alteratton A. The Authors own Judgment is That it strengthens the brain heart liver stomach lunges spleen and nerves quickens the sight resisteth poison helpeth bitings by venemous beasts causeth a sweet breath bringeth down the terms in women and hath vertue attenuating opening digesting and strengthening A. The truth is I beleeve it prevails in cold diseases being orderly regulated in quantity according to the nature of the disease the age and strength of the patient and the season of the year Cinnamon Water made by Infusion Take of Cinnamon bruised four ounces Spirit of Wine two pints infuse them together 4. daies in a large glasse close stopped with cork and a bladder shaking the glasse twice a day Dissolve half a pound of white sugar Candy in a quart of rose-Rose-water then mix both these liquors together then put into them four grains of musk and half a scruple of Ambergreese tied up in a fine rag and hung to the top of the glasse A. In my opinion this latter water is more prevalent for heart-qualms and faintings than Mathiolus his Aqua Ceolestis Mathiolus Take of Cinnamon an ounce Ginger half an ounce white red and yellow Sanders of each six drachms Cloves Gallanga Nutmegs of each two drachms and an half Mace Cubebs of each one drachm both sorts of Cardamoms Nigella seeds of each three drachms Zedoary half an ounce seeds of Annis Sweet-Fennel Wild-Parsneps Bazil of each a drachm and an half Roots of Angelica Avens Calamus Aromaticus Liquoris Valerian the lesse the leaves of Clary Time Calaminth Peny-royal Mints Mother of Time Marjoram of each two drachms the flowers of Red-Roses Sage Rosemary Betony Stoechas Bugloss Borrage of each one drachm and an half Citron pils three drachms Let the things be bruised that are to be bruised and infused 15. daies in 12 pints of the best spirit of wine in a glasse body wel stopped and then let it be distilled in Balneo Mariae according to art Adding to the distilled water Pouders of Diambra Diamoscu dulce Armaticum Rosatum Diamargariton frigidum Diarhodon Abbatis pouder of Electuary de gemmis of each three drachms yellow Sanders bruised two drachms Musk Ambergreese of each a scruple tied up in a fine ragg cleer Julip of Roses a pound shake them wel together stopping the glasse close with wax and parchment till it grow cleer to be kept for your use A. It comforteth and cherisheth the heart reviveth drooping spirits prevaileth against the plague and al malignant Feavers preserveth the sences and restoreth such as are in Consumptions A. Only take this Caution both concerning this and al other strong waters They are not safely given by themselves in Feavers because by their hot quallity they inflame the blood and ad fuel to the fire but mixed with other convenient cordials and consideration had to the strength complection habit age and sex of the patient for my own part I aim sincerely at the publick good in writing of this and 〈◊〉 as I would not have Physitians domineer so I would not have fools turn Physitians A Cordial Water Take of Angelica leaves half a pound Carduus leaves six ounces Bawm and Sage of each four ounces Angelica seeds six ounces sweet fennel seeds nine ounces let the herbs being dry and the seeds be bruised grosly to which add the pouders of Aromaticum Rosatum and Diamoseu Dulce of each an ounce and an half Infuse these two daies in 32. pints of Spanish wine then distill them according to art draw out ten pints of strong spirit which sweeten after two daies standing with a pound and an half of Sugar dissolved in Rosewater over the fire Of the smaller spirit you may draw out six pints or more if you please for the mixtures of other Cordials A. The chief end of composing this medicine was to strengthen the heart and resist infection and therefore is very wholsom in pestilentiall times and for such as walk in stinking aires Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxoniae Take of the juice of Borrage Buglosse Bawm Bistort Vervain Sharp pointed Dock Sorrel Goats-Rue Mirrhis or sweet Chervil Blew-bottle great and smal or the double quantity of the small Roses Marigolds Lemmons Citrons of each six ounces juice of Burnet and Cinkfoyl of each three ounces white wine Vinegar a pint Purslain-seeds Water-lillie Flowers of each two ounces Earth of Lemnos Silecia and Samos of each an ounce and an half Pouder called Diatrion Santalon six drachms Pearl prepared with juice of Citrons three drachms Infuse al the Pouders Flowers and Seeds the Earths and Pearls excepted in the juyces and Vinegar for three daies then distill it in water in a glasse-Still and add to the distilled water the Earths and Pearls in fine pouder shake it together and let it stand till it be cleer and keep it for your use A. It mightily cools the blood and therefore profitable in feavers and all diseases proceeding of heat of blood it provokes sleep Langius his Ant-Epileptical Water Take of the Flowers of Line tree three handfuls Lillies of the vally five handfuls peony seeds half an ounce infuse them eight daies in five pints of the best White-wine then distill them in Balneo Mariae with a gentle fire Afterward Take of the flowers of Rosemary half a handful of the flowers of Lavender a handful Rue a handful Betony half a handful Stoechas of Arabia one pugil Peony roots two drachms and an half Dictamny two drachms Squils prepared one drachm and an half Pellitory of Spain half a drachm Misletoe of the Oak two drachms Castorium one drachm Cubebs Cardamoms of each one scruple Mace half a dram Cloves two scruples Nutmegs one scruple let al these being bruised be infused in the water aforesaid and shaken wel together for six daies then distilled again in Balneo Mariae and the water kept in a glasse stopped You may with one and the same labor prepare an extract which wil be very efficacious A. If the authority of Erasius or daily experience will serve the turn then was this reciept chiefly compiled against the convulsion fits but the derivation of the word notes it to be prevalent against the falling sicknesse also for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek signifies the Falling sicknesse and indeed Erastus experience pleads for this also It is true the composition of Erastus differs from this and so doth another recited by Johannes Langius but it seems our Physitians for some reasons best known to themselves esteemed this the best A. Well then having now learned the vertues of the water a word or two of the use will not be amisse Erastus was of opinion that both these diseases were caused by the Moon and so am I of that opinion also for I know some at this time that are constantly troubled with the Falling-sicknesse only at the new and full Moons I could give reasons for this judgment of Erastus but I am unwilling to be tedious Then saith he if
the disease come daily let a spoonful to it be taken morning and evening if weekly then let it be taken only at the new and full Moon and at her quartiles to the Sun if it begin to wear away then only twice a month viz. at the new and full Moon wil suffice It profits also in time of the fit by rubbing their temples nostrils and jaws with it Aqua Hysterica Take of the Juyce of Briony roots four pints the juyce of Rue and Mugwort of each a quart dried Savin leaves three handfuls Featherfew Nep Penyroyal of each two handfuls Basil Dictamny of Creet of each a handful and an half fresh Orange pills four ounces Mirrh two ounces Castorium one ounce Canary Wine twelve pints Infuse the simples in the Wine four daies then distill them in a bath and keep the distilled water for your use When it is half stilled you may prepare an Extraction of the residue for the same use the water is A. It wonderfully prevaileth against the fits of the mother and such like diseases incident to women and is a most excellent remedy to bring away dead children and the after birth a spoonful or two of it being given and therefore let Midwives make much of it Imperial Water Take of Citron pills dried Orange pills Nutmegs Cloves Cinnamon of each two ounces Cyperus Orris Florentine Calamus Aromaticus of each an ounce Zedoary Galanga Ginger of each one ounce Tops of Rosemary Lavender of each two handfuls The leaves of Bay Marjoram Hysop Bawm Mints Sage Time of each one handful fresh Roses White and Damask of each half a handful Rosewater four pints of the best white Wine eight pints The things to be bruised being bruised let them be infused twenty four hours in a glasse Still over hot ashes and then distilled according to art A. You must distill it in a bath and not in sand It seems the Colledge were but mean practicioners in Alchymy but in this and many other recepts 〈◊〉 to that monster called Tradition therefore take this for a general Aphorisme All grosse bodies stilled in sand will stinkegregiously A. It comforts and strengthens the heart against faintings and swoonings and it is held to be a preservative against consumptions and apoplexies Bawm Water The greater Composition Take of Bawm a pound Time Penyroyal of each three drachms Cinnamon two drachms Cardamoms the lesse one drachm Grains of Paradice half an ounce Sweet Fennel seeds an ounce Nutmegs Ginger of each a drachm Galanga six drachms Calamus Aromaticus Cyprus of each a drachm and an half Dictamni half a drachm let all of them be bruised and infused in eight pints of Spanish Wine and six pints of strong Ale for 24. hours together and then distilled by an Alembick draw out of the stronger water three pints A. The Simples seem chiefly apropriated to the stomach and therfore must needs strengthens cold weak stomachs help digestion besides Authors say It restoreth memory lost quickens all the sences keeps away gray hairs and baldnesse strengtheneth the brain makes the heart cheerful and helps the lisping of the tongue easeth the pains of the teeth and causeth a sweet breath Aqua Mariae Take of Sugar Candy a pound Canary Wine six ounces Rose Water four ounces boyl them to a Syrupe to which ad Aqua Coelestis two pound Amber-greece and Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fifteen grains Yellow Sanders two drachms make of them a cleer water A. It is of more vertue than Aqua Coelestis to resist feavers to strengthen the heart to releeve Languishing nature Aqua Mirabilis Take of Cloves Galanga Cubebs Mace Gardamoms Nutmegs Ginger of each one drachm juyce of Chelondine half a pound Aqua-vitae a pound White Wine three pints or three pound which you please Infuse them twenty four hours and then draw a quart of water from them by an Alembick A. The Simples also of this regard the stomack and therefore the water heats cold stomachs besides Authors say it preserveth from Apoplexies and restoreth speech lost Rosa-Solis Take of Nutmegs Annis seeds Coriander seeds of each an ounce Galanga Ginger Cloves of each half an ounce Red-rose leaves a handful Ros-solis six handfuls Liquoris two ounces Cardamoms Zedoary Grains of Paradice Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm Yellow Sanders two drachms Red Sanders Cinnamon of each an ounce and an half Of the best Aqua-vitae twelve pints make an infusion of them for eight daies then strain it and ad to the liquor a pound and an half of Sugar A. The Basis of this medicine seems to be the herb Ros-solis which is of a drying and binding quality and apropriated to the lungues and therefore must needs be available for Phtisicks or consumptions of the lungues and because this herb provokes lust exceedingly I suppose therefore the rose leaves were added which according to Authors resist lust Dr. Stephens Water Take of Cinnamon Ginger Galanga Cloves Nutmegs Grains of Paradice seeds of Annis Fennel Caraway of each one drachm Herbs of Time Mother of Time Mints Sage Pennyroyal Pellitory of the wall Rosemary Flowers of Red roses Chemomel Origanum Lavender of each one handful infuse them twelve hours in twelve pints of Gascoign Wine then with an Alembick draw three pints of strong water from it A. Authors hold it profitable for women in labour that it provokes the terms and brings away the afterbirth Aqua Protheriacalis Take of the leaves of Scordium Scabious Carduus Benedictus Goats Rue of each two handfuls Citron pills and Orrenge pills dried of each two ounces the seeds of Citrons Carduus Hartwort Treacle Mustard of each one ounce The Flowers of Marigolds and Rosemary of each a handful Let the things to be cut be cut the things to be brused be grosly bruised and infused in four pints of White Wine and a quart of Carduus Water and being put into a convenient glasse digested either by the heat of the sun or of the fire certain daies often shaking it Then distilled in Balneo Mariae reserve the two first pints by it self the remainder by it self at last with every pound mix an ounce of Julapium Alexandrinum and a spoonfull of Cinnamon Water It is not bid from our eyes that there are very many Simples in the Composition̄ of Treacle the vertues of which cannot be exactly drawn out by distillation in Balneo Mariae and therefore we of purpose subscribed this that the rational Physitian may at the time of giving it appoint Treacle or Diascordium or any convenient syrup notwithstanding lest we should seem different from all we have added on recept of Treacle water by distillation A. Aqua Protheriacalis signifies a Water for Treacle so then if you put Diascordium to it it is a water for Diascordium well then we will take it for a general water for all Physick Aqua Theriacalis by infusion Take of the best distilled Wine Wine
of the Oak the roots of Smallage and Fennel of each half an ounce white Maidenhair Origanum Hysop Calaminth Time Scabious Savory Coltsfoot of each six drachms the seeds of Annis and Cotton of each three drams Raisons of the sun stoned two ounces fat Figs ten boyl these altogether in Hydromel eight pints till half be consumed then when you have strained it boyl it into a syrup with Hony and white Sugar of each two pound perfume it with an ounce of the roots of Orris Florentine A. It is apropriated to the breast and lungues and is a fine cleanser to purge them from thick and putrified flegm it helps Phthisicks and coughs and diseases subject to old men and cold natures Syrup of Rhadishes Fernelius Take of Radish roots both Garden and Wild of each an ounce the roots of white Saxifrage Bruscus Lovage Fringo Rest harrow Parsly Fennel of each half an ounce the leaves of Bettony Burnet Pennyroyal the tender Tops of Nettles Watercresses Samphire Maiden hair of each a handful Winter cherrics Jujubes of each twenty the seeds of Bazil Burs Parsly of Macedonia Seseli Caraway Carrots Gromwell the bark of the roots of the bay tree of each two drams Raisons of the sun stoned Liquoris of each six drachms boil them according to art in twelve pints of water till eight remain in which being strained dissolve four pound of Sugar and two pound of Hony and boyl them into a cleer syrup the which perfume with an ounce of Cinnamon and half an onnce of Nutmegs A. The syrup is apropriated to the reins and bladder both which it powerfully cleanseth it breaketh and bringeth forth the stone it purgeth the reins of gravel it helpeth all supression and stopping of urine as Dysuria Iscuria c. Syrups of the five opening Roots Mesue Take of the roots of Smallage Fennel Parsley Brusous and Sparagus of each two ounces boyl them in six pints of spring-water till the third part be consumed strain it and with three pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup adding eight ounces of white-Wine-Vineger towards the latter end of the decoction A. It cleanseth and openeth very well is profitable against obstructions provokes urine cleanseth the body of 〈◊〉 and is safely and profitably given in the beginning of Feavers A Magisterial syrup of Scabious Compound Take of the roots of Alicampane and Polipodium of the Oak of each two ounces infuse them 24. hours in white Wine Raisons of the sun stoned an ounce Sebesten 30. Coltfsoot Lunguewort Savory Calaminth of each a handful and an half Liquoris half an ounce one whol leaf of the best Tobacco the seeds of Nettles and Cotton of each three drachms boil them in a sufficient quantity of wine and water to eight ounces to which being strained ad of the juyce of Scabious clarified four ounces white Sugar ten ounces boyl it into a syrup clarified according to art adding to it twenty drops of oyl of Sulphur A. It is a cleansing syrup apropriated to the breast and lungues when you perceive them oppressed by flegm cruditiesor stoppings here 's your remedy Syrup of Hartstongue Fernelius Take of Polypodium of the Oak the roots of both sorts of Buglosse bark of Cappar roots bark of Tamaris of each two ounces Hartstongue three handfuls Hops Doddar Maiden-hair Bawm of each two handfuls boil them in nine pints of water till there remains but five strain it clarifie it and with four pound of white Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It helps stoppings of melancholly opens obstructions of the liver and spleen and is profitable against splenetick evils and therefore is a choice remedy for the disease which the vulgar call the rickets or livergrown Syrup of Stoechas Mesue Take of the flowers of Stoechas four ounces Time Calaminth Origanum of each an ounce and an half Sage Bettony Rosemary flowers of each half an ounce the seeds of Rue Peony and Fennel of each three drachms boyl them in ten pints of water till half be consumed strain it and boil the decoction into a syrup with Hony and Sugar of each two pound perfume it with Cinnamon Ginger and Calamus Aromaticus of each two drachms tied up in a thin rag and hung into the Syrup A. This recept looks like Mesue because the Simples are composed with such harmony I confesse I have found in his works one or two syrups of this name but not this same composition yet am I willing to think it his not so much because the Colledg saith it as because I can judg of the tree by the fruit A. Surely surely was this recept penned against cold infirmities of the brain Spinalis Medulla and their Handmaids or rather Officers the nerves helps both sence and motion anoyed by cold or melancholly I am curbed for being so larg therefore in general you if you try it shall find it an admirable remedy against palsies or tremblings of the limbs convulsions cramps falling-sicknesse and all other infirmities of the brain arising from cold moisture or melancholly and the composition is husbanded with such discreation and moderation that without all question it was distilled from the brain of a Mesue Syrup of Comfry Fernelius Take of the roots and branches both of the greater and lesser Comfry of each three handfuls red Roses Bettony Plantane Burnet Knot grasse Scabious Coltsfoot of each two handfuls let the joyce be pressed from them all being fresh and green and well beaten boyl it away to three pound scumming it well and with two pound and an half of Sugar boyl it to a syrup A. Were it not for fear my book would grow bigger than I would willingly have it I could easily prove that the syrup would be far better if the juyces were only clarified and not boyled at all but with their double weight in sugar melted only into a syrup A. The syrup is excellent for all inward wounds and bruises excoriations vomitings spittings or piffing of blood it unites broken bones helps ruptures and stops the terms in women A Cordial syrup or Julep Norimberg Take of Rhenish wine a quart Rose water two ounces and an half Cloves two scruples Cinnamon half a drachm Ginger two scruples of the best Sugar three onnces and an half boil it to the consistence of a Julep which perfume with three grains of Amber-greece and one grain of musk A. He that hath read thus far in this book and doth not know he must first boyl the Simples in the wine and then strain them out before he puts in the Sugar is a man that in my opinion hath not wit enough to be taught to make up a medicine A. If you would have this Julep keep long you may put in more Sugar and yet if close stopped it will not easily corrupt because it is made up only of wine indeed the wisest way is to order the quantity of Sugar according to the pallat of him that takes it A.
seeds of Parsly the cops of Time the seeds of Lovage black Pepper of each an ounce beat them into pouder according to art also you may make it into an Electuary with two pound and an half of white Sugar dissolved in Rose or Violet water A. It heats and comforts cold bodies cuts thick and gross flegm provokes urine and the terms in women I confesse this differs somthing from Gallen but is better at least wise for our bodies in my opinion than his Species Electuarii Diacalaminthes Compositi Fernelius Take of pouder of the Electuary called Diacalaminthes simplex half an ounce the leaves of Horehound Bawm Marjoram Mugwort Savin dried of each one drachm Cyperus roots the roots of Maddir and Rue Mace and Cinnamon of each two scruples all these being finely beaten and mixed together may be made into an Electuary with twelve times their weight in Sugar dissolved in distilled water of Featherfew A. This seems to be more apropriated to the foeminine gender them the former viz. to bring down the terms in women to bring away the birth and afterbirth to purge them after labour yet is it dangerous for women with child Dianisum Mesue Take of Annis seeds 2. ounees an half Liquoris Mastich of each one ounce the seeds of Caraway and Fennel Galanga Mace Ginger Cinnamon of each five drachms of the three sorts of Pepper Cassia lignea Calaminth Pellitory of Spain of each two drachms Cardamoms Cloves Cubebs Indian Spicknard Saffron of each a drachm and an half white Sugar five ounces and with clarified Honey you may make it into an Electuary A. This Electuary is chiefly apropriated to the stomach and helps the cold infirmities thereof raw flegm wind continual coughs and other such diseases coming of cold Species Electuarii Diacymini Nicholaus Take of cummin seeds infused a natural day in vineger one ounce and one scruple Cinnamon Cloves of each two drachms and an half Galanga Savory Calaminth of each one drachm and two scruples Ginger black Pepper of each two drachms and five grains the seeds of Lovage and Ammi of each one drachm and eighteen grains long pepper a dram Spicknard Nutmegs Cardamoms of each two scruples and an half beat them and keep them dilligently in pouder for your use A. It heats the stomach and bowels expels wind exceedingly helps the wind chollick helps digestion hindred by cold or wind is an admirable remedy for wind in the guts and helps quartan agues Species Electuarii Diagalangae Mesue Take of Galanga wood of Aloes of each six drachms Cloves Mace seeds of Lovage of each two drachms Ginger long and white Pepper Cinnamon Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm and an half Calaminth and Mints dried Cardamoms the greater Indian Spicknard the seeds of Smallage Annis Fennel Caraway of each one drachm beat them into pouder according to art also it may be made into an Electuary with white Sugar dissolved in Malaga wine or twelve times the weight of it of clarified honey A. I am afraid twelve times the weight of the Simples is to much by half if not by three parts Honest Mesue appoints only a sufficient quantity and quotes it only as an Electuary which he saith prevails against wind sour belchings and indigestion grosse humors and cold afflictions of the stomach and liver Species Electuarii De Gemmis frigidi Take of Pearls prepared three drachms Spodium Ivory both sorts of Corral of each two drachms the flowers of red Roses a drachm and an half Jacinth Saphire Emerald Sardine Granate Sanders white red and yellow the flowers of Borrage and Bugloss the seeds of sorrel and Bazil both sorts of Been for want of them the roots of Avens and Tormentil of each one drachm bone of a Stags heart half a drachm Leaves of Gold and Silver of each fifteen make of all a pouder according to art and let it be diligently kept Species Electuarii de Gemmis Calidi Mesue Take of Troches Diarhodon wood of Aloes of each five drams white Pearls Zedoary Doronicum Citron pils Mace the seeds of Bazil Amber greece of each 2 drachms red Corral white Amber Ivory of each five scruples Saphire Jacinth Sardine Granate Emerald Cinnamon Galanga Zurumbet of each one drachm and an half Been of both sorts or in lieu of them the roots of Avens aud Tormentil Cloves Ginger long Pepper Indian Spicknard Indian leaf or Celtick Spicknard Saffron Cardamoms the greater of each a dram leaves of Gold and Silver of each two scruples Musk half a drachm make them all into a Pouder and keep them close stopped from the air A. The truth is both these pouders are of too heavy a price for a vulgar mans purse they help afflictions of the heart stomach brain and liver vain feavers melancholly tremblings of the heart and faintings they help digestion and take away sadness and because the latter seems to be something hotter than the former though neither of them exceed in heat or coldness if you find the body afflicted by cold you may give the hotter if feaverish the cooler Species Electuarii Diaireos Simplicis Nicholai Take of Orris roots half an ounce Sugar Candy and Diatragacanthum frigidum of each two drachms beat them into pouder A. I do not mean the Diatragacanthum frigidum for that is in pouder before It comforts the breast is good in colds coughs and hoarsness Species Dialaceae Mesue Take of Gum lacca prepared Rhubarb Schoenanthus of each three drachms Spicknard Mastich juyce of Roman Wormwood and Eupatorium the seeds of Small age Ammi Fennel Annis Savin Bitter Almonds Mirrh Costus or Zedoary the roots of Maddir Asarabacca Birthwort long and round and Gentian Saffron Cinnamon dried Hysop Cassia lignea Bdelium of each a drachm and an half Pepper Ginger of each one drachm make of these a pouder according to art A. According to Mesue you ought to dissolve the Mirrh and Bdellium in wine and together with the Simples beaten in fine pouder make it into an Electuary with a sufficient quantity of clarified Honey the Colledg give you more latitude but all to as little if not lesse purpose 〈◊〉 strengthens the stomach and liver opens obstructions helps dropsies yellow Jaundice provokes urine breaks the stone in the reins and bladder Species Electuarii Diamargariton Calidi Avicenna Take of Pearls and Pellitory of the wall of each one dram Ginger Mastich of each half an ounce Doronicum Zedoary Smallage seeds both sorts of Cardamoms Nutmegs Mace of each two drachms Been of both sorts if they cannot be procured take the roots of Avens and Tormentil black and long Pepper of each three drachms Cinnamon five drachms beat them into pouder and keep them for your use A. Avicenna prescribes this as an Electuary and so are most of all the Colledges pouders prescribed by those by whom they borrowed them as I told you before and they will keep longer and better in Electuaries than in Pouders but people must be
vital and animal spirit and cause a sweet breath Trochisci Gordonii Take of the four greater and four lesser cold seeds cleansed the seeds of white Poppies Mallows Cotton Purslain Quinces Mirtles Gum Traganth and Arabick Pinenuts fistick Nuts Sugar Candy Penids Liquoris French Barly mussilage of Fleawort sweet Almonds of each an ounce Bole Armenick Dragons blood Spodium Roses Mirrh of each two ounces let them being beaten into pouder be made into Troches with Hydromel A. They are held to be very good in ulcers of the bladder and all other inward ulcers whatsoever and ease feavers coming thereby being of a fine cooling slippery heating nature Trochisci 〈◊〉 Andromacus out of Galen Take of hearb Mastich Asarabacca Marjoram Aspalathus or yellow Sanders of each two drachms Schoenanth Calamus Aromaticus Valerian Xylobalsamum or wood of Aloes Opobalsamum or oyl of 〈◊〉 by expression Cinnamon Costus of each three drachms Mirrh Indian leaf or Mace Indian Spicknard Saffron Cassia lignea of each six drams Amomus or Cardamoms the smaller an ounce and an half Mastich a drachm Spanish wine as much as is sufficient first let the Saffron being in pouder be dilligently ground with the Wine let then the Mirrh and Mastich both in fine pouder be added then the Opobalsamum 〈◊〉 last of all the rest of the pouders and so made up into troches and dried in the shaddow A. They are very seldom or never used but in other compositions yet naturally they heat cold stomachs help digestion strengthen the heart and brain Trochisci Hysterici Renodaeus Take of Assa foetida Galbanum of each two drachms and in half Mirrh two drachms Castorium a drachm and an half Asarabacca Birthwort Savin Featherfew Nep of each one drachm Dittany half a drachm either with juyce of Rue or decoction of the same make it into troches according to art A. These troches are applied to the foeminine gender help fits of the mother expel both birth and after-birth cleanse women after labor and expel the relicts of a careless Midwife Trochisci de Lacca Mesue Take of Gum Lacca cleansed the juyces of Liquoris Maudlin Wormmood and Barberries all made thick Rhubarb long Birthwort Costus Asarabacca bitter Almonds Maddir Annis Smallage Schoenanth of each a drachm with the decoction of Birth wort or Schoenanth or the juyce of Maudlin or Wormwood make them into Troches according to art A. It helps stoppings of the liver and spleen and feavers thence coming it expels wind purgeth by urine and resists dropsies Troches of Terra Lemnia Mesue according to Fernelius Take of Dragons blood Gum Arabick torrefied Troches of Ramich red Roses the seeds of Roses white starch torrefied Spodium Acacia Hypocystis lapis Haematitis Balaustines Bolarmenick terra Lemnia red Corral Amber of each two drachms Pearls Gum Traganth black Poppy seeds of each a drachm and an half Purslain seeds a little torrefied Hartshorn burnt Frankinsense Cypres nuts Saffron of each two drachms either with juyce or water of Plantane make it into Troches according to art A. If you will have it with Opium saith Mesue you may add two drachms of it to the composition and indeed in external applications if any inflamation or feaver be I think it better with Opium than without A. It was invented to stop blood in any part of the body and for it it is excellent wel then for the bloody-flux take half a drachm of them inwardly being beaten into pouder in red wine every morning for spitting of blood use it in like manner in Plantane water for pissing of blood 〈◊〉 it into the bladder for bleeding at the nose either snuff it up or anoint your forehead with it mixed with oyl for the immoderate flowing of the terms inject it up the womb with a syringe but first mix it with plantane water for the hemorrhoids or wounds apply it to the place bleeding Troches of Mirrh Rhasis Take of Mirrh three drachms the flower of Lupines five drachms the leaves of 〈◊〉 Horse minus Penyroyal the seeds of Cummin the roots of Maddir Assafoetida Sagapenum Opopanax of each two drachms dissolve the 〈◊〉 in Vineger of Squils and with juyce of Mugwort make it up into Troches A. They provoke the terms in women and that with great ease to such as have them come down with pain Trochisci Polyidae Sphragis Andromacus out of Galen Take of Pomegranate flowers twelve drachms Allum three drachms Frankincense Mirrh of each half an ounce Copperis two drachms Bulls gall six drachms Aloes an ounce austere Wine so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art A. They are very good being outwardly applied both in green wounds and ulcers Pastilli Andronis Galen Take of Pomegranate flowers ten drachms Copperis twelve drachms unripe Galls Birthwort Frankinsence of each an ounce Allum Mirrh of each half an ounce Misy two drachms with eighteen ounces of austere Wine make it into Troches according to art A. This also is apropriated to wounds ulcers and fistulaes it cleers the ears and represseth all excressences of flesh cleanseth the filth of the bones Trochisci Musae Galen Take of Allum Aloes Copperas Mirrh of each six drams Crocomagma Saffron of each three drachms Pomegranate flowers half an ounce Wine and Honey of each so much as is sufficient to make it up into Troches according to art A. Their use is the same with the former Crocomagma of Damocrates Galen Take of Saffron a hundred drachms red Roses Mirrh of each fifty drachms white Starch Gum of each thirty drams Wine so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches A It is very expulsive heats and strengthens the heart and stomach Troches of wood of Aloes Take of wood of Aloes red Roses of each two drachms Mastich Cinnamon Cloves Indian Spicknard Nutmegs Cardamoms greater and lesser Cubebs Gallia Moschata Pasneps Citron pills Mace of each a drachm and an half Amber greece Musk of each half a Scruple with Honey of Raisons make them into Troches A. It strengthens the heart stomach and liver takes away heart-qualms faintings and stinking breath and resisteth the 〈◊〉 Trochisci 〈◊〉 Mesue Take of the juyce of Sorrel sixteen ounces red Rose leaves one ounce Mirtle berries two ounces boyl them a little together and 〈◊〉 them add to the decoction Gall well beaten three ounces boyl them again a little then put in these following things in fine pouder take of red Roses an ounce yellow Sander ten drachms Gum Arabick an ounce a half 〈◊〉 Spodium of each an ounce Mirtle berries four ounces wood of Aloes Cloves Mace Nutmegs of each half an ounce sour Grapes seven drachms mix them all together and let them dry upon a stone and grind them again into pouder and make them into small Troches with one drachm of Camphire and so much Rose water as is sufficient and perfume them with fifteen grains of Musk. A. They strengthen the stomach heart and liver as also the
a double vessel til the Wine be consumed if you infuse fresh buds once or twice before you boyl it the medicine will be the stronger then presse out the oyl and keep it A. It is a fine cool oyl but the ointment called by that name which follows hereafter is far better Oyl of Foxes Mesue Take a fat Fox of a middle age wearied with hunting and new killed the skin and bowels being taken away and the bones broken cut into many parts boyl him in white Wine and Conduit water of each six pound till almost half be consumed scumming it dilligently then mix with it four pound of old sweet Oyl common Salt three ounces the flowers of Sage Time of each a pound let it boyl till almost all the water be consumed then ad water wherein a handful of Dill and Time have been boyled eight pound boyl it again over a gentle fire to the consumption of the water then press out the Oyl and if any watry substance remain amongst it seperate it with a Funnel and keep the Oyl for your use A. It is exceeding good in pains of the joints gouts pains in the back and reins OYNTMENTS OYNTMENTS MORE SIMPLE Unguentum album Rhasis TAKE of oyl of Roses nine ounces good Ceruss washed in Rose water three ounces white Wax two ounces make them into an Ointment according to art and if you ad two drachms of Camphire then will it be camphorated A. Some hold it impossible to make it into an Ointment this way others hold it not convenient but instead of oyl of Roses they ad so much Hogs grease and leaving out the white Wax they make it into an Ointment without the help of the fire A. It is a fine cooling drying Ointment easeth pains and itching in wounds and ulcers and is a hundred times better with Camphire than without it Unguentum Aegiptiacum Mesue Take of Vert-de-greece five drachms Honey fourteen drachms sharp Vineger seven drachms boyl them all together till they come to be a thick Ointment of a reddish colour A. It cleanseth filthy ulcers and fistulaes forcibly and not without pain it takes away dead or proud flesh and dries the Chyrurgian of our daies use it commonly instead of Apostolorum to cleanse wounds it cleanseth more potently indeed and therefore may be sitter in sanious ulcers but it strengthens not so much Unguentum Anodinum Take of oyl of white Lillies six ounces oyl of Dill and Chamomel of each two ounces sweet Almonds one ounce Ducks grease and Hens grease of each two ounces white Wax three ounces mix them together according to art A. I take the Augustan Physitians to be the Authors of this for there it is to be found verbatim only they prescribe no certain quantity of Wax its use is to aswage pains in any part of the body especially such as come by inflamations whether in wounds or tumours and for that it is admirable Unguentum sive Linimentum Arceus Take of Gum Elenni Turpentine of the firr tree of each an ounce and an half sheep Suit tried two ounces hogs grease tried two ounces mix them together and make them into an Ointment according to art A. Although our Chyrurgians usually use this only for wounds and ulcers in the head yet he that makes trial shall find it excellent for ulcers if not too sanious in any part of the body though in the feet and they are at the greatest distance from the head it gently cleanseth and filleth up an ulcer with flesh it being of a mild nature and friendly to the body Unguentum Aureum Mesue Take of yellow Wax half a pound oyl two pound and an half Turpentine two ounces Rozin of the Pine tree cōmonly called Perrozin Colophonia of each an ounce a half Frankinsence Mastich of each an ounce Saffron a drachm make them up according to art A. If you remember the Colledg commends this Ointment to engender flesh in the beginning of the Compounds page 79. and indeed it doth so but if you please to take counsel of Dr. EXPERIENCE he will tell you that the former is worth two of it for that use Unguentum Basilicon majus Mesue Take of white wax Per-rozin Heifers Suit greek pitch Turpentine Olibanum Mirrh of each an ounce Oyl a pound or else a sufficient quantity to make it up into an Ointment Unguentum Basilicon minus Or Tetrapharmacum Mesue Take of yellow Wax Rozin greek Pitch of each half a pound Oyl two pound and four ounces only melt them that so they may be mixed together into the consistence of an Ointment A. Both this and the former heat moisten and digest procure matter in wounds I mean bring the filth or corrupted blood from green wounds they cleanse and ease pain Ointment of Bdellium Mesue Take of Bdellium six drachms Euphorbium Sagapenum of each four drachms Castorium three drachms Wax fifteen drachms Oyl of Elder or Walflower ten drachms the Bdellium and 〈◊〉 being dissolved in the water of wild Rue let the rest be united with warm water and made into an Ointment according to art A. I confess Mesue appoints it to be made up in the same manner I do not well know whether it be possible or not If not it may be done with the oyl A. It is exceeding good against palsies wry-mouths falling sickness and other cold of afflictions of the nerves Unguentum de Calce Foesius Take of Chalk at least seven times washed half a pound Oyl of Roses a pound 〈◊〉 them about well in a leaden mortar then ad to them three ounces of Wax A. It is exceeding good in burnings and scaldings Oyntment of Marsh-mallows Simple Nicholaus Take of Marsh mallow roots fresh and bruised two pound Linseed and Fenagreek seed bruised of each a pound steep them in eight pound of Water then boyl them a little gently and press out their mussilage of which take two pound and oyl four pound boyl them together till the mussilage be consumed then ad Wax a pound Rozin half a pound Turpentwo ounces boyl them into the consistence of an Ointment Oyntment of Marshmallows Compound Nichol. Take of Marshmallow roots two pound the seeds of Flax and Fenugreek of each one pound pulp of Squils half a pound Oyl four pound Wax one pound Turpentine Gum of 〈◊〉 Galbanum of each two ounces Colophonia Rozin of each half a pound let the roots be well washed and bruised as also the Linseed Foenugreek seed and Squils then steep them three daies in eight pints of water the fourth day boyl them a little upon the fire draw out the Mussilage of which take two pound and boyl it with the oyl to the consumption of the juyce afterwards ad the Wax Rozin and Colophonia when they are melted ad the Turpentine afterwards the Galbanum and gum of lvy dissolved in Vineger boyl them a little and having removed them from the fire 〈◊〉 them til they are cold that so they may be
well incorporated A. They both viz. this and the former heat and moisten the latter helps pains of the breast coming of cold and pleuresies Unguentum Enulatum Take of Elicampane roots while they are soft bruised and boyled in Vineger and drawn through a pulping sieve one pound Hogs Greas without salt one pound Common Oyl four ounces Wax two ounces Salt one ounce Quick-silver killed either with fasting spittle or juyce of Lemmons Turpentine washed with the decoction the Elicampane roots were boyled in of each two ounces let the 〈◊〉 and Wax be melted in the oyl then ad the pulp of Elicampane and Salt being finely poudered last of all ad the Quick silver killed labored much in a mortar with the Turpentine and a little Crease make them into an ointment according to art Also it ought to be prepared without Quicksilver A. My opinion of this oyntment is briefly this It was invented for the Itch without Quick silver it wil do no good with Quick-silver it may do harm Unguentum Diapompholigos nihili Nichol. Take of Oyl of Roses sixteen ounces Juyce of Nightshade six ounces let them boyl to the consumption of the juyce then ad white Wax five ounces Cerus washed two ounces Lead burnt and washed Pompholix prepared pure Frankinsence of each an ounce let them be brought into the form of an Ointment according to art A. It cools and binds dries and staies fluxes either of blood or humors in wounds and fils hollow ulcers with fiesh Unguentum Refrigerans Galenus It it also called a Cerecloath Take of white Wax four ounces Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound melt it in a double vessel then powr it out into another by degrees putting in cold water and often powring it out of one vessel into another stirring it till it be white last of all wash it in Rose water adding a little Rose water and Rose vineger A. It is a fine cooling thing for what denomination to give it I scarce know and exceeding good yea superexcellent to cure inflamations in wounds or tumors Unguentum de Minio Or Rubrum Camphoratum Take of oyl of Roses a pound and an ounce red Lead three ounces Litharge two ounces Ceruss an ounce and an half Tutty three drams Camphire 2. drams Wax in summer two ounces in winter one ounce make them into an oyntment in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestel the wax being first melted in the oyl over a gentle fire then the rest added in fine pouder A. This ointment is as drying as a man shall usually reade of one and withal cooling therefore good for sores and such as are troubled with defluxions I remember once Dr. Alexander Read applied it to my Mothers breast when she had a Cancer before it brake long time but to as much purpose as though he had applied a 〈◊〉 apple yet in the forgoing infirmities I beleeve it seldom fails Oyntment of Tobacco Joubertus Take of Tobacco leaves two pound fresh Hogs Grease dilligently washed one pound let the herb being bruised be infused a whol night in red Wine in the morning let it boil with a gentle fire to the consumption of the Wine strain it and ad to the Oyntment of the juyce of Tobacco clarified half a pound Rozin four ounces boil it to the consumption of the 〈◊〉 adding toward the end round 〈◊〉 roots in pouder two ounces new Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an Ointment A It would ask a whol Summers day to write the particular vertues of this Oyntment and my poor Genius is too weak to give it the hundreth part of its due praise It cures Tumours Aposthumes wounds ulcers Gun-shot botches scibs itch stinging with nettles bees wasps hornets venemous beasts wounds made with poisoned arrows c. Tush this is nothing paulo majora canamus It helps scaldings though made with oyl burnings though with lightening that without any scar It helps nasty rotten stinking putrified ulcers though in the legs whither the humours are most subject to resort in fistulaes though the bone be afflicted it shall scale it without any instrument and bring up the flesh from the very bottom Would you be fair your face being anointed with this soon will the redness pimples sunburning vanish a wound dressed with this will never putrifie a wound made with so small a weapon that no tent will follow anoint but with this and you need fear no danger If your head ake anoint your templss with this and you shal have ease The stomach being anointed with it no infirmity dares harbour there no not Asthmaes nor consumptions of the lungues The belly being anointed with it helps the chollick and Iliack passion the worms and what not it help the Hemorrhoids or piles and is the best Oyntment that is for gouts of all sorts finally there may be as universal a medicine made for all diseases of Tobacco as of any thing in the world the Phylosophers stone excepted O Joubertus thou shalt never want praise for inventing this medicine by those that use it so long as the Sun and the Moon endureth Unguentum 〈◊〉 or Crudum or of Litharge or Tripharmacum Mesue Take of Litharge of Gold beaten into very fine pouder half a pound Oyl of Roses a pound Vineger four ounces put in sometimes Oyl and sometimes Vineger stirring it about in a mortar so long till the Litharge have drunk up all the liquor and be made in the form of a whitish Oyntment A. It is of a cooling drying nature good for itching of wounds Itch and Scabs and such like deformities of the skin as Tetters Ringworms c. Unguentum Ophthalmicum Renodaeus Take of Bole Armenick washed in Rose water an ounce Lapis Calaminaris washed in Eyebright water Tutty prepared of each two drachms Pearls beaten into very fine pouder half a drachm Camphire half a scruple Opium fiue grains Oyntment of Roses fifteen ounces Oyl of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment according to art A. It is exceeding good to stop hot Rhewms that fall down into the eyes the eye-lids being but anointed with it Cuilielmus Placentinus his Liniment Simple Take of washed Cerus eight ounces white Wax seven ounces Litharge washed juyce of Nightshade of each five ounces Frankinsence in pouder ten drachms oyl of Roses often washed in common water two pound make of them a Liniment according to art A. It is cooling and also drying if you cast an eye to some of the former Oyntments of that nature you may see its use Oyntment of Lead Foesius Take of Lead burnt with Brimstone Litharge of each two ounces Ceruss Antimony of each one ounce Oyl of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment I et the Lead being filed to dust be burned in a pot with Brimstone Pomatum Take of the Suet of a Stag or else of a Kid two ounces the fat of a Sow a pound and an half Apples being cut and pared
by number eight let the fat 's being cleansed from their skins be washed in white Wine then put them into an earthen vessel glazed which is half full of Rose water let it boyl gently till almost all the water be consumed strain it into another earthen vessel sprinkled with Rose water and ad to it oyl of sweet Almonds six ounces white Wax four ounces melt it again by the fire and having strained it and washed it with Rose water keep it for your use A. I have seen many other receits to make Pomatum and all better than this which is very difficult if not impossible to be gotten in many places of this Nation but I have not that Latitude given me to quote any receits that are not in the Dispensatory only take notice that its general use is to soften and supple the roughness of the skin and take away the chops of the lips hands face or other parts Unguentum Potabile Foesius Take of fresh Butter whithout Salt a pound and in half Maddir Castorium Sperma Caeti Tormentil roots of each half an ounce let them boil in a sufficient quantity of Wine til the Wine be consumed and so made into an Oyntment An Oyntment against Scabs and Itch. Renodaeus Take of Sows grease often washed in juyce of Scabious half a pound the roots of sharp-pointed Dock boyled very soft in Vineger and pulped through a sieve Brimstone washed in the juyce of Lemmons of each an ounce and an half Vnguentum Populeon washed in juyce of Elicampane half an ounce mix them all together in a mortar unto an Oyntment according to art A. It is a wholsom though troublesom medicine for what the Title specifies Oyntment of Roses Mesue Take of Hogs grease well cleansed from the skins a pound wash it 9. times in warm water then as often in cold water fresh red Roses a pound mix them together and so let them stand seven daies then boil them over a gentle fire and strain out the Roses then mix with the Oyntment the like quantity of fresh red Roses and then let them stand together as many daies then strain them out having first boiled them at the last add juyce of red Roses six ounces boil them over a gentle fire till the juyce be consumed then strain it and make of it an Oyntment according to art A. You need do no more than let it stand till it is cold and you shall see it is an Oyntment alone without any further making A. It is of a fine cooling nature exceeding useful in all gaulings of the skin and frettings accompanied with chollerick humours angry pushes tetters ringworms it mitigates diseases in the head coming of heat as also the intemperate heat of the stomach and liver Unguentum Rubrum Desiccativum Nicholaus Take of oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound and an half white Wax five ounces melt them together and put them into a leaden mortar then put to them earth of Lemnos or else Bole Armenick Lapis Calaminaris exquisitely beaten into pouder of each four ounces Litharge of Gold Ceruss of each two ounces Camphire a drachm make them into an Oyntment according to art A. It binds and restrains fluxes of humours and is as gallant an oyntment to skin a sore as any is in the Dispensatory Common Oyntment of Tutty Take of Tutty prepared two ounces Lapis Calaminaris often heat red hot and as often quenched in Plantane water an ounce let them be beaten into very fine pouder and with Hogs grease often washed in Rose water a pound and an half let it be made into an Oyntment according to art Also you may prepare it with Oyntment of Roses instead of Hogs grease A. It is a cooling drying Oyntmet apropriated to the eyes to dry up hot and salt humours that flow down thither the eye lids being anointed with it OYNTMENTS MORE COMPOUND A Binding Oyntment Fernelius Take of Oyl of Roses often times washed in Allum water a pound and an half white Wax four ounces unripe Galls Cypress nuts Mirtle berries Balaustins Pomegranate pills Acorn cups Acacia Sumach Mastich of each an ounce let all of them being exactly beaten into pouder be steeped in the juyces of unripe Medlars and Services for four daies then dried by a gentle fire so with the oyl and wax let them be made into an Oyntment according to art A. Me thinks these are but wooden directions you had best as I suppose after they have been infused to boil the Oyl and Juyces till the Juyces be consumed then put in the Wax A. It bindeth and bringeth together the open parts of the body and compacteth the pores it stops fluxes staies issues of blood the falling out of the womb and fundament Unguentum Agrippe Nicholaus Take of Briony roots two pound wild Cucumer roots one pound Squills half a pound fresh Orris roots three ounces male Fearn roots dwarf Elder Water Caltrop or Aron of each 2. ounces let all of them being bruised be infused for six or eight daies in four pounds of sweet oyl then boyled over a gentle fire till the roots begin to be crisp then pressed out and in the Oyl melt fifteen ounces of white Wax and so bring it into the form of an Oyntment A. It purgeth exceedingly and is good to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies and if there be any humour of 〈◊〉 in any part of the body that you know not how to remove provided the part be not two tender you may anoint it with this Unguentum de Alabastro Ben. Vict. Favent Take of the juyce of Chamomel four ounces the juyce of red Roses two ounces the juyce of Rue and Bettony of each an ounce and an half the juyce of Marsh mallow roots two ounces Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound and an half pure Alablaster beaten into fine pouder three ounces infuse them all night then boyl them to the consumption of the juyce and with six ounces of white Wax make it an oyntment according to art Unguentum Apostolorum Avicenna Take of Turpentine Rozin white Wax 〈◊〉 of each fourteen drachms long Birthwort roots Olibanum Bdellium of each six drachms Mirrh Galbanum of each half an ounce Opopanax Vert-de-greece of each two drams Litharge nine drachms Oyl if in summer time two pound if in winter three pound Vineger so much as is sufficient to dissolve the Amoniacum Opopanax and Galbanum make it up into an oyntment according to art A. It consumes corrupt and dead flesh and makes flesh soft which is hard it cleanseth wounds ulcers fistulaes and restore flesh where it is wanting Unguentum Aregon Adjutorium Nicholaus Take of Rosemary Marjoram Mother of Time Rue Aron-roots the roots of wild Cucumers of each four ounces and an half the leaves of Bay Sage Savin the roots of Briony a Fleabane the greater and lesser or in defect of the lesser take the double quantity of the greater of each four ounces Laurel nine ouunces the
immoderate flowing of the terms and Hemorrhoids falling out of the fundament and womb finally for every occasion that requires binding I would if I were Eloquent commend it in the superlative degree Unguentum ad 〈◊〉 Norimberg Take of white starch Ceruss washed Litharge prepared Lead burnt Gum Traganth of each a drachm and an half Thebane Opium Camphire of each a scruple the white of one Egg oyl of Roses and Violets of each an ounce aud an half Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an oyntment A. It is apropriated to the Hemorrhoids as the title shews Unguentum Hemorrhoidale Saxoniae Take of mussilage of the seeds of Fleawort and Quinces drawn in the water of Nightshade of each an ounce oyl of Roses compleat an ounce the yolk of one Egg let them be stirred together in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestel adding a little melted Wax mix them together and make of them an oyntment according to art A. Its use is the same with the former Common oyntment of Baies Take of Bay leaves a pound Bay berries half a pound Cabbage leaves four 〈◊〉 Neats foot oyl five pound 〈◊〉 suet two pound the leaves and berries being bruised and boyled with the oyl and suet till their juyce be consumed let it be strained and kept A. It heats and expels wind it profitable for old aches and sprains but what good it should do in the itch for which simple people buy it I cannot imagin Unguentum Martiatum Nichol. Take of the leaves of Bay and Rosemary of each eight ounces Rue seven ounces Tamaris six 〈◊〉 the leaves of Dwarf-Elder Marjoram Savin Costmary or else Water-mints Sage Bazil Poley mountain Calaminth Mugwort Elicampane Bettony Brank-Ursine Goose grasse or Cleavers Anemone or Wind flower or for want of it Pellitory of the wall Burnet Agrimony Wormwood Cowslips garden Costus Elders Orphine the greater 〈◊〉 the greater and lesser Yarrow Germander Centaury the less Plantain Strawberries Tetrahit or for want of it Golden-rod Cvnkfoyl of each four ounces and an half the roots of 〈◊〉 the seeds of Cummin 〈◊〉 of each three ounces 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half the seeds of the greater Nettles of Violets red or errattick Poppies cōmonly called Corn-roses Garden Mints 〈◊〉 wild Mints Maiden-hair Carduus Benedictus Woodbind or Honey suckles Va lerian the greater sweet Cranebill or Muschata wood Sor rel Harts-tongue Ox-eye Southern wood Marrow of a Stag Styrax Calamitys of each half an ounce Butter ten drachms Bears and Hens 〈◊〉 Mastich Frankinsence of each one ounce Nard oyl two ounces Wax two pound let the herbs being green be cut and infused in eight pounds of oyl with wine for seven daies on the eighth day let them be boyled almost to the consumption of the wine then being removed from the fire let it be strained and the oyl put into the pan again to which being a little warmed 〈◊〉 the butter marrow fat nard oyl and wax then the styrax dissolved in wine and mixed with a little turpentine but let the Mastich Mirrh and Frankinsence being beaten into pouder be put in last of al and when they are all well mixed together keep the oyntment in a vessel A. This long recept of Nich Myrepsus is held to be profitaagainst cold afflictions of the brain nerves and joynts as shaking palsie dead palsie Convuliions c. it helps numbness of the joynts the gout and hard tumors of the spleen Mundificativum ex 〈◊〉 Take of the juyce of Smallage a pound Honey nine ounces Wheat flower three ounces boyl them over the fire to the thickness of an oyntment according to art A. It is a fine gentle cleansing oyntment Unguentum Neapolitanum Renodaeus Take of Sows grease washed with juyce of Sage one pound quicksilver strained through a cloath and well killed with falling spittle four ounces oyl of Bays Chamomel Earth-worm of each two ounces oyl of Spike an ounce and an half Aqua vitae an ounce yellow wax two ounces Turpentine washed in juyce of Elicampane three ounces pouder of Camaepitys and Sage of each two drachms make them into an oyntment according to art Unguentum Resinum Take of Per-rozin Turpentine yellow Wax pure Oyl of each equal parts mix them together A. It is as pretty a Careoloath for a new sprain as most is and cheap Unguentum Nervinum Take of the leaves and flowers of Cowslips Sage Camaepytis Rosemary Lavender Bay with the berries Chamomel Rue Smallage Melilot with the flowers Wormwood of each a handful Mints Bettony Penyroyal Parsly Centaury the less St. Johns wort of each half a handful Neats or sheeps foot Oyl five pound Sheep or Ox suet or else their marrow two pound Oyl of Spike half an ounce bruise the herbs and boyl them with the oyls and suet and make an oyntment of them according to art A. It is apropriated to the nerves and helps their infirmities coming of cold which you may find often enough related I do not love alwaies to harp upon the same string as also old bruises Unguentum Pactorale Nich. Take of fresh butter often washed in Violet water six ounces oyl of sweet Almonds four ounces oyl of Chamomel and Violets of each three ounces Goose and Ducks grease of each three ounces Orris roots two drachms Saflron half a dram white Wax three ounces let the Wax and fats be melted together in the oyl then often washed either in Barly or Hysop water add the Orris and Saffron being brought into fine pouder then bring them into an Oyntment according to art A. If you let the Butter boyl it will stink but the Colledge never thought of that having forgotten the old Grammer phraze 〈◊〉 est c. A. It strengthens the breast and stomach easeth the pains thereof helps pleuresies and consumptions of the lungues Unguentum Populneum Nich. Take of the buds of Poplar fresh gathered a pound and an half fresh Hogs grease three pound let the Poplar-buds be beaten and mixed with the grease till these following herbs can be gotten Take of the leaves of black Poppies and Mandrakes the tender branches of Maddir the leaves of Henbane Nightshade Lettice Sengreen the lesser and greater Violets Penywort or Kidneywort Burs of each three ounces let all of them being bruised be mixed with the grease and Poplar buds after ten daies put to them a pound of Rose water and boil them with a gentle fire till the water and all the liquor be consumed strain it and press it out and if need be boyl it again till it come to the consistence of an oyntment A. It is exceeding good in burnings scaldings and inflamations it aswageth the heat of the head and kidneyes the temple being anointed with it it provokes sleep Unguantum Resumptivum Nicholaus Take of fresh Hogs grease three ounces Hens Goose and Ducks grease of each two ounces Oesypus an ounce oyl of Violets Chamomel and Dill of each two ounces fresh Butter a pound
in the like manner A. I am of opinion that this art of preserving was first invented for Delicacy sake yet is it of great moment in physick for hereby such simples as before were loathed by the stomach are made delicious and pleasing also many simples are better kept by far this way A. For the Vertues of them see the simples CONSERVES AND SVGARS OF HERBS LEAVES FLOWERS AND FRUITS COnserves of Wormwood Sorrel Woodsorrel Maiden hair Orrenges Bettony Borrage Bugloss Carduus Benedictus Centaury Ceterach Germander Clove Gilliflowers Succory Scurvigrass Comfry the greater Cynosbatus Citraria Elicampane Eyebright Fumitory Brooms not quite open Pomegranates white Lillies Lillies of the valley Mallows Water lillies Peaches Primroses Self heal Roses Red and Damask Rosemary flowers Sage Elder Scabious Stoechas Linetree Coltsfoot Violets Goats rue Hedge Hysop common Hysop Marjoram Bawm Mints Rue Savory Scordium Comfry A. Thus have I given you the Colledges Conserves or rather their confusion in English wherein they have made such a chaos of hearbs and flowers that to unweave it would unweave the Rete mirabile of my brain the truth is I want time only take notice of the Catalogue of Simples and there you may see whether the herb or flower be most in use as also what the use of it is A word is enough to a wise man I proceed Let the leaves and flowers be beaten very small and to every pound of them add three pound of white Sugar and beat them well together into a conserve But Barberries Prunella and other sour fruits are not made into conserves after this manner for example Take of Barberries as many as you will let them boil so long in a sufficient quantity of cleer water till the pulp may be drawn out by rubbing it through a sieve Then take six pounds of this same pulp thus strained which put in an earthen pan well glazed because if you do it in brass it will retain an illfavoured smatch of the mettal boil away the watry moisture of them with a gentle fire stirring it about continually with a stick lest the juyce burn then mix it with ten pound of white Sugar according to art boiling it to its due consistence A. Prunella indeed and in truth is Self-heal not Sloes as I am confident they intend it here because they place it among the sour juyces I was jealous they intended it so before therefore when I translated it self-heal I set the word Prunella in the margin Is it possible so many grave heads should so grosly mistake an herb for the fruit of a tree Prunella for Prunellus The Printer hath vindicated himself from so foul an Errour in the Latter end of their Dispensatory it remains in the Colledge to do the like it being a thing if not very preposterous I am sure extreamly dangerous to prescribe one thing for another in Physick If they can but produce an Author An Author though from Utopia where ever Prunella was taken for a Sloe or Sloe-tree I shall be content to bear the blame my self A. The vertues of al Conserves are the same with the herbs flowers or fruits whereof they are made and they are thus mixed with Sugar 1. to preserve them the longer 2. that they may be more pleasing to the pallat Lozenges of Poppies called Diacodium Solidum or Tabulatum Take twenty white Poppy heads of a mean bigness neiâ—â—â—â— too green nor too ripe spring-spring-water three pints infuse them four and twenty hours then boyl them till the vertue is out of the heads then strain them out and with a sufficient quantity of Sugar boyl the liquor to that hardnesse that you may make Lozinges of it A. This recept is transcribed verbatim from the Augustan Physitians though the Colledge through forgetfulness or something else hide it the vertues are the same with the common Diacodium viz. to provoke sleep and help thin rewms in the head c. Manus Christi Simple and Pearled Take of the best Sugar a pound Damask-rose-water half a pint boil them together according to art to that thicknesse that it may be made into Lozenges and if toward the latter end of the decoctiom you ad half an ounce of Pearls prepared in pouder together with eight or ten leaves of gold it will be Manus Christi with pearls A. It is naturally cooling apropriated to the heart it restores lost strength takes away burning feavers and false imaginations I mean that with pearls for that without Pearls is ridiculous it hath the same vertues Pearls have Manus Christi against Worms Take of Rhubarb four scruples Agrick Trochiscated Corallina burnt Hartshorn Dittany of Creet Wormseed Sorrelseed of each a scruple Cinnamon Zedoary Cloves Saffron of each half a Scruple white Sugar a pound dissolve the Sugar in four ounces of Wormwood water and one ounce of Wormwood Wine and one spoonful of Cinnamon Water and then with the forenamed pouders make it into Lozenges A. The title shews you the vertues of it for my part I think in penning of it they made a long Harvest of a little Corn. Penidies Are made of Sugar and Barly water boiled in such a proportion and with such an art that it will not stick to ones fingers and yet one may draw it like birdlime into what form one will A. I remember country people were wont to take them for coughs and they are sometimes used in other compositions Confection of Frankinsence Norimberg Take of Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce Nutmegs white Frankinsence of each three drachms Liquoris Mastich of each two drachms Cubebs Hartshorn prepared of each one drachm Conserves of red Roses an ounce with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar make it into a Confection in bits of two drachms weight A. I cannot boast much neither of the rariety nor vertues of this receit Sugar of Roses Take of red Rose flowers not fully open an ounce cut off the white from them then dry them in the shaddow afterwards beat them in a stone mortar and with twelve ounces of the best Sugar dissolved in red Rose water boyl it according to art till the water be consumed then put the mass out upon a marble stone and make it into what form you please there be some that whilst it is boiling ad to it four ounces of Conserve of red Roses dilligently mixing them together by which means the Sugar will be both of the better colour and the pleasanter tast A. I am verily perswaded that the Colledge appoint this to be beaten in a stone mortar for fear a brass mortar should take away the colour of the Roses which is but the Embrion of an ignorant brain it is the boiling of it takes away the colour and nothing else if you do but boil the rose water and Sugar to a sufficient height before you put in the Roses in pouder the Sugar will be of colour good enough never fear it without the addition
of conserves to it A. As for the vertues of this it strengthens weak stomachs weak hearts and weak brains restores such as are in consumptions restores lost strength staies fluxes easeth pains in the head ears eyes helps spitting vomiting pissing of blood After the same manner is made Sugar of Violets Bugloss Maiden hair Succory Orris Florentine Elicampane roots Comfry and other things SPECIES OR POVDERS A. GIve me leave to premise three or four things before come to the matter A. 1. Pouders are called by the Arabians Suffuf and Alkool 't is strange the Colledg inserted not these two strange names to puzzle the brains of the unlearned and make them beleeve wonders A. 2. I know not well what English name to give the word Species only thus the ancients used the word for such Pouders as were ready prepared for an Electuary but not yet mixed with any liquid substance but they called those Pouders which were alwaies kept dry for use A. 3. I would desire such as intend to take the pains themselves to make these pouders that they would make great hast in beating them lest the strength fly away in vapour through long keeping them in the air A. 4. That they would sift them through a very fine tiffany left the pouder be too gross and so part of its operation lost A. 5. That they would in keeping of them stop them very close in a glass with a narrow mouth lest the strength fly out in vapours after it is beaten Aromaticum Caryophyllatum Mesue Take of Cloves seven drachms Mace Zedoary Galanga the lesser yellow Sanders troches Diarhodon Cinnamon wood of Aloes Indian Spicknard long pepper Cardamoms of each a drachm red Roses four drachms Gallia moschata Liquoris of each two drachms Indian leaf Cubebs of each two scruples Ambergreece a drachm Musk half a scruple white Sugar as much as is sufficient make a pouder of them all being dilligently beaten and with as much syrup of Citrons as is sufficient you may make it into an Electuary A. It would make a horse break his halter to hear some of their recepts a boy of seven years old deserves to be whipped if he should transcribe a recept so scurvily as the Colledge hath done this I would fain know of them if they can tell me how much this sufficient quantity of Sugar is or of what use any'at all is amongst the pouder the truth is Mesue appoints the Sugar to help make it up into an Electtuary and they go and place it amongst the pouder whether there be an Electuary made of it or not A. Again seeing they vapour that they have taken so much pains in compiling the book the greatest part of which was in print above a hundred years before they were born they might I say have taken the pains to have explained Mesue his meaning viz. what syrup must be used whether syrup of the juyce of Citrons or of Citron pills but I shall let that pass as a matter either of ignorance or carlesness in them out of question it is syrup of Citron pills that Mesue here intended A. This pouder strengthens the heart and stomach helps digestion expelleth wind staies vomiting and cleanseth the stomach of putrified humours Aromaticum Rosatum Gabriel Take of Red-Roses fifteen drachms Liquoris seven drams wood of Aloes yellow Sanders of each three drachms Cinnamon five drachms Cloves Mace of each two drachms and an half Gum Arabick and Traganth of each two drachms and two scruples Nutmegs Cardamoms the lesser Galanga of each one drachm Indian Spicknard Amber-greece of each two scruples Musk one scruple beat them all into pouder according to art and keep the pouder for your use in a glasse or stone pot glazed By reason of the ill tast of the Spicknard you may prepare the pouder without it and so may you any other Cordiall pouder in which Spicknard is A. It strengthens the brain heart and stomach and all such internal members as help towards concoction it helps digestion consumes the watry excrements of the bowels strengthens such as are pin'd away by reason of the violence of a disease and restores such as are in a consumption The lesser Cordial Pouder Fernelius Take of Harts horn Unicorns-horn Pearls Ivory of each six grains beat them into fine pouder if you mean to keep it you may encrease the quantity analogically The greater Cordial Pouder Fernelius Take of the roots of Tormentil Dittany Clove gilliflowers Scabious the seeds of Sorrel Coriander prepared Citron Carduus Benedictus Endive Rue of each one dram of the three sorts of Sanders Been white and red or if you cannot get them take the roots of Avens and Tormentil in their heads Roman Doronicum Cinnamon Cardamoms Saffron The flowers of both sorts of Bugloss Red-Roses and Water Lillies wood of Aloes Mace of each two scruples Ivory Spodium Bone of a Stags heart red Corral Pearls Emerald 〈◊〉 Cranate of each one scruple Raw Silk torrefied Bole-Armenick Earth of Lemnos of each half a drachm Camphire Amber greece Musk of each six grains beat them into pouder according to art and with eight times their weight in white sugar disolved in Rose water you may make them into Lozinges if you please A. Both this and the former pouder are apropriated to the heart as the titles shew therefore do they strengthen that and the vital spirit and relieve languishing nature A Pouder for such as are bruised by a Fall The Augustan Physitians Take of Terra sigillata Sanguis Draconis Mummy of each two drachms Sperma Ceti one drachm Rhubarb half a drachm beat them into pouder according to art A. You must beat the rest into pouder and then add the Sperma Ceti to them afterwards for if you put the Sperma Coci and the rest altogether and go to beat them in that fashion you may as soone beat the morter into pouder as the Simples Indeed your best way is to beat them severally and then mix them altogether which being done makes you a gallant medicine for the infirmity specified in the title a drachm of it being taken in Muskadel and 〈◊〉 after it Species cordiales Temperatae Take of wood of Aloes and Spodium of each a drachm Cinnamon Cloves bone of a Stags heart Angelica roots both sorts of Been or in their stead the roots of Avens and Tormentill of each a drachm and an half Pearls prepared six drachms raw silk torrefied both sorts of Corral of each two drachms Jacinth Emerald Saphir of each half a drachm Saffron a scruple Ambergreece Musk of each half a drachm leaves of Gold and Silver of each ten make a pouder of these according to art A. The recept is questionlesse a great cordial a great strengthener both of the heart and brain Diacalaminthes Simplex Gallen Take of Calaminth of the mountains Penyroyal Origanum The seeds of Macedonian Parsly common Smallage Seseli of each two drachms the
make an Electuary of them with a sufficient quantity of syrup of violets but have a care of what was told you before Of the cold seeds quoth the Colledge A. If you please to put in the cold seeds which the Reverend Colledge appoints to be left out till the pouder come to be used and then 't is impossible to put them in as I shewed before pag. 156. and so make it up into an Electuary then I can tell you the vertues are It helps the faults of the breast and lungues coming of heat and driness it helps consumptions leaness inflamations of the recept pleuresies c. hot and dry coughs roughness of the tongue and jaws but how to make ought of the recept as the Colledge have ordered it belongs to another Oedipus and not to me Species Electuarij Diatrion Piperion Galeni Take of the three sorts of Pepper of each six drachms and fifteen grains Annis seeds Time Ginger of each one drachm beat them into pouder and with Sugar dissolved in Rose-mary-flower-water or Honey as the case shall require it may be made into an Electuary A. It heats the stomach and expels wind Species Electuarii Diatrionsantalon Nicholaus Take of the three sorts of Sanders red Roses Sugar Candy of each three drachms Rhubarb Spodium juyce of Liquoris Purslain seeds of each two drachms and fifteen grains white Starch Gum Arabick and Traganth the seeds of Melones Cucumers Citruls Gourds Endive of each a drachm and an half Camphire a scruple beat them all into pouder and with eight times their weight in Sugar dissolved in Rose water you may make it into an Electuary A. It is very profitable against the heat of the stomach and liver besides it wonderfully helps such as have the yellow Jaundice and consumptions of the lungues Pulvis Haly Take of white Poppy seeds ten drachms Gum Arabick white Starch Traganth of each three drachms the seeds of Purslain marsh Mallows Mallows of each five drachms the seeds of Cucumers Melons Guords Citruls Quinces of each seven drachms Spodium Liquoris of each three drachms Penidies the weight of them all beat them into a pouder A. It is a gallant cool pouder fit for all hot imperfections of the breast and lungues as consumptions pleurefies c. Laetificans ascribed to Gallen Take of the flowers of Clove Bazil or else the seeds thereof Saffron Zedoary wood of Aloes Cloves Citron pills Galanga Mace Nutmegs Styrax Calamitis of each two drachms and an half shavings of Ivory Annis seeds Time Epithimum of each one dram bone of a Stags heart Pearls Camphire Amber greece Musk of each half a drachm leaves of Gold and Silver of each half a scruple beat them into pouder according to art so steep them dilligently for your use A. It causeth a merry heart a good colour helps digestion and keeps back old age Species confectionis Liberantis Take of the roots of Tormentil the seeds of Sorrel Endive Coriander prepared Citrons of each a drachm and an half the three sorts of Sanders white Dictamni of each one dram Bole Armenick Terra Lemnia of each three drachms Pearls both sorts of Corral white Amber Ivory Spodium bone of a Stags heart both sorts of Been or in heiu of them the roots of Avens and Tormentil Angelica roots Cardamoms Cinnamon Mace wood of Aloes Cassia lignea Saffron Zedoaary of each half a drachm Penidies Sugar Candy raw silk torrified Emeralds Jacinth Granate of each two scruples the flowers of water Lillies Bugloss and red Roses of each a scruple Camphire seven grains Musk and Amber greece of of each three grains beat them into pouder according to art A. It is exceeding good in pestilential feavers and preserveth from ill airs and keepeth the humours in the body from corruption it cools the heart and blood and strengtheneth such as are oppressed by heat to conclude it is a gallant cool cordial though costly Lithontribon Nicholaus according to Fernelius Take of Spicknard Ginger Cinnamon black Pepper Cardamoms Cloves Mace of each halfa drachm Costus Liquoris Cyperus Traganth Germander of each two scruples the seeds of Bishops weed Smallage Sparagus Bazil Netles Citrons Saxifrage Burnet Caraway Carrots Fennel Bruscus Parsly of Macedonia Burrs Seseli Asarabacca of each one drachm Lapis spongiae Lyncis Cancri Judaici of each a drachm and an half Goats blood prepared an ounce and an half beat them all into pouder according to art A. The truth is the Colledg have altered this recept much and I am perswaded have made it much better Neque enim benfact a maligne detract are meum est A. It heats the stomack and helps want of digestion comming through cold it easeth pain in the belly and loynes the Iliack passion powerfully breaks the stone in the reins and bladder it speedily helps the chollick strangury and dysury Pulvis Saxonicus Take of the roots of both sorts of Angelica Swallow-wort Garden Valerian Polipodium of the Oak the roots of marsh Mallows Nettles of each half an ounce the bark of German Mezereon two drachms the berries of herb True-love or One-berry by number twenty four The flowers of the same branch and all by number thirty six steep the roots in Vineger then dry them beat them all into pouder A. It seems to be as great an expeller of poyson and as great a preservative against it and the pestilance as one shall usually read of A Pouder against the bitings of Mad-dogs Take of the leaves of Vervain Rue Sage Plantan Polipodium Common Wormwood Mints Mugwort Bawm Bettony St Johns wort Centaury of each equal parts let all these be gathered at what time they are in their greatest strength which is usually about the ful Moon in June then let them be dryed severally in brown papers in such a place where neither sun nor rain comes and when you have dryed them then keep them for the use above said but upon this condition that you renew them every year When you have need to use them beat an equal weight of them into pouder A. A Drachm of this pouder is sufficient to take every morning Pleres Arconticon Nicholaus Take of Cinnamon Cloves Galanga wood of Aloes Indian Spicknard Nutmegs Ginger Spodium Schoenanthus Cyperus Roses Violets of each one drachm Indian-leafe or Mace Liquoris Mastich Styrax Calamitis Marjoram Costmary or water Mints Bazil Cardamoms long and white Pepper Mirtle berries and Citron pills of each half a Drachm and six grains Pearls Been white and red or if they be wanting take the roots of Avens and Tormentill in their steads red Corral torrified silk of each eighteen grains Musk six grains Camphire four grains beat them into pouder according to art and with ten times their weight of Sugar dissolved in Bawm water you may make them into an Electuary A. It is exceeding good for sad melancholly lumpish pensive greiving vexing pining sighing sobbing fearful careful spirits it
Oak of each five drachms Maidenhair Time Epithimum of each half a handful Raisons of the Sun stoned half an ounce Fennel seeds two drachms the seeds of Purslain and Mallows of each three drachms Liquoquoris half an ounce boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water strain it and in the decoction dissolve pulp of Cassia two pounds Tamarinds one ounce Cinnamon three drams of the best Sugar a pound boyl them to a perfection according to art Cassia Extracted with the leaves of Senna Take of the Electuary of Cassia extracted without the leaves of Senna two pound the leaves of Senna in pouder two ounces mix them together according to art A. This is also a fine cool purge gentle cleansing the bowels of choller and melancholly without any griping very fit for feaverish bodies and yet the former is gentler than this Diacarthamum or Diacnicum Arnoldus de villâ novâ Take of Species diatragacanthi frigidi half an ounce pulp of preserved Quinces an ounce pulp of seeds of Carthamus or bastard Saffron half an ounce Ginger two drachms Diagrydium beaten by it self three drachms white Turbith six drachms Manna two ounces Honey Roses solutive Sugar Candy of each one ounce Hermodactils half an ounce white Sugar ten ounces and an half make of them a Liquid Electuary according to art A. I wonder what art it must be wherewith a man should make up an Electuary and have not wherewithal I tell you truly that to make up an Electuary of this without more moisture for here is not a quarter enough is a task harder than all Hercules his twelve labours abate me but his fetching Cerberus out of Hell or it may be they intend you should go back to Species Electuarii Diagalangae to fetch Honey from thence where they have appointed three times more than needs for my part I shall trouble the reader no further but leave the recept to Arnoldus and the Colledg for a pure piece of nonsence Diaphoenicon Mesue together with Feruelius Take of the pulp of Dates boyled in Hydronel and strained through a pulping Sive Penidies of each half a pound sweet Almonds blanched three ounces and an half let all of them be bruised and mixed then ad clarified Honey 2. pound boile them a little then sprinkle in Ginger Pepper Mace Cinnamon dryed Rue the seeds of Fennel and Carrots of each two drachms Turbith four ounces in fine pouder Diagrydium an ounce and an half make of them an Electuary according to art A. I cannot beleeve this is so profitable in feavers taken downwards as Authours say for it is a very violent purge Indeed I beleeve being mixed in Clysters it may do good in chollicks and infirmities of the bowels coming of Raw humours Diaprunum Simple more rightly called Lenitive Nicholaus Take a hundred Damask Prunes fresh and ripe boil them in a sufficient quantity of water till they be soft then draw the pulp of them through a Sive and in the liquor they were boiled in boil an ounce of Violet flowers strain it and in the Decoction dissolve two pound of Sugar and boyl it into a syrup then add of the pulp spoken of before a pound pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds of each an ounce then put in these following pouders of white and red Sanders Spodium Rhubarb of each three drachms Roses Violets the seeds of Purslain endive Barberries Gum Traganth Liquoris Cinnamon of each two drachms of the four greater cold seeds of each one drachm make them into an Electuary according to art A. It may safely and is with good successe given in acute burning and all other feavers for it cools much and loosens the body gently it is good in agues hectick feavers and Marasmos Diaprunum Solutive Nicholaus Take of Diaprunum lenitive whilst it is yet warm four pound Scammony prepared two ounces and five drachms mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art Seeing the Dose of the Scammony is encreased according to the Author in this medicine you may use a lesse weight of Scammony if you please A. And therein the Colledge said true for the medicine according to this recept is too strong violent corroding gnawing fretting and yet this is that which is commonly called Duaprunes which simple people take to give themselves a purge being fitter to do them mischeif poor souls than good unless ordered with more discretion than they have it may be they build upon the vulgar proverb that no carrion will kill a Crow Diacatbolicon Nicholaus Take of the pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds the leaves of Senna of each two ounces Polypodium Violets Rhubarb Annis Seeds Penidies Sugar Candy of each one ounce Liquoris the seeds of Guords Citruls Cucumers Melons of each three drachms Let the things to be beaten be beaten and take of fresh Polipodium three ounces Fennel seed six drams boyl them in four pints of rain or spring water to the consumption of the third part strain it and ad to the decoction two pound of the best Sugar boil it again with the pulps of Cassia and Tamarinds and the pouders being added in theend make it into an Electuary according to art A. It is a fine cooling purge for any part of the body and very gentle it may be given an ounce or half an ounce at a time according to the strength of the patient in acute in peracute diseases for it gently looseneth the belly and adds strength it helps infirmities of the liver and spleen gouts of all sorts quotidian tertian and quartan agues as also head-aches It is usually given in Clysters Diacrocuma or Species Electuarii de Croce Mesue Take of Saffron the roots of Asarabacca the seeds of Parsly Carrots Annis Smallage of each half an ounce Rhubarb the roots of Spignel Indian Spicknard of each six drachms Cassia lignea Costus Mirrh Schoenanth Cubebs the roots of Maddir the juyce of Wormwood and Maudlin made thick Opobalsamum or oyl of Nutmegs of each two drachms Cinnamon Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm and an half Scordium Stoechas juyce of Liquoris of each two drachms and an half Traganth one drachm make it up into an Electuary with eight times their weight in Sugar dissolved in Endive water and clarified according to art A. Mesue appoints clarified Honey it is exceeding good against cold diseases of the stomach liver or spleen corruption of humours and putrifaction of meat in the stomach ill favored colour of the body dropsies cold faults in the reins and bladder provokes urine Electuarium de Citro Solutive Take of preserved Citron pills conserves of Violets and Bugloss Diatragacanthum frigidum Diagridium of each half an ounce Turbith five drachms Ginger half a drachm the the leaves of Senna six drachms sweet Fennel seeds a drachm white Sugar dissolved in Rose water and boiled according to art ten ounces make them all into a sollid Electuary according to art A. Here are some things very cordial
bowels they help the Chollick and fluxes of blood as also bleeding at the nose if you snuff but up the pouder of them disburden the body of salt fretting chollerick humours Troches of Bases Mesue Take of red Roses half an ounce wood of Aloes two drachms Mastich a drachm and an half Roman Wormwood Cinnamon Indian Spicknard Cassia lignea Schoenanth of each one dram old Wine and decoction of the five opening roots so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art A. They help pains in the stomach and ill digestion the Iliack passion Hectick feavers and dropfies in the beginning and cause a good colour Troches of Squils Galen Take a Squill gathered about the beginning of July of a mean bigness white and full the outward pill and that hard part to which the little roots stick being taken away wrap it up in past and roast it in an oven till the past be dry and Squill tender which you may know by searching it with a scuer or bodkin then take it out and beat it in a mortar and mix with it of the pouder of white Orobus or instead thereof red Cicers eight ounces to each pound of Squills make it into Troches of the weight of two drachms a piece dry them in the upper part of the house looking towards the south often turning of them till they be dry keep them in a peuter or glass vessel not in lead Troches of Spodium Mesue Take of red Roses twelve drachms Spodium ten drachms Sorrel seeds six drachms Purslain seeds Coriander seeds prepared pulp of Sumach of each two drachms and an half white Starch Balaustines Barberries of each two drachms Gum Arabick torrefied a drachm and an half with juyce of Grapes make them into Troches A. They are of a fine cooling binding nature excellent in feavers coming of Choller especially if they be accompanied with a loosness they also quench thirst Troches of Sanders Mesue Take of the three sorts of Sanders of each an ounce the seeds of Cucumers Gourds Citruls Purssain Spodium of each half an ounce Roses seven drachms Juyce of Barberries fix drachms Bole Armenick four drachms Camphire one drachm with Purslain water make it into Troches A. The vertues are the same with the former Troches of Vipers Andromacus out of Galen Take of the flesh of Vipers the skin bowels and fat head and tail being taken away boyled with Dill and a little salt eight ounces the crumbs of pure white bread two ounces make them into Troches with the broath in which the Vipers were boyled if you need liquor and anoint them with Opobalsamum or oyl of 〈◊〉 by expression and dried in the shaddow in an open place fifteen daies or something longer often turning them till they be well dried then lay them up in a glass or stone vessel glazed so may they be kept close stopped a whol yeer yet it is better to make Treacle so soon as you have them They which will keep them longer let them wipe off the dust which usually sticks to them which in time will eat them through and through so may you keep them three yeers Trochisci Viticis sive Agni Casti. Renodaeus Take of the seeds of Agnus Castus Roses Lettice Balaustins of each a drachm Ivory Amber of each a drachm and an half Bole Arminick washed in the water of 〈◊〉 grasse two drachms Plantan seed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sassafras two scruples with Mussilage of Quince seeds made with the water of water Lilly flowers make them into Troches according to art Trochisci albi Rhasis Take of Ceruss washed in Rose water ten drachms Sarcocolla three drachms white Starch two drachms 〈◊〉 Arabick and 〈◊〉 of each one drachm Camphire Opium of each half a drachm let them be made up into Troches with milk according to art Also if you please you may make them up without Opium A. They are cool without Opium but cooler with it as also very drying and are used in injections in Ulcers in the yard and the running of the reins c. Troches of Winter-Cherries Mesue Take of the berries of Winter-Cherries three drachms the seeds of Melons Cucumers Citruls Gourds of each three drachm and an half Gum Arabick Traganth Olibanum Dragons blood Pine nuts bitter Almonds white Poppy seeds white Starch juyce of Liquoris Bole Armenick of each six drams the seeds of Smallage and Henbane Amber Earth of Lemnos Opium of each two drams with juyce of the berries of fresh winter Cherries or else with their decoction make them up into Troches according to art Also you may prepare them without Opium A. They potently provoke urine and break the stone Trochisci de Carabe Mesue Take of Amber six drams burnt Hartshorn Gum Arabick torrefied red Correl burnt Gum traganth Acacia Hypoci stis 〈◊〉 Mastich Gum Lacca washed black Poppy seeds torrefied of each two drams Frankinsence Saffron Opium of each one dram and an half Missilage of the seeds of Flea-wort so much as is sufficient to make it up into Troches A. They were invented to stop fluxes of blood in any part of the body the terms in women the 〈◊〉 or piles they also help ulcers in the breast and lungues Trochisci Diacorrallion Galen Take of Bole Armenick red Corral of each an ounce Balaustins terra Lemnia white Starch of each half an ounce Hypocystis the seeds of Henbane Opium of each two drachms juyce of Plantane so much as is sufficient to make them into troches according to art A. These also stop blood help the bloody flux stop the terms and are a great help to such whose stomach loaths their victuals Trochisci Diaspermaton Galeni Take of the seeds of Smallage and Bishops weed of each an ounce Annis and Fennel seeds of each half an ounce Opium Cassia lignea of each two drams with rain-water make it into troches according to art A. These also bind ease pain help the pleuresie Haemoptoici pastilli Galen Take of white Starch Balaustins earth of Samos juyce of Hypocistis Gum Saffron Opium of each two drams with 〈◊〉 of Plantane make them into troches according to art A. The operation of this is like the former Sief de Plumbo Mesue Take of Lead burnt and washed Brasse burnt Antimony Tutty washed Gum Arabick Traganth of each an ounce Opium half a dram with a sufficient quantity of rain-water make them up into troches A. It fills up and cures ulcers in the eyes Trochisci de Succino Galen Take of Illirick Orris Amber Mastich Saffron of each two drachms Opium five drachms with mussilage made of the seeds of Fleawort make it into Troches according to art A. They cool bind and strengthen the stomach and provoke sleep Sief of Frankinsence Rhasis Take of Lapis 〈◊〉 Pompholix Frankin sence of each ten drachms Ceruss fourty drachms Gum Arabick Opium of each six drachms rain water so much as is sufficient to make it into balls according to art A. Sief is a general term
rest being mixed in a hot mortar let them be made into a Plaister according to art If you would have it stronger add of the pouders of Euphorbium Pellitory of Spain and black Pepper of each two scruples A. It is proper to strengthen the brain and repell such vapours as anoy it and those pouders being added it dries up the superfluous moisture thereof and easeth the eyes of hot scalding vapours that anoy them Emplastrum Ceroma or Ceroneum Nich. Alex. Take of pitch scraped from a Ship that hath been a long time at Sea yellow Wax of each seven drachms Sagapenum six drachms Ammoniacum Turpentine Colophonia Saffron of each four drachms Aloes Olibanum Mirrh of each three drachms Styrax Calamitis Mastich Opopanax Galbanum Allum the seeds of Faenugreek of each two drachms the settlings or feces of Liquid Styrax Bdellium of each one drachm Litharge half a drachm A. It is of a gentle emollient nature prevails against stoppings of the stomach coming of cold hardness of the spleen coldness of the liver and matrix A Plaister of Hemlock with Ammoniacum Take of Hemlock four handfuls Ammoniacum half a pound infuse them in sharp Vineger eight daies then boyl them till the Ammoniacum be dissolved then strain out the liquor strongly afterwards let it boyl awhile then with Wax and Oyl of sweet Almonds make it into a Plaister according to art A. I suppose it was invented to mitigate the extream pains and allay the inflamations of wounds for which it is very good Emplasirum de Crusta Panis Take of Mastich Mints Spodium red Corral all the three sorts of Sanders of each one drachm a Crust of bread to asted and infused in Rose Vineger for half an hour two ounces oyl of Mastich and Quinces of each an ounce Wax two ounces Liquid styrax Ladanum of each three drachms Barly meal so much as is sufficient to make it into an Emplaster according to art A. I shall commend this for as gallant a plaister to strengthen the brain as any is in the Dispensatory the hair being shaved off and it applied to the crown also being applied to the stomach it strengthens it helps digestion staies vomiting and putrifaction of the meat there Montagnana was the Authour of it not the Colledge Emplastrum de 〈◊〉 Take of Cummin seeds Bayberries of each a pound Per-Rozin two pound common Rozin three pound oyl of Dill half a pound Wax a pound make a plaister of them according to art A. I am of opinion here is not half oyl enough to make it into a plaister they that make of it know better than I I judge but by reason they know by experience A. It asswageth swellings takes away old aches coming of bruises and applyed to the belly is an excellent remedy for the wind chollick Diachylon simplex Mesue Take of Mussilage of Foenugreek seed Linseed and Mirshmallow roots of each a pound old Oyl three pound Litharge one pound and an half let the Litharge be ground very 〈◊〉 and boyled with the oyl over a gentle fire alwaies stirring it till it be well mixed then being removed from the fire let it cool a little afterwards put in the Mussilages mix them and boyl them to their just thickness according to art A. It is an exceeding good remedy for all swellings without pain it softens hardness of the liver and spleen it is very gentle like the Author of it Mesue and very moderate and harmless and it may be therefore neglected by the Phantastical Chyrurgians of our age Diachilon Ireatum Ad an ounce of pouder of Orris to every pound of Diachylon simplex Diachylon magnum Mesue Take of 〈◊〉 of Gold very finely ground one pound Oyl of Orris 〈◊〉 and Chamomel of each eight ounces mussilage of 〈◊〉 roots Linseeds and Foenugreek seeds 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fat figs 〈◊〉 grass the juyce of Orris and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or oyl of sheeps feet of each twelve drams and an half 〈◊〉 three ounces Per-rozen yellow Wax of each two onces make them into a plaister according to art A. It dissolves hardnesse and inflamations Diachylon magnum cum gummi Renodaeus Take of Bdellium Sagapenum Ammoniacum of each an ounce being dissolved in white Wine let them be added to the mass of Diachylon magnun being first strained and boyled to the thickness of Honey so will it be Diachylon with gams A. This is the best to dissolve hard swellings of all the three Diachylon Compound or a Plaister of Mussilages Mesue Take of Mussilages of Marshmallow rooes Linseeds Foenugreek seeds the middle barks of Elm of each four ounces and an half oyl of Chamomel Lillies and Dill of each one ounce and an half Ammoniacnm Galbanum Opopanax Sagapenum of each half an ounce new Wax twenty ounces Turpentine two ounces Saffron 2. drachms let the gums be dissolved in Wine make of them a plaister according to art A. It ripens swellings and breaks them and cleanseth them when they are broken Diapalma or Diachalciteas Gallen Take of old Hogs-grease cleansed from the skin 2. pound old Oyl Litharge of silver ground very small of each three pound 〈◊〉 burnt or else white 〈◊〉 iol burnt and beaten into pouder 4. ounces It is made in this manner first let the Litharpe boyl with the oyl grease along time continually sttirring it w th the branch of a Palm or other tree of a binding nature as Oak Box or Medler which is new cut that so the vertue of the Spatula may be mixed with the plaister cutting off the top and the rind even to the wood it self the mixture 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made thick by boyling and stirring and removed from the fire put in white Copperis for want of true 〈◊〉 in pouder and so make it into a laudable mass for an 〈◊〉 A. It is a very drying binding plaister profitable in green wounds to hinder putrifaction as also in pestilential sores after they are broken and ruptures as also in burnings scaldings Emplastrum Diaphoenicon Calidum Mesue Take of Wax two ounces oyl of Roses and Spicknard of each four ounces melt them together then take of dry dates by number fourty white bread an ounce steep them in Wine two daies then take of the pulp of Quinces boyled in red Wine an ounce bruise it and mix it with the former then ad these things that follow beaten into fine pouder take of Mastich Frankinsence Roman Wormwood of each two drams and an half wood of Aloes Mace Mirrh Aloes washed Spicknard Acacia Gallia Moschata Trochisci Ramich Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm Ladanum two drachms mix them together and make them into a plaister according to art A. It strengthens the stomach and liver exceedingly helps fluxes Diaphoenicon Frigidum Mesue Take of ripe Dates boyled in austere Wine five ounces white Bread an ounce the flesh of Quinces boyled in Austere Wine an ounce and an half Styrax Calamitis Mastick Ladanum Acacia the juyce of sour Grapes the flowers of a Vine
that bears sour Grapes red Roses Yellow Sanders Trochisci Ramich Mirrh Wood of Aloes of each half an ounce Wax four ounces Turpentine washed with Rose water an ounce and an half oyl of Roses ten ounces Austere Wine so much as is sufficient make it into a plaister according to art It strengthens the belly and liver helps concoction in those parts and distribution of humours staies vomiting fluxes Emplastrum Divinum Nich. Take of Loadstone four ounces Ammoniacum three ounces and three drachms Bdellium two ounces Galbanum 〈◊〉 of each ten drachms Olibanum nine drachms Opopanax Mastich long Birthwort Vert-de-greece of each an ounce Litharge a pound and an half common Oyl a pound and an half new Wax eight ounces mix them according to art first let the Litharge be stirred with the Oyl a long time then boiled to a thickness then let the Wax be added that being melted let it be taken from the fire and put in the Gums dissolved either in Wine or Vineger boyled and strained then the pouder of the Mastich Mirrh Frankinsence Birthwort and Loadstone last of all the Vert-de-greece lest that being too much boyled make the plaister black thus make it into a Plaister according to art A. It is of a cleansing nature exceeding good against malignant ulcers it consumes corruption engenders new flesh and brings them to a scar. Emplastrum de gummi Elemni Take of Gum Elemni three ounces Per-Rozin pure Wax Ammoniacum of each two ounces Turpentine three ounces and an half Malaga Wine so much as is sufficient boyl the rest to the consumption of the Wine then ad the Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger A. The operation is the same with Linimentum Arceus before mentioned Emplastrum Gracia Dei Nicholaus Take of Turpentine half a pound Rozin a pound white Wax four ounces Mastich an ounce fresh Bettony Vervain and Burnet of each a handful let the herbs being bruised be sufficiently boyled in white Wine the liquor pressed out in which let the Wax and Rozin be boyled to the consumption of the liquor being taken from the fire let the Turpentine be mixed with it lastly the Mastich in pouder and so make of them a plaister according to art A. It is excellent good in wounds and green ulcers for it keeps back inflamations cleanseth and joyneth wounds fills up ulcers with flesh Emplastrum Griseum of Lapis Calaminarie Take of Lapis Calaminaris an ounce Litharge two ounces Ceruss half an ounce Tutty a drachm Turpentine six drams white Wax an ounce and an half Stags Suet two ounces Frankinsence five drachms Mastich three drachms Mirrh two drachms Camphire a drachm and an half Wax and Stags suet so much as is sufficient to make it into a Plaister according to art A. I wonder of thirty four Physicians the compiler of this book not one of them could see Stags suet was set down twice would not a sober man think they minded much what they were about A. It dries fils and skins ulcers Emplastrum ad Hirniam Fernclius Take of Galls Cypress nuts Pomegranate pils Balaustins Acacia the seeds of Plantane Fleawort and water-Cresses Acorn cups Beans roasted long and round Birthwort Mirtle Berries of each half an ounce let all these being poudered be steeped four daies in Rose Vineger then dried then take Comfry the greater and lesser Hors-tail Woad Cetrach Osmond royal fearn of each an ounce Frankinsence Mirrh Aloes Mastich Mummy of each two ounces Bole Armenick washed in Vineger Lapis Calaminaris prepared Litharge of Gold Dragons blood of each three ounces Ship pitch two pound Turpentine six ounces or so much as is sufficient to make it up into a plaister according to art A. The plaister is very binding and knitting apropriated to ruptures or burstness as the title of it specifies it strengthens the reins and womb and stayes abortion or miscariage in women it consolidates wounds and helps all diseases coming of cold and moisture Emplastrum Hystericum Nichol. Praep. according to Renod. Take of Bistort roots a pound wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Nutmegs Barberry kernels Anthera of each an ounce Cinnamon Cloves Schoenanthus Chamomel flowers of each half an ounce Frankinsence Mastich Alipta Moschata Gallia moschata Styrax Calamitis of each a drachm of the best 〈◊〉 half a drachm Wax a pound and an half Turpentine half a pound Oleum Moschelinum four ounces Ladanum four pound Ship pitch three pound let the Wax and pitch be melted the Ladanum and Turpentine added to them then the Styrax and last of al the rest beaten into pouder and so made into a plaister according to art A. I know not justly what they mean by that word Anthera in the recept unless they mean the hairy threeds in the middle of the Rose which usually country people call though falsly Rose seeds as I take it Apothecaries call them by an apish name Anthera Rosarum of the Greek words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the flowers of Roses But indeed the Ancients as Galen c. gave the word Anthera to many compound medicines that had no roses at all in them but I cannot stand to dispute the story here The plaister being applied to the navil 〈◊〉 a means to withstand the fits of the mother in such women as are subject to them Emplastrum de Janua or of Bettony Nicholaus Take of the Juyce of Bettony Plantane and Smallage of each a pound Wax Pitch Rozin Turpentine of each half a pound boyl the Wax and Rozin in the Juyces with a gentle fire continually stirring them till the juyce be consumed then add the Turpentine and Pitch continually stirring it till it be brought into the consistence of a plaister according to art A. I take Mesue indeed to be the Author of it or else I am mistaken it matters not much which it is a gallant plaister for pains in the head and to recruit an addle brain helps green wounds ceaseth inflamations strengthens the liver A Plaister of Mastich Renodaeus Take of Mastich three ounces Bole Armenick washed in red Wine an ounce and an half red Roses six drachms Ivory red Corral of each half an ounce Turpentine two ounces Wax oyl of Mirtles of each half a pound make of them a plaister according to art by adding Colophonia or else Tacamahaca Ladanum of each two ounces A. It is a binding Plaister strengthens the stomach A. Plaister of Melilot Mesue Take of Melilot flowers six ounces Chamomel flowers 〈◊〉 seed Marsh-mallow roots Bayberries Marjoram tops of Wormwood of each three drachms Smallage seed Cardamoms Orris Cyperus Spicknard Cassia lignea the seeds of Bishops weed of each a drachm and an half Ammoniacum ten drachms Styrax Calamitis 〈◊〉 of each five drachms Turpentine one ounce and an half fat Figgs by number twelve Goats suet Rozin of each two ounces and an half Wax six ounces oyl of 〈◊〉 and Spicknard of each so much as is sufficient then take of fresh Melilot Foenugreek and Chamomel of each so much as
be dissolved in Vineger and with a sufficient quantity of Wax made into a Cerecloath according to art A. Being applyed to the belly of a woman after labor it cleanseth her of any relicts accidentally left behind helps the fits of the mother and other accidents incident to women in that case Ceratum Oesypatum Galen Take of Oesypus ten ounces oyl of Chamomel and Orris of each half a pound yellow Wax two pound Rozin one pound Mastich Turpentine of each one ounce Spicknard two drachms and an half Saffron a drachm and an half Ammoniacum an ounce Styrax Calamitis half an ounce make them into a Cerecloath according to art A. It mollifies and digests hard swellings of the liver spleen womb nerves joynts and other parts of the body and is a great easer of pain Ceratum Santalinum Mesue Take of Rose twelve drachms red Sanders ten drachms white and yellow Sanders of each six drachms Bole Armenick seven drachms Spodium four drachms Camphire two drachms white Wax washed thirty drachms oyl of Roses six ounces make it into a Cerecloath according to art A. It wonderfuly helps hot infirmities of the stomach liver and other parts being but applied to them Ceratum Stomachicum Galen Take of red Roses Mastich of each twenty drachms dried Wormwood fifteen drachms Spicknard ten drachms Wax four ounces Rose water so much as is sufficient oyl of Roses a pound and an half let it boyl so till it be like an oyntment then ad oyl of Roses eight ounees Wax fourteen ounces the pouders afore mentioned excepting the Mastich which must be melted in the oyl of Roses of all them used in this manner make a Cerecloath according to art A. It strengthens the stomach and liver easeth their pains provokes apetite to ones meat and helps digestion Emplastrum à Nostralibus Commonly called Flower of Oyntments Take of Rozin Per-Rozin Wax Sheeps suet of each half a pound Olibanum four ounces Turpentine two ounces and an half Mirrh Mastich of each one ounce Camphire two drachms white Wine half a pint boyl them together into the form of a Cerecloath A. I found this recept in an old manuscript written in the year 1513. the quantity of the ingredients but very little altered except analogically and the vertue of it thus described verbatim Yt ys well clensande and well sowdande and generande the flesh and heland more yn eight days then ony other 〈◊〉 woll doe yn a monyth for yt wyll soffer noe corrupcion yn a wounde ne noe dead flesh to byde 〈◊〉 also yt ys good for headache and for wynde yn the brayne and for all mannyr posthymes yn the head or in the body for swelling of the eares or of the cheekes for all mannyr of synowes that ys greived or breysyd or sprong and yt woll draw out yrne or splynts of trees or thornes or broken bones or ony other thyngs that may grow yn a wound and yt ys good for bytyng of venemos 〈◊〉 and yt rotts and healls all mannyr of boches without fawt and yt ys good for fester or canker and for nolime 〈◊〉 2nd yt drawys out al mannyr of akyng yn the lyver or reynes or mylt and helpyth the emerauds CHYMICAL OYLS A. 1. I Desire you to take notice before I begin that Chymical oyls generally are not to be taken alone by themselves by reason of their vehement heat and burning but mixed with other convenient medicines A. 2. They carry the very same vertue the Simples do but are far more prevalent as having far more spirit in them and far less earthly dross OYL OF HERBS Oyl of Wormwood Take of dried Wormwood a pound spring water twenty pound infuse the Wormwood in the water twenty four hours then distill it in a great Alembick with his refrigeratory so shall you draw out the oyl with the water which you may seperate with a funnel keep the water for another distillation A. Your best way to learn to still Chymical oyl is to learn of an Alchymist for I rest confident the greatest part of the Colledge had no more skill in Chymistry than I have in building houses but having found out certain models in old rusty Authours tell people SO they must be done I can teach a man SO how to build a house first he must lay the foundation then rear up the sides then joyn the rasters then build the chimneyes tile the top and plaister the walls but how to do one 〈◊〉 of this I know not And so play the Colledge here for the Alchymists have a better way by far to draw them the truth is I am in a manner tyed to their method here from which I may not step aside if my country kindly accept this which is the beginning of my labours I may happily put forth somthing else for the Ingenious to whet their 〈◊〉 upon Only here I quote the oyls in the Colledg order and then quote the vertue of the 〈◊〉 of them that so the reader may know by a peny how a shilling is coyned After the same manner is prepared oyl of Chamomel flowers Chelondine Eyebright Hysop Lavender Marjoram Mints Watercresses Origanum Penyroyal Roses Rosemary Rue Savin Sage Savory Time Verbascum and all other flowers and hot hearbs A. I 〈◊〉 instance here only in oyl of Lavender commonly called oyl of Spike which helps the ranning of the reins they being anointed with it it expels worms two drops of it being taken in Wine the region of the back being anointed with it it helps the palsey for all the rest see the vertues of the herbs themselves OYL OF SEEDS Oyl of Dill Seeds Take of Dill seeds bruised two ponnd spring water sixteen pints steep them for twenty four hours then distill them in a great Allembick with his Refrigeratory draw out the water and oyl which you may seperate with a funnel In the same manner is prepared oyl of the seeds of Annis Caraway Cmmmin Carrots Fennel Wheat Parsly Rue Saxifrage c. A. Oyl of Annis seeds although it be often given and happily with good success in vertigoes ordissines in the head yes its cheif operation is upon the breast and lungues it helps narrowness of the breast rawness and wind in the stomach all infirmities there coming of cold and wind strengthens the nerves six drops is enough at a time taken in broath or any other convenient liquor A. As Annis seeds are apropriated to the breast so are Fennel seeds to the head the oyl of which cleanseth the brain of cold infirmities lethargies indisposition of the body numbness want of motion also it helps the stomach and expels wind A. Cummin seeds the oyl of them is a great expeller of wind nothing better it also wonderfully easeth pains of the spleen pains in the reins and bladder stopping of urine especially if it come of wind and is a present remedy for the chollick for the way of taking of them see Annis seeds OYL OF BERRIES Oyl of Juniper Berries Take of
fresh Juniper berries fifty pound bruise them and put them in a wooden vessel with twenty four pints of water adding to them a pound of sour Leven stop the vessel close and let them stand in a Cellar three months then distill them in an Alembick with a sufficient quantity of water seperate the oyl and reserve the water for another distillation In the same manner is made oyl of Bay berries and Ivy berries A. Oyl of Juniper berries prevails wonderfully in pains of the yard and running of the reins 〈◊〉 falling sickness it is a mighty preservative against the pestilence and all evill airs it purgeth the reins provokes urine breaks the stone helps the dropsie the quantity to be taken at a time in any convenient liquor is three or four drops outwardly by unction it helps the gout two or three drops dropped upon the navil helps the Chollick A. Oyl of Bay berries helps the Chollick and Iliack passion A. Oyl of Ivy berries helps cold diseases of the joynts the stone and provokes the terms in women OYL OF SPICES Oyl of Cinnamon Take of bruised Cinnamon five pound spring water fifty pints steep them twenty four hours then distill them with an Alembick After the same manner is made Oyl of 〈◊〉 Mace Nutmegs Pepper A. One or two drops of Oyl of Cinnamon is enough to take at a time and is exceeding good for such as are in Consumptions See Cinnamon among the simples A. Oyl of Mace is excellent good for Rheums in the head and oyl of Pepper for the Chollick OYL OF BARKS Oyl of the dryed Barks of Orrenges 〈◊〉 Lemmons is prepared as oyl of Herbs OYL OF WOODS Oyl of Guajacum Oyl of Guajacum is made of the wood by a retort in a close Reverberatory let the sweeter and thinner part be separated from the grosser and rectified with salt or Tartar 〈◊〉 or Colcolthar or sand After the same manner is made oyl of Box Oak and other sollid woods Oyl of Sassafras is made like oyl of Cinnamon and so is made oyl of Rhodium Juniper Rosemary Ivy. OYL OF THINGS TO BE MELTED Oyl of Wax Take of yellow Wax one pound melt it and ad to it three pound of Tiles beaten into pouder mix them and put them into a retort and draw out the oyl with a convenient fire it is rectified in a retort without tiles adding water to it After the same manner is prepared Oyl of all 〈◊〉 A. I am of opinion that oyl of Wax is as singuler a remedy for burns and burning ulcers as any is or need to be OYL OF GUMS AND ROZINS Oyl of Mirrh Take of Mirrh bruised six pound Conduit Water thirty pound Bay salt six pound mix them together and distil them in an Alembick A. It keeps wounds and all things else saith Fior avantus from putrifaction it makes the face fair and youthful quickly cures wounds and deafness being dropped into the ears Oyl of Turpentine Take of Venice Turpentine eight and twenty pound spring water ninety six pound distil them in a Copper vessel with his Refrigeratory so will the Oyl come out thin and white and the Colophonia will remain at bottom if the fire be increased This white Oyl may commodiously be drawn in Balneo Mariae without burning A. It is wonderful good in cold afflictions of the nerves and al diseases coming of cold and wind it corrects the cold afflictions of the lungues as Asthmaes difficulty of breathing c. A drachm being taken in the morning outwardly it adorns the body takes away the prints of 〈◊〉 and the small pocks chops in the skin and breasts of women and deafness being dropped into the ears Oyl of Balsum Take of Mirrh Aloes Spicknard Dragons blood 〈◊〉 Mummy Opopanax Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Bdellium Ammoniacum Sarcocolla Saffron Mastich Gum Arabick liquid Styrax of each two drachms Ladanum Castorium of each two drachms and an half Musk half a dram Turpentine the weight of them all the things to be bruised being bruised let them be mixed and distilled in an Alembick according to art A. It 〈◊〉 lost strength and preserves carkases from putrifaction the back bone being 〈◊〉 with it keeps back the rigor of feavers it takes away the falling-sickness and such diseases the fits of the mother melancholly and sadness without a cause c. Oleum Latiricium 〈◊〉 Mesue Take of Bricks made of red earth beaten into peices of the bigness of an Apple these being heat red hot quench in oyl 〈◊〉 Rosemary or old Sallet oyl letting them remain in till they are full then take them out and beat them into pouder then still them in a 〈◊〉 retort well luted stop the oyl close and keep it for your use A. The oyl will quickly penetrate and is a soveraign remedy for the gout and all cold afflictions in the joynts or nerves cramps epilepsies or falling sickness 〈◊〉 it mollifies hard 〈◊〉 dissolves cold swellings as also cold distempers of the spleen reins and bladder Oyl of Lovage 〈◊〉 made of the flowers of Lovage four ounces old oyl ten ounces Oyl of white Lillies of the flowers of white Lillies and 〈◊〉 as oyl of Roses but 〈◊〉 off what is yellow Oyl of Lillies of the vally is made like to it Oyl of Frankinsence Take as much Frankinsence 〈◊〉 will put it in a 〈◊〉 and draw 〈◊〉 the oyl with a convement 〈◊〉 then rectifie 〈◊〉 either by it self or with sand or salt In the same manner is made oyl of Ammoniacum Benzoin Caranna Jet Mastich Opopanax Sagapenum 〈◊〉 Styrax 〈◊〉 OYL OF MINERALS AND STONES A. Having perused these oyls following I would willingly have left them quite out I mean the manner allotted by the Colledg to make them 1. Because I fear they and truth are Separatists 2. Because the ignorant will 〈◊〉 as well how to make them as they did before when I have done what I can 3. As to Alchymists to whose profession the making of them belongs I shall seem like Phormio the Phylosopher who having never seen battle undertook to read a Military lecture before 〈◊〉 who was the best Souldier in the world but I am in a manner forced to it He that is able to understand the recepts is as able to understand that the failings are not mine but the Colledges Oyl of Antimony Take of crude Antimony Mercury Sublimate of each a pound beat them into pouder and put them in a glass retort with a wide neck give fire to them by degrees in a Reverberatory so will a fat distill into a receiver part of which sticking to the neck of the retort will easily be melted a gentle fire being held under it let this fat be rectified in a small Allembick or retort and let the curd be kept if you would have it liquid set it in a Cellar in an open glass and it will turn to water or oyl which keep in a glass well stopped Oyl of Arsenick Take of Christalline Arsenick first 〈◊〉 with
Colcothar mix it with an equal part of Salt 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 tartar let them be calcined between two little 〈◊〉 the uppermost having a hole 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they have done smoking dissolve the 〈◊〉 thus calcined in warm water that so the Salt may be 〈◊〉 out the pouder which remains at bottom moisten with oyl of Tartar and dry it by the fire do so three 〈◊〉 again dissolve it in warm water that you may take out the salt then will there remain a very white pouder and fixed which being set in a moist place wil dissolve into an oyl much like butter Oyl of Salt Take of French bay-salt made with the heat of the sun not of the fire as much as you will dry it by the fire to which ad its weight in burnt bricks beat them together in a mortar before they be altogether cold put them into a retort with a long neck lute a capacious receiver very wel to it give fire to it by degrees and in twelve or fourteen hours you shall have the oyl in the Receiver when the furnace is cold and the smoak wel ceased powr out the oyl and keep it from the air in a glasse well stopped and rectifie it from the flegm But the best oyl of salt is better made if you make the salt into brine of such strength that it wil bear an eg then quench the Bricks being red hot in this brine til they have drunk up al the liquor then beat them into pouder and put them into a Retort wel luted and give fire to it even to the highest degree and then rectifie it from the flegm A. Being mixed with Turpentine and applied outwardly it helps the gout three drops taken every morning in convenient liquor preserves youth consumes the dropsie resists feavers convulsions the falling sickness being mixed with oyntments it is exceeding good in ruptures and dislocations Oyl of Amber Take of yellow Amber four ounces beat it into pouder to which being put in a large Viol or a Retort pour as much sharp wine vineger digest it eight daies in horse dung then add to it twise its weight in dry sand distil it in sand adding the fire by degrees rectifie it from the sand with salt or Tartar calcined then with water A. It speedily helps all afflictions of the nerves as Convolsions Falling-sickness c. Being given in convenient liquors it is a singuler remedy against poyson and pestilent air diseases of the reins and bladder the fits of the mother the nose being anointed with it the chollick it causeth speedy labour to women in travail being taken in Vervain water it strengthens the body exceedingly as also the brain and sences and is of an opening nature Oyl of Sulphur Take a glass bel-still which will hold sixteen pound at least for the larger it is so much the better it is place it upon an earthen vessel which hath three or four upholders to which the bell may be commodiously fitted then putting a sufficient quantity of Brimstone into the earthen vessel burn it under the bell putting in fresh Brimstone when the first is consumed let this be done in some obscure place where neither wind nor sun comes The oyl will be more in quantity if the vessel that holds the Brimstone stand upon a furnace and a fire be under it Before you put on the bell perfume it with the smoke of Sage A. Prevails against diseases coming of cold putrifaction or wind feavers agues tertian quartan or quotidian Pestilence wounds and ulcers affects of the brain mouth teeth liver stomach spleen matrix bladder entrails and arteries coming of abundance of humours or putrifaction outwardly applied it helps fistulaes ulcers of the mouth and gangrens the way to take it inwardly is thus dip the top of a feather in the oyl and wash it in the liquor or decoction you give it in in 〈◊〉 agues give it in wines in which rosemary or mints or both have been boyled in tertian agues in Wine in which centaury hath been boyled in quartan agues in Bugloss water in all of them a little before the fit come in pestilences in Wine in which Rhadishes have been boyled mingled with a litle Venice Treacle in the falling-sickness with decoction of Bettony or Peony in coughs with decoction of Nettle seed and Hysop both of them made with Wine for flegm in Wormwood water for the wind chollik in Chamomel flower water for dropsies and cold livers in Selondine water and Honey for the rickets and stoppage of the spleen in Tamaris water for the French pocks in Fumitory or Broomflower water against worms in Grass or Wormwood water for the fits of the mother in decoction of Bettony or Featherfew in Wine for suppression of urine in decoction of Garlick with wine for the gout in decoction of Chamepitys with Wine in wounds and ulcers the place is lightly to be touched with a feather wet in the oyl it a hollow tooth ake put a drop into it if all your teeth ake make a decoction of mints in Wine and put a drop or two of this oyl to it and hold it warm in your mouth Oyl of Tartar Take of Tartar so much as you wil put it into a large retort with that proportion that but the third part of the vessel be filled distill it in sand with a strong fire afterwards the oyl being first seperated from the water or spirit of Tartar rectifie it with much water to correct the smell of it let it stand open a long time in the sun Liquor Tartari commonly called oyl of Tartar Take of Tartar so much as is sufficient fill an earthen vessel not glazed almost full of it let it be calcined in a furnace twelve hours when it is cold put it in Manica Hippocratis which hang in a moist Cellar that it may dissolve placing a vessel under it to receive it that which remains and will not dissolve in the hanging dissolve in water and evaporate away the moisture till it begin to look like Allum A. This is common to be had at every Apothecaries and Virgins buy it to take away the sunburn and freckles from their faces it takes off the rust from Iron and preserves it bright a long time Oyl of vitriol Take of the best Vitriol as much as you will melt it in a pan then divide it into thick pieces the which burn in the fire till they look reddish then beat them into pouder and sprinkle them with the best spirit of Wine put them into earthen retorts which will bear the fire increase the fire to them by degrees for three daies till the receivers which were obscured with smoke come to be cleer rectifie that distilled liquor and seperate by themselves the spirit of Wine the sour spirit of Vitriol and the strong and ponderous oyl A. It must be mixed with other medicines for it kils being taken alone it a swageth thirst allaieth the violent heat in feavers and
making Fixed or Elementary Salt The method of making this consists in these four things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That this may be rightly done 〈◊〉 of all the ashes of 〈◊〉 herbs you would make salt of must be made white by calcination and herein have a care lest by too much burning either they go to glass or else the most subtill part fly out which often chanceth in the calcining of scurvy grass and other plants of like nature Then make a ly of the ashes by pouring to them cleer water and hot till all the saltness be drawn from them filter the ly and boyl it by a gentle fire till all the water be evaporated away and the salt left at the Bottom to which a further cleansing is requisite therefore dissolve it again in water and filter it and coagulate it again for by often so doing the salt will be cleansed from all its impurity and remain white and clean Thus are salts prepared of herbs fruits and trees of any kind as also of parts of living creatures calcined and some stones But this by the by Amongst fixed salts these excel salt of Wormwood Time Rosemary Centaury the less Mugwort Carduus Benedictus Masterwort Parsly Best-harrow Ash dwarf Elder or Walwort Guajacum Box Chamomel St. Johns wort Succory Sullondine Scurvy-grass Bettony Eupatorium Bawm Cetrach c. PREPARATIONS OF CERTAIN MEDICINES VERY NECESSARY FOR APOTHECARIES The burning of Brass TAKE flakes of Brass put them in an earthen vessel putting between every thin plate either common Salt or Brimstone in pouder in this manner lay flake upon flake till the pot be full then burn it sufficiently and sweeten it with warm water it will be reddish if prepared with salt black if with Brimstone The way to wash Aloes Take of Aloes beaten into very fine pouder as much as you will put it into a glazed pot and stir it up and down with a spatula in a sufficient quantity of boyling hot water so as the purer part of the Aloes may be mixed with the water pour off that and put in other warm water do so till nothing but the dross is left at bottom all the waters being added together evaporate away the moisture that the pure Aloes may be left in a mass at bottom The preparation of Spodium Take of choyce Ivory cut in big peices burn them in an earthen pot in a furnace till they look white then being beaten into fine pouder wash it in Rosewater let there be two pound of the water to one pound of the Ivory dry it and wash it again thrice the last time diffolve four drachms of Camphire in the Rose water then having dryed it grind it fine upon a marble and make it into troches to be kept for your use In the same manner may you prepare Hartshorn The Preparation of Bole Armenick The preparation of this is performed by many with Rose water by some with Vineger by others with Wine The Role being in fine pouder they wash so often till all the dross and sand be taken from it then they dry it in the air or in the sun and keep it close covered 〈◊〉 Brionie Take of 〈◊〉 roots as many as you will scrape them with a knife and press out the juyce strongly with a press which being kept without motion in a vessel after a few hours white foeces like Starch will settle the water swimming at top being poured off dry those Foeces in glazed vessels May Butler Take of sresh Putter without any salt at all about the middle of May or toward the latter end of them month place it in the sun in a broad earthen vessel well glazed that so it may be melted on every side which being well melted when the sun is at the hottest strain it through a thick linnen rag but press it not then set it in the san again at last when it is white you may keep it all the yeer 〈◊〉 of quick Lines The Lime being beaten let it be mixed with much sweet water especially in the Dog daies and much stirred and when it is setled at the bottom change the water and mix it again with other do so seven or eight times filtring it every time at 〈◊〉 put Rose water to it and so dry it and keep it for your use The way to burn River Crabs Take of River Crabs alive stew them in a brass pan over a temperate fire so long then having beaten them to pouder keep them in a clean box in a dry place so will they continue good a whol yeer The common preparation of filings of Steel Take of filings of Steel cleansed from the filth by a Loadstone washing them in clean water and drying them then sprinkle them well with sharp Wine Vineger stirring them well dry them in the shaddow often putting fresh Vineger to them so let it stand thirty daies afterwards beat it into very fine pouder and keep it for your use In such steel as is prepared by the fire with Brimstone you must note that unless after the burning it retain a smatch of the tast of Vittiol it hath lost all its opening saculty and is good for nothing The preparation of Coriander 〈◊〉 Steep Coriander seeds in sharp Vineger for twenty sour hours and then dry them and so if you please you may prepare Cummin seeds also The preparation of 〈◊〉 Take of wild Cucumers 〈◊〉 ripe as many as you will cut them 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 the juyce gently with your 〈◊〉 singers 〈◊〉 which let run through a very fine sive then let it stand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 part be setled at the bottom 〈◊〉 off 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 into another earthen glazed vesel ser the 〈◊〉 at the bottom being covered with a linnen cloath in the son till it be dry then keep it for your use The preparation of Spurge roots Infuse the bark of spurge roots being well cleansed in sharp wine Vineger then dry them and keep them for your use In the same manner is prepared the leaves of Laurel Merereon or spurge olive and the fruit of Thymelaea The preparation of Euphorbium Take of Euphorbium beaten into very fine pouder grind it upon a stone with oyl of sweet Almonds till it be like an unguent then let it be put into a Quince or Citron made hollow rolled up in past and baked in an oven keep the Euphorbium so prepared in a glass well stopped The manner of making Gersa or Cerussa Serpentaria Take of Aron roots in the beginning of the spring before their strength run up to leaves as many as you will wash them cleanse them from the outward bark then being beat in a stone mortar and the juyce pressed through a sive which being covered with a linnen cloath let it be dryed in the sun afterward washed in Rose water dryed again and kept for your use The preparation of black Hellebore Take of black Hellebore roots as we have them with us the woody