ounces Vinegar prepared with Sanders an ounce and a half species Diarrhodon Abbatis roots of Scorzonera and Plantane of each two drams Salt of Endive and Succory of each half a dram the four greater cold Seeds and the four lesser cold Seeds of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Liver Epithema Hepaticum in causa frigida or an Epithem for the Liver grieved with a cold Distemper Take Malmsey Wine four ounces water of Agrimony Pauls Betony and Mother of Thyme of each three ounces Spirit of Iuniper an ounce and a half species of Diacurcuma and Diacubeba of each two drams Rhubarb sweet Cane Cane Cassia lignea of each a dram Salt of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each two scruples Oriental Saffron seeds of Cummin and Lavender of each half a dram Squinanth flowers of yellow Stoechas of each a scruple Mix all for an Epithem Epithema in Inflammatione Renum praesentissimum or an Epithem for an Inflammation of the Reins Take juyce of Plantane and Night shade depurated of each four ounces water of Housleek and Purslain of each three ounces odoriferous Wine and Wine Vinegar violated of each an ounce and a half Nitre prepared Mix them and make an Epithem to be applied to the region of the Reins as the manner is But it is to be noted If cooling Epithems are to be applied to noble parts they are not to be applied cold but warm except the heat be very intense and then it may be used cold SECT XXV Of Decoctions Decoctum Catarrhaie or a Decoction for a Catarrh TAke clear Fountain water nine pound clarified Honey five pound Sage Origanum Marjaram Hyssop and Rosemary of each an ounce Boil it to the consumption of the third part and then strain it and to the strained Liquor add roots of Elicampane Coltsfoot and Florentine Flower-de luce of each six drams seeds of Roman Nettles Carduus Anise and Fenil of each half an ounce Maidenhair spotted Lungwort Scabious and Horehound of each two drams the Cordial Flowers and flowers of Coltsfoot and wild Poppy of each a dram Let these macerate 24 hours and then add Cubebs Cinamon Nutmegs Cardamoms the less white Ginger Galangal the less Cloves of each a dram Then let them boil once and so put them into some glass Vessel and let it there stand a whole day and make a clear Decoction according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual in Catarrhs falling from the Head upon the Breast and the parts thereabouts The dose is a good draught at a time or the Patient may drink so much daily as his thirst requires Decoctum Cosmeticum or a Beautifying Water Take Venetian Borax white Sugar Candy and sublimated Mercury of each two drams Let them be finely pulverized and tyed up apart in a linen Rag and boiled in four pound of May-dew gathered off from the Wheat till the Mercury be dissolved and in the strained Liquor while warm dissolve two drams of Camphire then filter it and keep it for use Virtue and Use. It is only applied outwardly to the spots of the Face which it takes away and leaves the Skin white and clean But in using of it take heed lest it touch the Eyes or Teeth Decoctum Arthriticum or a Decoction for the Gout Take small Raisons eight ounces shavings of Guajacum eight ounces roots of China an ounce roots of Liquorish and water-Acorus of each half an ounce Cinamon and the lesser Galangal of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and then infused 24 hours in ten pound of Barley-water afterward boil them over a gentle fire to the consumption of the third part and make a clear Potion according to Art Virtue Use and Dose I use this happily in all Catarrhs and running Gouts proceeding from a destillation of cold Humors especially where the sick is very dry I also ordinarily give it in ill Habits and Dropsies for their common drink for it roborates and drys the body of all its superfluity The Patient cannot well erre in the dose but let him drink at his pleasure Decoctum Pectorale subacidum or a Pectoral Decoction a little tart Take fountain-Fountain-water two pound and a half Virgin Honey two pound the best Wine Vinegar a pound and a half Boil it over a gentle fire till it comes to four pound in which infuse small Raisons three ounces seeds of Carduus and Roman Nettles of each an ounce roots of Elicampane Florentine Flower-de-uce and Coltsfoot of each half an ounce Maidenhair Scabious and Hyssop of each two drams Dates Iujubes and Figs of each eight flowers of Coltsfoot Violets Borage and Bugloss of each a dram Let them macerate twenty four hours and then boil them over a gentle fire to the consumption of one part at last strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and aromatize it with a little Cinamon Virtue Use and Dose It attenuates thick humors in the Phthisick Asthma Cough and other Pectoral diseases it cuts the tough softens the hard and brings forth the unprofitable humors it also resists Putrefaction The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Decoctum Pectorale subdulce or a sweetish Pectoral Decoction Take small Raisons and white Sugar Candy of each four ounces roots of Liquorish Coltsfoot and Florentine Flower-de-luce of each an ounce spotted Lungwort Pauls Betony Harts-tongue Maidenhair and Horehound of each an ounce seeds of Myrtles Anise and Fenil of each three drams flowers of Chamomil Marsh-mallows Bugloss Liverwort lesser Centaury and Violets of each a dram and a half Dates dryed Figs Iujubes and Sebestens of each eight Let them be cut and bruised and infused 24 hours in four pound of Hydromel two pound of the water of the Juyce of Scabious distilled then boil them to the consumption of the third part and about the end of the Decoction let it be aromatized with Galangal the less Cinamon Cardamoms the less and white Ginger of each a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram Then strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a clear Potion which edulcorate with white Sugar Candy Virtue Use and Dose It relieves those troubled with Asthma's distempers of the Liver Pleurisies Coughs c. and the continual use of this Decoction for some time cures the Consumption For it facilitates the Spitting mundifies the Breast heals the Ulcers of the Lungs c. nay and it opens the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen also The dose is morning noon and night from two ounces to three Decoctum Rad. Chinae Pectorale or a Pectoral Decoction of the Roots of China Take the best and heavy roots of China cut cross into little round and thin pieces three ounces Infuse it in water of Scabious Coltsfoot and Pauls Betony of each two pound Let them stand in infusion 24 hours in a glazed Vessel in a warm place well covered with Cloaths then add Bugloss an ounce roots of Liquorish and Elicampane of each half an ounce seeds of Cudwort and Fenil of
ounces to three or four Decoctum Satyriacum Take seeds of Ashen-keys an ounce Boletus cervinus Bulls pizzle Venetian Borax of each half an ounce roots of Pellitory and Aron of each three drams long Pepper Castor Ginger and Canamon of each two drams Cloves the lesser Cardamoms and Cubebs of each a scruple All being cut and bruised let them be put into a new clean glazed Vessel and pour upon it a sufficient quantity of Malmsey Wine and let them boil in a Vessel well luted according to Art Virtue Use and Dose He that would be presently and powerfully armed for the Sports of Venus let him drink a little draught of this Decoction morning and evening Decoctum contra Herniam Intestinalem or a Decoction against the Rupture of the Bowels Take seeds of Thorough-leaf and Cummin of each an ounce roots of Aron fresh dryed roots of water-Acorus Tormentil and great Comfry of each half an ounce the herb Perwincle Sanicle Winter-green golden Rod Mouse-ear Rupturewort and Orpine of each two drams red Roses Balaustines the lesser Galangal and Cloves of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and boiled in a sufficient quantity of the best white Wine to the consumption of the third part and make a clear Decoction according to Art Virtue Use and Dose Internal Balsams being given with it cure the Rupture without any trouble and is in this case a singular Experiment The dose is a good draught morning and evening Decoctum contra Uteri Haemorrhagiam or a Decoction against a Plux of Blood from the Womb. Take roots of Succory an ounce roots of Tormentil Avens Liquorish and Plantane of each half an ounce Gum Arabick Elder-berries dryed Harts-horn Coriander prepared of each three drams Shepherds-purse Bloodwort Burnet Sorrel Horstail Rosemary of each two drams grains of Mastich a dram and a half red Roses dryed Nutmegs of each a dram Make a Decoction in a sufficient quantity of Water of Millefoil and white Wine to twenty four ounces and in the clear strained Liquor dissolve four ounces of Syrup of the Juyce of Quinces Virtue Use and Dose It is a Secret in the unmeasurable purgation of the Terms and the continual destillation from the Womb. The dose is morning and evening from three spoonfuls to four or a little draught Decoctum contra Menses suppressos or a Decoction against the suppression of the Terms Take Cinamon an ounce and a half roots of red Mugwort Smallage Asparagus and Fenil of each half an ounce Venetian Borax Bay-berries husked Iuniper-berries of each three drams Centaury and Savin of each two drams Motherwort Maidenhair Nep Pennyroyal Calamint Mother of Thyme of each a dram and a half flowers of Chamomil and Bugloss Oriental Saffron and Mace of each a dram Boil all but the Saffron Mace and Cinamon in a sufficient quantity of good old Wine to the consumption of the third part and then at last add the Species and make a clear Decoction according to Art which edulcorate with Syrup of the Juyce of Mugwort and Maiden-hair Virtue Use and Dose This Decoction is approved by often Experience for it wonderfully and potently brings down the Terms the retained Secundine and dead Child if not rightly disposed for birth it brings away without danger The dose is morning and evening at going to bed a moderate draught drunk warm and continue it so long till the Terms appear Decoctum contra Scabiem or a Decoction against the Itch and Scab Take Agrimony Origanum and Pauls Betony of each half an ounce roots of Elicampane Scorzonera and Swallow-wort of each two drams Cinamon and Mace of each a dram Boil them in four pound of the best Beer to the consumption of the half and make a clear Potion Virtue Use and Dose Universal Remedies premised and the Body being duly purged it certainly drives forth the Itch and cures it The dose is morning and evening a good draught at a time warm Decoctum Vulnerarium or a Vulnerary Decoction Take Ladies mantle red Beets Winter-green Sanicle Periwincle golden Rod seeds of Angelica of each equal parts Let the Herbs be cut small and the seeds of Angelica bruised only and let them be well mixed one with another then take half an ounce of this mixed Powder tyed up in a linen Rag and boiled in two pound of Rhenish Wine in Balneo and make a clear Decoction Virtue Use and Dose It cures all Wounds and Blows in what part of the body soever they are and expels Iron Wood Lead and other such things And it consolidates and heals more in a week than other vulnerary Potions do in a month and is such an Experiment that all Chirurgions deservedly ought to receive it with both hands and with a thankful mind The dose is morning noon and night two or three spoonfuls warm Decoctum Ligni Guajaci or a Decoction of Guajacum Take shavings of Guajacum a pound the bark of it four ounces roots of China two ounces Sarsaparilla and Sassafras of each an ounce Infuse it according to Art in sixteen pound of clear Fountain-water for 24 hours and then boil it in a new glazed Pot close covered to the consumption of one half and let this serve for a Sudorifick Afterward boil it again in twelve pound of Barley water to the consumption of one third and keep this for ordinary drink And to this last Decoction you may add a few Raisons and aromatize it with Cinamon if you please Virtue Use and Dose This Decoction hath a most admirable faculty in the French Pox and chiefly in those who are full with Ulcers which loathsom disease this Decoction cures Of this first Decoction the Patient may take one good draught warm in a morning and another two or three hours before supper and let him drink of the second Decoction as often as he pleaseth in the day besides Another of Lignum Sanctum or the Holy Wood. Take Lignum Sanctum a pound the bark of it four ounces Sarsaparilla two ounces Sassafras an ounce Let them digest 24 hours in sixteen pound of fumitory-Fumitory-water and then distil them in an Alembick and in the distilled Liquor boil Raisons four ounces roots of Liquorish and China of each an ounce seeds of Fenil and Anise of each half an ounce the herbs Betony and Succory of each two drams Let it be strained according to Art and keep the strained Liquor for use Virtue Use and Dose It drys attenuates expurgates and provokes Sweat and therefore doth resist Putrefaction and Contagion It amends the vices of the Brain cures the Pox strengthens the Liver opens the Spleen and is very good in the Scirrhus thereof It is of good use in the Dropsie It heals malignant Ulcers and cures the Leprosie and Elephantiasis c. The dose is a good draught at a time twice a day given warm Dococtum adstringens or an astringent Decoction Take roots of Tormentil and Snakeweed of each an ounce dryed Quince six drams seeds of Docks and
vitriolated of each two drams Oyl of Cloves of Cinamon Nutmegs of each a scruple Mix them all carefully and make an Extract according to art Virtue Use and Dose This is a specifick Vomit and works variously by Vomit and Stool and is of great force and virtue in all Feavers pains of the Head and Joynts Gout Jaundice Dropsie and in obstructions of the Liver and Spleen yea in the Appetite depraved and the Stomach debilitated for it leaves nothing of a depraved nature in it but radically casts forth all the impure and peccant humors nor doth it do any injury The Dose is to be regulated according to the Age Sex and Complexion c. from a scruple to half a dram in some convenient liquor or in the form of a Pill c. having eaten something convenient before for then it works with the most ease and the least trouble Extractum Specificum Colicum or a Specifick Extract for the Colick Take of the yellow rind of Oranges six ounces specieâ— of Diacymini Iuniper-berries of each three ounces roots of Elicampane Pimpernel Cloves Zedoary of each an ounce and a half seeds of Chervil Bay-berries dryed Mother of Time Marjoram juyce of Liquorish of each an ounce Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron of each six drams Mix them and with Spirit of Wine draw a Tincture which afterward in Balneo abstract to the thickness of Honey and add of Nitre vitriolated thra drams Harts-horn Hermetically calcined Swines and Hares Cockal-bones calcined of each two drams white Amber prepared Magistery of Corals the Carp-stone of each a dram and a half Diaphoretick Mineral Iovial Bezoar the Bezoar stone Lac Sulphuris of each a dram Spirit of Salt rectified half a dram Mix them all together and make of it a Mass like an Extract to which add of our Carminative Oyl two drams the Oyls of Angelica Cloves white Amber Mastich Mace Cinamon Citrons of each a scruple All being well incorporated make an Extract and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a Specifick in the Colick and is properly applied to the Colick and Iliack Passion rising from a cold moist and flatuous Cause and the Excrements of the Guts being evacuated it is a Secret in allaying the vehement and mosâ— grievous pains of the Intestines for it dissolves and attenuates the thick and viscous humors and dissipates wind It helps the distension and windiness of the Hypochonders and Stomach and wonderfully relieves the coldness of the Stomach and the weakness of the Bowels It is also profitable for old Folks and those who have the Quartan Age c. It repairs Concoction and effectually expels the Tartar that is dissolved and loosned in the Guts The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram in our Water against the Colick or in any other appropriate Extractum Specificum Uterinum or a Specifick Extract for the Womb. Take Elder-berries dryed dwarff Elder-berries of each four ounces roots of Piony duly gathered red Mugwort white Dictamnus Briony of each two ounces Misleto of the Oak Climmin seeds Pennyroyal Balm new dryed Cassia lignea of each an ounce Oriental Saffron true Castor of each half an ounce Mix them and draw a Tincture with Spirit of Wine which being done separate the Spirit and the Extract will remain in the bottom to which add the blood of a Hog dryed in an Oven and prepared with the Hysterical water half an ounce Iovial Bezoar two drams Magistery of English Tin of Mother of Pearls and Coral of each a dram and a half Oyl of Cloves of Angelica white Amber Oranges of each a dram Let them be all well mixed and made into the form of an Extract which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose We have not a greater Secret for the Womb than this is for in the suffocations of the Matrix where all things are irritated and as it were desperate it is a most salubrious Medicine for it takes away the cause of these most cruel effects and all or at least-wise the most deplorable fits and strangulations of the Womb caused by a retention of the Seed and it resisteth many other things of the same nature it also perfectly quiets the motion of the Matrix The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram three or four mornings together in our Hysterical water or any other appropriate as those of Mugwort Balm Motherwort Pennyroyal c. Laudanum Opiatum Take of Thebane Opium Spagyrically prepared two ounces juyce of wild Poppy-flowers made thick an ounce roots of Hounds-tongue transmarine Mummy Styrax calamitis juyce of Liquorish Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce With Spirit of Wine draw the Tincture of each of them apart except the Opium which is to be drawn in distilled Vinegar or Juyce of Citrons then abstract the Spirit of all the Extractions in gentle heat of Balneo to the thickness of Honey and add to it the Extract of Bezoar stone Anodyne Sulphur of Vitriol of each two drams Salt of Oriental Pearls red Coral of each a dram Elks hoofs Hermetically calcined bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each half a dram Ambergriese a scruple Musk half a scruple These being all well incorporate and mixt add of our Aurum potabile a dram and a half Oyls of Chamomil Dill Wormwood Oyl of Oranges Cloves Nutmegs of Citrons rectified of Aniseeds and Caraway seeds of each half a scruple Let all be well mixed and brought into a Mass or Extract Virtue Use and Dose It is an admirable Medicine in stopping all fluxes of Humors and Catarrhs and all excretions of Blood and Terms in unreasonable watchings and want of rest in Feavers of all kinds and in sudden weakness In Phrensie Madness Melancholy Vomiting Epilepsie Heart-passions Hiccupping Colick weakness of the Stomach Pleurisie pains of the Joynts Gouts of all kinds Sciatica Stone Nephritick pains c. For in allaying all vehement and sharp pains it is really a Divine help and as it were our last refuge there being not a Medicine to be found in the Spagyrick Republick more excellent speedy safe and secret than this is witness the very Mother and Nurse of Physick Experience therefore use this Divine Medicine only to the Glory of the most high God and the Health of your sick Neighbour and with me give thanks for the same The Dose is from two or three to four five or six grains which is given at bed time the body being empty for when the Patient takes it he should omit his Supper that evening lest his food should obstruct the Medicine And because the use of Laudanum Opiatum is grown so famous and frequent I will here subjoyn the various use thereof In Affects of the Head A Draught Take Laudanum Opiatum three four five or six grains Marjoram-water half an ounce Syrup of Betony two drams Confection of Smaragdus a scruple oyl of Oriental Pearls three drops oyl of Fenil one drop spirit of Vitriol as much as doth suffice to make it
keep it for use To the candid Reader THou hast here courteous Reader these Arcana's being Chymical and other Preparations partly private elaborated with my own care and Experience and partly from others yet by a due method produced in this place which for the dispensing our following Compositions are wholly necessary for thee with which few in this place I do satisfie my self I do neither hope for nor expect any other thing than thanks for things found and pardon for those omitted therefore do thou accept of these things such as they are as well with a benevolent as a ready hand and give when need requires thy assistance to those that want it improve all prudently and by these things preserve thy Neighbours health SECT V. Of Species and Powders Species Diasolis or the Compound Species of the Sun TAke Harts-horn and Elks hoof Spagyrically calcined sealed Earth of each a dram and an half Oriental Bezoar a dram Diaphoretick Mineral Iovial Bezoar of each two scruples Magistery of Pearls and-red Corals white Amber prepared of each half a dram the Solar and Animal Unicorn bone of a Stags heart of each a scruple true Gallia moschata eleven grains Oyls of Cinamon and Citrons of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is an Arcanum in all Epidemical and Pestilential diseases Erysipelas's poysonous draughts and in the Asthma or most dangerous straitness of the Breast for it defends the Heart from danger of poyson and expels by Sweat all noxious humors from it and doth wonderfully relieve it in all its distempers The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple in Carduus water Elder flowers or Treacle or any other appropriate Vehicle Pulvis Bezoarticus Imperialis or the Imperial Bezoartick Powder Take of Elks hoofs and Harts horn Spagyrically calcined of each three drams the red Oriental Bole prepared Iovial Bezoar of each two drams Oriental Bezoar stone sealed Earth of each a dram and a half flower of Sulphur compound the Animal Unicorn Magistery of Oriental Pearls red Coral of each half a dram native Cinnabar prepared bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Diaphoretick in all peracute diseases in burning malignant and Epidemical Feavers for it wonderfully drives out by Sweat all poisonous and vitious humors from the Heart and other principal Members The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple in appropriate sudorifick Waters or in Water or Decoction of the shaving of Hartshorn Species Dialunae or compound Species of the Moon Take roots and seeds of Peony gathered in a due time Elks hoofs Spagyrically calcined Magistery of Mans Skull of each half an ounce of the true Soul of the Moon in powder Lunar Bezoar of each four drams native Cinnabar prepared Misleto of the Oak Squills prepared of each two drams the Secundine of a Woman dryed but it must be of her first child and that a son also Peacocks dung prepared of each a dram and a half Salt of Oriental Pearls and red Corals of each a dram true Castor long Pepper Cubebs of each a scruple the best Musk and Ambergriese of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder to which add Oyl of Hartshorn rectified Oyl of white Amber Nutmegs and Rue of each half a scruple Mix them again and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It doth wonders in Lunatisms Epilepsies or Comitials Vertigo's Lethargies Subeth and in all cold congealed evils of the Brain it doth also relieve those who are troubled with frightful dreams and uncertain fears The Dose in curing is from a scruple to half a dram given in the Fit in our Epileptick or Apoplectick or any other convenient water But in preservation it is given in all Quarters of the Moon and in all moist and unconstant seasons of Air from half a scruple to a scruple in the fore-mentioned Waters Pulvis Epilepticus mirabilis or the wonderful Epileptick Powder Take of the Skull of a man strangled and calcined without fire an ounce Misleto of the Oak counterfeit Cinnabar Elks boofs of each half an ounce Mix them and make a Powder of which give a scruple to Children immediately after the Fit but to full grown persons a scruple let this be repeated and it cures them Pulvis Ophthalmicus or a Powder for the Eyes Take of white Sugar Candy and Tuty prepared of each two drams Pearls prepared and Sarcocol of each half a dram Beans prepared a seruple Mix them and make a most fine Powder for the Eyes Virtue Use and Dose This Powder is a great Secret to me in many affects of the Eyes and first it heals dulness and spots in the Eyes it wipes away the little clouds and specks therein and is a present remedy for watry Eyes It sharpens the Sight and makes it clear and then conserves the Eyes sound and well It being used in time a small part of this Powder is sprinkled into the Eyes morning and evening or it may also be mixed with other Eye-medicines Species Diamartis or the Compound Species of Mars Take Tormentil Nutmegs Galls of each half an ounce Crocus Haematitis Crocus Martis made by calcination of each three drams Zedoary Calamus aromaticus white Amber prepared roots of Cinquefoil and Cloves of each two drams ashes of Spunge Oriental red Bole prepared sealed Earth Acacia of each a dram and a half seeds of Plantane those things corruptly called Rose seeds of each four scruples Harts horn and Mans bones Hermetically calcined of each a dram burnt Alum Soul of Vitriol of each half a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It helps the tenderness of the Stomach also Dysenteries pains in the Guts and spitting of blood and matter the Gonorrhoea Haemorrhoids It helps those that cannot hold their water or have a bloody Urine it stops Womens menstrual Purgations And lastly it stops all Haemorragies of blood from what part soever it proceeds The Dose from a scruple and half a dram to one dram in some convenient Liquor Species Diamercurii or the Compound Powder of Mercury Take seeds of Cina thirteen drams Mercurius dulcis five drams the best Rhubarb Gummi Turbith Corallina of each two drams shavings of Harts horn red Myrrh of each a dram tops of the lesser Centaury Tansie Camphire of each a scruple Oyl of Hazel-wood distilled per descensum Spirit of Vitriol of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is given for the Worms the Moon decreasing from a scruple to a dram according to the age and strength of the Patient it is given in Milk and is an excellent Medicine against all kind of Worms for having killed them it brings them away by stool It is given also in water of Wormwood
dram to a dram in the morning fasting and before dinner and supper in two or three ounces of Plantane water Pulvis Polychrestus Imperialis or an Imperial Powder good for many things Take white Sugar Candy six ounces Crocus Martis prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce and an half seeds of Fenil shavings of Ivory the Ankle-bone of a Hare Pikes eyes Cardamoms the less white Ginger Nutmegs roots of Liquorish of each an ounce Cinamon Cubebs Cassia lignea Spicknard roots and seeds of Peony Misleto of the Oak acid Tartar of each an ounce and a half Magistery of the Carp-stone of Crabs eyes of the Pearch-stone Oriental Saffron seeds of Parsly and Smallage true Castor Cloves red Myrrh wood of Aloes Hysop Oyl of Aniseeds each two drams Magistery of Pearls and red Coral the best Mace of each a dram leaves of Hungarian Gold forty three Mix them and make them all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It expels wind flatulencies and all peccant humors from the Stomach and Intestines and also comforts those parts it preserves from putrefaction and roborates the Brain it increaseth Memory and is excellent in the Epilepsie in the trembling and debility of the Heart difficulty and straitness of the Breast Cough Asthma c. It sweetens grief exhilarates sorrow removes timidity and opens all obstructions of the Liver and Spleen It cures the Tympany coming of a cold cause and many other long and confirmed diseases It stops the running of the Piles purifies the blood procures a fresh colour it warms a frigid Matrix and amends a corrupt intemperature of the Womb it purgeth the Reins and Bladder of stones sand c. It opens the Urinary passage and gives ease in the Strangury The dose every morning is the quantity of a Chestnut either by it self or in some Liquor respecting the disease Pulvis Dysentericus or a Dysenterick Powder Take Harts horn Spagyrically calcined an ounce and a half seeds of Bloodwort and Plantane of each an ounce Chalk prepared Nutmegs Misleto of the Oak Nitre prepared of each half an ounce Mix them and make a fine Powder which is effectually given in all Fluxes of the Belly The dose is one dram in some specifick Vehicle Species Dialauri or a compound Powder of Bay-berries Take Bay-berries dryed in an Oven in paste and pulverize an ounce flowers of Centaury the less three drams Madder red Myrrh Oriental Saffron of each a dram round Birthwort Cardamoms the less Galangal the less of each two scruples salt of Cinamon and Savin of each half a dram Mix them into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose They powerfully open obstructions of the Womb and as wonderfully stir suppressed Terms and bring them down in a large quantity too The dose is from half a dram to a dram in decoction of Savin with Saffron or in Beer Ale or Wine twice a day in the morning fasting or at night going to bed and to continue it till the Courses are produced Species Diajalapiae or a compound Powder of Ialap Take the best and resinous roots of Ialap two ounces acid Tartar eleven scruples Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Mix them and make a Powder according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It purges by stool without any trouble and mundifies the blood It draws away Flegm Choler and â—ll other impurities from the whole body and removes obstructions For that reason it is given in pains of the Joynts and Hypochonders Dose from half a dram to a dram especially in strong bodies Species Diaesulae or a compound Powder of Spurge Take the lesser Spurge prepared Rotula's of Diarrhodon Abbatis of each an ounce and a half white Hellebore prepared salt of white Vitriol of each three drams juyce of Liquorish extracted red Sanders of each a dram Cinamon Flower de-luce white Ginger of each two scruples Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cloves Nutmegs Mastich of each half a scruple Mix them and make a Powder according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is successfully given in all Quotidian Feavers also in all Tertian and burning Feavers and all other infirmities of the Stomach in salt Defluxions Worms pains of the Back Plague Epidemical diseases in poisonous draughts and carries off the slimy matter from the Joynts that causeth the Gout it works both upwards and downwards but without any trouble or molestation The dose is from half a dram to a dram Species Stomachicae or a Powder compounded for the Stomach Take acid Tartar three ounces Galangal the less white Ginger long Pepper of each a dram and a half Cardamoms the less Nutmegs Cloves Zedoary of each a dram roots of Liquorish leaves of Sage seeds of Rue and Caraways Olibanum of each half a dram Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Oyl of Water-mint of Oranges and Aniseeds of each ten grains white Sugar Candy eight ounces Mix them and make a Powder Virtue Use and Dose It stirs up lost Appetite takes away pains Vomiting and Hiccup it helps the Asthma prevents surfeiting and other disorders by excess it expels flatuosity and roborates the Stomach And lastly it hastens the distribution of Aliment The dose morning and evening is from half a dram to a dram in Sack or other Cordial Wine Pulvis Stomachicus or a Stomachical Powder Take the Cream of white Tartar oftentimes moistned with spirit of Vitriol and dryed again two ounces Harts-horn Spagyrically calcined half an ounce salt of Pearch-stones and Crabs eyes of each two drams Magistery of Pearls and red Corals of each a dram Oyls of Cloves and Cinamon of each half a scruple white Sugar Candy eight ounces Make of all a Powder Virtue Use and Dose As the Medicine is noble so it nobly comforts the Heart the Stomach and all the rest of the members of nutrition it corrects the niceness and crudities of the Stomach and prevents putrefaction and flegm It wonderfully helps those troubled with the Gravel Spleen or vomiting their food also those who by continual and Chronical diseases are utterly extenuated and by that means are grown very weak it roborates and strengthens Dose from half a dram to a dram in appropriate Vehicles Species Pleuriticae or a Pleuritick Powder Take Sulphur sublimate two drams Carduus seeds Bay-berries husked Misleto of the Oak roots of Zedoary Olibanum of each a dram and a half teeth of a wild Boar and of a Pike flowers of wild Poppy of each a dram Make all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose This is a great Secret against all Pleuritick pains and punctures of the sides where the sick by reason of their violence is almost dead The dose is from half a dram to a dram in water of Hysop and Fenil or in wild Poppy-flower-water morning noon and night or be sure at the least five hours between every dose It is also given in Scabious water and God assisting it certainly cures Pulvis Pleuriticus secretissimus or a secret Powder for the Pleurisie Take
a dram Gallia Moschata and yellow Sanders of each a scruple distilled Oyl of Roses ten grains Mix them and with a little Infusion made of Cinamon water and Gum Tragacanth make a mass for Pills to be applied to the Teeth when there is occasion Virtue and Use. They being applied to the hollow Teeth take away the ill favour and stink of them and make the Breath sweet and pleasant Pilulae de Origano Cretico or Pills of Origanum Take Origanum of Creet a dram Gallia Moschata Cassia lignea Lignum Aloes yellow Sanders Flower-de-luce of each half a dram Styrax Calamitis Benjamin Cloves Galangal the less Nutmegs Cubebs Mace of each a scruple Mix them and with Confectio Alkermes dissolved in Marjoram water make a mass from which with Oyl of Roses diâ—â—iâ—â—ed and Oyl of Cinamon of each a like quantity make small Pills to the bigness of a Pease Virtue and Use. Purgation and other universal Medicines being first given and then three or four of these Pills taken do wonderfully correct and amend the stink and ill savour of the Mouth or Nose whether it rise from the Brain or Stomach and render the Breath more sweet and pleasant They also comfort the Stomach and help Digestion Pilulae Rosatae Take Scammony rosated half an ounce Magistery of Ialap and Turbith of each two drams Tartar vitriolated a dram distilled Oyl of Roses ten grains Mix them and with Spirit of Roses make Pills of such a bigness that nine may go to a scruple Virtue Use and Dose They purge Choler powerfully and also thick tough Flegm and this they draw from the Ventricle Thorax Nerves and the remote parts of the body The dose is from a scruple to half a dram and two scruples Pilulae Polychrestae or Pills good for many things Take of our Extractum Polychrestum Scammony rosated of each half an ounce Tartar vitriolated a dram Mix them and with Oyl of Aniseeds make a mass from which afterward with Oyl of Marjoram make Pills Virtue Use and Dose They are called Polychrestae because they are proper to most affects of the whole body and do almost purge all humors in it For which reason they are highly approved in complicated and Chronical Feavers Quartans Melancholy Apoplexy Epilepsie and various diseases of the Head Eyes Ventricle Liver and Spleen for they purge Flegm and both kinds of Choler They are also of excellent use in the Gout and pains of the Joynts The dose from a scruple to half a dram and two scruples especially in robust bodies Pilulae Melanagogae Take of Pil. Indarum half an ounce Lapis Lazuli prepared Scammony rosated of each two drams Extracts of Troches Alhandal black Hellebore and Ialap of each a dram and a half Essence of Sena and St. Iohns-wort of each a dram Oriental Saffron prepared Dodder of each half a dram Indian Spicknard Cloves of each ten grains Mix them and with Confectio Alkermes dissolved in Rose-water make a mass from which afterward with Oyl of Citrons make Pills Virtue Use and Dose How the impaired Intellect is restored by these Pills is yet a Secret for they are of an excellent virtue in distractions of the Mind Madness Melancholy and Fear thence rising Also to all vices that proceed from Melancholy as Cancer Leprosie Elephantiasis Quartan black Jaundice which is generated from the vices of the Spleen They also cleanse the blood and purge serous humors so that all that use them shall receive as well health of body as mind The dose is from a scruple to half a dram Pilulae Hydragogae Take true Turbith Mineral half an ounce Extracts of black Hellebore and Coloquintida of each three drams Extracts of Rhubarb and Elaterium of each two drams Magistery of Coral rosated Hyacinth prepared of each a dram and a half Crocus Metallorum absinthiated Gum of Peru rosated sweet Spirit of Vitriol of each half a dram Mix them and with Oyls of Cloves Cummin Mace and Cinamon of each a like quantity make a mass from which afterward with Oyl of Chamomil make Pills Virtue Use and Dose It is a stupendious and specifick Cathartick in all ill habits of body Dropsie Scald Tetter Ring-worm and Itch c. For it purgetâ— all thick and serous humors and roborates the Bowels for nutrition Furthermore in the Gout Jaundice Pox in all its Species and to Patients of all ages yea in all kinds of inveterate and worst of Ulcers as the Wolf Cancer Fistula's and others of this order It is also a Remedy appropriate to all Feavers as well continual as intermitting The dose is from half a scruple to a scruple more or less and it is given twice in the week if strength will permit Pilulae Spleneticae or Pills for the Spleen Take Gum Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar of Squills and then boiled to a just consistence an ounce Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds Extract of Fern roots of each half an ounce Tartar vitriolated and Aloes not washed of each two drams Magistery of red Myrrh and of Mace of each a dram Salts of Wormwood Harts-tongue and the lesser Centaury of each half a dram seeds of Ash and Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Mix them and with Juyce of Fumitory made thick make a mass which should be kept in Leather moistned with Oyl of Benjamin and when it is to be used with Oyl of Rosemary make Pills Virtue Use and Dose It gives wonderful relief in all deplorable pains and obstructions of the Liver and Spleen for it moderately opens and strengthens the Spleen yea universal Medicines being used before as Attenuatives and Purgatives it takes away its hardness tumor and scirrhus and this gently and without trouble And they ought to give before and after the use of these Pills Clysters and to apply to the part affected Fomentations The dose is from a scruple to half a dram morning or evening as the Disease and Complexion requires Pilulae Dulces Take Iuyce of Liquorish dissolved in our pectoral Water strained and again boiled to a just consistence half an ounce our species Diasaturni and our Diasulphuris of each half an ounce Extract of the roots of Kexes white Sugar Candy of each two drams flowers of Benjamin seeds of Quinces of each a dram Mix them and with our Diacodium Crocatum make a mass from which afterward with Oyl of Aniseeds and Fenil make Pills Virtue Use and Dose I do commend it in Catarrhs and all Pectoral diseases as the Cough Asthma straitness of the Breast Phthisick Hectick Pleurisie c. Dose from a scruple to a dram morning and evening Pilulae Peruvianae Take Magistery of the best Peruvian Gum our Extractum Panchymagogon of each six drams acid Tartar a dram and a half rectified Spirit of Vitriol a scruple Mix them and make a mass from which afterward with Oyl of Chamomil make Pills so big that a scruple may make five Virtue Use and Dose It is used to evacuate thick and serous humors in ill
and Liver once heated They gently and pleasantly remove and repel all Inflammations as well internal as external The dose is two three four or five at a time Rotulae Carminativae or Carminative Rowls Take of our Carminative Oyl a dram and a half Cinamon and Cloves of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Carminative water sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make all into little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They dissipate the wind and ventose humors lurking in the Ventricle and Guts They help Digestion and sour Belchings and give ease in the Nephritick pains by moving Urine and bringing away the Stone They are given as necessity requires three four or five at a time Rotulae Diacymini Take the species of Diacymini and Dianisi of each half an ounce of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur with Aniseeds Oyl of Fenil of each a scruple Oyl of Oranges and Mace of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Aqua benedicta Serpilli sixteen ounces Mix them and make a Confection in Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They powerfully dissipate the flatulencies of the Bowels and are good in all cold Distempers They wonderfully relieve old Folks and all those troubled with distempers of the Brain Vertigo Stomach Arteries Liver Spleen also in the Cough Asthma passion of the Heart Wind-Colick Quartan Agues c. They help digestion amend ill habits of body and free the Hypochonders when distended with wind Let the sick take one or more as he pleases Rotulae contra Vermes or Rowls against the Worms Take of our species Diacina two ounces white Sugar dissolved in water of the roots of Couch-grass and Tansie of each sixteen ounces Mix them and make little Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They kill Worms and bring them away They are given some days together to Children troubled with the Worms two three four or five at a time more or less as need requires Rotulae Mithridaticae praeservantes or preservative Rowls of Mithridate Take Extract of Mithridate prepared with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined Citron seeds husked compound flowers of Sulphur Emerauld prepared Oriental red Bole prepared of each a dram roots of Tormentil and Zedoary of each half a dram Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral Camphire of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Angelica of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Rue of each four grains the best Sugar dissolved in the waters of Sorrel and Roses sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Rowls Rotulae Theriacales liberantes Take Extract of Venice Treacle prepared with distilled Vinegar a dram and an half Elks horn Spagirically calcined sealed Earth seeds of Sorrel Tincture of Sulphur Hyacinth prepared of each a dram roots of Elicampane and Angelica of each half a dram wood of Aloes bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each a scruple Oyl of Camphire and red Myrrh of each ten grains Oyl of Cassia lignea and Zedoary of each four grains white Sugar sixteen ounces Dissolve the Sugar in Carduus and Scabious-water and make little Rowls for use Rotulae Angelicae praeservativae pro gravidis or preservative Rowls of Angelica for Women with Child Take Extract of the roots of Angelica made with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined sealed Earth Bole Armenick prepared roots of female Peony seeds of Sorrel of each a dram Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral Hyacinth prepared of each half a dram Mace macerated in Vinegar and again dryed Cassia lignea Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Oyls of white Amber rectified and Zedoary of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Citrons of each four grains white Sugar dissolved in water of Tormentil and Betony sixteen ounces Mix all and make little Cakes Rotulae Zedoarticae pro Pueris or Rowls of Zedoary for Children Take Extract of Zedoary made with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Elks horn Spagirically calcined white Amber prepared sealed Earth Oriental red Bole prepared of each a dram roots of male Peony of white Diptamus and Tormentil of each two scruples Emerauld prepared Hyacinth prepared seeds of Citrons husked seeds of Sorrel and Cina of each half a dram Magisteries of red Coral Oriental Pearls and Crabs eyes the bone of a Stags heart Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds of each a scruple Oyls of Cinamon Mace Citrons of each four drops white Sugar sixteen ounces Mix all and with the Sugar dissolved in water of Roses and Water-lily flowers make little Cakes Virtue Use and Dose They are good against the Contagion of the Plague and defend and preserve the body from being hurt by any malignant and infectious Air. The dose when there is occasion is two or three at a time Rotulae Catarrhales calidae or hot Rowls for a Catarrh Take species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram species of Aromaticum rosatum Diaireos simple of each half a dram Frankincense Mastich Harts-horn prepared of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Betony-water five ounces Make little Rowls and smear them gently with Oyl of Cloves Virtue Use and Dose When the humor is preternaturally sent from the Brain to the Eyes Nose Mouth c. or if it falls upon any other part and is perceived to hurt the actions of that part by altering it from its natural quality and state in such a case these Rotula's are of excellent use for they stop all cold Catarrhs and comfort the Head and Breast The dose is three or four at a time Rotulae Catarrhales frigidae or Rotula's for a cold Catarrh Take seeds of white Poppy bruâ—sed four ounces of the heads that contain the seeds grosly powdered two ounces Let them infuse a few days in water of Scabious and Coltsfoot of each a like quantity then distil them and in a sufficient quantity of this distilled Liquor dissolve an ounce of Mastich let it boil a little and then filter it to which add of white Sugar eight ounces and so make little Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose When the Catarrh is thin and sharp the Head hot and the Face and Eyes appear red the humor exasperating and exulcerating the part upon which it falls and a bitter saltness is perceived and a Feaver begun then are these Rotula's of great use The dose is three or four at a time SECT VIII Of Morsels Morsuli Cephalici or Cephalick Morsels TAke Conserve of the flowers of Peony and Rosemary of each half an ounce species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each two ounces Mans skull Spagirically calcined Elks horn prepared in the same manner of each a dram roots and seeds of Peony duly gathered Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Oyl of white Amber rectified a scruple Oyls of Lavender Nutmegs and Caraways of each four grains white Sugar dissolved in our Epileptick and
of Suffocation for if one or two be taken in the morning for three days together in our Hysterical water or in any other appropriate they do under God cure the Patient for which Divine gift let God alone be blessed Trochisci de Alumine or Troches of Alum Take crude Alum roots of Pellitory of each half an ounce long Pepper a dram seeds of Henbane Wheat-meal white Chalk Nitre prepared of each a dram and a half white Ginger Cloves Opium prepared of each a dram Mix them and with Juyce of the lesser Nettles make Troches Virtue and Use. They take away pain being applied to the Teeth and Gums due Purgation or Phlebotomy being first used Trochisci de Satureja pro Lixivio or Troches of Summer-Savory for a Lixivium Take dryed Savory half an ounce Marjoram and Origanum of each two drams Lavender flowers red Roses Rosemary flowers of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes Gum Arabick white Tragacanth roots of Avens and Flower-de-luce of each a dram Cloves Nutmegs Cardamoms the less Cubebs of each a dram Ambergriese and Musk of each a scruple Mix them and with the Whites of Eggs make Troches each weighing a dram Virtue and Use. Boil two three or more of these Troches in a sufficient quantity of Lixivium and with that wash the Head in the morning fasting having first been at stool and presently let the Head be rubbed and dryed with warm Linen It takes away all the sweat and filth of the Head and strengthens it opens the Pores of the Skin drys up Catarrhs comforts the Memory and quickens the Sense Trochisci de Nitro or Troches of Nitre Take Rotula's of the juyce of Barberries and Rotula's of the juyce of Goosberries of each eight ounces species of Diarrhodon Abbatis moistned with spirit of Vitriol Nitre prepared of each an ounce powder of red Roses vitriolated two drams Oyl of Cinamon four drops Mix them and with Tragacanth dissolved in Juyce of Citrons make Troches Virtue Use and Dose They are of great use in the Quincy Inflammation of the Mouth and Tongue boiling of the Blood heat of Urine burning Feavers and especially putrid Semi-tertains The dose is from one dram to two in appropriate Vehicles Styli Dentrifricii or a Medicine for the Teeth Take the powder of calcined River-flints two ounce Pumice stone prepared burnt Alum of each half 〈◊〉 ounce roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce white ashes of Indian Tabaco of each two drams Gallia Moschata oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple Mix them and with Gum Tragacanth dissolved in Rose-water make little Rowls to cleanse the Teeth Virtue and Use. They are most used to cleanse the Teeth and to remove their ill colour For when the Teeth turn yellow black c. this Powder doth wonderfully cleanse them and make them white if they be often rubbed and cleansed with it Pomum Ambrae Take roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce Cloves Mace Cinamon of each half an ounce wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Styrax Calamit Benjamin of each two drams Ambergriese a dram Alexandrian Musk half a dram Balsam of Peru Oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple All being diligently mixed add of true Civet two drams then with Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each alike dissolved in water of Marjoram Narcissus Roses and Lavender make a mass of which make Troches Balls Cakes c. which put into a Glass and kept will grow hard Virtue and Use. It is a specifick odoriferous Medicine which in cold Cephalalgia's Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy pestilential Air Colick suffocation of the Matrix falling out of the Womb c. and especially when Medicines cannot be taken into the Body if these be applied to the Nose or other parts they comfort the Heart and vital Spirits exceedingly Sapo odoratus or perfumed Sope. Take Venetian Sope dissolved in water of Narcissus a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce an ounce Styrax Calamit Benjamin of each half an ounce wood of Aloes yellow Sanders of each two drams Ambergriese and Civet of each a dram of Musk Balsam of Peru of each half a dram the Oyls of Rhodium Lavender Cinamon and Cloves of each a scruple Mix them and with Oyl of Tartar per deliquium make little Balls and as you are making them up anoint your hands with the aforesaid Oyls SECT X. Of Suffiments Suffimentum Angelicum TAke Styrax Calamitis and Benjamin of each equal parts Dissolve these in the best Rose-water and presently well prest afterwards dryed pulverized and kept for use Take of this powder thus prepared an ounce wood of Aloes two drams red Roses dryed and Ambergriese of each a dram true Civet and Musk of each half a dram Balsam of Peru and Oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple Ivory calcined till it be black a sufficient quantity Mix all well and with Rose-water make a Paste of which make little black Cakes put them among Rose-leaves and dry them in the shade then put them in a glass Vessel and keep them for use Virtue and Use. They are used for a Perfume by Kings Princes and Great men for one or two being laid upon hot Coals or infused and boiled in Rose-water give a most sweet delectable and celestial Odor which doth refresh the Brain and vital Spirits and prevents the contagious Infection of a malignant Air. Suffimentum Imperiale or an Imperial Perfume Take Styrax cleansed Benjamin of each half aâ— ounce wood of Aloes two drams true Civet a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Roses â—f each ten grains Mix them and make all into little Balls or Cakes which keep for use Virtue and Use. These sweet Balls being laid upon hot coals send forth a most grateful Odor which doth not only correct a poisonous stinking and putrid Air but sweetly and pleasantly refresh the internal Spirits of man the Fume also conveyed by a Tunnel or other such Instrument into the Orifice of the Womb doth wonderfully help Women that are almost suffocated and stays all the inordinate motions of the Matrix But when it is thus used take care to cover the Head close lest the Patient should receive the odor by the Nostrils also Suffimentum Epilepticum or an Epileptick Fume Take white Amber eleven drams red Myrrh elect Mastich Gum Animae Galbanum and Elemi of each two drams Misleto of the Oak seeds of Peony huked Iuniper-berries shavings of Elks horn of each a dram Wormwood Marjoram Lavender flowers flower of Lily of the valley red Roses of each half a dram Mix them and with an Infusion of Tragacanth made in our Epileptick water make little Troches or Balls Virtue and Use. These being laid on coals and the Fume received up into the Nose by one that is grieved with the Epilepsie takes away the fit and is very profitable for those who are troubled with dangerous diseases of the Head as the Apoplexy and Palsie c. It is also used against the suffocation and falling out of the Womb. Suffimentum de Sandaracha Take of the
Peony and Pellitory of the wall of each a pound seeds of Peony shavings of Cyprus wood Misleto of the Oak of each half a pound Cinquefoil Millefoil Rue Mullein Lavender Rosemary Henbane of each four ounces flower of Primrose Stoechas Teil-tree Peony and Elder of each two ounces Being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory and then add the ashes of young Magpies and Swallows and Peacocks dung of each an ounce And with an appropriate Liquor according to Art make a white crystalline Salt Virtue Use and Dose It is effectual in all Epilepsies Vertigo Lethargies and other stupefying Diseases 't is also given to those who fear or are troubled with dangerous diseases of the Head The dose is from ten to twenty or thirty grains in Teil-tree flower-flower-water or in our Epileptick water Sal Cordiale or a Cordial Salt Take roots of Avens and Bugloss of each two pound the herbs Rosemary Sage and Balm of each a pound seeds of sweet Basil Citron peels of each half a pound the five Cordial flowers Clovegilly-flowers of each four ounces Mix them and calcine them into ashes the Vessel being close shut then add ashes of Cinamon three ounces ashes of Cloves and Cardamoms of each an ounce and a half ashes of Oriental Saffron and Mace of each three drams From these ashes thus mixed with Cordial waters extract a white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is most useful in Lipothymies Syncopes and other affects of the Heart to strengthen and refresh the Spirits The dose is from ten to twenty grains more or less in Cordial waters Sal Pectorale Take roots of Liquorish two pound Florentine Flower-de-luce Elicampane and Marsh-mallows of each a pound roots of Comfry and Mallows of each eight ounces both sorts of the herb Lungwort Horehound Hyssop Coltsfoot Fluellin Ground Ivy Maidenhair Scabious of each four ounces seeds of Fenil and Anise of each three ounces flowers of Coltsfoot Chamomil and Hearts-ease of each two ounces From these being mixed and well calcined with Pectoral waters extract a most splendid Salt Virtue Use and Dose It is excellent in Pectoral Diseases for it doth attenuate thick tough and viscous Flegm gathered in the Lungs and doth inlarge and cleanse the Breast Moreover it provokes Urine and purgeth the Reins and Ventricle The dose is from ten to twenty and thirty grains in Pectoral or other appropriate Vehicles Sal Stomachicum or a Salt for the Stomach Take roots of Burnet two pound Calamus aromaticus white Ginger of each a pound Sea-wormwood Water-Mint Sage Rosemary of each half a pound Quinces dryed and Zedoary of each four ounces Calcine all in a close Vessel and then add the ashes of the lesser Galangal and Cinamon of each three ounces ashes of Cloves both sorts of Cardamoms Nutmegs round Pepper of each an ounce Mix them and with Mint or other specifick Water make a Spagirick Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It wonderfully roborates and warms a cold Stomach it helps Digestion and Loathing of Meat It is useful in all distempers of the Nerves it quickens all the Senses allays pains of the Head preserves old people from Catarrhs and gives ease in the Dropsie The dose is a scruple more or less respecting both Disease and Patient in specifick Vehicles Sal Epaticum Take roots of Agrimony two pound roots of Chicory and Scorzonera of each a pound bitter Costus Eryngo Turmerick of each half a pound Calamus aromaticus Rhapontick of each four ounces Pontick Wormwood Southernwood Agrimony Harts-tongue Fluellin Liverwort Cascula of each three ounces These being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory then add ashes of Rhubard and Cassia lignea of each an ounce and a half Then with some Epatick or other convenient water draw a Spagirick Salt Virtue Use and Dose It takes away the hardness wind and obstructions of the Liver and dissolves the scirrhous Tumors there It helps the ill habit of body and takes away dropsical Humors It cures the Jaundice and amends the ill colour of the Skin moves the Terms provokes Urine and dissolves the Stone The dose is from a scruple to two in appropriate Vehicles Sal Spleneticum or a Salt for the Spleen Take Pontick Wormwood two pound Carduus benedictus a pound Rosemary Harts-tongue Fluellin and Ceterach of each half a pound roots of both sorts of Fern Calamus aromaticus of each four ounces bark of the Caper-tree Tamarisk Ash of each three ounces flower of Chamomil the lesser Centaury Broom of each two ounces Bring all into Ashes and with the distilled water of the aforesaid Herbs extract a Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It opens Obstructions mollifies and resolves the pains tumors and hardness of the Spleen It is good for aged people and those troubled with Quartan Agues The dose is every morning from a scruple to half a dram in Harts-tongue water or other convenient Liquor Sal Nephriticum Take roots of Parsley and Restharrow of each two pound roots of Dropwort and Vervain of each a pound roots of Eryngo and Burnet of each half a pound Beans dryed the cores of Medlars of each six ounces berries of Bays and Iuniper Winter-cherries and seeds of Gromel of each four ounces Ground-Ivy Fluellin Horstail Fumitory Strawberry leaves of each three ounces flowers of great Mallows Elder and Broom of each two ounces seeds of white Lilies of white Saxifrage and Burdock Barberries of each an ounce and a half Let all be calcined into white Ashes according to Art to which add ashes of Lignum Nephriticum of Peach-stones and kernels bitter Almonds round Pepper the lesser Galangal white Ginger of each an ounce Nitre prepared six drams Mix all and with Rain-water make a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It breaks the Stone expels Urine and Gravel and helps those that piss with difficulty and relieves those who are troubled with other distempers of the Reins and Bladder The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in water of Restharrow Parsley Burnet or Ground-Ivy or any other other Specifick Sal Hydropicum Take of the whole Iuniper-tree cut small two pound roots of Flower-de-luce Elder red Mugwort and Dwarf-Elder of each a pound roots of Swallow-wort Acorus and Turmerick of each half a pound leaves and stalks of Pontick Wormwood the lesser Centaury Agrimony Carduus benedictus Bindweed of each six ounces flowers of Liverwort Elder and Broom of each four ounces seeds of Ash Rocket and Cummin of each three ounces All being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory then add the ashes of Sarsaparilla Cubebs Rhubarb Nutmegs and Mace of each an ounce Mix these Ashes and with Elder-water make a crystalline Salt Virtue Use and Dose It discusseth wind and carries away water and is good in Dropsies of every kind for it potently drys up the swellings of the Microcosmical Earth caused by too much moisture It corrects the ill habit of body and exterminates
ounces Cinamon water buglossated in which species Diarrhodon Abbatis hath been infused two ounces Nitre prepared a dram and a half Mix them and boil all into the consistence of a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It potently refrigerates penetrates drys and defends the parts from Putrefaction It is of excellent use in malignant cholerick Feavers and other contagious Diseases It powerfully resists Sur feits by drinking Poysons and Pestilence It extinguisheth Thirst and all intemperate heat of the Head Heart Stomach Liver Spleen Reins and Bowels It provokes Sweat and Urine represseth cholerick Vomitings and cures the Cholera It helps the passions of the Heart Dysenteries and griping of the Guts the body being first purged The dose is from half an ounce to two either by it self or in any other Vehicle respecting the Disease Syrupus Antiscorbuticus or a Syrup against the Scurvy Take of the juyce of Norway black Berries three pound juyce of Watercresses Brooklime Sorrel and Scurvygrass of each half a pound These being mixed add of white Sugar a pound and a half and so make a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most noble and approved Remedy against the Scurvy The dose is from an ounce to two or three by it self or with our Antiscorbutick Water Syrupus de Pyrethro or a Syrup of Pellitory Take of the best Agarick an ounce and a half roots of Pellitory an ounce roots of Acorus Burnet and male Peony of each half an ounce seeds of Peony and Fenil Iuniper-berries of each three drams Motherwort Agrimony Hyssop Primrose wild Mints Nep of each two drams flowers of Lily of the valley Mullein Bugloss and Rosemary of each a dram and a half Cinamon Nutmegs and Cubebs of each a dram All being cut and bruised let them be infused in water of Sage and Rosemary of each three pound Let them stand and infuse a whole night and then boil them to the consumption of the third part Take of this Liquor strained and clear four pound white Sugar two pound Mix them and boil them to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It is very useful in all passions of the Nerves as the Palsie Convulsions Epilepsie Hip-gout c. For it potently dissolves the peccant matter and mitigates pain The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or in any other convenient Vehicle Syrupus Nephriticus or a Syrup against the Stone in the Reins Take of our Aqua Antinephritica and Lithontriptica of each ten ounces Salt of the Pearch stone and Crabs eyes of each half an ounce Being mixed and dissolved add flowers of Marsh-mallows new dryed as many as sufficeth Let them stand in digestion a few days until the Liquor be perfectly tinctured afterward with two pound of white Sugar boil it to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It is given to those troubled with the Stone and Gravel from an ounce to an ounce and a half by it self or with some other agreeable Vehicle for it breaks and expels the Stone though great as you may see by daily Experience how sand and fragments of Stones lye at the bottom of the Urine Syrupus Stipticus or a Stiptick Syrup Take Sloes ripe and dryed a pound roots of water-Acorus Snakeweed Tormentil and Zedoary of each an ounce rinds of Pomegranates dryed Quinces of each half an ounce Turkish Galls red Roses Balaustines of each two drams seeds of Sorrel Bloodworth and Plantane of each a dram and a half Boil all according to Art in a sufficient quantity of white Wine till it be perfectly tinctured Take of this clear strained Liquor four pound white Sugar two pound Boil it again till it comes to the thickness of a Syrup and let it be aromatized with Cinamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Oriental Saffron white Ginger the lesser Galangal of each a dram wild Poppyflowers and Clovegilly-flowers of each half a dram Let these be all tyed up in a thin Cloth and boiled in the Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It helps Hepatick Dysenteries that arise from the sharpness of the Humors It moves Appetite to meat helps those that cannot hold their water But it is chiefly agreeable to those who are afflicted with long protracted Fluxes of the Belly caused of a watry humor as well cold as hot It stops Vomiting the flux of the Haemorrhoids overflowing of the Terms c. The dose is from an ounce to two universal Medicines being premised Syrupus Dysentericus laxativus or a purging Syrup for a bloody Flux Take roots of Polypody of the Oak two ounces Liquorish Burnet of each an ounce roots of Tormentil and Succory of each six drams leaves of Harts-tongue Agrimony Fluellin Knotgrass of each half an ounce Make a Decoction in water of Comfry-roots Plantane and Oak-leaves of each a like quantity boil it to the consumption of the third part and strain it Take of this strained Liquor three pound the best Rhubarb an ounce and a half Mechoacan yellow Myrobalans leaves of Sena of each an ounce Troches of Agarick half an ounce flowers of red Roses white Lilies Elder Chamomil and Mullein of each two drams seeds of Anise Quinces and Dill of each a dram and a half Cassia lignea Cloves and Nutmegs of each a dram Let them infuse in a warm place all night and in the morning let them be gently boiled and strained and prest and to the strained Liquor add of white Sugar two pound and make it into a just consistence of a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It gently moves the Belly downwards without trouble and purgeth all sharp and cholerick Humors from whence proceed the Ulcerations of the Bowels Moreover it mitigates the pain and its purging operation being over it stays the Flux The dose in young people is from an ounce to an ounce and a half But in those full-grown from two ounces to three Syrupus Pantagogus Take roots of Polypody of the Oak white Hermodactyls of each four ounces white and gummy Turbith Mechoacan of each two ounces the best Rhubarb an ounce and a half black Hellebore prepared the best Ialap of each an ounce Troches of Agarick of all the Myrobalans of each half an ounce Let them be cut and bruised and put into a sufficient quantity of white Wine in which let them infuse for certain days afterward boil them according to Art and in four pound of the strained Liquor again infuse the following Ingredients Sena three ounces small Raisons three ounces Cream of Tartar an ounce Maiden-hair Fluellin and Fumitory of each half an ounce Anise and Fenil seeds of each two drams flowers of Peaches Violets and Roses of Acacia and Epithymum of each a dram Let them stand in Infusion all night in the morning let them be boiled strained and pressed and then with two pound of white Sugar boil them to the consistence of a Syrup adding these things following Cardamoms the less Cloves Galangal
the less Mace white Ginger Cinamon Spicknard of each half a dram Let them be pulverized and tyed up in a Linen cloth and as they boil rub them in the Cloth that as they boil with the Syrup they may leave their virtue in it Virtue Use and Dose It doth kindly readily and safely purge alk morbifick and peccant Humors in all Diseases where Purging is requisite and it opens the obstructions of the Veins and Bowels It is given to men or women of all ages to Old folks and Children and to weak delicate bodies yea if need requires it is given to Women with Child either by it self or in waters that respect the part affected But in robust bodies it is quickned with some other strong purgative Medicine according to the diversity of the Disease The dose is from an ounce to two or three Syrupus Hydragogus or a Water-purging Syrup Take German Flower-de-luce cleansed from its exterior bark let it be well stamped and pressed and the juyce pressed out put into a glass and let it stand till it settle and grow clear of it self then take of this Iuyce sixteen ounces Cinamon water four ounces Magistery of Gum of Peru an ounce Let them infuse together in a Glass close stopt for twenty four hours then pour it forth and add to it sixteen ounces of white Sugar species Diarrhodon Abbatis the best Rhubarb of each half an ounce red Sanders and roots of Alkanet of each two drams These being mixed must be tyed up in a Cloth and boiled with the Syrup to a just consistence And lastly let the Syrup thus prepared be aromatized with Cloves Cinamon Mace of each a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple Virtue Use and Dose It is a most glorious and Divine Cathartick in the ill Habit of Body and in Dropsies of all sorts if from an ounce and a half to two ounces more or less according as the Belly is loose or bound it be given twice or thrice in the week For that Dropsie which cannot otherwise be cured by humane skill is cured by this Syrup alone SECT XVII Of Elixirs Elixir Vitrioli or Elixir of Vitriol TAke Galangal the less an ounce and a half Calamus aromaticus an ounce water Mints and Sage of each half an ounce the best Cinamon Cloves and white Ginger of each three drams Nutmegs and Cubebs of each two drams wood of Aloes and Citron peel of each a dram Pulverize all and mix them and then add to the Powder white Sugar Candy four ounces let all be moistned like Spirit of Wine that it may make a Mixture like Honey which put into a Glass and pour upon it the height of four fingers Oyl of Vitriol of Venus or Mars or in defect of those Spirit of Vitriol often rectified and let them stand in digestion three weeks or a month at last pour off the Tincture and filter it and pour on more Spirit of Wine upon that which is left in the bottom of the Glass and draw a Tincture as before and this work repeat the third time if need require till all the Essence be extracted Mix the several Extractions and circulate them and reserve it for use yet it would be of far more efficacy if it were set in Balneo the space of fourteen days Virtue Use and Dose There is not a more noble and efficacious Medicine in the whole Republick of Physick for the Stomach than this is as I can justifie by Experience and therefore I will be brief in declaring its Virtues It is an incomparable Medicine in all distempers of the Stomach and is given in our Stomach-water or in water of water Mint or in any other appropriate Liquor It comforts the Stomach and Intestines exceedingly and warms all the principal Members debilitated by Cold and provokes Appetite Moreover it preserves from the Epilepsie and Apoplexy purgeth the Brain drys the Head and whole Body oppressed with flegmatick Humors and Catarrhs and defends the Head from pain In the Epilepsie it is given in Peony-water Lily of the valley c. In pains of the Head often proceeding from the impurities of the Stomach afflicting the Brain it is given in Betony-water c. In all Feavers it is given in water of the lesser Centaury Carduus c. The dose is from half a scruple to a scruple Elixir Sulphuris or Elixir of Sulphur Take Oriental Saffron and red Myrrh of each an â—unce and a half Mastich Benzoin Cardamoms the â—ess Cinamon of each an ounce juyce of Liquorish Conâ—ectio Alkermes roots of Elicampane of each six drams Alipta Moschata a dram Mix all and make a Powder to which add white Sugar Candy two ounces then wet it with rectified Spirit of Wine so as it may be made into a Paste afterward pour upon it well rectified Spirit of Sulphur that it may swim above it four fingers let them stand thus and digest and circulate for a month At last what is tinctured and extracted separate by inclination and what remains in the bottom pour on it fresh Spirit of Wine separate them as before and mix the tinctured Liquors together and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Medicine in the affects of the Thorax and Lungs It cleanseth the Breast from impurities and Catarrhs It takes away the Cough as well new as inveterate and confirmed It gives content of Mind to those afflicted with Consumptions Melancholy Sorrow and easeth the pain of the Heart or Stomach It helpeth the straitness of the Breast difficulty of Breathing Chronical Asthma Moreover it comforts the Heart preserves from Putrefaction prolongs Life and keeps back Old age Neither need we fear that its sharpness will irritate the Cough for it soon penetrates and resolves and immediately gives ease The dose or way of giving of it is in some Vehicle that may take off its sharpness for it cannot be taken by it self but always with an appropriate Vehicle And is most profitably given in our Pectoral Syrups or Waters Elixir Poeoniae or Elixir of Peony Take roots of Palma Christi Angelica and Pellitory of each an ounce Misleto of the Oak Fenil seed Anacardus of each six drams flowers of Rosemary Stoechas and Lavender of each three drams shavings 〈◊〉 Elks horn and Mans Skull true Castor of each a draâ— and a half dryed Marjoram a handful Spirit of Winâ— rectified two pound Let all be cut and bruised anâ— infused in a glass Vessel close stopt let them macerate and digest for fourteen days and afterward distil it by an Alembick Then to the distilled Liquor add roots flowers and seeds of Peony duly gathered of each an ounce species Diamoschu dulce Diaxyloaloes of each half an ounce Mix them and set them to digest in a gentle heat for a month often stirring them afterward take the tinged Spirit of Wine by inclination and draw off at least half of it let the rest remain with the extracted Essence of which take twelve ounces Spirit of
wonderful operation and a happy restitution in a short time Spiritus Vini Theriacalis or Spirit of Wine with Treacle Take Venice Treacle four ounces roots of Angelica Elicampane and Swallow-wort white Diptamus Devils-bit Snakeweed Pimpinella Tormentil Zedoary Citron seeds of each an ounce Make all into a gross Powder and mix them on which pour eight pound of simple Spirit of Wine Let them digest fourteen days and then digest them in B. M. and keep the abstracted liquor for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a most excellent Spirit to preserve people from the Plague And is also called a Catholick Medicine because it consisteth of just twelve Ingredients It may be taken from one spoonful to two three or four hours before dinner or before they go abroad and is to be used every morning It prevents the danger of contagious Air and doth revive the Spirits But in curing it is given from two spoonfuls to three in Carduus-water or in our Aqua Cornu Cervi and it expels the Venom plentifully by Sweat SECT XIX Of compound distilled Waters Aqua Epileptica or an Epileptick Water TAke Roots of Peony duly gathered two ounces roots of round Birthwort white Diptamus and Angelica of each an ounce and a half Misleto of the Oak Peacocks dung Squills prepared Anacardus of each an ounce seeds of male Peony Coriander Caraway and Fenil of each six drams a dryed Secundine of a male Birth Castor of each half an ounce Carduus Millefoil wild Rue Sage and Rosemary of each two drams Let them be cut and bruised and infused in twelve pound of Spanish Wine and set to digest in a warm place for eight days the Vessel being often shaken in the time afterward distil them by an Alembick and into the distilled Liquor again put these things following Flowers of male Peony Lily of the valley of each four ounces flowers of Betony Teil-tree Lavender Balm Borage and Bugloss of each an ounce and a half Nutmeg Cinamon Cubebs Mace long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mix them and over a gentle fire in Balneo distil them the second time Virtue Use and Dose It is an effectual Medicine against the Epilepsie Vertigo Lethargy Catalepsie and Subeth which Diseases it chiefly cureth It is given in the Fit from an ounce to an ounce and a half But in preservation at the four Quarters of the Moon especially in all moist and nebuâ—ous constitution of the Air from one spoonful to two Aqua Apoplectica or a Water for the Apoplexy Take seeds of Rocket a pound seeds of Mountain-Osier Caraway and Anise of each an ounce roots of Avens four ounces roots of male Peony Pellitory and water Acorus of each two ounces Iuniper-berries four ounces Bay-berries husked an ounce and an half Ground-pine Hyssop Marjoram Origanum and Vervain of each half an ounce Let them be grosly bâ—uised and beaten and put into a large Matrace with ten pound of Spanish Wine and two pound of Spirit of Roses Let them stand in digestion fourteen days and then distil them in Balneo and into the distilled Liquor put fresh flowers of the Lily of the valley Primroses and Lavender of each four ounces Sage Marigold Betony and Rosemary of each an ounce and a half both sorts of Cardamoms Cabebs wood of Aloes Nutmegs Mace Cinamon the lesser Galangal long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mix them and again digest them for three days and over a gentle fire distil it in Balneo and afterward rectifie it by it self with a scruple of Gallia Moschata wrapping Cotton about the Snout of the Alembick At last the water being put into a close Glass keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is rightly called the water of Philosophers because it is of a wonderful virtue in comforting the Brain and Nerves It also strengthens the Memory and Intellect exceedingly It preserves from the Apoplexy and Palsie and all other dangerous diseases of the Head It doth excellently discuss and attenuate Humors renders the Blood pure and gives a lively Colour to the body But chiefly and especially it cures the Apoplexy and may be as well outwardly applied as taken inwardly The dose is from one spoonful to two c. Aqua de Xyloaloe or a Water of Wood of Aloes Take of the species of Confectio Anacardina an ounce seeds of mountain Osier Caraway Fenil and Lavender of each six drams leaves of Marjoram Rosemary and Sage flowers of Primrose Stoechas red Roses and Rosemary of each two drams lesser Galangal Cinamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Cubebs the lesser Cardamoms of each a dram Let them be grosly bruised and cut and infused in four pound of Spanish Wine let them stand in the Sun or in some other place to digest for a month and then add to it water of the Lily of the valley and flowers of St. Iohns-wort of each two pound water of the flowers of Bugloss Balm and Betony of each a pound Mix them and distil all in Balneo and in the distilled Liquor again infuse the best wood of Aloes four ounces Cassia lignea an ounce species of Diaxyloaloes and Diambra of each half an ounce Oriental Saffron a dram Mix them and after due digestion again distil them in Balneo and the distilled water reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a most illustrious and renowned Water in comforting and strengthening a weak Memory for it opens all the obstructions in the passages of the Brain and consumes all thick and viscous humors in the Head The dose is from one spoonful to two taken in the morning and at the same time to anoint the nape of the Neck with the same liquor and also rub it in well and let the Patient observe a regular Diet So it strengthens the Intellect removes forgetfulness and wonderfully sharpens the Wit Aqua Mastichina Take water of Water-Mints a pound Cloves infused in Spanish Wine of the best Mastich an ounce Let them boil in a double Vessel for two hours and then filter it and edulcorate it with Syrup of Quinces and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Water is of great efficacy in the nauseousness and loathing of the Stomach in Vomiting and the Disease Cholera which are known Evils It also strengthens the Stomach and roborates the retentive Faculty The dose is two ounces Aqua Hypnotica or a Somniferous Water Take seeds of white and black Poppy of each seven ounces Melon seeds husked seeds of Anise and Dill of each an ounce bitter Almonds two ounces Liquorish and Nutmegs of each an ounce and a half Cardamoms the less and Mace of each an ounce and half Oriental Saffron flowers of wild Poppy and Violets of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and then infused in waters of Lettice three pound of red Roses and Water-Lily of each two pound of Purslain and Endive of each a pound Mix them and set them to digest in a warm place for two or three days and
two drams leaves of Eyebright Vervain and Rue tops of Rosemary Sage of Pennyroyal Dill and Fenil of each a dram and a half flowers of greater Celandine Betony Lavender red Roses and Rosemary of each a dram Let them be macerated in six pound of Spanish Wine the space of eight days and afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual universal Medicines being premised for the weakness and dulness of sight and to comfort the visive Spirits and to rectifie the Brain and the humors thereof The dose morning and evening is from half an ounce to an ounce and a half Aqua Pectoralis or a Pectoral Water Take bitter Almonds and small Raisons of each half a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows and Coltsfoot of each an ounce roots of lesser Mallows Comfrey and Elicampane of each half an ounce seeds of Fenil Anise Quinces Carduus benedictus Carduus Mariae Myrtles and Nettles of each three drams Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Mace Cinamon of each two drams both sorts of Lungwort Fluellin Horehound Ground-Ivy Maidenhair Scabious Hyssop and Sage of each a draâ— and a half flowers of Chamomil Coltsfoot Violets and Hearts-ease of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and infused in twelve pound of the best old Hydromel and digested for eight days afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It operates to a Miracle in all the distempers of the Thorax as straitness of the Breast Asthma and Cough c. It cuts attenuates and deterges thick and viscous flegm gathered in the Lungs and cavity of the Breast and renders it easie to be spit out It also comforts the Stomach and with the help of our Species Diasulphuris it preserves from and cures all Putrefaction and Apostems Moreover it doth effectually help those who are troubled with Phthisicks Pleurisies shortness of Breath destillations of Rheum spitting of Blood and other purulent Matter The dose is from half an ounce to one or two Aqua Antiphthisica or an Anticonsumptive Water Take roots of great Comfry flowers of red Roses of each a pound crums of Wheat-bread four ounces Pine-apples and green Pistick Nuts of each three ounces roots of China two ounces flowers of Liverwort and Rosemary pith of Indian Nuts of each an ounce Mace half an ounce Let them be bruised and broken and put into a large Matrace with water of Calves Lungs two pound Plantane water and Capon water of each a pound water of Cinamon buglossated water of Fluellin and Scabious of each half a pound Let them stand in digestion for eight days often shaking them in the time and afterward add to them exprest juyce of Coltsfoot and Goats milk of each half a pound the blood of one Pig Snails taken from their shells and bruised an ounce and a half Hens Livers three Oriental Saffron a dram Again mix them and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Mariae Virtue Use and Dose This Water hath a wonderful operation it certinly cures the Phthisick or Consumption it heals Ulcers of the Lungs and cleanseth the Breast from thick humors But in Phthisicks coming of Rheumatisms in the Thorax and in Asthma's Pleurisie c. we usually give it in this Form following with good success Take of Aqua Antiphthisica nineteen ounces white Sugar candy three ounces Lac Sulphuris two drams flower of Sulphur a dram and a half Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a dram Mix them ready for use The dose is morning noon and night from a spoonful to two And by the use of this Liquor only a man will grow fat because it moistens lenifies nourishes comforts restores the radical Moisture and allays the Cough and is the only relief to extenuated consumptive and hectical bodies for it restores them to their pristine health and expels the Disease but before it be made use of it should be diligently moved Aqua Pulmonis Vituli or Water of a Calves Lungs Take the Heart Lungs and Liver of a Calf the fat and veins being cut off and add to it great Comfry roots four ounces French Lungwort Pimpernel Fluellin Hyssop Sage and Agrimony of each half an ounce Pour upon them a sufficient quantity of the same water also and boil them in a new well glazed earthen Pot close covered Take of this Broth with the other things three pound water of Borage Bugloss and Roses of each a pound species Diamargariton frigid roots of Pimpinella Cinamon of each an ounce the foâ— greater cold Seeds of each two drams the Cordial Flowers of each a dram Mix them and distil them in an Alembick Virtue Use and Dose Hectical and consumptive people may be nourished a long time by the use of this Water therefore not without reason was this Description always esteemed among us of great price The dose by it self is from one spoonful to two Aqua Caponis or Capon-water Take a Capon which you must boil in a well glazed new earthen Pot according to Art with small Raisons Pine-nuts and Liquorish of each an ounce Iujubes and Sebestens of each twelve new dryed Figs eight Lungwort Coltsfoot Endive and Lettice of each half an ounce flower of Violets and Betony of each a dram The Decoction being finished let all be bruised in a stone Mortar then take good Canary Wine three pound water of Coltsfoot Horehound and Bugloss of each a pound the crum of white Bread steeped in Goats milk half a pound Conserve of Borage Roses and Maidenhair of each four ounces species of Diamargariton frigid half an ounce Cinamon Mace and Aniseeds of each two drams Mix them and distil it in an Alembick according to Art and the distilled Liquor keep for use Virtue Use and Dose This Capon-water is most famous and effectual in all Pectoral Diseases as the Cough Asthma Phthisick c. and is given by it self The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua Cinamomi Buglossata or Cinamon-water Buglossated Take Bugloss water six pound flowers of Violets and Roses of each two pound Cinamon a pound bark of the roots of Bugloss three ounces flowers of Borage and Balm of each an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce Mix them and after due digestion distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It concocts mollifies and resists Poysons it also comforts the Brain Heart Stomach Liver and Spleen It clears the Sight provokes Urine and gives ease in diseases of the Reins and Bladder The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua ex Corde Cervi or Water of a Stags Heart Take a Stags heart cut into small pieces Cinamon half an ounce Cloves Cardamoms the less Galangal the less Mace Oriental Saffron of each two drams wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Citron peels seeds of Basil that smells like Avens of each a dram and a half flowers of Lavender Rosemary Balm and Sage of each a dram Let them be macerated all night in Spanish
Wine and in the morning distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and preserves it from trembling and other dangerous accidents sometimes also it cures the loss of Reason and the defect of the Mind For by its nourishing and increasing quality it raiseth both the vital and natural Spirits and relieves the Heart as speedily as any thing The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua Cordialis frigida or a cooling Cordial Water Take Conserve of red Roses a pound and a half Rasberries a pound species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton frigid of each an ounce and a half seeds of Docks an ounce Sanders red white and yellow of each half an ounce the Cordial Flowers of each two drams Mix them and infuse them in these Waters following water of Sorrel water-Lily Strawberries Violets Borage and Bugloss of each a pound Mix them and digest them for some days and then again add Cinamon water buglossated a pound and a half juyce of Quinces depurated juyce of Lemmons and Citrons of each half a pound Again mix them and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It doth sweetly and effectually refresh and strengthen the Heart in all burning Feavers and all other hot and corrosive Diseases by which means it removes imbecillity and fortifies strength through the whole body It also helps those who are disturbed in Mind whether it takes its Original from the Heart or Stomach it discusseth and throws off all Poyson and poysonous qualities that offend the Vitals and it restores the Spirits that languish with weakness from an excessive heat to their pristine state and strength The dose is from one ounce to two Aqua Cordialis calida or a hot Cordial Water Take Cinamon four ounces roots of Avens three ounces Cloves sealed Earth of each an ounce both sorts of Cardamoms Galangal the less Mace Zedoary the peels of yellow Oranges Citron peels seeds of Basil of each half an ounce odoriferous wood of Aloes Oriental Saffron Spicknard Pennyroyal dryed of each three drams flowers of Borage and Bugloss of each a dram and a half All being pulverized and mixed let them infuse eight days in four pound of Spanish Wine then add Cinamon water distilled with Wine Clove gillyflowers of each a pound and a half flowers of Rosemary Lavender Balm and Sage of each a pound Mix them and in an Alembick in Balneo let it be distilled Virtue Use and Dose It doth help wonderfully in all cold affects of the Heart and is a good Remedy for its palpitation and the defect of the Mind It cureth the Syncope and Swooning refresheth the vital Spirits it takes away a sorrowful heaviness and the cause thereof and exhilarates the Heart It also restores those to health who are weak by the continuance of a lingering Disease and is an excellent Roborative It renders the whole body lively retards Baldness For whosoever is old and useth this Medicine will need no other Conservation for his Health The dose is from one spoonful to two or three at a time Aqua acetosa Stomachalis or a tart Stomach-water Take white Sugar a pound Conserve of Roses and Rose-water of each four ounces Spirit of Vitriol rectified half an ounce Make a Mixture and when it is strained keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This tart Stomach-water is good in any intemperance as well cold as hot and is very effectual in the loss of Appetite or Loathing which is caused by the vitriolated Juyce that is vitiated in the bottom of the Stomach and for this property it cannot be sufficiently praised For it doth most excellently restore Concoction whether it be lost impaired or vitiated and fortifies the Stomach It is to be given in some proper Vehicle two hours before meat without exercise or an hour before meat with exercise after it respecting the disease for in a hot distemper it may be given in Pomegranate-wine or Syrup of Lemmons or of the Juyce of Citrons or Tincture of Roses c. but in a cold defect with our hot Cordial or Stomach-water Wormwood-wine Malmsy or other generous Wine c. The dose of it is so much as will make the Liquor it is taken in tart and sharp Aqua Stomachica calida or a hot stomach-Stomach-water Take lesser Galangal an ounce and a half Cloves Nutmegs Cinamon white Ginger Mastich roots of Burnet Elicampane water-Acorus of each an ounce water-Mints six drams Rosemary Sage and Wormwood of each half an ounce both sorts of Cardamoms sweet Reed Mace long Pepper Cummin seeds of each three drams Squinanth Spicknard wood of Aloes of each two drams Bruise and mix them and macerate them in eight pound of Malmsy Wine and of Balm and Pennyroyal water of each a pound let them digest eight days and then distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It warms the Ventricle and rectifies the coldness thereof It allays the Gripes pains and punctures of it It also digests and concocts Flegm and crude Humors collected there It stays Vomiting and Loathing and is a present Remedy for sour Belching It is a Divine help in Leanness and the disposition of Old age and to excite appetite and heat in old people to expel thick ventose humors to open obstructions and to resolve moist humors and corrupt superfluities The dose is from one spoonful to two or three or from half an ounce to one or two Aqua Epatica frigida or a cold Epatick Water Take ripe Strawberries a pound species Diarrhodon Abbatis four ounces roots of Succory Agrimony Scorzonera and Eryngo of each an ounce flowers of the lesser Centaury Liverwort Borage and red Roses of each half an ounce Rhubarb three drams Sanders three sorts of each two drams the four greater and lesser cold Seeds Dock seeds of each a dram and a half Let them be cut and bruised and infused in four pound of red Wine Let them infuse eight days and then add water of the flowers of Liverwort Purslain Sorrel Endive Melons Succory Rasberries and Dodder of each a pound Mix them and distil by an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose The use of this Water is most safe and happy in its success in all Feavers as burning Tertians Quotidians Quartans and other noxious distempers rising from the heat of body in which the Liver suffers Moreover it corrects and amends the intolerable and corrosive heat of the Stomach Lungs and Spleen The dose is every other hour from one ounce to two or three by it self or with some specifick Syrup Aqua Epatica calida or a hot Epatick Water Take species Diacubeba three ounces roots of bitter Costus roots of Smallage Turmerick and Fenil Iuniper-berries seeds of Anise Cummin and Carrots of each an ounce sweet Reed Rhubarb Cassia lignea of each six drams Spicknard Oriental Saffron and Squinanth of each three drams Southernwood Wormwood Agrimony Mother of Thyme and water-Germander of each half an ounce flowers
of Liverwort and golden Stoechas of each a dram and a half All being faithfully bruised and mixed put them into six pound of generous Wine and let them digest eight days afterward add waters of lesser Centaury Succory Fluellin Maiden-hair Chamomil Fumitory Horehound Harts-tongne and Liverwort of each half a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is happily given in all cold diseases of the Liver and the obstructions thereof It is good in ill habits of body and Dropsie It also eradicates the old chronical distempers both of Liver and Spleen and is a good remedy against their cold and moist affects For it cuts and attenuates thick and viscous humors collected in those parts The dose is from one ounce to two or three by it self or with appropriate Syrups Aqua Splenetica or a Water for the Spleen Take roots of both sorts of Fern of Polypody and Smallage of each an ounce and a half roots of round Birthwort water-Acorus sweet Reed and Lovage of each an ounce Rhubarb Cappar bark and Tamarisk of each six drams Pontick Wormwood Mugwort Agrimony Fumitory Harts-tongue Dodder and Spleenwort of each half an ounce seeds of Lovage Fenil Anise and Caraway of each two drams Let them be grosly bruised and mixed and put into ten pints of Rhenish Wine and after eight days digestion distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It attenuates and mollifies thick matter and melancholy Juyce collected in the Spleen and Mesaraick Veins and opens their obstructions It dissolves Wind and Tumors and cures the black Jaundice Hypochondriack Melancholy and Quartan Agues The dose is morning and evening from one ounce to three Aqua Antihydropica or a Water against the Dropsie Take seeds of Rocket half a pound Ash Cummin and Smallage of each an ounce and a half roots of Acorus Avens Swallow-wort Turmerick bitter Costus dwarff Elder Carduus and Sarsaparilla of each an ounce Rhubarb the lesser Galangal Nutmegs and Cloves of each six drams Cappar bark the middle bark of Elder and Tamarisk of each half an ounce Agrimony and Bindweed the tops of green Iuniper of each half an ounce flowers of Liverwort and Elder of each two drams Let them be cut bruised and mixed and put into eight pound of Malmsey Wine and after fourteen days digestion in a warm place the Vessel being shaken often every day then add water of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each half a pound of both sorts of Liverwort Mugwort Carduus and Mother of Thyme of each a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is a most proper Remedy for the Dropsie For it heats and comforts a cold Liver opens its obstructions and restores it to its faculties It dissipates thick flatulent Humors consumes the cause of ill Habits and Dropsies and expels it by its Diaphoretick force The dose is from one ounce to two or three Aqua Antiscorbutica or an Antiscorbutick Water Take wild Radishes cut into small pieces a pound roots of Polypody two ounces Masterwort Angelica and Zedoary of each an ounce and a half chips of Guajacam and Sassafras sweet Reed the lesser Galangal of each an ounce Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron Fenil seeds bark of Cappars and Tamarick of each six drams Let them be cut and bruised and put them into six pound of Spanish Wine and set to digest in a warm place for eight days shaking the Vessel often and then add water of Scurvy-grass of the lesser Nettle of Water-cresses of Stone-crop of Celandine of Money-wort and Fumitory of each a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Mariae Virtue Use and Dose It properly cures in these Northern maritime Regions that disease which they call the Scorbute or Scurvy for it opens obstructions of the Spleen mollifies and attenuates the feculent melancholy humor It also rectifies the blood through the whole body and comforts the Spleen exceedingly It is to be given for divers mornings successively from one ounce to two or three Aqua Anticolica seu Carminativa or a Carminative against the Colick Take the rind of yellow Oranges six ounces roots of Zedoary three ounces Bay-berries husked and Iuniper-berries of each an ounce and a half sweet Reed lesser Galangal Cinamon of each an ounce of the four greater and lesser hot Seeds seeds of Chervil Nigella and Dill of each three drams Let them be grosly bruised and mixed and put into eight pound of Malmsey Wine Let them infuse eight days and then add water of the juyce of Chamomil thrice distilled of Mother of Thyme distilled with Wine of each a pound Mix them and in an Alembick in Balneo distil them Virtue Use and Dose It cures the Colick to a Miracle which hath its Original from a cold and moist matter with wind universal Medicines being premised The dose is from one spoonful to two or three or from one ounce to two or three Aqua Benedicta Serpilli or Aqua Benedicta of Mother of Thyme Take Mother of Thyme with its flowers and gather it in the morning before Sun-rising the Moon decreasing eight ounces Roman Chamomil two ounces Savory and Thyme of each an ounce Put them into eight pound of the best Rhenish Wine and let them infuse certain days and distil them and in the distilled Liquor again infuse Mother of Thyme with its flowers eight ounces Cassia lignea an ounce wood of Aloes and Mace of each half an ounce Cut them small and after due digestion distil them again in an Alembick in Balneo and so it is truly prepared Virtue Use and Dose It stops all Catarrhs and Defluxions and preserves the Head from them It roborates the Brain Stomach and all the Intestines being vitiated with Cold. It stirs an Appetite provokes Urine expels the Stone mitigates the pains of the Belly but chiefly the Colick It dissipates wind from the Bowels and Hypochonders It allays Pains and Hiccup stays Vomiting provokes Womens Courses brings forth the Birth After-birth and dead Child It dissolves concreted Blood It is a good Remedy for those oppressed with a Compression of the Lungs difficulty of Breathing or any Rupture in those parts The dose is from half an ounce to two Aqua Castitatis or the Chast Water Take sealed Earth four ounces seeds of Agnus castus an ounce and a half seeds of Rue water-Lily Lettice and white Poppy of each an ounce seeds of Hemp Sorrel Purslain Gromel Endive Cummin and Coriander prepared of each six drams roots of white Diptamus Hounds-tongue Bistort and Florentine Flower de luce of each half an ounce of all the sorts of Sanders Magistery of Saturn and Camphire of each three drams Pontick Wormwood water-Mints Shepherds-purse Sowthistle Vervain and leaves of Willow of each two drams Let them be cut and bruised and put into ten pound of red Stiptick Wine let them digest eight days and then digest them in Balneo
Virtue Use and Dose This Water is not undeservedly called Chast because it doth so restrain and bridle the fiery prolifick Seed of Monks Nuns Widows and others who are appointed to live a single life so that all libidinous persons use it who are Lovers of Chastity and Modesty and are willing to suppress those excitements without danger to their health For by its frigidity and a certain occult quality it dissolves the Venereal matter Besides it cures the Gonorrhoea or Flux of Seed without any trouble universal Remedies being premised The dose is morning or evening or in time of necessity from one ounce to three Aqua Febrifuga or an Ague-shasing Water Take of our Species febrifuga the lesser Centaury Carduus benedictus Cinquefoil and Wormwood of each four ounces Macerate them in Goats whey and distil them in Sand cohobating thrice that is pour the abstracted Liquor upon the Faeces three times and draw it off again Virtue Use and Dose It doth without doubt utterly extirpate bastard Tertians and Quartans universal Medicines being premised The dose is from two ounces to three either in the morning or in time of the Fit Aqua Hysterica or a Hysterical Water Take dryed Elder-berries three ounces roots of Bryony white Diptamus Peony and Zedoary of each an ounce Misleto of the Oak six drams Cassia lignea red Myrrh Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron and true Castor of each half an ounce seeds of Agnus castus Cummin Carrots of each three drams flowers of black Hellebore two drams Let them be cut and bruised and put into six pound of Malmsey Wine and there macerated for fourteen days then add water of Mugwort Motherwort Pennyroyal Balm and Nep of each a pound Mix them and distii them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose This salubrious Water cures and mitigates all the Suffocations of the Womb nay the worst of them and all the grievous Symptoms thence arising The dose is from two spoonfuls to three by it self in the Fit or it may be given with a scruple of Species Diajovis or with ten grains of our Jovial Troches or with twenty grains of our uterine Specifick But in preservation it is given only one spoonful at a time at the four Quarters of the Moon There is also another most famous Hysterical water for the Epilepsie formerly given by that excellent and worthy Man Dr. Iacob Martin Physician of Lubeck and my Honoured Friend and this Water is still used in the Shops and is vulgarly called Aq. Lit. A. and is thus made Take the best Cinamon an ounce Cloves Ginger and Nutmegs of each six drams peels of Citrons and Oranges of each half an ounce Spicknard four scruples Endive Pennyroyal Scordium Balm Mint female Southernwood and Motherwort of each two ounces Sage eight ounces Marjoram half an ounce Rosemary four ounces true Castor sixteen scruples burnt Wine six pound Rhenish Wine sixteen pound Let them digest three days in a warm place and afterward distil them in Balneo Aqua Dominarum or the Ladies Water Take Cassia lignea two ounces roots of red Mugwort Gentian and white Diptamus of each an ounce and a half bitter Almonds kernels of Peaches and Cherries of each an ounce red Myrrh Venetian Borax seeds of Lavender of each half an ounce Horehound Rue and Savin of each three drams flowers of Centaury the less of Elder and white Violets of each two drams the kernel of the stone Aetites true Castor Opopanax Sagapen and Assa foetida of each a dram and a half black Pepper Oriental Saffron and white Amber of each a dram Let them be grosly cut and bruised and put into six pound of Malmsey Wine and digest them for eight days then add water of Calamint Bugloss Motherwort Mugwort Pennyroyal and Vervain of each a pound Mix them and distil them in Balneo by an Alembick Virtue Use and Dose It facilitates the Birth and expels the dead Child and the Secundine without delay which if it be long detained doth great injury to the Brain Heart and Stomach by the depraved Vapors that arise from it to those parts wherefore the education of it is not to be neglected nor yet to be done irregularly This Water also by its present help provokes the detained Courses The dose is from a spoonful to three Aqua Antinephritica or a Water for the Stone in the Reins Take roots of Restharrow a pound Cut them small and steep them in three pound of generous Wine for three days and then press them and in the strained Liquor infuse Liquorish Saxifrage root and branch roots of Parsley Eryngo and Burnet of each three ounces Winter-cherries and Iuniper-berries of each fouâ— ounces seeds of Gromel Fenil Melons and Nettles of each two ounces Sassafras and Nephritick wood oâ— each an ounce Cinamon and Mace of each half aâ— ounce Let them stand in Infusion for certain days and then add juyce of Ground-Ivy and Purslain of each a pound and a half juyce of Fumitory Parsley and Fluellin of each a pound Distil them in Balneo and cohobate the second time Virtue Use and Dose It doth to a Miracle amend the calculous disposition of the Reins by comforting the parts and casting forth the stony matter The dose is two spoonfuls both for Cure and Preservation Aqua Lithontriptica or a Water for the Stone Take the kernels of Cherries and Peaches of each ten ounces bitter Almonds five ounces flowers of Elder and Acacia of each three ounces roots of Burnet Restharrow Vervain Eryngo and common Mallows of each an ounce chips of Ashen-tree the stony part of Medlars Goats blood prepared Cinnamon the lesser Galangal Perch-stone and Crabs eyes of each six drams Bay-berries busked Iuniper-berries Winter-cherries of each half an ounce leaves of Ground-Ivy three drams seeds of white Saxifrage and Roman Nettles seeds of Burdock Parsley Broom Gromel Carrots of each a dram Let all be cut and bruised and put into sixteen pound of Malmsey Wine and digested fourteen days often shaking the Vessel and afterward distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is given for the Stone of all kinds but chiefly in the Reins and Bladder where it potently breaks and dissipates it and from thence wonderfully expels the long detained Sand with the Urine It easeth the pains of the Loyns and in an instant opens the passage in the Strangury and Dysary The dose is from one ounce to two in the morning fasting either by it self or with appropriate Syrups Aqua contra ardorem Urinae or a Water against the heat of Urine Take roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows common Mallows and Florentine Flower-de-luce of each two ounces of Pine-nuts cleansed and sweet Almonds of each an ounce and a half seeds of Melons husked and Quinces seeds of Smallage white Poppy Endive and Lettice of each six drams Winter-cherries and Myrtle-berries Cassia fistula and the lesser Galangal of each three drams leaves of Violets Dazies and Betony of each two drams Let them be cut and
bruised and then infused in the following Waters i. e. water of wild Poppy flowers and both kind of Mallows of each a pound and a half water of Plantane Purslain Violets Lettice leaves of Oak and Moneywort of each a pound Let them digest some days and then distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It takes off the heat and difficulty of Urine and obtunds the acrimony thereof that arises from hot Meats c. It deterges glutinates and cicatriseth all Ulcers and Ulcerations in the Bladder Reins Ureters and urinary passages For which it is a present Remedy which I have also experienced in Old people who are subject to a heat in the Bladder and from thence are subject to make water often This Water therefore sweeps away all mucous rough and painful filth and dregs of the Urine The dose is from one ounce to three Aqua contra Vermes or a Water against the Worms Take shavings of Harts horn four ounces crude Mercury well cleansed with Salt and Vinegar two ounces the best Sena seeds of Cina and Citrons true Corallina of each an ounce and a half Peach kernels Rhubarb Agarick and Myrrh of each an ounce roots of white Diptamus the pith taken away round Birthwort and Zedoary of each six drams white Tartar Nitre prepared Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce the tops of lesser Cantaury and Tansie chips of Hazel-tree of each three drams Let them be cut and bruised and then infused in four pound of Hydromel and after eight days digestion add to it water of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each a pound and a half of Carduus Grass and Scordium of each a pound Mix all and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Aqua Theriacalis or Treacle-water Take Venice Treacle eight ounces sealed Earth two ounces roots of Angelica and Tormentil Elicampane of each half an ounce Harts-horn and Elks hoof Spagirically calcined Sassafras Iuniper-berries Citron peels of each an ounce Boletus cervinus red Myrrh of each six drams Diaphoretick Antimony and Oriental Saffron of each three drams All being pulverized and mixed let them be infused in eight pound of Malmsey Wine for fourteen days and then distilled in Balneo with a gentle fire Virtue Use and Dose Because this Water by its tenuity and thinness doth quickly insinuate it self into all the Members and puts the native heat into action we happily use it in all diseases where Sweat is desired as Feavers Jaundice Putrefaction Worms Pox punctures of the Sides trembling of the Heart Plague rectification of the Blood c. The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua de Cornu cervino or Water of Harts-horn Take Harts-horn Spagirically calcined two ounces sealed Earth and Oriental red Bole of each an ounce roots of Tormentil white Diptamus Scorzonera and Zedoary of each half an ounce Sassafras yellow Sanders Cassia lignea of each three drams seeds of Sorrel Angelica and Citrons dryed of each two drams Oriental Saffron Mace and Marigold flowers of each a dram and a half These being cut and bruised let them be infused in the depurated Juyce of Carduus and Sorrel of each two pound of Scabious and Fluellin of each a pound of the husks of green Nuts and Scordium of each half a pound Let them macerate 24 hours then with a gentle fire distil them in Balneo with glass Vessels cohobating the second time Virtue Use and Dose This Water hath great force in the Plague and all other poysonous Diseases but especially in Women and Children for whom the Treacle-waters are not convenient Of this water an ounce or two or more according to the strength and nature of the Patient may be given either by it self or with other sudorifick Medicines in the place of Specificks c. Aqua Aloetica solutiva or a solutive Water of Aloes Take Epatick Aloes sixteen ounces juyce of the leaves of green Sena expressed Elaterium of each four ounces red Myrrh an ounce All being well mixed let them be distilled in glass in Balneo by the help of a gentle fire Virtue Use and Dose Anoint the Stomach often with this water and lay on after it a warm Cloth or Sponge and you shall see a wondrous Operation For it is a most excellent Medicine and only fit for Kings and Princes Aqua Cosmetica or a Beauty-water Take Goats milk four pound water of Aron roots Bean flowers white Roses white Lilies and Solomons seal of each a pound white Virgin Honey four ounces white Sugar candy and white Frankincense of each two ounces white Hermodactyls Florentine Flower-de-luce Venetian Borax of each an ounce Salt of white Tartar burnt Ivory and Camphire of each half an ounce flowers of white Narcissus of common white Mallows of white water Lily of each two drams Mix them and distil them in Balneo for the richer sort you may add a scruple of Gallia Moschata with Cotton to the neck of the Alembick Virtue Use and Dose It is used outwardly to cleanse and clarifie the Face For it takes off Spots Pimples c. from the Face and it hath a singular faculty in amending the foulness of the Skin in the Jaundice To accomplish which the Face must be often washed with it in the day Or take of this Cosmetick water six ounces of the Mercurial Cosmetick two drams Mix them and make a Lotion like Milk with which anoint the Face often SECT XX. Of mixed Liquors Nectar Vitrioli or Nectar of Vitriol TAke white Sugar candy ten ounces Spirit of Vitriol rectified two ounces Mix them and in a glass Vessel close covered keep out the flies and filth let them stand for some months till it all appear black like Pitch then take of this black matter four ounces Rose-water an ounce and a half water Mint-water half a pound Cinamon water buglossated six pound Syrup of the juyce of Citrons four ounces Manus Christi simple two ounces Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is commended in all intemperature of the Stomach as well cold as hot For it refresheth the languid and decayed strength thereof It provokes Appetite prevents Putrefaction It is good in malignant Feavers and allays Thirst. The dose by it self is from two ounces to three Liquor Vitriolatus or a Vitriolated Liquor Take Syrup of Violets and Roses of each half a pound juyce of Citrons or Lemmons four ounces Mix them diligently and being mixed add water of Endive ten ounces water of Sorrel and Roses of each eight ounces of water-Lily and Scabious of each six ounces of Cinamon water buglossated two ounces Spirit of Vitriol so much as will make all tart and grateful Again mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of a curious cooling quality in the Plague Hungarian disease burning Feavers and all other Inflammations It also allays Thirst c. The dose is from two ounces to three Liquor Ophthalmicus subalbidus or a whitish Water for
is also a good Remedy in drying Erysipelas's and healing Fistula's But in applying it take heed lest you touch the Eyes or Teeth therewith Liquor Cerussae or a Liquor of white Lead Take the best white Lead an ounce of Pompholix half an ounce of Lapis Calaminaris and Litharge of each two drams Tutty prepared and Spodium of each a dram Let all be finely pulverized and mixed and then pour upon them water of Housleek Plantane and red Roses of each three ounces Again mix them and keep them for use Virtue and Use. It is used externally and cools and drys any part infested with a Tumor Redness or Inflammation It allays pain cures blood-shot Eyes It takes away the yellow spots of the Face and Body and renders a mans Countenance clear and vivid The use of it consists in often using divers day together Liquor Tutiae or a Liquor of Tutty Take Tutty prepared Litharge and Ceruss of each half an ounce Camphire a dram crude Alum half a dram Let all be diligently mixed and then add water of Plantane and Roses of each four ounces Again mix them and keep it for use Virtue and Use. It cools and drys the external parts of the Body infested with Tumors and Inflammations Liquor Mercurii Saccharatus or a Liquor of Mercury with Sugar Take water of Plantane and Roses of each four ounces Ceruss an ounce sublimate Mercury white Sugar Candy and the best Spirit of Wine of each half an ounce Mix them and then add to it a scruple of Aqua fortis Virtue and Use. It cures all contumacious Ring-worms Tetters and such like disease of the Skin But before it is used let it be shaken and the part effected touched with a Feather or such like thing Liquor Mercurii Acetosus or a sour Liquor of Mercury Take white Vitriol and Camphire of each half an ounce sublimate Mercury Ceruss white Tartar and burnt Alum of each two drams white Pompholix half a dram Mix all and make a Powder Take of this powder half an ounce the best Wine Vinegar four ounces Mix these and keep it for use Virtue and Use. We use it in the same manner as before to cleanse the Skin It perfectly cures all Ring-worms Tetters and such like SECT XXI Of Emulsions Emulsio Rosata or an Emulsion with Roses TAke sweet Almonds an ounce seeds of white Poppy two drams of the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Rose-water eight ounces water of Strawberries and Vervain of each four ounces Of these make an Emulsion and edulcorate it with Julep of Roses Virtue Use and Dose I happily use it in all hot affects of the Head burning of the Stomach Thorax Breast Heart and all the lower Belly Emulsio Violata or an Emulsion with Violets Take sweet Almonds an ounce seeds of Violets twâ— drams seeds of white Poppy a dram water of Violetâ— eight ounces water of Lettice and water-Lily of eacâ— four ounces Of these make an Emulsion which eduâ— corate with Julep of Violets to make it grateful Virtue Use and Dose It is good in a hot intempeâ— rature of the whole Body for it cools and moistenâ— allays Thirst induceth Sleep relieveth the Breasâ— and resists the Acrimony of Choler The dose is a moderate draught Emulsio Somnifera or a sleeping Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two drams white Poppy seeds a dram Melon seeds half a dram Lettice seeds half a scruple water of Violets and water-Lilies of each an ounce and a half of our Hypnotick water a dram Make an Emulsion and edulcorate it with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy and add Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each three grains Mix all for one dose and drink it in the evening at going to bed and it gives rest Emulsio Pleuritica or an Emulsion for the Pleurisie Take seeds of Carduus Mariae an ounce seeds of Carduus benedictus half an ounce seeds of white Poppy two drams water of Carduus Mariae six ounces water of Carduus benedictus water of wild Poppy flowers Chamomil flowers and Scabious flowers of each four ounces Make an Emulsion according to Art and edulcorate it with Sugar Candy concrete in Syrup of Violets Virtue Use and Dose It cures the Pleurisie and suddenly it allays all the pains of the Sides to the amazement of the Beholders but it is convenient that the sick should be daily purged or at least the Belly kept open by continual Clysters The dose is from two ounces to three or four Emulsio Laxativa or a Laxative Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two ounces of the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram water of Succory and Peach flowers Acacia and Violets of each four ounces Make an Emulsion according to Art in which dissolve Manna two ounces Let it be then strained and then add Cinamon water buglossated half an ounce Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is experienced in Children who are subject to be bound in their bodies Also in acute and burning Feavers in continual Tertians Hecticks Marasmus Synochus c. The dose is a moderate draught Emulsio Stiptica or a Stiptick Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two ounces white Poppy seeds half an ounce the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Lettice seeds half a dram water distilled from the juyce of Quinces and Millefoil of each four ounces water of Plantane Tormentil and wild Poppy of each three ounces water of Oaken leaves and Cinamon buglossated of each an ounce and a half Of these make an Emulsion according to Art to which add Iulep of Roses four ounces Magistery of red Coral a dram Mix them Virtue Use and Dose It cools and binds it cures the loosness of the Belly and Dysentery coming of a hot cholerick Cause It also helps cholerick Coughs and brings sleep The dose is a good draught at a time Emulsio Cannabina or an Emulsion of Hemp seed Take Hemp seed an ounce and a half the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram With water of Water-Lily flowers and Roses of each a like quantity to make an Emulsion Take of this Emulsion fourteen ounces Syrup of the juyce of Violets two ounces Cinamon water buglossated an ounce Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is profitably given to stop the Gonorrhoea or Flux of Seed Pollutions and other vices of those parts It is also good in burning Feavers and other distempers of Choler and Blood The dose is from two ounces to three SECT XXII Of Clarets and medicated Wines Claretum Antepilepticum Laxativum or a Laxative Antepileptick Claret TAke leaves of Sena two ounces the best Turbith and Mechoacan of each half an ounce filings of Elks hoof and mans Skull Nutmegs of each two drams roots and seeds of Peony duly gathered Misleto of the Oak of each a dram and a half the lesser Cardamoms Cassia lignea Cloves of each a dram flowers of male Peony Lily of the valley Lavender Teil-tree of each half a dram Let them be macerated in twenty
a dram Let them infuse in a sufficient quantity of sharp Wine in Balneo for five or six days till the Vinegar be perfectly tinctured then filter it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose The smell and odor of the Fume upon hot Coals immediately raiseth Women that are suffocated c. it is also good in the Vertigo's Lethargies and other sleepy diseases And if it be taken inwardly it also performs the same The dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one Acetum Vomitorium or a Vomiting Vinegar Take bark of the roots of Thapsia four ounces â—oots of fresh dryed Asarabacca two ounces seeds of Cart aâ—us or bastard Saffron an ounce Cinamon half an ounce All being bruised and mixed infuse them in four pound of the best Wine Vinegar Let them digest in a Glass close shut for a month often shaking them in the time after distil them in Sand in a Copper body with a Leaden top to it And so you shall have distilled Vinegar impregnated with Saturn and a little sweet all which keep for use not rejecting the flegm Virtue Use and Dose It is a sweet and pleasant Vomit and purgeth all Humors as well cold as hot and is given in Quotidian and Tertian as well true as bastard both which it cures it takes away debility and loathing caused by super fluous sharp humors it is also an approved Medicine in renewed Feavers after seven Fits The dose is from two ounces to three more or less And to delicate bodies it is given in Syrup of Vinegar SECT XXIV Of Epithems Epithema generale or a general Epithem GOod in Melancholy Madness Phrensies immoderate Watchings pain and disorder of the Head in general from any cause Take water of wild Poppy Lettice and Roses of each four ounces of our Troches of Radice Rhodia an ounce Mix them for an Epithem Another of the same efficacy Take water of Henbane Sage and Vervain of each four ounces our Troches of roots of Rhodia an ounce Mix them for an Epithem and when there is a necessity of using it wet a double linen Rag therein and press it gently and apply it warm to the Temples and Forehead and this direction is also to be observed in the following Epithems An Epithem for the pain in the Head coming of a cold Cause with or without a Catarrh Take water of Betony Rosemary and Vervain of each four ounces Peach kernels half an ounce Cubebs three drams Nutmegs and Sandarack of each a dram roots of Mandrakes half a dram Mix them and make an Epithem and apply it warm Another in a hot Cause Take water of Chamomil Sage and Rosemary of each four ounces Peach kernels half an ounce the best Olibanum two drams Cloves Mace and wood of Aloes of each a dram roots of Zedoary half a dram Mix them for an Epithem An Epithem for pains of the Head coming of a hoâ— Cause with or without a Catarrh Take water of Roses Violets and common Mallows of each three ounces all the Sanders of each a dram and a half white Amber prepared a dram flowers of wild Poppy and Vervain of each half a dram Camphire a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Head Another in the same Case Take water of wild Poppy and Roses of each three ounces mans Skull calcined without fire a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram Mix them for an Epithem for the Head which operates wonderfully Epithema Hypnoticum or a Sleep-bringing Epithem Take water of Roses and Lettice of each four ounces Opium Spagirically prepared a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram of the spongy knot growing on wild Roses a scruple Mix them and dissolve them faithfully the mixture being prepared wet a linen Cloth in it and apply it warm to the Temples and moisten the Nostrils with it also and presently they begin to sleep Another to procure Sleep Take water of Nutmegs Lettice and Night shade of each four ounces seeds of white Poppy half an ounce seeds of Henbane and Dill of each two drams roots of Hounds-tongue a dram and a half flowers of Elicampane yellow water-Lily and Violets of each a scruple Bruise the Seeds in a stone Mortar with a wooden Pestle then mix them and press them and so make an Epithem for the Head An experienced warming Cordial Epithem Take water of Cinamon Balm and Bugloss of each three ounces Elks horn Spagirically calcined Cloves Nutmegs and Citron peels of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes a dram Pearls prepared red Coral prepared of each half a dram seeds of Marjoram and Basil of each a scruple Oriental Saffron and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Heart Another for the same Case Take water of Roses Basil and Clove-gillyflowers of each three ounces species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each a dram and a half Dianthos and Gems calcined of each a dram Mix them and make an Epithem to be applied to the region of the Heart A cooling Epithem in the Syncope and other Affects of the Heart Take water of red Roses four ounces water of Sarrel and water-Lily of each four ounces Vinegar violated an ounce red Coral prepared all the Sanders of each a dram sealed Earth and Bole Armeniack of each two scruples of the five precious Stones prepared bone of a Stags heart Pearls prepared Mace Cinamon Camphire of each ten grains Mix them for an Epithem for the Heart A most noble Epithem in the Palpitation of the Heart Take water of Marjoram Basil Balm Roses and Malmsey Wine of each three ounces Vinegar rosated an ounce species de Gemmis calid of Diambra and Diamoschu dulce of each a dram wood of Aloes and Mace of each two scruples Cinamon and Rosemary of each half a dram bone of a Stags heart Pearls and red Coral prepared Citron peel of each a scruple the five precious Stones prepared a scruple Mix all for an Epithem for the Heart Another for the Palpitation of the Heart Take water of Roses Sage and Borage of each three ounces odoriferous Wine an ounce Vinegar violated half an ounce species Diathameron and Diamargariton frigid of each a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined Cassia lignea yellow Sanders Cardamoms the less of each half a dram Oriental Saffron flowers of Cloves and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem to be applied to the Breast An Epithem for the Weakness and Inflammation of the Liver Take water of Water-Lilies Wormwood Endive Roses and Succory of each two ounces Vinegar rosated an ounce species Diatrion santalon half an ounce Crystals of Saturn two drams Rhubarb a dram and a half red Coral prepared two scruples seeds of Purslain and Sorrel of each a scruple Camphire Mace and Spike of each ten grains Mix them and make an Epithem according to Art Another in the same Case Take water of white Epatick flowers Rasberries Strawberries and the lesser Centaury of each three
dram Mix them and with the White of an Egg and Juyce of Plantane make Suppositories according to Art Suppositoria Dysenterica Anodyna somnum conciliantia or a Dysenterical Anodyne and Sleep-procuring Suppository Take of boiled Honey three ounces seeds of white Henbane and black Poppy of each a dram and a half Thebane Opium Balaustines Spodium and Olibanum of each a dram flowers of wild Poppy and Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Mix them and make Suppositories according to Art Suppositoria Carminativa or a Wind-breaking Suppository Take Orange peel and Chamomil flowers of each a dram and a half seeds of Cummin Caraway Mountain-Osier Ameos Agnus castus Chervil and Rue of each a dram pulp of Coloquintida and common Salt of each a scruple With a sufficient quantity of Honey make Suppositories according to Art SECT XXXII Of Clysters Enema Nutriens or a nourishing Clyster TAke of Beef and Capon Broth of each eight ounces Barley cream and Cows milk of each four ounces the best Wine three ounces Sugar of Roses an ounce Wheat bread dryed and pulverized half an ounce Yolks of two Eggs. Mix them and make a Clyster according to Art and let it be injected as the manner is Annotation Such Clysters are sometimes given in the Quinsie to nourish and conserve strength also in the Tumors of the Jaws not being able to open their mouths in the Stomach being stopped either with Tubercles or Ulcers in the Convulsion of the Mouth Palsie of the Tongue and the like Diseases It is also of great use when the sick can take nothing of nourishment by the mouth nor retain any thing in the stomach But it is to be given when the body is emptied of Excrements or when they go to rest for otherwise it mixeth with the Excrements and so becomes ineffectual In short it is a great Nutritive to the sick Enema Bilem evacuans or a Clyster evacuating Choler Take small Raisons three ounces Barley husked and Linseeds of each two ounces Rhubarb an ounce Boil these and when it is strained Take one pound of the Liquor Oyl of Violets three ounces the best Manna an ounce Electuary of the juyce of Roses an ounce Mix them and make a Clyster Enema Pituitam purgans or a Clyster purging Elegm Take roots of Elicampane and Pellitory of Spain of each an ounce the herbs Calamint Horebound and Pennyroyal of each half an ounce Troches of Agarick tyed up in a thin rag white Turbith of each three drams Carthamus seeds two drams flowers of Chamomil and Rosemary of each a dram and a half Boil these and take of the strained Liquor a pound Oyl of Rue three ounces Malmsey Wine two ounces Honey of Squills an ounce benedicta Laxativa and Diaphaenicon of each half an ounce common Salt two drams Mix them and make a Clyster Enema Humores melancholicos deturbans or a Clyster purging Melancholy Take roots of Polypody of the Oak an ounce roots of Parsley Fenil and Asparagus of each six drams the herbs Fumitory Dodder Harts-tongue and Melilot of each half an ounce flowers of Chamomil Borage and Bugloss of each two drams seeds of Fenil and Anise of each a dram Boil these and take of the strained Liquor a pound Oyl of Dill two ounces Honey of Rosemary an ounce Confectio Hamech and Diacatholicon of each half an ounce Sal Gem a dram and a half Extract of black Hellebore two scruples Mix these and make a Clyster Enema Phlegma Hydropicorum aquas purgans or a Clyster purging Flegm and water in Dropsies Take roots of Couch-grass Parsley Asparagus and Cinqfoil of each an ounce leaves of Sea Coleworts and Mercury of each six drams flowers of Elder Broom Stoechas and Rosemary of each half an ounce Agarick tyed up in a thin cloth Mechoacan and Bay-berries of each three drams seeds of Fenil Caraway and Cummin of each two drams Boil these and take of the strained Liquor a pound the exprest juyce of the roots of our Flower-de luce three ounces the exprest juyce of the inner bark of Elder two ounces Oyl of Rue and Dill of each half an ounce Benedicta laxativa six drams common Sa't two drams Mix these and make a Clyster Enema in Cephalalgia Vertigine Scotomia Phrenetide in aliis Capitis affectibus Or a Clyster in the Head-ach Vertigo Giddiness Phrensie and other affects of the Head Take leaves of Alexandrian Sena an ounce roots of Bryony and Agarick of each half an ounce leaves of Marjoram Chamomil the lesser Centaury Sage and Origanum of each two drams flowers of Lilies of the valley and Rosemary of each a dram and a half pulp of Coloquintida and black Hellebore of each a dram Mix them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Rain-water to the consumption of half and then take of the strained Liquor one pound Oyl of Vervain three ounces Honey of Rosemary flowers an ounce and a half common Salt two drams Mix them and make a Clyster Aliud Enema Cephalicum or another Cephalick Clyster Take roots of Asarabacca newly dryed an ounce Wheat bran half an ounce Calamint Betony Mallows Mercury and Chamomil of each two drams With these make a Decoction and of it when it is strained take one pound and add to it Oyl of Elder flowers three ounces Honey of Roses two ounces Electuary of Diasena an ounce Sal Gem a dram and a half Mix these for a Clyster Aliud Enema fortius or another Clyster stronger Take roots of black Hellebore half an ounce seeds of Coloquintida bruised three drams Chamomil Vervain Marjoram Origanum and Marsh-mallows of each two drams seeds of Fenil Caraway and Anise of each a dram Boil them and take of the strained Liquor a pound Sallet Oyl three ounces Honey of Rosemary flowers an ounce and an half common Salt three drams Essence of the leaves of Sena a dram Mix them and make a Clyster Annotation Concerning the Laxatives in these Clysters it may be either increased or diminished according to the Sex Age and Complexion of the Patient which is also to be observed in all the other Compositions A specifick Clyster in Melancholy Madness Sorrow Congelation Quartans Scabs Ring-worms Morphew Cancer Elephantiasis Scirrhus of the Spleen and all other Diseases proceeding from Melancholy Take roots of Polypody of the Oak two ounces bark of Indian Myrobalans an ounce Fumitory St. Iohns-wort Marjoram Dodder Hops Stoechas of each half an ounce black Hellebore two drams Boil these and take of the strained Liquor a pound Oyl of Chamomil three ounces Hiera Logadi Tartar vitriolated and Sal Gem of each a dram and a half Mix them for a Clyster Aliud Enema specificum in Melancholia or another specifick Clyster for Melancholy Take the bark of Bugloss roots two ounces leaves of Alexandrian Sena an ounce Masterwort lesser Celandine Dill Roman Chamomil Fumitory and Gentian of each half an ounce Boil all and take of the strained Liquor a pound Oyl of Roses three
did first prepare it in the Year 1610. and found it strong and powerful in operation Virtue Use and Dose IT is a wonderful Diaphoretick and a most powerful Secret in all Distempers of the Womb and in many other Diseases belonging to Women 'T is very good in the Plague Feavers Seurvy and all Epidemical Diseases 't is a present Remedy against Poyson of any kind that is drunk also in all Falls where Bezoardick and Sudorifick Medicines are useful The Dose from three grains to five and six in treacle-Treacle-water or in our water of Harts-horn or in any other convenient Liquor Crocus Metallorum absinthiated TAkeof the best bright crude Antimony Salt of Wormwood of each four ounces Mix them and in a Crucible let them be calcined according to art and you will find the Antimony calcined of a reddish colour and fixt being utterly bereaved of all its Arsenical Sulphur this wash so often till no more acrimony of the Salt of Wormwood be perceived by the taste this Powder so edulcorated and dryed keep for your use as the true and most genuine Crocus Metallorum Virtue Use and Dose THis is an excellent profitable Remedy accommodated to most Diseases pain in the Head Epilepsie of what kind soever in all distempers of the Stomach Feavers Plague Hypocondriack Melancholy Asthma's Pleurisies as well spurious as exquisite Gouts c. in all which it hath most excellent effects In the Dropsie it purgeth without any offence or nauseating and that sometimes by Vomit sometimes by Stool In other Diseases it works by Vomit and Stool together It opens the obstructions of the Liver cures the yellow Jaundice rectifies the Spleen and is an excellent Medicine for the Scurvy The Dose from three grains to four five or six in Conserves or other appropriate Vehicles or what is better let so many grains be infused in two ounces of Rhenish wine and two drams of Cinamon-water all night in the morning strain it throw away the powder and drink the clear Wine warm If you infuse it in Spanish Wine it seldom vomits but works only by stool therefore for Vomiting white or Rhenish is best Tartarus Emeticus or a Vomiting Tartar TAke acid Tartar finely powdered Crocus Metallorum absinthiated of each two ounces mix them well and put them into a Viol and pour upon it two pound of our Aqua Benedicta Serpilli place it in warm Sand for three or four days and keep it close covered or stopt shake it often that the acidity of the Tartar may be perfectly dissolved afterwards while it is warm filter it through Hippocrates sleeve according to art that the Crocus Metallorum being well separated from the solution may remain in it but the solution it self may pass through it clear and void of Feces This done set it in a cool place to crystallize then take these Crystals impregnate with Tartar which being dried and powdered keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Vomit in all chronical and stubborn Diseases especially in those men who are of weak Constitutions seeing it is far more gentle and safe than Crocus Metallorum and other Mineral Vomits It is good against all Melancholy Madness a distempered Mind Deliriums continual pains of the Head which arise from other parts of the body by consent the Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy Fascination difficulty of Hearing ringing of the Ears Also against nauseating and windiness of the Stomach and Sides yellow Jaundice Dropsie Tertian Quartan and other chronical continual putrid and acute Feavers Love-potions poisonous Draughts cholerick Pleurisies and all Diseases in general that Choler hath a share in It is also good against that poisonous Dysentery that happeneth commonly in the Plague Also against the Hangarian disease it is an excellent divine and safe remedy If any have unadvisedly or unawares taken poisonous Meats or Drinks or swallowed Flies Spiders and such like also little Fish-bones and other such like things sticking in the Throat or from other things which are brought into the Stomach by Inchantments as hairs nails pins yarn or other prodigious things of that kind that are dangerous to life are all removed by the wonderful effects of this Vomit The Dose is from four to five and six grains especially in robust bodies in any appropriate Vehicle taken two or three hours before or after meals or at any time in necessity But this is to be observed That neither this nor any other Vomits may be given to every one without danger but they are to be given to those only who are apt to vomit that have a strong stomach a wide throat and are accustomed to vomit and in whom the peccant humors are naturally carried upwards But cholerick men and those who abhor vomiting or have weak brains or any weakness or imperfection in the Head which doth properly reside there and is not caused by consent from other parts of the body All those who have Phthisicks Asthma's Coughs Colicks spit blood are subject to be feaverish those who have internal Imposthumes or inveterate and confirmed obstructions of the Mesentery Liver and Spleen or have schirrous Tumors in those parts or have any of their principal members hurt Also all those who have their spirits exhausted by burning and pestilential Feavers all those who are troubled with a nauseating at the stomach that they are not able to contain either meat or drink which is not from any inherent matter in the Ventricle that Nature endeavours to cast off by Vomit but it riseth accidentally from the effects of the parts adjacent all these are to abstain from Vomits Lastly as well Women with Child as other Women and Virgins who are troubled with the obstruction of their Terms not rising from the impurity of the Bowels but from the obstruction of the Veins only which pass into the Womb these likewise are to forbear Vomits It is to be noted also when any one begins to vomit it is usual to give them Broth made of Pulse or flesh without fat or a draught of warm drink and if it be needful to reiterate the same that so the Vomit may work the easier and the motion of the Medicine may be hastened Tartarus Nitratus or Tartar Nitrified Take Salt of Tartar Nitre prepared of each equal parts Dissolve them in Rose-water warm then filter it and boil it gently over the fire till there appear a crust on the top then put it in a cool place and it will crystallize which Crystals keep for use Virtue Use and Dose 'T is a most excellent Medicine for it hath a singular faculty in cutting and cleansing thick and tartarous humors and in opening obstructions Also in putrid Feavers and hath been experimented both in the Hungarian and malignant and it resisteth putrefaction In the inflammation of the Throat called the Prunella it is a present remedy it brings forth the stone in the Kidneys cleanseth the Bladder of all impurities and provokes Urine The Dose is from one scruple to half a dram
digest together in Sand warm for three days and three nights putting a blind head upon the Cucurbit and stir it often with a wooden Spatula After digestion filter it into a Glass or earthen Bason and in Sand let it evaporate to the consistence of a liquid Extract and you shall have this Aperitive Magistery of Mars What remains of the Steel let it be dried and brought into a most fine Powder and reserved for use and so you have Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds for Chalybeate Wine whose description and use seek in its proper Section Virtue Use and Dose It hath a singular property in opening dissolving and drying which admirable Title is not given to it only for opening the oppilations of the Liver Spleen and Meseraicks but also for dissolving and consuming hard scirrhous Tumors and for drying and corroborating the parts grieved and debilitated by a redundance of humors Besides it hath an excellent faculty of attenuating loosning and preparing black Choler and therefore it hath been experimented in the Cure of Melancholy black and yellow Jaundice Quartan Agues and all other affects arising from superfluity obturation putrefaction and the like It also by a specifick quality openeth the Veins of the Matrix being obstructed and hence it moves and provokes the Terms c. It hath been also experimented in the Green-sickness ill habit of Body and the beginning of a Dropsie It also corroborates the Genital parts of man or woman debilitated and relaxed by a superfluity of moisture Lastly it is also very profitable in an inveterate Gonorrhoea and the white stinking flux of the Womb. Moreover if this liquid Magistery be mixed with a just quantity of Rhenish Wine it colours it black but if it be filtred again through a Paper it becomes clear and dilucid as before and doth no ways abate of its strength it still retaining its strong taste and is of equal virtue and force therefore in all affects where the Spaw-waters or any other Medicinal Waters that are impregnated with the Minerals of Mars which are so highly commended by our practical Physicians are useful this will supply the place and may be given as effectually to the Patient to drink For where the body is conveniently cleansed and some Veins opened if there be occasion and afterwards for certain days drink this Martial Wine and observe a good diet there and then it works upon the same affects which those Medicinal Waters are given for or can perform The Dose of this Aperitive Magistery is from half a dram to a dram more or less in some appropriate Vehicle or in Electuaries Conserves Boles Rotula's and in other Species of Medicines it may be mixed according to the judgment of the Physician But the Dose of the Martial Wine is from two ounces to three either by it self or mixed with other Liquors The Magistery of Jupiter TAke the Ashes of fine Tin prepared in an open fire and with strong distilled Vinegar extract a Salt according to Art afterwards take Spirit of Vitriol well rectified and drop it in upon this Extraction being first filtred and immediately it will become white like Milk and a white Powder will precipitate to the bottom which Powder take and edulcorate by washing it often with distilled Rain-water till it hath lost all its acrimony then dry the Powder and keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of excellent virtue in the infirmities of the Womb and other Hysterical affects It repels those Vapors which arise from the Womb to the upper parts and doth prevent those grievous Symptoms that are hence used to rise The Dose is from four grains to six in proper Vehicles The Magistery of Saturn TAke of the clear and crystalline Salt of Saturn what quantity you will dissolve it in Rose-water afterwards pour upon it Spirit of Vitriol there are some who use Oyl of Tartar but Spirit of Vitriol is best slowly and yet with a quick fall till it be of the colour of thick Milk then filter it through a brown Paper and a white Magistery will remain there then with Cordial water edulcorate it according to the Spagyrick Art and having dryed it keep it for your use Virtue Use and Dose This Magistery of Saturn is freed from all its nauseous and noxious sweetness and we happily use it in Phthisicks Hecticks burning Feavers and in other internal Inflammations Also in Quartan Agues in affections of the Spleen in the Colick and Venereal Lusts it is a great Secret it being contrary to these things The Dose is from four to six grains in some specifick and congruous Vehicle It is also of excellent use in the rottenness and foulness of the Mouth in malignant Ulcers in Cancers in all Saturnine Diseases the Wolf an Ulcer so called Fistula's all burning Sores Burns red Pustles of the Face the redness of the Eyes c. and may be variously mixed either in Plasters or Liniments or dissolved in other things for external use Anima Vitrioli or the Soul of Vitriol TAke several great and large earthen Vessels by how much the larger they are by so much the better fill those Vessels full with Rain-water and into every Vessel put two three or more handfuls of common Vitriol yet measure the Vitriol and either increase it or diminish it according to the bigness of the Vessels and let this Vitriol dissolve in the water let the Vessels stand where they may not be moved and sometimes exposed to the Sun or the Air yet so that it may not rain into them nor any filth be cast therein Then you shall see the Soul of Vitriol swim on the top of the water in colour like the Rain-bow or a Peacocks tail this being thin you shall take it off with a Spoon divers times in the day This being done stir the water about and by and by when it is setled again there will appear fresh Soul which take also and so by little and little you shall gather as much as you shall think sufficient Note When there will no more colours rise in the water the Soul is all extracted and the water is to be replenished with fresh Vitriol The Soul being all abstracted it will at first appear like mud which lay upon a Tile or other earthen Vessel and put it into a strong fire till it be red-hot and then it will be of the colour of blood and endure the flame which being done though it should lye in the fire many days it will not waste a grain Virtue Use and Dose This Soul of Vitriol Philosophically extracted and Spagyrically prepared is given in many Diseases especially all fluxes of the Head and Belly the flux of Blood and Terms c. in the Epilepsie Dropsie Gonorrhoea prickings of the Sides Gout Feavers Phrensie c. in all which it is of admirable use The Dose from five grains to six or eight in appropriate Vehicles and Medicines respecting the Disease The Arcanum of Vitriol DIstil from native
St. Iohns-wort strained and depurated two pound of Pimpernel with purple flowers strained and depurated one pound blood of an Ass taken from the veins behind his ears half a pound flowers of Bugloss red Roses and Rosemary of each six drams Confectio Alkermes and Cassia lignea of each half an ounce of Saffron one dram Let them infuse all night and then distil them in B. M. cohobate the Liquor and repeat the work the second time Take of this water two pound Essence of the flowers of St. Iohns-wort made with Spirit of Wine half an ounce Let them stand all night in a warm place in the morning filter it so often till you have a most red Tincture which edulcorate with white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Water is a great Secret in Melancholy Madness Witchcraft Inchantments yea in the Imagination impaired or abolished and as much as lyeth in art it amendeth the weakness dulness and stupidity of the Mind and the slowness of the Understanding it happily takes away all the affects of the Imagination It also provokes Urine and the Terms it helps Tertians and Quartans and is useful for all diseases of the Reins and Bladder The Dose is from three spoonfuls to four twice in the day in the morning before Sun-rising and at night going to bed Tinctura Vitae Take simple Spirit of Wine six pound of the best rose-Rose-water four pound Orange peels Citron peels red Roses dryed water-Mints Balm white Sanders Cinamon of each eight ounces wood of Aloes Mace of each two drams seeds of Angelica Coriander Anise and Fenil of each a dram and a half Spicknard Galangal the less Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Cloves of each half a dram Ambergriese and Alexandrian Musk of each half a scruple Let them stand in digestion for eight days and then distil them in an Alembick Then take of this Spirit drawn off seven pound Cassia lignea two ounces Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Oriental Saffron a scruple Let them digest until the liquor is perfectly tinctured afterward let the tinged Spirit be edulcorated with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy dissolved in its proper liquor and reserved for use Virtue Use and Dose By the pleasantness of its smell it refresheth the Heart and Spirits it exhilarates and prolongs life and comforts the Stomach and Brain it increaseth the heat of the Ventricle confirms its strength dissipates wind and encourageth digestion it helps the Gripings of the Guts and keeps them sound yea it is very profitable in the cold distempers of the Thorax Liver and Spleen The Dose is from one spoonful to two Tincture of Guajacum Take raspings of Guajacum four ounces of the best Mastich an ounce resinous wood of Aloes a dram Clove-gilliflowers half a dram These being mixed pour upon them a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine to extract the Tincture which afterward filter and reserve for use Virtue and Use. Let the Mouth and aking Teeth be washed often with this Tincture for the pain often proceeds from the defluxions of the Head it drys Catarrhs takes away the stink and rottenness of the mouth and renders the breath sweet at the same time let there be warm Plasters applied to the Temples made of Mastich or Gum Elemi and after spitting let the mouth be diligently washed with a Decoction of Aniseeds Tincture of Sassafras Take Fountain-water well boiled and while it is yet hot eight pound Sassafras cut into small thin chips two ounces Let them stand in infusion all night in a new well glazed Pot close covered until it cools of it self in the morning filter it and the straining being clear let it be a little aromatized with a Tincture of Cassia lignea and keep it for your daily use Virtue Use and Dose It is a Nectar in Catarrhs and Arthritick pains because of its vast driness and moderate heat it is an excellent remedy in Defluxions of every kind which it doth radically consume and also expels the Stone It discusseth Wind prepares the Womb for Conception provokes the Terms helps Digestion corrects Vomiting and moves the Belly downwards but to those who are weak and extenuated it is useless The Dose is not strictly observed but the Patient may drink his fill of it and continue it for some weeks A Tincture for the Toothach Take Guajacum two ounces Sassafras and Sarsa parilla of each an ounce roots of wild Pellitory crude Alum Nitre prepared of each half an ounce seeds of Staveacre and Henbane of each two drams Opium Spagyrically prepared Cloves of each a dram and a half wild Time Origanum and Saffron of each a dram Mix them and make a Powder which put into a Glass and pour upon it simple Spirit of Wine and Wine-Vinegar a pound and a half and of these make a Tincture Virtue Use and Dose A little of this Tincture held warm in the Mouth on the place where the Teeth ake after a while spit it out and take in fresh if need be doth powerfully allay and take away all pains of the Teeth by hindring the sharp flux of Humors nay it wonderfully takes away those humors that are already fallen on the part and although at first it seems to increase the pain yet it is suddenly mitigated and doth vanish Tinctura Uterina Take the berries of Elder and dwarff Elder of each four ounces roots of Bryony an ounce of the herb Marjoram a dram Mix them and pour thereon a sufficient quantity of Aqua Hyster Lit. A. add also a few drops of Spirit of Vitriol and make a digestion in B. M. for certain days till you shall receive a most red Tincture which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It hath a manifest Hysterical and Cephalick force against all suffocations and torsions of the Womb and other dangerous affects yea it takes away all dolors and compressions of the Diaphragma The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole spoonful by it self or in some Hysterical liquor A Diaphoretick Tincture Take Spirit of Wine left in making our Solar Bezoar and flowers of Elder rectified of each four ounces Tartar often rectified three ounces of the best Vitriol an ounce Confectio Alkermes six drams Digest them for certain days shaking them often till the liquor be perfectly tinged Virtue Use and Dose It is a singular Medicine in the Plague putrid Humors diseases of the Head Palsie rectifying the Blood trembling of the Heart ill habit of Body Dropsie Jaundice Asthma Pleurisie Quinsie prickings of the Sides Pox Leprosie Worms Contractures Courses retained Feavers c. for it comforts the principal Members consumes superfluities corrects and expels noxious humors and by its Diaphoretick force penetrates the Nerves Muscles and Marrow and reduces all into its natural and pristine state The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one in water of Carduus Elder or Hearts-ease Tinctura Stiptica or the Stiptick Tincture Take the yolks of twenty one Eggs
Centaury the less Tansie and Nettles or Archangel Also in Oxymel of Squills Honey clarified Syrup of Citrons Sorrel Hydromel or any other way which Children best like Species Diajovis or the Compound Powder of Jupiter Take Faecula Bryoniae half an ounce Salt of English Tin Mother of Pearl red Coral of each three drams roots of white Dictamnus and Peony of each two drams white Amber prepared Oriental Saffron Misleto of the Oak Antophyllorum of each a dram true Castor a scruple Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is a blessed Medicine in the most vehement and desperate suffocation and strangulation of the Womb and as it were sent from Heaven of God to Women For which Divine help let the Name of the Lord be blessed The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram three or four mornings together or in time of necessity in our Hysterical water or any other appropriate Liquor Species Diaveneris or a Compound Powder of Venus Take Sulphur of Vitriol of Venus sublimate and Spagyrically prepared half an ounce Venetian Borax two drams seeds of Ashen-keys of Rocket of each two drams of Parsneps Nettles and Leeks of each a dram and a half roots of Pellitory of Spain Boletus cervinus of each four scruples Galangal the less white Ginger Cinamon of each a dram Sea-Skinck prepared Magistery of Pearls Oriental Saffron of each half a dram Cantharides with the wings cut off Ambergriese each a scruple Musk Oyl of Mace of each ten grains Mix them and make of all a fine Powder with which mix an ounce of white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is by Experience the most effectual and indeed the last and most powerful remedy of all against the defect in the act of Venus And he that is willing to please his Consort and would to the utmost prove his virile force let him take after Supper if he desires the effect presently at his going to bed or if he would continue that work every morning from one scruple to two or a dram in warm Milk Sack c. It may also be prepared without Cantharides Species Diasaturni or the Compound Powder of Saturn Take Magistery of Saturn an ounce juyce of Liquorish depurated Lac Sulphuris compound roots of elect China of each three drams Salt of Oriental Pearls salt of red Coral salt of Wheat bread of each two drams red Bole prepared Benjamin sublimate Olibanum of each a dram Oriental Saffron Cassia lignea of each half a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder to which add of white Sugar Candy three ounces and being well mixed with the Powder keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose I know not with what words to extol this incomparable Medicine For a Consumption that cannot otherwise be cured by humane skill is oftentimes by this Medicine The Dose morning and evening is from half a dram to a dram in our Specifick water against Consumptions or in any other appropriate Vehicle Species Diasulphuris or a Compound Powder of Sulphur Take Lac and compound flowers of Sulphur of each an ounce and a half juyce of Liquorish cleansed Cardamoms the less sealed Earth of each six drams seeds of Roman Nettles seeds of Quinces Cinamon Ginger Nutmegs Saffron long Pepper Mace of each three drams Tragacanth roots of Flower-de-luce flowers of wild Poppy Mastich cream of Tartar of each a dram and a half Mix them and of all make a Powder to which add Oyls of Hysop Fenil Sage Aniseeds and Chamomil of each a scruple and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It helps continual Coughs difficulty of Breathing chronical Asthma's It doth cut and attenuate divers thick and gross humors in the Breast it preserves and cures without any other Medicine the Consumption Wasting Pleurisie and all Putrefactions and Imposthumes and is wonderfully effectual in all affects of the Throat and doth quickly restore the loss of the Voice It also drys up the Rheum from the Head and the evil humors in the Body from which are used to proceed Gouts pains in the Joynts and such like dolors It is a good Medicine in the Epilepsie Apoplexy Leprosie Pox Convulsion of the Nerves Colick and Dropsie c. The Dose is from a scruple to a dram morning and evening in some convenient Vehicle but in the Dropsie it is given with the like quantity of Magistery of Crocus Martis the body being first cleansed and it never fails In the affects of the Throat we use it in the form of a Tragaea by adding white Sugar Candy or mixed with Pectoral Syrups in the form of an Electuary or Lambitive Pulvis Refectivus or a Refective Powder Take white Sugar Candy concrete in Syrup of Violets an ounce Lac Sulphuris half an ounce compound flowers of Sulphur Confectio Alkermes of each two drams Magistery of Pearls red Coral and Saturn of each a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It repairs strength comforts the Heart and Nature it self it nourishes and fattens it drys up the Rheum in the Head roborates the Brain allays the Cough cures the Asthma Consumption and wasting The Dose is a scruple in water of Calves Lungs or Aqua Caponis or any other Specifick or so much of the Powder is mixed with any thing as will tinge the Vehiculum white and of this mixt Liquor the Dose is morning and evening one or two spoonfuls Pulvis excellens contra Tussim Infantum or an excellent Powder against the Cough in Children Take of Sugar Penids three ounces species of Diatragacanth frigid Diaireos simple of each half an ounce roots of Peony two drams juyce of Liquorish a dram Lac Sulphuris Saffron of each two scruples Mans skull calcined without fire seeds of white Poppy of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a most fine Powder Species Diavitrioli or a Compound Powder of Vitriol Take Galangal the less an ounce Magistery of Vitriol roots of water Acorus of each half an ounce long Pepper Cummin seeds Zedoary of each two drams Cinamon Calamus aromaticus Mace of each a dram and a half Cardamoms the less white Ginger Cloves Saffron Indian Spicknard wood of Aloes of each half a dram Musk and Ambergriese of each half a scruple Make them into a fine Powder for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a profitable Medicine against frigid humors of the Ventricle and putrefaction in the parts thereof and it digests flegm It helps digestion and concoction nauseating and vomiting and preserves the natural heat and warms the members of nutrition It dissipates flatulent humors it restrains four belchings and is useful in all diseases of the Liver It is profitable for those who are upon recovery after a long disease it helps the stink of the Nose and Mouth which ariseth from the consent of the Stomach The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram or by adding Sugar may be
a dram Galliae Moschatae seeds of Ashen-keys and Nettles flesh of Skinks Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Oyls of Cloves Mace exprest Cinamon of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in water of the roots of Satyrion and Rosemary flowers sixteen ounces Mix all and make little morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They have an excellent and indeed a sudden operation on those who are willing to be abundantly kind to the Women I also commend them to those who are slow idle or negligent in their duty called by St. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 debitam benevolentiam so that when their cause comes before the Judge there is a Verdict against them or to use my Authors own words for it Ita ut si deferantur ad Iudicem causâ cadant The dose is upon occasion happily begun in the evening and continued from a dram to two and half an ounce drinking after it a little Sack or other rich Wine Morsuli Diacretae Take Chalk three or four times washed in Violet water half an ounce Crabs eyes prepared two drams Nutmegs Bole Armeniack of each a dram Coral prepared half a dram Pearls prepared Cinamon cut small of each a scruple Carp-stone Mace torrefied Oriental Saffron of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in Rose-water eight ounces Mix them and make little morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are profitable and useful against the heat of the Stomach commonly called Heart-burning which is no ways dangerous but troublesom and is often common to those most healthy coming sometimes by eating and drinking as well as fasting and they are desirous to belch as it were a fiery vapour shut in that hath not force enough to break forth This boiling pain do they resist and also take away its cause The dose is from one dram to two SECT IX Of Troches Trochisci Vitae TAke Manus Christi simple eight cunces Confectio Alkermes an ounce and a half our Troches of Pearls Ambergriese of each a dram the best Musk the five precious Stones prepared of each a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon and Cloves of each ten grains Mix them and with Tragacanth dissolved in Rose-water make little Troches sor use Virtue Use and Dose They increase and renew decayed strength and repair it wonderfully as it were by a Celestial power They recreate the Spirits support the radical Moisture and roborate the Head Heart Stomach and Liver c. above measure they discuss the vicious humors of the Stomach and open the obstructions of the Veins They are proper in all cold Distempers restoring Age helping Digestion and resist all Putresaction They prevent the Vertigo sharpen the Sight and are a great Preservative from the Epilepsie and Apoplexy They hasten the Birth and are a present Remedy in the distempers of the Mind The dose is one or two at a time They may also be prepared with Musk. Trochisci de Radice Rhodia or Troches of Rose-root Take of the roots of Rhodia an ounce the bark of the roots of Mandrake Peach-kernels Opium Hermetically prepared red Myrrh of each six drams flowers of wild Poppy Oriental Saffron red Roses of each half an ounce seeds of Henbane Dill and Smallage of each three drams Nutmegs Cubebs Camphire of each two drams Mix them and with Mucilage of the seeds of Fleabane and Quinces made of Lettice-water make Troches according to Art Virtue and Use. I have had Experience of these Troches in Melancholy Madness Pleurisie and excessive Watchings yea in all pains of the Head if they be applied like a Liniment or dissolved in water of Lettice and Roses or in our Hypnotick or Womans milk and applied to the Forehead and Temples Trochisci Ophthalmici or Troches for the Eyes Take white Lead washed an ounce Harts-horn calcined without fire Sarcocol Tutty prepared of each half an ounce Gum Arabick white Tragacanth dust of Flour of each two drams Mother of Pearls prepared white Pompholix Olibanum of each a dram Opium Spagirically prepared Camphire of each half a dram Mix them and with the Whites of Eggs make Troches for the Eyes to be used in Collyriums with appropriate Waters Virtue and Use. They are proper and useful for all kind of accidents and passions of the Eyes as Rheumatisms Blood-shot thin sharp Rheums Pustules Burnings Ruptures Fistula's Roughness Itching and all pains there they also consolidate and heal Ulcers of the Eyes Trochisci de Papavere or Troches of Poppy Take Sugar Penids two ounces white Poppy seeds half â—n ounce Melon seeds huskt Gourd seeds of each two â—rams juyce of Liquorish extracted red Bole Armenick â—repared compound flowers of Sulphur of each a dram and 〈◊〉 half white Tragacanth dust of Flour of each a dram Extract of wild Poppy flowers half a dram Mix them and with Mucilage of the seeds of Quinces and water of wild Poppies make little Troches Virtue Use and Dose We happily use these in all sharp Catarrhs falling from the Head upon the Breast and Lungs which they powerfully stop and restore the Head to its pristine state again and powerfully lenifie the pains of the Breast The dose is every hour or at certain hours two or three rubbed on the tongue till they dissolve Trochisci Glycyrrhizae or Troches of Liquorish Take white Sugar Candy and Penids of each four ounces juyce of Liquorish extracted ten drams powder of Diaireos simple Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamagariton frigid of each a dram the four greater cold Seeds Aliptâ— Moschatae Lac Sulphuris of each half a dram Mix them and with a Mucilage made of roots of Marsh-mallows and Violet-water make Troches Virtue Use and Dose They are of great use in hot and dry Coughs they restore the Voice lost cleanse the Thorax and are excellent with other remedies to facilitate Spitting They are proper for Children troubled with Asthma's and straitness of the Breast c. They are given many times in the day two or three at a time according to the disease and strength of the Patient Trochisci Cordiales or Cordial Troches Take white Sugar Candy eight ounces Consectio Alkermes an ounce of the five precious Stones prepared of each a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Cinamon of each tâ—â— grains Mix them and with Mucilage made of Tragacanth and Rose-water make little Troches Virtue Use and Dose They comfort the Heart and relieve the faintings thereof also the infirmities of the Mind They help those who lye long undeâ— Distempers or languish under any weakness and conduce much to the recovery of their former strength They take away the loathing of the Stomach and help Digestion The dose is from three to six at a time Trochisci Ioviales Take Magistery of English Tin Mother of Pearls red Coral of each a dram Oyl of white Amber rectified a scruple Mix them and with Gum Tragacanth dissolved in our Hysterical water make little Troches each weighing half a scruple Virtue Use and Dose They are of admirable force and operation in all kinds
Medicine for the Head TAke our species Dialunae an ounce and a half roots of white Diptamus Citron seeds huskt of each half an ounce Kermes seeds or berries seeds of Sorrel Extract of Lilies of the valley of each two drams Emerauld prepared Salt of mans Skull white Amber prepared of each a dram and a half Essence of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each four scruples Oriental Saffron prepared lesser Galangal Cubebs of each a dram bone of a Stags heart Hyacinth prepared of each two scruples Conserve of Peony flowers vitriolated Rosemary flowers of each an ounce white Sugar Candy dissolved in Aqua Apoplectica Syrup of the juyce of Citrons of each eight ounces Mix them and make of all an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is good for all or at least the most dangerous diseases of the Head which it takes away and happily cures And is very agreeable to Suffocations Vertigo Apoplexy Epilepsie and Lunacy and was only invented to dry the humidity of the Brain The dose is from a dram to a dram and a half more or less in appropriate Vehicles Confectio Opiata or an Electuary of Opium Take Opium Spagirically prepared and extracted half an ounce species Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each half a dram Extract of wild Poppy flowers and Oriental Saffron Foreign Mumy of each a scruple Gallia Moschata Oriental Bezoar bone of a Stags heart Unicorns horn of each half a dram And with Confectio Alkermes make an Electuary according to Art to which add Oyls of Cinamon Nutmegs Marjoram Sage white Amber and Cloves of each four drops Virtue Use and Dose This Medicine is called by this name which signifies an Opiate or an Electuary of Laudanum for Laudanum opiatum is hard to dissolve and doth usually remain in drops or little particles undissolved therefore in place of it this Electuary may be profitably used the effect of which is the same in use It is given from five to six seven and ten grains in some appropriate Liquor or in our Aqua Hypnotica Cinamon-water c. or in any other respecting the Disease Confectio Narcotica or a stupefying Medicine Take Nutmegs half an ounce Bole Armoniack Opium Spagirically extracted of each three drams Extract of wild Poppy flowers Oriental Saffron Trochisci Ramich of each two drams Crocus Martis made by reverberation a dram and a half roots of Tormentil Snakeweed and Zedoary of each a dram Magistery of red Coral white Amber prepared burnt Harts-horn Cloves of each half a dram Camphire five grains Mix them and with simple Syrups of Poppies and Jujubes of each four ounces make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It wonderfully mitigates all pain but chiefly of the Head Breast Stomach Matrix and Belly It doth safely and powerfully provoke sleep It cures the bleeding of any part gripes of the Guts bloody Flux Pleurisie Iliack Passion and Colick pains pains in the Kidneys c. It allays Vomiting Hiccup and Cough It gives ease in shortness of breath It stops the Terms and Piles and is good in a Gonorrhoea and Satyriasm The dose is from half a dram to a dram at going to bed Confectio pretiosa or a precious Electuary Take Elaeosaccharum of Citrons six drams true Tincture of Coral Magistery of Oriental Pearls of each two drams Kermes berries Elks horn Spagirically calcined of each a dram and a half the best Mastich wood of Aloes lesser Galangal the lesser Cardamoms of each a dram Nutmegs preserved in India one the five precious Stones prepared Ambergriese Extract of Oriental Saffron of each two scruples Alexandrian Musk bone of a Stags heart of each a scruple our Aurum Potabile half an ounce Oyl of Cinamon and Mace of each a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Roses of each a scruple Conserve of Gilly-flowers Conserve of red Roses vitriolated of each eight ounces Mix them and with Syrup of Chermes berries make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most noble Cordial Medicine against the trembling and violent pulsation of the Heart and there is not a more excellent Medicine in the whole Republick of Physick for the distempers of the Mind than this is It is given with good success to old and weak people that are sick to recover their strength for it refresheth and fortifies the vital animal and natural Spirits in all the Members renews the humidum Radicale and is a true Preservative from the Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy Leprosie Gout Scurvy and Dropsie The dose is from half a dram to a dram by it self or in appropriate Vehicles Confectio Pectoralis or a Pectoral Electuary Take our species of Diasulphur nineteen drams Diarrhodon Abbatis eleven drams of our simple Pectoral Syrup a pound Conserve of red Roses tinctured with our Elixir of Sulphur two pound Oyl of Cinamon a dram Mix them and make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a very pleasant Medicine to the Sight Taste and Smell and is by me used in the Asthma straitness of the Breast Phthisick Hectick and all affects of the Thorax in which cases I have experienced its wonderful power beyond other Medicines and am willing to communicate it to be used by others It is to be given a little at a time and often in the day and not to swallow it presently for if so then it passeth to the Ventricle and not to the place affected The dose is the quantity of a Hazel-nut or of a Nutmeg more or less according to the Disease and Age of the Patient Confectio Zingiberis Indi or an Electuary of green Ginger Take green Ginger preserved in India fourteen ounces species Aromaticum Caryophyllatum Diagalangal Diarrhodon Abbatis of each an ounce Diacydonium simple eight ounces Oyl of Cinamon a dram Conserve of red Roses vitriolated a pound Mix them and with Syrup of the before-mentioned Ginger make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and Stomach helps Digestion takes away Nauseating and Vomiting warms and assists the parts and Organs of Nutrition resists Putrefaction dissolves and discusseth ventose Humors excites the native Heat repels all noxious humors of the Breast and cures a Cough contracted from Cold it restores the Liver Spleen Reins and other Members to their native action being depraved by Cold. This is a most excellent and stately Electuary and I often use it for great and rich people The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg morning or evening or in time of necessity but you may give more or less according to the Age Sex and Complexion of the Patient Zingiber Rosatum or Ginger prepared with Roses Take Conserve of red Roses vitriolated twelve ounces green Ginger preserved in India four ounces Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Oyl of Cloves half a scruple Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of the Juyce of Violets vitriolated make an Electuary according
Ginger and Grains of Paradise of each an ounce Water-mint Zedoary Iuniper-berries roots of Burnet of each six drams of Avens Tormentil Elicampane and Water-flag of each half an ounce the lesser Galangal Nutmegs Mace Cloves elect Mastich long Pepper Cinamon and Cummin seeds of each two drams All being pulverized mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Sugar dissolved in our Aqua stomachali make an Electuary to which add of our Elixir of Vitriol a sufficient quantity to make it tart or you may use it without if you please Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Stomach by heat corrects its softness and helps its imbecillity It helps Concoction and raiseth a dejected Appetite It comforts the lower Venter and all the instruments of nutrition It is almost a peculiar Remedy for all cold Distempers but it is especially found to dry the superfluous humidities of the Stomach The dose by it self is morning noon and night the quantity of a Nutmeg drinking after it three or four spoonfuls of Spanish Wine or an ounce of our Stomachical water Electuarium Absinthiacum or an Electuary of Wormwood Take Conserve of Pontick Wormwood three ounces Carduus Fumitory Scurvygrass of each an ounce flowers of the lesser Centaury Succory and Elder of each half an ounce preserved Orange peels preserved Indian Nuts of each six drams species of Diacurcuma Diacubeba and Dialacca of each three drams Tincture of red Coral Magistery of Crocus Martis of each two drams Goose dung gathered in the Spring elect Rhubarb of each a dram and a half Salt of Wormwood a dram Oyl of Salt rectified a scruple Mix them and with an equal quantity of Syrup of Harts-tongue and Maidenhair make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It opens and removes all stubborn and desperate obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Gall and is a noble Remedy in both kinds of Jaundice Dropsie c. The dose in the morning three hours before meat and at night going to bed the quantity of a Chestnut more or less Electuarium de Scorzonera or an Electuary of Scorzonera Take preserved roots of Scorzoner a six ounces Conserve of red Roses vitriolated four ounces species Diarrhodon Abbatis and Diacubeba of each an ounce a Wolfs liver prepared Nitre prepared of each a dram seeds of Sorrel and Melons huskt of each four scruples Tincture of red Coral Salt of Warmwood of each half a dram Mix them and with Rob of Barberries and Goosberries of each a like quantity make an Electuary to which add so much Spirit of Sulphur as may make it grateful Virtue Use and Dose It is generally good for all hot Constitutions but especially in the debility obstruction and pains of the Liver It mitigates the heat and fervor of yellow Choler and burning Feavers but chiefly it cools and comforts a flatulent Liver The dose is from a dram to half an ounce Electuarium de Nitro or an Electuary of Nitre Take preserved Eryngo roots four ounces species of Lithontribon two ounces simple Manus Christi an ounce and a half Nitre prepared with Spirit of Vitriol Salt of Wormwood of each six drams Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Aniseeds of each half a dram Mix them and with Syrup of green Ginger make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It powerfully breaks the Stone in the Reins and Bladder and expels it by Urine Moreover it is a great Secret in the Colick suffocation of the Matrix obstructions of the Liver and Spleen debilitated Stomach and in most Feavers The dose is from a dram to two or three morning noon and night at a distance from eating Electuarium Dysentericum or an Electuary for the bloody Flux Take Conserve of wild Poppy flowers old Conserve of Roses of each three ounces our Narcotick Confection two ounces Venice Treacle Tincture of red Coral Blood-stone Essence of Crocus Martis of each two drams Troches of Amber sealed Earth and Spodium of each a dram Oyl of Nutmegs and Cloves of each a scruple Mix them and with our Diacodium Crocatum make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a specifick Medicine to stay all dolorifick fluxes of the Belly and blood flowing from any part the Terms Spitting c. and is also good in the Piles it induceth sleep consolidates Ulcers of the Breast Lungs and Bladder The dose is from a dram to two or three at night going to bed or afterward or in the morning fasting or at any time of the day the Stomach being empty It is given either by it self or in Vehicles respecting the Disease and part affected Diascordium Rosatum or Diascordium Rosated Take Conserve of red Roses vitriolated eleven ounces Bole Armoniack prepared three drams Scordium two drams Diptamus of Creet roots of Tormentil Bistort and Gentian Terra Lemnia Cinamon Lignum Cassie Gum Arabick Galbanum Styrax Calamitis of each a dram long Pepper white Ginger Opium prepared Spagirically and dissolved in aromatick Wine seeds of Sorrel of each twenty three grains Mix them and with Syrup of the Juyce of Citrons bring all into the form of a thick Electuary Virtue Use and Dose We happily use it according to the mind of Hieronymus Fracastorius in those cases where Treacle is not allowed as to Children and great-bellied Women But in the Plague and other desperate Epidemical diseases we are used to give it in this manner following Take of the exprest iuyce of Citrons an ounce Syrup of the juyce of Sorrel Vinegar of Elder flowers of each half an ounce Diascordium rosatum a dram and a half of our Bezoar powder half a scruple Mix them and make a Draught which works wonderfully and virtually expels all poysonous noxious Humors by Sweat SECT XIV Of purging Confections and Electuaries Catharticum Caesareum or an Imperial Cathartick TAke green Ginger of China an ounce Magistery of Scammony half an ounce Confectio Alkermes a dram and a half species of Diarrhodon Abbatis moistned with Spirit of Vitriol Cream of Tartar of each a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple Oyl of Cinamon ten grains Of the above mentioned Ginger so much as will suffice to make all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It is a pleasant Cathartick â—n all cold Distempers and is by us prescribed for Princes and Great persons For it throughly purgeth the body without any hurt or molestation It refresheth the Mind provokes Appetite strengthens all the principal Members takes away the stink of the Nose and Mouth rectifies the Blood dissipates Wind. The dose is from a dram to four scruples Catharticum Regium or the Royal Cathartick Take Confectio Alkermes vitriolated ten drams Magistery of Scammony half an ounce powder of red Roses moistned with Spirit of Vitriol acid Tartar of each a dram Nitre prepared a scruple Mix them and bring all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose This solutive Confection of Alkermes I invented for dainty Constitutions and is a most excellent Purge in malignant Feavers and
time twice in a month The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce either by it self or in appropriate Medicines Syrupus Vitriolato-rosatus or a vitriolated Syrup with Roses In the Preparation of our Magistery of Corals already mentioned a red Liquor will remain in the separation of the Coral from the Menstruum to which if a sufficient quantity of white Sugar be added and boiled to the consistence of a Syrup it will be red and a most noble and efficacious Medicine very profitable in the Plague Epidemical Diseases Feavers Dysenteries Liver-fluxes vices of the Stomach Scurvy obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Inflammations and many other Diseases The dose is from an ounce to two by it self or with other appropriate Vehicles Syrupus Cephalicus or a Syrup for the Head Take the juyce of Carduus and Millefoil depurated of each a pound water of Lavender and Betony of each half a pound roots of Avens and Peony of each an ounce Cassia lignea Nutmegs Cubebs of each an ounce and a half Marjoram Vervain Rosemary and Origanum of each three drams flowers of Lilies of the valley Teil-tree Primroses Rosemary and red Roses of each two drams seeds of Lavender Fenil Sage and Peony of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes Misleto of the Oak Oriental Saffron of each a dram Boil them to the consumption of the third part afterward let them be strained and clarified and then add of white Sugar a sufficient quantity to bring it into a Syrup according to Art which aromatize with Species Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Remedy in all dangerous distempers of the Head as inveterate Head-ach Hemicrania Epilepsie Apoplexy Palsie c. It roborates the Head Brain and Ventricle and is agreeable to those who are troubled with a trembling of the Head and Heart The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or with other appropriate Medicines Syrupus Pectoralis or a Syrup for the Breast Take roots of Liquorish sliced Coltsfoot of each two ounces roots of Elicampane Flower-de-luce Angelica of each an ounce both sorts of Lungwort Maidenhair sharp Sage Horehound Scabious of each half an ounce flowers of Coltsfoot Violets Chamomil and Hearts-ease of each two drams Let them be cut bruised and infused in water of Carduus and Fenil of each three pound of Mallows Fluellin and Marsh-mallows of each a pound Let them be boiled to the consumption of the third part Take of this Liquor strained six pound and infuse in it small Raisons four ounces seeds of Carduus Anise Roman Nettles Quinces and Myrtle-berries of each half an ounce of Dates Iujubes Sebestens and fat Figs of each twenty one Boil them again to the consumption of the third part and then let them be strongly prest and strained Take of this strained Liquor four pound white Sugar two pound Boil them again and as they are boiling aromatize it with Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Mace and Cinamon of each two drams Let these be tyed up in a thin Cloth and boil together with the rest till it comes to the consistence of a Syrup to which last of all add three ounces of Cinamon-water and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of wonderful force and power in all affects of the Thorax Vitals Destillations and Obstructions for it cuts and attenuates thick Humors It is also of good use in Consumptions Wastings and Ulcers of the Lungs And is a present Remedy for Asthma's and Coughs and is profitably used in the pains of the Hypochonders and a Pleurisie beginning It dissolves suppurated matter and helps to cast it forth and is a great Secret in Hoarsness and defect of the Voice The dose is from half an ounce to six drams by it self or in appropriate Vehicles Syrupus Asthmaticus or a Syrup for the Asthma Take white Sugar Candy a pound water of Lohoch sanum eight ounces Syrup of Horehound and Liquorish of each four ounces Syrup of Maidenhair and Iujubes of each three ounces Syrup of Hyssop and the juyce of Violets of each two ounces Mix them all well together and boil them to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It doth chiefly help in the Asthma and Pleurisie It safely cleanseth opens and inlargeth the Thorax and Lungs and also opens Obstructions It helps wheesing dry Coughs and is profitably given in the pain of the Breast and Hypochonders the Stone in the Reins c. It is also very agreeable to old people and those who are cold by Nature The dose is by it self or with Pectoral Waters from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus Cordialis or a Cordial Syrup Take Cinamon two ounces roots of Bugloss an ounce flowers of red Roses Borage Balm and Violets of each half an ounce Cardamoms the less Nutmegs wood of Aloes of each two drams Oriental Saffron and Mace of each a dram All being cut and bruised let them be macerated in three pound of good odoriferous Wine until the Wine hath imbibed all the virtue of the Ingredients then boil it to the consumption of a pound Take of this Liquor strained two pound white Sugar a pound and a half Boil these together and toward the end add of each of our Cordial Waters four ounces And boil all to the just consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It exhilarates and daily increaseth the Magnanimity of the mind and is a most efficacious Medicine in almost all melancholy Diseases Moreover it is of singular use in the passions of the Heart proceeding from grief or sorrow and this it doth by roborating of that part The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or in other convenient Vehicles Syrupus de Cassia Lignea Take Gelly of Quinces a pound Boil it over a gentle fire to the thickness of Honey then mix with it our Tincture of Cassia lignea so much as may bring it to the consistence of a Syrup at last add to it an ounce of Elaeosaccharum of Cassia lignea and again mix them and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is agreeable to old weak and frigid Patients and to those in whom the Radical moisture and natural heat are diminished It comforts all the principal Members It roborates the Heart and a cold Stomach It helps the Syncope and trembling of the Heart It allays Nauseousness Vomiting and Hiccup It takes away the ill savour of the Breath and makes it sweet The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce either by it self or in any other specifick Medicine Syrupus Diacitri Rosatus or a compound Syrup of Citrons and Roses Take juyce of Citrons and Lemmons first strained through a cloth or strainer but not prest and tinctured with powder of red Roses a pound Rob of Barberries and Goosberries of each seven ounces Syrup of the juyce of unripe Grapes Syrup of Vinegar Rasberries and Strawberries of each four
then distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose This Water is far more safe in continual watching sharp pains and in the heat and driness of burning Feavers than those Medicines made out of the substance of Henbane Mandrake and Opium because of their virulence and excessive stupefactive quality The dose is from half an ounce to two either by it self or by adding Almonds and the four greater cold Seeds to it and so make it into an Emulsion Aqua Narcotica or a Narcotick Water Take juyce of the flowers of wild Poppy depurated sixteen ounces Opium dissolved in water of Nightshade two ounces bark of the roots of Mandrake Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce Styrax Calamit two drams wood of Aloes a dram Mix them and distil them in Balneo drawing off the Liquor three times from the same Faeces which Chymists call Cohobation Virtue Use and Dose It provokes sleep wonderfully and is a most excellent profitable Anodyne in all pains unquietness and extreme watchings And it operates to a Miracle in those troubled with sorrowful and pensive Melancholy for it refresheth the animal Spirits takes away sorrow and discusseth all those ill Vapors that rise and offend the Brain It restrains the heat of Choler and mitigates the fury of Phrensies and Madness and suddenly produceth rest The dose is from one dram to two Aqua Ophthalmica aurea or the golden Water for the Eyes Take the Decoction of Brasil wood made with a little Alum in Spanish Wine water of the roots herb and flowers of Valerian distilled in the same Wine Sugar distilled with a like quantity of ripe Strawberries of each twelve ounces of fragrant Rose-water eight ounces water of Fenil and Vervain of flowers of Succory Eyebright Pennyroyal and Garden Rue of each six ounces Virgin Honey four ounces Tutty prepared an ounce and a half white Vitriol Crocus Metallorum red Myrrh Aloes rosata of each half an ounce white Sugar Candy and Camphire of each three drams white Ginger Cloves black Pepper Bay-berries and Cinamon of each a dram Salt of Celandine Valerian and Saturn of each a scruple All these being well mixed one with another make of all according to Art a Collyrium which in a Glass close shut set to digest for a month either in the Sun or in a gentle heat shaking it every day and so keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use in all affects of the Eyes For it perfectly cures all distempers of the Eyes as Inflammations Bleer-eyedness Fistula's Films Spots c. and it takes away the violent pain thereof and if it doth not cure the same day yet it doth in a short time if a drop or two be but dropped into the Eyes carefully morning noon and night Aqua Ophthalmica viridis or a green Water for the Eyes Take Virgin Honey eight ounces ripe Strawberries three ounces white Vitriol and common Salt of each half an ounce Mix them and let them stand in a cool moist place in a Copper Vessel often stirring it till it wax green or shews it self of a green colour then add of Spanish Wine a pound water of Roses and flowers of Elder of each half a pound waters of wild Cummin Eyebright Celandine Valerian and Blue-bottles of each four ounces Let them be mixed and set to digest in a well stopt Glass for a month in a gentle heat or what is better exposed abroad both to the Sun and Dew for certain weeks and then the Liquor will appear green and separate it self into the superficies the impure Faeces remaining in the bottom from which it is separated at last having stood in the Sun long enough pour it off and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a most solemn Medicine for all distempers of the Eyes as Contusions Inflammations Ardor Redness Blearedness Fistula's Pustles thin Rheum c. And the use of it is thus drop a drop or two into the Eyes twice or thrice a day and let the water be diffused all over the Eye that so the infirm part may be the sooner cured Aqua Ophthalmica subnigra Take of generous Greek Wine a pound water of Celandine white Roses Eyebright Fenil and Garden Rue of each six ounces Cloves Epatick Aloes Tutty prepared of each five drams Camphire six drams Mix them and in a glass Viol expose them to the Sun all the Dog-days shaking the Glass once a day whicâ— being done keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It makes Rheum thin discusseth redness sucks up the cause of Blearedness renders the Eye clear and by its nourishing quality extenuates the adjacent thick humors The way of using it is to drop a little of it into the Eye as before or you may dip a Rag in this Collyrium and lay it upon the Eye Aqua Ophthalmica de Cancris or an eye-Eye-water of Crabs Take River Crabs alive in the month of June tâ—â— Sun and Moon being both in Cancer thirty one Adâ— to these as much Celandine as will equal them iâ— weight beat these together and then add to theâ— Fenil seeds bruised an ounce Sea-Beans prepared 〈◊〉 Camphire of each half an ounce Cloves Epatick Alâ—â— and Tutty prepared of each two drams Mix them anâ— divide them into three equal parts and distil the first in Balneo then put the second part into a Cucurbit and pour the distilled water upon it and draw it off again as at first then put the third part in and pour upon that all the distilled water already drawn off and so distil it the third time And so you have that most famous Water of Celandine truly prepared And if you will calcine the Faeces and extract a Salt and add it to the Medicine it will be far more efficacious Virtue Use and Dose This is a most precious Eye-water and also esteemed at a great price of which Crollius in his Basilica Chymica hath made mention in these words There may be made a wonderful and stupendious Ophthalmick of Celandine and Crabs Which if it be prepared by due artifice and time it virtually restores the Eye though hurt to desperation and agglutinates all wounds in those parts in the space of twenty four hours Thus far Crollius But the way of preparing it out of meer envy he would not reveal or else he never knew it unless by relation or perhaps had stole it from another Of this Water drop one two or more drops into the Eyes of the Patient or it may be used with a Feather dipped in the water and then anointed with it twice thrice or four times a day according as necessity requires and let this be continued till the Patient be restored to his former health again Aqua Ocularis interna or a Water for the Eyes inwardly taken Take Iuniper berries two ounces Cassia lignea an ounce seeds of Mountain Osier and Fenil of each half an ounce seeds of Rue three drams species Diamoschu dulce Nutmegs wood of Aloes of each
Dill Oranges and Chamomil of each half a dram Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a true Anodyne Medicine for it discusseth Wind and cureth the pain of the Belly and Matrix and all other diseases arising from Wind. Sometimes also it lenifies and allays the pains of the Breast Stomach Spleen Guts Reins and Bladder It is also a present help for flatulent and Hypochondriack Melancholy The dose is from four drops to five in appropriate Vehicles Oleum Nephriticum or an Oyl good in the Stone Take Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Turpentine and Iuniper of each four ounces Leaven of coarse Bread common Salt and white Tartar of each two ounces water of Ground-Ivy Parsley and Restharrow of each three pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick afterward separate the Oyl and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It potently breaks the Stone in the Reins and Bladder and expels it by Urine And moreover it allays the pains of the Colick It roborates the Womb and makes the Birth easie if it be drunk in water of Vervain And being taken in Teil-tree-flower-water it helps in diseases of the Head and Nerves as the Falling-sickness Stupefaction c. and the Nostrils anointed with it preserves from all Poison and pestilential Air. The dose is from five drops to six in specisick Vehicles Oleum septem Florum or an Oyl of the seven Flowers It is prepared of Oyl Olive by many repeated Infusions of the flowers of Violets Elder Roses Chamomil white Lilies Mullein and red Marsh-mallows Let the flowers be infused apart in Oyl every sort in its season so that they may be fresh let them digest in the Sun and after due maceration let every sort by themselves be strongly pressed and this labour with other fresh flowers is often to be repeated c. And at last you shall have a true Balsamick and Anodyne Oyl appropriate to all pains as well cold as hot and this Oyl keep for use Virtue and Use. It is truly Anodyne and mitigates the pains of the Head and Cephalalgia and being laid to the Forehead and Temples of those in a Phrensie and watching induceth sleep It easeth the distension of the Hypochonders and allays the pains of the Thorax Ventricle Colon Womb and nervous parts It is a present remedy for Pleuritick Consumptive and Hectical persons and soon allays the intolerable heat of burning Feavers and the immoderate heat of the Liver and Reins In short it extinguisheth all intemperate heat It mollifies the hardness of the Womb and composeth many other accidents of those parts It ripens all hot Tumors and discusseth Lassitudes It is also effectually used with the White of an Egg or the Mucilage of Quince seeds for Burns and Scalds Lastly given in Clysters it allayeth the pain of the Belly moves to stool and carries off serous Excrements Oleum Sabinae Crocinum or Oyl of Savin with Saffron Take distilled Oyl of Savin four ounces Oyl of Oriental Saffron three drams Mix them and put to it two ounces of rectified Spirit of Wine impregnate with Mugwort lesser Centaury and Cinamon Boil it to the consumption of the Spirit then separate the Oyl and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is approved in moving the Courses in Women The dose is morning and evening from five drops to six or seven in water of Mugwort or Pennyroyal Also in Malmsey or other generous strong Wine or in our Decoction against the Terms suppressed it is profitably given But is most usually given at the time when the Courses use to come down that Nature assisting the Medicine may work with more force and efficacy Oleum Balsami or the Oyl of Balsam Take Sallet Oyl a pound Oyl of St. Iohns-wort and Bay-berries of each an ounce Oyl of Iuniper-berries and Peter of each half an ounce Oyl of Rhodium and Spike of each two drams Oyl of Angelica seeds and Aniseeds of each a dram Cyprus Turpentine washed in Violet water half a pound Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Roots of Alkanet make according to Art an Oyl or red Balsam Virtue Use and Dose It heats opens discusseth attenuates and penetrates Hence it helps in all cold distempers and dissipates wind wonderfully It is of excellent use in the Palsie the Original of the Nerves being anointed with it It cures deafness singing and pain of the Ears coming of a cold Cause The Spine of the Back being anointed with it it takes away the pain and shivering cold of the Reins in Agues It drives away Feavers resists Putrefaction and the Plague It breaks the Stone and expels it It provokes Sweat and is an excellent Remedy used internally and externally in the Convulsions Colick Dropsie Tympany Contractures Suffocation of the Matrix debility of the Stomach c. The dose is from a scruple to a dram in Vehicles respecting the disease Oleum Formicarum or Oyl of Piâ—â—ures Take Pismires alive and seeds of Rocket of each what quantity you please Mix them and bruise them and make as it were a Paste Put this into a Glass and expose it so long to the Sun and Air till it becomes Oyl which separate by expression and keep for use for our Venereal Balsam Virtue and Use. If the soles of the Feet Privy parts and Perinaeum be anointed with this Oyl it wonderfully raiseth and revives those who are stupefied and benum'd and is good in other such kind of cases Oleum Lignorum or Oyl of Woods Take Lignum sanctum three pound Sassafras and Rhodium of each eight ounces Mix and distil them according to Art and you shall have an Oyl and Spirit which often rectifie apart and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose This Spirit hath a Diaphoretick force and expels by Sweat whatsoever is noxious to the body The dose is from half a dram to a dram in specifick Vehicles but the Oyl is experimentally found good in a Gonorrhoea and doth powerfully resist Contagion and Putrefaction and for that reason is of great use in the French Pox for pocky Ulcers Pustles Crusts Tetters and Scabs by anointing them with Oyl only are cured The dose internally is from three drops to six in some convenient and appropriate Liquor SECT XXXIV Of Balsams and odoriferous Medicines Balsamum Polychrestum TAke Sallet Oyl a pound Oyl of St. Iohns-wort and Bays of each an ounce Oyl of white Amber rectified of Iuniper-berries and Peter of each half an ounce Oyl of Spike two drams Oyl of Nutmegs Oranges and Rosemary of each a dram Oyl of Chamomil and Cummin of each half a dram Mix them and add a pound of well rectified Spirit of Wine in which for eight days Frankincense Mastich Benjamin Styrax Calamitis Mumy Cochinel flowers of lesser Centaury great Comfry Roses and Violets also the Roots of Alkanet have been all infused Then add Cyprus Turpentine well washed in Rose-water half a pound our Balsam of Sulphur with Aniseeds six drams
heat of the Bowels and is of excellent use in Cardialgia's Feavers cholerick Vomitings and extreme Thirst. The dose is from half a dram to two Marmelada Epatica calida or a hot Marmelade for the Liver Take Pulp of preserved Quinces four ounces Diacubeba Diacurcuma Dialacca of each an ounce preserved roots of Burnet Fenil and Eryngo of each half an ounce Cinamon two drams Rhubarb a dram spirit of Salt congealed with Salt of Wormwood half a dram Mix them and make of all a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is given to open obstructions of the Liver and Spleen in intemperate and cold Constitutions and is therefore good in all ill Habits and Dropsies and provokes Urine The dose is from a dram to two more or less Marmelada Epatica frigida or a cold Marmelade for the Liver Take the Pulp of preserved Quinces three ounces preserved roots of Succory and Scorzonera of each an ounce and a half Rotula's prepared with the juyce of Barberries and Goosberries of each six drams preserved pulp of Citrons preserved Spanish Lettice half an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis first moistned with Spirit of Vitriol two drams the four greater cold Seeds Nitre prepared of each a dram Mix all and make them into a Marmelade Virtue Use and Dose It cools the heat of the Liver Stomach and Praecordia It extinguisheth thirst and gives ease to those troubled with Feavers and a heat in their Bowels The dose is the quantity of a Chestnut Marmelada magnanima or a magnanimous Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple four ounces preserved roots of Satyrion Succulata Inda of each two ounces Pine-nuts cleansed and green Pistick Nuts of each an ounce Chestnuts boiled in Sack Nutmegs preserved in India Confectio Alkermes of each half an ounce Oyl of Mace exprest two drams Gallia Moschata Magistery of Oriental Pearls of each a dram Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Mix them and without any other Ingredient make a Marmelade Virtue Use and Dose It incites to Venery fattens nourisheth restores strength comforts the Heart and refresheth Nature It roborates the Liver and Ventricle and digesteth Flegm c. The dose is morning and evening the quantity of a Nutmeg Marmelada Carminativa or a Carminative Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple three ounces preserved Orange peel preserved Citrons of each an ounce and a half preserved roots of Fenil preserved Calamus aromaticus our Carminative Rotula's of each six drams preserved Nutmegs bone of a Hares foot of each two drams Zedoary white Ginger the lesser Galangal of each a dram Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon Cloves Aniseeds and Mace of each a scruple Mix them and make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It discusseth the flatulencies of the Ventricle which are generated from thick and flegmy Humors It allays the Gripes of the Belly and is effectually used against the Colick and Tympany The dose is from one dram to two Marmelada Splenetica or a Marmelade for the Spleen Take Diacydonium simple four ounces Diacurcuma Dianthos of each an ounce preserved roots of Elicampane and Scorzonera of each six drams Essence of Harts-tongue and Broom flowers of each two drams the fruit of Tamarisk and bark of Caper roots of each half a dram Elaeosaccharum of Rosemary Cloves and Cinamon of each a scruple Mix them and without any other Medicine make a Marmelade Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Spleen and dissolves the Scirrhus and hard Tumors thereof It removes Obstructions and digests and cuts tough Humors it alters all its intemperance and helps other Diseases thence proceeding the Body being first purged The dose morning and evening is the quantity of a Chestnut Marmelada Stegnotica or an astringent Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple six ounces preserved roots of Comfry and Succory of each two ounces powder of the roots of Tormentil half an ounce Magistery of Coral rosated Extract of Dragons blood Harts-horn burnt and prepared of each two drams Crocus Martis made by reverberation Emeraulds prepared sealed Earth of each a dram and a half Oriental Bole Nutmegs seeds of Plantane seeds of Roses of each a dram Cassia lignea Cloves of each half a dram Oriental Saffron Oyl of Mace exprest of each a scruple Mix them and make all into a Marmelade of a just consistence Virtue Use and Dose It stays a Loosness although old and in a wonderful manner helps Dysenteries and pains in the Guts It stays the immoderate flux of the Terms and Piles and all fluxes of humors from the Head to the lower parts The dose is from one dram to three in appropriate Vehicles Marmelada Terebinthinata or a Marmelade of Turpentine Take Pulp of preserved Quinces four ounces Cyprus Turpentine washed in Rhenish Wine two ounces species Diarrhodon Abbatis roots of Liquorish of each half an ounce powder of Aniseeds a little moistned with the Oyl thereof two drams the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Mix them and without any other additional Medicine make a Marmelade Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth the Reins and carries off Sand and other things that offend the parts It mitigates the pains of the Loyns and Back It removes Obstructions provokes Urine opens the Passages cures the Strangury and virulent Gonorrhoea For the Turpentine is endued with excellent virtues and is an admirable help in many cases The dose is from one dram to two early in the morning Marmelada Nephritica or a Marmelade for the Reins and Kidneys Take Diacydonium simple three ounces preserved roots of Eryngo Parsley and Fenil of each an ounce and a half ripe Winter-cherries six drams acid Tartar three drams Magistery of Perch stones Crabs eyes of each a dram Salt of white Amber a scruple Mix them and make a Marmelade of a just consistence Virtue Use and Dose It brings away the Stone and Gravel from the Reins Ureters and Bladder It removes Obstructions opens the Passages and powerfully provokes Urine The dose is from one dram to two in specifick Vehicles Marmelada Hysterica or a Marmelade for the Womb. Take Diacydonium simple four ounces Sugar prepared with Rosemary flowers two ounces preserved Calamus arcmaticus preserved roots of Peony of each an ounce Cinamon Faecula Bryoniae of each two drams seeds of Parsneps Agnus castus and Garden Rue of each a dram and a half Cardamoms the less Antophyllorum Mace of each a dram Magisteries of English Tin of Mother of Pearl and red Coral of each half a dram Elaeosaccharum of the seeds of Angelica Marjoram white Amber and Aniseeds of each a scruple Mix them and according to Art make a Marmelade of a just consistence Virtue Use and Dose It helps the suffocation of the Womb and the Whites and brings away any depraved Humor that is contained in those parts by opening the Passages and removing Obstructions The dose is the quantity of a Chestnut by it self or in warm Wine or in any Hysterical water SECT XIII Of liquid Confections and Electuaries Confectio Cephalica or a