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

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

scabs and hot pushes Also it stayeth fretting sores namely on the privie members Furthermore it stincheth mattering eares if it be dropped thereinto and if it be sod in the rind of a Pomegranate it expelleth worms out of the ears Childes urine The urine of a child under 14. yeers of age doth cure the toughness of breath if it bee drunken If it be sod in a brazen vessell with honey it healeth creythes and also the web and the tey in the eie There is made of it and copper good soulder for gold Dregs of urine The dregs of urine is good for Saint Anthonies evill if it be nointed thereon so that as Galen doth wisely add the sore be cooled first with some other thing and bee not burning If it be heated with oyle of privet and laid to the womb of a woman it will asswage the grief of the mother and cureth also the rising of the same It cleanseth the eie-lids and the creythes in the eyes Oxe stale Oxe stale being tempered with myrrh and dropped into sore eares healeth the pain of them The urine of a wild Bore Wild bore is of the same vertue if it be kept as Sextus Platonicus writeth in a glasse and dropped warm into them but it hath a more peculiar property in breaking of the stone and to expell the same if it be drunke Goats urine Goats urine drunke every day with Spikenard and three ounces of water is good for the dropsie for it expelleth urine by the sege and it cureth pain of the ears if it be dropped into them Asse pisse Asse pisse as it is written is good for the grief of the reins if it be drunke Mules stale Mules stale as Paulus Aegineta saith is good to heal pain in the joynts Camels and goats stale The stale of Camels and Goats also doth provoke sege and therefore is good for them that have the dropsie Sextus Platonicus Sextus Platonicus saith That Goats urine if it be drunke doth provoke womans terms and cureth pain in the eares being droped into them and being mixed with mulset wine Paulus Aegineta and so dropped into the eares it draweth out matter if there be any Wild Bore The urine of the wild Bore with mulset vineger is good for the falling evill if it be drunke Dogs pisse A Dogs piss tempered with dust and laid in wool will heal corns marveilously and destroy warts Childes urine A childs urine will heal the stinging of a Bee Waspe and Hornet if the place bee washed therewith Mans urine A mans urine will cleanse the freckles and spots in the face And if a woman cannot be delivered of the after burden let her drinke mans urine and she shall be delivered straight Collumella saith that the best dunging for yong shots of trees Collumella is mans urine namely which hath stood half a yeer For if you water vines or apple-trees with it there is no dung that will cause so much fruit as it will doe and not only that but it causeth also the savour and the taste both of the apples Sheeps urin and of the wine to be much the better Constantinus Affricanus saith That the urine of a Sheep Constantinus Affricanus or an Oxe with some hot oil is good for the grief in the cars that cometh of cold Urine as Vitalis de Furno saith fretteth Vitalis dryeth and burneth and is good for the grief of the spleen if it be drunk as Gontilis writeth Asse stale The Urine of a male Asse as the same Vitalis saith tempered with Nardus doth increase and preserve hair And as some say by the writing of Marcellus Virgilius Vrine is of no smal nourishment M. Virgilius for divers folk in the time of dearth have been preserved by the onely use and drinking of it Also Marcellus the Practitioner Marcellus in the 27. Chapter doth witnesse That the Vrine of a man is good for divers diseases of the wombe and bowels and namely for the Collick because that partly with provoking of vomit and partly by occasion of seges it expelleth strongly all noysome humours and for the same cause doth common Practitioners keep it still in daily use Vldericus Huttenus Vlderick Hutten also witnesseth That he did drive away the Ague above 8. times with the only drinking of his own Vrine at the beginning of his sickness And many still doe use the same practise and it proveth well Marsilius Ficinus Likewise Marsilius Ficinus writeth that Many men doe use to drink urine for the Pestilence which thing did Galen write long before him and also Paulus Aegineta and doe testifie also that it preserved them that dranke it a the least way as they thought All urine as Galen writeth is hot in vertue Galen and sharp as saith Aegineta howbeit it differeth according to them that make it For the hotter they are that make it the hotter is it also and likewise the colder urine comet h of a colder body Mens urine is the weakest of all other except tame barrow hoggs for they in very many points agree with man but the urine of wild Bores is stronger Mans urine Mens urine is of as strong cleansing vertue as any thing else and therefore doe Fullers use it to scoure and cleanse their cloth And in cure of grief s also for the same reason it is used to soke and wash maunginess and scabbedness and running sores that are full of corruption and filth and specially if they have in them putrified matter and for such sores on the privie members it is good and for mattering eares and for scales and scurf if the head be washed in it I have healed with it many times sores on the toes namely which came of bruises and were without inflammation and that in servants and husbandmen which had a journey to goe and no Physitian with them bidding them to wet a small clout with it and to put into the sores and then to bind a cloth about it and as often as they listed to make water to let it fall on their sore toes and not to take the cloth away till it were quite whole That medicine which is made of childes urine called of some men in Greek Chrisocola Chrysocola that is to say gold soulder because men use to soulder gold This I say is exceeding good for sores that are hard to heal For this medicine doe I use for the chiefest mixing it with such other things as are good for such like sores In the time of Pestilence in Syria many did drinke Childrens urine and mens also and thought that they were preserved by it Of urine also do Alchumysts make divers things Alchumists as salt and other things moe And many other commodities there bee of urine as for washing and scouring and other like which for briefness I over-passe and the rather because they are commonly

according to the end which they are to be used for which are either to repell draw mittigate pain strengthen soften discuss dry up digest crudities open purge conglutinate and harden a scar Destillation is made when the actuall or potentiall humour is resolved by heat into vapours and separated from his earthy dregs which presently by the compassing cold growing together drop or distill into a simple water spirits or a spiritous water or oyle 1. Destillation otherwise is made in Ballneo to prevent a collection of corrupt matter in the whole Bulke Empyreurna and Adustion onely upward because the watry vapours especially are lifted up 2. Or without Balnenum which we may call a dry Distillation For by this the Water and Oil descend downward or the vapours are lifted upward which are Watry Spiritous Oylie For whilest in the thing distilled the water and spirit are both together then they both ascend together by reason of their thinnesse and therefore the Distillation is to be reiterated that afterward the spirits by their thinness may go before the watry vapours for the water spirit and oile are all together thus the waterie and spiritous vapours are lifted up together and they by reason of their naturall affinitie carry the oylie with them by reason whereof the oile being separated the distillation is to be reiterated for severing the spirits but if with the earthy matter the oyle only is joyned by a dry distillation it ought to be increased with a greater heat that it may be separated from the earthy matter which it hardly forsakes either by descending or smally ascending to which purpose peculiar Organs or Instruments are required The Spirits by reason of their lightnesse will by no meanes descend In Balneo either not at all or very sparingly they are lifted up because if the fire work not on them which the water of the Balneum hindereth they cannot be separated from the water The Spirits by reason of their thinnesse and potentiall heat that they may the sooner increase and grow together require refrigeratories filled with cold water which are either fastned to the top of the Elembick or a right or winding crooked Pipe is fastned with the beak of it therefore called Serpens because thereby the Spirits staying the longer in the Cockle doe the more put off their collection of corrupt matter passing through the cold water of a large vessell In distillation which is made downward either a Paper is put upon the juycie plants having a linnen cloth spread over the platter or dish with good store of sand to which hot coales are put for assoon as the heat hath drawn forth the vapours when they are restrained from being lifted up being grown together they fall down into the platter set under in drops Or else in rosinie woods being included in a Potters vessell coales being placed about them which draw forth by their powerfull heat that which is fattie from whence the oile floweth by a cover with holes without the earthy matter into a vessell set under set close to the earth for refrigeration sake or amber melteth after this manner in such a vessel but that the thinner part or the earthy matter may not passe through the holes we use dry sand or pouder or flints or tiles or ashes of bones burnt and to wash away the stench and blackness a vessell below is filled up to the half with water into which the falling drops slide or fall into another vessell set under of purpose In distillation which is speedily made upward the Spirits are separated from the water by an Instrument of a large neck which they call Phyola a plain pot with a wide mouth whilest as I said the former are listed up assoon therefore as the waterie vapours succeed the receiving vessell is to be changed the other shut up the watery vapours with a spunge or parchment paper set upon the cucurbite In this kinde of distillation sharp tart vapours have this peculiar that after for example sake the waterie vapours arising out of Vinegar Salt Vitrioll Allum Salt-peter are lifted up they are separated first without Acrimonie therefore wee suffer the said vapors of Vitrioll to exhale before distillation in an open Vessell and that which is left of the waterie humour the stronger heat doth by boyling more exactly mingle with the subtiler earthy parts till at the length it separateth and driveth forth that violently from the thicker matter That is called water of Salt c. unskilfully oyle seeing it hath nothing common with oyle besides the thicker consistence apparent but Spirit though improperly since every Spirit is inflamable and potentially or virtually hot by it selfe it may be called for his potentiall heat but accidentall for this from fire which hath insinuated it lelse and sharpness partly from fire from the said mixture in which it differs from the nature of water and agrees with the Spirits If therefore those Spirits separated againe be poured upon the earthy matter forthwith the vapours goe forth much sharper and hotter and by reason of their aiery and fiery nature suffer themselves to be shut up very heavily by which cause the recipient vessell ought to be very ample and large least it break before the concretion be made of the vapours To Distillation which is made upward a little Wine or Water is sprinckled on the fresh Plants which are not juycie enough that you may draw away the water from the dry If you desire onely water something spirituous they are powred into water wine be water if it be spirituous it selfe And they are left in Balneo for 24. houres that the vertue may be the more communicated and imparted to the humour But if you would adde fresh Floures gathered at divers times the infusion is to be made in the Spirit of wine in a cold place least by placing they may be corrupted For example Cinamon water this being broken small is hanged in a peece in a blinde limbech filled with water so as the water may not touch the bag then let the water boyle till all the parts of the Cinamon be moist and warme fitly then take out the Cinamon and beat it into paste and then again let it be infused and distilled in the former water If thou desirest Spirit and Oyle out of Plants you ought to boyle the matter before alwayes either in his proper humour or moistness So red Roses exquisitely brused and stopt up in a glassie vessell and plac'd in a cellar till the potentiall heat actuates and the moisture boyles up compelled by the Antiperistasmi or repulsion on every part of the cold Cherries with their kernels for the Spirits lye inclosed in them are placed in a warme place the Lees of Wine or Oyle being poured upon them that their heat lying hid may stir up the Spirit till it boyle up Or with water poured on and the said lees as is done before the distillation of the Spirits and the Oyle Juniper