Milky substance at the top but soon after mingled Oyl of Vitriol commixed with Oyl of Cloves a dram of each turneth into a red dark Colour and a substance thick almost like Pitch And upon the first motion gathereth an extream Heat not to be endured by touch Dissolution of Gold and Oyl of Vitriol commixed a dram of each gathereth a great Heat at the first and darkneth the Gold and maketh a thick Yellow Spirit of Wine and Oyl of Vitriol a dram of each hardly mingle the Oyl of Vitrriol going to the bottom and the Spirit of Wine lying above in a Milky substance It gathereth also a great Heat and a sweetness in the Taste Oyl of Vitriol and dissolution of Quicksilver a dram of each maketh an extream strife and casteth up a very gross fume and after casteth down a white kind of Curds or Sands and on the top a slimish substance and gathereth a great Heat Oyl of Sulphur and Oyl of Cloves commixed a dram of each turn into a thick and red-coloured substance but no such Heat as appeared in the Commixture with the Oyl of Vitriol Oyl of Petroleum and Spirit of Wine a dram of each intermingle otherwise than by Agitation as Wine and Water do and the Petroleum remaineth on the top Oyl of Vitriol and Petroleum a dram of each turn into a mouldy Substance and gathereth some warmth there residing a black cloud in the bottom and a monstrous thick Oyl on the top Spirit of Wine and Red-wine Vinegar one ounce of each at the first fall one of them remaineth above but by Agitation they mingle Oyl of Vitriol and Oyl of Almonds one ounce of each mingle not but the Oyl of Almonds remaineth above Spirit of Wine and Vinegar an ounce of each commixed do mingle without any apparent separation which might be in respect of the Colour Dissolution of Iron and Oyl of Vitriol a dram of each do first put a Milky substance into the bottom and after incorporate into a mouldy Substance Spirit of Wine commixed with Milk a third part Spirit of Wine and two parts Milk coagulateth little but mingleth and the Spirit swims not above Milk and Oyl of Almonds mingled in equal portions do hardly incorporate but the Oyl cometh above the Milk being poured in last and the Milk appeareth in some drops or bubbles Milk one ounce Oyl of Vitriol a scruple doth coagulate the Milk at the bottom where the Vitriol goeth Dissolution of Gum Tragacanth and Oyl of Sweet Almonds do not commingle the Oyl remaining on the top till they be stirred and make the Muselates somewhat more liquid Dissolution of Gum Tragacanth one ounce and a half with half an ounce of Spirit of Wine being commixed by Agitation make the Muselates more thick The White of an Egg with Spirit of Wine doth bake the Egg into Clots as if it began to Poch One ounce of Blood one ounce of Milk do easily incorporate Spirit of Wine doth curdle the Blood One ounce of Whey unclarified one ounce of Oyl of Vitriol make no apparent alteration One ounce of Blood one ounce of Oyl of Almonds incorporate not but the Oyl swims above Three quarters of an ounce of Wax being dissolved upon the Fire and one ounce of Oyl of Almonds put together and stirred do not so incorporate but that when it is cold the Wax gathereth and swims upon the top of the Oyl One ounce of Oyl of Almonds cast into an ounce of Sugar seething sever presently the Sugar shooting towards the bottom A Catalogue of Bodies Attractive and not Attractive made by the Lord Bacon together with Experimental Observations about Attraction These following Bodies Draw AMber Ieat Diamond Saphire Carbuncle Iris the Gem. Opale Amethist Bristollina Crystal Clear Glass Glass of Antimony divers Flowers from Mines Sulphur Mastick hard sealing Wax the harder Rosin Arsenic These following Bodies do not Draw Smaragd Achates Corneolus Pearl Iaspis Chalcedononius Alablaster Porphyrie Coral Marble Touch-Stone Haematites or Blood-stone Sinyris Ivory Bones Eben-Tree Cedar Cypress Pitch softer Rosin Camphire Galbanum Ammoniac Storax Benjoin Load-stone * The drawing of Iron excepted Asphaltum These Bodies Gold Silver Brass Iron draw not though never so finely polished In Winter if the Air be sharp and clear Sal Gemmeum Rock Alum and Lapis Specularis will draw These following Bodies are apt to be Drawn if the Mass of them be small Chaff Woods Leaves Stones all Metals 〈◊〉 and in the Mine Earth Water Oyl Si fiat versorium ex Metello aliquo more Indicis Magnetici fini alteri apponatur succinum lenitèr fricatum versorium convertit se. Succinum calefactum ab Igne sive tepeat sive ferveat sive inâ—lammetur non trahit Bacillum ferreum candens Flamma Candela ardens Carbo ignitus admota festucis aut versoriis non trahunt Succinum in majore mole si fuerit politum allicit licèt non fricatum si in minore aut impurius sine frictione non trahit Crystallus Lapis Specularis Vitrum Electrica cetera si urantur aut torreantur non trahunt Pix Resina mollior Benjoin Asphaltum Camphora Galbanum Ammoniacum Storax Assa. Haec coelo calidiore neutiquam prorsus trahunt at tempore frigidiore obscurè infâ—rmè trahunt Vapidus Aer succino c. afflatus vel ab ore vel ab Aere humidiore virtutem trahendi suffocat Si charta aut linteum interponatur inter succinum paleam non fit motus aut Attractio Succinum aut Electrica calefacta ex Radiis Solis non expergefiunt ad trahendum sicut ex Frictione Succinum fricatum Radiis Solis expositum diutius vires trahendi retinet nec tam citò eas deponit ac si in umbra positum esset Fervor ex speculo comburente succino c. conciliatus non juvat ad trahendum Sulphur accensum Cera dura inflammata non trahunt Succinum cum citissimè à frictione festucae vel versorio apponitur optimè trahit Virtus Electrica viget in retentione ad tempus non minus quam in Attractione primâ Flamma apposito succino intra orbem Activitatis non trahitur Gutta Aquae admoto succino trahitur in Conum Electrica si durius affricentur impeditur Attractio Quae aegrè alliciunt in claro coelo in crasso non movent Aqua imposita succino virtutem trahendi suffocat licet ipsum Aquam trahat Sarca ità succino circundatum ut tangat attractione tollit sed interpositum ut non tangat non omnino tollit Oleum succino appositum motum non impedit nec succinum digito oleo madefacto fricatum vires trahendi perdit Firmius provocant diutius retinent Succinum Gagates hujusmodi etiam minore cum frictione Adamas Crystallum Vitrum diutius teri debent ut manifestò incalescant antequà m trahant Quae Flammae approximant licèt propinquâ distantiâ à succino non trahuntur Fumum extincta lucerna succinum c.
trahit Fumus ubi exit crassus est fortius trahit succinum cum ascenderit rarior fit debilius Corpus ab Electricis attractum non manifestò alteratur set tantùm incumbit The same in English by the Publisher IF there be made a Turn-Pin of any Metal after the fashion of a Magnetic Needle and Amber be applied to one end of it after having been gently rubbed the Pin will turn Amber heated by the Fire be it warmish hot or set on fire it does not draw A little Bar of Iron red hot Flame a lighted Candle a hot Coal put nigh Sheaâ—â—s or Straws or Turn-Pins or Compass-Needles do not draw Amber in a greater Mass if it be Polite draws though not rubbed In a lesser quantity and in a less polite Mass it draws not without rubbing Crystal Lapis Specularis Glass and other such Electric Bodies if burnt or scorch'd draw not Pitch the softer Rosin Benjoin Asphaltum Camphire Galbanum Ammoniac Storax Assa these draw not at all when the Air is hot But when it is cooler they draw weakly and so that we can just perceive them to do so Reaking Air blown upon Amber c. from the Mouth or from a moister Atmosphere choaketh the attractive Virtue If a Paper or a piece of Linnen be put between Amber and Chaff there is no Motion or Attraction made Amber or other Electrics warmed by the Sun-beams have not their attractive Virtue so awakened as by Rubbing Amber rubb'd and exposed to the Beams of the Sun retains its attractive force the longer and does not so soon lose it as it would do in the shadow Heat deriv'd from a Burning-Glass to Amber c. does not help its Attraction Sulphur and hard Wax set on fire do not draw Amber when immediately after rubbing it is applied to a Shiver or a Compass-Needle draws best of all The Electric Virtue is as vigorous for a time in its Retention as it was in its first Attraction Flame Amber being put within the sphere of its Activity is not drawn by it A drop of Water Amber being applied towards it is drawn into a Cone If Electric Bodies be rubbed too hard their attraction is thereby hindred Those Bodies which in a clear Skie do scarce draw in a thick Air move not at all Water put upon Amber choaketh its attractive force though it draweth the Water it self Fat * For by Sarca I suppose he meaneth Sarcia so encompassing Amber that it toucheth it takes away its attraction but being so put betwixt it and the Object to be drawn as not to touch it it doth not take it away Oyl put upon Amber hinders not its motion Neither doth Amber rubb'd with the Finger moistned with Oyl lose its attractive Virtue Amber Ieats and the like do more strongly excite and longer retain the Objects they draw although the rubbing be but little But Diamonds Crystal Glass ought to be rubb'd longer that they may appear hot ere they be used for attraction Flames nigh to Amber though the distance be very small are not drawn by it Amber c. draw the smoke of a Lamp newly extinguish'd Amber draws Smoke more strongly when it comes forth and is more gross and more weakly when it ascends and becomes thinner A Body drawn by Electric Bodies is not manifestly alter'd but only leans it self upon them Baconiana Medica OR REMAINS OF Sir Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Touching Medical Matters LONDON Printed for R. C. at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1679. THE Lord Bacon's Medical Remains A Medical Paper of the Lord Bacon's to which he gave the Title of Grains of Youth Grains of Youth TAke of Nitre 4 grains of Amber-Grease 3 grains of Orris-pouder 2 grains of white Poppy-Seed the fourth part of a grain of Saffron half a grain with Water of Orenge Flowers and a little Tragacanth make them into small grains four in number To be taken at four a Clock or going to Bed Preserving Oyntments Take of Deers-suet 1 ounce of Myrrh 6 grains of Saffron 5 grains of Bay-salt 12 grains of Canary-Wine of two Years old a Spoonful and a half Spread it on the inside of your Shirt and let it dry and then put it on A Purge familiar for opening the Liver Take Rubarb 2 drams Agaric Trochiscat 1 dram and a half steep them in Claret Wine burnt with Mace Take of Wormwood 1 dram steep it with the rest and make a mass of Pills with Syrup Acetos simplex But drink an opening Broth before it with Succory Fennel and Smallage Roots and a little of an Onion Wine for the Spirits Take Gold perfectly refined 3 ounces quench it six or seven times in good Claret Wine Add of Nitre 6 grains for two Draughts Add of Saffron prepared 3 grains of Amber-grease 4 grains pass it through an Hippocras Bag wherein there is a dram of Cinamon gross beaten or to avoid the dimming of the Colour of Ginger Take two Spoonfuls of this to a Draught of fresh Claret Wine The Preparing of Saffron Take 6 grains of Saffron sleept in half parts of Wine and rose-Rose-water and a quarter part Vinegar then dry it in the Sun Wine against Adverse Melancholy preserving the Senses and the Reason Take the Roots of Bugloss well scraped and cleansed from their inner Pith and cut them into small slices steep them in Wine of Gold extinguished ut suprà and add of Nitre 3 grains and drink it ut suprà mixed with fresh Wine The Roots must not continue steeped above a quarter of an Hour and they must be changed thrice Breakfast-Preservative against the Gout and Rheumes To take once in the Month at least and for two Days together one grain of Castorei in my ordinary Broth. The Preparation of Garlick Take Garlick 4 ounces boyl it upon a soft Fire in Claret Wine for half an Hour Take it out and steep it in Vinegar whereto add 2 drams of Cloves then take it forth and keep it in a Glass for use The Artificial Preparation of Damask-Roses for Smell Take Roses pull their Leaves then dry them in a clear Day in the hot Sun then their smell will be as gone Then cram them into an Earthen Bottle very dry and sweet and stop it very close they will remain in Smell and Colour both fresher than those that are otherwise dried Note The first drying and close keeping upon it preventeth all Putrefaction and the second Spirit cometh forth made of the remaining Moisture not dissipated Sometimes to add to the Maceration 3 grains of Tartar and 2 of Enula to cut the more heavy and viscous Humours lest Rubarb work only upon the lightest To take sometimes the Oxymel before it and sometimes the Spanish Hony simple A Restorative Drink Take of Indian Maiz half a pound grind it not too small but to the fineness of ordinary Meal and then bolt and serce it that all the husky part may be taken away
Water A New Soveraign of equal Weight in the Air to the piece in Brass over-weigheth in the Water 9 Grains In three Soveraigns the difference in the Water is but 24 Grains The same Soveraign overweigheth an equal weight of Lead 4 Grains in the Water in Brass Grains for Gold In three Soveraigns about 11 Grains The same Soveraign overweigheth an equal weight of Stones in the Air at least 65 Grains in the Water The Grains being for the weight of Gold in Brass Metal A Glass filled with Water weighing in Troy Weights 13 ounces and 5 drams the Glass and the Water together weigheth severally viz. The Water 9 ounces and a half and the Glass 4 ounces and a dram A Bladder weighing 2 ounces 7 drams and a half a Pebble layed upon the top of the Bladder makes 3 ounces 6 drams and a half the Stone weigheth 7 drams The Bladder as above blown and the same fallen weigheth equal A Spunge dry weigheth 1 ounce First Time 26 grains The same Spunge being wet weigheth 14 ounces 6 drams and 3 quarters the Water weigheth in several 11 ounces one dram and a half and the Spunge 3 ounces and a half and 3 quarters of a dram The Spunge and Water together weigh 15 ounces Second Time and 7 drams in several the Water weigheth 11 ounces and 7 drams and the Spunge 3 ounces 7 drams and a half Three Soveraigns made equal to a weight in Silver in the Air differeth in the Water For false Weights one Beam long the other thick The Stick and Thread weigh half a dram and 20 grains being laid in the Ballance The Stick tied to reach within half an inch of the end of the Beam and so much from the Tongue weigheth 28 grains the difference is 22 grains The same Stick being tied to hang over the end of the Beam an inch and a half weigheth half a dram and 24 grains exceeding the weight of the said Stick in the Ballance by 4 grains The same Stick being hanged down beneath the Thread as near the Tongue as is possible weigheth only 8 grains Two weights of Gold being made equal in the Air and weighing severally 7 drams the one Ballance being put into the Water and the other hanging in the Air the Ballance in the Water weigheth only 5 drams and 3 grains and abateth of the weight in the Air 1 dram and a half and 27 grains The same trial being made the second time and more truly and exactly betwixt Gold and Gold weighing severally as above and making a just and equal weight in the Air the one Ballance being put into the Water the depth of five inches and the other hanging in the Air the Ballance in the Water weigheth only 4 drams and 55 grains and abateth of the weight in the Air 2 drams and 5 grains The trial being made betwixt Lead and Lead weighing severally 7 drams in the Air the Ballance in the Water weigheth only 4 drams and 41 grains and abateth of the weight in the Air 2 drams and 19 grains the Ballance kept the same depth in the Water as abovesaid The trial being made betwixt Silver and Silver weighing severally 7 drams in the Air the Ballance in the Water weigheth only 4 drams and 25 grains So it abateth 2 drams and 35 grains the same depth in the Water observed In Iron and Iron weighing severally each Ballance in the Air 7 drams the Ballance in the Water weigheth only 4 drams and 18 grains and abateth of the weight in the Air 2 drams and 42 grains the depth observe as above In Stone and Stone the same weight of 7 drams equally in the Air the Ballance in the Water weigheth only 2 drams and 22 grains and abateth of the weight in the Air 4 drams and 38 grains the depth as above In Brass and Brass the same weight of 7 drams in each Ballance equal in the Air the Ballance in the Water weigheth only 4 drams and 22 grains and abateth in the Water 2 drams and 38 grains the depth observed The two Ballances being weighed in Air and Water the Ballance in the Air overweigheth the other in the Water one dram and 28 grains the depth in the Water as aforesaid It is a profitable Experiment which sheweth the weights of several Bodies in comparison with Water It is of use in lading of Ships and other Bottoms and may help to shew what Burthen in the several kinds they will bear Certain sudden Thoughts of the Lord Bacon's set down by him under the Title of Experiments for Profit MUck of Leaves Muck of River Earth and Chalk Muck of Earth closed both for Salt-Peter and Muck. Setting of Wheat and Pease Mending of Crops by steeping of Seeds Making Pease Cherries and Strawberries come early Strengthening of Earth for often returns of Radishes Parsnips Turnips c. Making great Roots of Onions Radishes and other Esculent roots Sowing of Seeds of Trefoil Setting of Woad Setting of Tobacco and taking away the 〈◊〉 Grafting upon Boughs of old Trees Making of a hasty Coppice Planting of Osiers in wet Grounds Making of Candles to last long Building of Chimneys Furnaces and Ovens to give Heat with less Wood. Fixing of Log-Wood Other means to make Yellow and Green fixed Conserving of Orenges Limons Citrons Pomgranats c. all Summer Recovering of Pearl Coral Turchoise Colour by a Conservatory of Snow Sowing of Fennel Brewing with Hay Haws Trefoil Broom Heps Bramble-Berries Woodbines wild Thime instead of Hops Thistles Multiplying and Dressing Artichokes Certain Experiments of the Lord Bacon's about the Commixture of Liquors only not Solids without Heat or Agitation but only by simple Composition and Settling SPirit of Wine mingled with common Water although it be much lighter than Oyl yet so as if the first fall be broken by means of a Sop or otherwise it stayeth above and if it be once mingled it severeth not again as Oyl doth Tried with Water coloured with Saffron Spirit of Wine mingled with common Water hath a kind of clouding and motion shewing no ready Commixture Tried with Saffron A dram of Gold dissolved in Aqua Regis with a dram of Copper in Aqua forti commixed gave a Green Colour but no visible motion in the parts Note That the dissolution of the Gold was twelve parts Water to one part Body And of the Copper was six parts Water to one part Body Oyl of Almonds commixed with Spirit of Wine severeth and the Spirit of Wine remaineth on the top and the Oyl in the bottom Gold dissolved commixed with Spirit of Wine a dram of each doth commix and no other apparent alteration Quick-silver dissolved with Gold dissolved a dram of each doth turn to a mouldy Liquor black and like Smith's water Note The dissolution of the Gold was twelve parts Water ut supra and one part Metal That of Water was two parts and one part Metal Spirit of Wine and Quick-silver commixed a dram of each at the first shewed a white
Take of Eringium Roots 3 ounces of Dates as much of Enula 2 drams of Mace 3 drams and brew them with Ten-shilling Beer to the quantity of four Gallons And this do either by decocting them in a Pottle of Wort to be after mingled with the Beer being new tapped or otherwise infuse it in the New Beer in a Bag. Use this familiarly at Meals Against the waste of the Body by Heat Take sweet Pomgranates and strain them lightly not pressing the Kernel into a Glass where put some little of the Peel of a Citron and two or three Cloves and three grains of Amber-grease and a pretty deal of fine Sugar It is to be drunk every Morning whilst Pomgranates last Methusalem Water Against all Asperity and Torrefaction of Inward parts and all Adustion of the Blood and generally against the Driness of Age. Take Crevises very new q. s. boyl them well in Claret Wine of them take only the shells and rub them very clean especially on the inside that they may be throughly cleansed from the Meat Then wash them three or four times in fresh Claret Wine heated still changing the Wine till all the Fish-taste be quite taken away But in the Wine wherein they are washed steep some tops of green Rosemary then dry the pure shell throughly and bring them to an exquisite Pouder Of this Pouder take 3 drams Take also Pearl and steep them in Vinegar twelve Hours and dry off the Vinegar of this Pouder also 3 drams Then put the Shell Pouder and Pearl Pouder together and add to them of Ginger one scruple and of white Poppy Seed half a scruple and steep them in Spirit of Wine wherein six grains of Saffron hath been dissolved seven Hours Then upon a gentle heat vapour away all the Spirit of Wine and dry the Pouder against the Sun without Fire Add to it of Nitre one dram of Amber-grease one scruple and a half and so keep this Pouder for use in a clean Glass Then take a Pottle of Milk and slice in it of fresh Cucumers the inner Pith only the Rind being pared off four ounces and draw forth a Water by Distillation Take of Claret Wine a Pint and quench Gold in it four times Of the Wine and of the water of Milk take of each three ounces of the Pouder one scruple and drink it in the Morning stir up the Pouder when you drink and walk upon it A Catalogue of Astringents Openers and Cordials instrumental to Health Collected by Sir Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam Astringents REd Rose Blackberry Myrtle Plantane Flower of Pomegranate Mint Aloes well washed Mirabolanes Sloes Agresta Fraga Mastich Myrrh Saffron Leaves of Rosemary Rubarb received by Infusion Cloves Service-Berries Corna Wormwood Bole Armeniac Sealed Earth Cinque-foil Tincture of Steel Sanguis Draconis Coral Amber Quinces Spikenard Galls Allum Bloodstone Mummy Amomum Galangal Cypress Ivy Psyllum Houseleek Sallow Mulleni Vine Oak-leaves Lign-Aloes Red Sanders Mulberrie Medlers Flowers of Peach-Trees Pomegranates Pears Palmule Pith of Kernels Purslain Acacia Laudanum Tragacanth Thus Olibani Comfrey Shepherds-purse Polygonium Astringents both hot and cold which corroborate the Parts and which confirm and refresh such of them as are loose or languishing Rosemary Mint especially with Vinegar Cloves Cinamon Cardamom Lign-Aloes Rose Myrtle Red Sanders Cotonea Red-Wine Chalybeat-Wine Five-finger-Grass Plantane Apples of Cypress Barberries Fraga Service-Berries Corneille's Ribes Sowr-Pears Rambesia Astringents Styptic which by their Styptic Virtue may stay Fluxes Sloes Acacia Rind of Pomegranates infused at least three Hours the Styptic Virtue not coming forth in lesser time Alum Galls Iuice of Sallow Syrup of unripe Quinces ` Balaustia the Whites of Eggs boyled hard in Vinegar Astringents which by their cold and earthy Nature may stay the motion of the Humours tending to a Flux Sealed Earth Sanguis Draconis Coral Pearls the shell of the Fish Dactylus Astringents which by the thickness of their substance stuff as it were the thin Humours and thereby stay Fluxes Rice Beans Millet Cauls dry Cheese fresh Goats-Milk Astringents which by virtue of their Glutinous substance restrain a Flux and strengthen the looser Parts Karabe * Perhapâ— he meant the fruit of Kaâ—obe Mastich Spodium Harts-horn Frankincense dried Bulls Pistle Gum Tragacanth Astringents Purgative which having by their purgative or expulsive Power thrust out the Humours leave behind them of Astrictive Virtue Rubarb especially that which is tosted against the Fire Mirabolanes Tartar Tamarinds an Indian Fruit like Green Damasens Astringents which do very much suck and dry up the Humours and thereby stay Fluxes Rust of Iron Crocus Martis Ashes of Spices Astringents which by their Nature do dull the Spirits and lay asleep the Expulsive virtue and take away the acrimony of all Humours Laudanum Mithridate Diascordium Diacodium Astringents which by cherishing the strength of the parts do comfort and confirm their Retentive power A Stomacher of Scarlet Cloth Whelps or young healthy Boys applito the Stomach Hypocratic Wines so they be made of austere Materials Openers SUcchory Endive Betony Liverwort Petroselinum Smallage Asparagus Roots of Grass Dodder Tamarisk Juncus Odoratus Lacca Copparus Wormwood Chamaepitis Fumaria Scurvy-grass Eringo Nettle Ireos Elder Hyssop Aristolochia Gentian Costus Fennel-root Maidenhair Harts-tongue Daffodilly Asarum Sarsaparilla Sassafras Acorns Abretonum Aloes Agaric Rubarb infused Onions Garlick Bother Squilla Sowbread Indian Nard Celtic Nard Bark of Laurel-Tree Bitter Almonds Holy Thistle Camomile Gun-powder Sows Millipedes Ammoniac Man's Urine Rue Park-Leaves Vitex Centaury Lupines Chamaedris Costum Ammeas Bistort Camphire Daucus Seed Indian Balsam Scordium Sweet Cane Galingal Agrimony Cordials FLowers of Basil Royal Flores Caryophillati Flowers of Bugloss and Borage Rind of Citron Orenge-Flowers Rosemary and its Flowers Saffron Musk Amber Folium i. e. Nardi Folium Balm-Gentle Pimpernel Gems Gold Generous Wines Fragrant Apples Rose Rosa Moschata Cloves Lign-Aloes Mace Cinamon Nutmeg Cardamom Galingal Vinegar Kermes-berry Herba Moschata Betony White Sanders Camphire Flowers of Heliotrope Penny-royal Scordium Opium corrected White Pepper Nasturtium white and red Bean Castum Dulce Dactylus Pine Fig Egg-shell Vinum Malvaticum Ginger Kidneys Oysters Crevises or River-Crabs Seed of Nettle Oyl of Sweet Almonds Sesamium Oleum Asparagus Bulbous Roots Onions Garlick Eruca Daucus Seed Eringo Siler Montanus the smell of Musk Cynethi Odor Caraway Seed Flower of Pulâ—s Anniseed Pellitory anointing of the Testicles with Oyl of Elder in which Pellitory hath been boyl'd Cloves with Goats-Milk Olibanum An Extract by the Lord Bacon for his own use out of the Book of the Prolongation of Life together with some new Advices in order to Health 1. ONce in the Week or at least in the Fornight to take the Water of Mithridate distilled with three parts to one or Strawberry-water to allay it and some grains of Nitre and Saffron in the Morning between sleeps 2. To continue my Broth with Nitre but to interchange it every other two Days with the Juyce of Pomgranates expressed
with a little Cloves and Rind of Citron 3. To order the taking of the Maceration * Viz. Of Rubarb infused into a draught of white Wine and Beer mingled together for the space of half an Hour once in six or seven Days See the Lord Bacon 's Life by Dr. Rawley towards the end as followeth To add to the Maceration six grains of Cremor Tartari and as much Enula To add to the Oxymel some Infusion of Fennel-roots in the Vinegar and four grains of Angelica-seed and Juyce of Limons a third part to the Vinegar To take it not so immediately before Supper and to have the Broath specially made with Barley Rosemary Thyme and Cresses 4. To take once in the Month at least and for two Days together a grain and a half of Castor in my Broath and Breakfast 5. A Cooling Clyster to be used once a Month after the working of the Maceration is settled Take of Barley-water in which the Roots of Bugloss are boyled three ounces with two drams of Red-Sanders and two ounces of Raisins of the Sun and one ounce of Dactyles and an ounce and a half of Fat Carycks let it be strained and add to it an ounce and a half of Syrup of Violets Let a Clyster be made Let this be taken with Veal in the aforesaid Decoction 6. To take every Morning the Fume of Lign-Aloes Rosemary and Bays dried with Juyce but once in a Week to add a little Tobacco without otherwise taking it in a Pipe 7. To appoint every Day an Hour ad Affectus Intentionales sanos Qu. de particulari 8. To remember Mastichatories for the Mouth 9. And Orenge-flower Water to be smelt to or snuffed up 10. In the third Hour after the Sun is risen to take in Air from some high and open Place with a ventilation of Rosae Moschatae and fresh Violets and to stir the Earth with infusion of Wine and Mint 11. To use Ale with a little Enula Campana Carduâ—s Germander Sage Angelica Seed Cresses of a middle age to beget a robust heat 12. Mithridate thrice a Year 13. A bit of Bread dipt in Vino Odorato with Syrup of dry Roses and a little Amber at going to Bed 14. Never to keep the Body in the same posture above half an Hour at a time 15. Four Precepts To break off Custom To shake off Spirits ill disposed To meditate on Youth To do nothing against a Man's Genius 16. Syrup of Quinces for the Mouth of the Stomach Enquire concerning other things useful in that kind 17. To use once during Supper time Wine in which Gold is quenched 18. To use anointing in the Morning lightly with Oyl of Almonds with Salt and Saffron and a gentle rubbing 19. Ale of the second Infusion of the Vine of Oak 20. Methusalem Water of Pearls and Shells of Crabs and a little Chalk 21. Ale of Raisins Dactyles Potatoes Pistachios Hony Tragacanth Mastich 22. Wine with Swines-flesh or Harts-flesh 23. To drink the first Cup at Supper hot and half an Hour before Supper something hot and Aromatiz'd 24. Chalybeats four times a Year 25. Pilulae ex tribus once in two Months but after the Mass has been macerated in Oyl of Almonds 26. Heroic Desires 27. Bathing of the Feet once in a Month with Lie ex Sale nigro Camomile sweet Marjoram Fennel Sage and a little Aqua Vitae 28. To provide always an apt Breakfast 29. To beat the Flesh before Rosting of it 30. Macerations in Pickles 31. Agitation of Beer by Ropes or in Wheel-Barrows 32. That Diet is good which makes Lean and then Renews Consider of the ways to effect it Medical Receipts of the Lord Bacon's The First Receipt or his Lordship's Broath and Fomentation for the Stone The Broath TAke one dram of Eryngium Roots cleansed and sliced and boyl them together with a Chicken In the end add of Elder-Flowers and Marigold-Flowers together one pugil of Angelica-Seed half a dram of Raisins of the Sun stoned fifteen of Rosemary Thyme Mace together a little In six ounces of this Broath or thereabouts let there be dissolved of white Cremor Tartari three grains Every third or fourth Day take a small Toast of Manchet dipped in Oyl of Sweet Almonds new drawn and sprinkled with a little Loaf-Sugar You may make the Broath for two Days and take the one half every Day If you find the Stone to stir forbear the Toast for a Course or two The Intention of this Broath is not to Void but to Undermine the Quarry of the Stones in the Kidneys The Fomentation Take of Leaves of Violets Mallows Pellitory of the Wall together one Handful Of Flowers of Camomile and Mellilot together one Pugil The Root of Marsh-Mallows one ounce of Annis and Fennel-seeds together one ounce and a half of Flax-seed two drams Make a Decoction in spring-Spring-water The Second Receipt shewing the way of making a certain Oyntment which his Lordship called Unguentum Fragrans sive Romanum The Fragrant or Roman Unguent TAke of the Fat of a Deer half a pound of Oyl of Sweet Almonds two ounces Let them be set upon a very gentle Fire and stirr'd with a stick of Juniper till they are melted Add of Root of Flower de Luce poudered Damask Roses poudered together one dram of Myrrh dissolved in rose-Rose-water half a dram of Cloves half a scruple of Civet four grains of Musk six grains of Oyl of Mace expressed one drop as much of rose-Rose-water as sufficeth to keep the Unguent from being too thick Let all these be put together in a Glass and set upon the Embers for the space of an Hour and stirred with a stick of Juniper Note That in the Confection of this Oyntment there was not used above a quarter of a pound and a tenth part of a quarter of Deers Suet And that all the Ingredients except the Oyl of Almonds were doubled when the Oyntment was half made because the Fat things seemed to be too Predominant The Third Receipt A Manus Christi for the Stomack TAke of the best Pearls very finely pulveriz'd one dram of Sal Nitre one scruple of Tartar two Scruples of Ginger and Gallingal together one ounce and a half of Calamus Root of Enula Campana Nutmeg together one scruple and a half of Amber sixteen grains of the best Musk ten grains with rose-Rose-water and the finest Sugar let there be made a Manus Christi The Fourth Receipt A Secret for the Stomack TAke Lignum Aloes in gross shavings steep them in Sack or Alacant changed twice half an Hour at a time till the bitterness be drawn forth Then take the Shavings forth and dry them in the shade and beat them to an Excellent Pouder Of that Pouder with the Syrup of Citrons make a small Pill to be taken before Supper Baconiana Theologica OR A FEW REMAINS OF THE Lord Bacon Relating To Divine Matters LONDON Printed for R. C. at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1679. THE Lord Bacon's Theological
the Process or Motion of the Dissolution the manner of rising boyling vapouring more violent or more gentle causing much heat or less Item the Quantity or Charge that the strong Water will bear and then give over Item the Colour into which the Liquor will turn Above all it is to be enquired whether there be any Menstruum to dissolve any Metal that is not Fretting or Corroding and openeth the Body by Sympathie and not by Mordacity or violent Penetration For Sprouting or Branching though it be a thing but transitory and a kind of Toy or Pleasure yet there is a more serious use of it for that it discovereth the delicate Motions of Spirits when they put forth and cannot get forth like unto that which is in Vegetables For Induration or Mollification It is to be enquired what will make Metals harder and harder and what will make them softer and softer And this enquiry tendeth to two ends First for Use As to make Iron soft by the Fire makes it Malleable Secondly Because Induration is a degree towards Fixation and Mollification towards Volatility and therefore the Enquiry of them will give light towards the other For Tough and Brittle they are much of the same kind but yet worthy of an Enquiry apart especially to joyn Hardness with Toughness as making Glass malleable c. and making Blâ—des strong to resist and pierce and yet not easie to break For Volatility and Fixation It is a Principal Branch to be enquired The utmost degree of Fixation is that whereon no Fire will work nor strong Water joyned with Fire if there be any such Fixation possible The next is when Fire simply will not work without strong Waters The next is by the Test. The next is when it will indure Fire not blown or such a strength of Fire The next is when it will not indure but yet is malleable The next is when it is not malleable but yet is not fluent but stupified So of Volatility the utmost degree is when it will flie away without returning The next is when it will flie up but with ease return The next is when it will flie upwards over the Helm by a kind of Exufflation without Vapouring The next is when it will melt though not rise The next is when it will soften though not melt Of all these diligent Enquiry is to be made in several Metals especially of the more extreme degrees For Transmutation or Version If it be real and true it is the furthest part of Art and would be well distinguished from Extraction from Restitution and from Adulteration I hear much of turning Iron into Copper I hear also of the growth of Lead in weight which cannot be without a Conversion of some body into Lead but whatsoever is of this kind and well expressed is diligently to be inquired and set down Doctor Meverel's Answers to the Lord Bacon's Questions concerning the Variation of Metals and Minerals 1. FOr Tinctures there are none that I know but that rich variety which springs from mixture of Metals with Metals or imperfect Minerals 2. The imperfect Metals are subject to rust all of them except Mercury which is made into Vermilion by Solution or Calcination The rest are rusted by any salt sowr or acid Water Lead into a white body called Cerussa Iron into a pale red called Ferrugo Copper is turned into green named Aerugo Aes Viride Tin into white But this is not in use neither hath it obtained a name The Scriptures mention the rust of Gold but that 's in regard of the Allay 3. Calcination All Metals may be calcined by strong Waters or by admixtion of Salt Sulphur and Mercury The imperfect Metals may be Calcined by continuance of simple Fire Iron thus calcined is called Crocus Martis And this is their best way Gold and Silver are best calcined by Mercury Their Colour is Gray Lead calcined is very Red. Copper duskie Red. 4. Metals are sublimed by joyning them with Mercury or Salts As Silver with Mercury Gold with Sal Armoniac Mercury with Vitriol 5. Precipitation is when any Metal being dissolved into a strong Water is beaten down into a Powder by salt Water The chiefest in this kind is Oyl of Tartar 6. Amalgamation is the joyning or mixing of Mercury with any other of the Metals The manner is this in Gold the rest are answerable Take six parts of Mercury make them hot in a Crusible and pour them to one part of Gold made red-hot in another Crusible stir these well together that they may incorporate which done cast the Mass into cold Water and wash it This is called the Amalgama of Gold 7. For Vitrification All the imperfect Metals may be turned by strong Fire into Glass except Mercury Iron into Green Lead into Yellow Brass into Blew Tin into pale Yellow For Gold and Silver I have not known them Vitrified except joyned with Antimony These Glassie bodies may be reduced into the form of Mineral bodies 8. Dissolution All Metals without exception may be dissolved 1. Iron may be dissolved by any tart â—alt or vitriolated Water yea by common Water if it be first calcined with Sulphur It dissolves in Aqua forti with great ebullition and heat into ared Liquor so red as Blood 2. Lead is fittiest dissolved in Vinegar into a pale Yellow making the Vinegar very sweet 3. Tin is best dissolved with distilled Salt-water It retains the colour of the Menstruum 4. Copper dissolves as Iron doth in the same Liquor into a Blew 5. Silver hath his proper Menstruum which is Aqua fortis The colour is Green with great heat and ebullition 6. Gold is dissolved with Aqua Regia into a yellow Liquor with little heat or ebullition 7. Mercury is dissolved with much heat and boyling into the same Liquors which Gold and Silver are It alters not the colour of the Menstruum Note Strong Waters may be charged with half their weight of fixed Metals and equal of Mercury if the Workman be skilful 9. Sprouting This is an accident of dissolution For if the Menstruum be overcharged then within short time the Metals will shoot into certain Crystals 10. For Induration or Mollification they depend upon the quantity of fixed Mercury and Sulphur I have observed little of them neither of Toughness nor Bitterness 11. The degrees of Fixation and Volatility I acknowledg except the two utmost which never were observed 12. The Question of Transmutation is very doubtful Wherefore I refer your Honour to the fourth Tome of Theatrum Chymicum and there to that Tract which is entituled Disquisitio Heliana where you shall find full satisfaction The Lord Bacon's Inquiries concerning Metals and Minerals The fourth Letter of the Cross-Row touching Restitution FIrst Therefore it is to be inquired in the Negative what Bodies will never return either by their extreme Fixings as in some Vitrifications or by extreme Volatility It is also to be inquired of the two means of Reduction and first by