stink thereof is fixed by the acid spirit of the Salt for acid Spirits and volatile Salts are contrary the one to the other and spirit of Urine or any volatile Salt will precipitate any metall as well as salt of Tartar These oyls will remain clear and have far more vertue then the ordinary sort of oyls have As for common ordinary distilled oyls they need not if they be well separated from the water with which they were distilled any rectifying at all and if you goe about to rectifie them you will lose good part of them and make that which remains not at all the better But if there be any better then another for rectifying of them it is by digestion by which means there will be a separation of what is flegmatick which you may separate afterwards and by this means you shall lose none of the oyls Of Compound Waters and Spirits BOOK II. A Dissolving Menstruum TAke Cyprus Turpentine and the best spirit of wine of each two pound distill them in a glass gourd either in Balneo or Ashes Separate the oil from the spirit with a tunnel or separating glass distill the spirit agaim and so often untill it favour no more of the oyl of Turpentine and then it is sufficiently prepared This Menstruum dissolves any hard stones presently and extracts the tincture of Corall A Glass Gourd with its head Another dissolving Menstruum or acetum Philosophicum Take Honey Salt melted of each a pound of the strongest spirit of Vineger two pound digest them for the space of a fortnight or more then distill them in ashes Cohobate the Liquor upon the feces three or four times then rectifie the spirit Note that they must be done in a large glass Gourd This is of the same vertue as the former if not more powerfull Another dissolving Menstruum Take of the best rectified Spirit of Wine with which imbibe the strongest unslaked lime until they be made into a paste then put them into a glass gourd and distill off the spirit in ashes This spirit pour on more fresh Lime and doe as before do this three or four times and thou shalt have a very subtile spirit able to dissolve most things and to extract the vertue out of them Paracelsus his Elixir Subtilitatis Take oil Olive Honey rectified spirit of Wine of each a pint distill them all together in ashes then separate all the flegm from the oyls which will be distinguished by many colours put all these colours into a Pelican and adde to them the third part of the Essence of Balm and Sallendine digest them for the space of a month Then keep it for use This Liquor is so subtile that it penetrateth every thing Vsque-bath or Irish Aqua vitae is made thus Take a Gallon of smal Aqua vitae put it into a glass vessel put thereto a quart of Canary sack two pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned but not washed two ounces of Dates stoned and the white skins thereof pulled out two ounces of Cinnamon grossely bruised four good Nutmegs bruised an ounce of the best English Licorish sliced and bruised stop the vessels very close and let them infuse in a cold place six or eight days then let the Liquor run through a bag called Manica Hippoeratis made of white cotton This Liquor is commonly used in surfets being a good Stomach water Aqua Celestis is made thus Take of Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs Ginger Zedoary Galingall Long-pepper Citron-pill Spicknard Lignum-aloes Cububs Cardamums Calamus aromaticus Germander Ground-pine Mace White Frankincense Tormentill Hermodactyls the pith of Dwarf Elder Juniper Berries Bay Berries the seeds and flowers of Motherwort the seeds of Smallage Fennell Annise the leaves of Sorrell Sage Felwort Rosemary Marjoram Mints Penny-royall Stechados the flowers of Elder Roses red white of the leaves of Scabious Rue the lesser Moonwort Egrimonie Centory Fumitary Pimpernell Sowthistle Eye-bright Maiden-hair Endive Red Saunders Aloes of each two ounces Pure Amber the best Rhubarb of each two Drams dryed Figs Raisins of the Sun Dates stoned Sweet-Almonds Grains of the Pine of each an ounce Of the best Aqua vitae to the quantity of them all of the best hard Sugar a pound of white Honey half a pound then adde the root of Gentian flowers of Rosemary Pepper-wort the root of Briony Sowbread Wormwood of each half an ounce Now before these are distilled quench gold being made red hot oftentimes in the foresaid water put therein oriental Pearls beaten small an ounce and then distil it after 24 hours infusion This is a very Cordiall water good against faintings and infection Aqua imperialis is made thus Take of the rind of Citrons dryed Take of the rind of Oranges dryed Nutmeg Cloves Cinnamon of each two ounces the roots of Flower-de-luce Cyprus Calamus aromaticus Zedoary Galingall Ginger of each half a pound of the tops of Lavender Rosemary of each two handfull the leaves of the Bay-tree Marjoram Balm Mints Sage Thyme flower of Roses white Damask of each half a handfull rose-Rose-water four pints the best White-wine a gallon Bruise what must be bruised then infuse them all 24 hours after which distill them This is of the same vertue as the former Aqua Mirabilis is made thus Take of Cloves Galingall Cubebs Mace Cardamums Nutmegs Ginger of each a dram the juice of Salendine half a pint Spirit of Wine a pint White-wine three pints Infuse all these 24 hours and then distill off two pints by an Alembick This water is very good against wind in the stomach and head Dr. Stephens water is made thus Take a Gallon of Gascoign Wine Ginger Galingale Cinnamon Nutmegs Grains Anniseeds Fennell seeds Carroway seeds of each a dram Sage Red Mints Red Roses Thyme Pellitory Rosemary Wild Thyme Camomil Lavender of each a handfull Beat the spices small and bruife the Hearbs letting them macerate twelve hours stirring them now and then distill them by an Alembick or copper Still with its refrigeratory keep the first pint by it self and the second by it self Note that the first pint will be the hotter but the second the stronger of the ingredients This water is well known to comfort all the principal parts A famous Surfet Water Take of red Poppie cakes after the water hath been distilled from them in a cold Stil not over dryed two pound pour upon them of the water of red Poppie a gallon and 〈◊〉 Canary wine three pints adde to them of Coriander seeds bruised four ounces of Dill seed bruised two ounces of cloves bruised half an ounce of Nutmegs sliced an ounce of Rosemary a handful three Orenges cut in the middle distill them in a hot Still to the water put the juice of six Orenges and hang in it half an ounce of Nutmegs sliced and as much Cinamon bruised two drams of cloves a handfull of Rosemary cut small sweet Fennell seeds bruised an ounce of Raisins in the Sun stoned half a pound being all put into
a bag which may be hanged in the Water the vessell being close stopt the space of a month and then be taken out and cast away the Liquor thereof being first pressed out into the foresaid Water This Water is of wonderfull vertue in Surfets and Pleurisies composeth the Spirits causeth rest helpeth digestion if two or three or four ounces thereof be drunk and the patient compose himself to rest A Pectorall Water Distill green hysop in a cold Still till you have a gallon and half of the Water to this put four handfull of dryed Hysop a handfull of Rue as much of Rosemary and Hore-hound Elecampanie-root bruised and of Horse-radish root bruised of each four ounces of Tobacco in the leaf three ounces Anniseed bruised two ounces twoâ—quarts of Canary wine let them all stand in digestion two days then distill them and in the water that is distilled put half a pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned of Licorish two ounces sweet Fennel seeds bruised two ounces and a half Ginger sliced an ounce and a half and let them be infused in Frigido the space of ten days then take them out This water sweetned with Sugar-candie and drunk to the quantity of three or four ounces twice in a day is very good for those that are ptificall it strengtheneth the Lungs attenuates thick flegm opens obstructions and is very good to comfort the stomach A very excellent water against the worms Take of Wormseed bruised eight ounces the shavings of Harts horne two ounces of Peach flowers dryed an ounce of Aloes bruised half an ounce pour on these the water of Tansie Rue Peach flowers and of Wormwood of each a pint and half let them being put into a glass vessell be digested the space of three dayes then distill them cohobate this water three times This water is very excellent against the worms it may be given from half an ounce to three ounces according to the age of the patient A Water against the Convulsions Take of Ros vitrioli which is that water that is distilled from Vitriall in the calcining thereof two quarts in this put of Rue a handfull of Juniper berries bruised an ounce of Bay berries bruised half an ounce Piony berries bruised six drams Camphire two drams Rhubarb sliced an ounce digest these four days in a temperate Balneo then distill them in a glass vessel in ashes and there will come over a water of no small vertue It cures convulsions in children especially it helps also the Vertigo the Hystericall passion and Epilepsie it is very excellent against all offensive vapours and wind that annoys the head and stomach It may be taken from two drams to two ounces An Hydropicall water Take of Wormwood Broom blossomes of each a like quantity bruise them and mix with them some leaven and let them stand in fermentation in a cold place the space of a week then distill them in a cold Still till they be very dry Take a gallon of this water and half a gallon of the Spirit of Urine pour them upon two pound of dryed Broom blossoms half a pound of Horse Radish roots dryed three ounces of the best Rhubarb sliced two ounces of sweet Fennell seed bruised and an ounce and an half of Nutmegs let them digest a week being put into a glass vessell in a temperate Balneo then press the Liquor hard from the feces put this Liquor in the said vessell again and to it put three ounces of sweet Fennel seeds bruised Licorish sliced two ounces digest them in a gentle heat the space of a week then pour it off from the feces and keep it close stopt This water being drank from the quantity of an ounce to four ounces every morning and at four of the clock in the afternoon doth seldome fail in curing the dropsie it strengtheneth also the Liver is very good against gravel in the back stone cures the Scurvy Gout and such diseases as proceed from the weakness and obstructions of the Liver A Water against the Colick Take of Aniseed three ounces Cummin seed three drams Cinnamon half an ounce Mace Cloves Nutmeg of each a dram Galingall three drams Calamus Aromaticus dryed half an ounce The dryed rind of Orenges two ounces Bay berries half an ounce Let all these being bruised be macerated in six pints of Mallago wine 48 hours then be distilled in Balneo till all be dry This water being dranke to the quantity of an ounce or two at a time doth ease the gripings of the belly and stomach very much A Water against the Vertigo and Convulsions Take of black cherries bruised with their kernels a gallon of the flowers of Lavander three handful half an ounce of white Mustard seed bruised mix these together then put some ferment to them and let them stand close covered the space of a week then distill them in Balneo till all be dry This water being dranke to the quantity of an ounce or two or three doth much relieve the weaknesse of the head and helps the Vertigo thereof as also strengthen the sinews and expell windiness out of the head and stomach A compound Water of Burre root causing sweat Take the root of the great Burre fresh Swallow wort fresh The middle rind of the root of the Ash tree of each two pound cut them small and infuse them 24 hours in the best White wine and Rue vinegar of each five pints then distill them in Balneo til all be dry put to the water as much of the Spirit of Sulphur per Campanam as wil give it a pleasant acidity and to every pint of the water put a scruple and a half of Camphire cut small and tyed up in a bag which may continually hang in the water This was a famous water in Germany against the plague pestilence and Epidemical diseases it causeth sweat wonderfully if two or three ounces thereof be drank and the patient compose himself to sweat Another excellent Sudorifick and plague water Take of the best spirit of Wine a gallon Andromachus treacle six ounces Myrrhe two ounces The roots of Colts-foot three ounces Sperma Cett Terra Sigillata of each half an ounce The root of swallow wort an ounce Dittany Pimpernel Valerian root of each two drams Camphire a dram Mix all these together in a glass vessell and let them stand close stopt the space of eight dayes in the Sun Let the Patient drink of this a spoonful or two and compose himself to sweat Dr. Burges his plague water Take three pints of Muscadine and boil in it Sage and Rue of each a handfull till a pint be wasted then strain it and set it over the fire again put therto a dram of long Pepper Ginger and Nutmeg of each half an ounce being all bruised together then boil them a little and put thereto half an ounce of Andromachus treacle and three drams of Mithridate and a quarter of a pint of the best Angelica water This water which as saith
the Author must be kept as your life and above all earthly treasure must be taken to the quantity of a spoonful or two morning and evening if you be already infected and sweat thereupon if you be not infected a spoonful is sufficient half in the morning and half at night all the plague time under God saith the Author trust to this for there was never man woman or child that failed of their expectation in taking of it This is also of the same efficacy not only against the plague but pox measles surfets c. Crollius his Treacle water Camphorated Take of Andromachus his Treacle five ounces The best Myrrhe two ounces and half The best Saffron half an ounce Camphire two drams Mix them together then pour upon them ten ounces of the best spirit of wine and let them stand 24 hours in a warm place then distill them in Balneo with a graduall fire cohobate the spirit three times This spirit causeth sweat wonderfully and resists all manner of infection It may be taken from a dram to an ounce in some appropriate Liquor A distilled Treakle Vinegar Take of the roots of Bistort Gentian Angelica Tormentill of each ten drams Pimpernell Bay berries Juniper berries of each an ounce Nutmeg five drams The shavings of Sassafras two ounces Zedoary half a dram White Sanders three drams The leaves of Rue Wormwood Scordium of each half a handfull The flowers of Wall-flower Buglosse of each a handful and half Andromachus Treacle Mithridate of each six drams Infuse them all in three pints of the best White wine vinegar the space of eight dayes in Frigido in glass vessels then distill them in Balneo This Spirit is very good to prevent them that are free from infection and those that are already infected from the danger thereof if two or three spoonful thereof be taken once in a day with sweating after for those that are infected but without sweating for others An excellent water against the Stone in the Kidneys Take of the middle rind of the root of Ash bruised two pound Juniper berries bruised three pound Venice turpentine that is very pure 2 pound and a half Put these into twelve pints of spring water in a glass vessell well closed and there let them putrifie in horse dung for the space of three months then distill them in ashes and there will come forth an oil and a water separate the one from the other Ten or twelve drops of this oil being taken every morning in four or six spoonfuls of the said water dissolves the gravell and stone in the kidneys most wonderfully Another water for the same use Take the juice of Radish Lemmons of each a pound and half Waters of Betony Tansey Saxifrage and Vervin of each a pint Hydromell and Malmsey of each two pound In these Liquors mixed together infuse for the space of four or five days in a gentle Balneo Juniper berries ripe and newly gathered being bruised three ounces the seed of Gromel Bur-dock Radish Saxifrage Nettles Onions Anise and Fennell of each an ounce and half the four cold seeds the seed of great Mallows of each six drams the Calx of Eg-shels Cinnamon of each three drams of Camphire two drams let all be well strained and distilled in ashes Two ounces of this water taken every morning doth wonderfully cleanse the Kidneys provoke Urine and expell the Stone especially if you calcine the feces and extract the Salt thereof with the said Water To make an excellent Wound water Take Plantain Rib-wort Bone-wort wild Angelica Red-mints Betony Egrimony Sanacle Blew-bottles White-bottles Scabius Dandelion Avens Honey-suckle leaves Bramble buds Hawthorn buds and leaves Mugwort Dasie roots leaves and flowers Wormwood Southernwood of each one handfull Boil all these in a pottle of White wine and as much Spring water till one half be wasted and when it is thus boiled strain it from the hearbs and put to it half a pound of hony and let it boil a little after then put it into bottles and keep it for your use Note that these hearbs must be gathered in May only but you may keep them dry and make your water at any time This water is very famous in many Counties and it hath done such cures in curing outward and inward Wounds Imposthumes and Ulcers that you would scarce beleeve it if I should recite them to you also it is very good to heal a sore mouth The Patient must take three or four spoonfuls thereof morning and evening and in a short time he shall finde ease and indeed a cure unless he be so farre declined as nothing almost can recover him If the wound be outward it must be washed therewith and linnen cloths wet in the same be applyed thereto Dr. Matthias his Palsie water is made thus Take of Lavender flowers a gallon pour upon them of the best spirit of wine three gallons the vessell being close stopped let them be macerated together in the Sun for the space of six days then distill them in an Alembick with its refrigeratory then take the flowers of Sage Rosemary Betony of each a handfull Borage Bugloss Lillie of the valley Cowslips of each two handfuls Let all the flowers be fresh and seasonably gathered and macerated in a gallon of the best spirits of Wine and mixed with the aforesaid spirit of Lavender adding then the leaves of Balm Motherwort Orange tree newly gathered the flowers of Stechados Oranges Bay berries of each an ounce After a convenient digestion let them be distilled again then adde the outward rinds of Citrons six drams the seed of Piony husked six drams Cinnamon Nutmegs Mace Cardamums Cububs of yellow Sanders of each half an ounce Lignum Aloes one dram the best Jujubs the kernels taken out half a pound Let them be digested for the space of six week then strain and filtre the Liquor to which adde of prepared Pearl two drams prepared Emrald a scruple Amber Gryse Musk Saffron Red Roses Sanders of each an ounce Yellow Sanders Rinds of Citrons dryed of each a dram Let all these species be tyed in a silken bag and hanged in the foresaid spirit A Scorbuticall water or a compound water of Horse radish is made thus Take the leaves of both sorts of Scurvie-grass being made very clean of each six pound let these be bruised and the juice pressed forth to which adde the Juice of Brook-lime Water-cresses of each half a pound of the best White wine eight pints twelve whole Lemons cut of the fresh roots of Briony four pound Horse Radish two pound of the bark of Winteran half a pound of Nutmegs four ounces Let them be macerated three days and distilled Three or four spoonfuls of this water taken twice in a day cures the Scurvy presently Spirit of Castor is made thus Take of fresh Castoreum two ounces flowers of Lavender fresh half an ounce Sage Rosemary of each two drams Cinnamon three drams Mace Cloves of each a dram the best
rectified Spirit of Wine three pints Let them be digested in a Glass two parts of three being empty stopt close with a bladder and Cork two dayes in warm ashes then distill the spirit in Balneo and keep it in a glass close stopt If you would make it stronger take a pint of this spirit and an ounce of the powder of Castoreum put them into a glasse and digest them into a cold place for the space of ten dayes and then strain out the Spirit This spirit is very good against fits of the Mother passions of the heart which arise from vapours c. Bezoard water is made thus Take of the leaves of the greater Sallandine together with the roots thereof three handfuls and a half Rue two handfuls Scordium four handfull Dittany of Crete Carduus of each a handfull and half Root of Zedoary Angelica of each three drams The outward rind of Citrons Lemmons of each six drams The flower of Wall-gilly-flower an ounce and half Red Roses the lesser Centory of each two drams Cinnamon Cloves of each three drams Andromachus his Treacle three ounces Mithridate an ounce and half Camphire two scruples Trochisces of Vipers two ounces Mace two drams Lignum aloes half an ounce Yellow Sanders a dram and half The seeds of Carduus an ounce Citron six drams Cut those things that are to be cut and let them be macerated three days in the best Spirit of Wine and Muscadine of each three pints and half vinegar of Wall gilly-flowers and the juice of Lemmons of each a pint let them be distilled in a glazed vessell in Balneo After half the Liquor is distilled off let that which remains in the vessell be strained through a linnen cloth and vapoured away to the thickness of honey which may be called A Bezoard Extract This water is a great Cordial and good against any infection To make a specificall Sudorifick Take of Ginger a pound long Pepper and black Pepper of each half an ounce of Cardamums three drams of Grains an ounce powder them and put them into a glass with half an ounce of the best Camphire distilled vinegar two pound digest them a month then separate the vinegar by expression which must putrefie a month and then be circulated for the space of a week then filter it and thou hast as powerfull a Sudorifick as ever was or can be made The dose is from a dram to half an ounce and to be drank in a draught of posset-drink treacle-Treacle-water is made thus Take of the juice of the green shales of Walnuts four pound the juice of Rue three pints Carduus Marygold Balm of each two pints the root of Butter-burre fresh a pound and half Burre Angelica Master-wort fresh of each half a pound the leaves of Scordium four handfull old Andromachus treacle Mithridate of each eight ounces the best Canary twelve pints the sharpest Vinegar six pints the juice of Lemmons two pints Digest them two days in horse dung the vessell being close stopped then distill them in sand Aqua Mariae is made thus Take of Sugar candid one pound Canarie Wine six ounces Rose water four ounces Make of these a Syrup and boil it well to which adde of Aqua Imperialis two pints Amber gryse Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fifteen grains yellow Sanders infused in Aqua Imperialis two drams The Mother water commonly called Hystericall water is made thus Take of the juice of the root of Briony four pound the leaves of Rue Mugwort of each two pound Savin dryed three handfull Mother-wort Nippe Penny-royall of each two handfull Garden basill Cretensian Dittany of each a handfull and half the rind of yellow Oranges fresh four ounces Myrrhe two ounces Castoreum an ounce the best Canary wine twelve pints Let them be digested four dayes in a fit vessell then distill them in Balneo A vomiting water is made thus Take of the best Tobacco in leaves cut small four ounces Squils two ounces Nutmegs sliced half an ounce put these into three pints of spring water a pint of White wine vinegar distill them in a hot Still or Alembick If thou wouldst have it stronger thou mayest put this water on fresh ingredients and distill it again A little quantity of this water is a most safe and effectuall vomit and may be taken from the eldest to the youngest if so be you proportion the quantity to the strength of the Patient You may dulcifie it with sugar or syrup if you please A vomiting Water made by Platerus Take green Walnuts gathered about Midsummer Radish roots of each bruised two parts of distilled Wine vinegar four parts digest them five dayes then distill them in Balneo This being taken to the quantity of two spoonfull or three causeth easie Vomiting A distilled water that purgeth without any pain or griping Take of Scammony an ounce Hermodactyls two ounces the seeds of Broom of the lesser Spurge of Dwarf Elder of each half an ounce the juice of Dwarf Elder of wild Asses cucumber of black Hellebore the fresh flower of Elder of each an ounce and half Polypodium 6 ounces of Sene 3 ounces Red sugar 8 ounces common distilled Water 6 pints Let all these be bruised and infused in the water 24 hours then be distilled in Balneo This water may be given from 2 drams to 3 ounces and it purgeth all manner of humours opens all obstructions and is pleasant to be taken and they whose stomachs loath all other physick may take this without any offence After it is distilled there may be hanged a little bag of Spices in it as also it may be sweetned with sugar or any opening syrup A specificall Liquor against the tooth-ach Take of oil of Cloves well rectified half an ounce in it dissolve half a dram of Camphire adde to them of the Spirit of Turpentine four times rectified in which half a dram of Opium hath been infused half an ounce A drop or two of this Liquor put into a hollow tooth with some lint easeth the tooth-ach presently Of MINERALS BOOK III. Spirit of Salt is made thus TAke of the best Bay-salt as much as you please let it be dissolved in spring water and filtred mix with this brine in a Copper vessell of the powder of Bricks or Tiles twice or thrice as much as the Salt before its dissolution was in weight let the water vapour away over the fire continually stirring of it untill it be dry Then put this powder into a glass Retort well luted or an earthen Retort and put it into a Furnace a large Receiver joined to it according to art then give fire to it by degrees untill it will bear an open fire for the space of 12 hours Thou shalt have a very acid oil or spirit in the Receiver That Liquor being put into a little Retort in sand may be rectified by the vapouring away of the flegm then keep it for use in a glass very well stopt that no air goe in Spirit of Salt
specificall liquor A Water and Oyl made out of Hair Fill an earthen Retort with hair cut small set it over the fire and fit a Receiver to it and there will come over a very stinking Water and Oyl This water and Oyl is used in Germany to be sprinkled upon fences and hedges to keep wild and hurtfull Cattle from coming to do harm in any place for such is the stink of this liquor that it doth affright them from coming to any place near it Water of Milk is made thus Take of what Milk thou pleasest a gallon in it dissolve half a pound of salt and put to it two handful of Plantain and an ounce of Licorish sliced then distil it in a hot Stil with a gentle fire This water is of excellent use in hot distempers of the Lungs and Kidneys You may put in other ingredients according to the use you would have it for An excellent compound water of Milk for any inflammations in the eyes Take of womans milk a pint of white Copperas a pound distil them in ashes Note that assoon as thou perceivest any sharp spirit to come off then cease Let inflamed eyes be washed three or four times in a day with this water and it helpeth them wonderfully Spirit of Vrine is made thus Take of the Urine of a young man drinking much wine as much as you please let it stand in glass vessels in putrefaction 40 dayes then pouring it from its feces distil it in a glass gourd in sand til all be dry then cohobate the said spirit on the Caput Mortuum three times then distill it in a gourd of a long neck and there will ascend besides the spirit a crystalline salt which thou mayest either keep by it self being called the volatile salt of Urine or mix it with its spirit which will thereby become very penetrating if they be digested for some days together Note that the pipe of the head must be wide or else the volatile salt will soon stop it Note that this salt is so penetrating that it penetrateth the body of the glass This Spirit by rectification may be made so pure and subtle that it will burn as fire and dissolve gold and precious stones This being often applyed to any place pained with the gout easeth it presently it also quickens any part that is benummed The salt volatile is Helmonts famous Medicine for the Jaundies A compound Spirit of Vrine Take of Hungarian Vitriall a pound the Urine of a Boy that is healthy four pints put these into a glass vessel well closed that three parts of four may be empty digest them in Balneo for the space of a month then distil them in ashes til all be dry This spirit is of great vertue in the Epilepsie Gout Dropsie Convulsions being taken from two drams to half an ounce in some specifical Liquor To make a spirit of Honey Take good strong stale Mead otherwise called Metheglin as much as thou pleasest distil it in a Copper Stil or Alembick with its refrigeratory and it wil yeeld a spirit like Aqua vitae The quintessence of honey is made thus Take of the purest Honey two pound of Fountain water one pound boyl these together til the water be boyled away taking off all the scum that riseth then take the Honey and put it into a glass four parts of five being empty close it well and set in digestion a whole year and thou shalt have the essence of Honey swimming on the top in form of an Oyle being of as fragrant smel as any thing in the World the flegm wil be in the middle and the feculent matter in the bottome of a dark colour and stinking smel Some make the quintessence of Honey after this manner Take as much Honey as thou pleasest of the best put it into a gourd of glass first distil off the flegm in Balneo then extract the tincture out from what remains with the said water then calcine the remaining feces and extract from thence the salt with the foresaid water being distilled off from the tincture calcine the salt and melt it in a crucible then let it dissolve in a cellar then again evaporate it away and thou shalt have a most white salt which let imbibe as much of the tincture as it will digest them for three months and thou shalt have an essence of Honey An essence of Honey may be made thus Take of Honey wel despumated as much as you please pour upon it as much of the best rectified spirit of Wine as will cover it five or six fingers breadth digest them in a glass vessel wel closed the fourth part only being ful in a temperate Balneo the space of a fortnight or til the spirit be very wel tinged then decant off the spirit and put on more til all the tincture be extracted then put all these tinctures together and evaporate the spirit till what remains begin to be thickish at the bottome and of a golden colour This is a very excellent essence of Honey and is of so pleasant an odour that scarce any thing is like to it It is so cordial that it even revives the dying if two or three drops thereof be taken in some cordial water A most strong Spirit of the Vinegar of Honey Take a pound of Honey put to it of the best White wine vinegar six pints an ounce of white Pepper bruised smal of the strongest Mustard-seed bruised three ounces put these into a glass vessel that three parts of four may be empty digest them in a temperate Balneo or set the vessell in the sunne for the space of a fortnight then distil them in Balneo and thou shalt have a spirit farre sharper then the common spirit of Vinegar This spirit is stronger and better then any common distilled Vinegar for the dissolving of hard things and extracting the tinctures out of things Oyl or quintessence of Wax Take of the best Wax a pound as much of pure sand well washed from al its impurity and again dryed First melt the wax and then mix the sand with it very exactly then put them into a glass Retort well coated fit a strong Receiver to it and set it in sand give it fire by degrees continuing it four days which at last must be very strong and there wil come off a spirituous oyl which must be rectified seven times in a glass Retort every time changing the Retort and you shal have a subtle oyl of a golden colour This oyl extracts the vertues out of all flowers presently being set in the sun it is wonderful Balsamical for the cure of wounds or ulcers both inward and outward it also being applyed outwardly easeth all pains quickens any deaded member as in the palfie Water is made out of any flesh thus Take what flesh you please the bloudiest part thereof unwashed being cut very smal and then bruised or if it be a feathered fowl take it being chased up and down until it
with a gentle fire distil off the water till no more will distill A compound water of the Sperm of Frogs Take of the sperm of Frogs gathered in March about the new of the Moon four pound of Cow dung fresh six pound mix them well together and let them stand the space of a day then distil them in ashes This water allays all hot pains both inward and outward especially of the Gout Another compound water of the sperm of Frogs Take of the Sperm of Frogs gathered in March two pound and half the Urine of a young man three pints new Treacle two ounces and a half white Vitrial Salt Allum of each four ounces then distil them and put to the water an ounce and half of the Salt of Vitriall Camphire and Saffron of each an ounce This water being applyed outwardly helpeth all pains especially of the Gout and such like also allayeth hot or cold swellings It also stancheth bleeding A Miscellany of Spagyricall Experiments and Curiosities BOOK V. The Spagyricall Anatomie of Water WAter seems to be a body so very Homogeneall as if neither Nature or Art could discover any Heterogeneity in the parts thereof thus indeed it seems to the eye of the vulgar but to that of a Philosopher far otherwise as I shall endeavor to make credible by presenting to your consideration a twofold process of the discovering the dissimilary parts thereof whereof the one is naturall only and the other artificiall But before I speak of either it must be premised that in the element of Water there is great plenty of the spirit of the World which is more predominant in it then in any other element for the use and benefit of universall nature and that this spirit hath three distinct substances viz. Salt Sulphur and Mercury Now by salt we must understand a substance very dry vitall and radicall having in it the beginning of corporisication as I may so call it by Sulphur a substance ful of light and vital heat or vivifying fire containing in it self the beginning of motion by Mercury a substance abounding with radical moisture with which the Sulphur of life or vital fire is cherished and preserved Now these substances which are in the Spirit of the World make all Fountaines and Waters but with some difference according to the predominancy of either This several predominancy therefore is the ground of the variety of productions I say of productions because all things are produced out of Water for Water is both the Sperme and the Menstruum of the World the former because it includes the seed of every thing the latter because the Sperme of Nature is put refied in it that the seed included in it should be actuated and take upon it the divers Formes of things and because by it the seed it self and all things produced of seed grow and are encreased Now this being premised I shall shew you what the naturall processe is which I shal make plain by instancing in three several productions viz. of the spawn of Frogs of Stones and of Vegetables The Spawne of Frogs is produced after this manner viz. The Sulphur which is in the Water being by the heat of the Sun resolved and dissolved is greedily and with delight conceived by the Element of Water even as the Sperme of a Male is by the Matrix of the Female and that upon this account The Water wants siccity which the Sulphur hath and therefore exceedingly desiring it doth greedily attract it to it self Sulphur also wants humidity and therefore attracts the humidity of the Water Moreover the humidity of the Water hath the humidity of the Salt laid up occultly in it also the Sulphur cherisheth the humidity of the fire and desires nothing more then the humidity of the Salt that is in the Water Sulphur also contains the siccity of the Salt whence it is that Salt requires a siccity from the Sulphur And thus do these attractive vertues mutually act upon each others subject Now by this means there is a conception made in the water which now begins to be turgid puffed up and troubled as also to be grosser and more slimie until out of the spermatick vessels the spermes be cast upward in which spermes after a while appeare black specks which are the seed of the Frogs and by the heat of the Sun are in a short time turned into the same by which it appears there are dissimilary parts in Water 2 Stones are produced out of Water that hath a Mucilaginous Mercury which the Salt with which it also abounds fixeth into Stones This you may see cleared by putting stones into the water for they wil after a time contract a mucilaginous slimy matter which being taken out of the water and set in the Sun becomes to be of a stony nature And whence come those stones gravel and sand which we see in Springs they are not washed down out of the Mountains and Hils as some think from whence the waters spring neither were they in the earth before the Springs brake forth as some imagine and now appear by washing away of the earth from them for if you dig round about the springs even beyond the heads of them you shal find no stones at all in the earth only in the veins thereof through which the water runs Now the reason of the smalnesse of these stones is the continual motion of the water which hinders them from being united into a continued bignesse I shall make a further confirmation of this in the artificial processe of manifesting the Heterogeneity of Water I shal here only adde the assertion of Heâ—â—ont saying that with his Altahest all stones and indeed all things may be turned into Water If so then you know what the Maxime is viz. All things may be resolved into that from whence they had their beginning 3 Vegetables are produced out of Water as you may clearly see by the Waters sending forth Plants that have no roots fixed in the bottome of which sort is the Heart called Duck-weed which putteth forth a little string into the Water which is as it were the root thereof For the confirmation of this that this Heart may be produced out of meer Water there is a Gentleman at this time in the City of no small worth that saith he had fair water standing in a glass divers yeares and at last a Plant sprang out of it Also if you put some Plants as Water-mint c. into a glass of fair water it wil germinate and shoot out into a great length and also take root in the Water which root will in a short time be so encreased and extended as to fill up the glass but you must remember that you put fresh water into the glasse once in two or three dayes Hereunto also may be added the experiment of Helmont concerning the growth of a tree For saith he I took two hundred pound weight of earth dryed in an oven and put it into a vessel in
Spear Mint Rosemary tops Costmary Sweet Marjoram Wild Thyme all dry of each 2 ounces Nutmegs Cinamon of each 2 ounces and an half Cubebs Cardamums of each 1 ounce and an half Sweet Fennell seeds Coriander seeds of each 5 ounces Aniseeds a pound and half bruise them all that are to be bruised Distil them into strong Proof spirit Dulcifie with white Sugar ten pound according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Calamus Aromaticus 5 drams Guaiacum green Bark Avens roots dry Galingale of each 4 ounces Citron pils dry Orange pils dry White Cinamon of each 3 drams and a quarter Wormwood Common dry Wormwood Roman dry Spear Mint Rosemary tops Costmary Sweet Marjoram Wild Thyme all dry of each a dram and half Nutmegs Cinamon of each 2 drams Cubebs Cardamums of each a dram and a quarter sweet Fennell seeds Coriander seeds of each half an ounce Aniseeds 2 ounces 3 drams Bruise them all that are to be bruised distil them into strong Proof spirit Dulcifie with white Sugar 16 ounces according to Art CHAP. XII Marjoram Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Sweet Marjoram dry 3 pound Aniseeds 16 ounces Caraway 4 ounces Calamus Aromaticus 6 ounces bruise them distil and dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Sweet Marjoram dry 5 ounces Aniseeds 1 ounce 5 drams Caraway 3 drams and a quarter Calamus Aromaticus 5 drams bruise them distil and dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces according to Art Marjoram water is good against the infirmities of the Liver and Spleen causeth freenesse of breathing and strengtheneth the Stomach and inward parts CHAP. XIII Vsquebach The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Aniseeds 1 pound Cloves 2 ounces Nutmeg Ginger Caraway seeds of each four ounces distil them into strong proof Spirit according to Art Then adde to the distilled water Licorice Spanish Raifins solis of each 2 pound bruise the Licorice and Raisins dulcifie with brown Sugar 5 pound stir them well together and so let it stand ten dayes and then being fine draw it off and keep it for use The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Aniseeds 1 ounce 5 drams Cloves a dram and half Nutmeg Ginger Caraway seeds of each 3 drams distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art then adde to the distilled water Licorice Spanish Raisins solis of each 3 ounces a dram and half bruise the Licorice and Raisins dulcifie with brown Sugar 8 ounces stir them well together and so let it stand ten dayes and then being fine draw it off and keep it for use Vsquebach cureth the infirmities of the lungs warmerh the Stomach and causeth expectoration CHAP. XIV Balsamint Water The greater quantity Take strong proof Spirit what sufficeth Balsamint dry two pound Aniseeds best 1 pound Caraway seeds 4 ouncâ—s Limon pils dry 8 ounces bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into Proof spirit Dulcifie with white Sugar 5 pound according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Balsamint dry 3 ounces a dram and half Aniseeds best one ounce 5 drams Caraway seeds 3 drams Limon pils dry 6 drams and an half bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces according to Art Balsamint water comforteth the Stomach and expelleth wind CHAP. XV. Rosa solis The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Cinamon of the best 8 ounces Cloves 2 ounces Nutmegs Ginger Caraway seeds of each 4 ounces Marigold flowers Aniseeds of each 16 ounces bruise them distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art then adde to the distilled water Licorice Spanish 1 pound Raisins solis Brown Sugar of each 5 pound Red Sanders four ounces bruise che Licorice and Raisins stir them well together and let them stand 12 dayes then being clear it may be drawn for use The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Cinamon of the best 6 drams and an half Cloves a dram and half Nutmegs Ginger Caraway seeds of each 3 drams Marigold flowers Aniseeds of each 1 ounce and 5 drams bruise them distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art then adde to the distilled water Licorice Spanish an ounce 5 drams Raisins solis Brown Sugar of each 8 ounces Red Sanders 3 drams bruise the Licorice and Raisins stir them well together and let them stand twelve dayes then being clear it may be drawne for use This Rosasolis is good against cold infirmities of the Stomach helpeth digestion and expelleth wind CHAP. XVI Clove Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Cloves of the best 10 ounces Aniseeds 16 ounces distil them into strong Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 5 pound The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Cloves of the best 1 ounce Aniseeds 1 ounce and 5 drams distil them into strong Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces Clove water helpeth digestion breaketh wind provoketh Vrine comforteth the Heart and strengtheneth the Stomach Liver and all the inward parts CHAP. XVII Cinamon Water Common The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Cinamon of the best 5 pound Aniseeds 10 ounces distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 7 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Cinamon of the best 8 ounces Aniseeds 1 ounce distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 12 ounces CHAP. XVIII Cinamon water Proper The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Cinamon best large ten pounds distil them into Proof spirit according to Art take white Sugar 12 pound and an half Rose water four pound make them into a Syrup and dulcifie therewith according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Cinamon best large 16 ounces distil them into Proof spirit according to Art take white Sugar 20 ounces Rose water 6 ounces 3 drams make them into Syrup and dulcifie therewith according Art Cinamon water is good against loathing of the Stomach and a stinking breath It also strengtheneth the Heart Liver Lungs and Spleen and comforteth the Brain and Sinews CHAP. XIX Sweet Fennell seed Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons sweet Fennell seeds five pound Caraway seeds 4 ounces Aniseeds 16 ounces distil them into Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 5 pound The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Sweet Fennell seeds 8 ounces Caraway seeds 3 drams Aniseeds an ounce and five drams distil them into Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 8 ounces Fennell water is good against the naseousnesse of the Stomach and easeth the pain thereof digesteth Flegm and expelleth Wind. CHAP. XX. Marigold Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Marigold flowers new gathered pickt
flower 6 ounces and a half Aniseeds 4 ounces bruise them all distil them into strong Proof spirit dulcifie with white Sugar 16 ounces CHAP. XXVII Scorbuticall Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Horse Reddish roots dry 2 pound Enula Campana roots dry Aniseeds of each 1 pound Water Winter Garden Cresses Taragon Balsamint Scurvigrasse Garden Wormwood Brookelime Trefoile Water Sweet Chervile of each 6 ounces Arsmart 8 ounces Mustard Bank-cresse Rocket Reddish seed of each 3 ounces Citron Orange pils dry Cinamon White Mace of each 4 ounces Bruise them all distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art Dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth for use take 7 parts of this Spirit and 1 part of juice of Limons or more mingle them together and dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Horse Reddish roots dry 3 ounces a dram and half Enula Campana roots dry Aniseeds of each 1 ounce 5 drams Water Winter Garden Cresses Tarragon Balsamint Scurvygrasse Garden Wormwood Brookelime Trefoile Water Sweet Chervile of each half an ounce and three quarters of a dram Arsmart three quarters of an ounce and half a dram Mustard Bank-cresse Rocket Reddish seeds of each 2 drams and an half Citron Orange pils dry Cinamon White Mace of each 3 drams and a quarter bruise them all distil them into strong Proof spirit according to art dulcifie with white Sugar 1 pound for use take 7 parts of this spirit and 1 part of juice of Limons or more mingle them together and dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth CHAP. XXVIII Plague Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Butter-bur-roots dry 1 pound Garden Common Valerian roots dry Angelica roots Imperatoria Gentian Enula Campana Snake-grasse roots of each 6 ounces Contra Yarva Zedoary Galingale of each 4 ounces Rue leaves dry White Horehound Scordium Carduus Benedictus of each 5 ounces Elder flowers Lavender Maces of each 3 ounces Citron pils dry Juniper berries of each 8 ounces Green Walnuts with the husks 1 pound Venus Triacle Mithridate of each 2 ounces Aniseeds best a pound and half Camphire 1 ounce distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 10 pound For use let the party infected take of this water 1 ounce mingled with warm Posset drink or any water proper in that case and be kept very warm and sweat well thereon The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Butterbur roots dry 1 ounce and 5 drams Garden Common Valerian roots dry Angelica roots Imperatoria Gentian Enula Campana Snake-grasse roots of each half an ounce and 3 quarters of a dram Contra Yarva Zedoary Galingale of each 3 drams and a quarter Rue leaves dry White Horehound Scordium Carduus Benedictus of each half an ounce Elder flowers Lavender Mace of each 2 drams and a half Citron pils dry Juniper berries of each 6 drams and a half Green Walnuts with the husks 1 ounce 5 drams Venus Triacle Mithridate of each a dram and half Aniseeds best 2 ounces 3 drams and a half Camphire 3 quarters of a dram distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth For use let the party infected take of this water 1 ounce mingled with warm posset drink or any water proper in that case and be kept very warm and sweat well thereon CHAP. XXIX Lavender Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Lavender leaves dry three pound Lavender flowerrs dry 2 pound Maces half a pound or Nutmegs 1 pound Lavender Coffen dry 2 pound Stoechados half a pound bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Lavender leaves dry 4 ounces 3 quarters and half a dram Lavender flowers dry 3 ounces a dram and half Mace 6 drams and a half Nutmeg one ounce 5 drams Lavender Cotten dry 3 ounces a dram and half Stoechados 6 drams and a half bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into proof Spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 16 ounces Lavender water helpeth the passions of the Heart Palsies Cramps Apoplexies and restoreth the speech lost CHAP. XXX Sage Water The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Great Sage dry 3 pound Red Sage dry 2 pound Lavender flowers Sage flowers of each 1 pound Lavender Cotten dry Southernwood dry of each 8 ounces Nutmegs ten ounces Bruise or beat them as is most proper distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit 1 gallon Great Sage dry 4 ounces 3 quarters and half a dram Red Sage dry 3 ounces a dram and a half Lavender flowers Sage flowers of each 1 ounce a half and 1 dram Lavender Cotten dry Southern wood dry of each 6 drams and a half Nutmegs what sufficeth Bruise or beat them as is most proper distil them into Proof spirit according to Art dulcifie with white Sugar 16 ounces Sage wattr is good for such as are of a cold and flegmatick constitution and for such as are heavy and dull of spirit CHAP. XXXI Ros solis Proper The greater quantity Take strong Proof spirit 10 gallons Ros solis gathered in due season and clean pickt 4 pound Juniper berries 3 pound Sassafras rooted with the Bark Caraway seeds of each four ounces Marigold flowers 1 pound Aniseeds 1 pound and an half Bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art Take hereof 7 pound adde thereto 1 pound of water treated of in the 23 Chapter dulcified Licorice bruised one pound dulcifie with white Sugar ten pound If you adde none of the aforesaid water then in stead thereof take Musk 1 dram Ambergreese 3 drams colour it with the tincture of July flower or Roses what sufficeth according to Art The lesser quantity Take strong Proof spirit what sufficeth Ros solis gathered in due season and clean pickt six ounces 3 drams and a quarter Juniper berries 4 ounces 6 drams and a half Sassafras roots with the Bark Caraway seeds of each 3 drams and a quarter Marigold flowers 1 ounce a half and 1 dram Aniseeds 2 ounces 3 drams and a half Bruise them that are to be bruised distil them into strong Proof spirit according to Art Take hereof ten ounces 1 dram and a half adde thereto 1 ounce 5 drams of water treated of in the 23 Chapter dulcified Licorice bruised 1 ounce 5 drams dulcifie with white sugar what sufficeth If you add none of the aforesaid water then in stead thereof take Musk six grains Ambergreese 18 grains colour it with the tincture of July flower or Roses what sufficeth according to Art Ros soâ—â—s proper openeth obstruction relieveth decaying Nature comforteth the Stomach quickneth Appetite and is good
each 6 drams and a half Angelica roots 6 drams and a half or Hearb Angelica 3 ounces a dram and half White Sugar 4 ounces or what sufficeth Additions to the fifth Chapter The greater quantity Take Cinamon Cubebs of each 4 ounces Sweet Fennell seeds Aniseeds of each 8 ounces Cloves Caraway seeds Nutmegs of each 3 ounces Wormwood dry 10 ounces White Sugar 2 pound and a half or what sufficeth The lesser quantity Take Cinamon Cubebs of each three drams and a quarter Sweet Fennel seeds Aniseeds of each 6 drams and a half Cloves Caraway seeds Nutmegs of each 2 drams and a half Wormwood dry 1 ounce white Sugar 4 ounces or what sufficeth Additions to the sixth Chapter The greater quantity Take Garden Thyme Penny royall of each 3 handfuls Cardamums 2 ounces Sweet Fennell feeds Aniseeds of each eight ounces Balm dry 1 pound Nutmeg Ginger Calamus Aromaticus Galingale Cinamon of each 4 ounces The lesser quantity Take Garden Thym Penny royall of each what sufficeth Cardamums a dram and half Sweet Fennell seeds Aniseeds of each 6 drams and an half Balm dry 1 ounce 4 drams Nutmeg Ginger Calamus Aromaticus Galingale Cinamon of each 3 drams and a quarter Additions to the seventh Chapter The greater quantity Take Spear Mint dry Aniseeds of each one pound Calamus Aromaticus 4 ounces White Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Spear Mint dry Aniseeds of each 1 ounce 5 drams Calamus Aromaticus 3 drams and a quarter White Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the eight Chapter The greater quantity Take Sweet Fennell seeds Cinamon of each 8 ounces Aâ—â—seeds Rosemary dry of each 1 pound Caraway 2 ounces Spear Mint dry 2 handfuls White Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Sweet Fennell seeds Cinamon of each 6 drams and a half Aniseeds Rosemary dry of each 1 ounce five drams Caraway 1 dram and a half Spear Mint dry what sufficeth White Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the ninth Chapter The greater quantity Take Caraway seeds 4 ounces Aniseeds Limon pils dry of each 1 pound White Sugar 2 pound and a half in like manner and quantity make your Composition with Orange pils dry according to Art The lesser quantity Take Caraway seeds 3 drams and 3 quarters Aniseeds Limon pils dry of each 1 ounce 5 drams White Sugar 4 ounces In like manner and quantity make your Composition with Orange pils dry according to Art Additions to the twelfth Chapter The greater quantity Take Cinamon 5 ounces Cloves 2 ounces Limon pils dry 3 ounces Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Cinamon half an ounce Cloves a dram and halfe Limon pils dry 2 drams and a half Sugar 4 ounces Addition to the fourteenth Chapter The greater quantity Take Sweet Fennell Cinamon of each 5 ounces Nutmeg 3 ounces Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Sweet Fennell Cinamon of each 4 drams Nutmegs 2 drams and a half Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the fifteenth Chapter Take and adde to the spirit half as much as the rule of every particular Ingredient therein expressed and in stead of Sanders give it the tincture of Roses July flowers or Poppy what sufficeth according to Art Additions to rhe eighteenth Chapter The greater quantity Take Musk Ambergreese of each half a dram White Sugar candy in stead of common white Sugar what sufficeth according to Art In respect that Musk in some cause may give offence to the receiver it is requisite to omit the use there of in some of your water of this kind to serve for such speciall uses The lesser quantity Take Musk Ambergreese of each 3 grains White Sugar Candy in stead of Common white Sugar what sufficeth according to Art In respect that Musk for some causes may give offence to the receiver it is requisite to omit the use thereof in some of your water of this kind to serve for such speciall uses Additions to the ninteenth Chapter The greater quantity Take Sweet Fennell seeds 5 pound Caraway seeds four ounces Aniseeds 1 pound Cinamon eight ounces Cloves 2 ounces Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Sweet Fennell seeds 8 ounces Caraway seeds three drams and a quarter Aniseeds 1 ounce 5 drams Cinamon 6 drams and a half Cloves a dram and half Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the twentieth Chapter The greater quantity Take Cinamon Sweet Fennell of each 5 ounces Caraway Cloves of each 2 ounces Marigolds 2 gallons Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Cinamon Sweet Fennell of each 4 drams Caraway Cloves of each a dram and half Marigolds what sufficeth Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the twenty third Chapter The Syrup for dulcifying the water is thus to be made Take Apricots Quinces Cherries English Currants of each what sufficeth all full ripe and of equall weight when they are thus prepared as followeth The Furnace used in the drawing of the preceding Spirits and waters A Sheweth the bottome which ought to be of Copper C The barrell filled with cold water to refrigerate and condensate the water and oyle that run through it D A pipe of brasse or pewter or rather a worm of Tin running through the barrell E The Alembick set in the furnace with the fire under it Excellent Waters for severall uses CHAP. I. A water to cause Hair faln to grow again TAke Mountain Hysop Mountain Calamint leaves of Southernwood of each two handfuls Canary Wine Urine Hony Milk of each two pound Mustard seed half a ponud bruife what is to be bruised Macerate them three dayes then distil them in Balneo CHAP. II. A water to cause hair taken off never to grow again Take seeds of Henbane bruised 2 pound lay it a while in some moist place then adde great stone-crop half a pound distil it according to Art Another Take bloud of Frogs Terrae Sigillatae Sumach Roses Sorrell Housleeks what is sufficient Macerate them together 24 houres then distil them in Balneo CHAP. III. A water to take away spots in the Face Take Asses Milk four pound White wine 1 pound the inside of two new loaves 12 Egges with the shels Sugar-Candy 3 drams Mix them well together and distil them CHAP. IV. A water against Scabs Take Sorrell water 2 pound Juice of Plaintane Rose water of each 4 ounces Juice of Limons 2 ounces Lytharge 6 ounces Ceruse Sublimate of each half an ounce Sulphure vive 3 drams bruise them that are to be bruised then infuse them 24 houres and after distill them according to Art CHAP. V. A water to preserve the Sight Take Fennell Vervains Eye-bright Endive Betonies Red Roses Venus Hair of each three handfuls Bruise the Hearbs and macerate them 24 houres in white wine as much as is sufficient then distil them in a limbeck in Balneo Another Take Fennell Celandine Sage Rosemary Vervain Rue of each equall parts Prepare as it before CHAP. VI. A water to restore the sight decayed Take
Fennell Celandine Vervaine Rue Leaves of Enula Fullers Teesell Milfoile of each one handfull Camphire half a dram Bruise them and distil them in an Alembick CHAP. VII A water against the Gout Take Licorice half a pound Aniseeds 1 pound Cinamon 3 ounces Galingale Ginger Roots of Iroes Enula Campana Seeds of Fennell Caraway Amomum Ammi Piony Basil Savory Marjoram of each one ounce Juniper Berries 2 ounces Ground Ivie half a handfull Long Pepper Calamus Spikenard Mace of each 3 drams Valerian 1 dram Roots of Angelica half an ounce Cyprus 4 ounces Lignum Aloes half an ounce Sugar 4 ounces Maliga Wine or strong Ale 32 pound Prepare and distil them according to Art This water taken inwardly strengthens cold and weak Stomachs and breaks the Stone Outwardly applyed it easeth the Gout enlargeth Sinews that are shrunk and is good against all aches and passion proceeding from melancholy and cold CHAP. VIII A Water for the Web and spots in the Eyes Take Rue Plantaine Red roses Red Poppies Vervaine Celandine leaves of each 1 ounce Red rose water 1 pound Rich white wine 1 pound and an half Tutia prepared 1 dram Aloes Hepatick an ounce and a half Cloves 1 ounce Powder prepare and distil them according to Art Drop the water into the Eyes morning and evening CHAP. IX A water for Tetters Fistulas Cankers c. Take strong white Wine Vinegar 8 pound Wood Ashes 1 pound Infuse them 3 dayes naturall and stir them twice a day then put thereto unslaked lime 1 pound let it stand other three dayes and stir it as before when it is well setled Filtre off the clear Lee and put thereto Sal Gemme Salt Alkali Salis Vitae Salt Armoniac Salt of Tartar of each one dram Calx of Egge shels and Calx vive of each 1 dram Grind all these together and temper them with the said Lee put them into a Glass lembick and distil them in Balneo give it the first 24 houres no more heat then will make it and keep it warm after that distil it off according to Art CHAP. X. A water agoinst rednesse of the Face and to beautifie the Skin Take Wild Purslaine Mallows Nightshade Plantain with the seeds of each three handfuls The Whites of 12 Egges Limons number 12 Roch Allum 4 ounces prepair and distil them according to Art Another Take Calx of Egge shels White Corall pulverized of each 2 ounces Salt calcinated and Borax of each 6 ounces Gum Tragagant 5 ounces Roots of white Lillies number 6 White Sope 8 pound Styrax Calamita Belzoin of each 4 ounces Mix and distil them by Alembick Another of the same vertue Take Wine Vinegar half a pound Lytharge of gold 1 ounce and a half Ceruse 1 ounce Sal Gem 6 drams Roch Alum half an ounce Borax Sulphure vive Salt Nitre of each three drams Camphire half a dram prepare and distil them according to Art CHAP. XI A water against the inordinate Flux of Teares Take ripe Strawberries as many as you please set them to digest in Horse dung 15 dayes then distil them in Balneo Or thus Take Flowers of the white Thorn Leaves or tops of the Willow Eye-bright of each what sufficeth distil them as before CHAP. XII A water against rednesse of the Eyes Take juice of Celandine Rue Vervaine Fennel of each three ounces Tops and leaves of Roses of each what sufficeth Sugar Candy 3 ounces of the best Tutia Sanguis Dracâ—nis of each four ounces Bruise them that are to be bruised and distil them according to Art CHAP. XIII A Water to clense and dry a sharp Vlcer Take Crude Allum 2 ounces white of Egges number 15. Juice of Purslaine Plantaine Nightshade Nicotian Houseleek Water of Meadsweet Trinity grasse Roses of each 4 ounces Labour them well together and draw off the Water by an Alembick of Glasse in Balneo CHAP. XIV A water to make the Teeth white Take Allum 6 ounces Common Salt 3 ounces Myrrhe Mastick Cloves of each 6 drams Mix bruise and distil them according to Art CHAP. XV. A Water to take away the marks of the Small Pox. Take Mastick Myrrhe Aloes Hepatick Nard Sanguis Draconis Olibanum Opopanax Bdelium Carpobal samum Saffron Gum Arabick Liquid Storax of each 2 drams and a handful Beat what is to be beaten then adde thereto of clear Turpentine equall weight distil them according to Art CHAP. XVI A Water to Cicatrize Vlcers Take red Wine 2 pound Plantaine water half a pound Rose water four ounces Juice of Plantaine Vervaine Shepheards Purse Knotgrasse Centaury the lesse Comfery the greater and lesser of each 2 ounces Crude Allum 1 pound Cypresse Nuts 3 ounces Pomgranate flowers half an ounce Pomgranate pils 3 ounces Gals half an ounce Bark of the Oak Sumach of each five drams Turpentine 3 ounces Crude Honey half a pound Mastick Olibanum of each ten drams Sarcocoll 2 ounces Burnt Vitriol Burnt lead of each 1 dram Bole Armoniack 3 ounces Cassia lignea halfan ounce Round Birtwort 3 ounces Powder what is to be powdred then mix and distil them Another Take Mastick Myrrhe Olibanum Sarcocoll Mummie of each 3 drams Frankincense 1 ounce Nutmegs Cinamon Cloves Cubebs of each 2 drams Cyprus Nuts half an ounce Flowers Barkes of Pomgranates of each 1 dram Bole Armoniack 1 ounce Sanguis Draconis half an ounce Red Roses 3 drams Roch Allum 1 pound Vitriol 7 drams Clarifiâ—d Honey 1 ounce Aqua vitae a pound and half White Wine 1 pound Juice of Plantaine Nightshade Comfery of the greater and lesser of each 4 ounces Water wherein iron hath been quenched 4 pound Powder what is to be powdred and infuse them all night in Aqua vitae in the morning draw forth the water by Alembick CHAP. XVII A Water for Vlcers Take White Wine 4 pound Plantain water 2 pound Allum half a pound White Copperas 5 ounces Crude Honey 1 pound Licorice Rasped 1 pound Bole Armoniack 5 ounces Camphire an ounce and half Mercury sublimated 2 drams Bruise what is to be bruised and distil them by Alembick CHAP. XVIII A Water for hollow Vlcers Take Fountaine water Red Wine of each 2 pound and a halt Red Roses four ounces Flowers Rindes of Pomgranates of each 2 ounces and a half Sumach 2 ounces Sage a handfull Comfery the greater and lesser of each half a handfull Sarcocoll 3 ounces Mastick 2 ounces Olibanum 1 ounce Honey 1 pound water of Turpentine a pound and a half bruise what is to be bruised and distil them through a lembick of Glasse with a gentle fire CHAP. XIX A Cicatrizing Water Take water wherein Iron hath been quenched four pound Aqua Balsami veri four pound Turpentine a pound and half Crude Honey 1 pound Allum 10 ounces white Copperas five ounces Bole Armoniack 7 ounces Mercury sublimated half a dram leaves of Plantain Comfery the greater middle and lesser Teasill Knotgrasse St. Johns Wort of each a handful and a half Frankincense 2 ounces Olibanum White Sanders of each half an ounce
Red Roses a handfull and a half Cassia Lignea Cinamon of each 3 drams for the first distillation then take Turpentine 1 pound Mastick 3 drams pure Rozen 6 ounces Cinamon Cloves of each 2 drams Pomgranate rinds half an ounce Cyprus Nuts 1 ounce and a half White Copperas two ounces Allum 3 ounces Olibanum 4 ounces Sanguis draconis an ounce and a half Aqua Balsam veri 1 pound for the second distillation Afterwards Take Flowers of St. Johns Wort Sage Rosemary Carduus Benedictus Centaury of each 1 ounce Mastick Red Sanders of each 3 drams Wood of Aloes 2 scruples Cubebs one dram Aqua vitae half a pound Burnt Allum White Tartar of each an ounce and a half Myrrhe half an ounce Earth Wormes in powder 1 dram the middle Bark of the Oak 6 ounces Cassia lignea three drams White Copperas 1 ounce Rindes of Pomgranates half an ounce Cinamon 2 drams Flowers of Pomgranates 1 dram Guaiacum four ounces Carpobalsamum Xylobalsamum of each 1 dram Myrtles Mummie of each 2 drams Borax half an ounce Cloves 2 drams Tormentill Gentian of each 2 drams and a half Round Birt-wort This is for the last distillation afterwards adde Burnt Allum half an ounce White Copperas 2 drams Mastick 1 ounce in fine powder and then keep it for use CHAP. XX. A water for hollow Wounds Take Fountain water Red Wine of each 2 ounces an half Red Roses 4 ounces Pomgranat flowers Pomgranate rindes of each 2 ounces and a half Sumach 2 ounces Sage 1 handfull both the Coâ—feries of each a handfull Allum half a pound Sarcocoll 3 ounces Mastick 2 ounces Olibanum 1 ounce Honey 1 pound water of Turpentine a pound and a half Prepare the Ingredients according to Art and then distil them all together in a glasse lembick with a gentle fire CHAP. XXI A water for Wounds and Vlcers Take Calx vive extinct in Fountain water 8 pound Plantain water four ounces Rose water 2 pound Heat all these together afterward let them stand and clear pour forth all the clear to the lembick and put to it Honey 2 pound Allum 1 ounce Borax Mastick of each three ounces Olibanum four ounces the middle Bark of the Oak dryed 3 ounces powder what is to be powdred and distil them according to Art CHAP. XXII A water to make the Teeth white Take the first distilled water of Honey which is white one pound Allum half a pound Sal Nitre White Salt of each one ounce Water of Lentisk leaves 1 pound Mastick two ounces White Vineger White Wine of each 2 ounces Mix and distil them according to Art reserve the water CHAP. XXIII A water against the Colick Take Muscadell or Malmsey four pound Nutmegs Galls of each 1 dram Cinamon Cloves Grains of each two drams Powder the ingredients grossely and infuse them in the wine 24 houres then with a soft fire draw off the water according to Art CHAP. XXIV A water for a cold Stomach Take Citron and Orange pils dryed of each 2 ounces Rosemary Mints of each one handfull Cinamon Cloves Cubebs Cardamums Nutmegs Ginger of each a dram and a half Sage Pennyroyall Thyme of each one handfull Caraway seeds Aniseeds Fennell seeds of each four drams Bruise what is to be bruised and infuse them all the space of 24 houres in Canary wine four pints then distil them in Balneo according to Art CHAP. XXV Water of Sage Compound Take Sage Marjoram Thyme Lavender Epithâ—â—um Betâ—â— of each 1 ounce Cinamon half an ounce Ireos Roots of Cyprus Calamus Aromaticus of each 1 ounce Storax Benjamin of each a dram and a half Infuse them four dayes in four pound of spirit of Wine then distil them in Balneo CHAP. XXVI Lavender water Compound Take flowers of Lavender Lilly of the Valley of each 24 handfuls Piony Tillia Flowers of Rosemary Sage of each half a handfull Cinamon Ginger Cloves Cubebs Galingale Calamus Aromaticus Mace Messelto of the Oak of each a dram and a half Piony roots one ounce and a half of the best Wine what sufficeth infuse them in the Wine two dayes then distil them in Balneo Mariae This water is good against the Falling sicknesse Convulsion fits and the infirmities of the Brain CHAP. XXVII A Pectorall Water Take the Liver of a Calf the Lungs of a Fox of each number 1 Liverwort Longwort Sage Rue Hyssop of each one handfull Roots of Enula Gladiol of each half an ounce Seeds of Anise Caraway Fennell of each half an ounce Flowers of Borage and Buglosse of each two drams infuse them the space of 24 houres in rich old Wine what sufficeth Water of Scabius Carduus Benedictus of each four ounces Hysop 2 ounces then distil it in Balneo Mariae Another Take leaves of Scabius Veronica of each two handfuls Venus Hair Sage Hysop Horehound Liverwort Licorice of each one handfull Flowers of Borage Buglosse Violets of each half a handfull Roots of Enula Campana Licorice Flowers of Ireos of each half an ounce Aniseeds Fennell seeds of each one dram Choyse Cinamon orientall Saffron of each half a dram let them be bruised and cut be digested in water of Scabius Veronica of each one pound water of Hysop half a pound white Wine 3 pound let them digested two days be distilled in Balneo Mariae adde Sugar Candy what sufficeth This water openeth the obstructions of the Liver and Lungs and strengtheneth them CHAP. XXVIII Aqua Splenetica Take roots of Fern 2 ounces roots of Parsley Polypody of each an ounce and a half roots of Round Birt wort Lovage Calamus Aromaticus Acorns of the water of each 1 ounce chosen Rubarb barks of Tamarisk Copperas Ash of each half an ounce Lovage Seeds of Caraway Cummin Anise of each two drams Scolopendria tops of Wormwood Fumiterre Dodder leaves of Agrimony Ceterach of each a handfull and a half Rich Wine 8 pound let them be digested two dayes and then distil them in Balneo Mariae This water strengtheneth the Spleen openeth and provoketh Vrine CHAP. XXIX Aqua Febrifuga Take roots of Vipers grasse Cinquefoil Tormentill Dictamum of each 6 drams Seeds of Citron excorticated Carduus Benedictus Carduus Mariae Sorrel of each half an ounce of all the Sanders of each 1 dram of the Cordiall flowers of each 1 handfull Goats Rue one handfull Harts horn rasped half an ounce pour upon them bruised water of Tormentill Cychorie Carduus Benedictus Carduus Mariae Wild Poppy of each what sufficeth let them be macerated three dayes in a glasse close shut afterward adde Citrons bruised number six Juice of Endive Carduus Benedictus Plantain of each one pound Borage Scordium of each half a pound let them be distilled in Balneo Mariae This water is convenient in Feavers especially malignant Feavers because it driveth away the malignity and resisteth putrefaction CHAP. XXX Aqua Damascena Odorifera Take Ireos Flowers Cloves Cubebs Cinamon Grains of Paradise Calamus Aromaticus of each one ounce Marjoram Thyme
Bay leaves Rosemary Flowers Red Roses of each a handfull Lavender flowers three drams of the best Wine 3 measures let them be macerated â—nd distilled to the distilled liquor add Musk half a scruple Civet 6 grains This water beateth dryeth cutteth discusseth and chiefly strengtheneth the Heart and Head CHAP. XXXI Aqua Hysterica Take roots of Dictamnum seeds of Daucus of each one ounce Cinamon Cassia lignea Balm of each two scruples Orientall Saffron 1 scruple New Castorium 1 scruple and a half of all these mixt make a powder to which let be poured water of Rue two pound and a half let them stand in infusion four dayes and then distil them in Balneo Mariae CHAP. XXXII Aqua Nephretica Take roots of Enula Campaâ—a Cammock Pimpernell Radish of each one ounce Parsley Lovage of each 7 drams leaves of Lovage Parsley of each one handfull Saxifrage cum toto two ounces Flowers of Broom Balm Rosemary of each half a handfull Elder one handfull Berries of Juniper Myrtle Alcakengie Anifeeds of each 2 ounces cut them and infuse them the space of 8 dayes in 12 pound of the best white Wine then let them be distilled This water openeth and provoketh Vrine the dose is one spoonfull CHAP. XXXII Aqua Aperitiva Take roots of Eringo Vipers graffe Fern the greater Centaury of each half an ounce roots of Fennell Banks of Cappâ—ris Tamarisk Ash of each three drams Barks of Citrons two drams and a half Seeds of Carduus Benedictus Cichorie of each half an ounce Seeds of Endive Cresses Citrons Scariol of each two drams Polytricon Adianthum Ceterach Dodder Scolopendria Betony Endive of each a handfull and a half Tops of Thyme Epithymum Hops Flowers of St. Johns Wort Broome Borage Balm of each 1 handfull Small Raisins 1 ounce Cinamon 1 dram and a half Spec. Dialace half a dram Carduus Benedictus Water of Hops Scolopendria Pauls Betony of each one pound Rhenish Wine two pound and a half let them stand two days in a warm place in a vessel close stopped afterward distil them in Balneo This water openeth the obstructions of the whole body but especially of the Liver Spleen and Mesentery FINIS A Catalogue of the Materials and Ingredients used in the precedent Rules ROOTS ANgelica Avens Butter-Bur Calamus Arâ—maticus Cyperus long Contra-yerva Enula-campana Galingal Gentian Ginger Horse Radish Imperitoria Licorice Lovage Orris Sassafras Scordium Snake-grasse Valerian Common Garden Great Vincetoxicum Zedoary WOODS LIgnum Rhodium Sanders Red Yellow BARKS and PILLS BAy-tree Roots Cassia Lignea Cinamon Common White Citron Guaiacum Limon Orange Pippins Quinces Sassafras HEARBS ANgelica Arsmart Bay-leaves Balm or Bawm Burnet Brooklime Balsamint or Costmary Carduus Benedictus Chervile sweet Clary Calamint Cresses Water Garden Winter Bank Costmary or Balsamint Horehound white Lavender leaves Lavender Cotton Mint Speir Red Marjoram Sommer Peny Royal Rosemary Rocket Ros solâ—s Rue Sage Red Great Scurvygrasse Common Garden Stoechados Southernwood Scordium Thyme Wilde Garden Limon Tarragon Trefoil Water Valerian great Wormwood Common Romane FLOWERS COwslip Citron Camomile Elder Gilliflowers Clove Giâ—iflowers Stock three sorts Jasmine Lavender Lillium Convallium Marygold Melilot Orange Poppy Red Roses Red Damask Musk Bryer Saffron Sage Stoechas Tillia or Lindentree Thyme Garden Limon Wilde Woodbine or Honey-suckle SEEDS ANise Angelica Basil Caroway Cardamums Cresse Bank Chervile sweet Coriander Cummin Fennel sweet Grains of Paradise Mustard Radish Rocket Scurvy-grasse Garden Wormwood common FRUITS APricotes Alkerms Berries Barley Maulted Barley Maulted Cardamums Cherries Currans Forain English Cubebs Cloves Grapes Hops Juniper Berries Maces Nutmegs Pepper White Long Quinces Raspis Red Raysins sol Strawberries Saffron Walnuts green with husks Zedoary JUICES LImons Walnuts green with the Husks Others of divers kindes AMbergreese Allum Benjamin Camphire Confection of Alkermes Mithridate Musk Treakle Venice Syrup of Gilliflowers Storax Sugar of divers sorts Liquid Materials WInes of all kindes Beer and Ale After-Worts or Wash Sugar-Waters Tilts Dregs Lees or Grounds of Beer or Ale Lees of Wines Spirits of Wine Rose-water FINIS An Alphabeticall Table of all the Oils Waters Experiments and Curiosities contained in the six foregoing Bookes A. OYle of Adders 97 Quintessence of Adders 98 Air in the heat of the summer and the heat of the day to condense into water 137 The form of an Alembick 31 Oile of Amber 38 Spirit of Ambergreese 123 Oile or Butter of Antimony 70 Water of Antimony 71 Spirit Essence of Antimony 72 An Antimoniall Cup to make 165 Water of rotten Apples 24 Aqua vitae of Wine 24 Aqua vitae of Beere 25 Aqua vitae to rectifie 26 Aqua vitae Irish 45 Aqua fortis 69 Another 70 Aqua Regia Another 69 Tearms of Art Explained 8 Oile of Arsenick 68 Aurum Poâ—abile of Doctor Anthony 175 Aurum Fulmâ—nans 180 B. THe Delineation of a Balneum Mariae 21 Another 22 Another 23 A Balneum of Wood 29 Balsam of Bears Fat 97 For Baths a new Invention 152 A Hot Bath Artificiall from the same principles as the Naturall Bath is 154 Bellowes Philosophicall 150 Water of Berries 21 Oyl of Berries 35 Bezoard Water 58 Bezoard Extract 59 A dead Bird to raise to life 118 Oyl Water Magistery of Bloud 89 Oil of Bole Armoniack 79 Oil of Bones 101 Essence of mans Brains 90 Doctor Burgesse Plvgue Water 53 Burnt-root water compound 52 To purifie Butter And to make Butter tast of any Vegetable without altering its color 125 C. Oyle of Camphire severall wayes to make 37 A Candle that shall last long 148 Spirit of Castor 58 To make Cheese tast strong of any vegetable without discoloring it 125 Aqua Coelestis 46 Water against the Colâ—ck 51 Water against Convulsions 50. 51 Water of Corall 81 Water of Crabs 102 Oil of Crabs Eyes 103 Spirit of Cranium Humanum 91 D. DIstillation and its kinds 1 Vessels for Distillation 3 Rules for Distillation 12 Common distilled Waters 17 Distilling in wooden Vessels 29 To Distill Spirits of Minerals Vegetables Bones Horns c. 76 Water of Dung Doves Dung Cow Dung Horse Dung 100. 101. E. OIle Water of Egs 102 To engrave upon an Egge or Peble with wax or Grease 132 The four Elements to make appeare in a Glasse 128 Water of Elder Berries 21 Elixir Subtilitatus of Paracelsus 45 The Processe of the Elixir according to Paracelsus 188 according to Divi leschi Genus Amo 189 F. FIre to keep Fire in a Glasse that whilest the Glasse is shut will not burn but as soon as it is opened will be enflamed 144 For Fire an excellent invention 151 To make Firre trees appear in Turpentine 127 Water of Flesh 95. 96 Flesh to make Artificially 118 Water of the Spawn of Frogs simple and compound 103. 104 Furnaces the Matter and Form 2 A Furnace to distill liquor with the steam of Boyling water 20 Furnaces for four rectifications at once 28 A Furnace to distill per descensum 41 A Furnace for Reverberation 71 A Furnace that shall of it self
unslaked lime half a foot thick then another of dung as before then set in your vessel and lay round it lime and horse dung mixt together press it down very hard you must sprinkle it every other day with water and when it ceaseth to be hot then take it out and put in more 12. Note that alwayes sand or ashes must be well sisted for otherwise a coal or stone therein may break your glass 13. The time for putrefaction of things is various for if the thing to be putrefied be vegetables and green less time is required if dry a longer if Minerals the longest of all Thus much note that tâ—â—â—gs are sooner putrefied in cloudy weather then in fair 14. If thou wouldst keep vegetables fresh and green all the year gather them in a dry day and put them into an earthen vessel which you must stop close and set in a cold place and they will as saith Glauberus keep fresh a whole year 15. Do not expect to extract the essence of any vegetable unless by making use of the feces left after distillation for if you take those feces as for example of a nettle and make a decoction thereof and strain it and set it in the frost it wil be congealed in it will appear a thousand leaves of nettles with their prickles which when the decoction is again resolved by heat vanish away which shews that the essence of the vegetables lies in the salt thereof 16. In all your operations diligently observe the processes which you read and vary not a tittle from them for sometimes a smal mistake or neglect spoils the whole operation and frustrates your expectation 17. Try not at first experiments of great cost or great difficulty for it will be a great discouragement to thee and thou wilt be very apt to mistake 18. If any would enter upon the practise of Chymistrie let him apply himself to some expert Artist for to be instructed in the manual operation of things for by this means he wil learn more in two months then he can by his practise and study in 7 years as also avoid much pains and cost and redeem much time which else of necessity he will lose 19. Enter not upon any operation unless it be consistent with the possibility of nature which therefore thou must endeavour as much as possibly may be to understand well 20. Do not interpret all things thou readest according to the literall sense for Philosophers when they wrote any thing too excellent for the vulgar to know expressed it enigmatically that the sons of Art only might understand it 21. In all thy operations propose a good end to thy self as not to use any excellent experiment that thou shalt discover to any ill end but for the publick good 22. It wil be necessary that thou knowest all such instruments that thou shalt use about thy Furnace and Glasses whereof some are already expressed and some more are shewn in the following page A B C D E A Signifies an iron rod with two iron rings at the ends thereof which must be heated red hot and applyed to that part of the glass which thou wouldst break off When thou hast held it there so long till the glass be very hot then take it off and drop some cold water where thou wouldst have it break off and it will presently crack in sunder These rings are for such glasses as will goe into them Thou must have divers of this sort even of all sizes B An iron hook which must be heated hot and applyed to any great glass that will not goe into a ring this hook bath a wooden handle C A pair of tongs which are for divers uses D A crooked iron to rake betwixt the grates to clear them E An iron rake to rake the ashes out of the ash-hole A thread dipt in melted brimstone and tyed about a glass and then fired may serve in stead of the iron rings and the hook Common distilled simple waters are made thus TAke what herbs or flowers you please put them into a common cold Still and let them distill gently This is the form of a common cold Still But note that this kinde of water is but the flegm of the vegetable which you distil and hath very little vertue or odour in it only roses and mints and two or three more have an odour but all besides have as little vertue as common distilled water I do not deny but that it may be so ordered that these kinds of waters may partake both of the smell and strength of their vegetables in a good measure and it is thus To make waters in a cold Still that shall have the full smell and vertue of the vegetable TAke what herbs flowers or roots you please so that they be green bruise them and mix with them some leaven and let them stand close covered for four or five days then distil them after the manner aforesaid Another way to make Water taste and smell strong of its vegetable WHen you have distilled any vegetable in a cold Still after the usuall manner so that you take heed you dry not the hearb too much which you may prevent by putting a brown paper in the bottom of the Still giving it a gentle fire and turning the cake before it be quite dryed take the cakes that remain in the bottome of the Still and the water that is distilled from thence having a good quantity thereof and put them into a hot Still and let them stand warm for the space of 24 hours then distil them Then if you would have the water strong put the said water into more fresh cakes casting away the other and doe as before This is the truest and best way to have the water of any vegetables Also thou shalt by this way purchase some oil which is to be separated and to be kept by it self To make water at any time of the year in a cold Still without green herbs so that the water shall smell strong of the hearb PUt fair water into the body of the cold Still then hang a bag full of that hearb that thou wouldst have the water of being first dryed or seed or root thereof first bruised then make a strong fire under the Still Note that those vegetables of which the water is made after this and the former manner must be of a fragrant smell for such as have but little or no smell cannot yeeld a water of any considerable odour Another way to make a water taste and smell strong of its vegetables TAke of the dry hearb or seed or root bruised to a pound of each put 12 pints of spring water distill them in a hot Still or Alembick and the water that is distilled off put upon more of the fresh hearbs seeds or roots do this three or four times and thou shalt have a water full of the vertue of the vegetable being almost as strong as a spirit To make the water of
the flowers of Jasmin Honey-suckles or Woodbine Violets Lillies c. retain the smell of their flowers The reason why these flowers in the common way of distillation yeeld a water of no fragrancie at all although they themselves are very odoriforous are either because if a stronger fire be made in the distilling of them the grosser and more earthy spirit cometh out with the finer and troubleth it as it is in case the flowers be crushed or bruised where the odour upâ—â— the same account is lost or because the odoriferous spirit thereof being thin and very subtle riseth with a gentle heat but for lack of body vapours away The aâ—â—therefore that is here required is to prevent the mixtion of the grosser spirit with the finer and to give such a body to the finer that shall not embase it and it is thus Take of either of the aforesaid flowers gathered fresh and at noon in a fair day let them not at all be bruised Infuse a handfull of them in two quarts of White-wine which must be very good or else you labour in vain for the space of half an hour then take them forth and infuse in the same wine the same quantity of fresh flowers this do eight or ten times but still remember that they be not infused above half an hour for according to the rule of infusion a short stay of the body that hath a fine spirit in the liquor receiveth the spirit but a longer stay confoundeth it because it draweth forth the earthy part withall which destroyeth the finer then distill this liquor all the flowers being first taken out in a glass gourd in a very gentle Balneo or over a vapour of hot water the joints of the glass being very well closed and thou shalt have a water of a most fragrant odour By this means the spirit of the wine which serves to body the fine odoriferous spirit of the flowers ariseth as soon as the fine spirit it self without any earthiness mixed with it Note that in defect of Wine Aqua vitae will serve also strong beer but not altogether so well because there is more gross earthiness in it then in wine The water of either of these flowers is a most fragrant perfume and may be used as a very delicate sweet water and is no small secret A Furnace with his vessels to distil liquors with the steam of boyling water A Shews the head of the Alembick B The body thereof placed in a brasse vessel made for that purpose C A brasse vessel perforated in many places to receive the vapor of the water This vessel shal contain the Alembick compassed about with sawdust not only that it may the better and longer retain the heat of the vapour but also lest it should be broken by the hard touch of the brazen vessel D Shews the brasse vessel containing the water as it is placed in the Furnace E The Furnace containing the vessel F A Funnel by which you may now and then pour in water in stead of that which is vanisht and dissipated by the heat of the fire G The Receiver The delineation of a Baln Mâ—r. which may also serve to distill with ashes A Shews the Furnace with the hole to take forth the ashes B Shews another furnace as it were set in the other now it is of brass runs through the midst of the kettle made also of brass that so the contained water or ashes may be the more easily â—eated C The kettle wherein the water ashes or sand are contained D The Alembick set in the water ashes or sand with the mouths of the receivers E The bottome of the second brass Furnace whose top is marked with B which contains the fire A water out of Berries is made thus TAke of what Berries you please being full ripe put them into a gourd glass strewing upon them a good quantity of powdered sugar cover them close let them stand three weeks or a month then distill them in Balneo After this manner Strawberries Raspberries Elderberries and black Cherries may be distilled But note that such as have stones must first be bruised together with their stones A sweating water made of Elderberries TAke of Elder berries as many as you please press out the juice thereof to every gallon thereof put a pint of White-wine vinegar of the lees of Whitewine a pint let them stand in a wooden vessell which thou must then set in some warm place near the fire side for the space of a week then distill them in a hot Still or Alembick The Furnace for a Balneum Mariae with the Alembicks and their reâ—eivers A Shews the brass Kettle full of water B The cover of the Kettle perforated in two places to give passage forth to the Vessels C A Pipe or Chimney added to the Kettle wherein the fire is contained to heat the water D The Alembick consisting of its body and head E the Receiver whereinto the distilled liquor runs The effigies of another Baln Mar. not so easie to be removed as the former A Shews the vessell or Copper that contains the water B The Alembick set in water But lest the bottom of the Alembick being half ful should float up and down in the water and so strike against the sides of the Kettle I have thought good to shew you the way and means to prevent that danger A Shews the vessel or glass Alembick B A plate of lead whereon it stands C Strings that bind the Alembick to the plate D Rings through which thestrings are put to fasten the Alembick In defect of a Furnace for a Balneum you may make use of a pot set upon a trevet after this manner An ounce or two of this water of Elder berries is a very excellent sudorifick and is very good in all diseases that require sweat as also in hydropicall diseases Water out of rotten apples is made thus TAke as many rotten apples as you please bruise them and distill them either in a common cold Still or gourd glasses in Balneo This water is of greater use in feavers and hot distempers then the common distilled waters of any cold vegetables It is very good in any hot distemper of the reines and sharpness of Urine It is very good in the inflammations of the eyes How to make Aqua vitae and spirit of Wine out of Wine TAke of what wine you please put it into a copper Still two parts of three being empty distill it with a worm untill no more spirit come off then this spirit will serve for the making of any spirits out of vegetables but if thou wouldst have it stronger distill it again and half will remain behind as an insipid flegm and if thou wouldst have it yet stronger distill it again for every distillation wil leave behind one moity of flegm or thereabouts So shalt thou have a most pure and strong spirit of wine A hot Still A Sheweth the bottome which ought to be of
After this manner may be made the spirit of Herbs Flowers the Roots of Vegetables the Seeds of Vegetables Berries Barks Rinds and Spices Note that the Hearbs and Flowers must be cut small the rest bruised If you would make it stronger then take all the foresaid spirit and as much more Sack or low Wines and put them upon the same quantity of fresh vegetables and distil them repeat this three or four times if thou pleasest Note also that the Vegetable must be dryed because else the spirit will not be so good as if otherwise The form of an Alembick A Signifies the vessel which must be of Copper in which the mâ—â—â— is contained and which o◠〈◊〉 be set over a naked fire B Signifies the belly that is fastned to the Neck that the Neck may the more commodiously be applyed to the large mouth of the vessel But it may be so ordered that the mouth of the upper vessell and lower vessel may be so fitted that they shall not need this Belly C The long Neck of the upper vessel whereby the spirit or water passing is somewhat cooled D The head E The vessel that compasseth the head into which cold water is centinually poured after the heating F The long receiver G The top or Cock letting out the water when it is hot The Spirit of any vegetable may suddenly at any time of the year be made thus Take of what Hearb Flower Seeds or Roots you please Fil the head of the Stil therewith then cover the mouth thereof with a course Canvas and set it on the Stil having first put into it sack or low Wines Then give it fire If at any time thou wouldst have the spirt be of the colour of its vegetable then put of the flowers thereof dryed a good quantity in the nose of the Still To make any vegetable yeeld its spirit quickly Take of what vegetables you please whether it be the seed flower root fruit or leaves thereof cut or bruise them small then put them into warm water put yest or balm to them and cover them warm and let them work three days as doth Beer then distill them and they will yeeld their spirit easily To reduce the whole 〈◊〉 into a liquor which may wel be called the Essence thereof Take the whole Hearb with flowers and roots make it very clean then bruise it in a stone Morter put it into a large glass vessel so that two parts of three may be empty then cover it exceeding close and let it stand in putrefaction in a moderate heat the space of half a year and it will be all turned into a water To make an Essence of any Hearb which being put into a glass and held over a gentle fire the lively form and Idea of the Hearb wil appear in the Glass Take the foregoing water and distill it in a gourd glass the joints being well closed in ashes and there will come forth a Water and an Oil and in the upper part of the vessel wil hang a volatile salt The oil separate from the water and keep by it self with the water purifie the volatile salt by dissolving filtring and coagulating The salt being thus purified imbibe with the said oil untill it will imbibe no more digest them wel together for a month in a vessell hermetically sealed And by this means you shall have a most subtill essence which being held over a gentle heat will fly up into the glass and represent the perfect Idea of that vegetable whereof it is the essence The true Essence or rather Quintessence of any Hearb is made thus When thou hast made the water and oil of any vegetable first calcine i. e. burn to ashes the remainder of the Hearb with the ashes make a Lye by pouring its own water thereon when thou hast drawn out all the strength of the ashes then take 〈◊〉 the Lye being first filtred and vapour it away and at the bottome thou shalt find a black salt which thou must take and put into a Crucible and melt it in a strong fire covering the Crucible all the time it is melting after it is melted let it boil half an hour or more then take it out and beat it small and set it in a cellar on a Marble stone or in a broad glass and it wil all be resolved into a Liquor this Liquor filter and vapour away the humidity till it be very dry and as white as snow Then let this salt imbibe as much of the oil of the same vegetable as it can but no more lest thou labour in vain Then digest them together till the oil will not rise from the Salt but both become a fixed powder melting with an easie heat To extract the Quintessence of all Vegetables Take of what spices flowers seeds hearbs woods you please put them into rectified spirit of Wine let the spirit extract in digestion till no more feces fal to the bottome but all their essence is gone into the spirit of Wine upon which being thus impregnated pour a strong spirit of salt and digest it in Balneo till an oil swim above which separate with a Tunnell or draw off the spirit of Wine in Balneo and the oil will remain clear at the bottom but before the spirit of Wine is abstracted the oil is bloud red and a true Quintessence An excellent Essence of any Vegetable may be made thus Take of the distilled oil of any vegetable with it imbibe the best Manna being very well depurated untill it will imbibe no more then digest them a month and thou shalt have the true balsome and excellent Essence of any vegetable This hath the vertues of the vegetable whereof it was made but in a more eminent manner The depuration of Manna for this use is a great secret Water or Spirit of Manna is made thus Take of the best Manna one part of Nitre two parts put them into an Ox bladder and tying it close put it into warm water to be dissolved Distill this water in an Alembick and there will come forth an insipid water sudorificall and laxative The Chimicall Oil of the Hearb or Flower of any Vegetable is made thus Take of the Hearb or Flower dryed one pound of Spring water twenty four pints distill them in a great Alembick with its cooler or Gopper Stil with a worm passing through a vessel of cold water Let the oil that is drawn with the water be separated with a Tunnell or separating glass and let the water that is separated be kept for a new Distillation Note that if this water be used two or three times in the drawing of the oil it will be an excellent water of that vegetable from which it is distilled and as good as most that shal be drawn any other way After the same manner are made oil of the dry rinds of Orenges Citrons Lemons But note that these Rinds must be fresh and the inward whiteness being separated be bruised The Oil
commonly called the spirit of Roses Take of Damask or Red Roses being fresh as many as you please infuse them in as much warm water as is sufficient for the space of twenty four hours Then strain and press them and repeat the infusion severall times with pressing untill the liquor become fully impregnated which then must be distilled in an Alembick with a refrigeratory or Copper Still with a worm let the spirit which swims on the water be separated and the water kept for a new infâ—sion This kind of spirit may be made by bruising the Roses with Salt or laying a lane of Roses and another of Salt and so keeping them half a year or more which then must be distilled in as much common water or Rose water as is sufficient Oils are made out of seeds thus Take of what seeds you please bruised two pound of spring water twenty pints let them be macerated for the space of 24. hours and then be distilled in a copper Still with a worm or Alembick with its refrigerating The oil extracted with the water being separated with a tunnell keep the water for a new Distillation This Water after three or four distillations is a very excellent water and better then is drawn any way out of that vegetable whereof these are seeds I mean for vertue though not always for smell After the same manner are made oils out of spices and aromaticall woods Oils are made out of Berries thus Take of what Berries you please being fresh 25. pound bruise them and put them into a wooden vessell with 12 pints of spring water and a pound of the strongest leaven let them be put in a cellar the vessel being close stopped for the space of three months then let them be distilled in an Alembick or copper Still with their refrigeratory with as much spring water as is sufficient After the separation of the oil let the water be kept for a new distillation Note that the water being used in two or three Distillations is a very excellent water and full of the vertue of the Berries Oil is made out of any solid Wood thus Take of what Wood you please made into gross powder as much as you will let it be put into a Retort and distilled in sand The oil which first distils as being the thinner and sweeter must be kept apart which with rectifying with much water may yet be made more pleasant the acid water or spirit which in distilling comes first forth being separated which also being rectified from the flegm with the heat of a Balneum may be kept for use being full of the vertue of the wood After the same manner are made the oil and spirit of Tartar but thus much note that both are more pure and pleasant being made out of the Crystals then out of the crude Tartar To make a most excellent oil out of any Wood or Gummes in a short time without much cost Take of what Wood you please or Gumme bruised small put it into a vessel fit for it then pour on so much of spirit of salt as will cover your matter then set it in sand with an Alembick make the spirit boil so all the oil flyeth over with a little flegm for the spirit of salt by its sharpnesse freeth the oil so that it flyeth over very easily The spirit of salt being rectified may serve again To make vegetables yeeld their oil easily Distill them being first bruised in salt water for salt freeth the oil from its body Let them first be macerated three or four days in the said water Oil or Spirit of Turpentine is made thus Take of Venice Turpentine as much as you please of spring water four times as much let them be put into an Alembick or copper Still with its refrigeratory then put fire under it so there will distil a thin white oil like water and in the bottom of the vessel wil remain a hard gum called Colophonia which is called boiled Turpentine That white oil may be better and freer from the smell of the fire if it be drawn in Balneo with a gourd and glass head Common oil Olive may be distilled after this manner and be made very pleasant and sweet also most unctious things as Sperma ceti Oil of Gums Refines fat and oily things may be drawn thus Take of either of these which you please being melted a pound mix it with three pound of the powder of tiles or unslaked lime put them into a Retort and extract an oil which with plenty of water may be rectified Note that the water from whence the oil is separated is of excellent vertue according to the nature of the matter from whence it is drawn Oil of Camphire is made thus Take of Camphire sliced thin as much as you please put it into a double quantity of Aqua fortis or spirit of Wine let the glasse having a narrow neck be set by the fire or on sand or ashes the space of five or six hours shaking the glasse every half hour and the Camphire will all be dissolved and swim on the Aqua fortis or spirit of Wine like an oil Note that if you separate it it will all be hard agâ—in presently but not otherwise Another way to make Oile of Camphire that it shall not be reduced again Take of Camphire powdered as much as you please put it into a glass like a Urinal put upon it another Urinal-glass inverted the joints being close shut sublime it in ashes inverting those Urinals so often till the Camphire be turned into an oil then circulate it for the space of a month and it wil be so subtle that it will all presently vapour away in the air if the glass be open Another way to make oil of Camphire Take two ounces of Camphire dissolve it in four ounces or pure oil olive then put them into four pints of fair water distiâ— them all together in a glass gourd either in ashes or Balneo and there will distil both water and oil which separate and keep by it self All these kinds of oil of Camphire are very good against putrefaction fits of the Mother passions of the heart c. A few drops thereof may be taken in any liquor or the brest be anointed therewith Also the fume thereof may be taken in at the mouth A true Oil of Sugar Take of the best white Sugar-candie imbibe it with the best spirit of Wine ten times after every time drying it again then hang it in a white silken bag in a moist cellar over a glass vessell that it may dissolve and drop into it Evaporate the water in Balneo and in the bottome will the oil remain This is very excellent in all distempers of the Lungs Oil of Amber is made thus Take of yellow Amber one part of the powder of flints calcined or the powder of tiles two parts mingle them and put them into a Retort and distill them in sand The oil which is
Rhene and Seyfrie of Collen Generall against the Turks did always drink of it when they went to fight to encrease magnanimity and courage which it did even to admiration This spirit doth also wonderfully irritate them that are slothfull to Venery It also provoketh Urine even to admiration It doth also wonderfully irritate the spirits that are dulled and deaded with any cold distemper This oyl doth the same effects and indeed more powerfully This oyl doth besides what is spoken of the spirit help deafness exceedingly two or three drops being dropped into the ear after it is wel syringed once in a day for a week together It helpeth also the Eyes that have any film growing on them being now and then dropped into them Another-Aqua Magnanimitatis is made thus Take of Ants or Pismires a handful of their Eggs two hundred of Millepedes i. e. Wood lice one hundred of Bees one hundred and fifty digest all these in two pints of spirit of wine being very well impregnated with the brightest Soot Digest them together the space of a month then pour of the clear Spirit and keep it safe This water or spirit is of the same vertue as the former Water of Dung is made thus Take of any dung as much as thou pleasest whilest it is fresh put it into a common cold Stil and with a soft fire distil it off it wil be best if the bottome of the Stil be set over a vapour if thou wouldst have it be stronger cohobate the said water over its feces several times for we see there is great vertue in dung it makes ground fertil and many sorts thereof are very medicinable A water of Doves dung is made thus Take of Doves dung dryed as much as you please to every pound put a pint of Rhenish wine in which let it steep all night in a gentle Balneo then distil it in a glass gourd in ashes Cohobate this Liquor three times if there be any volatile salt mix it with the water This water is very excellent against all obstructions of the kidneys bladder it helpeth the Jaundies presently two or three spoonful thereof being drank once every morning and evening A Water made of Horse dung Take of the dung of a horse that is fed in the stable as much as you please let it stand two days out of the Sun and out of the wet to every pound of this pour a pint of white wine let them stand in a warm Balneo a fortnight then distil them in a glass gourd in sand cohobate this three or four times if there be any volatile salt mix it with the water This Water is very excellent against the bastard pleurisie stitches wind obstruction of the reins bladder very good in a dropsie jaundies scurvy c. If three or four spoonfuls be taken every morning in the water of Juniper berries it also causeth sweat A Water smelling like Amber made by Paracelsus out of Cow dung Take of Cow dung and distil it in Balneo and the water thereof will have the smell of Amber gryse This water is very excellent in all inward inflammations An excellent Sudorifick made of the young buds of Harts horn Take of the young buds of Harts horn whilest they are ful of bloud and moist bruise them into a paste then mix as much Canary wine as will make a very thin paste distil them in ashes till they be very dry This is an excellent Sudorifick in all burning Feavers and Epidemical diseases if a spoonful be taken by it self or in any appropriated Liquor Oyl out of Bones and Horns is made thus Take of what bones you please reduce them to a gross powder put them into a Retort putting a strong fire by degrees thereunto and there will come forth an oyl and volatile salt both which thou mayest mix together and digest them into an essence the oyl being first rectified with spirit of wine The Water of Swallows against the Falling sicknesse Take of Swallows cut them into pieces without separating any thing from them six ounces of Castoreum cut small an ounce mix them together infuse them 12 hours in half a pinâ— of Canary wine then put them into a glass gourd and distill them in sand till all be dry then cohobate the Liquor three times This water being drank to the quantity of two spoonfull every morning cureth them that have the Falling sickness Oyl out of Egs is made thus Take of the yelks of egs boyled very hard rub them in pieces with your fingers then fry them in a pan over a gentle fire continually stirring them with a spoon til they become red and the oyl be resolved and flow from them then put them into a hair cloth and so presse forth the oyl This oyl cleanseth the skin from any filthinesse contracted by heat it cureth pustles chaps excoriations ring-worms but especially all burnings A Water of the whites of Eggs that will cure a wound without any visible scarre Take as many eggs as you please boyl them very hard then cut them in the middle and take out the yelks filling up the cavities with some of those whites being first bruised into a paste then put both sides of the egg together as before and tye them together with a thread and with a string hang them in the middle of a gourd glass that they touch not the sides stop this glass very close and set it in Balneo and you shall see those whites which were bruised drop down into a Liquor which you must gather up out of the bottome of the glass and keep You will have very little of this Liquor This Liquor applyed to any green wound with a feather cures it presently wheresoever it be without any visible scar It cures most wonderfully all wounds in the eyes A Water of Crabs is made thus Take Crabs or Craw-fish as many as you please break them to pieces then macerate them in water of Sengreen for the space of a day then distil them cohobate the water three times This Water is of singular vertue in all manner of inflammations inward and outward An Oylor Liquor is made out of Crabs eyes thus Take of Crabs eyes very finely powdered five parts oyl of Tartar Per Deliquium six parts This oyl of Tartar must be made of salt of Tartar after it hath flowed in the fire digest them in horse dung the space of a month then coagulate the Liquor and make an extraction with the best rectified spirit of Wine that can be made or else you lose your labour then evaporate the spirit of Wine and there remaines an oyl at the bottome This oyl is of wonderful vertue in all putrid Feavers and such like distempers also in all obstructions especially of the Kidneys Water of Spawn of Frogs is made thus Take of the Spawn of Frogs gathered in March as much as you please put a handful of Salt to every quart and put them into a common cold Still and
make an artificiall Claret wine Take six gallons of water two gallons of the best Cidar put thereunto eight pound of the best Mallago Raisins bruised in a Mortar let them stand close covered in a warm place the space of a fortnight every two days stirring them well together then presse out the Raisins and put the Liquor into the said vessell again to which adde a quart of the juice of Rasp-berries and a pint of the juice of Black cherries cover this Liquor with Bread spread thick with strong Mustard the Mustard side being downward and so let it work by the fire side three or four days then tun it up and let it stand a week then bottle it up And it will taste as quick as bottle-beer and indeed become a very pleasant drink and indeed farre better and wholsomer then our common Claret An artificiall Malmsey Take two gallons of English honey put it into eight gallons of the best Spring water set these in a vessell over a gentle fire when they have boyled gently an hour take them off and when they be cold put them into a smal barrell or run let hanging in the vessell a bag of spices and set it in the cellar and in half a year you may drink thereof To make an excellent aromaticall Hyppocras Take of Cinnamon two ounces Ginger an ounce Cloves and Nutmegs of each two drams of white Pepper half a dram of Cardamums two drams of Musk Mallow seed three ounces Let all these be bruised and put into a bag and hanged in six gallons of Wine Note that you must put a weight in the bag to make it fink Some boyl these spices in Wine which they then sweeten with sugar and then let run through a Hyppocras bag and afterwards bottle it up and use when they please A single Hypocras bag or Manica Hippocratis When you would have this or any other Liquor to be very clear you may use the triple Hypocras bag for what feces passeth the first will stay in the second and what in the second will stay in the last Note that these bags must be made of white Cotton A triple Hypocras bag is only one hanging above another after this manner To make an excellent Hypocras Wine in an instant Take of Cinnamon two ounces Nurmegs Ginger of each half an ounce Cloves two drams bruise these small then mix them with as as much Spirit of Wine as will make them into a paste let them stand close covered in a glass the space of six days in a cold place then presse ouâ— the Liquor and keep it in a glass A few drops of this Liquor put into any Wine giveth it a gallant relish and odour and maketh it as good as any Hypocras whatsoever and that in an instant Note that if the Wine be of it selfe harsh it will not be amisse to sweeten it with Sugar for thereby it is made far more gratefull This also being put into Beer will make it very pleasant and aromaticall Another way to make Hypocras or to make any Wine to tast of any vegetable in an instant Take what Wine you please and according as you would have it tast of this or that spice or any other vegetable of one or more together you may drop a few drops of the distilled oil of the said spices or vegetables into the Wine and brew them well together and you may make in an instant all sorts of Hypocras or other Wines as for example if you would have Wormwood Wine two or three drops of oil of Wormwood put into good Rhenish-wine being well brewed together will make a Wormword Wine exceeding any that you shall meet withall in the Rhenish-wine houses To make a good Rasberry-wine Take a gallon of Sack in which let two gallons of Raspberries stand steeping the space of twenty four houres then strain them and put to the Liquor three pound of Raisins of the sun stoned let them stand together foure or five days bring sometimes stirred together Then pour off the clearest and put it up in bottles and set it in a cold place If it be not sweet enough you may adde some Sugar to it Two other wayes to make it all the year at an instant Take of the juice of Raspberries put it into a bottle which you must stop close and set in a cellar and it will become clear and keep all the year and become very fragrant A few sponfulls of this put into a pint of Wine sweetned well with Sugar gives it an excellent and full tast of the Raspes If you put two or three ounces of the Syrup of Raspes to a pint of Wine it will doe as well but then you need use no other Sugar for that will sweeteen it sufficiently To make Mead or Metheglin that it shall tast stale and quick within a fortnight and be fit to drink To every three gallons of water put one gallon of the purest Honey put what hearbs and spices you please boyl it and skim it well now and then putting in some water When it is sufficiently boyled take it off and when it is almost cold put it into a wooden vessell and set it by the sire side cover it over with Bread spread thick with the strongest Mustard the Mustard side being downwards and so let it stand three dayes and it will worke only put a cloth over it Then tunne it up and after a week draw it forth into bottles and set it into a cellar and after a week more you may drink of it for it will taste as quick as bottle beer that is a fortnight old and indeed as stale as other Mead will in half a year To make a Spirit of Amber-gryse that a few drops thereof shall perfume a pint of Wine most richly Take of Amber-gryse 2. drams of Musk a dram cut them small and put them into a pint of the bâ—st rectified Spirit of Wine close up the glasse Hermetically and digest them in a very gentle heat till you perceive they are dissolved Then you may make use of it Two or three drops or more if you please of this Spirit put into a pint of Wine gives it a rich odour Or if you put 2. or 3. drops round the brimmes of the glasse it will do as well Half a spoonfull of it taken either of it self or mixed with some speciall Liquor is a most rich Cordiall An excellent sweet Water Take a quart of Orenge-flower water as much Rose-water adde thereto of Musk-mallow seeds grossely bruised four ounces of Bâ—njamin two ounces of Storax an ounce of Labdanum six drams of Lavender flowers two pugills of sweet Marjoram as much of Calamus Aromaticus a dram distill all these in a Glasse Still in Balneo the vessels being very well closed that no vapour breath forth Note that you may make a sweet water in an instant by putting a few drops of some distilled oils together into some Rose-water and brewing them well together To
vessell unglazed which you must set in a cellar You shall see this vessell in a short time to be white all over on the outside as with a hoar frost which whitenesse is partly the flowers of the Nitre being the purest part thereof penetrating the vessell and partly the nitrous aire condensed into Nitre by the coldnesse of the vessell as also assimilated to the Nitre that penetrated the vessell I said by the coldnesse of the vessel because such is the coldnesse of an earthen vessell wherein is Nitre dissolved in water that it will being set in snow by the fire side forthwith be freezed This Nitre you must strike off with a feather and when you have a sufficient quantity thereof as three or four pound put this or the nitrous salt extracted from bath-waters into a bolt head of glasse a pound in each bolt head that two parts of three be empty nip it up and set it in ashes and give it a reasonable strong fire viz. that the upper part of the boul of the bolt head be as hot as that you can but well suffer your hand upon it and you shall see that the Nitre will be dissolved every day a little and in 2. or 3. moneths time be wholly dissolved and become acid but not so acid as the Spirit thereof then put it into a glasse gourd with a head and distill it off and in the bottome you shall find an acid nitrous salt almost fluxil not unlike the salt which Mounseur de Rochas found in the evaporating of this water Then pour the distilled Nitre water upō the said salt then it is for your use The use of these principles or ingredients is this viz. make fountaine water sufficiently acid with this nitrous Liquor then pour it upon a sufficient quantity of the best Sulphur Mine or Sulphur vivum in a large wooden vessell where the patient is to be bathed and you will see the water presently heated so hot as the patient is able to beare The inward use of these bath-waters is by reason of the Nitre in them to dissolve grosse humours open obstructions cleanse the kidneys and bladder and by reason of the sulphur to dry mollifie discusse and glutinate and to help all uterine effects proceeding from cold and windy humours Note that they must be drunk warme and in a good quantity or else they will do more hurt then good The outward use of this is for such ill effects as are in the habit of the body and out of the veines as of palsies contractions rheumes cold humors affects of the skin and aches for they resolve discusse cleanse mollifie c. Now for the manner of bathing I shall not prescribe any thing but leave this to the discretion of the physitian who is to give order and directions for all the circumstances about it for indeed every one is not to bath when and how he pleaseth but must apply himselfe to an able physitian and submit himself to his judgement and experience or else may receive either prejudice or no benefit thereby An artificiall Tunbridge and Epsa me Water It is granted by all that Tunbridge Water proceeds from an iron mine but how it attracts that acidity and that ironish and vitriolated tast and odour seeing upon evaporation thereof there remains little or no vitriall or salt of iron at the bottome is the great question Now for the solution of this we must consider how many wayes a subterraneall minerall or metall may communicate its acidity to waters and that saith Henricus ab Heer 's upon Spaw-waters it doth three wayes one when the water passing through the mines carryeth along with it some of the dissoluble parts of the mine to which is consonant the saying of Aristotle Such are waters as is the nature of those Mines through which they passe as also of Galen when he saith that pure water passing through Minerall Mines carry with them some of the substance of the Mines The second way is when the vapours arising from sermented Mineralls and Metalls are mixed with waters Now that vapours retain the odour and tast of those things from whence they are raised Aristotle in his fourth Book Sublimium affirms and also Helmont when he saith that some parts of the iron Mines being by fermentation turned into a vapour retain the odor and tast of the Mine by vertue of the acid esurine salt and are not presently reduced into a body and also artificiall vapours of the iron Mines have more vertue activity I mean those parts that are raised by a strong fire in a furnace from the Mine of iron then iron it selfe when it is melted The third is when a great quantity of vapours arising from the aforesaid fermented Mines is elevated and by the coldnesse of the ambient earth is turned into an acid water which as it passeth through the earth meeteth with some springs of water and mixing with them gives them a pleasant acidity And this is the best of all acid wtaers being clear and very pure This being premised I shall now proceed to the processe of making artificiall waters like to those of Tunbridge and Epsome of the former viz. Tunbridge thus Take of the Mine or ore of iron beat it very smal and put it into the furnace expressed page 83. and there will come forth an acid Spirit and flowers which you must mix together till the acid Spirit extracts the salt out of the flowers then decant off the clear liquor which will have a strong tast and smel of iron A few drops of this Liquor put into a glasse full of fountaine water give it the odour and tast of Tunbridge water and communicates the same operations to it It openeth all obstructions purgeth by urine cleanseth the kidneys and bladder helpeth the pissing of bloud the stopping of the urine and difficulty of making water it allayeth all sharp humors cureth inward ulcers and impostumes cleanseth and strengtheneth the stomach and liver c. Note that fountaine water being made moderately acid with this acid ironish Liquor may be taken from a pint to six pints but by degrees and after the taking of it moderate exercise is to be used and fasting to be observed till all the water be gone out of the body which will be in seven or eight houres Epsome water is made artificially thus Take of the mine of allom or allom stones powder it very smal and distil it in the furnace expressed page 83. and there will distill over a certain acid alluminish water which must be mixed with a double quantity of Niter water the preparation whereof is set down in the processe of making the artificiall hot bath Now you must know that Epsome water hath a certain kind of acid tast which is partly alluminous and partly nitrous which procedeth from nitrous air and vapours arising from the fermentation of alluminous Mines being first mixed together and then mixed with the fountaines passing through the
earth If you put a few drops of this Liquor into a glasse full of fountaine water it will give it the odour and tast of Epsome water that you shall scarce discerne them asunder either by that odour or operation This water is purgative and indeed purgeth especially all sharp burning humours cools an inflamed and opens an obstructed body cleanseth the kidneys and bladder cureth inward ulcers and impostumes is a very good preservative against the consumption c. Fountaine water made acid with this Liquor may be taken from a pint to six or eight but by degrees and after it moderate exercise must be used and fasting till the water be out of the body only some thin warme suppings may be taken to helpe the working thereof Some take this water warm To make artificiall precious stones of all sorts of colours Take Crystalline white pibble-stones that are very white throughout and have no mixture of any other colour which you shal find in fountaines and on the sands of the sea Put them into a crucible make them glowing hot covering the crucible then cast them into cold water by which means they will crack and be easily reduced into a powder Take the powder thereof and put the like quantity of pure salt of Tartar thereto which salt must not be made in any metalline but glasse vessells that it may have no mixture of any other colour To this mixture you may adde what colour you please which must be of a minerall or a metalline nature then put them into a very strong crucible which must be but half full and then covered and there melt them in a strong fire till they become like glasse Note that when this mixture is in melting you must put an iron rod into it and take up some of it if there appear no cornes of gravell in it it is enough If otherwise you must melt it longer The especiall mineralls and metalls that give colours are these viz. Copper iron silver gold Wismut Magnesia and granats Common copper makes a sea-green copper made out of iron a grasse-green granats a smaragdine-green iron yellow or a Hyacinth colour silver white yellow green and granat colour gold a fine skie colour Wismut common blew magnesia an amethyst colour And if you will mix two or three of these together they will give other colous For copper and silver mixed together give an amethyst colour copper and iron a pale green Wismut and magnesia a purple colour silver and magnesia divers colours like as an Opall If you would have this masse not to be transparent but opac you may adde the calx of tin to it when it is in melting as if you would make Lapis lazuli then â—o your mixture coloured with Wismut adde the calx of tin and this mixture when it is almost ready to congeal cast into a mould where some powder of gold hath been scattered and by this means it wil become full of golden veins very like true lapis lazuli which is very pleasant to behold You may by these foresaid preparations cast what formes or figures you please of what colour you please The Metals and Minerals for the making of colours ought to be thus prepared viz. Plates of copper must be made red hot and then quenched in cold water of which then take five or six graines and mix them with an ounce of the aforesaid mixture and melt them all together and they will colour it sea-green Iron must be made into a Crocus in a reverberatory fire and then eight or ten grains thereof will tinge the mixture into a yellow or hyacinth colour Silver is to be dissolved in Aqua fortis and precipitated with Oil of flints then dulcified with water and afterward dryed of this five or six graines give a mingled colour Gold must be dissolved in Aqua regis and precipitated with the Liquor of flints then sweetened and dryed and five or six grains thereof giveth the finest saphir colour to an ounce of the mixture If gold be melted with regulus martis nitrosus five or six graines thereof give to an ounce of the masse a most incomparable rubine colour Magnesia may be powdred only and then ten or twelve grains thereof make an amethyst colour Wismut must be dissolved in Aqua regis and precipitated with Liquor of flints then sweetened and dryed and then of this foure or five graines turne an ounce of the masse into a saphir colour but not so naturall as gold doth Granata may be powder only and then ten or fifteen grains thereof tinge an ounce of the masse into a fine green colour not unlike to the naturall Smaragdine To prove what kinde of metall there is in any Ore although you have but a very few graines thereof so as that you cannot make proofe thereof the ordinary way with lead Take two or foure graines if you have no greater quantity of any Ore that you have put it to halfe an ounce of Venice-glasse and melt them together in a crucible the crucible being covered and according to the tincture that the glasse receiveth from the Ore so may you judge what kinde of metall there is in the Ore for if it be a copper Ore then the glasse will be tinged with a sea-green colour If copper and iron a glasse-green If iron a darke yellow If tin a pale yellow If silver a whitish yellow If gold a fine skie colour If gold and silver together a Smaragdine colour If gold silver copper and iron together an amethyst colour A pretty observation upon the melting of Copper and Tin together First make two bullets of red copper of the same magnitude make also two bullets of the purest tin in the same mould as the others were made weigh all four bullets and observe the weight well then melt the copper bullets first upon them being melted put the two tin bullets and melt them together but have a care that the tin fume not away Then cast this molten mixture in the same moulds as before and it will scarce make three bullets but yet they weigh as heavy as they did before they were melted together I suppose the copper condenseth the body of the tin which before was very porous which condensation rather addes then diminisheth the weight thereof A remarkable observation upon the melting of Salt Armoniack and Calx vive together Take Salt armoniack and Calx vive of each a like quantity mix and melt them together Note that Calx of it selfe will not melt in lesse then eight houres with the strongest fire that can be made but being mixed with this salt melts in half an houre and lesse like a metall with an indifferent fire This mixture being thus melted becomes a hard stone out of which you may strike fire as out of a flint which if you dissolve again in water you shall have the Salt armoniack in the same quantity as before but fixed Note that hard things have their congelation from