and dryes moderately binds cuts strengthens the inward parts stayes the whites It is good for the Jaundise it chaseth away Worms it is good for inveterate obstructions it takes away the pains and weakness of the stomach it heals the Epilepsie drives away Melancholy resists rottenness and poysons It is used rasped in infusions and the powder is given in substance The Dose half a dram Preparat 1. Burnt Ivory called Spodium and to distinguish it from the Minerall Spodium Spodium of Ivory 2. Trochilces of Spodium vid. Dispensat N. Some commend Ivory for fruitfulness yet seeing the beast is of a small issue and slowly brings forth going with young two years it is imagined rather to conduce to barrenness and the retention of the birth then to advance conception XXI Equus the Horse WHence in Physicall use we borrow 1. The bloud 2. The runnet 3. The milk 4. The dung 5. Lichenes 6. The testicles 7. The fat of the neck 8. The hoofs 9. The hairs 10. The foam 11. The teeth 12. The stone Their vertues in particular 1. The bloud some would have it to be of Mares having been covered with the Stallion is mixed with Causticks 2. The runnet is specially good for the Celiack and Dysenterick 3. The milk is accounted good for the Epileptick Consumptive those that Cough and the Asthmatick 4. The dung outwardly restrains breaking out of blouâ— as well raw as burnt expels the dead childe and the secundine in a fume Inwardly it is taken in the Colick and suffocation of the matriz and in like manner in expelling the dead childe and afterbirth N. That is best which is of a Horse fed with Oats not gelded 5. Lichenes callous excrements growing on the legs of Horses are chiefly commended against the suffocation of the Matrix a fume made below as also against the Falling-sicknesse and the Stone the powder drunk Preparat The extract of these is made of them dryed with spirit of Wine or some other appropriate spirit The Dose from 5 grains to half a scruple N. Hartman makes the Menstruum of Balm and Wine of each three pounds which he distils by a Retort in ashes upon two ounces of Amber and Jet with a fire hot in the end then he useth the water separated from the Oyl 6. The testicles are a most present Remedy to expell the secundine made into powder they are also commended in the Colick The fat of the neck is fitly anointed on weak joynts 8. The hoof expels the dead birth in fume it drives away Lice in fume 9. The hairs restrain the flux of bloud 10. The foam of the mouth drunk three dayes cures the Cough abates the heat of the jawes N. Cold water falling out of the mouth of a stoned horse when he drinks in a river and suddenly taken in a platter helpes sterility drunk once and again 11. The teeth first growing are said to facilitate childrens toothing hung about the neck they whiten the teeth the ashes rubbed on them 12. The stone called Hippolithus found in the ventricle or bowels of some horses as it is like to the Occidental Bezoar in figure and structure so in vertues XXII Erinaceus the Hedg-hog IS a Beast set with pricks in the winter it is hid in the hollow of trees eating mice walnuts apples pears and the like Hence in use we have 1. The Hedg-hog it self 2. The liver 3. The grease 4. The ventricle Their vertues 1. The Hedge-hog boyled or made into ashes and drunk helps those that pisse against their will it is grateful to the stomach and moveth the belly and urine Outwardly annointed it helps the shedding of hair 2. The liver or the body also dryed and taken with Oxymel is a help to the disease of the Kidneys it cures the Cachexy Dropsie Convulsions and Leprosie It dryes up the fluxes of the belly 3. The grease most happily cures Ruptures 4. The inner coat of the stomach is commended against the Colick taken XXIII Homo Man and Woman HEnce we have in Medicine either from the parts of the living body of a man 1. The hairs 2. The nails 3. The spittle 4. The ear-wax 5. Sweat 6. Milk 7. The Flowers 8. The after-birth 9. The urine 10. The ordure 11. The seed 12. The bloud 13. The stones 14. The Membrane compassing the head of the Infant Or from the parts of the dead body of a man 1. The whole corps or flesh 2. The skin 3. The fat or grease 4. The bones 5. The skull 6. The mosse of the skull 7. The brain 8. The gall 9. The heart The vertues of these follow I. The hairs are commended for the growth of hairs the liquor from thence distilled and anointed with honey for the Jaundise the powder drunk for members out of joynt the ashes anointed with Sheeps suet for bleeding of wounds N. Some for a Quartain take the hair of the patient and mixing them with other hairs dispersed on the body put them into an egge and having boyled it hard cast it to be devoured of birds by which means they would have the Quartain cured Preparat It is distilled by it self in a Retort in sand with no very strong fire II. The nails move vomit taken inwardly both in powder and infusion they are said to draw away the waters of the Hydropick cut from the hands and feet and tyed to the navill N. 1. Some to cure the Fever put the parings of the hands and feet into an egge and lay it to be carryed away of the birds Others wrap the same in wax and fasten it to the gate in the morning before the rising of the sun Others binde them on the back of a living Crevise and then commit it to the river N. 2. For recovering the strength they put the hairs and nails into the root of a Cherry tree and cover the wound with dung Preparat Take the parings of the nails in powder one dram Wine one pound infuse them till they become mucilaginous then filter it and having added one ounce of spirit of Wine keep it for use The Dose from one dram to 6 or an ounce III. The spittle of a man fasting is commended against the venomous bitings of Serpents mad-dogs and the like IV. Ear-wax is accounted a most present Remedy for the Colick if taken in drink Outwardly it cures the stinging of Scorpions conglutinates wounds clefts and chaps of the skin V. Sweat is good against the Evill if mixed with the herb and root of Mullein it be wrapped in a leaf and made hot in the ashes be applyed VI. The milk refrigerates mitigates ripens and helps the redness of the eyes Preparat 1. The vitriolated water of milk Take milke and white Vitriol of each a like distill them that the Phlegme may only ascend the sharper spirits left behind The vertues It wonderfully helps the redness of the eyes and other inflamations 2. The butter It is an excellent eye-salve VII The menstruous bloud being dryed is commended inwardly
Crato mixes it with Sugar and gives it 5. The feathers are used in a fume against the rising of the womb 6. The egges are given to cure the running Gowt XXV Perdix a Partridge IS very lascivious and lives long 16 years eating the buds of Hasle and Birch grasse and green corne Whence in Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. Marrow 3. The bloud 4. The Liver 5. The gall 6. The feathers The vertues 1. The flesh eaten increaseth the seed and milk and provokes venery 2. The marrow as also the brain is said to cure the Jaundise being drunk 3. The gall is preferred before others for the diseases of the eyes 4. The bloud is anoynted upon eyes bloud-shot and newly wounded 5. The liver dryed at the fire and powdered resists the Evill and is accounted a singular Antidote against a Fever if it be often taken in water of Milfoyle 6. The feathers serve against the suffocation of the womb the fume put to the nostrils for asswaging the Colick and other pains and discussing them used by way of fomentation and with Mint and Sothernwood in a bag are a familiar remedy for Children to mitigate the pangs of the belly XXVI Pica the Pie. The vertues THis Bird is very much commended against the dimnesse rednesse and pain of the eyes eaten or made into powder and put into the eyes or any way applyed It is good for these that are mad Epileptick Melancholick the ashes used Preparat The Antepileptick water of Magpies which is thus prepared Take seeds and roots of Peony and of Pellitory of Spain of each one dram of Aristoloch the long 3 drams of Misselto of the Oak half an ounce of Castor one dram and as much of flowers of Stechas of Lilly of the valley one scruple and half of Cowflips of Peony of each six drams of Lavander and Rosemary of each 5 drams Sage Marjoram Bettony Hysop of each half an ounce Cinamon Clouds Graines Nutmeg Cubebs of each one dram and half When they are all severally beaten into a grosse powder and cut let them be infused in 3 pounds of the water of Lilly convall a pound and half of the water of the flowers of Luiden one pound of water of Primroses then adde thereto young Pies in number 12. which must be bruised the greater feathers cast away and added to the said infusion after steeping let distillation be made in B. M. The vertues It is a notable Cephalick and Antepileptick water The Dose one or two spoonfuls XXVII Struthio an Ostrich IS a Bird very great forain famous for its chylifick quality In Physicall use are 1. The tunicle of the ventricle 2. The fat The vertues 1. The inner coat of the ventricle strengthens the stomach and wonderfully breaks the Stone 2. The fat is good for nervous parts mollifies the hardnesse of the milt asswages the Nephritick pains anoynted XXIII Turtur the Turtle IN use are 1. The whole Turtle 2. The fat The vertues 1. The Turtle agrees with the Pigeon in vertues but yet is specially commended in the Dysentery and chiefly in staying the flux of the terms Whether the ashes of a burnt Turtle or the extract thereof be given the Dose 4 or 6 grains or the Turtle deplumed and bowelled be roasted with Mastick in its belly and rose Vinegar sprinkled upon it while it is in roasting in lieu of Butter and afterward be dryed in a close pot and be made into powder and one spoonfull given every morning 2. The fat gathered from it while it is in roasting is anoynted on the kidneys belly breast groyn c. N. Some that are Gowty perswade themselves that the fits are driven away and the Gowt prevented if they nourish Turtles in their Chambers XXIX Upupa the Lapwing IS a melancholick Bird most nasty living on Wormes found in dung-hils In Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. The feathers The vertues 1. The flesh and its decoction helpes the Colick by a propriety of its own taken 2. The feathers are said to asswage the Head-ach applyed XXX Vultur a Vultur IS a Bird excelling in the animal faculties chiefly in smelling In Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. The fat The vertues 1. The flesh is judged to be good for the diseases of the head Epilepsie Hemicrany and the like The decoction is accounted to cure the diseases of the skin 2. The fat is good for the sinews 3. The brain helps the weaknesse of the head anoynted or put into the nostrils 4. The gall is said to take away the Epilepsie taken with wine 5. Of the feathers they fable that if they be put under the feet they powerfully provoke the birth 6. The dung provokes the birth by its stench The End of the Second Classis The Third Classis OF FISHES I. Anguilla an Eele IN medicinal use from this we borrow 1. The fat 2. The head 3. The bloud 1. The fat is good for wounds begets hairs anoynted in the disease Alopecia restores hearing dropped into the ear asswages the Hemroids 2. They say that the head of an Eele cures warts if the bloudy head wherewith the warts are touched be buryed in the earth that it may putrefie 3. The bloud as yet warm is said to mitigate the pain of the Colick taken with Wine N. Some say that the Wine wherein Eeles are suffocated makes men abstemious if the Wine be drunk II. Barbo a Barble IS a fish very commendable in Kitchens It is not in Physical use except the egges are taken of some countrey people to provoke vomit and stool which they do very violently III. Blatta Bizantia IS the shell or covering of a fish called Conchylium smelling like Castoreum N. 1. Conchylium is the species of long Shell-fishes which breeding in lakes where Nard doth grow feed on it whence the shell smells like Castor N. 2. Some confound the Conchylium and the Purple fish but absurdly for that is of the kinde of long shell-fishes this of the round The vertues Inwardly taken it loosens the belly softens the milt and discusses vitious humors Outwardly by fume it stirs up women oppressed with the suffocation of the womb and Falling-sicknesse In other things it performs what other shells of Shell-fishes do IV. Cancer a Crab. IN use are 1. The whole meat of the Crab. 2. The eyes 3. The shell The vertues 1 Crabs cool moysten asswage pain fix the raging spirits Therefore are they of chief use in the heat and pain of the head and reyns bruised and applyed in form of a Pultise in the Quinsie a Gargarism is made of the juyce of Crabs and also inwardly the juyce may be given In an Atrophy inwardly the juyce is used with water or juyce of Celandine outwardly a playster may be made of Crabs bruised the liver of a Calf Oyl Olive and Oyl of Bay They draw darts out of the body bruised and applyed they are good in St. Anthony's fire and burnings 2. Crabs eyes cool dry cleanse discusse waste
the animall drooping spirits resisteth poyson provoketh sneezing it is anodyne and moves Womens courses from hence it is profitable in the Lethargy Apoplexie Epilepsie Palsie Vertigo trembling of the members defluxions to the joynts suffocation of the matrix the Colick both inwardly and outwardly used Moreover it helpeth the noise of the ears and difficulty of hearing put into the ear and the tooth-ach N. 1. In the suffocation it is used divers wayes it is applyed to the nostrils tyed under the arme pits put into the Navill N. 2. It correcteth the malignity of Opium N. 3. The skin helpeth the Gowty and Paralytick prepared and worn Preparat 1. The Oyl of Bever infused Vide Disp August Norimberg 2. The distilled Oyl Take Castoreum as much as thou wilt dissolve it in Vinegar or infuse it in Wine or its spirit then distill it with a gentle fire in a glasse Retort N. 1. Rectifie it with Vinegar N. 2. The same proceeding may be in this as in the Philosophers Oyl imbibing red hot bricks c. N. 3. The Electuary called Diacastoreum Vide Dispenstor 4. The extract is made after the common manner with spirit of wine rectified N. Others extract it with Vinegar which being again abstracted they do it again with spirit of Wine Quercetan useth a convenient distilled water as of Balm Marygolds Piony and like Antepileptick and Cephalick herbs and infuseth it in B. M. 4. or 5. dayes The Dose from 5. grains to 12. XV. Catus Domesticus the House Cat IS a lustful Animal quick of sight Whence we have in use 1. The grease 2. The bloud 3. The head 4. The dung 5. The skin 6. The secondine The vertues 1. The grease of a lib'd Cat heateth mollifyeth discusseth and wonderfully helpeth the griefs of the joynts N. The grease of a wilde Cat is best 2. Three drops of the bloud out of the vein of a male Cat under the tail cure the Falling sickness drunk also the bloud drawn from the ear anoynted upon the Shingles is not without successe 3. The head of a black Cat burnt to powder is a most excellent remedy for the diseases of the eyes pin web specks c. if it be blown thereinto three times a day as writeth Misaldus N. The poyson which is attributed to Cats remains in the head alone and brain in no other part of the body as that which is made meat of many 4. The dung with as much mustard and anoynted with Vinegar cures the shedding of the hair and helps the Gowt 5. The skin is worne to warm the stomach and contracted joynts 6. They hang the secundine about the neck for the diseases of the eyes They prefer that of a Cat that first hath young and also black XVI Catus Zibethinus the Civet Cat IS a strange beast brought to our Coasts and is of some nourished for delight and pleasure Civet which is his excrement or sweat concrete together betwixt the testicles is wrapped in a bladder out of which being cut is the Civet taken The vertues It is hot moist and anodyne it is used frequently in the Colick anointed upon the navil in the belly-ach of Infants in the suffocation of the matrix applyed to the matrix or the hollownesse of the navil XVII Cervus the Hart IS a beast of a very long life living 100 years most swift in running casting his horns yearly in April goeth to rut in August and September and the female brings forth young the eighth moneth after From him we borrow for Physical practise 1. The horn 2. The skin 3. Bone of the heart 4. Pisle 5. The testicles 6. The bloud 7. The teares 8. The marrow 9. The tallow 10. The huckle bone 11. The stone Their vertues in particular 1. The crude horn and unprepared resisteth putrefaction correcteth malignity provoketh sweat strengtheneth mans Balsome whereupon the use of it is profitable in the Measels Small Pocks putrid and malignant Feavers and other diseases where there is need of sweating it may be boyled in Decoctions or infused in Infusions because given in substance it is in a manner cast out crude or unchanged N. That is commended which is gathered betwixt the two Lady days viz. betwixt the 15. of August and the 8. of September Preparation of the horn 1. Harts horn burnt till after blacknesse it become white 2. Harts horn prepared is made of the burnt which is made smooth and small with some cordial water according to Art The vertues By its drying force it resists putrefaction it stayes fluxes of the belly kills Worms moves sweat and it is a medicine very fit for Infants The Dose from a scruple to a dram and more 3. Harts horn Philosophically calcined thus The horns are hanged or put in the head or upper part of a Bladder which is filled with some quantity of water then is there a fire put under that the vapour being lift up by the force of the fire piercing the horns may by little and little make them friable and white N. It is a work almost of three days It moves sweat and helps malignant diseases The Dose to half a dram 4. A Magistery The rasped horns are dissolved in Vinegar precipitated with Oyl of Tartar or Vitriol and made sweet by washing with water then being dryed are kept for use N. 1. Others dissolve them with Spirit of Niter which being again abstracted they sweeten the Magistery left in the bottom In the abstraction of the Spirit of Niter there is heed to be taken lest the flame which may easily happen bring losse therefore they proceed more warily who on four ounces of the dissolution pour one measure of Fountain water and filter it and having filtred it if need be do precipitate it by instilling Oyl of Tartar N. 2. Others dissolve them with Aqua fortis precipitate them with Spirit of Vitriol and sweeten them N. 3. The Magistery precipitated with Oyl of Tartar is yellow on the contrary with any mineral Oyl as of Vitriol is white 5. Gelly Take shavings of Harts horn digest them a while in common or some proper distilled water then boyl them and filter the liquor hot and make it into gelly 6. The liquor or Spirit which is drawn by a Retort luted with the force of fire 7. The Oyl N. See the description of the true Oyl of Harts horn in Kesler 8. The Volatile Salt Some digest the Salt of Harts horn fixed two ounces with one ounce of Spirit of Wine rectified twelve days and then abstract the Spirit of Wine to the half and keep the remainder under the notion of the tincture of the Salt of Harts horn The Dose from 5 grains to 10. The Extract of Harts horn is made by pouring upon the branches of the horns a proper water and extracting the Tincture by a Menstrual digestion 9. Water of the new horns of a Hart. Take the tender horns of a Hart having a bloudy juyce in them cut them into pieces and distil them in
Vipers 3 pounds of Oyl of Sesama one Sextary and a half let them be boyled in a glased vessel with a narrow mouth well stopt lest the vapor exhale till the flesh fall from the bones then when they are cold let them be laid up N. Others by descent draw it out of Vipers without the head tayl c. The vertues It cleanseth the skin heals Tetters and other diseases of that sort 2. Theriacal Salt See August Dispensatory Quecetan 3. Trochisces of Vipers See the Dispensatory N. 1. Some have made Treacle of the blinde worm and with very good successe have given it once or twice in the time of the Plague to provoke sweat N. 2. There may also be made Vipers Wine that is in which Vipers are killed famous against the Leprosie drunk 4. Thou shalt finde another excellent powder in Poterius his Pharmacop 5. The Essence of Vipers in Myroth Fabri Salt of Vipers Volatile Oyl Spirit and Salt fixed Let dryed Vipers be cut into pieces and lightly bruised together with the heart and liver be put into a Retort armed till it be filled Distil them into a vessel with a large receiver by degrees It affords a phlegm and spirit the Volatile Salt sticks to the sides of the Receiver and the neck of the Retort and at length comes a fetid and grosse Oyl which is to be separated with a paper let the Salt taken out be purified by subliming it in a large Vial in sand with a moderate fire left any waterinesse follow the Salt which useth to happen when the fire is increased The sublimed parts of this Salt are of a more piercing odor then the rest and therefore must be kept in an Alembeck very well closed It is a medicine very piercing driving away putrifaction resolves all Fevers and Quartanes if it be given to drink one or two hours before the fit in a proper liquor which may somewhat blunt not destroy its Acrimony as in Emulsions of seed of Melons or sweet Almonds adding a part of rose-Rose-water or Cinamon and white Sugar The Dose from 6 grains to half a scruple It is fixed as the Salt Volatile of the Microcosme except that in stead of the proper spirit of the fixed Salt which is little in Vipers and is drawn out of the dead head is taken the Spirit of common Salt The vertues Thus fixed it is an unchangeable medicine going over all the body for it resolves all excrements and cleanseth them clean like Sope in what place soever they stick not assimilated that they may easily and conveniently be repulsed from the matter either by sweat insensible transpiration or which for the most part happens by Urine Therefore in every melancholick Gowt the Stone of the reyns and bladder all obstructions of the bowels and rottennesse it is a most present remedy In decayed strength it reacheth to the parts affected it comforts nature helps by purging it and resolving the excrements contrary to nature The Dose from half to a whole scruple The Essence of Vipers Take the livers and hearts of Vipers in number 100 dryed and bruised with Spirit of Wine rectified 3 or 4 days digest and extract them according to Art The Distillations being joyned adde to one pound of the Essence one ounce of Volatile Salt half ounce of the fixed Digest them that they may be very well united one or two moneths and thou shalt have the chiefest medicine that can be expected from Vipers N. These medicines are very usual in Italy and are said to be used with good successe and applause of the people XXXVIII Vitulus a Calf WHence in medicine are 1. The Marrow 2. Dung The vertues 1. The marrow is next in goodnesse to the Harts it hath vertue to mollifie hard and schirrous bodies whether the hardnesse happen to the muscles or tendons or ligaments Moreover pessaries are made thereof softning the womb 2. The dung helps an Erysipelas new and anoynted XXXIX Unicornis the Unicorn IS said to be a Beast not unlike to an Horse in respect of his body with cloven feet having an horn in his fore-head In medicine the Horn is used which may be distinguished from Ivory by the threads or fibres which are more subtle It is also more solid and more heavy in other things it is like unto Ivory The vertues It is Sudorifick Alexipharmacal and cordial hence it is that it is commended good against poysons infectious diseases c. It is also accounted profitable in the Epilepsie of Infants The Dose from 4 grains to half a scruple sometimes a whole scruple and more XL. Ursus a Bear IS a cruel Beast catarrhous phlegmatique with a weak head most strong loyns lascivious It is at enmity with Hâ—rts Asses Lyons it sleeps certain weeks together Whence we use 1. The fat 2. Gall. 3. The Eye The vertues 1. The fat heats resolves mollifies discusses c. It is chiefly used in the shedding of the hair anoynted with a burnt Mouse it helps the aches of the Gowt the swellings behinde the ear and other tumors made into a playster with Bulls suet and Wax of each a like quantity it heals the Ulcers of the thighes and legs N. 1. In the Rupture Enterocele and the falling out of the womb it is an ordinary medicine of women anoynted on the back viz. on the os sacrum N. 2. It is fit to observe that in the external use of this fat it makes hairs white 2. The gall is inwardly commended against the Falling-sicknesse Asthma and the Jaundise Outwardly against Cancrous and creeping Ulcers anoynted against the Tooth-ach dimnesse of the Eyes c. N. In Finland where there is plenty of Bears it is ordinary for the common people to give the gall dryed as a Panacea and by sweat ensuing thereon I have heard that many diseases have been cured 3. The right eye taken out dryed and hanged about the neck of Infants is said to drive away the frighting wherewith they are vexed in sleep Some say that the eye of a Bear tyed to the left arm heals a Quartane XLI Vulpes the Fox IS a very crafty Beast in a manner partaker of the nature of the Dog In medicinal use are 1. The grease 2. The lungs 3. The liver 4. The gall 5. The milt 6. The skin 7. The bloud 8. The whole Fox 9. The dung The vertues 1. The grease helps Convulsions Contractions Tremblings c. anoynted the pain of the ears wounds of the head and shedding of hair 2. The lungs consolidate cleanse and from hence they are good against the diseases of the lungs and straitnesse of the breast dryed and taken 3. The liver helps the Hepatick and Splenetick used as the lungs 4. The gall helps the Haw of the eyes anoynted 5. The milt heals the hardnesse and swelling of the milt laid on or applyed to it 6. The hairy skin is successefully applyed on cold members and troubled with the Gowt 7. The bloud dryed and powdered heals the Stone
thickning the filtration to the remaining of Salt and being thick by washing or dissolving it again purifying it and sweetning it N. They need not be powdered because whole and without digestion they yeeld to Vinegar N. 2. Pearls washed and if you please bruised are dissolved in the juyce of Citrons poured on to the height of four fingers by digestion on the dissolution is poured May dew distilled or Balm water and the dissolution is poured off Then new juyce of Citrons is infused digested and May dew is again infused or Balm water and decanted c. And this work is often repeated till the Pearls be almost wholly dissolved a very few feces remaining At lâ—st the dissolution is made thick with a gentle fire to the remaining of the powder The Dose from 6 grains to 10. in the water of May dew distilled with Manna or in Cinamon water with Rose water N. Paâ—acalsus attributes great vertues to the Salt of Pearl as to other medicines thereof prepared the processes quoth he of these though simple yet wonderful is the operation of them yet this action of vertues is not made by Art but is in their very nature Which is hid in the grosse substance and cannot operate as a dead body but after dissolution is made its body is revived 2. Unto this is very like the Salt or Magistery of Pearls of Riverius Take Pearls most finely powdered as much as thou wilt make a paste thereof with juyce of Citrons or Oranges and let it alone for a time Then dissolve it with Vinegar distilled according to Art till the Pearls be almost altogether dissolved mingle the Vinegar with a third pâ—rt of River water distill it in sand with a gentle fire then with a stronger being distilled pour it again upon the Caput mortuum remaining and dissolve it again then filter it and evaporate it very easily and the remainder will be the Magistery of the Pearls The vertues Besides the vertues above said it is a chief Preservative against the Gowt The Dose one scruple at the most 3. The Magistery of Pearls 1. Common is made by dissolving it with Vinegar distilled and precipitating it with Oyl of Tartar 2. Butter is made as that Buttery Magistery of Coral thus Dissolve Pearls in the Spirit of May dew or in distilled Vinegar precipitate it with Oyl of Sulphur per C then sweeten and digest it for a time with Spirit of Wine which being abstracted thou hast a Magistery melting in the mouth like Butter 3. The feathery Dissolve Pearls according to art in spirit of Niter then filter it pouring distilled rain water upon it then precipitate it with Oyl of Sulphur per C. sweeten and dry it The vertues Are to be gathered out of the aforesaid The Dose from 6 grains to 15. 4. The Oyl or liquor of pearls Is made per Deliquium the manner is easie 5. The Essence Tincture Arcanum of Pearls Take Pearls as much as thou wilt dissolve them with distilled Vinegar and make a Salt purifie the salt thus made by frequent dissolutions in Vinegar and coagulations the feces always cast away until no more feces shall remain after the last dissolution and the Pearls by that freed from all uncleannesse then dissolve them with rain water or May dew and by distillation abstract the humidity and repeat this so often till the Pearls become sweet this the sweetnessse of the water last distilled sheweth This Salt so freed from the feces digest in a close vessel in M. B. 8 or 10 days with Spirit of Wine poured on to the height of two fingers so the Pearls in that time will send their Essence like thick Oyl to the top of the Spirit of Wine which warily separate and pouring on new Spirit of Wine repeat the labour as oft as thou pleasest for almost all the Salt is converted a very few feces left into an Essence This circulate a fresh with Spirit of Wine for a time afterward by gentle distillation in B. M. separate the Spirit of Wine and keep it for use The vertues Are according to the rest but stronger by far in respect of its very great subtilty The Dose from 6 grains to 14. A secret by the Spirit of Guaiacum Take of Pearls powdered very small as much as thou wilt extract according to Art a most red tincture with the Spirit of Guaiacum rectified the remaining powder calcine gently and extract again twice or thrice with new Spirit of Guaiacum Coagulate the Extracts in B. M. to the appearance of a divers coloured thin skin which is a sign that the phlegm being abstracted there remains in a coagulated form the sole secret or Essence of Pearls with the Spirit of Guaiacum N 1. This Essence and Spirit can scarse be separated asunder N. 2. The same Essence or Arcanum of Pearls is suddenly dissolved with water of Balm and the like a sufficient quantity and is turned into a red transparent colour of an excellent tast The vertues It cleansâ—th the bloud excellently and is of great vertue in the French disease The Dose from 6 grains to 14. Another Tincture Take Pearls half ounce Spirit of Salt a sufficient quantity dissolve them according to Art decant abstract that it may become like pap which wash off by a distilled water circulate with Spirit of Wine 6 weeks then abstract the Spirit of Wine with a gentle heat of B. M. 5. The flowers of Pearls Pearls are dissolved with distilled Vinegar the dissolution is digested for a moneth then the Vinegar is abstracted and at length the flowers are elevated with a stronger fire 6. The Spirit of Pearls or the pearled Spirit of the earth Take of the Salt or Magistery of Pearls 6 ounces terra sigillat one pound mingle and imbibe with a sufficient quantity of Oyl of Pearls and make Balls which being dryed by a Retort as the Spirit of Salt is distilled rectifie it and keep it for use The vertues It is a very great secret in the Gowt LIII Dentalium Entalium IS a little Shell-fish somewhat long rough on the outside smooth within hollow after the manner of a reed and in one part having a chink like a Dogs tooth whence it is called Dentalium N. Not a fish but a long and slender worm is the Inhabitant of the Dentalium It grows to Rocks of the Sea and to old Shell-fishes The Entalium is a Sea Shell-fish long like a little horn right and hollow chamfered without smooth within seldom exceeding the length of ones finger N. It seems to be the Dactylus of Pliny The vertues Though both of these are hitherto little used in Medicine but only in the Citrine Unguent yet is it likely that they may be used with other kindes of shells to the like affects IX Halec the Hering IS a Sea-fish ordinary in the Baltick Sea and other Seas of Germany In medicinal use are 1. The roes 2. The hering it self 3. The brine or pickle The vertues 1. The roes in number