Centaury the less Tansie and Nettles or Archangel Also in Oxymel of Squills Honey clarified Syrup of Citrons Sorrel Hydromel or any other way which Children best like Species Diajovis or the Compound Powder of Jupiter Take Faecula Bryoniae half an ounce Salt of English Tin Mother of Pearl red Coral of each three drams roots of white Dictamnus and Peony of each two drams white Amber prepared Oriental Saffron Misleto of the Oak Antophyllorum of each a dram true Castor a scruple Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is a blessed Medicine in the most vehement and desperate suffocation and strangulation of the Womb and as it were sent from Heaven of God to Women For which Divine help let the Name of the Lord be blessed The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram three or four mornings together or in time of necessity in our Hysterical water or any other appropriate Liquor Species Diaveneris or a Compound Powder of Venus Take Sulphur of Vitriol of Venus sublimate and Spagyrically prepared half an ounce Venetian Borax two drams seeds of Ashen-keys of Rocket of each two drams of Parsneps Nettles and Leeks of each a dram and a half roots of Pellitory of Spain Boletus cervinus of each four scruples Galangal the less white Ginger Cinamon of each a dram Sea-Skinck prepared Magistery of Pearls Oriental Saffron of each half a dram Cantharides with the wings cut off Ambergriese each a scruple Musk Oyl of Mace of each ten grains Mix them and make of all a fine Powder with which mix an ounce of white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is by Experience the most effectual and indeed the last and most powerful remedy of all against the defect in the act of Venus And he that is willing to please his Consort and would to the utmost prove his virile force let him take after Supper if he desires the effect presently at his going to bed or if he would continue that work every morning from one scruple to two or a dram in warm Milk Sack c. It may also be prepared without Cantharides Species Diasaturni or the Compound Powder of Saturn Take Magistery of Saturn an ounce juyce of Liquorish depurated Lac Sulphuris compound roots of elect China of each three drams Salt of Oriental Pearls salt of red Coral salt of Wheat bread of each two drams red Bole prepared Benjamin sublimate Olibanum of each a dram Oriental Saffron Cassia lignea of each half a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder to which add of white Sugar Candy three ounces and being well mixed with the Powder keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose I know not with what words to extol this incomparable Medicine For a Consumption that cannot otherwise be cured by humane skill is oftentimes by this Medicine The Dose morning and evening is from half a dram to a dram in our Specifick water against Consumptions or in any other appropriate Vehicle Species Diasulphuris or a Compound Powder of Sulphur Take Lac and compound flowers of Sulphur of each an ounce and a half juyce of Liquorish cleansed Cardamoms the less sealed Earth of each six drams seeds of Roman Nettles seeds of Quinces Cinamon Ginger Nutmegs Saffron long Pepper Mace of each three drams Tragacanth roots of Flower-de-luce flowers of wild Poppy Mastich cream of Tartar of each a dram and a half Mix them and of all make a Powder to which add Oyls of Hysop Fenil Sage Aniseeds and Chamomil of each a scruple and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It helps continual Coughs difficulty of Breathing chronical Asthma's It doth cut and attenuate divers thick and gross humors in the Breast it preserves and cures without any other Medicine the Consumption Wasting Pleurisie and all Putrefactions and Imposthumes and is wonderfully effectual in all affects of the Throat and doth quickly restore the loss of the Voice It also drys up the Rheum from the Head and the evil humors in the Body from which are used to proceed Gouts pains in the Joynts and such like dolors It is a good Medicine in the Epilepsie Apoplexy Leprosie Pox Convulsion of the Nerves Colick and Dropsie c. The Dose is from a scruple to a dram morning and evening in some convenient Vehicle but in the Dropsie it is given with the like quantity of Magistery of Crocus Martis the body being first cleansed and it never fails In the affects of the Throat we use it in the form of a Tragaea by adding white Sugar Candy or mixed with Pectoral Syrups in the form of an Electuary or Lambitive Pulvis Refectivus or a Refective Powder Take white Sugar Candy concrete in Syrup of Violets an ounce Lac Sulphuris half an ounce compound flowers of Sulphur Confectio Alkermes of each two drams Magistery of Pearls red Coral and Saturn of each a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It repairs strength comforts the Heart and Nature it self it nourishes and fattens it drys up the Rheum in the Head roborates the Brain allays the Cough cures the Asthma Consumption and wasting The Dose is a scruple in water of Calves Lungs or Aqua Caponis or any other Specifick or so much of the Powder is mixed with any thing as will tinge the Vehiculum white and of this mixt Liquor the Dose is morning and evening one or two spoonfuls Pulvis excellens contra Tussim Infantum or an excellent Powder against the Cough in Children Take of Sugar Penids three ounces species of Diatragacanth frigid Diaireos simple of each half an ounce roots of Peony two drams juyce of Liquorish a dram Lac Sulphuris Saffron of each two scruples Mans skull calcined without fire seeds of white Poppy of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a most fine Powder Species Diavitrioli or a Compound Powder of Vitriol Take Galangal the less an ounce Magistery of Vitriol roots of water Acorus of each half an ounce long Pepper Cummin seeds Zedoary of each two drams Cinamon Calamus aromaticus Mace of each a dram and a half Cardamoms the less white Ginger Cloves Saffron Indian Spicknard wood of Aloes of each half a dram Musk and Ambergriese of each half a scruple Make them into a fine Powder for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a profitable Medicine against frigid humors of the Ventricle and putrefaction in the parts thereof and it digests flegm It helps digestion and concoction nauseating and vomiting and preserves the natural heat and warms the members of nutrition It dissipates flatulent humors it restrains four belchings and is useful in all diseases of the Liver It is profitable for those who are upon recovery after a long disease it helps the stink of the Nose and Mouth which ariseth from the consent of the Stomach The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram or by adding Sugar may be
all depraved Humors The dose is from a scruple to a dram in appropriate Vehicles Sal Uterinum Take roots of Bryony two pound roots of white Diptamus and Peony of each a pound Misleto of the Oak Dwarff Elder and common Elder-berries of each half a pound Rosemary Balm Motherwort Nep and Penny-royal of each four ounces Mix all and calcine them to ashes and with Balm water or any other appropriate Water extract a most white Salt Virtue Use and Dose It opens all obstructions of the Womb helps Convulsions precipitates Suffocations and Fumes and provokes the Terms It removes sterility and takes away many other infirmities of those parts The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in appropriate Vehicles Sal Carminativum Take Chamomil two pound Pennyroyal Mother of Tyme Water-mints and Dill of each a pound Let them be calcined according to Art into white Ashes then add the Ashes following i. e. ashes of Anise Cummin Caraway and Fenil seeds of each two ounces ashes of the lesser Galangal white Ginger and Zedoary of each an ounce Mix all and with chervil-Chervil-water make a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is excellent to discuss wind It helps the Gripes and allays all pain proceeding from wind The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in our Carminative water Sal Febrile Take Sal Armoniack divers times sublimed Nitre prepared Salt of Carduus benedictus of Wormwood and the lesser Centaury of each an ounce Dissolve them all in Succory-water and make of all a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Alexipyretick in Feavers of all kinds whether Quotidians Tertians Semitertians or Quartans c. without danger It is given from half a dram to a dram two or three hours before the Fit in Centaury-water or any other Specifick expecting Sweat toward the end of the Fit And the same dose is to be repeated if the first or second dose doth not perform it Annotation If any one proceeds so ingeniously that from the forementioned specifick Compositions he desires to prepare with the safe and secret Spagiâ—ists the Essential Salts as they call them let him â—ake the simple Herbs or mixt with other Ingrediâ—nts and being well dryed by a temperate heat boil â—hem in common Water according to Art till all â—heir strength and native Salt is well excocted for otherwise his labour is in vain then pour off the Deâ—oction and again boil that to the consistence of Hoâ—ey or to the thickness of a Syrup put that into a â—ery cool place till it shoots into Crystals which â—ake off and purifie well by divers Solutions Filtraâ—â—ons and Coagulations until it be fit for Physical â—se This excellent Salt is also extracted from the â—uyce of Herbs made thick concerning which see â—eguinus Lib. 2. cap. 17. And do thou know Reaâ—er that three grains of these Essential Salts will be â—ore effectual than a scruple of the vulgar made by â—alcinations SECT XII Of Marmelades Marmelada Cephalica or a Marmelade for the Head TAke Diacydonium simple four ounces Rotula's of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each two ounces preserved roots of Peony an ounce Conserve of Rosemary flowers half an ounce preserved Walnuts three Nutmegs preserved in India one Emerauld prepared a dram Elaeosaccharum of white Amber Marjoram and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them and without any other additional Medicine make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Brain and resists all the affects thereof It is also happily given in the Apoplexy Epilepsie Vertigo Lethargy Palsie Trembling c. The dose is from a dram to half an ounce Marmelada Stomachica frigida or a cold Marmelade for the Stomach Take Diacydonium simple four ounces preserved rooâ— of Succory two ounces Rotula's of Diarrhodon Abbatâ— an ounce preserved Emblick Myrobalans Conserve 〈◊〉 red Roses of each half an ounce Nitre vitriolated haâ—â— a dram Mix them and without any additional Medicine make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It relieves the Stomach oppressed with hot Humors It comforts and provokes Appetite Moreover it alters a hot Temperature and is happily given to those that have pains about the Heart or are subject to vomit The dose is the quantity of a Chestnut Marmelada Stomachica calida or a warming Marmelade for the Stomach Take Diacydonium simple four ounces aromatick Rotula's Succulata Inda of each an ounce Bengale Ginger preserved Calamus aromaticus preserved Chebul Myrobalans preserved of each half an ounce preserved Orange and Citron peels of each two drams Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon and Cloves of each a scruple Mix all and without any addition make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Ventricle and parts serving for nutrition It helps Digestion moves Appetite discusseth wind and preserves from putrefaction It opens the obstructions of the Veins and helps Hiccup and Vomiting The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg Marmelada Pectoralis or a Pectoral Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple four ounces our Pectoral Morsels and Rotula's prepared with the juyce of Violets of each two ounces compound flowers of Sulphur an ounce preserved roots of Fenil and Elicampane of each half an ounce extracted juyce of Liquorish two drams species Diaireos simple Confectio Alkermes of each a dram Mix them and without any other addition make a Marmelade and cover it with gold Virtue Use and Dose It helps those who are troubled with infirmities of the Lungs Coughs Asthma's pains of the Breast It also helps those who are subject to a deflux of humors from the Brain upon the Thorax and vital parts The dose is from a dram to two Marmelada Cordialis calida or a hot Cordial Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple four ounces preserved roots of Borage and Bugloss of each an ounce and a half aromatick Rotula's species of Aromaticum Rosarum species de Gemmis and Diambra of each six drams preserved Citron peels and Confectio Alkermes of each half an ounce Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a dram Mix all and make a Marmelade according to Art without any other addition Virtue Use and Dose It strengthens and exhilarates the Heart and all the vital Spirits hurt by cold and refreshes them by its heat It wonderfully helps old people and women troubled with cold Diseases and is very proper for the distempers of the Womb. The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg Marmelada Cordialis frigida or a cold Cordial Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple three ounces Manus Christi perlati Rotula's of Diamargariton frigid of each an ounce and an half Pulp of preserved Citrons Conserve of red Roses of each six drams preserved roots of Succory half an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams precious Stones prepared of each a scruple Mix them and bring all into a Marmelade Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and extinguisheth the heat thereof it contemperates the
time twice in a month The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce either by it self or in appropriate Medicines Syrupus Vitriolato-rosatus or a vitriolated Syrup with Roses In the Preparation of our Magistery of Corals already mentioned a red Liquor will remain in the separation of the Coral from the Menstruum to which if a sufficient quantity of white Sugar be added and boiled to the consistence of a Syrup it will be red and a most noble and efficacious Medicine very profitable in the Plague Epidemical Diseases Feavers Dysenteries Liver-fluxes vices of the Stomach Scurvy obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Inflammations and many other Diseases The dose is from an ounce to two by it self or with other appropriate Vehicles Syrupus Cephalicus or a Syrup for the Head Take the juyce of Carduus and Millefoil depurated of each a pound water of Lavender and Betony of each half a pound roots of Avens and Peony of each an ounce Cassia lignea Nutmegs Cubebs of each an ounce and a half Marjoram Vervain Rosemary and Origanum of each three drams flowers of Lilies of the valley Teil-tree Primroses Rosemary and red Roses of each two drams seeds of Lavender Fenil Sage and Peony of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes Misleto of the Oak Oriental Saffron of each a dram Boil them to the consumption of the third part afterward let them be strained and clarified and then add of white Sugar a sufficient quantity to bring it into a Syrup according to Art which aromatize with Species Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Remedy in all dangerous distempers of the Head as inveterate Head-ach Hemicrania Epilepsie Apoplexy Palsie c. It roborates the Head Brain and Ventricle and is agreeable to those who are troubled with a trembling of the Head and Heart The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or with other appropriate Medicines Syrupus Pectoralis or a Syrup for the Breast Take roots of Liquorish sliced Coltsfoot of each two ounces roots of Elicampane Flower-de-luce Angelica of each an ounce both sorts of Lungwort Maidenhair sharp Sage Horehound Scabious of each half an ounce flowers of Coltsfoot Violets Chamomil and Hearts-ease of each two drams Let them be cut bruised and infused in water of Carduus and Fenil of each three pound of Mallows Fluellin and Marsh-mallows of each a pound Let them be boiled to the consumption of the third part Take of this Liquor strained six pound and infuse in it small Raisons four ounces seeds of Carduus Anise Roman Nettles Quinces and Myrtle-berries of each half an ounce of Dates Iujubes Sebestens and fat Figs of each twenty one Boil them again to the consumption of the third part and then let them be strongly prest and strained Take of this strained Liquor four pound white Sugar two pound Boil them again and as they are boiling aromatize it with Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Mace and Cinamon of each two drams Let these be tyed up in a thin Cloth and boil together with the rest till it comes to the consistence of a Syrup to which last of all add three ounces of cinamon-Cinamon-water and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of wonderful force and power in all affects of the Thorax Vitals Destillations and Obstructions for it cuts and attenuates thick Humors It is also of good use in Consumptions Wastings and Ulcers of the Lungs And is a present Remedy for Asthma's and Coughs and is profitably used in the pains of the Hypochonders and a Pleurisie beginning It dissolves suppurated matter and helps to cast it forth and is a great Secret in Hoarsness and defect of the Voice The dose is from half an ounce to six drams by it self or in appropriate Vehicles Syrupus Asthmaticus or a Syrup for the Asthma Take white Sugar Candy a pound water of Lohoch sanum eight ounces Syrup of Horehound and Liquorish of each four ounces Syrup of Maidenhair and Iujubes of each three ounces Syrup of Hyssop and the juyce of Violets of each two ounces Mix them all well together and boil them to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It doth chiefly help in the Asthma and Pleurisie It safely cleanseth opens and inlargeth the Thorax and Lungs and also opens Obstructions It helps wheesing dry Coughs and is profitably given in the pain of the Breast and Hypochonders the Stone in the Reins c. It is also very agreeable to old people and those who are cold by Nature The dose is by it self or with Pectoral Waters from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus Cordialis or a Cordial Syrup Take Cinamon two ounces roots of Bugloss an ounce flowers of red Roses Borage Balm and Violets of each half an ounce Cardamoms the less Nutmegs wood of Aloes of each two drams Oriental Saffron and Mace of each a dram All being cut and bruised let them be macerated in three pound of good odoriferous Wine until the Wine hath imbibed all the virtue of the Ingredients then boil it to the consumption of a pound Take of this Liquor strained two pound white Sugar a pound and a half Boil these together and toward the end add of each of our Cordial Waters four ounces And boil all to the just consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It exhilarates and daily increaseth the Magnanimity of the mind and is a most efficacious Medicine in almost all melancholy Diseases Moreover it is of singular use in the passions of the Heart proceeding from grief or sorrow and this it doth by roborating of that part The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or in other convenient Vehicles Syrupus de Cassia Lignea Take Gelly of Quinces a pound Boil it over a gentle fire to the thickness of Honey then mix with it our Tincture of Cassia lignea so much as may bring it to the consistence of a Syrup at last add to it an ounce of Elaeosaccharum of Cassia lignea and again mix them and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is agreeable to old weak and frigid Patients and to those in whom the Radical moisture and natural heat are diminished It comforts all the principal Members It roborates the Heart and a cold Stomach It helps the Syncope and trembling of the Heart It allays Nauseousness Vomiting and Hiccup It takes away the ill savour of the Breath and makes it sweet The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce either by it self or in any other specifick Medicine Syrupus Diacitri Rosatus or a compound Syrup of Citrons and Roses Take juyce of Citrons and Lemmons first strained through a cloth or strainer but not prest and tinctured with powder of red Roses a pound Rob of Barberries and Goosberries of each seven ounces Syrup of the juyce of unripe Grapes Syrup of Vinegar Rasberries and Strawberries of each four
ounces Cinamon water buglossated in which species Diarrhodon Abbatis hath been infused two ounces Nitre prepared a dram and a half Mix them and boil all into the consistence of a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It potently refrigerates penetrates drys and defends the parts from Putrefaction It is of excellent use in malignant cholerick Feavers and other contagious Diseases It powerfully resists Sur feits by drinking Poysons and Pestilence It extinguisheth Thirst and all intemperate heat of the Head Heart Stomach Liver Spleen Reins and Bowels It provokes Sweat and Urine represseth cholerick Vomitings and cures the Cholera It helps the passions of the Heart Dysenteries and griping of the Guts the body being first purged The dose is from half an ounce to two either by it self or in any other Vehicle respecting the Disease Syrupus Antiscorbuticus or a Syrup against the Scurvy Take of the juyce of Norway black Berries three pound juyce of Watercresses Brooklime Sorrel and Scurvygrass of each half a pound These being mixed add of white Sugar a pound and a half and so make a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most noble and approved Remedy against the Scurvy The dose is from an ounce to two or three by it self or with our Antiscorbutick Water Syrupus de Pyrethro or a Syrup of Pellitory Take of the best Agarick an ounce and a half roots of Pellitory an ounce roots of Acorus Burnet and male Peony of each half an ounce seeds of Peony and Fenil Iuniper-berries of each three drams Motherwort Agrimony Hyssop Primrose wild Mints Nep of each two drams flowers of Lily of the valley Mullein Bugloss and Rosemary of each a dram and a half Cinamon Nutmegs and Cubebs of each a dram All being cut and bruised let them be infused in water of Sage and Rosemary of each three pound Let them stand and infuse a whole night and then boil them to the consumption of the third part Take of this Liquor strained and clear four pound white Sugar two pound Mix them and boil them to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It is very useful in all passions of the Nerves as the Palsie Convulsions Epilepsie Hip-gout c. For it potently dissolves the peccant matter and mitigates pain The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or in any other convenient Vehicle Syrupus Nephriticus or a Syrup against the Stone in the Reins Take of our Aqua Antinephritica and Lithontriptica of each ten ounces Salt of the Pearch stone and Crabs eyes of each half an ounce Being mixed and dissolved add flowers of Marsh-mallows new dryed as many as sufficeth Let them stand in digestion a few days until the Liquor be perfectly tinctured afterward with two pound of white Sugar boil it to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It is given to those troubled with the Stone and Gravel from an ounce to an ounce and a half by it self or with some other agreeable Vehicle for it breaks and expels the Stone though great as you may see by daily Experience how sand and fragments of Stones lye at the bottom of the Urine Syrupus Stipticus or a Stiptick Syrup Take Sloes ripe and dryed a pound roots of water-Acorus Snakeweed Tormentil and Zedoary of each an ounce rinds of Pomegranates dryed Quinces of each half an ounce Turkish Galls red Roses Balaustines of each two drams seeds of Sorrel Bloodworth and Plantane of each a dram and a half Boil all according to Art in a sufficient quantity of white Wine till it be perfectly tinctured Take of this clear strained Liquor four pound white Sugar two pound Boil it again till it comes to the thickness of a Syrup and let it be aromatized with Cinamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Oriental Saffron white Ginger the lesser Galangal of each a dram wild Poppyflowers and Clovegilly-flowers of each half a dram Let these be all tyed up in a thin Cloth and boiled in the Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It helps Hepatick Dysenteries that arise from the sharpness of the Humors It moves Appetite to meat helps those that cannot hold their water But it is chiefly agreeable to those who are afflicted with long protracted Fluxes of the Belly caused of a watry humor as well cold as hot It stops Vomiting the flux of the Haemorrhoids overflowing of the Terms c. The dose is from an ounce to two universal Medicines being premised Syrupus Dysentericus laxativus or a purging Syrup for a bloody Flux Take roots of Polypody of the Oak two ounces Liquorish Burnet of each an ounce roots of Tormentil and Succory of each six drams leaves of Harts-tongue Agrimony Fluellin Knotgrass of each half an ounce Make a Decoction in water of Comfry-roots Plantane and Oak-leaves of each a like quantity boil it to the consumption of the third part and strain it Take of this strained Liquor three pound the best Rhubarb an ounce and a half Mechoacan yellow Myrobalans leaves of Sena of each an ounce Troches of Agarick half an ounce flowers of red Roses white Lilies Elder Chamomil and Mullein of each two drams seeds of Anise Quinces and Dill of each a dram and a half Cassia lignea Cloves and Nutmegs of each a dram Let them infuse in a warm place all night and in the morning let them be gently boiled and strained and prest and to the strained Liquor add of white Sugar two pound and make it into a just consistence of a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It gently moves the Belly downwards without trouble and purgeth all sharp and cholerick Humors from whence proceed the Ulcerations of the Bowels Moreover it mitigates the pain and its purging operation being over it stays the Flux The dose in young people is from an ounce to an ounce and a half But in those full-grown from two ounces to three Syrupus Pantagogus Take roots of Polypody of the Oak white Hermodactyls of each four ounces white and gummy Turbith Mechoacan of each two ounces the best Rhubarb an ounce and a half black Hellebore prepared the best Ialap of each an ounce Troches of Agarick of all the Myrobalans of each half an ounce Let them be cut and bruised and put into a sufficient quantity of white Wine in which let them infuse for certain days afterward boil them according to Art and in four pound of the strained Liquor again infuse the following Ingredients Sena three ounces small Raisons three ounces Cream of Tartar an ounce Maiden-hair Fluellin and Fumitory of each half an ounce Anise and Fenil seeds of each two drams flowers of Peaches Violets and Roses of Acacia and Epithymum of each a dram Let them stand in Infusion all night in the morning let them be boiled strained and pressed and then with two pound of white Sugar boil them to the consistence of a Syrup adding these things following Cardamoms the less Cloves Galangal
the less Mace white Ginger Cinamon Spicknard of each half a dram Let them be pulverized and tyed up in a Linen cloth and as they boil rub them in the Cloth that as they boil with the Syrup they may leave their virtue in it Virtue Use and Dose It doth kindly readily and safely purge alk morbifick and peccant Humors in all Diseases where Purging is requisite and it opens the obstructions of the Veins and Bowels It is given to men or women of all ages to Old folks and Children and to weak delicate bodies yea if need requires it is given to Women with Child either by it self or in waters that respect the part affected But in robust bodies it is quickned with some other strong purgative Medicine according to the diversity of the Disease The dose is from an ounce to two or three Syrupus Hydragogus or a Water-purging Syrup Take German Flower-de-luce cleansed from its exterior bark let it be well stamped and pressed and the juyce pressed out put into a glass and let it stand till it settle and grow clear of it self then take of this Iuyce sixteen ounces Cinamon water four ounces Magistery of Gum of Peru an ounce Let them infuse together in a Glass close stopt for twenty four hours then pour it forth and add to it sixteen ounces of white Sugar species Diarrhodon Abbatis the best Rhubarb of each half an ounce red Sanders and roots of Alkanet of each two drams These being mixed must be tyed up in a Cloth and boiled with the Syrup to a just consistence And lastly let the Syrup thus prepared be aromatized with Cloves Cinamon Mace of each a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple Virtue Use and Dose It is a most glorious and Divine Cathartick in the ill Habit of Body and in Dropsies of all sorts if from an ounce and a half to two ounces more or less according as the Belly is loose or bound it be given twice or thrice in the week For that Dropsie which cannot otherwise be cured by humane skill is cured by this Syrup alone SECT XVII Of Elixirs Elixir Vitrioli or Elixir of Vitriol TAke Galangal the less an ounce and a half Calamus aromaticus an ounce water Mints and Sage of each half an ounce the best Cinamon Cloves and white Ginger of each three drams Nutmegs and Cubebs of each two drams wood of Aloes and Citron peel of each a dram Pulverize all and mix them and then add to the Powder white Sugar Candy four ounces let all be moistned like Spirit of Wine that it may make a Mixture like Honey which put into a Glass and pour upon it the height of four fingers Oyl of Vitriol of Venus or Mars or in defect of those Spirit of Vitriol often rectified and let them stand in digestion three weeks or a month at last pour off the Tincture and filter it and pour on more Spirit of Wine upon that which is left in the bottom of the Glass and draw a Tincture as before and this work repeat the third time if need require till all the Essence be extracted Mix the several Extractions and circulate them and reserve it for use yet it would be of far more efficacy if it were set in Balneo the space of fourteen days Virtue Use and Dose There is not a more noble and efficacious Medicine in the whole Republick of Physick for the Stomach than this is as I can justifie by Experience and therefore I will be brief in declaring its Virtues It is an incomparable Medicine in all distempers of the Stomach and is given in our Stomach-water or in water of water Mint or in any other appropriate Liquor It comforts the Stomach and Intestines exceedingly and warms all the principal Members debilitated by Cold and provokes Appetite Moreover it preserves from the Epilepsie and Apoplexy purgeth the Brain drys the Head and whole Body oppressed with flegmatick Humors and Catarrhs and defends the Head from pain In the Epilepsie it is given in Peony-water Lily of the valley c. In pains of the Head often proceeding from the impurities of the Stomach afflicting the Brain it is given in Betony-water c. In all Feavers it is given in water of the lesser Centaury Carduus c. The dose is from half a scruple to a scruple Elixir Sulphuris or Elixir of Sulphur Take Oriental Saffron and red Myrrh of each an â—unce and a half Mastich Benzoin Cardamoms the â—ess Cinamon of each an ounce juyce of Liquorish Conâ—ectio Alkermes roots of Elicampane of each six drams Alipta Moschata a dram Mix all and make a Powder to which add white Sugar Candy two ounces then wet it with rectified Spirit of Wine so as it may be made into a Paste afterward pour upon it well rectified Spirit of Sulphur that it may swim above it four fingers let them stand thus and digest and circulate for a month At last what is tinctured and extracted separate by inclination and what remains in the bottom pour on it fresh Spirit of Wine separate them as before and mix the tinctured Liquors together and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Medicine in the affects of the Thorax and Lungs It cleanseth the Breast from impurities and Catarrhs It takes away the Cough as well new as inveterate and confirmed It gives content of Mind to those afflicted with Consumptions Melancholy Sorrow and easeth the pain of the Heart or Stomach It helpeth the straitness of the Breast difficulty of Breathing Chronical Asthma Moreover it comforts the Heart preserves from Putrefaction prolongs Life and keeps back Old age Neither need we fear that its sharpness will irritate the Cough for it soon penetrates and resolves and immediately gives ease The dose or way of giving of it is in some Vehicle that may take off its sharpness for it cannot be taken by it self but always with an appropriate Vehicle And is most profitably given in our Pectoral Syrups or Waters Elixir Poeoniae or Elixir of Peony Take roots of Palma Christi Angelica and Pellitory of each an ounce Misleto of the Oak Fenil seed Anacardus of each six drams flowers of Rosemary Stoechas and Lavender of each three drams shavings 〈◊〉 Elks horn and Mans Skull true Castor of each a draâ— and a half dryed Marjoram a handful Spirit of Winâ— rectified two pound Let all be cut and bruised anâ— infused in a glass Vessel close stopt let them macerate and digest for fourteen days and afterward distil it by an Alembick Then to the distilled Liquor add roots flowers and seeds of Peony duly gathered of each an ounce species Diamoschu dulce Diaxyloaloes of each half an ounce Mix them and set them to digest in a gentle heat for a month often stirring them afterward take the tinged Spirit of Wine by inclination and draw off at least half of it let the rest remain with the extracted Essence of which take twelve ounces Spirit of
wonderful operation and a happy restitution in a short time Spiritus Vini Theriacalis or Spirit of Wine with Treacle Take Venice Treacle four ounces roots of Angelica Elicampane and Swallow-wort white Diptamus Devils-bit Snakeweed Pimpinella Tormentil Zedoary Citron seeds of each an ounce Make all into a gross Powder and mix them on which pour eight pound of simple Spirit of Wine Let them digest fourteen days and then digest them in B. M. and keep the abstracted liquor for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a most excellent Spirit to preserve people from the Plague And is also called a Catholick Medicine because it consisteth of just twelve Ingredients It may be taken from one spoonful to two three or four hours before dinner or before they go abroad and is to be used every morning It prevents the danger of contagious Air and doth revive the Spirits But in curing it is given from two spoonfuls to three in Carduus-water or in our Aqua Cornu Cervi and it expels the Venom plentifully by Sweat SECT XIX Of compound distilled Waters Aqua Epileptica or an Epileptick Water TAke Roots of Peony duly gathered two ounces roots of round Birthwort white Diptamus and Angelica of each an ounce and a half Misleto of the Oak Peacocks dung Squills prepared Anacardus of each an ounce seeds of male Peony Coriander Caraway and Fenil of each six drams a dryed Secundine of a male Birth Castor of each half an ounce Carduus Millefoil wild Rue Sage and Rosemary of each two drams Let them be cut and bruised and infused in twelve pound of Spanish Wine and set to digest in a warm place for eight days the Vessel being often shaken in the time afterward distil them by an Alembick and into the distilled Liquor again put these things following Flowers of male Peony Lily of the valley of each four ounces flowers of Betony Teil-tree Lavender Balm Borage and Bugloss of each an ounce and a half Nutmeg Cinamon Cubebs Mace long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mix them and over a gentle fire in Balneo distil them the second time Virtue Use and Dose It is an effectual Medicine against the Epilepsie Vertigo Lethargy Catalepsie and Subeth which Diseases it chiefly cureth It is given in the Fit from an ounce to an ounce and a half But in preservation at the four Quarters of the Moon especially in all moist and nebuâ—ous constitution of the Air from one spoonful to two Aqua Apoplectica or a Water for the Apoplexy Take seeds of Rocket a pound seeds of Mountain-Osier Caraway and Anise of each an ounce roots of Avens four ounces roots of male Peony Pellitory and water Acorus of each two ounces Iuniper-berries four ounces Bay-berries husked an ounce and an half Ground-pine Hyssop Marjoram Origanum and Vervain of each half an ounce Let them be grosly bâ—uised and beaten and put into a large Matrace with ten pound of Spanish Wine and two pound of Spirit of Roses Let them stand in digestion fourteen days and then distil them in Balneo and into the distilled Liquor put fresh flowers of the Lily of the valley Primroses and Lavender of each four ounces Sage Marigold Betony and Rosemary of each an ounce and a half both sorts of Cardamoms Cabebs wood of Aloes Nutmegs Mace Cinamon the lesser Galangal long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mix them and again digest them for three days and over a gentle fire distil it in Balneo and afterward rectifie it by it self with a scruple of Gallia Moschata wrapping Cotton about the Snout of the Alembick At last the water being put into a close Glass keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is rightly called the water of Philosophers because it is of a wonderful virtue in comforting the Brain and Nerves It also strengthens the Memory and Intellect exceedingly It preserves from the Apoplexy and Palsie and all other dangerous diseases of the Head It doth excellently discuss and attenuate Humors renders the Blood pure and gives a lively Colour to the body But chiefly and especially it cures the Apoplexy and may be as well outwardly applied as taken inwardly The dose is from one spoonful to two c. Aqua de Xyloaloe or a Water of Wood of Aloes Take of the species of Confectio Anacardina an ounce seeds of mountain Osier Caraway Fenil and Lavender of each six drams leaves of Marjoram Rosemary and Sage flowers of Primrose Stoechas red Roses and Rosemary of each two drams lesser Galangal Cinamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Cubebs the lesser Cardamoms of each a dram Let them be grosly bruised and cut and infused in four pound of Spanish Wine let them stand in the Sun or in some other place to digest for a month and then add to it water of the Lily of the valley and flowers of St. Iohns-wort of each two pound water of the flowers of Bugloss Balm and Betony of each a pound Mix them and distil all in Balneo and in the distilled Liquor again infuse the best wood of Aloes four ounces Cassia lignea an ounce species of Diaxyloaloes and Diambra of each half an ounce Oriental Saffron a dram Mix them and after due digestion again distil them in Balneo and the distilled water reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a most illustrious and renowned Water in comforting and strengthening a weak Memory for it opens all the obstructions in the passages of the Brain and consumes all thick and viscous humors in the Head The dose is from one spoonful to two taken in the morning and at the same time to anoint the nape of the Neck with the same liquor and also rub it in well and let the Patient observe a regular Diet So it strengthens the Intellect removes forgetfulness and wonderfully sharpens the Wit Aqua Mastichina Take water of Water-Mints a pound Cloves infused in Spanish Wine of the best Mastich an ounce Let them boil in a double Vessel for two hours and then filter it and edulcorate it with Syrup of Quinces and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Water is of great efficacy in the nauseousness and loathing of the Stomach in Vomiting and the Disease Cholera which are known Evils It also strengthens the Stomach and roborates the retentive Faculty The dose is two ounces Aqua Hypnotica or a Somniferous Water Take seeds of white and black Poppy of each seven ounces Melon seeds husked seeds of Anise and Dill of each an ounce bitter Almonds two ounces Liquorish and Nutmegs of each an ounce and a half Cardamoms the less and Mace of each an ounce and half Oriental Saffron flowers of wild Poppy and Violets of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and then infused in waters of Lettice three pound of red Roses and Water-Lily of each two pound of Purslain and Endive of each a pound Mix them and set them to digest in a warm place for two or three days and
bruised and then infused in the following Waters i. e. water of wild Poppy flowers and both kind of Mallows of each a pound and a half water of Plantane Purslain Violets Lettice leaves of Oak and Moneywort of each a pound Let them digest some days and then distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It takes off the heat and difficulty of Urine and obtunds the acrimony thereof that arises from hot Meats c. It deterges glutinates and cicatriseth all Ulcers and Ulcerations in the Bladder Reins Ureters and urinary passages For which it is a present Remedy which I have also experienced in Old people who are subject to a heat in the Bladder and from thence are subject to make water often This Water therefore sweeps away all mucous rough and painful filth and dregs of the Urine The dose is from one ounce to three Aqua contra Vermes or a Water against the Worms Take shavings of Harts horn four ounces crude Mercury well cleansed with Salt and Vinegar two ounces the best Sena seeds of Cina and Citrons true Corallina of each an ounce and a half Peach kernels Rhubarb Agarick and Myrrh of each an ounce roots of white Diptamus the pith taken away round Birthwort and Zedoary of each six drams white Tartar Nitre prepared Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce the tops of lesser Cantaury and Tansie chips of Hazel-tree of each three drams Let them be cut and bruised and then infused in four pound of Hydromel and after eight days digestion add to it water of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each a pound and a half of Carduus Grass and Scordium of each a pound Mix all and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Aqua Theriacalis or Treacle-water Take Venice Treacle eight ounces sealed Earth two ounces roots of Angelica and Tormentil Elicampane of each half an ounce Harts-horn and Elks hoof Spagirically calcined Sassafras Iuniper-berries Citron peels of each an ounce Boletus cervinus red Myrrh of each six drams Diaphoretick Antimony and Oriental Saffron of each three drams All being pulverized and mixed let them be infused in eight pound of Malmsey Wine for fourteen days and then distilled in Balneo with a gentle fire Virtue Use and Dose Because this Water by its tenuity and thinness doth quickly insinuate it self into all the Members and puts the native heat into action we happily use it in all diseases where Sweat is desired as Feavers Jaundice Putrefaction Worms Pox punctures of the Sides trembling of the Heart Plague rectification of the Blood c. The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua de Cornu cervino or Water of Harts-horn Take Harts-horn Spagirically calcined two ounces sealed Earth and Oriental red Bole of each an ounce roots of Tormentil white Diptamus Scorzonera and Zedoary of each half an ounce Sassafras yellow Sanders Cassia lignea of each three drams seeds of Sorrel Angelica and Citrons dryed of each two drams Oriental Saffron Mace and Marigold flowers of each a dram and a half These being cut and bruised let them be infused in the depurated Juyce of Carduus and Sorrel of each two pound of Scabious and Fluellin of each a pound of the husks of green Nuts and Scordium of each half a pound Let them macerate 24 hours then with a gentle fire distil them in Balneo with glass Vessels cohobating the second time Virtue Use and Dose This Water hath great force in the Plague and all other poysonous Diseases but especially in Women and Children for whom the Treacle-waters are not convenient Of this water an ounce or two or more according to the strength and nature of the Patient may be given either by it self or with other sudorifick Medicines in the place of Specificks c. Aqua Aloetica solutiva or a solutive Water of Aloes Take Epatick Aloes sixteen ounces juyce of the leaves of green Sena expressed Elaterium of each four ounces red Myrrh an ounce All being well mixed let them be distilled in glass in Balneo by the help of a gentle fire Virtue Use and Dose Anoint the Stomach often with this water and lay on after it a warm Cloth or Sponge and you shall see a wondrous Operation For it is a most excellent Medicine and only fit for Kings and Princes Aqua Cosmetica or a Beauty-water Take Goats milk four pound water of Aron roots Bean flowers white Roses white Lilies and Solomons seal of each a pound white Virgin Honey four ounces white Sugar candy and white Frankincense of each two ounces white Hermodactyls Florentine Flower-de-luce Venetian Borax of each an ounce Salt of white Tartar burnt Ivory and Camphire of each half an ounce flowers of white Narcissus of common white Mallows of white water Lily of each two drams Mix them and distil them in Balneo for the richer sort you may add a scruple of Gallia Moschata with Cotton to the neck of the Alembick Virtue Use and Dose It is used outwardly to cleanse and clarifie the Face For it takes off Spots Pimples c. from the Face and it hath a singular faculty in amending the foulness of the Skin in the Jaundice To accomplish which the Face must be often washed with it in the day Or take of this Cosmetick water six ounces of the Mercurial Cosmetick two drams Mix them and make a Lotion like Milk with which anoint the Face often SECT XX. Of mixed Liquors Nectar Vitrioli or Nectar of Vitriol TAke white Sugar candy ten ounces Spirit of Vitriol rectified two ounces Mix them and in a glass Vessel close covered keep out the flies and filth let them stand for some months till it all appear black like Pitch then take of this black matter four ounces rose-Rose-water an ounce and a half water mint-Mint-water half a pound Cinamon water buglossated six pound Syrup of the juyce of Citrons four ounces Manus Christi simple two ounces Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is commended in all intemperature of the Stomach as well cold as hot For it refresheth the languid and decayed strength thereof It provokes Appetite prevents Putrefaction It is good in malignant Feavers and allays Thirst. The dose by it self is from two ounces to three Liquor Vitriolatus or a Vitriolated Liquor Take Syrup of Violets and Roses of each half a pound juyce of Citrons or Lemmons four ounces Mix them diligently and being mixed add water of Endive ten ounces water of Sorrel and Roses of each eight ounces of water-Lily and Scabious of each six ounces of Cinamon water buglossated two ounces Spirit of Vitriol so much as will make all tart and grateful Again mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of a curious cooling quality in the Plague Hungarian disease burning Feavers and all other Inflammations It also allays Thirst c. The dose is from two ounces to three Liquor Ophthalmicus subalbidus or a whitish Water for
the Eyes Take our Ophthalmick water of Crabs half an ounce water of Eyebright and Fenil of each two drams our Ophthalmick Troches and Powder of each a scruple Mix them and make according to Art a whitish Collyrium Virtue Use and Dose It is of great virtue in the dimness and dulness of Sight and in Suffusions of the Eyes and it may be dropped into the Eyes without any pain it being void of all acrimony whatsoever and with it the Eyes may be washed every morning and so continue it for many days together Liquor Nitratus or a Nitrified Liquor Take water distilled from the juyce of Carduus benedictus nineteen ounces Rob of Goosberries four ounces simple Manus Christi two ounces Nitre prepared an ounce Mix them well and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a most admirable Diaphoretick Diuretick Bezoartick Refrigerative c. and is good in all hot and malignant Diseases whatsoever The dose is by it self from one ounce to two or three Liquor Cephalicus or a Cephalick Liquor Take of our Aqua Apoplectica four ounces Aqua Epileptica and Lily of the valley of each three ounces water of Marjoram Betony and Sage of each an ounce and a half Rotula's of Diambra an ounce Confectio Smaragdina half an ounce Salt of white Amber a scruple Mix them faithfully and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of good use in all diseases of the Head and gives present help in the Cephalalgia Hemicrania Epilepsie Apoplexy Madness Vertigo c. It quickens the Senses sharpens the Understanding and recovers a lost Memory The dose is from one spoonful to two Liquor Pectoralis or a Pectoral Liquor Take Cinamon water buglossated and Capon water of each four ounces water of Calves lungs Ground-Ivy Fluellin and Coltsfoot of each three ounces milk of Sulphur three drams flower of Sulphur a dram and a half Magistery of red Coral and Oriental Pearls of each half a dram Mix all and with Manus Christi simple three ounces edulcorate it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use to all those who are troubled with the Asthma Pleurisie Phthisick and Hectick It comforts the Heart and to admiration it takes away the grievous and dangerous Coughs and restores the Patient to his former health The dose morning noon and night is from one spoonful to two But before this Liquor is given it ought to be well shaken Liquor Cordialis or a Cordial Liquor Take of our hot and cold Cordial waters of each four ounces of Cinamon water buglossated and water of a Stags heart of each an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams Salt of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple All being mixed let it be edulcorated with an ounce and a half of simple Manus Christi and reserved for use Virtue Use and Dose It is good for the Heart-burning and pains of the Heart caused by sorrow It cures Palpitation Trembling and Swooning It animates the Spirits exhilarates the Mind refresheth those who are weak and languid It comforts the Heart in general and preserves it from the Plague and many other evils The dose is from one spoonful to two Liquor acidus Perlarum Orientalium or an acid Liquor of Oriental Pearls Take Vinegar of the solution of Oriental Pearls and again drawn off in Balneo two ounces Spirit of Vitriol duly rectified with Spirit of Wine Mix them and you shall have a whitish liquor of wonderful operation which keep as a Treasure for your use Virtue Use and Dose It strengthens the Head Brain Stomach Heart Liver and all the other principal Members It preserves the body from the Apoplexy Epilepsie Vertigo Leprosie Pox c. It raiseth an appetite in recovering Patients It cleanseth the Eyes of clouds and dimness resists Putrefaction and Poyson and is the last refuge in all malignant Feavers and hot Diseases The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram Liquor acidus Corallorum rubeorum or an acid Liquor of red Coral After the preceding manner is this acid Liquor of Coral prepared for the affects of the Head as Epilepsie Melancholy also the Dysentery Flux of the Womb c. and to rectifie the Stomach and Blood It is also a good Medicine to root out many internal Diseases and to refresh the Spirits and Mind The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram Liquor Nephriticus or a Liquor for the Stone and Urine Take Citron water distilled by it self in Balneo our Nephritical water of each a pound and a half Syrup of the juyce of Violets a pound white Sugar candy an ounce Salt of Perch stone and Crabs eyes of each two drams Nitre prepared with flower of Sulphur salt of white Amber of each a dram Mix them and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual in breaking and expelling the Stone both in the Reins and Bladder It provokes Urine and takes away the pain which happens in those parts The dose is in the morning fasting or at a good distance from eating from one spoonful to three Liquor Diaphoreticus Take of our Treacle water six ounces Spirit of Tartar often rectified three ounces Spirit of sealed Earth distilled by it self and rectified Spirit of Guajacum rectified the acid liquor of Oriental Pearls the acid liquor of red Coral of each half an ounce Mix them and in a Glass close shut let them digest for three or four weeks then filter it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It expels all Poyson from the Heart by Sweat It is good in Syncopes sudden Fits Epilepsie Melancholy Quinsie Palsie Dropsie Jaundice Pleurisie Pox Plague Epidemical disease Asthma malignant and putrid Feavers retention of the Courses Contractures Scurvy Scabs or Itch For this Medicine doth excel all others in taking away all Obstructions and Putrefactions And if it be given daily in the Palsie it doth wonders It penetrates the Nerves Muscles Marrow and whatsoever it finds hurtful it expels The dose is from half a dram to two drams in our Harts-horn water or Carduus water or any other Vehicle respecting the Disease Liquor refrigerans or a cooling Liquor Take water of the juyce of Succory four ounces water of Rasberries Carduus Roses Endive and Sorrel of each four ounces Rob of Goosberries and Barberries prepared without Sugar syrup of the juyce of Citrons of each three ounces Nitre prepared eleven scruples Mix them Virtue Use and Dose It cools and comforts admirably in Feavers and all acute hot Diseases The dose is from two ounces to three at a time Liquor Vulnerarius or a Wound-Liquor Take roots of the lesser Galangal Zedoary Crabs eyes and Mace of each half an ounce Foreign Mummy two drams of Nux vomica fifteen grains Let them be grolly bruised and infused in a pound of good generous Wine let them stand in a warm place Virtue Use and Dose The dose of this Mixture is morning and evening a
spoonful and if any thing remains fixed in the bottom of the body it removes it but in wounds of the Head let the Nux vomica be omitted Liquor Camphoratus Take spirit of Wine camphorated two ounces water of all the flowers and Frogs spawn of each an ounce and a half the Anodyne Sulphur of Vitriol a dram liquid Styrax Thebane Opium spirit of Vitriol of each half a dram Mix them and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose Let it be applied to the part affected for it allays the pain of the Gout and all pains proceeding of a hot Cause Or it may be given twice in the day with two scruples of prepared Nitre in Elder-flower water Liquor Tartareus or a Tartarized Liquor Take of the best Rhenish Wine a pound Tartar vitriolated an ounce Let them be mixed and dissolved according to Art and then add Barley water with Raisons boiled Cinamon water and syrup of the juyce of Violets of each half a pound Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an universal Digestive and is given in many Diseases where purging Medicines are requisite It is given warm unless in an intense Feaver or a hot intemperature of the Stomach be present It is given for a Feaver in the morning but if the Fit happen in the morning it is to be given in the evening In Chronical diseases it is continued for five days and may be given twice in a day that is morning and noon But in diseases of the Head it is given at going to bed and the Belly ought to be loose for if the Belly is bound pain doth usually succeed because the matter that is moved and cleansed away by the Medicine if it cannot pass out of the body it is converted into wind and that causeth pain The dose is when occasion requires a good draught at a time Liquor Arthriticus or a Liquor for the Gout Take Virgin Honey with the comb two pound Vitriol calcined to a yellowness a pound River Flints calcined half a pound Rosemary and Vervain of each six ounces white Hermodactyls three ounces Gum Ammoniacum Mastich Olibanum red Myrrh Bdellium Opopanax of each two ounces yellow Sulphur Sea-salt white Tartar of each an ounce and a half juyce of Henbane made thick Foreign Mummy Thebane Opium of each an ounce All being mixed pour upon them the Spirit made of the Faeces of red Wine or else of that Spirit which is left in making Laudanum Opiatum five pound or so much as will suffice and let them digest for certain days then put all into a glass Alembick well luted with a head sufficiently large and a large Receiver and distil them so long as you can see any Spirit come forth When all is cold take the Caput mortuum and pulverize it and pour the distilled Liquor upon it the second time and distil it And repeat this labour three or four times and so you have the Liquor Arthriticus prepared Virtue Use and Dose It is a Secret in all continual and inveterate pains and defluxions on the Members and Joynts Let the part affected be anointed with it often in the day warmed and at certain intervals of time also till all the tormenting pains cease Liquor Antipodagricus triunus or an Antipodagrick Liquor of a threefold Preparation 1. Take of spirit of Wine well rectified two pound Frog spawn water a pound and a half of Virgin Honey a pound Mix them and distil it in Balneo and the Liquor drawn off keep by it self then take the Caput mortuum and pulverize it and then add to it Lixivium made of Vine twigs two pound white Tartar half a pound flegm of Vitriol not yet separated from the spirit four ounces true Castor six drams Oriental Saffron half an ounce Venice Turpentine two drams calcined Salt a dram Let them macerate for the space of 24 hours then distil it and keep the distilled Liquor by it self then take out the Caput mortuum and pulverize it and pour upon it all the Liquor before drawn off in the first distillation Mix them and after due digestion distil them again the third time Lastly the Liquors being mixed rectifie them in Balneo Mariae and let it be called A Compound Water of Frog-spawn 2. Take Cloves six drams white Hermodactyls and Iuniper-berries of each half an ounce Nutmegs two drams Vervain and Elder flowers of each two handfuls flowers of Lavender Spicknard Marjoram Rosemary and Betony of each a handful Cut those that are to be cut and bruise the other and infuse them in five pound of Rhenish Wine Let them stand in digestion 24 nights and days and then distilled in an Alembick and called Aqua Arthritica or the gout-Gout-water 3. Take Alum two pound white Vitriol and Verdigriese of each half a pound white Tartar Litharge Cuttle-bone and Ceruss of each four ounces Let all be most finely powdered and then mixed set it upon the fire and let it fume so that the Verdigriese may evaporate and then call it Lapiâ— Admirabilis or the wonderful Stone 4. Now follows the Composition Take of the Compound water of Frog spawn four pound of the Aqua Arthritica a pound of the Lapis admirabilis three drams clear and white Nitre two drams Oriental Saffron ten grains Mix them and let them stand in infusion a whole night and afterward filter the Liquor and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose In this Liquor which Chymists and Practitioners in Physick use at this time with good success wet linen Cloaths and frequently apply these warm to the part affected or at least three or four times a day and this continue till all the intolerable tormenting pains cease and utterly vanish For it is a singular and an incomparable Medicine in all Gouty pains and is well experienced in repelling the violence of the adventitious Humor and it is called Triunus from the three several Preparations in the Composition Liquor Vestimentalis or a Liquor for Cloaths Take Fountain water two pound ashes of Hearts-ease the quantity of a great Walnut one Citron cut into small pieces Mix them and let them stand in digestion twenty four hours then filter it and keep the clear liquor for use Virtue and Use. It takes away the filth all greasie and pitchy Spots as well from Hats as Cloaths either in Silk Woollen or Linen And the Spots being taken out and the place clean it is to be rinsed immediately with fair water Liquor Mercurii vivi Take crude Mercury and Aqua fortis of each an ounce Dissolve the Mercury in the Aqua fortis and to the solution add Plantane water two pound Lapis medicamentosus made with Rose-water Mix all and keep it for use Virtue and Use. This whitish Mercurial water is to be applied to all the external parts and diseases thereof It drys up all old Ulcers and Wounds and skinneth them over but especially the old sordid Aphrodisia It takes away all Morphew Spots Scurff and Pimples of the Face It
is also a good Remedy in drying Erysipelas's and healing Fistula's But in applying it take heed lest you touch the Eyes or Teeth therewith Liquor Cerussae or a Liquor of white Lead Take the best white Lead an ounce of Pompholix half an ounce of Lapis Calaminaris and Litharge of each two drams Tutty prepared and Spodium of each a dram Let all be finely pulverized and mixed and then pour upon them water of Housleek Plantane and red Roses of each three ounces Again mix them and keep them for use Virtue and Use. It is used externally and cools and drys any part infested with a Tumor Redness or Inflammation It allays pain cures blood-shot Eyes It takes away the yellow spots of the Face and Body and renders a mans Countenance clear and vivid The use of it consists in often using divers day together Liquor Tutiae or a Liquor of Tutty Take Tutty prepared Litharge and Ceruss of each half an ounce Camphire a dram crude Alum half a dram Let all be diligently mixed and then add water of Plantane and Roses of each four ounces Again mix them and keep it for use Virtue and Use. It cools and drys the external parts of the Body infested with Tumors and Inflammations Liquor Mercurii Saccharatus or a Liquor of Mercury with Sugar Take water of Plantane and Roses of each four ounces Ceruss an ounce sublimate Mercury white Sugar Candy and the best Spirit of Wine of each half an ounce Mix them and then add to it a scruple of Aqua fortis Virtue and Use. It cures all contumacious Ring-worms Tetters and such like disease of the Skin But before it is used let it be shaken and the part effected touched with a Feather or such like thing Liquor Mercurii Acetosus or a sour Liquor of Mercury Take white Vitriol and Camphire of each half an ounce sublimate Mercury Ceruss white Tartar and burnt Alum of each two drams white Pompholix half a dram Mix all and make a Powder Take of this powder half an ounce the best Wine Vinegar four ounces Mix these and keep it for use Virtue and Use. We use it in the same manner as before to cleanse the Skin It perfectly cures all Ring-worms Tetters and such like SECT XXI Of Emulsions Emulsio Rosata or an Emulsion with Roses TAke sweet Almonds an ounce seeds of white Poppy two drams of the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Rose-water eight ounces water of Strawberries and Vervain of each four ounces Of these make an Emulsion and edulcorate it with Julep of Roses Virtue Use and Dose I happily use it in all hot affects of the Head burning of the Stomach Thorax Breast Heart and all the lower Belly Emulsio Violata or an Emulsion with Violets Take sweet Almonds an ounce seeds of Violets twâ— drams seeds of white Poppy a dram water of Violetâ— eight ounces water of Lettice and water-Lily of eacâ— four ounces Of these make an Emulsion which eduâ— corate with Julep of Violets to make it grateful Virtue Use and Dose It is good in a hot intempeâ— rature of the whole Body for it cools and moistenâ— allays Thirst induceth Sleep relieveth the Breasâ— and resists the Acrimony of Choler The dose is a moderate draught Emulsio Somnifera or a sleeping Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two drams white Poppy seeds a dram Melon seeds half a dram Lettice seeds half a scruple water of Violets and water-Lilies of each an ounce and a half of our Hypnotick water a dram Make an Emulsion and edulcorate it with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy and add Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each three grains Mix all for one dose and drink it in the evening at going to bed and it gives rest Emulsio Pleuritica or an Emulsion for the Pleurisie Take seeds of Carduus Mariae an ounce seeds of Carduus benedictus half an ounce seeds of white Poppy two drams water of Carduus Mariae six ounces water of Carduus benedictus water of wild Poppy flowers Chamomil flowers and Scabious flowers of each four ounces Make an Emulsion according to Art and edulcorate it with Sugar Candy concrete in Syrup of Violets Virtue Use and Dose It cures the Pleurisie and suddenly it allays all the pains of the Sides to the amazement of the Beholders but it is convenient that the sick should be daily purged or at least the Belly kept open by continual Clysters The dose is from two ounces to three or four Emulsio Laxativa or a Laxative Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two ounces of the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram water of Succory and Peach flowers Acacia and Violets of each four ounces Make an Emulsion according to Art in which dissolve Manna two ounces Let it be then strained and then add Cinamon water buglossated half an ounce Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is experienced in Children who are subject to be bound in their bodies Also in acute and burning Feavers in continual Tertians Hecticks Marasmus Synochus c. The dose is a moderate draught Emulsio Stiptica or a Stiptick Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two ounces white Poppy seeds half an ounce the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Lettice seeds half a dram water distilled from the juyce of Quinces and Millefoil of each four ounces water of Plantane Tormentil and wild Poppy of each three ounces water of Oaken leaves and Cinamon buglossated of each an ounce and a half Of these make an Emulsion according to Art to which add Iulep of Roses four ounces Magistery of red Coral a dram Mix them Virtue Use and Dose It cools and binds it cures the loosness of the Belly and Dysentery coming of a hot cholerick Cause It also helps cholerick Coughs and brings sleep The dose is a good draught at a time Emulsio Cannabina or an Emulsion of Hemp seed Take Hemp seed an ounce and a half the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram With water of Water-Lily flowers and Roses of each a like quantity to make an Emulsion Take of this Emulsion fourteen ounces Syrup of the juyce of Violets two ounces Cinamon water buglossated an ounce Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is profitably given to stop the Gonorrhoea or Flux of Seed Pollutions and other vices of those parts It is also good in burning Feavers and other distempers of Choler and Blood The dose is from two ounces to three SECT XXII Of Clarets and medicated Wines Claretum Antepilepticum Laxativum or a Laxative Antepileptick Claret TAke leaves of Sena two ounces the best Turbith and Mechoacan of each half an ounce filings of Elks hoof and mans Skull Nutmegs of each two drams roots and seeds of Peony duly gathered Misleto of the Oak of each a dram and a half the lesser Cardamoms Cassia lignea Cloves of each a dram flowers of male Peony Lily of the valley Lavender Teil-tree of each half a dram Let them be macerated in twenty
each two drams Mix them and boil it to the consumption of the half and towards the end of its boiling aromatize it with a dram and a half of Cinamon let it cool by degrees and strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a clear Potion of it which edulcorate with Syrup of Violets four ounces Virtue Use and Dose The use of this Decoction doth not only give ease in the Catarrh Asthma and Pectoral diseases but also rectifies the whole Body and hath a singular force in curing Ulcers of the Lungs But it ought to be considered whether the Patient hath a Feaver or not for if he hath a Feaver he must abstain from the use of this Decoction It is given twice in the day for sweating but in the Cure it is used to be made of the Diaphoretick wood and for his ordinary drink at dinner and supper he may use the following Decoction of Raisons Decoctum Passulatum or a Decoction of Raisons Take small Raisons four ounces Barley husked three ounces roots of the best China Liquorish and Scorzonera of each half an ounce Cinamon two drams flowers of Violets dryed a scruple Boil them in six pound of Fountain-water to the consumption of the third part then let it be strained and clarified with the Whites of two Eggs and make a clear Potion of it Virtue Use and Dose Let the sick use this Decoction at Meals for his ordinary drink for it hath a certain singular faculty in curing the distempers of the Thorax and Liver for by lenifying and deterging it gives great ease in the vices of the Lungs The dose is a good draught at a time Decoctum Citri or a Decoction of Citrons Take Citrons rind and pulp cut into thin round pieces three or five white Sugar four ounces Fountain-water six pound Boil it to the consumption of the third part then strain it and the Decoction being clear like Wine keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose We do usually appoint this for a common drink to those who are sick of the Plague Epidemical diseases burning Feavers Cholerick diseases Inflammations small Pox and Meazles Stone immoderate Thirst Cholera c. because it curiously cools and moistens the Heart Stomach Liver Spleen Reins and also comforts the other Bowels that are hot and impaired and preserves them from putrefaction The dose is a good draught at a time but for delicate Palates it is prepared without the rind of Citrons and so prepared it is more palatable And a little Wine being mixed with it may prove an honest excuse to prevent drunkenness Decoctum Hepaticum or a Decoction for the Liver Take the stalks of Spanish Lettice preserved three ounces roots of Succory and Scorzonera preserved of each an ounce and a half seeds of Melons bruised and Currans of each an ounce the Liver of a Wolf half an ounce flower of white Epatice Violets Succory and water-Lilies of each a dram species Diarrhodon Abbatis Triasantalon of each tyed up in a Nodulus half a dram Let all be boiled in six pound of Barley-water to the consumption of the half and being strained clarifie it with the Whites of Eggs afterward add the juyce of acid Pomegranates and Citrons of each six ounces Syrup of blue Violets vitriolated four ounces Cinamon water half an ounce Mix them and make a clear Decoction Virtue Use and Dose It is of great power and use in contemperating the heat of the Heart and Liver for it cools and comforts and is good to lenifie the Breast and Lungs and to humect the Praecordia's The dose is from three ounces to four or a good draught Decoctum Spleneticum or a Decoction for the Spleen Take leaves of Sena and Sea Coleworts of each an ounce roots of Cappars Fenil Grass Flower-de-luce and dwarff Elder of each three drams Rhubarb Dodder species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each two drams and a half Maidenhair Hyssop Harts tongue and Betony flowers of the lesser Centaury Hops and white Liverwort of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and then infused 24 hours in water of Scurvy-grass Fumitory Sorrel and Pauls Betony of each eight ounces Afterward boil it according to Art and make a clear Decoction in which dissolve Cream of Tartar six drams that being dissolved add these Syrups following i. e. Syrup of Scurvy-grass of Succory simple of Fumitory and Agrimony of each an ounce Spirit of Salt corrected half a dram Mix all Virtue Use and Dose This Decoction is excellent in the Obstruction Tumor and Scirrhus of the Spleen also in the Scurvy rectification of the Blood ill disposition or inclining to a Dropsie The dose is every day from two ounces to three Decoctum Antictericum or a Decoction for the Iaundice Take Southernwood half an ounce Goose dung collected in the Spring and tyed up in a Nodulus three drams roots of Celandine Turmerick Rhubarb and Zedoary of each a dram and a half Nutmegs and Bay-berries â—uâ—ked of each a dram seeds of Cummin and Anise of each half a dram Oriental Saffron and white Lilies of each ten grains the best white Wine four pound Boil all to the consumption of the third part and make a clear Potion Virtue Use and Dose Let him that is sick with the Jaundice drink a draught of this Decoction warm every morning for six days together and it perfectly cures the yellow Jaundice But the poorer sort may instead of Wine use good clear Beer or Ale and be as effectual Decoctum Ficuum or a Decoction of Figs. Take fifteen fat Figs Raisons two ounces Harts-horn and pulp of Tamarinds of each an ounce roots of Liquorish and Mock-chervil of each half an ounce Barberries two drams seeds of Carduus and Fenil of each a dram and a half Make a Decoction in Barley water and being strained clarifie it with the White of an Egg then take of this Liquor a pound and a half Syrup of the juyce of Citrons four ounces Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It safely and without any danger expels and drives forth the small Pox and Meazles and curbs the malignity of them The dose is often in the day from one spoonful to two but if the Belly were too loose add Gum Tragacanth in the place of Pulp of Tamarinds Decoctum contra Mictionem Sanguinis or a Decoction against Pissing of Blood Take roots of Liquorish an ounce seeds of white Poppy and Myrtle-berries of each half an ounce Acorns and Acatia of each two drams Pauls Betony Maidenhair Ceterach Sage and Burnet of each a dram and a half flowers of red Roses a dram and of wild Poppy a scruple Boil them in a sufficient quantity of fountain-Fountain-water so that two pound may remain which edulcorate with Syrup of the Juyce of Violets for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a very good Medicine for those who piss blood for it doth quickly and without any trouble take away the affect and cure it really The dose is morning and evening from two
ounces to three or four Decoctum Satyriacum Take seeds of Ashen-keys an ounce Boletus cervinus Bulls pizzle Venetian Borax of each half an ounce roots of Pellitory and Aron of each three drams long Pepper Castor Ginger and Canamon of each two drams Cloves the lesser Cardamoms and Cubebs of each a scruple All being cut and bruised let them be put into a new clean glazed Vessel and pour upon it a sufficient quantity of Malmsey Wine and let them boil in a Vessel well luted according to Art Virtue Use and Dose He that would be presently and powerfully armed for the Sports of Venus let him drink a little draught of this Decoction morning and evening Decoctum contra Herniam Intestinalem or a Decoction against the Rupture of the Bowels Take seeds of Thorough-leaf and Cummin of each an ounce roots of Aron fresh dryed roots of water-Acorus Tormentil and great Comfry of each half an ounce the herb Perwincle Sanicle Winter-green golden Rod Mouse-ear Rupturewort and Orpine of each two drams red Roses Balaustines the lesser Galangal and Cloves of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and boiled in a sufficient quantity of the best white Wine to the consumption of the third part and make a clear Decoction according to Art Virtue Use and Dose Internal Balsams being given with it cure the Rupture without any trouble and is in this case a singular Experiment The dose is a good draught morning and evening Decoctum contra Uteri Haemorrhagiam or a Decoction against a Plux of Blood from the Womb. Take roots of Succory an ounce roots of Tormentil Avens Liquorish and Plantane of each half an ounce Gum Arabick Elder-berries dryed Harts-horn Coriander prepared of each three drams Shepherds-purse Bloodwort Burnet Sorrel Horstail Rosemary of each two drams grains of Mastich a dram and a half red Roses dryed Nutmegs of each a dram Make a Decoction in a sufficient quantity of Water of Millefoil and white Wine to twenty four ounces and in the clear strained Liquor dissolve four ounces of Syrup of the Juyce of Quinces Virtue Use and Dose It is a Secret in the unmeasurable purgation of the Terms and the continual destillation from the Womb. The dose is morning and evening from three spoonfuls to four or a little draught Decoctum contra Menses suppressos or a Decoction against the suppression of the Terms Take Cinamon an ounce and a half roots of red Mugwort Smallage Asparagus and Fenil of each half an ounce Venetian Borax Bay-berries husked Iuniper-berries of each three drams Centaury and Savin of each two drams Motherwort Maidenhair Nep Pennyroyal Calamint Mother of Thyme of each a dram and a half flowers of Chamomil and Bugloss Oriental Saffron and Mace of each a dram Boil all but the Saffron Mace and Cinamon in a sufficient quantity of good old Wine to the consumption of the third part and then at last add the Species and make a clear Decoction according to Art which edulcorate with Syrup of the Juyce of Mugwort and Maiden-hair Virtue Use and Dose This Decoction is approved by often Experience for it wonderfully and potently brings down the Terms the retained Secundine and dead Child if not rightly disposed for birth it brings away without danger The dose is morning and evening at going to bed a moderate draught drunk warm and continue it so long till the Terms appear Decoctum contra Scabiem or a Decoction against the Itch and Scab Take Agrimony Origanum and Pauls Betony of each half an ounce roots of Elicampane Scorzonera and Swallow-wort of each two drams Cinamon and Mace of each a dram Boil them in four pound of the best Beer to the consumption of the half and make a clear Potion Virtue Use and Dose Universal Remedies premised and the Body being duly purged it certainly drives forth the Itch and cures it The dose is morning and evening a good draught at a time warm Decoctum Vulnerarium or a Vulnerary Decoction Take Ladies mantle red Beets Winter-green Sanicle Periwincle golden Rod seeds of Angelica of each equal parts Let the Herbs be cut small and the seeds of Angelica bruised only and let them be well mixed one with another then take half an ounce of this mixed Powder tyed up in a linen Rag and boiled in two pound of Rhenish Wine in Balneo and make a clear Decoction Virtue Use and Dose It cures all Wounds and Blows in what part of the body soever they are and expels Iron Wood Lead and other such things And it consolidates and heals more in a week than other vulnerary Potions do in a month and is such an Experiment that all Chirurgions deservedly ought to receive it with both hands and with a thankful mind The dose is morning noon and night two or three spoonfuls warm Decoctum Ligni Guajaci or a Decoction of Guajacum Take shavings of Guajacum a pound the bark of it four ounces roots of China two ounces Sarsaparilla and Sassafras of each an ounce Infuse it according to Art in sixteen pound of clear fountain-Fountain-water for 24 hours and then boil it in a new glazed Pot close covered to the consumption of one half and let this serve for a Sudorifick Afterward boil it again in twelve pound of Barley water to the consumption of one third and keep this for ordinary drink And to this last Decoction you may add a few Raisons and aromatize it with Cinamon if you please Virtue Use and Dose This Decoction hath a most admirable faculty in the French Pox and chiefly in those who are full with Ulcers which loathsom disease this Decoction cures Of this first Decoction the Patient may take one good draught warm in a morning and another two or three hours before supper and let him drink of the second Decoction as often as he pleaseth in the day besides Another of Lignum Sanctum or the Holy Wood. Take Lignum Sanctum a pound the bark of it four ounces Sarsaparilla two ounces Sassafras an ounce Let them digest 24 hours in sixteen pound of fumitory-Fumitory-water and then distil them in an Alembick and in the distilled Liquor boil Raisons four ounces roots of Liquorish and China of each an ounce seeds of Fenil and Anise of each half an ounce the herbs Betony and Succory of each two drams Let it be strained according to Art and keep the strained Liquor for use Virtue Use and Dose It drys attenuates expurgates and provokes Sweat and therefore doth resist Putrefaction and Contagion It amends the vices of the Brain cures the Pox strengthens the Liver opens the Spleen and is very good in the Scirrhus thereof It is of good use in the Dropsie It heals malignant Ulcers and cures the Leprosie and Elephantiasis c. The dose is a good draught at a time twice a day given warm Dococtum adstringens or an astringent Decoction Take roots of Tormentil and Snakeweed of each an ounce dryed Quince six drams seeds of Docks and
seeds of Roses of each two drams dead Nettles with their red flowers a dram and a half Nutmegs Cinamon the lesser Galangal and Cloves of each a dram Sebestens nine Boil these according to Art in three pound of Plantane to the consumption of one third and in the clear strained Liquor dissolve one dram of Camphire and if you please edulcorate it also with Miya of Quinces Virtue Use and Dose It is an experienced Medicine in Dysenteries and other Fluxes of the Belly and it also cures divers Haemorrhages The dose is a good draught in a morning fasting Decoctum Polypodii purgans or a purging Decoction of Polypody Take roots of Polypody of the Oak and Raisons stoned of each two ounces Carthamus seeds and Barley of each an ounce and a half Liquorish half an ounce Hyssop Scabious Coltsfoot and Germander of each a dram Iujubes fifteen fat Figs six and Dates cleansed from their skin four Boil them in so much Whey that there may remain about twenty one ounces and about the end of the Decoction add Leaves of Sena three ounces Troches of Agarick three drams seeds of Fenil and Anise of each a dram and a half Let them stand over the fire a while but not boil much then make a clear Potion according to Art Virtue Use and Dose We happily use it in the Asthma Phthisick Pleurisie and other Pectoral diseases The dose is from four ounces to five and the body being purged let the Patient drink our Pectoral Decoction called Subacidum or Subdulce as occasion serves Decoctum Galli antiqui farcinati or a Decoction of an old Cock stuffed Take Polypody an ounce and a half Carthamus seeds an ounce Cinamon three drams leaves of Sena white Turbith and Orange peel of each two drams white Ginger the lesser Galangal and Mace of each a dram species Diacymini and Dianisi of each half a dram and one Bay-berry The Species being mixed and put in a linen Rag let them be put in when the Cock is almost boiled enough Virtue Use and Dose It is very useful in the Colick when it proceeds from a thick flatulent and flegmatick Cause Decoctum Sanguinem mundificans or a Decoction to cleanse the Blood Take Citrine Myrobalans an ounce flowers of Violets dryed a dram Prunes nineteen Sebestens and Iujubes of each eight Boil them in water of the flowers of Acatia to three ounces in which dissolve of our potable Scammony a scruple Oyl of Cinamon and Aniseeds of each a drop Mix them and make a draught for one dose Virtue and Use. It purgeth Choler of both kinds Flegm and other Humors It also mundifies the Blood and keeps the body laxative in Feavers Decoctum Senae or a Decoction of Sena Take elect Sena three drams acid Tartar a dram Fumitory water warm four ounces Let them infuse all night and in the morning let them boil a little yet so as that the Tartar may be throughly dissolved and in the strained Liquor while it is warm dissolve of the best Manna six drams Again strain it and then add Cinamon water a dram Elaeosaccharum of Citrons ten grains Mix them and make a purging draught for one dose to be given warm Virtue and Use. It is a good Purge for the whole Body for it opens the obstructions of all the Bowels and mundifies the blood But in the first place it purgeth Choler both black and yellow and Flegm also It cleanseth and strengthens the Head Brain Heart Lungs Liver Spleen and all the Senses of the Body and carrieth off all that offends them It retardes Age increaseth Youth Moreover it is an excellent Medicine in all chronical tartarous and melancholy diseases as the Epilepsie Dotage Deliria's Heach-ach Gout Elephantiasis Scabs Pustles Itch and all other vices of the Skin It is also profitably given to Women with Child and to Children and Men of all ages for it purgeth modestly without any molestation But for Children and young Patients half or a third part of it is sufficient Decoctum Senae cum Rhabarbaro or a Decoction of Sena with Rhubarb Take elect Sena two drams the best Rhubarb and acid Tartar of each a dram of Fumitory water warm four ounces Let them infuse all night and in the morning let them boil a little enough to dissolve the Tartar afterward the expression being made and in the strained Liquor while warm dissolve of the best Manna six drams Again strain it and then add Cinamon water a dram Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds ten grains Mix them and make a purging draught for one dose which is to be taken warm Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth Flegm and both kinds of Choler chiefly from the Stomach Liver and Spleen c. It mundifies the Blood opens all Obstructions and cures all Affects thence proceeding as Jaundice Dropsie Tumor of the Spleen putrid and continual Feavers pains of the Hypochonders c. Let no man wonder at the small dose of Sena in this Prescript for four drams of Sena infused in four ounces of Fumitory water do not purge more than two drams macerated in the like quantity because the water doth extract as much as it can and leaves the rest therefore two drams of Sena are sufficient to quicken other things in four ounces of Water Decoctum Rhabarbari or a Decoction of Rhubarb Take of the best Rhubarb a dram and a half red Roses dryed half a dram roots of Liquorish sliced and flowers of Marsh-mallows of each a scruple Let them be cut and bruised and infused all night in three ounces of Plantane water warm in the morning strain it in the strained Liquor dissolve of the best Manna half an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs ten grains Spirit of Vitriol four drops Mix them for one dose and give it warm in the morning for a draught Virtue and Use. It is very effectual in all Fluxes of the Belly it gives one or two motions and by those it expels the cause of the bloody Flux Annotation Many use Rhubarb torrefied which is an evil practice because it consumes the virtue of it and the terrene part only remains and so makes it more stiptick Decoctum Violatum purgans or a purging Decoction of Violets Take leaves of Sena two ounces Fenil seeds and acid Tartar of each half an ounce dryed Violet flowers and the best Rhubarb of each a dram and a half white Ginger and Cinamon of each a dram Galangal the less and Cloves of each half a dram Let them infuse all night in Fumitory water warm in the morning boil them a little and afterward strain it and take of the clear strained Liquor ten ounces Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb and Syrup of the juyce of Violets Syrup of the juyce of Sorrel and Oxysaccharum simple of each an ounce Mix them and make a Potion which divide into four equal parts for four doses Virtue and Use. It is good in Tertian and Quotidian Feavers c. and gently purgeth all humors that offend
it is likewise an excellent Remedy for the Stone And is given in the running Gout Scurvy Sciatica and such like diseases and is to be continued four mornings successively Decoctum Nucis Cupressi or a Decoction of Cyprus Nuts Take Cyprus Nuts Turkish Galls of each eight ounces filings of Iron prepared with Vinegar Roch Alum of each four ounces medicinal Stone and Pomegranate peel of each an ounce and a half Let them be bruised and mixed and boiled according to Art in a sufficient quantity of red Wine or Plantane water Virtue and Use. It is applied outwardly and doth extenuate and consume all superfluous Carnosities c. The way of using is to wet a Sponge in it warm and having squeezed it bind it upon the part Decoctum Nigrum or a black Decoction Take crude Alum a pound green Vitriol half a pound Turkish Galls four ounces Verdigriese and white Tartar of each two ounces Mix them and boil them in eight pound of Wine Vinegar to the consumption of one half then add of Spirit of Wine rectified a pound Again let them be mixed and filtred and then kept for use Virtue and Use. A linen Rag wet in it and applied to the part drys and heals old Venereal Ulcers in any part of the body and takes away other Defluxions and Excrescences of evil flesh and roborates and mundifies the part affected It also perfectly cures Wounds and Bruises in other Creatures SECT XXVI Of Gargarisms Gargarismus de Althaea or a Gargarism of Marsh-mallows TAke Roots of Marsh-mallows an ounce of common Mallows half an ounce leaves of Violets Strawberries Hyssop and Sage of each three drams leaves of Peaches and Cherries of each two drams shavings of Ivy wood Album Graecum prepared with Marigold water Honey of Saturn of each a dram and a half Vitriol of Mars and Venus of each a dram flowers of Marigolds Marsh-mallows wild Poppies and Bugle of each a dram Let them be grosly cut bruised then mixed and boiled in fountain-Fountain-water and Wine Vinegar of each a pound and a half let them boil to the consumption of one third and toward the end of its boiling add of Rob of Elder a sufficient quantity to make it grateful Virtue and Use. It is of good use in the Quinsie Imposthumes of the Throat Jaws Tongue and Uvula it dissolves and discusseth the Inflammations of the Tonsils and allays and amends the pain and difficulty in swallowing but the Patient ought to use this Gargarism every hour And it is to be observed That all Gargarisms are to be used warm Gargarismus de Glycyrrhiza or a Gargarism of Liquorish Take roots of Liquorish sliced an ounce Album Graecum two drams Roch Alum a dram Boil these a little in water of Plantane Roses common Mallows and Bugle of each equal parts and a sufficient quantity of all Take of this strained Liquor a pound white Wine three ounces Diamoron and Dianucum of each a dram and a half Mix them and make a Gargarism Virtue and Use. It is of excellent use in a desperate Quinsie and other distempers of the Mouth and Throat if the Patient useth it often and warm Gargarismus Lacteatus or a Gargarism of Milk Take new Milk from the Cow two pound Album Graecum half an ounce Honey of Roses two spoonfuls Verdigriese half a dram Boil them and when strained make a Gargarism Virtue and Use. It is effectual in the Quinsie repels the Tumors and pains of the Jaws and Mouth and detergeth and heals Ulcers in those parts and it is to be used often Gargarismus de Cortice Granatorum or a Gargarism of Pomegranate bark Take of Pomegranate rind half an ounce Endive Scabious Night shade and Burnet of each three drams seeds of Sorrel and Quinces Barberries of each two drams burnt Alum a dram and a half flowers of Marsh-mallows Balaustines and Bugle of each a dram Boil them in water of Roses and Plantane and red Stiptick Wine of each a pound to the consumption of the third part Take of this strained Liquor two pound Diamoron and Dianucum of each two ounces Syrup of Pomegranates clarified Honey and Vinegar of Roses of each an ounce Spirit of Nitre so much as will make it grateful Mix them and make a Gargarism to be applied warm Virtue and Use. This is also proper for the Quinsie and it doth in a wonderful manner as well allay the Inflammation as dissolve the Imposthume and is attended with a singular discussive faculty But the use of it must be often repeated Gargarismus de Auricula Judae or a Gargarism of Iews Ears Take Barley husked half an ounce Liquorish sliced and Iews Ears cut of each two drams flowers of Marsh-mallows a dram Let them boil a little in a sufficient quantity of Plantane water Take of this clear Decoction a pound Syrup of Violets two ounces Nitre prepared a dram Mix them for a Gargarism with which let the Mouth be often washed Virtue and Use. The Medicine is of great worth as by Experience it hath been proved against Inflammations driness roughness sores and fissures of the Tongue Jaws and neighbouring parts which often happens in continual malignant and burning Feavers from hot sharp and putrid Vapors that rise to those parts Gargarismus de Tormentilla or a Gargarism of Tormentil Take roots of Tormentil and water-Acorus of each an ounce Pomegranate bark and bark of the roots of Acatia of each half a dram Balaustines and Alum of each three drams Rosemary Cinquefoil Stone-crop Sage Plantane and Hyssop of each two drams flowers of Marigolds and red Roses of each a dram Boil them in Fountain-water and Wine Vinegar of each a pound and a half to the consumption of one third in the end add of Honey of Roses so much as will make it grateful Virtue and Use. It cures the Putrefaction and Scurvy of the Mouth it renews the Gums perished by any disease or rotted by an Imposthume It fastens the Teeth and makes the flesh grow up to them again and it also contracts the Uvula that is fallen In short it is of good use in all the vices of the Mouth Tongue Palate and Tonsils nay Ulcers and Inflammations also And if used warm often or every hour it restores them to their perfect health again Gargarismus de Pyrethro or a Gargarism of Pellitory Take roots of Pellitory of Spain two drams the best Olibanum and white Ginger of each a dram and a half seeds of Henbane bruised of Sage of each a dram long Pepper a scruple Boil them in Wine Vinegar and Fountain-water of each half a pound and make a Gargarism Virtue and Use. It is excellent and very effectual in pains of the Teeth for it hath an Anodyne faculty But the sick must use it often in the day till the pain ceaseth Gargarismus de Hyoscyamo or a Gargarism of Henbane Take roots of Henbane an ounce roots of the lesser Nettles Cinquefoil and Pellitory of Spain of each six drams shavings of Lignum
Sanctum Box and Tamarisk white Frankincense seeds of Stavesacre of each half an ounce Pomegranate rind long Pepper white Ginger and Cloves of each three drams Sage Mother of Thyme Calamint Peachwort Origanum of each two drams Mix them and make a gross Powder which keep for use And when the use of it is required Take of this gross Powder an ounce and a half Wine Vinegar and Fountain-water of each a pound Boil them and make a Gargarism Virtue and Use. The Liquor being strained warm is to be held in the mouth and being so used it stays the most painful and tormenting pains of the Teeth Gargarismus de Acatia or a Gargarism of Acatia Take of the best and fresh Acatia half an ounce of Cyprus Nuts Balaustines the outer rind of Pomegranate of each two drams the herbs Marjoram Hyssop and Sage of each a dram and a half roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce and Alum of each a dram Acorns and red Roses of each half a dram Let them boil in a sufficient quantity and equal parts of red Wine and water of Oaken leaves to the consumption of the third part then take of this strained Liquor a pound and a half Rob of Nuts two ounces Spirit of Vitriol a scruple Mix them and keep it in an earthen Vessel Virtue and Use. It fastens loose Teeth and preserves them so but the Gums and Teeth must be often washed with it Gargarismus de Papavere or a Gargarism of Poppy Take four heads with the seeds of white Poppy the spongy heads that grow upon sweet Bryar two roots of Plantane and Bistort of each half an ounce seeds of Nigella flowers of wild Poppy of red Roses and Balaustines of each a dram Boil them in Lettice and rose-Rose-water of each a sufficient quantity Take of this strained Liquor twelve ounces Syrup of Poppy simple Diacodium violated of each an ounce and a half Pomegranate Wine and Tincture of wild Poppy of each an ounce phlegm of Alum rectified half an ounce Mix them for a Gargarism which is to be held in the mouth Virtue and Use. With this Gargarism let the Mouth be often washed and let it be also held in the Mouth without gargling and it prevents Catarrhs caused by sharp thin and hot Rheums SECT XXVII Of Lixiviums Lixivium Benedictum TAke Ashes of common wood of Iuniper of red Mugwort of Broom of Beans in the shells of Wormwood of each an ounce Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of strong white Wine make a Lixivium according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is of excellent use for those grieved with the Dropsie called Hydrops for it doth powerfully and effectually expel the water by Urine and by this means we have cured several of the Dropsie giving no other remedy than this for certain days The dose is in the morning fasting from two ounces to three Lixivium Sapientiae Take roots of Avens Pellitory of Spain and Asarabacca Misleto of the Oak of each an ounce Olibanum and yellow Amber of each half an ounce Rosemary Marjoram Balm Origanum leaves of Sage and Bays of each two drams flowers of Lavender red Roses Peony Betony and Primrose of each a dram Boil all these in a sweet Lixivium and keep it for use Virtue and Use. The Body being purged once a week let the Head be diligently washed with this Lixivium and it restores the loss of Memory c. caused by cold and moisture For it wonderfully comforts the Brain and Memory and strengthens the animal Spirits and also preserves from the Apoplexy and Epilepsie Lixivium Cephalicum or a Lixivium for the Head Take leaves of Sena six drams roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce and seeds of Carduus of each three drams the herb Eyebright with the flowers Vervain Marjoram Rosemary Sage and Origanum of each three drams the best Agarick a dram and a half flowers of yellow Stoechas Chamomil red Roses and white Violets of each a dram They being all cut and mixt let them be boiled in a good Lixivium then let it be clarified according to Art and it is prepared Virtue and Use. It is very profitable in pains of the Head It roborates the Brain Nerves Eyes and all the other Senses Let the Head be washed with it twice in the week But they who are cold and moist naturally ought to use Lotions for the Head but seldom but those who are hot and dry may use them more frequently Lixivium Antiasthmaticum or a Lixivium for the Asthma Take roots of Liquorish sliced Florentine Flower-de-luce and Elicampane of each half an ounce yellow Amber white Frankincense and Myrtle-berries of each three drams Sage Betony Hyssop and Origanum of each two drams seeds of Nigella and Caraways of each a dram and a half flowers of Chamomil red Roses wild Poppies and Rosemary of each a dram Let them all be put into a little Bag and boiled in a sweet Lixivium afterward clarified and kept for use Virtue and Use. Let the Head be washed with this Lixivium once or twice in the week For in the Asthma it drys and stops Defluxious falling from the Head upon the other parts but after the Head is washed let it be quickly dryed and covered Lixivium Diureticum or a Diuretick Lixivium Take wild Flax with its flowers Broom with its flowers dwarff Elder both root and branoh leaves and flowers of Elder of each a like and a sufficient quantity of all Burn them to ashes according to Art of which with a sufficient quantity of Rhenish Wine make a clear Lixivium Virtue Use and Dose It powerfully expels water by Urine from those who have the Dropsie and is a Secret in the Dysury c. The dose is from two ounces to three by it self or in any other specifick Vehicles Lixivium Tartari or a Lixivium of Tartar Take white Tartar calcined till it is black what quantity you will And with distilled Rain-water make a Lixivium in which afterward boil Orange peel and the tinctured Lixivium being strained and clear keep for use Virtue Use and Dose This being given for certain days doth dissolve and expel the Stone and insensibly brings away all the mucilaginous matter as well from the Reins as Bladder The dose is one spoonful in some specifick Vehicle Lixivium Tingens or a Dying Lixivium Take of Lixivium of Vine branches or cuttings two pound roots of Bryony Celandine and Turmerick of each half an ounce of Saffron two drams flowers of Mullein yellow Stoechas Broom and St. Iohns-wont of each a dram Let them boil together and make a clear Lixivium according to Art Virtue and Use. It cleanseth the Hair and makes it clear and yellow but it must be often washed with it till it be perfectly dyed SECT XXVIII Of Baths Balneum Artificiale ubi Thermae naturales desunt or an Artificial Bath where the natural are wanting TAke of yellow Sulphur three pound Sea-Salt and roots of Pellitory of Spain of each a pound white Tartar and Nitre of
did first prepare it in the Year 1610. and found it strong and powerful in operation Virtue Use and Dose IT is a wonderful Diaphoretick and a most powerful Secret in all Distempers of the Womb and in many other Diseases belonging to Women 'T is very good in the Plague Feavers Seurvy and all Epidemical Diseases 't is a present Remedy against Poyson of any kind that is drunk also in all Falls where Bezoardick and Sudorifick Medicines are useful The Dose from three grains to five and six in Treacle-water or in our water of Harts-horn or in any other convenient Liquor Crocus Metallorum absinthiated TAkeof the best bright crude Antimony Salt of Wormwood of each four ounces Mix them and in a Crucible let them be calcined according to art and you will find the Antimony calcined of a reddish colour and fixt being utterly bereaved of all its Arsenical Sulphur this wash so often till no more acrimony of the Salt of Wormwood be perceived by the taste this Powder so edulcorated and dryed keep for your use as the true and most genuine Crocus Metallorum Virtue Use and Dose THis is an excellent profitable Remedy accommodated to most Diseases pain in the Head Epilepsie of what kind soever in all distempers of the Stomach Feavers Plague Hypocondriack Melancholy Asthma's Pleurisies as well spurious as exquisite Gouts c. in all which it hath most excellent effects In the Dropsie it purgeth without any offence or nauseating and that sometimes by Vomit sometimes by Stool In other Diseases it works by Vomit and Stool together It opens the obstructions of the Liver cures the yellow Jaundice rectifies the Spleen and is an excellent Medicine for the Scurvy The Dose from three grains to four five or six in Conserves or other appropriate Vehicles or what is better let so many grains be infused in two ounces of Rhenish wine and two drams of cinamon-Cinamon-water all night in the morning strain it throw away the powder and drink the clear Wine warm If you infuse it in Spanish Wine it seldom vomits but works only by stool therefore for Vomiting white or Rhenish is best Tartarus Emeticus or a Vomiting Tartar TAke acid Tartar finely powdered Crocus Metallorum absinthiated of each two ounces mix them well and put them into a Viol and pour upon it two pound of our Aqua Benedicta Serpilli place it in warm Sand for three or four days and keep it close covered or stopt shake it often that the acidity of the Tartar may be perfectly dissolved afterwards while it is warm filter it through Hippocrates sleeve according to art that the Crocus Metallorum being well separated from the solution may remain in it but the solution it self may pass through it clear and void of Feces This done set it in a cool place to crystallize then take these Crystals impregnate with Tartar which being dried and powdered keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Vomit in all chronical and stubborn Diseases especially in those men who are of weak Constitutions seeing it is far more gentle and safe than Crocus Metallorum and other Mineral Vomits It is good against all Melancholy Madness a distempered Mind Deliriums continual pains of the Head which arise from other parts of the body by consent the Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy Fascination difficulty of Hearing ringing of the Ears Also against nauseating and windiness of the Stomach and Sides yellow Jaundice Dropsie Tertian Quartan and other chronical continual putrid and acute Feavers Love-potions poisonous Draughts cholerick Pleurisies and all Diseases in general that Choler hath a share in It is also good against that poisonous Dysentery that happeneth commonly in the Plague Also against the Hangarian disease it is an excellent divine and safe remedy If any have unadvisedly or unawares taken poisonous Meats or Drinks or swallowed Flies Spiders and such like also little Fish-bones and other such like things sticking in the Throat or from other things which are brought into the Stomach by Inchantments as hairs nails pins yarn or other prodigious things of that kind that are dangerous to life are all removed by the wonderful effects of this Vomit The Dose is from four to five and six grains especially in robust bodies in any appropriate Vehicle taken two or three hours before or after meals or at any time in necessity But this is to be observed That neither this nor any other Vomits may be given to every one without danger but they are to be given to those only who are apt to vomit that have a strong stomach a wide throat and are accustomed to vomit and in whom the peccant humors are naturally carried upwards But cholerick men and those who abhor vomiting or have weak brains or any weakness or imperfection in the Head which doth properly reside there and is not caused by consent from other parts of the body All those who have Phthisicks Asthma's Coughs Colicks spit blood are subject to be feaverish those who have internal Imposthumes or inveterate and confirmed obstructions of the Mesentery Liver and Spleen or have schirrous Tumors in those parts or have any of their principal members hurt Also all those who have their spirits exhausted by burning and pestilential Feavers all those who are troubled with a nauseating at the stomach that they are not able to contain either meat or drink which is not from any inherent matter in the Ventricle that Nature endeavours to cast off by Vomit but it riseth accidentally from the effects of the parts adjacent all these are to abstain from Vomits Lastly as well Women with Child as other Women and Virgins who are troubled with the obstruction of their Terms not rising from the impurity of the Bowels but from the obstruction of the Veins only which pass into the Womb these likewise are to forbear Vomits It is to be noted also when any one begins to vomit it is usual to give them Broth made of Pulse or flesh without fat or a draught of warm drink and if it be needful to reiterate the same that so the Vomit may work the easier and the motion of the Medicine may be hastened Tartarus Nitratus or Tartar Nitrified Take Salt of Tartar Nitre prepared of each equal parts Dissolve them in Rose-water warm then filter it and boil it gently over the fire till there appear a crust on the top then put it in a cool place and it will crystallize which Crystals keep for use Virtue Use and Dose 'T is a most excellent Medicine for it hath a singular faculty in cutting and cleansing thick and tartarous humors and in opening obstructions Also in putrid Feavers and hath been experimented both in the Hungarian and malignant and it resisteth putrefaction In the inflammation of the Throat called the Prunella it is a present remedy it brings forth the stone in the Kidneys cleanseth the Bladder of all impurities and provokes Urine The Dose is from one scruple to half a dram
exceed all other Preparations yea the very Rosin of Scammony it self For it dissipates its tough viscous and poisonous malignity and doth correct it and doth certainly purge which doth not always follow from the taking of the Rosin only Magistery of Scammony THE true and Spagyrick Preparation and Correction of Scammony which is used as a Secret by Physicians is this Take a sufficient quantity of select Scammony which dissolve in Philosophical Spirit of Wine after due filtration draw it off again in an Alembick at least to half then pour upon it Rose-water as much as shall seem necessary for precipitation and the pure Rosin of Scammony will be precipitated void of all its poisonous quality and freed from its nauseous smell and taste which when the humidity is separated from it reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth the body of both sorts of Choler and divers other diseases without any offence to the body neither can there be a more mild sweet and noble Cathartick found in the whole bosom of Nature The Dose is from half a scruple to a whole scruple in Conserves or other appropriate Vehicles Magistery of Gum Guttemaw or Gambogia BY the forementioned Method may a Magistery or Flowers be prepared of this Peruvian Gum which is an incomparable Cathartick to purge serous and thick humors let it be prepared carefully and reserved for use The Dose is from ten twelve or fifteen grains to a scruple especially in robust bodies Gum of Peru Rosated Take Gum of Peru or Guttemaw well pulverized an ounce chicory-Chicory-water half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol rectified a dram These being well mixed put it into a Glass or a well glazed Vessel and in a warm place but if it be too hot it will grow black and be spoiled let it evaporate and grow dry till it looks of an earthy colour Afterward pulverize this and add to it powder of red Roses an ounce of red Sanders two drams and pour upon it a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine and let it circulate for twenty four hours and when it is grown cold again filter it through a Paper and by degrees let it evaporate till it is dry and so you have a red Extract of valid and excellent efficacy and in aspect fair and lovely though the Gum by it self or the Magistery of it is of an unpleasant yellow colour and doth easily nauseate Hitherto it is revealed and communicated to none but to the ingenious and worthy for which end it was found Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth serous humors without danger and difficulty from all parts of the body for which reason it is used with excellent success in all ill habits of body Dropsie Gouts of all sorts and such kind of diseases also in the Scurvy and Greensickness it is found excellent by Experience The Dose is from fifteen grains to twenty one especially in robust strong bodies Amber Muskified Take of the best pure Amber an ounce of the most odorate Musk a dram Elaeosaccharum of Citrons half a dram Mix them and bring the mass into a most subtile Powder which moisten with Spirit of Roses hot and let it dry again and this labour repeat certain times and afterward let it be again finely powdered and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It heats and drys It comforts the Brain it roborates and succours it in all its affects it helps the continual pain of the Head it cleanseth the Eyes of white specks and consumes the moist defluxions thereof It wonderfully gives help to old people and to those who are naturally cold it hastens drunkenness being infused in Wine The Dose is from four to six and eight grains at the most in Sack or other proper Vehicle Regal Diacinamon Take of the best Cinamon four ounces three Nutmegs of our Syrup of Cinamon as much as will suffice Make it into an Electuary to which add Confectio Alkermes an ounce Oyl of Cinamon half an ounce Amber Muskified Troches of Pearls of each a dram Leaves of Hungarian Gold thirty one Mix them and so make a Royal magnificent Medicine which reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of a hot quality It comforts the Brain and Heart above measure it discusseth the vitious humors of the Stomach and helps Concoction it helps the Syncope and Palpitation of the Heart it resists the inflation and swelling of the Stomach and dissipates wind It allays the Colick-pains proceeding from a cold Cause and it sweetens the Breath It resists all putrefaction It is very agreeable to old people who are cold and debilitated and in whom the native Balsam and natural heat are lessened and impaired It doth wonderfully recover strength increase Seed and promotes the strength of Procreation it excites to Venery and much sweetens the pleasure thereof and safely increaseth the motion thereunto The Dose in the morning fasting and in the evening at going to bed is the quantity of a Hazel-nut more or less according to the Complexion and Sex of the Patient Pearls Trochiscated TAke white Salt of the Oriental Pearls and free from all its acetosity what quantity you please dissolve it in water made of May-dew gathered from the standing Wheat or in some Cordial liquor to this solution add by drops of Spirit of Vitriol rectified as much as shall seem requisite for precipitation and a white Powder will precipitate to the bottom which the flegm being removed edulcorate and dry it according to art and you have the true Magistery of Pearls Then take of this Magistery an ounce the true Oyl of Roses and Oyl of Cinamon of each a scruple Mix them and with Tragacanth dissolved in equal parts of Rose-water and Cinamon-water let little Troches be made according to art which lay by for use and reserve it like a Treasure Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Comfortative in all affects of the Heart as Pain Sorrow Trembling Pulsation Palpitation defects of the Mind c. Also in pains of the Head Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy Palsie Contractures resolution of the Nerves Convulsion Phrensie Melancholy Madness Gout and Gouty pains in the Joynts Consumption Blasting the numbness and decay by Age Stone Dropsie Scurvy French Pox and Feavers c. It purifies the Blood it comforts all the Senses Brain Memory and Heart and preserves the whole body sound It fortifies Nature within also the Child in the Womb it roborates the Spirits repairs the strength and increaseth the humane Seed it amends Milk in Women takes away the spots of the Eyes and consumes Catarrhs c. And these Troches of Pearls thus made by our ordination have been highly approved by many Great and Noble men and by them esteemed as a great Secret and equal in effect to the Aurum Potabile The Dose according to the nature of the infirm and the Judgment of the Physician is from six grains to eight in appropriate Vehicles Elaeosaccharum of Citrons Take of Rose-water sixteen pound the exterior bark
Wine rectified extract a Tincture from it and when it will give no more Tincture add all the tinged Spirit together and put to it the same quantity of our Pectoral water and set them for some days in a warm place that they may digest afterward draw off the Spirit of Wine in B. M. with a gentle fire and so the Tincture of Sulphur will remain in the Pectoral water This take off by inclination to the quantity of half evaporate the rest till it be like Oyl what remains filter through a Paper and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Tincture doth not only free the Breast from all thick humors that obstruct the Organs of Respiration and cause the Cough and shortness of breathing but it cleanseth the Thorax Lungs and neighbouring parts of all putrid and imposthumous Tumors and hastens their Cure and gives freedom and ease in breathing It succours drys and roborates a cold Brain in such as are falling into a Consumption It also allays the pains of the Colick and resists Putrefaction It is likewise given with great success in the Plague proceeding from a moist Cause but especially to the Common people who by feeding upon gross and bad food fill their blood with moist crude humors and therefore more proper for this kind of infection than to the others The ordinary Dose is from five six or seven to ten drops in a proper Vehicle Tincture of Tartar TAke Salt of Tartar well depurated by frequent solution and coagulation what quantity you will pour upon it the best Spirit of Wine Alkoholisated to the eminence of three or four fingers set it in digestion for certain days and every day as often as it is convenient shake it but take heed lest the Spirit of Wine should break the Glass let it stand so till it is tinged of a most red colour This Spirit being tinctured pour it off and pour on more that is fresh and this work repeat so often till it can receive no more Tincture from the Tartar Lastly the Spirit of Wine thus tinctured mix together filter it through a Paper and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It cleanseth the Reins and Bladder it breaks the Stone and brings it away like Bran it works by Urine and preserves Health It is excellent to remove Obstructions and Putrefactions and for penetrating and roborating it doth almost exceed all other Medicines and Arcana's It preserves from the Palsie and Gout if it be taken constantly morning and evening either by it self or in specifick Liquors Moreover in rectifying the blood it is of admirable use and cannot be sufficiently praised for its effects as well in that as in the Head-ach Dropsie Erysipelas Jaundice both black and yellow Colick Leprosie Pox Scabs Itch Tetters Pimples the Terms retained Pleurisie prickings in the Sides Feavers Contractures Gout and in other tartarous and venenate Diseases The Dose is half a spoonful at the most by it self or in some appropriate Liquor but the Dose is to be increased or diminished according to the Age Sex Complexion c. of the Patient Tincture of Lacca Take Gumm Lacca finely powdered half an ounce burnt Alum two drams Mix them and pour upon them water made of Lapis Medicamentosus with water of Sage and Roses three pound Let them stand in digestion till it be perfectly tinctured which being done filter it and keep the red Tincture for use Virtue and Use. It is experimented in the Scurvy and cures the laxity and rottenness of the Gums and takes away the stink thence arising it repairs the decayed flesh about the Teeth the way of using this Tincture is to wash and rub those parts often Tinctura Proprietatis Take Spirit of Wine prepared with Aniseeds sixteen ounces Elixir Proprietatis an ounce Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Clove-gilli-flowers a dram Let them stand in digestion till the Spirit be perfectly tinged then filter the tinctured Spirit sweeten it with white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Medicine in Melancholy Hemicrania Vertigo Palsie Catarrh Asthma Cough weakness of the Stomach passion of the Heart Quartan Ague and Stone Moreover it comforts the Heart keeps back baldness and makes the Patient merry and joyful c The Dose is from one dram to two in some convenient Vehicle Tincture of Iuniper-berries Take of fresh Iuniper-berries grosly powdered a pound Aniseed bruised four ounces Angelica-roots an ounce Nephritick wood half an ounce of the best Mace two drams Mix them and infuse them in four quarts of Spanish Wine let them infuse fourteen days and every day let them be stirred or shaken afterward distil them in B. M. and with this Liquor distilled extract the Tincture of Juniper-berries according to art which afterward filter and a little edulcorate and preserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It heats opens attenuates and discusseth and is good for the Stomach It is effectually taken in all distempers of the Breast Cough Wind Gripings and the biting of Serpents and is very profitable in the Plague it expels the Stone provokes Urine and helps the Convulsion and Suffocation of the Matrix The Dose is from one spoonful to three in the morning fasting Tincture of wild Poppy Take the Conserve of the flowers of wild Poppy an ounce flowers of wild Poppies moistned with Spirit of Vitriol a dram Mix them and with water distilled from the juyce of the before-mentioned flowers thirty ounces draw a most red Tincture which filter and then add of the Syrup of the juyce of wild Poppies a little vitriolated eight ounces Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is very profitable in hot thin and sharp Defluxions that trouble the rough Artery and Jaws and it procures sleep it helps the Cough Catarrh and Phthisick it is an admirable remedy in Pleurisies and prickings in the Sides it mitigates Pain removes Inflammations and causeth Sweat gently moreover it is very profitable in Fluxes of the Belly and Dysenteries stirred up by the efflux of Choler and sharp Humors The Dose is from one ounce to two by it self or in any convenient Liquor Tincture of Cassia Lignea Take Cinamon-water made with Spanish Wine one pound good Cassia Lignea six drams Let them stand so long in digestion till it be perfectly tinctured which filter and keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It is fit for all cold Distempers it strengthens the Stomach Liver Spleen Lungs Heart Brain and Nerves and also sharpens the sight It is good against Poisons and poisonous bitings or stingings c. It sweetens the Breath provokes Urine and the Terms it helps Vomiting and loathing at the Stomach it gives ease in all diseases where we are willing to heat open attenuate digest and strengthen yet they who are of a hot Constitution or are troubled with inflammations must for bear the use of this Medicine Tincture of St. Iohns-wort Take Iuyce of the Herbs and flowers of
St. Iohns-wort strained and depurated two pound of Pimpernel with purple flowers strained and depurated one pound blood of an Ass taken from the veins behind his ears half a pound flowers of Bugloss red Roses and Rosemary of each six drams Confectio Alkermes and Cassia lignea of each half an ounce of Saffron one dram Let them infuse all night and then distil them in B. M. cohobate the Liquor and repeat the work the second time Take of this water two pound Essence of the flowers of St. Iohns-wort made with Spirit of Wine half an ounce Let them stand all night in a warm place in the morning filter it so often till you have a most red Tincture which edulcorate with white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Water is a great Secret in Melancholy Madness Witchcraft Inchantments yea in the Imagination impaired or abolished and as much as lyeth in art it amendeth the weakness dulness and stupidity of the Mind and the slowness of the Understanding it happily takes away all the affects of the Imagination It also provokes Urine and the Terms it helps Tertians and Quartans and is useful for all diseases of the Reins and Bladder The Dose is from three spoonfuls to four twice in the day in the morning before Sun-rising and at night going to bed Tinctura Vitae Take simple Spirit of Wine six pound of the best Rose-water four pound Orange peels Citron peels red Roses dryed water-Mints Balm white Sanders Cinamon of each eight ounces wood of Aloes Mace of each two drams seeds of Angelica Coriander Anise and Fenil of each a dram and a half Spicknard Galangal the less Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Cloves of each half a dram Ambergriese and Alexandrian Musk of each half a scruple Let them stand in digestion for eight days and then distil them in an Alembick Then take of this Spirit drawn off seven pound Cassia lignea two ounces Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Oriental Saffron a scruple Let them digest until the liquor is perfectly tinctured afterward let the tinged Spirit be edulcorated with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy dissolved in its proper liquor and reserved for use Virtue Use and Dose By the pleasantness of its smell it refresheth the Heart and Spirits it exhilarates and prolongs life and comforts the Stomach and Brain it increaseth the heat of the Ventricle confirms its strength dissipates wind and encourageth digestion it helps the Gripings of the Guts and keeps them sound yea it is very profitable in the cold distempers of the Thorax Liver and Spleen The Dose is from one spoonful to two Tincture of Guajacum Take raspings of Guajacum four ounces of the best Mastich an ounce resinous wood of Aloes a dram Clove-gilliflowers half a dram These being mixed pour upon them a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine to extract the Tincture which afterward filter and reserve for use Virtue and Use. Let the Mouth and aking Teeth be washed often with this Tincture for the pain often proceeds from the defluxions of the Head it drys Catarrhs takes away the stink and rottenness of the mouth and renders the breath sweet at the same time let there be warm Plasters applied to the Temples made of Mastich or Gum Elemi and after spitting let the mouth be diligently washed with a Decoction of Aniseeds Tincture of Sassafras Take fountain-Fountain-water well boiled and while it is yet hot eight pound Sassafras cut into small thin chips two ounces Let them stand in infusion all night in a new well glazed Pot close covered until it cools of it self in the morning filter it and the straining being clear let it be a little aromatized with a Tincture of Cassia lignea and keep it for your daily use Virtue Use and Dose It is a Nectar in Catarrhs and Arthritick pains because of its vast driness and moderate heat it is an excellent remedy in Defluxions of every kind which it doth radically consume and also expels the Stone It discusseth Wind prepares the Womb for Conception provokes the Terms helps Digestion corrects Vomiting and moves the Belly downwards but to those who are weak and extenuated it is useless The Dose is not strictly observed but the Patient may drink his fill of it and continue it for some weeks A Tincture for the Toothach Take Guajacum two ounces Sassafras and Sarsa parilla of each an ounce roots of wild Pellitory crude Alum Nitre prepared of each half an ounce seeds of Staveacre and Henbane of each two drams Opium Spagyrically prepared Cloves of each a dram and a half wild Time Origanum and Saffron of each a dram Mix them and make a Powder which put into a Glass and pour upon it simple Spirit of Wine and Wine-Vinegar a pound and a half and of these make a Tincture Virtue Use and Dose A little of this Tincture held warm in the Mouth on the place where the Teeth ake after a while spit it out and take in fresh if need be doth powerfully allay and take away all pains of the Teeth by hindring the sharp flux of Humors nay it wonderfully takes away those humors that are already fallen on the part and although at first it seems to increase the pain yet it is suddenly mitigated and doth vanish Tinctura Uterina Take the berries of Elder and dwarff Elder of each four ounces roots of Bryony an ounce of the herb Marjoram a dram Mix them and pour thereon a sufficient quantity of Aqua Hyster Lit. A. add also a few drops of Spirit of Vitriol and make a digestion in B. M. for certain days till you shall receive a most red Tincture which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It hath a manifest Hysterical and Cephalick force against all suffocations and torsions of the Womb and other dangerous affects yea it takes away all dolors and compressions of the Diaphragma The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole spoonful by it self or in some Hysterical liquor A Diaphoretick Tincture Take Spirit of Wine left in making our Solar Bezoar and flowers of Elder rectified of each four ounces Tartar often rectified three ounces of the best Vitriol an ounce Confectio Alkermes six drams Digest them for certain days shaking them often till the liquor be perfectly tinged Virtue Use and Dose It is a singular Medicine in the Plague putrid Humors diseases of the Head Palsie rectifying the Blood trembling of the Heart ill habit of Body Dropsie Jaundice Asthma Pleurisie Quinsie prickings of the Sides Pox Leprosie Worms Contractures Courses retained Feavers c. for it comforts the principal Members consumes superfluities corrects and expels noxious humors and by its Diaphoretick force penetrates the Nerves Muscles and Marrow and reduces all into its natural and pristine state The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one in water of Carduus Elder or Hearts-ease Tinctura Stiptica or the Stiptick Tincture Take the yolks of twenty one Eggs
vitriolated of each two drams Oyl of Cloves of Cinamon Nutmegs of each a scruple Mix them all carefully and make an Extract according to art Virtue Use and Dose This is a specifick Vomit and works variously by Vomit and Stool and is of great force and virtue in all Feavers pains of the Head and Joynts Gout Jaundice Dropsie and in obstructions of the Liver and Spleen yea in the Appetite depraved and the Stomach debilitated for it leaves nothing of a depraved nature in it but radically casts forth all the impure and peccant humors nor doth it do any injury The Dose is to be regulated according to the Age Sex and Complexion c. from a scruple to half a dram in some convenient liquor or in the form of a Pill c. having eaten something convenient before for then it works with the most ease and the least trouble Extractum Specificum Colicum or a Specifick Extract for the Colick Take of the yellow rind of Oranges six ounces specieâ— of Diacymini Iuniper-berries of each three ounces roots of Elicampane Pimpernel Cloves Zedoary of each an ounce and a half seeds of Chervil Bay-berries dryed Mother of Time Marjoram juyce of Liquorish of each an ounce Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron of each six drams Mix them and with Spirit of Wine draw a Tincture which afterward in Balneo abstract to the thickness of Honey and add of Nitre vitriolated thra drams Harts-horn Hermetically calcined Swines and Hares Cockal-bones calcined of each two drams white Amber prepared Magistery of Corals the Carp-stone of each a dram and a half Diaphoretick Mineral Iovial Bezoar the Bezoar stone Lac Sulphuris of each a dram Spirit of Salt rectified half a dram Mix them all together and make of it a Mass like an Extract to which add of our Carminative Oyl two drams the Oyls of Angelica Cloves white Amber Mastich Mace Cinamon Citrons of each a scruple All being well incorporated make an Extract and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a Specifick in the Colick and is properly applied to the Colick and Iliack Passion rising from a cold moist and flatuous Cause and the Excrements of the Guts being evacuated it is a Secret in allaying the vehement and mosâ— grievous pains of the Intestines for it dissolves and attenuates the thick and viscous humors and dissipates wind It helps the distension and windiness of the Hypochonders and Stomach and wonderfully relieves the coldness of the Stomach and the weakness of the Bowels It is also profitable for old Folks and those who have the Quartan Age c. It repairs Concoction and effectually expels the Tartar that is dissolved and loosned in the Guts The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram in our Water against the Colick or in any other appropriate Extractum Specificum Uterinum or a Specifick Extract for the Womb. Take Elder-berries dryed dwarff Elder-berries of each four ounces roots of Piony duly gathered red Mugwort white Dictamnus Briony of each two ounces Misleto of the Oak Climmin seeds Pennyroyal Balm new dryed Cassia lignea of each an ounce Oriental Saffron true Castor of each half an ounce Mix them and draw a Tincture with Spirit of Wine which being done separate the Spirit and the Extract will remain in the bottom to which add the blood of a Hog dryed in an Oven and prepared with the Hysterical water half an ounce Iovial Bezoar two drams Magistery of English Tin of Mother of Pearls and Coral of each a dram and a half Oyl of Cloves of Angelica white Amber Oranges of each a dram Let them be all well mixed and made into the form of an Extract which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose We have not a greater Secret for the Womb than this is for in the suffocations of the Matrix where all things are irritated and as it were desperate it is a most salubrious Medicine for it takes away the cause of these most cruel effects and all or at least-wise the most deplorable fits and strangulations of the Womb caused by a retention of the Seed and it resisteth many other things of the same nature it also perfectly quiets the motion of the Matrix The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram three or four mornings together in our Hysterical water or any other appropriate as those of Mugwort Balm Motherwort Pennyroyal c. Laudanum Opiatum Take of Thebane Opium Spagyrically prepared two ounces juyce of wild Poppy-flowers made thick an ounce roots of Hounds-tongue transmarine Mummy Styrax calamitis juyce of Liquorish Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce With Spirit of Wine draw the Tincture of each of them apart except the Opium which is to be drawn in distilled Vinegar or Juyce of Citrons then abstract the Spirit of all the Extractions in gentle heat of Balneo to the thickness of Honey and add to it the Extract of Bezoar stone Anodyne Sulphur of Vitriol of each two drams Salt of Oriental Pearls red Coral of each a dram Elks hoofs Hermetically calcined bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each half a dram Ambergriese a scruple Musk half a scruple These being all well incorporate and mixt add of our Aurum potabile a dram and a half Oyls of Chamomil Dill Wormwood Oyl of Oranges Cloves Nutmegs of Citrons rectified of Aniseeds and Caraway seeds of each half a scruple Let all be well mixed and brought into a Mass or Extract Virtue Use and Dose It is an admirable Medicine in stopping all fluxes of Humors and Catarrhs and all excretions of Blood and Terms in unreasonable watchings and want of rest in Feavers of all kinds and in sudden weakness In Phrensie Madness Melancholy Vomiting Epilepsie Heart-passions Hiccupping Colick weakness of the Stomach Pleurisie pains of the Joynts Gouts of all kinds Sciatica Stone Nephritick pains c. For in allaying all vehement and sharp pains it is really a Divine help and as it were our last refuge there being not a Medicine to be found in the Spagyrick Republick more excellent speedy safe and secret than this is witness the very Mother and Nurse of Physick Experience therefore use this Divine Medicine only to the Glory of the most high God and the Health of your sick Neighbour and with me give thanks for the same The Dose is from two or three to four five or six grains which is given at bed time the body being empty for when the Patient takes it he should omit his Supper that evening lest his food should obstruct the Medicine And because the use of Laudanum Opiatum is grown so famous and frequent I will here subjoyn the various use thereof In Affects of the Head A Draught Take Laudanum Opiatum three four five or six grains marjoram-Marjoram-water half an ounce Syrup of Betony two drams Confection of Smaragdus a scruple oyl of Oriental Pearls three drops oyl of Fenil one drop spirit of Vitriol as much as doth suffice to make it
grateful Mix them and make a Draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum what quantity you please Syrup of the juyce of black Cherries water of Vervain Nutmegs of each two drams Confection of Hyacinth a scruple salt of red Corals three grains oyl of white Amber a drop Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiatum what quantity is convenient Magistery of Pearls Smaragd or Emerauld prepared of each three grains Mix them and with Oyl of Fenil make little Pills which gild for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a convenient quantity Magistery of red Corals Hyacinth prepared of each three grains Mix them and with Oyl of white Amber or Marjoram make little Pills which gild for one Dose A Bole or Bolus Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity conserve of Marjoram a dram confection of Smaragdus a scruple species of Diambrae half a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cinamom a sufficient quantity to make it into a Bole for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity conserve of Rosemary flowers a dram confect of Hyacinth a scruple species of Diamoscu dulce half a scruple oyl of Mace one drop Manus Christi Perlats a sufficient quantity to make it into a Bole for a Dose In Affects of the Heart A Draught Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Syrup of Lemmons two drams water of Borage Cinnamon Roses and Water-Lily of each a dram Confectio Alkermes Tincture of Corals of each half a scruple Salt of Oriental Pearls three grains Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Syrup of the juyce of Citrons and of Black-berries of each two drams water of Balm and Bugloss of each a dram and a half of our Confectio pretiosa a scruple Tincture of Coral half a scruple Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity our Magistery of Pearls and the bone of a Stags heart of each three grains Mix them and with Oyl of Mace make little Pills and gild them for one Dose Others Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity of the five precious Stones prepared Oriental Bezoar of each a grain With Oyl of Cinamon make Pills and gild them for one Dose A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity confection of Borage vitriolated a dram confection of Alkermes a scruple species of Diamargariton frigidum half a scruple of Manus Christi Perlat enough to make it into a Bole for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity conserve of Clovegilliflowers vitriolated one dram our confection of Citrons a scruple species Diarrhodon Abbatis half a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon enough to make it into a Bole for one Dose In the Epilepsie and Vertigo c. A Draught Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Syrup of Piony flowers waters of the Lily of the Valley of our Epileptick of each two drams of our Cephalick Confect a scruple oyls of Cubebs and Elks hoofs of each a drop Spirit of Vitriol a sufficient quantity to make it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Syrup of Betony water of Lavender and Teil-tree of each two drams confection of Smaragdus a scruple essence of Camphire three grains oyl of white Amber and Harts-horn of each a drop of our Elixir of Piony so much as will make it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity of the Animal Unicorn Magistery of Corals of each three grains With Oyl of Mans Scull make Pills and gild them for one Dose Others Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Magistery of mans Scull Sulphur of the Moon of each three grains With Oyl of Elks hoofs make Pills which gild for one Dose A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity confection of Piony flowers vitriolated a dram confection of Smaragdus a scruple of our species Dialunae half a scruple oyl of Rosemary a drop Mix them and with Troches of Diambra q. s. make a Bole for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity conserve of Rosemary flowers a dram of our Cephalick confect a scruple of our species Diacranei half a scruple oyl of Lavender a drop Mix them and with Troches of Diamoscu dulce make a Bole for one Dose In Vomiting Hiccup and a weak Stomach c. Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity syrup of Mint our Stomach-water of each three drams Extract of Calamus Aromaticus our Sal stomachicum of each four grains oyl of Nutmegs and Mace of each a drop our Elixir of Vitriol q. s. to maâ—e it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate a sufficient quantity syrup of Quinces water of Calamus aromaticus of each three drams Extract of Galangal the less Nitre vitriolated of each four grains oyl of Cloves of Water-mints of each a drop of our Elixir of Sulphur q. s. to make it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate a sufficient quantity Diagalangal ten grains With Oyl of Sage make small Pills for one Dose which gild Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. species of Aromaticus Caryophyllat ten grains With Oyl of Wormwood make Pills for one Dose which gild A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. preserved Ginger a dram preserved Acoras half a dram oyl of Mastich and Zedoary of each a drop Mix them and with Troches of Diagalangal make a Bole for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. conserve of Water-mint a dram Diacydon aromat half a dram oyl of Cinamon and Calamus aromaticus of each a drop Mix them and with Troches of Aromaticus Caryophyllatus make a Bole for one Dose In Melancholy Madness and Phrensie c. A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Basilicon Iulip Bugloss water of each three drams spirit of sealed Earth essence of St. Iohns-wort of each a scruple Elixir Proprietatis q. s. to render it grateful Of these make a draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Balm water half an ounce syrup of Bugloss two drams our confection of Citrons half a dram essence of Saffron tincture of Smaragdus ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Sulphur of the Moon Magistery of Oriental Pearls of each three grains With Oyl of Cinamon make Pills for one Dose which gild Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. powder of burnt Crab-fish magistery of red Coral of each three grains With distilled Oyl of Roses make little Pills for one Dose and gild them A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Confection of Hyacinth a dram Essence of St. Iohns-wort a scruple species of Diamargariton frigidum Elaeosaccharum of Citrons of each half a scruple Mix them and with Manus Christi Perlat q. s. make a Bole for one dose
Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. confection of Smaragds a dram essence of St. Iohns-wort a scruple tincture of Corals Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon of each half a scruple Mix them and with Troches of Diarrhodon Abbatis make a Bole for one dose In Feavers of all kinds A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Carduus water an ounce syrup of the lesser Centaury two drams of our febrile Salt ten grains Extract of Zedoary half a scruple Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua febrifuga an ounce syrup of Wormwood two drams of our febrile Elixir a scruple Extract of Cloves half a scruple Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our febrile Salt half a scruple With Oyl of Wormwood make small Pills for one dose and gild them Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of Nitre vitriolated half a scruple Mix them and with Oyl of Camphire make little Pills for one dose and gild them A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our febrile Treacle a dram preserved Ginger half a dram species of our Febrifuge a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Myrrh half a scruple Mix them and with white Sugar Candy make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our febrile Treacle a dram preserved Calamus aromaticus half a dram of our febrile Salt a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Rue half a scruple Mix them and with Diarrhodon Abbatis make a Bole for one dose In Pectoral Diseases Cough Asthma and Phthisick c. A draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. syrup of Liquorish and Horehound of each a dram and a half water of Lohoch sanum Hysop and Fenil of each a dram Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds ten grains Of these make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. water of Horehound Coltsfoot and Betony of each a dram and a half syrup of Hysop and Iujubes of each a dram Rob of Nuts Elaeosaccharum of Fenil ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. compound flowers of Sulphur Benjamin of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Sage make Pills for one dose Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Lac Sulphuris white Tragacanth of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Chamomil make small Pills for one dose which gild with Leaf-gold A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of o r Pectoral Confection a dram Lohoch sanum exper half a dram juyce of Liquorish Elaeosaccharum of Fenil of each half a scruple Extract of Oriental Saffron three grains Mix them and with Troches of simple Diaireos make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of Violets a dram conserve de Pino half a dram of our species of Diasulphuris a scruple Extract of Elicampane Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds of each ten grains Mix them and with simple Manus Christi q. s. make a Bole for one dose For the stopping of Defluxions of Humors and thin Catarrhs falling from the Head upon the Wind-pipe which causeth broken rest and a continual Cough A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. water of the bark of green Walnuts and Scabiose of each two drams Syrup of wild Poppies a dram and a half Rob of Nuts a dram Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs ten grains Of these make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua Serpilli benedict half an ounce syrup of Iujubes two drams of our Diacodium with Saffron a dram Elaeosaccharum o Cubebs ten grains Of these make a draught for one dose Another in a very hot Cause Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of Pomgranate-wine half an ounce water of Roses two drams syrup of Poppies simple Diamorum of each a dram and a half Nitre vitriolated two grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of Sandaraca Emerauld prepared of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Mastich make Pills for one dose and gild them Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of Mastich white Amber prepared of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Frankincense make it up into Pills for one dose and gild them A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of the flowers of wild Poppies half a dram Rob de Cornis half a dram of the species of Diamargariton frigidum a scruple Mix them and with Sugar Penids make a Bole for one dose In all Fluxes of the Bowels A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Tormentil water half an ounce of our Stiptick Syrup two drams essence of the flowers of red Nettles or Archangel half a scruple Extract of the roots of Bistort Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs of each ten grains Of these make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. plantane-Plantane-water half an ounce syrup of Quinces two drams essence of Balaustins a scruple Extract of Tormentil Elaeosaccharum of Cloves of each ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of Coral rosated Crocus Martis of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Mastich make little Pills for one dose Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of Gum Arabick Harts-horn burnt and prepared of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Sage make it into small Pills and gild them A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Confection of dryed Roses a dram of our Narcotick Confect a scruple our species of Diamartis and Elaeosaccharum of Oranges of each ten grains Mix them and with Troches of Diarrhodon Abbatis q. s. make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of Comfry flowers a dram of our Stiptick Confect half a dram species of our Diaplantaginis Elaeosaccharum of Citrons of each ten grains Mix them and with Troches of Diamargariton frigidum make a Bole for one dose In Excretion of Blood and over-much Evacuation of the Terms A Draught Take shavings of Brasil a handful of Gum Arabick three drams Boil these in a sufficient quantity of white Wine in Balneo Then take of this liquor being strained and clear and of Laudanum q. s. syrup of Quinces Diacodium with Saffron of each two drams Magistery of Coral rosated essence of Crocus Martis of each ten grains Elaeosaccharum of Cloves four grains Rob of Barberries q. s. to give it a grateful relish Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Tormentil Dragonwort Chicory of each a dram shavings of Harts-horn seeds of Roses Plantane and Sorrel of each half a dram Shepherds purse Pimpernel and Liverwort of each a scruple flowers of Millefoil red Roses and Rosemary of each ten grains Sebestens two Boil these in a sufficient quantity of red Stiptick Wine in Balneo Then take of the clear straining an ounce and a half Laudanum q. s. syrup of wild Poppies syrup of Comfry of each two drams essence
of Dragons blood a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs ten grains Rob of Gooseberries q. s. to make it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another most excellent in the overflowing of the Terms Take Laudanum five grains water of Shepherds purse an ounce and an half Rob of Elder three drams Sal Prunellae two scruples Extract of Tormentil ten grains Camphire four grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum q. s. red Bole prepared Magistery of Corals Rosated of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Rosemary make Pills and gild them Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. moss of the Sloe-tree Magistery of the mother of Pearls of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Sage make little Pills and gild them for one dose A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. the preserved rind of Quinces a dram Troches of Spodium half a scruple powder of Cuttle-fish bones Elaeosaccharum of Zedoary of each ten grains Mix them and with Troches of Diamargariton frigidum make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. roots of Comfry preserved a dram Troches of sealed Earth a scruple white Amber prepared Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs of each ten grains Mix them and make them into a Bole for one dose In the Colick and Iliack Passion c. A Draught Take Conserve of red Roses an ounce roots of Zedoary a dram Boil them in three ounces of Chamomil water To an ounce and a half of this water strained add Laudanum six grains syrup of Oranges two drams of our Colick Extract a scruple of our Carminative Elaeosaccharum ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua benedicta Serpilli half an ounce syrup of Mint two drams of our Colick Extract a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Oranges ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua Carminativa half an ounce syrup of Citron rinds two drams Extract of Zedoary Elaeosaccharum of Angelica of each ten grains spirit of Salt of Nitre q. s. to make it grateful Of these being mixed make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of the Carp-stone bones of the Hares foot calcined of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of white Amber make small Pills for one dose which gild Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Oriental Bezoar stone the Cockal-bone of a Hogs foot calcined of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Cummin seed make little Pills for one dose which gild A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Confection of Mint a dram of our Extractum Colicum half a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon ten grains Mix them and with Rowls of Dianisi make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of the flowers of wild Poppy a dram Elaeosaccharum of Chamomil a scruple of Nitre vitriolated four grains Mix them and with Rotula's of Diacymini make a Bole for one dose In the Pleurisie A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. water of wild Poppy flowers half an ounce syrup of Maiden-hair two drams Extract of Liquorish a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. water of Carduus Mariae half an ounce syrup of Iujubes two drams essence of the flowers of wild Poppy Elaeosaccharum of Fenil of each ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of the jaw-bone of a Pike the tooth of a wild Boar of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Benjamin make little Pills which gild for one dose Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. compound flowers of Sulphur Extract of the juyce of Liquorish of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Hysop make little Pills for one dose which you may gild A Bolus Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of the flowers of wild Poppies a dram Lohoch sanum expert half a dram of our Species Pleuritica a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cummin seeds ten grains Mix them and with Diatragacanthum frigidum make a Bole for one time Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of Violets a dram of our Diacodium crocatum half a dram our secret Pulvis Pleuriticus a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Chamomil ten grains Mix them and with Rotula's of Diaireos simple make a Bole for one dose In the Stone and Gout A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua Nephritica half an ounce syrup of Marsh-mallows two drams salt of the Perch-stone ten grains oyl of Oriental Pearls sour drops Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. water of Germander half an ounce syrup of Mallows two drams salt of Crabs eyes ten grains oyl of red Coral four drops Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of the Iewish Stone of Venetian Borax of each four grains Mix them and with Spirit of Turpentine make little Pills for one dose which you may gild Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of the Spunge-stone Nitre prepared of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Parsley make little Pills for one dose which gild A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of Violets preserved roots of Pimpernel half a dram of our species Dianitri a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Parsley ten grains Mix them and with Sugar of Violets make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Confection of Mallow flowers a dram preserved roots of Eryngo half a dram of our Species Nephriticus a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Citrons ten grains Mix them and with Syrup of Roses make a Bole for one dose In immoderate Watching and unquiet Rest. A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. poppy-Poppy-water half an ounce Syrup of Poppies two drams Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds ten grains Spirit of Vitriol three drops Mix them and make a draught for one dose to be taken in the Evening Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua Hypnotica half an ounce syrup of flowers of wild Poppies two drams Elaeosaccharum of Fenil ten grains oyl of Oriental Pearls three drops Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of Pearls of Ambergriese of each four grains With Oyl of Styrax make Pills for one dose and gild them Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of red Coral Lignum Aloes of each three grains With Oyl of Benjamim make small Pills for one dose and gild them A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of red Roses vitriolated a dram Lohoch de Papavere half a dram species of Diamoschu dulce ten grains Extract of Saffron three grains Mix them and with Rotula's of Diarrhodon Abbatis make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of Violets
and Liver once heated They gently and pleasantly remove and repel all Inflammations as well internal as external The dose is two three four or five at a time Rotulae Carminativae or Carminative Rowls Take of our Carminative Oyl a dram and a half Cinamon and Cloves of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Carminative water sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make all into little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They dissipate the wind and ventose humors lurking in the Ventricle and Guts They help Digestion and sour Belchings and give ease in the Nephritick pains by moving Urine and bringing away the Stone They are given as necessity requires three four or five at a time Rotulae Diacymini Take the species of Diacymini and Dianisi of each half an ounce of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur with Aniseeds Oyl of Fenil of each a scruple Oyl of Oranges and Mace of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Aqua benedicta Serpilli sixteen ounces Mix them and make a Confection in Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They powerfully dissipate the flatulencies of the Bowels and are good in all cold Distempers They wonderfully relieve old Folks and all those troubled with distempers of the Brain Vertigo Stomach Arteries Liver Spleen also in the Cough Asthma passion of the Heart Wind-Colick Quartan Agues c. They help digestion amend ill habits of body and free the Hypochonders when distended with wind Let the sick take one or more as he pleases Rotulae contra Vermes or Rowls against the Worms Take of our species Diacina two ounces white Sugar dissolved in water of the roots of Couch-grass and Tansie of each sixteen ounces Mix them and make little Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They kill Worms and bring them away They are given some days together to Children troubled with the Worms two three four or five at a time more or less as need requires Rotulae Mithridaticae praeservantes or preservative Rowls of Mithridate Take Extract of Mithridate prepared with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined Citron seeds husked compound flowers of Sulphur Emerauld prepared Oriental red Bole prepared of each a dram roots of Tormentil and Zedoary of each half a dram Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral Camphire of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Angelica of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Rue of each four grains the best Sugar dissolved in the waters of Sorrel and Roses sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Rowls Rotulae Theriacales liberantes Take Extract of Venice Treacle prepared with distilled Vinegar a dram and an half Elks horn Spagirically calcined sealed Earth seeds of Sorrel Tincture of Sulphur Hyacinth prepared of each a dram roots of Elicampane and Angelica of each half a dram wood of Aloes bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each a scruple Oyl of Camphire and red Myrrh of each ten grains Oyl of Cassia lignea and Zedoary of each four grains white Sugar sixteen ounces Dissolve the Sugar in Carduus and Scabious-water and make little Rowls for use Rotulae Angelicae praeservativae pro gravidis or preservative Rowls of Angelica for Women with Child Take Extract of the roots of Angelica made with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined sealed Earth Bole Armenick prepared roots of female Peony seeds of Sorrel of each a dram Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral Hyacinth prepared of each half a dram Mace macerated in Vinegar and again dryed Cassia lignea Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Oyls of white Amber rectified and Zedoary of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Citrons of each four grains white Sugar dissolved in water of Tormentil and Betony sixteen ounces Mix all and make little Cakes Rotulae Zedoarticae pro Pueris or Rowls of Zedoary for Children Take Extract of Zedoary made with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Elks horn Spagirically calcined white Amber prepared sealed Earth Oriental red Bole prepared of each a dram roots of male Peony of white Diptamus and Tormentil of each two scruples Emerauld prepared Hyacinth prepared seeds of Citrons husked seeds of Sorrel and Cina of each half a dram Magisteries of red Coral Oriental Pearls and Crabs eyes the bone of a Stags heart Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds of each a scruple Oyls of Cinamon Mace Citrons of each four drops white Sugar sixteen ounces Mix all and with the Sugar dissolved in water of Roses and Water-lily flowers make little Cakes Virtue Use and Dose They are good against the Contagion of the Plague and defend and preserve the body from being hurt by any malignant and infectious Air. The dose when there is occasion is two or three at a time Rotulae Catarrhales calidae or hot Rowls for a Catarrh Take species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram species of Aromaticum rosatum Diaireos simple of each half a dram Frankincense Mastich Harts-horn prepared of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Betony-water five ounces Make little Rowls and smear them gently with Oyl of Cloves Virtue Use and Dose When the humor is preternaturally sent from the Brain to the Eyes Nose Mouth c. or if it falls upon any other part and is perceived to hurt the actions of that part by altering it from its natural quality and state in such a case these Rotula's are of excellent use for they stop all cold Catarrhs and comfort the Head and Breast The dose is three or four at a time Rotulae Catarrhales frigidae or Rotula's for a cold Catarrh Take seeds of white Poppy bruâ—sed four ounces of the heads that contain the seeds grosly powdered two ounces Let them infuse a few days in water of Scabious and Coltsfoot of each a like quantity then distil them and in a sufficient quantity of this distilled Liquor dissolve an ounce of Mastich let it boil a little and then filter it to which add of white Sugar eight ounces and so make little Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose When the Catarrh is thin and sharp the Head hot and the Face and Eyes appear red the humor exasperating and exulcerating the part upon which it falls and a bitter saltness is perceived and a Feaver begun then are these Rotula's of great use The dose is three or four at a time SECT VIII Of Morsels Morsuli Cephalici or Cephalick Morsels TAke Conserve of the flowers of Peony and Rosemary of each half an ounce species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each two ounces Mans skull Spagirically calcined Elks horn prepared in the same manner of each a dram roots and seeds of Peony duly gathered Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Oyl of white Amber rectified a scruple Oyls of Lavender Nutmegs and Caraways of each four grains white Sugar dissolved in our Epileptick and
Apoplectick Waters of each sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make little Morsels Virtue Use and Dose They are used as well in preserving from as curing the Epilepsie Apoplexy and Palsie and other dangerous diseases of the Head Brain and Nerves The dose in preservation is from half a dram to a dram at all Quarters of the Moon but in curing it is given from a dram to two or three in the Fit or a little after either by it self or in some proper Vehicle And if necessary repeat it but to Children by reason of their age half so much or less is a sufficient dose Morsuli Regii Take green Pistick Nuts two ounces Pines cleansed sweet Almonds of each an ounce Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral of each a dram the Cordial Flowers cut small of each a pugil Oyl of Mace a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Rose-water sixteen ounces Mix them and make them into little bits or Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are of a grateful taste and comfortable above measure They nourish and restore those who languish under any Weakness Phthisick Consumption or are extenuated with a long Disease You cannot err in the dose for they may be taken at Meat or before or after it as the sick pleaseth Morsuli Rosati Take the best Conserve of red Roses two ounces species of Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce species de Gemmis frig Diamargar frigid of each two drams Confectio Alkermes Troches of Barberries flowers of Nitre of each a dram Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each half a dram Elaeosaccharum of Roses and Citrons of each a scruple Cinamon and Mace of each ten grains white Sugar sixteen ounces dissolve it in water of Roses and Strawberries of each a like quantity Mix all and make little Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are proper for all intemperate heat of the Head Heart Stomach Liver Womb and Reins and are given successfully in burburning cholerick Feavers They refresh those that are weak and dejected with a long Disease and restore them to their pristine strength They help the trembling of the Heart the defection of the Spirits and Digestion and those whose Countenance is vitiated The dose is from two drams to half an ounce Morsuli Pectorales or Pectoral Morsels Take Lohoch sanum expert two ounces species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce compound flowers of Sulphur juyce of Liquorish extracted of each two drams roots of Flower-de-luce Aliptae Moschatae of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur anisat Oyl of Fenil of each ten grains white Sugar sixteen ounces dissolve the Sugar in water of Horehound and Coltsfoot of each a like quantity Mix them and make little Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They relieve those afflicted with a lingering Cough Hoarsness Asthma c. They help difficulty of Breathing cut and attenuate the thick humors in the Breast and Lungs and ease pain there The dose is from half a dram to one or two every hour or when the Patient pleaseth Morsuli Refectivi de Cancris or Refective Morsels of Crabs Take the carnous part of River-Crabs boiled in pectoral Waters two ounces Conserve of Damask Roses an ounce and a half Pines cleansed green Pistick Nuts sweet Almonds of each macerated all night in scabious-Scabious-water an ounce white Sugar dissolved in our water of Calves Lungs five ounces Mix them and in the end add Syrup of Mastich two ounces Lac Sulphuris two drams Troches of Pearls and Oyl of Nutmegs exprest of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds a scruple Mix them and with great diligence according to Art make a Confection into little Morsels Virtue Use and Dose It is an Arcanum against the Phthisick and Consumption of the body which ought to be preferred deservedly before many other Remedies for there is nothing almost that doth more conserve the radical moisture than these It restores lost strength and comforts the principal members The dose is often in the day from two drams to half an ounce more or less according to the Complexion and Sex of the Patient Morsuli Stomachici or Stomach-morsels Take Diacydonium simple two ounces preserved China Ginger an ounce Calamus aromaticus preserved green half an ounce Nutmegs Cassia lignea the lesser Galangal Mace of each a dram seeds of Coriander prepared Cummin seeds of each half a dram Oyls of Cloves and Cinamon of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in our stomachical Water sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They wonderfully comfort a cold Stomach and help it to retain the meat They roborate and strengthen the members of Nutrition hurt and debilitated and do powerfully excite the Appetite and Taste They discuss Flatulencies and dissolve ventose Humors They abate and take away the swelling and extension of the Hypochonders and restore the native heat They take away the ill savour of the body and wonderfully help those who have cold Bowels The dose is from one dram to two Morsuli Epatici or Morsels for the Liver Take roots of Scorzonera and Succory preserved of each an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis Conserve of red Roses Raisins of each half an ounce Citron flowers preserved two drams Magistery of red Coral Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds Spodium of Wolfs lungs dryed of each a dram seeds of Sorrel and Purslain of each half a dram flowers of white Agrimony white Sugar dissolved in our Epatick water frigid and calid sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Tablets and gild them with gold Virtue Use and Dose They are very good for the weakness and imbecillity of the Liver they take away its obstructions and give it strength They are good in the Jaundice some kind of Dropsies and ill habit of body The dose is from a dram to two and half an ounce Morsuli Martiales or Morsels of Mars Take filings of Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce Cassia lignea the lesser Galangal Cloves of each a dram Mace Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Oyl of Cinamon half a scruple white Sugar dissolved in water of Wormwood and lesser Centaury eight ounces Mix all and make little morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are profitable in all Obstructions especially of the Spleen and help all the vices of the Stomach Heart Head the paleness of the Face and provoke the Courses in Women c. They are taken in the morning four hours before dinner drinking a draught of Wormwood-wine after it and after taking it to use exercise for an hour The dose from two drams to three at a time Morsuli Viriles Take of our Confection succulata Inda an ounce green Pistick Nuts sweet Almonds Pine-nuts of each half an ounce preserved Nutmegs two drams Venetian Borax lesser Galangal long Pepper Cardamoms the less of each a dram the pizzle of a Bull and a Hart of each half
Peony and Pellitory of the wall of each a pound seeds of Peony shavings of Cyprus wood Misleto of the Oak of each half a pound Cinquefoil Millefoil Rue Mullein Lavender Rosemary Henbane of each four ounces flower of Primrose Stoechas Teil-tree Peony and Elder of each two ounces Being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory and then add the ashes of young Magpies and Swallows and Peacocks dung of each an ounce And with an appropriate Liquor according to Art make a white crystalline Salt Virtue Use and Dose It is effectual in all Epilepsies Vertigo Lethargies and other stupefying Diseases 't is also given to those who fear or are troubled with dangerous diseases of the Head The dose is from ten to twenty or thirty grains in Teil-tree flower-water or in our Epileptick water Sal Cordiale or a Cordial Salt Take roots of Avens and Bugloss of each two pound the herbs Rosemary Sage and Balm of each a pound seeds of sweet Basil Citron peels of each half a pound the five Cordial flowers Clovegilly-flowers of each four ounces Mix them and calcine them into ashes the Vessel being close shut then add ashes of Cinamon three ounces ashes of Cloves and Cardamoms of each an ounce and a half ashes of Oriental Saffron and Mace of each three drams From these ashes thus mixed with Cordial waters extract a white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is most useful in Lipothymies Syncopes and other affects of the Heart to strengthen and refresh the Spirits The dose is from ten to twenty grains more or less in Cordial waters Sal Pectorale Take roots of Liquorish two pound Florentine Flower-de-luce Elicampane and Marsh-mallows of each a pound roots of Comfry and Mallows of each eight ounces both sorts of the herb Lungwort Horehound Hyssop Coltsfoot Fluellin Ground Ivy Maidenhair Scabious of each four ounces seeds of Fenil and Anise of each three ounces flowers of Coltsfoot Chamomil and Hearts-ease of each two ounces From these being mixed and well calcined with Pectoral waters extract a most splendid Salt Virtue Use and Dose It is excellent in Pectoral Diseases for it doth attenuate thick tough and viscous Flegm gathered in the Lungs and doth inlarge and cleanse the Breast Moreover it provokes Urine and purgeth the Reins and Ventricle The dose is from ten to twenty and thirty grains in Pectoral or other appropriate Vehicles Sal Stomachicum or a Salt for the Stomach Take roots of Burnet two pound Calamus aromaticus white Ginger of each a pound Sea-wormwood Water-Mint Sage Rosemary of each half a pound Quinces dryed and Zedoary of each four ounces Calcine all in a close Vessel and then add the ashes of the lesser Galangal and Cinamon of each three ounces ashes of Cloves both sorts of Cardamoms Nutmegs round Pepper of each an ounce Mix them and with Mint or other specifick Water make a Spagirick Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It wonderfully roborates and warms a cold Stomach it helps Digestion and Loathing of Meat It is useful in all distempers of the Nerves it quickens all the Senses allays pains of the Head preserves old people from Catarrhs and gives ease in the Dropsie The dose is a scruple more or less respecting both Disease and Patient in specifick Vehicles Sal Epaticum Take roots of Agrimony two pound roots of Chicory and Scorzonera of each a pound bitter Costus Eryngo Turmerick of each half a pound Calamus aromaticus Rhapontick of each four ounces Pontick Wormwood Southernwood Agrimony Harts-tongue Fluellin Liverwort Cascula of each three ounces These being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory then add ashes of Rhubard and Cassia lignea of each an ounce and a half Then with some Epatick or other convenient water draw a Spagirick Salt Virtue Use and Dose It takes away the hardness wind and obstructions of the Liver and dissolves the scirrhous Tumors there It helps the ill habit of body and takes away dropsical Humors It cures the Jaundice and amends the ill colour of the Skin moves the Terms provokes Urine and dissolves the Stone The dose is from a scruple to two in appropriate Vehicles Sal Spleneticum or a Salt for the Spleen Take Pontick Wormwood two pound Carduus benedictus a pound Rosemary Harts-tongue Fluellin and Ceterach of each half a pound roots of both sorts of Fern Calamus aromaticus of each four ounces bark of the Caper-tree Tamarisk Ash of each three ounces flower of Chamomil the lesser Centaury Broom of each two ounces Bring all into Ashes and with the distilled water of the aforesaid Herbs extract a Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It opens Obstructions mollifies and resolves the pains tumors and hardness of the Spleen It is good for aged people and those troubled with Quartan Agues The dose is every morning from a scruple to half a dram in Harts-tongue water or other convenient Liquor Sal Nephriticum Take roots of Parsley and Restharrow of each two pound roots of Dropwort and Vervain of each a pound roots of Eryngo and Burnet of each half a pound Beans dryed the cores of Medlars of each six ounces berries of Bays and Iuniper Winter-cherries and seeds of Gromel of each four ounces Ground-Ivy Fluellin Horstail Fumitory Strawberry leaves of each three ounces flowers of great Mallows Elder and Broom of each two ounces seeds of white Lilies of white Saxifrage and Burdock Barberries of each an ounce and a half Let all be calcined into white Ashes according to Art to which add ashes of Lignum Nephriticum of Peach-stones and kernels bitter Almonds round Pepper the lesser Galangal white Ginger of each an ounce Nitre prepared six drams Mix all and with rain-Rain-water make a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It breaks the Stone expels Urine and Gravel and helps those that piss with difficulty and relieves those who are troubled with other distempers of the Reins and Bladder The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in water of Restharrow Parsley Burnet or Ground-Ivy or any other other Specifick Sal Hydropicum Take of the whole Iuniper-tree cut small two pound roots of Flower-de-luce Elder red Mugwort and Dwarf-Elder of each a pound roots of Swallow-wort Acorus and Turmerick of each half a pound leaves and stalks of Pontick Wormwood the lesser Centaury Agrimony Carduus benedictus Bindweed of each six ounces flowers of Liverwort Elder and Broom of each four ounces seeds of Ash Rocket and Cummin of each three ounces All being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory then add the ashes of Sarsaparilla Cubebs Rhubarb Nutmegs and Mace of each an ounce Mix these Ashes and with elder-Elder-water make a crystalline Salt Virtue Use and Dose It discusseth wind and carries away water and is good in Dropsies of every kind for it potently drys up the swellings of the Microcosmical Earth caused by too much moisture It corrects the ill habit of body and exterminates
cervinus two drams Cinamon and long Pepper of each a dram Magistery of Pearl and red Coral of each half adram Gallia Moschata and Oyl â—f Cloves of each a scruple leaves of pure Gold fifteen Mix all and with Syrup of preserved Ginger make â—n Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It hath a great force to provoke the desire of Coition and doth egregiously excite â—oth Sexes thereunto it doth wonderfully increase Sperm and singularly restore those that are consumed and emaciated The dose is morning and evening from two drams to three with old rich Wine Confectio Stiptica or a Stiptick Electuary Take Tinctures of Crocus Martis of Celandine Rhubarb and dryed Nuts of each an ounce Tormentil Zedoary Gum Arabick Cloves white Ginger torrefied Nutmegs of each six drams sealed Earth white Amâ—er prepared Calamus aromaticus the lesser Galangal â—oth sorts of Cardamoms Cinamon of each half an â—unce shells of River-crabs boiled in Vinegar seeds of Bloodwort Plantane and black Poppy Orange peel â—f each three drams leaves of Sage Burnet and Mint of each two drams Bulls pizle Coriander prepared Acatia of each a dram and a half Cypress-nuts burnt Frogs calcined Talk of each a dram Let all be subtilly powdered and mixed and with Miva of Quinces make an Electuary according to Art to which add of our Carminative Oyl three drams and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It hath been wonderfully experimented in all fluxes of the Belly as Dysenteries Diarrhoea's Hepatick Fluxes bleeding at the Nose and Terms and also in other desperate ruptures of Blood For it comforts the Guts and internal Bowels and refresheth Nature by Constipation The dose is from a dram to half an ounce in Sack or other generous Wine either in the morning fasting or at any other time the Stomach being empty Confectio Terebinthinata or an Electuary of Turpentine Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in Rhenish Wine two ounces white Sugar Candy an ounce and a half powder of Liquorish six drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Nitre prepared a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of Violets make a mixture Virtue Use and Dose It is proper for those troubled with a Cough or Consumption It cleanseth the Breast and provokes Urine It helps the Strangury purgeth the Reins and easeth the pains of them It digesteth crude Humors loosens the Belly c. The dose is from a dram to two Theriaca Mulierum or a Treacle for Women Take Venice Treacle three ounces Iovial Bezoar half an ounce Elks horn and Harts horn of each Spagirically calcined a dram and a half Extract of roots of Angelica and Elicampane of each a dram Essence of Castor half a dram Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber half a scruple Mix them and with Rob of Elder-berries make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It cures almost all Diseases in Women by Sweat as well hot as cold by a certain occult property and for that Sex there is not a more excellent and noble Diaphoretick given The dose is from a scruple to a dram in waters appropriate to the Disease yet where the Disease is of a hot Cause we give it in cold Vehicles Theriaca Saxonica or the Saxonick Treacle Take Rob of Elder-berries and dwarff Elder-berries of each two ounces Harts horn Spagirically calcined an ounce juyce of Fumitory made thick simple Syrup of Poppies Spirit of Iuniper of each half an ounce Oriental rod Bole two drams Oyl of the seeds of Angelica Oyl of Zedoary of each a dram Mix them and over a gentle clear fire make them into the form of an Opiate Virtue Use and Dose It is a most noble Antidote powerfully working by Sweat and insensible Transpiration it defends men from and cures many and grievous Diseases It profligates and extinguisheth Feavers of all kinds whether intermitting continual or malignant Also the Dropsie Erysipelas Scurvy Jaundice Plague suffocation of the Matrix and other affects of the Womb the Pox Scab Itch Leprosie c. nay it deserves its praise so justly that no man is sufficiently able to proclaim its virtues The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg according to the Sex Age and Constitution of the Patient and the urgency of the Disease it is given in any fit and congruous Liquor especially such as is appropriate to the Disease I give it in many affects the body being first purged in the evening at going to bed four or five hours after supper with a sufficient quantity of our Harts-horn water and toward morning it doth use to sweat powerfully Theriaca Febrilis or an Electuary for Feavers Take species of our Febrifuge three ounces Conserve of Pontick Wormwood Conserve of Carduus and the lesser Centaury of each two ounces Venice Treacle an ounce and a half Harts-horn calcined without fire Mineral Diaphoretick white Ginger of each three drams species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each a dram and a half Camphire dissolved in Spirit of Angelica half a dram Mix them and with Rob of Elder-berries make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It cures almost all Feavers and is very profitable also in the Plague The dose is from a dram to two in our Aqua Febrifuge or in Carduus Scabious or Marigold-water c. let the Patient drink it two hours before the Fit and being in bed let him sweat for by this means it cures the Feaver Electuarium Opticum or an Electuary for the Eyes Take preserved Elicampane roots and preserved Chebul Myrobalans of each two ounces long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mace the lesser Galangal white Ginger and Cubebs of each half an ounce Sea-Beans prepared Pikes eyes Eyebright Pennyroyal Germander Clovegilly-flowers Rosemary of each three drams seeds of the Mountain Osier and Fenil of each two drams seeds of Parsley Anise Smallage Dill and white Saxifrage of each a dram and a half All being pulverized mix them then with twenty four ounces of white Sugar Candy dissolved in Spirit of Juniper and the depurated Juyces of Sage Rue Celandine and Hyssop of each a sufficient quantity and then boiled to a just consistence make an Electuary to which add Oyl of Cinamon and Nutmegs of each a dram And then again mix them and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Stomach consumes superfluous Humors cleanseth the Reins and is good to expel all flatulent Humors But it chiefly restores a weak Sight and hath been wonderfully experimented in weakness of the Eyes Suffusions c. let the cause be what it will The dose is constantly in the morning fasting and at night going to bed the quantity of a Chestnut And by so using of it the Patient shall be able to read a small print by a clear and free sight without Spectacles even to his life's end Electuarium Stomachicum or an Electuary for the Stomach Take sweet Almonds eight ounces aromatical Reed white
of Roses TAke Conserve of Roses tinctured with Spirit of Sulphur four ounces Lohoch of Coltsfoot roots prepared with Sugar two ounces species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce Lac Sulphuris half an ounce red Oriental Bole prepared juyce of Liquorish extracted of each two drams Oriental Saffron prepared a dram flowers of Benjamin Cardamoms the less Mace of each half a dram Balsam of Sulphur prepared with Oyl of Aniseeds a scruple true Oyl of Roses four grains Mix them and with our simple Pectoral Syrup make a Lohoch Virtue Use and Dose It helps those who are troubled with continual Coughs Hoarsness Pleurisies c. It brings offensive matter from the Lungs with ease and effectually heals purulent Exulcerations as well of the Breast as Lungs and takes away the ill smell thence proceeding It also helps those who spit blood The dose is the quantity of a Hazel-nut taken often Lohoch Violatum or Lohoch of Violets Take fresh Conserve of Violets tinged with our Elixir of Sulphur four ounces Lohoch sanum expert two ounces species of Diamargariton frigid Diaireos simple of each half an ounce compound flowers of Sulphur Extract of Liquorish roots of each three drams Oriental Saffron prepared Styrax Calamit of each a scruple Oyl of Hyssop and Benjamin of each four grains Mix them and with our compound Pectoral Syrup make a Pectoral Lohoch Virtue Use and Dose This Medicine is experimented in the Cough Asthma Phthisick difficulty of breathing and straitness of the Breast and in other diseases of the Breast and Lungs The dose is the same as before Lohoch Pectorale or a Pectoral Lohoch Take both our simple and compound pectoral Syrups of each two ounces Lohoch of Coltsfoot roots of sanum expertum of each an ounce Manus Christi with Aniseeds prepared six drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce green Ginger of each three drams Mix them and make a Pectoral Lohoch according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a certain Medicine for a Cough and Hoarsness coming of cold or thick Flegm contained in the Thorax and Lungs It is a present Remedy for all distempers of the Breast difficulty of Breathing Pleurisie pain of the Ribs c. The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg often in the day Lohoch seu Diacodium Crocatum or a Lohoch or Diacodium with Saffron Take of the heads and seeds of white Poppy twenty one sweet Bean cods the seeds being cast away roots of Liquorish of each three ounces seeds of Bombace Marsh mallows and Quinces Myrtle-berries of each half an ounce fat Figs Dates and Sebestens of each eleven flowers of great red Mallows Violets and Hearts-ease of each two drams Boil them in a sufficient quantity of fountain-Fountain-water according to Art Then take of this Decoction being strained two pound Sugar Candy rosated Penids of each half a pound Make of all a thick Syrup Then toward the end of the Preparation add Syrup of the juyce of wild Poppies Iujubes of each two ounces Extract of Saffron half a dram Mix them and over a gentle fire let them boil to the consistence of Honey which aromatize with a scruple of Gallia Moschata Virtue Use and Dose It is a great Secret in all hot thin sharp and salt Defluxions and Destillations from the Head upon the Thorax and rough Artery which cause continual Coughs and Watchings For it lenifies the roughness of the Throat and maturates the Spittle by making it thick and glutinous and fit to expectorate It allays thirst mitigates heat and procures sleep Also by cooling and moistning it roborates the Spirits repairs strength and preserves the native heat Moreover it cannot be expressed how profitable it is for those who are afflicted with the Colick Stone and Gravel Pleurisie Gout c. It is also good for the over-great excretion and evacuation of the Blood and Terms nay 't is of good use in burning Feavers Fluxes of the Belly Dysenteries c. which are caused by a sharp and cholerick matter The dose is from a dram to two three or four Lohoch Antiphthisicum or a Lohoch for the Consumption or wasting of the Lungs Take of our Diacodium crocatum four ounces Lohoch sanum expertum and de pulmone Vulpis of each two ounces our white red and citrine pectoral Rotula's of each an ounce our simple and compound pectoral Syrups of each six drams green Ginger half an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton frigid of each two drams Mix them and with an Emulsion made of white Poppy seeds and the water of Calves Lungs an ounce and a half over a gentle sire boil it to the consistence of a Lohoch Virtue Use and Dose It is of great efficacy and power in the Phthilick Asthma Cough Pleurisie Catarrh Hoarsness and other vices of the Thorax and Lungs It extenuates those humors that are hard to be spit forth and induceth sleep The dose is the quantity of a Hazel-nut often in the day SECT XVI Of Syrups Syrupus Perlarum Orientalium or Syrup of Oriental Pearls TAke water of Roses Borage and Bugloss of each six ounces Salt of Oriental Pearls half an ounce These being mixed and dissolved add of sweet Almonds a quantity sufficient to make an Emulsion with which afterward mix white Sugar a pound and then boil it to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Heart Brain and Memory preserves the Body sound It relieves the Consumptive and keeps off Old age It drys up vicious Humors amends Milk in Women restores the humidum Radicale and increaseth Seed in both Sexes It is also a certain Preservative from the Apoplexy Epilepsie and Palsie and is to be given divers times in the week The dose is from half an ounce to six drams by it self or with other Specificks Syrupus Corallorum rubrorum or Syrup of red Coral Take Tincture of red Roses extracted with Succory-water distilled from the juyce of the whole Plant and as it were red ten ounces Salt of red Coral half an ounce These being mixed dissolved and filtred add of white Sugar a pound exprest juyce of Barberries and Goosberries of each four ounces Again mix them and bring all into the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the weakness of the Heart and much increaseth its strength It mitigates the intemperate heat of the Liver Spleen and Reins and wonderfully relieves them in Obstructions It cures any Haemorrhage mundifies the blood through the whole body It is a good Remedy for cholerick Vomitings It allays Thirst refrigerates and strengthens the Stomach It restores and amends the other internal Bowels distempered by heat Whence it is a great Secret in the Dysentery Lientery pains in the Guts Liver-fluxes Gonorrhoea Flux from the Womb c. It is also good in contagious Diseases and gives ease in malignant Defluxions and Colliquations It strengthens and preserves the Child in the Womb and prevents Abortion if while she goes with Child she takes half a spoonful at a
then distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose This Water is far more safe in continual watching sharp pains and in the heat and driness of burning Feavers than those Medicines made out of the substance of Henbane Mandrake and Opium because of their virulence and excessive stupefactive quality The dose is from half an ounce to two either by it self or by adding Almonds and the four greater cold Seeds to it and so make it into an Emulsion Aqua Narcotica or a Narcotick Water Take juyce of the flowers of wild Poppy depurated sixteen ounces Opium dissolved in water of Nightshade two ounces bark of the roots of Mandrake Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce Styrax Calamit two drams wood of Aloes a dram Mix them and distil them in Balneo drawing off the Liquor three times from the same Faeces which Chymists call Cohobation Virtue Use and Dose It provokes sleep wonderfully and is a most excellent profitable Anodyne in all pains unquietness and extreme watchings And it operates to a Miracle in those troubled with sorrowful and pensive Melancholy for it refresheth the animal Spirits takes away sorrow and discusseth all those ill Vapors that rise and offend the Brain It restrains the heat of Choler and mitigates the fury of Phrensies and Madness and suddenly produceth rest The dose is from one dram to two Aqua Ophthalmica aurea or the golden Water for the Eyes Take the Decoction of Brasil wood made with a little Alum in Spanish Wine water of the roots herb and flowers of Valerian distilled in the same Wine Sugar distilled with a like quantity of ripe Strawberries of each twelve ounces of fragrant Rose-water eight ounces water of Fenil and Vervain of flowers of Succory Eyebright Pennyroyal and Garden Rue of each six ounces Virgin Honey four ounces Tutty prepared an ounce and a half white Vitriol Crocus Metallorum red Myrrh Aloes rosata of each half an ounce white Sugar Candy and Camphire of each three drams white Ginger Cloves black Pepper Bay-berries and Cinamon of each a dram Salt of Celandine Valerian and Saturn of each a scruple All these being well mixed one with another make of all according to Art a Collyrium which in a Glass close shut set to digest for a month either in the Sun or in a gentle heat shaking it every day and so keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use in all affects of the Eyes For it perfectly cures all distempers of the Eyes as Inflammations Bleer-eyedness Fistula's Films Spots c. and it takes away the violent pain thereof and if it doth not cure the same day yet it doth in a short time if a drop or two be but dropped into the Eyes carefully morning noon and night Aqua Ophthalmica viridis or a green Water for the Eyes Take Virgin Honey eight ounces ripe Strawberries three ounces white Vitriol and common Salt of each half an ounce Mix them and let them stand in a cool moist place in a Copper Vessel often stirring it till it wax green or shews it self of a green colour then add of Spanish Wine a pound water of Roses and flowers of Elder of each half a pound waters of wild Cummin Eyebright Celandine Valerian and Blue-bottles of each four ounces Let them be mixed and set to digest in a well stopt Glass for a month in a gentle heat or what is better exposed abroad both to the Sun and Dew for certain weeks and then the Liquor will appear green and separate it self into the superficies the impure Faeces remaining in the bottom from which it is separated at last having stood in the Sun long enough pour it off and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a most solemn Medicine for all distempers of the Eyes as Contusions Inflammations Ardor Redness Blearedness Fistula's Pustles thin Rheum c. And the use of it is thus drop a drop or two into the Eyes twice or thrice a day and let the water be diffused all over the Eye that so the infirm part may be the sooner cured Aqua Ophthalmica subnigra Take of generous Greek Wine a pound water of Celandine white Roses Eyebright Fenil and Garden Rue of each six ounces Cloves Epatick Aloes Tutty prepared of each five drams Camphire six drams Mix them and in a glass Viol expose them to the Sun all the Dog-days shaking the Glass once a day whicâ— being done keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It makes Rheum thin discusseth redness sucks up the cause of Blearedness renders the Eye clear and by its nourishing quality extenuates the adjacent thick humors The way of using it is to drop a little of it into the Eye as before or you may dip a Rag in this Collyrium and lay it upon the Eye Aqua Ophthalmica de Cancris or an Eye-water of Crabs Take River Crabs alive in the month of June tâ—â— Sun and Moon being both in Cancer thirty one Adâ— to these as much Celandine as will equal them iâ— weight beat these together and then add to theâ— Fenil seeds bruised an ounce Sea-Beans prepared 〈◊〉 Camphire of each half an ounce Cloves Epatick Alâ—â— and Tutty prepared of each two drams Mix them anâ— divide them into three equal parts and distil the first in Balneo then put the second part into a Cucurbit and pour the distilled water upon it and draw it off again as at first then put the third part in and pour upon that all the distilled water already drawn off and so distil it the third time And so you have that most famous Water of Celandine truly prepared And if you will calcine the Faeces and extract a Salt and add it to the Medicine it will be far more efficacious Virtue Use and Dose This is a most precious Eye-water and also esteemed at a great price of which Crollius in his Basilica Chymica hath made mention in these words There may be made a wonderful and stupendious Ophthalmick of Celandine and Crabs Which if it be prepared by due artifice and time it virtually restores the Eye though hurt to desperation and agglutinates all wounds in those parts in the space of twenty four hours Thus far Crollius But the way of preparing it out of meer envy he would not reveal or else he never knew it unless by relation or perhaps had stole it from another Of this Water drop one two or more drops into the Eyes of the Patient or it may be used with a Feather dipped in the water and then anointed with it twice thrice or four times a day according as necessity requires and let this be continued till the Patient be restored to his former health again Aqua Ocularis interna or a Water for the Eyes inwardly taken Take Iuniper berries two ounces Cassia lignea an ounce seeds of Mountain Osier and Fenil of each half an ounce seeds of Rue three drams species Diamoschu dulce Nutmegs wood of Aloes of each
two drams leaves of Eyebright Vervain and Rue tops of Rosemary Sage of Pennyroyal Dill and Fenil of each a dram and a half flowers of greater Celandine Betony Lavender red Roses and Rosemary of each a dram Let them be macerated in six pound of Spanish Wine the space of eight days and afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual universal Medicines being premised for the weakness and dulness of sight and to comfort the visive Spirits and to rectifie the Brain and the humors thereof The dose morning and evening is from half an ounce to an ounce and a half Aqua Pectoralis or a Pectoral Water Take bitter Almonds and small Raisons of each half a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows and Coltsfoot of each an ounce roots of lesser Mallows Comfrey and Elicampane of each half an ounce seeds of Fenil Anise Quinces Carduus benedictus Carduus Mariae Myrtles and Nettles of each three drams Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Mace Cinamon of each two drams both sorts of Lungwort Fluellin Horehound Ground-Ivy Maidenhair Scabious Hyssop and Sage of each a draâ— and a half flowers of Chamomil Coltsfoot Violets and Hearts-ease of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and infused in twelve pound of the best old Hydromel and digested for eight days afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It operates to a Miracle in all the distempers of the Thorax as straitness of the Breast Asthma and Cough c. It cuts attenuates and deterges thick and viscous flegm gathered in the Lungs and cavity of the Breast and renders it easie to be spit out It also comforts the Stomach and with the help of our Species Diasulphuris it preserves from and cures all Putrefaction and Apostems Moreover it doth effectually help those who are troubled with Phthisicks Pleurisies shortness of Breath destillations of Rheum spitting of Blood and other purulent Matter The dose is from half an ounce to one or two Aqua Antiphthisica or an Anticonsumptive Water Take roots of great Comfry flowers of red Roses of each a pound crums of Wheat-bread four ounces Pine-apples and green Pistick Nuts of each three ounces roots of China two ounces flowers of Liverwort and Rosemary pith of Indian Nuts of each an ounce Mace half an ounce Let them be bruised and broken and put into a large Matrace with water of Calves Lungs two pound Plantane water and Capon water of each a pound water of Cinamon buglossated water of Fluellin and Scabious of each half a pound Let them stand in digestion for eight days often shaking them in the time and afterward add to them exprest juyce of Coltsfoot and Goats milk of each half a pound the blood of one Pig Snails taken from their shells and bruised an ounce and a half Hens Livers three Oriental Saffron a dram Again mix them and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Mariae Virtue Use and Dose This Water hath a wonderful operation it certinly cures the Phthisick or Consumption it heals Ulcers of the Lungs and cleanseth the Breast from thick humors But in Phthisicks coming of Rheumatisms in the Thorax and in Asthma's Pleurisie c. we usually give it in this Form following with good success Take of Aqua Antiphthisica nineteen ounces white Sugar candy three ounces Lac Sulphuris two drams flower of Sulphur a dram and a half Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a dram Mix them ready for use The dose is morning noon and night from a spoonful to two And by the use of this Liquor only a man will grow fat because it moistens lenifies nourishes comforts restores the radical Moisture and allays the Cough and is the only relief to extenuated consumptive and hectical bodies for it restores them to their pristine health and expels the Disease but before it be made use of it should be diligently moved Aqua Pulmonis Vituli or Water of a Calves Lungs Take the Heart Lungs and Liver of a Calf the fat and veins being cut off and add to it great Comfry roots four ounces French Lungwort Pimpernel Fluellin Hyssop Sage and Agrimony of each half an ounce Pour upon them a sufficient quantity of the same water also and boil them in a new well glazed earthen Pot close covered Take of this Broth with the other things three pound water of Borage Bugloss and Roses of each a pound species Diamargariton frigid roots of Pimpinella Cinamon of each an ounce the foâ— greater cold Seeds of each two drams the Cordial Flowers of each a dram Mix them and distil them in an Alembick Virtue Use and Dose Hectical and consumptive people may be nourished a long time by the use of this Water therefore not without reason was this Description always esteemed among us of great price The dose by it self is from one spoonful to two Aqua Caponis or Capon-water Take a Capon which you must boil in a well glazed new earthen Pot according to Art with small Raisons Pine-nuts and Liquorish of each an ounce Iujubes and Sebestens of each twelve new dryed Figs eight Lungwort Coltsfoot Endive and Lettice of each half an ounce flower of Violets and Betony of each a dram The Decoction being finished let all be bruised in a stone Mortar then take good Canary Wine three pound water of Coltsfoot Horehound and Bugloss of each a pound the crum of white Bread steeped in Goats milk half a pound Conserve of Borage Roses and Maidenhair of each four ounces species of Diamargariton frigid half an ounce Cinamon Mace and Aniseeds of each two drams Mix them and distil it in an Alembick according to Art and the distilled Liquor keep for use Virtue Use and Dose This Capon-water is most famous and effectual in all Pectoral Diseases as the Cough Asthma Phthisick c. and is given by it self The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua Cinamomi Buglossata or Cinamon-water Buglossated Take Bugloss water six pound flowers of Violets and Roses of each two pound Cinamon a pound bark of the roots of Bugloss three ounces flowers of Borage and Balm of each an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce Mix them and after due digestion distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It concocts mollifies and resists Poysons it also comforts the Brain Heart Stomach Liver and Spleen It clears the Sight provokes Urine and gives ease in diseases of the Reins and Bladder The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua ex Corde Cervi or Water of a Stags Heart Take a Stags heart cut into small pieces Cinamon half an ounce Cloves Cardamoms the less Galangal the less Mace Oriental Saffron of each two drams wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Citron peels seeds of Basil that smells like Avens of each a dram and a half flowers of Lavender Rosemary Balm and Sage of each a dram Let them be macerated all night in Spanish
Wine and in the morning distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and preserves it from trembling and other dangerous accidents sometimes also it cures the loss of Reason and the defect of the Mind For by its nourishing and increasing quality it raiseth both the vital and natural Spirits and relieves the Heart as speedily as any thing The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua Cordialis frigida or a cooling Cordial Water Take Conserve of red Roses a pound and a half Rasberries a pound species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton frigid of each an ounce and a half seeds of Docks an ounce Sanders red white and yellow of each half an ounce the Cordial Flowers of each two drams Mix them and infuse them in these Waters following water of Sorrel water-Lily Strawberries Violets Borage and Bugloss of each a pound Mix them and digest them for some days and then again add Cinamon water buglossated a pound and a half juyce of Quinces depurated juyce of Lemmons and Citrons of each half a pound Again mix them and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It doth sweetly and effectually refresh and strengthen the Heart in all burning Feavers and all other hot and corrosive Diseases by which means it removes imbecillity and fortifies strength through the whole body It also helps those who are disturbed in Mind whether it takes its Original from the Heart or Stomach it discusseth and throws off all Poyson and poysonous qualities that offend the Vitals and it restores the Spirits that languish with weakness from an excessive heat to their pristine state and strength The dose is from one ounce to two Aqua Cordialis calida or a hot Cordial Water Take Cinamon four ounces roots of Avens three ounces Cloves sealed Earth of each an ounce both sorts of Cardamoms Galangal the less Mace Zedoary the peels of yellow Oranges Citron peels seeds of Basil of each half an ounce odoriferous wood of Aloes Oriental Saffron Spicknard Pennyroyal dryed of each three drams flowers of Borage and Bugloss of each a dram and a half All being pulverized and mixed let them infuse eight days in four pound of Spanish Wine then add Cinamon water distilled with Wine Clove gillyflowers of each a pound and a half flowers of Rosemary Lavender Balm and Sage of each a pound Mix them and in an Alembick in Balneo let it be distilled Virtue Use and Dose It doth help wonderfully in all cold affects of the Heart and is a good Remedy for its palpitation and the defect of the Mind It cureth the Syncope and Swooning refresheth the vital Spirits it takes away a sorrowful heaviness and the cause thereof and exhilarates the Heart It also restores those to health who are weak by the continuance of a lingering Disease and is an excellent Roborative It renders the whole body lively retards Baldness For whosoever is old and useth this Medicine will need no other Conservation for his Health The dose is from one spoonful to two or three at a time Aqua acetosa Stomachalis or a tart Stomach-water Take white Sugar a pound Conserve of Roses and Rose-water of each four ounces Spirit of Vitriol rectified half an ounce Make a Mixture and when it is strained keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This tart Stomach-water is good in any intemperance as well cold as hot and is very effectual in the loss of Appetite or Loathing which is caused by the vitriolated Juyce that is vitiated in the bottom of the Stomach and for this property it cannot be sufficiently praised For it doth most excellently restore Concoction whether it be lost impaired or vitiated and fortifies the Stomach It is to be given in some proper Vehicle two hours before meat without exercise or an hour before meat with exercise after it respecting the disease for in a hot distemper it may be given in Pomegranate-wine or Syrup of Lemmons or of the Juyce of Citrons or Tincture of Roses c. but in a cold defect with our hot Cordial or Stomach-water Wormwood-wine Malmsy or other generous Wine c. The dose of it is so much as will make the Liquor it is taken in tart and sharp Aqua Stomachica calida or a hot Stomach-water Take lesser Galangal an ounce and a half Cloves Nutmegs Cinamon white Ginger Mastich roots of Burnet Elicampane water-Acorus of each an ounce water-Mints six drams Rosemary Sage and Wormwood of each half an ounce both sorts of Cardamoms sweet Reed Mace long Pepper Cummin seeds of each three drams Squinanth Spicknard wood of Aloes of each two drams Bruise and mix them and macerate them in eight pound of Malmsy Wine and of Balm and Pennyroyal water of each a pound let them digest eight days and then distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It warms the Ventricle and rectifies the coldness thereof It allays the Gripes pains and punctures of it It also digests and concocts Flegm and crude Humors collected there It stays Vomiting and Loathing and is a present Remedy for sour Belching It is a Divine help in Leanness and the disposition of Old age and to excite appetite and heat in old people to expel thick ventose humors to open obstructions and to resolve moist humors and corrupt superfluities The dose is from one spoonful to two or three or from half an ounce to one or two Aqua Epatica frigida or a cold Epatick Water Take ripe Strawberries a pound species Diarrhodon Abbatis four ounces roots of Succory Agrimony Scorzonera and Eryngo of each an ounce flowers of the lesser Centaury Liverwort Borage and red Roses of each half an ounce Rhubarb three drams Sanders three sorts of each two drams the four greater and lesser cold Seeds Dock seeds of each a dram and a half Let them be cut and bruised and infused in four pound of red Wine Let them infuse eight days and then add water of the flowers of Liverwort Purslain Sorrel Endive Melons Succory Rasberries and Dodder of each a pound Mix them and distil by an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose The use of this Water is most safe and happy in its success in all Feavers as burning Tertians Quotidians Quartans and other noxious distempers rising from the heat of body in which the Liver suffers Moreover it corrects and amends the intolerable and corrosive heat of the Stomach Lungs and Spleen The dose is every other hour from one ounce to two or three by it self or with some specifick Syrup Aqua Epatica calida or a hot Epatick Water Take species Diacubeba three ounces roots of bitter Costus roots of Smallage Turmerick and Fenil Iuniper-berries seeds of Anise Cummin and Carrots of each an ounce sweet Reed Rhubarb Cassia lignea of each six drams Spicknard Oriental Saffron and Squinanth of each three drams Southernwood Wormwood Agrimony Mother of Thyme and water-Germander of each half an ounce flowers
of Liverwort and golden Stoechas of each a dram and a half All being faithfully bruised and mixed put them into six pound of generous Wine and let them digest eight days afterward add waters of lesser Centaury Succory Fluellin Maiden-hair Chamomil Fumitory Horehound Harts-tongne and Liverwort of each half a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is happily given in all cold diseases of the Liver and the obstructions thereof It is good in ill habits of body and Dropsie It also eradicates the old chronical distempers both of Liver and Spleen and is a good remedy against their cold and moist affects For it cuts and attenuates thick and viscous humors collected in those parts The dose is from one ounce to two or three by it self or with appropriate Syrups Aqua Splenetica or a Water for the Spleen Take roots of both sorts of Fern of Polypody and Smallage of each an ounce and a half roots of round Birthwort water-Acorus sweet Reed and Lovage of each an ounce Rhubarb Cappar bark and Tamarisk of each six drams Pontick Wormwood Mugwort Agrimony Fumitory Harts-tongue Dodder and Spleenwort of each half an ounce seeds of Lovage Fenil Anise and Caraway of each two drams Let them be grosly bruised and mixed and put into ten pints of Rhenish Wine and after eight days digestion distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It attenuates and mollifies thick matter and melancholy Juyce collected in the Spleen and Mesaraick Veins and opens their obstructions It dissolves Wind and Tumors and cures the black Jaundice Hypochondriack Melancholy and Quartan Agues The dose is morning and evening from one ounce to three Aqua Antihydropica or a Water against the Dropsie Take seeds of Rocket half a pound Ash Cummin and Smallage of each an ounce and a half roots of Acorus Avens Swallow-wort Turmerick bitter Costus dwarff Elder Carduus and Sarsaparilla of each an ounce Rhubarb the lesser Galangal Nutmegs and Cloves of each six drams Cappar bark the middle bark of Elder and Tamarisk of each half an ounce Agrimony and Bindweed the tops of green Iuniper of each half an ounce flowers of Liverwort and Elder of each two drams Let them be cut bruised and mixed and put into eight pound of Malmsey Wine and after fourteen days digestion in a warm place the Vessel being shaken often every day then add water of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each half a pound of both sorts of Liverwort Mugwort Carduus and Mother of Thyme of each a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is a most proper Remedy for the Dropsie For it heats and comforts a cold Liver opens its obstructions and restores it to its faculties It dissipates thick flatulent Humors consumes the cause of ill Habits and Dropsies and expels it by its Diaphoretick force The dose is from one ounce to two or three Aqua Antiscorbutica or an Antiscorbutick Water Take wild Radishes cut into small pieces a pound roots of Polypody two ounces Masterwort Angelica and Zedoary of each an ounce and a half chips of Guajacam and Sassafras sweet Reed the lesser Galangal of each an ounce Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron Fenil seeds bark of Cappars and Tamarick of each six drams Let them be cut and bruised and put them into six pound of Spanish Wine and set to digest in a warm place for eight days shaking the Vessel often and then add water of Scurvy-grass of the lesser Nettle of Water-cresses of Stone-crop of Celandine of Money-wort and Fumitory of each a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Mariae Virtue Use and Dose It properly cures in these Northern maritime Regions that disease which they call the Scorbute or Scurvy for it opens obstructions of the Spleen mollifies and attenuates the feculent melancholy humor It also rectifies the blood through the whole body and comforts the Spleen exceedingly It is to be given for divers mornings successively from one ounce to two or three Aqua Anticolica seu Carminativa or a Carminative against the Colick Take the rind of yellow Oranges six ounces roots of Zedoary three ounces Bay-berries husked and Iuniper-berries of each an ounce and a half sweet Reed lesser Galangal Cinamon of each an ounce of the four greater and lesser hot Seeds seeds of Chervil Nigella and Dill of each three drams Let them be grosly bruised and mixed and put into eight pound of Malmsey Wine Let them infuse eight days and then add water of the juyce of Chamomil thrice distilled of Mother of Thyme distilled with Wine of each a pound Mix them and in an Alembick in Balneo distil them Virtue Use and Dose It cures the Colick to a Miracle which hath its Original from a cold and moist matter with wind universal Medicines being premised The dose is from one spoonful to two or three or from one ounce to two or three Aqua Benedicta Serpilli or Aqua Benedicta of Mother of Thyme Take Mother of Thyme with its flowers and gather it in the morning before Sun-rising the Moon decreasing eight ounces Roman Chamomil two ounces Savory and Thyme of each an ounce Put them into eight pound of the best Rhenish Wine and let them infuse certain days and distil them and in the distilled Liquor again infuse Mother of Thyme with its flowers eight ounces Cassia lignea an ounce wood of Aloes and Mace of each half an ounce Cut them small and after due digestion distil them again in an Alembick in Balneo and so it is truly prepared Virtue Use and Dose It stops all Catarrhs and Defluxions and preserves the Head from them It roborates the Brain Stomach and all the Intestines being vitiated with Cold. It stirs an Appetite provokes Urine expels the Stone mitigates the pains of the Belly but chiefly the Colick It dissipates wind from the Bowels and Hypochonders It allays Pains and Hiccup stays Vomiting provokes Womens Courses brings forth the Birth After-birth and dead Child It dissolves concreted Blood It is a good Remedy for those oppressed with a Compression of the Lungs difficulty of Breathing or any Rupture in those parts The dose is from half an ounce to two Aqua Castitatis or the Chast Water Take sealed Earth four ounces seeds of Agnus castus an ounce and a half seeds of Rue water-Lily Lettice and white Poppy of each an ounce seeds of Hemp Sorrel Purslain Gromel Endive Cummin and Coriander prepared of each six drams roots of white Diptamus Hounds-tongue Bistort and Florentine Flower de luce of each half an ounce of all the sorts of Sanders Magistery of Saturn and Camphire of each three drams Pontick Wormwood water-Mints Shepherds-purse Sowthistle Vervain and leaves of Willow of each two drams Let them be cut and bruised and put into ten pound of red Stiptick Wine let them digest eight days and then digest them in Balneo
Virtue Use and Dose This Water is not undeservedly called Chast because it doth so restrain and bridle the fiery prolifick Seed of Monks Nuns Widows and others who are appointed to live a single life so that all libidinous persons use it who are Lovers of Chastity and Modesty and are willing to suppress those excitements without danger to their health For by its frigidity and a certain occult quality it dissolves the Venereal matter Besides it cures the Gonorrhoea or Flux of Seed without any trouble universal Remedies being premised The dose is morning or evening or in time of necessity from one ounce to three Aqua Febrifuga or an Ague-shasing Water Take of our Species febrifuga the lesser Centaury Carduus benedictus Cinquefoil and Wormwood of each four ounces Macerate them in Goats whey and distil them in Sand cohobating thrice that is pour the abstracted Liquor upon the Faeces three times and draw it off again Virtue Use and Dose It doth without doubt utterly extirpate bastard Tertians and Quartans universal Medicines being premised The dose is from two ounces to three either in the morning or in time of the Fit Aqua Hysterica or a Hysterical Water Take dryed Elder-berries three ounces roots of Bryony white Diptamus Peony and Zedoary of each an ounce Misleto of the Oak six drams Cassia lignea red Myrrh Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron and true Castor of each half an ounce seeds of Agnus castus Cummin Carrots of each three drams flowers of black Hellebore two drams Let them be cut and bruised and put into six pound of Malmsey Wine and there macerated for fourteen days then add water of Mugwort Motherwort Pennyroyal Balm and Nep of each a pound Mix them and distii them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose This salubrious Water cures and mitigates all the Suffocations of the Womb nay the worst of them and all the grievous Symptoms thence arising The dose is from two spoonfuls to three by it self in the Fit or it may be given with a scruple of Species Diajovis or with ten grains of our Jovial Troches or with twenty grains of our uterine Specifick But in preservation it is given only one spoonful at a time at the four Quarters of the Moon There is also another most famous Hysterical water for the Epilepsie formerly given by that excellent and worthy Man Dr. Iacob Martin Physician of Lubeck and my Honoured Friend and this Water is still used in the Shops and is vulgarly called Aq. Lit. A. and is thus made Take the best Cinamon an ounce Cloves Ginger and Nutmegs of each six drams peels of Citrons and Oranges of each half an ounce Spicknard four scruples Endive Pennyroyal Scordium Balm Mint female Southernwood and Motherwort of each two ounces Sage eight ounces Marjoram half an ounce Rosemary four ounces true Castor sixteen scruples burnt Wine six pound Rhenish Wine sixteen pound Let them digest three days in a warm place and afterward distil them in Balneo Aqua Dominarum or the Ladies Water Take Cassia lignea two ounces roots of red Mugwort Gentian and white Diptamus of each an ounce and a half bitter Almonds kernels of Peaches and Cherries of each an ounce red Myrrh Venetian Borax seeds of Lavender of each half an ounce Horehound Rue and Savin of each three drams flowers of Centaury the less of Elder and white Violets of each two drams the kernel of the stone Aetites true Castor Opopanax Sagapen and Assa foetida of each a dram and a half black Pepper Oriental Saffron and white Amber of each a dram Let them be grosly cut and bruised and put into six pound of Malmsey Wine and digest them for eight days then add water of Calamint Bugloss Motherwort Mugwort Pennyroyal and Vervain of each a pound Mix them and distil them in Balneo by an Alembick Virtue Use and Dose It facilitates the Birth and expels the dead Child and the Secundine without delay which if it be long detained doth great injury to the Brain Heart and Stomach by the depraved Vapors that arise from it to those parts wherefore the education of it is not to be neglected nor yet to be done irregularly This Water also by its present help provokes the detained Courses The dose is from a spoonful to three Aqua Antinephritica or a Water for the Stone in the Reins Take roots of Restharrow a pound Cut them small and steep them in three pound of generous Wine for three days and then press them and in the strained Liquor infuse Liquorish Saxifrage root and branch roots of Parsley Eryngo and Burnet of each three ounces Winter-cherries and Iuniper-berries of each fouâ— ounces seeds of Gromel Fenil Melons and Nettles of each two ounces Sassafras and Nephritick wood oâ— each an ounce Cinamon and Mace of each half aâ— ounce Let them stand in Infusion for certain days and then add juyce of Ground-Ivy and Purslain of each a pound and a half juyce of Fumitory Parsley and Fluellin of each a pound Distil them in Balneo and cohobate the second time Virtue Use and Dose It doth to a Miracle amend the calculous disposition of the Reins by comforting the parts and casting forth the stony matter The dose is two spoonfuls both for Cure and Preservation Aqua Lithontriptica or a Water for the Stone Take the kernels of Cherries and Peaches of each ten ounces bitter Almonds five ounces flowers of Elder and Acacia of each three ounces roots of Burnet Restharrow Vervain Eryngo and common Mallows of each an ounce chips of Ashen-tree the stony part of Medlars Goats blood prepared Cinnamon the lesser Galangal Perch-stone and Crabs eyes of each six drams Bay-berries busked Iuniper-berries Winter-cherries of each half an ounce leaves of Ground-Ivy three drams seeds of white Saxifrage and Roman Nettles seeds of Burdock Parsley Broom Gromel Carrots of each a dram Let all be cut and bruised and put into sixteen pound of Malmsey Wine and digested fourteen days often shaking the Vessel and afterward distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is given for the Stone of all kinds but chiefly in the Reins and Bladder where it potently breaks and dissipates it and from thence wonderfully expels the long detained Sand with the Urine It easeth the pains of the Loyns and in an instant opens the passage in the Strangury and Dysary The dose is from one ounce to two in the morning fasting either by it self or with appropriate Syrups Aqua contra ardorem Urinae or a Water against the heat of Urine Take roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows common Mallows and Florentine Flower-de-luce of each two ounces of Pine-nuts cleansed and sweet Almonds of each an ounce and a half seeds of Melons husked and Quinces seeds of Smallage white Poppy Endive and Lettice of each six drams Winter-cherries and Myrtle-berries Cassia fistula and the lesser Galangal of each three drams leaves of Violets Dazies and Betony of each two drams Let them be cut and
each half a pound Iuniper and Bay-berries of each seven ounces of Earth-worms washed in Spirit of Wine and again dryed six ounces Rosemary Sage Marjoram Lavender Hyssop Groundpine and Thyme of each an ounce flowers of Chamomil Mullein Melilot and St. Iohns-wort of each half an ounce Boil them in water for a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. This Bath should be often used for it refresheth paralytick Members warms the nervous parts drys roborates and restores them to their pristine motion Yet general and particular Evacuations ought to precede Balneum contra Sterilitatem seu difficultatem impraegnationis probatum Or an approved Bath against Barrenness or difficulty of Conception Take roots of Madder Parsley Polypody and Valerian of each three ounces seeds of wild Rue and Darnel of each two ounces green Iuniper-berries an ounce and a half Motherwort Mother of Thyme Balm Mugwort Fumitory of each an ounce Marjoram Lavender Agrimony Melilot and Mullein of each six drams Calamint Chamomil and Origanum of each half an ounce All being grosly cut and bruised let them be boiled in a great Cauldron to the consumption of the third part of which make a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. This Decoction together with the Herbs Roots and Seeds put into a great Vessel or Bathing Tub and in that let the barren Woman after she hath been well purged from her Terms sit up to the Navil so that all the lower Belly may be bathed and refreshed and let this be continued for twelve days and the Bath to be renewed every third day And during the twelve days let her forbear Coition for by the use of this Bath only many barren Women have been made fruitful But when the Woman goes out of the Bath let her body be well covered with Cloths lest the cold Air should hurt her Balneum Stipticum contra Uteri Haemorrhagiam probatum or a Stiptick Bath approved of in Fluxes of Blood from the Womb. Take crude Alum two pound roots of Plantane Tormentil water-Acorus and Bistort of each four ounces bark of the roots of Acacia Pomegranate rind and Turkish Galls of each three ounces flowers of red Roses and Balaustines of each two ounces the herb Burnet Shepherds-purse Sage and Millefoil of each an ounce Boil all in a sufficient quantity of water in which while it is boiling Iron and Steel is quenched often and make a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. Let the Bath be moderately hot and the Woman sit therein up to the Navil every morning fasting for an hour or two and let this be continued for certain days and by the Providence of God she will be perfectly cured Balneum contra suppressionem Menstruorum probatum or an approved Bath against the suppression of the Terms Take of the whole plant of Mugwort four ounces roots of Angelica Madder Asparagus and Smallage of each two ounces seeds of Parsley Iuniper-berries and Bay-berries â—â—â—ked red Myrrh of each a dram and a half the herbs Centaury Savin and Pennyroyal of each an ounce Fenil Mother of Thyme and Balm of each six drams Wormwood Groundpine Horehound Pellitory Nep Mercury and Rosemary of each half an ounce Let them boil in a large Vessel in a sufficient quantity of River-water to the consumption of the third part then put it into a bathing Tub for use Virtue and Use. Let the Woman sit in it up to the Navil and continue in it for half an hour then let her be dryed and put to bed yet this is not to be used once only but to be repeated three or four times a week Balneum in Icteritia ad Cutem detergendam expertum or a Bath to cleanse the Skin in the Iaundice Take white Tartar a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce white Hermodactyls and Solomons Seal of each four ounces whole Beans Lupines whole Barley of each two drams leaves of Misleto of the Oak an ounce and a half Wormwood common Mallows Pellitory Celandine and Sopewort of each an ounce flowers of the lesser Centaury Chamomil and water-Lilies of each half an ounce Make a Decoction for a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. Let the Patient as it were swim in the Bath that is be covered all over with the water and when he goes out of the Bath let him go into his bed and sweat there the space of an hour and let this be continued Balneum contra Calculum Renum Vesicae or a Bath against the Stone in the Reins and Bladder Take roots of Marsh-mallows and common Mallows of each three ounces roots of Parsley and Restharrow of each two ounces roots of Vervain Eryngo Fenil and Brambles of each an ounce and a half Bay-berries husked and Linseeds of each an ounce flowers of Marsh-mallows six drams of the herbs Chamomil Tansie Dill Melilot Mullein Pellitory of the Wall Saxifrage Cinqfoil Violets and Strawberries of each half an ounce Mix them and boil them for a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. Let the Patient sit in this Bath while he is in his greatest pains And it is successfully used after other Evacuations but while the sick is in the Bath Potions should be given him for to break the Stone Balneum medicamentosum sive Lotio pedum or a medicinal Bath or Wash for the Feet Take Lapis medicamentosus four ounces the best Alum three ounces the inner bark of green Elder an ounce and a half of the herbs Mugwort dwarff Elder Cinqfoil St. Iohns-wort Dill Maidenhair of each six drams ashes of Guajacum common Salt of each half an ounce Boil all in River-water for a Bath for the Feet Virtue and Use. Pour it into some convenient Vessel fit to bathe the Feet in it is good in the Scurvy and in other diseases to take away Tumors of the Feet but the Patient ought to continue in the Bath two or three hours in the morning fasting and this must be continued for three or four days together and when he comes out of the Bath let him wipe his Feet with a Towel Balneum Nitrosum pro pedibus or a Nitrous Bath for the Feet Take of the best Nitre half a pound Sea-Salt four ounces flowers of Chamomil Marsh-mallows and red Roses of each an ounce of the herbs Betony Origanum Sage and Rue of each half an ounce Mix them and boil them and make a Bath for the Feet Virtue and Use. Let the sick use this morning and evening for it draws away the flegmy matter that lies in the Joynts and draws down the humors from the upper parts when he hath done bathing let him wipe his Feet with a clean Cloth Balneum Hypnoticum pro pedibus or a Bath for the Feet to procure Sleep Take the bark of the roots of Mandrake of Henbane and common Mallows of each an ounce leaves of Violets Melilot Lettice Nightshade and Dill of each half an ounce eleven heads of white Poppy with the seeds flowers of water-Lily Chamomil and Roses of each two drams
Great are the virtues of this Plaster in mollifying and dissolving for it digests mollifies and dissolves the knots and hard scrofulous Tumors arising on any of the principal Joynts and Members It takes away the Warts and Corns on the Feet Being applied to the part affected it removes the pain in the Head called Hemicrania It roborates the Nerves and Womb and easeth pain in any part proceeding from an influx of cold humors Being applied it heals the biting and stinging of any venemous Creature Scorpions Weasles Polcats c. Emplastrum Saturni or a Plaster of Saturn Take Lead burnt and washed two ounces Goats Suet and yellow Wax of each an ounce and a half Turpentine six drams Lapis Calaminaris prepared and white Lead washed of each half an ounce Pompholix Tutty prepared of each two drams red Myrrh Mastich and Olibanum of each a dram Epatick Aloes Camphire and Nitre prepared of each half a dram Mix them and make a Plaster of a just consistence Virtue and Use. This noble Plaster of Saturn is as it were a Divine help of late found out by me and by my Experience I have found it good for Burns Inflammations Tumors the Persian Fire c. It is also good for Wounds all malignant fetid insanable and corroding Ulcers as Fistula's Wolf Cancer Polypus Noli me tangere c. and the like deplorable Ulcers of Saturn which by this Plaster are cured and filled with flesh in a few days And this is our true and sincere Description of the Plaster of Saturn of which there are many Prescripts abroad but there is none true but this Emplastrum Arthriticum or a Plaster for the Gout Take fresh Sallet Oyl a pound red Lead finely powdered two ounces Being mixed boil them to a moderate consistence of a Plaster then add yellow Wax a pound seeds of Henbane finely powdered Colophony white Turpentine of each four ounces Mix them and make a Plaster according to Art Virtue and Use. The Plaster is really Anodyne and therefore universal Medicines being first prescribed it is most profitable in the Gout and running pains and to other cruciating pains also at any time for it wonderfully allays and pacifies all the injuries of pain Emplastrum Narcoticum or a Narcotick Plaster Take the juyces of Housleek six ounces of Henbane Hemlock Rosemary Vervain and Nightshade of each three ounces Oyl of white Lilies Camphire flowers of Mullein and Chamomil of each an ounce and a half Marrow of a Stag an ounce Let them be boiled according to Art in Balneo to the consumption of the Juyces then add of Virgins Wax and Colophony of each two ounces Ceruss an ounce and a half Opium Spagirically extracted flowers of wild Poppy of each three drams Foreign Mumy two drams Mix them and make a Plaster according to Art Virtue and Use. It cools and wonderfully allays the tormenting pains of the Gout and mitigates the Herpes Erysipelas and Phlegmons It potently extinguisheth all other hot intemperatures nay the burning heat of Inflammations It also easeth the pains of the Head and being applied to the Temples and Pulses it induceth sleep Emplastrum foetidum or a fetid Plaster Take Assa foetida three ounces seeds of Snap-dragon seven three Oaken Leaves red Coral and powder of the Load-stone of each a dram and a half Mix them and make a Plaster with Oyl of St. Johns-wort Virtue and Use. It hath been stupendiously experimented in any kind of Witchcraft and is as it were a thing sent down from Heaven For being laid upon the Centre of the Member where the tormenting pain is it doth not only drive away the Witchcraft but also all Phantasms and Inchantments without Superstition immediately vanish yet in the interim let the Patient drink of the following Decoction Take the herb Snap-dragon with the seeds St. Iohns-wort and Winter-green of each alike Boil them in Oyl or Wine to the consumption of the third part and drink a good draught morning and evening Emplastrum de Carne bubula or a Plaster of Beef Take Beef well dryed and pulverized Oyl of Tartar and yellow Wax of each two ounces white Turpentine Lapis Calaminaris Pumice-stone red and white Bole Litharge Mastich burnt Alum Oyl of Eggs of each half an ounce red Myrrh Olibanum and Camphire of each two drams Mix them and with two ounces of sharp Wine Vinegar make a Plaster according to Art Virtue and Use. It heals Woundâ— and old malignant corroding cancrous Saturniâ—e Ulcers which are difficult to consolidate it fills them with flesh drys them and brings them to cicatrize And Fistula's which are not grown callous this Plaster heals It is also of good use in all Putrefaction Piles and other Swellings of the Fundament as also all other distempers and accidents in those parts as Chops Fici c. And lastly it is successfully applied to all depascent Ulcers of the Paps and Privities Emplastrum Talpinum or a Plaster of a Mole Take May Butter without salt half a pound green Rue and fresh roots of Solomons-seal Boil these till the Butter appear green then let it be strained and prest and to the exprest Butter add yellow Wax half a pound Ship Pitch four ounces Oyl of Saturn an ounce one live Mole burnt Virgin Honey two spoonfuls white Oats and Wheat dryed over the fire in a Frying-pan till they be black and then pulverized of each a handful Of these make a Plaster Virtue and Use. It is most properly applied to Wounds and old stinking Ulcers all which it drys and heals fills them with good flesh and brings them to cicatrize drawing from them all sordid and filthy humors though they lye deep in the flesh Emplastrum contra Herniam or a Plaster for the Rupture Take Rosin six ounces Turpentine three ounces Oyl of Eggs and Dragons blood of each an ounce great Comfry roots and red Sanders of each half an ounce Crocus Martis made by reverberation two drams burnt Alum a dram Let the Rosin and Turpentine be melted together and being removed from the fire sprinkle the Powders in and then add the Oyl all being well mixed make a Plaster which by the help of hot water may be made into Rolls Virtue and Use. It is a present Remedy in all kind of Ruptures but in the first place it cures the Rupture of the Guts and Navil Let this Plaster be applied to the part affected that is to the lower Belly first bringing the Guts into their place by degrees then the Mons Pubis and the Scrotum being shaved apply it there also and let all be kept together by fit Ligation or strait Drawers lest the things fall off and let this be continued till the Patient be perfectly well During which time let him lye on a soft bed and be at quiet observing a regular Diet and let him shun a cold intemperate Air Wind Noise Clamor Singing Laughing Weeping lifting great weights or any other violent motion And let him also abstain from all flatulent windy
good will of excellent Spagyrick Artists and the prudent Searchers into the things of Nature I freely communicate to the Sons of Learning and Experience yet I do appoint it as a thing beyond all doubt that this healthy and celestial comfort may be received with a pleasant countenance and with the delight of a thankful mind dedicated to God in praise and thanksgiving The Preparation TAke native Vitriol green and known to the Philosophers only or for want of that the Crystals of Vitriol of Venus well cleansed sublimely mundified and free from all its terrestrial quality put it into a strong and well luted Retort increase the fire by degrees till it produceth a reddish Oyl which carefully preserve the use of it shall be shewed hereafter Then take the Caput mortuum which is left in the bottom of the Vessel and pour upon it an appropriate Menstruum and set it in a cold place and it will shoot into Crystals of the nature and savour of Vitriol Calcine the Caput mortuum the second time and proceed as before is directed and it will again produce new Crystals almost of the same kind but less profitable to this Mystery Repeat this labour so often and so long till no more smell remains in the Vitriol and then lastly calcine the Caput mortuum throughly but Philosophically and extract from it its Salt which will be excellent and pleasant to the taste which also preserve in hope of the following doctrine and in the mean time be mindful of what hath been spoken You may by due rectifying of the terrene part find a true occult Medicinal Stone Then take the fore-mentioned Oyl and pour into it Water in that dissolve filings of Steel and prepare Vitriol of it which dissolve in distilled Rain-water that the Crystal may the better appear which labour you shall so often repeat till you have the pure from the impure and that the Crystals appear clear and pellucid without dimness and obscurity From these Crystals of Mars in the former manner distil a red Oyl and let it be well rectified lest any of the flegm should remain in it Then you shall have the blood of the red Lion that is a Mineral the Sulphur of Mars and Venus together of excellent virtue and this taken from Vulcan according to that saying Mulciberis capti Marsque Venusque dolis This being done extract from the Caput mortuum a Salt void of all smell of Mars prepare it after the same manner as is already shewed in the Extraction of Salt of Vitriol of Venus Both these Salts mix together in equal weight put it into some open Glass-vessel and set it in a Cellar or other cold place where it may resolve it self into a Mercurial water Then take the solution and from that again draw fresh Crystals and then you will have a duplicate Mercury the Salt of Sapience and Nature the Salt of the Philosophers under which is hidden the Basis of the World And this duplicate Mercury being wrapped in a hood of obscurity was never manifested so plainly by any of the Philosophers as by my self although in certain obscure words it was delivered by them which was not easie to be understood till by the search of more laborious men the thing was further sought into and this Mercury is called by the Philosophers Rebis which is as it were the terrestrial Treasure discovered by the mercy of God an Experiment of the best and greatest knowledge which you must reserve for the following use Take the Mercury now mentioned and that red Sulphur those two joyn Philosophically by the rule of Reason and Understanding and let the Spagyrick Vessel in which they are mixed be three parts empty and the fourth part only filled with the Medicine this seal Hermetically and manage it with a Philosophical fire by degrees in a continual heat till the whole mass be coagulated and brought into the form of a stone Which being done you may if you please reduce into its forms principally and in a short time render it more noble and illustrious and so you have made the great Mystery If you are curious you may observe before the Coagulation a wonderful appearance of many things and many colours also all which consider well honour God and accommodate your Neighbour Virtue Use and Dose IT is an universal Medicine and such a Treasure that is able to cure all Diseases by what name soever they are called in all and every Creature One two or more grains of this Arcanum taken according to the age and constitution of the Patient doth presently penetrate the whole body like smoke it removes all the vicious and malignant attendants of Nature and puts all into a better conformity it doth renew the whole Creature and as it were regenerates all de novo it keeps the whole structure in order beyond the power and disturbance of small accidental Diseases even to old age or to the end of life which is determined by the Almighty c. For Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis When death 's impowered by the God above No medicine can our miseries remove Also this illustrious Medicine when duly fermented with the pure Gold of Philosophers cleanseth Metals from their original impurity and renders them good by the virtue of the pure fixt Gold For which immense and ineffable benefit and every other gift and wisdom let it be to the praise and glory of the great Creator who is God blessed for ever Unicornu Solare or the Solar Unicorn LIke as the Unicorn in the animal Kingdom is esteemed of great price by all men but especially great ones and is esteemed of such a price that it far exceeds all Gemms precious Stones Gold and Silver both in price and excellence and hath a place among the richest of Treasures So also the Solar Unicorn in the Mineral Kingdom is to be esteemed of great price for its great fixitude and more than solid perfection for it is the highest most precious and next to universal to which it is joyned as a Partner both in virtue and operation and so secret a Mystery that it is not improper to call it a most powerful and inaccessible Remedy Preparation ALthough it is easie to the knowing and skilful yet it will be difficult to the ignorant and unskilful they being wrapt in ignorance like a garment Take the original Mineral of Gold broken into piece like Hazel-nuts the quantity of a pound or less put it into a Cornuta or other Spagyrick Vessel and with a gentle clear fire distil it the work being made secure and all well luted and let the matter in the bottom not melt but sweat only without burning that it may send forth a sweet and celestial Water which is of great price And indeed by the benefit of this Spagyrick Art a pound of the Mineral will scarce cast forth by sweat the quantity of a spoonful of water therefore you may reiterate this labour with
new Mineral until you think you have water sufficient for your purpose Then rectifie this water eight or nine times that the pure may be separated from the impure which being done let it be reserved for use as the true Arcanum and Hermetical Treasure and he that knows how to transmute this water into a viscous and vivid liquor hath really that most secret and rare Key which is known but to a few by which that golden Castle that is fenced with a threefold Wall is most easily recluded and by the thread of wisdom he legitimately enters to those Treasures hidden in Gold But this work is the following labour c. Now take the best Arabick Gold with Antimony according to Art purified to the height and wrought into thin plates by the Goldsmith or otherwise and then without any other additament it may be brought into a most fine Powder or if you know how without Corrosives to prepare a fine Calx of the Sun Spagyrically you may do it with more profit c. Then put of this most secret Powder what quantity you will into a Philosophical Glass and pour upon it a little of the Solar Menstruum that it may exceed the Powder half the thickness of your little finger seal the Glass Hermetically and set it to digest in such a heat as the Embryo is nourished by in the Mothers womb till the water is consumed or drunk up by the Powder of Gold then open your Glass and pour upon it so much of your Solar Menstruum as you did the first time Let it dry again the same way as before and repeat this work so often till the Gold is changed into a reddish Powder and then the Solar Unicorn is prepared which is approved in many and most desperate Diseases a most profitable and sweet Remedy It is truly that golden Fleece which after a manifold and so often repeated Philosophical Concoction doth overcome and conquer the heat of fire neither can it be overcome by it Hence you may recal the quality of this sort of Mystery to the Touchstone of a more ripe counsel Virtue Use and Dose BY this Arcanum the wiser Physicians not only conserved by the will of God the health and strength of the body and prolonged life for many years but also they cured the Epilepsie the Apoplexy the Elephantiasis Morphew Melancholy Madness Quartan Agues Sciatica Gout pains in the Joynts Dropsie yellow Jaundice Pox Asthma Phthisis Pleurisie Itch and Scurff Cancers Noli me tangere and the like dangerous humane Diseases of this kind by other Remedies incurable and this done by the strength of the fire contained in it which doth not only consume the lethal humors but also doth repair and renovate the very marrow in the Bones and raise and succour the whole humane body though half dead And one thing is worthy to be noted of this Medicine that it contains in it self a most powerful and diaphoretick force Therefore whosoever is willing to use this Remedy especially if he labours under any of the fore-mentioned Diseases let him repair to his Bed for one or two hours and prepare for a Sweat and it will cast it out sweetly and plentifully without any pain and leave nothing impure or superfluous in the Body To young men who desire a long life it is given once a month and the day he takes it let him forbear both meat and drink till the evening by which means the virtue of the Medicine will grow into a radical equality with the humors and the strength of the Body will increase more and more the natural beauty will increase and out-do the art of paint c. giving a comliness pleasing and conspicuous to every beholder But to those who labour under the before-mentioned Diseases it ought to be given ten days successively in Vehicles proper and appropriate to the Disease and so God willing they will be restored to their pristine health as much as Art and Medicine can perform To old people it is given twice a month and by the Providence of God it preserves their Intellectuals firm and entire and in their greatest age it renders their bodies vigorous and fresh even to their graves To young Women and Virgins this Arcanum is given four times a week at the New Moon it keeps Nature in its due current and every part of the body in order Also if you should give it to a Woman who is long in Labour and though the Birth were hindred by the bigness of the Child yet immediately after the wished for Infant will be brought forth almost without any pain If it be given to Women whose Courses have left them it keeps them fresh lusty and fair and sometimes it causes their Terms to come again so that they are made capable of Child-bearing It also cures the Pestilence and if any Carbuncle should appear it dispels the matter of it and by a friendly Sweat drives forth the cause of it For which great and glorious Mystery we ascribe honour to Jehovah and the individual Trinity for ever and ever Aurum Potabile or Potable Gold TAke the best Hungarian Gold throughly prepared with Antimony and a strong fire which done let it be wrought into thin plates then dissolve it with good and well rectified Oyl of Salt known to none but to the absolute Chymist and after solution draw off the humidity with an Alembick and in the bottom you shall find the yellow Calx of the Sun Take this and put it into a glass Vessel and pour upon it so much of the Oyl of Cinnamon as will make a Mixture like a Pultis and you will see the matter in the middle begin to boil and wax black then have ready at hand good Spirit of Wine very well rectified and impregnated with the Tartar of the Philosophers pour a little of that into the forementioned liquid Mass that it may rise a fingers breadth above the matter and the Spirit will presently extract the soul of the Sun clear and in colour like Gold this being done pour off the tinged Spirit and pour on fresh and this labour repeat so often until the Spirit receives no more Tincture Dissolve the remaining Calx of the Sun again anew with fresh Oyl of Salt and proceed as at the first by repeating and continuing this work till the whole body is dissolved and a potable Liquor made of the Gold after all let this Aromatick Liquor of the Sun be circulated that it may be freed from all the acrimony of the Oyl of Salt which still remains in it or in the Spirit of Wine and this is the first solution made without Corrosives which no man will ever be able to reduce again into natural Gold Virtue Use and Dose AMong the best of Medicines this is the chief it takes away most Diseases and Distempers of the Body intrinsecally drawing away the original and constantly works the Cure with great admiration it renovates and conserves the whole body it
digest together in Sand warm for three days and three nights putting a blind head upon the Cucurbit and stir it often with a wooden Spatula After digestion filter it into a Glass or earthen Bason and in Sand let it evaporate to the consistence of a liquid Extract and you shall have this Aperitive Magistery of Mars What remains of the Steel let it be dried and brought into a most fine Powder and reserved for use and so you have Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds for Chalybeate Wine whose description and use seek in its proper Section Virtue Use and Dose It hath a singular property in opening dissolving and drying which admirable Title is not given to it only for opening the oppilations of the Liver Spleen and Meseraicks but also for dissolving and consuming hard scirrhous Tumors and for drying and corroborating the parts grieved and debilitated by a redundance of humors Besides it hath an excellent faculty of attenuating loosning and preparing black Choler and therefore it hath been experimented in the Cure of Melancholy black and yellow Jaundice Quartan Agues and all other affects arising from superfluity obturation putrefaction and the like It also by a specifick quality openeth the Veins of the Matrix being obstructed and hence it moves and provokes the Terms c. It hath been also experimented in the Green-sickness ill habit of Body and the beginning of a Dropsie It also corroborates the Genital parts of man or woman debilitated and relaxed by a superfluity of moisture Lastly it is also very profitable in an inveterate Gonorrhoea and the white stinking flux of the Womb. Moreover if this liquid Magistery be mixed with a just quantity of Rhenish Wine it colours it black but if it be filtred again through a Paper it becomes clear and dilucid as before and doth no ways abate of its strength it still retaining its strong taste and is of equal virtue and force therefore in all affects where the Spaw-waters or any other Medicinal Waters that are impregnated with the Minerals of Mars which are so highly commended by our practical Physicians are useful this will supply the place and may be given as effectually to the Patient to drink For where the body is conveniently cleansed and some Veins opened if there be occasion and afterwards for certain days drink this Martial Wine and observe a good diet there and then it works upon the same affects which those Medicinal Waters are given for or can perform The Dose of this Aperitive Magistery is from half a dram to a dram more or less in some appropriate Vehicle or in Electuaries Conserves Boles Rotula's and in other Species of Medicines it may be mixed according to the judgment of the Physician But the Dose of the Martial Wine is from two ounces to three either by it self or mixed with other Liquors The Magistery of Jupiter TAke the Ashes of fine Tin prepared in an open fire and with strong distilled Vinegar extract a Salt according to Art afterwards take Spirit of Vitriol well rectified and drop it in upon this Extraction being first filtred and immediately it will become white like Milk and a white Powder will precipitate to the bottom which Powder take and edulcorate by washing it often with distilled Rain-water till it hath lost all its acrimony then dry the Powder and keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of excellent virtue in the infirmities of the Womb and other Hysterical affects It repels those Vapors which arise from the Womb to the upper parts and doth prevent those grievous Symptoms that are hence used to rise The Dose is from four grains to six in proper Vehicles The Magistery of Saturn TAke of the clear and crystalline Salt of Saturn what quantity you will dissolve it in Rose-water afterwards pour upon it Spirit of Vitriol there are some who use Oyl of Tartar but Spirit of Vitriol is best slowly and yet with a quick fall till it be of the colour of thick Milk then filter it through a brown Paper and a white Magistery will remain there then with Cordial water edulcorate it according to the Spagyrick Art and having dryed it keep it for your use Virtue Use and Dose This Magistery of Saturn is freed from all its nauseous and noxious sweetness and we happily use it in Phthisicks Hecticks burning Feavers and in other internal Inflammations Also in Quartan Agues in affections of the Spleen in the Colick and Venereal Lusts it is a great Secret it being contrary to these things The Dose is from four to six grains in some specifick and congruous Vehicle It is also of excellent use in the rottenness and foulness of the Mouth in malignant Ulcers in Cancers in all Saturnine Diseases the Wolf an Ulcer so called Fistula's all burning Sores Burns red Pustles of the Face the redness of the Eyes c. and may be variously mixed either in Plasters or Liniments or dissolved in other things for external use Anima Vitrioli or the Soul of Vitriol TAke several great and large earthen Vessels by how much the larger they are by so much the better fill those Vessels full with Rain-water and into every Vessel put two three or more handfuls of common Vitriol yet measure the Vitriol and either increase it or diminish it according to the bigness of the Vessels and let this Vitriol dissolve in the water let the Vessels stand where they may not be moved and sometimes exposed to the Sun or the Air yet so that it may not rain into them nor any filth be cast therein Then you shall see the Soul of Vitriol swim on the top of the water in colour like the Rain-bow or a Peacocks tail this being thin you shall take it off with a Spoon divers times in the day This being done stir the water about and by and by when it is setled again there will appear fresh Soul which take also and so by little and little you shall gather as much as you shall think sufficient Note When there will no more colours rise in the water the Soul is all extracted and the water is to be replenished with fresh Vitriol The Soul being all abstracted it will at first appear like mud which lay upon a Tile or other earthen Vessel and put it into a strong fire till it be red-hot and then it will be of the colour of blood and endure the flame which being done though it should lye in the fire many days it will not waste a grain Virtue Use and Dose This Soul of Vitriol Philosophically extracted and Spagyrically prepared is given in many Diseases especially all fluxes of the Head and Belly the flux of Blood and Terms c. in the Epilepsie Dropsie Gonorrhoea prickings of the Sides Gout Feavers Phrensie c. in all which it is of admirable use The Dose from five grains to six or eight in appropriate Vehicles and Medicines respecting the Disease The Arcanum of Vitriol DIstil from native
of Citrons one pound Distil it and separate the Oyl from the water rectifie it and reserve it for use Then take of white Sugar Candy three ounces Oyl of Citrons rectified half an ounce Mix them and you have a most odorate Eleosaccharum of Citrons Yet there is another more secret way of preparing an Eleosaccharum of Citrons and Oranges and that is thus from the exterior coat of them being yet recent the oily Juyce is prest and mixt with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy and well incorporate and so you have an Eleosaccharum far more sweet and excellent both in smell and taste which is also easier to be prepared Virtue Use and Dose It helps the imbecillity of the Heart and Ventricle it promotes Concoction and discusseth Flatulencies it is good against Poisons and causeth a sweet breath It being also mixed with Wine doth wonderfully advance it by its most sweet odour and taste The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple in any convenient Vehicle Annotation This way of Preparation may be observed almost in all Spices Gums Barks Herbs Flowers and Seeds c. to wit in Clove-gilli-flowers Cinamon Cassia lignea Nutmegs Mace Pepper white Amber Mastich Marjoram Sage Rue Lavender flowers of Chamomil and Roses Aniseeds Fenil-seed Angelica Caraway Cummin-seed Dill c. From these and such like may Eleosaccharum be prepared most friendly to humane Nature Magistery of Parsley Take Ashes of Hearts-ease or Salt of Tartar half a pound and with a sufficient quantity of Rain-water make a strong Lixivium clear c. Then take Parsley not dryed in the Sun and cut small what quantity you please Put it into a Glass and pour upon it your Lixivium already made let them stand in digestion in a warm place to extract the Tincture To this being impregnate and the Lixivium yet hot pour upon it warm crude Alum half a pound dissolved in rain-Rain-water mix them well together and the true Tincture of the Parsley will precipitate with the ebullition and be a little green which diligently edulcorate and keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It heats and cuts the Humors it strongly provokes the Terms and Urine it discusseth Wind and expels the Stone The Dose is from six grains to ten or twenty in some appropriate Vehicle Annotation In like manner Magisteries or Tinctures of green dryed Herbs as of Rue Watercresses Water-Mints Rosemary Sage c. are extracted and kept for the use of them in Physick SECT II. Of Liquid Tinctures Tincture of Coral TAKE true Spirit of Honey Philosophically distilled but not that corrosive and poisonous vulgar sort pour it upon the pure red fragments of Coral first Spagyrically and without fire calcined to draw the Tincture until the body remains white and as it were dead All the Extractions being mixed after due ablution and Coagulation draw it off gently in Balneo Mariae and the remaining Essence of the dissolved matter not of the dissolving Menstruum again draw off with rectified Spirit of Wine until you do receive a most red Tincture like blood which you shall make into the form of an Oyl at least of an Alcoole by evaporating the mediety thereof and keep it for your use as the true and genuine Preparation of Corals but by no means make your Tincture with Aqua Mellis as many have hitherto done by hiding of this Secret Virtue Use and Dose Hitherto the Hermetical Artists have kept this noble and precious Essence to themselves for they used it with happy and great success in Phantastical imaginations Epilepsie and Melancholy because it mundifies and renews the blood throughout the whole body It also resists all defects rising in the blood by putrefaction and corruption and it radically throws off all internal diseases It also comforteth the seven principal Members but especially the Heart and vital Spirits which it defends against poison and all other evil and dangerous accidents Also it wonderfully opens all obstructions of the principal Members as the Lungs Liver Spleen and Kidneys and it allays Inflammations It eats up the heat of Feavers and consumes their matter c. It is a divine Medicine in the most vehement suffocation of the Matrix superfluity of the Terms in the Dropsie Scurvy Palsie Pox Leprosie Dysentery Gonorrhoea Convulsions and Blood congealed or stagnant The Dose is from six drops to half a scruple or a whole scruple in Vehicles convenient and proper to the disease Tincture of Mars Take of Sal Armoniack two parts of filing of Steel one part Mix them and in a Retort distil them by degrees first with a gentle after with a more strong fire and the Essence of Mars will remain in the bottom take this and edulcorate it well that it may be free from all the sharpness of the Sal Armoniack then put this matter thus edulcorated into a little Cucurbit and with Spirit of Wine extract a Tincture and when it will tinge no more take away the tinctured Spirit and draw it off to the half in an Alembick that which remains with the Essence extracted filter through a Paper and reserve that for use as the true Tincture of Mars Virtue Use and Dose This Tincture of Mars is by Experiment found to be of singular use in all obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Also in Hypochondriack Melancholy Quartan Agues ill habit of Body Dropsie Green-sickness Scurvy the Terms too much either in flux or retention The Dose is from six drops to half a scruple in Wine Syrups Decoctions or other convenient Liquors that the strength of it may so much the better penetrate which is effectual even to the remote and extreme parts of the body but in the use of this the body ought to be often and gently purged of the peccant humors and a good Diet to be observed Tincture of Antimony TAke Vitriol calcined to a redness what quantity you please pour upon it distilled Vinegar Let them stand in a warm place for two or three days take the Tincture by inclination filter it and the Menstruum is prepared Then take a sufficient quantity of crude Antimony well pulverized and pour upon it of your Menstruum before-mentioned what quantity you please and let them digest according to art until the Menstruum appear yellow which pour off and pour on fresh till all the Tincture is extracted This being done and all the several Tinctures mixed let them be distilled to the thickness of Honey then at last draw it off again with Spirit of Wine to the half and you shall then receive a reddish Tincture which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It doth wonders in the Epilepsie Melancholy Madness Love potions and poisonous Draughts The Dose is six grains in some convenient Vehicle Tincture of Sulphur EXtract flowers of Sulphur with Spirit of Turpentine in the usual manner which being done let the Spirit evaporate by degrees till the rest is dry then take out the drâ—ed matter and pulverize it and with Spirit of
boiled hard Conserve of the roots of great Comfry flowers of wild Poppy of each four ounces of the thorny pricks of Fishes of Nutmegs Gum Arabick of each two ounces the heads of Poppy with the seeds flower of red Archangel juyce of Acacia or instead of it juyce of Sloes of each an ounce Mix them and let them infuse 24 hours in six pints of red Stiptick Wine then add of our Aqua Hypnotica ten ounces and distil all in Balneo Then take of this distilled liquor four pints Dragons blood moistned with spirit of Vitriol as much as doth suffice to give it a red tincture then filter it and the red Tincture edulcorate with Syrup of the Juyce of wild Poppy-flowers and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is very profitable and of great power and force in all Fluxes of the Belly as Dysenteries Diarrhoea's Lienteries Tenesmus c. The Dose is four ounces SECT III. Of Extracts Bezoarticum Solare or the Solar Bezoar TAke Venice Treacle Mithridate of each eight ounces shavings of Guajacum and Sassafras of each six ounces Bay-berries roots of Elicampane Angelica of each four ounces Swallow-wort Zedoary Tormentile of each two ounces Dragon-wort Masterwort Valerian Scorzonera white Dictamnus Butter-bur of each an ounce elect Mastich red Myrrh wood of Aloes Calamus aromaticus Cardamoms the less white Ginger Cubebs Oriental Saffron Mace of each six drams These being pulverized and mixed draw the Tincture Spagyrically with the best Spirit of Wine and then separate the Spirit from the Essence by a gentle heat in Balneo until it remains at the bottom thick like Honey which being done add of Confectio Alkermes an ounce Iovial Bezoar Diaphoretick Mineral Oriental Bezoar of each half an ounce Elks hoofs and Harts-horn Hermetically calcined native Cinnabar prepared sealed Earth flowers of Nitre of each three drams the Mineral Solar and Animal Unicorn of each a dram and a half Salt of Oriental Pearls and of red Corals flowers of Benjamin milk of Sulphur of each a dram salt of Betony of Scabious of Scordium of each three scruples the five precious Stones prepared the bone of a Stags heart Vipers of each half a dram Ambergriese and Musk of each a scruple These being all diligently mixed and incorporated at last add by drops true Oyl of Roses of the Oyls of the seeds of Angelica of Oranges white Amber Cloves Nutmegs Cinamon Camphire Garden Rue Citrons rectified of each a dram Mix them all together and bring them into the due and just form of an Extract to which you may add for the greater force of the Medicine the Salt made of the calcined Feces and extracted according to art Virtue Use and Dose It is a great Secret nay it is the best Medicine in many and almost all Diseases against all metallick animal and vegetable Poisons as Mercury Arsenick Wolf-bane the brain of a Cat poisonous Medicines Love-potions the poison of Spiders Vipers Serpents Scorpions Toads c. which doth powerfully expel it from the Heart and the other principal Members by Sweat and penetrates and conserves the whole body It is also useful after due Purging in all putrefactions and superfluous humors of the body from whencesoever they arise in ill habits of Body Dropsie c. In Erysipelas's in which case open a Vein first in strong bodies in the English Sweat punctures of the Sides small Pox Asthma Melancholy Pox obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Leprosie Contractures all long and confirmed Diseases c. Also all Gouts in the Joynts Knee Foot Hip in all Feavers Terms retained Jaundice yea in the Colick and Iliack Passion c. It is a singular and incomparable remedy in the Plague the Hungarian disease and in all Epidemical diseases it is a great Secret and by the report of the Patient it works to a miracle and that I may speak all in a word it is an universal Evacuative of all Poisons in the body In Apostems Carbuncles the true Pleurisie first give one Dose and exactly five hours after give another let this be gentle that he may have a third and of the happy success let no man doubt But if the Patient should cast up the Medicine by Vomit repeat it again presently yea though he should retain it for it is not sufficient to give one Dose only but give it so that it may cast the pestilential Poison out of the body with power and safety repeat this Alexipharmack Sudorifick five or six times in two days Which seeing it is often neglected how many may be saved which dye and this noble Medicine is defamed When the Patient is in his Sweat let him refresh himself with Conserve of Roses vitriolated Conserve of Sorrel Rob of Goose-berries Juyce and Syrup of Citrons of Pomegranates with Cordial and simple Waters c. and let the Patient abstain from sleep till he hath sweat twice When his Sweat is over let his body be dryed with clean Linen moderately warm but take great care lest the expulsed Poison be driven in again by too cold Air let the Sheets and Blankets of the Bed be changed And if the sick were tyred with sweating let him use comforting and refreshing Meats as new-laid Eggs Broth Ptisans and such like which are pleasant and nourish much in a small quantity The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple But if he be seized with the Plague or his case be desperate let him take at first half a dram or two scruples in our water of Harts-horn Treacle or Carduus benedictus or let him take it in any other appropriate Vehicle and sweat for it doth most powerfully drive all Poison out of the body by its Diaphoretick force for you will see the whole body flow with sweat For which Divine blessing let the Name of the Lord be blessed Aurea Hadrianea or the Golden Hadrianean Take of the following Extracts made with distilled Vinegar Venice Treacle Mithridate Confectio Alkermes of each an ounce roots of Anthora Angelica Elicampane of each half an ounce Scordium Oriental Saffron Lupines of each three drams Harts-horn and Elks hoof Hermetically calcined Bole prepared with juyce of Citrons sealed Earth Bezoar Diaphoretick Mineral Iovial Bezoar of each two drams Hyacinth prepared Emerauld prepared salt of Pontick Wormwood Carduus the lesser Centaury of each a dram and a half Magistery of Pearls of red Corals and of Crabs eyes of each a dram bone of a Stags heart bones of Vipers Unicorns horn Extract of Lignum Aloes of each half a dram then add by drops Oyl of white Amber rectified of Camphire Zedoary Roses Cloves Cinamon Citrons rectified Angelica Rue of each half a scruple First mix the Extracts carefully that they may all well incorporate one with another which being well mixed add the other Oyls and Powders which by little and little sprinkle on the mass which being warm bring it into the form of an Extract Virtue Use and Dose This Antidote from its value and excellence
vitriolated a dram Diacodium crociated half a dram species of Diambra ten grains Extract of Elicampane flowers three grains Mix them and with Rotula's of Diamargariton frigidum make a Bole for one dose Laudanum Minerale or the Mineral Laudanum Take of the Anodyne Sulphur of Vitriol corrected and fixt two drams Magistery of Pearls Extract of Lignum Aloes of each a dram and a half of Saffron a scruple Bezoar stone the Animal Unicorn of each fifteen grains oyls of Cloves and Cinamon of each half a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of the Juyce of wild Poppy flowers make a soft Mass according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Anodyne and most profitable to procure sleep also to stop Catarrhs Defluxions from the Brain upon the Nose or Eyes Coughs and other such kind of affects it helps the Distillations that fall upon the Thorax Lungs c. The Dose is from six grains to eight or ten in any Conserve or convenient Liquor or in the form of a Pill SECT IV. Of the Preparing certain things c. The Calcination and Preparation of Harts-horn Elks hoofs Mans Skull c. Spagyrically or without Fire THis Calcination is effectually performed in a Bladder by continual boiling or digesting in fair water by which vapor the Horn hanging in the neck of the Bladder in which place it may be best wrought and penetrated by a pleasant and wonderful manner is calcined to a perfect whiteness without those violent flames which otherwise consume its virtues as is used to be done in the vulgar Calcination but let the fourth part of the Bladder be empty And if in boiling the water should consume pour on more scalding hot and this do until this fumigatory Calcination for whatsoever is calcined by this method is not undeservedly said to be calcined by Suffumigation be absolutely finished Virtue Use and Dose Harts-horn thus prepared is equal to the Unicorns horn in its Diaphoretick force for it is profitable in all affects of the Heart and wonderfully excellent in all kind of Poison Moreover it is very effectual in the yellow Jaundice Dysenteries pains of the Guts voiding of blood either upwards or downwards pains in the Bladder Fluxes of blood in Women c. The Elks hoof also of the same Preparation is of great efficacy being a noble Cordial in malignant Feavers and a Secret in many other diseases likewise mans Skull wonderfully cures the Epilepsie Apoplexy Vertigo c. The Dose is from ten to twenty or thirty grains in some appropriate Vehicle The true Spagyrical Preparation of Thebane Opium Put Thebane Opium cut into small pieces upon an Iron plate and set it upon hot coals constantly stirring it till all the poisonous and corrosive quality is separated by Evaporation Yet take this caution let not him that tends it receive the Fumes for it is hurtful When this is evaporated the Opium left upon the Plate will have a fragrant smell like Violets which is a true sign that all its malignity is separated then dissolve this Opium thus prepared either in Wine-vinegar distilled or in Juyce of Citrons which being done again draw off the Menstruum and keep it for use The Preparation of Nitre Take of Nitre purified with Flos Sulphuris half a pound dissolve it in Spirit of Wine and Vitriol of each a like quantity then draw off the Spirit until the mass remains crusty what is left in the bottom put into a cool place and the Nitre will shoot into Crystals from which take the humidity and dry the Crystal and reserve them for use The Preparation of Millepedes commonly called Wood-lice Take Millepedes what quantity you please wash them in Spanish Wine and in a Glass close stopped and covered with Paste all over dry them in an Oven again wash them in Spanish Wine and dry them as before and repeat this the third time fourthly infuse them in our Aqua Nephritica vitriolated for two or three days afterwards dry them and pulverize them and keep them for use The Preparation of white Hellebore Take white Hellebore finely pulverized pour upon it often Vinegar left after the dissolution of red Coral being abstracted and vitriolated but first infuse in it the Cordial flowers and grains of Chermes dry it again and so you shall have white Hellebore well and Spagyrically prepared which may safely be given inwardly in many diseases in a certain dose and mixture without any danger The Preparation of Fish-shells Take oblong shells which are found near Fish-ponds and Lakes pour upon them distilled Vinegar and let them lye therein a whole night to extract the filth from them which you shall carefully scrape off and afterwards pulverize them and with Carduus water prepare it upon a Marble for the volatile Powder of them made by Calcination is of no worth nor use in Physick The Calcination and Preparation of River flints Take River-flints white and shining and heat them red-hot in a strong fire then quench them in water in which Sal Armoniack hath been dissolved and repeat this work often till at last the Flints appear white like Snow and may be easily brought to a Powder This Powder edulcorate with Rose water and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Powder is not only a powerful Dentifricium cleansing the Teeth on a sudden from all their corrosive Tartar and other filth and makes them white but also Iron and Steel and hence it takes away all rust from Arms and Weapons presently and makes them fair and clean especially if the rust be first rubbed with Oleum Templini and then afterward scoured with this Powder By this way Arms that are kept in store may be preserved pure and clean for many years from the filth and damage of rust And indeed it is of great use not only for the Armory of Princes but of Cities and Persons of Honour and though it is but an ordinary thing it ought not to be contemned The Preparation of the Pumice-stone Quench a red-hot Pumice-stone in Cows milk thrice and the fourth time leave it in the Milk until all grow cold then pulverize it and it is prepared for our Farina Virginea The Preparation of the sweet Earth of Vitriol Take of green Vitriol calcined to a perfect redness what quantity you please pulverize it and edulcorate it by often washing it in distilled Rain-water till the red Earth is freed from all its saltness and acrimony then dry this sweet or rather insipid Earth and reserve it for use The Preparation and Calcination of Alum Take of common Salt two parts of the best Alum one part Mix them and in a convenient Vessel reverberate them according to art for twelve hours then take away the reverberated matter and wash it so often with warm water till it is perfectly edulcorated and the Powder is quite freed from all its saltness then pour upon it our Juniper Spirit of Wine that it may swim three or four fingers above it and
Let them infuse together for certain days afterward strain them through Hippocrates sleeve and edulcorate the Liquor with sixteen ounces of white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of excellent use in the Asthma Cough and other vices of the Breast also in the weakness and windiness of the Stomach Dysury Strangury and Stone The dose is from one spoonful to two or three often in the week Claretum Anisatum or a Claret prepared with Aniseeds Take Spirit of Wine anisated three pound water of Lohoch sanum Horehound and Violet flowers of each a pound Cassia lignea two ounces Mace cut small half an ounce Let them macerate eight days and then add twelve ounces of white Sugar Candy to it strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It is very good and proper for difficulty of Breathing and Asthma's and other cold affects of the Thorax arising from thick humors sticking to the Bronchia of the Lungs also for an old Cough Dyspnoea The dose as before is from one spoonful to two or three Claretum Chalybeatum or a Claret prepared with Steel Take the best Malmsey Wine three pound Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce roots of Scorzonera and cream of Tartar of each half an ounce the lesser Galangal Cassia lignea and Cloves of each a dram Put these mixed into a glass Vessel and let them digest in a warm place often shaking them for the space of two days afterward strain them and clarifie them through Hippocrates sleeve and you have a chalybeate Claret Virtue Use and Dose It opens all the obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Meseraick Veins It corrects an ill habit of Body and expels all vicious Humors cures the black Jaundice provokes the Terms and stays them if too superfluous It expels water in Dropsies and discusseth Wind it promotes the resolution of the Salt tending to Coagulation and by its Martial rays it drys the Microcosmical Earth swelling with too much moisture But in the use of this Liquor for the aforesaid Affects it is convenient to give gentle Purgers as often as may be that as this Wine prepares the body and humors fit to be purged so the purging Medicines cleanse and carry it off as in other Cures The dose of this Claret is from one ounce to two or three morning and evening But in defect of the Courses in Women it is given five days before the New Moon to young ones but to those more in years so many days before the Full Moon and so to proceed till the Courses appear Claretum Antinephriticum or an Anti-nephritical Claret Take whole Barley and red Cicers of each an ounce and a half roots of Restharrow and Eryngo of each an ounce Liquorish and Parsley of each half an ounce Iuniper-berries bruised and Winter-cherries of each two drams seeds of Gromel white Thorn-berries seeds of Marsh-mallows and small Mallows of each a dram and ahalf flowers of Broom and Violets of each a dram fat Figs and Sebestens of each eleven Let them be infused in small white Wine and rain-Rain-water of each three pound for 24 hours then boil them to the consumption of the third part that there may four pound remain to which add of white Sugar four ounces clarifie it with Hippocrates his sleeve and make a Claret of it Virtue Use and Dose It gives great ease to those troubled with the Stone for it dissolves breaks and drives forth the Stone in the Reins and Bladder with the Urine by inlarging the Ureters and urinary passage and by opening the obstructions of the Loyns and Reins and the other parts The dose is every morning fasting a good draught from three ounces to four Claretum Moschatum or a Muskified Claret Take Cassia lignea half an ounce Cloves two drams Nutmegs Mace and Citron peels of each a dram roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce and the lesser Galangal of each half a dram yellow Sanders and wood of Aloes of each a scruple Ambergriese and the best Musk of each ten grains All being pulverized and mixed add to them twenty ounces of odoriferous Spanish Wine and let them stand in digestion for certain days afterward add Spirit of Roses four ounces clarifie them in Hippocrates his sleeve and make a Claret which for delicate Palates may be edulcorated with Sugar Candy Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use other universal Medicines and Purgations being premised to amend the ill savour of the Mouth and Nose and render them sweet it also roborates the Heart and Ventricle Let the Patient take a spoonful or two every morning fasting Claretum purgans or a purging Claret Take leaves of Sena two ounces roots of our Flower-de-luce an ounce Mechoacan white Hermodactyls and Turbith of each half an ounce Agrimony Harts-tongue and Fluellin of each two drams seeds of Fenil and Anise of each a dram and a half Cassia lignea Cloves white Ginger and Cinamon of each a dram flowers of Broom Balm Bugloss and Sage of each a dram and a half Infuse them all in a sufficient quantity of old Wine for 24 hours and then boil them and in sixteen ounces of the strained Liquor warm dissolve four ounces of the best Manna Again strain it and add of Cinamon water an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Citrons a dram Mix them well again and make of all a laxative Claret Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth flegm and water and that from the Joynts It gives ease in the Head-ach and Epilepsie and checks old Defluxions and for that reason gives ease in Gouts of all kinds It is also a good Purge in all pains of the Joynts Colon and Reins The dose is from three ounces to four Vinum Antiscorbuticum or an Antiscorbutick Wine Take Rhenish Wine four pound juyce of Scurvy grass Water-cresses Brooklime and Sorrel of each depurated four ounces roots of wild Radishes Elicampane and our Flower-de-luce of each cut into small pieces anounce and a half seeds of Rocket bruised an ounce All being mixed put them into a Glass in a cool place and reserve it for use adding to it two Nutmegs Virtue Use and Dose This medicated Wine universals being premised and the body duly purged perfectly cures the Scurvy in these Northern and Maritime Regions where it is natural and domestick and is also an infallible Medicine in rectifying the Blood The dose is from three ounces to four morning and evening two hours before meat and let the sick continue the use of this Medicine till he finds himself better SECT XXIII Of compound medicated Vinegars Acetum Aromaticum odoratum or a sweet Aromatick Vinegar TAke Florentine Flower-de-luce an ounce and a half flowers of Lavender red Roses and Clove-gilliflowers of each an ounce Cloves and Cinamon of each half an ounce Nutmegs Mace lesser Galangal and Zedoary of each three drams Orange and Citron peels of each two drams Styrax Calamitis red Myrrh Benjamin of each a dram and a half
ounces Vinegar prepared with Sanders an ounce and a half species Diarrhodon Abbatis roots of Scorzonera and Plantane of each two drams Salt of Endive and Succory of each half a dram the four greater cold Seeds and the four lesser cold Seeds of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Liver Epithema Hepaticum in causa frigida or an Epithem for the Liver grieved with a cold Distemper Take Malmsey Wine four ounces water of Agrimony Pauls Betony and Mother of Thyme of each three ounces Spirit of Iuniper an ounce and a half species of Diacurcuma and Diacubeba of each two drams Rhubarb sweet Cane Cane Cassia lignea of each a dram Salt of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each two scruples Oriental Saffron seeds of Cummin and Lavender of each half a dram Squinanth flowers of yellow Stoechas of each a scruple Mix all for an Epithem Epithema in Inflammatione Renum praesentissimum or an Epithem for an Inflammation of the Reins Take juyce of Plantane and Night shade depurated of each four ounces water of Housleek and Purslain of each three ounces odoriferous Wine and Wine Vinegar violated of each an ounce and a half Nitre prepared Mix them and make an Epithem to be applied to the region of the Reins as the manner is But it is to be noted If cooling Epithems are to be applied to noble parts they are not to be applied cold but warm except the heat be very intense and then it may be used cold SECT XXV Of Decoctions Decoctum Catarrhaie or a Decoction for a Catarrh TAke clear Fountain water nine pound clarified Honey five pound Sage Origanum Marjaram Hyssop and Rosemary of each an ounce Boil it to the consumption of the third part and then strain it and to the strained Liquor add roots of Elicampane Coltsfoot and Florentine Flower-de luce of each six drams seeds of Roman Nettles Carduus Anise and Fenil of each half an ounce Maidenhair spotted Lungwort Scabious and Horehound of each two drams the Cordial Flowers and flowers of Coltsfoot and wild Poppy of each a dram Let these macerate 24 hours and then add Cubebs Cinamon Nutmegs Cardamoms the less white Ginger Galangal the less Cloves of each a dram Then let them boil once and so put them into some glass Vessel and let it there stand a whole day and make a clear Decoction according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual in Catarrhs falling from the Head upon the Breast and the parts thereabouts The dose is a good draught at a time or the Patient may drink so much daily as his thirst requires Decoctum Cosmeticum or a Beautifying Water Take Venetian Borax white Sugar Candy and sublimated Mercury of each two drams Let them be finely pulverized and tyed up apart in a linen Rag and boiled in four pound of May-dew gathered off from the Wheat till the Mercury be dissolved and in the strained Liquor while warm dissolve two drams of Camphire then filter it and keep it for use Virtue and Use. It is only applied outwardly to the spots of the Face which it takes away and leaves the Skin white and clean But in using of it take heed lest it touch the Eyes or Teeth Decoctum Arthriticum or a Decoction for the Gout Take small Raisons eight ounces shavings of Guajacum eight ounces roots of China an ounce roots of Liquorish and water-Acorus of each half an ounce Cinamon and the lesser Galangal of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and then infused 24 hours in ten pound of Barley-water afterward boil them over a gentle fire to the consumption of the third part and make a clear Potion according to Art Virtue Use and Dose I use this happily in all Catarrhs and running Gouts proceeding from a destillation of cold Humors especially where the sick is very dry I also ordinarily give it in ill Habits and Dropsies for their common drink for it roborates and drys the body of all its superfluity The Patient cannot well erre in the dose but let him drink at his pleasure Decoctum Pectorale subacidum or a Pectoral Decoction a little tart Take fountain-Fountain-water two pound and a half Virgin Honey two pound the best Wine Vinegar a pound and a half Boil it over a gentle fire till it comes to four pound in which infuse small Raisons three ounces seeds of Carduus and Roman Nettles of each an ounce roots of Elicampane Florentine Flower-de-uce and Coltsfoot of each half an ounce Maidenhair Scabious and Hyssop of each two drams Dates Iujubes and Figs of each eight flowers of Coltsfoot Violets Borage and Bugloss of each a dram Let them macerate twenty four hours and then boil them over a gentle fire to the consumption of one part at last strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and aromatize it with a little Cinamon Virtue Use and Dose It attenuates thick humors in the Phthisick Asthma Cough and other Pectoral diseases it cuts the tough softens the hard and brings forth the unprofitable humors it also resists Putrefaction The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Decoctum Pectorale subdulce or a sweetish Pectoral Decoction Take small Raisons and white Sugar Candy of each four ounces roots of Liquorish Coltsfoot and Florentine Flower-de-luce of each an ounce spotted Lungwort Pauls Betony Harts-tongue Maidenhair and Horehound of each an ounce seeds of Myrtles Anise and Fenil of each three drams flowers of Chamomil Marsh-mallows Bugloss Liverwort lesser Centaury and Violets of each a dram and a half Dates dryed Figs Iujubes and Sebestens of each eight Let them be cut and bruised and infused 24 hours in four pound of Hydromel two pound of the water of the Juyce of Scabious distilled then boil them to the consumption of the third part and about the end of the Decoction let it be aromatized with Galangal the less Cinamon Cardamoms the less and white Ginger of each a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram Then strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a clear Potion which edulcorate with white Sugar Candy Virtue Use and Dose It relieves those troubled with Asthma's distempers of the Liver Pleurisies Coughs c. and the continual use of this Decoction for some time cures the Consumption For it facilitates the Spitting mundifies the Breast heals the Ulcers of the Lungs c. nay and it opens the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen also The dose is morning noon and night from two ounces to three Decoctum Rad. Chinae Pectorale or a Pectoral Decoction of the Roots of China Take the best and heavy roots of China cut cross into little round and thin pieces three ounces Infuse it in water of Scabious Coltsfoot and Pauls Betony of each two pound Let them stand in infusion 24 hours in a glazed Vessel in a warm place well covered with Cloaths then add Bugloss an ounce roots of Liquorish and Elicampane of each half an ounce seeds of Cudwort and Fenil of
Earth of Vitriol and Gum Lacca of each three drams Boil them to the consistence of a Balsam then add red Coral prepared Dragons blood of each two drams Sarcocol red Myrrh and Mastich of each a dram oyl of Rhodium Nutmegs and Savin of each a scruple Mix them and make them into a Balsam of a just consistence Virtue and Use. It is of good use to the Gums when they are putrid swelled over-grown and black for it preserves them from putrefaction and cures them Moreover it fastens loose Teeth and covers them with new flesh and amends other vices of the Mouth It perfectly and suddenly heals the Cancer Noli me tangere Scurvy Imposthume Ulcers Corrosion c. and takes away all impurities of the Gums Use it morning and evening or often in the day by rubbing the part affected and let the Mouth be washed with Sage water or any other appropriate Liquor Balsamum Stipticum or a Stiptick Balsam Take of our Stiptick Plaster four ounces oyl of the Yolks of Eggs so much as is sufficient to make it into a Balsam to which add Oyl of Cloves Nutmegs and Sage of each a scruple Mix them and keep it for use Virtue and Use. It roborates the Stomach and strengthens the whole lower Belly anointed therewith it helps Digestion stays Vomiting cures the disease Cholera Lientery Diarrhoea and bloody Flux It also strengthens the Womb restrains the Courses when immoderate prevents Abortion and roborates the Reins Balsamum Venereum or a Venereal Balsam Take roots of Pellitory of Spain and Euphorbium of each an ounce Cantharides half an ounce Boil them in two pound of Malmsey Wine to the consumption of half and to the strained Decoction add Sallet Oyl four ounces Again boil it till the humidity be consumed and to the remaining Oyl add Oyl of Nutmegs exprest an ounce of our oyl of Pismires half an ounce oyl of Indian Nuts and Castor of each a dram and a half Oleum Moschatellinum oyl of Cloves Mace and Spike of each a dram pure and true Civet the best Musk of each a scruple Mix them and with the Caput mortuum of Oyl of Nutmegs exprest or in defect thereof a sufficient quantity of white Wax make a Balsam of a just consistence Virtue and Use. If the Yard and parts adjacent to wit the Region between the Anus and the Scrotum where the body of the Yard lies also the great Toe of the right Foot are bathed with this Balsam it provokes Lust. It is an excellent enticement of the Womb and causeth a wonderful erection by stimulating the parts and that constantly neither doth it suffer erection to cease but when you are willing it should cease wash the parts which were before anointed Balsamum Uterinum or a Balsam for the Womb. Take May Butter without salt an ounce oyl of English Tin oyl of yellow Amber and Turpentine of each a dram and a half Gum Tacamahacca Assa foetida Galbanum and Savin of each a dâ—am true Castor half a dram Goats Suet a sufficient quantity to make all into the consistence of a Balsam Virtue and Use. If the Navil be anointed with this Balsam warm and a piece of Walnut-tree rind laid thereon it mitigates all the pains of the Womb and brings it into its proper place but let the Woman abstain from sweet things and instead thereof anoint her Nostrils and Breast with Oyl of white Amber and Oyl of Castor Balsamum Podagricum or a Balsam for the Gout Take juyces of Housleek Rosemary Gourd Tabaco Henbane Germander and Vervain of each six ounces Vitriol calcined till it be yellow white Tartar Sea-salt calcined of each three ounces the Fat of a wild Cat of a Goose and Fox the Marrow of a Stag of each an ounce and a half oyl of Turpentine Bricks Iuniper and Sope of each an ounce oyl of the lower Iaw-bone of a Horse oyl of Saturn and Spike of each a dram Gum Ammoniack Opopanax Sagapen Mastich Olibanum and Foreign Mumy of each half an ounce Mix them and boil them to the consumption of the humidity and reserve all the fatty part for use Virtue and Use. Bathe the parts grieved with this Balsam warm morning and evening and lay Linen Cloaths upon the part affected after bathing and 〈◊〉 doth to a miracle allay the pains of the Gout for it doth quickly by altering and penetrating dissolve the tartarous and knotty Concretions and takes away at once almost all gouty and cramp-like pains proceeding from a cold Cause Balsamum Saponis or a Balsam of Sope. Take Venice Sope dissolved in juyce of Lemmons a pound white Virgin Honey four ounces Mercurial Cosmetick white Sugar Candy and roots of Florentine Flower-de luce of each an ounce Salt of white Tartar white Sperma Ceti Alum saccharated Venetian Borax of each half an ounce odoriferous Balsam of Pâ—â—â—â— two drams Gallia Moschata a dram oyl of Rhodiuâ—â—â—â—â—amon Cloves and Lavender of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a Mixture like Balsam Virtue and Use. Use it in washing and rubbing the Hands which it makes white as Snow and renders the Skin neat and soft SECT XXXV Of Oyntments Unguentum Paralyticum or an Oyntment for the Palsie TAke Oyl of Amber rectified oyl of Bricks of each an ounce and a half oyl of Iuniper Templinum and Turpentine of each an ounce oyl of Bays Peter and Spike of each half an ounce oyl of Castor and Pepper of each two drams All being mixed pour upon it four ounces of our Paralytick Spirit â—â—d boil it to the consumption of the Spirit afterward add Alum prepared an ounce distilled oyl of Rosemary Nutmegs Cloves Origanum Wormwood Lavender Angelica and Sage of each a dram Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of yellow Wax make an Oyntment according to Art Virtue and Use. It powerfully restores paralytick Members and by digestion consumes the peccant matter sticking to the Nerves Muscles and Tendons it comforts the nervous parts with heat and restores them to their pristine motion and is of good use in the Gout proceeding of a cold Cause and in the Hip-gout called the Sciatica it is most excellent Let the Patient be anointed morning and evening in a warm place universal Medicines being before used Unguentum Ophthalmicum or an Oyntment for the Eyes Take May Butter not salted and washed in Eyebright water four ounces true Dragons blood finely powdered half an ounce white Sugar Candy and Tutty prepared of each two drams Pearls prepared and Sarcocol of each half a dram Camphire ten grains Opium Spagirically prepared four grains Mix them and make an Oyntment according to Art Virtue and Use. If a little of this Oyntment universal Medicines being premised be applied to the corners of the Eyes and to the edges of the Eye-brows it takes away all defluxions of Rheum by temperating the heat allaying the pain removing the redness mitigating the sharpness and stopping and drying the Rheum and it also wonderfully strengthens the Eyes
Diet and eat only thick viscid and adstringent Aliment the quantity of which ought to be small for hunger helps forward the Cure Emplastrum Diachylon Anodynum or an Anodyne Diachylon Plaster Take the Anodyne Oyl prepared from the seven Flowers four and twenty ounces Litharge well cleansed twelve ounces Mucilage of the seed of Henbane and Fleabane of Quinces and Flax the middle bark of the Teil tree roots of Marsh-mallows extracted with water of Nightshade four ounces Let the Litharge be finely powdered and prepared and then put to the Anodyne Oyl then let them boil over a gentle fire always stirring them till they are well mixed Remove them from the fire and let it cool a little theâ— put in the Mucilages and mix them all well together and bring them all to a just consistence c. Virtue and Use. It mollifies allays pain dissolves humors gathered in any part it digests and ripens hard Inflammations and hot Tumors and cures all things that are inflamed Moreover it gives ease in the Gout and is an excellent Medicine to bring down and abate a hot intemperature Emplastrum de Spermate Ceti or a Plaster of Sperma Ceti Take white Wax four ounces Sperma Ceti two ounces Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar an ounce Mix them and make a Plaster Virtue and Use. It being laid to the Breast of Women after their Delivery that do not give suck and there worn for certain days heals and removes all the pain caused by the Milk and all hard Tumors and swellings in those parts The Milk also coagulated or concreted it dissolves and also consumes the abundance of it SECT XXXVII Of Cataplasms Cataplasma de Fermento or a Cataplasm of Leaven TAke old Leaven an ounce and a half yellow Amber three drams Nutmegs and Cubebs of each half a dram water-Mints and Cloves of each a scruple Castor and wood of Aloes of each ten grains Mix them and with a little simple Spirit of Wine and Wine Vinegar of each alike bring all into the form of a Cataplasm Virtue and Use. Let it be applied warm to the top of the Head and repeat it often it curiously discusseth the cause of the Palsie of the Tongue and doth so consume and evacuate the matter from the superiour parts that always not without admiration the motion and speech returns and indeed it is a Secret in recovering the Speech and drying Catarrhs Cataplasma Febrile or a Cataplaesm for Feavers Take Gun-powder pulverized common Salt melted of each an ounce Spiders web Nutmegs and Olibanum of each two drams the herb Wormwood Shepherds-purse small Nettles and Rue of each a handful white Turpentine a sufficient quantity to make a Cataplasm for the Pulses Virtue and Use. This Cataplasm being put between two Cloths and laid to both the Wrists two hours before the Fit cures all Feavers in Children but especially bastard or spurious Tertians and wonderfully allays the violence of the Fit Cataplasma Scorbuticum contra Tumores Pedum or a Scorbutick Cataplasm against the Swelling of the Feet Take Wheat-bran well powdered half a pound Meal of Barley and Beans of each three ounces Meal of Lupines and Lentils of each an ounce and a half Venice Sope two ounces flowers of Chamomil two ounces of Marsh-mallows an ounce Litharge of Silver and red Bole Armeniack of each half an ounce roots of China and Rhubarb of each three drams Fungus of Elder-tree I suppose he means Jews Ears seven Boil them in Juyce of Elder exprest to such a thickness as may make a Cataplasm Virtue and Use. This Cataplasm in the Scurvy is applied warm to the Feet at night so that the whole Tumor be covered with it and there lye all night the next night let it be renewed and again applied and this continue and repeat so long till the Tumor be dissolved which by the use of this Cataplasm and the Blessing of God will soon succeed and the parts be corroborated Cataplasma de Cineribus or a Cataplasm of Ashes Take the Ashes of Hermodactyls roots of Asphodel Bean stalks Elder wood Figs Cutting of Vines dwarff Elder of each alike Mix them and with white Wine make a Lixivium Take of this Lixivium four pound of brown houshold Bread a sufficient quantity Boil them to a thickness and then add sharp Wine Vinegar half a pound Lapis medicamentosus three ounces powder of Cummin seed Bay-berries and Cloves of each an ounce Boil them gently and make a Cataplasm according to Art Virtue and Use. It is spread upon Linen Cloths and applied to Dropsical Tumors and Swellings Evacuation being first made there let it lye for certain hours and when it begins to raise the skin apply it lower toward the Knees and so by degrees still downwards till you come to the Feet Cataplasma de Nido Hirundinis or a Cataplasm of a Swallows Nest. Take a Swallows Nest Album Graecum an ounce and a half roots of Marsh-mallows and white Lilies of each an ounce Figs and Dates of each three Boil them in common water to the form of a thin Pultis then add Oyl of Violets meal of Chamomil Foenugreek Flax and Wheat of each six drams the brain of a Cat half an ounce of an Owl and Swallow burnt of each two drams the Yolk of an Egg Oriental Saffron a scruple Mix them and make a Cataplasm for the Neck Virtue and Use. It is often applied warm to the Neck in a desperate Quinsie and is indeed a Secret But the Album Graecum should be gathered from the Dog when the Sun is in Leo and the Dog should be shut up and fed with nothing but bones of a Calf gelt or otherwise and give him not much water and the first three days what the Dog voids throw away but what comes afterward gather for use Cataplasma contra Singultum or a Cataplasm against Hiccupping Take Leaven three ounces Iuniper-berries red Roses and water-Mints of each a dram Cloves Nutmegs and Mace of each half a dram strong Wine Vinegar a sufficient quantity make a Cataplasm with which mix Oyl of Cummin and Caraway of each half a scruple Virtue and Use. This is only useful in the Hiccup which being put between two Cloths and laid to the Stomach warm gives ease especially if it be often applied and it is a singular Medicine Pannus Linteus Crocatus or a Linen Cloth prepared with Saffron Take a coarse Linen hempen Cloth wash it five or six times in Frog Spawn gathered in March and filtred so that the little black things like Eyes may be separated and dry this Cloth by it self in the shade not in the Sun or by any other heat Then take Vinegar of Elder-flowers and Oriental Saffron a sufficient quantity and make a Tincture in which boil that coarse hempen Cloth till it hath imbibed a deep Saffron-colour this being done remove them from the fire and let them cool together then take the Linen Cloth thus saffronized dry it in the shade and keep it for
proprietatis 117 Pilulae Anodynae or pills easing pain 118 Pilulae Narcoticae or Narcotick pills ibid. Pilulae cephalicae or head-pills 119 Pilulae senectutis ibid. Pilulae Smaragdinae or pills of Emerauld 120 Pilulae Odontalgicae or pills for the Tooth-ach ibid. Pilulae de Calce viva or pills of quick Lime ibid. Pilulae odoriferae or odoriferous pills 121 Pilulae de Origano or pills of Origanum ibid. Pilulae rosatae 122 Pilulae polychrestae or pills good for many things ibid. Pilulae Melanagogae ibid. Pilulae Hydragogae 123 Pilulae spleneticae or pills for the spleen 124 Pilulae dulces ibid. Pilulae Peruvianae 125 Pilulae Terebinthinae or pills of Turpentine ibid. Pilulae Stipticae or the Stiptick pills 126 Pilulae de Sandarach 127 Pilulae de Sabina or pills of Savin 128 Pilulae uterinae or pills for the womb ibid. Pomum Ambrae 149 Pulvis Bezoarticus Imperialis or the Imperial Bezoartick powder 88 Pulvis Epilepticus c. or the wonderful Epileptick powder 90 Pulvis Ophthalmicus or a powder for the Eyes ibid. Pulvis refectivus or a refective powder 94 Pulvis excellens contra tussim infantum or an excellent powder for the Cough in children 95 Pulvis Stipticus c. 100 Pulvis Stipticus aliud or another Stiptick powder 101 Pulvis Polychrestus Imperialis or the Imperial powder good for many things 104 Pulvis Dysentericus or a powder for the bloody flux 105 Pulvis Stomachicus or a Stomachpowder 107 Pulvis Pleuriticus secretissimus or a most secret powder for the Pleurisie 108 Pulvis Febrilis probatus or an approved Feaver-powder 109 Pulvis Carminativus or a Carminative powder 111 Pulvis Haemorrhoidalis or a powder for the Piles ibid. Pulvis de Verbasco or a powder of Mullein 112 Pulvis probatus or an approved powder to heal the small Pox ibid. Pulvis Cyprius Violato-rosatus 113 Pulvis Cyprius moschatus ibid. Pulvis Manualis odoratus or a powder to wash the hands ib. Pulvis Erysipelatodes 114 Preparation and Calcination of River-flints 86 Preparation of the sweet earth of Vitriol ibid. R. ROs Mineralis or the Mineral Dew 13 Rotulae Imperiales 129 Rotulae Smaragdinae or rowls of Emerauld ibid. Rotulae Hyacinthinae or rowls of Hyacinth 130 Rotulae Cordiales c. ibid. Rotulae pectorales albae or white pectoral rowls 131 Rotulae pectorales citrinae or yellow pectoral rowls ibid. Rotulae pectorales rubrae or red pectoral rowls 132 Rotulae lac provocantes or rowls provoking milk ibid. Rotulae refectivae ibid. Rotulae stimulantes 133 Rotulae Aromaticae ibid. Rotulae refrigerantes or cooling rowls 134 Rotulae Carminativae or Carminative rowls ibid. Rotulae Diacymini ibid. Rotulae contra vermes or rowls for the worms 135 Rotulae Mithridaticae praeservantes or preservative rowls of Mithridate ibid. Rotulae Theriacales liberantes 136 Rotulae Angelicae c. or rowls for women with child ibid. Rotulae Zedoarticae pro pueris or rowls with Zedoary for children ibid. Rotulae Catarrhales calidae or rowls for a hot Catarrh 137 Rotulae Catarrhales frigidae ibid. S. SApo odoratus or persumed sope 149 Sal Apoplecticum or an Apoplectick salt 155 Sal Epilepticum or an Epileptick salt 150 Sal Cordiale or a Cordial salt ibid. Sal pectorale ibid. Sal stomachicum or salt for the stomach 157 Sal Epaticum 158 Sal Nephriticum 159 Sal Hydropicum ibid. Sal Uterinum 160 Sal Carminativum ibid. Sal Febrile 161 Sal Spleneticum or a salt for the spleen 158 Scammony rosated 39 Species Diasolis 88 Species Dialunae or the compound species of the Moon 89 Species Diamartis or the compound species of Mars 90 Species Diamercurii or a species compounded of Mercury 91 Species Diajovis or a compound powder of Jupiter 92 Species Diaveneris or a compound species of Venus ibid. Species Diasaturni or a compound species of Saturn 93 Species Diasulphuris or a compound species of sulphur ibid. Species Diavitrioli or a compound species of Vitriol 95 Species Diacinnabaris or a compound powder of Cinnabar 96 Species Dianitri or a compound species of Nitre ibid. Species Diatartari or a compound powder of Tartar 97 Species Diacrystalli or a compound powder of Crystal ibid. Species Diasuccini or a powder compounded with Amber 98 Species Diacretae or a compound powder of Chalk ibid. Species Diaboracis or a compound species of Borax 99 Species Diaterebinthinae or a compound powder of Turpentine ib. Species Diamumiae or a compound species of Mumy 100 Species Diaolibani or a species compounded of Olibanum 101 Species Diatabaci or a compound species of Tabaco ibid. Species Diamarjoranae or a compound species of Marjoram 102 Species Diabalustinae or a compound species of Balaustines ib. Species Diabuglossae or a compound species of Bugloss 103 Species Diaplantaginis or a compound powder of Plantane ib. Species Dialauri or a compound powder of Bay-berries 105 Species Diajalapiae or a compound powder of Ialap 106 Species Diaesulae or a compound powder of Esula ibid. Species stomachicae or a compound powder for the stomach 107 Species Pleuriticae or a Pleuritick species 108 Species Febrisugae 109 Species Nephriticae or a compound powder for distempered Kidneys 110 Species Cholagogae or a Choler-purging powder ibid. Spiritus vini cephalicus or a spirit of wine for the head 212 Spiritus vini Aromaticus or an Aromatick spirit of wine 213 Spirit of wine for the Tooth-ach 214 Syirit of wine for the Ears ibid. Spiritus vini Acovisticus 215 Spiritus vini pectoralis or a pectoral spirit of wine 216 Spirit of wine with Iuniper ibid. Spirit of wine for the stomach 217 Spirit of wine for the pain in the kidneys 218 Spiritus vini Lithontripticus or a spirit of wine for the Stone ibid. Spirit of wine for the Palsie 219 Spirit of wine with Treacle ibid. Spirit of salt coagulated 30 Spirit of Vitriol coagulated 31 Styli dentifricii or a cleansing medicine for the teeth 148 Syrupus Perlarum c. or syrup of Pearls 197 Syrup of red Coral 198 Syrup of Roses vitriolated 199 Syrupus Cephalicus or a syrup for the head ibid. Syrupus pectoralis or a pectoral syrup 200 Syrupus Asthmaticus or a syrup for the Asthma 201 Syrupus Cordialis or a Cordial syrup ibid. Syrupus de Cassia lignea 202 Syrupus Diacitri rosatus or a syrup compounded with Citrons and Roses ibid. Syrupus Antiscorbuticus or a syrup against the Scurvy 203 Syrupus de Pyrethro or a syrup of Pellitory ibid. Syrupus Nephriticus or a syrup against the stone in the Reiâ—s 204 Syrupus Stipticus or a Stiptick syrup 205 Syrupus Dysentericus laxativus or a purging syrup for the bloody flax ibid. Syrupus Pantagogus 206 Syrupus Hydragogus or a water purging syrup 207 Suffimentum Angelicum 150 Suffimentum Imperiale or an Imperial Perfume ibid. Suffimentum Epilepticum or an Epileptick Perfume 151 Suffimentum de Sandaracha ibid. Suffiment of white Amber 152 Suffiment of Tacamahaca ibid. Suffiment
keep it for use To the candid Reader THou hast here courteous Reader these Arcana's being Chymical and other Preparations partly private elaborated with my own care and Experience and partly from others yet by a due method produced in this place which for the dispensing our following Compositions are wholly necessary for thee with which few in this place I do satisfie my self I do neither hope for nor expect any other thing than thanks for things found and pardon for those omitted therefore do thou accept of these things such as they are as well with a benevolent as a ready hand and give when need requires thy assistance to those that want it improve all prudently and by these things preserve thy Neighbours health SECT V. Of Species and Powders Species Diasolis or the Compound Species of the Sun TAke Harts-horn and Elks hoof Spagyrically calcined sealed Earth of each a dram and an half Oriental Bezoar a dram Diaphoretick Mineral Iovial Bezoar of each two scruples Magistery of Pearls and-red Corals white Amber prepared of each half a dram the Solar and Animal Unicorn bone of a Stags heart of each a scruple true Gallia moschata eleven grains Oyls of Cinamon and Citrons of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is an Arcanum in all Epidemical and Pestilential diseases Erysipelas's poysonous draughts and in the Asthma or most dangerous straitness of the Breast for it defends the Heart from danger of poyson and expels by Sweat all noxious humors from it and doth wonderfully relieve it in all its distempers The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple in Carduus water Elder flowers or Treacle or any other appropriate Vehicle Pulvis Bezoarticus Imperialis or the Imperial Bezoartick Powder Take of Elks hoofs and Harts horn Spagyrically calcined of each three drams the red Oriental Bole prepared Iovial Bezoar of each two drams Oriental Bezoar stone sealed Earth of each a dram and a half flower of Sulphur compound the Animal Unicorn Magistery of Oriental Pearls red Coral of each half a dram native Cinnabar prepared bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Diaphoretick in all peracute diseases in burning malignant and Epidemical Feavers for it wonderfully drives out by Sweat all poisonous and vitious humors from the Heart and other principal Members The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple in appropriate sudorifick Waters or in Water or Decoction of the shaving of Hartshorn Species Dialunae or compound Species of the Moon Take roots and seeds of Peony gathered in a due time Elks hoofs Spagyrically calcined Magistery of Mans Skull of each half an ounce of the true Soul of the Moon in powder Lunar Bezoar of each four drams native Cinnabar prepared Misleto of the Oak Squills prepared of each two drams the Secundine of a Woman dryed but it must be of her first child and that a son also Peacocks dung prepared of each a dram and a half Salt of Oriental Pearls and red Corals of each a dram true Castor long Pepper Cubebs of each a scruple the best Musk and Ambergriese of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder to which add Oyl of Hartshorn rectified Oyl of white Amber Nutmegs and Rue of each half a scruple Mix them again and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It doth wonders in Lunatisms Epilepsies or Comitials Vertigo's Lethargies Subeth and in all cold congealed evils of the Brain it doth also relieve those who are troubled with frightful dreams and uncertain fears The Dose in curing is from a scruple to half a dram given in the Fit in our Epileptick or Apoplectick or any other convenient water But in preservation it is given in all Quarters of the Moon and in all moist and unconstant seasons of Air from half a scruple to a scruple in the fore-mentioned Waters Pulvis Epilepticus mirabilis or the wonderful Epileptick Powder Take of the Skull of a man strangled and calcined without fire an ounce Misleto of the Oak counterfeit Cinnabar Elks boofs of each half an ounce Mix them and make a Powder of which give a scruple to Children immediately after the Fit but to full grown persons a scruple let this be repeated and it cures them Pulvis Ophthalmicus or a Powder for the Eyes Take of white Sugar Candy and Tuty prepared of each two drams Pearls prepared and Sarcocol of each half a dram Beans prepared a seruple Mix them and make a most fine Powder for the Eyes Virtue Use and Dose This Powder is a great Secret to me in many affects of the Eyes and first it heals dulness and spots in the Eyes it wipes away the little clouds and specks therein and is a present remedy for watry Eyes It sharpens the Sight and makes it clear and then conserves the Eyes sound and well It being used in time a small part of this Powder is sprinkled into the Eyes morning and evening or it may also be mixed with other Eye-medicines Species Diamartis or the Compound Species of Mars Take Tormentil Nutmegs Galls of each half an ounce Crocus Haematitis Crocus Martis made by calcination of each three drams Zedoary Calamus aromaticus white Amber prepared roots of Cinquefoil and Cloves of each two drams ashes of Spunge Oriental red Bole prepared sealed Earth Acacia of each a dram and a half seeds of Plantane those things corruptly called Rose seeds of each four scruples Harts horn and Mans bones Hermetically calcined of each a dram burnt Alum Soul of Vitriol of each half a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It helps the tenderness of the Stomach also Dysenteries pains in the Guts and spitting of blood and matter the Gonorrhoea Haemorrhoids It helps those that cannot hold their water or have a bloody Urine it stops Womens menstrual Purgations And lastly it stops all Haemorragies of blood from what part soever it proceeds The Dose from a scruple and half a dram to one dram in some convenient Liquor Species Diamercurii or the Compound Powder of Mercury Take seeds of Cina thirteen drams Mercurius dulcis five drams the best Rhubarb Gummi Turbith Corallina of each two drams shavings of Harts horn red Myrrh of each a dram tops of the lesser Centaury Tansie Camphire of each a scruple Oyl of Hazel-wood distilled per descensum Spirit of Vitriol of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is given for the Worms the Moon decreasing from a scruple to a dram according to the age and strength of the Patient it is given in Milk and is an excellent Medicine against all kind of Worms for having killed them it brings them away by stool It is given also in water of Wormwood