Wine what sufficeth Infuse them in the Wine two days and then Distill in Bal. Mariae Y-worth 'T is good for such as have the Mercurial Property abounding and are troubled with dulness of Spirit as also against Faling-sickness Convulsion Fitts and Infirmities of the Brain The Dose is from one to three drachms Observe Here is no quantity of Spirits given because the Distillers have a usual way in this thing to go by their own Experience that is they 'll make them no richer of the Herbs Seeds and Spices than as they 'll answer their cost in the Sale therefore they sometimes put two or three Cans more than we prescribe nay and omit one half of the Ingredients only observing that according as the Water is called to let that Herb Seed or Fruit to have the predominance of the flavours so that they go more by Custom than by Book but for our part we don 't in all things approve of this for we love true Prescriptions though the Waters be something thing the dearer and so to unite sound Theory and Practice together Aqua Salviae or Sage Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons great Sage dry four pound twelve ounces six drachms and a half Red Sage dry three pound three ounces one drachm and a half Lavender Flowers Sage Flowers ana one pound nine ounces five drachms Lavender Cotton dry Southern-wood dry ana twelve ounces six drachms and a half Nutmegs one pound bruise or beat them as is most proper and then Distill into fine goods S. A. and dulcifie with white Sugar sixteen pound or what sufficeth Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons great Sage dry fourteen ounces three drachms and a half Red Sage dry nine ounces four drachms and a half Lavender Flowers Sage Flowers ana four ounces five drachms Lavender Cotton dry Southern-wood dry ana two ounces three drachms and a half Nutmegs one ounce bruise or beat them as is most proper and then Distill into fine goods S. A. and dulcifie with white Sugar three pound Aqua Salviae Composita or Sage Water Compound Distiller Take Sage Marjoram Thyme Lavender Epithymum Bettony ana one ounce Cinamon half an ounce lreos Roots of Cyprus Calamus Aromaticus ana one ounce Storax Benjamin ana one drachm and a half infuse them four days in four pound of Spirit of Wine and then Distill in Balneo Y-worth 'T is good for such as are cold and Phlegmatick to revive the Spirits and fortifie the digestive faculty as also against oppressive Vapours that disturb the Microcosm The Dose is from two drachms to an ounce Aqua Caryophillatorum or Avens Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of good Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Avens Roots six pound six ounces three drachms grains five Orrice Roots Nutmegs Yellow Sanders Mace ana three ounces one drachm and a half Lignum Rhodium Saffron Storax Benjamin ana one ounce and a half grains fifteen Angelica Roots four ounces six drachms and a half Limon Pills Green twelve ounces six drachms and a half sweet Foenil-seeds Aniseed ana one pound nine ounces five drachms Cloves two ounces Roman Wormwood Mint dry ana four handfuls and a half Red Roses Staechas Flowers ana six handfuls and a half sweet Marjoram Balm Burnet Thyme all dry ana nine handfuls and a half Alkermes Berries three ounces one drachm and a half bruise them all that are to be bruised and Distill into Proof Spirit S. A. and then dulcifie with Syrups thus made Take Rosewater six pound six ounces three drachms grains fifteen white Sugar sixteen pound boyl it to a Syrup hight then strain it and put it on the Fire again adding thereto Confection of Alkermes six ounces three drachms and a half Syrup of Gilly-Flowers one pound nine ounces five drachms Ambergreese dissolved in Rosewater four scruples grains sixteen let these boyl a little till they be incorporated with the Syrup and so keep it for use Composition the lesser Take of good Proof Spirit three gallons Avens Roots one pound three ounces one drachm two scruples grains five Oâ—rice Roots Nutmeg Yellow Sanders Mace ana four drachms and a half Lignum Rhodium Saffron Storax Benjamin ana two drachms grains fifteen Angelica Roots seven drachms and a half Limon Pills green two ounces three drachms and a half sweet Foenilseeds Aniseeds ana four ounces six drachms Cloves three drachms Roman Wormwood Mint dry ana q. s Red Roses Staechas Flowers ana q. s e. sweet Majoram Balm Burnet Thyme all dry ana q. s e. Alkermes Berries four drachms and a half bruise them all that are to be bruised and Distill into Proof Spirit S. A. and then dulcifie with Syrups thus made Take Rose water one pound three ounces one drachm two scruples grains fifteen white Sugar three pound boyl it to a Syrup hight then strain it and put it on the Fire again adding thereunto Confection of Alkermes one ounce two drachms one scruple grains ten Syrup of Gilliflowers four ounces seven drachms Ambergreese Dissolved in rose-Rose-water grains eighteen let these boil a little till they be incorporated with the Syrup and so keep it for use Y-worth This water is a very great Cordial Exhilarating the Spirits strengthning and comforting all the inward parts it not only preserves against the Consumption but also strengthens and revives those that are in it The Dose is from one to six scruples according to the age and strength of the Patient Rosa Solis Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Cinamon the best twelve ounces six drachms and a half Cloves three ounces one drachm and a half Nutmegs Ginger Cara-way seeds ana six ounces three drachms Marigold-flowers Aniseeds ana one pound nine ounces five drachms bruise them and Distill into strong Proof Spirit S. A. Then add to the Distilled Water Liquorice Spanish one pound nine ounces five drachms Raisins of the Sun brown Sugar ana eight pound Red Sanders six ounces three drachms bruise the Liquorice and Raisins stir them well together and let them stand twelve days then being clear it may be drawn for use Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Cinamon the best two ounces three drachms and a half Cloves four drachms and a half Nutmegs Ginger Caraway-seeds ana one ounce one drachm Marigolds Aniseeds ana four ounces seven drachms bruise them and Distill into strong Proof Spirit S. A. Then add to the Distilled Water Liquorice Spanish four ounces seven drachms Raisins of the Sun brown Sugar ana one pound and a half Red Sanders one ounce one drachm bruise the Liquorice and Rasins stir them well together and let them stand twelve days then being clear it may be drawn for use Addition Add to the Spirit half as much as the rule of every particular Ingredient therein expressed And instead of Sanders give it the Tincture of Roses Gilliflowers or Poppies S. A. Y-worth 'T
of each one ounce and a half the best Jujubes the Kernels taken out one pound and a half let them digest twenty one days then strain the Liquor from the drugs to which add prepared Pearl six ounces prepared Emrald one drachm Ambergreese Musk Saffron Red Roses Sanders ana three ounces Yellow Sanders Rinds of Citrons dried ana three drachms let all these Species be tyed in a Silken bag and hang'd in the foresaid Spirit Composition the lesser Take of Lavender Flowers one gallon Spirit of Wine three gallons prepare it as before directed then take the Flowers of Sage Rosemary Bettony of each a handful Burrage Bugloss Lilly of the Valley Cowslips of each two handfulls the Flowers being truly gathered and macerated in a gallon of the Spiritus Vini Glauâ—eris must be added to the Spirit of Lavender as the former together with the Leaves of Bawm Motherwort Orange Tree newly gathered the Flowers of Stechados Oranges Bayberries of each an ounce and so digest and Distill as before directed then add the outward Rinds of Citron six drachms the seeds of Peony husked six drachms Cinnamon Nutmegs Mace Cardamums Cubebs Yellow Sanders of each half an ounce Lignum Aloes one drachm the best Jujubes the Kernels taken out half a pound Digest and prepare as the former to which Liquor add of prepared Pearl two drachms prepared Emrald one scruple Ambergreese Musk Saffron Red Roses Sanders of each an ounce Yellow Sanders Rinds of Citrons dried of each a drachm let these Species be tyed in a Silken bag and hanged in the foresaid Spirit Addition The Essence of Musk and Ambergreese ana Drops twenty the Mel of Black-cherries and of Rasberries ana five ounces the Syrup of Quinces two ounces so let it refine S. A. Y-worth This is a most excellent Cordial wonderfully strengthning the principal faculties good in Epilepsies Convulsions Palsies and all Diseases of the Nerves 't is also excellent good to wash the wound bitten by any Venemous Creature or to bath any grieved part the Dose inwardly is from one drachm to three either per se or in Wine Aqua Scorbutica or French's Scorbutick VVater Composition the greater Distiller Take of the Leaves of Garden and Sea Scurvey-grass picked and cleansed of each eighteen pound let them be bruised and the Juice pressed forth to which add the Juice of Brook-lime Water cresses of each one pound and a half of the best White-wine three gallons thirty six whole Limons cut of the fresh Roots of Briony twelve pound of the fresh Roots of Horse-Raddish six pound of the Bark of Winteran one pound and a half of Nutmegs twelve ounces let them be macerated three days and then Distilled Composition the lesser Take of the Leaves of Garden and Sea Scurvey-grass picked and cleansed of each six pounds let these be bruised and the Juice pressed forth to which add of the Juice of Brook-lime Water-cresses of each half a pound of the best White-wine eight Pints twelve whole Limons cut of the fresh Roots of Bryony four pound the fresh Roots of Horse-Raddish two pound of the Bark of Winteran half a pound Nutmegs four ounces let them be macerated three days then Distill Addition Syrup of Mustard two ounces Syrup of Elder three ounces Tincture of Corall and Milk of Pearl of each Drops forty mix them S. A. Y-worth This is a most excellent Anti-scorbutick not only good in the Scurvy but also prevalent in the Jaundice and other refractary Diseases The Dose is from half an ounce to two ounces first in a Morning and last at Night Aqua Aperitiva or a Carminative opening Water Composition the greater Distiller Take Roots of Eringo Vipers-Grass Fern the greater Centaury of each one ounce and a half Roots of Foenil Barks of Capparis Tamarisk Ash of each one ounce one drachm Barks of Citrons seven drachms and a half seeds of Carduus Benedictus Cichorie of each one ounce and a half seeds of Endive Cresses Citrons Scariol of each six drachms Polytricon Adianthum Ceterach Dodder Scolopendria Bettony Endive of each four handfuls and an half tops of Thyme Epithymum Hops Flowers of St. John's Wort Broom Borage Bawm of each three handfuls small Raisins three ounces Cinnamon four drachms and a half Spec. Dialacc one drachm and a half Water of Carduus Benedictus Hops Scolopendria Paul's Bettony of each three pound Rhenish-wine seven pound and a half let them stand two days in a warm place in a Vessel close stopp'd afterward Distill them in Balneo Composition the lesser Take Roots of Eringo Vipers-Grass Fern the greater Centaury of each half an ounce Roots of Foenil Barks of Capparis Tamarisk Ash of each three drachms Bark of Citrons two drachms and a half seeds of Carduus Benedictus Cichory of each half an ounce seeds of Endive Cresses Citrons Scariol of each two drachms Polytricon Adianthum Ceterach Dodder Scolopendria Bettony Endive of each a handful and a half tops of Thyme Epithymum Hops Flowers St. Johns Wort Broom Borrage Bawm of each one handful small Rasins one ounce Cinamon one drachm and a half Spec. Dialacc half a drachm Water of Carduus Benedictus of Hops of Scolopendria of Paul's Bettony ana one pound Rhenish Wine two pound and a half let them stand two days in a warm place in a Vessel close stopp'd afterward Distill them in Balneo Addition Aqua Vitae Glauberis two pound the Juice of Goose-berries two pound or in place thereof Goose-berry Wine made as prescribed in our Brit. Magazine of Liquors the Juice of Black-berries half a pound the Juice of Buckthorn Berries six ounces Cinnamon and Nutmegs ana two ounces Sugar half a pound let it be prepared Secundum Artem. Y-worth T is a prevalent Water to open the Obstructions of the whole Body especially of the Liver Spleen and Mesentery The Dose is from two drachms to six or eight two or three times a day Aqua Vulneraria or VVound VVater Composition the greater Distiller Take Plantain Rib-wort Bone-wort Wild Angelica Red Mints Bettony Agrimony Sanicle Blew-Bottles White-Bottles Scabius Dandelion Avens Honey-Suckle Leaves Bramble buds Haw-thorn buds and Leaves Mugwort Daisie Roots Leaves and Flowers Wormwood Southern-wood of each four handfuls boyl all these in two gallons of white-wine and as much Spring water till one half be wasted and when it is thus boyled strain it from the Herbs and put to it two pound of Honey and let it boyl a little after then divide this into two parts the one part head with common ferment and let it ferment for three days then add into every Quart thereof a pound of Aqua Vitae Glauberis and Distill into high Proof Spirits S. A. Addition Cinnamon Lignum Aloes of each four ounces Mirrh Aloes and Saffron of each one ounce then perfume and colour as in other precious Waters and dulcifie with Syrup of Cinnamon and Syrup of Poppies of each three ounces and lastly add in of Laudanum Liquidum four drachms Tincture of Coral six
drachms let it resin S. A. Y-worth 'T is not only excellent for such as are wounded but also for those that are subject to internal bleedings it mortifies the Corrosive Acid and Saline juices so sweetens and thickens the Blood the Dose in such a case is from half an ounce to an ounce and half according to the Age Strength and Constitution of the Patient every three hours as also every two hours for three days together for such as are subject to Vomitting of Blood The first Water made by decoction is very famous in curing Wounds Impostumes and Vlcers such cures have been done by it that few may credit it it first gives ease in a very short time and then perform the cures if not so far declined as that the highest Specificks will not prevail For inward wounds you must take this with the other but this Mornings and Evenings four or five spoonfuls at a time and that all times of the day If the Wound be outward it must be washed therewith and Linen Cloaths wet in the same be applyed thereto Note that the Herbs herein contained must be gathered in their true Signature as also in the Month of May. Aqua Mariae or the Ladies Water Composition the greater Distiller Take Sugar Candid four pound Canary Wine one pound and half Rosewater one pound boyl them well into a Syrup to which add Aqua Caelestis eight pound Ambergreese Musk ana one drachm grains twelve Saffron one drachm Tincture of Coral saith Dr. Boylwharfe one ounce Yellow Sanders infused in Aqua Caelestis hereafter described one ounce Distill or make a clear Water S. A. Composition the lesser Take Sugar Candy one pound Canary Wine six ounces rose-Rose-water four ounces make of these a Syrup and boyl it well to which add of Aqua Imperialis two Pints Ambergreese Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fifteen grains Yellow Sanders infused in Aqua Imperialis two drachms Addition Aqua Preciosa hereafter expressed half an ounce the Tincture of Coral Bezoar and the aucrified Sulphur of Antimony ana two drachms refine and unite S. A. Y-worth 'T is very good against the Plague and all Pestilential Diseases and an excellent Counterpoison it strengthens the Spirits and is prevalent against fainting and swooning fits it is good against most cold Diseases of the Head Brain and Stomach and principally for Men but not so good for Women unless the Musk and Ambergreese be left out The Dose is a spoonful or two first in the morning and last at night going to Bed Aqua Anticolica Nostra or Our VVater against the Colick Composition the greater Y-worth Take of Daucus or wild Carrots twelve ounces Aniseeds eight ounces Cummin-seeds three ounces two drachms Cinnamon four ounces and a half Mace Cloves Nutmegs ana seven drachms Galingal one ounce and half Calamus Aromaticus dried two ounces and a half the dried Rind of Oranges and Limons ana six ounces Galls and Grains ana one ounce two drachms infuse these by way of Fermentation for twelve days in the fragrant Wine of Camomile Flowers five gallons Elder-wine a gallon and half then pour on five Gallons of Proof Spirit and draw into high Proof or fine goods dulcifie with white Sugar four pound Addition Apricocks Centaury Agrimony Adonis of each half a pound Palma Christi Hart-wort Lavender of each six ounces Yarrow and Zedoary of each four ounces white Sugar four pound Tinctura Anodyna or Laudanum Liquidum four unces refine S. A. Composition the lesser Take of Daucus or wild Carrots four ounces Aniseeds two ounces five drachms one scruple Cumminseeds one ounce two scruples Cinnamon one ounce and a half Mace Cloves Nutmegs ana two drachms one scruple Gallingal half an ounce Calamus Aromaticus dried seven drachms the dried Rind of Oranges and Limons ana two ounces Galls and Grains ana three drachms one scruple infuse these by way of fermentation for twelve days in fragrant Wine of Camomile Flowers one gallon and a half Elder-Wine half a gallon then pour on a gallon and half of Proof Spirit and draw into high Proof or fine goods dulcifie with white Sugar one pound four ounces Addition Apricocks Centaury Agrimony Adonis of each two ounces five drachms Palma Christi Heart-wort Lavender of each two ounces Yarrow and Zedoary of each one ounce two drachms grains fifteen white Sugar one pound six ounces Tinctura Anodyna or Laudanum Liquidum one ounce two drachms two scruples refine S. A. Its Virtues It is not only good against the Colick but also oppression of wind in the Stomach and Bowels how offensive soever it be and the more especially if you dilate it in a little cold Distilled Water of Yarrow and sweeten it with the Syrup of Poppies and drink it as a Cordial in which Case you may take half a Pint at two draughts with an hours intermission 't is most excellent also for the Gripes in Sucking Children being taken to the quantity of a spoonful or spoonful and haâ—f in Breast Milk Aqua Nostra in Vermes or Our Worm-Water Composition the greater Y-worth Take of Hellebore Savin Broom Flowers and tops ana a Peck pour thereon the Water of Tansie Rue and Peach Flowers ana two gallons adding thereunto Sugar five pound and with the common ferment let them ferment five or six days then take of Worm-seed bruised one pound Wormwood tops and seeds six handfuls Peach Flowers three handfuls the fine shavings of Harts-horn a pound strong Proof Spirit ten gallons Distill into fine goods and dulcifie with white Sugar eight pound Addition Agrimony Cedar Elecampane Garlick Mustard Nettles Harts-tongue Leaves ana an handful Aloes bruised six ounces Christals of Tartar half a pound fine Sugar six pound Composition the lesser Take of Hellebore Savin Broom tops and Flowers ana a quarter of a peck pour thereon of the water of Tansie Rue and Peach-flowers ana four Pints adding thereunto Sugar one pound four ounces and ferment with the common ferment five or six days then take of wormseed bruised four ounces Wormwood tops and seeds two handfuls Peach flowers a large Pugil the fine shaving of Harts-horne four ounces strong Proof Spirit two gallons and ahalf Distill into fine goods and dulcifie with white Sugar two pound Addition Agrimony Cedar Elecampane Garlick Mustard Nettles Harts-tongue Leaves ana half a Pugil or a small Pugil Aloes bruised one ounce and ahalf Chrystals of Tartar four ounces fine Sugar one poundand a half Its Virtues 'T is prevalent against all kind of Worms both in Young and Old for being Dilated into a Cordial with the Syrup of the three first Herbs it becomes a Medicine not to be surpassed by any thing short of a specifick The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce according to the Age Nature and condition of the diseased you must observe to take it seven mornings together fasting Aqua Nostra Convulsiva or Our Water against the Convulsion Coposition the greater Y-worth Take of Black-cherries bruised
which Salt remove and carefully preserve for t is of an inestimable value Then take Oyster-shells wash them very clean dry them and Calcine them to an exceeding white Calx the which power very finely and sift through a fine sieve then take of this and the highly purifyed Sal-Armoniack of each a like quantity mix them well together and put them into a Retort and pour thereon twice their weight of the Alkalizated Spirit of that Concrete whence you intend to make your Powers and by degrees of fire distil to dryness the spirit that comes over you may rectifie from a proportionable Quantity of dryed herbs spices or seeds from whence you make your Powers or Oleosum and then unite three pound thereof with half a pound of Essential Oyl by two or three Cohobations or if your oyl is prepared as before directed you may only shake them together and they shall be united or in defect of this you may do it by digestion by adding in three or four ounces of our Common Reconciler or Vegetable-preserving-Salt and so have you an Oleusum or Powers superiour to any as yet by others exposed to sale being not only indued with the middle nature of the Concreate but also an Abstersive Vertue as will be seen more at large hereafter for what is here said in general is sufficient to signifie unto you the preparation and nature of those Powers and Oleosums prepared by the Hermaphroditical Sal-Armoniack we shall therefore proceed to the Particulars and first of Potestates Cinamomi or the Powers of Cinamon Take of the aforesaid prepared Sal-Armoniack one pound of the highly Alkalizated Spirit of Wine four pound Distil and Unite as before directed then Rectifie from Cinamon one pound moistned with a little Oyle of common salt run per del in a strong B. M. and Cohobate two or three times upon the Cinamon by which means its Vertue will be obtained put this upon a pound of fresh Cinamon and Cohobate as before repeat this a third time and your Spirit will become very rich of the Cinamon now on the Cinamon that remains pour good Spirit of Wine and extract the Tincture as long as any will come add these Tinctures together and put them into a Retort and call off 8 4 gently dry the Extract the Cinamon that remains after Distillation must be gently dryed and Calcined into Ashes the which while so warm as to be handled must be put into a Cucurbit pouring thereon the before mentioned Spirit call'd over by making the Extract put on a blind head and digest three days decant the clear and if after that you think any Spirit remains in the Ashes you may call it off by Distillation and then with Distil'd Rain-water extract the Salt from the Ashes in the Cucurbit the which exactly filtre evaporate and Christallize Now add your two Spirits together and then take the Salt and extract and grind them together with six ounces of the Oyle of Cinamon put them into a large Retort and pour your Spirits on them Distil off and Cohobate three or four times and lastly return your spirit back adding in of our Common Reconciler four ounces digest four days decant the clear and so are the Powers prepared Their Vertues They are prevalent in Vertigoes Palsies Apoplexies deprivation of Sense Frensies Madness inveterate pains of the Head Megrims sudden Coughs Colds and difficulty of Breathing they not onely comfort the Head and Brain and refresh the Sences but also cheer the Heart resist Poyson and revive the Spirits being a powerful Medicine in Palpitations Faintings Swoonings and Sickness at the Heart and Stomack good against a stinking Breath Indigestion and want of Appetite and other the like Defects They are good for vomiting and spitting of Blood and excellent for weak and consumptive People They are also prevalent in the Cholick Griping of the Guts Wind Pain of the Stomack and Spleen Iliack Passion sharp and corroding humours in the Bowels and all other pains whatsoever they cure a Diarrhea Dysentery and Lientery the flux of the Liver over-flowing of the Terms and Whites in Women Their use and manner of being Taken For Fits or any Diseases that suddenly approach take thirty or forty drops in a glass of spring-water sweetned with a little Sugar anointing the fore-head and temples therewith and forcing the savours up the nostrels but for weakness and fluxes let forty drops be drank in a glass of Tent two or three times a day observe by the same rules are made the Powers of Sassafras and all such woods as will yield an Essential Oyle by Distillation all of which are more noble in vertue than any of their common Prescriptions hitherto Dispenced The price ten shillings an ounce Potestates Menthoe or the Powers of Mint Take of Mint gathered in the right signature in a clear day what quantity you please let them be chop'd very small or rather pounded in a great stone Mortar and put them into a large Tunn or Oyle-fatt as is ordered for Distillation and pour thereon new Wort or rather Mead sufficient to cover them at least an hands breadth either of which must be blood-warm head them well with yeast and let them work as we have ordered in our first part of Distillation and after five days distil with a large Refrigeratory into Low-wines the which pour again upon a fresh quantity of Mint gently dryed the herbs are best to be hang'd in a bag as described figure the second for so they will get no ill tangue and distil into proof goods then add fresh herbs as before and distil a third time which is called Rectification but in this we advise you to put in a Can or two of water to keep the body of your Still from burning as is usual in Reâ—â—ification then rectifie from Christallized Salt of Tartar and unite it with purified Sal Armoniack and again rectify from the herbs in a large Cucurbit with its glass Helm and so the Spirit becomes rich pure vital strong and fragrant of the Herb take of this three pound of the oyl of Mint six ounces and unite as directed in the generals Observe that if Essential oyls are rectified from mortified Bay-Salt they may be brought to unite in equal pondus with the Spirit VIRTUES These Powers are superior to any of this nature hitherto extant and wonderfully fortify the Spirits exhilerate the mind strengthen the stomack and provoke Appeâ—ite stays the Hiccough and Vomiting and stops the fury of cholerick Passions their like prevalency is also seen in stopping the Flowers and Whites externally the Temples being bathed with them eases the Head-ach and cures Watry-eyes strengthening weak sinnews and being internally taken and externally applyed are a Counter-poyson against the venom of Serpents The Dose is from twenty to forty Drops in Mead Wine or rather some cordial Julep made from it's distil'd water or Syrrup The Price is Twelve pence an ounce Potestates Melissoe or the Powers of Bawm Let
writing but from a sluggish neglect of their heedful observation and of putting them into use for have we not named besides the Lees of Wine and what proceeds from that root with the Viner Heiggs c. and others which you count Spagyrical things of such a degree as any one may conceive as Bay Salt Bay Leaves Orrice c. And to those already named we will add Cherries without the Stones Arsmart Pepperwort the Herb Scarleae the Blackberry first made into Wine as directed as also Wheat Corn for from thence proceed most excellent flavours as we know by large Experience therefore accept of our plain and kind Communication and by a few tryals you may hit the profitable truth especially if you over Dose not the Spirit with the Herb for do we not see how a few drops of the Oyl of Cinamon Cloves and Mace being dropt into Sugar and cast into Wines alter their taste especially if some Essence of Ambergreese is added as may be hereafter more largely shown in the next Impression of our Britannean Magazine of Liquors we also see that the Elder-flower cast into well decocted Mead makes it just like Wine made of the Apian or Muskadine Grape All which presidents make clear the Art of Rectification so that enough and more than enough is said of this Nature seeing the diligent hand must by trials obtain that which may greatly redound to the satisfaction of the searcher for doth not Solomon say the diligent hand makes rich which may be understood in Knowledge as well as Substance since that he preferrs Wisdom and Understanding before all the Riches and Glory of this World saying that Kings and Princes must come and throw down their Crowns and Scepters before it And how can any man be said to excel another if he have not some gifts above him and a Practical knowledge in that of which the other understands nothing but into this part must every man enter by his own self-labour and uncessant seeking and knocking until Divine Providence through his perseverance opens it unto him For we can neither lay nor yet think of any Limitations in this Case but as to what we have written we think it sufficient for any rational Genius to make enlargements on and the more especially seeing we have shown the Preparation of Powers and Essential Salts in the second Head in the fourth Chapter sc of noble specificated Powers as also in the third Head touched at the Office of our Sal Panaristos which will perform on Wines and Spirits all that the Artist can desire nay even to the Superlative degree and yet the radical Product of England therefore did we in our first Part Metaphorically describe the Actions of the Planets in order to set forth this thing and to show that the Universal Spirit may have its pure Effluviums so concentrated as to be brought into a Corporeal or Bodily Form this is that when so prepared which hath power to transmute one Nature into another and as Vulgar Venus will Cloath Pale-Faced Sol with a deeper and more beautiful Garment so will our Chaos of Mars and Venus mentioned in the Preface of our Chymicus Rationalis or rather our Vitriol of Venus and Mars Philosophical be a Medium for the exalting of Spirits into a purer Nature and how can it be otherwise seeing the Vine is under the Signature of Venus and the Juice thereof hath only from thence its sweet Salt but this hath the Virtue of all the Planets Concatinated into a pure sweet and Chrystaline Salt the very Key to the Golden and Lunar Magnet and other such perfect ones which by their internal purities will magnetically attract and separate Impurities from other beings and so doth this the Flegm and gross Sulphur in Spirits which being stirred up by the Fire cause their Nauseous smell and taste and sometimes faetid especially if burnt and so brings them to a more perfect state but this cannot be so properly called a Transmutation of form for that is a changing out of one kind into another as an Alteration or Melioration from a more inferiour to a more superior degree but seeing the Original of this Salt together with its Office is shown in the fourth Chapter sc that of Powers we shall thither referr you for it and come to show what remains as pertinent to be treated of in this following part of the Chapter sc The true way of preparing Simple Waters and Spirits such we mean as have no more than the Spirit and one single entire Herb in them because in many cases 't is convenient to have their single Virtues perse especially where they are expected to operate according to their Simple Virtue all laid down in the lesser or least Composition sc three Gallons or one Of Waters Aqua Anisi Simplex or Simple Aniseed Water Composition the least TAKE of Artificial Brandy one Gallon Aniseeds bruised twelve ounces put them into the like Alimbeâ—k desâ—ried in Fig. 3 and in Balmeo Distill off the fine Spirit S. A. then take two quarts of the Water cleansed by Calx vive Aniseeds bruised four ounces and in a cold Still Distill off something more than a quart in which Water gently dissolve on the Embers twelve ounces of fine white Sugar and when cold therewith allay and dulcifie the Spirits already refined and so is the Water prepared This Water is an excellent Carminative expelling Wind in the Bowels and all parts of the Body in brief it answers all that can be attributed to the Spirit Tincture Infusion or Decoction of the Seeds The Dose from one Spoonful to three Aqua Cardamomi Simplex or Simple Cardamom Water Composition the least Take of Brandified Spirits one Gallon Cardamom seeds one pound Operate in all things as in the former likewise prepare a Syrup as there directed with which dulcifie and allay This Water is very prevalent in warming and strengthning the Stomach comforting the Vital Spirits and expelling Wind carrying with it all the Virtues that may be attributed to any other preparation of the Seed The Dose is the same as the former After this way may be prepared the Water from most Seeds as Caraways Daucus Sweet-Foenil seeds c. The which we shall not repeat seeing their preparation is one with this and their Virtues to be understood after the same manner Therefore I shall proceed no further therein but come to Herbs Aqua Cardami simplex or simple Garden Cress-water Composition the least Take of Brandified Spirit one Gallon Garden Cresses fresh gathered half a peck macerate them in your Alimbeck three days and then Distiâ—… into fine goods S. A. Also from the Herb per sâ— in the cold Still Distill the cold Water to every three pound of which you must add one pounâ— of fine Sugar the which dissolve therein and then therewith allay and dulcifie the Spirit let it refine and so is it prepared This Water helps to expectorate and raise tough Flegm destroys Worms
Water off the Stomach it prevents sowre belchings and hath a specifick virtue against Vomitting The Dose is from three drachms to seven or eight Aqua Rosmarini or Rosemary Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of good Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Rosemary stript and dry three pound Aniseeds one pound nine ounces five drachms Distill into fine goods and then dulcifie with white Sugar five pound Addition Sweet Foenil seeds Cinnamon ana twelve ounces six drachms and a half Aniseeds Rosemary dry ana one pound nine ounces five drachms Carawayseeds three ounces one drachm and a half Spearmint dry three handfuls white Sugar four pound Composition the lesser Take of high Proof Spirit three gallons Rosemary stript and dry nine ounces Aniseeds four ounces seven drachms Distill into fine goods and then dulcifie with white Sugar half a pound Addition Sweet Foenil seeds Cinnamon ana two ounces three drachms and a half Aniseeds Rosemary dry ana four ounces seven drachms Carawayseeds four drachms and a half Spearmint dry a competent quantity white Sugar twelve ounces Y-worth Rosemary Water is an excellent Cephalick and Stomachick for it comforts the Brain revives the Senses easing violent pains of the head it strengthens the Stomach and is good against the Diarrhoea Dysentery or Irish Flux as also the Strangury or difficulty of making Water It may be safely Administred these three ways sc one ounce and a half to be drunk given in a Clyster or injected into the Yard Aqua Limoniarum aut Aurantiorum Limon or Orange Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of good Proof Spirits sixteen gallons Limon or Orange Pills dry three pound Aniseeds the best one pound nine ounces five drachms bruise the Pills and seeds and then Distill into fine Spirit and dulcifie with white Sugar eight pound Addition Caraway seeds six ounces four drachms Aniseeds Limon Pills dry ana one pound and a half five drachms grains six white Sugar four pound In the like manner and quantity you may make your Composition with Orange Pills dry Composition the lesser Take of good Proof Spirit three gallons Limon or Orange Pills dry nine ounces Aniseeds the best four ounces eight drachms bruise the Pills and seeds and then Distill into fine Spirit Secundum Artem dulcifie with white Sugar one pound and a half Addition Carawayseeds one ounce three drachms grains fifteen Aniseeds Limon Pills dry ana four ounces seven drachms white Sugar twelve ounces In the like manner and quantity you may make your Composition with Orange Pills dry Y-worth This is a great strengthener of the Spirits Natural Vital and Animal and by its fragrancy is very refreshing to the Stomach breaking away wind 't is also a good Cordial restorative opening Obstructions and being indued with a Balsamick Virtue heals inward defects The Dose is from three drachms to six Aqua Majoranae or Marjoram Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons sweet Marjoram dry four pound thirteen ounces Aniseeds one pound nine ounces five drachms Carawayseeds six ounces three drachms grains fifteen Calamus Aromaticus nine ounces five drachms bruise them and Distill into fine goods then dulcifie with white Sugar what is sufficient Secundum Artem. Addition Cinnamon eight ounces Cloves three ounces one drachm and a half Limon Pills dry four ounces six drachms and a half Sugar four pound Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons sweet Marjoram dry fifteen ounces Aniseeds four ounces seven drachms Carawayseeds one ounce three drachms grains five Calamus Aromaticus one â—â—nce seven drachms bruise them and Distill into fine goods S. A. and then dulcifie with white Sugar one pound and a half Addition Cinamon one ounce and a half Cloves four drachms and a half Limon Pills dry seven drachms and a half Sugar twelve ounces Y-worth 'T is good against the Infirmities of the Liver and Spleen and shortness of Breath 't is a great Corroborater and strengthner of the inward parts The Dose is from three drachms to six Aqua Meliphylli or Balsamint Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of good Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Balsamint dry three pound three ounces one drachm and a half Aniseeds best one pound and a half one ounce five drachms Carawayseeds six ounces three drachms Limon Pills dry twelve ounces six drachms and a half bruise them that are to be bruised and then Distill into strong Proof Spirit and dulcifie with white Sugar eight pound S. A. Addition Sweet Foenil Cinnamon ana eight ounces Nutmegs four ounces six drachms and a half Sugar four pound Composition the lesser Take of good Proof Spirit three gallons Balsamint dry nine ounces four drachms and a half Aniseeds best four ounces seven drachâ—â— Carawayseeds one ounce one drachm Limon Pills dry two ounces three drachms and a half bruise them that are to be bruised and then Distill into strong Proof Spirits and dulcifie with white Sugar one pound and a half S. A. Addition Sweet Foenil Cinnamon ana one ounce and a half Nutmegs seven drachms and a half Sugar twelve ounces Y-worth This is a good Stomachick and Carminative The Dose six or eight drachms Aqua Caryophyllorum or Clove Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of high Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Cloves one pound Aniseeds one pound nine ounces five drachms Distill into fine goods and then dulcifie with white Sugar eight pound Composition the lesser Take of high Proof Spirit three gallons Cloves three ounces Aniseeds four ounces seven drachms Distill into fine goods and then dulcifie with white Sugar one pound and a half Y-worth This Water is esteemed very good for helping Digestion breaking Wind opening the Urinary passage and provoking Urine for fortifying the Vital Spirits and the Heart the fountain thereof The Dose is from two to four drachms Aqua Cinnamomi Communis or Cinnamon Water Common Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Cinnamon the best eight pound Aniseeds one pound Distill into fine goods and then dulcifie with white Sugar twelve pound S. A. Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Cinnamon the best one pound and a half Aniseeds three ounces Distill into fine goods and then dulcifie with white Sugar two pound four ounces Aqua Cinnamomi Propria or Cinnamon Water Proper Composition the greater Distiller Take of good Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Cinnamon the best and large sixteen pound Distill into fine goods Then take white Sugar twenty pound Rosewater six pound six ounces three drachms make them into a Syrup and dulcifie therewith S. A. Addition Musk and Ambergreese ana two scruples grains eight white Sugar Candy instead of common white Sugar qu. sat e. S. A. Composition the lesser Take of good Proof Spirit three gallons Cinnamon the best and large three pound Distill into fine goods Then take white Sugar three pound thirteen ounces Rosewater one pound three ounces one drachm make them into a Syrup and dulcifie
therewith S. A. Addition Musk and Ambergreese ana grains nine white Sugar Candy instead of common white Sugar qu. sat S. A. Observe In respect that Musk for some causes may give offence to the receiver 't is requisite to omit the use thereof in some of your Water of this kind to serve for such particular uses Aqua Cinnamomi Nostra or Our Cinnamon Water Y-worth Take of our Spiritus Vini Sulphurat one gallon for when you make such rich Cordial Waters 't is best to make use of such Brandified Spirits as the Spirit of Malt or any other bereaved of their ill Tang and Hogo and then impregnated with an Azural Salt and Sulphur of a Vinor Nature of the best Cinnamon in small powder one pound four ounces Sugar half a pound Chrystals of Tartar four ounces let them infuse therein ten days or the longer the better and then Distill into High Proof Spirits and thus have you the true Spirit of Cinnamon most proper for any Physical use whatever But to allay it into a Cordial Water you must proceed thus Take of fresh Cinnamon half a pound Spring Water three Quarts put them into your Alembick with its Refrigeratory and Distill over and what Oyl comes will sink to the bottom the which you may separate and then to every Quart of this water add of Loaf Sugar one pound and over a gentle warmth dissolve it and so with this you may allay your Spirit to Proof or what height you please Its Virtues are excellent against Vomittings weakness of the Stomach and stinking Breath 't is a good Cardiack Pectoral Lienick and Splenetick comforting the Vital and Animal Spirits giving strength even to the Brain and Sinews The Dose is according as dilated the weaker one ounce the stronger two or four drachms at the most Aqua Seminum Foeniculi dulc or sweet Foenil seed Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons sweet Foenil seeds eight pound Carawayseeds six ounces three drachms Aniseeds one pound nine ounces five drachms Distill into fine goods and then dulcifie with white Sugar eight pound Addition Sweet Foenil seeds eight pound Caraway seeds six ounces three drachms grains fifteen Aniseeds one pound nine ounces five drachms Cinnamon twelve ounces six drachms and a half Cloves three ounces one drachm and a half Sugar four pound Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Sweet Foenil seeds one pound and a half Carawayseeds one ounce one drachm Aniseeds four ounces seven drachms Distill into fine goods and then dulcifie with white Sugar one pound and a half Addition Sweet Foenil seeds one pound and a half Carawayseeds one ounce three drachms grains five Aniseeds four ounces seven drachms Cinnamon two ounces three drachms and a half Cloves four drachms and a half Sugar twelve ounces Y-worth This Water takes off Stomachick Loathings and creates an Appetite strengthening the Tones imbibing sharp humours and expelling Wind. The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce and half Aqua Calendularum or Marigold Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Marigold Flowers new gather'd pick'd clean three pecks and a quarter bruise them sweet Foenil seeds Aniseeds ana one pound Distill into fine goods and dulcifie with white Sugar eight pound Addition Cinamon sweet Foenil ana half a pound Caraway Cloves ana three ounces one drachm and a half Marigolds three pecks ¼ Sugar four pound Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Marigold Flowers new gather'd and pick'd clean ¾ peck or what more sufficeth bruise them sweet Foenil seeds Aniseeds ana three ounces Distill into fine goods and dulcifie with white Sugar one pound and a half Addition Cinamon sweet Foenil ana one ounce four drachms Caraway Cloves ana four drachms and a half Marigolds qu. s e. Sugar twelve ounces Y-worth 'T is a wonderful strengthner and as great a Preserver against any Infection whatsoever The Dose is an ounce or two in the morning especially when contagious Diseases do reign Aqua Seminum Cariu or Caraway Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of high Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Caraway seeds three pound Aniseeds one pound Rosemary dry six ounces three drachms Limon Pills dry Cloves ana four ounces six drachms and a half Distill into fine goods S. A. and dulcifie with white Sugar eight pound Composition the lesser Take of high Proof Spirit three gallons Caraway seeds nine ounces Aniseeds three ounces Rosemary dry one ounce one drachm Limon Pills dry Cloves ana seven drachms and a half Distill into fine goods S. A. and then dulcifie with white Sugar one pound and a half Y-worth This Water hath been found very good for such as have been oppressed with cold and moist Stomachs as also for such as have been subject to Wind in the Bowels for it warms comforts and strengthens The Dose is from three to six drachms Aqua Nucum Moschatarum or Nutmeg Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Nutmegs two pound Aniseeds one pound bruise them and Distill into fine goods S. A. and then dulcifie with white Sugar eight pound Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Nutmegs six ounces Aniseeds three ounces bruise them and Distill into fine goods S. A. and then dulcifie with white Sugar one pound and a half Y-worth This Water chears the Spirits Natural Vital and Animal it sweetens the Breath and is a good Carminative and Diuretick The Dose is the same with Caraway Water Aqua Lavendulae or Lavender Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of high Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Lavender Leaves dry four pound twelve ounces six drachms and a half Lavender Flowers dry three pound three ounces one drachm and a half Mace twelve ounces six drachms and a half Nutmegs one pound nine ounces five drachms Lavender Cotton dry three pound three ounces one drachm and a half Staechados twelve ounces six drachms and a half bruise them that are to be bruised and Distill into Proof Spirit S. A. dulcifie with white Sugar sixteen pound or what less sufficeth Composition the lesser Take of high Proof Spirit three gallons Lavender Leaves dry fourteen ounces three drachms and a half Lavender Flowers dry nine ounces four drachms and a half Mace two ounces three drachms and a half Nutmegs four ounces seven drachms Lavender Cotton dry nine ounces four drachms and a half Staechados two ounces three drachms and a half bruise them that are to be bruised and Distill into Proof Spirit S. A. Dulcifie with white Sugar three pound Aqua Lavendulae Composita or Lavender Water Compound Distiller Take Flowers of Lavender Lily of the Valley ana twenty four handfuls Piony Tillia Flowers of Rosemary ana half an handful Sage Cinamon Ginger Cloves Cubebs Galingal Calamus Aromaticus Mace Misseltoe of the Oak ana one drachm and a half Piony Roots one ounce and a half of the best
is esteemed an excellent Water for strengthning the Stomach expelling Wind and fortifying the Sanguifying Faculty The Dose is half an ounce Ros Solis Proprius Composition the greater Distiller Take of high Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Ros Solis gathered in due season and clean picked six pound six ounces three drachms two scruples grains five Juniper Berries four pound twelve ounces six drachms and a half Sassafras rooted with the Bark Caraway-seeds ana six ounces three drachms two scruples grains five Marigold-Flowers one pound nine ounces five drachms Aniseeds two pound six ounces three drachms and a half bruise them that are to be bruised and Distill into fine Goods S. A. Then take hereof ten pound three ounces add thereto of Aqua Pretiosa dulcified one pound nine ounces five drachms Liquorice bruised one pound nine ounces five drachms and then dulcifie with white Sugar sixteen pound If you add none of the aforesaid Water then instead thereof take Musk one drachm and a half grains six Ambergreese four drachms and a half grains eight colour it with the Tincture of Gilliflowers and Roses what is sufficient S. A. Composition the lesser Take of high Proof Spirit three gallons Ros Solis gathered in due season and clean pick'd one pound three ounces one drachm two scruples grains five Juniper Berries fourteen ounces three drachms and a half Sassafras rooted with the Bark Caraway-seeds ana nine drachms two scruples grains five Marigold-Flowers four ounces seven drachms Aniseeds seven ounces two drachms and a half bruise them that are to be bruised and Distill into fine goods S. A. Then take hereof one pound twelve ounces four drachms and a half add thereunto of Aqua Pretiosa four ounces three drachms dulcified Liquorice bruised four ounces three drachms dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth If you add none of the aforesaid Water then take instead thereof Musk grains eighteen Ambergreese grains twenty four colour it with the Tincture of Roses or Gilliflowers what sufficeth S. A. Y-worth This carries with it all the Virtues of the former being also powerful in opening Obstructions relieving decayed Natures and giving help in the Falling sickness The Dose is from two to six drachms Aqua Stomachica minor or Stomach Water the lesser Composition the greater Distiller Take of good Proof Spirit sixteen gallons spearmints dry Lovage Roots dry Aniseeds ana one pound nine ounces six drachms Calamus Aromaticus Ginger sweet Foenil-seeds Imperatoria Roots Wormwood dry and stript ana twelve ounces seven drachms two scruples Caraway and Coriander-seeds ana nine ounces five drachms Cummin-seeds Cloves ana four ounces six drachms and a half bruise them that are to be bruised and then Distill into strong Proof Spirit S. A. and dulcifie with white Sugar eight pound Composition the lesser Take of good Proof Spirit three gallons Spearmints dry Lovage Roots dry Aniseeds four ounces seven drachms Calamus Aromaticus Ginger sweet Foenil-seeds Imperatoria Roots Wormwood dry and stript ana two ounces five drachms Caraway and Coriander-seeds ana one ounce seven drachms Cummin-seeds Cloves ana seven drachms and a half bruise them that are to be bruised and then Distill into strong Proof Spirit S. A. and dulcifie with white Sugar one pound and a half Aqua Stomachica major or Stomach VVater the greater Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Calamus Aromaticus nine ounces five drachms Guajacum green Bark Avens Roots dry Galingal ana six ounces and a half Citron Pills dry Orange Pills dry white Cinamon ana four ounces seven drachms grains fifteen Wormwood common dry Wormwood Roman dry Spearmint Rosemary tops Costmary Sweet Marjoram wild Thyme all dry ana three ounces one drachm and a half Nutmegs Cinamon ana four ounces four drachms Cubebs Cardamums ana two ounces three drachms grains fifteen Sweet Foenil-seeds Coriander-seeds ana eight ounces Aniseeds two pound six ounces three drachms bruise all that are to be bruised and then Distill into strong Proof Spirit S. A. and dulcifie with white Sugar sixteen pound Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three Gallons Calamus Aromaticus one ounce seven drachms Guajacum green Bark Avens Roots dry Galingal ana twelve ounces Citron Pills dry Orange Pills dry white Cinamon ana one ounce one drachm two scruples grains five Wormwood common dry Wormwood Roman dry Spearmint Rosemary tops Costmary sweet Marjoram wild Thyme all dry ana four drachms and a half Nutmeg Cinamon ana six drachms Cubebs Cardamoms ana three drachms two scruples grains five sweet Foenil-seeds Coriander-seeds ana one ounce and a half Aniseeds six ounces one drachm bruise those that are to be bruised and then Distill into strong Proof Spirit S. A. and dulcifie with white Sugar three pound Aqua Stomachica Nostra or Our Stomach VVater Y-worth Take Spirit Vini Sulphurat mentioned in the Chapter of Rectification ten gallons of Gascoigne Wine one gallon mix them together and digest in the Still with a gentle warmth twenty four hours then add in of Ginger Galingal Nutmegs grains of Paradise Cloves ana four ounces Aniseeds sweet Foenil-seeds Carawary-seeds Hearts-Ease ana eight ounces Sage Mint Red Roses the Flowers of the Lily of the Valley ana ten ounces Thyme Pelitory Camomil Lavender Avens ana four large handfuls Spanish Angelica Roots Zedoary Snake Root ana five ounces Musk and Ambergreese ana five scruples put on the head and lute all close and let them remain with a gentle warmth twenty four hours more and then Distill into high Proof Spirit S. A. To every gallon of this add ten ounces of our Potestates Rosmarini and a pound and a half of the Syrup of Rasberies or Black Cherries and let it refine S. A. Its Virtues 'T is a great Preservative against all Pestilential and Infectious Diseases powerfully corroborating and strengthning the Stomach being indued with such salutiferous Virtues as that it will really perform as much as any other Stomachick what ever The Dose is from two to four drachms Usquebaugh Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Aniseeds one pound nine ounces five drachms Cloves three ounces one drachm and a half Nutmegs Ginger Caraway-seeds ana six ounces three drachms Distill into strong Proof Spirit S. A. Then add to the Distilled Water Liquorice Spanish Raisins of the Sun ana three pound three ounces one drachm and a half bruise the Liquorice and Raisins and then dulcifie with brown Sugar eight pound stirr them well together and so let it stand ten days and then being fine draw off and keep it for use Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Aniseeds four ounces seven drachms Cloves four drachms and a half Nutmegs Ginger Caraway-seeds ana one ounce one drachm Distill into strong Proof Spirit S. A. Then add to the Distilled Water Liquorice Spanish Raisins of the Sun ana nine ounces four drachms and a half bruise the Liquorice and Raisins and then dulcifie with brown Sugar
one pound and a half stirr them well together and so let it stand ten days and then being fine draw it off and keep it for use Irish Vsquebaugh Y-worth Take of strong Canary Sack a Quart the best Tent one Pint Aqua Vitae one gallon put them into a Glass Vessel adding thereunto Raisins of the Sun choice and stoned two pound Dates stoned and the white skin thereof pulled out two ounces Cinamon grosly powdered two ounces four good Nutmegs bruised of the best English Liquorice sliced and bruised one ounce stop the Vessel very close and let them infuse in a cold place six or eight days then let the Liquor run through a bag called Manica Hypocratis made of white Cotton Vsquebaugh Royal. Y-worth Take of Aqua Vitae Glauberis three gallons Muskadine one gallon Raisins of the Sun stoned seven pound Figs one pound and a half Dates stoned and the white skins pulled off seven ounces Cinnamon eight ounces Nutmegs three ounces Cloves broad Mace ana one ounce English Liquorice twelve ounces let them infuse in a cold place for twenty days in a Vessel close stop'd and then let them run through an Hypocrates Sleeve Bottle it up carefully adding thereunto of the Syrup of Quinces and Syrup of Limons ana four ounces of the well tinged Powers of Saffron two ounces let it refine it self and keep it close stop'd Addition Powers of Musk and Ambergreese Tincture of Pearl ana drops twenty So doth it become excellent and vitally fragrant This is a most famous and excellent Liquor fit indeed for such as its Name and Superiority belongs unto it is a most estimable Jewel for such as are inclined to Melancholy to drink now and then a quarter of a Spoonful thereof 't is so great a Stomachick that it helps the digestive faculties prevalent in Surfeits and the defects of the Lungs as Phthisick Consumption causing expectoration in brief 't is equal to any Cordial Spirit whatever for fortifying the Natural Vital and Animal Spirits The Dose is from two to six spoonfuls at the most Aqua Bezoartica or Bezoar Water Prescription the first Composition the greater Distiller Take of the Leaves and Rootâ— of Celandine twenty one handfuls Rheu six handfuls Scordium twelve handfuls Dittany of Creet Carduus Benedictus ana nine handfuls the Roots of Zedoary Angelica ana two ounces two drachms the inward Pill of Citron and Limon ana three ounces six drachms Clove-Gilliflowers eight ounces four drachms Red Roses Centory Flowers the least ana one ounce four drachms let those be bruised that are to be bruised and cut that are to be cut and put them into the proper Vessel and pour on them of the best Spirit of Wine and Malaga Wine ana ten Quarts one Pint let them all steep three days adding Vinegar of Cloves and Juice of Limons ana six pound and let them be Distilled in Baln in a large Glass Cucurbit with its proper Helm and Recipient Addition Cinamon two ounces two drachms Cloves one ounce seven drachms Venice Treacle two ounces two drachms Camphire four drachms Troches of Vipers three ounces Mace one ounce and a half the Wood of Aloes six drachms Yellow Sanders one ounce one drachm the seeds of Carduus Benedictus six ounces the Kernels of Ciâ—rons two ounces two drachms the Modus of its preparation is either to digest these with the former and Distill them over together at once or else after the first part is Distilled to add to the Liquor this addition and Distill a second time in B. M. with a most gentle Fire and after you have removed a third of the Aereal Spirit you may Cohobate the rest two or three times to get the virtue of the Ingredients out your Liquors you may add together and let it refine according to Art Composition the lesser Take of the Leaves of the great Celandine together with the Roots thereof three handfuls and a half Rue two handfulls Scordium four handfulls Dittany of Crete Cardius ana an handful and half Roots of Zedoary and Angelica ana three drachms the outward Rind of Citrons and Limons ana six drachms the Flower of Wall Gilliflowers one ounce and a half Red Roses the lesser Century ana two drachms Cloves Cinnamon ana three drachms Andromachus's Treacle three ounces Mithridate an ounce and half Camphire two scruples Trochies of Vipers two ounces Mace two drachms Lignum Aloes half an ounce Yellow Sanders one drachm and a half the Seeds of Carduus one ounce the seeds of Citron six drachms cut those things that are to be cut and let them be macerated three days in Spiritus Vini Glauberis and Muskadine ana three Pints and a half Vinegar of Wall Gilliflowers and the Juice of Limons ana a Pint let them be Distilled in the Glass Vessel before described in B. Observe that after something more than one half of the Liquor is Distilled off from either of these two Compositions then the remainder in the Vessel must be strained through a Linnen Cloath and gently evaporated to the thickness of Honey which is called the Bezoar Extract Y-worth We think it convenient to hang in the neck of the Alembick Pearl prepared white Amber ana three ounces Orientall Bezoar and Ambergreese ana six scruples and when the preparation is over what remains may be added to the Extract then do both Spirit and Extract obtain a Nature something agreeable to the name and doubtless the Virtues are more powerful being an excellent Sudorifick Alexipharmick and Antifebritick and prevalent against all Pestilential and infectious Diseases 't is not in vain said of it that iâ— resists Melancholly and chears the Spirits comforting such as are in a languishing Nature or Consumptive the Dose is from one drachm to an ounce in Scordium or honey-suckle-Honey-Suckle-water first in Mornings and last at Nights but for such as are afflicted with Fits let them take it in the time of the Paroxism Aqua Mathiae or Doctor Mathias his VVater Composition the greater Distiller Take of Lavender Flowers three gallons pour on them of the best Spirit of Wine ten or twelve gallons the Vessel being closely stopped let them macerate in a gentle heat or in the Sun for the space of seven days and then Distill in an Alembick with its refrigeratory and you have a Spirit of Lavender to which add Sage Rosemary Bettony ana three handfuls Burrage Bugloss Lilies of the Valley Cowslips ana six handfuls let the Flowers be fresh and seasonably gathered and macerated in a gallon of the best Spirit of Wine or rather Spiritus Vini Glauberis and mix it with the aforesaid Spirit adding thereunto the Leaves of Bawm Motherwort Orange-Tree newly gathered the Flowers of Staechados Oranges Bayberries of each three ounces and after they are digested three days let them be Distilled again to which add of the outward Rind of Citron and the seeds of Peony ana two ounces two drachms Cinnamon Nutmegs Mace Cardamums Cubebs Yellow Sanders Lignum Aloes
half Camphire an ounce and an half two scruples and five grains Distill into fine goods S. A. and dulcifie with white Sugar sixteen pound Composition the Lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Butter-bur-roots dry four ounces and seven drachms Garden and Common Valerian-roots both dry Angelica-roots Imperatoria Gentian Enula-Campana Snake-grass roots of each one ounce and in half two drachms and five grains Contrayerva Zedoary and Galingale of each one ounce one drachm two scruples and five grains Rue-leaves dry White-Horehound Scordium Carduus Benedictus of each one ounce and an half Elder-flowers Lavender and Mace of each seven drachms and an half Citron pills drie Juniper-berries of each two ounces three drachms and an half Green Walnuts with the husks four ounces and seven drachms Venice Treacle and Mithridate of each four drachms and an half Aniseeds best seven ounces two drachms and an half Camphire two drachms and fifteen grains distill into fine Spirit S. A. and dulcifie with white Sugar three pound For Vse let the party infected take of this Water one Ounce mingled with warm Posser drink or any other water proper in that case and be kept warm and sweat well thereon Aqua nostra contra Pestilentiam or our plague-Plague-Water Y-worth Take of Spanish Angelica Roots half a pound English Angelica leaves Rue and Sage of each three handfuls Long Pepper Nutmegs and Ginger of each one ounce and an half Venice Treacle and Mithridate of each four ounces Malaga Wine two quarts Aqua Vitae Glauberis one gallon digest twenty daies and then distil into fine Spirit S. A. Addition Contrayerva Virginia Snake root and Zedoary of each three ounces the Powers of Vipers four ounces Camphire one ounce Syrup of Wine Vinegar one pound with which refine down after distilled This Water is an incomparable preservative in and against the Plague Small-Pox Measles and all Pestilential and Contagious Diseases Two Spoonfuls being taken three or four times a day as a Cordial 'T is good also for all cold Stomacks want of Digestion and the like Aqua Florum or Water of Flowers Composition the Greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons and put it into a wide-mouth'd-pot or other Vessel stop'd very close take these several Flowers following in their Seasons and being clean pickt put them to the Spirit in the Pot viz. Cowslips Woodbine Stock-Gilli-flower of all the three sorts Damask-Roses Musk-Roses Sweet-Briar-flowers Lillium Convallium Jasmine Citron-flowers Orange-flowers or their pils dry Tillia-flowers Garden-Limmon and wild Thyme-flowers Lavender Marigold Chamomile Mellilot and Elder-flowers of each twelve ounces six drachms and an half being furnished with all your flowers as above when you would distil them add thereunto Aniseeds three pound three ounces one drachm and an half Coriander seeds one pound nine ounces and five drachms bruise the seeds 't were also best to bruise all the flowers as you put them up into the Spirit for the more orderly working Distil into fine Spirit S. A. then add to the distin'd water Roses Gilly-flowers and Elder-flowers of each one pound nine ounces and five drachms after twelve days Infusion it may be drawn off then dulcifie it with white Sugar sixteen pound and being fine it may be drawn for use Composition the Lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons put it into a wide-mouth'd Pot or other Vessel stopt very close take those several flowers following in their seasons and being clean pickt put them to the Spirit in the Pot viz. Cowslips Woodbine Stock-Gilli-flower of the three sorts Damask-Roses Musk-Roses Sweet-Brier-flowers Clove-Gilly-flowers Lillium-Convallium Jasmine Citron and Orange-flowers or their pils dry Tillia-flowers garden-Limmon and Wild Thyme-flowers Lavender Marigold Chamomile Mellilot Elder-flowers of each two ounces three drachms and an half Being furnished with all your flowers as above when you would distil them add thereunto Aniseeds nine ounces four drachms and an half Coriander seeds four ounces and seven drachms bruise the seeds and 't were also best to bruise all the Flowers as you put them up into the Spirit for their more ord erly working Distil into fine Spirit S. A. then add to the distiled water Roses Gilli-flowers Elder-flowers of each four ounces and seven drachms after Twelve days Infusion it may be drawn off then dulcifie it with white Sugar three pound and being fine it may be drawn for use Y-worth This is a great Cordial for strengthening and refreshing the Spirits and therefore proper for those who are troubled with Hypocondriack Melancholy The Dose is from one drachm to five according to the Age Strength and Condition of the Patient Aqua Frugum or Water of Fruits Composition the Greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Juniper-berries six pound six ounces three drachms and fifteen grains Quince and Pipping-pairings both dry of each three pound three ounces one drachm and an half Limmon-pils Orange-pils dry of each one pound nine ounces and five drachms Nutmegs six ounces three drachms and fifteen grains Anisceds three pound three ounces one drachm and an half Cloves three ounces one drachm and an half Distill into fine Spirit S. A. To the Spirit add Strawberries Rasberries bruised of each eight pound stir them well together and after ten daies it being clear may be drawn off then dulcifie with Syrrup made as is taught in Aven's Water and so let it stand till clear and then draw it off for use Composition the Lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Juniper-berries one pound three ounces one drachm two scruples and five grains Quince and Pipping-pairings both dry of each nine ounces four drachms and an half Limmon-pils Orange-pils dry of each four ounces and seven drachms Nutmegs one ounce one drachm two scruples and five grains Aniseeds nine ounces four drachms and an half Cloves four drachms and an half Distill into fine Spirit S. A. To the Spirit add Straw-berries Ras-berries bruis'd of each one pound and an half stir them well together and after ten daies it being clear may be drawn off Then dulcifie with Syrrup made as is taught in Aven's Water and so let it stand till it be clear and then draw it off for use Y-worth This is a great Carminative expelling Wind good in Surfeits and Fevers it abates Thirst The Dose is from one drachm to five in some proper Vehicle or dilated to a Julip We having thus run through the Prescriptions of such which are varied into a greater and lesser Composition we shall add some Observations and then proceed to lay down some particular waters that are purely for the use of such as would supply the defect of an Apothecary when not near c. You are first to observe that in the distilling of these Waters you must not make use of the Wool in the Head for that will be apt to suckand drink in too much of the Oleous part and so considerably destroy the vertues of the waters and altho there will often come
Germander Hermodactyls Tormentil White Frankincense the pith of Dwarf Elder Juniper-berries Bay-berries the Seeds and Flowers of Motherwort the Seeds of Smallage Fennel and Anise the Leaves of Sorrel Sage Felwort Rosemary Marjoram Mints Penny-Royal Stechados the Flowers of Elder Red and White Roses of the Leaves of Scabious Rue the lesser Moonwort Egrimony Centory Fumitary Pimpernel Sowthistle Eyebright Maiden-hair Endive Red Saunders Aloes of each four ounces pure Amber the best Rhubarb of each four drams dried Figs Raisins of the Sun Dates stoned sweet Almonds Grains of the Pine of each two ounces of the best Aqua vitae to the quantity of them all of the best hard Sugar two pound of white Honey one pound then add the Root of Gentian Flowers of Rosemary Pepperwort the Root of Bryony Sowbread Wormwood of each an ounce Now before these are distill'd quench Gold being made Red hot oftentimes in the aforesaid Water put therein Oriental Pearls beaten small two pound and then distill it after twenty four hours Infusion Y-worth This is a very good Cordial Water prevailing against Malignant Pestilential Feavers a great restorative to such as are in Consumption it comforts the Heart and revives drooping Spirits 't is very hot in Operation you must not exceed half a drachm for the largest Dose without the Advice of a Physitian In Feavers mix it with cooling Juleps Aqua Nostra Multifera Virtutum or our Water of Many Virtues Y-worth Take Pawme Sage Bettony Buglosse Cowslips all gather'd in their prime of each a handful Motherwort Bay Leaves of each a handful and half Marygold-flowers two handfuls flowers of Rosemary Lavender Lillies of the Valley Rosa-solis of each four handfuls the Juice of Salendine two pound Saffron two ounces Lignum Aloes an ounce and half Turmerick four ounces Spirit of Wine six Quarts digest all six days and then distil in B. S. A. This Water is excellent in the Diseases of the Head Breast and Heart Liver and principal parts fortifying the Faculties and strengthning Nature as far as can be expected from simple Cordial Spirits without being enriched with some Mineral Sulphurs the which will be shown in our Spagyrick Phylosophy Asserted and Spagyrick philosophies Tryumph Now by the way observe that most of these Waters or Spirits are too strong to be taken alone Nature not loving to ride in fiery Chariots 't is best therefore that they be dilated and reduced into Cordials the way by which 't is performed will be shown in our Medicina rationalis Crollii Aqua Theriacalis Camphorat Or Crollius his Treacle Water Camphorated Take of Andromachus his Treacle ten ounces the best Myrrh five ounces the best Saffron one ounce Camphire four drams mix them together then pour upon them of the best Spirit of Wine â—wenty ounces and let them stand twenty four hours in a warm place then distill them in Balneo with a gradual Fire Cohobate the Spirit three times Y-worth This Water is of Excellent Virtue against the Pestilence and other Feavers 't is a very good Counter-poyson and good for those that have been bit by any Venemous Creature or such as have the French Pox for it drives forth all virulent Humours from the heart and is a great Cordial The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Composita contra Scorbutum or a Scorbutical Water Take of the Leaves of both sorts of Scurvy Grass being made very clear of each twelve pound let these be bruised and the Juice pressed forth to which add the Juice of Brooklime Juice of Water Cresses of each a pound of the best white Wine sixteen Pints twelve whole Lemmons cut of the fresh Roots of Briony eight pound of the fresh Roots of Horse-radish four pound of the Bark of Winteran one pound of Nutmegs eight ounces let them macerate three days and then distill S. A. Y-worth This Water is Excellent for the Scurvy with all the Symptoms that attend the same 't will radically cure those that are not too Rebellious in a Month or six Weeks time if you take two Spoonfuls thereof in a Morning and Evening I could indeed inlarge my self with various other Prescriptions but I think it needless seeing you have here what is sufficient to accomplish any Distiller nay peradventure more than ever you may have occasion to make so that others of a more Superior and Higher Order will be superfluous as to such as have a desire to know more thinking them necessary in their Medicinal practice let them resort to our Medicina Rationalis where they shall find them under the head of such Diseases as they are appropriated to And for those that would be curious and have variety of chargeable Prescriptions let them apply themselves to the London Dispensatory and other Authors wherein they are prescribed But as to such as desire the healing Virtues of one single Cordial which hath been found for many years to supply the place of many others such we advise to our Spiritus Propheâ—â—â—ticus Imperialis treated of in our Spagyrick Philoâ—â—phy asserted for this indeed is various ways to be â—â—dered and that to such an advantage as that it â—â—swers all that can be desired from any thing of this Nature and therefore for the good of such as languish under deplorable Diseases we thought it â—â—quisite to give its Virtue and Use First of the Spirit and then of the way of dilating it into a Cordial Spiritus HEADrophelacticus Imperialis or the Antipeleptick HEADowers Soveraign for all the Diseases of the Head Womb-Fits sudden surprisals and infectious Diseases being a general Cordial for all Diseases incident to the Body As to its Preparation 't is given in our Spagyrick Philosophy Asserted Its Virtues in General This is a great Cordial truly helping Nature inâ—â—rdly or outwardly applyed and is of admirable benefit to poor fainty drooping Spirits and weak Nature and a great Reliever and Comforter of Old Aged people Strengthning and Comforting the Heart and Stomach prevalent against Wind Chollick Gripes Yellow Jaundice Cough and Colds and such like Distempers And also Bruises and Contusions wither'd and benumbed Members and Cramp 't is efficacious against Cold moist Diseases of the Head Stomach and Heart as Apoplexies Falling Sickness Palsies Trembling Head-ach Megrim Vertigo Carus Lethargy Sleepiness and Dimnâ—sâ— of Sight cold Rheums Catarrhs Rhumatisms Old Aches of the Back and Loyns stinking breath as also good against Convulsions It s Use and Dose For any Bruise Squatt Aches or weak and decayed parts you must dip a Cloath therein and lay it four or five times double on the part and at last having repeated this three or four times bind it fast thereon For the Diseases of the Face and Head you must annoint your Face and Temples and take the savours up your Nostrils For Rickets in Children it must be applyed as well outwardly as inwardly chasing the grieved part with the clear Spirit before the Fire Dipping a Scarlet cloath in it and laying it
there are various ways of Working one Brewing it into sound Ale and Beer which is the best and letting it come to Age and Strength before Distilled others Brewing it without any Boyling or Hops bringing the three Liquors together into their Wash-Backs and so Ferment and Distill others Ferment Malted Wheat and Malt and so Distill and others are for Protuberating and bursting Corn by boyling of it and then Fermenting and Distilling it all which shall be treated of apart And first of Brewing sound Beer because from thence the best and truest Aqua Vitae's are made As to Brewing we have given you our opinion in our Cerevisiarâ—i Comes which in short is that by Decoction the destructive Gass must be taken out of the Water and then to be cool'd in which is that some of it must be cold and as much put on the Malt as will serve for mixtion and commixtion and then pouring on as much warm Liquor as you intend to make use of in that Mashing then rowing up well and letting it stand its due time to draw it into the Receivers and so to proceed as directed in the before-cited Book only you are to observe that if it should not be fully rich of the Malt to Distill it as soon as 't is well wrought for fear it should flat and so great part of the Spirit should be lost but if it be very Strong and well Brewed you may keep it to what Age you please before you Distill it The way to Distill it will be shown hereafter The greal Still for Low Wines The Worme out of the Tubb Let this Worm baing set into the Wormtubb be so vpright not inclining to the right or left hand but so that water being put in it may run out to a drop AA the Ash hole B The Fire place C The body of the Still D the Head E the entry of the Crane neck F the Joyning of the nose thereof to the Worme G the Worme tubb H the Can Place this Figure before Chap I in page 11. Now every Wort that comes is pump'd up out of the under Back into the Cooler there to Cool and then from the Cooler into the Wash-Backs there to remain 'till all the three Worts come together By the way observe that you neither Hop nor Boyl as for Beer now when they are down in the Backs and in a proper coolness and fit to be set then add good Yeast enough to work it very well as for Ale and as the Yeast rises up beat it down again and keep the same all in and let it work three four or five days according to the season of the Year Temperament of your Back when set and Judgment of the Distiller If a Back be set either too cold or too hot 't is thus holpen by adding either hot or cold Liquors to bring it unto a good temperature in the Winter time in extream cold weather when it flats and goes backward and will come to no good Head you may again promore it 's Fermentation by adding some of those things prescribed in that of Molà sses Now if you can exactly know the time of the Wash's being come then you may take off your thick Yeast to set other Backs with But if not then must you take with you these signs sc the working it self down flat and then the thick Yeast sinking to the bottom that so what lies on the top will be but a kind of an hoary or Yeasty Head You must observe that your Wash be neither sowre nor sweet but in a Medium between both for't will then be most profitable for Distillation but some say that being taken in its highest Curle before it begin to flat and the Yeast and all Stilled it gives the most Spirit the way whereof will be also hereafter shown The third we call the Dutch way because mostly used in Holland and Germany which is the Fermenting of the Corn which to do you must proceed thus Take fresh ground Malt made of Wheat Barley or Buck Wheat c. and put it into the Oyl Tubs before described pouring thereon as much cold Water as will serve for mixtion and commixtion and then also pouring as much warm Water as will suffice for making the mixture moist and thin also warm for it must be neither hot nor cold but in the Medium between both which being done and well rowed up mix therewith some new Barm and cover it with its Cover and Cloth very warm which being exposed to the Heat will in a short space begin to Ferment therefore you are not to fill your Vessels above three quarters full this you must leave until Fermented and the mixture descends which for the most part will be on the third or fourth day and then is it ready for Distillation but 't is generally experienced by those which are not used to this way that the Malt being put into the Still Cakes and burns to the bottom to the destruction both of the same and Low-wines which come off with a burnt taste which to prevent there are two ways the one is to press forth the Liquor from the Grains and to Distill the same the other is by our new Invention which will be shown hereafter for we saw that all our Experiments made in a boyling Bath did not in the least burn but that all the Low-wines came off very sweet and luscious in taste and pleasant in smell The Fourth and Last is the Glauberian way which is thus First you must after this manner prepare your Corn whether Barley Rie Oats or Wheat sc steep it in sweet Water for some days then place it that it may sprout after the same manner as Corn is Malted for the making of Beer turn it well for a certain time lest it be corrupted by too much heat then when it is well sprouted spread it abroad that it may presently cool and 't will never sowre But if you would use it presently then take as much of it as your Destillation will require and in a Kettle full of Water boyl it so long till the Grains are broken then pour it into a Wooden Vessel and when it is luke-warm add to it the fresh Dregs or Grounds of Beer and let it Ferment when it has fermented enough which is usually at the end of two or three days then Brandy-wine is made in a common Still by Destillation from that Corn what remains in the Still will serve to feed Oxen Cows Hogs or other Cattle But the Brandy-wine which proceeds from thence must be Rectified as the way is and by this means 't is render'd more sweet and grateful to the relish than any other Brandy made of Corn the Reason is this That all Bread Corn of which Brandy-wine ought to be prepared if it be put to Ferment presently after softening is necessarily in the Still by boyling reduced into a Pap and so being corrupted by adustion produces a stinking Brandy-wine But this protuberating and burst
fit for the Verge and an Inch or two of vacancy between whereby to put in the Water may you have an Artificial Balneum for rectifying your Spirits We shall now proceed to the second Extraction which is thus Take two or three Cans of Water put them into your Still and a small handful of Salt and charge your still with Low-wines to a convenient height let down your Head and give Fire then put your Beck into the Worm and gradually proceed till all is over the which you may know by the weakness of that which comes Observe You may also use a small portion of some Herb which hath a proper Signature with the Vine And it is a general custom among the Distillers in order to make their Spirits hot strong and fiery in the mouth to use Spanish Grains which are sold by the Druggists which do accomplish their end but with little other advantage to the Spirit Therefore do we reject it tho' a thing so much practised seeing more agreeable and pleasant ways are easily to be found Now we shall reveal one thing more which will be helpful to the Distiller which is in taking away part of the gross Sulphur from whence much of the Evil Tang proceedeth and 't is thus Take a pound of Wool wash it exceeding clean and dry it and with a loop hang it in the Head of the Still in which the oleous parts ascending will be insorbed and when the Operation is over wash clean dry and keep it for the like service Having thus finished the second Extraction we think it not amiss to show what quantity of Low-wines Proof goods and fine Spirits may be Extracted from a Quarter of Malt. You must know that in the first place 't will make about Fifty Gallons or something more than three Barrels of Wash which in the first Extraction will make thirty two thirty four or thirty six Gallons of Low-wines and these if you let them lie will in the second Extraction yield eleven or twelve Gallons of Proof Spiriâ— nay sometimes through the goodness and richness of the Malt thirteen especially if in the second Extraction you add some Water into thâ— Still which in the third Extraction we count iâ— truly Proof lose not many Gallons in a Tun. Note also the English receive their Low-wines Proof and Fine Goods in Cans but the Dutch object against this way saying that it is disadvantageous because the Spirit is exhausted through the Magnetick or Attractive property of the Air therefore they place large receiving Vessels their full height or more in the Ground so as to place thick boards over them in which they have two holes the one for a Funnel to receive the Low-Wines or Proof Goods the other to put in an Hand-Pump to Pump them out when they please which indeed is very commodious not only for the Reasons mentioned but also because the Still may be set lower a Funnel requiring not so large a space or height as a Can whereby it may be the better and easier commanded Thus having run through what was promised in this Chapter we shall here conclude the same and pass on to Rectification CHAP. II. Wherein we shall Treat of Rectification in general as also of those Mediums by which 't is best performed so as to make excellent Stuff and Artificial Brandies IN the former Chapter we treated concerning the way of erecting a Work-House as also of proper Utensils thereunto belonging together with the way of making Low-wines and Proof Spirits so that we shall here come to that of Rectification showing how far we can advance in making excellent Stuff and Artificial Brandies concerning the possibility of which we shall first give you the Opinion of that famous Radolph Glauber P. 1. pag. 57. Where he mentions the difference of Malting The difference of Malt by reason whereof it yields better or worse Beer and Spirit consists for the most part in the preparation thereof for being made after the Vulgar way it retains its taste wherefore it can't yield good Spirit nor good Beer which is observed by very few wherefore they could not draw forth good Spirit out of Corn but such as savours of the taste and smell of the Malt which is not the fault of the Corn but of the Artificer not operating a-right in the Preparation of his Malt in Distillation and Rectification For if it were prepared a-right in all things Corn yields a very A smaler Still for Rectification I the Ash hole â—… the Fire place â—… the body of the Still â—… the Head â—… the entering of the Crane neck â—… the joyning of the nose therof to tho Worme â—… the Worme Tubb â—… the Can The Common Alimbeck wherein small quantityes of Waters are drawn AA the Ash hole B the Fire place C the body of the Still D the joynt whereat the Head shuts into the Body E the Cooler containing water to refrigerate the Spirits F the joyning of the Receiver to the beck of the Alimbeck G the Receiver good Spirit not unlike to that which is made out of the Lees of Wine in taste odour and other virtues Which Art although it be not known to all yet it doth not follow that it is impossible To which Opinion we can the more freely assent seeing that we by our former experienced tryals which were about five years ago at which time we had a good quantity of our Percipiolum of Tartar by us have made most excellent Wines and Artificial Brandies from the chief Heads before mentioned Concerning which Tartar we have many Mysteries to write but for obligation sake must reserve some of them as being assisted therein by a Glauberian but however we shall lay the thing before your view by repeating the words of the Famous Author P. 2. pag. 139. Take white or red Tartar for both of them being well mundified are as good one as the other dissolve it in Water and separate all its gross Sulphur by a certain precipitating matter This impurity abiding in the Water is to be separated from the precipitated Tartar by pouring out the Water the which Tartar remains in the bottom like a Snowy Sand and is to be well purged by reiterated washings with Water so long until all the impurities being well separated the Powder it self becomes like to the white Snow He also adds that this may be so highly exalted as to be associable to Gold but the knowledge of a matter Precipitating Tartar is not easie to be attained to without which it will never suffer it self to be precipitated and purged 't is an hard thing to find but he that knows it it renders him all his labour facile and easie Any impure Tartar whether it be white or red may be so wash'd in one or two hours space and so Purged that losing nothing save its Faeces it will become most white and much more apt for many Operations These make such fine Spirits of Wine without any violent Distillation
from something which is a proper Product of this Land or else how should we supply our selves with good wares in time of difficulty and therefore leaving all Foreign things as Tartar Wine-Lees Chrystals Verdigreese or any Vitriol of Venus c. although we know that something from these if rightly prepared may be performed as well as from common Sulphur or Sea Salt and such others as are aptly made for the great business of Rectification nay we say from the Stone Parietes or natural Vitriol of Mars being opened by the fixed Salts contained in Hermaphroditical ones from whence proceeds a pleasant Earth which to our knowledge is very homogeneous to Viner Spirits for by it we are able before men of understanding to prepare better Stuff than hath hitherto been usually done although Concentrated Vinegar is not to be despised if so imbodied as to preserve its Tartness in its Vitality especially if the Spirits are so Distilled as to retain their sweet flavours for as we have elsewhere said from the tart and sweet together with the predominance of the Specificated Sulphurs come the different flavours unto Viner Spirits for if the sweet hath the predominance with the flavours of the Rhinal soyl then the violet taste is evidently discernable but from the red mold of France the tart gives the Rasbery taste and these again mixing give neutral and other pleasant flavours whose difference is easily discernable by curious palates although it cannot be so exactly compared to what 't is most like in flavour seeing so many curious ones are intermixed many things of this Nature might be said seeing Nature is so bounteous and large in her gifts even to the filling of many Sheets and that with profit too to the Reader but we must be forced to omit many things least the Treatise should swell too big wherein we design to be as concise and compact as may be yet we think it needful to stir up the minds of the Ingenious to the search of that which by Trials may to their great content be measurably attained for we know that Spirits prepared from the Products of this Land may be much bettered for as we see 't is no difficult matter to take the Garments off a poor man and to give him richer so is it the same in this Case if we have a true knowledge of the Fountain of Nature and if it is really so as the Ancient Philosophers testifie sc that in the Mineral Kingdom by help of the first Ens or Seed of Metals they can transmute all the impure ones into vendible Sol and Luna why then may not the true Spagyrist by help of the Universal Vegetable Seed take off the drowsie Nature of Saturn or Spirit of Barley or the Airy Nature of Jupiter or Spirit of Fruits and bring them into that friendly one of Venus and the Sun to which the Vine belongs seeing the possibility of Transmutation is by the most Pregnant Wits of this Age believed And there is hardly any one that pretends to any thing of Art but will argue for the same and there have been given such undeniable demonstrations of its verity that we think it an impossibility that any reasonable man should at this time of day doubt thereof neither indeed have they the least cause concerning this of meliorating and bettering Spirits for if the Ingenious and Lovers of Art and others that are unskilful in the ways of working will but take the Method we prescribe they may in time therein become prompt perficients because we labour what in us lies to encourage them to supply their own defects c. which to do let them thus proceed Your Proof Spirits being well prepared or measurably bereaved of their Maltish taste then charge therewith your Rectifying Still with a Can or two of Water according to their quantity and take any sort of Herb you best like with your prepared Salt and tie them up in a bag called a Rectifying bag and throw it into the Still lute all fast and gently and warily draw off your Fine Goods You must be very cautious of Fire and Candles especially where there is any breaking out of fume least they should Fire and so do a great deal of mischief for this Reason Rectification is abundantly more dangerous than drawing Low-wines therefore be not too hasty but proceed warily and moderately and govern it so that the stream may not run above the bigness of a large Crow Quill or at most a small Goose one and you must observe not to let it run off too long for the latter part of your Spirit will be apt to carry some of the ill savour with it to the great detriment of the former therefore let them be saved apart the first for Brandies the latter to be again Rectified so as to Fire Gunpowder and then it may be used in Varnishes or else it may well serve for some Compound Waters Now to know when all the Spirituality is come over you must proceed thus Take a Taster of that which runs in the left hand and a lighted Candle in the right throw it upon the Neck or Head of the Still at work immediately putting the Candle thereunto and if it fires and burns you may proceed otherwise your Operation is at an end Now your first fine Spirits must be allayed into Proof or the strength of Brandy with Liquor for the which some make use of this following Water They take Calx vive and mix a small proportion of Sassafras with it and being put in a Tub they pour Spring Water thereon and so letting it settle till very clear then make use of it but we are for making our Liquor by Distilling it through some Azural Salt for then it freely mixes without the least bubble or white speck and seeming Precipitation and being brought to Proof it may be a little tinged with the Tincture of Saunders and 't will not be a miss if you add a small portion of Spices in a bag as Cinamon Broad-Mace and Nutmegs and then have you good Saleable Wares especially if your Proof Spirits were truly prepared and from a good Basis Now if this tryal although Good Wares doth not in all things answer your expectation then proceed to a second or third sometimes with one sort and sometimes with another and in greater or lesser quantity nay you may mix two Species together and so proceed in your Tryal till your end is answered for your experiments will be little loss or cost to you seeing if you proceed not irregularly your Goods will be nevertheless vendible especially if you observe but the rules laid down But least some should object and say that those high Preparations mentioned as Spagyrical which Art we understand not are not easie to be obtained and so the Art of Rectification must remain wholly hidden unto us In Answer to this we must be forced to say that it proceeds not from any deficiency in the Rules contained in this
and is good against the Yellow Jaundice and any Poiso◠whatsoever but it is more appropriated 〈◊〉 Men than Women because 't is hurtful to the Faetus Now Nasturtium or the Her◠Cresse common may be worked in all things like this whose Virtues as 't is said were among the Persians esteemed so great that when from home they eat no other meat to revive their Spirits Aqua Menthae simplex or simple Mint-Water Composition the lesser Take of Brandified Spirit three Gallons Mints gathered in their right signature and gently dried eight Handful macerate them three days and then Distill in Balneo S. A. and with the Distilled Water of the Green Herb made in a cold Still with the same preparation as before directed dulcifie and allay This Water heats the Stomach and prevents Vomiting two or three spoonfuls being taken as occasion requires Observe that by this Rule you may make many other Waters as Bawm Angelica Wormwood c. Being gathered in their prime and gently dried and you may proportion them to your Brandified Spirit more or less in quantity according as you will have your Waters weaker or stronger of the Herb. And you must also observe the Nature of the Herbs for one is abundantly stronger than the other for an handful of Wormwood will go farther than two or three of some other Herbs now in making your Wormwood-water we advise you not to take the Water made from a cold Still but that which comes from the Distillation of the Oyl and to every quart thereof add two ounces of Ginger and one of Orrice and Distill again in a cold Still and then with what quantity of fine Sugar you please gently dissolved upon the Embers you may allay and dulcifie As to their virtues they shall be here omitted seeing 't is plainly to be conceived that they contain the virtues of the simple Herb and all other that can be attributed to any other preparation of this kind And as to their more exalted preparations and Virtues they are treated of more at large in the Chapter of Powers Aqua Violae Tricoloris Simplex or simple Hearts-Ease-Water Composition the least Take of Artificial Brandy one Gallon Hearts Ease in the prime sc when seeded being gently dried one pound and a half put them into your Still and let them macerate three days then Distill in Baln into fine Goods S. A. You may allay and Dulcifie as before directed either with their own Syrup or Syrup of Violets Its Virtues T is an excellent Cordial far above any other for such as are faint and weak in the French Pox also for Fevers Measles or Small-Pox and for Agues Convulsions and Falling-Sickness the Aegyptians highly esteemed of this for Epilepsies but we know that this Water is good for those that have weak and inflamed Lungs Consumptions c. Aqua Raphani Simplex or Radish Water Simple Composition the lesser Take of Brandified Spirits three Gallons of Garden Radish fresh gathered clean washed and sliced six pound macerate three days with Mustard and an Onion and then Distill in Balneo S. A. You may allay with the cold distill'd water of Arsmart and dulcifie with Syrup of Marsh-Mallows and then let it become fine and so is it prepared Its Virtues 'T is an excellent Lithontriptick bringing off Gravel and provoking Urine it dissolves Cluterated Blood and expels it 't is good in old Coughs attenuating gross humours in the Chest it kills Worms and expels them it provokes the Terms and gives ease in the Cholick 't is good for Women after Delivery to help to expel the Secundine and also to prevent from Feverish Symptoms in brief its Virtue is such as that it may be safely Administred in Melancholick Splenetick and Scorbutick Diseases Its Dose is one two three or four Spoonfuls according to the Age and strength of the Patient Aqua Sabinae Corticis simplex or Savine Water simple Composition the least Take of Brandified Spirit one Gallon of the Bark of Savine six ounces macerate three days and Distil S. A. You need not dulcifie it nor allay it For 't is mostly designed for washing of Ulcers either Scrophulous or Cancerous for abating Inflammations and dissipating Nodes and Tumors 't is seldom or never given inwardly without it be to provoke the Menses or to expel the dead Foetus then the Dose is half a Spoonful or Spoonful in White or Rhenish-Wine sweetned with Sugar Having laid down these Examples we shall not insist upon any more of this kind seeing they are sufficient to show you the Preparation not only of Seeds Herbs Flowers Roots and Barks but also of Berries and Spices and others of the Vegetable Kingdom We shall in the next place show you the way of Perfuming them and then proceed to those of an higher order sc Spirits The way to perfume them Take of the Sulphurated Spirit of Wine mentioned in the Chapter of Rectification three pound Jessamine Flowers half a pound Honey Suckle Flowers four ounces Orange Flowers or the fresh Pill two ounces macerate twenty four hours and Distil in Balneo S. A. And to the Spirit that comes over add Ambergreese four scruples Musk two scruples which being cut small put them into a Bolthead Seal them Hermetcally and digest with a very gentle heat 'till dissolved the which put in Bottles with stone stoppers for use The manner how is to add such a quantity to the Waters as you will have them in strength of the Perfume Of Spirits Spiritus Salviae or Spirit of Sage TAKE of Artificial Brandy three Gallons Sage in its blossom prime and chief signature twelve pound macerate them for three days and then Distil as long as goodness comes Then take six or eight pound of fresh Sage and Distil as before and with fresh Sage six pound repeat a third time carefully preserving the first Gallon that comes and what comes more you may reserve for another Operation to use instead of Brandy Its Virtues 'T is one of the greatest friends that the Female Sex have amongst all the single Concretes in the Vegetable Kingdom for 't is prevalent in opening of all Obstructions it cleanses the Blood provokes the Menses closes the Matrix and makes them Fruitful and very excellent when with Child to keep them from miscarriage It s general Virtues are for quickning the Senses and memory strengthening the Sinews and Nerves and therefore good in Apoplexies Palsies and Convulsions nay should we be particular in every point of its Virtues we might fill a whole sheet therewith This Spirit makes Excellent Sage Beer or Wine an ounce thereof being put into a quart of either But when you take the Spirit alone in drops the dose is from twenty to sixty according to the Age and Strength of the Patient in a Glass of either Spiritus Cochleariae or the Spirit of Scurvey-Grass Take of Scurvey-Grass in June or July Herbs Flowers and all bruise it well in a large Marble Mortar and put to
with their Kernels two gallons of the Flowers of Lavender nine handfuls White-Mustard seeds bruised three ounces mix them together and put some ferment to them and let them ferment for five or six days then add two gallons of our Sulphurated Spirit of Wine or rather Aqua Vitae Glaâ—beris and Distill into fine Spirits according to Art Then take of Ros Vitrioli which is the water that Distills from Vitriol in the Calcination thereof six quarts Misseltoe of the Oak and Paeony ana two ounces two drachms of Rue three handfuls Juniper Berries three ounces Bay-berries an ounce and a half Camphire an ounce Rhubarb sliced two ounces and an half Cats Blood two pound Spirit of Turpentine three ounces digest ten days and then Distill in Balneo Mariae you may mix this with the former in equal parts Addition Bawm Dean-wort Capers Coffee Hearts-Ease Mastick Bright-wort St. John's Wort Spicknard Rosemary and Valerian ana six handfuls fine Sugar eight pound Composition the lesser Take of Black-cherries bruised with their Kernells four Pints of the Flowers of Lavender two handfuls and a half white Mustard seed bruised six drachms mix them together and put some ferment to them and let them ferment for five or six days then add of our Sulphurated Spirit of Wine or rather Aqua Vitae Glauberis four Points and Distill into fine Spirits S. A. Then take of Ros Vitrioli three Pints Misseltoe of the Oak Paeony ana four drachms one scruple grains ten Rue one handful and a half Juniper-berries half anounce two drachms Bay-berries three drachms Camphire two drachcms Rheuburbisliced five drachms Cats-blood half a pound Spirit of Turpentine six drachms digest ten days and then Distill in Balneo Mariae you may mix this with the former in equal parts Addition Bawm Dean-wort Capers Coffee Hearts-Ease Mastick Bright-wort St. John's wort Spicknard Rosemary Valerian ana one handful and a half fine Sugar two pound Its Virtues 'T is excellent for the weakness of the head not only good against Convulsions but also for Vertigoe's and most Disseases of the superior region it strengthens the Sinews and expells wind out of the Head and Stomach-giving powerful relief in Hypocondriack and Hysterick Passions 't is a prevalent help for Children that have Convulsive Fitts and especially if given in a few drops of our Essentia Crani-humant spoken of in our Chymic Rational The Dose is from a drachm to two and from thence to an ounce or an ounce and half according to the Age and strength of the Patient Thus Reader I have given the Basis and foundation of such Waters as hitherto have not been so plainly published that so they may be of some advantage to such as languish under the burthen of Diseases for want of their pretious Virtue for whose benefit we shall yet proceed as follows first of Aqua Preciosa or Precious Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons of the Roots of Enula Compana Avens Angelica Cyprus Calamus Aromaticus Sassafras ana eight ounces Zedoary Galingal ana six ounces three drachms Cassia Lignea Lignum Rhodium Yellow Sanders ana four ounces six drachms and a half the dry Pills of Citrons and Oranges ana nine ounces four drachms Cinnamon white Nutmegs Mace Ginger ana eight ounces the choicest Cinnamon two pound Cloves Cardamoms Cubebs ana three ounces six drachms sweet Chervile-seeds Basil-seeds ana five ounces three drachms Coriander-seeds sweet Foenil-seeds ana one pound Aniseeds two pound bruise them and Distill into Proof Spirits and then dulcifie with white Sugar twenty four pound S. A. and let it stand till it be fine then draw it off and add Musk one drachm two scruples Ambergreese six drachms two scruples then let it clear and draw it off for use Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Roots of Enula Campana Avens Angelica Cypress Caamus Aromaticus Sassafras of each one ounce and a half Zedoary Galingal ana one ounce one drachm Cassia Lignea Lignum Rhodium Yellow Sanders ana six drachms and a half the dry Pills of Citron and Orange ana one ounce six drachms grains fifteen Cinnamon white Nutmegs Mace Ginger ana one ounce and a half Cinnamon best six ounces Cloves Cardamoms Cubebs ana six drachms sweet Chervile-seeds Basil-seeds ana one ounce one drachm Coriander-seeds sweet Foenil-seeds ana three ounces Aniseeds six drachms bruise them and Distill into strong Proof Spirit and then dulcifie with fine white Sugar four pound and a half S. A. Let it stand till it be fine then draw it off and add Musk grains eighteen Ambergreese one drachm grains twelve then let it clear and draw it for use The Syrup for dulcifying the water is thus to be made Take Apricocks Quinces Cherries English Currants of each what sufficeth all full Ripe and of equal weight when they are thus prepared as followeth Prepare the Quinces and Apricocks take out the stones and Kernels and slice them very thin stone the Cherries and bruise them and the Currants then lay them in a flat bason or pan thus A lane of Fruit of a fingers thickness and then a lane of white powder Sugar of like thickness and so proceed in order lane upon lane till all be laid into the bason then pour on good Aqua Vitae gently till all be covered therewith and so let it stand two hours then bruise or posh them all together and press out the Juice as dry as possibly you can through a thick linnen bag then take the Juice and let it stand till it be settled clear which Juice by a gentle Exhalation in a hot bath boyl up to a Syrup height according to Art and keep it for use To every eight pound of the Spirit put a pound of this Syrup and when it is clear draw it off for use Y-worth T is a rare and excellent Water for such as are inclined to Melancholy for it strengthens the Heart revives the Spirits preserving and comforting the Sences and will demonstrate its vertue in the time of Contagious Diseases as Plagues and malignant Feavers The Dose is from two Drams to an Ounce Aqua Carminativa or Wind-water Composition the Greater Distiller Take of strong proof Spirits 16 Gallons Enula Campana roots drie Aniseeds of each one pound nine ounces five drachms Cyprus-roots bark of the roots of Bay-tree or as much leaves Sassafras with the bark Cinnamon white of each nine ounces four drachms two scruples and five grains Calamus-aromaticus Orange pills drie of each 6 ounces and 3 drachms Clary red Mint Calamint Elder-flowers Camomile-flowers of each eight ounces sweet Fennel seeds Carraway-seeds Angelica-seeds of each six ounces and three drachms Coriander-seeds Cardamums Cubebs Grains of Paradise Cloves and Ginger of each four ounces Pepper long and white of each two ounces bruise them all grosely and distill into sine Goods S. A. and then dulcifie with white Sugar sixteen pound and draw it off for use when
over a white thick shadowary Oyle towards the latter end by which the pure fine Spirits are troubled and made thick yet we say that this may be thus prevented Take a fine Holland-Cloath and rub one side of it very well with Black-Lead and bind the side so rub'd inwardly towards the end of the Worm and this will keep the thickness back as Experience demonstrates But as to Rich and Costly Waters you need not draw so long and yet no loss for what remains being Fermented will give a very good Spirit for other beginnings and altho in every Receipt the way to colour perfume and dulcifie the same is shewed yet the Distiller as seldom regards it as he doth the quantity of Spirits to the Pondus of Herbs and Spices for they are led by that rule which will return most Profit into their Pockets their general way is thus they make a Syrup with ordinary Sugar and too too often Treacle having first decocted Brasil Sanders or the like to colour the same and then strain the whole through a Canopy and so add it to the water to allay and dulcifie one of their Prescriptions is thus For Red Water Take of Spring-water one gallon or rather of the purified Liquor for allayes of Red Sanders one pound Brasil half a pound decoct these in the water closely stopt on the Embers so long until you obtain all the Tincture from the Wood then the wood is strained out to which quantity of water you add six or eight pound of Treacle or course Sugar and let it gently simper then Clarifie with the whites of ten or twelve Eggs and strain it through a fustian Canopy this you add to twenty or thirty gallons of common Aqua-vitae more or less according as it is in strength and you would have it in sweetness then to fine it 't is usual to take Flower and the Whites of two or three Eggs and with a spoonful or two of Yeast you beat them well together adding thereunto a scruple of Musk and ten grains of Amber-grease and put them in a small bag the which you let hang by the Bung-hole into your Liquor and in fourteen days it will be fit for sale Now these following Simples are generally made use of for colouring your Liquors withal viz. Reds with Rose leaves Poppie leaves Clove-Gilli-flowers Turnsole Root-Akanet Coachenele Juices Cherries Rasberries Mul-berries and Black-berries For Yellows Safron Turmerick and Yellow-Sanders But seeing we must colour this way we think it convenient to add our Opinion concerning the same which is if you use Woods whether Brasil Sanders c. that you decoct them in the cold distil'd water of the herb appropriated to the Water or else in cold distil'd Rose-water twenty four hours on gentle Embers and then strain forth and add of fine clean Sugar boyle up and Clarifie with a sufficient quantity of Whites of Eggs so let it pass through the Canopy or Fustian-sleeve and then add it to the Waters you intend to Dulcifie and as for the Perfumes you add in it is best that they be ground very well in a Mortar with some of he Spirits and then added or else let them be dissolved in it close luted in a gentle heat and then added to the Quantity otherwise your waters will want that smell to Perfume them which only radical Dissolution obtains Now for tender Leaves as Poppies Roses c. you had best also to take out their Tinctures by some of the Spirit in a Vessel close luted in Balneo which you must repeat so often till they remain pale the which you must add to your Quantity with your Sweets and that you fine it with Let your Fruits and Berries be separated from their stones and strained so as that they may not be broken therein for then it will make the pleasant Juice bitter to these so prepared you may add your Sugar and proceed as hath been directed S. A. by such Variations as Experience must prompt you in thus have we â—â—id down what is sufficient for any reasonable and Industrious person to build his practise on so that what remains is only to give you the Prescriptions of those Rich and Costly Waters promised Aqua Mirabilis Take Cloves Cubebs Galingale Mace Nutmegs Cardamums and Ginger of each two drachms the Juice of Salendine one pint Spirit of Wine two pints White-wine six pints Infuse all these twenty four hours and then distill off four â—ints by an Alembick Y-worth This is of Admirable Force and Verâ—â— to preserve the body from the Apoplexy and all Diseases of the Nerves it is very good against the Palsâ— Coâ—vulsion and Cramp as also for cold stomacks The Dose is from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Mirabilis Nostra Y-worth Take Cloves Galingale Cubebs â—ace Cardamums Nutmegs and Ginger of â—ach three drachms Balm Sage Betony Bugâ—oss and Cowslip-flowers all gathered in their â—â—ime of each one handful the Juice of Salendine one pint and and half Aqua vitae Glauberis three pints the Wine of Black Currants two gallons digest twenty four hours and distil off one gallon in Balneo Mariae This hath all the Vertues of the former in Superiority more Cordial thence wonderfully strengthening the Heart Stomack and principal Vessels and therefore by us often called Aqua Coroborans The Dose is the same with the former Dr. Stephens's Water Take of Gascoign-wine two gallons Ginger Galingale Cinamon Nutmegs Grains Ani-seeds Fennel-seeds and Caraway-seeds of each two drachms Sage Red Mints Red Roses Thyme Pellitory Rosemary Wild Thyme Camomile and Lavender of each two handfuls beat the Spices small and bruise the herbs letting them macerate twelve hours stiring them now and then Distil by an Alembick or Copper-still with it's Refrigeratory keep the first quart by it self and the second by it self N. B. that the first quart will be the hotter but the second the stronger of the Ingredients Y-worth It is very Excellent in strengthening the Heart fortifying the Spirits relieving languishing Nature The Dose is from one drachm to two Aqua Imperialis Take of the Rind of Citrons and Oranges dried Nutmegs Cloves and Cinamon of each four ounces the roots of Flower-de-luce Cyprus Calamus Aromaticus Zedoary Galingale and Ginger of each one pound of the tops of Lavender and Rosemary of each four handfuls the Leaves of the Bay-tree Marjoram Balm Mints Sage Thyme the Flowers of White and Damask-Roses of each one handful Rose-water eight pints the best White-wine two gallons bruise what must be bruised then Infuse them all twenty four hours after which Distil Y-worth This Water strengthens and Coroboâ—ates the Heart and is therefore Good for such as are subject unto faintings swoonings and Palpitations of the Heart and is a preservative against Apoplexies The Dose is from one drachm to three Aqua Celestis Take of Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs Ginger Zedoary Galingale Long pepper Citron pill Spicknard Lignum Aloes Cubebs Cardamums Calamus Aromaticus Mace Ground-pine
your Bawm be gathered in its right signature and ordered in all things as was said of Mints only t is best to add in the Fermentation a little fixed Niter because the oleous part is not so easily manifested as in some other herbs and you may make use of Sugar instead of Honey in your fermenting as we have directed in that of the fermentation of flowers herbs and seeds by Sugar but you must observe that after t is brought into Proof-goods you must rectify at least four or five times before you Alkalizate it or unite it with the purified Sal Armoniack and then you may proceed in all things as in that of Mint for the making of Vegetable Powers is rather a common place than bare receipt VIRTUES These are a great Comforter of the Heart good against cold and moist stomacks and thence help Concoction they imbibe evil Fume and so not only open the Brain but also strengthen and refresh the same they ease the Tooth-ach powerfully purifying the Blood in the King's-evil Scurvey Dropsy Gout Jaundice and Worms they expel Poyson and the Plague and cure the biting of Mad-dogs they so wonderfully fortify the vital and natural Spirits that a certain Author says they are endued with renovating virtue even to restore Old Age to a withful strength but whether so or not we can't say but this we know by Experience that they revive the most melancholy person into a wonderful cheerfulness and are also excellent being externally used for hard swellings and the Gout and to bath grieved parts The Dose is from fifteen to thirty Drops sometimes forty according to age and strength in a glass of Ale Mead or any fragrant wine you may give them thrice a day the price is fourteen pence an ounce Potestates Sambuci Succinatoe or the Powerful United Spirit of Elder Essentificated with Amber Take the Berries when ripe and pick out the stalks and green ones and with a large press as for Apples press out their Juice cask it up with a little bay-salt and sweets or stumme and in a warm place cause them well to ferment you may let them have some age and then refine down with Izing-glass and rack of so you will have a noble Wine as you were show'd in the first part then on the cheese or berries that remain you may pour rain or spring-spring-water and press a second time and boyl the Liquor half an hour and then putting it into the receivers let it stand till about blood-warm and to every gallon add a pound of Sugar stir them well together and with Ale-yest set it as you do a Back and after five days distil with a Refrigeratory into Low-wines Proof-goods and Rectified Spirits by the third extraction then take fresh berries and fill an Earthen-pan therewith and after the bread is drawn set them in the Oven and then press forth their Juice to every pound of which add a pound of six-penny-sugar and boyling it into a Syrrup clarify it with Whites of Eggs then to every gallon of the said Wines add a pound of the said Spirit and two pounds of the Syrrup or Sweets and let them ferment but observe to row them well together as you put them in and so will you have a Noble Wine Royal of Sambucus endued with noble Virtues as we have said in our first part now this must be again distil'd into Low-wines and proof Spirits and then rectifyed from the flowers seasonably gathered until it is a Sulphur wholy inflamable it will be yet the purer if you rectify it from its own salt drawn from the Ashes of the Wood burnt now that Salt volatilized and an Oyl drawn from the dry wood and these three united was formerly our Powers but to succinate it proceed thus Take of the best Amber three pound and distil in a Glass retort by the degrees of Fire separate the Spirit from the Oyl and rectify the Oyl from spirit of Salt or A. R. as we have shown in the Chapter of Oyls in our Chym. Rational and then from the dryed wood of Elder macerated with Bay-salt in a large Refrigeratory and so you have a noble transparent Oyl the which reserve 'till hereafter now the Spirit and Salt of Amber you must mix with equal parts of purifyed Sal Armoniack and by means of the aforesaid Oyster-shells force them into a Spirit which being rectifyed is in it self a most noble Medicine and being united with common Tartarisated Spirit of Wine will perform more than that which is made from the flowers of Sal-Armoniack sublimed from common Salt both in its Philosophical use in drawing Tinctures as also in its Medicinal virtues now take of the aforesaid Spirit of Elder seven pound of the succinated Spirit of purifyed Armoniack even now taught one pound and of the aforesaid Oyl of Amber twelve ounces and of our Common Reconciler six ounces shake them well together and they shall be united and digesting four days decant the clear and thus are the Noble Succinated Powers of Elder Prepared Observe I thought it convenient to give this at large for two Reasons the first is that if the shell of the Berry is fermented instead of relieving the Animal Faculties it will toxicate the brain like Man-drake or Hen-bane the second is the Oyl being hard to prepare without our Sal Panaristos therefore have we added the Oyl of Amber which Magnetically attracts it out of the wood we have seen the Effect of the former by such who have made the Spirits by fermentation without expressing the Juice therefore have we given this caution VIRTUES This is a most excellent and praise-worthy Medicine far beyond that set forth in onr Britanean Magazine of Liquors both sor internal and external uses 't is prevalent for most Diseases incident to the Body especially for agues and feavers surfeits pains in the head or back vomiting gripes and looseness 't is a safe and powerful Medicine in the jaundice scurvey and dropsy gout and stone and several other diseases as will be seen by its Vse and Dose In all Acute Diseases you may take from forty to fifty drops every three hours in a glass of Sack mull'd with Cinamon and sweating plentifully in Bed thereon wonderful Relief will be found for the offending Matter will be carryed off by sweat and urine In Pestilential diseases such wherein the mass of blood is Corrupted as small-pox swine-pox measles c. you must take it five or six times a day in a glass of sack posset-drink wherein safron is braid and so the Venom will be carried from the heart and the vital spirits be strengthened and as the disease begins to abate purge two or three times with the Golden-spirit to carry off the Reliques of the same For Gripes and tormenting pains of the Wind Cholick Strangury and want of Rest make a Brandy Caudle and as it is fit to drink put in at least sixty drops sweat well in Bed and admirable Relief will be
found For the Phthisick shortness of Breath Consumption Dropsy Scurvey and Stone in the Bladder you must take forty drops every six hours in the juice of baked Turneps clarified and as much of its own syrup as will serve to make it into a Cordial whose use must be continued until Relief is found this also does excellent well in the Gout and for Ricketty Consumptive Children as also for sprains bruises and squatts only let the spirit without any mixtion be externally used and chaff the grieved part therewith In fine its Vertues are so excellent that we advise all Sea faring-men never to be without some bottles of it for t will not only preserve them from such Diseases as are incident to them as Scurveys Calenture Loathings Gripes c. but also ease and cure them of the same being taken in Water sweetned with its own Syrrup or a little Sugar in which Cases the ordinary Dose is from thirty to sixty drops according as the strength and Age of the Patient is The Price of our first Powers of Elder is one Shilling the Ounce-bottle but of these one shilling and six pence Observe Mine is only to be had at my house because there is a nameless Bill put forth by one Andrew Sowle who hath made use of most of my words out of my receipt given in our Britanean Magazine and therefore I thought it convenient to signifie that I cannot own his Spirit much less his proceedings seing t is great imprudence in him to ascribe to himself that which his Experience can't demonstrate the hundredth part of Potestates Rosemarini or the Powers of Rosemary Take the Leaves of Rosemary gathered in the right signature and dryed and put them into a large Matrix and cast thereon four or five handfuls of fine Calx vive and gently stir them together if your quantity is large it must be more even a third part of the weight of the herb then pour thereon rain-water distil'd from its Feces after forty days putrifaction and distil off about two thirds and you will have a Low-wine very pregnant and strong of the herb then take the like quantity of Rosemary and put it into the distil'd rain-water just enough for the water to cover and putting on a blind head decoct it Thirty hours in Balneo let this be put blood-warm upon an other quantity of Rosemary-leaves flowers and all and the aforesaid Low wines already distil'd off and adding a pound of Sugar to every gallon stir them well together head them well with Yest and let them ferment five days distil again a second time into Proof-goods and adding fresh Rosemary with a little Bay-salt bring it into rectified Spirits and a fourth time make it fine by Rectifying from fresh herbs and equal parts of the Oyl of its own fixed Salt run per del Tartar or any other fixed Alkaly then unite two pound of this with one pound of the highly purifyed Sal Armoniack by the help of the aforesaid Calx and add this to a gallon of the aforesaid prepared Spirit put it into a great Cucurbit and fill as full as you can with flowers and let it stand close luted in the Sun for five days then put on the Alembick with its Receiver and distil and you will have a volatile subtil and fragrant Spirit which quantity being united with a pound of the Oyl as was directed in the other Powers you have the true Powers of Rosemary Their Virtues This indeed is a Medicine of praise-worthy Virtues for superiour to the slop Hungarian Water sold being prevalent against most Diseases of the head stomack heart womb or any other viscera it may be applyed to any disease of the head especially Apoplexy Epilepsy Convulsions and Vertigoes the weakness of Nerves Head-ach hardness of Hearing and dimness of Sight it comforts the Head and Brain refreshing the Animal Spirits and clearing the Vital ones therefore good against all palpitations faintings swoonings and fits of the heart neither doth it forget to do its part toward the natural Spirits for it opens the obstructions of the Liver Spleen Womb and so cures Agues Feavers Scurveys Jaundice and several other Deseases as will be seen by its Vse and Dose For any of the aforesaid Diseases you must take from Twenty to thirty drops three or four times a day in a glass of Mead or Wine that is an hour before each meal but for the Gripes of the Guts Cholick Oppression of Wind or sharp Acrimonious Humours in the Spirits or Bowels you must take sixty drops in a glass of muli'd Sack in the Paroxisins repeating it every three hours 'till relief is found For Agues you must take the largest dose an hour before the fit and soundly sweat thereon 't is also good to be given thus in mull'd Wine both before and after Delivery to facilitate the Birth and to ease After-pains It is Observable to us that it is an health-preserving Medicine keeping People lively that take it But for Old Aches the Gout Rheumatism pains and weakness of Sinews and Nerves the Palsy and Cramp violent Head achs and dimness of sight you must externally strike the grieved parts therewith two or three times a day taking the savours up the nostrils if you wash the face therewith t is an excellent Cosmatick clearing and beautifying the Skin The Price is Twelve Pence an Ounce Observe thus may be prepared the Powers of Peniryal and others Potestates Cochleariae or the Powers of Scurvey-grass Take Scurvey-grass-wine the Preparation of which is shown in our Britanean Magazine of Liquors or else in place of that take Scurvey-grass in May June or July when it is in its flowers and stamp it in a stone Mortar and put it into a large Tun and pour thereon as much Liquor blood-warm in which Molasses or Honey is dissolved as will just cover them head them well with Yeast and set them to ferment and after four days distil into Low-wines and Proof-spirits Observe that the Fermentation is promoted by an Onion dipt in strong Mustard and a Ball of Whiting cast in this will bring a Tun of Molasses-goods forward when defective in working Argell does well to give an internal Ferment it also moderates and flats a Tunn when too violent now being brought into Proof-goods you must take Scurvy-grass which hath been compressed with Christals of Tartar or Salt Hony or Molasses in a close Tub smeered over with Barm but no Liquor must be put to it and having stood three days in a cold place for in a warm one we have observed that much of the Crafis will be lost which consists in a Volatile Armoniack put it into your Distil as full as you can cram and then pour thereon the aforesaid Aireal Spirit for t is far superiour to Spirit of Wine which too too many use enough to cover or moisten them just to the top close the Head of your Still very exactly and let your Recipient be so as that no
in Baln adapt a Receiver lute close and call off two thirds the which may be put away for other uses then evaporate the Flegm unto the consistence of an Extract the which add to your Medicine and digest with three ounces of fine Sugar till united and if any thing precipitate decant the clear the which carefully preâ—erâ—â— for use VIRTUES These Powers are a noble Medicine carrying a superiority of Virtue with them answering all that is attributed to the Powers of Turpentine the Stone powers and others but if you esteem of Cantharides Hog-lice and dryed Toads distiled by violence of Fire and then rectified and united you may take them for me and I 'le administer these altho we confess that if these were dissolved by the volatile and genuine Spirit of Tartar or having respect to Glauber in his prescription for the Stone which is prepared by his wonderful Sal Mirabilis much might be expected therefrom for we know that a Toad altho so great a poyson may by these be so prepared as to deserve the name of an Arcanum in the Plague far above any hitherto known in the World but this being treated of in its proper place shall be omitted here and so proceed to speak on of the excellent virtue of these Powers which indeed are profitable in many Diseases especially in the Strangury or difficulty of making Water Stone Gravel Sand or Sline and such offensive things which obstruct the a Vrinary passage they open Obstructions and highly provoke Vrine being very profitable in all kind of Fluxes excellent in Fevers Agues Jaundice Scurvey Leprosy and all foulness and corruption of Blood externally used they cure new and green Wounds tho in the Nerves Old Aches Vlcers tho never so rebellious they are excellent for Noli-metangere's and Plague-soars Impostumes and Fistula's they case the Gout and are helpful in Rheumatisms Palsy and weakness of Members they are good in the Hemmorrhoids or Piles and many other Diseases for they will perform all that can be expected of a Medicine short of succedanous ones Their Way of being Taken You may take from fifteen to twenty drops mornings only iâ— a glass of Rhenish-wine sweetned with the Syrrup of Marsh-mallows but strong Constitutions may take thirty or forty For external uses where any grief is you must bath the part till relief is found for Sore-eyes or those that have a Pearl you must drop in a drop once in two days but for Wounds and Vlcers you must dip a pledge therein and apply it with some proper Plaister The Price is 2 s 6 d an Ounce Potestates Nepenthoe or our Annodyne Pain-easing Powers Take Poppies gathered in their right signature and in a cold Still Distil the Water therefrom then take fresh Poppy-leaves and putting them into a Matrix strow them over with Calx vive after the same manner as directed in making Potestates Rosmarini distil off about 5 8 thereof ferment with Sugar Distil into Low-wine and from fresh flowers rectify into Proof-goods and by reiteration into fine Spirits then take a large quantity of Poppy-seeds which by Art must be macerated and so distil into Essential Oyl then take of the best Thebian Opium and with the aforesaid Spirit extract all the Tincture and make an Extract as before directed and to every three pound of the Spirit you call over add one pound of the aforesaid purified Sal Armoniack and a pound of the prepared Calx of Oyster-shells and macerate them together with the Faeces of the Opium that was left of the Extract put them into a retort and by violence of fire force over all that will come the which preserve and the Faeces that are in the Retort set in a cold moist Cellar to run per deliquium the which exactly filtre and Christallize and you will have a noble Opiated Salt take the whole quantity of this Salt and of Cinamon ten ounces Nutmegs Cloves and broad Mace of each four ounces macerate them and put them into a Retort and pour the aforesaid Spirit on them and distil in B. to dryness then take this Spirit so prepared and aromatized and equal parts of the first Spirit put them together and add in the Extract and Camphire one ounce of the Narcotick Sulphur of Venus six ounces and of the aforesaid Essential Oyl eight ounces digest till united which will easily be if you proceed by Cohobation and Digestion as before directed These are wonder-working Powers and perform more than we are willing to put upon them being far above any Liquid Laudanum hitherto extant to the World and more prevalent in any Disease to which that is attributed for by this method is the Opium well corrected and brought to a safe and pleasant Medicine prevalent against Spitting of Blood Catarrhs Fluxes of any kind Terms Whites and Gonorrhea's as also in Restlesness Watchings and Fevers Melancholy Frensy Epilepsy Convulsion and Fits of the Mother Plurisy Vomiting and Cholick there is hardly a better Remedy to be found for any violent Pain or Restlesness in the Body whatever vain Applauses too too many fill Books with who make as if one Medicine should be Vniversal against all Diseases but our Knowledge of Nature hath learned us so much the contrary that we have a perfect abhorrence against this canting way however our limitations being given in other Writings we shall omit it here The Dose is from three to five from thence to twenty Drops in some Cordial Julep according to the strength of the Disease and Age and Constitution of the Patient The Price is 2 s. 6 d. an Ounce Potestates Baccarum Juniperi or the Powers of Juniper-berries Take of Juniper-berries twenty or thirty pound or what Quantity you please pound them small and putting them into a Tub pour thereon Rain-water adding thereunto an handful of Bay-salt and so let them stand ten or twelve days and then distil in a Copper-still with a Refrigeratory so that pure Oyl will ascend with Water in good quantity and when the Liquor and Berries are taken out of the Still if you press through an hair-bag filtre and evaporate you shall find good quantity of Extract and yet the more if they have had a ferment by some Gummous and Vinor Nature the Water that comes over must be separated from the Oyl by a separating glass and then distil'd over again with resh Berries and Calx vive as directed in other Powers and so brought to Low-wines Proof-goods and Rectified Spirits by adding in fresh Berries to enrich the same Now some talk of drawing the Calcin'd Salt out of the Berries but we as an Operator tell you that the Quantity will be so insignificant as not to be worth your fire and time spent about it as upon Tryal you will find if it is to cleanse your Spirit Salt of Wormwood or Tartar will do the same But to talk of Volatilizing this or any other fixed Alkaly in a whiff is stuff for 't is not to
either be distilled into a Spirit or sublimed into a Salt as you please But we say that you need not proceed so high for when all the Principles are so united as readily to dissolve under an highly Alkalizated Spirit then by Distillation you will have the flavours brought over very rich and fragrant and a sweet Balsam remain behind the which you must deflegm very carefully and by Digestion unite with the Volatile Spirit and then you have not only an Oleosum and Powers but also the Essence of that Concreat whose Virtues are so noble that they really will perform as much as can in Reason therefrom be expected as you shall see more at large in the following Preparation c. Potestates Abscinthii or the Powers of Worm-wood Take Worm-wood gathered in its proper signature rich and full of Seeds what quantity you please let it be somewhat gently dried chop'd small and then put into a Tub with water and Salt as directed in other Powers then distil therefrom the Essential Oyl remove and separate by a Separatory and the Oyl carefully preserve N. B. the Water will serve to macerate fresh Worm-wood to which being put into the Still you may add the former Oyl and distil again by which means you will not only get the larger quantity of oyl but the same will also be purer and richer of the Essential Virtues of the Herb Now the remaining herbs may be dryed in the Sun and then burnt to Ashes in a Chimney or for brevity sake let dry Worm-wood which hath not been distilled be burned the which will yield the greatest quantity of Salt which calcined Ashes put into a large Hypocrates sleeve and hang the same over a large Funnel wherein is placed a double Cap-paper and gently pour on the Ashes distilled rain-Rain-water about blood-warm and so the saline water will pass through the bagg and be received by the Funnel from thence filtre into the under Receiver and become very pure you must observe to cast on fresh Liquor as long as any saltness comes out of the Ashes and when they will give no more place your Receiver in a Sand Furnace give fire and continue the same until the whole is evaporated off to a dryness then remove and put into a Calcining pot in a Wind-furnace and with a small Iron rod keep stirring until it is throughly glowing hot then remove and when cold put them on a Marble or Glass made for that purpose set it in a cold Cellar and let run per del the which again filtre and Christallize and so is the true Salt of Wormwood Prepared which is excellent for the destroying Acidities in the Body and stopping Vomitings of any kind But to exalt it the Essential oyl must therewith be spagyrically united as we have before said which in plain terms is performed by adding in our Dispositio media or Reconciler of Extreams what this is we have briefly intimated in our Spagyrick Phylosophy Asserted together with its Preparation but more fully and amply in our Spagyrick Philosophy's Triumph Trifertes Soladini and Ignis Astralis Adeptorum the which God willing shall see the Light they being preparing for the Press Now take of this Salt one pound of the Essential oyl two or three pound and of our Red Wine Q. S. E. to elixerate and then by a secret fermentative Coction like the heat of the Sun in Aries the Compound will be changed into a third Nature neither saline nor sulphureous but white and creamy of a saponary consistence which nevertheless is no common Sapo but Philosophical for we say that it is not sufficient to unite the salts and oyls by a bare association of parts but by a radical union they entring into each others profundity Now when the Circulation is so far performed as that the Alkaly hath drank in three times its weight of oyl and none swim on the top then pour thereon the pure Alkalizated Spirit of Worm-wood and draw off and you shall have a volatile burning Spirit very fiery with the oyl which is more noble Powers than any hitherto extant altho it hath not yet a third part of the Exaltation of its virtues for after the Spirit is over you have an insipid Flegm as also a noble tinged Balsam the which you must by Circulation unite with the former and so by another Rotation you have the true Powers of Worm-wood Whose Virtues are so many as that we shall not here insert them but refer you to the Famous Radolphus Glauber the Worthy Starkey and Renowned Helmont and that mighty Chymical Monarch Paracelsus and so proceed on to show the way of making the Essential Salt that being most advantagious to the curious Artificers in Liquors Whose Preparation Helmont expresly says may be Performed in three Months by his hidden Circulation without Water And we say that as the aforesaid Elixeration is performed being again dissolved in its own Menstruum by a gentle decoction the whole will be converted into a Christalline Salt a small part of the oyl only excepted which will be turned into a Rosinary Gum distinct from what is Salified which said Salt contains the Vita media and whole Crasis of the Vegetable for by this way of Union they contract from each other a wonderful Virtue for from the Salt proceeds the Abstersive and from the Oyl the Balsamick and Vital Nature both Contributing for the performing real Cures this is that Salt of Worm-wood which Helmont says is a true Specifick for the curing all kind of Feavers Now what we further observe in this Salt is that it hath a communicative Ferment to all Herbs for their macerated Tinctures being taken out as we have shown in our Chymicus Rationalis and Digested therewith in a Chicken heat 't will all in about twelve or fifteen days be converted into a Christalline Salt thus the Tincture of Worm-wood exalts its own Salt and so the like of other Vegetables Nay moreover by this way you may have a Salt of such herbs as will not by Distillation yield their Essential Oyls as Hellebore Jallop Briony Elecampane and many others nay even from Safron and many things of a more gummous nature Let this of the Essential Salt of Worm-wood suffice seing therein are laid down rules sufficient for the making as many more as you please it being rather a common place than single Receipt for as Starkey and Helmont say in the learning of one you learn to make all Now the way to know the goodness and true Preparation of this Salt is thus in the first place 't is very sweet and fragrant smelling strong of the Essential Oyl whence made without having the least urinous scent Secondly 't will readily dissolve in water without making the same muddy and boyl up again without the least loss of Virtue Thirdly 't is totally Volatile as is evident in this that being cast upon a Red-hot plate of Iron it will fume all away without leaving the least grain of