coles with water flaming wood with water and fire of cooles the first is the worst and yeildeth a water of the least smell the second is better then it the third then the second but the fourth is best of all The second and the third are mooste vsed And I will here describe thee third whiche is made with water and woode flaming as it is in vse w t the kinges of Aharach A. Thou shalt make therfore in a large house by a wall a litle berchile B so doth he cal the vessel that is filled with water the bottom and sides shal be of leede so wel closed that it leek not in anye place Then make meete a couering vnto this vessell of glas or glased earth and make two or three round hooles in it C C C moore or les according to the largnesse of the vessels and as you desire to ether muche or little water D then make a pot of bras like to the pot made in Balneo Mariae which thou shalt set vpoÌ„ the fornaice so that the Berchile aboue the furnaice be lower in situacion then the potte so that it maye conduite the heate of the fyre of the Berchyle to the pott but mee thinkes thies woordes dooe ether redounde or be depraued Thou shalt also make a chimney by the whiche the smooke maye auoyde hoolly out of the hous that it hurt not the rosewater Afterward fil a pot with water which may be in a well a great vessell made by the pot lyke a well in a bathe Then kindling the fyre vnder the pot thou shalt conuey the boyling water by a pype retching from the pot into the berchile and fill the pot again of other could water oute of the well In the berchile also shalt thou make a pype by the whiche the water when it is full may run out of the hous Thou shalt set the cucurbites or belies that is the stillatory vessels in the holes of the couering of the berchile and shalt bynd theÌ„ rouling linnen clothes about that they may staÌ„d stedfast in their hooles and the vapour of the water go not out Lykewyse the heades of them shalt thou bynd with a linnen cloth And let thies vessels be of glas or of glased earth Then put in the Roses and sette vpon euery one his couer and set vnder the nose of euery one a phiall to receiue the rose water that runneth out when the destillation is finished put away the first rooses put in freshe thus saith Bulcasis Some man would maruell that in suche a makinge of the fornace where the fyre is not put vnder the duble vessell or berchile as I coniecture seing he maketh the bottome and sydes of leed but at the syde of the fornace wherfore he should thinke it to skill anye thing whether the fyre put vnder the pot be made of wood or cooles Moorouer it is knowen saith Bulcasis in the same place that rosewater of wyld roses whiche growe by their own accord without any watering is swieter then that which is made of garden roses whiche are tilled and watered There is a destilled water made of thies with vs a shorter way then that before is this wyse A A brasen pot suche as diers vse is set to a wall wherunto a couer B made meet with hooles wherin the be lies ar put The pot is filled wâ—th water and a fyre is put vnder D it of the croppinges of vynes or suche lyke But in proces of the destillation thou shalt close the mouth of the furnace til the hoat destillation be finished In steede of wood if if thou burne cooles the water shal be the swieter Here is more reason then in the former because the fire here is made immediatly vnder the stillatory vessels The second way of destillacion with out water with fire of coles is such MAke a square or round fornace A with a couer wherin shal be set belies C made of glased earthe so that they may abide the fyre And when the cooles are kindled the water beginneth to destill shut the mouth of the fornace â–ª and leaue holes open for the smoke to go out at Ther is an other bridgemente of the third and fourthe waye A Brasen pot A ful of water is set ouer a fornace w t a couer bored B through so that it may receiue twoo or three belies of glas C more or les Put vnder fyr of the cropping of vines or cooles till the water sieth Saluiae SAge water keepeth reteineth his former smell Remaclus F. Brunsvvick saith that the members being rubbed with the water of Sage and so dryed by it selfe and often dronke is good against the palsy and also to drynke two ounces in the mornyg and at nyght is very good and helpeth against the Crampe he saieth further it is good against the dafing of the head Loke in the same authour Scabiosa SCabiose water is profitable geuen to drink to them that are diseased with any fistula and the very herbe pound is lykewyse put in Sedum THe water of y e least syngrien or houslieke is vsed of Surgeons too coule hoat partes Remaclus F. Brunsvvick reporteth that y e water of Scabiose dronke twyse or thryse a day an ounce and a half helpeth the stiches in the syde he sayeth further it healeth woundes inwarde outwarde being dronke .ix. daies together two ounces at once fastyng Loke in the same authour Solanum THe water of Solanum or Morrella is good against all agewes if the sick the daye of hys fitte abstaine from all meate and drincke and when hee is in greate heate and desyreth much to drink that he can not refrain him selfe any longer then let be geueÌ„ him a glas of this water Afterward let him be diligentlye couered and be kept in the heate by force and he shall swete a stinking sweet But he must abstain from the air that is to cold or to hot This water also is good for inflammations and concussions if a lynnen cloth be laid vpon it four fold and when it waxeth dry to be wet again Also to all strokes or wouÌ„des and other hot diseases if they be washt therewith and a cloth dipt in it be laid vpon It helpeth also the liuer that is hot and the lunges that are dried and greued with an Hecticke feuer Againste all these diseases it ought to be drunk with the third part of wine Lullus in his boke of waters Tilia OF the floures of Tilia whose smel is very plesaunt and lyke to the floure of vines in savour is destilled and muche vsed in Germany It is supposed to be a little hoot dry and perteining to plasters It is good to drinke against y e falling sicknes the treÌ„bling of the hart the grieues of the bely y e stone of the reines and blud gathered together or festerd in the body by chaunce or by reason of any stroke for the which medicine sum also mixt with it the cooles of
a morter poure in to them ten ounces of Aqua vitae wyth a scruple of Alam .ii. drams of Camphora and a halfe of rust all pund together when they are stiept a while streine thē wyth strength throughe a linnen cloth wet a linnen cloth in this liquor and laye it vpon the swelling .iii. or .iiii. times a daye thou shalt meruel at the working of it A vvater to vvashe the partes taken with the Palsey MYrrha aloes ladanum right turpentin castoreum of euery one .ii. drams zedoria Galangall cubaebae Nutmegs long peper pyretrum of euery one .iii. drams The little white Dasy with the red tops iua Arthritica stichas Arabica sage Maioram mint penye royall the les Centaurye Roosemarye of enerye one halfe an ounce when they are all punde poure them into .xii. poundes of destilled Aqua vitae iii. dayes As I founde in a certaine wrytten booke but perauenture there is to muche Aqua vitae For to euery pounde thereof vi drams only with a scruple perauenture of the species are put In the disease called the French pockes somtimes the iawes and throte are eaten wyth euyll destillaciōs whiche onles a man finde remeadye for oftentimes the gargil is wasted oftentymes the corruption passeth to the very bones Therefore a man muste purge them and turne them aside c. There is a marueylous water made for the same purpose They destill Triacle in Aqua vitae and vineger in a limbeck a most cleare water issueth out of many vertues but chiefly it helpeth where the strength of the medicine oughte to be conducted sōwhat diep if therfore thou dissolue in it bole armoniak or sphragida and touche the partes that be freten thou shalt both kil the cause of that contagion heale al the freting Fracastorius in his .iii. boke of contagions Of destilled vvaters composed but wyth other then wyth Aqua vitae SVche waters as are destilled of two or mooe medicines mixte together I call them composed Of thys sort some are vsed for medicine some for smellinge some are inuented for garnishinge trymmynge and deckynge There be some that wyll do two of these or all Notwithstandinge we wyll referre euerye one to one kynde that is wherein it excelleth mooste Againe of theim that be vsed in medicine some are receyued into the bodye other some are minystred onlye wythoute other some bothe wayes We will make onlye two Chapters for all thoughe some bee vsed bothe wayes yet they are moore vsed other wythin and wythoute Agayne of them that bee receyued into the bodye some are moore symple whyche wee shall fyrste descrybe secundarilye those that bee composed of moe Of the kyndes of Aqua vitae composed where the spices are sooked in pure and onlye Aqua vitae we haue written seuerallye by them selues Heare wyll we putte the other as I sayde and those which they call waters of caponum and one with certain medicines put into swines bloud To be sooked in wine and after to bee destylled it seemeth to bee ordeined chieflye for those hearbes and medicines whyche haue little iuyce of them selues as Sage Betanye Melissa called Baulme Wormewode c. whych more ouer by that meanes do retaine more firmlye theyr owne sauoure the wine drawing it and drinking it vp that it canne not dispersed for the thinnesse we shall speake heare of certayne thynges to bee stieped in wyne but whyle they be newe for wee haue entreated of .iiii. dry things stieped in wine other liquor and so destylled Betany commonly called betany and in dutch eerenbreyʒ is stiept in wine a few daies likewise melissa They shall haue the same vertues strengthes but more effectually and more subtil then the herbes by them selues alone Melissa that is citraria saith Lullus let it be put in wine to be destilled Let a man drinke a sponefull of this wine fasting It sharpneth the vnderstanding and the wit encreaseth the memory To a man that stutteth ▪ lay a linnen cloth wet in thys wyne vppon hys tounge and he shall speke right excepte he stut by nature He that is sycke of the palsey let hym drincke it fastinge wyth a litle triacle and he shall be cured perfectly It cureth the stinkinge breath and putteth away touth ache Fleshe or fyshe layde therin corrupte not and may be kepte as longe as a man will Being put into turned wine it restoreth it It breaketh the stone It prouoketh vrine and wemens floures It is good agaynste the fretting of the guttes and pain of the raynes It oughte to be drounken agaynst kirnels vnder the chin and a plaster to be made of the hearbe If it be drunken fastinge it breaketh all inwarde and hid impostumes It healeth all stitches whyche tende towarde the hart or sides It is repugnant against al kinds of worms with in the body It taketh away all corruption of the body quick or dead It healeth al that it toucheth and preserueth it in good health in good quart ▪ It cheareth the spirites it is good for al the members and healeth the kyndes of colde droppes Aboue all thynges it comforteth the synnewes It is moste profitable against scabbednes cumming of could It sharpeneth y e sight of him that drinketh it It taketh away duskishnes teares of and superfluous humors of the eies It is holsome for the brest profitable for cōcoction against euill humors that letteth it Drunken with good wyne it stireth the appetyt It putteth away spots and frakenes of the face that is washt therwith if so be it a litle baulm be put to it then the face washt tnerwith it maketh also good colour It healeth the iawe bones The smell of it killeth al gnates and wormes It cureth the dropsy cumming of a coulde cause and superfluous choler with drinking and washyng Al maner of woundes may be washt well with it and so they shal be preserued from all putrifying It healeth all kindes of agues but moste of all quartaines The drinking of this wyne letteth the diseas of saint Lazarus from encreasing It is good also for them whose brain is perished and for the frantik Also if a man eat a spider by chaunce and drinke this wyne stregthway vpon it he can not be hurt of the poyson Theis wryteth Lullus Melissa beaten is stieptin wyne a night Men say this water destilled and drunkē euery day and holden in the mouth it cureth the benumming of the senses all so the falling sicknes the dropsy the quartain ague and other diuers diseases of black choler or fleume It is ministred also to the strangleng of the wombe and toth ache Remaclus F. A water of the les centory worthy to be compa red vnto gold Take one part of gentian two partes of cētory when they are pund and sookt in wyne fiue daies destill them This water drunke morning and euening preserueth the body from all kyndes of diseases It putteth away all impostumes it maketh good colour It resisteth the pestilence it heleth the
neck Epiphanius Empericus An other of the same mans for the brightnes of the face Take Lily routes Arus Dragons of euery one whyles they be fresh half a pound half a pound of the flowers of Beenes Eigth vnces of Roosewater destill them put to it Moschocarii Cinamon of ether two drames Washe the face therwith twyse a daye A very good water of the same mans for the same vse Take flowers of Beenes bitter AlmoÌ„des the leeues of Peeche trees of euery one .iii. vnces Gootes milke as muche as of all the rest When they ar destilled put six or eight whytes of egges sod which must be mixt with the water destilled by by destil it again and mixt with it .ii. drams of Caphura A frenche water for litle moules all scalynes freckmes of the face A pound of TartaruÌ„ or lyes of wyne burnd till they be whyt Mastick TragacaÌ„tha of ether half an â—nce Sir drams of Camphora iiii whytes of egs When they are pund mixt in Rosewater let theÌ„ be destilled They cure maruelously Epiphanius Empericus A water procuring vnto the face a Rooselyke and faire colour Take a pynt of Aqua vitae thrys destilled an vnce of PrasiliuÌ„ Cloues to the nuÌ„ber often as many grains of Paradys fiue Cubebas when they are all pund sifted heet them a litle with Aqua vitae in a vessel diligently couered that nothyng breeth out by any meanes Afterwarde when this mixtur is could again destill it in a leÌ„beck of glas with a very slow fyer and thou shalt haue a good water a cleer When thou wilt vse it wiet the face skyn of the person with a sponge moistened therewith for it maketh without all doubt a Roose colour fayre and bewtifull And this dying wyll continue a long time for .ii. or iii yeares If thou canst not haue Aqua vitae take reed wyne of Rupella the best thou canst fynde about the measure of Semiloti a dutche wourd for half an vnce for they call an vnce a loot for there must be more measure of wyne then Aqua vitae But Aqua vitae is much better to the preparing of this water This water garnisheth a mans skin subtilly maruelously Out of the writen booke the author wherof is not declared A lyke vnto this shal be declared by and by out of Gordonius An other that taketh away the wrinkles spots of the face and clarifieth the skinne of whytes of egges destilled Reede before emongest the simple waters destilled in Balneo Mariae A maruelous water that putteth away Napas litle whelkes or pushes or litle teetes sum call them Napas I thinke the Italians Lupinas acorns kurnelles Porros that is wartes what euel so euer groweth in any place of the body it taketh it away ii pounds of oyl de bay whyt frankensence Mastick elect Gum Arabick cleer Tur pintyn of euery one .iii. drams When they are beten mixt altogether and destil them in a lembeck And in this water thus destilled put half a pound of Cineris terrae destil it again and kiep this water as a tresure The author is nameles But it semeth that this liquor wil be rather an oyll then a water saue only that ashes is added vnto it it migth haue bien well asscribed vnto Balmes A cosmeticall water that bewtifieth the face breeketh the stoone is described before aboute the end of the title where we entreted generally of the vertues of liquors destilled Reed also Rogerius in his fourth tretise the fift chapter ¶ Certain Cosmeticall waters for the face shalt thou fynd also by and by in the waters that folow ascribed to the heares Ther be also emoÌ„gst the Balmes hereafter which serue to garnishing Certain vvaters Destilled for the garnishing of the face out of Andreas Furnerius in his Frenche booke of the bewtifying man kynde A Water for the brightnes and whytnes of the face The flowers of whyt Rooses of water Lily Elder Lilyes the chydes take out of Beenes of the flowers of euery one of thies a pound Half a pound of the water of Strawberies Crums of whyt bred as miche as you shall thynke good .xii. whytes of egs .ii. vnces of whyte Frankensence Into all thies let Cerussa pund be put for a nightes space Let them all bee destilled in a Lembeck of glas when the water is drawen out let it bee set in the sun and washe the face therwith morning and euening so that ye wype it not An other that the face and the other partes of the body may retein a faire and youthfull form .ii. vnces of Aqua vitae the water of of Been flowers Rose water of ether .iiii. vnces of Lily water .vi. ounces when they are all mixt put to them a draÌ„ of the whitest Tragacantha After this water hath stand in the sunne .vi. daies streine it throughe a faire linnen cloth The vse of it is in the morning so that it be not wipte of An other for the brightnesse and beautye of the face A water of the whites of egges newe laide made by a spunge with like measure of the â—ice of Limons destill it as rose-rosewater Put vnto this water afterward about .ii. ounces of communly and the limoÌ„ beaten hole the skin puld of rather put it into the rest after .viii. daies wring out the iuyce from it and mixt it with water Let the face be washt first with pure water and wipt let it be washt with this water destilled It procureth an hansome beautye conserueth the skin and is vtterly the best An other which Isabella of Aragonia duches of Millen vsed knede the flour of whete Mele wyth a Sextarium almooste a pinte .xx. vnces of Gotes milke then bake the bread therof gentlelye in an ouen and draw it out afore it be to muche baked The crums of this bread cut in smal peces or els crumd betwixt ons fingers and put in other new gotes milk let it stand so .vi. houres Thou shalt mixt with it the water of .xii. whites of egs made with the spunge lime made of eg shels an ounce Camphora Suger Alum white corall of euerye ii drammes When all these are pund let them be mixt wyth the moyste thinges and destylled in a lembeck of glasse A notable good water shal com therof and most profitable to put away all vexacions growing in the face It maketh the beauty of the face as excellent as is possible to be made An other to beautifye the face The leaues of Roosemary white Tartary mixt them with whit wine and vse the water drawne oute of it by a limbecke as ye woulde do the former medicines for the same effect An other for the same Set the floures of beanes in good white wine a day or .ii. in a glas bottell then destill them wyth a softe fire The vse of it is to wash the face therwith morning and euening but you must washe it first with a decoction of Cerussa And you shal see it
But chiesly it breaketh newe spottes of the eies cūming of both the humors heet or cold if so be it they excede not mich It dryeth vp teers of both causes heet or cold it restoreth cleareth the sight lost with ether of the causes And I saw a woman hauing newly all ouer her face blesters or wheals by the strook of a ston with heet which the only washing of this water was streight way heled with great admiration But the vertue ther of is a hundred foold mor maruelous and stronger in operacion with burning water and muche moor with quintessence Yea this water mixt with quintessence or wyth burnynge water cureth the Leprosye Fraxinus THre vnces of the liquor destilled of the inner bark of ashe with as many vnces of whyt wyne is drūk against the pestilence and the same drinck after iii. howres is repeted so God willynge within .xxiiii. howres shall the sicke be deliuered A water of the kirnelles of Halicacabus is commended of som against y e stone of the reines and bladder if it be drounke ons or twyes a weeke Helxines WHiche we cal Parietary or Pelitory the water therof is profitable againste the stone ried before in the vertues of waters destilled generally out of Cardanus Hieracium DEntdelion in frēch wyth vs it is called Dandelion the water therof siemeth to bee of the same vertue as is the water of Endiue Cikory Some destill it first steeping it in wyne eight dayes it is of a sower tast and they giue it to drinke against the fittes of the fallyng sycknes with marueilous tryall as they say Hissopus HIssop retaineth merue louslye hys vertue in a destilled liquor althoughe it be destilled in a common earthen lembek only apon sād put in a fyre pan and likwise penyriall and certaine other They vse water of Hyssoppe o asswage touthache for it is sharp and subtill c. Intybum ENdiue the water there of coleth all hotte diseases and all burnynge of fyre or water hoote it heeleth them if they be wash therewith It is good also for quotidian Agewes and obstructyons of the bowels bothe drunck and mynistred oute warde Lullus vppon waters Lauendula WAters of the floures of lauender is sweet smelling Remaclus Iuglans THe water of walnuts not rype made aboute saint Ihons tyde ministred without is good for woundes and hoat byles and the pestilent anthrax Also being dronke a two or thre vnces it cooleth and resisteth the pestilence A water also is destilled of the vtter huskes of walnutes ether rype so that they be new brast and left of the nut or not yet at all in the moneth of September nether skilleth it if they be blacke so y t they be not rotten yet the black are counted the best A moderate potion of this water with the third part of vineger if it inuade a man with heet letting bloud first is geuen to drinke against the pestilence as a certain experiment It is praised also for y e noyse in the eares and the difficultie of heering for the diseases in the throte called angine being gargild A water destilled of y e leues of walnut tree about the end of May is maruelously cōmended for the drying and knitting of sores and to bring them to a skar if they be washt therwith morning and euening and a linnen cloth moystened therein bee laid vpon Brunsvvicencis Orchis SAtyrion is destiled rootes and al good for y e falling euill as men say Persica SOme destill the floures also of Peeches Petroselinum A Water destilled of Persely of y e garden beeten in a mortar cōfirmeth the apetite dissolueth all wyndes of the body and stomack strengtheneth concoction and purgeth out y e ill humors of the brest reines rather Aegidius Plantago AVyol of Plātain water is able to staūche bloud frō whence so euer it runne Cardanus Brunsvvick doth note many commodities vpon plantaine water and specially if it bee dronkē in the morninge and euening at eche time two ounces is good for the blody flix Pulegium PEny reall looke before in Hysope Rapum RApe water maye be made bothe of the hoole Rapes cut and also seuerally of the barkes whiche are sharper and hooter to prouoke vrin and further sweet The water of this Rapes sayeth Brunsvvick is good against burning of what cause soeuer it bee if the sore place be washed with it there wyll ryse first a scurffe but washe the scurffe also and it will hele the sayde burning Rosa ROos water semeth to be first inuented for I finde mention of it in Auicen the .ii. boke in the chapter of rooses Roosewater drounke saith he is good in a swoun and the iuice of them also and again water of roses is good for the liuer and it cōforteth the stomacke which is nourished of of it with hony and it is Geleniabin and helpeth to disgest And the roos and his iuice are good for a stomak to mich hoot And although the Arabiās for the most part ar wont to say water for iuyce or decoction yet in this place it can not be taken for then when as he speaketh seuerally of the iuice of the decoction also he made mētion befor Rooswater made by sublimation doth very much comcomforte Mesue in the chapter of Rooses And again The Roos and hys oyl and water sublimated comforteth the hart c. The same speeketh of rooswater destilled in the .vi. destinction wheras he describeth the iuleb of roses as the Munkes his interpreters do proue of whom also this was obserued and noted that two waters destylled and nomo mencioned in Mesue that is of rooses and wormwod They make no epithē or outward medicine at this day but they put roosewater in it In sharp vehement and greet inflammations to strengthen the principall members it maye be commodiously vsed It is good for the flixe of the bowels and vomiting It helpeth the inflammation of the eies veri much in the beginning Sum are wōt to mixt with it a litle thucia and sugercādy It strengtheneth the eies and sharpeneth the sight It stauncheth blud running out of the nosthrilles being put in a linnē cloth That which is made of red roses is more cordiall as they terme it and strengtheneth moor but of whit doth moore coul Remaclus F. Of wine mixt with roswater in time of meet see in Arnold in his boke of wine Rooswater although it be made diuers waies yet the best is made by Balneum Mariae Matthaeolus If thoos rooses which we call commonly carnacion dryed and moystened with the vapoure of water be destilled they yeld good rose-rose-water Syluius They may be holden in a linen cloth ouer hot water til they haue drunck inough of the vapoure ⧠Of Roose vvater out of Bulcasis THe makynge of Roosewater is known in moste coūtires It is better made with water then without better also by fire of cooles then of wood wherfore of the iiii waies whyche be withoute water wyth flaming woode without water with
Balneo Mariae must be destilled again He willeth a sponefull of this water to be drunke euery day for the space of a moneth and the leprous places to be anoynted therwith They say it purgeth bloud dissolueth the congeled bloud and chaungeth the hoole temperature of the body and if a maÌ„ may beleue it it cureth well nye all diseases An aqua vitae of a certain practicioner coÌ„posed after a singular and excellent preparation for diuers diseases Take crow fote iuae moschatae sage the tender crope of ebulus betony saint Iohns wurt germander maioram chamepityos organy peniroyal hyssop rew caryophyllatae gentiaÌ„ rouÌ„d aristolochia of euery one halfe a handful Polypody squinaÌ„tum or schoenoanthuÌ„ spike cassiae ligneae folii of euery one a dram halfe a dram of bay beries two drames of chamaemall The kernelles of peeches balhamitae pimpernell selandin agrimony of euery one two vnces Rosemary an vnce Dictamni tormentil scabiosus whyte of euery one foure vnces an vnce a halfe of the great bursied Anissiede fenel serpyllum or sauery alkekengi iumper beries persely of euery one halfe an vnce Sauin cresses of ether halfe a handfull Carui cumin water withy of euery one half a dram Cineris vespertilionis tamariscus the route of y e floure deluce with y e flowers of euery one halfe an vnce Make a pouder of all these which shal be deuided into .vi. partes wherof thou shalt put one part in Aqua vitae thrise destilled and let it stand to sower or to be seasoned a naturall day then destil it afterward stiepe an other part of the pouder in this destilled water and destil it likewise And so forth euery one of the other partes when they are all stiepte destill them likewise and keepe the laste liquor Then take nutmegges Mace cardamonium folium cinnamon zedoarie of euerye one iii. ounces Agallochu Saunders white and red of euerye one two ounces one ounce of the bones of hartes hartes one ounce of olde Triacle ginger amomum cubebe and the graines of paradise Galangal peper of euery one .iiii. ounces one ounce or more of chosen Muscke at the leaste not les then half an ounce Pun all these and put them in the forsaide water .iii. daies then destyll theÌ„ againe with a slow fire in Balneo Marie thrise alwaies pouring the water drawn forthe vpon y â— dregs At length ad vnto this liquor half a pinte of mooste cleare oyle of Oliues and as muche of the best honye clarified and when they haue standed quietlye destill them as afore saide This lyquor is good for the headache fallinge sicknesse frensye swindle or turnsicknes duskishnes of the sight lack of hearing stuffing of the brest the disease of the hart called cardiaca also against poysoÌ„ gout of the hands or fete gutta arthrîtis It purgeth blud it taketh away al agues of cold causes it strengtheneth the stomack It cureth the colâ—k the debility of holding the vrin the obstruction stopping of the splene and liuer the swelling and watry dropsy and all diseases bred of cold causes To conclude it is a most chosen remedy for the coÌ„seruacion of y e body They geue men to drink ther of half a philberd full in a cup of pure white wine An other A pounde of clarified hony halfe a pound of Aqua vitae iii. ounces of ligni aloes ii vnces of gum Arabick Nutmegs Galengal cubebae cinnamon mastik cloues spicknard musk of euery one .iii. drams ii drams of amber beat all these together when they are mixt wyth y e moistures destil theÌ„ This water helpeth the stinking breth maketh the tethe white it cureth y e deafnes and tineaÌ„ capitis it healeth al woundes if you dip a linnen cloth therin lay it vpon the wound To coÌ„clude it coÌ„serueth youth reuoketh y e beuty lost A water of great vertue in the palsy whyche a certain frend let me haue the knowledge of as a thing known by trials and profe Cloues galangall zedoaria nutmegs both kindes of pepper iumper beries and bay beries the bark of the CitroÌ„ and arantii white ginger sage leaues basill rosmary maioraÌ„ mint peny royal gentian y e flours of sambucus red Roses and white spik lignum aloes cardamomum cubebae calamus aromaticê° stichas Arabica germander chamaepytis maces Mercury the sede of mugwort or motherwort carikes passulae dates without the stones almonds swiet and sour pinapples of euery one a dram both the kinds of camfrey tasil ben white red of euerye one .ii. drams Scolopendra a dram a half half a dram of Laureola v. draÌ„s of whit hony .iii. pouÌ„ds of triacle suger Mithridatum of ether .iiii. vnces Six pouÌ„ds of Aqua vitae destilled iiii times Let them be destilled in a double vessell with a slowe and continual fire til the colour be chaunged theÌ„ chaunge the receiuer and do that thrise Tvvo compositions of Aqua vite oute of the boke of Raimundus Lullus of waters IN the coÌ„posed waters of life folowing althoughe Raymundus do not expresse whether wine or burning water ought to be put to the medicins that they mai be destilled together yet we haue thoughte good to rehers them in this place because Raimundus seemeth vtterlye to wyll these medicines to be destilled in burning water theÌ„ in wine as one that alloweth euery where the more perfect liquors the oftest destilled Take the rotes of fenell rusci maidenheare sperage Rapes parsellye eryngii mill of the sunne scariolae of euerye one like much mixt them and destill them wyth a slowe fyre It appeareth that thys liquor is good to prouoke vrine and against the stone An other Take cloues Nutmegs mastik doronicum zedoaria galingal long peper y e bark of citron sage sambucus that is elder perauenture it shoulde be samsuchus that is Maioram dill spiknard Wood of Aloes cubebe cardamonuum Lauendula Mint Peniroyal organy calamus aromaticus both kindes of sticas germander chamepytis of euerye one like much and a litle muske Pun them and destil them The vertues be all one wyth simple Aquavite but farre more effectuall Or the same that are attributed before to other waters of life composed of many medicines Then foloweth a water composed of manye colde medicines not in hys place as it semeth which I made mencion of before in the colde quint essence Afterward is placed a most perfect Aqua vite as he calleth it that is because it is composed of verye manye thinges and that most hot Take Euphorbium SerapinuÌ„ opopanax pyretrum Capers squinanthum spodium bdellium long peper and white or blacke cubebe castoreum zedoaria of euery one equal portions to the which thou shalt put good Mastick and a little Amber Saffron and of the bone of a hartes hart Also take all the thinges aforsaide in the composed waters and let them be destilled with a slowe fire For it is a merueilous water the mother and chief of all medicines whose vertues are
Being anointed vpoÌ„ the brain pan it remedieth y e destillatioÌ„ springing of y e reum of y e brain being anointed druÌ„k it taketh away y e griefs aches of y e heed .xiiii. It redresseth the y e things amis in the mouth if a maÌ„caÌ„ hold it in his mouth on y e night .xv. It helpeth y e il smel stink of y e noos the reum if a man holde it a whyle in his noos .xvi. It helpeth the diseases of the teeth .xvii. It cureth the maladies of y e hart and brest when it is drier or moyster then it should be or is sicke with the coughe or short fetching of breth c .xviii. It encreaseth the memory and taketh away forgetfulnes in a man that receyueth oftentimes by tymes no but one drop therof .xix. Scuruines skailes scabbednes byles wheales and what soeuer vncleannes elles vexeth the skin or elles the inward partes of the body it putteth it awaye and driueth out poyson being annoynted and drunken .xx. Being anoynted vpon the face any wyse it coÌ„serueth moderatly the colour and brighthnes of youth that a man of .iiii. score yeres old shall skars seme aboue 30 .xxi. It turneth awaye all leprosy that is a brieding Thies I had out of a certain wryten booke in the douch tong the author wherof was not named It maketh a man mery aswageth angar it is also commended against the pestilence The same and like affectes are attributed of other to other waters of vertues also or rather to diuers kyndes of aqua vitae composed whiche are destilled of spyces and odoriferous herbes c â–ª stieped in burning water of the best yea and almost vnto simple aqua vitae An other water of vertues Ten vnces of sage noble y e flowres of laueÌ„der .ii. vnces rew ginger cloues grains of paradys nutmegs of euery one an vnce half an vnce of cinamon Galingall longe peper of ether of them .ii. drames Spike CitriuÌ„ castorium wode of Aloes graines of paradice of euery one a dram when all these are beaten together let them be kepte in a tinnen vessell wyth a pound of oyle of Laurel an ale quart and a halfe of good wine .ix. daies or .xiii. and in the mene seson let them be .iii. or .iiii. tunes chafed and myxte together at the length destill them Other put to it not oyle of Laurel but an ounce of the beries of Laurel and as much Rew and a dram of maces They attribut vnto it the same vertues eueri one which we ascribed to the next going before about xx Some prepare the same or one like not wyth wine but with burning water A certain Aqua vitae suche as is made at Constantinople in the Emperoures court as the same writen boke hath Cloues Nutmegges ginger Coriander Galingall long peper iumper beries Arantia Sage Basilicus Roosemary Amaracus Mint Lettis bay leues peny royall Gentian the flours of Sambucus or elder white Rooses spikenard wode of Aloes cardomum Mugwort of euery like much A Pomgranate .ii. figs Passulâ—â— almonds dates of euerye one a little When these are pund mixt a part of hony and suger Stiepe theÌ„ al in good wine .v. daies destil theÌ„ That is the best liquor y t runs out first the next is weker y e. 3. wekest That which remaineth in y e bottoÌ„â—â—ke to on oyntmeÌ„t is profitable to mani cold diseases The first liquor is good for all blemishes spots of the eies rednes or blud coÌ„geled It coÌ„firmeth the stomak chereth y e mind remedieth the disease called gutta the drop the agewe the coughe the wombe and the wormes in the heade to conclude it maketh good colour Vlstadius describeth certain waters of life the most of them composed with burning water thre with wine in the chapters .xlvi. xlix and .lv. Peter Andrevv Matthaeolus Senensis teacheth to cure the french diseas that is sanguin and cholerick and but newly gotten with water whiche he calleth philosophicall the .lxx. leafe of the boke in time past printed at Basil composed of diuers medicines iuices syrups and wine for the space of .viii. dais stiept together destilled in a vessel of glas in a bath of hot water wherw t a quaÌ„ntity of sande is mixt together He receiueth .ii. maner of waters the firste cleare the seconde more red â–ª Afterward for the fleumatike or melancholy disease of Fraunce he putteth an other composition likewise to be destilled If so be it saith he thou desire a more effectual remedy against melan choly thou maist ad vnto it .iii. or iiii snakes long ons black ons flaine and the bowels taken oute well chafed both with a good deale of salt a good space and also with vineger that they may melte together for this is most chiefly profitable not only to the french disease but to the leper and mani other diseases which at this present we thoughte good to omit But the composition of this water the vse who so listeth shal read in the author him self He saith he hath cured certain him self at the teÌ„th time drinking of it other in longer space in whoÌ„e the disease was more greuous Io. Almenar in the .iiii. chapter of his booke of the way to cure the french pockes When the humors saithe he are once euacuated and purged a man muste procure an alteration of the members for the whiche intent let a bath or a stouf be made with swiet water wherein muste be boyled Mallowes Bismalua Melilot Chamaemel Roses Sorell Fumaria the third day after the purgacion And when the sick beginneth to sweat let him take this water hereafter described â„ž the rotes of greate Malowes or holy Hokes Fumiterrae Sorell Inula of euerye one of them halfe a pound when they are cut small put them in .iiii. pounds of Malmsey a day and a night theÌ„ put to it an vnce and a half of triacle .x. yere old or more Let them take .iii. vnces of this water destilled w t ii vnces of Buglos in the beginning as it is said And this stouf let it be vsed again euery day till vi or .vii. daies be finished drincking this water whiche is the best and singular and in thys disease a great secreat and the last remeadye and extreame refuge A vvater of certaine remedies for shortnes of breath and harde fetchinge of a mannes winde CAlamint Hyssop Adiantum Horhound Scabious Tussilago of euerye one an handfull round Aristolochia an ounce an ounce and a half of flour deluce as much of the sede of nettles Fenel rotes persly rotes of ether .ii. vnces .iii. vnces of the heauenly lily half a pound of inula campana musterd sede and cresses of ether of them an vnce and a halfe fiue drams of costus .x. of spike iiii ounces of bay beries an ounce and a halfe of nigella when they are beaten small let them staÌ„d vi daies in .vi. ale quartes of white wine then let them be destilled with a soft fire Thou shalt geue the
pacient to drink therof in the morning .iii. vnces Epiphanius Empericus A water for the stone of the raines and blader Sperage Ruscum Apium Fenel Perslye rubia of euery one halfe an ounce fiue of the siedes of diur etica ligusticum lithospermoÌ„ Ammi Radish seselis Masliliâ—sis daucê° Saxifrage of euery one .iii. drams adianthum matricaria ceterach scolopendrum trifolium gramen senecion I vnderstande cardaminam liuerwort the sede of peucedanum of euery one a handfull halfe an ounce of the floure Deluce .vi. drammes of Xilobalsanum two ounces of Licoris .iiii. of Cummun sedes colde greater cleansed of euery one halfe an ounce grounde Iuy Pimpernel of euery one a handful a half kirnels of Cheries stones an ounce spiknard .iii. drams the gum of Iuy .vi. drams Gotes bloude prepared an ounce as much of Cinnamon when they are beaten let them be put in .x. pouÌ„d of white wine or asmuch as shal suffise destil them A like water for the same purpose is described of Rogerius in his fourth treatise and .vi. chapter but destilled with vineger not with wine A vvater for the stone described by Epiphanius a practicioner SAint Iohns wurt Chamaedrios Chamepyteos senecionis not erigerontem but sisymbrium cardamine doth he vnderstaÌ„d the gras of sinkfoyl scolopendrium helxines verbenae eupatorium peny royall rew of euery one a handfull fiue routes of diuretica Acorus inula rubea asarus tamarix of euery one .iii. drammes Fine of the siedes of diuretica saxifrage lithospermon daucus radish persely of Macedonia ammiuÌ„ marathrum carus libisticus of euery one ii drams peeche kernels half a dram four of the cuÌ„mon siedes cold greater clensed of euery one a dram and a half Lycoris .ii. vnces Iuniper beries half an vnce When thies are beaten let them stande infused in fiue poundes of wyne then destill them with a slow fyre Giue the sick to drinck other after bathing early in the morning warm from halfe an vnce to two vnces Certain vvaters composed destilled with vinegar OF vinegar it selfe destilled reed before where we entreeted of waters destilled in Balneo Mariae A water that breaketh the stone in y e bladder described by Epiphanius a practicioner ii poundes of the iuice of saxifrage the iuice of milium of the sun Persely Anise of euery halfe a pound whyt vinegar eight vnces destill a water therof and giue it to drinke fasting A water of Swalowes is thus made Yonge Swalowes when they ar beaten to pouder mixt them with Castorio and a litle good vinegar and destill them this water drunke of one fasting is a trewe medicine of the falling sicknes what cause so euer it cum of And although a man haue had that disease .v. yeres he shal be heeled if he drinke of this water a litle for the space of foure daies he shal be heeled perfectly The phrenesey also if it be drunken fasting is cureth by it within nyne daies It maketh a good brain more then al other medicines It purgeth the stomacke it mollifieth the brest it coÌ„forteth the sinues it taketh the palsey away by the routs it encreaseth nature it heteth them that be couled Also sodde with Hyssop with a decoction of Hyssop doo I allowe rather and drunken it cureth the Dropsey sprung of cold and agues cotidians But let wemen with chylde absteyn from it leest their fruit be destroyed therwith Drunck with Hyssop it dryueth awaye the heed ache it maketh a man sliep easely and it forthereth concoction and the auoyding of the vrin otherwyse y e bely It putteth away hear whersoeuer it is anoynted vpon the pure skin so that they neuer grow again Lullius and Aegidius VVaters of Capons WAters of Capons as men call them ar giuen to drinke to restore the strengthe to women in chyldbed or old sickmen in diseases of great weacknes or through to muche euacuation They are wont to sieth the capon very long in water that al the flesh may fal from the bones and be destilled together with the liquor ether by it selfe or other precious waters put vnto it and spices gold syluer and precious stones Sum allow the capon the more the elder he is nether do they cut his throot but strangle chooke him nether do they pluck of his fethers by hoot water or skalding him but with their hands dry and so when his bowels are taken out and he is cut in small pieces they destill hym Other do not take away all but the guttes only A water of a capon restoritiue and sumwhat bynding Thou shalt sieth the capon in water according vnto the arte put to it a pounde of rose-water conserue of roses borage buglos of euery one an vnce Of both kyndes of corall of ether of them two drams of the spyces diarhodon abb a dram Small rasins without y â— curnels an vnce Coriander prepared half an vnce the fregmentes of all precious stones pearles of euerye one an vnce and a half Let them be destilled An other Let the Capon be sod with a pound of bief til it be sufficiently sodde whereunto thou shalt ad Malmsey Roose water of ether halfe a pounde white breade that it maye be sookte .iii. ounces thou shalt beat these without the bief and put to these spices folowing Spices electu of precious stones Diarhodon Abbatis Diamoschu that is swiet of euery a dram Diamargariton spices of confection agaynste the Pestilence of ether two scrup .viii. leaues of pure golde Mixte them all with the iuyce or brothe and let them be destylled wyth a slowe fyre Some dres this water with saffron and cinnamon c. for wemen in child bed whiche be bothe weake and theyr flours or loosenes of their body commeth not forwarde It is ministred ether alone or with suger Some also dres it withoute destillacion thus They sethe very long an old capon boyled drest accordingly then they beat smal the guts and the bones and in a tinnen or glasen vessel wel stopt set in a caudron ful of sethinge water they sieth it for the space of .vi. houres Som cast gold into it as rings or coynes of golde A certain water with a capon or a cock or a hen soden together with diuers coÌ„fortable medicins is described in Gnainerius in the chapter of curing y e hectical or coÌ„suming feuer not to be destiled but sodeÌ„ only in a glaseÌ„ vessel put in a ketle of water VVaters composed for diuers diseases within y e body chiefly wherof some are made of medicins and iuyces whiles they be yet newe other are infused and put into the iuices of plaÌ„ts or waters destilled whay or bloud A Water causing slepe .ii. vnces of Henbane an vnce of the rotes of Mandragora vi drams of Popy Gith Aumber of ether of them .ii. draÌ„s sedum the bigger and the les the water Lily Lett es of euery one an handful when they are pund let them be put in .ii. pouÌ„d of water of popy with an ounce and a
for the space of a natural daye that is xxiiii houres then let them be stilled in a limbeck The water that shal first run out is coÌ„pared vnto syluer the second vnto gould the third vnto baulm and this must bee diligently kepte in a glas Lullius A water for all the diseases of the eies that bee curable out of Aegidius and Lullius we haue described it before emongest the waters composed for diuers inward diseases A water composed for the eyes About the beginning of May gather Selandyn Veruin Rewe Fenell pun them seuerally and take .iii. vnces of the iuice of euery one of them then mixt them put to a litle of the grien braunches as the Frenche men call them the Pampes of Roses .iii. vnces of sugar candy .iiii. vnces of the best Tutia and as muche of Dragons bloud WheÌ„ all thies ar pund thou shalt mixt them together and destill them in alymbeck of glas The liquor that ruÌ„neth forth thou shalt let stande .ii. or .iii. daies in a receiuer then vse it It is of great vertue for eyes that bee ill at ease red or haue the web in the eye The water of the vyn together with hony sublimated by the fyre cureth the bleerednes of the eyes specially The munkes in Mesuen That is the water of the vyn say they whiche in vere the spryng tyme when the vynes are cut destilleth very cleer out of the places that are cut for certain daies This water without any destillacion putteth away the prickings and heet of the eyen and clarifieth the sight hindred by a hoot cause if a man put in both the corners of the eye one drop Rogerius A water or an oyll made of Sponsa solis sharpeneth the sight and cureth any disease of the eyes within fyue daies c. read after emongst the decking waters emongste them that be ordeined to the dying of the heare A water for eies in soÌ„mer to preserue the sight described by Io. Maynardus in his Epistles the .vi. iiii Three partes of Roses the herbs of Fenel and Rue of ether one part and let them be wel mixte together and after .iii. daies let a water be destilled other in onlye vapour of siething water or in the sun or in Balneo Mariae as they cal it so that a handful of the same herbes better if they be dried in mine opinion be put into the receiuing vessel that the drops maye fall vpon them and the mouth of the receiuer and the nose of the vpper vessel must be diligeÌ„tly ioyned together and closed that the vapors may not get oute Certaine vvaters for the eyes out of Rogerius FIl a stilful of the leaues of Agrimony Veruin Fennel Rue Memitha Leuisticus cut sprinkle vpon it a little white and cleare wine and destyll it in claied vessels This liquor represseth the swellinge of the eie lids of a colde cause it drieth vp the blearednes it stoppeth the flowinge of teares it cleareth the sight breaketh bleamishes or spottes I suppose he meaneth cornes or Pearles If thou wilt haue it stronger to breake spots or perls ad vnto it Gallitricum and Morsum Gallinae anagallis with red floures A man may get a water oute of Fenell also for the same causes For a liquor gathered of y e rotes and leaues of Fenell sod in water with a basen laid vpon the water while it yet sietheth is kept in a phiall and one drop is put in the corner of y e eie euery dai morning and euening for the forsaid causes by commun experience To breake the spot or perle mixt with the forsaid waters myrhe and Aloes pund put a drop of the liquor streined in ether corner of the eye early and late A water destilled of the floures of white thorn and willow putteth awaye prickinges heates or rednes of the eyes it stoppeth teares comming of a hot cause and breaketh the spottes or pearles of the same cause A water of the leaues flours of Eufragia stoppeth teares comming of a cold cause and maketh slender the eie lids that swell of the same cause it breaketh spots or pearles of the same cause and restoreth the sight that hath any impediment I wold say that Enphrag did not heate but wer temperate or els doth coule moderatly in the first degree and drieth in the second An excellent water for the debility of the sight described by Gordonius Take Selandin Fennell Rue water withy of the mountain Eufrage Veruin red Roses chosen of euery one a half pounde lib. s Cloues Longe Peper of ether two ounces When they are brused together destill them in a limbecke of glasse wyth a slowe fyre and put of it euery daye in the eyes An other of the same mans for Fistulaes which it is certaine it wyll heale Two pounde of good white wine destilled in the same vessell that Aqua vitae is the water of Rosemarye Sage of euerye one .v. poundes Suger .ii. pound when they are destilled againe put to them an ounce of Sage and as much of Rosemary When they are stiepte together eyghte dayes thou shalt strayne it and vse it A water for the Cancar in what part of the bodye so euer it be The herbe called Cancar which is also called Doue foote the floures of Quinces the floures of Cerifolium the bowes or leaues of the Breer Idaea which the frenchmen cal Frambosia and a few white Roses hony and white wine and the Alum whyche the Frenche men name of glasse Let all theese be destilled together Andreas Furnerius A water of a Moldwarpe c. for all kynde of Gutta or drop noli me tangere scalles of the head the roose drop and the wolfe reade afterwarde amongste the trimming or deckinge waters wher the waters inuented for the dyinge of heare are rehearsed We wyll referre amongste the trimmyng waters also those waters wherwith whelkes and little Pushes or Biles in the face are made hoale Of vvaters of svviet sauoure DIuers waters are made for the onli delectation of smel to sprinckle vppon the hands the face and heare bothe of theyr head and beard also vpon their linnen napkins or handkerchiefs garmeÌ„ts as wel that they weare as also their bed clothes wherunto it communicateth the pleasauntnesse of â—auour not only by sprinkling but also when it is hot by the vapoure Roose water also comes in vre to sauces of meates and onlye it as I thincke of all these kynde of waters for it is receyued bothe to season meates and is poured vppon rosted fleshe whyles it is yet hotte c. But of smellinge waters some are moore symple some composed of manye thynges Vnto bothe of them waters of vertue whyche oure countrye men call Golden may be ioyned and reckened for of these some are more simple other composed But golden waters for the mooste parte all are receiued wythin the bodye and all are made wyth hearbes or spyces infused in wine or burninge water Smellinge waters as we call them simplelye otherwise as it
fine linnen cloth and kepe it in a glas in y e which v. grains of Muske shal be put which once moistened and stieped with the water thou shalt stop the glas and set it in the sunne .v. daies So shalt thou haue a wonderful well smelling water A swiet water and vnknown wherof one part mixte with .x. partes of pure water maketh the hoole moste swiet .xx. graines or there aboute of Muske as the smel therof pleaseth the moore or les Nutmegs Cloues Galingal Spikenarde graines of paradise Mace CinamoÌ„ of euery one an ounce All theese pund let them be put into a glas mete to destil in with a pound a half or ther aboute of Roosewater poured vnto it Let it staÌ„d so for the space of .iiii. or .v. dayes afterwarde put to it thryse as muche Roosewater and destill all thys in a limbecke in a kettle full of water siething as in a Balneo Mariae Thou shalt kepe the water gathered therof diligently stopt for y â— same vse that the former serueth for An other excellent water Two pound of the water of the floures of Citri One pounde of the water of red Roses of Myrtus half a pounde Of muske Roses a good quantitye likewyse of Iasmin that is to say of the floures Of cloues halfe an vnce .iii. vnces of Assa dulcis well beaten one vnce of Vernicis Styrax calamita red Styrax of ether half an vnce All these pund mixt with water thou shalt destil them in a glasen limbeck the head and the receiuer diligently closed with clay with a soft fire or in a Balneo Mariae or in a kettle full of siething water A water of most swiet sauor with y e which oyl is destilled also The last being mixt with a hundreth times as much of pure water doth sauoure it all with the swietnes therof but this with a. M times as much A pound of Myrre chosen pure new and fat beaten into smal peces half a pound of the iuyce of Rooses when they are mixte together in a limbecke let them be destilled in ashes wher first thou shalt separate the water w t a slow fire theÌ„ make y e fire bigger separat y e oyl at last deuide the water from the oyl That water maketh the face brighte It closeth woundes effectuallye as well olde as newe The oyle is mooste precyous and dothe the same thynges that the water dothe but muche sooner as for example it dothe that in an houre that the water is aboute a hoole daye An ounce of thys water destilled mixt with certain hundred times as much of pure water maketh them all notably wel smelling but an ounce of the oyle if it be put to certayne hundred poundes of pure water doth the same A certaine Roosewater made wyth Muscke whiche is required and vsed also inother compositioÌ„s Put a .xii. graines or more of Muscke in a glas that is wide beneath and narowe aboue so closed with a parchmente set it in the sunne a iiii or .v. daies Afterwarde take an other glasse like vnto it full of Rooses dried and beaten stop y e mouth of it w t a fine thin cloth other linneÌ„ or of hear TheÌ„ put y e mouth of y e vessell y t conteineth y e roses into y e mouth of thother wherin the musk is conteined and stop it aboute diligentlye â—oyth clay and set it in the sun so that the glas with roses be the vppermost the other beneath in a windowe or other where where the heat of the sunne is vehement Thou maist also sprinkle the Roses moderatly dried and beaten with good Rose water and so put them into a still c. Thys water most swiet thou maist vse when thou wylt bothe alum and also mixt with other composicions VVaters destilled called Cosmeticall that is perteininge to garnishynge and deckinge DEstylled waters for garnishinge are deuyded also into certayne differences for some are for the face to make the coloure of it whyte ruddye bryghte to put awaye wrinckles to preserue and kepe it from Sunne burning or to abolish the spots and rusty roughnes in it Other pertain to the heares and to the chaunginge of the coloure in them Other make the tieth white Al the vse of Cosmetical and garnishing thinges oughte not to be taken for vnhonest and vndecent for a man that is wel instituted and godly mineded for Galen also the mooste famous of all phisicions prescribeth cosmeticall medicines not a few in his worcke of composicion accordinge to places and he declareth that the vse of theÌ„ is many times profitable and honest For the leudnesse of certain maried men is suche that for small and light faultes of their wiues they are turned from the loue of them vnto harlots and hores and certain faults or blemishes are such that a man of a bashful nature wold be ashamed to be sene abrode with them some also bring vexation or griefe or itch as certain whelks in the face c. I write not this vnto wemen or other men but vnto Phisicions only who should be good and discrete men y â— both otherwise they may vse these honest remeadies and medicins and chiefly wheÌ„ such as these be are required of the wife 's of tried honestye of Kinges Princes and noble men More of these thinges and what the art of garnishinge wherin honest garnishinge is soughte for differs for the commeticall and deceitfull thou shalt read in Galen of composi medic sec locos the first boke 2. ch Such Cosmetical waters as be simple we wil not declare heare as be the waters of Bean floures Strawberies Dew Gotes milke Read before of the water of strawberies and of the same and other in Brunsvvick or Riffius Yea Aqua vitae hath a certain cosmeticall and garnishing vertue as we rehersed in his place Waters destilled of the leues of the peeche tree and Willowe of lyk weight mixt together do he le the red whelkes in the face the Frenche men call them rubiz being moistened therwith A spyced wyne for the garnishing of wemen whiche maketh the skin whyt fyne pure and wel coloured Put Ginger and Cinamon in wyn and destill them as Rosewater It is holsome also against all could complexions and moste against palsy Arnold in his boke of wyne A garnishing water wherwith wemen amend their thick grose skyn black and skaly or skuruy with Quick siluer sod in a raw eg c. thou maist fynd in Nicolas Massa vpon the frenche disease in his .vi. booke .ii. chapter A water for the bewtifying of the face The spume of syluer half a pounde when it is beaten sift it and in two poundes of whyte vinegar sieth it till the third part be consumed sturring it with a stick when it is sod destill it At length ad to it half an vnce of Caphura Aphronitrum oyle of Tar taro clouen Alum of euery one an an vnce strein it through a cors cloth anoynt the face and
shortly worke An other that taketh away al maner of spots Put into a glas like muche of Cristall and Corall with water of Limones so much that it maye couer them and be a fingers bredth aboue them Stop this vessell and put it in some colde place in the earthe as in a wine seller a fewe dayes Then caste away the shelles and wash the snailes with water somewhat salt so ofte till all their slimines be washt away Then destill them and keepe the water Afterward thou shalt draw out a water of rapes cut small by a limbeck When thou wilt vse it take a sponeful of the firste water .iiii. of the second and .iiii. of the third mixt them and washe y e face which notwithstanding must first be washt with water and wipte An other maruelous for the same purpoose Take snailes wythoute theyr shelles and washe them as is before rehersed then sprinckle an vnce of Salte otherwise salte Gemmae beaten in a glasse and put the snailes there vpon then sprinkle other Salte vppon them againe and snailes vppon that and so shall you do continuallye layinge salte vppon Snailes and Snailes vppon salte till the thyrde parte of the vessell be fylled Then poure vnto them so muche of the iuyce of Snailes that it stande aboue the salt and Snailes two fingers thicke and destyll them vse thys water as is aboue rehersed If so be it thou canst not commodiouslye destill them set them all mixt together in a cloose vessell tyll they receiue the forme of an oyntmente and that shall you vse at euenynge as the other aboue wrytten Oyntementes the face fyrste washte and wipte and the seconde daye after washe the face wyth water of Beane floures This also did I reade in the Antidotary of Gordonius An other not destilled Twelue Snailes cut euerye one in .iiii. partes put in good white wine This liquor shalt thou vse as the aforesaide It shall come to good succes After thys followeth a destylled water of a yonge Storke of the same effecte and operation whyche I described amongste the symple Medicinall waters An other manner verye good and secreate or vnknowne Sixe newe laide Egges halfe a pounde of Malmsey a yong Pigion not yet holelye fetheared Chese new from the pres y t is made of vnskimmed milcke .viii. Arantia Poma oyle of Tartaro iii. ounces an ounce of Cerussa Let thē be beaten that maye be beaten and mixte altogether that they may be destilled wyth a slow fyre The vse of this water is like the other before It maketh a fair skin fine tender as is possible A washinge or Kynges water whyche abolysheth all spottes Take water of cleare Turpintine as muche as can be gotten out of .ii. pounds of it put therein halfe an ounce of Masticke iii. ounces of white Frankensence halfe an ounce of Tragacantha When they are pund mixte them wyth the water and destyll them keepe the water Then mealte Swines grease of a male Hog vnsaulted and strayne it throughe a double lynnen cloth Then take white Ginger Cloues Cinamon Euphorbium Spiknarde Camphora of euerye one two ounces three Nutmegges when all these are pund myxt wyth the strayned Swines grease put vnto these two ounces of quycke Siluer often times washte wyth salte and Vineger and wrounge throughe a piece of Leather and with this mixte the drosse la feuille ou de lauenre as it is wrytten in Frenche of quicke syluer de couppelle When all is mixte together destill them and keepe the water Afterwarde take vi ounces of the water of the forsaid Turpentin and of the latter water twise so much mixt them and when you wyll vse them washe the face fyrste wyth a decoction of Cerussa and wipe it Then poure about .vi. droppes of thys water mixt together into the palm of the hand and wher thou wilt anoynt couering the place anoynted or wet with a linnen cloth till it be dried A marueilous effect and operacion shall folowe therupon An other of Snailes .xxx. whyte Snailes .ii. pound of gootes milke .iii. vnces of swynes grece or els of a yong Kid a dram of Camphora pund let them be destilled in a lymbeck of glas An other Take six vnces of the crums of the whytest breed and wash it .ii. poundes of milke mixt it diligently and destill it as is aboue sayd and washe with it The water also of the whytes of egges destilstilled is thought good An other that purifieth the face two vnces of Mirh whyte Frankencence Mastich of ether halfe an vnce Gynger whyte .ii. drams one dram of Camphora a pound or a pound and a halfe of whytes of egges When all is diligently mixt let them be put in the bely of a yong hen and wellyking the bowelles taken out If thou wilt put to a hen simpely but flein and cut in small pieces Put to also Asses milke or Gootes milke aboute iii. Sextares that is .ii. pyntes a half .lx. vnces Destill thies in a lembeck of glas That the face may shyne elegantly .xxx. newe laid egges stiep them in vinegar the sharpest you can get for the space of .iii. daies and night then boor them through with a pyn that the humor w t in them may run al out Destill all this in a Rose-still that the face may be washt therwith A water clarifying the face Take the rout of Dragons made cleen and cut in to thin roundles stiep them .ix. daies in whyte wyne so that euery daye half a pound or more freshe wyn be powred vnto them then take the call of fat that is aboute the goutes in a kides bely taken in May to the number of six rys beeten and sod in .iii. poundes of black nightshad and a poūd of the meel of rys half a pound of the water of wylde plums or bullies blaūshed Beenes to seeth in the same water Put vnto this .xii. rotten Appuls and ten egges two handfull of the routes of common flower deluce or els the flower deluce of Florence a pound of Hony halfe a pounde of bitter Almondes Gum Arabick Sarcocolla Tragacantha Borage Camphora of euery one two drams shiepes milk six poundes Venice Turpentin .ii. vnces water of the floures of water Lily Let thies be destilled together in a lembeck with a smal fyer The water destilled therof let it be set in the sun and moued oftentymes An other that taketh away the spots of the skin and whitteneth it An vnce of Borage halfe a dram of Camphora thre drams of cōmun Alum Gum Arabick and Tragacantha of ether of them half an vnce Sarcocolla Assa dulcis of ether .ii. drames .iiii. vnces of Cerussa Pun all thies mixt them and put them into half a pound of Dragons water and as muche of water of floures of Lily together with water of the floures of Broum of Nightshade of water Lilyes of euery one foure vnces When they are mixt destill them in a lembeck of glas To make the face cleer and youthlyke that it seme lyke to
be annoynted with this oyle they putrifye not When thou wilte comforte bodies that be extenuated and broughte lowe thou shalt mixte Roose water with it and annoynte it vppon the lower mansions and from the Nucha vnto the raines If the backe bone be annoynted therewith being somewhat warme an hour before the fit leauing vppon it the token of it with Pecia thou shalt put awaye the shakinge of wandering Agues and of any simple agues But quartaines and wanderinge Agues it helpeth at the beginnninge of the course this place and they which folow seme vnto some to bee corrupted in the printed bookes in the swoundinge or debilitie annoyntinge the extreame partes of the backe boone that the instrumente for the purpoose maye speake with voyce put vnder the tonge of the sicke a little of it and after in his eares and nosthrilles if nede require Thou shalt geue of the same when neede requireth in the Stranguling and Suffocation of the Matrix or mother and in the fallinge sickenesse manye other diseases It is ministred in weght tree I thincke he meaneth one grain with wine that hathe a good smell So it comforteth y e mind and nature and healeth manye diseases But chieflye and is good for them that be Melancholye sadde and whose strengthes and members be feeble as though they were beaten and wekened by force For consuminge Feuers thou shalt mixte with Oyle of Rooses or of Mastike and annoynte the backe boone of them in a baithe or withoute a baithe Hitherto wryteth Aponensis The same manne willeth to mixte thys composicion in the steede of true Opobalsamum wyth Triacle Mithridatium Diacurcuma Aurea Alexandrina This Oyle saithe he Epiphanius Empiricus vseth as the Mother of all remeadies to all diseases of the sinewes annoynting twise a day therewith the Nucha the back and inynts for it is plain by manifest proues specially in a colde matter The same man commaundeth to stil this oyl in Balneo Mariae which I like not There is an other composicion of VViliam Pla centinus whiche I finde in the bigger Luminarie in Diacurcuma or Diacrocu in this wise Take Turpentin .ii. pounds commun oyl .iii. pound oyl of bayes .xvi. onnces Cinnamon .iii. ounces Euphorbium Cloues Bay beries Gum of Iuy Serapinum Galbanum Aromatik Opopanax ofeuery one an ounce Franken sence Mastike of ether ii vnces Let such be beteÌ„ as shuld theÌ„ destilled These and certain other diuers balmes dothe Ryffius also in his boke of destillation describe A quickeninge water and one that procureth youth vnto an old man out of the boke of Lullius of waters Turpentyne a pounde honye halfe a pounde Aqua vitae thryse or foure times destilled iii. ounces Lignum Aloes welbeaten SaÌ„dali mustatelli of ether .iii. drams gumme Arabeck perauenture a dram Nutmegs Ambra ofether .ii. drams When they are all pund destill them wyth a slowe fyre till ye haue the firste water cleare And when the second beginneth to run oute whithe shal be like to a burning cole encrease the fire by and by and kepe that by it self TheÌ„ encrese the fire again gather the third which shal be black and thick like hony til al the liquor be run out Of these waters y e last is hoter then y e first seconde The first is called mother of Balm the secoÌ„d oyll of Balm the third Balm artificiall The first is ministred in drink with warm wyne The second aâ—d the third ar good to remoue maladies which newly gnawe the fleshe of mans body The fyrst drunke with warme whyt wyne purgeth the stomack from al il humors and withholdeth the water that it cum not at the hart or principal partes as it is plain by often experiment A fyne lynnen clooth moystened in this water and thrust into the noosthriles with the litle fingar whan y e sick goeth to bed and left there within cureth the reum Being drunck morning and euening it cureth a stinking breth what cause so euer it cum of The tieth washt therwith are strengthened and made whyt and ar deliuered from ache whether it cum of a humor or of putrified bloud Whatsoeuer shal be put into it it will kepe it sound and vncorrupt A linnen cloth moysted in it and laid vpon woundes first washed therwith or vpon a fistula and other angry and ill byles cureth them It resisteth the quartain ague if the back boone be rubbed therwith a fewe daies Scabbednes washt therwith is made hoole A linnen clooth moystened therin is very good to be layd to y e hemrodes Wol that groweth on tries or Bombase dipt lightly is this water is very good to put in the eares against any kynd of deafnes Being anoynted it cureth the rednes of the face the palsy of the tong and all cold diseases The second and third water are of strength against the disease called Noli me tangere against the kynges il and also the disseases of the neck and throot Also against the fistula and the ill disease called Malus morbus specially if it be yet but new for by washing it and wetting and oft laing a linneÌ„ cloth moystened therin vpoÌ„ it it is made hool They help also if a maÌ„be beten with stones or clubes or a staf No poyson can approche ny vnto them and a spyder touched therewith dyeth They be anoynted vpon moste proffitably against all palsyes They strengthen all the partes of the body being washt therwith It is to be noted that the first water of thies thre as generall conteineth all the vertues of the other But to fret the second and the thirde are better this more then the other To be short they heel all diseases that cum of bloud or putrified fleume In the same Lullius a marueilous water is made in this wyse Cloues Nutmegges Ginger Zedoaria Galangal bothe sortes of Peper Iuniper beries the pilles or barck of Citri or OreÌ„ges Sage Basilicum Roosemary Maioram round Mint Bay beries Peny royall Gentian Calamint y e flowers of Elder Roses Ammens Spick nard wood of Aloes Cubebae here semeth somwhat to be left out as well wyld as domekical or growing in gardines Cardamomum CinnamoÌ„ Calami aromatici Stichados Chamaedryos Chamaepity os Melissae Mastick Olibani Aloes hepaticae Anis siedes and flowers she siedes of Mug wurt of euery one an vnce Put vnto thies dry figges Rasins that cum froÌ„ beyond see Dait stones fat swiet Almondes of euery one an vnce Whyt old hony half a pound After twys as much Sugar as all the forsaid be All thies shalt thou put into Aqua vitae v. or .vi. times destilled in a leÌ„bek of glas y e Aqua vitae shal be as much as thrys y e weight of all the speces besides After thou hast lest them stand .ii. daies thou shalt destill theÌ„ with a slow fier The first water is moste cleer precious The second differeth in colour and must be receiued in an other vessel it is whyt good towhit ten the faces of wemen
haue .iiii. stoules But I hear that certaine when they had taken to muche as much perauentur as a beane they haue ben emptied to ofte by the bealye and vomiting and haue bene verye muche weakened whiche I to take heede of vsinge the counsell of a certaine learned Phisicion I woulde brynge to iuyce not the Elleborum alone but infused and decocted with other diuers medicines as I shall declare by and by I perceiue it skilleth little whether the rootes be taken grene or dry But a man must take a pouÌ„d at the leaste of the rotes Lullius and other Cardan haue made mention of the quintessence of Elleborum where vnto I thincke this iuice to bee nothing inferiour This truelye is worthye to be wondred at that the iuice so longe decocted is not onlye nothinge weaker but also muche stronger for it seemeth that I may speake of coniecture that one parte of this iuice to be tenne times and more stronger then Elleborus it selfe and yet nothing more daungerous or hurtful but the streÌ„gthe withoute harme is encreased And although I my selfe woulde haue remitted and asswaged his strengthe puttinge to manye medicines yet I can commende more this simple waye alreadye described where as nothinge but a little Mastik is added at the laste speciallye for more hard and greuous diseases where necessitie requireth extreame medicines and for Franticke persones and otherwise madde and dotinge whiche when they can not be compelled to take anye medicins they are the easier deceiued with so little a dosi in quantitye Yea also withoute the bodye for venemous bitinges and sinnewes hurte I canne beleue that the vertue of it shoulde be mooste excellent I finde no iuice made in this sorte in anye authors the iuice of Acatia and of Berberies in Bulcasis For the straininge of it onlye is decocted not that which is depressed oute also the iuice of Galbanus and Licoris but the water in them is not chaunged Other iuices are made all by expression and aresod til they gather into a Ielly as of Sâ—landine Poppy Wormwod nightshade Vinae Acerbae Memithae Agremony Hypocisthidis the barkes of the rotes of Mandrag The same Bulcasis also willeth to put to a little gum to certaine iuices that be prest out which are sod by them selues at the fire that the partes of theÌ„ may better cleue together as the iuice of wormwod gasid that is Eupatorium or nightshade also of Centaury and Gentian which is made of a decoction strained But Mastik is mixt with y e iuice of Elleborus not onlye for this cause but also to amende the venemous vertue therof and contrary to the stomak Moreouer in certain other medicins wher a maÌ„ list to encrease the strength and vertue of any medicin which is to be left and laid away in some liquor we chaung not the liquor but the medicin that is euer when the first is strained putting in new medicin into the same liquor as in many decoctions and oyles but here in the iuice of Elleborus we do contrary For keping the same rotes of the Elleborus we chaunge oft the liquor I maye tel the cause because y e rote of Elleborus aboue all other things hath most stroÌ„g vertues not in y e superficial other parts only but in y e hole substaÌ„ce imprinted vehemeÌ„tly fastly wherfore it may be also kept most long of al other I my self vsed it when it was .x. yeares olde in his full strengthe And certaine common Practicioners bidde men drinke for the lousinge of the belly the wine wher in a part of it hath sooked a nighte and the nexte daye is strained and the rotes to be dried again for they are nothing or veri litle weaker therwith although they be somewhat often repeated to the same vse and dried again But of Elleborus it self and what we haue tried and experimented therof perauenture we shal once haue an other place and occasion to wryte of Pils of blak Elleborus or rather of his iuice is to be taken euery seuenth day in the curing of the French disease that is Melancholy as Matthaeolus couÌ„selith Three drams of the rootes of blacke Veratrum or Elleborus fresh and new Dauci or yelow-Caret Anisi Peper of euery one a dram .vi. grains of Mosth ii scrupuls of Epithy mii or the harder time let all theese be lightlye beaten then when they haue stand to soke a day and a nighte v. poundes of Malmsye heare semeth to be som fault of the printer for it is to great a measure of wine let them be mightilye prest oute Take .iii. drams of this expression of the pouder of pils of Fumitory Cochiarum Aurearum of euery one ii drams and a half knede them together and then let them be dried Moreouer when they are dry made againe in pouder thou shalt stiepe them again in the same Malmsy as before .iiii. tymes The pilles thereof muste be taken at one time to the weight of one dram Oure iuice composed and made of Elleborus Two poundes of Blacke Elleborus newe cutte Liquoris scraped and brused with a pestil a pouÌ„d stiep them a night in a good quantitie of water The next day after sieth them an houre a halfe with a slow fyer or .ii. houres power it out straining it and put in to it other water warm which shal be redy in a chafer by the fyr for this purpose Repete this seuen tymes or more Then castyng away the routes take the hooll water streined or destilled by a Filtrum and sieth it by litle and litle and when as yet a litle of it shall remaine power vnto it this decoctioÌ„ Seuen handfull of Betain Agrimony two handfull Anisi iii. vnces stiep theÌ„ in water and sieth them till the consumpcion and wasting of the thirde parte pres it out strayne it twys or thrys at the length put to fiue vnces of Agaricum elect cut smal flower deluce two vnces and a half Cinamon six drams Ginger halfe an vnce sieth them to the half pres them out strain the water as befor Then power this decoction to the decoction of the Elleborus boyling moderatly and let them be â—od together to the thicknes of hony A litle before the ende put to .iiii. drams of the pouder of Mastick .ii. drammes of Scammonium thies dissolued together in a litle of the decoction of Elleborus that it may be lyke the substaunce of hony not muche before the end of the decotion power it in when the iuice shal be moderatly thyck or beginneth to be thick and thou shalt stur it about till the iuice be consumed Thou shalt trye now and then a drop of the iuice let it fall vpon a tinnen â—rencher and when it shal be so thick that it wil almost run no more abrode when thou leenest the trencher on the one syde or lifts it vp then is the iuice perfect But by the space of an houre or more before the ende thou shalt now and then
vnce Coriander iii. vnces make sumwhat a gros pouder therof Wyne of small raisins whiche Arnold calleth honied is made siething â–ª the Rasins in wyne in must till it wax swiet whiche is put furthwith in to a vessell and the small rasins beaten are cast in to the same which go to the bottom into y e dregs But the same Arnold describeth an other also very excellent which he calleth Passulatu or made of small Raisins the Raisins sodde with Cinnamon in Must not much which afterward is powred to the other Must put in the vessell alredy Of Aromaticall vvynes that is made of Spices ARomaticall wynes are wont to be made two waies ether hanging the spices only in a litle bag within the vessel which is let stand in a wyne celler or also putting to hony that so muche as we would so muche may be made out of hande and the spyces beaten together sighed strained a few tymes through a streiner or Hippocras bag of wull as they call it This wyne may be called Mulsum or Melitum they cal it communly Claret and Nectar and Melicratium but improperly with whyte wyne If they put to sugar for hony with reed wyne they cal it Hippocras There are made at the Apothecaries thies spyced and aromatical wynes for the moste part in that proportion that .xiii. vnces of hony be put to .vii. drams of spices and .iiii. pouÌ„des of white odoriferous wine Or to .vi. drams of spices half a pound of most pure Suger .iiii. poundes of red wine or les other put to muche more suger and spices also Sometimes halfe a dram of saffron or much les is put to to couloure it specially vnto Mulsa that is such as are made with hony But before y e wine be streined it shuld be let stand in a hot place or in a stoue with y e spices infused certain hours .xxiiii. at the most Wine called Hippocras is of the kinde of made wines after an easye waye mooste acceptable to the Frenche men specially on this side the Alps. Cinnamon Suger and Carpesium are beaten brused in a bagge through it the wine is poured that in passinge throughe it maye dryncke and soke those qualities This is broughte forthe in principal feastes with Escharite pane in steade of banketing dishes the which fashion but with an other kinde of wine we read was peculier to the Athenians Hermolaus Barbarus Corollarii libr. 5. in the chapter of the Grape of oenanthe An other The inner barkes of Cinnamon vi drammes halfe an ounce of white Ginger hoole â–ª Nutmegges elect .ii. drammes Cloues graines of paradice of ether a dram Cardamomum Pepper Calamus Aromaticus Coriander prepared of euery one a scrupull mixte them and beate them somewhat groose Eight poundes of wine clarified honye .xxvi. ounces mixte all and strayne them accordinge to Arte. Some clarifye theese spiced wines with Almond milke An other for Cardiacall persons described by Alexander Benedict in his teÌ„th boke Take a pint of Austere and harde wine odoriferous white â—uger half a pound cinnamon Ginger of euery one half an ounce Galangall a dram An other of the same mannes for weakenesse of the stomacke Take Cinnamon half an ounce white Ginger two drammes Cloues long Pepper Nutmegge of euerye one two scrupulles when they are well beaten wyth halfe a pounde of white Sugar mixt them together in a .v. pintes of pure white wine and straine it for it is the chiefe remeadye for theim that bee dissolued in their stomacke An other Take an ounce of Cinnamon halfe an ounce of Ginger Galangal two drams Cloues a dramme Graines of Paradise two drammes white Suger viii ounces of the best wine q. s An other Cinnamon an ounce and a halfe Ginger halfe an ounce Cloues .ii. drammes Grames of Paradise Galangall of ether a dram Sugar a pounde and a halfe Red wine .ii. measures that is .viii. poundes mixte them and it wil become Hippocras An other An ounce of inner Cinnamone White Ginger halfe an ounce Graines of Paradise three drammes Clooues Moschocaryi of ether .ii. drammes Maces Galangall of ether a dramme and a halfe white Ginger halfe an oâ—nce Graines of Paradise .iii. drams Clooues Moschocaryi of ether two drammes Macis galangall of ether a dramme and a halfe long Peper a dramme Spiknard Folii of ether halfe a dramme make a pouder thereof To euery ounce of these put .ii. poundes of wine with a pounde of Suger and Tornsoll so called a kind of Purple wull to colour it q. s An other that semeth to be ordeined for the defaultes of the breast aâ—d lunges â„ž the best Cinamon scrapte from the groose barke an ounce Cloues an ounce and a half Anis Fennell of ether a dramme Lycoris .iii. drammes Maces Cardamomum Floure Deluce of euerye a dram and a halfe Suger most white .iii. ounces when euerye one are diligentlye pund let them be infused with these that followe Take Malmsye .ix. ounces a pound of water of Borage Rosewater an ounce and a half water of Melissa iii. vnces after they are let stand .iii. houres by the fornace or stoufe at length strain it oft through a Filter bag and it shal becom cleare Hippocras Hippocras Laxatiue A wine againste the Quartaine Quotidian and bastard Tertian iâ— concocteth and prepareth the humoures and leadeth the same by and by oute by the siege Take a pound of Esula Epithy mi. vi draÌ„s Polipodii cinamoÌ„ smal rasins of euery .iiii. draÌ„s Mastik gin Zedoria cloues of euery one an once Suger as much as nedeth Arnold Nectar in Arnold For a pinte of wyne take Ginger electe scraped Cloues Cinnamon scraped of euerye .ii. drammes graines of Paradise a dram Let it be made wine or Grekish which is better and in steade of honye put Sugar wyth a gran of Musk and it is moste noble A syrrup or Iulep is made of wine to conserue helth and youthe puttinge into .iii. poundes of good wine two poundes of Suger Let it be made a Sirup the vse wherof is with water It may stand in steade of meat and drink and refresheth nature Arnold in the boke of conseruacions of youth Wine made with Suger decocted is good for olde persones colde and feable and in whom the naturall moysture and heate are diminished for it norysheth and breedeth bloude and filleth the principall parts with spirits Take the best wine of Vernacia or Grekish or like vnto them .iii. pouÌ„des a pounde of white Suger Caffetini Let theÌ„ be sodde with a softe fire in manner of Syrrup keepe it and vse it with .ii. partes of water or otherwise as vse requyreth This wine or rather syrruppe of wyne Rabi Moysses in his booke of the maner of diet for olde men and such as are in recouering their helth doth approue and allow Of svviet vvines spiced OF wine made with suger spices it is alreadye spoken and also generallye of Mulsa or wynes made with hony and spices A man may in all the forsaid composicions both
bag w t in the wine mixt with hony or suger after .ii. or .iii. dais take it oute pres it wel But the former way is better finer Three vvaies to make Nectar wherof the first .ii. are called Gratia Dei the thirde Manus Dei oute of a writen boke TAke cinnamon .ix. drams ginger .iiii. drams nutmegs long Peper of ether .iii. draÌ„s GalaÌ„gal grains of paradice Maris or Folii cubebae of eueri .ii. draÌ„s cloues a draÌ„ spiknard a hole scrupul saffron a half suger a pouÌ„d or a pint of hony y t hath boyled in a litle water til the water be consumed wel skimmed Mixt them in a Lotum a half of wine Some ad Cardamomum and Carui of ether .ii. drams And this is the better Claret To the same â„ž Aristolochia round cinnamoÌ„ of ether an ounce Ginger half an ounce Galangall graines of Paradice Cloues Cubebae Macis Nutmegs of euery .ii. drams long pepper iii drams spiknard a scrupul Saffron a half Suger a pouÌ„d wine a Lotum If it be for the rich ad Agallochum of the best .ii. grains and musk halfe a grain Or according to other â„ž Cinnamon elect .ii. ounces Ginger one graines of Paradise longe Pepper of ether halfe an ounce Nuttemegs cloues Maces of ether .ii. drams Cubebae Cardamom of ether a dram Spiknard Schoenan thum Calamus aro of euery a scrupul When they are pund mixt them together with .iii. pounds of hony and a Lotum of wine as is said A drink named Manus Dei. â„ž Cinnamon an ounce and a half Ginger .iii. drams CardamomuÌ„ ii drams Folium Galangal of ether a draÌ„ spiknard Carui of ether half a dram long Pepper or blak .iiii. drams If it be made for rich men adde Cloues Nutmegs Maces Grains of paradice of euery .ii. drams clarified hony a pint a BurgeÌ„s Lotum of good wine And if thou canst in steade of hony put a pound of Suger If this drink be rightly made it shal be profitable against manye diseases specially cold and in old men and them that be somwhat weake feble vnto copulacion It shal be conuenient for Fleumaticke Melancholik persons meruelously that not withoute a cause it may be called Manus Dei that is the hand of God It putteth away dumpishnes sadnes and bringeth mirth It openeth the obstructions and stoppings of the splene It heleth the dropsy bringeth the stone out of the rains mightily if a litle Saxifrage of the stone called Lynx be added Spices for Zedoartical wine â„ž Zedoaria cinamon of ether half an ounce Galangall .ii. draÌ„s mixt them and make them into pouder For the wine that is surnamed of Scapa or Rappish â„ž Zedoaria halfe an ounce Coriander .iii. ounces galangal .v. vnces cinamon cloues of ether .ii. draÌ„s make a pouder therof soÌ„what grose Otherwise spices for Zedoartical wine which shal be inough for a mesure of wine that is called communlye at at Straszborovv Cinnamone .iii. vnces cloues nutmegs grains of pa. Cardamom of euery half an vnce Zedoariae vi drams Cubebae long Peper of ether a .ii. drams Beate them somwhat grose mixt them for a bag For the same cinnamon .ii. vnces ginger half an ounce cloues Longe Pepper Cardamom Cubebae Zedoria of euery one a dram Galangal graines of paradise of ether a dram and a halfe When they are beaten somwhat grose mixt them for a little bagge Of spiced vvines vvith burning water THat burning water doth drink in easily all y e odour and vertue both of other medicins and also of spices if they stand to stiep in it a few houres first beaten and a litle of it afterward be poured into simple wine and that diuers wines both in sauour and taste may be made by this meanes forthwith we did declare before out of Arnold in the descripcion of simple Aqua ardens or burning water ¶ The confection or making of the wine which they cal commoÌ„ly Hippocras Put into the name of the mesure is not exprest of burning water destilled .iii. or .iiii. times or more .ii. vnces of Cinamon Ginger half an vnce graines of paradise Peper of ether a dram and a half a dram of Cloues half a Nutmeg When they are al pund put them into a vessel wel closed for .iiii. dais and shake it about twise or thrise euery daye At laste strain it and kepe it it may be kept a longe time Put a meane sponefull of this into a measure or iiii pounds of good red wine and put a pound of Suger to it Yet if the wine be swiete there is no nede of Suger Furnerius A way to make Malmsy â„ž Galangall of the best Cloues Ginger Maces of euery one a draÌ„ Let al thies sumwhat grose beten staÌ„d 24. houres in a vessell of wood wel couered infused in water Then hang them in a linneÌ„ cloth by a thried into a vessell of a soom as they call it which is about the bignes of a hogshead or half a Soom of clear wyn .iii. daies And thou shalt haue wyne so good strong as is the very natural Malmsy or Traminuum A dutche writen booke A wyne that tasteth lyke Rhetish wyne In a vessell of glas or of earth glased hange a linnen cloth full of the spices hereafter folowyng and fill it with burning water stop it diligently let it stande at the lest .xii. houres when thou wouldest vse it wring out y e linnen cloth into sum gret glas whiche the wyne shal be powered into afterward so that the sydes of the pot may be wet with that spiced burning water or els y e liquor crusht out into the bottom by lening and rooling y e glas a syde may moysteÌ„ the sydes euery where Then power in the wyne whiche shall haue the taste of Rhetish The spices are thies Cinamon Ginger Cloues of euery one half a dram when they are sumwhat gros beaten let them be mixt and after be tied in the linnen cloth After the some maner is the tast of Muscatello wyne made take a Nutmeg with a litle Macis mixt them beaten as is before said Cloued wyne Beat half a dram of Cloues w t a litle CinnamoÌ„ tie it in a linnen cloth as is aforsaid The tast of Elseter wyne bynd sugar caÌ„â—y in a linnen cloth as is before said Or els mixt hony diligently clarified with burning water in a vessell well stopt when thou wilt vse it wringe out a linneÌ„ cloth dipt in this liquor into y e pot All thies haue we borowed out of a dutch boke writeÌ„ Of certain other Aromatical vvynes specially such as are made by hanging a litle bag in the vessell CLoued wyne is made hanging the cloues in a litle bag within the vessel with must It drieth much dissolueth coÌ„sumeth draweth vnto it it helpeth the old difficultie of fetching a mans breth cough in old men w t the corruption of the humors it is proffitable also in the falling sicknes swouning it strengtheneth the vertue
further within Now when certain thinges haue great plentie of their smel and that so strong that it vanisheth not of a long space whiche cummeth bycause the force of smelling is digested equally into the hoole â—ubstance of them it is no wonder if in the same vesselles some waters bee destilled lyke vnto their plantes as of Roses whiche as Theophrastus wryteth doo reteine their sauour very long other sum be vnlyke to their plantes for suche waters as haue their vertue and force in the vttermost and superficial partes they fume out easyly as of wormwode whose smell may be iudged to bee in the same place where his bitter taste is conteined whiche wee fynde to be only in the vtter and superficiall parte For if thou separate the barke from the stalke or the braunches thou shalt fynde that whiche is within to be vnsauery or vnswiete Therfor this difference is not to be required of the grossenes or puritie of y â— partes although I thinke it also to be of some force but rather of this that the strength of any thing is ether distributed equally through y e hoole plaÌ„t or els more nie to the midest or vtter parte of the same I am surely of that mynde with Raimunde Lullus that water of the same qualitie may be goten oute of any plant whatsoeuer it bee of colde plantes colde water of hoat hoat of dry dry of moyst moyste But I will not graunte that the same vertue remaineth except lyke sauour or like taste or bothe as in smelling thinges be left The cause why the smell of certain floures as of Iasmin of the floures of cloues remaineth not in the waters c. reade within oute of Cardane wher as we intreate of BalneuÌ„ Mariae generallye I sawe once an alchymist that destilled not the very herbes them selues but onely the iuse of herbes or busshes renewing certain tymes the destillatioÌ„ and powering again y e water vpon y e dregges grouÌ„de vpon a marble moler Gnaynerius Oates wherof drinke may be made as Ale or Bear of barly do warme make dronk no lesse then wyne Men say that in Tartaria water of milke destilled maketh men dronke But euery water not an element that is alone without any mixture but lyquor or iuyce mixt and compounded being oft destilled may doo the same for it wareth hoat is fyned and made more pure and receiueth more the force offyre Wherupon burning water being oft destilled is brought to suche sharpnes that it can not bee dronke Cardane Also a lyquor or other thing be destilled the thicker it is the more it semeth to conceiue heate and fyre if it be oft destilled It is manifest saith Cardane that a water may be made whiche shall incoÌ„tenent breake the stone in the bladdar if it be put in by a squirt or syring for whan as two thinges ar necessary bothe that it breake the stone and that it hurt not the bladdar the maner and matier wil performe the first for we shall receiue the last vapors of the asshes of scorpions or of persily of Macedonia or of the precious stone called Tecolittius or of the stones of crabes for so may a water be made to breake also the red marble Moreouer that it shall not hurt the bladder is brought thus to pas if the mattier out of which the water is taken be voyde of all saltnes A man must not take therfor water of any salt kind of thing or alum or coperoos or of wyne lies but some of them that wee meÌ„cioned erewhyle But ther is nied of diligent triall in coÌ„firming a subtile meanes that such things which we haue serched oute so subtilly being surely confirmed first by experience and profe we may then deduce and bring them to the coÌ„moditie of man In dede I know that pigeoÌ„s donge and paritary ether th one or thother destilled by this meanes is able too breake the hardest stoone that euer was in any bladder But what that is whiche shall doo it and withoute damage a man muste declare by experieÌ„ce for both a hea goates bloud and a hares skin and glas ar much approued by reason Notwithstanding no one of thies perauenture alone but some of them toyned together and in a certain quantitie Suche a thing surely must be of metall or at least wyse chaunged to y e nature of metall I hard ouce that it was founde of a certain man of Ianua but lost again by his death who would make no man priuie to it nor teache it to any man But this once sure that it is possible to finde it and that this is the arte and science of the same Hitherto Cardane Perauenture also Chrysocolla would helpe vnto this art being artificiusly made and withoute sharpnes suche as is also praised of the goldsmithes wherfor to make Borace sum vse rain water destilled and milke destilled sum also hony marow c. I hard of late a certain practicer cured the stone of the bladdar in certain men with Borace mixt with burning water to the thicknes almoste of hony mingling also Tartar punned or a stone cut out of a man or the groundes of pisse out of a pispot He coÌ„maunded that a man shall vse this medicine by the space of fourtene dayes so that he should alwaye mixt some with his wyne when he dronk yea bothe at diner and supper I remeÌ„ber I haue red of certain liquores in which if a man put a stone or flint it should be resolued The Chymistes and destillers vse destilled vinegar and destilled vrine to resolue metalles They dissolue with strong vinegar chiefly destilled or with the iuice of limons perles egge shelles stones of the reines of the bladder bothe the coralles and thei afterwarde dryed ar quickly redily croÌ„med betwixt ones fingers Siluius I can not let pas here to speake of the water of Epiphanius the practicionar which is such Re. Antalis et dentalis boracis sarcocollae whyt corall whyte chrystall claye anessede rys meel of orobê° pursulan of euery one half an ounce Let them be made into trochiscos litle roules or balles with water of beanes made with muske The vse of it is for wemen to make their faces whyt and faire but the face must bee perfumed afore with water of a decoction of barly oates then let one baul be steept and coÌ„sumed in bean water and anoynt the face afore you goo to bed but in the morning washe it away with water of a decoctioÌ„ of beanes and bran and again with coold water If the bauls be made with water of limons they shal yet more beautify the face for limones roasted and anoynted vpon the face they alone doo beautify y â— face If a man drinke this water fasting and anoynt the place of his priuities wher hear groweth therwith it breketh the stone which is prouid by this that if a man lay Porcellanas in it the space of a night the next daye he shall order them with his fingers lyke warmed wax
Porcellanas men call certain shelles and also pretious earthen vessels I haue vsed the mo wordes in this to geue some occasion to muentiue physicions to thinke y e more diligently vpon this thyng ⧠Of the manifold vse of lyquors destilled both in physick otherwyse I Do perciue a manifolde vse of destilled waters but chiefly and most of all for physicions whiche vse suche stilled liquors drest aright both within the body withoute alone or with other medicines They mixt burning water and hoate oyles chymistically drest and prepared with oyntmentes ether that they may haue the better sauour or els to make them hoater and that they may perce the sooner thei put moyst linnen clothes in thies voaters to coole and refreshe the partes of the body specially the bowels the forhead the temples the partes about the armes hoat fyrie swellinges Surgeons vse suche waters as drye mightily to washe woundes withall But the most common vse of longe tyme hath bene in mixture of syrups to be dronke and to zulapia or iulebs chiefly of roses violets Ther be that make diuerse kindes of liquors and oyles alonly for the good sauour Glasiars also that paint glasse in baking in their colours thei do vse burning waters Goldsmiths vse aqua fortis as they call it whiche signifieth a strong water Of suche vse of lyquores as is to chaunge metalles and to diuers colours paintinges also to poysoninges to kil hurtful beasts hear is no place to speake Raymund Lullus wryteth of y â— marueylous vse and coÌ„moditie of burning water euen in warres a little before the ioyning of battaile to styre and encourage y e souldiours mindes But of the vse of burning water I shall speake moare in his place Yea also wher there is lack of good and holsome waters that a man can gette none other but such as be salt foule â—nhoalsome to make thies apt and miet to be dronke the science and arte of destillation is necessary Sweet water may be separated from the salt in a great caudron with a great and hie keuer hauing a beacke or nose ¶ A way to purge and make clean troubled waters out of Bulcasis FIll a great pot with the puddled water A putting a soft fyre vnder it B lay two sticks or mo a crose C vpon the pot brinkes and vpon the stickes lay cleane wol D wel washt theÌ„ whatsoeuer the woll drinketh of y e vapors that ascend vp wring it out and kiep it and doo thus aslong as any vapor or fume will ascende Ther be some that still troubled and pudly water as though it were Rose water Other clarifie it putting some vynegar therin or els amiluÌ„ or meel for thies thinges go dounwarde and drawe with them to the bottome of the vessell the grose mattier of the water ¶ Of Balneum Mariae generally and of those destillations that be done by vapors of hoat water and in horse dong HOat water or els y e vapour of the same send les strength into the thing that is to be destilled then other fyre alone or els suche other dry meanes as are meÌ„cioned before for y t cause as Galen saith Diploma that is a double vessell the Apothecaries as the men that still lyquors also cal it Balneum Mariae melteth heateth seatheth those thinges whose strengthes the violence of fyre wil not dispers nor separate so suche thinges as be tender and geÌ„tle if we will haue them hoal we must destill them in hoat water or els in the vapour fume therof Whiche although men thinck they be not so durable they be yet les altered from their nature as is manifest by their former smell You must haue a fornace A of this sor vpon the whiche you shall set a great brasen vessel B ful of water in that brasen vessel set litle vessels C in a circle as many as it wil receiue in the botome of the which vessels the thinges that you will destill must be put Other builde y e fornace A otherwise as though it were a toure and in the sydes thereof they put long earthen vessels B in their broad bottoms staÌ„ding inward they conteine the thinges that they will destill the mouth without as though it wer a bottell being couered C in the which y e vapour caried vp by his open bely gathered together and by the long mouth of the same droppeth down Syluius But why remayneth not the smell of certain floures in the waters but in Iasmin and y e floures of Cariophillum and leâ—is the water commeth forthe w toute sauour the reason is declared otherwher bycause y t vnto so sclender and thinne substaunce no substancial and thick parte is ioyned Ther for in thies it shall do well if vnto the leaues of herbes voyde of smell being put by course vnto a thicker mattier but not suche as wil burn a smell be ioyned and then destilled and this is y e onely hope to get forth the smell when as suche thinges as are infused and put in waters doo not giue again their smel but putrify Cardan It appeareth without doubt that those floures shoulde be destilled in Balneo Mariae or in vessels of glas in the vapor of hoat water Balneum Mariae may be hansomly made hoate with a great pype of copper A set in the midst in the bottome wherof is a grate for y e B ashes to auoyde at men call it communly a stowe harry Vlstadius nameth it a furnace of sloth Vpon that pype do they make a couer of copper G w t a small pype comming out a shore to cary and conuey the smoke out at a window or some hoale So doo they also make warme house flors nowe a dayes to bathe in The coÌ„moditie of this pipe D is then chiefly when a maÌ„ list to vse many stillatories putting theÌ„ in a rouÌ„d circle E a ten or twelue at once to spare time labour and cost Some vse brasen cupping boxes to still withall in the Balneo Mariae glassen limbeckes whose noses if they bee to short or broken they ioyne other to them of copper with clay The herbes y t be to be destilled in a bathe or otherwise some doo pun them and let theÌ„ remaine so a whyle perauenture for certain dayes befor they still them thinking to haue more plenty of water therby if they woulde doo it in closed vessels specially in a hoat place it wer well but the most apothecaries and other that sieke most for lucre gayne therby leue it in cold places in open cofers till the herbes lose theyr smell and bee corrupted with a moyst and gros aire Some there be that put some sande also in the water of Balneum Mariae to thintent the heat mai be the greater and more vehement as Mathaeolê° of Sena in y e water that is called aqua philosophica against the frensh pocks And he affirmeth that in such a kind of destillation there may be gotten a double water
the first more thin and waterye the other more read The water of Balneum Mariae oughte to be no hoater then that a man may suffer his finger in it Brunsuicensis Vlstadius prescribeth the destillation of a certaine kinde of aqua vitae in Balneo Mariae to be done with so slow a fire that a man may tell one two three vntil seauen before a drop fall Of such things as pertain to the commun wai of Balneum Mariae you shall reade more with in where we make mention of aqua Camphorae out of Bulcasis and of Rose water out of the same This waye of destillation in Balneo Mariae is vsed also to the rectifying as they terme it of oyles to draw and purge the fleame from them for only the waters and nothing els may be lifted vp and drawn out by the heat of the bath the oyle remaining stil in the bottome The chief vse of dong or as som term it a hors belly is such that the mater which is to be destilled in a glasen vessell set in the dong maye be prepared by the heat therof as we shall declare more at large in his place wher we shall make mentiō of putrifactiō and rotting It is possible notwithstanding for destillation to be brought to pas in y ◠same if ether pouerty or ani other impediment be that a man can not haue fire Of this kinde of destillation see more within wheras we entreate of the prepation to destill The heate of hors donge because of the lime that is mixt therwith Brunsvvick supposeth to excede in the middle degree the heat of Balneum Mariae If you desire to haue a water destilled of the fleshe of any beast you shall strangle the beast y t it bleed not in any wise then take away al the fat and shred the fleshe in small pieces and so destill it in hors dōg or with a soft fire least the waters stink or sauour of brentnes which is wont easelye to chaunce wherefore it is best to destill them twise Brunsvvick The parts of beast or excrements as blud the liuer the lights eggs gall and oxe dong oughte to be destilled in hors dong with vessels not very close stopt but hony and milk a man may stop thē close least the water stink But if it chaunce to stink euen thus ordred then let it be destylled again in Balneo Mariae specially the water of excre mēts of oxen whose first destillatiō is scarse foūd without stench Brunsvvick It wold frame better if a man put to a litle curtsy of salt in the putrifying or destilling of dong that they maye corrupte the lesse Certain excellent simple vvaters destilled in Balneo Mariae first of plantes then of beests Absinthium OF Worme wode water Iohannes Mesuae hath made mencion and of it and of Rooses only as the Munks that writ apon Mesuae haue noted that it is to be supposed ther is a certain excellent vertue aboue other in thies .ii. destilled liquors if they be rightlye prepared but as commun apothecaries maketh them the wormwode water lacketh all odour and tast as is said before If so be it anye man desire to haue this liquor moore strong let him stiep the wormwood dry in win and destill it in Balneo Mariae or if yet strōger in ashes But such as be destilled first stiept in any liquor the waters of thies now ar not simple but compound of the which we shal write hereafter seuerally Alsine WHiche commonly they call Morsus Gallen Hēbain the water destilled is geuē to infantes children diseased with the falling sicknes ether alone or with spring water Wemen comend it greatly and som say they haue tried it them selues I saw it of late ministred in vain But that when I tasted it had like to haue made me vomit perauenture because it was somewhat to old or els because it was gathered in leeden lembeks Caepa THe whyt Onion destilled breketh the stone Martianus Sanctus Cerasus CHery water of what kynd soeuer they bee is drunke against to muche heate is ministred with out y e body but particularly of sweet black cheries whiche also is commended of many against the palsy if it be poured into the mouth and the mouth be wel washt therwith that it restoreth the vse of the tung lost They destill the flesh of it alone or the kernels also beaten together that y e liquor destilled therof may entye out the stony matter of the reines and bladdar The black and sower ar called Visula they yeild a water holsome in agues both other and also pestilent agues whiche couleth and confirmeth the strengthes it is profitable also against thirst and bluddye flixe Ryffius The water destilled of the swiete blacke and freshe Cheries is maruelously cōmended of Remaclus F. of Lymburg Assone saith he as it shal be powred into the mouth of one sick of the falling euill alredy taken with y e fit the potion of it is .iiii. drammes or moor by by he reuiueth refreshed neither is he any moor drawen together with any cramp til in the ordinary tyme as it is the custome of it after a fewe daies an other fit come vpon him whiche when it chaunceth it must be powred in again for it letteth taketh away and healeth the fit Camphora water therof or oyll is thus made Take one of the vessels for Rose water that is called baten that is a bely fill it with the sticks or cips of pynappull tree whiche hath great and brood leaues and let it be filled Siluius taketh it so as though the roose water should be poured to the chips of the pynappull tree but me thinkes y t the vessell of rose water is simply named heer for a cucurbita or bely that it may be a certayn repeticion of the same whiche he had spoken before and let it be couered with a vessell hauing a nose then put the bely into a brasen vessell ful of water ouer the fyre till it begin to boyl for an oyll shall destill and yet they denye that oyll may be lifted vp by the heat of water subtill of a good odour whiche is called water of Camphora Or if ye list destill it in a fornace of rosewater the same way that it is destilled Bulcasis But Belluensis sayth that water of Camphora according to the Arabians saith he is a water that runneth out of the tre that bryngeth the Camphora which as his tree also is of a hoot nature in third degree so Camphora it self is cold Monachi in Mesuae Put three litle bies in the vessel of glas wher the Camphora is whiche shall so be turned into water Fragaria SStraweberies shalt y ◠putrify in a Vessell of bras perauēture salt may be put to it or sugar and destill them This water saith Lullus in his .ii. booke of quintessence is holsō and diuine It comforteth nature expelleth poyson prouoketh we mens flowers asswageth burning humors strengtheneth the conceiuinge
good man shoulde do well to moue the matter to the Magistrates that it mighte not be lawfull for Apothecaries other to prepare anye more or sell such waters partlye hurtfull partlye vnprofitable Bulcasis in dede vseth leaden bodies in destillinge of drye Roses whiche perauenture may be graunted for such waters as ought to be vsed only wythout the body Some find no faulte with vessels made of pure and best yron because no euill qualitye as they saye can issue thereoute into the matter or liquor and trouth it is that certaine metallye thynges as requyre to be destilled with a greate and continuall fyre seme to haue neade of so stronge vessels But of this let other men iudge I wil leaue the matter to Chymistes and destillers Berchile Bulcasis dothe call a vessel in a furnace for Rose water whiche receyueth the boylinge water deriued oute of an other standynge by it in the which vessel the body of the stil conteining the Roses is set Of Fornaces c. I Declared before and described two manner of fornaces meete for destillation by ashes and Balneum Mariae also oute of Bulcasis Heare wyll I trace oute and descrybe another manner of fournayce the vse whereof shall be dyuers but chiefly when as any thing is to bee destiled by a great fier so that no meane be betwixt the fier the cucurbite or pan wherein is conteined the matter that is to be destilled after whiche maner oyles or certaine liquors that burn the skyn and fleshe are gotten out of metals as aqua fortis c. The vse therof shal be also to sublimation and if a man will set a kettell in at the top vpon theyron cros then fill it with ashes or water and put clay about it he shall be gin what destillation he will But for aqua fortis or suche lyke he shall set a cucurbite or pan dawbed with clay by by right vpon the cros Yea this fornace may be made also vpon a strong borde of wode as I haue made my selfe that you may remoue it from one place to an other at your pleasure Therfore vpon a woden table you shall buyl a four square fornace of such bignes that it may be sufficient to set in a meane circubite The walles you shall make of bricke ioyned with morter very wel made the hight shal not muche pas two foote the walles shall bee abont a foote one from an other within Whan you haue made the harth or botome you must make a dore O. where as the ashes may bee taken oute whiche fall from the coales from the grate buylded vpon it If so be it that an other grate were made also for the ashes to fall thorowe and that lowest space to be somwhat dieper a man shoulde not niede to take out the ashes so oft and the fyer should be the more vehement Of slow Harry or the fornace of slouth that is a pype wherwith the Balneo Mariae is made hoat we haue written aboue where as we haue entreated generally of the Balneo Mariae The differences of coales shall wee knowe in Theophrastus but better of our own smithes specially goldsmithes and of the very experience it selfe Such coales as ar digged out of the ground are condemned forbidden bicause of their foule smell They are counted the best that are made of bieche or fir tree Dioptra or a litle skrien I call an instrument whiche some men hold before their face with their hand least the nyenes of the fier should hur them when it is nied to come nye a vehemēt fyer That is a thin borde with a slitt or carfe in the midst cut out ouerthwarth with a handle Lyquors destilled shoulde be kepte in glasen phialles with narow mouthes Let the mouth be shit with a stopple of wod or rather of corke and besydes that a man must couer it with wax and bynde a parchement about it also ⧠Hovve to close vessels and to defende them both with clay and otherwyse CLaying of a thing men do commonly say for y t which is to daub with clai to plaister to pariet Tothintēt we may the better kepe the smell and qualities of suche thinges as are destilled we must close diligently and ioyne together with clay the head with the body the tipe of the nose with the receiuer they call it commonly claying Some vse pure clay littered with ox heare some also temper it with lyme except I be deceiued Some mixt lyme and whytes of egges together when they haue nied of haste for then the morter wil be hard dry by and by some other wyse make clay of wisedome as they terme it The receiuer with the nose nedeth not so strong a kynde of clay It shal be sufficient to ioyne them with a certain quantitie of wax and halfe so muche rosen And for this purpose the commune vnpurified rosen of fyr trees will serue but you must clarifie it your selfe on this wyse as sone as it is melted with the fyer by and by let it be sight and powred through abundell of strawe Of the preparation of wax by strawe to clay withal reade Vlstadius chap. x If the head be not miet inoughe for the body but somwhat to big you shall put paper round about betwene it and the clay Without also wheras about any ioyntes there must clay be laide lay first moyst paper about it or els a linnen cloth and after clay it The morter to ioyne the cucurbita with the limbecke withall c. oughte to bee made wyth claye and heare and to be dry before fyre be put vnder Bulcasis entreating of oyl of tilestones The morter shall be the stronger if it be tempred not onlye with heare or woll but also with gotes bloud and the more also to be made with that is dros of yron beaten as is found aboute smithes in fields Morter for fornaces after what sorte it should be drest see within wher we teach to destyl by ashes Of Hermes seal that is of ioyning together the mouthes of glasen vessels with a paire of hot burning tonges softlye thrusting them together and how after they oughte to be opened againe reade Vlstadius cap. 20. Let the cucurbita also be fensed round about w t clay specially those that must abide the fire directly put vnder them and nothing betwixte and that twise or thrise and that the first crust be dryed before the next be laide on as when aqua fortis and oyle of Vitrial are destilled For the destillation in ashes there nedes no such mortering nor claying albeit if a man wil prouide for the worst considering the frailnes of the vessels speciallye where manye vessels are sette together in one fornace it shal be sufficient once or twise to pariet thē Those cucurbitas whiche they vse in Balneo Mariae specially when many are set together some men vse to put vppon them wollen cloth made mete for them lyke as it were hoose or cases They say glasen vessels
reade within amongst composed waters Iuniper beries also dry set in wine geue a very good liquor swiet smellinge but wormwode soked a few daies geueth a water very effectuall and most bitter and the more if it be destilled in ashes which both waies I haue tried Pelitory other fresh or dry is set in wine or vineger destilled or vndestiâ—led â–ª These thynges also sookte in burnynge water as I sayde do communicate theyr strength wyth it but I heare it is done muche moore effectuallye if the thynges be beaten at the beginnynge and myxte wyth the lyes of wine redye to bee destylled for of theese rather then of wine the men of our country draw Aqua vitae So also did one teache me in counsell as a greate secreate that Wormwode water and other maye be best made I haue not tried it yet Water of Roses wyth drye Roses is so made Pour water to dry Roses not more theÌ„ is sufficient to stiep them in then put them from thence into glasen cucurbitas or leaden and destill them by little and little This water shall be profitable in medicins and also to garnishing and trimming or to the smel Ther was a certain man put to one pound of dry Roses ten pouÌ„d of water and destilled Rose water indifferente good But thys is not done saue when a man hathe not newe to make Rose water of Bulcasis If the Roses whyche we call commonly incarnation Roses dried moystned with the vapor of hot water be destilled they wil geue good Rose water Syluius The water of the nux vomica or spueinge nut or the iuice gotten out with fire is like the water in colour not in smel or tast the chiefest remedy against poysoÌ„ Cardanus in his second buke de subtilitate And a little after If the poyson newly taken remain yet in the stomake the best kind of remedies be they that prouoke much to vomit stroÌ„gly milke lie oyle the water of the spewing nut I suppose he meaneth by the iuyce gotten out by the fire nothinge els but the water destilled thereof For he nameth water that is like it in colour not in smel nor tast which agreeth with destilled waters But when as the spewing nut euery whit is most hard and dry it apeareth that his shel must be sookt in some liquor as water wine vineger Aqua vitae I wold soke it rather in vineger whiche by it self resisteth poyson and is good to prouoke vomitting Waters destilled of new and fresh plaÌ„ts saith Brunsvvick ought to be preferred whiche if they can not be had ether for some other cause or because they be brought out of straunge countryes only dry as spicknarde lauander stichae scoenantum the hard time c. Thou shalt destill oute of them dry in this manner In the month of May euery yere before the sunne rise when it hath not rained the hole night the sky is fair thou shalt gather dew out of som medow ful of diuers kind of herbes and flours no watery ground nor wet nor in a holow place but rather vpon some hil if it be possible Thou maist gather it thus draw a fair linnen cloth sprede abrode vpon the grasse til it haue dronken much of the dew then wryng it out into some vessell and draw it again and fill it euer wringing it out againe til thou haue gathred inough This dew thou shalt destil thrise in Balneum Mariae and rectifye it also in the sunne that is in hot sand for the space of xl daies and kepe it a yere TheÌ„ what time of the yere so euer thou lakst liquor of dry herbes do thus Take as many herbs as thou list dried in the shadow the leaues being taken away and kepte apart by theÌ„ selues put them in a glasse and pour vpon them thrise so much water of dewe or at thre times so that first thou power on so much that the herbes be sufficieÌ„tly ouercouered with water and againe twis so muche Then set it in hors dung twoo or three daies still it and putrifie it againe so that it be thrys putrified and destilled by course in order This water surely shal be muche better then if a man as Bulcasis wryteth to one pound of dry roses or other herbes or floures shall put ten pouÌ„d of common water and destill it by and by A certaine cunning phisicion wryteth that if water bee destilled out of dry thinges after this forsaid maner sooke in dew not thrys only destilled but nyn tymes it shal be better water then if it were made of freshe and newe thinges whiche haue muche fleame in them The same affirmeth that dew nyn times destilled doth drawe out the vertues out of the herbes that be put in it no les then aqua vitae Hitherto Brunsvvick And in the dew it selfe also there is a certaine medicinall vertue as Brunsvvick techeth in an other place to be in the water therof destilled In the falling sicknes if thou make a cake of meale knod with nighterly dew of saint Iohn and bake it vnder the ashes then giue it to the sicke to eate thei say it wil make him hoal AlexaÌ„der Benedictê° Of quint essence of remedies QVint essence they name to be the chief and the heauenliest power or vertue in any plant me tall beast or in the partes therof which by y e force and puritie of the hoale substaunce not by any elimentall or sensible qualitie although it be not without qualities conserueth the good health of mans body prolongeth a mans youthe differeth age and putteth away all maner of diseases Of this first of al meÌ„ writ RaimuÌ„dus Lullê° although it wer vnknowen to al the physicians of his time nether written of in any booke nor tryed or gone aboute in any vse After him foloweth besides other Iohannes de Rupe scissa whome one certain man thinkes he flourished before Lullus as I writ afore I iudge they were both in one tyme Hieronimus Brunsvvick Philippus Vlstadius and perauenture a few other whiche writ sumwhat of the same Sum kind therof is simple as y t moste famous quint essence of wyne or Aqua vitae of chelidony or selandyn of mans bloud of strawberys of Antimonii c. Other ar coÌ„pounde that is wheÌ„ certain remedies ar put to sum quint essence now perfited y t it may draw out y t vertues of theÌ„ wherunto gold y t may be drunken ought to be assribed But here springeth a doute saith Cardane whether a man may make y e water teÌ„perat which thei cal quint essence It wil be as I shal proue of the nature of the firmameÌ„t that is a most pure thin substance moueable which by the mouing reteineth a temperat heat very muche therof This thefor is of power to coÌ„serue al strengths topro long life For being most subtil it mixith it self w t the first moistur pearcing the massy thinges separateth the excremeÌ„ts which be coÌ„teined therin And because it hath much
e fire or set it on fire with a candle it wil burne but not cōsume nor waste nether leue any sign of burntnes in y e cloth If so be it part of this water when the sun shineth hot be put in a dishe or boule and thrown into thair with a strinkle it will make a great cloude and thicke sodenly and mitigateth the heat of the sunne for a great space It stauncheth the floures of wemen it kepeth a man from sweating it stirreth vp the appetite it putteth away the head ache speciallye that cometh of a hot cause or by the heat of the sunne It vtterly staūcheth and putteth awaye cleane the Canker To conclude it hath manye and great vertues for it is medicinable in hot causes as Aqua vitae in cold Wherfore the vse therof is good in all agues as well hoat as burning agues in all hoat diseases and grieues of the eyen and head that cōmeth of heat also againste the irkesumnes and lothsumnes of the stomack for the diseases called Lupus and the fistula and the pain of the syde the heat of the priuy members through the act of generation and all diseases aboute thies priuy partes what hot causes so euer thei cum of And after the deliueraunce of wemen it is very proffitable if a cloth be dipt in it and laid vpon the wombe or mother the preuy place and vpon the place where the grief is if the grief be outward if it be inward then take some of it and mynister it by the way of a glister If ther be any fault in the stomack take of it morning and euening half an egge shell full ▪ If a mans yard be sore within let therof be conueied in by a pype for that purpose Against the obstructions and stoppinges of the liuer splene and other diseases of hoat causes wette a linnen cloth therin and lay it to the diseased syde thrys a day for it purgeth the bloud very greatly but you must take good hede that the cloth that is moystened therwith roole not vpon the stomack nor cum nye it A certain water in Raymund Lullus booke of waters semeth to be of the lyke operation which he describeth in this wyse A water compounded accordinge to the contrary of Aqua vitae Take whyte Camphora roses whyt pople and blacke lettis cichory porsulane violets Solanū or night shade maidenhear cymbalaris singrene vermicularis rostrum porcinum cardicellum The leaues that be to be punned let them be punned and destilled Of the extracting and dravvyng forth of all the vertues of Chelidonia or selandine by the whiche example euery man of any vnderstanding may vse to drawe out the vertues also of other planetes BY the quint essence of selandin Ioan. Brasescus thinkes sumwhat els to be allegorically vnderstāded as I declared before wher we entreated of quint essence generally Chelidonia Selādin saith Vlst hath innumerable vertues and the quint essence therof which we wil teache here to get out goeth to the making of potable gold or gold that may be drunck Selandine when it is moste rype take it with the herbe routes and floures cut it small beate it in a morter then put it in a cucurbitam or body of a still of earth glased when the body is ful shit it close and clay it round aboute then set it in now hors dung for the space of iii. weekes After put it in a limbeck and destill it in Balneo Mariae with a slow fyre and the fleame shall auoyde out of it Then shall you drawe out the dregges and when they are very fine ground vpon a marble stone put thē again in a cucurbita with a blynde lymbeck and let them stand in Balneo Mariae a seuennight or in hors dung mo daies Afterwarde the matter by litle and litle being couled put on a nosed limbeck and destill it in ashes according as in the .x. chap. of the separation of oyle from the earth we haue spoken and there shall issue oute a clear water conteining in it selfe aire and water Thou shalt separate the water from the aire in a new cucurbita by Balneo Mariae with an easy fire for the fleam shall ascende and the oyle remayne whiche thou shalt reserue and kepe Then shalt thou grynde the dregges agayne vpon a marble stone and power .iiii. partes of the fleam to one of the dregges mixt them and incorporate thē and let them stande in Balneo Mariae seuen days at the last thou halt destill thē in sand with a great fire and the fleame shall issue oute first then a radishe water or rather an oyle whiche is the element of fyre from the whiche thou shalte separate the fleame in Balneo Mariae as is before sayde But the dregges that left whiche conteyne nothinge els but earth must bee vrged with a stronge fyre and brought vnto lyme by the space of ten daies that is in a fornace of calcination or reuerberation or a very lyme kiln as I haue taught in the tenth chap. Then grynd them again vpon a marble stoone and sooke them in the fleame and lette them be destilled in a limbeck vntill you see in the matter lyttle whyte stoones lyke salt And this salt must againe bee dissolued with water out of whiche you haue destilled it and after you shall destill it again and againe so ofte vntill the earth chaunce and put away from it all vncleane and earthy colour be brought to a very whyte to the whytnes of wax and so it shal be rectified earth The other elementes also ought to be rectified so that euerye one bee destilled seuen tymes powring euery time the fleam to the aire and fier and after separating them as is afore said When as thou wilt do this an easier way dissolue euery elemēt with his own water by equall portiōs c. whiche I let pas bycause they are declared sumwhat obscurely There is also an other way more subtill to reduce euery element to his perfection or quintessence but it must be presupposed that euery element be first iustified Then let it be put in a vessel of circulation in hors dung or in Balneo Mariae xxx daies and then destill it againe So shall the very body as a gros matter be chaunged into spirite or moste subtill and pure substance Sum do it with more ease taking foure partes of earth and one part of one of the foure elements whiche a man wil and by digesting after the forsaid maner and circulating .xxx. daies they dooe chaunge any element into quintessence The matter is iudged to be sufficiētly circulated whan the quintessence swimmeth aboue the other matter Of the vertues of euery one of the liquors of Selandine The element of the water is good for al the diseases of the body both hoat cold It tempereth also al the veines about the hart and driueth all ve nom from the hart it cureth al the diseases that chaunce vnto the lunges It
purgeth the bloud and preserueth a man from all corruption of the natural strength and power At once it is good for all sicke men in what disease so euer they be The element of air like vnto oyle confirmeth and encreaseth the strength and beauty of yong persons if they vse it sometimes with meate for it letteth the bloud froÌ„ corrupting by any menes It burneth vp consumeth and expelleth all salte fleame it taketh away melancholy and all brentnesse of cholor The elemeÌ„t of fire if so much as a wheat corn in quantity be mixt with the best wine ye can get and poured into a sick mans mouthe yea if he be half dead it restoreth and refresheth al the streÌ„gthes of the body for it perceth vnto the hart and maketh it warme and expelleth all poysons and moist superfluities from the hart Lullus with the quint essence of wine mixeth a little drop of thys oyle to restore theÌ„ that are about to die and past al hope in that within the .xx. part of an hour Som draw out the quint essence froÌ„ Selandine an other way and shorter They cut Selandine together with the rote and flour in smal peces they wey it pouring wel water vpon it they sethe it til it be brought to the same weighte Then they pun it in a stone morter and when the iuyce is streined out through a linnen clothe and purged from the dregges they decoct and sieth the resttil it be ad consistenciam mell is as thick as hony After they put it in a cucurbita so that it be half full by destillacion in Balneo Mariae they gather y e water or fieme Then translating the vessel into ashes they receiue the aiery oyl wherupon when they se an other kind of oyl swim aboue the fyre being encresed they set vnder an other receiuing vessel wherin the element of fire is gathered Euery one of these liquors must be rectified that it may be mete for the medicins of mans bodi that is by the repetinge the destillacion .vii. times of the water or fleme in Balneo Mariae so y t at euery time the cucurbita be diligentlye washed made cleane from the dregges which remaine whiche ought to be mixt w t the element of th earth which remaineth in the bottome of the cucurbita after y e destillation of y e fiery liquor Likewise thou shalt rectify thair destilling it in ashes .vii. times mixting the dregs with th earth Afterward y e liquor of fire likewise The earthy matter in such maner as is said afore in the other fashion To these thinges thus dressed they attribute y â— same vertues y t we rehersed afore to euerye one of them which it nedeth not to repete onlye those thinges wherin they differ we wil rehers The waterye liquor of Selandine putteth away al heats poisons out of y â— brest It is good for the stoppinges of the liuer and lunges for it consumeth y e superfiuous humors fleme Ty coÌ„clude it deliuereth a maÌ„ within the space of .ix. daies free froÌ„ all infirmities The aierye liquor suffereth no blacke choler no bitter nor fleme in y e body to get y e moisture It encreseth blud destributeth it into all the partes of the body by his pearcing Wherfore they that vse this oyle do let blud the ofter If a maÌ„ be in ieoperdy â—f losing of an eie let him drop in a drop or .ii. therof euerye daye by the space of xxx dais it shal do him merueilus much good The firye liquor is muche more effectuous then the watry or aiery helpeth where they fayle It conserueth the youthe it maketh age liuelye and youthful it refresheth y e hart being receiued w t water of a kind of whete it is saide to be elipir of life Moreouer y e earthy matter rectified by dissolucioÌ„s coagulations ielyings calinatioÌ„s sub til salt of y e erth wherwith al metals may be turned into stone al spirits may be fixed hauynge radicable naturall moisture It norisheth lepre meÌ„ Of this y e auncieÌ„t philosophers made a stone which they called y e philosophers stone The maner to receiue y â— for said liquors within the bodi is thus Three drops of y e fire of SelaÌ„dine iii. sponeful of rosewater put to it a litle sponeful of y â— sanguin air y â— is the liquor of the air geue it to be drunken fasting if the disease be hot with wine and if the man be past .xxiiii. yeres of age geue it him w t Aqua vite In hot agues it ought not to be taken in no wise Al this writeth Vlstadius Of drawing out the four elementes from Selaudine and bay leaues reade also Io. Ganiuetus booke whych is entituled Amicus medicorum a frend and a louer of phisicions 4. chap. 7 Hovv quint essence is dravvn out of frutes as Appels Peres plummes Cheries Chestnuts c. out of Vlstadiê° WHen the friâ—te is small cut and stampte in a stone morter mixte it wyth the .x. part of common salt Then put it in a cucurbita with a blind limbeck and set it in hors dung as is said afore of mans blud c Oute of Floures herbes and rootes GAther the Plantes when they be well ripened in faire weather in the spring of the mone and when it is almost at y e ful wash them and cut theÌ„ very lmall beate them in a morter of marble with the tenthe part of salt and thou shalt sower them in a circulating vessel or blind limbek in hors dunge for y e space of a month Then shalt thou destill them in a nosed limbeck in Balneo Mariae encreasyng the first fire to the third degre TheÌ„ take the dregges out of the cucurbita and grineding theÌ„ very smal poure the destilled water vpon them againe and when they are putrified in dung again as before at the length thou shalt destil them deminishing the fire by the half degre Then grind the dregs again c. as before and when thou destillest theÌ„ again deminishe and lesson the fyre yet also by y e halfe degre The putrefaction also must alwaies decrease by the half degre that is to say like as in the second digestion it may be putrified by y â— space of one and twenty daies in the third .xiiii. daies in the fourth .viii. daies When the fourth destillation is done put it in a circulating vessell close aboue and beneth and large narowe in the midst with a short byl holow coming out of the vpper part of the nether bely looking vpward and let it be digested in dung or a bath with a fire of the first degre or els in y â— sun or in the dros of grapes by the space of a moneth The water shall be so muche the more precious y e oftener it is destilled And so hast y â— quint essence which not withstanding shal be the more effectual if thou shalt destil the water of the
herbes seedes or routes and poure it again vpon his owne dreges then digest it by the space of seuen daies and afterwarde destill it by ashes the very same way as it is sayd afore of selandin that euery element may be had seuerally and that rectified Of quint essence of mans bloud egges fleshe and hony HOwe quint essence is gotten out of maÌ„s bloud egges and fleshe reade Vlstadi ' the xiiii chap. They put vnto them the tenth part of salt wherwith they ar wel mingled putrified and destilled and that four tymes by cours first the one then the other and at length they are perfited by long circulation vntil they come to the moste swietnes of sauoure and pure fynnes of substance Lullus also in his first booke the .iiii. chap. mencioneth of quint essence but the printed bookes left out that that salt must be added vnto it It semeth that salt may ryghtly be added to the destilling of moyste thinges specially those that woulde easely corrupte suche as chiefly the partes of beastes are A moste precious water of Albertus magnus as I found it in a certain wryten booke Destill the bloud of a healthfull man by a glas as men dooe rose water With this any disease of the body if it be anoynted therewith is made hoale and all inwarde diseases by the drinking thereof A small quantitie therof receiued restoreth theÌ„ that haue lost all their strength it cureth the palsey effectuously and preserueth the body from all sicknes Tobe short it healeth all kyndes of diseases All be it I can nether allow the making of medicines for men of mans bloud whiche although reason and experience would moue vs vnto it yet religioÌ„ semeth to forbid it namely when there is so many other medicines c. Nether yet do I lyke the preparation of this Albertus water if it be his when as he wylles it to be destylled only once and simpely The composition that followeth hath more reason with it whiche I founde also in the same written booke Holy oyle or lyfe oyle bycause it preserueth the lyfe of man of Hevve Gordones wherewith he cured many mooste greuous diseases Three pounde of read bloud of a helthfull man or helthfull men of .xxv. or thyrty yeare olde Spermaceti the mary of neet of ether a pounde Lette them be destilled in a lymbeck well clayed and closed and a water shall issue oute first whyte the next pale the thyrde yellowe the fourth read and sumwhat thycke An oyle so destylled when the moone encreaseth and decreaseth therefore they name it holy If so be it then gyue a sycke man that hath loost boeth all his strengthe and speeche three dropes with a lyttle wyne he shall bothe speake by and by and be stronger If a man euerye daye drynke a drop of this oyle with a sponfull of wyn he shall become lusty in mynde and strong in body throughoute all his membres and shall proroge and put of age very longe and shall be hurt with no poyson It cureth also fistulas old breaches and temporall byles if they become sumwhat drye before with the washyng of wyne Anoynt freshe woundes therewith and it healeth them in three dayes It cureth the fyges or blaines of the fundament without and within It healeth diuers diseases the Leprosy the Morphew the Palsy and other if a man fastyng drynke a droppe of it with whyte wyne Many boaste muche of mannes bloud sublimated as a certayne man Bartholomevve de Montaguana made at Padua but surely he was ignoraunt howe to prepare it whiche if thou wylt vse make it on this wyse Take the bloud of sanguin yong meÌ„ vsing a good diet whyles it is newly letten and let it stande a whyle and put away the water that swymmeth aboue theÌ„ with a litle salt punned chauf it a good and put it in a vessell well closed and clayed after set it in hors dung fortie daies At the length destill it certaine tymes euer powring the water againe vpon the dregs At the last thou shalt haue a marueilous water which being mixt with sum zulapio ielup as we call it is wonderfull proffitable to them that haue the hecticall feuer It shal be y e better if after it be destilled you put it to stiep again in hors dung fortie daies A man may also mixt other holsome medicines for the hectical persones together with the bloud Gnaynerius To draw out the foure elementes from mans bloud read the booke of Ioh. Geniuetus called the friend of physicions 4. 7. Of mans bloud destilled simpely read Brunsvvick in the duche booke of destillacioÌ„s He writeth that this water and the water of mans excrementes and ordure if they be mixt together will bryng to pas certain marueylous thinges My hart riseth against suche medicines and abhorreth them Io. Bracescus is of this opinion that the olde wryters woulde signify allegorically some other thing that of metall when they speake of mans bloud as I recited before wher I write of quint essence generally Vlstadius in the .x. chap. of his booke called the Heauen of philosophers wher he teacheth how quint essence of wine is made euery element drawne out apart by him self And thys sayth he which is destilled in the seuenth time is called mannes bloude whiche the destillers chieflye searche and it is verye ayre This saithe he In deede the liquor of the aire whiche in the mooste parte of destilled thinges is oylye semeth to be called by the name of mans bloude for as much as our bodye consisteth of foure humors as elements wherof the blud is compared to air hot moyst somwhat fatâ—y c. But Ihon Brasescus mans blud is a certain metally thing so called of the color For the extracting and drawinge out of quint essence from honi which goeth to y â— making of potable gold read Vlstadius the .xii. chap. and .xxii. whereas he prescribeth also diuers waies to gather thre maner of waters and reherseth the vertues wherof he spake nothinge in the .xii. chap. declared to get out only two diuers waters Of quint essence of metals IHon Brasescê° in the dialog of Raimund and Demogorgon when he had affyrmed that quint essence whiche is profitable to the preseruacion and lengethening of mannes life can not be had of anye other thing theÌ„ of metals only he addeth at leÌ„gth When as accordinge to the opinion of the auncient philosophers euery metall after theyr simiâ—itude vertue name coloure and proprietie are coÌ„prehended in euery metall as it is plainly declared in the boke of the expositioÌ„ of Gebrus bokes therfore this our medicin also although it be extracted and drawn out of som one metal only yet neuertheles it shall haue the vertue of al metals and plantes and the vertue ouer the hole bodye of man to heale manye infirmities that be curable Ioan de Rupescissa speking of our radical and naturall moisture and of quint essence vnder the name of Aqua vitae wolde signify the
same for he saith that burning water doth conteine in it selfe the good vertue of all metals and that it is not the water of the vine but of life because it geueth life vnto men He that will knowe more of thys thing and more plainly let him read the dialoge of the same Brasescus wherein he expoundeth Gebrus Of the dravving out of quint essence from Antimonia lead white lead out of Vlstadius QVint essence of antimonio is thus made Incorporate and mingle the pouder of antimonii most finely beaten with most sharpe vineger destilled and let it stande til the vineger be tourned into a very red colour Then driue the vinegar oute and in a cleane vessell put other destilled vinegar vppon the antimonium and set ouer a little fyre till the vineger be colored â–ª This shal you repete so ofte till the vinegar will be colored no more So much of the vinegar as is colored thou shalt destill it in a limbecke in ashes Firste the vineger it selfe will run oute after thys thou shalt see a matter issue forthe of a thousande couloures and thys is that quint essence whyche is called of the Philosophers Philosophers leade and of some virgines milke it differeth notwithstandinge from it whereof shall be spoken here after saithe Vlstadius it is almoste like blessed oyle in coloure Put thys in a Pellican to be circulated for the space of fortye dayes It dryeth vp woundes and is profitable for all woundes in steade of Balme for it cureth all woundes easelye and quicklye it is merueilous good for all impostumes Yea also quint essence is extracted and drawn oute of leade or white leade after the same manner as out of antimonio pouringe destilled vineger vpon it that the vineger be ouer it foure fyngers deepe after let it be digested in dunge as it is sayde of quint essence of hearbes and floures Then let it be destilled and fyrste ye shall see the vineger it selfe ascende vp after that a certaine liquor like to oyle And thys also is called oyle of lead or quint essence of leade and it hathe in it a certaine swietnesse lyke â–ª as the oyle of antimonii It is good againste all burnynges wyth fyre and hot water as also againste itches as ringe-wormes and chollericke bladders But a manne muste noote that the white lead oughte firste to bee washed often with water of Rooses dreiuynge it by a linnen clothe vntil none of the pouder of the white lead remain in it Then wheÌ„ it is dried reserue it to your vse So doth Bulcasis Ioan of Sanct Amandus vpon the Andidotarie of Io. Mesuae wil to be done Of the drawing forth of quint essence out of diuers metals as golde siluer lead tin vitriol or coproos iron coper brimston read orpment yalow ocker antimonio and marchaâ—â—ta leaden who so listeth let him read in Lullius in his booke of quint essence The spirit or quint essence of vitriol is coÌ„mended of certaine men against the falling sicknesse and Apoplexia or the benumninge of the sences The spirit of gold against the diseases of the lyuer The spirit of â—irall againste the stone of the raines and bledder But of these and certaine other we shall speake hereafter amongste oyles of metals and otherwhere Of diuers kindes of Aqua vitae composed VVAters of life composed are proprelye called when as certaine medicins are stieped in the veri Aqua vitae and destilled together improperly when as they are put to after not destilled together Ther be also waters of vertue or golden as they cal theÌ„ when as the medicins stieptfirst not in Aqua vitae but in wine but of which we wil write hereafter certain of these haue many things commun w t those that we describe here sauing that they are les vehement and les hoat and drye Sum sortes of aqua vitae are commauÌ„ded to be made simpely putting the medicines into y â— aqua vitae other into aqua vitae thrys or foure tymes destilled Sum there bee also to whome a certaine tyme of infusion or digestioÌ„ is prescribed as xiiii daies c. Sum are put in punned in the beginning â–ª other hoal and broken after a certain daies fermentacion and stieping Sum are destilled on ly once other twys or thrys And sum only in Balneo Mariae other in Balneo Mariae once ortwys thirdly in ashes as that which Vlsta describeth xlvi chap. although there is nothing elles done but infusioÌ„ in wyne In the same authour .xliiii. chap. Aqua vitae is described to be destilled thrys the first water wherof is called Blessed the secoÌ„d Aqua vitae the third the mother of balm Againe the destillatioÌ„ of certain is repeted twys or thrys that the water first destilled be always powred again vpon his groundes or dregges as Vlstad teacheth in the .xlix. and .lvi. chap. Also sum are commaunded to be drawen out with a slow fyre in Balneo Mariae Other in the same with a strong fyre as the the water described in Vlstadius xlvi chap. Many tymes in the first destillacion only freshe herbes and freshe seedes are put with the aqua vitae and dry swiet smelling thinges spyces and other also hony is added after to the water drawen out of the herbes or seedes and then are they destilled again afterward amber moske and camphora put vnto it thirdly folding the limbeck euery fote with moyst clothes with the whytes of egges and bran together Reade Vlstad li. chap. and .lvi. Concerning the matter none almoste is composed without spices vnto diuers also swiet smelling herbes are added vnto some bothe the flowers and the siedes sumtymes also other destilled waters Also malmsey hony sugar figes To conclude vnto some hoale peces of golde I suppose it to be added in vain except it be queÌ„shed in the liquor But all thies thinges shall appeare more plain by examples Vlstadius described .xiiii. kindes of aqua vitae composed whiche we let pas because of breuitie shortnes We reade in Vlsta the .liii. chap. of aqua vitae with spices and hony c to be destilled in Balneo Mariae and an other lykewyse but without hony the .liiii. chap. Vlstadius describeth a certain marueilous aqua vitae in the .lvi. chap. First he bids to digest diuers freshe and new medicines in Balneo Mariae xiii daies in aqua vitae powred vnto them then to bee destilled in ashes with a slow fire After he addeth spyces and other dry thinges and bids digest theÌ„ xiiii daies and destill them again in Balneo Mariae Afterward he added camphoram rhabarb safron amber and mosch If so be it saith he thou wilt haue the water yet better put vnto it certain precious and costly powders or spyces of confections made of amber made of mosen made of precious stones c. and a fewe ducates of the fynest gold with halfe a pounde of sugar and thou shalt digest it three daies in warm water of Balneo Mariae
no hoope or verye lyttle of anye remeadye lette hym dryncke halfe an ounce of thys liquor and lyinge vppon a bedde couered moderatelye wyth clothes and tarye for sweate the chamber muste be cloose from any ayre entrynge in Wythin an houre and a halfe or there aboute the sweat wyll begin whyche a manne muste suffer and abyde iii. houres at the leaste it shall be better if they sleepe a lyttle more or .iiii. houres absteyninge from dryncke all the whyle and wypinge hys face euerye foote wyth a lynnen clothe After remouing the clothes by litle and litle and wiping the bodye when the sicke is risen let him eate sodden Barlye or a little meale of Oates broyled mixte wyth Vineger and Rose water or Vineger onlye whiche shall be mixt alway with his meate also for the space of a sennyghte For his drincke he shall take a decoction of Barlye with raisons and Licoris when it is wel couled let hym dryncke as much thereof as he liste Let him abstein from wine .iii. or .iiii. daies after let him put water to his wine Therefore when he hathe taken meat after swet let a newe bedde be prepared for the sicke man or suffer him if he be so disposed to tarye in a chamber but wythoute aire for the space of .iii. or .iiii. daies If so be it he perceiue yet anye inwarde heate by the menes of the sweate let him drincke the liquor destilled of coulinge thinges as wilde Poppye Mulberies or Blacke beries Endiue and Cikorye the floures of sambucus Eldar or Acetosa And if so be it while he sweteth the botch called authrax or bubo do rise as it chaunceth often times then thou shalt vse theese medicines Cut an Onyon on the one side make it hollowe and put triacle into it tormentil Dictamni diligently broken and punde in equall partes and put the cappe that you cut of the Onyon on agayne fold it in moyst towe then roaste it vnder the ashes by the space of .vi. houres then punne it in a morter and wrynge it throughe a lynnen clothe puttynge Vinegar made wyth Roose water vnto it then lay the moyst cloth to the place and as oft as it dryeth moysten it again If a man drinke once a moneth halfe an vnce of this liquor and sweat vpon it he shal be preserued It is very good also if a man hold a drop or twoo therof euery daye in his mouth in the morning Vlstadius in the .xlvi. chap. describeth an other aqua vitae commended both for the pestilence and for other diseases An aqua vitae or quint essence whose effect is redy and present against poyson specially lest by the byting or stinging of beastes described by Matthaeolus Senensis in his sixt booke of his commentaries vpon Dioscorides A pound of our antidotū now described the description wherof we let pas for briefnes sake a man may vse good triacle in the place of it or Mithridatū or an other effectuall antidotum and a pound of syrup of the barkes of citron mixt them with fiue poundes of aqua vitae so oft destilled till it cum to quint essence and put them in a cucurbita of glas as big againe as the thinges do occupy that is of .xiiii. poundes and when it is well clayed moue it moderatly softly so long till the antidotus be holly resolued mixt with the liquor So let it stand a moneth mouing and chafing it in lyke maner twys a wieke The moneth being ended power out softly by litle and litle the clere water whiche is ascended aboue the antidotus whiche is sattled in the bottom into an other vessell of glas and reseruith very well closed This liquor is so effectuall whiche I haue proued by innumerable tryales that if halfe an vnce therof be dronken with wyne or with any cōuenient water destilled or els alone it restoreth a man infected with the bytyng or stinging of any beast althoug he haue lost both his voyce and his sences and calleth him again to the great wondering of all mem For the moste parte also the humors nowe infected are auoyded by vomite The same vertue hath it against poysons which a mā hath reciued in meats or drinkes For y e strength of this liquor is so subtile and effectuall that euen in a moment and furthwith it peerceth al the vaynes of the body It healeth lykewyse also other many and diuers diseases as euery leerned physicion may consider by him self chiefly it resisteth the pestilence both by preseruing and also curing them that be infected This wryteth Mattheolus Aqua vitae for the diseases of the colike Take a great ale quart of aqua vitae rectified put therein half an vnce of cinamon .ii. or .iii. nutmegges cloues ii scruples all pund and let them stande a hooll daye when a water is destilled thereof in a limbeck of glas giue the sick man a sponfull therof Andro Furnerius Aqua vitae deuised by George Alapide Take cinamon cubebarum ginger nutmegges cloues galangal of euery one an ounce freshe sage .iiii. vnces wyn that is sublimated six tymes made of the best of the wyne not of the lyes as muche in weyght as all the rest that is .x. vnces Take so muche euery day of this water destilled in a lymbeck as a filberd nut wyll holde They saye that M. Gallus the physicion of the Emperour Charles vsed this and liued Cxxiiii yeares A moste noble water of vertues worthy to bee preferred before siluer and gold out of a certaine wryten booke Cloues cinamon maces galāgal zedoaria bay beries graynes of paradise of euery one halfe an vnce Peny royall sage hyssop rue betyny ceri folii camphorae serpentine or dragons of euery one half an vnce Inniper beries fenell sede percely sede the seede of aquilegiae withy of the mountaynes the flowers of costi the seede of apii of the herbe called paralysis castorei of euery one two drames Destill all thies in wyne for the space of .xiiii. dayes then dreyn the wyn oute and grynde the spyces then mixed againe with wyne and let them stande .viii. dayes then destyll them and at length cast in a fewe sage leaues freshe They asscribe the same vertues euery one vnto it whiche we mencioned before in waters of vertues and .xx. seuerall vertues or ther about ar asscribed to sum one of them The conseruation of health the restoring of youthe and other whiche also ar ascribed for y t most part to simple aqua vitae A certain kynd of aqua vitae is commended in a certain booke wryten against the leper and pestilence in the composicion whereof Fumetetrae the les netle the leaues of bedegnar let them bee stieped in wyne in Balneo Mariae a moneth then let them be destilled casting into them also a dram of gold beaten to pouder Afterward put to destilled wyn decocted and sodden with peper that there may be equal porcions of both liquors whiche ioyned together and stieped eight dayes together in
merueilous and innumerable against al colde diseases It is made in this wise c. he describeth streight way the maner of destilling biserpentins as they call them he addeth also other thinges which all do agree with the simple Aqua vite in so much that I suppose the boke to be corrupted by the fault of the Printer VVhat medicines be mixt vvith Aqua vitae without any destillation first within the body then without MAny times instrumentes time or cost faileth a man that those medicines whose strength he wold haue in his aqua vitae as though it were by a certain metempsy chosin y â— is a transposinge of the soules or principal vertues he can not mixt them with it by destilation whiche onely waye is the chief and best of al other to mixt thinges together for both by disgestioÌ„ as though it were a preparation in a moderat heat first one mixture is made then in destillation twyse as muche first of the vapours by the least and moste pure partes of the spirites then by dropes when they gather together into water but circulatioÌ„ is it that bringeth a perfectnes and absolutnes to all mixtures and without doubt no mixtur that men deuise or inuent can more properly and ny imitate the naturall mixture whiche is plain by this argument taken of the ende and effect for thinges prepared in this wyse and mixed do les corrupt then by any other meanes and hauing gotten a certain moste simple and moste pure substaunce that they seme to the sence to be simple and of an airy or a fytte substaunce they attain vnto a certain incorruptioÌ„ as nye as may be This is euideÌ„t loke how much any thyng shall haue the partes wherof it consisteth les exactly and throughly mixt so muche the nerer it is to corruption whiche first and chiefly in those bodies that are called metâ—ora that is thinges bred on hy in the firmameÌ„t moreouer in many other thinges mixed ether by nature or by arte is easy to be vnderstanded But for so muche as in so diuers states of men sum for one hinderaunce sum for an other thei can not alwayes folow that whiche is best if quint essence can not be made at the least the second or the third or as many as may be let the destillacions be repeted with a slow fire for any mixture is done better by litle and litle and slowly then sodenly and violently And if a man can not destill together with the aqua vitae the medicines whose strengthe he desyreth to mixt with it yet at the least wyse let them be broken and stiept a whyle in it for it draweth vnto it the vertues of all thinges that are put in it There is a booke of Arnoldes de villa noua or rather of Rogerius whiche I haue written wher in is declared particularly to what diseases and sicknesses what medicines ought to be put to sooke into aqua vitae for euery part of the body which he doth attribute to the twelue signes of y e zodiak It is well knowen in many ages hitherto that gentian is the best preseruatiue against certaine moste greuous diseases and poysons but sum vse to power the pouder of the same with burning water as muche more effectual into the throotes of beastes whome they knowe or thinke to be hurte with poyson in their meet or drinke or els by byting or stinging and if gentian can not be gotten the burning water by it selfe To the remedy of certain sicknesses of man specially of the bulke or brest apomeli may be put for both certain men couÌ„t it otherwise for dainty to haue apomeli mixt with burning water also a toost of breed mixt therwith many take for a breekfast A maÌ„ may also against diuers sicknessess giue men to drinke the water of gentiaÌ„ artificially destilled with wyn mixt after with apomeli or swiet hypocras Wormwood wyn most excellent sum make on this wyse they power to the leaues of wormwod specially when it is dried the best burning water and so much malmsey Of this they take a little sponefull and mixt with a litle draught of wyn so giue it to drinke So is it made by and by and effectually and is long preserued I my self gaue it once to drinke for the colick and had good succes The same meanes a man may vse also in other as wel herbes as spices c. For both the vertue is drawen out so in a short space and the drink is also the more plesaunt and besides that it may be kept long inough Grien aqua vitae Take Melissa called baulm balsamita dried both in the shadowe of the first .iii. vnces of the other two vnces put them into .iiii. poundes of aqua vitae destilled fowre tymes in Balneo Mariae eight daies then vse it ether alone or mixting with it other kyndes of aqua vitae composed to comforte the stomake The herbes must bee dried in the shade that the colour may bee made grien and moste beutifull For if a man dry them in the sun the water shall proue darke as the iuice of any other herbe Vlstad lvi chap. A man may also dy it with other colours whiche may encrease both the grace of y e coloure and the strength of the medicin as with saffron with red or yallow parsnipes dried Sum put to it in summer black sower cheries whereby also the tast is made more plesant and the heet is les perauenture moor asswaged Sum put into burning water mint cut beaten and set it in the sun foure daies or fiue then sighe it and set it in the sun again With this they wiet the tip of their noos against corrupt and pestilent ayre ¶ Hereafter will I put the vse of burning water with other medicines without the body Many mixt a litle burning water with hoot oynmentes as Martiatum Arragon dialthaea at suche tyme as they should vse them and wil them so to be annoynted vpon the griefes A water that norysheth and restoreth the heat of the brayn wherewith the head is to be rubbed Two vnces of aqua vite Moschocarium Cloues maioram cubebe long peper of euery one halfe a dram When they are pound mixt them and rub them vpon the head a certain space Sum put to it a scruple of euphorbium Epiphanius a practicioner other put to other smellinge and hoot things as sage six vncees rew ginger graynes of paradys cinnamum flowers ot rosemary the bark of a citron of euery one half an vnce an vnce of oyle de bay a dram of spik a dram and a half of castoreum And in a destilled liquor they hang mosch amber of ether of theÌ„ a graine Thys they say is good to annoynt the hed and also with the smell it putteth away the palsy and apoplexia A merueylous water of the same mannes for the impostumes or botches of the priuye members Three yolkes of egges hard rosted and cut small pun them in
sick of the phthisik it auoydeth the stuffed stomack it breaketh the stone in the reines it separateth and putteth away the watery humors of the splene it helpeth forwarde the flowers if it be drunken nyne daies together in the morning and purgeth the bely Also it purgeth al choler and corrupt bloud It heleth all woundes within the bely it clereth the sight it cureth poysoned bytings to the healing of woundes the pouder of centory also ought to be put vnto theÌ„ Lulliê° in his boke of waters Certain at this day stiep dry routs of geÌ„tian in wyn destil a most effecual water therout The sage and penroyall of ether lyke much when they are beten in a morter destill theÌ„ This water heeteth a man that is ouermuch cold WheÌ„ it is soden with castorium as oft as a maÌ„ drinkes it so many daies it prolongeth his lyfe vntyll the tyme ordeyned of God Nether is it possible for any man to be so greatly couled but if he drinke it with castoriuÌ„ nyn daies he shal be perfectly made hoole Drunken fasting it remoueth the disease of the bely all gutta scabbidnes it maketh good bloud the best colour in the face It is profitable to many other thinges drunk .iii. a day Aegidius A water of iuniper beries stiept in wyn whyles they be newe is destilled I soockt dry beries in wyne wherupon I had very good and swiet lyquor when they were destilled The routes of the flowr deluce beateÌ„ ar stiept in whyt wyne .ii. or .iii. daies and then destilled But the routes of any herbe a man will which are vsed in physick or may be vsed if they be cut small and stiept a certain daies in wyne they yeld a water of the same vertue force but more pure and subtill c. A man must put les wyne to new routes then to dry and perauentur les also to theÌ„ whiche ought to refrigerat and coule or els moderatly to heat wherfor we shall destill the same rather newe and freshe then dried to thintent they may nede y e les wyne or els if new can not be gotten we shall stiep the dried rather in water or in sum other conuenient liquor sumtimes vynegar specially if it be to be vsed without the body Gualterus Riffius reherseth the routes that bee stiept in wyne to bee destilled as hereafter followeth Garlike Angelica whiche sum thynke to be our Alexanders that is sowen and the other that is called water angelica arum hollow aristolochia as they call it coÌ„munly in Germany asaruÌ„ or asarabaccha bistorta bryonia carlina dragones eryngium hibiscus hirundinaria flowre deluce inula Sorrell Lilies Meu or yalowe caret Piony Parsnippes Petasita Pencedanum Pimpernel or rater Saxifrage PolygonatoÌ„ PyretruÌ„ coÌ„moÌ„ radish wild rapes rubia or rubea satyricuÌ„ Scrofularia the bigger Symphytum the bigger Valerian Here whyles he asscribeth to euery one his vertues he makes a hoole booke When as notwithstanding he bringes none other vertues then suche as be attributed to the medicines them selues alone and that before destillacion whiche if he had toucht with one word at the beginning it had been sufficient And truly I maruell seing he wryt forth his bookes with suche earnestnes and endeuoured by all meanes to augment his thinges vnto a huge greatnes why he left out other many routes yea rather why he rehersed not all that be in any vse of physick euery one with his vertues repeted and that he did it not I suppose he lackt no will but remembraunce hinderd with hast The wyld radyshe whiche communly they call the byggar cut small and stiept in wyne a certain daies I wold thinke it would giue an effectuall stilled liquor for it wil lose easely his byting tartnes and leue it of in the liquors wherin it is stiept in so much that euen certain swiet routs as Parsnipes sooked together with them in vinegar becum more tart the slices of Radish leue their tartâ—es Against the stone it may be stiept in vinegar together with the rout of percely and anyse sede c. and to be destilled in asshes The rout of Pyretrum fresh or also dry beaten and stiept in wyne is destilled or also for touthe ache and to cause one vomit vp fleume in vinegar other new or destilled as Riffius teacheth A profitable water againste rottennes of the tethe Mixte the rotes of Pyretrum beaten small with the best wine ye maye get and make a mixture that may be like to Aqua vitae composed WheÌ„ ye will vse it taste a sponefull holde it in youre mouthe in the morninge or whan ye will for ye shall perceiue remeady shortly It healeth weke tieth corrupted holow it pourgeth also and cleareth them It is good also for the putting awaye of all kind of rottennes or vnclennes to auoyd it by spitting one nameles A water against the falling sicknes whereof ii or .iii. sponefull oughte to be geuen in the verye fitte communicated vnto me verye latelye of a frend The water of Angelica which a man mai stiep first in good wine a .iii. daies and the water of Lauendula in equall portions mixte them and geue vnto the pacient Of wine and milcke destilled together it is wrytten before amongste the symple waters of beastes Certaine composed vvaters to be destilled other of the medicines by them selues or wyth well spryng water oute of the treatise of Rogerius 4. cha 6. A Water drawne oute of the leaues of hisop leuisticus sauery Horhound inula the floures of floure deluce and that trifolium whyche beareth many flours about the bignes of a gaule nut whose floures if they be sukt they geue a swiet iuice It dissolueth fleumaticke humors of the brest or chest it fineth the spettle furthers it and breakes it A water destilled of gum Arabeck white tragacanthum lycoris violets Malowes put in water and then destilled It represseth the heate of the brest and correcteth the drines A water of Plantaine quinqueruia Tormentill and Roofes if it be drouncke wyth hote wine it closeth the woundes of the brest of a hot cause and altereth any hot distemperance A water drawne oute of the leaues or floures of white or blacke Iacea Verbafcum Roses sauin the houked burre it amendeth the cold imtemperature of the cheaste and consumeth the fleumaticke humoures and the woundes of the cheaste comminge of a colde cause it healeth them and closeth them A water destilled of Minte Betain Melissa Balsamita Sauerye Sage Serpillum Polium Peny royall hasta regia of the leaues of euerye one it healeth the infirmities of the heade and stomacke comminge of a cold cause it stauncheth the flixe of the belly comming of the same cause it helpeth concoction A water of the floures of Violets and malows altereth and louseth Of vvaters of vertues or golden waters and certain other composed of many medicines destilled with wine WAters of vertues which the Germans name golden all are destilled
with spices and odoriferous herbes specially sage which semeth to be a foundacion in these waters composed put first a fewe dayes into wine they are in more vse to bee ministred without then receiued within the body specially to the comforting of the spirites with their odour and against the head aches c. Some bid simplely put theÌ„ in wine other in a vessel wel stopt som in a tin bottle set in a wine seller in hors dounge in Balneo Mariae in the sun in chaf or chopt straw in lime wherunto raine water must be sprinckled in a bottell Waters of vertue Guatlerius Ryffius in hys booke of destillacions describeth verye manye with burnynge water composed but verye fewe with spices and other medicines stieped in wine whyche not with standynge they seeme to be preferred where the diseases bee lesse greuous and the bodyes more drye and niâ—de lesse heate They are also made wyth lesse coste and sooner And a manne maye in theese also gather foure kyndes of waters differynge in vertue of the whych I would most chiefly allow the myddle For thys is truthe Aqua vitae commeth oute out more pure at the beginning of the destillacioÌ„ aboute the last end it runneth somwhat watery Of spices and gummes the parts that are more moistened ascend first the hotter and the drier folow which eueÌ„ the colour comming nie more and more vnto red declareth Moreouer they smell of brentnes and in tast they are les swiet plesant But without the body they are ministred effectually c. But a .iii. kinds of water is gathered better of dry spices and medicines only rectified not in wine but burning water which hath no manner of fleume more in the which likewise I wold chuse the midst With waters of vertues some also mixte well smelling sedes prouoking vrin and fenel violets parsly saxifrage mastik pomum araÌ„tium besides spices and odoriferous herbes sage costum rew sothernwod serpillum the lilly of the vally Thys is asscribed to one Arnold à Parisian There is without all dout a diuersity bothe in the kyndes of spyces and also in the number and weight Som vnto diuers spices as cloues nutmegs cinamoÌ„ of euery one half an ouÌ„ce wherunto other ad zedoaria galingal loÌ„g Peper grains of paradise of euery one .ii. drammes put as muche sage and Lauendula that the weighte of them ioyntlye maye counterpoys the weight of the spyces c. Three or foure droppes of thys water they counsell to mixte wyth the wine that menne dryncke at meeles or els mornyng and eueninge to be druncke seuerallye wyth a little wyne This water clereth the sight as they say confirmeth the brain and goodnes of the wit putteth away palsey maketh the face whyt and bright cleÌ„seth the skin and doth many other thinges Sum in the moneth of May or June when sage and lauender bee in their force take halfe of this sir vnces of the othe other twys as myche cut it small They put to it Cloues Ginger nutmeg mace graines of paradys cinamoÌ„ zedoaria galingall rosemary of euerye one halfe an vnce they be et them and when they are put in wyne they destill them This water they say is better at the .iii. yeres ende then at the first It hath all the same vertues whiche we reherseth before one by one to the number of the .xx. in an other water of vertues They say a certain Iew was the autor of this description who attributeth all thies vertues vnto it A maruelous water and of muche vertue Cariophyllata ginger rosemary in equall portioÌ„s put them in good wyne eight dayes and after destill them as aqua vitae It is good for the aking of the brest for a weake stomack for the griefes and gnawinges of the bely It killeth wormes in the body and bowelles If a man that is sumwhat gros desyreth to be made slender let him drinke this if any lean man desire to be in better plyte let him drinke it with sugar A water of vertues Sage Lauender rosemary carui and diuers spices when they are cut or pund thou shalt stiep them in very good wyne put in a bottell of tin whiche thou shalt hyd all ouer it vnslect lym .xiii. dayes and sprinckle vpon the lym rain water afterward thou shalt destill it lyke rose water In the heed ache thou shalt laye a linnen cloth wet in this water to the browes and forehead An other good and notable water Sage a pound and a half nutmegs ginger cloues graynes of paradys cinamon of euery one an vnce a half let theÌ„ be putrified in moste excellent wyn after the accustomed maner Then let the spyces be beaten and then de stilled hooll together Sum ad moreouer the flowers of borage red roses the barck df citron wode of aloes of euery one half an vnce in the best wyn whose weight shal be six tunes as much as the other let them be sookt .xiii. daies then when the wyne is dreyned out they beete the spices diligently in a stone morter and mixt it again with the wyne and they ether destill it by and by or let it stande yet a fewe daies Other put also halfe an vnce of newe and freshe sage I lyke better dry into the vessell that receiued the destilled water Thies vertues are sayd to be in it first It keepeth all kynd of fleshe fishe and other meates that it is sprinkled vpon sound and swiet from all maner of corruption with his own sauour and taste .ii. It amendeth all faultes in wynes as when they be troubled ar hanging or smel foysty or be otherwyse corrupted if a litle of it be dropt into it By this meanes thei recouer their taste and colour sum within seuen daies other within one neither corrupt they afterwarde any more nor yet is the remedy any thing perceiued .iii. Being sprinkled vpon spices it conserueth their force smell .iiii. It breeketh inward impostumes purgeth them downward before they cum to matter .v. Lykewyse outward impostumes if it be anoynted vpon them it openeth and breeketh them maketh them to run out and at length healeth them .vi. It cureth the blemishes or fautes of the eyes as blerednes bothe running and dry and wheales spottes or whyt skines or the web if it be stilled and dropt in moderatly with a fether .vii. What so euer groweth in the face besydes nature and maketh any suspicion of the beginning of the leper anoint it with this water with a fether it is made hoole .viii. Being drunke it cureth al inward diseases .ix. Also y â— faults of the liuer splen bowels bealy It taketh away al il humors bred of rawnes in y e stomack .x. It separateth quick siluer from trew siluer .xi. It heeleth al maner of wouÌ„des throughly that it is anoynted vpon also dry strokes beatinges the smellinges that cuÌ„ therupon .xii. It driueth away the dropsy being drunk anointed vpon the grief also the yelow iaundis .xiii.
half of the sede of Darnell for the space of .ii. daies let them be destilled An other causing slepe Take the seede of Darnell a pound half a pound of the sede of Henbane ii poundes of the sede of Purslan iii. vnces of the sede or rote of Mandrag as muche of Alkekengi wheÌ„ they are pund pour to theÌ„ a pouÌ„d of y e iuice of benes turned vp set down as much of the rotes or leues of Henbane half a pound of the iuyce of the leaues of black popy or if it be lacking or red minister an ounce of this water when it is destilled It is vehement and of great vertue A water called stony y e third of Aegidiê° becaus it breketh y e stone The sede of Pimpernel Petroselini Apii Ari otherwis Caryophylli Musterd sede leuing out Aro the bur also Apii bothe the herb the rote for the sede is named before burs Mastiches of eueri one like much wheÌ„ thei ar wel puÌ„d let theÌ„ be mixt w t the blud of a linx otherwis a he Gote better a little Vineger poured to it let theÌ„ stand a few daies in a vessel wel closed and theÌ„ at the last let them be destilled It is good for theÌ„ that be troubled with the stone what manner of stone so euer it be red white sharpe or plane if so be it the stone be confirmed gathered to some streÌ„gth let the pacieÌ„t drink of this water eueri dai for so shal it be brokeÌ„ brought into saÌ„d If so be icabd heds be washt once a day w t this water thei shal be made hole new heere 's shall spring the scabs shal be cured within .ix. dais otherwise any kind of scabs washt therw t is made hole w tin .iii. or .iiii. dais If it be droÌ„k fasting it maketh good blud good colour more theÌ„ any other medicin merueilouslye it strengtheneth the sinewes and taketh away the falling sicknes if it be druÌ„k twise a day Otherwise is added It heleth clene y e palsy if it be not dead in y e meÌ„bres Aegidius Lullê° An approued vvater for the sores of the raines and bladder by the cardinall of Tutellis CAudae equinae plantain red roses the grains of AlkekeÌ„gi the rotes of holy hok shauen or scraped licoris of eueri one an vnce IuiubaruÌ„ SebesteÌ„ of ether of theÌ„ .vi. draÌ„s bol armoniak half an vnce iiii cummen sedes could great cleÌ„sed of euery one .iii. draÌ„s the sede of white popy .vi. draÌ„s half an ounce of cytoniorum of the thinnest of gotes milk .vi. pound Let theÌ„ stand .ii. daies in the infusion or soking and after let them be destilled Geue the sick to drinck .iiii. vnces warm so longe as the disease continueth Epiphanius Empiricus An other water composed the second amongst the waters of Aegidius it is red of also in y e booke of Lullus of waters Rue Satyrion with y e hauds and stones Selandin otherwise Rue Agrimony Satyrion Chelidoni Suger otherwise Tutia the stone called Calaminaris al of like weight puÌ„d must be destilled with a slow fire This water excelleth in many vertues No disease of the eyes is so obstinate and great but it wil vanish awai and geue place to this medicin Being drunke it dryueth away all poyson other taken wyth meates for so it auoydeth the poyson by vomit It cureth y e dropsy it purgeth the stomak from al ill humors it quencheth y e holy fire in one day if flax dipt in it be laid vpoÌ„ y e sore It is good also against y e fire of a blak disposicioÌ„ white without or as a certain Dutch boke hath against y e inward heat of y e fire for if it appere red w tout it shal in no wise be conuenient to lay on a plaster It healeth the canker if aloes be mixt with it and a little towe of hempe dipt in it be laid like a plaster vpoÌ„ it twise a day A water composed the fyrste amongste Aegidius waters HIssop peny royal Charyo Cikory of euery one a draÌ„ let them be puÌ„d destilled After take tutiae persly of Alexan. Rue Zedoaria aloes the stone called calaminaris of euerye one a dram when they are pund sieth theÌ„ in y e forsaith water till y â— third part be wasted the liquor streyned with a cloth thou shalt kiep it in a glas diligently closed nyne days otherwyse .xl. Afterward let it be giuen in drink euery day in the morning before day other wyse by the space of .x. daies to the sick fasting It is proffitable against the falling sicknes if he that takes it continue fasting after it six houres And truly it is a moste effectuall remedy It heeleth al resolucion of the sinewes and the members are strengthened therby If it be drunck with Castorium it is good against all goutes whiche hath not taken rout yet in the members If it be drunk ix daies together fasting it puttes away all maner of agues what matter soeuer it cum of if it be drunk .ix. daies euery morning early This water is also moste profitable to wash wouÌ„des in which the sinues are cut An other of Aegidius the .ix. in number otherwyse they call it double The siede of Apii the sied of whyt Popy Apii ginger otherwise The sied of Apii whyte Popy sugar Carioph of euery one equall weght Pund in a morter put to it conseruatiue water that is destilled of persely and destill it This is the chiefest remedy for the cough and brest ill at eas If a man drinke it coulde fasting and in the euening as hoot as he can If it be drunken hoot with Castorio it is good against the disease called Apoplexia it healeth also the meÌ„bers sicke of the Palsy if so be the Palsy be not deed in the meÌ„bers It bringeth sliep rest easly it chereth all the members it driueth away il humors and strengtheneth the heed and the brayne An other the sixe in number amongst Aegidius waters Gladiolus Hyssop Sauin Sothernwood otherwys the sied of Sothernwood leuing out Sauin I like it not of euery one lyke much beate them together and let it stand a certain daies theÌ„ destill it This water is of greet streÌ„gth It with standeth all agues both hoot and cold It prouoketh wemens floures if it be drunk thrys but it is hurtfull to wemen with chyld and will destroy it It stauncheth the bluddy flyx and other flyx I would say rather that it styreth bloud rather euery where then to stop an other booke speeketh of nothing but stopping the flix of the bely It purgeth y e stomack froÌ„ ill humors It killeth worms being drunken fasting it cureth al the grief with Castorio it heeleth the palsy if it be drunke daily very hoot within .iii. daies The same descriptioÌ„ fynd I in the booke of Lullus of waters A vvater agrinst the Pestilence c. of the bloud of a Wether or gelded Ram out of a certain Duche
saye of the salt with the which being burnt together y e golde is purged or with .ii. parts of the salt and one of Schistum kepte in an earthen pot and tempred wyth water annoynted vppon the face it healeth the disease beginning in the chin called Lichenes or like foul breakings out which shal be conueniently washt away with Beane meale It healeth also Fistulaes and they that be called Hemorods If so be it when it is beaten Spuma be put to it it amendeth corrupt and stinking biles and sores Decocted with hony and Melanthio and annointed vppon the nauell it lightlye â—oseth the bellye M. Varro saith it healeth wartes Here in the first woordes the ashes kepte and annoynted no man can doute but he speketh of ashes but that which foloweth of decoction and annoynting seme to be long to the gould it selfe But in my indgemente ought to be red so that those wordes decocted and annoynted be referred vnto the ashes as bothe the consequency of the text also the maner of the medicins do requyre For salt is vsed of phisicioÌ„s Diascordes other agaiÌ„st Lichenes ringworms itches against al maner of vucums red inflaÌ„macions tetters and broyled or parched with hony against running cankers c. The men of our country rub children warts with salte and soute And alum as Plini saith asswageth rotten sores and biles with fat the frettinge cankers of biles with vineger or burnt with as much in weight of gals with .ii. parts of salt in which maner of proportion also it is mixt for to purge gold the diseases that sprede abrode Moreouer by the name of Spuma which signifieth fome Plini vnderstaÌ„deth HalosachneÌ„ as also the. 31. of y e. 7. I find nothing noted by Hermolans or Gelenius vpon this place But as gold is purged w t alum so is also Misy as the same Plini witnesseth 34. 12. bi an other menes w t quick siluer rede Plini 33. 6. That it may be purged it is sod with leed the same 33. 3. An other way to pourge the same Cardanus describeth in his .vi. boke of subtilty Potable gould Take the hony combes of a swarm of yoÌ„g bees wherwith thou shalt mixt ambraÌ„ griseaÌ„ Sperma ceti AgallochuÌ„ loÌ„g peper Cariophyllos nuce moschata sauÌ„ders pure gold Let these staÌ„d in hors doÌ„g 30. dais After destil theÌ„ in a limbek in y e bath then grind y t mater y t is remaining vpoÌ„ a stone pour again vpoÌ„ it y â— water destilled destill it again in ashes This water dissolueth gold If the potable gold be hardned take of it y e bignes of a pees put it into an egge hard rosted y e yelk takeÌ„ out so shal it be resolued geue the sick this to drinke it strengtheneth by it selfe an author whose name is not exprest The chymistes make a lyquor of massy gould whiche drinke as they say cheereth the body George Agricola It lyketh wyse men that to eate meat drest in vessels of gould or with the decoctioÌ„ wherof plaites of gould were adioyned and to drinke wyne wherin plaites or mony of golde were quenched oftentimes procureth vnto the hart good state hath great force Arnold of conseruing youth In the Quint essence of wyne gould siluer peer les and precious stones also other metalles may be dissolued to make potable gould But this resolucion of gould belongeth moore to chymistes then to physicions Philip. Vlstad the .ix. chapter and furthermore where as who so list shall reed more of potable gould Wyne wherin plates of gould haue bien quenshed .xl. or .l. times is vsed of certain in the steede of potable gould Arnold de villa noua The same in his boke of wyn Wyne that hath gould quenshed therin saith he hath a great propertie in many condicions it is made by quenshing the plaites of gould in good wyne .iiii. or .v. tymes let it stande to cleere and when it is dilygently streined let it be kept for it hath vertue to comfort the hart and it drieth vp the superfluities of al other dregges from the bloud And it is able to lighten the substance of the hart and the spirit with his brigthnes to comfort it with his massynes and with the temperatnes therof to temper and preserue it to purge the bloud and with the ponderosity and weight therof to inclyne the superfluities to the partes of expulsion and to conserue youth It conserueth the vertues of the principall partes in his actions and by his temperatnes it louseth the vrine restreined It heeleth the falling sicknes and them that haue lost their sences it is holsome also for lepers Many at this tyme riche men and princes wil haue certain parcelles of gould to be sodde with their dishes â–ª other vse theÌ„ in Panellis with electuaries other in pouders for in the confection of Diacameron the fyling hoth of gould and of siluer is vsed Sum are wont to hold a piece of gold in their mouth and to swalowe the spetle It is plain that siluer kept in a mans mouthe quenshed the thirst and corrall comforteth the stomack both holden in the mouth and haÌ„ged about the neck so that it hang toward the stomack for I haue tried that it letteth the troubling therof Other conuert gould into a water that may be drunk which way without doubt is the best and other vse it otherwyse accordyng to the diuers condicions of men temperameÌ„tes Surely gold is a secret thing most perfect composed of an equall temperature marueylous proporcion of the elementall vertues whereunto no mixt body may be compared A wouÌ„d made with it is neuer inflamed in electuaries it comforteth the sight and maketh pure aboue all thinges the substance of the hart and the beginning of lyfe it clooketh the leprosy and refreineth it But thies vertues ought to be attributed to trewe gould in dede and natural not to chymisticall gould Elixir vitae which a certain friend of late coÌ„municated vnto me by his letters with thies wordes The descriptioÌ„ of this medicin was sent vnto me from Rome whiche whether it is able to dooe so much as it promiseth I haue not yet tried QueÌ„sh gould iii or .iiii. times in wyne or ofter according to the quantitie of the wyne Then destil it in Balneo Mariae foure times and thou shalt vse it in diuers diseases as well hoot as could adding hoot or could medicines and sumtimes sum good tryacle as the disease shall requyre Sum extoll prayse highly the spirit or Quint essence of gould for to heele the defaues of y e liuer Certain vvaters composed against the diseases of the eyes A Marueilous water to conserue y e sight and against the blemish or spot of the eyes The leeues of Rewe Mint red Roses Sage MaydeÌ„ heer other leue out Mint Sage and for them ad Fenell Veruin Eybright Betony water wythy of the mouÌ„tayne and Endiue of euery one syx handfull let them be put in in whyt wyne
shall be plaine by the example followinge Againe smellinge waters are ether destilled hoole or els after the destyllacion certaine precyous smelling thinges are added vnto them Som are made without any destillacion at all The Pouder of the Floure Deluce mixte wyth hotte water maketh it to smell and is vsed of Barbers The Floures of Lauendula or Lauender and muche rather of that whiche is communly called Spick both grien and drye are put into water or wyn or burning water in a vessel wel stopt set in the sun that thei may infect it with their smell But if they be yet fresh moyst they turn the wyn almoste into vynegar which if they be dry they do not so The liquor shal be made the more smelling if the flowers bee dryed in the sun in a glas closed and afterward whyt wyne be put to it If so be it a man desyer to haue a swiet water forthwith and by and by let him put a drop or two of oyle of Spick vnto a good deele of pure water and chauf it together in a glas with a narow mouth Al thies although they be made with out destillacion the same notwithstanding being right destilled specially if certayn other thinges be mixt with thē other precious ▪ as Muske Ambra ziuet Caphura Agallochū or meaner thinges as Assadubis Styrap and Stacte Myrh or any other spyces chiefly cloues or elles thinges of les estimation as Roses the barkes of flowers or leaues of Orenges Lymons Arentii Bay leaues commun swiet herbes Rosemary Amaracus Basill c. they shal be made much the swieter Saffron is to strong and stuffeth the heed Rosevvater vvith muske Saffron Cloues Caphura out of Bulcasis WIth Musk Put a croun of good Musk beten in two poūdes of Rosewater in the bely of a glas still And destill it by litle litle then put it in a glas well stopt It is a water marueilous swiet and conuenient for a king that their clothes may be sprinkled therwith With Saffron Put half an vnce of good Saffron in two poundes of Rose water for the space of one day and destill it This water is holsom to be mixt with medicins also for smel garnishing With Cloues Put half an vnce of Cloues beten in a pound and a halfe of Rose water .xxiiii. houres and destill it With Caphura Destill an vnce of Caphura w t a poūd of rosewater vse it in medicines for kings After the same maner is Roosed water made with Saunders and other spices swiet smelling what so euer a man will Sum destill all thies in pure water in stede of Rosewater A thre leued herb thei cal it Tribulū at Rome an herb most swiet of sauor which they destil for per fumes and to make diuers other wanton swiete sauoures The munkes in Mesuen A water of swiet sauour wherwith the strengthes of the heed hart and stomacke are reuiued ▪ foure handfull of the flowers of Lauendula Roses whyte and red of ether two handful Rosemary Caryophyllata newe and freshe Cyperus the barke of Citranguli of euery one a handful Mint Sage Tym Bay leues or Peny royall of euery one halfe a handfull .iiii. vnces of Cloues Galingall Nucis mosch Calamus Aromaticus Ginger Cinamon the flowers I thinke better the rootes of flower deluce of euery halfe an vnce Six poundes of whyte wyne or q. s that is as much as shall suffise When they are pund let thē be put into a glas well closed for the space of eight daies afterward vse them It is excellent to wash the handes if thou mixt a litle of it with a great dele of pure water A mā may vse it also destilled put in a scruple of musk Epiphanius Empericus An other of the same mans delectable with a maruelous swietnes of sauour ziuet Muske of ether a dram let it be tyed in a fyne linnen cloth let it be set to sooke in two poundes of Rose water a few daies in the sun An other of the same mans of a very swiet sauour Basill Mint Samsuchum or Maioram flower deluce Hyssop Balsamita I take it to be Sisymbrium Sauery Sage Melissa Lauender Rosemary of euery one halfe a handfull Cloues Cinamon Nutmegges of euerye one an vnce The pome Citrangula of the kynd of Citriorum the figure of an egg of a yeloowe wax colour iii. or .iiii. Let them be beeten and set .iii. daies in rose water then let them be destilled with a slowe fyre When the destillatiō is finished put to a scruple of Muske and set it in the sun An other of the same mans of most excellent sauour Thre poundes of Rosewater Cloues Cinamō Saūders Citrinorū of euery one .vi. drā .ii. handful of the flowers of Lauender .vi. drās of Assa dulcis Malmsey Aqua vitae of ether .ii. vnces Let it stand a moneth to soke in y e sun wel closed in a glas or vpon y e top of a furnace of a stouf Then destil it in Balneo Mariae and at half a drā of Muske to the destillacion Then let it stand .x. dayes in the sun or aboue the fornace so vse it It is marueylous pleasaunt in sauour VVaters of svviet sauour of Andreas Furnerius in his Frenche booke of the garnishyng of mans nature A Water of wonderous swietnes for the perfuming of the shietes of a bed wher by the hooll place shal haue a moste plesaunt sent Put into a litle phial of glas xviii or .xx. graines of Musk and ziuet and a litle of Ambra After filled full of Rosewater set it ouer the fyre and when it is hoot take it away thē let it stande to coule well cloosed after you haue let it stand soo a two daies you may vse it from thence forward It is as good as though it were destilled When thou wilt perfume thy shirt or other linnen put it in a vessell with a wyde mouth and spreed the clothes vpon it boyling that they may drinke vp the vapour and breth of it An other maner of swiet water whiche men call Cassoleptam that is Capsula Power into sum litle vessell of laton a litle Rosewater made with muske and a litle ziuet and Cloues Agallochum styrap calamita when they are all pund against a fyre mixt them and perfume any clothes that ye will with the vapour ascending there from It is a marueilous swiet sauour whiche if thou wilt kepe close the vessell diligently and when thou thinkest good put more rose-Rosewater vnto it that it may be renued An other Thou shalt put into .iiii. poundes of Roosewater Assa dulcis somewhat grose beaten Stirax and Cloues Camphora Agallocum of euery one an vnce Musck Siuet of ether of thē xx grains Put these together in a glas shit with a parchment prickt through with .x. or .xii. small holes and let the vessel boile .iiii. houres in a kettle ful with water as thoughe it were in Balneo Mariae After when it is cold straine it throughe a
the age of almost .xv. yeares Newe laid hens egges .xii. without the sheles an vnce of Cinamon a pound of Asses milke washe the face with that water destilled by a lembeck Certain cosmeticall thinges out of the Antidotorium of Gordonius TAke the routes of Lily the routes of Dragōs Arum blanushed Cicer Rys Amylum Cerussa washed frenche Soop of euery one .ii. vnces Let them be put in a new pot couered then sod or decocted in a furnace and beten Then take Tragacantha Gum Arabick of euery one an vnce put them in water of flowers of Beenes Then temper Porcellanas in water of Limons till they may be mollified put to half an vnce of Borax Al thies with a very litle of swines grees must bee mixte with water of Beenes With that whiche is made of this muche lyke an oyntment anoynt thy hool face morning and euening and washe it awaye with warm water strained through bran This medicine scoureth purgeth maketh whyt to bee short it maketh the face notable and marueylous faire plain equall gracious An other Lemons cut into .iii. or mo partes let them be sodde in whyt wyne wherwith let the face be washt An other to make y e apple of the chieck ruddy y e lyke also we described before Take Alum Brasill the graines wherewith the Peeche is made reed let them ve pund with the water of wyne destilled Therwith let the place be very muche annointed whiche ye lyst to make reed If so be it ye ad a litle water of salt Ammoniack destilled the colour should be the faster and abyde the lenger Yet take heed of this water Ammoniack bycause it fretteth euery body and if ye list to vse it take but a very litle lest it corrupt the medicine Whoso requireth mo liquors specially destilled for the puritie of the face brigthnes let hym reed Rogerius in his .iiii. treatise the .v. cha wher he describeth the water of Beenes and Limons whose vse is ether by it selfe or with a certain composition c. Also the water composed with Bryonia and Dragons simple of the herbe of strawberies of hasta regia of herba Muscata of the flowres of Nigellae c. VVaters for the dying of heares of the heed and other SPonsa solis beeten otherwyse the siedes of Solsosium beeten put it in milke of a woman that nurceth a boy ten otherwyse .xl. daies and then make an oyl This oyll sod with leued gold seething it gentely by the space of one day is maruelous for if a man washe his heares therwith they shall becum lyke gold If the face be wet and rubbed with the same it shal be plaine and cleare that it shall seme angellike continuinge for the space of .v. dayes It cleareth the sight also and cureth any disease of y e eies within ten otherwise iiii daies and al kind of tothache within .iii. daies and if the iawes be well rubbed with it the wormes fall oute and dy Aegidius amōgst whose waters thys is y e fourth If a man drinck of this water .ix. daies he is heled of the Palsy what cause so euer it come of although it haue endured the space of .iiii. yeares Lullius in his boke of waters It appeareth that this water is not made by destillacion but by expression that is wringing out only as I shall declare amongst oyle of sedes A water destilled of larde that the heares may be made long and yellow and shininge the face more elegant Scrape larde as muche as ye will and shaue it very small then beate it in a marble morter til it be like paste knoden Of thys destylled in a limbeck thou shalt gather a white liquor wherwith thou shalt annoynt thy heares and face for it wil make them very fair and bright A water destilled of honye maketh the heares fayre and longe Reade here after where we shall speake of simple quint essences and amongste waters that be destilled in Rosestilles A whitening water c. of a Mouldwarpe the vi amongste Aegidius waters Bryng a Moule into pouder with brimstone and the iuyce of Selandine put to it let it stande a certaine daies afterward destill it With this water washe a place anye beast what so euer it be and it shall be made white If thou mixte water otherwise the worde water is lefte oute aloes and waxe annoynt the place diseased and thou shalt heale al manner of Gutta and as they call it nolime tangere if thou lay a plaister made thereof vpon the soore Likewise it healeth the skalles of the head annoynted therewith and cureth the guttam rosaceam layde vppon it in manner of a plaister But mixt wyth the stone called Calaminaris and Aloes it healeth the Lupum perfitelye laying a plaister of it thervpō twise a day if also the superfluities be washt with the same mixture It must in no wise be taken inwardly within the body A water that dieth a Griene colour A poūd of cuperoos that is to say Vitriolum Half a poūd of Smerillum Destil them and anoynt Epiphanius Empericus The water of Capparorum Capers destilled maketh grene heares Cardanus A water commodious for purgyng the tethe Take Salte Ammoniak Salte Gemmae of euerye one thre ounces Suger Alum an ounce and a halfe Let them be destilled or soked .viii. daies in two pounde of water and strained rubbe and wash the tethe therewith Epiphanius Empericus Other .ii. like for the same purpose shalt thou find after next to the descripcion of Aqua fortis ¶ Howe waters of herbes floures and rotes be destilled by descencion that is downwarde A vvaye to destill svviete vvaters and effectuall oute of Flowers and Hearbes by descencion or goinge downwarde TAke an earthen vessell vppon the whyche straine or spread a thin and fine linnen cloth and vpon it sprynckle Rooses for so the Roosecake wil proue meruelous swiet or coueslops or other Floures or Hearbes Then muste ye haue a lidde to couer the vessell and aboue the bottom putte the fire So shalt thou destill not onlye a mooste swiet water but also moste effectuall and most strong The Rose cake is wont to be laide in the sunne closed that it maye be purged from the smoky smel when notwithstandinge it reteineth the smell of the Roose Cardanus Freshe Rooses laide vpon a linnen cloth strained vppon a Basin if they take a vessell full of hoate coales they destyll muche water and swiet into the Basin In like manner other flowers Syluius In my minde this kinde of destillacion is commodious for all suche thynges as be colde or oughte to coule chieflye if they lacke smell as the most part of binding thinges more also such as be cold moist to Yea also we shall haue much water in shorter time with les coste by this waye nether is there any ieoperdy that they should fume out But a man must geue diligente hede least the vessel laide vpon be to lyttle hotte and least it be left
thinges as are infused in wyne sumtymes stieped the vessell being very well shyt that they may render the very same sauour and tast as wormwood lyke as I shewed before Gentian Iuniper beries and spyces the waters destilled whereof our cuntreymen name goulden c. Then the destillacion of Aqua vitae is sumtimes repeted in whiche I haue obserued this that the better parte alwayes the purest issueth out first what so euer is flegmatyck or deed water as sum cal it which is vnproffitable hurtfull and almoste stinking foloweth last whiche is well perceiued and knowen in a glas heed for the still For whyle the purer matter that is the fyry and aery substance issueth no sygn apereth in the heed of the still but when the fleume comes once and tokens of the water folowing by straikes appeare manifestly as ye see them remoue the receiuing vessel and what so euer remaineth in the Cucurbita or bely of the stil poure it out as good for nothing and begin a new destillation of fresh and that must be repeted vntil no fleume appeare any more which chaunseth lightly in the fourth or fifthe destillation Afterwarde there nedeth no more destillation but circulacion that the liquor be rectified as they terme it and turned into heauen or quint essence Thinges destilled in the vapour of hot water retein more perfitly the vertues and qualities of of plantes but because they haue some coruption in them they can not be kept long Those thinges longar which by the heat of ashes or dros of metall beaten to pouder are destilled in vessels of stone or glas how many so euer they be vppon a long or round fornace couered with slates or tiles which may holde the hie sandes compassed wyth hie lead But these vessels muste be made hot by little and little not sodenly and couled likewise be fore they be opened to the colde aire or els they breake straight way Syluius Vlstadius prescribeth a certaine destillation in ashes wyth so softe a fyre that thou maiste number one .ii. iii. betwene one drop and an other Anye kynde of frute thou wilte when it is well ripe cut small and beaten thou shalt destill it in sand with a slow fire Vlstadius ¶ A certaine waye to make water by and by WAter is made also vppn a sodein whiles the iuice is made hot or skalding a glasen cup is set vpon it in the whiche the fume passeth into droppes and the droppes gathered therupon are driuen together into water By this meanes Vineger is easilye tourned into water Thys is holsome for spottes and blemishes in the eies and for the web to put them awaye speciallye if Rue be sod in white Vinegar Cardanus Som are put resinam larigenam in a trene vessell whose bottome must be made by a tornar as thin as is possible so that a man may see through it so in a hotte place the purer parte and the thinner destilleth Of rosaries that is to say instruments wherwith a destilled liquor maye be gotten oute of Roses and other medicines fyre being put vnder for the mooste parte wythoute anye meane betwixte either of cooles or of chippes FIre in destillacion dothe more procure the sauoure of adustion and brentnesse vnto the water that is to bee destilled then do cooles or water whiche thinge to auoide put sande in the pan in commun Rosaries or rather see that sande be betwixte the fyre and the panne and also aboute the pan and that it be glased or oyled as some call it if it be an earthen panne for it is made also of brasse The ioyning together of the pan and the lembecke thou shalt fense with clay that is to saye with a lynnen clout perieted or closed with clay and hansumlye laid aboute it and the receiuinge vessell with the nose of the lembecke likewise Brunsvvick Some nowe a daies make theese Rosarie pans of bras and vpon the sand they lay the hearbes that be to be destilled and round about the pan and within it also except I be deceiued they fill a voide space with water a pipe being made for the purpose to poure them in at They â—ut fire vnder it ether of coles or of very short chips because the flame of y e fire may seme to be able to do les hurt for the water that compasseth But withoute all doute all these shal be much better destilled in glasses or in Balneo Mariae or in ashes Vineger is made white wyth destillation as well for other vses of Chymistes and Phisycions as also to be mixte wyth Sirrupe of Vinnegar whereuppon I wyll reherse Bulcasis wordes Builde an Atanor like vnto that wherein Roosewater is destylled and euer take a stillatorye vessell of glasse or of earthe glased fyll three partes of it wyth good Vinegar that the fourthe parte of the Vessell aboue maye be emptye leaste when it doothe seethe the Vineger bee spilte and runne ouer Then couer the vessel with some Vessell vppon it as ye knowe hauynge a noose as the manner is in rose-rosewater and make a light fire not greate nor stronge for if it be vehement the Vinegar shal not become so white The vineger that is destilled muste be of white wyne and verye sharpe So shalt thou gather a whyte and pure liquor which thou shalt keepe in store After y â— same maner may wine be destilled Thys writeth Bulcasis I destilled it once in glasen vessels in ashes which I kepe yet hitherto certaine yeares like to Vinegar not destilled bothe in sauoure and taste differing only in the coloure and substaunce where in it is like to pure water to see to Bulcasis seemeth to be of this opinion that vineger shoulde be destilled with fire or water not in a Balneo Mariae but in that maner that he maketh the first and second in destillinge of Rooses that is without water with fyre of woode or rather of cooles I haue destilled verye excellentlye in ashes Pearles eg shels stone of the rains and bladder are dissolued with strong vineger specially wheÌ„ it is destilled or with the iuice of limoÌ„s so is also both kinde of corals and they afterward dried are readily crumled praecipitatum and sublimatum and cinabrium and they retourne into quick siluer Syluius The Chymistes say metals are resolued with vinegar destilled also w t mans vrine destilled The leaues of hempe tourned into meale because they pearse the heade make drincke which wyll make a man pleasauntlye drounke Cardan It seemeth water shoulde be poured to it and when they are made dowe together then to bee destilled like as burninge water in a Rosarye or Rosestil or lyke instrument where the fyer is put vnder without any men and perauentur the destillacion should be twys or thrys repeted I wold say the same of Ootes water whereof lykewyse Cardanus wryteth The Moscouites saith he bycause they lack wyn vse water destilled of Ootes whiche enflameth and maketh a man drunken no les then wyne For Ootes being
then of that thinge wheroute it ranne In this manner the destillacion of waters also of herbes and floures maye be done but that waye is far better which is by descencion downwarde c. Some put Muske aboute F. and other precious smellinge thinges and the water that rettineth the smelles not onlye of the owne proper matter but also of the Musk and of other things that be put to it Of destillation by descencion or going downewarde Vlstadius in his .xix. Chapter teacheth of this waye of destillinge vniuersallye and speciallye or seuerallye of oyles of Iuniper stickes of the yelkes of Egges Nutmegges and Benedicto where throughe I wyll go aboute to declare the matter moore clearelye and more shortlye He teacheth to make a fornace meete for this destillacion lyke to suche a Chunney as is vsed to be made amongste the Germaines of brickes vnbrente of a Cubit and a halfhie on euerye syde saue the former side whiche maye be somewhat lower and couered with thinne tiles to lay any thing vpon as the iron instrumentes wherewith the fire is gouerned in bredthe .iii. cubites euerye waye In the middle of thys fornaice let there be a hoole so great that a mans fote may be put in at it This fornace shall be meete also for an other vse that is to seale wyth the seale of Hermes as they call it when the mouthe of a Glasen Cucurbita beynge put into the hoole of the fornace the length a hande bredth that is .iiii. fingers and if any more about it be open that being stopt wyth claye assone as it is red hotte it is nipte together with a paire of tonges likewise red hotte When thou wylte destyll therefore in this fornace take a Cucurbita of the best earthe or if not of Coper or Latin syll it vnto the thyrde parte wyth the matter that is to be destilled and shitte it wyth a verye thinne iron lidde of iron plate full of lyttle hooles Then tourne it vpside downe and putte the mouthe of the Vessell into the hoole of the fornace three fingers deepe and what so euer is open on anye side fyll it with claye diligentlye rounde aboute so that nothynge maye fall into thys hoole Beneathe in the neather parte of the hoole thou shalt sette vnder a Cucurbita of glasse for the puttinge in and takinge oute whereof and that thou mayste see when the hoole matter is destilled the foore parte of the fornace muste be open whereunto the mouth of the vpper Cucurbita must be ioyned but not with clay Then let a fyre be made aboue aboute the vessel that cōteineth the matter on euerye syde But the fyre at the fyrste muste be little and as farre of from the vessell as is possible afterwarde by little and little to make it bigger and nearer the vessell Ye muste vnderstande that of euerye matter at the fyrste water destilleth moore or lesse accordynge to the difference of the matter When it hath left running and now the oyll hath begun to destill thou shalt empty the Cucurbita of glas that standeth vnderneth and set it vnder a-again and continue in encreesing the fyer and to make it euer nerer and nerer the vessell vntill no more oyl destille For then by and by the fyer must bee remoued far of that the vpper Cucurbita may be couled Then take away the nether that is the receiuer and kepe the oyll But as I said a lytle fyer is required at the first and is to be encreesed by litle and litle vntill the fourthe degree for two causes First lest by the sodein exces of to muche heet all the moysture yea the oyly moysture also be consumed which chiefly must be taken hied of when we couet to haue oyll of the yolkes of egges and nutmegs for in certain other as of Iuniper stickes a man shal offende nothing to make a sodein and great fyer Then bycause the woode set on fier perauenture would hurte the Cucurbita burn it breeke it or infect the oyll with sum vnplesaunt sauour Moreouer in simple oyll Benedict thou shalt encrease the fyer only at the end of the destillacion and thou maist prepare suche a place for the destillacion Dig a pit in the earth long brood and diep accordining to the measure of the pot that is to be put into it Let the pot bee glased washt with water and vpon the mouth of it let a thin iron plate be put bored through with many holes so that the plate be a fingar thicknes within the brim of the pot vpon this set an other pot that conteineth the matter to be destilled so y t the mouthes of them be ioyned together and all well clayed then let a fyer be made about the vpper pot whiche shal be hool without the pit saue y e mouth But this second way is not so cōmodious as the first because the water can not bee separated from the oyl nor easely knowē whan the hooll matter is destilled except it be knowen by vse and custome The fornace may also be made in a stiep hill as the same Vlstadius sheweth I let that pas that I be not to long Oyl of the leeues of Citrum or Orenge Arantia or Limons when it is destilled first the water is gotten out then the oyll and both ought to bee kept seuerally the oyll is very swiet and good It is made on this wyse Take the leeues of any of the forsayd tries which so euer ye will when they are cut beet them in a morter and as ye destill them receiue the water and when ye see any drop of diuers colour swym vpon the water the receyuer being chaunged encrees the fyer and gather the oyll It shall smell a litle of the fyer whiche fault shal be amended if ye let it stande long set in the sun Sum drye the forsayde leeues between twoo lynnen clothes and beete them they put to also many odoriferous swiet smellyng thinges as ziuet Muske Ambra hoot Styrax Ladanum Cinamon Benzoum not the substaunce of them but the fume or smoke only for they put thies into Rose water vpon the fyer and with the vapour of them they season the leues When thies are so diligently seasoned they take Roosewater wherein certain spices ar stiept as Cloues Galangal Put megges c. for the space of one day and the pouder of the leues moistened therwith they destill it it ashes with a slow fyer till the watery liquor be separated then they encrees the fyer and receiue the oyll whiche is of a wonderfull pleasaunt and swiet sauour Furner A certain practicioner shewed me that the oyll is separated cōmodiously from herbes routes in this maner Put the herbes or routes in Turpentyn or Larigna rosin washt eigth or nyne tymes till it wax whyte and let it stande in hoote sand q. s Then destill them with a slow fyre the Turpintyn shal run out first ▪ by and by at the beginning or if it moue but a litle
a croked still with a receiuer of a diuers figure and fashion or rather in two croked stils wherof the one maye be the receiuer or els in brasen vessels whiche the Apothecaries call bladdars as water of Cinnamon or burninge water In like manner be oyles destilled as the same man teacheth of Vernix or Gum of Iuniper of the floures of Spike or Lauender of Anes sedes and many other sedes The .iiii. essence or fyre of Selandin whyche is like a liquor of oyle c. how it is prepared and to what vse read before wher we haue entreated of quint essence It is possible also to draw out .ii. maner of oyles an aiery and afyerye oute of the moste herbes and other medicines after the same maner it is prescribed there in Selandine Oyl of Rue Cardanus in his second booke of subtiltie wryteth that there be certaine poysones which slee with the only touching Againste these saith he the remeady is not to tary in anye place vntil the hand wax hot often washing of thepartes with warme water also the annoynting with oyle of Rue not with the commun oyl but that is made after the same maner that oyl of Spik and oyl of Cloues is wont to be made of them y t make painting colours These writeth he Of oyl of the â—eedes of Rue shortlye hereafter we shall wryte out of Lullius but that wherof Cardanus maketh mencion heare I suppose it is to bee made of Rew it self that is of the extreme toppes of the bowes therof whiche florishe Of oils of siedes and fruites OYll of Cloues did I tast once in Italy wonderfull swiet and stronge howe it should be drawen oute we declared afore with Catdanus wordes where we write generally of drawing out of oyles also another way out of Ryffius that is the same waye y t ye may out of what spyce a man will which stiept in burning water they destill theÌ„ till the burning water be separated and as sone as the oyl beginneth to run the matter taken out of the Cucurbita is prest c. as before it is written out of Ryffius who describeth also particularly the vertues of this Oyll Oyl of Nutmegges how it may be gotten out fee before where as we entreated generall of the destillacion of Oyles by descention or dounward Oyl of Nutmegges and of his huske mace is drawen out after the same maner as out of Cloues Ryffius who describeth the vertues of ether of them seuerally Oyll of Anis sied is draweÌ„ out as out of other dry thinges whiche be in the kynd of plantes the siedes well beeten stieped in the best wyne then destilled by litle and litle by ascencion so that the spirites in the Lembeck bee continually refrigerated and couled c. and the liquor afterward circulated The vertues of it Ryffius rekoneth we leue them out as also of other for the most parte where no peculiar effect or working is attributed to the waters and oyles yea the same ar agreable to this medicines also wherout they be drawen or euer they be destilled sauing that by destilling they are made more subtill and more effectuall or stronger operacion Oyles of the beries of Iuniper and of the beries of Bayes are made one waye that is pund stiep in wyne or rain water they are destilled the same way that burning water is ether in a brasen bladder as the Apothecaries name it or in suche wyse as we described oyll out of Cardan to be goten out of woodes and cloues or els as out of spyces by Ryffius description I thinke it makes no great matter so be that the spirites which be caried about the lembeck may be couled commodiously in it and in the noos The vertues of thies oyles Ryffius rekoneth vp Agyrtae or iugleres also ar wont with vs to sel oyl of Iunipers with tables imprinted coÌ„teining the rehersal of the vertues therof This emongst other heeleth them that be sick of a tercian as I am infourmed Sum make oyll of wheet pressing it oute betwene two iron plates reed hoot other thinke it to be nothing worth thatis made thus and that it should be made as oyll of Iuniper that is of the stickes of Iuniper by descencion or dounwarde Mesue saith that wheet after it be husked is destilled in a vessell of sublimacioÌ„ as the Philosophers oyll It cureth ring wormes and ruggednes of the skin whiche springeth of drynes it mollifieth and moysteneth and other infections also of the skin it remedieth them It is described also by Rasus in his Antidotarium Loke within emoÌ„gst the oyles not destilled There might be made also of Barly and suche both by sublimacion and also by descencion Monachi vpon Mesue Oyles of Muske ben that is Balanus my repsica whiche Fnrnerius calleth Retraban or retraha of moste precious smel Lyke as of Almondes so shalt thou presse out an oyll of the fruites of Ben which ar found about Genua pleÌ„teously inough of the same pryce almost that Almondes be thou shalt let it stand and put a good quaÌ„titie of musk into it and so in a glas well stopt thou shalt set it in a ketle that it may seeth a whyle then receiue the oyll by destillacion whiche shal be moste swiet and moste odoriferous Certain oyls of siedes vvhiche I founde in a booke of Waters of Raimund Lullius THis oyles I thought good to wryte seuerally because I doubt whether the author woulde haue them made by destillacioÌ„ or simpely by pressing out in euery one he addeth thies wordes and let an oyll be drawen out after the maner of the lay people With whiche woordes he seemeth to signify simpely by the pressing out of the siedes in a pres as the commun people is wont to doo so is oyll to be gathered specially when as he would haue it drawen out of the same dryed in the sun Notwithstanding it is out of all doubt that the same thinges destilled accordingly should bee far moore effectuall But for destilling the liquor wherin the siedes pund or stiept ougth to be left with them and putrification to go before c. Stiep the siedes of Sponsa solis in womans milke forty daies and then make an oyll after the vse maner of the lay people Loke before amoÌ„gst the cosmeticall and garnishing liquors Oyll of the siedes of Rew. Mixt the siedes of Rew pund with leued gould and put it in vynegar a day Then dry it lyghtly by the sun drawe out an oyll after the maner of the lay men It is precious and resisteth poysons so that they shall auoyde by vomit if so be it a man drinke of it the second tyme the other humors also that be infected therwith shal be aâ—â—yded out if the third tyme he shal be cured perâ—â—câ—â—y within .iii. or .iiii. daies All grieues of the eyâ—s it heeleth theÌ„ what cause so euer it cum of so be that the apple of the eye be vnhurt if the eyes twyse a day be washt with this oyll
and one drop be poured into the eye for the eye shal be made hool within .iii. or .iiii. daies If it be drunck fasting it suffereth no venim to approche vnto a man that day If so be also a man wounded very sore and deadly drinke therof fasting he shall escape so be that the other care of y â— wound and cure be had accordingly Also beinge druncke fastinge and putteth awaye the Gutta or drop and all scabbednes and the dropsy sprunge of a colde cause if it be taken but two dayes To conclude it stirreth vp and restoreth all sliepy and benummed members taken with the Palsy being annoynted vpon Ruberta if it be right written perauenture of the coloure he so calleth it I woulde rather reade Sperma that is oyle of Nasturtium I would rather the seedes of Nasturtium as in other in the same place before and after the oyl moystened in sharp vineger dry it in the sunne and drawe out the oyl after the manner of the lay people This mixt with Aloes oyle of bayes cureth all scabbednes and the drop the places beinge anoynted Druncken with Aloes and cooles of an elme it healeth the Tercian and quartaine and all breches in the body Soden with a ptisan and drunken it stauncheth the bloudye flux and bindeth the belly Sod with bran and drunken it driueth away all droppes Oyle of the seedes of Pimpernell Put seedes in read wine a fewe dayes dry them punne them and make an Oyle after the laye manner Thys oyle drunke fastinge dissolueth breaketh and expelleth the sand and anye stone of the bladder yea if it be finished gathered to y â— form of a stone what matter so euer it bee of It lighteneth the wearied members of a mannes bodye These wryteth he Of oyle of the beries of Iuniper destilling first by ascencion then by descencion as I learned of my frendes TAke a pinte or a quarte full of the Bearies of Iuniper when they are beaten stiepe them two daies in well springe water then putte those beries together with the water wherin they wer sooked into a Cucurbita or bladder as they call it of Cooper whiche thou shalt fill till there be but ii or .iii. fingers thicke emptye then puttynge a measurable fyre vnder thou shalt destyll it in all poyntes like burninge water that is by a Pipe whiche maye passe throughe a vessell full of cold water It will yeilde plentye of water so that one receiuer shall not be inoughe At lenghte the oyle followeth whyche muste be â—uffered to runne into the water where vppon it will swimme thou shalt separate it toureninge the vessell wherein it is wyth a narrowe necke vpside downe so that the water be lette runne oute vntill a little be left whyche shall bee separated afterwarde by pouringe the oyle into an other vessell A sextarye or pinte of bearies as they call it in Alsatia aboute iiii ounces of oyle Other to separate the Oyle from the water put it into a drincking glas that hathe the foote taken awaye ether by commynge with a wyer of iron redde hotte or els by chaunce so that a little hoole in the bottome be lefte for the water passeth throughe and when it comes to the oyle the hoole is stopte and then the oyle maye be poured out into y e vessel wher it shal be kept SoÌ„e destill it in like manner but they moue the matter oftentimes in the stil least it be burned And they say spices beaten as Cloues and cinamon mai be rightlye destilled likewise Some as I heare saye destill in a crooked vessell not of glas but of Copper tinned in the inside whiche is put into a long pipe of coper as they do for burning water An other waye of preparing the same by descencion downewarde communicated and shewed vnto me as a secreate thing by a certain frend who prepared and made it so his selfe Gather Iuniper bearies well rypened and drye in harnest or a little befoore Haruest betwene the two Marye daies as they be appoynted in the Kalendar in the morninge at eighte or nyne of the clocke in greate plentye as manye as will fill a couple of bagges whiles it is fayre weather Oyll of the nuttes kernels of the pyn tree for the polishing putting away of wrinkles in womens skinnes is made by destillacioÌ„ dounward as oyll of y e wood of Iumper Syluius Of oyls of gums teeres or liquors thickened or congeled and rosines OYll of Mirh Looke before emongst the swiet waters of Furnerius where wee haue described one which is made with one part of Mirh and the half part of y e iuice of Roses moste odoriferous Liquors thikned by nature and gums as they call them of a hoot and dry temperatur that they may be prepared vnto destillacion when they are pund put them in a vessell wel stopt wyn also except I be deceiued may be a litle sprinkled vpon it and dig it in a could and moyst place so diep as a man is hy without putting to it any hoot matter and it must be left a good long space notwithstanding it should soner be resolued if thou put to it sum yolkes of hard rosted egs The gums so resolued yelded an oyll troubled and pudly whiche being destilled in a crouked still as they call it shal be made moore cleere and pure For al gums and Caphura also seing they contein a fat liquor and whyt that whiche by destillacion is drawen from them doo easely sauour of the iniury of the fyer faut of brentnes that although they be destilled in vessels very meen yet issueth forth a licour full of dregs gros brent of an vnplesaunt smell the vse wherof doth not plees me noo not without the body muche les within the body the strengthes vertues of them is not alyke When the matter is so resolued y u shalt straine it through a wolleÌ„ cloth or a hear cloth y t what so euer erthynes is in it may be separated from the sande and dros After y t whiche is streyned thou shalt leue it again in an indifferent warm place as many daies as thou wilt last of all destill it Thies maner of Oyles are verye subtill and of greate strength whan as nature it selfe firste hathe as it were gathered the chief vertues of trees suche as power forth any gums or teeres Thies for the moste part wryteth Ryffius in his first boke of destillacion The same Ryffius in the treatise of the same worke of oyles prescribeth no peculiar waye to drawe out oyl of gums but sendeth men vnto his first koke He describeth seuerally the vertues of oyles of Ammoniacum Belzoum Camphora Cloues Euphorbium Galbanum Ladanum Myrh Opopanax Sarcocolla Sagapenum Stirax liquid Calamita In the only oyll of Mastick he willeth the Mastick when it is pund to be resolued with old wyne and to be degested then destilled And the gum of Iuniper lykewyse to be resolued and stiept in wyne because of the drynes of
oyl of Iuniper can and is made after the same maner Mesues Wher again Syluius saith That oyl anoynted vpon the left side vnder the short ribs and drunken deliuereth mightely the obstructions stoppings of the splene it mollifieth also digesteth This oyl saithe Rogerius represseth the colde greues of the ioynts it healeth a wound bryngeth skin where it lacketh it deliuereth from the white morphew and blackeneth it Io. Manardus in his epistles 16. 4. geuing couÌ„sel for y e helth of the cardinal Campegius sick of y e gout I praise saith he both the maner the vse of the fome of the decoction of lignum sanctum or of Iudicum to the place where the grief is But I think the oyl of the same wod destilled after y â— maner that the chymistes call by descencion to be far more effectual anoynting the places therewith y t swel and wher the grefe is They be wont also of the shauings of raw wode sodden in some noble wine putting vnto it old oyl to prepare an oyntment which is very good to be annoynted vppon the places where the grefe is Take y e wode cut like bordes therw t fill a new ertheÌ„ vessell with a couer of the same mater bord through w t litle holes y t diligeÌ„tly claid let an other empty ertheÌ„ pot digd in the erth vp to the mouth receiue it ioyned w t clay vnto the vpper standing aboue vpon it by the couer the force of the flames blasing rouÌ„d about it the oyl shall run down into the empty within the space of 4. hours or 5. WheÌ„ it hath left boiling opeÌ„ it thou shalt find oil swiÌ„ming vpon the water wherwith if thou anoynte whelks pushes exulceratioÌ„s y e swellings ofioyntes greues of finews y u shalt procure ease that not a litle That water also is drunkeÌ„ morning euening by it self or with the sirup following c. Andreas Mat in his boke of the frensh disease A maÌ„ may also as I hard of a frend destil guaiacuÌ„ after the same way that Aqua fortis is destilled best in an erthen vessel glased y t wil abide the fire suche as they make at Haganoa This oyle is good for the fauts of y e ioynts through the frensh pocks if it be anoynted vpoÌ„ the places w t the best burning water Oyle of the wode guaiacuÌ„ more mightilye of lygnum sanctum is holsome for the spanish diseases biles Sylu. A certain practicioner told me once y t this wod is not to be cast awai although it be decocted soden twise or thrise for euen so also yet is the best oyl destilled of Take the wod of iuy dried the beries gum also if y u maist haue it When they are cut in peces let theÌ„ be put in an erthen vessel bored through in the bottom in .ii. or .iii. places then let an other pot be set vnder it Set theÌ„ in the erth ioyne the bottoÌ„ of the vpper vnto the mouth of the nether w t clay or paste the vpper pot must stand hollye aboue the ground At length make a fire on euery side and the oyl shal destill blacke into the nether Vessell This oyle before all Oyles healeth the grefes in the ioynts of a cold cause Rogerius The preparing of oyl of capuistuÌ„ that is smoked because it is made by descencion like as the oil of woods I haue rehersed it in this place out of the first boke of Aetius where he entreateth of oyles from whence Nicholas Alexandrinê° also borowed it in his treatise of oyls Vngues aromatici that be black melà nchó Fuchsius the expositor of Nicolas readeth MegálcoÌ„ that is great thus MasculuÌ„ styrax the best bdellium pure Costus of euery one v draÌ„s of euery one .ii. vnces a half saith Nicolas which I like better .v. sextaris that is about iiii pints of the best swiet oyl ii a half saith Nich. Hypni as much as nede requireth The costê° cut in peces soÌ„what gros likwise y e styrax bdelliuÌ„ mixt together put theÌ„ into an ertheÌ„ vessell a new one Nycolas w tout ere 's y e mouth wherof y u shalt stop w t the hypneÌ„ without y u shalt defeÌ„ce it w t the slips of aspalathê° or som odoriferus thing haÌ„somli lest any thing fal out of y â— pot Then â—eke an other ertheÌ„ vessel w tout ears w t a loÌ„g neck which may re of the other vessel that conteineth the spices agreing aptly with the mouth into whiche thou shalt put .v. sextaries of swete oyl Afterwarde dig the ground and bury the earthen pot that holdeth the oyl vnto the neck lest it wax red hot after with the fire that shal be made about it then turne y e other vessel with spices the mouth downward vpon y e hed of it soioyn y â— mouths of theÌ„ both y t thei mai be closed together most exactly Then close y e hole vessel rouÌ„d about w t clay on euery side where the mouthes are ioyned together by by thou shalt kindle a fire putting vnder coles about y e earthen vessel blowing When the fire is kindled let the spices being consumed y t being set on fire theimai seÌ„d out their vapor by the mouth of y e ertheÌ„ vessell into y e oyl set vnder For y e which cause it is called capnistoÌ„ y â— is smoked The secoÌ„d day after remoue away the oil and put it in a glas to kepe Wemen vse this whose flours are stopt anoynting the nether part of their bely loines therwith It is coÌ„uenient for them y â— after they be deliuered are euil to litle purged being likewise anoynted vpon y e said parts Moreouer it is holsom for a cold chest healeth the disease called tenesimus if it be receiued in wol hotte as Nicolas addeth folded together and laid to the lower part of the bely loyns The same semeth to be called capnelaeuÌ„ or smoked oyle but the author of Kiranidum expoundeth it naphtha in his .iiii. boke where he maketh mencion of the fish Ecleneis or Remora I haue sene also of paper roled together in maner of a hod set on fire ouer a dish of tin holden at the very extreme top with a paire of sheeres or tonges certain drops of black oyl run out which are praysed for the spots or whytneses of y e eyes Of trevve Balm and antibalm that is Oyls composed by arte whiche are vsed in steed of the true Balm both within and without the body BAlsamum is a word vsed almost in all tonges a Syrian worde without dout for in only Syria in one only garden did it ones growe Panag y e hebrew worde in the .xxvii. of Ezechiel Dauid Kimhi after certaine doth erpound it a proper place of Iudaea other Apharsamon that is Balsamum The later wryters of the Iewes wryt Palsamon Mycander BalsamoÌ„ bycans of the
it taketh all the spottes or fracknes from them out of hande if they be once washt therwith thre daies and maketh thē swiet smelling cleer This is called y e water of Balm or mother of Balm It oughte to be destilled in a lembeck in a baith with a slow fyer with Aqua vitae of the same weight And y e first water shall run furth odoriferous and maruelous whiche thou shalt receiue by it selfe then an other of the colour of safron the third at length lyke bloud The vertues of the first and of the secōd water are thies If the one of thē be poured in to a woūd whyles it is new there needeth none other remedy But within a naturall daye and a halfe at the moste it shal be made hool so be that it be no deed wounde All ill soores or byles Old roten Cankred Fistula Lupus Noli me tangere and lyke to them let them be washt with ether of thies waters and they shal be heeled within a fewe dayes One drop only dropped vpon a Carbuncle quensheth it within .iii. houres If an eye be diseased w t blerednes or the web or the naill or any swelling carnosity bred vpon it drop one drop of thies waters vpon it euery third day and within nyne daies it shal be hool except it be vtterly destroyed A drop of them drunk with a litle good wyne breketh the stone in the reines or in the bladdar or in the yard stopped and that within two houres deliuereth from the grief If deed flesh be washt away therwith the place is shortly made hool If a womā be sick of her womb or bely let her drink a litle of them with sum iuice If a man haue any grief of a stroke or by chaunce without any byll or heed let the place be bathed and washed with a litle of them and the grief shall go away within iii. houres By the like helpe a sinewe shrunken waxen hard or otherwyse ill at ease is restored The rest of their vertues a learned physicion shal imagin by him selfe The thirde and bloudy water whiche surnamed holy and blessed is so excellent in vertues that if one vse halfe a sponefull of it .xv. daies he shal be cured of the leprosy pthisick or consumptiō Astma or disease of short wynde the dropsy palsy Ischia or Sciatica the swounding the fallyng sicknes the drop in the ioyntes called the goute y e consuming feuer the strangury and many other diseases and that within two monethes It recouereth youth vnto old men a man that lyeth a dying out of all hope of the physicions it restoreth him if one drop of it let fall into his mouthe bee swalowed so that it may cum to the hart If so be it a man drinke a yeare together euery daye the quantitye of a wheate corne of this liquor with a sponefull of water of borage destilled like rose-Rose-water after the yeare is ended he shall seeme as though he were made new in his flesh blud and hole body both in form and strength An other Artificial balm out of the same boke of Lullius of waters Turpentyn a pounde and a halfe Galbani two ounces Aloes Cicotrinae Mastik Cloues Galangall Cinnamon Nutmegs Cubebarum of euerye one an ounce gum of Iuy halfe an ounce When al is wel beaten mixt them and destill them in a lembeck of glas with a slow fire first and gather the first water by it self seuerallye then encreasing the fyre a water somwhat reddishe and afterwarde encreasynge it more an oyle of a redde coloure till nothinge runne anye more chaunginge the receiuer thryse This oyle hathe all the vertues of true Balme For it burneth in the water and courdeth milcke by and by for if one droppe of it warme be put into a pint of Milcke it shall forth with become courded The firste liquor is called water of Balme the second oyl of Balme the thirde Balme Artificiall The fyrste is profitable againste the runnynge of the eares if two or three droppes mornynge and eueninge be put into them Dropte into the eyes it amendeth the blearednesse and consumeth the teares It dothe meruelouslye restreine superfluous humors in anye parte of the bodye It taketh away the touthache if they be washt therwith and killeth the wormes if there be anye in them Ther third liquor wil suffer no venom is an vtter ennemy and destruction to spiders and Serpentes Two or .iii. drops let drop into anye venemous bitinge do make it hole streight If thou draw a circle with this liquor shit a venemous beaste therein it shall dye there rather then goe out of it To he short it doth the same thinges all that Triacle dothe but more effectually all thynges Being poured or put vpon any impostume within .ix. daies it healeth them and likewise a fistula be it neuer so ill and also a Noli me tangere All diseases bred of fleume and colde humors it healeth them if a linnē cloth dipped in it be laid vppon the place where the grief is It putteth away vtterly the Palsy and all tremblinge of mēbers it strengtheneth meruelouslye the sinewes It is hoter then the first and second If a mā put a drop of it in his hand it perceth streighte without grefe To cōclude it doth many other things and all diseases risen of a colde cause it healeth them if they vse it right A water strengtheuing the memorye Floures of Roosemarye Borrage Camomell Violettes Rooses of euerye one an ounce Stichadis Baye leaues Samsuchi Sage of euery one .ii. ounces When they are all cut small thou shalt soke them in the best wine and destill them by a lembecke After the liquor is destilled thou shalt mixt with it a pounde of Turpintyne .viii. ounces of Olibanum Mastik Bdelli Anacatdorum of enerye one an ounce when they are all beaten mixte them with the other and destill them again Then adde vnto them againe Nutmegs Mace Galangall Cubebarum Cardamomi of euerye one an ounce Agallochi Amber Muske of euery one .ii. vnces if the written booke be true when they are beaten and mixte let them stande .v. daies and destill them the third time encreasing the fire til the oyl seace droppinge Certain waters of life to be reckened amongst Balmes shalt thou finde in Vlstadius boke called Caelum Philosophorum the .xliiii. liī chap. A balme of an vncertaine author Turpentin halfe a pounde Frankensence .ii. ounces woode of Aloes Saffron of either of them an ounce Mastik Cloues Mace Galangall Cinnamon Zedoariae Cubebarum Nutmegges of euery one halfe an ounce Gumme of Iuy or Elemi vi ounces slating tiles quenched in oyl accordingli such as neuer water touched .iii. vnces Pūd those that ought to be pund first will water issue forthe secondly oyl of Balm thirdly balm artificiall Balm artificiall saith Matthaeolus Senensis in his commentaries vppon Dioscorides whyche I tried and found of maruelus strēgth against very many diseases haue I made cōposed in this wise Take rosin Larignae
the teres of firtre pure and liquide some cal it oyle of fire the Germans Bulhartz of either a pounde Manuae Thurus Ladani of ether of them .viii. ounces Spike a dram mastik Galangal cloues Casiae odorate zedoariae Nutmegs Cubebarum Agallochi of euerye one iii. ounces Gum Elemi vi vnces Aloes hepaticae Castorei date stones Storacis Calamitae Myrrhae Belzoi of euery one an vnce Beat such as be to be pund and wheÌ„ they are mixt with the liquors destil them artificially First wil a most subtil cleare water run out which burneth meruelousli called the water of Balm Then wil folow a yelow oyl subtil which they call oyl of balm at the last balm artificiall red The first water which as I haue tried helpeth cold stomakes meruelouslye consumeth fleum The second liquor doth excellently cure woundes Fistulaes paines of the sinewes and ioyntes The third is not only holsom good for the saide thinges but besides to manye other thinges which for breuities sake I ouer pas An other Take Turpentin .ii. pound Galbani gum of Iuy of ether half a pound Roses bedegar Rosemary that is grene .iiii. vnces Take the gums beat them grose poure theÌ„ into the water of Roses After take the Turpentyn and pour theÌ„ together sprinkle vpon theÌ„ rose water after put the flours vnto them and sieth them together and when the water shal be almost consumed let them be put in a lembek and cast out the water that destilleth first then shal the oyl folow An other called the mother of Balme Take Turpentyn a pounde oyle of bayes .vi. ounces Galbani Gum Elemi of ether .vi. ounces gum of Iuy .ii. ounces Olibani ii ounces wod of Aloes one dram Mastik Myrrh Aloes Laudani Castorei Rasae Resinae of the pyn tre of euery one .ii. drams the gum of Oliue tries a pound Cloues Galangal Cumin Cinnamon Nutmegges Zedoariae Cubebarum of euery one .iii. drams Tormentillae Dictamni albi of euery one six drames When they are all mixt let them be destilled by a lembeck of glas An other of Dorustetterus an excellent physicioÌ„ emonst the Germanes Take Xilobalsami an vnce Opopanacis Rosin of the Pyn trie Bdellii Galbani Ammoniaci Mastick Sarcocollae Gummi Elemi Olibani Mirh Benzoi of euery one halfe an vnce Oyll Benedict of Bayes Ladani puri of an vnce and a halfe Carpobalsami or in the steed of it Balm of the description of VVilliam Placentinus of ether of them half an vnce Sanguâ—â—is Draconis ii drams Castorei Spicknard Galangal Cubebarum Cinamon Cardamomi Graines of Paradys the barkes or piles of Citri Orenges of euery one a dram Oyl of Turpintyn as much as the weight of all the rest When they are stiept together a few daies let them be destilled in Balneo Mariae I would thinke better in ashes Of Balmes that be vsed vvith out the body AL they before are vsed both within and without the body but they that folowe are vsed without only or chiefly Balm is shortly thus made Turpin â—yn a pound Mastick new wax of ether an vnce Saffron .ii. drams When thei are mixt destil theÌ„ Balm or oyll Benedict for woundes palsie c. Oyl of Turpintyn a pound Oyll of Bayes two vnces Galbani Gummi Elemi of ether six drams Gum of Iuy Frankencence Mastick wood of Aloes Olibani of euery one two drams Aloes Myrrhae Landani Cactorei of euery one .iii. draÌ„s Let all be beeten and powred into the Turpintyn and oyll and so stand .iii. daies Afterwarde take Galangal Cinnamon Nutmegges Zedoariae Cubebarum of euery one half an vnce DictaÌ„ni Consolidae minoris of ether .iii. drames When thies are pund put them in .iiii. vnces of aqua vitae for .iii. daies Mixt all and destil them in ashes coÌ„tinuing the fier without ceassing day and night til it be finished and chaunge the receiuer according to y â— chaunging of y e colour of y t which is destilled A Balm for skares c. If by the meanes of a strooke saith Lullius about the ende of the second boke of Quintessence any gret syne remayn in the face or other partes of the body by this medicine thou maist remoue that sygne or skar not vtterly but that it appeer much les Mastick .iiii. vnces The barck of swiet pome Granates Gummi Cyperi Carpobalsami of euery one .ii. vnces SaffroÌ„an vnce Turpintyn .ii. pound Oyll of Oliues of the eldest .iiii. vnces Pun theÌ„ that be to be pund and sift them and mixt them with the Turpintyn and Carpobalsamo and together with the oyll destill them with a slow fyer The destilled liquor shalt thou put in hors doung or in the refuse of prest vynes Afterward thou shalt vse it as trewe Balm whose tokens and properties to knowe it by it hath euery one may be solde in steed of it A maruelous water or oyll for strumes and swellinges of the throote wherupon men are said to haue swollen throotes Oyll of Baies .vi. vnces Olibani Mastick Gummi Arabici pure and cleer Turpintyn of euery one thre vnces Mixt them in a morter and destill them in a Lembeck Afterwarde put to ashes to the water drawen out De la cendre Gallicè except it shoulde be redd De la Cedre that we may vnderstande the Câ—der frie. Then destill it againe and this second liquor kepe it lyke Balm The swelling being anoynted therwith oftentymes in the daye assâ—â—ageth by lytle and lytle An artificiall Balm not to be destilled but sod only out of the Frenche booke of Andreas Furnerius Olibani Galbani oyll of whyte Poppy oyll of bitter Almondes cleer Turpintyn of euery one an vnce Grien Bras made in pouder .iii. vnces Vng quarteron Gallicè but this quantitie semeth to muche Oyl of Oliues .ii. poundes Thou shalt heet the Oyl in a leeden kettle vpon the fyer and when it shall begyn to sieth put in the Galbanum piece meell and ouer a slowe fyer stur it softly nowe and then then put to the Mastick and the Olibanum and stur it till they be melted by litle and litle Afterward the Pitche and Turpintyn but he left out the Pitch before with a slow fyer so that they sieth not ouer Then take theÌ„ from the fyer and put to the other two oyles and mixt theÌ„ by stirring and again set them to the fier a lytle At lengthe put in the grienes of the bras mixt them throughly and streyne them through a new clooth into an other vessell leeded also When thou wilt vse the forsaid oyll thou must see before that no sinew or vein almoste be cut Then purginge the soor diligently and making it cleen thou shalt make warm a litle of this oyll in a vessel or spoun of bras and lay it vpon so hoot as the sick may abide it in suche plentie that the hool wouÌ„d be sufficiently moystened Then shalt thou lay vpon it black vnwasht woll of the members of a wether or a hempen
cloth .iii. or .iiii. tymes folded and let it abyde bound vnto it .iiii. houres If so be it the grief seas not then power vpon it again as is said afore and euer take hede that the byle or soore be cleen so in a few daies it waxeth hool maruelousli Sum mixt Turpintyn and certain gumes together in a Cucurbita of glas and let it sieth softly set in sand and cloosed with clay then they let it stande a whyle till the dregges settle to the bottō and wa◠hard then they streine it Oyll also of Hypericō is compared of sum vnto Balm whiche bycause it is not destilled I will describe it hereafter A water that bringeth out boones and preserueth that the woundes chaunce not to root Turpintyn pure and whyte but vnwasht Zopissae hony of euery one a pound Half a pound of Rosin of the Pyn trie that is whyte Let thē be destilled A water of Epiphanius composed for Fistulaes with Turpintyn certain gummes and spices c It is rehearsed befoore in the seconde order amongste the waters composed for certaine outwarde byly diseases And again an other like vnto it in the third order Of oyles of the partes of beastes or excrementes OF the bones and marowes maye an oyl be gotten by sublimacion Syluius Oyl of the yelkes of egs may be destilled in a lembeck like as the oyle of Philosophers Mesuae Syluius Loke before wher we intreated of the destillacion of oyles by descēcion downward generally oute of Vlstadius Oyle of mannes ordure or donge looke before in the order of mans dong Of the liquor of mans bloud loke before in quint tessence Of the destillinge of honye ▪ we haue wrytten before amongste the waters that bee destilled in Roosestilles c. The laste liquor that runneth here oute is somewhat thicke that I iudge it maye be called an oyle Oyles destilled maye also bee mixte together one with an oteer as in this medicine of Epiphanius Empiricus praised for frakens and all kinde of ruggednesse and spottes of the face An ounce and a halfe of virgines milcke Water of Rooses with a little brimstone an ounce Oyles of Tartaro of wheate of yelkes or Egges of euerye one halfe an ounce a scrupul of Caphurae Althoughe the seoyles are not wonte to be made by destillacion yet oyl of wheat and of the yelkes of egges are better made destilled Of oyles of metals tile stones Gagate Aumber WAters and oyles secreate by the singuler industrie and wit of Chymists are of most greate vertues and of so thin a substance and so subtil that a drop of a certain oyl by chaunce falling vpon a bed perced in a moment the manifold clothes and keuerings thereof and burned the bordes in the bottome of the bed Syluius This vertue of pearsinge semeth to pertaine chieflye vnto oyles drawne out of metalles in the which also is a greater force of burninge I vnderstande that Vinegar is chieflye vsed to be destild for the drawing out of oyles oute of Metalies as Antimoni Leade Cerussa Other vse other sharp and most hot liquors for that purpose as sharplie burning water vrine destilled Aqua Forti Lullius in the fift Canon of his firste booke of quintessence when he had taughte to drawe oute the .iiii. elementes oute of plantes he added And so shalt thou do also with metals firste thou shalt make them to resolue with oure Menstrue I suppose he meaneth oure Vrine vnder dounge for the space of a weke the Menstruum must be sharp with some Vegetable and stronge quickenynge thinges whiche we shall declare hereafter in the Questionary After the metalles shall be dissolued set them to be destilled in a fire of the first degree and the Menstruum shall issue forthe and the lime or pouder of y e metal shal remaine in the bottome After this reiterat repete it again vpō the dregs of the metall with newe Menstruum as muche as the weight of the metall and set it to putrifyinge for the space of a month and a half and after this destill it as thou didst of the Vegetable or quickning things but euery time put new Menstruum vpon the dregs Other diuers opinions of Philosophers in the drawing out of the elements out of minerall thinges we shall declare in the thirde boke This saith he I suppose it to be a commone thinge vnto all oyles of metals to be heauier then other oyles as Cardanus signifieih and an other certaine author wryteth that the drops oyl of Vitriol or Coproos to be ponderous and weightie Oyle destilled of Orpment or Mysi or Vitriol of Rom. annoynted vpon y e arteries region of the hart I suppose is hable to saue a mā infected with poyson be it neuer so sharp and strong do kill a manne onlye with touchinge Cardanus And a little after but sence wee are fallen into this communication I think it shuld not be so vnprofitable nor far frō the purpose to inquere this how oyl may be made whiche beinge annoynted vpon the Arteriis maketh the venome to breake out by vomit or purgacion or sweat or vrine It is sure it muste be of metall which must be most stronge I sawe suche once and by the waighte onlye I coniectured that it was without al doute of metall It muste also bee of the nature of Venome for by the immoderate heate as it is saide it vanquisheth firste the euill infection conceiued and by naturallye attracteth vnto the vtter partes that is hurtefull and by the contrarietie driueth it awaye It must also haue no small strengthe to discus expel and again sōe contrarietie against the poysons them selues which .ii. things agree to the iuice of Laser or Assa Foeetida Therfore those things that must driue out the poysone ought to be metally poysons but not most bitter and most hot and discussing or expelling also in a maner contrary to the poysons The matter therfore of these thinges may consist of these thinges Mysi Orpment and the iuice of Laser or Assa foetida and Gentian and of the fat of venemous serpentes and Aconitum If so be it that in any land moo of theese foresaide vertues as to discus expell and resiste poysones c. be to bee gotten the oyle extracted by the force of fyre shall be best of all And a little after But oyle that onlye by anoyntinge of the Arteries dothe thruste oute the poysone I woulde not call it the best in this sence that also besydes it thou shouldest Minister in drinke Triacle or Milke or sum other excellent medicin ye also it should be the more auaylable That dare I be bold to say that the anoynting of the arteries and the things ministred outwardly are better and of more strength then those things that are drunck saue only for this that the poyson remayneth yet in the stomack For vnto such poysons newly taken that they be not yet gone out of the stomack they that prouoke strong vomities are moost excellent as Milk Lie
so that it excede the Vitriol a little then seperate the burning water by destillacion in a phiall or in a croked stil or a bely laid on the one side When that is drawne out vrge the spirits of the Vitriol by litle and little encreasing the fire more and more til al y e spirits be ouer passed This liquor destilled put it again into som one of the .iii. maner of vessels aforsaid destil it in a kettle ful of water vntil whatso euer watry thing is in it be separated whiche thou shalt endeuor to bring to pas by al the witte thou hast that the watrines be clean gotten out ether by a leÌ„bek with a nose or a blind lembek whose nether skirt haue a hollow gutter or circle like vnto a leÌ„bek that is to say with a nose Endeuor that the water in the kettle sethe lightlye if so be it ought to sieth at all the dutch word siedeÌ„ semeth to be equiâ—ocal and may signify as wel se thing as boyling to thintent that the waterines alone may ascend and the oyl alwaies remain in the botom of the bely the which thing to bringe to pas you shall haue nied of two daies at the least Then afterward that oyl that is left in the belly put it into a bely or other of the forsaid vessels defensed with clay and destil it marke whether any water pas before the spirits For if there be any watrines yet mixt with it it shal be nedeful to set it afterward in y â— sun or hot place in a blind leÌ„bek y â— the watrines being eleuated and caried vp may remain in the hem skirt of the leÌ„bek This if y u repeete ofter then once this insolacioÌ„ I mene the oyl shall becom euer the swieter and better Ye also a man may repete the destillacion the second or third time for by that meanes the oyl is rectified more and more Thou maist minister .ii. or .iii. drops of this oyl against all manner of diseases ether by it self or with waters conuenient for euerye disease This oyl I haue tasted my selfe it is swiet pleasant and strong in colour if I remember wel somwhat white An other way Take .iiii. poundes of Vitriol of Rome dry it in an earthen vessel till it wax red after when it is beaten put it into a bely of glasse diligently defenced with clay as the maner is for Aqua fortis and first destilit with a soft fire encresing the degre of the fire by litle and little vntyll white fumes begin to issue out at the nose of y e bely then set a great receiuing vessel fensed w t clay and make a fire with wod continuing for y e space of .xii. hours and at leÌ„ght shal issue out red drops and heauye When the receiuer beginneth to bee clear the matter is finished wherfore then cease that the vessels may be couled Afterward y â— shalt put it in a litle lembek to separate and auoide the fleum and reserue the reast setting it in the sun a ix daies When thou wilt vse it minister it wyth white wine or Malmsy .vi. or .vii. drops so that nothinge after be eaten by the space of .iii. or .iiii. hours it mai be receiued also before slepe if a maÌ„ drink not vpon it This liquor is profitable for a sick stomack for lepers for them that be sicke of y e stone for the retention and keping of vrin for theÌ„ that be sicke of the Ague and in time of the pestilence with water of Acetosae somwhat warm putting vnto it half a dram of spices Diamargariton which is cold if it may be gotten An other way for the same that it may be the better made and purer Put in an earthen pot of earth of Crucibulorum glased within as muche Vitrioll of Rome as thou wilt and destill it in a fornace as is befor said with a fyer of Aqua fortis and there shall run out a whyte water of Vitriol After when it ceaseth thou shalt encreas the fyer and a grien water shall folow which wheÌ„ it hath left thou shalt make a moste strong and vehemeÌ„t fyer both aboue and beneth and a red oyl shall issue out Chaunge euer the receiuer according to the chauÌ„ging of the liquors Or els take those .iii. liquors in one vessel seperate the waters afterward from the oyl by destilling them and the oyll shall remain in the bely This separatioÌ„ is made y e bely staÌ„ding vpright with a head and a receiuer the first destillacion of y e oyl the bely lying ouerth warth as it is said If thou dip a litle drie woul or bombase in water of Vitriol of Rome and ther w t thouch any kind of diseases of y e mouth thou shalt easely heale them Out of a writen booke of a certain friend he semeth here to meane that water y t ruÌ„neth out first which is to be vsed only without the body not the very oyl of Vitriol which is more precious and pure and is kept to be ministred giuen to drinke against inward diseases Of the vertues of oyl of Vitriol out of y e same writen boke Drinck Malmsy with a litle oyll of Vitriol coÌ„tinually for the space of .v. or .viii. dais it riddeth a man from all obstructions it purgeth the bloud and driueth away the stone It healeth the il scab if it be drunck with water of fumitory and Myrobalana condite It reneweth a maÌ„ with water of endiue It healeth all maner of griefes of the head with water of Maioram or Buglos or Melissa also the turnsicknes if it be conteined any space With water of Agresta it healeth al maner of diseases the body being first purged It restoreth the memory with the water of Acorus or Fenell It mouith a man to slepe with the sied of Letis or Popy It is good for melancolyck persons with water of Bublos or Borage It cureth mad men with water of the water lily coÌ„tinuing y e vse of it also hoat impostums the sleping euil with water of wyld rewe It purgeth the body w t Aqua vitae It healeth y e palsy with water of wyld mint or sage Hyssop the cramp with water of Sage the sicknes of quaking with water of Basilicus diuers inward diseases with water of Trifolium all feblenes of the eyes with water of Fenell the reum from the head with water of Lily y e catar w t water of AdiantuÌ„ Hyssop the cough also the disease of the syde with water of PlaÌ„tain the Pleuresis w t water of maiden hear the feblenes wekenes of the stomack w t water of mint With water of Quinces it staunceth vomitting if the sick be of a moyst temperature or coÌ„plexion let it be giuen him with water of plantain or shep pardes purs with a litle Diarhodon It stinteth y e flux of the bely with the water of Plantain the co lyck with water of Rewe With water of wormwod it
resistith venemous bytings It healeth al maner of impostumes and dropsy continuing it It is good for the limes that be resolued if it bee chawfed vpon with an Ox gaull It helpeth the splen with Tamarindis with water of Radish and and sea bremble it expelleth the stoone openeth the stoppinges of theines It healeth all agues w t water of Agresta certain kyndes of leprosy coÌ„tinuing the vse of it This is the trew potable gold and the trew SelaÌ„dyn or Chelidonia more also in weigth it giueth not place to gold it hath the same as many vertues as potable gould A litle of it with a litle water of Roses drunk restoreth y e speche that is lost it stinteth the bleding at y e nose with Roses Of the burninge or broylinge of Chalcanthum that is Vitriol and his kindes Bulcasis writeth in a maner the same things in his thirde boke of the preparacion of medicines whiche we haue declared afoore in his preparacion for the makinge of Vitriol Zimor also he teacheth to prepare after the same maner But emongst diuers wayes of this oyl of Vitriol I lyke that best which I described last For the liquor that is destilled that way is the sharpest of all and also the tartest in so muche that it may be called vinegar of metal as me thinketh Wherfore of certain it is highly commended for the quenshing of thirst in somer tyme one drop of it put into a draught of wyne lyke as I found in a certain doutch writteÌ„ booke where as this also is added Vitriolum is destilled in a bely laid ouerthwart fensed w t clay in the flames of the fyer it runneth out skant the third day and first water An other way out of the same booke Stiep Vitriol in Aqua fortis whiche may drawe out all the fatnes therof from the which if thou separate the Aqua fortis by destillacion an oyll shall remaine But perauentur this way is to daungerous that a liquor so destilled should be receiued within the body But without the body and to the wheeles or cankar of the mouth it may well be ministred I remember I haue red in sum place in Lulliê° in his worke of Quintessence where he maketh meÌ„cion of oyl or Quintessence of Vitriol But in what sort it should be made I could neuer yet fynde in any booke that went abrode so greatly haue they all kept secret this thing as a marueylous mystery For the description whiche I will declare here after out of the boke of Nicolas Massa vpon the disease of Naples can not be receiued within y e body When the Chalcanthum that is the Vitriol or Mysis that is Vitriol of Rome is brent an oyll moste sharp hoat is drawen out of it by the force of the fyre in vessels of glas wherwith if a man touche wartes when they ar cut or wounded they will go away The same if a maÌ„ tast it it striketh the tong lyke as it were a hoat iron Yet the vse of it is to dry byles within that be out of hoope of recouery wher as thei be not much filthy as it chauÌ„ceth in certain that be diseased of Phthoe corrupcion matter without grief It serueth also to cut of cancars corrupt members with the wood Oliue anoynted with it Cardanus The same coniectur we wryte before that oyl of Mysis or arsnick anoynted without may seme to deliuer froÌ„ poysoÌ„ The spirit or Quintesseuce of Vitriol is praysed of certain practicioners against the falling sicknes and Apoplexia or benumming of sences Shomakers inck lowseth the bely both in hony and meed drunck to the weight of a dram also in wyne specially the oyll therof George Agricola in his .iii. boke of the nature of things digd out of the ground Oyl of Vitriol doth kill not only men but tries wherfor it must be made in sum out syd or place where no man dwelleth Albucasis other shew the way of making it Brassauolus In myne opinion not the oyl but y e smoke of Vitriol whyles it is brent with fier prepared vnto destillacioÌ„ is so hurtful And again of ChalcanthuÌ„ y t is vitriol oyl is made so burning that we vse it for poteÌ„tiall fyer for it is of a caustical y u is a burning nature with litle grief it cutteth members if they be touched with a knief anoited with Oliues Whyles y e oylis preparing ye must take hede of the smoke bycause it doth not only kyl men but also the tries that be nye it drieth theÌ„ vp The tryal wherof FraÌ„ciscus de MoÌ„te the notable bone setter whose tries of his archard euery one died w t the smoke of Vitriol whyles he prepared the oyll therof The oyl of Vitriol is maruelous burning lyke a hoat iroÌ„ without grief is made in this maner xxx vnces of Vitriol of Rome or of Cypres Salnitrum roche Alum of ether .iiii. vnces When they are all beten let them be calcionated with fier according to arte Afterward put this calcionated in a croked Bocia clayed for the fier of an alchymists fornace and by the fier thou shalt haue the oyl incresed in the receiuer which is a marueilous Cauterium or burning thing and hath no pere in any operacion and chiefly in takyng away of wens great wartes But the receiuer must be great if thou wilt make the forsaid oyl Nicolas Massa in his boke of the disease Naples and Thomas Philologus who taketh .xx. drames of Vitriol but of Alum and salt of ether xxiiii ¶ A water of diuers metals out of a certain dutch boke for the leprosi spots dunnes of the eies The filing of siluer coper stiele gould of euerye one as muche as ye can get the first daye put it in vryn whyles it is warm made by a boy or wenche that is a maide the next day in the crums of hoat bread the third in a whyte of an egge the fourth in the milke of a woman y t nurseth a wenche the fift in reed wyne Then put all thies into a still destill them with a litle fyer and kipe it For the vertue of it is incoÌ„parable It is good against the leprosy and al the spots in the face and it procureth vnto the face a youthfull brightnes it maketh also cleernes of y e sight thies shalt thou reed otherwyse in the Addicions vpon the Breuiarium or Bridgment of Arnold de Villa Nona 1. 18. Of Aqua fortis and such lyke _â—E described a litle before a certain water lyke Aqua fortis destilled of Vitriol Sal Nitrum and Alum against greate wartes c. But the commun Aqua fortis also and the simple oyl of Vitriol if a man put a drop of them in to a wen or warte first cut they take it away of the whiche thing I made a tryall in my self vpon a sied wart on my fyngars ende wherinto when I had first cut it with a razer I put a drop of
Aqua fortis and although it weÌ„t not away by by yet within a few wekes is was gon Aqua fortis or to separate metalles is thus made One part of Sal nitrum liquid or molten Alum that they call roche .iii. partes sand half a parte when they are dryed diligently and purged with the fyer let them be destilled in a vessell of glas It is gathered by it selfe that whiche issueth out first at length when the glas looketh lyke a safroÌ„ colour encrease the fyre and an other foloweth whiche is receiued in the first for the moste parte and yet if thou take it in water of the fountain or well it is yet so sharpe that neuer the les it dissolueth siluer and separateth it from Goulde It is separated in this wise Take a litle quantity of y e water drawn out and put into it the weight of xii grains of very pure siluer â–ª and set it vpoÌ„ ashes til the siluer be dissolued This shall send down into the bottom of the vessell groundes like vnto fine lime which taken awaye the pure water that remaineth put it to the hole water from the which thou druest it which in like maner shal it self also let down into the bottom groundes like the other which taken away thou shalt haue the hole water most pure and most strong to dissolue syluer and other metals except gould gould also I suppose is dissolued of Chymists with Aqua fortis but of another maner of making But seing it vanisheth away easili and consumeth it shal be kept in a glas diligentlye shut To a man that imagineth how great strengthes it hath which takinge water as I said of the wel yea withoute fyre in xxiiii hours doth bring siluer vnto water but w t a little heate of ashes in .ii. or .iii. houres there is no man but he wil graunt those last vapors and water wherunto they be tourned to haue maruelous strength or rather increadible Of the same kind is water that is made of the salts Ammoniak and Nitrum with Chalcanthum y t is coproos and Alum molten in equal porcions putting vnto them at last one fourth part of roust this made after the same maner spareth not very stones It yet a man ad and put to a litle of the obstracite stone called Smiris wherwith they polishe precious stones thou shalt haue more plenty of water and better because it wil not bee burned Theese things therfor receiued and found true by trials let vs see what shoulde be cause that this water becommeth so strong for manifest experience techeth that the drier part attenuated and fined by the force of the fire receiueth a firye and a fretting or gnawing strength But why burneth not the water of separatinge as burnyng water dothe Because that the burninge water is hotter and thinner and les drye therefore it maye bren and excellentlye heaten but not freate But the other can freat not burne and also heaten a little By like reason therfore the oyl that is takeÌ„ out of Chalcanthum by the force of the fire for as muche as it turneth the driest part into humor it is most sharpe and striketh the tounge like fire Cardan Let no manne thinke that this liquor perteineth only to Chymists and goldsmithes For it is profitable also for medicines vnto mans body It is dropped into warts that be cut and slit as I said afore Some dip the end of a little band in it and put it into a hollow touth from which they wolde take the sence feling of the grefe and mortify it I haue hard the suffusion or web of the eie to be cured in certain with the vertue of this liquor by the same quick siluer is precipitated as we shall now declare and the oyle of Chalcanthum or Coproos is drawn out by it as we said Take halfe an ounce of Aqua fortis mixt it with an ounce and a half of Roosewater soores of the throte palace iawes and lips let them be touched twise a daye with a little Cotton tide to the top of a sticke and moistned in this liquor Thom. Philologus Certain diuers maners of Aqua fortis maiste thou read after where we shall write of Mercury sublimated ¶ Burning water that a candle maâ— burne in the verye water Put a sextar or .xx. vnces of the eldest wine in a potte wide aboue and narow beneath wherunto thou shalt ad .ii. vnces of bothe kindes of Sulphur or brimstone that is of the quik and dead ii vnces and as much alum and as much of gros salt Let theÌ„ be sod together til the third part be consumed A tallowe or waxe candle annoynted with this shal burne in the water as well as in the aire If so be it thou sprinkle a heare or cloth therwith light it at the flame and it shall burne mooste manifestlye withoute hurte Oute of a written booke It wold appeare that a liquor destilled of this matter by the force of the fyre woulde be muche more effectuous to the same conclusion A water to whitten the tethe whiche Isabella of Arragonia the Duches of Millen did vse A pound of Salte purged and beaten an ounce of Glaâ—sye or Isly Alum let them bee destilled in a lembecke Mixt an ounce of this water with an vnce of Plantaine water and with a little wode wouldipte therein rub the teethe and they shall becom most bright Furnerius An other like out of the same boke Sall Ammo niak Sall Gemmae of ether iii ounces Suger Alum an ounce and a halfe commone Salte an ounce When they are beaten destil them in a lembecke of glasse and with the liquor drawne oute thereof rub the tethe with a stone and after wash the mouth with a litle white wine Read befor in the end of the Cosmeticall waters the same description but without common salt the vse wherof is declared without destillacion Aqua Angelica of a maruelous vertue against blearednesse Cankar and burninge with fyre Three ounces of vnâ—lekt lime and halfe a pound of raine water let them stande together in a vessell of glasse or tinne a .iii. daies Then mirtinge them sturre them together and let them settle again a .xxiii. hours or more in a vessell well couered Afterwarde straine them tenderly throughe a linnen clothe till it bee cleare Then put to it .x. drawmes of Sall Ammoniak the whitest thou caÌ„st finde and finest beaten and molten wyth longe mouing in the said water After when it is setled thou shalt straine certaine times the cleare water that standeth aboue or els destil it by a Filtrum Thys water healeth the clothe or spot La Toile in Frenche that is the webbe of the eyes three drops thrise a daye dropt into them continuinge till the eye be made hoole It taketh awaye also the teares of the eyes the rednesse and blearednesse also the Cankar and burnyng if it be rightlye ministred It taketh awaye all spots and steines of cloth both silke and woullen if they bee
washt in it a litle warmed Furnerius Mans vrin destilled chymistes vse it to resolue goulde printers for their inck that they vse to print bookes with all Diuers waters wonderfully drying sharpe fretting for healing of the whelkes of the frenche pockes without anoynting maiest thou reade in Nicolas Massa in his .vi. booke the .ii. chapt of the Frenche pockes A certain burning water with orpment c. destilled is described of Rogerius a Surgion Of the lyquors of precious stones CArdan in his second booke of subtiltie serching a water whiche put in by a Syringe or Spoute mighte breake the stoones of the bladder supposeth suche a one might be receiued of the stoone called Tecolithos or the stones of creuisses c. as we haue rehersed befor in the tretize of y â— vertues of destilled liquors generally I if I may ad coÌ„iectur to coniectur I would destill ether thies or other stones or glas with the iuice of Parietary Certain chymistes do prayse highly the spirit or Quintessence of berill against the stoone of the reines or bladdar Of cirtain massy thinges as quicksiluer precipitated or killed and the same and arsnâ—ck sublimated LEt vs ad here certain massy and hooll medicines which also be sublimated or sod in glas vessels at the fyre although it be almoste besydes our matter when as we purposed to entreat only in this boke ofliquors separated from a grosser substaunce Yet because they be a few medicines and sublimated that is they are prepared and made with lyke in strumentes as the forsaid liquors and hetherto for the most part secret y t is knowen vsed of few maruelous effectuous I thought not good to let them pas Quick siluer precipitated is thus made as Car. wryteth in his fift boke of Subtiltie Take Alum Calcanthum that is coproos of ether lyke much put therto salt as much as one of them half as muche destil this together in glas vessels Put a pound of this water y t is of aqua for t is coÌ„munly called .iii. pouÌ„d of quick siluer into a glas destil therout encresing the fier coÌ„tinue til the smoke and the vessel wax red no water at al remain At length breake the vessell gather the quick siluer whiche thou shalt se now gathered to gether lyke a stone grynd this very small vpon a table of red marble sieth it again destil it til it be dryed in a glasen vessel Again breake y e vessel gather the matter y t remaineth grinde the same again vpon y e moler very fine subtil Afterward put it in a vessel of bras a gret fier made vnder it mixt it stur it about by the space of .ii. houres til it get almost a brightnes rednes les theÌ„ take it and kepe it in vessels of glas This emongst all other y t eat the flesh without grief dry vp putrifying sores if it be rightly made is the best nether serueth it to any other purpose y t I knowe Thies thinges writeth he Perles are dissolued w t stroÌ„g vinegar specially being destilled or with the iuice of limoÌ„s c. precipitated and sublimated Cinna briuÌ„ and they return into quicksiluer Syluius A way to make red pouder y t is quicksiluer calcionated precipitated out of Marianus y e surgeoÌ„ Six vnces of Aqua fortis iiii vnces of quicksiluer mixt theÌ„ together in a bely or cucurbita of glas wel claied with a hed vpoÌ„ it y â— nose end wherof shall be put within a receiuer let them be destilled with a moderat fyer encreasing it by litle litle But aqua fortis that separateth gold froÌ„ siluer is made thus Sal nitruÌ„ roche AluÌ„ Vitriol of Rome of eue ry one .ii. pouÌ„des let theÌ„ be mixt in a morter euer beating grinding with the pestil til they be well mixt Then put the pouder sumwhat groos into a bely vnclayed al the mouthes stopt let it be destilled The tokeÌ„ of his goodnes is this if y e grouÌ„d wherupoÌ„ a litle of it falleth do boyll streigthway The vertue of this reed pouder is maruelious Take out of the barbers shop .iii. vnces of lye of PraecipitatuÌ„ an vnce a half rosed hony .ii. vnces mixt them diligeÌ„tly With this medicine without doubt thou shalt dry cleÌ„se a filthy sore and roten wherupoÌ„ the flesh shal after begin to brede wher as other clensing things as those made of y e iuice of ApiuÌ„ or of y e iuice of Cynoglos shal do no good Nicolas Massa in his booke of the Frenche disease calleth Mercurium praecipitatum Angelicall pouder because of the marueilous as it were a diuine operacion of it in the FreÌ„ch pockes which he his selfe hath not seldom tryed This medicin saith he dryeth with a certain gentle eating of the soft and superfluous fleshe and that withoute grief remouing also the euill secret qualitie of the soores and chiefly of the disease of Naples It digesteth any matter and purgeth it letteth the disease called Corrosio of gnawyng the canker it dissolueth groos matter hard and rawe after y e opening of gummes And no medicine is to be coÌ„pared with this in this disease For if thou continew in the vse of it it leadeth vnto the perfect breding of the skin as I haue oftentimes tryed and it is excellent in the euill sores of the yard It is made in this wyse But a pound of quick siluer in a litle bely of glas and power as muche Aqua fortis vnto it Then put the bely in a pot and ashes in space betwene the bely and the pot sydes that the pot breake not assone as it toucheth the fyer TheÌ„ put vnder fyer slow at the first and let it be encresed by lytle and litle yet after a certain mean and so with a strong fyer let it be left till all the water be consumed whiche is perceiued when no more vapours ascend out of y e bely So shalt thou haue Mercurium calcionated red Grynde this if any parte of the quick siluer remaine with it put the said pouder in a cleen vessell of bras at the fyer so mixt it let it stande till all the part of quick siluer be consumed This pouder maist thou vse to all the forsaid diseases and specially to the sores of the yard of other places wher rottennes and much il matter letteth the knitting or heling vp and in fistulaes dissolue it with wine and cast it in by a brasen pipe for it worketh meruelously Moreouer water to separate gold from siluer is thus made Two poundes of Vitriol of Rome Roche Alum .xvi. ounces Sal Nitrum a pounde let them be put in a croked bely writheÌ„ bakward claied or in a streght with his head and receiuer Destyll them as Alchymists do This water is meruelous to put away wartes in what parte of the body so euer they be and specially in the fouÌ„dament and wombe it brenneth and
searreth also euil sores eating them out euery where yea euen in the throte and letteth the sores from crieping and spreading namelye of the yarde and the wombe If it be to vehement mixte it with Roose water And I my selfe haue healed ill sores and biles of the throte touching them twise a dai with the saide water mixtinge with it half so muche of Rosewater and it is one of our secreates se more in the same the .vi. boke and .ii. chapter But this angelicall pouder had I of a certaine olde Alcumist and I made it before Iohannes de Vigo euer made anye mencion of it Thus farre Massa and parte Thom. Philologus out of him Of the making and commodities of this redde pouder read Iohannes de Vigo in his fifte boke of Additionum where he biddeth that the vessels rereceiuer shall be thrise as bigge as the bealye the xxxviii leafe b. And that white found with thys pouder is siluer sublimated from the redde like as is what so euer is yelowe or of a Saffron coloure And also in his booke entituled Capiosa the. Clxiii lefe a. Pouder of Mercury saithe Matthaeolus Senensis in his booke of the waye to heale the Frenche disease is made in this maner Take .iiii. pouÌ„ds of water wherewith gould is seperated from siluer a pound and a half of quick siluer Put these in a vessel of glas with a narow mouthe wyth a croked nek round about fensed with clay which shal be receiued of an other theÌ„ stop the ioynts of the vessels with potters clay diligently TheÌ„ put vnderfire made of coles so that it may euer wax bigger and bigger so long till all the water haue run out After this breake the phial and take out lightly the red cake that setleth in the bottome what white so euer sticks in it cast it away but y e red make it in pouder But for asmuch as throughe this pouder much harm might happen to theÌ„ shuld receiue it except it be duely prepared Take ii ounces of the said pouder and let them staÌ„d to soke in water of Plantaine and Acetosae of ether ii ounces the next morow early take the waters from thence and put new vnto it and set it to the fire in a vessel of bras or erth when they are hot cease not to stur them aboute with an iron or woden spattle or sâ—is vntil al becom pouder and that withoute anye difficultie of the which thou maist when thou list make such a recept against y e frenche disease aswel that is Flegmatike as Melancoly Take electuarii Conciliatoris this is made of diuers cordiall medicins and spices precious stones pearles gould siluer Camphora Ambra Mosch is described of him Differentia 196 half a scruple perls hyacincts of ether .v. grains the pouder of Praecipitatum v. grains pouder of Dâ—amuscum Diamargariton of ether halfe a scrupull Make .v. pils let theÌ„ be gilded Thom Philologê° who addeth Terrae Sigillatae and Boli Armeniae of euery .iii. grains let these be taken of the pacieÌ„t an hour before day let him kepe his bed .v. houres Shortly beleue me shal the french pocks be auoided with this receit For the fleum and blak choler also shal vanish away bothe by vomit and downwardes Besides this there are very many kinds of diseases that we haue cured with such a pouder For it puts not awaye onlye matter and rotten flesh being strawed vppon but also wythout any difficultie it bringeth sores biles vnto a skar the pestilence also with a little Triacle and with the iuice of the hearbe called Tuneci whiche they call Carduum Benedictum or w t an electuarye of precious stones if it be not yet confirmed stablished in the bodye it driueth it away meruelouslye Manye also that bee Limphatici that is mad or Melancolike whome they beleued commonly to be resorted vnto of Deuils we haue cured them with y e same What make I mani words We haue deliuered with this pouder those y t wer almost dead of the quartain putting vnto it Saccharum Buglossatum or triacle or Mithridatium som digestion made an hour before the fit in .v. or vii grains weight according to the age and streÌ„ght of the body of the diseased Yea also it is holsoÌ„ to be ministred amongst the griefes of the yard great guts for we haue cured some that auoyded their dung by their mouth leaninge to the moniments and sayings of Paulus Aegineta that saith how certain phisitioÌ„s haue ministred in that disease of the great guttes quicke siluer killed The same resisteth the taking as they cal it or inchaÌ„tment It hath besides this many notable vertues which when I haue more leisure I wil rehearse vnto thee he speketh to him y t talketh with him one by one perauenture then it shall delite me to expres in what sorte thou maist make pouder w t gould and quicke siluer or els the water declared before These he I hare of late that a certain phisicion or chymist at Athesin did prepare Mercurium praecipitatum with gould and sold it like gold which had suche vertue to eat oute gnawinge or grief Se those that we shal declare about the end of those that folow next after How Praecipitatum is made which is a remedy against all diseases growing of the rottennes of humors out of a certain writeÌ„ boke Make a water of equal porcions of Vitriol of Rome and Sal Nitrum with a heade and receiuer in the whiche thou shalt put the sixt-part of the weighte of rawe Mercury y t is to say if ther be 3. pouÌ„ds of Vitriol and Sal nitrum put .vi. vnces of Mercury Afterward suffer the water with his spirites to descend in to the receiuer Then auoyde all that is in the receiuer into a clean bely and that is claied vnder the whiche put a head with a receiuer and destill it again and wheÌ„ the water is in the receiuer put it againe in the bely in the whiche the Mercury remained Thou shalt repete this till the Mercury wax red Then when it is red washe it with Cordiall waters as Borage Balme and such lyke But first washe it often tymes in fountain water or well water destilled Mercury so prepared shalt thou giue to sick men within their bodies in this maner If the body be very strong giue .x. grains if it be mean .viii. weakes fiue if it be a chyld coÌ„sider diligently what is necessary to be done But vtterly mixt it with triacle so shalt thou giue it to him that is infected with poyson droysy pestileÌ„ce or taken with other infirmitie If a sounde man once a yeare or euery third yeare as it shall seme him good vse this Praecipitatum with a dew digestion of the humors that is with a preparacion of purgacion he shall preuent many diseases Note that in the stede of Mercury thou mayst vse Amal gama made of six partes of quick siluer and of one part of gold and so shalt thou worke
be et it again kepe it in a vessell lying on the one syde enclyned eight daies in a cold place til it be resolueed into oyl whiche if it doo not pres it out and kepe it The same wayes doth Mesues make oyls of egs It wer better whē y e Tartarū is calcinated and put it in a Hippocras bagge as they call it let it be put in a dry place till the oyll runne out into a vessel set vnder it Syluius I fynd an other certain maner in Furnerius in a Frenche booke of decking where as he biddeth to take Tartarū burned and calcinated as muche as can be taken at two handfulles and tied straite in a linnen clout to be burnt and calcinated in a furnace of Glas Lyme or Brick thē to be powred into a good quātitie of water with as muche Alum as a nut and to be muche sturred aboute then when thou hast let rest .xxiiii. houres streine this water casting that away that remaineth in the linnen cloth and sieth it in a skillet till nothing els then a certayne whyte crust remaine c. this place semeth to be mangled whiche hanged in a litle bag ny to the earth within thre daies thou shalt see it turned in to liquor whiche muste be a certain tymes strained til it becum cleer Sum put Tartarum to be calcinated in a newe pot in a potters ouen and when the vesselles are all baked then take it out But I thinke it should be calcinated better moore purely in hoat ashes or cooles as apples or wardens are wonte to bee rosted happing them also with cooles It shal be inough burnt when it shall appeare nowe whyte nor any more black whē it is so burnt they hang it in a litle bag with a sharp end lyke a spyr stieple tund vpsyde doun the mouth or wyde end put in a clouen stick wherby it shall hang and be prest together w t a phiall of glas set vnder with a tunnil An other way Take equall porcions of Tantarum and Salnitrum pund burne them in a larg pot then grinde or breake them with a hotte iron and put them in a little bagge in a wine celer that they may destill An other Beat Tartarum and Nitrum in equal parts mixt them and burn them that the Nitrum maye be consumed The Tartarum that remayneth put in a bladder that is a glas like a bladder hang it in hot water and it shall be streighte resolued into oyle ¶ An other Tartarum well washte from the dregs and verye wel dried shalt thou calcinat till it waxe white Then when it is beaten and sifted dissolue it with raine water destilled and made warme when it is molten destill it by a Filtrum then lette it gather into a Iellye when it is so calcinat it againe that it may waxe more white So at lengthe shalt thou hange it in a little bagge as an Hippocras bagge in a moyst place laye on some brode thinge for a couer that no vncleane thinge fall into it and setting a glased pot vnder it Some destill it in a lembeek of glas that is to say in ashes from whence a water runneth first then the fire encreased by litle and little the oyle The vse It is good for all scabs and Ringwormes it maketh the skin white cleare youth-like I haue sene it vsed to runninge soores of the head to the which I thinck that is better wher w t Nitrum is burned together It maketh coper also siluer white and putteth away spots steins in linnē clothes It is put to colours to make thē more bright as I think as they put to wrytinge inke of the coloure of the bresill wode and other Rogerius also 4. 9 teacheth to make oyl of Tartarum This saith he clenseth cloths and spots remaining after birth of a melancoly cause purgeth the face Of oyls of the yelkes of egges wormes and Scorpions OYl of egs out of Rasis Put the yelks of egs in an iron kettel vpon the coles till they be burnt and the oyl that drippeth out kepe it in a glas It is good for the greues of the tuel or fundament and of the eares and teethe ¶ This oyl saithe Mesues is proued with much experience to purge the skin to heale thorowly tetters ringwormes and other faultes of the skin to brede heare to sores boyles and fistulaes Thirty eg yolkes or there about hard rosted crummed with the handes let them be parched in an earthen frying pan or skellet leaden w t a moderate fire sturring them with a wodē spone or erthen til they waxe red and let the oyle be resolued from them which being pressed yeld more then a sponeful Or the same yelkes harde rosted let them be broken vpon a moler then let them be beaten into lumps and prest out in a pres as we haue declared in oyle of Almondes and an Oyle shall destil from them Or the same yelkes put in to a bealy with a lembecke let them be destilled by the force of the fire as it shal be said of oyl of Philosophers These saith Mesues Whereas Syluius in his annotacions saith It taketh away meruelously the foulnes of the skin and skars specially that be left in burnte places for the moste parte it smelleth somwhat strong yet at the laste destilled by sublimacion les It encreaseth heare as Serapion saith in his Antidotarie Oyle of egges of Nicolas fashion Frye sodden yolkes of egges with a slow fyre made of coles in an iron skellet continually sturringe them wyth an iron rodde till they be well rosted presse them oute in a stronge linnen clothe moystened in oyle of Almondes But it is better saithe Syluius to frye the yelkes rawe and moue them continually with a spone til they being rosted and prest with a spone geue an oyl in a vessel hielding which put in a glas reserued good a greate while Oute of xx yolkes thou shalt draw oute in .ii. houres .iiii. ounces or there about Matthaeolus wrytinge vpon Dioscorides prayseth this oyl for the roughnes of y e skin for ringwormes for cleftes of the lippes handes feete and tuell also for the griefes of sores ioynts and all sinewy places to conclude for the griefes and sores of the eares Moreouer it is good saith he for places burnt with fire and in the thin skins of the brain it separateth the impared partes from y e hole meruelously whiche not without my great honor and commendacion and profit of the sicke I haue often tried in Surgery In a wounde vpon the braine panne poure in the oyl of egs and it wil take away the griefe as Abhomeron Abynzoar teacheth whiche we haue also tried with good succes Marianus Sāctus An oyle for the sores or boyles of children .xvi. yolkes of egs sod an vure of Mirrh .iiii. graines of black Helleborus let them be mixte together w t an iron spone in an iron skellet set vpō a few coles then pres the yelks
them that were sick of the colick and haue had oft good succes through the same burning water set on fyre in a bath stouf or sweeting hous narowe and close euery where the aire waxeth hoat wherin the sinewes ioyntes and other partes couled are proffitably fomentated and if it be possible to be done they sweet also To moue sweet and to warme the bathing place with the vapour of hoat water the commun people set great caudrous w t hoat water in their sweeting places with chaf together to keepe the heat longer and sumtymes swiet herbes Other haue a pot hoot without the bath with water and other herbes or medicines put in it from whence the vapour entreth into the bath by a pype beneth This other do with other instrumentes and vessels as they in Italy in the old tyme heated hoathouses When the bathing place is alredy made hoat a burning coole might be put into the pot and dry medicines be strowâ—d in the perfume wherof is desyred or â—â—st both otherwyse also chiefly for wemens vse to diuers diseases of the wombe receiuing the perfume by a pype Hyppocrates describeth a peculiar vessell for this purpose Let them put out their head the whyle which are to weake for to abyde it or such as it is to be feared lest they swound or chaunce into ouer great thirst c. Sum in bathes power water or wyne simple or mixte with medicines vpon reed hoat tyle stones or dros of iron or stones Sweet in bed is prouoked with hoat tyle stones foulded in moyst linnen clothes and put in to the bedde or with tinnen bottelles filled with hot water or with litle bagges wherin herbes sod are put yet hoat and the better if a hoat tyle stone also be put in withall Wull vnskoured suppled in wyne or vinegar wherunto oyll is put Dates beaten Bran sod in salt water or vinegar do both repres and mollifie together Wyne and vinegar do repres and coule and more yet ether bread or meel or a sponge or ashes or woull vnwasht or a linnen cloth wiet in ether of thies Celsus Sum put hoat ashes or burning cooles rather in a vessell of wood filling it to the half the rest they fyll with what herbes they list as wormwod mints to comfort the stomack ether by them selues or sprinkled with a litle wyne then bynding vpon it a linneÌ„ cloth they lay it to y e part diseased specially where it is nedeful to heaten to dry to discus to drawe sumwhat strongly It is conuenient for partes couled and to them that haue gouty aches to vse it with mugwort only or also chamemell vnto the diseases of the womb with Matricaria This fomentacioÌ„ may be made with .ii. vessels to be laid vnto by cours Celsus willeth men in sum place to lay about the places diseased wull perfumed with the smoock of brymston Hereunto may be referred all suche thinges as Fuchsius other wryt of fomentacions apposicions embroches litle bags and insessions The greke word aeonein signifieth the water vpon and power vpon whether it be done bicause of fomentacion that is w t heat or other cause Galen doth prayse y e perfume of the fyer stone or miln stone sprinkled with vine gar for the taking away of hardnes of y e fleshe as kirnels Diuers perfumes for the french diseases which are al made with Cinabrio that is made of quitksiluer sum also with orpmeÌ„t Marchasita c shalt thou fynd in Nic. Mass certain other which haue taught y e heeling of this disease The leeues dry of Tussilago made in perfumes so y e smok may be drawen in at the mouth vpoÌ„ doth help y e congh and OrthopnaeuÌ„ and breaketh the impostumes in the brest The same operacion also hath the rout perfumed Dioscorides Of certain iuices THe iuices of certain herbes wrong and prest out are sod at fyer or dryed in the sun as Bulcasis teacheth seuerally of the iuice of Hamsig Plantain Lettis Singrien Purselan Rostrum Purcinum or hogges snout Scariola Fenel Smalage Volubili Sorrell and other A maruelous waye to drawe out the iuice out of black Elleborum whiche sum vse as a secrete mystery the commoditie whereof I also trying would not hyde lest I should seme to be sory that our posteritie shuld haue any excelleÌ„t knowledge who founde this way first I can not saye I learned it of certain my moste secret friendes I mean that black Elleborum whiche communly all men in Germany name in lyke maner lyke vnto Consiligo very many kepe it in their gardeÌ„s but that whiche groweth vpon the mouÌ„taines to be found in our countrey Heluetia is best A man may trye the same way in Colocynthida Esula Laureola c. Sieth lightly in water the routes of black Elleborum cleen and washt set infused in the same first a night or more small cut Thou shalt take hede both in this and in the other decoctions that thou skim away diligently al the foom that swymmeth aboue as venemous This water shalt thou kepe and again power other vnto it warm and heet it a whyle moderatly chaunging the water so oft til the routes retein none or very litle bitternes any more whiche shall cum to pas when thou hast chaunged the water seuen or nyne tymes But in the meane space whyle thou chauÌ„gest the waters destill the first euer with a Filtrum or through a brush and at length sieth all with a slowe fyer or with burnt cooles rather so that they boyl not yet let them be alwayes at the poynt of boyling vntil they be as thick as hony in an earthen pot glased or of bras tinned the pot couered or litle opeÌ„ WheÌ„ as now a litle water remaineth about the ende of the siething stur it about gently now and then w t a stick that the iuice be not burnt too and at the same time for a pound of rotes of Elleborum thou shalt put .ii. drammes of Mastik pund and cease not to sturre it other continuallye or by little distaunces til the iuice seme out and out sufficiently thickened whiche wil chaunce sodenlye for the mooste parte and that the matter may be the les burnt the nere vnto the ende and to the thickning the iuice is so much vrge it with les fyre nor be not weary of the time for thou shalt haue a most excellent and exquisite medicine againste diuers diseases speciallye melancholik diseases It shal become of a darke red coloure of moste bitter sauour with a percing sharpnes like as is in Asarum or Asarabaâ—cha and Cloues but stronger ye burning as it semeth to the taster yet is not burning in deede that is because of the tenuitie and sclendernes of the partes as I wold haue tried It is ministred an hour after supper in the mouÌ„tenance of a pease in all diseases whereunto Elleborus is conueniente and where it is good to lose the bealy One pill of that quantity that I saide wil make a man to
small then beaten infused in Aqua vitae as muche as is sufficiente they are let stande in the infusion warme in Balneo Mariae or sande .xiiii. daies sturring and chafinge them in the meane season oftentimes euery day then are they prest oute strongly throughe a grose linnen clothe Then are they put in a lembeck and with the fire is the waterye moysture drawne oute till the consistence or thicknes of Diacy donion of the said medicin If ther remain yet any moisture let it be put vpon burning coles in some vessel as much as is sufficient Of the iuice of the Flour Deluce and Rape c. OVre Floure Deluce is more stronge in operation in the dropsy as semeth me then the Florentines of the whiche opinion a frend of mine also a very wel learâ—ed Phisicion is who of late sente mee these hys experimentes and trialles of the iuice of the roote of Flower Deluce and Rape Take a hens egge and pouringe oute the white put the iuice of the Flower Deluce in place and mixte it diligently with the yolke and when thou hast a little warmed it in the ashes geue it for a mornynges draught which shall auoid downward aboue mesure the dropsy water This also saith he haue I emongst my secretes for them that be sick of the dropsy and can not swete take the iuice of a round Rape beaten in a morter and prest out seasoned with Suger or cinamon that it taste somthing els then the Rape geue this in the morning to the sick well couered aâ—d he shall sweat The iuice of Purslan Singreen or Houslike Cotyledonis and of other likewise that be slimye and Clammy because of the clammines can not be prest oute alone The herbe well punde wyth Omphacium is prest oute Other when they are punde heat them at a flow fyre Other beat them and let them stand in a colde place as a wine celler put in a basket of wikars to destill downe into a dishe set vnder Syluius in whome thou shalt reade moore of the preparinge and preseruynge of iuices in his boke of the preparacioÌ„ of simples Of Lignum sanctum and anye other we draw oute teares whiche is moore precious then the woode it selfe in this wise The Lignum is cut in pieces the thicknes of a finger which are put in the fire therby is gathered what tere so euer is in the Ligno Cardanus Milk is gathered of Esula Selandin cuttinge the highest bowes and laid hielding in a vessell pressing milking or sliping â–ª theÌ„ one by one The liquor so gathered shalt thou dry in the suÌ„ne But the iuice is gathered when the herbes are punde and prest out Bulcasis Gummes that be purginge and other if anye refuse to swalowe in the forme of pilles put them in boylinge water let them bee dissolued strayne them and put in oyl of swiet Almonds and geue it in drink with rob Put any stronge purginge medicine in water or wine Then in the same liquor stiepe drye prunes or drye Figges or Rasins till they swel then washe them in wine These frutes receiued within the bodye do maruelouslye and withoute grefe loose the bealye Arnold in his booke of wyne Sieth .iiii. ounces of Passularium with water of Violets half an hour lift them through a siue theÌ„ sprinkle in .ii. drams of Scammonium lette them be dryed Then when thou wilte geue .xxx. or .xl. and no mo with Panatella Epiphanius Empericus Some stuffe a fat Goose with medicins with well lykinge Kitlinges chopte small with Salt and roastinge it softlye vppon a broche gather the liquor that drops therout to annoynte goutie members therewith Io. Goenrotus I harde saye howe a certaine practicioner roosted a gose stufte with Mise chopte smal and ministred the liquor gathered there of to the annoynting of the croked vunche vpon the back Of decocted thinges WE cal decoctions liquors water wyne or vinegar in the whiche any medicins be sod at the fyer and then streined c. of the whiche for shortnes sake at this present we will speake nothing sauing that we wyl admonishe that wheÌ„ they are beaten or chopt they ought to be first stiept whiche should be sod and decocted in a vessell diligently stopt and cloosed Of grien plantes the decoction is more pleasaunt then of dry wherfore dry thinges beten and stiept longar tyme then fresh may be streined and prest out then alone or with sugar or houy to bee decocted and sod c. A decoction in vinegar against the pestilence Sieth two handfull of the biggar Salandin the herbe and root together in .iiii. pound and a half of the best vinegar vpon cooles in a glased pot w t a couer the mouth wherof shal be fensed with clay for an houre and a half till the thyrd part be consumed Then straine the vinegar and set it vp in a glas Giue .iii. sponefull of this to a man taken with the pestilence and if he vomit it again giue him again and will him to sweet One vnnamed in the dutche wryten booke Other which Selandine take as muche Rewe and dres it as before and to one taken with the pestilence thei giue one sponefull to drinke with a litle tryacle by whose help both I my selfe haue holsum and helthful experience and also I haue hard it muche commended of other And of late I red almost y e very same medicine in a certain boke of a certayn practicioner writen in frenche and a few yeares past wheÌ„ the pestilence was here a certain friend of myne sent vnto me a lyke description Many woulde haue the Selandine sod in the vinegar but other put other thinges to sum as I saide Rew only other also Sage noble Rosemary the leeues of flower deluce not the roote Zedoaria and sieth it in a pot wel couered therof they giue a few drops for preseruacion but to them that be alredy infected a sponefull with triacle and bidde them too sweet Sum stiep the same thing almost in wyne in a phiall well closed they stur and chafe it sumtymes then they destyll it they gyue it for preseruacion or to the infected as before is specified and when that is receiued they bid them not to sweet but to walke as far as is possible and if it be nied full to be led of two men Otherwyse â„ž Wormwood Rewe the yonglinges or shoutes of breÌ„ble of euery one one part Selandin iii. partes Sieth theÌ„ in whyte vinegar q. s that is as muche as is sufficient in a pot clayed till the third part be consumed let it be giuen as sone as amaÌ„ is infected after let him sweet Otherwyse â„ž A pound of the rootes of SelaÌ„dine Brimstone Saffron Turmentill an vnce Triacle .ii. vnces pimpernel Gentian of euery an vnce and a halfe Pilosella or mous ear with the roote and all Rewe of ether an handfull Sage a handfull Sieth them in a new pot well clayed with .ii. quartes of whyt vinegar til the third part be consumed
of coÌ„coction and reteining it maketh swiet breth As for y e drynes therof sugar licoris do aswage it much Arnold in his boke of wyne After the same maner any spyces medicins both cold dry may be hanged in a litle bag put in wyne or Must whiche we would haue seasoned with their vertues qualitie In the same place An aromatical wyne is made to coÌ„serue youth if spyces be put in a linnen bag vnbeten but cut in to partes so that the substaunce of the spyces be wandering in the litle bag and let it be put in the wyne the mouthe of the wyne diligently closed Arnoldus of the conseruation of youth An other way of aromaticall wyne for the confirming of the temperature and youth Cubebae Cloues Nutmegs small Rasines of euery one iii. drams let them boyll in a litle bag in .iii. pound of good wyne tyl the coÌ„sumpcion of y e third part put to Sugar and therof morning and euening gyue an vnce or other about at euery tyme to drinke Or elles let it be made lyke claret Arnoldus in the same place Saffrond wyne bryngeth mirthe and taketh away Melancholines Arnold in his booke of conseruing youth the .iii. chapt The maner of making it teacheth he in the second tretise of the same booke with thies wordes Put a litle Saffron well dryed in a large bag of very fine linnen clothe and let the wyne be powred vpon it or also Oyll for Oyll of Saffron after the maner of making Lye and let it be repeted till the colour and taste lyke you There may also other spyces be mixt w t it as ye think good Of Artificiall vvâ—nes vvhiche resem â–ª ble the tast of strange wynes bycause of the spyoes haÌ„ged in a litle bag within the vessel HOw diuers Aromaticall wynes be made and a counterfet tast of certain straunge wynes with burning water and spyces it is shewed before Here will we ad howe witty men may inuitate certaine strauÌ„ge wines without burning water not to thintent coue tous men may learne disceit thereby but that physicions may both gratify sumtymes proffit also the sick specially suche as be sumwhat delicate We haue taken al y â— folow out of a dutch writeÌ„ booke Grekish wyne is thus made Ginger galaÌ„gal of ether half a pouÌ„d grains of paradis cloues iii. vnc hang theÌ„ in a litle bag in a vessel of wyne of a mene bignes a pype Malmsy â„ž moshe AgallochuÌ„ of ether a dram cinnamoÌ„ CardamoÌ„ if I read right cloues of ether .ii. draÌ„s half an vnce of sugar caÌ„dy Wyne of Romania â„ž Succi lycoris cinnamoÌ„ of ether .ii. drams anis a dram macis half a dram sugar .iii. drams Muscatello wyne â„ž PolypodiuÌ„ ly coris anis of euery one .ii. draÌ„s nutmegs .iii. draÌ„s calamus aromatick one dram Red Muscatello shalt thou make thus The slowers of Sambucê° iiii vnc cinnamon half an vnce let them boyl in reed Must All such thinges ar thought to make y e smel of Muscatello that do resemble Muske in their own odour and such thinges as are surnamed of Muske as the nutmeg and the bark of it that is called Macis also the flowers of Sambucus or elder chiefly and Coriander Many also hang the herb called Sclarâ—a in wyne the flowers with the leeues whose sauour is vehement not vnpleasant yet sum thinke it to be vnholsum and to greue the head But such compositions without number may be made and it is sufficient for a man of wit actiuitie skilful in the nature of simple medicines spices sauces or seasoninges to haue a certain few formes as it were prescribed which he many wayes as occasion diuers circuÌ„stances shal serue may vary alter at his pleasure We geuing thankes to the immortall God vpon whome dependeth all the succes of medicines do here conclude make an end of this booke for this present FINIS
Tilia beaten The dosis or quantitie of ministration is one or one and a halfe It asswageth the griefes of the eyes and healeth the places brent with fyre or any hoot matter that more surely if the inner barck al but tiliae be stiept in this water or in stede therof the grains or kernels of quinces or psyllium and the places be anoynted with the horines or mouldines that bredeth ther vpon Ryffius Some vse against the pestileÌ„re a liquor drawn by the force of fire oute of the bloude of a graye or badger Also of the blud of duckes againste poyson c. wherof thou shalt read more in the boke of destillarions of Ryffius writen in Dutch Some mixt the bloud of a goat with medicins againste the stone to be destilled A water composed of the blud of a barrow hog and other diuers medicens wil we describe hereafter in some place Of the water of wormes and of the kind of CaÌ„tharides whiche is surnamed as Mey lander Kaeser saith of the month of May read Brunsvvick A water to take away wrinkles and spots of y â— face to clere the skin Beat the whites of egges hard sod in water y t yolkes takeÌ„ away together in a morter destill them in a lymbek of glasse or other vessel of glas The vse of it is that y e face be a noynted therwith euery day thrise for the space of iii. or .iiii. dayes I would adioyne here a table of waters destilled of plantes whiche are described in the Dutche bokes of destillacions of Hierom of Brunsvvick for the most part all that Gaulterus Ryffius hathe borowed of him sauing that I studye to be shorte And surely it is nothing necessary to resite al wheÌ„ as liquors also may and are wonte to be destilled of all such plantes wherof there is any vse in phisicke But to recken vp also the vertues and faculties of euery of them as some do it is superfluous when as none other for the moste parte but euen the very same also be attributed and ascribed to y e waters whiche are vnto the plantes so that theese repetycions moue irckesomenesse to the reader yea euen if it be but meanly learned neuer a whit les then colewortes twise sod Yet because that some waters chieflye and before other are in vse with apothecaries as those with Remaclus F. hath described I wil ad hither a rehersall and table of them in like order as he vseth and hath recited them him self Absinthinm wormwod Apium Artemisia mugwort Agrimonia Althea the holy hok Acetosa Alkekengi Auricula muris mouse eare Basilicon Buglossos Balsamita that is mynte of Rome Betonica Betony Bursapastoris shepherds pouche Chamomilum Cammomill Calendula Mary goldes Carduusbenedictus Centaurium Centory Chelidonium Felandine Cichorium Cikory Capillus Veneris Maiden heer Caprifolium that is Pericly menon woodbinde Cucurbita Gourde Cuscuta Ebulus Walwort Endiuia Enula Euphragia Eiebright Foeniculum Fennel Fumaria Fumitory Gentiana Genista Browme Hepatica that is Lichen Liuerwort Hedera Iuy Hyssopus Hippuris that is horsetaile Lactuca Lett es Lauendula Lapathum Sorel Maiorana Maioram Melissa Baulme Marrubium Hoorhound Melilotus Melilot Millefolium Milfoyl or Yarow Menta Mint Malua Malowes Nemiphar bothe kindes with the flowers Nigella Origanum Organy Paeonia Pyonie Papauer satiuum sown Poppy Parietaria Pelitory Pentaphyllon Cinkfoyl Petroselinum Persly Pimpinella Pimpernel Pastinaca Parsnip Plantago Plantaine both kindes Portulaca Purslein Polygonos that is CeÌ„tumno dia. Pulegium Peniroyall Roses white and red Ruta Rew sown or set Rosmarinus Rosmary Rubea tincterum Madder set or sowne Raphanus Radish Saluia Sage Saxifragia Satureia Sauery SaÌ„bucus Elder the bark floures and leues Scabiosa Scolopendrium Solanum wherof seing there are many kinds Remaclus writeth that apothecaries draw water out of Halicaâ—abus only for the moste part that is Alkekengi Semperuiuum Singrien Serpillum Salix Willow Senecio Grounswell Thymus Time Berded Tapsus that is Verbastum Tauacetum Tormentilla Violae Violets Valeriana Valerian Virga pastoris that is Dipsacus Tasill Verbena Veruin Vermicularis y t is the les syngrien Vrtica nettell Of vvaters destilled of beastes or of their partes or excrementes and first of all of the hoole beastes A Water destilled of whelpes will make that heir shall not growe againe And Furnerius I geue litle credence to thies curious exquisite remedies and although they be true yet I do not alowe them specially where other many and easy to be gotten ar not lacking A yong Storck some bid strangle and destil it lyke rose water and therwith to anoint the partes taken with palsey or shronke together and at certain tymes to be washt away with a decoction of sea crabes without salt they saye it helpeth marueilously if a man continue it Some bid put an vnce of Camphora a dram of amber in a yonge storkes bely the bowels taken out but it must be one that neuer yet flew then in destilling to gather seuerally thre waters differing in color of thies they prayse the last best to make the face whyte and clear They destill also a water of a pye wherof read Brunsvvick Ryffius as also of them that folowe Of a Capon whereof wee will speake seuerally within for it is not made simpely and singly only but also composed many wayes Of Frogs Crabes Snayles Pismiers or Emers Of the bloud of a Duck a he Goat a Gray of a calfe looke in Ryffius and Brunsvvick Of mans bloud looke Brunsvvick and within also wher we make mention of Quintessence Of the liuer and lightes of a Calfe The liquor of milck destilled the chymistes destyllors do vse and sum that go about to make Borax or Crhysocollam It is a wonder that men say amongst the Tartarians water destilled of milke doth make men dronke The milke must therfor be somwhat thicker and tary somewhat long vpon the fyre Whiche thing peraduenture chaunseth in meares milke Albeit all water if it be oft destilled wil do the same for it waxeth hoat is attenuated and made more fyne and receiueth the force and nature of the fyre the more Carda Some vse water destilled of wyne and milke together against y e feuer quartain specially in England as Brudus Lusitanus writeth Some drink it against the iaundys as witnesseth Iohan. Goeurotus Also seuerally of Goates milke water is destilled Loke in Ryffius Water of an Oxe hyde see in the same author Of the whytes of egges and of the yolke In the same Of the spaun of Frogges founde in waters looke in Ryffius Of kowes donge loke in the same Some say that water destilled of mans donge wil heale fistulaes also fretting soores and such as are to be cured and cancres and the disease called Tinea or matering of the head that it wil also make skarres like vnto the other skin and put away the spots or white webbes of the eyes If it be druncke it is good for them that haue the falling sicknes it helpeth them that haue
the gowte it driueth away the stone out of y e rains and bladdar it is a preseruatiue againste the bitinge of a mad dogge or other venemous beast But the oyle of the same which destilleth after the water wyth a greater fyre is much better to fistulaes and caÌ„cres and other euils aforsaid Matthaeolus of Sena and other you shal read certain merueilous thinges in Brunsvvick Mannes vrine destilled the Chymists doe vse to resolue certaine mettalles Printers to make their printinge inke but these destill it in Rose stillatoryes Of vessels and diuers instruments belonging to destellation Sublimation is taken of many simpely for destillation other take it particularly to lift vp or cause to ascende vp into the limbeck by the force of fyre the matter that is to befixed in it as many metally thinges ar sublimated The receyuing vessell for the moste part is a phiall of glas w t a longe neck in whose mouth the nose of the limbeck is put and some times the bely therof is set in a pot or some other holowe vessell that it maye stande the stedfaster in his place or els for the coÌ„moditie of the thing is set one way or other The formes and fashions of vessels ar diuers and almost without number coÌ„monly vsed with the chymistes and destillers Syluius Who so desireth the figures and names of diuers vesselles let him looke in Brunsvvick Ryffius Andro. Louicerus and other A man may cause to be made of what fashion he will in the glas makers shops suche as be in Heluetia nie vnto Scaphusia and not far from Basill and Solodourn But the best are made of whyte glas as at Venice suche may be made with vs of the peces of spectacle glasses other skrapes of whyt glas gathered together Of the vessell called aludelâ—s looke in Geber in his boke of chief perfection 1. 4. 44. chapter and again in his boke of fornaces Albertus wryteth it a luttell and expoundeth it a vessell appointed for sublimation lykewyse Bulcasis The same willeth arsnick to bee sublimated in an earthen dyshe glased the fashion wherof he describeth in the chapter of sublimation of abhichbar dic Aluthel writen with th is a limbeck whiche the Alchymistes vse in destillatious Belluencis Of the matter for vessels of destillacion and first against leaden and brasen vessels WAters destilled in Balneo Mariae do so far pas those that are made simplye by the tire in leaden limbeckes as golde passethyron For they that be made in Balneo Mariae with large chaplets limbeckes or heades and somwhat great and of glas do geue the natural sauour and taste of the herbes floures wherout they be taken without any noysome smel of smoke or burning which chaunceth not al in the common leaden stilles For the waters that are made in them very few and seldom speciallye whiles they be new are without notable lothsomnes of smoke and burntnes whiche vnto sickmen that drincke it is not only greuous but also hurtfull for the euill qualitie of the lead endamageth bothe the stomake and the breaste and all the entrailes and likewise the qualitie of brasse whyche the learned and excellent phisitions perceiuynge folowed the auncient men and vsed onlye decoctions But waters destilled accordinglye as they ought to be that is with the sauour and tast of his plant are not only equall in strength with decoctions but also passe them in thys that they more delite a man beinge more swete in taste and also clearer to the sight It shal be houe both good phisicions and also Apothecaries to lay away leaden instrumentes and prouid them the forsaid Balncum Mariae and althoughe it shall be a little more chargeable vnto them and painefull yet so shall they satisfy and please bothe God and man Matheolus Such thinges as are destilled in lead I iudge them altogether to be disalowed because of y e Cerusse and other malicious qualities of the leade when as water also that is conueyed by pipes of leade Galen condemneth because it bredeth diseases in the entrails Syluius Moreouer the vessel altereth muche aswell in destillacions as in thynges sodden Wherefore a man must take great hied in these things that the vessels be rather earthen or glasse then of metall and those that be of earth y t they be of a very pure earth and wel baked such as be the earthen vessels of Paris Bellonaca England and Spain But glasen vessels are the best because they be more pure and thicker but they be dearer will breake soner except they be made hoat by litle and lyttle and cold likewise and after the same sorte be also earthen vessels for the which cause they daube both sorts of them by little and little with claye of wisdom as they call it and dry them so far as the force of the fire shall touch yea althoughe it be to be set first in ashes sande or dros of metals For those vessels that shal stand in water or in the vavapour therof nede no such defeÌ„ce The cause whi I condemne vessels of metals leade yron brasse tin siluer and gold is Galens reason in euery one almost of these kindes of metals For if he affirme that water onlye conueied in leaden pipes dothe brede diseases of the bowels howe muche more oughte we to feare waters destilled in a leaden limbecke or still Besides that no small cerusse remaineth cleauynge to the inner side of a leaden heade as in destillinge of Vinegar is gathered so by the force of the vehemente heate or brentnesse ascendinge vp wyth a vapour manye times also tarte that is of sharpe and tarte plantes whiche infecteth the verye waâ—ers and for the mooste part maketh them white like milcke till that it be setled and suncke to the bottome Vessels of other metalles that bried other roust or canker are so muche the more pearilous as rouste or canker is more hurtfull theâ—â—cerusse Vessels made of pure siluer or golde as they be leaste hurtefull so are they more harde to be gotten because of the coste Syluius The best vessels be of glasse the nexte earthen that be glased bothe wythin and wythoute then limbeckes of tinne the bodyes in destillinge of Roses of leade Thirdlye the limbeckes and the bodyes also of leade For the strengthe of the fyre if it be moderate it hurtes not the leade but these bodyes of leade muste bee sette in syfted ashes a handfull thicke not in sande Fourthlye limbeckes of copper tinned within Fifthlye brasen But copper and brasse haue two discommodities but the brasse more then the other the fyrste they make the waters for the mooste parte somewhat read and fautye wyth brentnesse the other there is euer a certaine venemous operation in them more then in other metalles therfore Christophorus de Honestis admonisheth to take hede and auoyde them Brunsvvick Therfore seinge all the mooste learned Phisicions and experyence it selfe doe vtterlye disalowe waters destylled in vessels of leade Brasse and other vncleane mettals some
water oft destilled is broughte into such sharpnes y t it can not be drunk Cardan But this is commonly known they that sell it commoÌ„ly are wont to destil it only twise but to the vse of glasiers for the burning in of their colors in their glasses foure times except I be deceiued We declared afore how when it is once or twise destilled in serpentins or writhen or crouked vessels or in other accustomed vessels with pipes of brasse as big as a mans arme may afterward be perfected in ashes vntill all the steame be put awaye by the which meanes it is made not only hoter and more subtil and finned but also more pleasaunte bothe to the taste and smell Neither do all men vse one forme or fashion of the bodies and heades whiche they call limbeckse to destill all â—uyces for some draw the water out of wine put in a great brasen vessel standing vpon the fire the necke or mouthe wherof is great and broad vpon a three fote and vpon this necke standeth the heade of brasse also with a top like a spire steple a thing like a paile or bucket D. compassing it ful of cold water that the large vapoure maye be thickned the soner by the head made cold and least the water of y e wine should so resemble the fire Some vse in the stead of a necke or heade to receiue the vapoure wyth a pipe of white plate or other mettall verye longe writhen into manye boughtes and tourninges like vnto the maner of serpents wherupon they name them coÌ„monly serpentins the greatest part therof standing in water Some haue also yet an other fashion Syluius We did see diuers fashyons of vessels set out in figures to destill burning water or aqua vitae in Gualter Ryffius Andro Lo nicerus Bulcasis saith wine may be destilled after the same maner as vineger the destillacion wher of he described Read within streight after the title of destillacion in ashes Aqua vitae is thought then to be stilled inough that is after it be stilled foure tymes at the leaste and pourged from all his fleame whan as if a manne sette it a fyre it wyll consume euery whit wyth the flame that no token of moysture be lefte in the bottome of the vessell or elsse if a lynnen clothe dipte therein and sette a fyre it burne not the clothe whyche is a greatter token of perfectyon as that also if a droppe of Oyle bee lette fall into it it goeth to the bottome For Oyle is aierye wherefore a fyrie substaunce whereunto Aqua vitae soo ofte destylled shoulde atteyne oughte too bee lyghter then it But besydes the heate of so destylled it should also become thin and pure more more and when euery fire the thicker and grosser it is the more it burneth contrariwise the thinner the lesse that which is most thin should burn leaste of all By the same cause it commeth to passe that a drop of Aqua vitae poured in the palme of a mans hand the better it is the soner it vanisheth awaye and is consumed I heare that this is a laudable note of this water if succinum amber being set on fire and put to it into a spone do burn Whan wine saith Vlstadius 10 â–ª chapter is destilled twyse or thrise you shall cut a fine sponge into pieces so great that on euery side they may touch the cucur bita or bodye within the vpper parte that is in the inner circuit the spoÌ„g must be tied in thre or four stringes hanging withoute when you shall set on the limbeck so that the sponge can not fal into the bottome of the still let the sponge be dipt in oyle oliue and crushed out a little again least pexauenture the oyle should fall into the pot or body of the stil and be mixt with the matter then settinge the limbeck vpon it shit it close with wax as is aforesaid or with purified rosen By this spong the spirits shal be best destilled and the fleame shall not passe through because of the oyle by this menes shall a man do more with once destilling then otherwise with thrise Notwithstandinge the limbeck must be made withoute the gutter and circle within like to a blinde limbecke but it muste not lacke a nose Thus saith he That whiche remayneth of the lies and dregs destilled in the bottom y â— meÌ„ of our time call it dead water for it is vnsauery and stinking Such that is the stinking water whether it be yeilden of lies onlye or also of wine I haue not tried For the destillation of aqua vitae or burning water a man muste chuse the best wine blacke red or white Black and old yelds more plenty and also better water then any other The fire at y â— first must be light and soft after more vehemeÌ„t but you must take hede in anye wise y t the wine sethe not The water that is gotten theroute is surnamed burning or the soul and life of the wine and when it is destilled twise or thrise then they cal it flaming water Albertus as some alledge Of fiue partes of lies wheÌ„ it is twise destilled I heare one remaineth or somwhat les Whan y â— fleame is one cleane consumed nothing is lost after in the destilling but the hole is yeilded again Of .iiii. measures of wine for the moste parte one measure of burnyng water is gathered in the first destillacion or there about according to the goodnes of the wine Then in the next destillacion for one measure there commeth the halfe In y â— third one part offiue is coÌ„sumed In y â— fourth as much is yelded as you put in for the most part if the destillacion be done accordingly Notwithstanding if you continue destillinge the water shall be the more perfect in so much that at the ninth or tenth destillacion it shal come out most perfect But for as much as to the repeting of destillinge so ofte a man must bestow both more time and more coste for the most part we are content with the third or the fourthe destillacion and call it perfecte And surely it resteth much in the instrument that the water should be perfected soner or slower For the vapour is more destilled and perfected in the first destillacion in a serpentin that is in a croked and bowed pipe theÌ„ thrise destilled by a streight pipe Note further that ther diuers waters may be gathered in the first destillacion wherof the firste is perfit that is that whiche burneth and is consumed with the fire and a linnen cloth dipte therin and set on fire is not burnt You shall proue therfore nowe and then and when the water ceaseth burninge looke what remaineth in the still you may cast it away as vnprofitable The second is a meane betwene good and bad The thirde is good for nothinge saue that it cleareth the eyes and the face if thrise a day they be washte therin morninge noone and euening
but this vertue of the third water perauenture is true if the destillacion be made with wine but if it be with lies as they be wonte with vs it is not true More ouer the stil must not be filled aboue .ii. parts but that the third part may remaine emptye and that the vapoures maye haue their scoupe and romthe Hitherto Lullus Of the strengthes and vertues of Aqua vitae in the boke of Arnold De Villa noua which is written of Aqua vitae ARnold in his boke of Aqua vitae describeth many qualities therof both of it alone and also mixt with other medicins after the destillacion obseruing the order of the .xii. signes from the head to the fete for as he saith a man must minister much more effectuall remedies to the head if a man haue nede at such time as the mone is in the ram and likewise in the other which thinge how true I iudge it I wil not say at this time notwithstanding this wil I say the better learned any man is in oure time the les credit haue they geuen to suche perswacions as the Arabians haue broughte into phisicke Aqua vitae simple and alone saithe Arnold oute of one Theoricus I can not tel whome breaketh an impostume or recours of matter bothe within the body if it be dronke and without as botche if it be annoynted therwith It helpeth read and duskish eies It stauncheth the running and watering of the eies It is good for them that haue the falling sickns if they drink it It cureth the palsy if they be anoynted therwith It sharpneth y ewit it restoreth memori It maketh mē mery preserueth youth It putteth awai fracins ring worms al spots of y e face If it gargild it remedieth y ◠diseas in y e throte called synanchen y ◠squince the iuila faln down w t humors also the salt fleme the rose drop the touth ache It is merueylous profitable for frētik mē such as be melācholy It erpelleth poysō The smel therof burnt killeth flies cold creping beasts It doth sieth flesh kepeth fishes from roating It restoreth wine that is turned or putrified It draweth forth the vertues of herbes and rotes if they be laid in it .iiii. daies otherwise .iiii. houres excepte onlye the Violet It oughte to be set vp in a glasen or siluer vessell and to be wel stopt There is more of it better made of old wine pure and read This he He that desyreth more concerninge the vertues of Aqua vitae let him read that which we write aboue of y e vertues of certain liquors which our men call goldē and waters of vertues For they ascribe all those powers for the most part as well to Aqua vitae as to the other specially to simple Aqua vitae much more to compound or Aqua composita but chieflye to the quintessens therof Reade more ouer Lullus in the boke of waters I haue sene also a certaine broken worke ascrtbed to Albertus of the vertues of Aqua vitae But practicioners ignorant of thinges and times or els of a purpose to deceiue mē as many as they could haue most impudently fathered many things vpon Galen Hippocrates and Aristotle of the vertues of Aqua vitae or burnynge water as writen by them All kinde of cold passions or greues that be curable it helpeth in shorte space specially diseases of the brain sinewes and ioyntes Also wormes in the bellye biles and all scabbines if it be washt oft therwith it healeth it It helpeth y e splene it killeth all wormes It mēdeth a stinking breth It taketh awaye the disease of the loines The hurt members if they be anoynted therewith it will restore them to their former health It preserueth fishe and flesh from corrupting but before they be eaten they must be washte with common water Camphora put into it will dissolue If cōmon water be poured into it it goeth to the bottom and likewise oyle This writeth Albertus as some alledge The taste of it excedeth all other tastes and the smel all other smelles Lullus It comforteth the natural heat more then any other remeadye it is most holsom for the stomake the harte and the liuer it norysheth blud it agreeth meruelously and most with mans nature it openeth and purgeth y e mouthes and entrances of the membres vaines and poores of the body euery one it auoydeth all obstructions and comforteth them Yea it chaungeth the assections of the minde it taketh awaye sadnes and pensiuenes it maketh men meri witty and encreaseth audacitie Lullus Anoynte the head therwith and it helpeth it of the head ache it killeth the wormes drunken fasting it putteth away sowning it healeth the biles in the priuy mēbers if they be washt therwith it easeth them that be diseased in the stomacke it stauncheth all runninges it preserueth bodies from corruptinge by wormes It auoydeth and kepeth a man frō gray heares It is not permitted to women with child It redresseth the fleame and reume of the hed It encreaseth the ability of accompanying with voemen It is good against thick hearing poured into the eares Mixt with wine and drōk it healeth the falling sicknes If a man hold it longe it taketh away diuers kinde of touth ache It putteth away the blemishes and whit spots in the eies if it be poured into them and auoydeth the running and watering of the same if a man do but hold it in his mouth It letteth the leprosy a space and hideth it It helpeth rotten and materinge biles if linnen cloutes be dipt therin and laid vpon them With a little decoction of parcely it driueth away the stones in the bladder It maketh womē apt to conceiue but anoyeth them that be greate wyth childe It cureth diuers greues it is profitable to be laid vpon broken bones hot with towe or with some plaster It slaketh the cramp in the legs if a man anoynt them therwith He hath no name exprest that sheweth these qualities But the most of them seme to be taken out of Lullus I knew an old woman that was cold and Cathectica to be restored by a handkerchief made warm with Aqua vitae set a fire within it Some alledge the testimony of Constantine of the vertues of burning water Aqua vitae besides other things is commodious and profitable for the strangury and other diseases of the bladder for the tertian ague and quartain also which are ioyned wyth colde humors against the disease called the Wulfe againste wormes againste the sens or painefull fealinge of a mannes bodye lyke vnto biles It furthereth and prouoketh wemens floures It breaketh and putteth awaye the stone in the reins and expelleth a dead child without anye greate paine The issues of the bellye and fluxes it helpeth what so euer they be They say that Aqua vitae is perfite when often measures is made one whiche I suppose will come to passe in the thirde or fourthe