water be cold again for fear of breaking It is impossible for a man to learn how to do it unless he saw it done 2. Manica Hippocrates Hippocrates his Sleeve is a piece of woolen cloath new and white sewed together in form of a Sugar-loaf It s use is to strain any Syrup or Decoction through by powring it into it and suffering it to run through without pressing or crushing it 3. Calcination is a burning of a thing in a Crucible or other such convenient vessel that will endure the fire A Crucible is such a thing as your Gold-smiths melt Silver in and your Founders their Mettals you may place it in the midst of the fire with coals above below and on every side of it 4. Filtration is straining of a liquid body through a brown 〈◊〉 Make up the Paper in form of a Funnel the which having placed in a Funnel and placed the Funnel and the Paper in it in an empty Glass powr in the Liquor you would filter and let it run through at its leisure 5. Coagulation is curdling or hardning It is used in Physick for reducing a liquid body to hardness by the heat of the fire 6. Whereas you find Vital Natural and Animal Spirits often mentioned in the Vertues of Receipts I shall explain what they be and what their 〈◊〉 is in the Body of Man The actions or operations of the Animal Vertues are 1. Sensitive 2. Motive The Sensitive is 1. External 2. Internal The External Sences are 1. Seeing 2. Hearing 3. Tasting 4. Smelling 5. Feeling The Internal Sences are 1. Imagination to apprehend a thing 2. Judgment to Judg of it 3. Memory to remember it The seat of all these is in the Brain The Vital Spirits proceedeth from the Heart and causeth in Man Mirth Joy Hope Trust Humanity Mildness Courage c. and their opposites Viz. Sadness Fear Care Sorrow Despair Envy Hatred Stubbornness Revenge c. by heat Natural or not Natural The Natural Spirit nourisheth the Body 〈◊〉 as the Vital quickens it and the Animal gives it Sence and Motion Its office is to alter or 〈◊〉 Food into Chyle Chyle into Blood Blood into Flesh to Form Engender Nourish and Increase the Body 7. Infusion is to steep a gross body into one 〈◊〉 Liquid 8. Decoction is the Liquor in which any thing is boyled As for the manner of 〈◊〉 or ordering the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any sweating or purging Medicines or Pills or the like the Table at the latter end of the Vertues of the Medicines will direct you to what Pages you may find them in look but the word Rules there As also in the next Page The different forms of making up Medicines 〈◊〉 〈…〉 People that so Medicines might be
A. 7. If they can make a shift to make it which is a task almost if not altogether as hard as to piss down Pauls how or which way the vertues of it wil countervail the one half of the charge and cost to leave the pains and trouble out 〈◊〉 Dr. Ignoramus followed Matthias and never considered he lived in a different Climate Spiritus Castorii Page 32. in the Latin Book Or Spirit of Castorium The Colledg Take of fresh Castorium four ounces Lavender flower an ounce the tops of Sage and Rosemary of each half an ounce Cinnamon six drams Mace Cloves of each two drachms Spirit of Wine rectified six pound digest them in a Phial filled only to the third part close stopped with cork and bladder in warm ashes for two daies then distilled in Balneo Mariae and the distilled water kept close stopped Culpeper A. By reason of its heat it is no waies fit to be taken alone but mixed with other convenient medicines apropriated to the diseases you would give it for It resists poyson and helps such as are bitten by venemous beasts it causeth speedy deliver y to women in travail and casteth out the after birth it helps the fits of the mother Lethargies and Convulsions being mixed with white Wine and dropped into the ears it helps deafness if stopping be the cause of it the dose to be given inwardly is between one drachm and half a drachm according to the age and strength of the patient Aqua Petasitidis composita Page 32. in Latin Book Or Compound water of 〈◊〉 Burrs The Colledg Take of the fresh roots of Butter Burr bruised one pound and an half the roots of Angelica and Master-wort of each half a pound steep them in ten pints of strong Ale then distil them till the change of the tast gives testimony that the strength is drawn out Culpeper A. This water is very effectual being mixed with other convenient cordials for such as have pestilential feavers also a spoonful taken in the morning may prove a good preservative in pestilential times it helps the fits of the mother and such as are short winded and being taken inwardly dries up the moisture of such sores as are hard to be cured Aqua Raphani Composita Page 33. in the Latin B. Compound water of Rhadishes The Colledg Take of the leaves of hoth sorts of Scurvy-grass of each six pound having bruised them press the 〈◊〉 out of them with which mix of the Juyce of Brooklime and Water-cesses of each one pound and an half of the best white wine eight pound twelve whole Lemmons pills and all fresh 〈◊〉 roots four pound the roots of wild Raddishes two pound Capt. winters Cinnamon half a pound Nutmegs four ounces steep them altogether and then distil them Culpeper A. In their former Dispensatory when they had that Ingenuity left to confess where they had their medicines I gave them a modest term and said they borrowed them from such or such an Author but now all ingenuity hath left them and nothing but Self remains in them and they abscond their Authors I know not what to say unless I should say they stole them whether this be their own or not I know not 't is something like them a churlish medicine to a churlish Colledg I fancy it not and so I leave it I suppose they intended it for purgation of women in childbed and 't is as fit for it as a Sow is for a Saddle Aqua Peoniae Composita Page 33. in the Latin B. Or Compound water of Peony The Colledg Take of the flowers of Lillies of the vally one pound infuse them in four gallons of Spanish Wine so long til the following flowers may be had fresh Take of the fore named flowers half a pound Peony flowers four ounces steep them together fourteen daies then distil them in Balneo Mariae til they be dry in the distilled liquor infuse again male Peony roots gathered in due time two ounces and an half white Dittany long Birthwort of each half an ounce the leaves of Misleto of the Oak and Rue of each two handfuls Peony seeds husked ten drachms Rue seeds three drachms and an half Castorium two scruples Cubebs Mace of each two drachms 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half Squils prepared three drachms Rosemary flowers six pugils Arabian 〈◊〉 Lavender of each four pugils the flowers of Betony Clove-gilli-flowers and Cowslips of each eight pugils then adding four pound of the Juyce of black cherries Distil it in a glass stil til it be dry Culpeper A. It seems the Colledg was shrewdly put to it to alter the name of this Receipt from Langius his Antepileptical water to Compound water of Peony a new trick to cheat the world and they have also altered some few things not worth the noting A. If the Authority of Erastus or daily experience wil serve the turn then was this Receipt chiefly compiled against the Convulsion fits but the derivation of the word notes it to be prevalent against the falling sickness also for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek signifies Falling sickness and indeed Erastus and experience pleads for this also It is true the Composition of Erastus differs from this and so doth another recited by Johannes Langius but it seems our Physitians for some reasons best known to themselves esteemed this the best at this time for their minds are mutable A. Well then having now learned the vertues of the Water a word or two of the Use will not be amiss Erastus was of opinion that both these diseases were caused by the Moon and so am I of that opinion also for I know some at this time that are constantly troubled with the falling sickness only at the new and full Moons I could give reasons for this judgment of Erastus but I am unwill ing to be tedious Then saith he if the disease come daily let a spoonful to it be taken morning and evening if weakly then let it be taken only at the new and ful Moon and at her quartiles to the Sun if it begin to wear away then only twice a month viz. at the new and full Moon wil suffice It profits also in time of the fit by rubbing their temples nostrils and jaws with it Aqua Bezoartica 34. in the Latin Book Or Bezoar Water The Colledg Take of the leaves of Sullendine roots and al three handfuls and an half Rue two handfuls Scordium four handfuls Dittany of creet Carduus of each one handful and an half Zedoary and Angellica roots of each three drachms Citrons and Lemmon pills of each six drachms Clove-gilliflowers one ounce and an half red Roses Centaury the less of each two drachms Cinnamon Cloves of each three drachms Venis Treacle three ounces Mithridate one ounce and an half Camphire two scruples Troches of vipers two ounces Mace two drachms wood of Aloes half an ounce yellow Sanders one drachm and an half Cardus seeds one ounce Citron seeds six drachms let
people just as a Cat serves a Mouse first play with them and then eat them up A. It mightily cools the blood and therefore profitable in Feavers and al diseases proceeding of heat of blood it provokes sleep You may take half an ounce at a time or two drachms if the party be weak Aqua Theriacalis Page 36. in the Latin Book Or Treatle Water The Colledg Take of the Juyce of green Walnuts 〈◊〉 pound the juyce of 〈◊〉 three pound juyce of Carduus Marigolds and Bawm of each two pound 〈◊〉 Petasitis roots one pound and an half the roots of 〈◊〉 one pound Angellica and Master-wort of each half a pound the leaves of Scordium four 〈◊〉 old venis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each eight ounces Canary Wine twelve pound Vineger six pound juyce of Lemons two pound digest them two daies either in horse-dung or in a bath the vessel being close shut then distil them in Sand in the distillation you may make a theriacal extraction Culpeper A. This water is exceeding good in 〈◊〉 Feavers especially pestilential it expelleth venemous humors by sweat it strengtheneth the heart and vitals it is an admirable counterpoyson special good for such as have the Plague or are poysoned or bitten by venemous beasts and expelleth virulent humors from such as have the French Pocks If you desire to know more vertues of it see the vertues of Venis Treacle The dose is from a spoonful to an ounce Aqua Brioniae Composita Page 37. in the Lat. Book Or Briony water Compound The Colledg Take of the juyce of Briony roots four pound the leaves of Rue and Mugwort af each two pound dried Savin three handfuls Feather-few Nep Peny-royal of each two handfuls Bazil Dittany of 〈◊〉 of each one handful and an half 〈◊〉 pills four ounces Mirrh two ounces Castorium one ounce 〈◊〉 Wine twelve pounds digest them four daies in a convenient vessel then stil them in Balneo Mariae about the middle of the distillation strain it out and make an Hysterical extraction of the residue Culpeper A. A spoonful of it taken easeth the 〈◊〉 of the mother in women that have them it potently expels the after-birth and clears the body of what a mid-wife by heedlesness or accident hath left behind it clenseth the womb exceedingly and for that I fancy it much take not above a taster full at a time and that in the morning fasting for it is of a purging quality and let women with child forbear it This was called Aqua Histerica in their former Edition let any body unless it be an Ass be judge if the Colledges intentions in changing the names only of their medicines the Ingredients being all the very 〈◊〉 If I could not have found out this I had certainly been as great a fool as themselves Aqua 〈◊〉 Page 37. in the Latin Book Or Imperial Water The Colledg Take of dried Citron and 〈◊〉 pills Nutmegs Cloves 〈◊〉 of each two ounces the roots of Cyperus Orris Florentine Calamus Aromaticus of each one ounce Zedoary Galanga Ginger of each half an ounce the tops of Lavender and Rosemary of each two handfuls the leaves of Bay Marjoram Bawm 〈◊〉 Sage Time of each one handful the flowers of white and Damask Rose fresh of each half a handful Rose water four pound white Wine eight pound let al of them being bruised and insused twenty four hours then distil them according to art Culpeper A. You must distil it in a Bath and not in sand It seems the Colledg were but mean practioners in Alchymy but in this and many other Receipts trusted to that monster called Tradition therefore take this for a general Aphorism All gross bodies stilled in sand will stink egregiously This so gravelled the Colledg that in their new Dispensatory they quite lest out the manner of distillation A. It comforts and strengtheneth the heart a gainst Faintings and Swoonings and it is held to be a preservative against Consumptions and Apoplexies You may take half a spoonful at a time Aqua Mirabilis Page 38. in Lat. Book The Colledg Take of Cloves Galanga Cubebs Mace Cardamoms Nutmegs Ginger of each one drachm 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 half a pound Spirit of wine one pound white wine three pound infuse them twenty four hours and draw off two pound with an Alembick Culpeper A The Simples also of this regard the stomach and therefore the water heats cold stomachs besides Authors say it preserveth from Apoplexies and restoreth speech lost Aqua 〈◊〉 Page 38. in Lat. Book The Colledg Take of Scordium Scabious Cardus 〈◊〉 of each two handfuls Citron and Orrenge Pills of each two ounces the seeds of Citrons Cardus Hartwort Treacle Mustard of each one ounce the flowers of Marigolds and Rosemary of each one handful cut them and bruise them grosly then insuse them in four pound of white Wine and two pound of Cardus Water in a glass stopped close and set in the 〈◊〉 or bath for a fortnight often shaking it then still it in Balneo Mariae Let the two first pounds be kept by themselves for use and the remainder of the distillation by it self Lastly mix an ounce of Julep of Alexandria and a spoonful of Cinnamon water with each pound Culpeper A. Aqua 〈◊〉 signifies a Water for Treacle so then if you put Diascordium to it it is a water for Diascordium well then we will take it for a general water for all Physick Aqua Caponis Page 38. in Lat. Book Or Capon Water The Colledg Take a Capon the guts being pulled out cut in pieces the fat being taken away boyled in a sufficient quantity of spring water in a close vessel take of this broath three pound Borrage and Violet Water of each a pound and an half white Wine one pound red Rose Leaves two drachms and an half the flowers of Borrage Violets and Bugloss of each one drachm pieces of bread hot out of the Oven half a pound Cinnamon bruised half an ounce still it in a glass still according to art Culpeper A. Divers Physitians have written several Receipts of this water as Gesner Andr. è Lacuna Med. Florent and Coloniens But the truth is this Receipt although our Physitians conceal it was borrowed from the Augustan Physitians and only because they thought as I suppose a Capon must not be eaten without bread they added the bread to it the rest is verbatim from the Augustan Physitians A. The Simples are most of them apropriated to the heart and in truth the the composition greatly nourishes and strengtheneth such as are in consumptions and restoreth strength lost either by feavers or other sickness It is a Soveraign remedy for Hectick feavers and Marasmos which is nothing else but a consumption coming from them let such as are subject to these diseases hold it for a Jewel Aqua Limacum 〈◊〉 P. 39. Or Water of Snails The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Ground-Ivy Coltsfoot Scabious Lungwort of each one pound and an half the Juyce of
Purstain Plantane Ambrosia Pauls Betony of each a pound Hogs blood white Wine of each four pound Garden Snails two pound dried Tobacco Leaves eight pouder of Liquor is two ounces of Alicampane half an ounce of Orris an ounce Cotton seeds an ounce and 〈◊〉 half the greater cold seeds Annis seeds of each six drachms Saffron one drachm the flowers of red Roses six pugils of Violets and Borrage of each four 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them three daies warm and then distill them in a glass still in sand Culpeper It purgeth the lungues of flegm and helps consumptions there If you should happen to live where no beetter nor readier Medicine can be gotten you may use this Aqua Scordii Composita Page 29. in the L. Book Or Compound Water of Scordium The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Goats-rue Sorrel Scordium Citrons of each one pound London Treacle half a pound steep it three daies and distill it in sand Culpeper A. A tasterful taken in the morning preserves from ill airs Aqua Mariae Page 39. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Sugar candy a pound Canary Wine six ounces Rose water sour ounces boylit well into a Syrup and ad to it Imperial Water two pound Ambergreese Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fitfeen grains yellow Sanders infused in Imperial water two drachms make ae cleer water of it Culpeper A. The difference between this and their former Aqua Mariae is this Here they appoint Imperial Water and before Aqua 〈◊〉 which they very subtilly have left out here any tooth good Barber so we may hold up our honor and gains Both Receipts are very costly as far beyond the reach of a poor mans purse as of his brains Aqua Papaveris Composita Page 39. in L. Book Or Poppy Water Compound The Colledg Take of red Poppies four pound sprinkle them with white Wine two pound then distill them in a common still let the distilled Water be powred upon fresh flowers and repeated three times to which distilled water ad two Nutmegs sliced red Poppy flowers a pugil Sugar two ounces set it in the Sun to give it a pleasing sharpness if the sharpness be more than you would have it put some of the same water to it which was not set in the Sun and then it will be a pretty water good for nothing Aqua Juglandium Composita Page 40. in L. Book Or Walnut Water Compound The Colledg Take of green Walnuts a pound and an half Rhadish roots one pound green Asarabacea six ounces Rhadish seeds four ounces let all of them being bruised be steeped in three pound of white Wine for three daies then distilled in a leaden still till they be dry And when you have done so I pray ask the Colledg what it is good for in truth I know not Some Waters kind country men the Colledg have plaid the men and left out in their new Dispensatory which were in their old one and they are these Mathiolus his Bezoar Water The Colledg Take of Mathiolus his great Antielote Syrup of Citron Pills of each one pound spirit of Wine distilled five times over five pound put all these in a glass that is much to big to hold them stop it close that the spirit fly not out then shake it together that the Electuary may be well mingled with the Spirit so let it stand a month shaking it together twice a week for the Electuary will settle to the bottom The month being ended powr off the cleer water into another glass to be kept for your use stopping it very close with wax and Parchment else the strength will easily fly away in vapors Culpeper A. Mathiolus is very large in commendation of this Water for quoth he four drachms that is half an ounce of this water being taken either by it self or in the like quantity of good Wine or any other Cordial Water so absolutely and speedily cureth the bitings of any venemous beasts whatsoever that although the danger of death be such that the patient have lost his speech sight and almost all the rest of his sences yet will he be rouzed up like a man out of his sleep to the wonderful admiration of the beholders which he saith he hath proved a thousand times It draws away poyson from the heart and cures such as have drunk poyson it casts poyson out of the stomach by vomit and helps such as have the pestilence A. For my own particular part thus much I can testifie by experience in the commendations of it I have known it given in acute in peracute feavers with gallant success and also in Consumptions yea in Hecticks and in Galens supposed incurabe Marasmos neither hath it missed the desired effects and therefore out of question it strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and the spirit vital It helps in the falling-sickness apoplexies and convulsion A. And then your own genius will tell you this is fittest for cold complexions cold diseases and such diseases as the heart is most afflicted in It is too hot to be taken alone and half a drachm is the most may be taken at a time Cinnamon Water The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound and an half Spanish Wine twelve pints Infuse the Cinnamon in the Wine twenty four hours then distil them in an 〈◊〉 draw out three pints of strong Waters and small as much as you think sufficient sweeten it with Sugar sufficiently and so keep it for your use Culpeper A. The vertues are the same that Cinnamon it self hath to which I refer you Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound put it into a glass still powring upon it four pints of Rose water a pint and an half of Spanish wine stop the still body close and place it in a warm bath twenty four hours then put on the still-head lute it well and distill it according to art Culpeper A. Mathiolus appoints Wine of Creet four pints and that is all the alteration A. The Authors own Judgment is That it strengthens the brain heart liver stomach lungues spleen and nerves quickens the sight resisteth poyson helpeth bitings by venemous beasts causeth a sweet breath bringeth down the terms in women and hath vertue attenuating opening digesting and strengthening A. The truth is I beleeve it prevails in cold diseases being orderly regulated in quantity according to the nature of the disease the age and strength of the patient and the season of the year have a care of taking too much of it in feavers Cinnamon Water made by Infusion The Colledg Take of Cinnamon bruised four ounces Spirit of Wine two pints infuse them together four daies in a large glass close stopped with Cork and a Bladder shaking the Glass twice a day Dissolve half a pound of white Sugar Candy in a quart of Rose water then mix both these liquors together then put into them four grains of Musk and half a scruple of Ambergreese tied up in a linnen
last keep the cleer Liquor for your use Culpeper A. A gallant fine thing for Gentlemen that have nothing else to do with their money and it will have a lovely look to please their eyes Tinctura Scordii Page 41. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Scordium The Colledg Take of the Leaves of Scordium gathered in a dry time half a pound digest them in six pound of small spirit of Wine in a vessel well stopped for three dates press them out gently and repeat 〈◊〉 infusion three times and keep the clarified Liquor for use So is made Tincture of Sullondine Rest-harrow Ros-solis Culpeper A. See the Herbs for the Vertues and then take notice that these are better for cold stomachs old bodies Tictura Theriacalis Vulgo Aqua Theriatalis Lugd. per infus Page 41. in Lat. Book Or Tincture of Treacle The Colledg Take of Canary Wine often times distilled Vineger in which half an ounce of Rue seeds have been boyled two pound choyce Treasle the best Mithridate of each half a pound mix them and set them in the Sun or heat of a Bath digest them and keep the Water for use Tinctura Cinnamomi vulgo Aqua Clareta Cinnam Page 42. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Cinnamon The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon two ounces rectified Spirit of Wine two pound infuse them four daies in a large glass stopped with Cork and Bladder shake it twice a day then dissolve half a pound of Sugar candy by it self in two pound of Rose Water mix both Liquors into which hang a Nodule containing Amber greese half a scruple Musk four grains Culpeper A. This was before amongst the Waters only there is four ounces of Cinnamon appointed and here but two Tictura Viridis Page 42. in the Latin Book Or A Green Tincture The Colledg Take of Vert-de-greece half an ounce Auripigmentum six drachms Allum three drachms boyl them in a pound of white uine till half be consumed adding after it is cold the Water of red Roses and Nightshade of each six ounces Culpeper A. This was made to clense ulcers but I fancy it not Aqua Aluminosa Magistralis Page 42. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Plantane and red Rose water of each a pound roch Allum and sublimatum of each two drachms Let the Allum and Sublimatum being in pouder boyl in the waters in a vessel with a narrow mouth till half be consumed when it hath stood five daies strain it Culpeper A. Now they have left out the Quicksilver as I bid them I like men will do as they are bid yet I fancy it not Follopius invented it but you must tell no body PHYSICAL WINES Vinum Absynthites Page 43. in the Latin Book Or Wormwood Wine Colledg TAke a handful of dried Wormwood for every gallon of Wine stop it in a vessel close and so let it remain in steep so is prepared Wine of Rosemary flowers and Eye-bright Culpeper A. It helps cold stomachs breaks wind helps the Wind Chollick strengtheneth the stomach kills worms and helps the green sickness A. Rosemary flower-Wine is made after the same manner that Wormwood Wine is made A. It is good against al cold diseases of the head consumeth flegm strengtheneth the gums and teeth A. Eyebright Wine is made after the same manner A. It wonderfully cleers the sight being drunk and revives the sight of ancient men A cup of it in the morning is worth a pair of Spectacles A. All other Wines are prepared in the same manner when the Physitian shall see it fit quoth the Colledg in their former but here they left it out A. But what if there be never a Physitian worth a rush in 20. 30. 40. or 50. miles as some such places may be found in this Nation must the poor Country man lose his cure truly this charity is according to vulgar Fervent cold in such cases let them view the vertues of the Simple the Wine is made of and then let them know the Wine of that Simple is far better and fitter for cold bodies and weak stomachs than the Simple it self A. The best way of taking any of these Wines is To drink a draught of them every morning You may if you find your body old or cold make Wine of any other herb the vertues of which you desire and make it and take it in the same manner I have done only I would know of the Colledg whether their wooden wits intend Sack or white Wine to be used in these Vinum Cerassorum Nigrorum Page 43. in Latin B. Or Wine of Black Cherries The Colledg Take a gallon of the juyce of black Cherries keep it in a vessel close stopped til it begin to work then filter it and an ounce of Sugar being added to every pound let it pass through Hippocrates his sleeve and keep it in a vessel close stopped for use Culpeper A. If ever I knew the like of the Colledg never trust me here they go and appoint the Wine of black Cherries with never a drop of Wine in it and the juyce will not keep without it above a week or so and so if you are minded to make it you may by that time sing Alack alack now have I lost My pains my labor and al my cost A. Or I know not it may be they followed their Patriarks the Papists as wel in this as in their reasons why Physick must not be printed in our mother tongue and they were minded to pop you off with the juyce and drink al the wine themselves Or to judge as modestly as can be judged they were so mad because I had translated their former that anger so besotted them in this that they knew not what they wrote Impedit Ira animum ne possit cernere verum Unbridled anger takes away mens knowledge And clouds the The truth and so it did the Colledg Vinum Helleboratum Page 43. in the Latin B. Or Wine Helleborated The Colledg Take of white Hellebore out smal four ounces Spanish Wine two pound steep it in the Sun in a Pbial close stopped in the Dog daies or other hot weather Culpeper A. And then it will make a dogged purge as like the Colledg as a pomewater is like an apple Vinum Rubellum Page 43. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Stibium in pouder one ounce Cloves sliced two drachms Claret Wine two pound keep it in a Phial close shut Vinum Benedictum Page 43. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Crocus Mettallorum in pouder one ounce Mace a drachm Spanish Wine one pound and an half steep it Vinum Antimoniale Pege 43. in the Latin Book Or Antimonial Wine The Colledg Take of Regulus of Antimony in pouder four ounces steep it in three pound of white Wine in a glass well stopped after the first shaking let the Regulus settle Culpeper A. These three last mentioned are vomits and vomits are fitting medicines for but a few as I told you before
the mouth being ordained to take in nourishment not to cast out excrements and to regulate a mans body in vomiting and doses of of vomits requires a deeper study in Physick then I doubt the generality of people yet have I omit it therefore at this time not because I gruteh it my Country but because I would not willingly have them do themselves a mischeife I shal shortly teach them in what diseases vomits may be used and then and not til then the use of vomits Vinum Scilliticum Page 44. in the Latin Book Or Wines of Squils The Colledg Take of a white Squil of the mountains gathered about the rising of the 〈◊〉 starre cut in thin peices and dryed for a month one pound put it in a glass bottle and pour to it eight pound of french Wine and when it hath stood so four daies take out the Squil Culpeper A. I told told them before that Squils grew by the Sea side and not upon mountains but a man shall as soon knock a Spunge into a milstone as any wit into the head of a conceited fool and then again it must be gathered at the rising of the dog-star yes forsooth by al means truly right worshipful against the time you are minded to play the anticks again I will give you as much directions in this business as is needful to give men of your Rank and quallity Therefore know that the dogs are two constellations between the Equator and the South pole consisting of divers Stars two of which are most remarkable and of the first magnitude whereof that in the great dog is called Syejus that in the 〈◊〉 Procyon each of these two Stars hath three risings Acronical Cosmical and Heliacal and as many settings I dare pass my word it is not the Heliacal rising here meant If it be I hope so learned a Colledg is not to seek of finding such a 〈◊〉 out Procyon riseth Acronically upon the fifteen or sixteen of January Syejus upon the twenty six or twenty seven of the same month Procyon riseth Cosmically upon the ninteenth of July and 〈◊〉 upon the last day of the same month the next time you write pray lay your noddles together to study out at which of these times the Squil must be gathered A. The vertues of this are the same with Vineger of Squils only 't is hotter PHYSICAL VINEGERS Acetum Distillatum Page 45. in the Latin Book Or Distilled Vineger Colledg FIll a glass or stone Alembick with the best Vineger to the third part separate the 〈◊〉 with a gentle fire then encrease the fire by degrees and perform the work Acetum Rosatum Page 45. in the Latin Book Or Rose Vineger The Colledg Take of red Rose buds gathered in a dry time the whites cut off dried in the shaddow three or four daies one pound Vineger eight Sextaries set them in the Sun fourty daies then strain out the Roses and repeat the infusion with fresh ones After the same manner is made Vineger of Elder-flowers Rosemary flowers and Clove-gilli-flowers Culpeper A. For the vertues of al Vinegers take this one only observation they carry the same vertues with the flowers whereof they are made only as we said of Wines that they were better for cold bodies than the bare Simples whereof they are made so are Vinegers for hot bodies Besides Vinegers are often nay most commonly used externally viz. to bath the place then look a mongst the Simples and see what place of the body the Simple is apropriated to and then you cannot chuse but know if you have but a grain of understanding more than a beast both what Vineger to use and to what place to apply 〈◊〉 Acetum Scilliticum Page 45. in the Latin Book Or Vineger of Squils The Colledg Take of that part of the Squil which is between the outward bark and the bottom cut in thin slices and placed thirty or fourty daies in the Sun or some remiss heat then a pound of them being cut smal with a knife made of Ivory or some white wood being put in a vessel and six pound of Vineger put to them set the vessel being close stopped in the Sun thirty or fourty daies afterwards strain it and keep it for use Culpeper A. A little of this medicine being taken in the morning fasting and walking half an hour after preserves the body in health to extream old age as Sanius tryed who using no other medicine but this lived in perfect health til an hundred and seventeen years of age it maketh the digestion good a long wind a cleer voice an acute sight a good colour it suffers no offensiye thing to remain in the body neither wind flegm choller melancholly dung nor urine but brings them forth it brings forth filth though it lie in the bones it takes away salt and sour belchings though a man be never so licentious in diet he shal feel no harm It hath cured such as have the Phtisick that have been given over by al Physitians It cures such as have the Falling-sickness gouts and diseases and swellings of the Joynts It takes away the hardness of the liver and spleen We should never have done if we should reckon up the particular benefits of this medicine Therefore we commend it as a wholsom medicine for soundness of body preservation of health and vigor of mind thus 〈◊〉 Acetum Theriacale Norimberg Page 46. in Lat. B. Or Treacle Vineger The Colledg Take of the roots of Sullendine the greater one ounce and an half the roots of Angellica Master-wort Gentian Bistort Valerian Burnet white Dittany Alicampane Zedoary of each one drachm of Plantane the greater one drachm and an half the leaves of Mousear Sage Scabious Scordium Dittany of Creet Cardus of each half a handful bark and seeds of Citrons of each half a drachm Bole Armenick one drachm Saffron three drachms Harts-born one drachm and an half of these let the Saffron Harts-horn Dittany and Bole be tied up in a ragge and steeped with the things before mentioned in five pints of Vineger for certain daies by a temperate heat in a glass well stopped strain it and ad six drachms of the best Treacle to it shake it together and keep it for your use Acetum Theriacale 46. in the Latin Book Or Treacle Vineger The Colledg Add to `the description of Treacle water Clove-gilli-flowers two ounces Lavender flowers an ounce and an half Rose and Elder flower Vineger of each four pound digest it without boyling three daies then strain it through Hippocrates his sleeve Culpeper A. See Treacle water for the vertues only this is a little more cool a little more phantastical DECOCTIONS Decoctum Commune pro Clystere Page 47. in Lat B. Or A common Decoction for a Cylster The Colledg Take of Mallows Violets Pellitory Beets and Mercury Chamomel flowers of each one handful sweet Fennel seeds half an ounce Linseeds two drachms boyl them in a sufficient quantiiy of common water to a
each a handful the seeds of sorrel Citrons Fennel Cardus Bazil of each three drachms boyl them in four pound of water till half be consumed strain it and ad three pound of white sugar Juyce of Bawm and Rose Water of each half a pound boyl them to a syrup the which perfume with Cinnamon and yellow sanders of each half an ounce Culpeper A. The scorzonera Roots and Bugloss Roots are added and the Bettony Roots left out and Fernelius his name buried in oblivion that is all the Alteration If the name of the wicked shall rot 't is more likely to happen upon themselves than Fernelius A. Alwaies tie perfumes up in a rag and hang them into the syrup by a string when it boyls and hang them by a string in the veslel be it pot or glass that you may keep the syrup in being boyled A. It is an excellent Cordial and strengthens the heart breast and stomach it resisteth Melancholly revives the spirits is given with good success in Feavers it strengtheneth the memory and relievs langushing nature You may take a spoonful of it at a time Syrupus de Mentha Page 59. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Mints The Colledg Take of the juyce of Quinces sweet and between sweet and sowr the juyce of Pomegranates sweet between sweet and sowr and sowr of each a pound and an half dryed mints half a pound red Roses two ounces let them lie in steep one day then boyl it half away and with four pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art perfume it not unless the Physitian command Culpeper A. The syrup is in quality binding yet it comforts the stomach much helps digestion staies vomiting and is in my opinion as excellent a remedy against sowr or offensive belchings as any is in the Dispensatory Take a spoonful of it after meat Syrupus de Mucilaginibus Page 60. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Mussilages The Colledg Take of the seeds of Marsh-Mallows Mallows Quinces of each an ounce Gum Tragacanth three drachms let these infuse six hours in warm Decoction of Mallows white Poppy seeds and Winter-cherries then press out the Mussilage to an ounce and an half with which 〈◊〉 and three ounces of the aforesaid Decoction and two ounces of sugar make a syrup according to art Culpeper A. A spoonful taken by it self or in any convenient Liquor is excellent for any sharp corroding humors be they in what part of the body soever Phtisicks bloody Flux stone in the Reins or Bladder or Ulcers there it is excellent good for such as have taken Purges that are to strong for their bodies for by its slippery nature it helps corrosians and by its cooling helps inflamations Syrupus Myrtinus Page 60. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Mirtles The Colledg Take of Mirtle berries two ounces and an half Sanders white and red sumach Balaustines Barberry stones red Roses of each an ounce and an half Medlars half a pound bruise them in eight pound of water to four strain it and ad juyce of Quinces and sour Pomegranates of each six ounces then with three pound of sugar boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper A. The syrup is of a very binding yet comforting nature it helps such as spit blood all fluxes of the belly or corrosions of the internal parts it strengthens the retentive faculty and stops immoderate flux of the terms in women A spoonful at a time is the dose Syrupus Florum Nymphaeae simplex Page 60. Or Syrup of Water-Lilly-flowers simple The Colledg Take of the whitest of white Water-lilly-flowers a pound steep them in three pound of warm Water six or seven hours let them boyl a little and strain them out put in the same waight of Flowers again the second and third time when you have strained it the last time ad its waight of sugar to it and boyl it to a syrup Syrupus Florum Nymphaeae compositus Page 60. Syrup of Water-lilly-Flowers compound The Colledg Take of white Water-lilly-Flowers half a pound Violets two ounces Lettice two handfuls the seeds of Lettice Purslain and Guords of each half an ounce boyl them in four pound of cleer water till one be consumed strain it and ad half a pound of red Rose water white sugar four pound boyl it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. They both are fine cooling syrups they allay the heat of Choller and provoke fleep they cool the body both head heart liver reins and matrix and therefore are profitable for hot diseases in either you may take an ounce of it at a time when your stomach is empty Syrupus de Papavere Erratico sive Rhubro Page 61. Or Syrup of Eratick Poppies The Colledg Take of the fresh Flowers of red Poppies two pound steep them in four pound of warm spring Water the next day strain it and boyl it into a syrup with its equal waight in Sugar Culpeper A. I know no danger in this syrup so it be taken with moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts the syrup cools the blood helps surfets and may safely be given in Frenzies Feavers and hot Agues Syrupus de Pilosella Page 61. in the Latin Book Or Syrup of Mousear The Colledg Take of Mousear three handfuls the Roots of Ladies mantle an ounce and an half the Roots of comsry the greater Maddir white Dittany Tormentil Bistort of each an ounce the Leaves of Wintergreen Horstail Ground-Ivy Plantane Adders tongue Strawberries St. Johns Wort with the Flowers Golden rod Agrimony Bettony Burnet Avens Sinkfoyl the greater red Coleworts Balaustines red Roses of each a handful boyl them gently in six pound of of Plantane Water to three then strain it strongly and when it is setled ad Gum Tragacanth the seeds of Fleawort Marsh-mallows and Quinces made into a Mussilage by themselves in strawberry and Bettony Water of each three ounces white sugar two pound boyl it to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. Certainly they intended an universal Medicine of this and may prove as good as Chrysippus his Coleworts It is profitable for wounded people to take for it is drying and healing and therefore good for Ruptures Syrupus insusionis Florum Paeoniae Page 62. Or Syrup of the infusion of Peony Flowers The Colledg It is prepared just for all the world like syrup of Clove-gilliflowers Culpeper A. See syrup of Meconium for the vertues Syrupus de Paeonia Compositus P. 62. in L. Book Or Syrup of Peony Compound The Colledg Take of the Roots of both sorts of Peony taken up at the full Moon cut in slices and steeped in white Wine a whol day of each an ounce and an half Contra yerva half an ounce Siler mountain six drachms Elks Claws an ounce Rosemary with the Flowers on one handful Bettony Hysop Origanum Chamepitys Rue of each three drachms Wood of Aloes Cloves Cardamoms the less of each two drachms Ginger Spicknard of each a drachm stoechas Nutmegs of each two drachms
being tyed up in a rag and often crushed in the boyling Culpeper A. Mesue appoints Senna Cods and so do the Augustan Physitians viz. the husk that holds the seeds and the Colledg altered that and added the Annis seeds I suppose to correct the Senna and in so doing they did well A. The syrup is a pretty cooling purge and tends to rectifie the distempers of the blood it purgeth choller and melancholly and therefore must needs be effectual both in yellow and black Jaundice madness scurf Leprosie and scabs It is very gentle and for that I commend both the Receipt and Mesue the Author of it The dose is from one ounce to three according as the body is in age and strength An ounce of it in the morning is excellent for such children as break out in scabs Syrupus de Pomis Magistralis Page 68. in L. Book Or Syrup of Apples Magisterial The Colledg Take of the Juyce and Water of Apples of each a pound and an 〈◊〉 the Juyce and Water of Borrage and Bugloss of each nine ounces Senna half a pound Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each three 〈◊〉 Epithimum of Creet two ounces Agrick Rhubarb of each half an ounce Ginger Mace of each four scruples Cinnamon two scruples Saffron half a drachm Infuse the Rhubaib and Cinnamon apart by it self in white Wine and Juyce of Apples of each two ounces let all the rest the Saffron excepted be sleeped in the Waters above mentioned and the next day put in the Juyces which being boyled 〈◊〉 and strained then with four ounces of white Sugar boyl it into a syrup crushing the Saffron in it being tyed up in a linnen rag the infusion of the Rhubarb being added at the latter end Culpeper A. Out of doubt this is a gallant syrup to purge addust Choller and Melancholly and to resist madness I know no better purge for such as are almost or altogether distracted by Melancholly than one ounce of this mixed with four ounces of the Decoction of Epithimum ordering their bodies as they were taught Syrupus de Rhabarbaro Page 69. in the Lat. Book Or Syrup of Rhubarb The Colledg Take of the best Rhubarb and Senna of each two ounces and an half Violet Flowers a handful Cinnamon one drachm and an half Ginger half a drachm Betony Succory and Bugloss Water of each one pound and an half let them be mixed together warm all night and in the morning strained and boyled into a syrup with two pound of white sugar adding towards the end four ounces of syrup of Roses Culpeper A. It clenseth choller and melancholly very gently and therefore is fit for children old people and weak bodies You may ad an ounce of it to the 〈◊〉 of Epithimum or to the Decoction of Senna It is a very pretty Receipt made by the Augustan Physitians Syrupus Rosaccus Solutivus Page 69. in L. Book Or Syrup of Roses Sclutive The Colledg Take of spring water boyling hot four pound Damask Rose leaves fresh as many as the Water will contain let them remain twelve hours in insusion close stopped then press them out and put in 〈◊〉 Rose leaves do so nine times in the same liquor encreasing the quantity of the Roses as the Liquor encreaseth which will be almost by the third part every time Take six parts of this Liquor and with four parts of white Sugar boyl it to a syrup according to art Culpeper A. It loosneth the belly and gently bringeth out choller and flegm but leaves a binding quality behind it Syrupus e Succo Rosarum Page 70. in the Lat. Book Or Syrup of the Juyce of Roses The Colledg It is prepared without steeping only with the Juyce of Damask Roses pressed out and clarified and an equal proportion of Sugar added to it Culpeper A. This is like the other Syrupus Rosaccus Solutivus cum Agarico Page 70. Or Syrup of Roses Solutive with Agrick The Colledg Take of Agrick cut thin an ounce Ginger two drachms Sal-Gem one drachm Polypodium bruised two ounces sprinkle them with white wine and steep them two dates over warm oshes in a pound and an half of the infusion of Damask Roses prescribed before and with one pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to Art Culpeper A. You had better ad twice so much sugar as is of the infusion for fear the strength of the Agrick be lost in the boyling A. It purgeth flegm from the head relieves the sences oppressed by it it provokes the terms in women it purgeth the stomach and Liver and provoketh urin Some hold it an universal purge for all parts of the body a weak body may take an ounce at a time and a strong two ounces guiding himself as he was taught in Decection of Epithimum Syrupus Rosaccus Solutivus cum Helleboro Page 70. Or Syrup of Roses Solutive with Hellebore The Colledg Take of the bark of all the Myrobalans of each four ounces bruise them grosly and steep them twenty four hours in twelve pound of the infusion of Roses before spoken Senna Epithimum Polypodium of the Oak of each four ounces Cloves an ounce Citron seeds Liquoris of each four ounces the bark of black Hellebore roots six drachms let the fourth part of the Liquor gently exhale strain it and with five pound of Sugar and sixteen drachms of Rhubarb tyed up in a 〈◊〉 rag make it into a syrup according to Art Culpeper A. You must not boyl the black Hellebore at all or but very little if you do you had as good put none in me thinks the Colledg should have had either more wit or honesty than to have left Receipts so woodenly penned to posterity or it may be they wrote as they say only to the Learned or in plain English for their own ends or to satisfie their covetousness that a man must needs run to them every time his finger akes A. The syrup rightly used purgeth melancholly resisleth madness I wish the ignorant to let it alone for fear it be too hard for them and use them as coursly as the Colledg hath done Syrupus Rosaccus Solutivus cum Sena Page 70. Or Syrup of Roses Solutive with Senna The Colledg Take of Senna six ounces Caraway and sweet Fennel seeds of each three drachms sprinkle them with white Wine and infuse them two daies in three pound of the infusion of Roses aforesaid then strain it and with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper A. It purgeth the body of choller and melancholly and expels the relicts a disease hath left behind it the dose is from one ounce to two you may take it in a Decoction of Senna it leaves a binding quality behind it Surupus de Spina Cervina Page 71. Or Syrup of Purging Thorn The Colledg Take of the Berries of Purging Thorn gathered in September as many as you will bruise them in a stone Mortar and press out the 〈◊〉 let the fourth part
declare their sin and hide it not but manifest to the world in the sight of the Sun that they are not a Colledg of Christians but of RANTERS by calling KING JAMES their GOD blush O Sun at such blasphemy It may be they left it out because King Charls is dead for worshiping old Jemmy for God 't is more than probable they worshiped his Son for Christ and their Tubelary gods being apud Inferos gives me some hopes they will follow them quickly and so all the Tyrants will go together A. It is naturally cooling apropriated to the heart it restores lost strength takes away burning feavers and false imaginations I mean that with Pearls for that without Pearls is rediculous it hath the same vertues Pearls have Saccharum Tabellatum Compositum Page 86. Or Lozenges of Sugar Compound The Colledg Take of choyce Rhubarb four scruples Agrick Trochiscated Corallina burnt Harts-horn Dittany of Creet Wormseed and Sorrel seed of each a scruple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Saffron of each half a scruple white Sugar a pound dissolved in four ounces of warmwood water warmwood Wine an ounce Cinnamon water a spoonful with the forenamed poudersmake it into Lozenges according to art Culpeper A. The title shews you the vertues of it for my part I think in penning of it they made a long Harvest of a little Corn. Saccharum Penidium Page 86. in Latin Book Or Sugar Penids The Colledg Are prepared of Sugar dissolved in spring water by a gentle fire and the whites of Egs dilligently beaten and clarified once and again whilst it is boyling then slrain it and boyl it gently again till it rise up in great bubbles and being chewed it stick not to your teeth then powr it upon a Marble anointed with Oyl of Almonds let the bubbles first sink after it is removed from the fire bring back the outsides of it to the middle till it look like larch Rozin then your hands being rubbed with white starch you may draw it into threeds either short or long thick or thin and let it cool in what form you please Culpeper A. I remember Country people were wont to take them for coughs and they are sometimes used in other Compositions Confectio de Thure Page 87. in the Latin Book Or Confection of Frankinsence The Colledg Take Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce Nutmegs white Frankinsence of each three drachms Liquoris Mastich of each two drachms Cubebs Harts-horn prepared of each one drachm Conserves of red Roses an ounce white Sugar as much as is sufficient to make it into mean bits Culpeper A. I cannot boast much neither of the rariety nor vertues of this Receipt Saccharum Rosatum Page 87. in the Latin Book Or Sugar of Roses The Colledg Take of red Rose Leaves the whites being cut off and speedily dried in the Sun an ounce white Sugar a pound melt the Sugar in Rose water and juyce of Roses of each two ounces which being consumed by degrees put in the Rose Leaves in Pouder mix them put it upon a Marble and make it into Lozenges according to art Culpeper 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 and eyes helps spitting vomiting and pissing of blood it is a fine commodity for a man in a Consumption to carry about with him and eat now and then a bit This they mended as I bid them `t is a comfort they will do something as they are bid SPECIES OR POUDERS Aromaticum Caryophyllatum Page 88. in the Latin Book Colledg TAke of Cloves seven drachms Mace Zedoary Galanga the less yellow Sanders Troches Diarrhodon Cinnamon wood of Aloes Indian Spicknard long Pepper Cardamoms the less of each a drachm red Roses four drachms Gallia Moschata Liquoris of each two drachms Indian leaf Cubebs of each two scruples beat them all dilligently into pouder Culpeper A. This pouder strengthens the heart and stomach helps digestion expelleth wind staies vomiting and clenseth the stomach of putrified humors This they have mended also as I in my former Edition shewed them Aromaticum Rosatum Page 88. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of red Roses exungulated fifteen drachms Liquoris seven drachms Wood of Aloes yellow Sanders of each three drachms Cinnamon five drachms Cloves Mace of each two drams and an half Gum-Arabick and Tragacanth of each eight scruples Nutmegs Cardamoms the less Galanga of each one drachm Indian Spicknard two scruples make it into pouder to be kept in a glass for use Culpeper They have here only left out the Musk and Ambergreece viz. Musk one scruple Ambergreece two scruples for fear the Receipt should be too good 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 Pulvis ex Chelis Cancrorum Compositus Page 89. Or Pouder of Crabs Claws Compound The Colledg Take of Pearls prepared Crabs eyes red Corral white Amber Harts-horn Oriental Bezoar of each half an ounce Pouder of the black tops of Crabs Claws the waight of them all beat them into pouder which may be made into Balls with gelly and theskins which our vipers have cast off warily dried and kept for use Culpeper A. This is that pouder they ordinarily call Gnscoigns pouder there are diverse Receipts of it of which this is none of the worst thought the manner of making it up be antick and exceeding difficult if not impossible but that it may be had to do a man good when Adders skins cannot be gotten you may make it up with gelly of Harts-horn into which put a little Saffron four or five or six grains is excellent good in a feaver to be taken in any Cordial for it cheers the heart and vital spirits exceedingly and make them impregnable Species Cordiales Temperatae Page 89. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of wood of Aloes Spodium of each a drachm Cinnamon Cloves bone of a Stags heart the Roots of Angelica Avens and Tormentil of eath a drachm and an half Pearls prepared six drachms raw silk tosted both sorts of Corral of each two drachms Jacinth Emerald Saphir of each half a drachm Saffron a scruple the leaves of Gold and Silver of each ten make them into pouder according to art Culpeper A. Musk and Ambergreece of each half a drachm is here left out it was not done for cheapness for it will still be dear enough but the world changeth so doth the Colledg the world grows worse and worse so do the Colledg A. It is a great Cordial a great strengthener both of the heart and brain Diacalaminthe Simple Page 89. in the Latin Book The Colled Take of mountain Calaminth Penyroyal Origanum the seeds of Macedonian
life in the hands of a wild bear as in the hands of that Monster called TRADITION If but a drachm of Scammony be put in then may a man safely if not too much weakned take a drachm of it at a time about four in the morning ordering your self as in the former but made up as the Colledg prescribes I durst not take them my self therefore will I not prescribe them to others It helps the gout and other pains in the joynts comforts and strengthens both brain and stomach and consumes diseases whose original comes of flegm Pilulae Cochiae with Hellebore The Colledg Take of the pouder of the Pills before prescribed the pouder of the bark of the roots of 〈◊〉 Hellebore one ounce make it into a Mass with Syrup of Stoechas according to art Culpeper A. The former purgeth the head of flegm and therefore is fit for Lethargies this of Melancholly and is therefore fit for mad people if Melancholly be the cause Pills of Fumitory Avicenna The Colledg Take of Myrobalans Citrons Chebs and Indian 〈◊〉 of each five drachms Aloes 〈◊〉 drachms Let all of them being bruised be thrice moistened with juyce of Fumitory and thrice suffered to dry then brought into a Mass with Syrup of Fumitory Culpeper A. It purgeth Melancholly from the liver and spleen sharp chollerick and addust humors salt flegm and therefore helps 〈◊〉 and itch Take but half a drachm at a time in the morning and keep by the fire Be not too busie with it I beseech you Pilulae Indae Mesue out of Haly. The Colledg Take of Indian Myrobalans black Hellebore Polypodium of the Oak of each five drams Epithimum Stoechas of each six drachms Agrick Lapis Lazuli often washed Troches Alhandal Sal. Indi of each half an ounce Juyce of Maudlin made thick Indian Spicknard of each two drachms Cloves one drachm Species hiera picra Simplex Galeni 〈◊〉 drachms with Syrup of the Juyce of Smallage make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. It wonderfully prevails against afflictions coming of Melancholly Cancers which are not ulcerated Leprosie Evils of the mind coming of melancholly as sadness fear c. quartan agues jaundice pains and infirmities of the spleen I advise to take but half a drachm or a scruple at a time and take it often for melancholly infirmities are not easily removed upon a sudden take it in the morning and keep the house Pilulae Lucis majores Mesue The Colledg Take of Roses Violets Wormwood Colocynthis Turbith Cubebs Calamus Aromaticus Nutmegs Indian Spicknard Epithimum Carpobalsamum or instead thereof Cardamoms Xylobalsamum or wood of Aloes the seeds of Seseli or Hartwort Rue Annis Fennel and Smallage Schaenanthus Mastich Asarabacca roots Cloves 〈◊〉 Cassia Lignea Saffron Mace of each two drachms Myrobalans Citrons Chebuls Indian Bellerick and Emblick Rhubarb of each half an ounce Agrick Senna of each five drachms Aloes succotrina the weight of them all with Syrup of the juyce of 〈◊〉 make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. It purgeth mixt humors from the head and 〈◊〉 it of such excrements as hinder the sight You may take a drachm in the morning keep your self warm and within doors you shall find them strengthen the brain and visive vertue If your body be weak take less Pills of Spurge Fernelius The Colledg Take of the Bark of the roots of Spurge the less steeped twenty four hours in Vineger and juyce of Purslain two drachms Grains of Palma Christi torrefied by number fourty Citron Myrobalans one drachm and an half Germander Chamepitys Spicknard Cinnamon of each two scruples being beaten into fine pouder with an ounce of 〈◊〉 Traganth dissolved in Rose water and syrup of Roses so much as is sufficient let it be made into a Mass. Culpeper A. I could say if I would and prove it too that the ounce of Gum Traganth so dissolved is enough to make six times so much into a Mass but because the Receipt in my eyes seems more fitting for a horse than for a man I leave it Pills of Euphorbium Mesue The Colledg Take of Euphorbium Colòcynthïs Agrick Bdellium Sagapenum of each two drachms Aloes five drachms with Syrup made of the juyce of Leeks make it into a mass Culpeper A. The Pills are exceeding good for dropsies pains in the loins and Gouts coming of a moist cause Take not above half a drachm at a time and keep the house Pilulae Scribonii The Colledg Take of Sagapenum and Mirrh of each two drachms Opium Cardamoms Castorium of each one drachm white Pepper half a drachm Sapa so much as is sufficient to make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. It is apropriated to such as have Phtisicks and such as spit blood but ought to be newly made a scruple is sufficient taken going to bed Galen was the Author of it A. I have now done with the Pills only take notice that such as have Diagrydium otherwise called Scammony in them work violently and are to be taken early in the morning with discretion and administred with due consideration the other work more gently so that you may take a scruple of them at night going to bed and follow your imployments next day without danger A. I put in these only to satisfie the desires of the curious being confident that the Colledg quoted more by half than needed and Apothecaries must have them all in a readiness because the Colledg appoints them for if a Master bid his boy quench out the fire and make a new one he must do it because he is commanded Oh! that they would once be so wise to see their slavery TROCHES Culpeper A. IF any cavil at this name and think it hardly English let them give a better and I shall be thankful I know no other English name but will fall far below it A. They have gotten many Greek names almost as many as a Welchman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Latins besides the Greek name Trochisci and Pastilli and Placentulae A. Although a man may make them into what form he pleaseth yet they are usually made into little flat thin cakes of a scruple or twenty grains in weight plus minus some print Images as of Serpents upon Troches of Vipers upon them some guild them with Leaf-Gold some do neither A. They were first invented by the Ancients that Pouders being brought into this form may be kept pure the longer for the vertues of Pouders will soon exhale by intromission of air which the thick body of troches resist also such as are pectoral are the 〈◊〉 carried in ones pocket A. Few of them are taken by themselves but mixed with other Compositions Trochisci de Absinthio Page 129. in the Latin Book Or Troches of Wormwood The Colledg Take of Red Roses Wormwood leaves Annis seeds of each two drachms Juyce of Maudlin made thick The roots of 〈◊〉 Rhubarb Spicknard Smallage seeds bitter
Chollick The Table of diseases will direct you I love to have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Negligent people make wooden Physitians The Colledg Common Oyl of Olives is pressed out of ripe Olives not out of the stones Oyl of Olives Omphacine is pressed out of unripe Olives Oyl of Yolks of Eggs. The Colledg Boyl the Yolks till they be hard and bruise them with your hands or with a Pestle and Mortar heat them in an Earthen vessel glazed until they begin to sroath stirring them dilligently that they burn not being hot put them in a linnen bag and sprinkle them with Aromatick Wine and press out the Oyl according to art Culpeper A. It is profitable in 〈◊〉 and malignant ulcers it causeth the hair to grow it cleers the skin and takes away deformities thereof viz. Tetters Ringworms Morphew Scabs I suppose none is so sinple to take it inwardly to cleer their skin nor to anoint their feet to take away the deformity of their face SIMPLE OYLS BY INFUSION AND DECOCTION Oyl of Roses Omphacine The Colledg Take of red Roses before they be ripe bruised in a stone Mortar four ounces Oyl Omphacine one pound set them in a hot Sun in a glass close stopped a whol week shaking them every day then boyl them gently in a bath press them out and put in others use them in like manner do so the third time then keep the Oyl upon a pound of juyce of Roses Oyl of Roses Compleat Is made in the same manner with sweet and ripe Oyl often washed and red Roses fully open bruised set in the sun and boyled gently in a double vessel only let the third infusion stand in the sun fourly daies then keep the Roses and Oyl together In the same manner is made Oyl of Wormwood of the tops of common Wormwood thrice repeated four ounces and three pound of ripe Oyl only the last time put in four ounces of the juyce of Wormwood which evaporate away by gentle boyling Oyl of Dill of the flowers and leaves of Dill four ounces compleat Oyl one pound thrice repeated Oyl of Castoreum of one ounce of Castoreum Oyl one pound Wine four ounces which must be consumed with the heat of a bath Oyl of Chamomel which more than one call Holy of compleat Oyl and fresh Chamomel flowers the little white leaves taken away cut bruised and the vessel covered with a thin linnen Cloth set in the Sun pressed out and three times repeated Oyl of Wall flowers as Oyl of Dill. Oyl of Quinces of six parts of Oyl omphacine the meat and juyce of Quinces one part set them in the Sun fifteen daies in a glass and afterwards boyl them four hours in a double vessel press them out and renew them three times Oyl of Alicampane of ripe Oyl and the roots of Alicampane bruised and their juyce of each one part and of generose Wine half a part which is to be evaporated away Oyl of Euphorbium of six drachms of Euphorbium Oyl of Walflowers and sweet Wine of each five ounces boyling it in a double vessel till the Wine be consumed Oyl of Ants of winged Ants infused in four times their weight of sweet Oyl set in the sun in a glass fourty daies and then strained out Oyl or Balsom of St. Johns wort simple is made of the Oyl of the seeds beaten and pressed and the flowers being added and rightly set in the sun Oyl of Jesmine is made of the flowers of Jesmine put in cleer Oyl and set in the sun and afterward pressed out Oyl of of Orris made of the roats of Orris Florentine one pound purple Orris flowers half a pound boyl them in a double vessel in a sufficient quantity of Decoction of Orris Florentine and six pound of sweet oyl putting fresh roots and flowers again and again the former being cast away as in oyl of Roses Oyl of Earthworms is made of half a pound of Earthworms washed in white Wine ripe oyl two pound boyled in a double vessel with eight ounces of good white Wine till the wine be consumed Oyl of Marjoram is made with four ounces of the Herb a little bruised white Wine six ounces ripe oyl one pound mixed together let them be set in the sun repeated three times at last boyled to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of Mastich is made of oyl of Roses omphacine one pound Mastich three ounces Wine four ounces boyl them in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of Melilot is made with the tops of the Herb like oyl of Chamomel Oyl of Mints is made of the Herb and oyl omphacine 〈◊〉 oyl of Roses Oyl of Mirtles is made of Mirtle berries bruised aud sprinkled with austere wine one part oyl omphacine three parts set in the Sun twenty four daies and in the intrim thrice renewed boyled and the berries pressed out Oyl of Daffadils is made as oyl of Roses Nard oyl is made of three ounces of Spicknard sweet oyl one pound and an half sweet white wine and cleer water of each two ounces and an half boyled to the consumption of the moisture Oyl of water Lillies is made of fresh white water lilly flowers one part oyl omphacine three parts repeating the flowers as in oyl of Roses Oyl of Tobacco is made of the juyce of Tobacco and common oyl of each equal parts boyled in a bath Oyl of Poppies is made of the flowers heads and leaves of Garden Poppies and oyl amphacine as oyl of Dill. Oyl of Poplars is made of the buds of Poplar tree three parts rich white wine four parts sweet oyl seven parts first let the buds be bruised then infused in the Wine and Oyl seven daies then boyled then pressed out Oyl of Rue is made of the herbs bruised and ripe Oyl like Oyl of Roses Oyl of Savin is made in the same manner So also is Oyl of Elder flowers made Oyl of Scorpions is made of thirty live Scorpions caught when the Sun is in the Lyon Oyl of bitter Almonds two pound let them be set in the Sun and after fourty daies strained Oleum Cicyonium is made of wild Cucumer roots and their 〈◊〉 of each equall parts with twice as much ripe Oyl boyl it to the consumption of the juyce Oyl of Nightshade is made of the berries of Nightshade ripe and one part boyled in ripe Oyl or Oyl of Roses three parts Oyl of Styrax is made of Styrax and sweet white Wine of each one part Ripe Oyl four parts gently boyled till the Wine be consumed Oyl of Violets is made of Oyl Omphacine and Violet flowers as Oyl of Roses Oyl of Vervain is made of the herb and Oyl as Oyl of Mints Culpeper A. That most of these Oyls if not all of them are used only externally is certain and as certain that they retain the vertues of the Simples whereof they are made therefore the ingenious might help themselves But because we live in a frigid age I shall vouchsafe to quote the Vertues of
roughness of the skin and take away the the chops of the lips hands face or other parts Unguentum Potabile Page 158. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of butter without salt a pound and an half Spermaceti 〈◊〉 Tormentil roots Castorium of each half an ounce boyl them as you ought in a sufficient quantity of Wine till the Wine be consumed and become an Oyntment Culpeper A. I know not what to make of it Unguentum Resinum Page 158. in the Lain Book The Colledg Take of 〈◊〉 or Rosin of the pine tree of the purest Turpentine yellow Wax washed pure Oyl of each equal parts melt them into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It is as pretty a Cerecloath for a new sprain as most is and cheap Let it not be despised for I have known a gentlewoman in Sussex do much good with it even before their Dispensatory was ever hatched or in the Egge Unguentum Rosatum Page 158. in the Latin Book Or Oyntment of Roses The Colledg Take of fresh Hogs grease elensed a pound fresh Red roses half a pound juyce of the same three ounces make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. The Colledge give you but a short come off in this Oyntment they love to be breife and tedious last time when they were honester they taught you how to make it which was thus The Colledg Take of Hogs grease well clensed from the skins a pound wash it nine times in warm water then as often in cold water fresh red Roses a pound mix them together and so let them stand seven daies then boyl them over a gentle fire and strain out the Roses then mix with the Oyntment the like quantity of fresh red Roses and then let them stand together as many daies then strain them out having first boyled them at the last ad juyce of red Roses six ounces boyl them over a gentle fire till the juyce be consumed then strain it and make an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. You need do no more than let it stand till it is cold and you shall see it is Oyntment alone without any further making now compare but this with what I wrote before and see if they do not love to be breife and tedious A. It is of a fine cooling nature exceeding usefull in all gaulings of the skin and frettings accompanied with chollerick humors angry pushes tetters ringworms it mitigates diseases in the head coming of hear as also the intemperate heat of the stomach and liver 〈◊〉 Rubrum Page 158. in the Latin Book Or a drying red Oyntment The Colledg Take of Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound white Wax five ounces which being melted and put in a leaden Mortar put in Earth of Lemnos or Bole-Armenick Lapis Calaminaris of each four ounces Litharge of gold Ceruss of each three ounces Camphire one drachm make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It binds and restrains fluxes of humors and is as gallant an Oyntment to skin a sore as any is in the Dispensatory Unguentum è Solano Page 158. in the Lat. Book Or Oyntment of Nightshade The Colledg Take of juyce of Nightshade Litharge washed of each five ounces Ceruss washed eight ounces white Wax seven ounces Frankinsence in pouder ten drachms Oyl of Roses often washed in water two pound make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It was invented to take away inflamations from wounds and to keep people from scratching of them when they are almost well Unguentum Tutiae Page 158. in the Latin Book Or Oyntment of Tutty The Colledg Take of Tutty prepared two ounces Lapis Calaminaris often burnt and quenched in Plantane water an ounce make them being finely poudered into an Oyntment with a pound and an half of Oyntment of Roses Cul. A. It is a cooling drying Oyntment apropriated to the eyes to dry up hot and salt humors that flow down thither the eye-lids being anointed with it Valentia Scabiosae Page 159. in the Latin Book A famous Oyntment much in use 300. years ago The Colledg Take of the juyce of green Scabious pressed out with a scrue and strained through a cloath Hogs grease of each as much as you will beat the Hogs greas in a stone mortar not grind it putting in the juyce by degrees for the more commodious mixture and tincture afterwards set it in the Sun in a convenient vessel so as the juyce may overtop the grease nine daies being passed pour of the discoloured juyce and beat it again as before putting in fresh juyce set in the Sun again five daies which being elapsed beat it again putting in more juyce after 15 daies more do so again do so five times after which keep it in a glass or glazed vessel Tapsivalentia Page 159. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the juyce of Mullen Hogs grease of each as much as you will let the grease be clensed and cut in pieces and beat it with the juyce pressed and strained as you did the former Oyntment then keep it in a convenient vessel nine or ten daies then beat it twice once with fresh juyce until it be green and the second time without juyce beaten well pouring off what is discoloured and keep it for use Tapsimel Page 159. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the juyce of Sullendine and Mullen of each one part clarified Honey two parts boyl them by degrees till the juyce be consumed adding the Physitian prescribing Vitriol burnt Alum burnt Ink and boyl it again to an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. These three last was stolen out of the Manuscripts of Mr. John Ardern for a Chyrurgian at Newwark upon Trent though now the Colledg have the honesty to conceal his name you may know the vertues of the two former if you view but the Simples as for the latter he quotes a pretty passage of which is like to be the 〈◊〉 because the Colledge conceales it now and did not before it is this when you are troubled with the Itch put a little Tapsimel up your fundament and the Itching will presently Cease OYNTMENTS MORE COMPOUND Unguentum Agrippa Page 160. in the Lat. in Book The Colledg TAke of Briony roots two pound the roots of wild Cucumers one pound Squills half a pound fresh English Orris roots three ounces the roots of Male Fearn Dwarffe Elder water Caltrops or Aron of each two ounces bruise them all being fresh and steep them six or seven daies in four pound of old Oyl the whitest not rank then boyl them and press them out and in the Oyl me 〈◊〉 fifteen ounces of white wax and make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It purgeth excceedingly and is good to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies and if there be any humor of flegm in any part of the body that you know not how to remove provided the part be not too tender you may anoint it
with this but yet be not too busie with it for I tell you plainly 't is not very safe Unguentum de Alabastro Page 160 in the Latin B. Or Oyntment of Alabaster The Colledg Take of of the juyce of Chamomel four ounces the juyce of red Roses Marshmallow roots of each two ounces the juyce of Rue and Bettony of each an ounce and an half Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound and an half Alabaster in very fine pouder three ounces mix them and let them alone till the next day then boyl it till the juyce be consumed then with six ounces of white Wax make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. I never knew it made neither know I what to make of it t is amongst Victorius his Empericks to be found and a hundred to one but he saith 't is good for something but I know not for what There he quotes abundance of Receipts and it seems this is one I have about a hundred of them but this is none of them Unguentum Amarum Page 160 in the Latin Book Or a bitter Oyntment The Colledg Take of Oyl of Rue Savin Mints Wormwood bitter Almonds of each one ounce and an half juyce of Peach flowers and leaves and Wormwood of each half an ounce pouder of Rue Mints Centaury the less Gentian Tormentil of each one drachm the seeds of Coleworts the pulp of Colocynthis of each two drachms Aloes Hepatick three drams meal of 〈◊〉 half an ounce Mirrh washed in grass Water a drachm and an half Bulls gall an ounce and an half with a sufficient quantity of juyce of Lemmons and an ounce and an half of Wax make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. Do but so much as compare the simples of this Oyntment with my rules at the beginning of the Oyls and you sh all see pretty sport to laugh at the Simples making as great a discord as a Second and a Seventh in Musick which can hardly be reduced to harmony but agrees like a harp and a harrow Unguentum Apostolorum Page 161. in the Latin B. Or Oyntment of the Apostles The Colledg Take of Turpentine yellow Wax Rosin Amoniacum of each fourteen drachms long Birthwort roots Olibanum Bdellium of each six drachms Mirrh Galbanum of each half an ounce Opopanax Vert-de-greese of each two drachms Litharge nine drachms Oyl two pound Vineger enough to dissolve the gums make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It consumes corrupt and dead flesh and makes flesh soft which is hard it clonseth wounds Ulcers and Fistulaes and restores flesh where it is wanting A. Here is our Colledges Religion ad unguem King James is their god Harts-ease their Trinity their Divinity and holiness in a couple of Plaisters these twelve ingredients are their Apostles their Colledge in Amen Corner where they all sing Allelujah Anglice Woodsorrel together Unless their hand of Christ which is made of Rosewater and Sugar help them I know not what will become of them they have no other remedy to fly too but their Plaister called the grace of god to see if that will help at a dead lift Unguentum Aregon Page 161. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Rosemary Marjoram mother of Time Rue the roots of Aron and wild Cucumers of each four onnces and an half the leaves of Bay sage Savin Briony roots of each three ounces 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each nine ounces the leaves of wild Cucumers Nep of each half a pound let all of them being gathered in May clensed and bruised be steeped seven daies in six pound of Sallet Oyl and a pound of Spirit of Wine boyl them gently till the Spirit be consumed then strain the Oyl in which melt Wax sixteen ounces Bears grease Oyl of Bayes of each three ounces Moschaleum half an ounce Peter-Oyl an ounce Butter four ounces stir them and put in these following things in pouder Mastich Olibanum of each seven drachms Pellitory of Spain Euphorbium Ginger Pepper of each an ounce make them into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It mightily digesteth and maketh thin and 〈◊〉 not without some purging quality and is very comodious against cold afflictions of the body but especially of the sinnews convulsions falling sickness pains of the joynts and great guts I cannot much commend it unless I should commend it for its length and tediousness Unguentum de Artanita Page 162. in Lat. Book Or Oyntment of Sow-bread The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Sowbread or for want of it a strong decoction of the roots three pound juyce of wild Cücumers Heifers Butter of each a pound Oyl of Orris two pound Pulp of Coloquintida four ounces Polypodium six ounces Euphorbium half an ounce the things to be bruised being bruised let them be steeped in a glazed vessel close shut eight daies afterwards boyled in a double vessel till the Juyce be almost consumed then press it out and dissolve in the Liquor yellow Wax five ounces whilst it is warm mix with it Sagapen dissolved in Vineger Bulls gall boyled in a bath to the thickness of Honey of each an ounce then put in these things following in Pouder Scammony Turbith Coloquintida berries or leaves of Mezereon Aloes of each seven drachms Sal. Gem. half an ounce Euphorbium long Pepper Mirrh Ginger Chamomel flowers of each three drachms make them into an oyntment according to art Culpeper A. The stomach being anointed with it it purgeth by vomit the Belly anoynted with it it purgeth by stool the truth is it is a desperate kind of purge yet I hold it as fitting as can be to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies because I conceive it especially purgeth water and the water in dropsies lie neer the skin They have altered it a little and to as little purpose I fancy not such violent Remedies sometimes they kill and sometimes they cure Unguentum Catapsoras Page 162. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Ceruss washed in Purslain water then in Vinegar wherein wild Rhadish Roots have been steeped and pressed out Lapis Calaminaris Chalcitis of each six drachms burnt Lead Goats blood of each half an ounce Quick-silver sublimated an ounce the juyce of Housleek Nightshade Plantane of each two ounces Hogs grease clensed three pound Oyl of Violets Poppies Mandrakes of each an ounce first let the Sublimate and Exungia then the Oyls Juyces and Pouders be mixed and so made into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. The Title shews it to be invented against scabs and itch But I delight not in such kind of Medicines they are Collegiates that appoint them and may do what they list nemine contradicence Unguentum Citrinum Page 163. in the Lat. Book Or A Citron Oyntment The Colledg Take of Borax an ounce Camphire a drachm white Corral half an ounce Allum Plume an ounce Umbilicus Marinus Tragacanth white Starch of each three drachms Cristal Dentalis Eutalis Olibanum Niter white Marble of
half an ounce Honey warmed and not scummed four ounces make it into a Plaister according to art Culpeper 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 It is an excellent remedy for the Collick and wind in the bowels Emplastrum Barbarum Magnum P. 171. in Lat. B. The Colledg Take of dry Pitch eight pound yellow Wax six pound and eight ounces Perrosin five pound and four ounces Bitumen Judaicum or Mummy four pound Oyl one pound and an half Vert-de-grease Litharge Ceruss of each three ounces 〈◊〉 half a pound Roch Alum not burnt an ounce and an half Burnt four ounces Opopanax Scales of Brass Gal banum of each twelve drachms Aloes Opium Mirrh of each half an ounce Turpentine two pound Juyce of Mandrakes or else dried Bark of the root six drachms Vineger five pound let the Licharge Ceruss and Oyl boyl to the thickness of Honey then incorporate with them the pitch being melted with Bitumen in pouder then add the rest and boyl them according to art till the Viniger be consumed and it stick not to your hands Culpeper A. It helps the bitings of men and beasts easeth the inflamations of wounds and helps infirmities of the joynts and gouts in the beginning Emplastrum de Betonica Page 171. in the Lat. Book Or A Plaister of Betony The Colledg Take of Betony Burnet Agrimony Sage Penyroyal Yarrow comfry the greater Clary of each six ounces Frankinsence Mastich of each three drachms Orris round-Birthwort of each six drachms white Wax Turpentine of each eight ounces Per-rosin six ounces Gum 〈◊〉 Oyl of fir of each two ounces white Wine three pound bruise the hearbs boyl them in the Wine then strain them and add the rest and make them into a Plaister according to art Culpeper 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 rest ores flesh lost clenseth digesteth and drieth Emplastrum Coesaris Page 171. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of red Roses one ounce and an half Bistort roots Cipress Nuts all the Sanders Mints Coriander seeds of each three drachms Mastich half an ounce Hypocistis Acacia Dragons blood Earth of Lemnos Bole-Armenick red Corral of each two drachms Turpentine washed in Plantane water four ounces Oyl of Roses three ounces white Wax twelve ounces Perrosin ten ounces Pitch six ounces the juyce of Plantane 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 of each an ounce the Wax Rosin and pitch being melted together add the Turpentine and Oyl then the Hypocistis and Acacia dissolved in the Juyces at last the Pouders and make it into a Plaister according to art Culpeper A. It is of a fine cool binding strengthening nature excellent good to repel 〈◊〉 or vapours that ascend up to the head the hair being shaved off and it applied to the crown Emplastrum Catagmaticum the first P. 172. in Lat. B. The Colledg Take of juyce of Marshmallow roots six ounces Bark of Ash treeroots and their leaves the roots of Comsry the greater and smaller with their leaves of each two ounces Mirtle berries an ounce and an half the leaves of Willow the tops of St. Johns wart of each an handful and an half having bruised them boyl them together in red Wine and Smiths water of 〈◊〉 two pound till half be consumed strain it and ad Oyl of Mirtles and Roses Omphacine of each one pound and an half Goats 〈◊〉 eight ounces boyl it again to the consumption of the decoction strain it again and add Litharge of Gold and Silver red Lead of each four ounces yellow Wax one pound Colophonia half a pound boyl it to the consistance of a Plaister then add Turpentine two ounces Mirrh Frankinsence Mastich of each half an ounce Bole Armenick Earth of Lemnos of each an ounce stir them about well till they be boyled and made into an Emplaister according to art Catagmaticum the second Page 173. in the Lat. B. The Colledg Take of the roots of Comfry the greater Marshmallows Missleto of the Oak of each two ounces Plantane Chamepitys St. Johns-wort of each a handful boyl them 〈◊〉 parts of black Wine and Smiths water till half be consumed strain it and add Mussilage of Quince seeds made in tripe water Oyl of Mastich and Roses of each four ounces boyl it to the consumption of the Humidity and having strained it ad Litharge of Gold four ounces boyl it to the consistance of an Emplaister then ad yellow Wax four ounces Turpentine three ounces Colophonia six drachms Ship-pitch ten ounces pouders of Balaustines Roses Mirtle Acacia of each half an ounce Mummy Androsamum Mastich Amber of each six drachms Bole Armenick fine flower Frankinsence of each twelve drachms Dragons blood two ounces make it into a Plaister according to art Culpeper A. Both this and the former are binding and drying the former rules will instruct you in the use Emplastrum Cephalicum Page 173. in the Lat B. Or A Cephalick Plaister The Colledg Take of Rosin two ounces black Pitch one ounce Labdanum Turpentine flower of Beans and Orobus Doves dung of each half an ounce Mirrh Mastich of each one drachm and an half Gum of Juniper Nutmegs of each two drams dissolve the Mirrh and Labdanum in a bot mortar and adding the rest make it into a Plaister according to art If you will have it stronger ad the pouders Euphorbium Pellitory of Spain and black Pepper of each two scruples Culpeper A. It is proper to strengthen the brain and repel such vapours as anoy it and those pouders being added it dries up the superfluous moisture thereof and easeth the eyes of hot scalding vapors that anoy them Emplastrum de Cerussa Page 174. in the Latin Book Or A Plaister of Ceruss The Colledg Take of Ceruss in fine pouder white Wax Sallet Oyl of each three ounces ad the Oyl by 〈◊〉 to the Ceruss and holy it by continuall stirring over a gentle fire till it begin to swell then ad the Wax cut small by degrees and boyl it to 〈◊〉 just consistance Culpeper A. It helps burns dry scabs and hot ulcers and in general what ever sores abound with moisture Emplaistrum ex Cicuta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P. 174. L. 〈◊〉 Or A Plaister of Hemlock with Amoniacum The Colledg Take of the juyce of Hemlock four ounces Vineger of Squills and Ammoniacum of each eight ounces dissolve the Gum in the juyce and Vineger after a due infusion then strain it into its just consistance according to art Culpeper A. I suppose it was invented to mitigate the extream pains and alay the inflamations of wounds for which it is very good Let it not be applied to any principal part Emplastrum è Cinnabari Page 174. in the Latin B. The Colledg Take of Cinnabaris an ounce and an half
one and the same and helps infirmities of the Lungues as hoarceness coughs wheezing shortness of breath c. You may boyl it in Hysop water or any other water that strengthens the Lungues Pulicaria Fleabane hot and dry in the third degree helps the bitings of venemous beasts wounds and swellings the yellow Jaundice the falling-sickness and such as cannot piss it being burnt the smoke of it kils all the Gnats and Fleas in the chamber as also Serpents if they be there it is dangerous for women with child Pyrus sylvestris Wild Pear-tree I know no vertue in the Leaves Pyrola Wintergreen Cold and dry and very binding stops fluxes and the terms in women and is admirable good in green wounds Quercus folia Oak Leaves are much of the nature of the former stay the whites in women See the Bark Ranunculus Hath got a sort of English names Crowfoot King-kob Gold-cups Gold-knobs Butter-flowers c. they are of a notable hot quality unfit to be taken inwardly If you bruise the Roots and apply them to a Plague-sore they are notable things to draw the venom to them Also Apuleius saith that if they be hanged about the neck of one that is lunatick in the wane of the Moon the Moon being in the first degree of Taurus or Scorpio it quickly rids him of his disease Raparum folia If they do not mean Turnep-leaves I know not what they mean nor it may be themselves neither the greatest part of them having as much knowledg in Simples as a horse hath in Hebrew Rapum is a Turnep but surely Rapa is a word seldom used If they do mean Turnep-leaves when they are yong and tender they are held to provoke urin Rosmarinum Rosemary hot and dry in the second degree binding stops fluxes help stuffings in the head the yellow Jaundice helps the memory expels wind See the Flowers Rosa Solis See the Water Rosa Alba Rubra Damascena White Red and Damask Roses I would some body would do so much as ask the Colledg wherefore they set the Leaves down Rumex Dock all the ordinary sort of Docks are of a cool and drying substance and therefore stops fluxes and the Leaves are seldom used in Physick Rubus Idaeus Raspis Rasberries or Hind-berries I know no great vertue in the Leaves Ruta Rue or Herb of grace hot and dry in the third degree consumes the seed and is an enemy to generation helps difficulty of breathing and inflamations of the lungues pains in the side inflamations of the Yard and Matrix is naught for women with child An hundred such things are quoted by Dioscorides This I am sure of no Herb resisteth poyson more And some think Mithridates that renowned King of Pontus fortified his body against poyson with no other medicine It strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and no Herb better than this in Pestilential times take it what manner you wil or can Ruta Muraria See Adianthum Sabina Savin hot and dry in the third degree potently provokes the terms expels both birth and after-birth they boyled in oyl and used in Oyntments stay creeping ulcers scour away spots freckles and sunburning from the face the belly anointed with it kils worms in children Salvia Sage hot and dry in the second or third degree binding it staies abortion in such women as are subject to come before their times it causeth fruitfulness it is singular good for the brain strengthens the sences and memory helps spitting and vomiting of blood outwardly heat hot with a little Vinegar and applied to the side helps stitches and pains in the sides Salix Willow-leaves are cold dry and binding stop spitting of blood and fluxes the boughs stuck about a chamber wonderfully cool the air and refresh such as have feavers the leaves applied to the head help hot diseases there and frenzies Sampsucum Marjoram Sanicula Sanicle hot and dry in the second degree clenseth wounds and ulcers Saponaria Sope-wort or Bruise-wort vulgarly used in bruises and cut fingers and is of notable use in the French-pocks Satureia Savory Summer-savory is hot and dry in the third degree Winter-savory is not so hot both of them expel wind gallantly and that they say is the reason why they are boyled with Pease and Beans and other such windy things 't is a good fashion and pitty it should be left Saxifragia alba White Saxifrage breaks wind helps the chollick and stone Scabiosa Scabious hot and dry in the second degree clenseth the breast and lungues helps old rotten coughs and difficulty of breathing provokes urine and clenseth the bladder of filthy stuff breaks Aposthumes and cures Scabs and Itch. Boyl it in white wine Scariola An Italian name for Succory Schoenanthus Schaenanth Squinanth or Chamels-hay hot and binding Galen saith it causeth headach beleeve him that list Dioscorides saith it digests and opens the passages of the veins surely it is as great an expeller of wind as any is Scordium Water-Germander hot and dry clenseth ulcers in the inward parts it provokes urine and the terms opens stoppings of the liver spleen reins bladder and matrix it is a great counterpoyson and easeth the breast oppressed with flegm See Diascordium Scrophularia Figwort so called of Scrophula the Kings Evil which it cures they say by being only hung about the neck if not bruise it and apply it to the place it helps the Piles or Hemorrhoids and they say being hung about the neck preserves the body in health Sedum And all his sorts See Barba Jovis Senna In this give me leave to stick close to Mesue as an imparaleld Author it heats in the second degree and dries in the first clenseth purgeth and digesteth it carries downwards both choller flegm and melancholly it clenseth the brain heart Liver Spleen it cheers the sences opens obstructions takes away dulness of sight preserves youth helps deafness if purging will help it helps melancholly and madness keeps back old age resists resolution of the nerves pains in the head scabs itch falling-sickness the windiness of it is corrected with a little Ginger You may boyl half an ounce of it at a time in Water or white Wine but boyl it not too much half an ounce is a moderate dose to be boyled for any reasonable body Scrpillum Mother-of-Time Wild Time it is hot and dry in the third degree it provokes the terms gallantly as also helps the strangury or stoppage of urine gripings in the belly ruptures convulsions inflamations of the Liver Lethargy and infirmities of the spleen boyl it in white Wine Sigillum Solomonis Solomons Seal See the Root Smyrnium Alexanders of Creet Solanum Nightshade very cold and dry binding it is somwhat dangerous given inwardly unless by a skilful hand outwardly it helps the Shingles S t Anthonies fire and other hot inflamations Soldanella Bindweed hot and dry in the second degree it opens obstructions of the Liver and purgeth watry humors and is therefore very profitable in
few it were easily answered They did it in Latin to animate people to bring up their children to learning which is a thing I wish from my heart were done what the Colledg doth I know not 2. Because they have here left out some Oyntments the use of which they would not have the Chyrurgians know the most part of which are no Scholars the more is the pity and that they know well enough it were a brave trick if they could catch old birds with chaff KIND READERS THE Right VVorshipful the Colledg of Physitians of London in their new Dispensatory give you free leave to distill these common VVaters that follow but they never intended you should know what they are good for SIMPLE DISTILLED WATERS Of Fresh Roots of BRiony Onions Alicampane Orris or Flower-de-luce Turneps Of Flowers and Buds of Southernwood both sorts of Wormwood Wood-sorrel Ladies-Mantle Marsh-mallows Angelica Pimpernel with purple flowers Smallage Columbines Sparagus Mousear Borrage Shepheards-purse Calaminth wood-bine or Honey-suckles Carduus Benedictus our Ladies thistles Knotgrass Succory Dragons Coltsfoot Fennel Goats-rue Grass Hysop Lettice Lovage Toadflax Hops 〈◊〉 Mallows Horehound Feathersew Bawm Mints Horsemints Water-cresses English Tobacco white Poppies Pellitory of the wall Parsly Plantane 〈◊〉 Self-heal Penyroyal Oak Leaves Sage Scabious Figwort or Throatwort Housleek or 〈◊〉 the greater and lesser Mother of Time Nightshade Tansie 〈◊〉 Valerian Of Flowers of Orrenges if you can get them Blew-bottle the greater Beans Water-lillies Lavender Nut-tree Cowslips Sloes Rosemary Roses white 〈◊〉 and red Satyrion Line-tree Clove-gilliflowers Violets Of Fruits of Orrenges black cherries 〈◊〉 Quinces Cucumers Strawberries Winter Cherries Lemmons Rasberries unripe Walnuts Apples Of parts of living creatures and their Excrements Lobsters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Snails 〈◊〉 Bullocks dung made in May Swallows Earthworms Magpies spawm of Frogs SIMPLE WATERS DISTILLED being digested beforehand Of the fresh Roots of Nettles Of the Leaves of Agrimony Wild Tansie or Silverweed Mugwort Betony Marigolds Chamomel Chamepitis Sullondine Pilewort Scurvy grass Comfry the greater Dandelyon Ashtree leaves Eyebright Fumitory Alehoof or ground Ivy Horstail St. Johns wort Yarrow Moneywort Restharrow Solomons seal Ros solis Rue Savin Saxifrage Hartstongue Scordium Tamaris Mullin Vervain Pauls Betony Mead sweet Nettles Of the Flowers of Mayweed Broom Cowslips Butter-bur Peony Elder Of the Berries of Broom Elder Culpeper A. Then the Colledg gives you an Admonition concerning distilling these such a one as it is which being converted into your native language is as followeth We give you warning that these common waters be better prepared for time to come either in common stills putting gaod store of Ashes underneath the Roots and Herbs being dryer c. Or if they be full of Juyce by distilling the Juyce in aconvenient Bath that so burning may be avoided which hitherto hath seldom been But let the other Herbs Flowers or Roots be bruised and by adding Tartar common Salt or Leven be digested then putting spring water to them distill them in an Alembick with his refrigeratory or Worm till the change of the tast shew the vrtue to be drawn off then let the Oyl if any be be seperated from the Water according 〈◊〉 Into the number of these Waters may be ascribed The Teares of Vines The Liquor of the birch tree May dew Culpeper A. That my Country may receive the benefit of these Waters I shall first shew the Temperatures secondly the vertu es of the most usual most easie to come by If any should take exceptions that I mention not all for itis imposible to write to please every body I answer first I me ntion enough secondly Who ever makes this objection they shew extream ingratitude for had I mentioned but only one I had revealed more to them than ever the Colledg intended they should know or con me thanks for doing but the best is I respect their love and fear their hatred much at one The quallities and apropriation of the simple distilled Waters Simple distilled Waters either cool or heat Such as cool either cool the blood or Choller Waters cooling the blood Lettice Purslain Water-Lillies Violets Sorrel Endive Succory Fumitory Waters cooling and repressing chollerick humors or vapors in the head Nightshade Lettice Water-Lillies Plantane Poppies viz. The flowers both of white black and red Poppies black Cherries The breast and lungues Violets Poppies all three sorts Colts-foot In the heart Sorrel Quinces Water-Lillies Roses Violets green or unripe Walnuts In the stomach Quinces Roses Violets Nightshade Housleek or Sengreen Lettice Purslain In the River Endivc Succory Nightshade Purslain Water Lillies In the Reins and bladder Endive Succory winter Cherries Plantane Water-Lillies Strawberries Housleek or Sengreen black Cherriea In the Womb. Endive Succory Lettice Water-Lillies Purslain Roses Simple Waters which are hot concoct either flegm or Melancholly Waters concocting flegm in the Head are of Betony Sage Marjoram Chamomel Fennel Calaminth Rosemary flowers Primroses Eye-bright In the Breast and Lungues Maidenhair Betony Hysop Hore-hound Carduus Bnedictus Scabious Orris or Flower-de-luces Bawm Self-heal c. In the heart Bawm Rosemary In the stomach Wormwood Mints Fennel Chervil Time mother of Time Marigolds In the Liver Wormwood Centaury Origanum Marjoram Maudlin Costmary Agrimony Fennel In the Spleen Water-cresses Wormwood Calaminth In the reins and bladder Rocket Nettles 〈◊〉 Pellitory of the wall Alicampane Burnet In the Womb. Mugwort Calaminth Peny-royal Savin mother of Time Lovage Waters concocting Melancholly in the head are of Hops Fumitory The Breast Bawm Carduus Benedictus The Heart Borrage Bugloss Bawm Rosemary The Liver Endive Cichory Hops The Spleen Dodder Harts-tongue Tamaris Time Having thus ended the apropriation I shall speak breifly of the vertues of distilled Waters Lettice Wat er cools the blood when it is overheated for when it is not it needs no cooling it cools the head and Liver staies hot vapors ascending to the head and hi ndring sleep it quencheth immoderate thirst and breeds milk in nurses Distill it in May. Purslain Water cools the blood and Liver quencheth thirst helps such as spit blood have hot coughs or pestilences The distilled Water of water Lilly-Flowers cools the blood and the bowels and al internal parts of the body helps such as have the yellow Jaundice hot coughs or pleuresies the headach coming of heat feavers pestilential and not pestilential as also hectick feavers The Water of Violet flowers cools the blood the heart Liver and Lungnes overheated and quencheth an insatiable desire of drinking they are in their prime about the latter end of March or begining of April according as the year fals out The Water of Sorrel cools ths blood heart Liver and spleen if Venis Treacle be given with it it is profitable in pestilential feavers distil it in May. Endive and Succory Water are excellent against heat in the stomach If you take an ounce of either for their operation is the same morning and evening four daies one after another they cool the
Liver and clense the blood they are in their prime in May. Fumitory Water is usual with the City Dames to wash their faces with to take away morphew freckles and Sunburning inwardly taken it helps the yellow Jaundice and Itch clenseth the blood provokes sweat strengthens the stomach and clenseth the body of adust humors It is in its prime in May and June The Water of Nightshade helps pains in the head coming of heat take heed you distill not the deadly Nightshade instead of the common if you do you may make mad work let such as have not wit enough to know them asunder have wit enough to let them both alone til they do The Water of white Poppies extinguisheth al heat 〈◊〉 nature helps headaches coming of heat and too long standing in the Sun Distil them in June or July Colts-foot Watar is excellent for burns to wash the place with it inwardly taken it helps Phthisicks and other diseases incident to the lungues Distil them in May or June The Water of distilled Quinces strengthens the heart and stomach exceedingly staies vomiting and fluxes and strengthens the retentive faculty in man Demask Rose-water cools comsorts and strengthens the heart so doth red Rose-water only with this difference the one is binding the other loosening if your body be costive use Damask rose-Rose-water because it is loosening if loose use red because it is binding White rose-Rose-water is generally known to be excellent against hot rhewms and inflamations in the eyes and for this it is better than the former The Water of Red Poppy flowers called by many corn-Corn-roses because they grow so freequently amongst corn cool the blood and spirits overheated by drinking or labor and is therefore excellent for surfets Green Walnuts gathered about the latter end of June or beginning of July and bruiled and so stilled strengthens the heart and resisteth the pestilence Plantane Water helps the headach being dropped into the ear it helps the toothach helps the Phthisick dropsie and fluxes and is an admirable remedy for 〈◊〉 in the reins and bladder to be used as common drink the herb is in its prime in May. Strawberry Water cooleth quencheth thirst clarifieth the blood breaks the stone helps al inward inflamations especially those in the reins bladder and passages of the urine it strengthens the Liver and helps the yellow Jaundice The distilled Water of Dog-grass or couch-grass as some cal it clenseth the 〈◊〉 gallantly and provokes urine opens 〈◊〉 of the Liver and spleen and kils worms Black Cherry Water provokes urine helps the dropsie It is usually given in diseases of the brain as convulsions falling sickness palsey and Apoplexy Betony is in its prime in May the distilled Water thereof is very good for such as are pained in their heads it prevails against the dropsie and al sorts of feavers it succors the Liver and spleen and helps want of digestion and evil disposition of the body thence arising it hastens travail in women with child and is excellent against the bitings of venemous beasts Distil Sage whilest the slowers be on it the Water strengthens the brain provokes the terms helps nature much in al its actions Marjoram is in its prime in June the distilled Water is excellent for such whose brains are too cold it provokes urine heats the womb provokes the terms strengthens the memory and helps the judgment causeth an able brain and therefore I commend it to the Colledg of Physitians Distil Chamomel Water about the beginning of June It easeth the chollick and pains in the belly it breaks the stone in the reins and bladder provokes the terms expels the dead child and takes away pains in the head Fennel water strengthens the heart and brain dilates the breast helps the cough provokes the terms encreaseth milk in nurses and if you wash your eyes with it it cleers the sight Calaminth Water hea t s and clenseth the womb provokes the terms and easeth the pains of the head distil it in May. The Distilled water of Rosemary slowers helps such as are troubled with the yellow Jaundice Asthma it clenseth the blood helps concoction strengthens the brain and body exceedingly Waters of the flowers of Lillies of the valley strengthens the brain and all the sences The water 〈◊〉 Cowslip flowers helps the palsey and thence they obtained the name Paralysis takes away pains in the head the vertigo and megrim and are exceeding good for women with child The eyes being washed every morning with Eyebright water most strangely cleers and strengthens the sight Maidenhair distilled in May the water clenseth both Liver and Lungues clarifies the blood and break the stone Hysop water clenseth the Lungues of flegm helps Coughs and Asthmaes distill it in August The water of Hore-hound helps the Cough and straitness of the breast it strengthens the breast Lungues and stomach and Liver distil it in June Carduus water succors the head strengthens the memory helps such as are troubled with vertigoes and quartan agues it provokes sweat strengthens the heart and is good in pestilences and all other feavers of choller it is in its prime in May and June Scabious water helps pleuresies and pains and prickings in the sides Apostthemes Coughs pestilence and straitness of the breast Water of Flower-de-luce is very profitable in dropsies an ounce being drnnk continually morning and evening as also pains and torments in the bowels Bawm water distilled in May restores memory when it is lost it quickens al the sences strengthens the brain heart and stomach causeth a merry mind and a sweet breath The water of Comfry sodders broken bones being drunk helps ruptures outwardly it stops the bleeding of wounds they being washed with it Wormwood water distilled cold about the end of May heats and strengthens the stomach helps concoction staies vomiting kills worms in the stomach and bowels it mitigates the pains in the teeth and is profitably given in feavers of Choller Mint water strengthens the stomach helps concoction and 〈◊〉 vomiting distil it in the latter end of May or beginning of June as the year is in forwardness or backwardness observe that in all the rest Chervil water distilled about the end of May helps ruptures breaks the stone dissolves congealed blood strengthens the heart and stomach The water of Mother of Time strengthens the brain and stomach gets a man a good stomach to his victuals provokes urine and the terms heats the womb it is in its prime about the end of June The water of Marigold flowers is apropriated to most cold diseases of the head Eyes and stomach they are in their vigor when the Sun is in the Lion Distilled water of Centaury comforts a cold stomach helps in feavers of choller which the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it kills worms and provokes appetite to victuals Maudlin and Costmary water distilled in May or June strengthens the Liver helps the yellow 〈◊〉 opens obstructions and helps the dropsie
rag and hung to the top of the glass Culpeper In my opinion this latter water is more prevalent for heart-qualms and faintings than Mathiolus his neither is it half so hot therefore more safe Aqua Coelestis Mathiolus The Colledg Take of Cinnamon an ounce Ginger half an ounce white red and yellow Sanders of each six drachms Cloves Galanga 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 Parsnips Bazil of each a drachm and an half Roots of Angelica Avens Calamus Aromaticus Liquoris Valerian the less the leaves of Clary Time Calaminth Penyroyal 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 fifteen daies in twelve pints of the best spirit of Wine in a glass body well stopped and then let it be distilled in 〈◊〉 Mariae according to art Adding to the distilled Water Pouders of Diambra 〈◊〉 dulce Aromaticum Rosatum Diamagariton frigidum Diathodon 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 rag cleer Julip of Roses a pound shake them well together stopping the glass close with wax and Parchment till it grow cleer to be kept for your use Culpeper A. It comforteth and 〈◊〉 the heart reviveth drooping spirite prevaileth against the plague and all malignant feavers preserveth the Sences and restoreth such as are in Consumptions It is of a hot nature Let not the quantity taken at a time exceed half a drachm A. Only take this Caution both concerning this and all other strong waters They are not safely given by themselves in Feavers because by their hot quality they inflame the blood and ad fuel to the fire but mixed with other convenient Cordials and consideration had to the strength complexion habit age and sex of the patient for my own part I aim sincerely at the publick good in writing of this and therefore as I would not have Physitians domineer so I would not have fools turn Physitians Bawm Water The greater Composition The Colledg Take of 〈◊〉 a pound Time Penyroyal of each three drachms Cinnamon two drachms Cardamoms the less one drachm Grains of Paradice half an ounce Sweet Fennel seeds an ounce Nutmegs Ginger of each a drachm Galanga 〈◊〉 drachms 〈◊〉 Aromaticus Cyperus of each one drachm and an half Dictamni half a drachm Let all of them be bruised and infused in eight pints of Spanish Wine and six pints of strong Ale for twenty four hours together and then distilled by an Alembick draw out of the stronger water three pints Culpeper A. The Simples seem chiefly apropriated to the stomach and therefore must needs strengthen cold and weak stomachs and help digestion besides Authors say It restoreth memory lost quickkens all the sences keeps away gray hairs and baldness strengtheneth the brain makes the heart cheerful and helps the lisping of the tongue easeth the pains of the teeth and causeth a sweet breath Rosa 〈◊〉 The Colledg Take of Nutmegs Annis seeds Coriander seeds of each one ounce Galanga Ginger Cloves of each half an ounce red Rose Leaves one bandful Ros-solis six handfuls Liquoris two ounces Cardamoms Zedoary Grains of Paradice Calamus Aromaticus of each one drachm red Sanders Cinnamon of each an ounce and an half of the best Aqua vitae twelve pints make an infusion of them for eight daies 〈◊〉 strain it and ad to the Liquor one pound and an half of Sugar Culpeper A The Basis of this Medicine seems to be the Herb Ros-solis which is of a drying and binding quality and apropriated to the Lungues and therefore must needs be available for 〈◊〉 or Consumptions of the Lungues and because this herb provokes lust exceedingly I suppose therefore the Rose leaves were added which according to Authors resist lust Dr. Stephens Water The Colledg Take of Cinnamon Ginger Galanga Cloves Nutmegs Grains of Paradice Seeds of Annis Fennel Caraway of each one drachm Herbs of Time Mother of Time Mints Sage Penyroyal Pellitory of the Wall Rosemary flowers of red Roses Chamomel Origanum Lavender of each one handful infuse them twelve hours in twelve 〈◊〉 of Gascoign Wine then with an Alembick draw three pints of strong Water from it Culpeper A. Authors hold it profitable for women in labor that it provokes the terms and brings away the after-birth Ordinary Aqua vitae The Colledg Distil Ale and Lees of Wine in 〈◊〉 Alembick whose worm runs through cold Water into small Wine in ten Congies of which 〈◊〉 one pound of bruised Annis seeds for twenty four hours then still it again into strong water Aqua vitae Compound The Colledg Is made of smal Wines in six congies of which infuse Annis seeds half a pound seeds of Fennel and Caraway of each two ounces Cloves 〈◊〉 and Ginger of each one ounce and then draw the strong Spirit from it Culpeper A. This is excellent good in my opinion for such as are troubled with wind Vsquebach The Colledg Take of strong Aqua vitae twenty four pints in which for four daies infuse a pound of Liquoris Raisons of the Sun half a pound Cloves half an ounce Mace Ginger of each two drachms strain it and keep it for your use Culpeper A. It strengthens the stomach and helps indigestion coming of flegm and cold A. It is possible I may have overslipped some others of their Alterations of Names my time is short and my understanding dull and the truth is their new model shews far more subtilty than honesty TINCTURES Tinctura Croci Page 41. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Saffron Colledg TAke two drachms of Saffron eight ounces of Treacle Water digest them six 〈◊〉 then strain it Culpeper A. See the Vertues of Treacle Water and then know that this strengthens the heart something more and keeps melancholly vapors thence by drinking a spoonful of it every morning Tinctura 〈◊〉 Page 41. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Castorium The Colledg Take of Castorium in pouder half an ounce Spirit of Castorium half a pound digest them ten daies cold strain it and keep the Liquor for Tincture Culpeper A. A learned invention 'T is something more prevalent than the Spirit Tinctura Fragorum Page 41. in the Latin Book Or Tincture of Strawberries The Colledg Take of ripe Wood-Strawberries two pound put them in a Phiol and put so much small Spirit of Wine to them that it may oretop them the thickness of four fingers stop the vessel close and set it in the Sun two daies then strain it and press it but gently powr this Spirit to as many fresh Strawberries repeat this six times at
and an half boyl them after one daies warm digestion in a sufficient quantity of distilled Water of Peony Roots to four pouud in which being strained through Hippocrates his sleeves put four pound and an half of white sugar and boyl it to a syrup Culpeper A. It is somewhat costly to buy and as troublesom to make a spoonful of it taken helps the Falling-sickness and Convulsions Syrupus de Pomis alterans Page 62. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Apples The Colledg Take four pound of the juyce of sweet scented Apples the juyce of Bugloss garden and wild of Violet Leaves Rose water of each a pound boyl them together and clarifie them and with six pound of pure sugar boyl it into a syrup according to Art Culpeper A. It is a fine cooling syrup for such whose hearts and stomachs are overpressed with heat and may safely be given in feavers for it rather loosens than binds it breeds good blood and is profitable in Hectick feavers and for such as are troubled with palpitation of the heart it quencheth thirst admirably in Feavers and staies Hiccoughs You may take an ounce of it at a time in the morning or when you need Syrupus de Prasio Page 62. In the Latin Book Or Syrup of Horehound The Colledg Take of white Horehound fresh two ounces Liquoris Polipodium of the Oak Fennel and smallage Roots of each half an ounce white Maiden-hair Origanum Hysop Calaminth Time savory scabious Coltsfoot of each six drachms the seeds of Annis and Cotton of each three drachms Raisons of the sun stoned two ounces fat Figs ten boyl them in eight pound of Hydromel till half be consumed boyl the Decoction into a syrup with honey and sugar of each two pound and perfume it with an ounce of the Roots of Orris Florentine Culpeper A. It is apropriated to the breast and lungues and is a fine clenser to purge them from thick and putrified flegm it helps Phtisicks and Coughs and diseases subject to old men and cold natures Take it with a Liquoris stick Both this Receipt and the former Fernelius was the Author of Syrupus de quinque Radicibus Page 63. In L Book Or Syrup of the sive opening Roots The Colledg Take of the Roots of smallage Fennel Parsly Bruscus Sparagus of each two ounces spring Water six pound boyl away the third part and make a syrup with the rest according to art with three pound of sugar adding eight ounces of white white Wine Vinegar towards the latter end Culpeper It clenseth and openeth very well is profitable against Obstructions provokes Urine clenseth the body of flegm and is safely and profitably given in the beginning of Feavers An ounce at a time upon an empty stomach is a good dose Syrupus Raphani Page 63. In the L. Book Or Syrup of Rhadishes The Colledg Take of Garden and wild Rhadish Roots of each an ounce the Roots of white Saxifrage Lovage Bruscus Eringo Restharrow Parsly Fennel of each half an ounce the Leaves of Bettony Burnet Penyroyal Nettles Watercresses Sampier Maidenhair of each a handful Winter Cherries Jujubes of each ten the seeds of Bazil Bur Parsly of Macedonia Hartwort Caraway Carrots Gromwel the Bark of the Root of Bay-tree of each two drachms Raisons of the sun stoned Liquoris of each six drachms boyl them in twelve pound of water to eight strain it and with four pound of Sugar and two pound of Honey make it into a syrup and perfume it with an ounce of Cinnamon and half an ounce of Nutmegs Culpeper A. A tedious long Medicine for the stone I wonder why the Colledg affect such LONG Receipts surely it will be LONG enough before they be wiser Syrupus Regius aliàs Julapium Alexandrinum P. 64 Or Julep of Alexandria The Colledg Boyl four pound of Rose water and one pound of white sugar into a Julep Julep of Roses is made with Damask Rose water in the very same manner Culpeper Two fine cooling drinks in the heat of summer for them that have nothing else to do with their money Syrupus de Rosis siccis Page 64. In the L. Book Or Syrup of dried Roses The Colledg Make four pound of spring Water hot in which infuse a pound of dried Roses by some at a time press them out and with two pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. If you boyl it it will lose both colour and vertue and then who but the Colledg would first cry out against such paltry stuff I am weary with nothing this in every Receipt therefore be pleased to accept of this one general Rule It is not best to boyl any syrups made of Infusions but by adding the double weight of Sugar viz. two pound of sugar to each pint of infusion melt it over a fire only A. Syrup of dried Roses strengthens the heart comforts the spirits bindeth the body helps fluxes and corrosions or gnawings of the guts it strengthens the stomach and staies vomiting You may take an ounce at a time before meat if for fluxes after meat if for vomiting Syrupus Scabiosae Page 64. In the L. Book Or Syrup of Scabious The Colledg Take of the Roots of Alicampane and Polypodium of the Oak of each two ounces Raisons of the the sun stoned an ounce sebestens twenty Coltsfoot Lungwort savory Calaminth of each a handsul and an half Liquoris Spanish Tobacco of each half an ounce the seeds of Nettles and Cotton of each three drachms boyl them all the Roots being infused in white Wine the day before in a sufficient quantity of Wine and Water to eight ounces strain it and adding four ounces of the Juyce of Scabious and ten ounces of sugar boyl it to a syrup adding to it twenty drops of oyl of Sulphur Culpeper A. It is a clensing syrup apropriated to the breast and lungues when you perceive them oppressed by flegm crudities or stoppings your remedy is to take now and then a spoonful of this syrup it is taken also with good success by such as are itchy or scabby Syrupus de Scolopendrio Page 64. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Hartstongue The Colledg Take of Hartstongue three handfuls Polypodium of the Oak the Roots of both sorts of Bugloss bark of the roots of Capars Tamaris of each two ounces Hops Doddar Maiden-hair Bawm of each two handfuls boyl them in nine pound of spring water to five and strain it and with four pound of white sugar make it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. It helps the stoppings of Melancholly opens obstructions of the Liver and spleen and is profitable against splenetick evils and therefore is a choice remedy for the disease which the vulgar call the Rickets or Liver-grown A spoonful in a morning is a precious Remedy for children troubled with that disease Men that are troubled with the spleen which is known by pain and hardnes in their left side may take three or four spoonfuls they
hours afterwards boyl it half away with a gentle fire then strain it and boyl it with the Sugar to the consistence of a Syrup adding the Vineger towards the latter end of the Decoction Culpeper A. It is a pretty cooling Syrup fit for any hot diseases incident to the stomach reins bladder matrix or liver it thickens flegm cools the blood and provokes sleep You may take an ounce of it at a time when you have occasion Compound Syrup of Coltsfoot Renodaeus The Colledg Take six handfuls of green Coltsfoot two handfuls of Maiden-hair one handful of Hysop and two ounces of Liquoris boyl them in four pints either of rain or spring water till the fourth part be consumed then strain it and clarifie it to which ad three pound of white Sugar boyl it to the perfect consistence of a Syrup Culpeper A. The Composition is apropriated to the Lungues and therefore helps the infirmities weaknesses or failings thereof as want of voice difficulty of breathing coughs hoarsness cathars c. The way of taking it is with a Liquoris stick or if you please you may ad an ounce of it to the pectoral Decoction before mentioned Syrup of Poppies the lesser Composition The Colledg Take the heads of white Poppies and black when both of them are green of each six ounces the seeds of Lettice the Flowers of Violets of each one ounce boyl them in eight pints of Water till the vertue is out of the heads then strain them and with four pound of Sugar boyl the Liquor to a syrup Syrup of Poppies the greater Composition Mesue The Colledg Take of the heads of both white and black Poppies seeds and all of each fifty drachms Maiden-hair fifteen drachms Liquoris five drachms Jujubes thirty by number Lettice seeds fourty drams of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces tied up in a thin linnen cloath of each one drachm and an half boyl these in eight pints of water till five pints be consumed when you have strained out the three pints remaining ad to them Penides and white Sugar of each a pound boyl them into a Syrup according to art Culpeper A. All these former Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of Caution and wariness such as these are are not fit to be given in the beginnings of Feavers nor to such whole bodies are coslive ever remember my former Motto Fools are not fit to make Physitians Yet to such as are troubled with hot sharp Rhewms you may safely give them and note this the last which is borrowed from Mesue is apropriated to the Lungues whose own words translation excepted of it are these It prevails against dry Coughs Phtisicks hot and sharp gnawing Rhewms and provokes sleep It is an usual fashion for Nurses when thcy have heat their Milk by exercise or strong liquor no marvel then if their children be froward then run for Syrup of Poppies to make their yong ones sleep I would fain have that fashion left therefore I forbear the dose let Nurses keep their own bodies temperate and their children will sleep well enough never scar. Syrup of Eupatorium or Maudlin Mesue The Colledg Take of the Roots of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Succory os each two 〈◊〉 Liquoris 〈◊〉 Dodder 〈◊〉 Roses os each six drachms Maiden-hair 〈◊〉 or instead thereof the Roots of 〈◊〉 Mariae 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 thereof the Roots of Avens the flowers or roots of Bugloss Annis seeds sweet 〈◊〉 seeds Ageratum or Maudlin of each five drachms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each three drachms Spicknard Indian Leaf or instead of it put Roman Spike of each two drachms boyl them in eight pints of water till the third part be consumed then strain the Decoction and with four pound of Sugar clarified juyce of Smallage and Endive of 〈◊〉 half a pound boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper A. 'T is a strange clause and the stranger because it comes from a Colledg of Physitians that they should set Bedeguar or instead thereof Carduus Mariae It is well known that the Bedeguar used here with us or rather that which the Physitians of our times use for Bedeguar is a thing that grows upon wild Roses but the Bedeguar of the Arabians was Carduus Mariae and they knew well enough Mesue whose Receipt this was was an Arabian truly this is just as if they should say they would have ten shillings for a visit or instead of that an angel there being in deed and in truth as much difference between Bedeguar and Carduus Mariae as between eightpence and two groats A. It amends infirmities of the Liver coming of cold opens obstructions helps the Dropsie and evil state of the body it extenuates gross humors strengthens the Liver provokes urine and is a present succour for Hypocondriack Melancholly You may take an ounce at a time in the morning it opens but purgeth not Honey of Emblicks Augustanus The Colledg Take fifty Emblick Myrobalans bruise them and boyl them in three pints of water till two be consumed strain it and with the like weight of Honey boyl it into a Syrup Culpeper A. It is a fine gentle purger both of flegm and Melancholly it strengthens the brain and nerves and sences both internal and external helps tremblings of the heart staies vomiting provokes appetite You may take a spoonful at a time ROB OR SAPA AND JUYCES Culpeper A. ROB is somthing an uncouth word and happily formidable to the ignorant Country-man in these thieving times and therefore in the first place I will explain the word A. 1. Rob or Sapa is the Juyces of a Fruit made thick by the heat either of the Sun or the Fire that it is capable of being kept safe from putrifaction A. 2. It s use was first invented for Diseases in the mouth however or for whatsoever it is used now it matters not A. 3. It is usually made in respect of body somthing thicker than new Honey A. 4. It may be kept about a year little more or less Rob sive Sapa simplex Page 76. in the L. Book Or Simple Rob or Sapa The Colledg Take of Wine newly pressed from white and ripe Grapes boyl it over a gentle fire to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. When ever you reade the word Rob or Sapa throughout the Dispensatory simply quoted in any medicine without any relation of what it should be made this is that you ought to use Rob de Berberis Page 76. in the Latin Book Or Reb of Barberries The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Barberries strained as much as you will boyl it by it self or else by adding half a pound of Sugar to each pound of Juyce to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. It quencheth thirst closeth the mouth of the stomach thereby staying vomiting and belching it strengthens stomachs weakened by heat and procures appetite Of any of these Robs you may take a little on the point of a knife
this is more mild and not so harsh to the throat because it hath no Vineger in it and therefore is far more fitting for Asthames and such as are troubled with difficulty of breathing it cuts and carries away humors from the breast be they thick or thin and wonderfully helps indigestion of victuals and easeth pains in the breast and for this I quote the Authority of Galen Alwaies take this as a general Aphorism in Physick Sour things we offensive to the Wind-pipe A. Lohochs left out in their new Moddel because they must be doing Lohoch of Coleworts Gordonius The Colledg Take one pound of the Juyce of Coleworts clarified Saffron three drachms clarified Honey and Sugar of each half a pound make of them a Lohoch according to art Culpeper A. It helps hoarsness and loss of voice easeth surfets and Headach coming of drunkenness and opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and therefore is good for that disease in children which women call the Rickets PRESERVED ROOTS STALKS BARKS FLOWERS FRUITS PULPS TAke of Eringo Roots as many as you will clense them without and within the Pith being taken out steep them two daies in cleer water shifting the water somtimes then dry them with a cloth then take their equal waight in white Sugar and as much Rose water as will make it into a syrup which being almost boyled put in the Roots and let them boyl till the moisture be consumed and it be brought to the due body of a Syrup Not much unlike to this are preserved the Roots of Acorus Angelica Borrage Bugloss Succory Alicampane Burnet Satyrion Sicers Comfry the greater Ginger Zedoary Take of the Stalks of Artichokes not too ripe as many as you will and contrary to the Roots take only the pith of these and preserve them with their equal waight in Sugar like the former So is prepared the Stalks of Angelica Burs Lettice c. before they be too ripe Take of fresh Orrenge Pills as many as you will take away the exteriour yellowness and steep them in spring water three daies at the least often renewing the water then preserve them like the former In like manner are Lemmon and Citron Pills preserved Preserve the Flowers of Citrons Orrenges Borrage Primroses with Sugar according to art Take of Apricocks as many as you will take away the outer skin and the Stones and mix them with their like waight in Sugar after four hours take them out and boyl the Sugar without any other Liquor then put them in again and boyl them a little Other Fruits have the same manner of being preserved or at least not much unlike to it as whol Barberries Cherries Cornels Citrons Quinces Peaches common Apples the five sorts of Myrobalans Hazel Nuts Walnuts Nutmegs Raisons of the Sun Pepper brought green from India Plums Garden and wild Pears Grapes Pulps are also preserved as of Barberries Cassia Fistula Citrons Cynosbatus Quinces and Sloes c. Take of Barberries as many as you will boyl them in spring Water till they are tender then having pulped them through a sive that they are free from the stones boyl it again in an Earthen vessel over a gentle fire often stirring them for fear of burning till the watry humor be consumed then mix ten pound of Sugar with six pound of this Pulp boyl it to its due thickness Broom Buds are also preserved but with Brine and Vineger and so are Olives and Capars Lastly Amongst the Barks Cinnamon amongst the Flowers Roses and Marigolds amongst the Fruits Almonds Cloves Pinenuts and Fistick Nuts are said to be preserved but with this difference they are encrusted with dry sugar and are more called Consects than Preserves CONSERVES AND SUGARS The Colledg CONSERVES of the Herbs of 〈◊〉 Sorrel Woodsorrel the Flowers of 〈◊〉 Borrage Bugloss Bettony Marigolds the tops of 〈◊〉 the Flowers of Centaury the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 flowers Germander Succory the Leaves of 〈◊〉 the Flowers of 〈◊〉 the greater 〈◊〉 Cynosbati the roots of Spurge Herbs and Flowers of Eyebright the tops of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Flowers of Broom not quite open Hysop Lavender white Lillies Lillies of the Valley Marsoram Mallows the tops of Bawm the Leaves of Mints the Flowers of water Lillies red Poppies Peony Peaches Primroses Roses damask red Rosemary the leaves of Rue the flowers of Sage Elder Scabious the Leaves of Scordium the flowers of Lime-tree Coltsfoot Violets with all these are Conserves made with their trebble proportion of white Sugar yet note that all of them must not be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some of them must be cut 〈◊〉 and gently 〈◊〉 some neither cut beaten nor boyled and some admit but one of them which every Artist in his Trade may find out by this Premonition and avoid errour Culpeper A. What a half-faced order to make up Conserves do the Colledg here leave Indeed it belongs to the Apothecaries Trade Is it not sufficient for a gentle man to go to a Smith and bid him shoo his Horse but he must go about to teach him how to make his shoos and nails would he not by medling with what he hath no skill in quickly shew what a Lubber he is and what then can one say of the Colledg Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur SUGARS Diacodium Solidum sive Tabulatum Page 86. The Colledg Take of white Poppy heads meanly ripe and newly gathered twenty steep them in three pound of warm spring water and the next day boyl them till the vertue is out then strain out the Liquor and with a sufficient quantity of good Sugar boyl it according to art that you may make it into Lozenges Culpeper A. This Receipt is transcribed verbatim from the Augustan Physitians though the Colledg through forgetfulness or something else hide it the vertues are the same with the common Diacodium viz. to provoke sleep and help thin Rhewms in the head coughs and roughness of the Throat and may easily be carried about in ones pocket 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Simplex et Perlatum P. 86. Or 〈◊〉 of Sugar both Simple and 〈◊〉 The Colledg The first is made by pouring the Sugar out upon a Marble after a sufficient boyling in half its 〈◊〉 of Damask Rofe water And the latter by adding to every pound of the former towards the latter end of the Decoction Pearls prepared and bruised half an ounce with eight or ten Leaves of Gold Culpeper A. Here the Colledg have left out that blasphemous speech which I cannot write without horror nor an honest man read without trembling viz. To call a little Rose-water and Sugar boyled together THE HAND OF CHRIST The truth is if they had left out the rest of the blasphemies I should have had some hopes they would in time turn honest but I see to my grief they remain especially that abominable blasphemy in their Dedicatory Epistle to King James which they having not 〈◊〉 enough to alter 〈◊〉 let stand or else it was because like Sodom they would
each ten drachms Opopanax Sagapen Parsly seeds round Birthwort roots white 〈◊〉 of each five drachms Spicknard Cinnamon Mirrh Indian leaf or Mace Saffron of each four drachms bruise the Gums in a mortar sist the rest and with three pound of clarified Honey three onnces and five drachms make it an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. It helps the falling sickness madness and the pain in the head called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pains in the breast and stomach whether they come by sickness or bruises pains in the loins or backbone hardness of womens breasts putrifactions of meat in the stomach and sour belchings It is but used seldom 〈◊〉 therefore hard to be gotten Triphera the greater Page 110. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Myrobalans Chebs Bellericks Inds and Emblicks Nutmegs of each five drachms Watercress seeds Asarabacca roots Persian Origanum or else Dittany of Creet black Pepper Olibanum Ammi Ginger Tamaris Indian Nard Squinanth Cyperus roots of each half an ounce filings of Steel prepared with Viniger twenty drams let the Myrobalans be rosted a little with fresh butter let the rest being poudered be sprinkled with Oyl of sweet Almonds then add Musk one drachm and with their trebble waight in Honey make it into an Electuary according to art C. A. It helps the immoderat flowing of the terms in women and the Hemorrhoids in men it helps weakness of the stomach and restores colour lost It frees the body from crude humors and strengthens the bladder helps melancholly and rectifies the distempors of the spleen You may take a drachm in the morning or two if your body be any thing strong and by that you have read this you cannot chuse but see a reason why they set a binding Electuary amongst the Purges as also why the name is changed from Triphera the less to Triphera the greater viz. Because a great piece of ignorance to set it here they are like to give Medicines to good purpose when they know the operations no better Triphera Solutive Page 119. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Diacrydium ten drachms Turbith an ounce and an half Cardamoms the less Cloves Cinnamon Honey of each three drachms yellow Sanders Liquoris sweet Fennel seeds of each half an ounce Acorus Schenanth of each a dram Red-Roses Citron pills preserved of each three drachms Violets two drachms Penids four ounces white Sugar half a pound Honey clarified in juyce of Apples one pound make an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. The Diacrydium and 〈◊〉 ate a couple of untoward purges the rest are all Cordials but what to make of them all together I know not and as little reason do I know why they should put Honey in twice unless they mistook honey for Mace they have a blessed turn in this world 't is lawful for them to mistake but for no body else ELECTUARIES left out in their new Master-piece which is famous for its baseness Athanasia Mithridatis Galen Colledg TAke of Cinnamon Cassia Schoenanth of each an ounce an half Saffron Mirrh of each one ounce Costus Spignel Acorus Agrick Scordium Carrots Parsly of each half an ounce white Pepper eleven grains Honey so much as is sufficient to make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. It prevails against poyson and the bitings of venemous beasts and helps such whose meat putrifies in their stomach staies vomiting of blood helps old coughs and cold diseases in the liver spleen bladder and matrix The Colledg hath made some petty alterations in the quantities of the Simples but not worth the speaking of The dose is half a drachm Electuarium è scoria ferri Rhasis The Colledg Take of the flakes if Iron infused in Viniger seven daies and dried three drams Indian Spicknard Schoenanth Cyperus Ginger Pepper Bishops Weed Frankinsence of each half an ounce Myrocalans Indian Bellericks and Emblicks Honey boyled with the decoction of Emblicks sixteen ounces mix them together and make of them an Electuary Culpeper A. I wonder how the quantities of the Myrobalans escaped the great care labor pains and the industry of the honorable Society the Authors of that Book or the vigilancy of the vaporing Printer Rhasis an Arabian Physitian the Author of the Receipt appoints a drachm of each the medicine heats the spleen gently purgeth melancholly easeth pains in the stomach and spleen and stre ngthens digestion People that are strong may take half an ounce in the morning fasting and weak people three drams It is a good remedy for pains and hardness of the spleen Cónfectio Humain Mesue The Colledg Take of Eyebright two ounces Fennel seeds five drachms Cloves Cinnamon Cubebs long Pepper Mace of each one drachm beat them all into pouder and with clarified Honey one pound in which boyl juyce of Fennel one ounce juyce of Celondine and Rue of each half an ounce and with the pouders make it up into an Electuary Culpeper A. It is chiefly apropriated to the brain and heart quickens the sences especially the sight and resisteth the pestilence You may take half a drachm if your body be hot a drachm if cold in the morning fasting Diaireos Salominis Nich. The Colledg Take of Orris roots one ounce Penyroyal Hysop Liquoris of each six drams Traganth white Starch bitter Almonds Pine Nuts Cinnamon Ginger Pepper of each three drachms fat Figs the pulp of Raisons of the Sun and Dates of each three drachms and an half Styrax Calamitis two drachms and an half Sugar dissolved in Hysop water and clarified Honey of each twice the weight of all the rest make them into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. The Electuary is chiefly apropriated to the lungues and helps cold infirmities of them as asthmaes coughs difficulty of breathing c. You may take it with a 〈◊〉 stick or on point of a Knife a little of it at a time and often Diasatryon Nich. The Colledg Take of the roots of Satyrion fresh and sound Garden Parsnips Eringo Pine Nuts Indian Nuts or if Indian Nuts be wanting take the double quantity of Pine Nuts Fistich Nuts of each one ounce and an half Cloves Ginger the seeds of Annis Rockit Ash Keys of each five drachms Cinnamon the tayls and loins of Scincus the seeds of Bulbus Nettles of each two drachms and an half Musk seven grains of the best Sugar dissolved in 〈◊〉 three pounds make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. Either the Colledg or the Printer left out Cicer roots seven drachms which I think are proper to the Receipt they also added the loins of Scincus and the Nettle seeds and in so doing they did well A. It helps weakness of the reins and bladder and such as make water with difficulty it provokes lust exceedingly and speedily helps such as are impotent in the acts of Venus You may take two drachms or more at a time Mathiolus his great Antidote against Poysou
a drachm Citrull seeds elensed three drachms and an half Camphire half a drachm with Manna dissolved in juyce of Barberies make them into Troches according to art Culpeper A. They wonderfully cool the heat of the liver reins and bladder breast and stomach and stop loosness cools the heat in feavers They are very fit for bodies that are distempered with heat to carry about with them when they travail they may take them at any time I suppose their mothers wit will teach them that it is best to take them when the stomach is empty I cannot write every thing neither if I did should I please every body I had as leeve undertake with the Sicilian Phylosopher to teach an Ass to speak as to teach a Dunce physick Trochisci de Camphora Page 131. in the Lat. Book Or Troches of Camphire The Colledg Take of Camphire half a drachm Saffron two drachms white Starch three drachms red Roses Gum Arabick and Tragacanth Ivory of each half an ounce the seeds of Cucumers husked of Purslain Liquor is of each an ounce with Mussilage of the seeds of Fleawort drawn in Rose water make them into Troches Culpeper A. It is 〈◊〉 good in burning feavers heat of blood and choller together with hot distempers of the stomach and Liver and extream thirst coming thereby also it is good against the yellow Jaundice Phtisicks and Hectick feavers You may use these as the former They have much altered this for they must be doing though to little purpose Trochisci de Capparibus Pag. 132. in L. Book Or Troches of Cappers The Colledg Take of the Bark of Cappar roots the seeds of Agnus Castus of each six drachms Ammoniacum half an ounce the seeds of Water-cresses and Nigella the Leaves of Calaminth and Rue the roots of Acorus and long Birthwort the juyce of Maudlin made thick bitter Almonds of each two drachms Harts-tongue the roots of round Cyperus Maddir Gum Lac. of each one drachm Being bruised let them be made into Troches according to art with Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger and boyled to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. They open stoppings of the liver and spleen and help diseases thereof coming as Rickets Hypocondriack Melancholly c. Men may take a drachm children a scruple in the morning you need not ask how children should take it 't is well if you can get them to take it any how Trochisci de Carabe Page 132. in the Latin Book Or Troches of Amber The Colledg Take of Amber an ounce Harts-born burnt Gum Arabick burnt red Corral burnt Tragacanth Acacia Hypocistis Balaustines Mastich Gum Lacca washed black Poppy seeds rosted of each two drachms and two scruples Frankinsence Saffron Opium of each two drachms with a sufficient qantity of Mussilage of the seeds of Fleawort drawn in Plantane water make them into Troches according to art Culpeper A. They were invented to stop fluxes of blood in any part of the body the terms in women the Hemorrholds or piles they also help ulcers in the breast and lungues The dose is from ten grains to a scruple Trochisci Cypheos for Methridate Page 132. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Pulp of Raisons of the sun 〈◊〉 Turpentine of each three ounces Mirrh Squinanth of each an ounce and an half Cinnamon half an ounce Calamus Aromaticus nine drachms the roots of round Cyperus and Indian 〈◊〉 Cassia Lignea Juniper Berries 〈◊〉 Aspalathus or wood of Aloes two drachms and an half Saffron one drachm clarified Honey as much as is sufficient Canary Wine a little Let the 〈◊〉 and Bdellium be ground in a Mortar with the Wine to the thickness of liquid Honey then ad the 〈◊〉 then the pulp of Raisons then the Pouders at last with the Honey let them all be made into Troches Culpeper A. It is excellent good against inward ulcers in 〈◊〉 part of the body soever they be It is chiefly used 〈◊〉 Compositions as 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Trochisci de Eupatorio Page 133. in the Lat. Book Or Troches of Maudlin The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Mandlin made thick Manna of each an ounce red Roses half an ounce Spodium three drachms and an 〈◊〉 Spicknard three drachms Rhubarb Asarabacca roots Annis seeds of each two drachms Let the Nard Annis seeds and Roses be beaten together the Spodium Asarabacca and Rbubarb by themselves then mix the Manna and Juyce of Maudlin in a Mortar add the pouders and with new juyce make it into Troches Culpeper A. Obstructions or stoppings and swelling above nature both of the liver and spleen 〈◊〉 cured by the inward taking of these Troches and diseases thereof coming as yellow and black jaundice the beginning of dropsies c. Take them as Troches of Wormwood Throches of Gallia Moschata Page 133. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Wood of Aloes five drams Ambergreece three drachms Musk one drachm with Muscilage of Gum Tragacanth made in Rose water make it into Troches according to art Culpeper A. They strengthen the brain and heart and by consequence both vital and animal spirit and cause a sweet breath They are of an extream price therefore I pass by the dose Trochisci Gordonli Page 133. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the four greater cold seeds busked the seeds of white Poppies Mallows Cotton Pierstain Quinces Mirtles Gum 〈◊〉 and Arabick Fistick Nuts Pine nuts Sugar-candy Penids Liquoris French 〈◊〉 arley 〈◊〉 of Fleawort seeds sweet Almonds blanched of 〈◊〉 two drachms Bole Armenick Dragons blood Spodium red Roses 〈◊〉 of each half an ounce with a sufficient quantity of Hydromel make it into Troches according to art Culpeper A. They are held to be very good in ulcers of the bladder and all other inward ulcers whatsoever and case feavers coming thereby being of a fine cooling slippery heating nature You may mix half a drachm of them with Syrup of Marsh-mallows or any other Syrup or Water apropriated to these uses they ease the pains of the stomach much They have left out the four lesser cold seeds of each two drachms and altered some of the quantities of the rest if you ask them a reason they can scarce give you a wise one Trochisci Hedychroi Galen for Treacle Page 134. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Aspalatbus or yellow Sanders the leaves of Mastich the roots of Asarabacca of each two drachms Rhupontick Castus Calamus Aromaticus Wood of Aloes Cinnamon Squinancth Opobalsamum or Oyl of Nutmegs by expression of each three drachms Cassia Lignea Indian Leaf or Mace Indian Spicknard Mirrh Saffron of each six drachms Amomus or Cardamoms the 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half Mastich a drachm Canary Wine as much as is sufficient Let the Mirrh be dissolved in the Wine then add the Mastich and Saffron well beaten then the Opobalsamum then the rest in pouder and with the Wine make them up into Troches and dry them gently Culpeper A. They are very seldom or never used but in other
to the place bleeding Sief de Thure Page 137. in the Latin Book Or Sief of Frankinsence The Colledg Take of Frankinsence Lap. 〈◊〉 Pompholix of each ten drachms Ciruss fourty drachms Gum Arabick Opium of each six drachms with sair water make it into Balls dry them and keep them for use Culpeper A. Sief is a general term which the Arabians give to all medicines apropriated to the eyes of which this is one and a good one to dry up rewms there Trochisci è Violis Solutivi P. 137. in Lat. Book Or Troches of Violets Solutive The Colledg Take of Violet flowers meanly dry six drachms Turbith one ounce and an half juyce of Liquoris Scammony Manna of each two drachms with Syrup of Violets make it into Troches Culpeper A. They are not worth talking of much less worth cost the cost and labor of making Trochisci de Vipera ad Theriacam P. 137. in L. B. Or Troches of Vipers for Treacle The Colledg Take of the flesh of Vipers the skin entrals head sat and taill being taken away boyled in water with dill and a little Salt eight ounces white bread twice baked grated and sifted two ounces make it into Troches your hands being anoynted with Opobalsamum or Oyl of Nutmegs by expression dry them upon a sieve turned the bottom upwards in an open place often turning them till they are well dried then put them in glass or stone pot glazed stopped close they will keep a year yet is it far better to make Treacle not long after you have made them Culpeper A. They expel poyson and are excellent good by a certain Sympatheticall vertue for such as are bitten by an Adder Trochisci de Agno Casto Pag. 138. in Lat. Book Or Troches of Agnus Castus The Colledg Take of the seeds of Agnus Castus Lettice redRose flowers Balaustins of each a dram Ivory white Amber Bole Armenick washed in knot grass water two drams Plantane seeds four scruples Sassafras two scruples with Mussilage of quince seeds extracted in water of Water lilly flowers let them be made into Troches Culpeper A. Very pretty Troches and good for little These Troches they have left out and left to be spoyled in the Apothecaries Shops it is the wisest way to keep those poor you would make slaves of Trochisci Alexiterii Renodaeus Colledg TAke of the roots of Gentain Tormentil Orris Florentine Zedoary of each two drachms Cinnamon Cloves Mace of each half a dram Angelica roots three drachms Coriander seeds prepared Roses of each one drachm dried Citron pills two drachms beat them all into pouder and with juyce of Liquoris softened in Hippocras six ounces make them into a soft Past which you may from into either Troches or small rowls which you please Culpeper A. It preserves and strengthens the heart exceedingly helps fainting and failings of the vital spirits resists poyson and the pestilence and is an excellent medicine for such to carry about them whose occasions are to travail in pestilential places and corrupt air only taking a very small quantity now and then Troches of Annis seeds Mesue The Colledg Take of Annis seeds the juyce of Maudlin made thick of each two drachms the seeds of Dill Spicknard Mastich Indian leaf or Mace the leaves of Wormwood Asarabacca Smallage bitter Almonds of each half a drachm Aloes two dtams 〈◊〉 of Wormwood so much as is sufficient to make it into Trocbes according to art Culpeper A. They open obstructions of the liver and that very gently and therefore diseases coming thereof help quartan agues You can scarce do amiss in taking them if they please but your pallat Trochisci Diarhodon Mesue The Colledg Take of the flowers of red Roses six drachms Spicknard wood of Aloes of each two drachms Liquoris three drachms Spodium one drachm Saffron half a drachm Mastich two drachms make them up into Troches with white Wine according to art Culpepeper A. They wonderfully ease feavers coming of flegm as quotidian feavers agues Epialos c. pains in the belly Trochisci de Lacca Mesue The Colledg Take of Gum Lacca clensed the juyce of Liquoris 〈◊〉 Wormwod and Barberries all made thick Rhubarb long Birthwort Costus Asarabacca Bitter Almonds Maddir Annis Smalbage Schoenanth of each one drachm With the Decoction of Birth-wort or Schoenanth or the juyce of Maudlin or Wormwood make them into troaches according to art Culpeper A. It helps stoppings of the liver and spleen and feavers thence coming it expels wind purgeth by urine and resists dropsies The dose is between half a drachm and a drachm according to the age and strength of the patient Pastilli Adronis Galen The Colledg Take of Pomegranate flowers ten drachms Copper is twelve drachms 〈◊〉 Galls Birthwort Frankinsence of each an ounce Allum Mirrh of each half an ounce Misy two drachms With eighteen ounces of austere Wine make it into 〈◊〉 according to art Culpeper A. This also is apropriated to wounds ulcers and fistulaes it clears the ears and represseth all excressences of flesh clenseth the filth of the bones Trochisci Musae Galen The Colledg Take of Allum Aloes Copperis Mirrh of each six drachms Crocomagma Saffron of each three drachms Pomegranate flowers half an ounce Wine and Honey of each so much as is sufficient to make it up into troches according to art Culpeper A. Their use is the same with the former Crocomagma of Damocrates Galen The Colledg Take of Saffron a hundred drams red Roses Mirrh of each fifty drachms white Starch Gum of each thirty drachms Wine so much as is sufficient to make it into troches Culpeper A. It is very expulsive heats and strengthens the heart and stomach Trochisci Ramich Mesue The Colledg Take of the juyce of Sorrel 〈◊〉 ounces red Rose Leaves an ounce 〈◊〉 berries two ounces boyl them a little together and strain them ad to the decoction Galls well beaten three ounces boyl them again a little then put in these following things in fine pouder take of red Roses an ounce yellow Sanders ten drachms Gum Arabick an ounce and an half Sumach Spodium of each an ounce Mirtle berries four ounces wood of Aloes Cloves Mace Nutmegs of each half an ounce sour Grapes seven drachms mix them all together and let them dry upon a stone and grind them again into pouder and make them into smal troches with one drachm of Camphire and so much Rose water as is sufficient and perfume them with fifteen grains of Musk. Culpeper A. They strengthen the stomach heart and liver as also the bowels they help the chollick and fluxes of blood as also bleeding at the nose if you snuff but up the pouder of them disburden the body of salt fretting chollerick humors You may carry them about you and take them at your pleasure Troches of Roses Mesue The Colledg Take of red Roses half an ounce wood of Aloes two drachms Mastich a drachm and an half Roman Wormwood Cinnamon Indian Spicknard Cassia Lignea Schaenanth of
called a Cerecloath The Colledg 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 〈◊〉 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 Culpeper A. It is a fine cooling thing for what denomination to give it I scarce know and exceeding good yea super-excellent to cure inflamations in wounds or tumors Unguentum è 〈◊〉 Aperitivis primum 〈◊〉 The Colledg Take of the juyce of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mints Wormwood Common Parsly Valerian of each three ounces oyl of Wormwood and Mints of each half a pound yellow Wax three ounces mix them together over the fire and make of them an Oyntment Sometimes is added also the pouders of Calamus Aromaticus Spicknard of each one drachm a little oyl of Cappers Culpeper A. It opens stoppages of the stomach and spleen easeth the Rickets the breast and sides being anointed with it 〈◊〉 Martiatum Nich. The Colledg Take of the Leaves of Bay and Rosemary of each eight ounces Rue seven ounces Tamaris fix ounces the Leaves of Dwarf-Elder Marjoram Savin Costmary or else 〈◊〉 ater-mints Sage Bazil Polcy-mountain Calaminth Mugwort Elicampane Betony 〈◊〉 Ursine Goose grass 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 Housleek the greater and lesser Yarrow Germander Centaury the less Plantane Strawberries Tetrahit or for want of it Golden-rod Cynksoyl of each four ounces and an half the roots of Marsh-mallows the seeds of Cummin Mirrh of each three ounces Foenugreck an ounce and an half the seeds of the greater Nettles of Violets red or erratick Poppies commonly called Corn-roses Garden Mints Sorrel wild Mints Maindenhair Carduus Benedictus Woodbind or Honeysuckles Valerian the greater sweet Cranebil or Muschata Wood-sorrel Harts-tongue Ox-eye Southernwood Marrow of a Stag Styrax Calamitys of each half an ounce Butter ten drachms Bears and Hens grease Mastich Frankinsence of each one ounce Nard Oyl two ounces Wax two pound let the Herbs being green be cut and insused 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 ad 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 heaten into pouder be put in last of all and when they 〈◊〉 all wil mixed together keep the Oyntment in a vessel Culpeper A. This long Receipt of Nich. Myrepsus is held to be profitable against cold afflictions of the brain nerves and joynts as shaking palsey dead palsey convulsions c. it helps numbness of the joynts the gout and hard tumors of the spleen An Oyntment for the Worms Foesius The Colledg Take of Oyl of Rue Savin Mints Wormwood and bitter Almonds of each an ounce and an half juyce of the flowers or leaves of Peaches and Wormwood of each half an ounce Pouder of Rue Mints Gentain Centaury the less Tormentill of each one drachm the seeds of Coleworts the Pulp of Colocynthis of each two drachms Aloes Hepatick three drachms the meal of Lupines half an ounce Mirrh washed in grass water a drachm and an half Bulls Gall an ounce and an half with juyce of Lemmons so much as is sufficient and an ounce and an half of Wax make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. The Belly being anointed with it kills the worms CERECLOATHS Ceratum de Galbano Page 169. in the Latin Book Or Cerecloath of Galbanum The Colledg TAke of Galbanum prepared an ounce and an half Assafaetid a half an ounce Bdellium a drachm Mirrh two drachms Wax two ounces 〈◊〉 seeds a scruple Featherfew Mugwort of each half a drachm dissolve the Gums in Vineger and make it a Cerecloath according to art Culpeper A. Being applied to the belly of a woman after labor it clenseth her of any 〈◊〉 accedentally left behind helps the fits of the mother and other accedents incident to women in that case Ceratum 〈◊〉 Page 169. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Oesypus ten ounces Oyl of Chamomel and Orris of each half a pound yellow Wax two pound Rozin a pound Mastich 〈◊〉 Turpentine of each an ounce Spicknard two drachms and an half Saffron a drachm and an half Styrax Calamitis half an ounce make them into a Cerecloath according to art Culpeper A. It mollifies and digests hard swellings of the liver spleen womb nerves joynts and other parts of the body and is a great easer of pain Ceratum Santalinum Page 169. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of red Sanders ten drachms white and yellow Sanders of each six drachms red Roses twelve drachms Bole Armenick seven drams Spodium four drachms Camphire two drachms white Wax washed thirty drachms Oyl of Roses Omphacine six ounces make it into a Cerecloath according to art Culpeper A. It wonderfully helps hot infirmities of the stomach liver and other parts being but aplied to them PLAISTERS Culpeper A I Hope no body is so simple to eat Plaisters The general 〈◊〉 of application is to the grieved place You may melt them in any earthen dish and so spread them upon a cloath or white leather Emplastrum ex Ammoniaco Page 170. in the Lat. B. Or A Plaister of Ammoniacum The Colledg Take of Amoniacum Bran well sifted of each an ounce Oyntmen t of Marshmallows Mellilot Plaister compound roots of Briony and Orris in pouder of each half an ounce the fat of Ducks Geese and Hens of each three drachms Bdellium Galbanum of each one drachm and an half Perrozin Wax of each five ounces Oyl of Orris Turpentine of eaah half an ounce boyl the Fat 's and Oyl with Mussilage of Linseed and Foenugreek seed of each three ounces to the consumption of the Mussilage strain it and add the Wax Rozin and Turpentine the Oyntment of Marshmallows with the Plaister of Meliot when it begins to be cold put in the Amoniacum dissolved in Vineger then the Bdellium in pouder with the rest of the pouders and make it into a Plaister according to art Culpeper A. By Plaister alwaies understand not a Plaister spread upon a cloath but a roll made to spread such a one withal A. It softens and asswageth hard swellings and scatters the humors offending applied to the side it softens the hardness of the spleen asswageth pains thence arising Emplaistrum è Baccis Lauri Page 170. in Lat. B. Or a Plaister of Bay berries The Colledg Take of Bay berries husked Turpentine of each two ounces Frankinsence Mastich Mirrh of each an ounce Cyperus Costus of each
to do one jot of this I know not And so play the Colledg here for the Alchymists have a better way by far to draw them the truth is I am in a manner tied to their method here from which I may not step aside if my Country kindly accept this which is the beginning of my labors I may happily put forth something else for the Ingenious to whet their wits upon Only here I quote the Oyls in the Colledg order and then quote the vertue of the chiefst of them that so the Reader may know by a penny how a shilling is coyned The Colledg In the same manner are prepared Oyls of Hysop Marjoram Mints garden water Cresses Origanum Peny-royal Rosemary Rue Savin Sage Savory Time c. the Flowers of Chamomel Lavender c. Culpeper A. I shall instance here only Oyl of Lavender commonly called Oyl of Spike which helps the running of the reins they being 〈◊〉 with it it expels worms two drops of it being taken in Wine the region of the back being anointed with it it helps the Palsey For all the rest see the vertues of the Herbs themselves After the same manner are made Oyl of dryed Barks The Colledg Of Orrenges Citrons Lemmons But it is better prepared of the Barks being green and full of Juyce seperated from the internal white part bruised and with a sufficient quantity of Simple distilled water so will the Oyl be drawn easter and in greater plenty and no less fitting for the Physitians use Oyl or fat of Roses commonly called Spirit of Roses The Colledg Take as many fresh Damask Roses as you will infuse them twenty four hours in a sufficient quantity of warm water after you have pressed them out repeat the infusion certain times till the Liquor be strong enough which distill in an Allembick with his refrigeratory or a Copper with his worm seperate the Spirit from the water and keep the water for another infusion So may you draw Spirit from Damask Roses pickled in Salt as also Spirit of red Roses Culpeper A. 'T is a good perfume OYL of SEEDS Oyl of Dill. Seeds The Colledg Take of Dill seeds bruised two pound spring Water twenty pound steep them twenty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 them in a Copper Stil or an Allembick with his 〈◊〉 seperate the Oyl from the Water with a 〈◊〉 and keep the water for a new distillation So also is prepared Oyl of the seeds of Annis Laraway Cummin Carrots Fennel Parsly Saxifrage c. Culpeper A. Oyl of Annls seeds although it be often given and happily with good success in vertigoes or dissiness in the head yet its chief operation is upon the breast and lungues it helps narrowness of the breast rawness and wind in the stomach all infirmities there coming of cold and wind strengthens the nerves six drops is enough at a time taken in broath or any other convenient liquor 〈◊〉 As Annis seeds are apropriated to the breast so are Fennel seeds to the head the Oyl of which clenseth the brain of cold infirmities 〈◊〉 iudisposition of the body numbness want of motion also it helps the stomach and expels wind A. Cummin seeds the Oyl of them is a great expeller of wind nothing better it also wonderfully caseth pains of the spleen pains in the reins and bladder stopping of urine especially if it come of wind and is a present remedy for the chollick for the way of taking of them see Annis seeds The Colledg So also are made Oyl of Spices as of Cinnamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Pepper c. Culpeper A. One or two drops of Oyl of Cinnamon is 〈◊〉 to take at a time and is exceeding good for such as are in consumptions See Cinnamon among the Simples A. Oyl of Maco is excellent good for Rhewms in the head and Oyl of Pepper for the Chollick The Colledg Also Oyls of Aromatical woods as of Sassafras and Rhodium c. OYL of BERRIES Oyl of Juniper Berries The Colledg Take of fresh Juniper berries fifty pound bruise them and part them in a wooden Vessel with twenty four pound of spring water sharp leaven one pound keep them in a Cellar three months the vessel being close stopped then distill them in an Allembick with a sufficient quantity of Simple water after the Oyl is separated keep the water for a new distillation After the same manner is made Oyl of Bay berries Ivy berries c. Or you may draw Oyl from the aforenamed berries bruised and steeped twenty four hours in warm water adding six pound of water or if the berries be very dry ten pound of water to each pound of berries and stilling them as before Culpeper A. Oyl of Juniper berries prevails wonderfully in pains of the yard and running of the reins the falling sickness it is a mighty preservative against the pestilence and all evil airs it purgeth the reins provokes urine breaks the stone helps the dropsie the quantity to be taken at a time in any convenient liquor is three or four drops outwardly by unction it helps the gout two or three drops dropped upon the navil helps the Chollick A. Oyl of Bay berries helps the Chollick and Illiack passion A. Oyl of Ivy berries helps cold 〈◊〉 of the joynts the 〈◊〉 one and provokes the terms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Use them as Juniper Oyl Oyl of Turpentine The Colledg Take of Venis Turpentine as 〈◊〉 as you will put it into an Allembick with four times its waight in common Water still it with a convenient fire and draw off a white thin Oyl like water the Colophonia will remain in the bottom of the vessel this Oyl 〈◊〉 be drawn into a bath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from burning in a 〈◊〉 still Culpeper A. It is wonderful good in cold afflictions of the nerves and all diseases coming of cold and wind it corrects the cold afflictions of the lungues as Asthmaes difficulty of breathing c. A drachm being taken in the morning outwardly it adorns the body takes away the prints of scabs and the small pocks chops in the skin and breasts of women and deafness being dropped into the 〈◊〉 Oyl of 〈◊〉 The Colledg Take of Mirth bruised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of each six pound dissolve them in sixty pound of spring water and still them in a Copper still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bick Culpeper It keeps wounds and all things else 〈◊〉 Fioravantus from 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and youthful quickly cures wounds and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dropped into the ears Oyl of Guajacum The Colledg Take of 〈◊〉 in gross pouder as much as you will put it in a retort and still it in Sand the Oyl that cames first out because 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and sweeter keep it by its self which by 〈◊〉 with much water will yet be sweeter The same things are to be observed in the distillation of Box and Oak and other solid woods as also Oyl of Tartar with its 〈◊〉 Spirit which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be distilled out of Christal of Tartar in the same 〈◊〉 Oyl of Wax The
according to art Turpethum Minerale Page 200. in the Latin Book Take of crude Mercury Oyl of Vitriol seperated from all the flegm of each equal parts still them in 〈◊〉 encreasing the fire by degrees till all the 〈◊〉 be flown up in the air a white Mass remaining in the bottom which being separated from the crude Mercury wash in spring water and forth with it wil 〈◊〉 yellow wash it in warm water from all its 〈◊〉 dry it and keep it for use Tartarum Vitriolatum Page 200. in the Latin B. Take of liquor of Tartar four ounces into which drop by drops two ounces of Oyl of Vitriol wel rectified so wil a white pouder fall to the bottom which dry and keep for use Vitriolum album depuratum Page 200. in the Lat. B. Or White Vitriol clensed Dissolve white Vitriol in cleer water filter it and coagulate it Vitrum Antimonii Page 200. in the Latin Book Take of good Antimony in fine pouder and put it 〈◊〉 a large stone vessel put fire under til it grow into clots beat it and do so again and again alwaies stirring it til it resemble white ashes smoke not at al then take of this half a pound Corax half an ounce put them in a crucible the which cover with a Tile set it in a strong fire till there flow a matter like water then put it into a brass or copper vessel and keep the glass for use THE GENERAL WAY OF MAKING EXTRACTS EXTRACTS may be made almost of every Medicine whether Simple as Herbs Flowers Seeds or Compound as Species or Pills Therefore take of any Medicine cut or bruised or prepared as the infusion requires and powr to it Spirit of Wine or distilled water as the Pbysition commands let it stand in infusion in the heat of a bath two daies more or less according as the thickness or thinness of the 〈◊〉 requires untill the tincture be sufficient then separate the liquor and put in more as before do so till the Medicine afford no more tincture put all these Liquors together and filter them and exhate the humidity to the heat of a bath till the matter be left at the bottom of the thickness of Honey to which if the Physitian prescribe you may add two scruples or half a dram of its own proper or other convenient 〈◊〉 to every ounce of Extract that so it may keep the longer THE WAY OF MAKING SALTS Salt Volatle or Essential is thus made TAke of any Plant when it is fresh and full of Juyce a sufficient quantity bruise it in a wooden Mortar and a great deal of cleer water being added boyl it till half be consumed strain 〈◊〉 decoction press it strongly and boyl it to the thickness of Honey set it in a glass or glazed vessel in a cold place eight daies at least and a Cristal Salt will arise like Sal. Gem. which gather and wash with its proper water and dry for your use Thus is Salt made of wormwood Cardus Mugwort and other bitter Herbs but of other Herbs with much difficnlty Salt fixed or Elementary is thus made It consists in four things Calcination Solution Filtration Coagulation Burn the matter you would make salt of into white ashes and berein sometimes you must have a care 〈◊〉 by too hasty burning they run to glass then with 〈◊〉 water make the ashes into ly to draw out the Salt filter the Ly and boyl it in an 〈◊〉 vessel by a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the water may be exhaled and the Salt left which Solution Filtration and Coagulation being repeated certain times it will be free from all impurity and be very white Thus is prepared Salt of Plants and parts of living Creatures amongst which these excel Salt of wormwood Time Rosemary Centaury the less 〈◊〉 Cardus Masterwort Parsly Rest-harrow Ash Dwarf Elder Box 〈◊〉 St. Johns wort Cichory Sullendine Scurvy-grass Betony Maudlin Bawm Cetrach c. PREPARATIONS OF CERTAIN SIMPLE MEDICINES The way of Preparing Fat 's TAke of fresh fat the veins strings and skins being taken away wash them so often in fair water till they be no longer bloody then beat them well and melt them in a double vessel strain them and powr off the water keep it in a glass in a cold place it will endure a yeer So is also prepared Marrow taken out of fresh bones especially in Autumn The burning of Brass Lay flakes of Brass in an earthen vessel interposing Salt or Brimstone between each of them so lay flake upon flake burn them sufficiently and wash the Ashes with warm water till they be sweet The washing of Aloes Put as much Aloes in pouder in a glass as you will putting a sufficient quantity of warm water to it that it may overtop it two or three fingers thickness stirring it about with a Spatule that the purer part of the Aloes may be mixed with the water that being poured off put in fresh warm water and stir it in like manner that the dross may be separated gather those waters together evaporate the Humidity nad keep the Mass. The preparation of Bole Armenick Grind it smal and dissolve it so often in Rose water till the dross and Sand be taken away dry it in the Sun and keep it being dryed Foecula Brioniae Take of Bryony roots scraped bruised and the juyce pressed out which being let it stand still a while in a vessel a white pouder like Starch will fall from the bottom from which pour the water and let it dry for use So is Gersa Serpentaria prepared of Aron roots and Foecula of the roots of Radishes and Orris May Butter About the latter end of May take fresh Butter without Salt and in a glazed earthen vessel set it in the Sun that it may be all melted strain it through a rag without pressing set it in the Sun again strain it again and keep it a year The preparations of Lapis Calaminaris Heat it red hot three times in the fire and quench it as often in Plantane and Rose water at 〈◊〉 levigate it upon a Marble and with the same waters make it into Balls The washing of Lime Bruise quicklime put it in a pan and mix it with sweet water and when it is settled to the bottom change the water and mix it again do so seven or eight times filtring it every time at last do it with Rose water and dry the Lime The preparation of Corral Pearls Crabs Eyes and other precious Stones Beat them in a steel mortar and levigate them on a Marble putting a little Rose water to them till they are in very fine pouder then make them into Balls The preparation of Coriander seed Steep them twenty four hours in sharp Vineger then dry them So may you prepare 〈◊〉 seed The burning of Harts horn Ivory and other bones Burn them in a crucible till they e white then beat them into pouder and wash them with Rose water at last levigate them on a Marble and
make them into Troches you may dissolve Camphire half an ounce in the last pound of Rose water if you please A new Preparation of them Hang them by a thred in a vessel of Aqua vitae so as that they touch not the Liquor then putting on the head distill it and the vapors ascending will make them easie to be brought into pouder after many distillations The way to make Elaterium Take of wild Cucumers almost ripe and cut them with the knife upwards and gently press out the juyce with your foremost fingers let it run through a sieve into a clean glazed vessel let it settle and powr off the cleer water into another vessel dry the setlings in the Sun and keep them for use if you will you may keep the cleer water for Unguentum de Artanita The Preparation of the bark of Spurge Roots Clense them and infuse them three daies in sharp Vineger then dry them So are Lawrel leaves Mezereon and other things of that nature prepared The Preparation of Euphorbium Take of Euphorbium purged from the dross and poudered put it in a glass and put so great a quantity of Juyce of Lemmons to it that it may overtop it three or four fingers then place them in a hot bath till the Euphorbium be dissolved in the Juyce strain it through a rag place it in a bath again and evaporate away the juyce and keep the Euphorbium for use The Preparation of Black Hellebore Roots Steep such black Hellebore Roots as are brought to us the woody pith being taken away three dayes in juyce of Quinces by a moderate heat then dry them and lay them up The Preparation of Goats blood Take a Goat of a middle age and feed him a month with Burnet Smallage Parsly Mallows Lovage and such like things kill him in the end of Summer about the Dog dayes then take the blood which flows out of his Arteries and let it settle powring off the water dry the blood in an Oven The Burning of young Swallows Kill young Swallows so as the blood may flow upon their wings then sprinkle them with a little Salt and burn them in a new glazed vessel and keed the ashes for use So are burned Hedg-bogs Frogs Toags and the like creatures The Preparation of Lacca Take of Lacca not clensed for otherwise your labor were vain bruised a little and boyled in water in which the Roots of long Birthwort and Squinanth of each equal parts have been boyled till the purer part swim at top and the dross sink to the bottom keep that purer part put it in a Glass and cover it and evaporate the moisture either by the heat of the Sun or of a 〈◊〉 and being dry keep it for your use The preparation of Lapis 〈◊〉 Let Lapis Lazult being beaten into very fine pouder be so often washed in water continually stirring it till the water after washing remain cleer without any other tast than its own The preparation of Litharge Let the Litharge be ground into very fine pouder in a mortar then pour cleer water upon it and stir it up and down till it be troubled and thick then pour off that water into another vessel and put in fresh water to the pouder of the stone 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 up and down till it be thick and pour that water off to the former do this so often till nothing but dross remains in the mortar the thinner substance being all mixed with the water you poured off let that stand and settle so will the pure Litharge remain in the bottom pour the water off gently dry the Litharge and grind it upon a Marble so long till no harshness can be discorned in it by your tongue The preparation of Earth-worms Slit them in the middle and wash them so often in white wine till they be clensed from their impurity then dry them and keep them for your use The preparation of Sows or Wood-lice Take of Wood-lice as many as you will wash them very clean in pure white wine then put them in a new glassed pot which being shut close put into a hot oven that so they may be dried with a moderate heat to be beaten into pouder The manner of preparing Oesypus Take of Wool unclensed which was taken off from the Neck Ribs and Shoulder-pits of the Sheep put it into warm water often times and wash it dilligently til all the fatness be come off from it into the water afterwards press it out and lay it by then pour that fat and filthy water out of one vessel into another holding the vessel on high pouring and repouring till it be froathy let the froath settle then take away the fat that swims on the top pour it and repour it as before till it be froathy then again take away the fat that swims at the top do so so often till no more froath appear nor fat swim at top then take the 〈◊〉 with the froath and wash it up and down with your hand in cleer water so often and so long till the filth be washed from it which may be known by the water remaining cleer and the fat being tasted do not bite your tongue then keep it in a thick and clean pot in a cold place The Preparation of Opium Dissolve the Opium in Spirit of Wine strain it and evaporate it to its due consistence Pouder of Raw Lead Beat your Lead into very thin Plates and cut these thin Plates into very small pieces the which steep three daies in very sharp Vineger changing the Vineger every day then take them out and dry them without burning them and take a little pains with them in a morter to bring them into very fine Pouder The washing of Lead Stir about water in a Leaden Morter with a Leaden Pestle and labor at it to some purpose till the water look black and thick strain out this water dry it and make it into balls The burning of Lead Take as many thin Plates of Lead as you please put them into a new earthen pot lay them plate upon plate with Brimstone between each plate then put the Pot in the fire and stir the Lead about with an Iron Spatule when the Brimstone burns until you have brought it all into 〈◊〉 the which wash in clean water and keep for your use The Preparation of Fox Lungues Take of the fresh Lungues of a Fox the Aspera Arteria being taken away wash them dilligently in white wine in which Hysop and Scabious hath been boyled then dry them in an Oven so moderately hot that no part of them may be burned then keep them in a glass stopped with wax The Preparation of Scammony Take the Core out of a Quince and fill the vaid place with pouder of Scammony then joyn the 〈◊〉 together again and wrap it up in Past bake it in an Oven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it under the ashes afterwards take out the Scammony and keep it for use This is that which is vulgarly called
Diacrydium or Diagrydium Another way of Preparation of Scammony with Sulphur Take of Scammony 〈◊〉 small as much as you wil spread it upon a brown Paper and hold it over 〈◊〉 coals upon which you have put Brimstone stir the Scammony about all the while till it begin to melt or look white and this is called Scammony 〈◊〉 The Prepatation of Squils Take a great Squil whilst it is green casting away the outward rinds 〈◊〉 it in past and 〈◊〉 it in an oven till it be tender which you may know if you pierce it through with a Bodkin then take it out of the oven and take off all the slakes one by one leaving 〈◊〉 part which is hard behind draw a cord through them and bang them in a dry place at that distance the one from the other that one may not touch another til they be dryed yet take this caution along with you That you ought not to cut nor pierce them with any Iron Instrument but with Wood Ivory or Bone Washed Tartar Take of bruised Tartar as much as you will pour cold and cleer spring water to it stir it up and down then let it settle pour off that water and pour on more use it as before and repeat the usage so long till the water remain cleer after washing Boyled Turpentine Take of Venice Turpentine a pound to which pour twenty four pound of Water in which boyl it so long till it be thick and being cold may be rubbed in pouder like Rozin and beaten like Glass The Preparation of Tutty Tutty is prepared the same way that Lapis Calaminaris is tye it up in a clean Linnen cloath which shake up and down drawing it this way and that way in a vessel full of clean water till the thinner and more profitable part come out into the water and the thicker and impurer remain in the cloath then let it settle and powr off the water gently from it repeat this operation so often till nothing good for any thing remain in the cloath Then take what you bave purified sprinkle it with a little Rose water make it into Troches to be kept for use A CONCLUSION I Have now courteous Reader led thee through the Colledges reformed and refined Dispensatory I assure thee not led thereto by any envious principles against them for I bear them more good will and love them better than they love themselves only I hate selvishness in whomsoever I find it If thou findest me here and there a little lavish in such expressions as many like not I pray pardon that it is my Dialect I cannot write without it I assure thee it was not premediated If thou thinkest I did it for gain thou art so far wide from the truth that unless thou change thy opinion 't is to be feared truth and you will not meet again in a long time I have taken up this World as Travellers takes up an Inn not as a Freeholder takes a Dwelling I take no care for Victuals before I am hungry nor new Cloathes before my old lack mending I have read in some Authors that Mammon which signifies Covetousness is the master Devil over those that tempt men to sin and I partly beleeve it I have read also in Hosea 4. 12. That those that make the Earth their happiness go a whoring from under their God which made me terribly afraid lest in one act I should commit two evils forsake the fountain of Living-waters and buy my self a Cestern that would hold none I have a very simpathetical Spirit and could either weep with Heraclitus or laugh with 〈◊〉 to see men spend all their pains about the gains of this world and when they have done must die and leave it as Solomon saies they know not to whom whether he will be a wise man or a fool therefore mistake me not but judg of me as I am I desire not to spend the strength of an immortal Spirit in seeking after what hath no worth in it which may make me worse cannot make me better There was a tale lately told me of a Lady of a great estate that was so extream foolish that she would ride in the Coach-box and drive the Horses whilst the Coach-man rid in the Coach you think this was a great madness yet a greater madness by odds it is for a man that is Heir to an Eternal Being to make himself a slave to the Earth which must perish I will assure you it was a higher principle than all these moved me to write viz. Pure love to that Nation in which I was born and bred of which I may justly say If the Spirit of God said Israel was destroyed for want of knowledg when sin reigned but single how much more this Nation when it reigns by troops I weigh not the ill language of those that mind earthly things I wish them all the riches their hearts can desire for they have all their wit 〈◊〉 't is comfortable enough for me that I am beloved of the honest my reward I expect hereafter in that place whereinto no Earthly-minded nor selfish man shall come Nich. Culpeper FINIS A SINOPSIS of the KEY of GALENS Method of Physick Page THe Scope of the whol Work 301 Sect. 1. Of the Temperature of Medicines Of Temperate Medicines what they are 302 Their Use Ibid Of Hot Medicines Of Medicines hot in the first degree ibid Use 1. Reduce the body to natural heat ibid Use 2. To mitigate pain ibid Use 3. To take away weariness and help Feavers 303 A Caution ibid Use 4. To help digestion and breed good blood ibid Of Medicines hot in the second degree What they are ibid Use 1. To help moist 〈◊〉 ibid Use 2. To take away 〈◊〉 ibid Use 3. To open the pores ibid Of Medicines hot in the third degree Use 1. To cut tough humors ibid Use 2. To provoke sweat ibid Use 3. To resist poyson ibid Of Medicines hot in the fourth degree Use. To cause Inflamations and to cause Blisters ib. Of cold Medicines Of Medicines cold in the first degree Use 1. To qualifie the heat of food ibid Use 2. To asswage the heat of the Bowels ibid A Caution ibid Of Medicines cold in the second and third degrees Use 1. To asswage the heat of choller 394 Use 2. To take away the inflamations of hot swellings ibid Use 3. To cause sleep ibid Of Medicines cold in the fourth degree Use 1. To mitigate desperate pains by 〈◊〉 the Sences ibid Of Moistning Medicines Use 1. To help the roughness of the throat 304 Use 2. To make the inward parts of the body 〈◊〉 ibid Of Drying Medicines Use. To strengthen the Members of the Body 304 Cautions ibid Sect. 2. Of the Apropriation of Medicines to the several parts of the Body THe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Authors 305 Chap. 1 Of Medicines apropriated to the Head Their Difference ibid Cautions in their use ibid Of Medicines apropriated to the Brain ibid Directions in