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

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