pacient to drink therof in the morning .iii. vnces Epiphanius Empericus A water for the stone of the raines and blader Sperage Ruscum Apium Fenel Perslye rubia of euery one halfe an ounce fiue of the siedes of diur etica ligusticum lithospermoÌ„ Ammi Radish seselis Masliliâ—sis daucê° Saxifrage of euery one .iii. drams adianthum matricaria ceterach scolopendrum trifolium gramen senecion I vnderstande cardaminam liuerwort the sede of peucedanum of euery one a handfull halfe an ounce of the floure Deluce .vi. drammes of Xilobalsanum two ounces of Licoris .iiii. of Cummun sedes colde greater cleansed of euery one halfe an ounce grounde Iuy Pimpernel of euery one a handful a half kirnels of Cheries stones an ounce spiknard .iii. drams the gum of Iuy .vi. drams Gotes bloude prepared an ounce as much of Cinnamon when they are beaten let them be put in .x. pouÌ„d of white wine or asmuch as shal suffise destil them A like water for the same purpose is described of Rogerius in his fourth treatise and .vi. chapter but destilled with vineger not with wine A vvater for the stone described by Epiphanius a practicioner SAint Iohns wurt Chamaedrios Chamepyteos senecionis not erigerontem but sisymbrium cardamine doth he vnderstaÌ„d the gras of sinkfoyl scolopendrium helxines verbenae eupatorium peny royall rew of euery one a handfull fiue routes of diuretica Acorus inula rubea asarus tamarix of euery one .iii. drammes Fine of the siedes of diuretica saxifrage lithospermon daucus radish persely of Macedonia ammiuÌ„ marathrum carus libisticus of euery one ii drams peeche kernels half a dram four of the cuÌ„mon siedes cold greater clensed of euery one a dram and a half Lycoris .ii. vnces Iuniper beries half an vnce When thies are beaten let them stande infused in fiue poundes of wyne then destill them with a slow fyre Giue the sick to drinck other after bathing early in the morning warm from halfe an vnce to two vnces Certain vvaters composed destilled with vinegar OF vinegar it selfe destilled reed before where we entreeted of waters destilled in Balneo Mariae A water that breaketh the stone in y e bladder described by Epiphanius a practicioner ii poundes of the iuice of saxifrage the iuice of milium of the sun Persely Anise of euery halfe a pound whyt vinegar eight vnces destill a water therof and giue it to drinke fasting A water of Swalowes is thus made Yonge Swalowes when they ar beaten to pouder mixt them with Castorio and a litle good vinegar and destill them this water drunke of one fasting is a trewe medicine of the falling sicknes what cause so euer it cum of And although a man haue had that disease .v. yeres he shal be heeled if he drinke of this water a litle for the space of foure daies he shal be heeled perfectly The phrenesey also if it be drunken fasting is cureth by it within nyne daies It maketh a good brain more then al other medicines It purgeth the stomacke it mollifieth the brest it coÌ„forteth the sinues it taketh the palsey away by the routs it encreaseth nature it heteth them that be couled Also sodde with Hyssop with a decoction of Hyssop doo I allowe rather and drunken it cureth the Dropsey sprung of cold and agues cotidians But let wemen with chylde absteyn from it leest their fruit be destroyed therwith Drunck with Hyssop it dryueth awaye the heed ache it maketh a man sliep easely and it forthereth concoction and the auoyding of the vrin otherwyse y e bely It putteth away hear whersoeuer it is anoynted vpon the pure skin so that they neuer grow again Lullius and Aegidius VVaters of Capons WAters of Capons as men call them ar giuen to drinke to restore the strengthe to women in chyldbed or old sickmen in diseases of great weacknes or through to muche euacuation They are wont to sieth the capon very long in water that al the flesh may fal from the bones and be destilled together with the liquor ether by it selfe or other precious waters put vnto it and spices gold syluer and precious stones Sum allow the capon the more the elder he is nether do they cut his throot but strangle chooke him nether do they pluck of his fethers by hoot water or skalding him but with their hands dry and so when his bowels are taken out and he is cut in small pieces they destill hym Other do not take away all but the guttes only A water of a capon restoritiue and sumwhat bynding Thou shalt sieth the capon in water according vnto the arte put to it a pounde of rose-water conserue of roses borage buglos of euery one an vnce Of both kyndes of corall of ether of them two drams of the spyces diarhodon abb a dram Small rasins without y â— curnels an vnce Coriander prepared half an vnce the fregmentes of all precious stones pearles of euerye one an vnce and a half Let them be destilled An other Let the Capon be sod with a pound of bief til it be sufficiently sodde whereunto thou shalt ad Malmsey Roose water of ether halfe a pounde white breade that it maye be sookte .iii. ounces thou shalt beat these without the bief and put to these spices folowing Spices electu of precious stones Diarhodon Abbatis Diamoschu that is swiet of euery a dram Diamargariton spices of confection agaynste the Pestilence of ether two scrup .viii. leaues of pure golde Mixte them all with the iuyce or brothe and let them be destylled wyth a slowe fyre Some dres this water with saffron and cinnamon c. for wemen in child bed whiche be bothe weake and theyr flours or loosenes of their body commeth not forwarde It is ministred ether alone or with suger Some also dres it withoute destillacion thus They sethe very long an old capon boyled drest accordingly then they beat smal the guts and the bones and in a tinnen or glasen vessel wel stopt set in a caudron ful of sethinge water they sieth it for the space of .vi. houres Som cast gold into it as rings or coynes of golde A certain water with a capon or a cock or a hen soden together with diuers coÌ„fortable medicins is described in Gnainerius in the chapter of curing y e hectical or coÌ„suming feuer not to be destiled but sodeÌ„ only in a glaseÌ„ vessel put in a ketle of water VVaters composed for diuers diseases within y e body chiefly wherof some are made of medicins and iuyces whiles they be yet newe other are infused and put into the iuices of plaÌ„ts or waters destilled whay or bloud A Water causing slepe .ii. vnces of Henbane an vnce of the rotes of Mandragora vi drams of Popy Gith Aumber of ether of them .ii. draÌ„s sedum the bigger and the les the water Lily Lett es of euery one an handful when they are pund let them be put in .ii. pouÌ„d of water of popy with an ounce and a
no hoope or verye lyttle of anye remeadye lette hym dryncke halfe an ounce of thys liquor and lyinge vppon a bedde couered moderatelye wyth clothes and tarye for sweate the chamber muste be cloose from any ayre entrynge in Wythin an houre and a halfe or there aboute the sweat wyll begin whyche a manne muste suffer and abyde iii. houres at the leaste it shall be better if they sleepe a lyttle more or .iiii. houres absteyninge from dryncke all the whyle and wypinge hys face euerye foote wyth a lynnen clothe After remouing the clothes by litle and litle and wiping the bodye when the sicke is risen let him eate sodden Barlye or a little meale of Oates broyled mixte wyth Vineger and Rose water or Vineger onlye whiche shall be mixt alway with his meate also for the space of a sennyghte For his drincke he shall take a decoction of Barlye with raisons and Licoris when it is wel couled let hym dryncke as much thereof as he liste Let him abstein from wine .iii. or .iiii. daies after let him put water to his wine Therefore when he hathe taken meat after swet let a newe bedde be prepared for the sicke man or suffer him if he be so disposed to tarye in a chamber but wythoute aire for the space of .iii. or .iiii. daies If so be it he perceiue yet anye inwarde heate by the menes of the sweate let him drincke the liquor destilled of coulinge thinges as wilde Poppye Mulberies or Blacke beries Endiue and Cikorye the floures of sambucus Eldar or Acetosa And if so be it while he sweteth the botch called authrax or bubo do rise as it chaunceth often times then thou shalt vse theese medicines Cut an Onyon on the one side make it hollowe and put triacle into it tormentil Dictamni diligently broken and punde in equall partes and put the cappe that you cut of the Onyon on agayne fold it in moyst towe then roaste it vnder the ashes by the space of .vi. houres then punne it in a morter and wrynge it throughe a lynnen clothe puttynge Vinegar made wyth Roose water vnto it then lay the moyst cloth to the place and as oft as it dryeth moysten it again If a man drinke once a moneth halfe an vnce of this liquor and sweat vpon it he shal be preserued It is very good also if a man hold a drop or twoo therof euery daye in his mouth in the morning Vlstadius in the .xlvi. chap. describeth an other aqua vitae commended both for the pestilence and for other diseases An aqua vitae or quint essence whose effect is redy and present against poyson specially lest by the byting or stinging of beastes described by Matthaeolus Senensis in his sixt booke of his commentaries vpon Dioscorides A pound of our antidotū now described the description wherof we let pas for briefnes sake a man may vse good triacle in the place of it or Mithridatū or an other effectuall antidotum and a pound of syrup of the barkes of citron mixt them with fiue poundes of aqua vitae so oft destilled till it cum to quint essence and put them in a cucurbita of glas as big againe as the thinges do occupy that is of .xiiii. poundes and when it is well clayed moue it moderatly softly so long till the antidotus be holly resolued mixt with the liquor So let it stand a moneth mouing and chafing it in lyke maner twys a wieke The moneth being ended power out softly by litle and litle the clere water whiche is ascended aboue the antidotus whiche is sattled in the bottom into an other vessell of glas and reseruith very well closed This liquor is so effectuall whiche I haue proued by innumerable tryales that if halfe an vnce therof be dronken with wyne or with any cōuenient water destilled or els alone it restoreth a man infected with the bytyng or stinging of any beast althoug he haue lost both his voyce and his sences and calleth him again to the great wondering of all mem For the moste parte also the humors nowe infected are auoyded by vomite The same vertue hath it against poysons which a mā hath reciued in meats or drinkes For y e strength of this liquor is so subtile and effectuall that euen in a moment and furthwith it peerceth al the vaynes of the body It healeth lykewyse also other many and diuers diseases as euery leerned physicion may consider by him self chiefly it resisteth the pestilence both by preseruing and also curing them that be infected This wryteth Mattheolus Aqua vitae for the diseases of the colike Take a great ale quart of aqua vitae rectified put therein half an vnce of cinamon .ii. or .iii. nutmegges cloues ii scruples all pund and let them stande a hooll daye when a water is destilled thereof in a limbeck of glas giue the sick man a sponfull therof Andro Furnerius Aqua vitae deuised by George Alapide Take cinamon cubebarum ginger nutmegges cloues galangal of euery one an ounce freshe sage .iiii. vnces wyn that is sublimated six tymes made of the best of the wyne not of the lyes as muche in weyght as all the rest that is .x. vnces Take so muche euery day of this water destilled in a lymbeck as a filberd nut wyll holde They saye that M. Gallus the physicion of the Emperour Charles vsed this and liued Cxxiiii yeares A moste noble water of vertues worthy to bee preferred before siluer and gold out of a certaine wryten booke Cloues cinamon maces galāgal zedoaria bay beries graynes of paradise of euery one halfe an vnce Peny royall sage hyssop rue betyny ceri folii camphorae serpentine or dragons of euery one half an vnce Inniper beries fenell sede percely sede the seede of aquilegiae withy of the mountaynes the flowers of costi the seede of apii of the herbe called paralysis castorei of euery one two drames Destill all thies in wyne for the space of .xiiii. dayes then dreyn the wyn oute and grynde the spyces then mixed againe with wyne and let them stande .viii. dayes then destyll them and at length cast in a fewe sage leaues freshe They asscribe the same vertues euery one vnto it whiche we mencioned before in waters of vertues and .xx. seuerall vertues or ther about ar asscribed to sum one of them The conseruation of health the restoring of youthe and other whiche also ar ascribed for y t most part to simple aqua vitae A certain kynd of aqua vitae is commended in a certain booke wryten against the leper and pestilence in the composicion whereof Fumetetrae the les netle the leaues of bedegnar let them bee stieped in wyne in Balneo Mariae a moneth then let them be destilled casting into them also a dram of gold beaten to pouder Afterward put to destilled wyn decocted and sodden with peper that there may be equal porcions of both liquors whiche ioyned together and stieped eight dayes together in
Balneo Mariae must be destilled again He willeth a sponefull of this water to be drunke euery day for the space of a moneth and the leprous places to be anoynted therwith They say it purgeth bloud dissolueth the congeled bloud and chaungeth the hoole temperature of the body and if a maÌ„ may beleue it it cureth well nye all diseases An aqua vitae of a certain practicioner coÌ„posed after a singular and excellent preparation for diuers diseases Take crow fote iuae moschatae sage the tender crope of ebulus betony saint Iohns wurt germander maioram chamepityos organy peniroyal hyssop rew caryophyllatae gentiaÌ„ rouÌ„d aristolochia of euery one halfe a handful Polypody squinaÌ„tum or schoenoanthuÌ„ spike cassiae ligneae folii of euery one a dram halfe a dram of bay beries two drames of chamaemall The kernelles of peeches balhamitae pimpernell selandin agrimony of euery one two vnces Rosemary an vnce Dictamni tormentil scabiosus whyte of euery one foure vnces an vnce a halfe of the great bursied Anissiede fenel serpyllum or sauery alkekengi iumper beries persely of euery one halfe an vnce Sauin cresses of ether halfe a handfull Carui cumin water withy of euery one half a dram Cineris vespertilionis tamariscus the route of y e floure deluce with y e flowers of euery one halfe an vnce Make a pouder of all these which shal be deuided into .vi. partes wherof thou shalt put one part in Aqua vitae thrise destilled and let it stand to sower or to be seasoned a naturall day then destil it afterward stiepe an other part of the pouder in this destilled water and destil it likewise And so forth euery one of the other partes when they are all stiepte destill them likewise and keepe the laste liquor Then take nutmegges Mace cardamonium folium cinnamon zedoarie of euerye one iii. ounces Agallochu Saunders white and red of euerye one two ounces one ounce of the bones of hartes hartes one ounce of olde Triacle ginger amomum cubebe and the graines of paradise Galangal peper of euery one .iiii. ounces one ounce or more of chosen Muscke at the leaste not les then half an ounce Pun all these and put them in the forsaide water .iii. daies then destyll theÌ„ againe with a slow fire in Balneo Marie thrise alwaies pouring the water drawn forthe vpon y â— dregs At length ad vnto this liquor half a pinte of mooste cleare oyle of Oliues and as muche of the best honye clarified and when they haue standed quietlye destill them as afore saide This lyquor is good for the headache fallinge sicknesse frensye swindle or turnsicknes duskishnes of the sight lack of hearing stuffing of the brest the disease of the hart called cardiaca also against poysoÌ„ gout of the hands or fete gutta arthrîtis It purgeth blud it taketh away al agues of cold causes it strengtheneth the stomack It cureth the colâ—k the debility of holding the vrin the obstruction stopping of the splene and liuer the swelling and watry dropsy and all diseases bred of cold causes To conclude it is a most chosen remedy for the coÌ„seruacion of y e body They geue men to drink ther of half a philberd full in a cup of pure white wine An other A pounde of clarified hony halfe a pound of Aqua vitae iii. ounces of ligni aloes ii vnces of gum Arabick Nutmegs Galengal cubebae cinnamon mastik cloues spicknard musk of euery one .iii. drams ii drams of amber beat all these together when they are mixt wyth y e moistures destil theÌ„ This water helpeth the stinking breth maketh the tethe white it cureth y e deafnes and tineaÌ„ capitis it healeth al woundes if you dip a linnen cloth therin lay it vpon the wound To coÌ„clude it coÌ„serueth youth reuoketh y e beuty lost A water of great vertue in the palsy whyche a certain frend let me haue the knowledge of as a thing known by trials and profe Cloues galangall zedoaria nutmegs both kindes of pepper iumper beries and bay beries the bark of the CitroÌ„ and arantii white ginger sage leaues basill rosmary maioraÌ„ mint peny royal gentian y e flours of sambucus red Roses and white spik lignum aloes cardamomum cubebae calamus aromaticê° stichas Arabica germander chamaepytis maces Mercury the sede of mugwort or motherwort carikes passulae dates without the stones almonds swiet and sour pinapples of euery one a dram both the kinds of camfrey tasil ben white red of euerye one .ii. drams Scolopendra a dram a half half a dram of Laureola v. draÌ„s of whit hony .iii. pouÌ„ds of triacle suger Mithridatum of ether .iiii. vnces Six pouÌ„ds of Aqua vitae destilled iiii times Let them be destilled in a double vessell with a slowe and continual fire til the colour be chaunged theÌ„ chaunge the receiuer and do that thrise Tvvo compositions of Aqua vite oute of the boke of Raimundus Lullus of waters IN the coÌ„posed waters of life folowing althoughe Raymundus do not expresse whether wine or burning water ought to be put to the medicins that they mai be destilled together yet we haue thoughte good to rehers them in this place because Raimundus seemeth vtterlye to wyll these medicines to be destilled in burning water theÌ„ in wine as one that alloweth euery where the more perfect liquors the oftest destilled Take the rotes of fenell rusci maidenheare sperage Rapes parsellye eryngii mill of the sunne scariolae of euerye one like much mixt them and destill them wyth a slowe fyre It appeareth that thys liquor is good to prouoke vrine and against the stone An other Take cloues Nutmegs mastik doronicum zedoaria galingal long peper y e bark of citron sage sambucus that is elder perauenture it shoulde be samsuchus that is Maioram dill spiknard Wood of Aloes cubebe cardamonuum Lauendula Mint Peniroyal organy calamus aromaticus both kindes of sticas germander chamepytis of euerye one like much and a litle muske Pun them and destil them The vertues be all one wyth simple Aquavite but farre more effectuall Or the same that are attributed before to other waters of life composed of many medicines Then foloweth a water composed of manye colde medicines not in hys place as it semeth which I made mencion of before in the colde quint essence Afterward is placed a most perfect Aqua vite as he calleth it that is because it is composed of verye manye thinges and that most hot Take Euphorbium SerapinuÌ„ opopanax pyretrum Capers squinanthum spodium bdellium long peper and white or blacke cubebe castoreum zedoaria of euery one equal portions to the which thou shalt put good Mastick and a little Amber Saffron and of the bone of a hartes hart Also take all the thinges aforsaide in the composed waters and let them be destilled with a slowe fire For it is a merueilous water the mother and chief of all medicines whose vertues are
Being anointed vpoÌ„ the brain pan it remedieth y e destillatioÌ„ springing of y e reum of y e brain being anointed druÌ„k it taketh away y e griefs aches of y e heed .xiiii. It redresseth the y e things amis in the mouth if a maÌ„caÌ„ hold it in his mouth on y e night .xv. It helpeth y e il smel stink of y e noos the reum if a man holde it a whyle in his noos .xvi. It helpeth the diseases of the teeth .xvii. It cureth the maladies of y e hart and brest when it is drier or moyster then it should be or is sicke with the coughe or short fetching of breth c .xviii. It encreaseth the memory and taketh away forgetfulnes in a man that receyueth oftentimes by tymes no but one drop therof .xix. Scuruines skailes scabbednes byles wheales and what soeuer vncleannes elles vexeth the skin or elles the inward partes of the body it putteth it awaye and driueth out poyson being annoynted and drunken .xx. Being anoynted vpon the face any wyse it coÌ„serueth moderatly the colour and brighthnes of youth that a man of .iiii. score yeres old shall skars seme aboue 30 .xxi. It turneth awaye all leprosy that is a brieding Thies I had out of a certain wryten booke in the douch tong the author wherof was not named It maketh a man mery aswageth angar it is also commended against the pestilence The same and like affectes are attributed of other to other waters of vertues also or rather to diuers kyndes of aqua vitae composed whiche are destilled of spyces and odoriferous herbes c â–ª stieped in burning water of the best yea and almost vnto simple aqua vitae An other water of vertues Ten vnces of sage noble y e flowres of laueÌ„der .ii. vnces rew ginger cloues grains of paradys nutmegs of euery one an vnce half an vnce of cinamon Galingall longe peper of ether of them .ii. drames Spike CitriuÌ„ castorium wode of Aloes graines of paradice of euery one a dram when all these are beaten together let them be kepte in a tinnen vessell wyth a pound of oyle of Laurel an ale quart and a halfe of good wine .ix. daies or .xiii. and in the mene seson let them be .iii. or .iiii. tunes chafed and myxte together at the length destill them Other put to it not oyle of Laurel but an ounce of the beries of Laurel and as much Rew and a dram of maces They attribut vnto it the same vertues eueri one which we ascribed to the next going before about xx Some prepare the same or one like not wyth wine but with burning water A certain Aqua vitae suche as is made at Constantinople in the Emperoures court as the same writen boke hath Cloues Nutmegges ginger Coriander Galingall long peper iumper beries Arantia Sage Basilicus Roosemary Amaracus Mint Lettis bay leues peny royall Gentian the flours of Sambucus or elder white Rooses spikenard wode of Aloes cardomum Mugwort of euery like much A Pomgranate .ii. figs Passulâ—â— almonds dates of euerye one a little When these are pund mixt a part of hony and suger Stiepe theÌ„ al in good wine .v. daies destil theÌ„ That is the best liquor y t runs out first the next is weker y e. 3. wekest That which remaineth in y e bottoÌ„â—â—ke to on oyntmeÌ„t is profitable to mani cold diseases The first liquor is good for all blemishes spots of the eies rednes or blud coÌ„geled It coÌ„firmeth the stomak chereth y e mind remedieth the disease called gutta the drop the agewe the coughe the wombe and the wormes in the heade to conclude it maketh good colour Vlstadius describeth certain waters of life the most of them composed with burning water thre with wine in the chapters .xlvi. xlix and .lv. Peter Andrevv Matthaeolus Senensis teacheth to cure the french diseas that is sanguin and cholerick and but newly gotten with water whiche he calleth philosophicall the .lxx. leafe of the boke in time past printed at Basil composed of diuers medicines iuices syrups and wine for the space of .viii. dais stiept together destilled in a vessel of glas in a bath of hot water wherw t a quaÌ„ntity of sande is mixt together He receiueth .ii. maner of waters the firste cleare the seconde more red â–ª Afterward for the fleumatike or melancholy disease of Fraunce he putteth an other composition likewise to be destilled If so be it saith he thou desire a more effectual remedy against melan choly thou maist ad vnto it .iii. or iiii snakes long ons black ons flaine and the bowels taken oute well chafed both with a good deale of salt a good space and also with vineger that they may melte together for this is most chiefly profitable not only to the french disease but to the leper and mani other diseases which at this present we thoughte good to omit But the composition of this water the vse who so listeth shal read in the author him self He saith he hath cured certain him self at the teÌ„th time drinking of it other in longer space in whoÌ„e the disease was more greuous Io. Almenar in the .iiii. chapter of his booke of the way to cure the french pockes When the humors saithe he are once euacuated and purged a man muste procure an alteration of the members for the whiche intent let a bath or a stouf be made with swiet water wherein muste be boyled Mallowes Bismalua Melilot Chamaemel Roses Sorell Fumaria the third day after the purgacion And when the sick beginneth to sweat let him take this water hereafter described â„ž the rotes of greate Malowes or holy Hokes Fumiterrae Sorell Inula of euerye one of them halfe a pound when they are cut small put them in .iiii. pounds of Malmsey a day and a night theÌ„ put to it an vnce and a half of triacle .x. yere old or more Let them take .iii. vnces of this water destilled w t ii vnces of Buglos in the beginning as it is said And this stouf let it be vsed again euery day till vi or .vii. daies be finished drincking this water whiche is the best and singular and in thys disease a great secreat and the last remeadye and extreame refuge A vvater of certaine remedies for shortnes of breath and harde fetchinge of a mannes winde CAlamint Hyssop Adiantum Horhound Scabious Tussilago of euerye one an handfull round Aristolochia an ounce an ounce and a half of flour deluce as much of the sede of nettles Fenel rotes persly rotes of ether .ii. vnces .iii. vnces of the heauenly lily half a pound of inula campana musterd sede and cresses of ether of them an vnce and a halfe fiue drams of costus .x. of spike iiii ounces of bay beries an ounce and a halfe of nigella when they are beaten small let them staÌ„d vi daies in .vi. ale quartes of white wine then let them be destilled with a soft fire Thou shalt geue the
with ashes laid vpon slates as I described before in the mention of destillation by ashes a Cucurbita of glas so diep set in the asshes that they were not aboue the matter conteined in the vessell The vessell was ful to the middle able to receiue if it had been fild vp perauenture iiii poundes he continued this labour .iiii. or .v. daies nightes also neuer abating the fier He separated only .ii. liquors y e first whyt whiche was more plentifull and in gretter abundaunce then a redish whiche was yielded lesser by the .iii. part The clay wherwith the Cucurbita the lembeck and the receiuer are closed when it chauneth or chinketh must be by and by cloosed again with clay lest the matter issue out on any side therfore must it be watched also on the night and lest the fier should go out All the liquors also may be receiued in one vessel without chaunging the the receiuer and after be separated for the For the latter swimmeth aboue the first as the lighter This oyll he vsed vnto diuers diseases geuing them euery day one drop to drynke and conteining it a certayne dayes as fourtien sumtimes together so he sayd it was good to chronicall agues for the mooste part he mixed with it sum spyces as Ginger and Sugar with wyne the drop of the oyll that the sick should les perceiue that he dronk only a drop of the oyll sumtymes he would mixt nothing els with the wyne but one drop of this oyll specially to amende the defaut of a stinking breeth Sumtymes he gaue it in water other tymes he dropt it into a shyue of breed sumtymes to flegmatick and gros men with a sawce made of musterd and peper bidding them sweet after it he said it chauÌ„ced many tymes that they shoulde auoyde muche fleume therupon He commended it to be good for all suche thinges as triacle is vsed for and better also against poysons also to al woundes swellinges whatsoeuer they were saue only the dropsy to the Cramp to purge the tieth to strengthen the iawes against the Fallyng sicknes and poysons He affirmed if a Serpent were folded in a cloth wet therin it would kyll it The other liquor that was redysh to be a remedy for the Leprosy if the disease had not yet gotten the vpper hande and the men haue not yet their breeth corrupted Both the liquors in taste haue a sharpnes a Rosiny sauour and smoky in a maner but the latter moore He solde halfe an vnce to ryche men for seuen or eight grotes An oyll deuysed by VVilliam de Saliceto a Placentin whiche is in the fift booke of his Practice in the chapter of Oyles and supplyeth the place of balm as he saith Carpobalsamum Mirh the nut of Inde of euery one half an vnce ii drams of Hypericon or saint Iohns wurt When they are all beeten sumwhat groos let them stand in .iiii. vnces of old oyll six monethes and be destille d. An other moore noble of the same mans which is put in steed of Balm A pound and a halfe of oyll Myrh Xylobalsamum Opoponax Bdellium Aloes Carpobalsamum Ammoniack Serapinum the nut of Inde Hypericon Mace gum Arabick Frankencence Tragacantha of euery one an vnce broken tyll sherdes that neuer touched water â–ª red hoot and quenshed in thre vnces of coÌ„mune oyll vii vnces of cleen and cleer Turpintyn All pund and knoden together in a morter destil them lyke Rose water This water is proffitable against y e stoon being mixt with medicines against y e same Hardnesses aâ—d skares it maketh them euen and is vsed in euery thing in steed of Balm An other of the same mans more noble Myrh Carpobalsamum the nut of Inde of euery one half an vnce Hypericon or saint Iohns wurt a drame otherwyse twoo drames When they are pund sumwhat groos let them be mixt with fyue vnces of oyll and an vnce and an halfe of Turpintyn In the end put to fyue graines of Muske and. iii of Ambra and an vnce of oyll of tyll stones and let them be destilled as before It hath the same vertues that Balm hath may be vsed in all thinges in steed of it This Nic. Stokker also an excellent Physicion in Germany vsed but without Turpentin if mifrend sent me the descriptioÌ„ of it right when it was ready prest he addeth at lengthe the Musk and Ambra with oyl of tile stones and destilled them not as I think He hathe the former description in Luminari Maiore as also the nexte folowing of Montaguana A balm composed of Bartolomeus Montaguana out of his Antidotarie the first chapter whiche is of oyntmentes Turpentin a pounde white frankensence iiii ounces as much of bay beries gum Elemi vi ounces Mastik Galangal Cloues Cinamon Zedoaria Nutmeg Cubebae Lignum Aloes wel beaten of euery one an ounce Let all be destilled together first with a slow fyre and first shall runne oute a water called of Balme Then when the fire is encreased thou shalt gather an other water by it self And do so the third time TheÌ„ shal destil forth balm in all trials It shall be the stronger the oftener it is destilled Balme of Peter Aponensis in hys addicion vnto the booke of Mesues in the treatise of oyntinges for the diseases of the harte Mirrh elect Aloes Hepaticae Spieaenardi Sanguis Draconis FrankenseÌ„ce Mumiae Opopanax Serapinum Crocus Mastik Gumme Arabik liquid Styrax of euerye one two ounces two ounces and a halfe of Ladanum elect or Castoreum halfe a dramme of Muscke Turpentyn as muche as the weighte of all the reaste breake them that be to be broken and when they are all mixte with the Turpentyne destyll them wittelye by a lembeck the arte is lyke as of water of Rooses These saith Peter as the munkes that write vppon Mesuen saide they write it oute of written bookes farre truer then in the Printed bookes and it is had in Luminare maiore Aponensis saith we finde no mention made by the olde wryters of the annoyntinge of the backe bone perauenture not bycause they were ignoraÌ„t in so profitable and commendable a thing but be cause they woulde keepe it secreate For this is an excellente helpe preseruinge the subiect of life or that which coÌ„teineth the same For the original and beginning of bones and sinewes is Nucha it springeth of the brain c. Therfore things annoynted with this shalt thou comfort the cloking substaÌ„ce that is the cauls and cotes of the brain and the spiritual substance and sinues and al the bones helping also the Palsy all the diseases of the sinnewes also the panting trembling of the hart manifest werines and it is the chiefest medicin of all other in the swifte comforting of the harte After this describinge the thinge he addeth This oyle is verye nye vnto Balme and accordinge to this waye the moste subtill of Sophisters do counterfeit Balme for amongst all other wayes this is moste noble If deade coorses
be annoynted with this oyle they putrifye not When thou wilte comforte bodies that be extenuated and broughte lowe thou shalt mixte Roose water with it and annoynte it vppon the lower mansions and from the Nucha vnto the raines If the backe bone be annoynted therewith being somewhat warme an hour before the fit leauing vppon it the token of it with Pecia thou shalt put awaye the shakinge of wandering Agues and of any simple agues But quartaines and wanderinge Agues it helpeth at the beginnninge of the course this place and they which folow seme vnto some to bee corrupted in the printed bookes in the swoundinge or debilitie annoyntinge the extreame partes of the backe boone that the instrumente for the purpoose maye speake with voyce put vnder the tonge of the sicke a little of it and after in his eares and nosthrilles if nede require Thou shalt geue of the same when neede requireth in the Stranguling and Suffocation of the Matrix or mother and in the fallinge sickenesse manye other diseases It is ministred in weght tree I thincke he meaneth one grain with wine that hathe a good smell So it comforteth y e mind and nature and healeth manye diseases But chieflye and is good for them that be Melancholye sadde and whose strengthes and members be feeble as though they were beaten and wekened by force For consuminge Feuers thou shalt mixte with Oyle of Rooses or of Mastike and annoynte the backe boone of them in a baithe or withoute a baithe Hitherto wryteth Aponensis The same manne willeth to mixte thys composicion in the steede of true Opobalsamum wyth Triacle Mithridatium Diacurcuma Aurea Alexandrina This Oyle saithe he Epiphanius Empiricus vseth as the Mother of all remeadies to all diseases of the sinewes annoynting twise a day therewith the Nucha the back and inynts for it is plain by manifest proues specially in a colde matter The same man commaundeth to stil this oyl in Balneo Mariae which I like not There is an other composicion of VViliam Pla centinus whiche I finde in the bigger Luminarie in Diacurcuma or Diacrocu in this wise Take Turpentin .ii. pounds commun oyl .iii. pound oyl of bayes .xvi. onnces Cinnamon .iii. ounces Euphorbium Cloues Bay beries Gum of Iuy Serapinum Galbanum Aromatik Opopanax ofeuery one an ounce Franken sence Mastike of ether ii vnces Let such be beteÌ„ as shuld theÌ„ destilled These and certain other diuers balmes dothe Ryffius also in his boke of destillation describe A quickeninge water and one that procureth youth vnto an old man out of the boke of Lullius of waters Turpentyne a pounde honye halfe a pounde Aqua vitae thryse or foure times destilled iii. ounces Lignum Aloes welbeaten SaÌ„dali mustatelli of ether .iii. drams gumme Arabeck perauenture a dram Nutmegs Ambra ofether .ii. drams When they are all pund destill them wyth a slowe fyre till ye haue the firste water cleare And when the second beginneth to run oute whithe shal be like to a burning cole encrease the fire by and by and kepe that by it self TheÌ„ encrese the fire again gather the third which shal be black and thick like hony til al the liquor be run out Of these waters y e last is hoter then y e first seconde The first is called mother of Balm the secoÌ„d oyll of Balm the third Balm artificiall The first is ministred in drink with warm wyne The second aâ—d the third ar good to remoue maladies which newly gnawe the fleshe of mans body The fyrst drunke with warme whyt wyne purgeth the stomack from al il humors and withholdeth the water that it cum not at the hart or principal partes as it is plain by often experiment A fyne lynnen clooth moystened in this water and thrust into the noosthriles with the litle fingar whan y e sick goeth to bed and left there within cureth the reum Being drunck morning and euening it cureth a stinking breth what cause so euer it cum of The tieth washt therwith are strengthened and made whyt and ar deliuered from ache whether it cum of a humor or of putrified bloud Whatsoeuer shal be put into it it will kepe it sound and vncorrupt A linnen cloth moysted in it and laid vpon woundes first washed therwith or vpon a fistula and other angry and ill byles cureth them It resisteth the quartain ague if the back boone be rubbed therwith a fewe daies Scabbednes washt therwith is made hoole A linnen clooth moystened therin is very good to be layd to y e hemrodes Wol that groweth on tries or Bombase dipt lightly is this water is very good to put in the eares against any kynd of deafnes Being anoynted it cureth the rednes of the face the palsy of the tong and all cold diseases The second and third water are of strength against the disease called Noli me tangere against the kynges il and also the disseases of the neck and throot Also against the fistula and the ill disease called Malus morbus specially if it be yet but new for by washing it and wetting and oft laing a linneÌ„ cloth moystened therin vpoÌ„ it it is made hool They help also if a maÌ„be beten with stones or clubes or a staf No poyson can approche ny vnto them and a spyder touched therewith dyeth They be anoynted vpon moste proffitably against all palsyes They strengthen all the partes of the body being washt therwith It is to be noted that the first water of thies thre as generall conteineth all the vertues of the other But to fret the second and the thirde are better this more then the other To be short they heel all diseases that cum of bloud or putrified fleume In the same Lullius a marueilous water is made in this wyse Cloues Nutmegges Ginger Zedoaria Galangal bothe sortes of Peper Iuniper beries the pilles or barck of Citri or OreÌ„ges Sage Basilicum Roosemary Maioram round Mint Bay beries Peny royall Gentian Calamint y e flowers of Elder Roses Ammens Spick nard wood of Aloes Cubebae here semeth somwhat to be left out as well wyld as domekical or growing in gardines Cardamomum CinnamoÌ„ Calami aromatici Stichados Chamaedryos Chamaepity os Melissae Mastick Olibani Aloes hepaticae Anis siedes and flowers she siedes of Mug wurt of euery one an vnce Put vnto thies dry figges Rasins that cum froÌ„ beyond see Dait stones fat swiet Almondes of euery one an vnce Whyt old hony half a pound After twys as much Sugar as all the forsaid be All thies shalt thou put into Aqua vitae v. or .vi. times destilled in a leÌ„bek of glas y e Aqua vitae shal be as much as thrys y e weight of all the speces besides After thou hast lest them stand .ii. daies thou shalt destill theÌ„ with a slow fier The first water is moste cleer precious The second differeth in colour and must be receiued in an other vessel it is whyt good towhit ten the faces of wemen
vnce Coriander iii. vnces make sumwhat a gros pouder therof Wyne of small raisins whiche Arnold calleth honied is made siething â–ª the Rasins in wyne in must till it wax swiet whiche is put furthwith in to a vessell and the small rasins beaten are cast in to the same which go to the bottom into y e dregs But the same Arnold describeth an other also very excellent which he calleth Passulatu or made of small Raisins the Raisins sodde with Cinnamon in Must not much which afterward is powred to the other Must put in the vessell alredy Of Aromaticall vvynes that is made of Spices ARomaticall wynes are wont to be made two waies ether hanging the spices only in a litle bag within the vessel which is let stand in a wyne celler or also putting to hony that so muche as we would so muche may be made out of hande and the spyces beaten together sighed strained a few tymes through a streiner or Hippocras bag of wull as they call it This wyne may be called Mulsum or Melitum they cal it communly Claret and Nectar and Melicratium but improperly with whyte wyne If they put to sugar for hony with reed wyne they cal it Hippocras There are made at the Apothecaries thies spyced and aromatical wynes for the moste part in that proportion that .xiii. vnces of hony be put to .vii. drams of spices and .iiii. pouÌ„des of white odoriferous wine Or to .vi. drams of spices half a pound of most pure Suger .iiii. poundes of red wine or les other put to muche more suger and spices also Sometimes halfe a dram of saffron or much les is put to to couloure it specially vnto Mulsa that is such as are made with hony But before y e wine be streined it shuld be let stand in a hot place or in a stoue with y e spices infused certain hours .xxiiii. at the most Wine called Hippocras is of the kinde of made wines after an easye waye mooste acceptable to the Frenche men specially on this side the Alps. Cinnamon Suger and Carpesium are beaten brused in a bagge through it the wine is poured that in passinge throughe it maye dryncke and soke those qualities This is broughte forthe in principal feastes with Escharite pane in steade of banketing dishes the which fashion but with an other kinde of wine we read was peculier to the Athenians Hermolaus Barbarus Corollarii libr. 5. in the chapter of the Grape of oenanthe An other The inner barkes of Cinnamon vi drammes halfe an ounce of white Ginger hoole â–ª Nutmegges elect .ii. drammes Cloues graines of paradice of ether a dram Cardamomum Pepper Calamus Aromaticus Coriander prepared of euery one a scrupull mixte them and beate them somewhat groose Eight poundes of wine clarified honye .xxvi. ounces mixte all and strayne them accordinge to Arte. Some clarifye theese spiced wines with Almond milke An other for Cardiacall persons described by Alexander Benedict in his teÌ„th boke Take a pint of Austere and harde wine odoriferous white â—uger half a pound cinnamon Ginger of euery one half an ounce Galangall a dram An other of the same mannes for weakenesse of the stomacke Take Cinnamon half an ounce white Ginger two drammes Cloues long Pepper Nutmegge of euerye one two scrupulles when they are well beaten wyth halfe a pounde of white Sugar mixt them together in a .v. pintes of pure white wine and straine it for it is the chiefe remeadye for theim that bee dissolued in their stomacke An other Take an ounce of Cinnamon halfe an ounce of Ginger Galangal two drams Cloues a dramme Graines of Paradise two drammes white Suger viii ounces of the best wine q. s An other Cinnamon an ounce and a halfe Ginger halfe an ounce Cloues .ii. drammes Grames of Paradise Galangall of ether a dram Sugar a pounde and a halfe Red wine .ii. measures that is .viii. poundes mixte them and it wil become Hippocras An other An ounce of inner Cinnamone White Ginger halfe an ounce Graines of Paradise three drammes Clooues Moschocaryi of ether .ii. drammes Maces Galangall of ether a dramme and a halfe white Ginger halfe an oâ—nce Graines of Paradise .iii. drams Clooues Moschocaryi of ether two drammes Macis galangall of ether a dramme and a halfe long Peper a dramme Spiknard Folii of ether halfe a dramme make a pouder thereof To euery ounce of these put .ii. poundes of wine with a pounde of Suger and Tornsoll so called a kind of Purple wull to colour it q. s An other that semeth to be ordeined for the defaultes of the breast aâ—d lunges â„ž the best Cinamon scrapte from the groose barke an ounce Cloues an ounce and a half Anis Fennell of ether a dramme Lycoris .iii. drammes Maces Cardamomum Floure Deluce of euerye a dram and a halfe Suger most white .iii. ounces when euerye one are diligentlye pund let them be infused with these that followe Take Malmsye .ix. ounces a pound of water of Borage Rosewater an ounce and a half water of Melissa iii. vnces after they are let stand .iii. houres by the fornace or stoufe at length strain it oft through a Filter bag and it shal becom cleare Hippocras Hippocras Laxatiue A wine againste the Quartaine Quotidian and bastard Tertian iâ— concocteth and prepareth the humoures and leadeth the same by and by oute by the siege Take a pound of Esula Epithy mi. vi draÌ„s Polipodii cinamoÌ„ smal rasins of euery .iiii. draÌ„s Mastik gin Zedoria cloues of euery one an once Suger as much as nedeth Arnold Nectar in Arnold For a pinte of wyne take Ginger electe scraped Cloues Cinnamon scraped of euerye .ii. drammes graines of Paradise a dram Let it be made wine or Grekish which is better and in steade of honye put Sugar wyth a gran of Musk and it is moste noble A syrrup or Iulep is made of wine to conserue helth and youthe puttinge into .iii. poundes of good wine two poundes of Suger Let it be made a Sirup the vse wherof is with water It may stand in steade of meat and drink and refresheth nature Arnold in the boke of conseruacions of youth Wine made with Suger decocted is good for olde persones colde and feable and in whom the naturall moysture and heate are diminished for it norysheth and breedeth bloude and filleth the principall parts with spirits Take the best wine of Vernacia or Grekish or like vnto them .iii. pouÌ„des a pounde of white Suger Caffetini Let theÌ„ be sodde with a softe fire in manner of Syrrup keepe it and vse it with .ii. partes of water or otherwise as vse requyreth This wine or rather syrruppe of wyne Rabi Moysses in his booke of the maner of diet for olde men and such as are in recouering their helth doth approue and allow Of svviet vvines spiced OF wine made with suger spices it is alreadye spoken and also generallye of Mulsa or wynes made with hony and spices A man may in all the forsaid composicions both
bag w t in the wine mixt with hony or suger after .ii. or .iii. dais take it oute pres it wel But the former way is better finer Three vvaies to make Nectar wherof the first .ii. are called Gratia Dei the thirde Manus Dei oute of a writen boke TAke cinnamon .ix. drams ginger .iiii. drams nutmegs long Peper of ether .iii. draÌ„s GalaÌ„gal grains of paradice Maris or Folii cubebae of eueri .ii. draÌ„s cloues a draÌ„ spiknard a hole scrupul saffron a half suger a pouÌ„d or a pint of hony y t hath boyled in a litle water til the water be consumed wel skimmed Mixt them in a Lotum a half of wine Some ad Cardamomum and Carui of ether .ii. drams And this is the better Claret To the same â„ž Aristolochia round cinnamoÌ„ of ether an ounce Ginger half an ounce Galangall graines of Paradice Cloues Cubebae Macis Nutmegs of euery .ii. drams long pepper iii drams spiknard a scrupul Saffron a half Suger a pouÌ„d wine a Lotum If it be for the rich ad Agallochum of the best .ii. grains and musk halfe a grain Or according to other â„ž Cinnamon elect .ii. ounces Ginger one graines of Paradise longe Pepper of ether halfe an ounce Nuttemegs cloues Maces of ether .ii. drams Cubebae Cardamom of ether a dram Spiknard Schoenan thum Calamus aro of euery a scrupul When they are pund mixt them together with .iii. pounds of hony and a Lotum of wine as is said A drink named Manus Dei. â„ž Cinnamon an ounce and a half Ginger .iii. drams CardamomuÌ„ ii drams Folium Galangal of ether a draÌ„ spiknard Carui of ether half a dram long Pepper or blak .iiii. drams If it be made for rich men adde Cloues Nutmegs Maces Grains of paradice of euery .ii. drams clarified hony a pint a BurgeÌ„s Lotum of good wine And if thou canst in steade of hony put a pound of Suger If this drink be rightly made it shal be profitable against manye diseases specially cold and in old men and them that be somwhat weake feble vnto copulacion It shal be conuenient for Fleumaticke Melancholik persons meruelously that not withoute a cause it may be called Manus Dei that is the hand of God It putteth away dumpishnes sadnes and bringeth mirth It openeth the obstructions and stoppings of the splene It heleth the dropsy bringeth the stone out of the rains mightily if a litle Saxifrage of the stone called Lynx be added Spices for Zedoartical wine â„ž Zedoaria cinamon of ether half an ounce Galangall .ii. draÌ„s mixt them and make them into pouder For the wine that is surnamed of Scapa or Rappish â„ž Zedoaria halfe an ounce Coriander .iii. ounces galangal .v. vnces cinamon cloues of ether .ii. draÌ„s make a pouder therof soÌ„what grose Otherwise spices for Zedoartical wine which shal be inough for a mesure of wine that is called communlye at at Straszborovv Cinnamone .iii. vnces cloues nutmegs grains of pa. Cardamom of euery half an vnce Zedoariae vi drams Cubebae long Peper of ether a .ii. drams Beate them somwhat grose mixt them for a bag For the same cinnamon .ii. vnces ginger half an ounce cloues Longe Pepper Cardamom Cubebae Zedoria of euery one a dram Galangal graines of paradise of ether a dram and a halfe When they are beaten somwhat grose mixt them for a little bagge Of spiced vvines vvith burning water THat burning water doth drink in easily all y e odour and vertue both of other medicins and also of spices if they stand to stiep in it a few houres first beaten and a litle of it afterward be poured into simple wine and that diuers wines both in sauour and taste may be made by this meanes forthwith we did declare before out of Arnold in the descripcion of simple Aqua ardens or burning water ¶ The confection or making of the wine which they cal commoÌ„ly Hippocras Put into the name of the mesure is not exprest of burning water destilled .iii. or .iiii. times or more .ii. vnces of Cinamon Ginger half an vnce graines of paradise Peper of ether a dram and a half a dram of Cloues half a Nutmeg When they are al pund put them into a vessel wel closed for .iiii. dais and shake it about twise or thrise euery daye At laste strain it and kepe it it may be kept a longe time Put a meane sponefull of this into a measure or iiii pounds of good red wine and put a pound of Suger to it Yet if the wine be swiete there is no nede of Suger Furnerius A way to make Malmsy â„ž Galangall of the best Cloues Ginger Maces of euery one a draÌ„ Let al thies sumwhat grose beten staÌ„d 24. houres in a vessell of wood wel couered infused in water Then hang them in a linneÌ„ cloth by a thried into a vessell of a soom as they call it which is about the bignes of a hogshead or half a Soom of clear wyn .iii. daies And thou shalt haue wyne so good strong as is the very natural Malmsy or Traminuum A dutche writen booke A wyne that tasteth lyke Rhetish wyne In a vessell of glas or of earth glased hange a linnen cloth full of the spices hereafter folowyng and fill it with burning water stop it diligently let it stande at the lest .xii. houres when thou wouldest vse it wring out y e linnen cloth into sum gret glas whiche the wyne shal be powered into afterward so that the sydes of the pot may be wet with that spiced burning water or els y e liquor crusht out into the bottom by lening and rooling y e glas a syde may moysteÌ„ the sydes euery where Then power in the wyne whiche shall haue the taste of Rhetish The spices are thies Cinamon Ginger Cloues of euery one half a dram when they are sumwhat gros beaten let them be mixt and after be tied in the linnen cloth After the some maner is the tast of Muscatello wyne made take a Nutmeg with a litle Macis mixt them beaten as is before said Cloued wyne Beat half a dram of Cloues w t a litle CinnamoÌ„ tie it in a linnen cloth as is aforsaid The tast of Elseter wyne bynd sugar caÌ„â—y in a linnen cloth as is before said Or els mixt hony diligently clarified with burning water in a vessell well stopt when thou wilt vse it wringe out a linneÌ„ cloth dipt in this liquor into y e pot All thies haue we borowed out of a dutch boke writeÌ„ Of certain other Aromatical vvynes specially such as are made by hanging a litle bag in the vessell CLoued wyne is made hanging the cloues in a litle bag within the vessel with must It drieth much dissolueth coÌ„sumeth draweth vnto it it helpeth the old difficultie of fetching a mans breth cough in old men w t the corruption of the humors it is proffitable also in the falling sicknes swouning it strengtheneth the vertue
resēble the tast of straung wines c. 407 The end of the Table ⧠VVhat Destillation is and of diuers formes and kyndes DESTILLATION not distillatiō as lerned doe write is the drawyng forthe of a thinner and purer humor out of a iuise by the force of heate Siluius Destillation by ascentiō or going vpwarde is when the vapours or fume is caried vp and be there gathered together into water so droppe doune The same authour Moist thinges put into a body for so do they cal the bigger vessell from whence the vapur is lifted vp by the force of heate are extenuated into a vapour whiche gathered together by the coldenes of the head or other thing into water is receiued for the most part by a chanel or gutter made in y e brinks of the head and so dropeth doune and destilleth by the noos for so do they communly term that part of the head very neer resembling mās noos both in fashion and in vse into some vessell sette vnder for the purpose men call it a receiuer or a vrinall Siluius Certain like things natur hath wrought both in exhalatiōs aboue in the aire specially thē that be moist and also in reumes destilling from the head both of men certain other beastes vnto the lower partes Therfore of a plant or any other substaunce ordeined to be destilled what part of it is most meet to be extenuated and fynet that is the purest parte the lightest the thinnest the moistest and the most superficial parte next vnto the vttermost partes of the body being first of all fyned by the force of heet is lifted vp next suche other partes as in puernes cum nie to the first and last suche a moysture of the thinges as is more grosse that held together the earthly partes a certain fatnes and oylines by a stronger force of the fyre is seperated and takē vp hoolly which once clean drawn forthe the body remaineth dissolued and brought into asshes Oute of all maner of plantes therfor and beastes Yea out of al partes of them bothe a certain raw waterishnes and as it were a fleumatick and excrementall parte is first drawen oute then cumyth forth that whiche is better disgested and more pure last of all an oylines whiche also euen oute of the very bones may be gottē and not only out of massy partes sauing that certain partes ar of so scleuder and thin substance y e they yelde vp almost all their moister strength at the first Morouer all this drawing oute of humors is done with heet For that kinde of Destillation that is done by a shred of wullen cloth they cal it a filter or by grauel a raw earthen vessell a vessell of iuye trie Plinie I thinke writes of the wode that is called Smilax how it willet sype through water mixt with wyne and kiep the wyne still which I once proued found it trewe but this is no destillation in deed except vnto suche as speake improprely For that which is proprely called destilation is done by heet and that from the sonne or of fyre corruption and rot tennes By the sonne as certain men haue inuēted to draw of flowres a kind of water very nere to them selues in smell and other pleasaunt qualities By fyre that is by flame that come of aere and of aereall bodies or els by burning cooles that are made of earth or earthly bodies enkindled destillation is made ether by no other thing betwixt or by the meanes of hoat water or also by the vapour and feume of the same by fine sand or dros of metall polished and made plaine Morouer the flame it selfe aswell as the coole is diuers not onely in respect of that it is great and little but also of the woode whether it bee rotten and doated or sound stinking or wel smelling grene or drie Besides this it is a great matter what bignes the furnace be of what fashion what ioyning together Also the coole of smothered and half burnd wode giueth a certain strong sauour and a quality far vnlyke to the thinges destilled as we see it doeth to thinges boyled and otherwyse prepared therwith Therefor let the cooles be all fired and halfbrent that the ill sauour be expired before that the thing to be destilled be committed vnto them specially if it be receiued into the body for in suche thinges as ar to be vsed without it forceth lesse al this saith Syluius In the destillation of wyne the foure elementes ascende vp in their order the lightest subtilst and hoatest first that is the fire secondarily the aire thirdly water the earth remaineth in y ◠bottome and lykewyse I iudge in the destillation of vineger In more grosse earthly thinges yet moyst also whiche besides the watery partes haue also some grose and such as may be made thicke as in the teares that run out of tries or gūmes in ioyces in rosin and in hony that which is more watery is caried vp first the airy partes next the firy last of al y e earthy partes remain in the bottome and if the fier be any thyng bigg they ar burnt In metalles the same ar resolued into vapours and congeled together sticke to the lembeck the coloure chaunged into whyt as quick syluer arsnike c. Saltpeter c. The nature of fyre is to deminishe as Cardane saith ether by breaking drye thinges into peces as when it bringeth grauell into dust or by melting as metalles or by separating the subtill and pure partes as in destillations It chaunceth in destillations notwithstanding that a thing shall both be extenuated and mixt with an other when as they ar done with a moyste heat not with fyre For a heat bothe extenuateth and mixeth with moysture This is doon sumtyme by setting the vessels in hoat water whiche is called Balneum Mariae The best kinde of destillation next vnto this is in hors dong Then by asshes the best in this kynde is by the superfluous refuse of oliues after the oyle is prest forth for it being a hoat moyst matter will reteyne his heat very long yea a great meany of monethes and so muche the lōger then the kurnels of grapes because the substance of the oliues is thicker fatter But none of thies wayes is able to melt metalles but they must nedes haue fyer Albeit as the most vehement and feruent destillation is done by fyre so is it vnmiet for mixture and true attenuation or fyning and the way by asshes is almost lyke vnto it for if a man will put thinges destilled by fyre vnto their own dregges and mixt them together he shall perceiue the quantity for quantity heuier then they were afore and dryer also Therfor fyre doth not truely attenuat and lessen in dede but that nature whiche digesteth mixeth the hoole substāce Wherfor through their puritie al ioyne together in one and the thing mixt is made thicker notwithstanding that is composed and made of the most subtill and the
But chiesly it breaketh newe spottes of the eies cūming of both the humors heet or cold if so be it they excede not mich It dryeth vp teers of both causes heet or cold it restoreth cleareth the sight lost with ether of the causes And I saw a woman hauing newly all ouer her face blesters or wheals by the strook of a ston with heet which the only washing of this water was streight way heled with great admiration But the vertue ther of is a hundred foold mor maruelous and stronger in operacion with burning water and muche moor with quintessence Yea this water mixt with quintessence or wyth burnynge water cureth the Leprosye Fraxinus THre vnces of the liquor destilled of the inner bark of ashe with as many vnces of whyt wyne is drūk against the pestilence and the same drinck after iii. howres is repeted so God willynge within .xxiiii. howres shall the sicke be deliuered A water of the kirnelles of Halicacabus is commended of som against y e stone of the reines and bladder if it be drounke ons or twyes a weeke Helxines WHiche we cal Parietary or Pelitory the water therof is profitable againste the stone ried before in the vertues of waters destilled generally out of Cardanus Hieracium DEntdelion in frēch wyth vs it is called Dandelion the water therof siemeth to bee of the same vertue as is the water of Endiue Cikory Some destill it first steeping it in wyne eight dayes it is of a sower tast and they giue it to drinke against the fittes of the fallyng sycknes with marueilous tryall as they say Hissopus HIssop retaineth merue louslye hys vertue in a destilled liquor althoughe it be destilled in a common earthen lembek only apon sād put in a fyre pan and likwise penyriall and certaine other They vse water of Hyssoppe o asswage touthache for it is sharp and subtill c. Intybum ENdiue the water there of coleth all hotte diseases and all burnynge of fyre or water hoote it heeleth them if they be wash therewith It is good also for quotidian Agewes and obstructyons of the bowels bothe drunck and mynistred oute warde Lullus vppon waters Lauendula WAters of the floures of lauender is sweet smelling Remaclus Iuglans THe water of walnuts not rype made aboute saint Ihons tyde ministred without is good for woundes and hoat byles and the pestilent anthrax Also being dronke a two or thre vnces it cooleth and resisteth the pestilence A water also is destilled of the vtter huskes of walnutes ether rype so that they be new brast and left of the nut or not yet at all in the moneth of September nether skilleth it if they be blacke so y t they be not rotten yet the black are counted the best A moderate potion of this water with the third part of vineger if it inuade a man with heet letting bloud first is geuen to drinke against the pestilence as a certain experiment It is praised also for y e noyse in the eares and the difficultie of heering for the diseases in the throte called angine being gargild A water destilled of y e leues of walnut tree about the end of May is maruelously cōmended for the drying and knitting of sores and to bring them to a skar if they be washt therwith morning and euening and a linnen cloth moystened therein bee laid vpon Brunsvvicencis Orchis SAtyrion is destiled rootes and al good for y e falling euill as men say Persica SOme destill the floures also of Peeches Petroselinum A Water destilled of Persely of y e garden beeten in a mortar cōfirmeth the apetite dissolueth all wyndes of the body and stomack strengtheneth concoction and purgeth out y e ill humors of the brest reines rather Aegidius Plantago AVyol of Plātain water is able to staūche bloud frō whence so euer it runne Cardanus Brunsvvick doth note many commodities vpon plantaine water and specially if it bee dronkē in the morninge and euening at eche time two ounces is good for the blody flix Pulegium PEny reall looke before in Hysope Rapum RApe water maye be made bothe of the hoole Rapes cut and also seuerally of the barkes whiche are sharper and hooter to prouoke vrin and further sweet The water of this Rapes sayeth Brunsvvick is good against burning of what cause soeuer it bee if the sore place be washed with it there wyll ryse first a scurffe but washe the scurffe also and it will hele the sayde burning Rosa ROos water semeth to be first inuented for I finde mention of it in Auicen the .ii. boke in the chapter of rooses Roosewater drounke saith he is good in a swoun and the iuice of them also and again water of roses is good for the liuer and it cōforteth the stomacke which is nourished of of it with hony and it is Geleniabin and helpeth to disgest And the roos and his iuice are good for a stomak to mich hoot And although the Arabiās for the most part ar wont to say water for iuyce or decoction yet in this place it can not be taken for then when as he speaketh seuerally of the iuice of the decoction also he made mētion befor Rooswater made by sublimation doth very much comcomforte Mesue in the chapter of Rooses And again The Roos and hys oyl and water sublimated comforteth the hart c. The same speeketh of rooswater destilled in the .vi. destinction wheras he describeth the iuleb of roses as the Munkes his interpreters do proue of whom also this was obserued and noted that two waters destylled and nomo mencioned in Mesue that is of rooses and wormwod They make no epithē or outward medicine at this day but they put roosewater in it In sharp vehement and greet inflammations to strengthen the principall members it maye be commodiously vsed It is good for the flixe of the bowels and vomiting It helpeth the inflammation of the eies veri much in the beginning Sum are wōt to mixt with it a litle thucia and sugercādy It strengtheneth the eies and sharpeneth the sight It stauncheth blud running out of the nosthrilles being put in a linnē cloth That which is made of red roses is more cordiall as they terme it and strengtheneth moor but of whit doth moore coul Remaclus F. Of wine mixt with roswater in time of meet see in Arnold in his boke of wine Rooswater although it be made diuers waies yet the best is made by Balneum Mariae Matthaeolus If thoos rooses which we call commonly carnacion dryed and moystened with the vapoure of water be destilled they yeld good rose-water Syluius They may be holden in a linen cloth ouer hot water til they haue drunck inough of the vapoure ⧠Of Roose vvater out of Bulcasis THe makynge of Roosewater is known in moste coūtires It is better made with water then without better also by fire of cooles then of wood wherfore of the iiii waies whyche be withoute water wyth flaming woode without water with
Tilia beaten The dosis or quantitie of ministration is one or one and a halfe It asswageth the griefes of the eyes and healeth the places brent with fyre or any hoot matter that more surely if the inner barck al but tiliae be stiept in this water or in stede therof the grains or kernels of quinces or psyllium and the places be anoynted with the horines or mouldines that bredeth ther vpon Ryffius Some vse against the pestileÌ„re a liquor drawn by the force of fire oute of the bloude of a graye or badger Also of the blud of duckes againste poyson c. wherof thou shalt read more in the boke of destillarions of Ryffius writen in Dutch Some mixt the bloud of a goat with medicins againste the stone to be destilled A water composed of the blud of a barrow hog and other diuers medicens wil we describe hereafter in some place Of the water of wormes and of the kind of CaÌ„tharides whiche is surnamed as Mey lander Kaeser saith of the month of May read Brunsvvick A water to take away wrinkles and spots of y â— face to clere the skin Beat the whites of egges hard sod in water y t yolkes takeÌ„ away together in a morter destill them in a lymbek of glasse or other vessel of glas The vse of it is that y e face be a noynted therwith euery day thrise for the space of iii. or .iiii. dayes I would adioyne here a table of waters destilled of plantes whiche are described in the Dutche bokes of destillacions of Hierom of Brunsvvick for the most part all that Gaulterus Ryffius hathe borowed of him sauing that I studye to be shorte And surely it is nothing necessary to resite al wheÌ„ as liquors also may and are wonte to be destilled of all such plantes wherof there is any vse in phisicke But to recken vp also the vertues and faculties of euery of them as some do it is superfluous when as none other for the moste parte but euen the very same also be attributed and ascribed to y e waters whiche are vnto the plantes so that theese repetycions moue irckesomenesse to the reader yea euen if it be but meanly learned neuer a whit les then colewortes twise sod Yet because that some waters chieflye and before other are in vse with apothecaries as those with Remaclus F. hath described I wil ad hither a rehersall and table of them in like order as he vseth and hath recited them him self Absinthinm wormwod Apium Artemisia mugwort Agrimonia Althea the holy hok Acetosa Alkekengi Auricula muris mouse eare Basilicon Buglossos Balsamita that is mynte of Rome Betonica Betony Bursapastoris shepherds pouche Chamomilum Cammomill Calendula Mary goldes Carduusbenedictus Centaurium Centory Chelidonium Felandine Cichorium Cikory Capillus Veneris Maiden heer Caprifolium that is Pericly menon woodbinde Cucurbita Gourde Cuscuta Ebulus Walwort Endiuia Enula Euphragia Eiebright Foeniculum Fennel Fumaria Fumitory Gentiana Genista Browme Hepatica that is Lichen Liuerwort Hedera Iuy Hyssopus Hippuris that is horsetaile Lactuca Lett es Lauendula Lapathum Sorel Maiorana Maioram Melissa Baulme Marrubium Hoorhound Melilotus Melilot Millefolium Milfoyl or Yarow Menta Mint Malua Malowes Nemiphar bothe kindes with the flowers Nigella Origanum Organy Paeonia Pyonie Papauer satiuum sown Poppy Parietaria Pelitory Pentaphyllon Cinkfoyl Petroselinum Persly Pimpinella Pimpernel Pastinaca Parsnip Plantago Plantaine both kindes Portulaca Purslein Polygonos that is CeÌ„tumno dia. Pulegium Peniroyall Roses white and red Ruta Rew sown or set Rosmarinus Rosmary Rubea tincterum Madder set or sowne Raphanus Radish Saluia Sage Saxifragia Satureia Sauery SaÌ„bucus Elder the bark floures and leues Scabiosa Scolopendrium Solanum wherof seing there are many kinds Remaclus writeth that apothecaries draw water out of Halicaâ—abus only for the moste part that is Alkekengi Semperuiuum Singrien Serpillum Salix Willow Senecio Grounswell Thymus Time Berded Tapsus that is Verbastum Tauacetum Tormentilla Violae Violets Valeriana Valerian Virga pastoris that is Dipsacus Tasill Verbena Veruin Vermicularis y t is the les syngrien Vrtica nettell Of vvaters destilled of beastes or of their partes or excrementes and first of all of the hoole beastes A Water destilled of whelpes will make that heir shall not growe againe And Furnerius I geue litle credence to thies curious exquisite remedies and although they be true yet I do not alowe them specially where other many and easy to be gotten ar not lacking A yong Storck some bid strangle and destil it lyke rose water and therwith to anoint the partes taken with palsey or shronke together and at certain tymes to be washt away with a decoction of sea crabes without salt they saye it helpeth marueilously if a man continue it Some bid put an vnce of Camphora a dram of amber in a yonge storkes bely the bowels taken out but it must be one that neuer yet flew then in destilling to gather seuerally thre waters differing in color of thies they prayse the last best to make the face whyte and clear They destill also a water of a pye wherof read Brunsvvick Ryffius as also of them that folowe Of a Capon whereof wee will speake seuerally within for it is not made simpely and singly only but also composed many wayes Of Frogs Crabes Snayles Pismiers or Emers Of the bloud of a Duck a he Goat a Gray of a calfe looke in Ryffius and Brunsvvick Of mans bloud looke Brunsvvick and within also wher we make mention of Quintessence Of the liuer and lightes of a Calfe The liquor of milck destilled the chymistes destyllors do vse and sum that go about to make Borax or Crhysocollam It is a wonder that men say amongst the Tartarians water destilled of milke doth make men dronke The milke must therfor be somwhat thicker and tary somewhat long vpon the fyre Whiche thing peraduenture chaunseth in meares milke Albeit all water if it be oft destilled wil do the same for it waxeth hoat is attenuated and made more fyne and receiueth the force and nature of the fyre the more Carda Some vse water destilled of wyne and milke together against y e feuer quartain specially in England as Brudus Lusitanus writeth Some drink it against the iaundys as witnesseth Iohan. Goeurotus Also seuerally of Goates milke water is destilled Loke in Ryffius Water of an Oxe hyde see in the same author Of the whytes of egges and of the yolke In the same Of the spaun of Frogges founde in waters looke in Ryffius Of kowes donge loke in the same Some say that water destilled of mans donge wil heale fistulaes also fretting soores and such as are to be cured and cancres and the disease called Tinea or matering of the head that it wil also make skarres like vnto the other skin and put away the spots or white webbes of the eyes If it be druncke it is good for them that haue the falling sicknes it helpeth them that haue
the gowte it driueth away the stone out of y e rains and bladdar it is a preseruatiue againste the bitinge of a mad dogge or other venemous beast But the oyle of the same which destilleth after the water wyth a greater fyre is much better to fistulaes and caÌ„cres and other euils aforsaid Matthaeolus of Sena and other you shal read certain merueilous thinges in Brunsvvick Mannes vrine destilled the Chymists doe vse to resolue certaine mettalles Printers to make their printinge inke but these destill it in Rose stillatoryes Of vessels and diuers instruments belonging to destellation Sublimation is taken of many simpely for destillation other take it particularly to lift vp or cause to ascende vp into the limbeck by the force of fyre the matter that is to befixed in it as many metally thinges ar sublimated The receyuing vessell for the moste part is a phiall of glas w t a longe neck in whose mouth the nose of the limbeck is put and some times the bely therof is set in a pot or some other holowe vessell that it maye stande the stedfaster in his place or els for the coÌ„moditie of the thing is set one way or other The formes and fashions of vessels ar diuers and almost without number coÌ„monly vsed with the chymistes and destillers Syluius Who so desireth the figures and names of diuers vesselles let him looke in Brunsvvick Ryffius Andro. Louicerus and other A man may cause to be made of what fashion he will in the glas makers shops suche as be in Heluetia nie vnto Scaphusia and not far from Basill and Solodourn But the best are made of whyte glas as at Venice suche may be made with vs of the peces of spectacle glasses other skrapes of whyt glas gathered together Of the vessell called aludelâ—s looke in Geber in his boke of chief perfection 1. 4. 44. chapter and again in his boke of fornaces Albertus wryteth it a luttell and expoundeth it a vessell appointed for sublimation lykewyse Bulcasis The same willeth arsnick to bee sublimated in an earthen dyshe glased the fashion wherof he describeth in the chapter of sublimation of abhichbar dic Aluthel writen with th is a limbeck whiche the Alchymistes vse in destillatious Belluencis Of the matter for vessels of destillacion and first against leaden and brasen vessels WAters destilled in Balneo Mariae do so far pas those that are made simplye by the tire in leaden limbeckes as golde passethyron For they that be made in Balneo Mariae with large chaplets limbeckes or heades and somwhat great and of glas do geue the natural sauour and taste of the herbes floures wherout they be taken without any noysome smel of smoke or burning which chaunceth not al in the common leaden stilles For the waters that are made in them very few and seldom speciallye whiles they be new are without notable lothsomnes of smoke and burntnes whiche vnto sickmen that drincke it is not only greuous but also hurtfull for the euill qualitie of the lead endamageth bothe the stomake and the breaste and all the entrailes and likewise the qualitie of brasse whyche the learned and excellent phisitions perceiuynge folowed the auncient men and vsed onlye decoctions But waters destilled accordinglye as they ought to be that is with the sauour and tast of his plant are not only equall in strength with decoctions but also passe them in thys that they more delite a man beinge more swete in taste and also clearer to the sight It shal be houe both good phisicions and also Apothecaries to lay away leaden instrumentes and prouid them the forsaid Balncum Mariae and althoughe it shall be a little more chargeable vnto them and painefull yet so shall they satisfy and please bothe God and man Matheolus Such thinges as are destilled in lead I iudge them altogether to be disalowed because of y e Cerusse and other malicious qualities of the leade when as water also that is conueyed by pipes of leade Galen condemneth because it bredeth diseases in the entrails Syluius Moreouer the vessel altereth muche aswell in destillacions as in thynges sodden Wherefore a man must take great hied in these things that the vessels be rather earthen or glasse then of metall and those that be of earth y t they be of a very pure earth and wel baked such as be the earthen vessels of Paris Bellonaca England and Spain But glasen vessels are the best because they be more pure and thicker but they be dearer will breake soner except they be made hoat by litle and lyttle and cold likewise and after the same sorte be also earthen vessels for the which cause they daube both sorts of them by little and little with claye of wisdom as they call it and dry them so far as the force of the fire shall touch yea althoughe it be to be set first in ashes sande or dros of metals For those vessels that shal stand in water or in the vavapour therof nede no such defeÌ„ce The cause whi I condemne vessels of metals leade yron brasse tin siluer and gold is Galens reason in euery one almost of these kindes of metals For if he affirme that water onlye conueied in leaden pipes dothe brede diseases of the bowels howe muche more oughte we to feare waters destilled in a leaden limbecke or still Besides that no small cerusse remaineth cleauynge to the inner side of a leaden heade as in destillinge of Vinegar is gathered so by the force of the vehemente heate or brentnesse ascendinge vp wyth a vapour manye times also tarte that is of sharpe and tarte plantes whiche infecteth the verye waâ—ers and for the mooste part maketh them white like milcke till that it be setled and suncke to the bottome Vessels of other metalles that bried other roust or canker are so muche the more pearilous as rouste or canker is more hurtfull theâ—â—cerusse Vessels made of pure siluer or golde as they be leaste hurtefull so are they more harde to be gotten because of the coste Syluius The best vessels be of glasse the nexte earthen that be glased bothe wythin and wythoute then limbeckes of tinne the bodyes in destillinge of Roses of leade Thirdlye the limbeckes and the bodyes also of leade For the strengthe of the fyre if it be moderate it hurtes not the leade but these bodyes of leade muste bee sette in syfted ashes a handfull thicke not in sande Fourthlye limbeckes of copper tinned within Fifthlye brasen But copper and brasse haue two discommodities but the brasse more then the other the fyrste they make the waters for the mooste parte somewhat read and fautye wyth brentnesse the other there is euer a certaine venemous operation in them more then in other metalles therfore Christophorus de Honestis admonisheth to take hede and auoyde them Brunsvvick Therfore seinge all the mooste learned Phisicions and experyence it selfe doe vtterlye disalowe waters destylled in vessels of leade Brasse and other vncleane mettals some
water oft destilled is broughte into such sharpnes y t it can not be drunk Cardan But this is commonly known they that sell it commoÌ„ly are wont to destil it only twise but to the vse of glasiers for the burning in of their colors in their glasses foure times except I be deceiued We declared afore how when it is once or twise destilled in serpentins or writhen or crouked vessels or in other accustomed vessels with pipes of brasse as big as a mans arme may afterward be perfected in ashes vntill all the steame be put awaye by the which meanes it is made not only hoter and more subtil and finned but also more pleasaunte bothe to the taste and smell Neither do all men vse one forme or fashion of the bodies and heades whiche they call limbeckse to destill all â—uyces for some draw the water out of wine put in a great brasen vessel standing vpon the fire the necke or mouthe wherof is great and broad vpon a three fote and vpon this necke standeth the heade of brasse also with a top like a spire steple a thing like a paile or bucket D. compassing it ful of cold water that the large vapoure maye be thickned the soner by the head made cold and least the water of y e wine should so resemble the fire Some vse in the stead of a necke or heade to receiue the vapoure wyth a pipe of white plate or other mettall verye longe writhen into manye boughtes and tourninges like vnto the maner of serpents wherupon they name them coÌ„monly serpentins the greatest part therof standing in water Some haue also yet an other fashion Syluius We did see diuers fashyons of vessels set out in figures to destill burning water or aqua vitae in Gualter Ryffius Andro Lo nicerus Bulcasis saith wine may be destilled after the same maner as vineger the destillacion wher of he described Read within streight after the title of destillacion in ashes Aqua vitae is thought then to be stilled inough that is after it be stilled foure tymes at the leaste and pourged from all his fleame whan as if a manne sette it a fyre it wyll consume euery whit wyth the flame that no token of moysture be lefte in the bottome of the vessell or elsse if a lynnen clothe dipte therein and sette a fyre it burne not the clothe whyche is a greatter token of perfectyon as that also if a droppe of Oyle bee lette fall into it it goeth to the bottome For Oyle is aierye wherefore a fyrie substaunce whereunto Aqua vitae soo ofte destylled shoulde atteyne oughte too bee lyghter then it But besydes the heate of so destylled it should also become thin and pure more more and when euery fire the thicker and grosser it is the more it burneth contrariwise the thinner the lesse that which is most thin should burn leaste of all By the same cause it commeth to passe that a drop of Aqua vitae poured in the palme of a mans hand the better it is the soner it vanisheth awaye and is consumed I heare that this is a laudable note of this water if succinum amber being set on fire and put to it into a spone do burn Whan wine saith Vlstadius 10 â–ª chapter is destilled twyse or thrise you shall cut a fine sponge into pieces so great that on euery side they may touch the cucur bita or bodye within the vpper parte that is in the inner circuit the spoÌ„g must be tied in thre or four stringes hanging withoute when you shall set on the limbeck so that the sponge can not fal into the bottome of the still let the sponge be dipt in oyle oliue and crushed out a little again least pexauenture the oyle should fall into the pot or body of the stil and be mixt with the matter then settinge the limbeck vpon it shit it close with wax as is aforesaid or with purified rosen By this spong the spirits shal be best destilled and the fleame shall not passe through because of the oyle by this menes shall a man do more with once destilling then otherwise with thrise Notwithstandinge the limbeck must be made withoute the gutter and circle within like to a blinde limbecke but it muste not lacke a nose Thus saith he That whiche remayneth of the lies and dregs destilled in the bottom y â— meÌ„ of our time call it dead water for it is vnsauery and stinking Such that is the stinking water whether it be yeilden of lies onlye or also of wine I haue not tried For the destillation of aqua vitae or burning water a man muste chuse the best wine blacke red or white Black and old yelds more plenty and also better water then any other The fire at y â— first must be light and soft after more vehemeÌ„t but you must take hede in anye wise y t the wine sethe not The water that is gotten theroute is surnamed burning or the soul and life of the wine and when it is destilled twise or thrise then they cal it flaming water Albertus as some alledge Of fiue partes of lies wheÌ„ it is twise destilled I heare one remaineth or somwhat les Whan y â— fleame is one cleane consumed nothing is lost after in the destilling but the hole is yeilded again Of .iiii. measures of wine for the moste parte one measure of burnyng water is gathered in the first destillacion or there about according to the goodnes of the wine Then in the next destillacion for one measure there commeth the halfe In y â— third one part offiue is coÌ„sumed In y â— fourth as much is yelded as you put in for the most part if the destillacion be done accordingly Notwithstanding if you continue destillinge the water shall be the more perfect in so much that at the ninth or tenth destillacion it shal come out most perfect But for as much as to the repeting of destillinge so ofte a man must bestow both more time and more coste for the most part we are content with the third or the fourthe destillacion and call it perfecte And surely it resteth much in the instrument that the water should be perfected soner or slower For the vapour is more destilled and perfected in the first destillacion in a serpentin that is in a croked and bowed pipe theÌ„ thrise destilled by a streight pipe Note further that ther diuers waters may be gathered in the first destillacion wherof the firste is perfit that is that whiche burneth and is consumed with the fire and a linnen cloth dipte therin and set on fire is not burnt You shall proue therfore nowe and then and when the water ceaseth burninge looke what remaineth in the still you may cast it away as vnprofitable The second is a meane betwene good and bad The thirde is good for nothinge saue that it cleareth the eyes and the face if thrise a day they be washte therin morninge noone and euening
destillacion Annoynt the heade therewith and it healeth wormes the scuruinesse and scabbes pusculs and skailes It putteth awaye the spottes in the face and other wher Broken egges or egges that that lacke a shell put them in Aqua vitae and it will sieth them It healpeth the numnesse of a mannes sences called Apoplexia swellings steames tenesmum or desire to the stoole and wearynesse It amendeth the morphew beinge drunken or annoynted theruppon It maketh the skinne softe and pure To conclude it is good againste the bitinge of a mad dog It will heale any wouÌ„d excellentlye if it be washte therewith and so that no euill effect shall come therafter by the meanes of the same wound I perceiuinge Aqua vitae to be hotte and to dry did sometime mixte with it honye whereby it was bothe swieter to dryncke and gentler profitable for the colde stomacke speciallye in wynter Som mixt it with water made w t honye or rather with mede called apomelâ— which with vs coÌ„monly they make of hony coÌ„bs c. Som wet figs ther in set them on fire then eat them hot A maÌ„ may also mixt any sirup therwith one or other according as y e disease shall requyre To preserue wine y â— it be not troubled nor putrified put to it the teÌ„th part of Aqua vitae in dede sulphur is far better for the same purpose but it bewrayeth the crafte and the smell there of The same will alum do but being bothe hurtfull they are verye noysome to the health Cardane If wine by the meanes of the sauour of the vessels or taste of the grapes be corrupte and soured poure Aqua vitae into it and it will restore it The same purgeth haÌ„ging wine that is new also wine that is putrified and soured also for it conuertes vineger To conclude it bringeth a good smel and tast also to any wine be it neuer so euel or corrupt and good wine also it makes it better Albertus as some alledge When the wine is to be drawen into an empty vessel most vse to put in a ball of brimston set a fyre other vse Aqua vitae dipping towe therein Wine that is made to haue anye taste or smell out of hand in a momente is both a curious thing for rich men cheiffy which wil aduaunt them of y e sortes of wine and also profitable For the qualities of diuers remedies may be communicated by this meanes with the wine Herbes sedes or spyces whatsoeuer they be let them be poured into Aqua vitae for the space of .xxiiii. houres for so the strength of them shal be drawen out Then y e waters so affected and died shall be mixt with a lyttle wine when ye wil drink Arnoldus de vâ—lla noua How that wine is made which they calcommoÌ„ly Hippocras with Aqua vitae and certaine spices stiept therein I will declare when I shall speake of wines Of the quintessens of wine I shall speake within in the title of quintessens Of such thinges as be destilled dry put into any liquor THe thinges that be dry can not be destilled except they be stiept in some liquor Of theis wil I write in this place Of those that whiles they be new be stiept and wet in some liquor befor thei be destilled I wil speake hereafter amongst waters compoundes in the beginning Although the waters wherof we speake here may be counted among the compoundes Dry thinges therfor first let them be broken and grounde then let them be stiept in some liquor wine vineger rain water or of the wel spring and those ether raw or destilled Vineger and wine are destilled for this purpose somtimes once sometimes ofter or in some other destilled liquor They maye be stiepte also in the iuyce of som herb or plant and that likewise ether rawe orels that is better destilled Aqua vitae rectified semeth to agre best to the stieping of spyces except we wil auoyd to much heat wherwith the thynges destilled in them myghte be infected withall when the liquor is drawne awaye Some still Cinnamon beaten with spring water poured to it as we shall shewe amongste Oyles Sedes also and other spices wheroute oyle is taken are stiept in some of the forsaid liquors It is best according to my iudgement to destill all these thinges dry thinges I meane infused and poured into anything in ashes with a softe fire Of waters of vertues or golden waters that are wont to be made with saudge other smelling herbes spices set in wine I wil speke within amongst the coÌ„pounded waters of them that are put in burning water emongst the composed waters of life It is to be considered also how long they staÌ„d to soke in wine for new thinges they y t be thin or opeÌ„ not massy nede les time theÌ„ dry grosse and thick beaten things theÌ„ hole the rotes then the sedes spices they againe les then the herbs Read befor wheÌ„ we gaue rules of y e preparacion of things to be destilled The coÌ„mon custom is to destil theÌ„ almost only dry set in wine first a fewe daies as spices smelling herbes But all other things also whose smel or tast what maner so euer it be we wil haue kept in the liquor destilled they are rightly destilled by soking in wine as I taughte afore also whereas I made mention of wormwod water of the preseruation of the vertues of remedies in y e waters destilled And surely in those which when they are new abound w t much moisture therfore haue y e les smel as gentian astrantia y e flour deluce y â— beries of iuniper other I wold more alow y e liquors of drithinges set in wine or other wher but if y e thinges be thin or slendar or of no sauor or ought to coul moisteÌ„ they should be destilled rather new Sometimes the time of the yeare causeth a man to take dryethinges because of the lacke or scarsity of fresh Gentian water Take .iiii. pounds of the fresh and new rotes or rather dry cut in small peces of great Gentian or white Gentian whose rotes are moste fat and beinge set in wine they nether corrupte them selues nor suffer the wine to corrupt as I haue tried my self by the space of these ii â–ª yeres set in a couple of great glasses in a stoufnie the fornace or hang them if you wil the glasses diligeÌ„tly stopt and put into them pure good wine so much that the wine be .ii. fingers aboue theÌ„ you shal euer put new wine vnto them stil til the rotes wil drinke no more and so the wine being aboue it a two fingars as I saide let the glasses stand a moneth and at length put theÌ„ into .ii. cucurbitas y e wine and the rotes destributed together destil them in Balneo Mariae or els in ashes with a soft fire Of the water of Centory y â— les and gentian together destilled in wine
reade within amongst composed waters Iuniper beries also dry set in wine geue a very good liquor swiet smellinge but wormwode soked a few daies geueth a water very effectuall and most bitter and the more if it be destilled in ashes which both waies I haue tried Pelitory other fresh or dry is set in wine or vineger destilled or vndestiâ—led â–ª These thynges also sookte in burnynge water as I sayde do communicate theyr strength wyth it but I heare it is done muche moore effectuallye if the thynges be beaten at the beginnynge and myxte wyth the lyes of wine redye to bee destylled for of theese rather then of wine the men of our country draw Aqua vitae So also did one teache me in counsell as a greate secreate that Wormwode water and other maye be best made I haue not tried it yet Water of Roses wyth drye Roses is so made Pour water to dry Roses not more theÌ„ is sufficient to stiep them in then put them from thence into glasen cucurbitas or leaden and destill them by little and little This water shall be profitable in medicins and also to garnishing and trimming or to the smel Ther was a certain man put to one pound of dry Roses ten pouÌ„d of water and destilled Rose water indifferente good But thys is not done saue when a man hathe not newe to make Rose water of Bulcasis If the Roses whyche we call commonly incarnation Roses dried moystned with the vapor of hot water be destilled they wil geue good Rose water Syluius The water of the nux vomica or spueinge nut or the iuice gotten out with fire is like the water in colour not in smel or tast the chiefest remedy against poysoÌ„ Cardanus in his second buke de subtilitate And a little after If the poyson newly taken remain yet in the stomake the best kind of remedies be they that prouoke much to vomit stroÌ„gly milke lie oyle the water of the spewing nut I suppose he meaneth by the iuyce gotten out by the fire nothinge els but the water destilled thereof For he nameth water that is like it in colour not in smel nor tast which agreeth with destilled waters But when as the spewing nut euery whit is most hard and dry it apeareth that his shel must be sookt in some liquor as water wine vineger Aqua vitae I wold soke it rather in vineger whiche by it self resisteth poyson and is good to prouoke vomitting Waters destilled of new and fresh plaÌ„ts saith Brunsvvick ought to be preferred whiche if they can not be had ether for some other cause or because they be brought out of straunge countryes only dry as spicknarde lauander stichae scoenantum the hard time c. Thou shalt destill oute of them dry in this manner In the month of May euery yere before the sunne rise when it hath not rained the hole night the sky is fair thou shalt gather dew out of som medow ful of diuers kind of herbes and flours no watery ground nor wet nor in a holow place but rather vpon some hil if it be possible Thou maist gather it thus draw a fair linnen cloth sprede abrode vpon the grasse til it haue dronken much of the dew then wryng it out into some vessell and draw it again and fill it euer wringing it out againe til thou haue gathred inough This dew thou shalt destil thrise in Balneum Mariae and rectifye it also in the sunne that is in hot sand for the space of xl daies and kepe it a yere TheÌ„ what time of the yere so euer thou lakst liquor of dry herbes do thus Take as many herbs as thou list dried in the shadow the leaues being taken away and kepte apart by theÌ„ selues put them in a glasse and pour vpon them thrise so much water of dewe or at thre times so that first thou power on so much that the herbes be sufficieÌ„tly ouercouered with water and againe twis so muche Then set it in hors dung twoo or three daies still it and putrifie it againe so that it be thrys putrified and destilled by course in order This water surely shal be muche better then if a man as Bulcasis wryteth to one pound of dry roses or other herbes or floures shall put ten pouÌ„d of common water and destill it by and by A certaine cunning phisicion wryteth that if water bee destilled out of dry thinges after this forsaid maner sooke in dew not thrys only destilled but nyn tymes it shal be better water then if it were made of freshe and newe thinges whiche haue muche fleame in them The same affirmeth that dew nyn times destilled doth drawe out the vertues out of the herbes that be put in it no les then aqua vitae Hitherto Brunsvvick And in the dew it selfe also there is a certaine medicinall vertue as Brunsvvick techeth in an other place to be in the water therof destilled In the falling sicknes if thou make a cake of meale knod with nighterly dew of saint Iohn and bake it vnder the ashes then giue it to the sicke to eate thei say it wil make him hoal AlexaÌ„der Benedictê° Of quint essence of remedies QVint essence they name to be the chief and the heauenliest power or vertue in any plant me tall beast or in the partes therof which by y e force and puritie of the hoale substaunce not by any elimentall or sensible qualitie although it be not without qualities conserueth the good health of mans body prolongeth a mans youthe differeth age and putteth away all maner of diseases Of this first of al meÌ„ writ RaimuÌ„dus Lullê° although it wer vnknowen to al the physicians of his time nether written of in any booke nor tryed or gone aboute in any vse After him foloweth besides other Iohannes de Rupe scissa whome one certain man thinkes he flourished before Lullus as I writ afore I iudge they were both in one tyme Hieronimus Brunsvvick Philippus Vlstadius and perauenture a few other whiche writ sumwhat of the same Sum kind therof is simple as y t moste famous quint essence of wyne or Aqua vitae of chelidony or selandyn of mans bloud of strawberys of Antimonii c. Other ar coÌ„pounde that is wheÌ„ certain remedies ar put to sum quint essence now perfited y t it may draw out y t vertues of theÌ„ wherunto gold y t may be drunken ought to be assribed But here springeth a doute saith Cardane whether a man may make y e water teÌ„perat which thei cal quint essence It wil be as I shal proue of the nature of the firmameÌ„t that is a most pure thin substance moueable which by the mouing reteineth a temperat heat very muche therof This thefor is of power to coÌ„serue al strengths topro long life For being most subtil it mixith it self w t the first moistur pearcing the massy thinges separateth the excremeÌ„ts which be coÌ„teined therin And because it hath much
merueilous and innumerable against al colde diseases It is made in this wise c. he describeth streight way the maner of destilling biserpentins as they call them he addeth also other thinges which all do agree with the simple Aqua vite in so much that I suppose the boke to be corrupted by the fault of the Printer VVhat medicines be mixt vvith Aqua vitae without any destillation first within the body then without MAny times instrumentes time or cost faileth a man that those medicines whose strength he wold haue in his aqua vitae as though it were by a certain metempsy chosin y â— is a transposinge of the soules or principal vertues he can not mixt them with it by destilation whiche onely waye is the chief and best of al other to mixt thinges together for both by disgestioÌ„ as though it were a preparation in a moderat heat first one mixture is made then in destillation twyse as muche first of the vapours by the least and moste pure partes of the spirites then by dropes when they gather together into water but circulatioÌ„ is it that bringeth a perfectnes and absolutnes to all mixtures and without doubt no mixtur that men deuise or inuent can more properly and ny imitate the naturall mixture whiche is plain by this argument taken of the ende and effect for thinges prepared in this wyse and mixed do les corrupt then by any other meanes and hauing gotten a certain moste simple and moste pure substaunce that they seme to the sence to be simple and of an airy or a fytte substaunce they attain vnto a certain incorruptioÌ„ as nye as may be This is euideÌ„t loke how much any thyng shall haue the partes wherof it consisteth les exactly and throughly mixt so muche the nerer it is to corruption whiche first and chiefly in those bodies that are called metâ—ora that is thinges bred on hy in the firmameÌ„t moreouer in many other thinges mixed ether by nature or by arte is easy to be vnderstanded But for so muche as in so diuers states of men sum for one hinderaunce sum for an other thei can not alwayes folow that whiche is best if quint essence can not be made at the least the second or the third or as many as may be let the destillacions be repeted with a slow fire for any mixture is done better by litle and litle and slowly then sodenly and violently And if a man can not destill together with the aqua vitae the medicines whose strengthe he desyreth to mixt with it yet at the least wyse let them be broken and stiept a whyle in it for it draweth vnto it the vertues of all thinges that are put in it There is a booke of Arnoldes de villa noua or rather of Rogerius whiche I haue written wher in is declared particularly to what diseases and sicknesses what medicines ought to be put to sooke into aqua vitae for euery part of the body which he doth attribute to the twelue signes of y e zodiak It is well knowen in many ages hitherto that gentian is the best preseruatiue against certaine moste greuous diseases and poysons but sum vse to power the pouder of the same with burning water as muche more effectual into the throotes of beastes whome they knowe or thinke to be hurte with poyson in their meet or drinke or els by byting or stinging and if gentian can not be gotten the burning water by it selfe To the remedy of certain sicknesses of man specially of the bulke or brest apomeli may be put for both certain men couÌ„t it otherwise for dainty to haue apomeli mixt with burning water also a toost of breed mixt therwith many take for a breekfast A maÌ„ may also against diuers sicknessess giue men to drinke the water of gentiaÌ„ artificially destilled with wyn mixt after with apomeli or swiet hypocras Wormwood wyn most excellent sum make on this wyse they power to the leaues of wormwod specially when it is dried the best burning water and so much malmsey Of this they take a little sponefull and mixt with a litle draught of wyn so giue it to drinke So is it made by and by and effectually and is long preserued I my self gaue it once to drinke for the colick and had good succes The same meanes a man may vse also in other as wel herbes as spices c. For both the vertue is drawen out so in a short space and the drink is also the more plesaunt and besides that it may be kept long inough Grien aqua vitae Take Melissa called baulm balsamita dried both in the shadowe of the first .iii. vnces of the other two vnces put them into .iiii. poundes of aqua vitae destilled fowre tymes in Balneo Mariae eight daies then vse it ether alone or mixting with it other kyndes of aqua vitae composed to comforte the stomake The herbes must bee dried in the shade that the colour may bee made grien and moste beutifull For if a man dry them in the sun the water shall proue darke as the iuice of any other herbe Vlstad lvi chap. A man may also dy it with other colours whiche may encrease both the grace of y e coloure and the strength of the medicin as with saffron with red or yallow parsnipes dried Sum put to it in summer black sower cheries whereby also the tast is made more plesant and the heet is les perauenture moor asswaged Sum put into burning water mint cut beaten and set it in the sun foure daies or fiue then sighe it and set it in the sun again With this they wiet the tip of their noos against corrupt and pestilent ayre ¶ Hereafter will I put the vse of burning water with other medicines without the body Many mixt a litle burning water with hoot oynmentes as Martiatum Arragon dialthaea at suche tyme as they should vse them and wil them so to be annoynted vpon the griefes A water that norysheth and restoreth the heat of the brayn wherewith the head is to be rubbed Two vnces of aqua vite Moschocarium Cloues maioram cubebe long peper of euery one halfe a dram When they are pound mixt them and rub them vpon the head a certain space Sum put to it a scruple of euphorbium Epiphanius a practicioner other put to other smellinge and hoot things as sage six vncees rew ginger graynes of paradys cinnamum flowers ot rosemary the bark of a citron of euery one half an vnce an vnce of oyle de bay a dram of spik a dram and a half of castoreum And in a destilled liquor they hang mosch amber of ether of theÌ„ a graine Thys they say is good to annoynt the hed and also with the smell it putteth away the palsy and apoplexia A merueylous water of the same mannes for the impostumes or botches of the priuye members Three yolkes of egges hard rosted and cut small pun them in
a morter poure in to them ten ounces of Aqua vitae wyth a scruple of Alam .ii. drams of Camphora and a halfe of rust all pund together when they are stiept a while streine thē wyth strength throughe a linnen cloth wet a linnen cloth in this liquor and laye it vpon the swelling .iii. or .iiii. times a daye thou shalt meruel at the working of it A vvater to vvashe the partes taken with the Palsey MYrrha aloes ladanum right turpentin castoreum of euery one .ii. drams zedoria Galangall cubaebae Nutmegs long peper pyretrum of euery one .iii. drams The little white Dasy with the red tops iua Arthritica stichas Arabica sage Maioram mint penye royall the les Centaurye Roosemarye of enerye one halfe an ounce when they are all punde poure them into .xii. poundes of destilled Aqua vitae iii. dayes As I founde in a certaine wrytten booke but perauenture there is to muche Aqua vitae For to euery pounde thereof vi drams only with a scruple perauenture of the species are put In the disease called the French pockes somtimes the iawes and throte are eaten wyth euyll destillaciōs whiche onles a man finde remeadye for oftentimes the gargil is wasted oftentymes the corruption passeth to the very bones Therefore a man muste purge them and turne them aside c. There is a marueylous water made for the same purpose They destill Triacle in Aqua vitae and vineger in a limbeck a most cleare water issueth out of many vertues but chiefly it helpeth where the strength of the medicine oughte to be conducted sōwhat diep if therfore thou dissolue in it bole armoniak or sphragida and touche the partes that be freten thou shalt both kil the cause of that contagion heale al the freting Fracastorius in his .iii. boke of contagions Of destilled vvaters composed but wyth other then wyth Aqua vitae SVche waters as are destilled of two or mooe medicines mixte together I call them composed Of thys sort some are vsed for medicine some for smellinge some are inuented for garnishinge trymmynge and deckynge There be some that wyll do two of these or all Notwithstandinge we wyll referre euerye one to one kynde that is wherein it excelleth mooste Againe of theim that be vsed in medicine some are receyued into the bodye other some are minystred onlye wythoute other some bothe wayes We will make onlye two Chapters for all thoughe some bee vsed bothe wayes yet they are moore vsed other wythin and wythoute Agayne of them that bee receyued into the bodye some are moore symple whyche wee shall fyrste descrybe secundarilye those that bee composed of moe Of the kyndes of Aqua vitae composed where the spices are sooked in pure and onlye Aqua vitae we haue written seuerallye by them selues Heare wyll we putte the other as I sayde and those which they call waters of caponum and one with certain medicines put into swines bloud To be sooked in wine and after to bee destylled it seemeth to bee ordeined chieflye for those hearbes and medicines whyche haue little iuyce of them selues as Sage Betanye Melissa called Baulme Wormewode c. whych more ouer by that meanes do retaine more firmlye theyr owne sauoure the wine drawing it and drinking it vp that it canne not dispersed for the thinnesse we shall speake heare of certayne thynges to bee stieped in wyne but whyle they be newe for wee haue entreated of .iiii. dry things stieped in wine other liquor and so destylled Betany commonly called betany and in dutch eerenbreyʒ is stiept in wine a few daies likewise melissa They shall haue the same vertues strengthes but more effectually and more subtil then the herbes by them selues alone Melissa that is citraria saith Lullus let it be put in wine to be destilled Let a man drinke a sponefull of this wine fasting It sharpneth the vnderstanding and the wit encreaseth the memory To a man that stutteth ▪ lay a linnen cloth wet in thys wyne vppon hys tounge and he shall speke right excepte he stut by nature He that is sycke of the palsey let hym drincke it fastinge wyth a litle triacle and he shall be cured perfectly It cureth the stinkinge breath and putteth away touth ache Fleshe or fyshe layde therin corrupte not and may be kepte as longe as a man will Being put into turned wine it restoreth it It breaketh the stone It prouoketh vrine and wemens floures It is good agaynste the fretting of the guttes and pain of the raynes It oughte to be drounken agaynst kirnels vnder the chin and a plaster to be made of the hearbe If it be drunken fastinge it breaketh all inwarde and hid impostumes It healeth all stitches whyche tende towarde the hart or sides It is repugnant against al kinds of worms with in the body It taketh away all corruption of the body quick or dead It healeth al that it toucheth and preserueth it in good health in good quart ▪ It cheareth the spirites it is good for al the members and healeth the kyndes of colde droppes Aboue all thynges it comforteth the synnewes It is moste profitable against scabbednes cumming of could It sharpeneth y e sight of him that drinketh it It taketh away duskishnes teares of and superfluous humors of the eies It is holsome for the brest profitable for cōcoction against euill humors that letteth it Drunken with good wyne it stireth the appetyt It putteth away spots and frakenes of the face that is washt therwith if so be it a litle baulm be put to it then the face washt tnerwith it maketh also good colour It healeth the iawe bones The smell of it killeth al gnates and wormes It cureth the dropsy cumming of a coulde cause and superfluous choler with drinking and washyng Al maner of woundes may be washt well with it and so they shal be preserued from all putrifying It healeth all kindes of agues but moste of all quartaines The drinking of this wyne letteth the diseas of saint Lazarus from encreasing It is good also for them whose brain is perished and for the frantik Also if a man eat a spider by chaunce and drinke this wyne stregthway vpon it he can not be hurt of the poyson Theis wryteth Lullus Melissa beaten is stieptin wyne a night Men say this water destilled and drunkē euery day and holden in the mouth it cureth the benumming of the senses all so the falling sicknes the dropsy the quartain ague and other diuers diseases of black choler or fleume It is ministred also to the strangleng of the wombe and toth ache Remaclus F. A water of the les centory worthy to be compa red vnto gold Take one part of gentian two partes of cētory when they are pund and sookt in wyne fiue daies destill them This water drunke morning and euening preserueth the body from all kyndes of diseases It putteth away all impostumes it maketh good colour It resisteth the pestilence it heleth the
half of the sede of Darnell for the space of .ii. daies let them be destilled An other causing slepe Take the seede of Darnell a pound half a pound of the sede of Henbane ii poundes of the sede of Purslan iii. vnces of the sede or rote of Mandrag as muche of Alkekengi wheÌ„ they are pund pour to theÌ„ a pouÌ„d of y e iuice of benes turned vp set down as much of the rotes or leues of Henbane half a pound of the iuyce of the leaues of black popy or if it be lacking or red minister an ounce of this water when it is destilled It is vehement and of great vertue A water called stony y e third of Aegidiê° becaus it breketh y e stone The sede of Pimpernel Petroselini Apii Ari otherwis Caryophylli Musterd sede leuing out Aro the bur also Apii bothe the herb the rote for the sede is named before burs Mastiches of eueri one like much wheÌ„ thei ar wel puÌ„d let theÌ„ be mixt w t the blud of a linx otherwis a he Gote better a little Vineger poured to it let theÌ„ stand a few daies in a vessel wel closed and theÌ„ at the last let them be destilled It is good for theÌ„ that be troubled with the stone what manner of stone so euer it be red white sharpe or plane if so be it the stone be confirmed gathered to some streÌ„gth let the pacieÌ„t drink of this water eueri dai for so shal it be brokeÌ„ brought into saÌ„d If so be icabd heds be washt once a day w t this water thei shal be made hole new heere 's shall spring the scabs shal be cured within .ix. dais otherwise any kind of scabs washt therw t is made hole w tin .iii. or .iiii. dais If it be droÌ„k fasting it maketh good blud good colour more theÌ„ any other medicin merueilouslye it strengtheneth the sinewes and taketh away the falling sicknes if it be druÌ„k twise a day Otherwise is added It heleth clene y e palsy if it be not dead in y e meÌ„bres Aegidius Lullê° An approued vvater for the sores of the raines and bladder by the cardinall of Tutellis CAudae equinae plantain red roses the grains of AlkekeÌ„gi the rotes of holy hok shauen or scraped licoris of eueri one an vnce IuiubaruÌ„ SebesteÌ„ of ether of theÌ„ .vi. draÌ„s bol armoniak half an vnce iiii cummen sedes could great cleÌ„sed of euery one .iii. draÌ„s the sede of white popy .vi. draÌ„s half an ounce of cytoniorum of the thinnest of gotes milk .vi. pound Let theÌ„ stand .ii. daies in the infusion or soking and after let them be destilled Geue the sick to drinck .iiii. vnces warm so longe as the disease continueth Epiphanius Empiricus An other water composed the second amongst the waters of Aegidius it is red of also in y e booke of Lullus of waters Rue Satyrion with y e hauds and stones Selandin otherwise Rue Agrimony Satyrion Chelidoni Suger otherwise Tutia the stone called Calaminaris al of like weight puÌ„d must be destilled with a slow fire This water excelleth in many vertues No disease of the eyes is so obstinate and great but it wil vanish awai and geue place to this medicin Being drunke it dryueth away all poyson other taken wyth meates for so it auoydeth the poyson by vomit It cureth y e dropsy it purgeth the stomak from al ill humors it quencheth y e holy fire in one day if flax dipt in it be laid vpoÌ„ y e sore It is good also against y e fire of a blak disposicioÌ„ white without or as a certain Dutch boke hath against y e inward heat of y e fire for if it appere red w tout it shal in no wise be conuenient to lay on a plaster It healeth the canker if aloes be mixt with it and a little towe of hempe dipt in it be laid like a plaster vpoÌ„ it twise a day A water composed the fyrste amongste Aegidius waters HIssop peny royal Charyo Cikory of euery one a draÌ„ let them be puÌ„d destilled After take tutiae persly of Alexan. Rue Zedoaria aloes the stone called calaminaris of euerye one a dram when they are pund sieth theÌ„ in y e forsaith water till y â— third part be wasted the liquor streyned with a cloth thou shalt kiep it in a glas diligently closed nyne days otherwyse .xl. Afterward let it be giuen in drink euery day in the morning before day other wyse by the space of .x. daies to the sick fasting It is proffitable against the falling sicknes if he that takes it continue fasting after it six houres And truly it is a moste effectuall remedy It heeleth al resolucion of the sinewes and the members are strengthened therby If it be drunck with Castorium it is good against all goutes whiche hath not taken rout yet in the members If it be drunk ix daies together fasting it puttes away all maner of agues what matter soeuer it cum of if it be drunk .ix. daies euery morning early This water is also moste profitable to wash wouÌ„des in which the sinues are cut An other of Aegidius the .ix. in number otherwyse they call it double The siede of Apii the sied of whyt Popy Apii ginger otherwise The sied of Apii whyte Popy sugar Carioph of euery one equall weght Pund in a morter put to it conseruatiue water that is destilled of persely and destill it This is the chiefest remedy for the cough and brest ill at eas If a man drinke it coulde fasting and in the euening as hoot as he can If it be drunken hoot with Castorio it is good against the disease called Apoplexia it healeth also the meÌ„bers sicke of the Palsy if so be the Palsy be not deed in the meÌ„bers It bringeth sliep rest easly it chereth all the members it driueth away il humors and strengtheneth the heed and the brayne An other the sixe in number amongst Aegidius waters Gladiolus Hyssop Sauin Sothernwood otherwys the sied of Sothernwood leuing out Sauin I like it not of euery one lyke much beate them together and let it stand a certain daies theÌ„ destill it This water is of greet streÌ„gth It with standeth all agues both hoot and cold It prouoketh wemens floures if it be drunk thrys but it is hurtfull to wemen with chyld and will destroy it It stauncheth the bluddy flyx and other flyx I would say rather that it styreth bloud rather euery where then to stop an other booke speeketh of nothing but stopping the flix of the bely It purgeth y e stomack froÌ„ ill humors It killeth worms being drunken fasting it cureth al the grief with Castorio it heeleth the palsy if it be drunke daily very hoot within .iii. daies The same descriptioÌ„ fynd I in the booke of Lullus of waters A vvater agrinst the Pestilence c. of the bloud of a Wether or gelded Ram out of a certain Duche
shall be plaine by the example followinge Againe smellinge waters are ether destilled hoole or els after the destyllacion certaine precyous smelling thinges are added vnto them Som are made without any destillacion at all The Pouder of the Floure Deluce mixte wyth hotte water maketh it to smell and is vsed of Barbers The Floures of Lauendula or Lauender and muche rather of that whiche is communly called Spick both grien and drye are put into water or wyn or burning water in a vessel wel stopt set in the sun that thei may infect it with their smell But if they be yet fresh moyst they turn the wyn almoste into vynegar which if they be dry they do not so The liquor shal be made the more smelling if the flowers bee dryed in the sun in a glas closed and afterward whyt wyne be put to it If so be it a man desyer to haue a swiet water forthwith and by and by let him put a drop or two of oyle of Spick vnto a good deele of pure water and chauf it together in a glas with a narow mouth Al thies although they be made with out destillacion the same notwithstanding being right destilled specially if certayn other thinges be mixt with thē other precious ▪ as Muske Ambra ziuet Caphura Agallochū or meaner thinges as Assadubis Styrap and Stacte Myrh or any other spyces chiefly cloues or elles thinges of les estimation as Roses the barkes of flowers or leaues of Orenges Lymons Arentii Bay leaues commun swiet herbes Rosemary Amaracus Basill c. they shal be made much the swieter Saffron is to strong and stuffeth the heed Rosevvater vvith muske Saffron Cloues Caphura out of Bulcasis WIth Musk Put a croun of good Musk beten in two poūdes of Rosewater in the bely of a glas still And destill it by litle litle then put it in a glas well stopt It is a water marueilous swiet and conuenient for a king that their clothes may be sprinkled therwith With Saffron Put half an vnce of good Saffron in two poundes of Rose water for the space of one day and destill it This water is holsom to be mixt with medicins also for smel garnishing With Cloues Put half an vnce of Cloues beten in a pound and a halfe of Rose water .xxiiii. houres and destill it With Caphura Destill an vnce of Caphura w t a poūd of rosewater vse it in medicines for kings After the same maner is Roosed water made with Saunders and other spices swiet smelling what so euer a man will Sum destill all thies in pure water in stede of Rosewater A thre leued herb thei cal it Tribulū at Rome an herb most swiet of sauor which they destil for per fumes and to make diuers other wanton swiete sauoures The munkes in Mesuen A water of swiet sauour wherwith the strengthes of the heed hart and stomacke are reuiued ▪ foure handfull of the flowers of Lauendula Roses whyte and red of ether two handful Rosemary Caryophyllata newe and freshe Cyperus the barke of Citranguli of euery one a handful Mint Sage Tym Bay leues or Peny royall of euery one halfe a handfull .iiii. vnces of Cloues Galingall Nucis mosch Calamus Aromaticus Ginger Cinamon the flowers I thinke better the rootes of flower deluce of euery halfe an vnce Six poundes of whyte wyne or q. s that is as much as shall suffise When they are pund let thē be put into a glas well closed for the space of eight daies afterward vse them It is excellent to wash the handes if thou mixt a litle of it with a great dele of pure water A mā may vse it also destilled put in a scruple of musk Epiphanius Empericus An other of the same mans delectable with a maruelous swietnes of sauour ziuet Muske of ether a dram let it be tyed in a fyne linnen cloth let it be set to sooke in two poundes of Rose water a few daies in the sun An other of the same mans of a very swiet sauour Basill Mint Samsuchum or Maioram flower deluce Hyssop Balsamita I take it to be Sisymbrium Sauery Sage Melissa Lauender Rosemary of euery one halfe a handfull Cloues Cinamon Nutmegges of euerye one an vnce The pome Citrangula of the kynd of Citriorum the figure of an egg of a yeloowe wax colour iii. or .iiii. Let them be beeten and set .iii. daies in rose water then let them be destilled with a slowe fyre When the destillatiō is finished put to a scruple of Muske and set it in the sun An other of the same mans of most excellent sauour Thre poundes of Rosewater Cloues Cinamō Saūders Citrinorū of euery one .vi. drā .ii. handful of the flowers of Lauender .vi. drās of Assa dulcis Malmsey Aqua vitae of ether .ii. vnces Let it stand a moneth to soke in y e sun wel closed in a glas or vpon y e top of a furnace of a stouf Then destil it in Balneo Mariae and at half a drā of Muske to the destillacion Then let it stand .x. dayes in the sun or aboue the fornace so vse it It is marueylous pleasaunt in sauour VVaters of svviet sauour of Andreas Furnerius in his Frenche booke of the garnishyng of mans nature A Water of wonderous swietnes for the perfuming of the shietes of a bed wher by the hooll place shal haue a moste plesaunt sent Put into a litle phial of glas xviii or .xx. graines of Musk and ziuet and a litle of Ambra After filled full of Rosewater set it ouer the fyre and when it is hoot take it away thē let it stande to coule well cloosed after you haue let it stand soo a two daies you may vse it from thence forward It is as good as though it were destilled When thou wilt perfume thy shirt or other linnen put it in a vessell with a wyde mouth and spreed the clothes vpon it boyling that they may drinke vp the vapour and breth of it An other maner of swiet water whiche men call Cassoleptam that is Capsula Power into sum litle vessell of laton a litle Rosewater made with muske and a litle ziuet and Cloues Agallochum styrap calamita when they are all pund against a fyre mixt them and perfume any clothes that ye will with the vapour ascending there from It is a marueilous swiet sauour whiche if thou wilt kepe close the vessell diligently and when thou thinkest good put more Rosewater vnto it that it may be renued An other Thou shalt put into .iiii. poundes of Roosewater Assa dulcis somewhat grose beaten Stirax and Cloues Camphora Agallocum of euery one an vnce Musck Siuet of ether of thē xx grains Put these together in a glas shit with a parchment prickt through with .x. or .xii. small holes and let the vessel boile .iiii. houres in a kettle ful with water as thoughe it were in Balneo Mariae After when it is cold straine it throughe a
fine linnen cloth and kepe it in a glas in y e which v. grains of Muske shal be put which once moistened and stieped with the water thou shalt stop the glas and set it in the sunne .v. daies So shalt thou haue a wonderful well smelling water A swiet water and vnknown wherof one part mixte with .x. partes of pure water maketh the hoole moste swiet .xx. graines or there aboute of Muske as the smel therof pleaseth the moore or les Nutmegs Cloues Galingal Spikenarde graines of paradise Mace CinamoÌ„ of euery one an ounce All theese pund let them be put into a glas mete to destil in with a pound a half or ther aboute of Roosewater poured vnto it Let it staÌ„d so for the space of .iiii. or .v. dayes afterwarde put to it thryse as muche Roosewater and destill all thys in a limbecke in a kettle full of water siething as in a Balneo Mariae Thou shalt kepe the water gathered therof diligently stopt for y â— same vse that the former serueth for An other excellent water Two pound of the water of the floures of Citri One pounde of the water of red Roses of Myrtus half a pounde Of muske Roses a good quantitye likewyse of Iasmin that is to say of the floures Of cloues halfe an vnce .iii. vnces of Assa dulcis well beaten one vnce of Vernicis Styrax calamita red Styrax of ether half an vnce All these pund mixt with water thou shalt destil them in a glasen limbeck the head and the receiuer diligently closed with clay with a soft fire or in a Balneo Mariae or in a kettle full of siething water A water of most swiet sauor with y e which oyl is destilled also The last being mixt with a hundreth times as much of pure water doth sauoure it all with the swietnes therof but this with a. M times as much A pound of Myrre chosen pure new and fat beaten into smal peces half a pound of the iuyce of Rooses when they are mixte together in a limbecke let them be destilled in ashes wher first thou shalt separate the water w t a slow fire theÌ„ make y e fire bigger separat y e oyl at last deuide the water from the oyl That water maketh the face brighte It closeth woundes effectuallye as well olde as newe The oyle is mooste precyous and dothe the same thynges that the water dothe but muche sooner as for example it dothe that in an houre that the water is aboute a hoole daye An ounce of thys water destilled mixt with certain hundred times as much of pure water maketh them all notably wel smelling but an ounce of the oyle if it be put to certayne hundred poundes of pure water doth the same A certaine Roosewater made wyth Muscke whiche is required and vsed also inother compositioÌ„s Put a .xii. graines or more of Muscke in a glas that is wide beneath and narowe aboue so closed with a parchmente set it in the sunne a iiii or .v. daies Afterwarde take an other glasse like vnto it full of Rooses dried and beaten stop y e mouth of it w t a fine thin cloth other linneÌ„ or of hear TheÌ„ put y e mouth of y e vessell y t conteineth y e roses into y e mouth of thother wherin the musk is conteined and stop it aboute diligentlye â—oyth clay and set it in the sun so that the glas with roses be the vppermost the other beneath in a windowe or other where where the heat of the sunne is vehement Thou maist also sprinkle the Roses moderatly dried and beaten with good Rose water and so put them into a still c. Thys water most swiet thou maist vse when thou wylt bothe alum and also mixt with other composicions VVaters destilled called Cosmeticall that is perteininge to garnishynge and deckinge DEstylled waters for garnishinge are deuyded also into certayne differences for some are for the face to make the coloure of it whyte ruddye bryghte to put awaye wrinckles to preserue and kepe it from Sunne burning or to abolish the spots and rusty roughnes in it Other pertain to the heares and to the chaunginge of the coloure in them Other make the tieth white Al the vse of Cosmetical and garnishing thinges oughte not to be taken for vnhonest and vndecent for a man that is wel instituted and godly mineded for Galen also the mooste famous of all phisicions prescribeth cosmeticall medicines not a few in his worcke of composicion accordinge to places and he declareth that the vse of theÌ„ is many times profitable and honest For the leudnesse of certain maried men is suche that for small and light faultes of their wiues they are turned from the loue of them vnto harlots and hores and certain faults or blemishes are such that a man of a bashful nature wold be ashamed to be sene abrode with them some also bring vexation or griefe or itch as certain whelks in the face c. I write not this vnto wemen or other men but vnto Phisicions only who should be good and discrete men y â— both otherwise they may vse these honest remeadies and medicins and chiefly wheÌ„ such as these be are required of the wife 's of tried honestye of Kinges Princes and noble men More of these thinges and what the art of garnishinge wherin honest garnishinge is soughte for differs for the commeticall and deceitfull thou shalt read in Galen of composi medic sec locos the first boke 2. ch Such Cosmetical waters as be simple we wil not declare heare as be the waters of Bean floures Strawberies Dew Gotes milke Read before of the water of strawberies and of the same and other in Brunsvvick or Riffius Yea Aqua vitae hath a certain cosmeticall and garnishing vertue as we rehersed in his place Waters destilled of the leues of the peeche tree and Willowe of lyk weight mixt together do he le the red whelkes in the face the Frenche men call them rubiz being moistened therwith A spyced wyne for the garnishing of wemen whiche maketh the skin whyt fyne pure and wel coloured Put Ginger and Cinamon in wyn and destill them as Rosewater It is holsome also against all could complexions and moste against palsy Arnold in his boke of wyne A garnishing water wherwith wemen amend their thick grose skyn black and skaly or skuruy with Quick siluer sod in a raw eg c. thou maist fynd in Nicolas Massa vpon the frenche disease in his .vi. booke .ii. chapter A water for the bewtifying of the face The spume of syluer half a pounde when it is beaten sift it and in two poundes of whyte vinegar sieth it till the third part be consumed sturring it with a stick when it is sod destill it At length ad to it half an vnce of Caphura Aphronitrum oyle of Tar taro clouen Alum of euery one an an vnce strein it through a cors cloth anoynt the face and
neck Epiphanius Empericus An other of the same mans for the brightnes of the face Take Lily routes Arus Dragons of euery one whyles they be fresh half a pound half a pound of the flowers of Beenes Eigth vnces of Roosewater destill them put to it Moschocarii Cinamon of ether two drames Washe the face therwith twyse a daye A very good water of the same mans for the same vse Take flowers of Beenes bitter AlmoÌ„des the leeues of Peeche trees of euery one .iii. vnces Gootes milke as muche as of all the rest When they ar destilled put six or eight whytes of egges sod which must be mixt with the water destilled by by destil it again and mixt with it .ii. drams of Caphura A frenche water for litle moules all scalynes freckmes of the face A pound of TartaruÌ„ or lyes of wyne burnd till they be whyt Mastick TragacaÌ„tha of ether half an â—nce Sir drams of Camphora iiii whytes of egs When they are pund mixt in Rosewater let theÌ„ be destilled They cure maruelously Epiphanius Empericus A water procuring vnto the face a Rooselyke and faire colour Take a pynt of Aqua vitae thrys destilled an vnce of PrasiliuÌ„ Cloues to the nuÌ„ber often as many grains of Paradys fiue Cubebas when they are all pund sifted heet them a litle with Aqua vitae in a vessel diligently couered that nothyng breeth out by any meanes Afterwarde when this mixtur is could again destill it in a leÌ„beck of glas with a very slow fyer and thou shalt haue a good water a cleer When thou wilt vse it wiet the face skyn of the person with a sponge moistened therewith for it maketh without all doubt a Roose colour fayre and bewtifull And this dying wyll continue a long time for .ii. or iii yeares If thou canst not haue Aqua vitae take reed wyne of Rupella the best thou canst fynde about the measure of Semiloti a dutche wourd for half an vnce for they call an vnce a loot for there must be more measure of wyne then Aqua vitae But Aqua vitae is much better to the preparing of this water This water garnisheth a mans skin subtilly maruelously Out of the writen booke the author wherof is not declared A lyke vnto this shal be declared by and by out of Gordonius An other that taketh away the wrinkles spots of the face and clarifieth the skinne of whytes of egges destilled Reede before emongest the simple waters destilled in Balneo Mariae A maruelous water that putteth away Napas litle whelkes or pushes or litle teetes sum call them Napas I thinke the Italians Lupinas acorns kurnelles Porros that is wartes what euel so euer groweth in any place of the body it taketh it away ii pounds of oyl de bay whyt frankensence Mastick elect Gum Arabick cleer Tur pintyn of euery one .iii. drams When they are beten mixt altogether and destil them in a lembeck And in this water thus destilled put half a pound of Cineris terrae destil it again and kiep this water as a tresure The author is nameles But it semeth that this liquor wil be rather an oyll then a water saue only that ashes is added vnto it it migth haue bien well asscribed vnto Balmes A cosmeticall water that bewtifieth the face breeketh the stoone is described before aboute the end of the title where we entreted generally of the vertues of liquors destilled Reed also Rogerius in his fourth tretise the fift chapter ¶ Certain Cosmeticall waters for the face shalt thou fynd also by and by in the waters that folow ascribed to the heares Ther be also emoÌ„gst the Balmes hereafter which serue to garnishing Certain vvaters Destilled for the garnishing of the face out of Andreas Furnerius in his Frenche booke of the bewtifying man kynde A Water for the brightnes and whytnes of the face The flowers of whyt Rooses of water Lily Elder Lilyes the chydes take out of Beenes of the flowers of euery one of thies a pound Half a pound of the water of Strawberies Crums of whyt bred as miche as you shall thynke good .xii. whytes of egs .ii. vnces of whyte Frankensence Into all thies let Cerussa pund be put for a nightes space Let them all bee destilled in a Lembeck of glas when the water is drawen out let it bee set in the sun and washe the face therwith morning and euening so that ye wype it not An other that the face and the other partes of the body may retein a faire and youthfull form .ii. vnces of Aqua vitae the water of of Been flowers Rose water of ether .iiii. vnces of Lily water .vi. ounces when they are all mixt put to them a draÌ„ of the whitest Tragacantha After this water hath stand in the sunne .vi. daies streine it throughe a faire linnen cloth The vse of it is in the morning so that it be not wipte of An other for the brightnesse and beautye of the face A water of the whites of egges newe laide made by a spunge with like measure of the â—ice of Limons destill it as rosewater Put vnto this water afterward about .ii. ounces of communly and the limoÌ„ beaten hole the skin puld of rather put it into the rest after .viii. daies wring out the iuyce from it and mixt it with water Let the face be washt first with pure water and wipt let it be washt with this water destilled It procureth an hansome beautye conserueth the skin and is vtterly the best An other which Isabella of Aragonia duches of Millen vsed knede the flour of whete Mele wyth a Sextarium almooste a pinte .xx. vnces of Gotes milke then bake the bread therof gentlelye in an ouen and draw it out afore it be to muche baked The crums of this bread cut in smal peces or els crumd betwixt ons fingers and put in other new gotes milk let it stand so .vi. houres Thou shalt mixt with it the water of .xii. whites of egs made with the spunge lime made of eg shels an ounce Camphora Suger Alum white corall of euerye ii drammes When all these are pund let them be mixt wyth the moyste thinges and destylled in a lembeck of glasse A notable good water shal com therof and most profitable to put away all vexacions growing in the face It maketh the beauty of the face as excellent as is possible to be made An other to beautifye the face The leaues of Roosemary white Tartary mixt them with whit wine and vse the water drawne oute of it by a limbecke as ye woulde do the former medicines for the same effect An other for the same Set the floures of beanes in good white wine a day or .ii. in a glas bottell then destill them wyth a softe fire The vse of it is to wash the face therwith morning and euening but you must washe it first with a decoction of Cerussa And you shal see it
shortly worke An other that taketh away al maner of spots Put into a glas like muche of Cristall and Corall with water of Limones so much that it maye couer them and be a fingers bredth aboue them Stop this vessell and put it in some colde place in the earthe as in a wine seller a fewe dayes Then caste away the shelles and wash the snailes with water somewhat salt so ofte till all their slimines be washt away Then destill them and keepe the water Afterward thou shalt draw out a water of rapes cut small by a limbeck When thou wilt vse it take a sponeful of the firste water .iiii. of the second and .iiii. of the third mixt them and washe y e face which notwithstanding must first be washt with water and wipte An other maruelous for the same purpoose Take snailes wythoute theyr shelles and washe them as is before rehersed then sprinckle an vnce of Salte otherwise salte Gemmae beaten in a glasse and put the snailes there vpon then sprinkle other Salte vppon them againe and snailes vppon that and so shall you do continuallye layinge salte vppon Snailes and Snailes vppon salte till the thyrde parte of the vessell be fylled Then poure vnto them so muche of the iuyce of Snailes that it stande aboue the salt and Snailes two fingers thicke and destyll them vse thys water as is aboue rehersed If so be it thou canst not commodiouslye destill them set them all mixt together in a cloose vessell tyll they receiue the forme of an oyntmente and that shall you vse at euenynge as the other aboue wrytten Oyntementes the face fyrste washte and wipte and the seconde daye after washe the face wyth water of Beane floures This also did I reade in the Antidotary of Gordonius An other not destilled Twelue Snailes cut euerye one in .iiii. partes put in good white wine This liquor shalt thou vse as the aforesaide It shall come to good succes After thys followeth a destylled water of a yonge Storke of the same effecte and operation whyche I described amongste the symple Medicinall waters An other manner verye good and secreate or vnknowne Sixe newe laide Egges halfe a pounde of Malmsey a yong Pigion not yet holelye fetheared Chese new from the pres y t is made of vnskimmed milcke .viii. Arantia Poma oyle of Tartaro iii. ounces an ounce of Cerussa Let thē be beaten that maye be beaten and mixte altogether that they may be destilled wyth a slow fyre The vse of this water is like the other before It maketh a fair skin fine tender as is possible A washinge or Kynges water whyche abolysheth all spottes Take water of cleare Turpintine as muche as can be gotten out of .ii. pounds of it put therein halfe an ounce of Masticke iii. ounces of white Frankensence halfe an ounce of Tragacantha When they are pund mixte them wyth the water and destyll them keepe the water Then mealte Swines grease of a male Hog vnsaulted and strayne it throughe a double lynnen cloth Then take white Ginger Cloues Cinamon Euphorbium Spiknarde Camphora of euerye one two ounces three Nutmegges when all these are pund myxt wyth the strayned Swines grease put vnto these two ounces of quycke Siluer often times washte wyth salte and Vineger and wrounge throughe a piece of Leather and with this mixte the drosse la feuille ou de lauenre as it is wrytten in Frenche of quicke syluer de couppelle When all is mixte together destill them and keepe the water Afterwarde take vi ounces of the water of the forsaid Turpentin and of the latter water twise so much mixt them and when you wyll vse them washe the face fyrste wyth a decoction of Cerussa and wipe it Then poure about .vi. droppes of thys water mixt together into the palm of the hand and wher thou wilt anoynt couering the place anoynted or wet with a linnen cloth till it be dried A marueilous effect and operacion shall folowe therupon An other of Snailes .xxx. whyte Snailes .ii. pound of gootes milke .iii. vnces of swynes grece or els of a yong Kid a dram of Camphora pund let them be destilled in a lymbeck of glas An other Take six vnces of the crums of the whytest breed and wash it .ii. poundes of milke mixt it diligently and destill it as is aboue sayd and washe with it The water also of the whytes of egges destilstilled is thought good An other that purifieth the face two vnces of Mirh whyte Frankencence Mastich of ether halfe an vnce Gynger whyte .ii. drams one dram of Camphora a pound or a pound and a halfe of whytes of egges When all is diligently mixt let them be put in the bely of a yong hen and wellyking the bowelles taken out If thou wilt put to a hen simpely but flein and cut in small pieces Put to also Asses milke or Gootes milke aboute iii. Sextares that is .ii. pyntes a half .lx. vnces Destill thies in a lembeck of glas That the face may shyne elegantly .xxx. newe laid egges stiep them in vinegar the sharpest you can get for the space of .iii. daies and night then boor them through with a pyn that the humor w t in them may run al out Destill all this in a Rose-still that the face may be washt therwith A water clarifying the face Take the rout of Dragons made cleen and cut in to thin roundles stiep them .ix. daies in whyte wyne so that euery daye half a pound or more freshe wyn be powred vnto them then take the call of fat that is aboute the goutes in a kides bely taken in May to the number of six rys beeten and sod in .iii. poundes of black nightshad and a poūd of the meel of rys half a pound of the water of wylde plums or bullies blaūshed Beenes to seeth in the same water Put vnto this .xii. rotten Appuls and ten egges two handfull of the routes of common flower deluce or els the flower deluce of Florence a pound of Hony halfe a pounde of bitter Almondes Gum Arabick Sarcocolla Tragacantha Borage Camphora of euery one two drams shiepes milk six poundes Venice Turpentin .ii. vnces water of the floures of water Lily Let thies be destilled together in a lembeck with a smal fyer The water destilled therof let it be set in the sun and moued oftentymes An other that taketh away the spots of the skin and whitteneth it An vnce of Borage halfe a dram of Camphora thre drams of cōmun Alum Gum Arabick and Tragacantha of ether of them half an vnce Sarcocolla Assa dulcis of ether .ii. drames .iiii. vnces of Cerussa Pun all thies mixt them and put them into half a pound of Dragons water and as muche of water of floures of Lily together with water of the floures of Broum of Nightshade of water Lilyes of euery one foure vnces When they are mixt destill them in a lembeck of glas To make the face cleer and youthlyke that it seme lyke to
thinges as are infused in wyne sumtymes stieped the vessell being very well shyt that they may render the very same sauour and tast as wormwood lyke as I shewed before Gentian Iuniper beries and spyces the waters destilled whereof our cuntreymen name goulden c. Then the destillacion of Aqua vitae is sumtimes repeted in whiche I haue obserued this that the better parte alwayes the purest issueth out first what so euer is flegmatyck or deed water as sum cal it which is vnproffitable hurtfull and almoste stinking foloweth last whiche is well perceiued and knowen in a glas heed for the still For whyle the purer matter that is the fyry and aery substance issueth no sygn apereth in the heed of the still but when the fleume comes once and tokens of the water folowing by straikes appeare manifestly as ye see them remoue the receiuing vessel and what so euer remaineth in the Cucurbita or bely of the stil poure it out as good for nothing and begin a new destillation of fresh and that must be repeted vntil no fleume appeare any more which chaunseth lightly in the fourth or fifthe destillation Afterwarde there nedeth no more destillation but circulacion that the liquor be rectified as they terme it and turned into heauen or quint essence Thinges destilled in the vapour of hot water retein more perfitly the vertues and qualities of of plantes but because they haue some coruption in them they can not be kept long Those thinges longar which by the heat of ashes or dros of metall beaten to pouder are destilled in vessels of stone or glas how many so euer they be vppon a long or round fornace couered with slates or tiles which may holde the hie sandes compassed wyth hie lead But these vessels muste be made hot by little and little not sodenly and couled likewise be fore they be opened to the colde aire or els they breake straight way Syluius Vlstadius prescribeth a certaine destillation in ashes wyth so softe a fyre that thou maiste number one .ii. iii. betwene one drop and an other Anye kynde of frute thou wilte when it is well ripe cut small and beaten thou shalt destill it in sand with a slow fire Vlstadius ¶ A certaine waye to make water by and by WAter is made also vppn a sodein whiles the iuice is made hot or skalding a glasen cup is set vpon it in the whiche the fume passeth into droppes and the droppes gathered therupon are driuen together into water By this meanes Vineger is easilye tourned into water Thys is holsome for spottes and blemishes in the eies and for the web to put them awaye speciallye if Rue be sod in white Vinegar Cardanus Som are put resinam larigenam in a trene vessell whose bottome must be made by a tornar as thin as is possible so that a man may see through it so in a hotte place the purer parte and the thinner destilleth Of rosaries that is to say instruments wherwith a destilled liquor maye be gotten oute of Roses and other medicines fyre being put vnder for the mooste parte wythoute anye meane betwixte either of cooles or of chippes FIre in destillacion dothe more procure the sauoure of adustion and brentnesse vnto the water that is to bee destilled then do cooles or water whiche thinge to auoide put sande in the pan in commun Rosaries or rather see that sande be betwixte the fyre and the panne and also aboute the pan and that it be glased or oyled as some call it if it be an earthen panne for it is made also of brasse The ioyning together of the pan and the lembecke thou shalt fense with clay that is to saye with a lynnen clout perieted or closed with clay and hansumlye laid aboute it and the receiuinge vessell with the nose of the lembecke likewise Brunsvvick Some nowe a daies make theese Rosarie pans of bras and vpon the sand they lay the hearbes that be to be destilled and round about the pan and within it also except I be deceiued they fill a voide space with water a pipe being made for the purpose to poure them in at They â—ut fire vnder it ether of coles or of very short chips because the flame of y e fire may seme to be able to do les hurt for the water that compasseth But withoute all doute all these shal be much better destilled in glasses or in Balneo Mariae or in ashes Vineger is made white wyth destillation as well for other vses of Chymistes and Phisycions as also to be mixte wyth Sirrupe of Vinnegar whereuppon I wyll reherse Bulcasis wordes Builde an Atanor like vnto that wherein Roosewater is destylled and euer take a stillatorye vessell of glasse or of earthe glased fyll three partes of it wyth good Vinegar that the fourthe parte of the Vessell aboue maye be emptye leaste when it doothe seethe the Vineger bee spilte and runne ouer Then couer the vessel with some Vessell vppon it as ye knowe hauynge a noose as the manner is in rose-rosewater and make a light fire not greate nor stronge for if it be vehement the Vinegar shal not become so white The vineger that is destilled muste be of white wyne and verye sharpe So shalt thou gather a whyte and pure liquor which thou shalt keepe in store After y â— same maner may wine be destilled Thys writeth Bulcasis I destilled it once in glasen vessels in ashes which I kepe yet hitherto certaine yeares like to Vinegar not destilled bothe in sauoure and taste differing only in the coloure and substaunce where in it is like to pure water to see to Bulcasis seemeth to be of this opinion that vineger shoulde be destilled with fire or water not in a Balneo Mariae but in that maner that he maketh the first and second in destillinge of Rooses that is without water with fyre of woode or rather of cooles I haue destilled verye excellentlye in ashes Pearles eg shels stone of the rains and bladder are dissolued with strong vineger specially wheÌ„ it is destilled or with the iuice of limoÌ„s so is also both kinde of corals and they afterward dried are readily crumled praecipitatum and sublimatum and cinabrium and they retourne into quick siluer Syluius The Chymistes say metals are resolued with vinegar destilled also w t mans vrine destilled The leaues of hempe tourned into meale because they pearse the heade make drincke which wyll make a man pleasauntlye drounke Cardan It seemeth water shoulde be poured to it and when they are made dowe together then to bee destilled like as burninge water in a Rosarye or Rosestil or lyke instrument where the fyer is put vnder without any men and perauentur the destillacion should be twys or thrys repeted I wold say the same of Ootes water whereof lykewyse Cardanus wryteth The Moscouites saith he bycause they lack wyn vse water destilled of Ootes whiche enflameth and maketh a man drunken no les then wyne For Ootes being
Oyll water of Nucis vomicae or spewing nut Therfore in venemous bytinges in stingings in oyntmentes that be venemous in the drinking of venom whiche is now alredy perced to the midrif or nether partes of the chest the helpes that be ministred outwardly are more auailable and of greater strength c. Thies out of Cardane haue I written the more at large that therby also y e reason migth be the more euident of that marueilous oyl of Scorpions c. Whiche bycause it is made without destillacion I will describe it hereafter seuerally Oyll of Antimonium is moste proffitable to all ill soores and byles as I my self dotry with good succes But the Antimonium is purged first ofteÌ„times melted and made liquid with the fyer Far from this doth the oyll of Antimonium which chymistes vse wherwithall they endeuoure to set the colour of gould vpoÌ„ siluer Matthaeolus vpoÌ„ Diosc Oyll of Antimonium howe it is made for soore byles and fistulas I writ afore out of Vlstadius in the treetis of Quintessence But certain practicioners also make oyll of Antimonium to diuers diseases within the body whiche they extoll with maruelous and great praises They make it after this sort as I here Antimonii half a pounde whyt Tartari Calcionated asmuche let theÌ„ be beaten and melted or dissolued in a gouldsmithes Tigillo crucibulo vpon cooles when they are melted let them be powred out into sum earthen pot where they shal be sturred and mixt together and when they are becum into a hard lump let them be pund again and streined by a colender that is a sack of that form that they vse for Hyppocras as they call it in a moyst place in a hoot and moyst place as in a wyne celler the colender hanging for so shall the oyll destill out by litle litle which of sum bycause of the bloudie colour is called Rubedo Antimanii and lykewyse it is made of certain Gouldsmithes for a certain painting I can not tell what But for the remedies of mans body it ought to be prepared with Quintessence of wyn or with burning water so that twyse asmuche all moste of it be powred to the forsaid rednes of the Antimonium and let them be sturde diligently in body and mixt and then destilled in ashes thre or iiii times till the breth lose al the euil smell The dregs must always be mixt sturd about when y u powrest iâ— again the destilled water vpon theÌ„ or when thou powrest to them new Quintessence for I am not sure whiche way it ought to be doone Sum in the beginning do stregthway mixt reed vineger most sharp destilled with the AntimoniuÌ„ TartaruÌ„ calcionated to be melted together But I wryt althies not as certain but as I noted theÌ„ by the way as I hard them recited certain yeres ago of a certain practicioner I know that certain chymistes goldsmithes serche for y e oyl or Quint essence of y e AntimoniuÌ„ as a moste perfect treasur Thies destil first sharp lye coÌ„posed of vnslect lyme and ashes Clauellatas by a FiltruÌ„ and is this lye they sieth the AntimoniuÌ„ subtilly and fynly beten for the space of .v. houres and again destil this lye when it is cold by a FiltruÌ„ that of y e AntimoniuÌ„ that passeth through w t it that is a pouder of yelowe colour they reserue After they powre in vpoÌ„ the AntimoniuÌ„ put in a Cucurbita or body moste sharpe red vinegar destilled so that it be aboue it iii. or .iiii. fingars thick they set it in a hoot place a few daies and euery day they shake and â–ª mixt it x. or .xx. times then they power y e vinegar lightly into an other glas so y t nothing be troubled This do â—hey repete .v. or .vi. times euer powring new vinegar vpon the AntimoniuÌ„ remaining in y e Cucurbita or body at length they put all the vinegar together destil it by a lembeck with a slow fyer til y e oyl begin to run out This oyl or quintessence of AntimoniuÌ„ is of a colour of blud With this thei die Mercurie say it is an incoÌ„parable treasure a chief mistery of y e chymistical art as we traÌ„slated out of a certain writen doutch boke A reed oyll is gotten out of AntimoniuÌ„ very sharp smelling lyk brimston it reteineth y e vertue of y â— Antiminium bycause of the grosnes of the substaunce proffitable to few thinges Cardanus Hooll Lyme vnbroken let it be slekt in coÌ„mun oyll and destill it in a lembeck of glas there shall issue forth an oyll good for a boon that is corrupt Syluius Put a hot piece of quick Lyme into commun oyll till the Lyme becum powder then let it be destilled in a lembeck of glas and oyll of Lyme shall issue whiche is the firste that was described by Leonard of Praedapalea Patauinus Ion. Iacobus de Manliis Oyll of Cerussa Looke before where we intreted of Quintessence out of Vlstadius Oyll of Gagates or ieet called Sacratum or holy moste holsum for them that be possessed of spirits that haue the falling sicknes the palsy the cramp the stifnes of sinewes the gout or be chooked in their wombe it helpeth also coÌ„ceiuing It is made of Ieet stones after the maner of oyll of Iuniper by descention or elles by sublimacion as oyll of tyle stones Mesues of Iac. Syluius interpretacion out of whose notes we haue subscribed thies wordes Seing Bitumen is far lighter cost then Ieet and of the same vertues or stronger a man might proue to get an oyl out of it whiche shal run more abundauntly specially if it be new Bitumen forasmuche as it is as it were the fat of the earth and is burned in steed of oyll of them that dwell about the place of Asphaltita or deed sea or els in other places wher Bitumen is Forthermore he douteth whether it can heele the falling sicknes seing the falling sicknes doth the more appeer with y e foule stinking smell of the Bitumen But me thinkes it semeth probable that that sicknes shuld be helped with it by attenuating digesting drying whiche vertues boothe it hathe theim befoore and that not feablelye and also muche moore the liquor destilled thereof perfourmeth theese thinges Nether doth it not help this diese therfor because it is likely that the same should be vttred and appere with the perfume of that bituminous smell as with the perfume of Myrrh Galbanum and horns houfs and the skins of a she or he gote For Phisicions vse the hornes houfes of diuers bestes against this siknes ministring the shauings of them within the body nether is it a like reasoÌ„ in the perfuminge of a thinge and receiuinge of it simplely But of these maiters Phisicions shuld teach not so much by reasons coniectures as by experiment trial I my self saw once a perfume of beaten Aumber whiche also is ascribed vnto y e kind of Bitumen speciallye white holden to the nosthrils
them that were sick of the colick and haue had oft good succes through the same burning water set on fyre in a bath stouf or sweeting hous narowe and close euery where the aire waxeth hoat wherin the sinewes ioyntes and other partes couled are proffitably fomentated and if it be possible to be done they sweet also To moue sweet and to warme the bathing place with the vapour of hoat water the commun people set great caudrous w t hoat water in their sweeting places with chaf together to keepe the heat longer and sumtymes swiet herbes Other haue a pot hoot without the bath with water and other herbes or medicines put in it from whence the vapour entreth into the bath by a pype beneth This other do with other instrumentes and vessels as they in Italy in the old tyme heated hoathouses When the bathing place is alredy made hoat a burning coole might be put into the pot and dry medicines be strowâ—d in the perfume wherof is desyred or â—â—st both otherwyse also chiefly for wemens vse to diuers diseases of the wombe receiuing the perfume by a pype Hyppocrates describeth a peculiar vessell for this purpose Let them put out their head the whyle which are to weake for to abyde it or such as it is to be feared lest they swound or chaunce into ouer great thirst c. Sum in bathes power water or wyne simple or mixte with medicines vpon reed hoat tyle stones or dros of iron or stones Sweet in bed is prouoked with hoat tyle stones foulded in moyst linnen clothes and put in to the bedde or with tinnen bottelles filled with hot water or with litle bagges wherin herbes sod are put yet hoat and the better if a hoat tyle stone also be put in withall Wull vnskoured suppled in wyne or vinegar wherunto oyll is put Dates beaten Bran sod in salt water or vinegar do both repres and mollifie together Wyne and vinegar do repres and coule and more yet ether bread or meel or a sponge or ashes or woull vnwasht or a linnen cloth wiet in ether of thies Celsus Sum put hoat ashes or burning cooles rather in a vessell of wood filling it to the half the rest they fyll with what herbes they list as wormwod mints to comfort the stomack ether by them selues or sprinkled with a litle wyne then bynding vpon it a linneÌ„ cloth they lay it to y e part diseased specially where it is nedeful to heaten to dry to discus to drawe sumwhat strongly It is conuenient for partes couled and to them that haue gouty aches to vse it with mugwort only or also chamemell vnto the diseases of the womb with Matricaria This fomentacioÌ„ may be made with .ii. vessels to be laid vnto by cours Celsus willeth men in sum place to lay about the places diseased wull perfumed with the smoock of brymston Hereunto may be referred all suche thinges as Fuchsius other wryt of fomentacions apposicions embroches litle bags and insessions The greke word aeonein signifieth the water vpon and power vpon whether it be done bicause of fomentacion that is w t heat or other cause Galen doth prayse y e perfume of the fyer stone or miln stone sprinkled with vine gar for the taking away of hardnes of y e fleshe as kirnels Diuers perfumes for the french diseases which are al made with Cinabrio that is made of quitksiluer sum also with orpmeÌ„t Marchasita c shalt thou fynd in Nic. Mass certain other which haue taught y e heeling of this disease The leeues dry of Tussilago made in perfumes so y e smok may be drawen in at the mouth vpoÌ„ doth help y e congh and OrthopnaeuÌ„ and breaketh the impostumes in the brest The same operacion also hath the rout perfumed Dioscorides Of certain iuices THe iuices of certain herbes wrong and prest out are sod at fyer or dryed in the sun as Bulcasis teacheth seuerally of the iuice of Hamsig Plantain Lettis Singrien Purselan Rostrum Purcinum or hogges snout Scariola Fenel Smalage Volubili Sorrell and other A maruelous waye to drawe out the iuice out of black Elleborum whiche sum vse as a secrete mystery the commoditie whereof I also trying would not hyde lest I should seme to be sory that our posteritie shuld haue any excelleÌ„t knowledge who founde this way first I can not saye I learned it of certain my moste secret friendes I mean that black Elleborum whiche communly all men in Germany name in lyke maner lyke vnto Consiligo very many kepe it in their gardeÌ„s but that whiche groweth vpon the mouÌ„taines to be found in our countrey Heluetia is best A man may trye the same way in Colocynthida Esula Laureola c. Sieth lightly in water the routes of black Elleborum cleen and washt set infused in the same first a night or more small cut Thou shalt take hede both in this and in the other decoctions that thou skim away diligently al the foom that swymmeth aboue as venemous This water shalt thou kepe and again power other vnto it warm and heet it a whyle moderatly chaunging the water so oft til the routes retein none or very litle bitternes any more whiche shall cum to pas when thou hast chaunged the water seuen or nyne tymes But in the meane space whyle thou chauÌ„gest the waters destill the first euer with a Filtrum or through a brush and at length sieth all with a slowe fyer or with burnt cooles rather so that they boyl not yet let them be alwayes at the poynt of boyling vntil they be as thick as hony in an earthen pot glased or of bras tinned the pot couered or litle opeÌ„ WheÌ„ as now a litle water remaineth about the ende of the siething stur it about gently now and then w t a stick that the iuice be not burnt too and at the same time for a pound of rotes of Elleborum thou shalt put .ii. drammes of Mastik pund and cease not to sturre it other continuallye or by little distaunces til the iuice seme out and out sufficiently thickened whiche wil chaunce sodenlye for the mooste parte and that the matter may be the les burnt the nere vnto the ende and to the thickning the iuice is so much vrge it with les fyre nor be not weary of the time for thou shalt haue a most excellent and exquisite medicine againste diuers diseases speciallye melancholik diseases It shal become of a darke red coloure of moste bitter sauour with a percing sharpnes like as is in Asarum or Asarabaâ—cha and Cloues but stronger ye burning as it semeth to the taster yet is not burning in deede that is because of the tenuitie and sclendernes of the partes as I wold haue tried It is ministred an hour after supper in the mouÌ„tenance of a pease in all diseases whereunto Elleborus is conueniente and where it is good to lose the bealy One pill of that quantity that I saide wil make a man to
haue .iiii. stoules But I hear that certaine when they had taken to muche as much perauentur as a beane they haue ben emptied to ofte by the bealye and vomiting and haue bene verye muche weakened whiche I to take heede of vsinge the counsell of a certaine learned Phisicion I woulde brynge to iuyce not the Elleborum alone but infused and decocted with other diuers medicines as I shall declare by and by I perceiue it skilleth little whether the rootes be taken grene or dry But a man must take a pouÌ„d at the leaste of the rotes Lullius and other Cardan haue made mention of the quintessence of Elleborum where vnto I thincke this iuice to bee nothing inferiour This truelye is worthye to be wondred at that the iuice so longe decocted is not onlye nothinge weaker but also muche stronger for it seemeth that I may speake of coniecture that one parte of this iuice to be tenne times and more stronger then Elleborus it selfe and yet nothing more daungerous or hurtful but the streÌ„gthe withoute harme is encreased And although I my selfe woulde haue remitted and asswaged his strengthe puttinge to manye medicines yet I can commende more this simple waye alreadye described where as nothinge but a little Mastik is added at the laste speciallye for more hard and greuous diseases where necessitie requireth extreame medicines and for Franticke persones and otherwise madde and dotinge whiche when they can not be compelled to take anye medicins they are the easier deceiued with so little a dosi in quantitye Yea also withoute the bodye for venemous bitinges and sinnewes hurte I canne beleue that the vertue of it shoulde be mooste excellent I finde no iuice made in this sorte in anye authors the iuice of Acatia and of Berberies in Bulcasis For the straininge of it onlye is decocted not that which is depressed oute also the iuice of Galbanus and Licoris but the water in them is not chaunged Other iuices are made all by expression and aresod til they gather into a Ielly as of Sâ—landine Poppy Wormwod nightshade Vinae Acerbae Memithae Agremony Hypocisthidis the barkes of the rotes of Mandrag The same Bulcasis also willeth to put to a little gum to certaine iuices that be prest out which are sod by them selues at the fire that the partes of theÌ„ may better cleue together as the iuice of wormwod gasid that is Eupatorium or nightshade also of Centaury and Gentian which is made of a decoction strained But Mastik is mixt with y e iuice of Elleborus not onlye for this cause but also to amende the venemous vertue therof and contrary to the stomak Moreouer in certain other medicins wher a maÌ„ list to encrease the strength and vertue of any medicin which is to be left and laid away in some liquor we chaung not the liquor but the medicin that is euer when the first is strained putting in new medicin into the same liquor as in many decoctions and oyles but here in the iuice of Elleborus we do contrary For keping the same rotes of the Elleborus we chaunge oft the liquor I maye tel the cause because y e rote of Elleborus aboue all other things hath most stroÌ„g vertues not in y e superficial other parts only but in y e hole substaÌ„ce imprinted vehemeÌ„tly fastly wherfore it may be also kept most long of al other I my self vsed it when it was .x. yeares olde in his full strengthe And certaine common Practicioners bidde men drinke for the lousinge of the belly the wine wher in a part of it hath sooked a nighte and the nexte daye is strained and the rotes to be dried again for they are nothing or veri litle weaker therwith although they be somewhat often repeated to the same vse and dried again But of Elleborus it self and what we haue tried and experimented therof perauenture we shal once haue an other place and occasion to wryte of Pils of blak Elleborus or rather of his iuice is to be taken euery seuenth day in the curing of the French disease that is Melancholy as Matthaeolus couÌ„selith Three drams of the rootes of blacke Veratrum or Elleborus fresh and new Dauci or yelow-Caret Anisi Peper of euery one a dram .vi. grains of Mosth ii scrupuls of Epithy mii or the harder time let all theese be lightlye beaten then when they haue stand to soke a day and a nighte v. poundes of Malmsye heare semeth to be som fault of the printer for it is to great a measure of wine let them be mightilye prest oute Take .iii. drams of this expression of the pouder of pils of Fumitory Cochiarum Aurearum of euery one ii drams and a half knede them together and then let them be dried Moreouer when they are dry made againe in pouder thou shalt stiepe them again in the same Malmsy as before .iiii. tymes The pilles thereof muste be taken at one time to the weight of one dram Oure iuice composed and made of Elleborus Two poundes of Blacke Elleborus newe cutte Liquoris scraped and brused with a pestil a pouÌ„d stiep them a night in a good quantitie of water The next day after sieth them an houre a halfe with a slow fyer or .ii. houres power it out straining it and put in to it other water warm which shal be redy in a chafer by the fyr for this purpose Repete this seuen tymes or more Then castyng away the routes take the hooll water streined or destilled by a Filtrum and sieth it by litle and litle and when as yet a litle of it shall remaine power vnto it this decoctioÌ„ Seuen handfull of Betain Agrimony two handfull Anisi iii. vnces stiep theÌ„ in water and sieth them till the consumpcion and wasting of the thirde parte pres it out strayne it twys or thrys at the length put to fiue vnces of Agaricum elect cut smal flower deluce two vnces and a half Cinamon six drams Ginger halfe an vnce sieth them to the half pres them out strain the water as befor Then power this decoction to the decoction of the Elleborus boyling moderatly and let them be â—od together to the thicknes of hony A litle before the ende put to .iiii. drams of the pouder of Mastick .ii. drammes of Scammonium thies dissolued together in a litle of the decoction of Elleborus that it may be lyke the substaunce of hony not muche before the end of the decotion power it in when the iuice shal be moderatly thyck or beginneth to be thick and thou shalt stur it about till the iuice be consumed Thou shalt trye now and then a drop of the iuice let it fall vpon a tinnen â—rencher and when it shal be so thick that it wil almost run no more abrode when thou leenest the trencher on the one syde or lifts it vp then is the iuice perfect But by the space of an houre or more before the ende thou shalt now and then
small then beaten infused in Aqua vitae as muche as is sufficiente they are let stande in the infusion warme in Balneo Mariae or sande .xiiii. daies sturring and chafinge them in the meane season oftentimes euery day then are they prest oute strongly throughe a grose linnen clothe Then are they put in a lembeck and with the fire is the waterye moysture drawne oute till the consistence or thicknes of Diacy donion of the said medicin If ther remain yet any moisture let it be put vpon burning coles in some vessel as much as is sufficient Of the iuice of the Flour Deluce and Rape c. OVre Floure Deluce is more stronge in operation in the dropsy as semeth me then the Florentines of the whiche opinion a frend of mine also a very wel learâ—ed Phisicion is who of late sente mee these hys experimentes and trialles of the iuice of the roote of Flower Deluce and Rape Take a hens egge and pouringe oute the white put the iuice of the Flower Deluce in place and mixte it diligently with the yolke and when thou hast a little warmed it in the ashes geue it for a mornynges draught which shall auoid downward aboue mesure the dropsy water This also saith he haue I emongst my secretes for them that be sick of the dropsy and can not swete take the iuice of a round Rape beaten in a morter and prest out seasoned with Suger or cinamon that it taste somthing els then the Rape geue this in the morning to the sick well couered aâ—d he shall sweat The iuice of Purslan Singreen or Houslike Cotyledonis and of other likewise that be slimye and Clammy because of the clammines can not be prest oute alone The herbe well punde wyth Omphacium is prest oute Other when they are punde heat them at a flow fyre Other beat them and let them stand in a colde place as a wine celler put in a basket of wikars to destill downe into a dishe set vnder Syluius in whome thou shalt reade moore of the preparinge and preseruynge of iuices in his boke of the preparacioÌ„ of simples Of Lignum sanctum and anye other we draw oute teares whiche is moore precious then the woode it selfe in this wise The Lignum is cut in pieces the thicknes of a finger which are put in the fire therby is gathered what tere so euer is in the Ligno Cardanus Milk is gathered of Esula Selandin cuttinge the highest bowes and laid hielding in a vessell pressing milking or sliping â–ª theÌ„ one by one The liquor so gathered shalt thou dry in the suÌ„ne But the iuice is gathered when the herbes are punde and prest out Bulcasis Gummes that be purginge and other if anye refuse to swalowe in the forme of pilles put them in boylinge water let them bee dissolued strayne them and put in oyl of swiet Almonds and geue it in drink with rob Put any stronge purginge medicine in water or wine Then in the same liquor stiepe drye prunes or drye Figges or Rasins till they swel then washe them in wine These frutes receiued within the bodye do maruelouslye and withoute grefe loose the bealye Arnold in his booke of wyne Sieth .iiii. ounces of Passularium with water of Violets half an hour lift them through a siue theÌ„ sprinkle in .ii. drams of Scammonium lette them be dryed Then when thou wilte geue .xxx. or .xl. and no mo with Panatella Epiphanius Empericus Some stuffe a fat Goose with medicins with well lykinge Kitlinges chopte small with Salt and roastinge it softlye vppon a broche gather the liquor that drops therout to annoynte goutie members therewith Io. Goenrotus I harde saye howe a certaine practicioner roosted a gose stufte with Mise chopte smal and ministred the liquor gathered there of to the annoynting of the croked vunche vpon the back Of decocted thinges WE cal decoctions liquors water wyne or vinegar in the whiche any medicins be sod at the fyer and then streined c. of the whiche for shortnes sake at this present we will speake nothing sauing that we wyl admonishe that wheÌ„ they are beaten or chopt they ought to be first stiept whiche should be sod and decocted in a vessell diligently stopt and cloosed Of grien plantes the decoction is more pleasaunt then of dry wherfore dry thinges beten and stiept longar tyme then fresh may be streined and prest out then alone or with sugar or houy to bee decocted and sod c. A decoction in vinegar against the pestilence Sieth two handfull of the biggar Salandin the herbe and root together in .iiii. pound and a half of the best vinegar vpon cooles in a glased pot w t a couer the mouth wherof shal be fensed with clay for an houre and a half till the thyrd part be consumed Then straine the vinegar and set it vp in a glas Giue .iii. sponefull of this to a man taken with the pestilence and if he vomit it again giue him again and will him to sweet One vnnamed in the dutche wryten booke Other which Selandine take as muche Rewe and dres it as before and to one taken with the pestilence thei giue one sponefull to drinke with a litle tryacle by whose help both I my selfe haue holsum and helthful experience and also I haue hard it muche commended of other And of late I red almost y e very same medicine in a certain boke of a certayn practicioner writen in frenche and a few yeares past wheÌ„ the pestilence was here a certain friend of myne sent vnto me a lyke description Many woulde haue the Selandine sod in the vinegar but other put other thinges to sum as I saide Rew only other also Sage noble Rosemary the leeues of flower deluce not the roote Zedoaria and sieth it in a pot wel couered therof they giue a few drops for preseruacion but to them that be alredy infected a sponefull with triacle and bidde them too sweet Sum stiep the same thing almost in wyne in a phiall well closed they stur and chafe it sumtymes then they destyll it they gyue it for preseruacion or to the infected as before is specified and when that is receiued they bid them not to sweet but to walke as far as is possible and if it be nied full to be led of two men Otherwyse â„ž Wormwood Rewe the yonglinges or shoutes of breÌ„ble of euery one one part Selandin iii. partes Sieth theÌ„ in whyte vinegar q. s that is as muche as is sufficient in a pot clayed till the third part be consumed let it be giuen as sone as amaÌ„ is infected after let him sweet Otherwyse â„ž A pound of the rootes of SelaÌ„dine Brimstone Saffron Turmentill an vnce Triacle .ii. vnces pimpernel Gentian of euery an vnce and a halfe Pilosella or mous ear with the roote and all Rewe of ether an handfull Sage a handfull Sieth them in a new pot well clayed with .ii. quartes of whyt vinegar til the third part be consumed