St. Iohns-wort strained and depurated two pound of Pimpernel with purple flowers strained and depurated one pound blood of an Ass taken from the veins behind his ears half a pound flowers of Bugloss red Roses and Rosemary of each six drams Confectio Alkermes and Cassia lignea of each half an ounce of Saffron one dram Let them infuse all night and then distil them in B. M. cohobate the Liquor and repeat the work the second time Take of this water two pound Essence of the flowers of St. Iohns-wort made with Spirit of Wine half an ounce Let them stand all night in a warm place in the morning filter it so often till you have a most red Tincture which edulcorate with white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Water is a great Secret in Melancholy Madness Witchcraft Inchantments yea in the Imagination impaired or abolished and as much as lyeth in art it amendeth the weakness dulness and stupidity of the Mind and the slowness of the Understanding it happily takes away all the affects of the Imagination It also provokes Urine and the Terms it helps Tertians and Quartans and is useful for all diseases of the Reins and Bladder The Dose is from three spoonfuls to four twice in the day in the morning before Sun-rising and at night going to bed Tinctura Vitae Take simple Spirit of Wine six pound of the best rose-Rose-water four pound Orange peels Citron peels red Roses dryed water-Mints Balm white Sanders Cinamon of each eight ounces wood of Aloes Mace of each two drams seeds of Angelica Coriander Anise and Fenil of each a dram and a half Spicknard Galangal the less Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Cloves of each half a dram Ambergriese and Alexandrian Musk of each half a scruple Let them stand in digestion for eight days and then distil them in an Alembick Then take of this Spirit drawn off seven pound Cassia lignea two ounces Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Oriental Saffron a scruple Let them digest until the liquor is perfectly tinctured afterward let the tinged Spirit be edulcorated with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy dissolved in its proper liquor and reserved for use Virtue Use and Dose By the pleasantness of its smell it refresheth the Heart and Spirits it exhilarates and prolongs life and comforts the Stomach and Brain it increaseth the heat of the Ventricle confirms its strength dissipates wind and encourageth digestion it helps the Gripings of the Guts and keeps them sound yea it is very profitable in the cold distempers of the Thorax Liver and Spleen The Dose is from one spoonful to two Tincture of Guajacum Take raspings of Guajacum four ounces of the best Mastich an ounce resinous wood of Aloes a dram Clove-gilliflowers half a dram These being mixed pour upon them a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine to extract the Tincture which afterward filter and reserve for use Virtue and Use. Let the Mouth and aking Teeth be washed often with this Tincture for the pain often proceeds from the defluxions of the Head it drys Catarrhs takes away the stink and rottenness of the mouth and renders the breath sweet at the same time let there be warm Plasters applied to the Temples made of Mastich or Gum Elemi and after spitting let the mouth be diligently washed with a Decoction of Aniseeds Tincture of Sassafras Take Fountain-water well boiled and while it is yet hot eight pound Sassafras cut into small thin chips two ounces Let them stand in infusion all night in a new well glazed Pot close covered until it cools of it self in the morning filter it and the straining being clear let it be a little aromatized with a Tincture of Cassia lignea and keep it for your daily use Virtue Use and Dose It is a Nectar in Catarrhs and Arthritick pains because of its vast driness and moderate heat it is an excellent remedy in Defluxions of every kind which it doth radically consume and also expels the Stone It discusseth Wind prepares the Womb for Conception provokes the Terms helps Digestion corrects Vomiting and moves the Belly downwards but to those who are weak and extenuated it is useless The Dose is not strictly observed but the Patient may drink his fill of it and continue it for some weeks A Tincture for the Toothach Take Guajacum two ounces Sassafras and Sarsa parilla of each an ounce roots of wild Pellitory crude Alum Nitre prepared of each half an ounce seeds of Staveacre and Henbane of each two drams Opium Spagyrically prepared Cloves of each a dram and a half wild Time Origanum and Saffron of each a dram Mix them and make a Powder which put into a Glass and pour upon it simple Spirit of Wine and Wine-Vinegar a pound and a half and of these make a Tincture Virtue Use and Dose A little of this Tincture held warm in the Mouth on the place where the Teeth ake after a while spit it out and take in fresh if need be doth powerfully allay and take away all pains of the Teeth by hindring the sharp flux of Humors nay it wonderfully takes away those humors that are already fallen on the part and although at first it seems to increase the pain yet it is suddenly mitigated and doth vanish Tinctura Uterina Take the berries of Elder and dwarff Elder of each four ounces roots of Bryony an ounce of the herb Marjoram a dram Mix them and pour thereon a sufficient quantity of Aqua Hyster Lit. A. add also a few drops of Spirit of Vitriol and make a digestion in B. M. for certain days till you shall receive a most red Tincture which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It hath a manifest Hysterical and Cephalick force against all suffocations and torsions of the Womb and other dangerous affects yea it takes away all dolors and compressions of the Diaphragma The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole spoonful by it self or in some Hysterical liquor A Diaphoretick Tincture Take Spirit of Wine left in making our Solar Bezoar and flowers of Elder rectified of each four ounces Tartar often rectified three ounces of the best Vitriol an ounce Confectio Alkermes six drams Digest them for certain days shaking them often till the liquor be perfectly tinged Virtue Use and Dose It is a singular Medicine in the Plague putrid Humors diseases of the Head Palsie rectifying the Blood trembling of the Heart ill habit of Body Dropsie Jaundice Asthma Pleurisie Quinsie prickings of the Sides Pox Leprosie Worms Contractures Courses retained Feavers c. for it comforts the principal Members consumes superfluities corrects and expels noxious humors and by its Diaphoretick force penetrates the Nerves Muscles and Marrow and reduces all into its natural and pristine state The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one in water of Carduus Elder or Hearts-ease Tinctura Stiptica or the Stiptick Tincture Take the yolks of twenty one Eggs
Epileptick and Apoplectick Water sixteen ounces Mix them and make of all little Rowls or Cakes Virtue and Use. They wonderfully preserve from the Apoplexy Epilepsie Palsie c. They correct the Vertigo and take away the debility of the Brain sharpen the Memory and Sense comfort the Head refresh the Spirits support and relieve the Faculties of the Mind debilitated by study and continual cares which are dangerous to the Animal Faculties Rotulae Hyacinthinae or Rowls of Hyacinth Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton frigidum of each half an ounce Hyacinth prepared two drams flowers of Nitre a dram Magistery of red Coral a scruple distilled Oyl of Roses ten grains white Sugar dissolved in Water-lily-flower water sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It gives relief to the heat and inflammation of the whole body and repairs the imbecillity of the virile force They help the Syncope and wonderfully refresh refrigerate and strengthen those who have long been dejected and afflicted with a long tedious disease They do wonders in Asthma's Heart-passions Epatick diseases Jaundice Consumptions Coughs and malignant Feavers The dose is two three four or five often in the day Rotulae Cordiales or Cordial Rowls Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral of each a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Mace of each four drops white Sugar dissolved in Cinamon water eight ounces Mix them and make a Confection in little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They are great Fortifiers of the Heart and preserve it safe from all corruption and putrefaction that it cannot be vitiated by the malignant Air. The dose is two three or four for one time Rotulae Pectorales albae or white Pectoral Rowls Take species Diatragacanth frigidum and Diaireos simple of each half an ounce Lac Sulphuris two drams powder of Benjamin a dram Oyl of Fenil a scruple the whitest Sugar dissolved in milk of the seeds of white Poppy and Violet water sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are good for the asperity of the Tongue and Jaws and alleviate the hardness and compression of the Breast and Thorax They give ease to those troubled with the Cough Phthisick Consumption and wasting and to those who are obnoxious to defluxions and destillations from the Head The dose every hour one two or three at a time Rotulae Pectorales Citrinae or yellow Pectoral Rowls Take Lohoch sanum expertum species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each half an ounce juyce of Liquorish extracted flowers of Sulphur of each a dram powder of Benjamin roots of Flower-de-luce of each two scruples Extract of Oriental Saffron Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Fenil water sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose They purge the Lungs lenifie the Breast facilitate the Spittle and therefore give ease in a wonderful manner to those troubled with the Cough Pleurisie difficulty of breathing c. The dose often in the day from one or two to three or four at a time Rotulae Pectorales rubrae or red Pectoral Rowls Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce Lohoch sanum expertum half an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams juyce of Liquorish extracted flowers of Sulphur of each a dram powder of Benjamin roots of Flower-de-luce of each half a dram Oyl of Anisceds a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Hyssop water first tinctured with red Sanders sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They purge the Thorax and Lungs and strengthen them to expectorate the thick and gross matter there lodged Hence they give ease in tedious Coughs Asthma's and Pleurisies The dose is one two three or four at a time Rotulae Lac provocantes or Rowls provoking Milk Take Crystals prepared half an ounce red Corals prepared a dram Pearls prepared long Pepper of each half a dram Oyl of Fenil seeds a scruple white Sugar dissolved in water of Nutmegs three ounces Mix them and make Confectionary Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose It is a great Secret in provoking Milk and is therefore given to Nurses every day morning noon and night The dose is four or five at a time Rotulae refectivae Take Troches of Pearls a dram Magistery of red Coral Ambergriese of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved and extracted in milk of sweet Almonds with rose-Rose-water four ounces Mix them and make little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They nourish and give strength in Chronical diseases they restore health and strength to those who despair of Cure they conserve Nature by roboration and help to recover pristine strength The dose is as necessity requires two or three being taken and by degrees rubbed upon the tongue and afterward swallowed Rotulae stimulantes Take Venetian Borax two drams seeds of Ashen-keys a dram Boletus Cervinus flesh of Skinks of each half a dram long Pepper a scruple the bodies of Cantharides Oyl of Cinamon of each half a scruple white Sugar dissolved in water of Satyrion and Rosemary flowers six ounces Mix them and make Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose They wonderfully irritate and excite Venery and are very effectual to repair that kind of impotence and lost virility The dose is at going to bed from three four or five to six more or less according as the Patient requires They may also be taken after the first digestion that is after midnight Rotulae Aromaticae Take Galangal the less a dram and a half Calamus aromaticus grains of Paradise white Ginger of each a dram Cloves Cassia lignea Zedoary Burnet long Pepper Caraway seeds of each half a dram Cubebs Nutmegs Oriental Saffron Mace of each a scruple Oyls of Cinamon Mint Oranges and Rosemary of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Stomach-water sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make a Confection in Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They calefie corroborate and preserve from pain all the principal members the Head Brain Stomach Heart Liver Spleen Guts c. They prevent the Colick stay Vomiting coming of a phlegmatick cause excite Appetite discuss the Flatulencies that distend the Ventricle and cure all that hurts the body coming of a cold cause The dose is two three four or five at a time Rotulae refrigerantes or cooling Rowls Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Citrons flowers of Nitre of each two drams Crystals prepared a dram Tinctures of red Coral and grains of Kermes Sanders of each half a dram Magistery of Saturn a scruple distilled Oyl of Roses four grains white Sugar dissolved in juyce of Barberries and Goosberries equal in quantity sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose They are very cooling and of excellent use to allay thirst in acute Diseases and burning Feavers They comfort the Stomach and its natural heat and relieve the Heart
then distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose This Water is far more safe in continual watching sharp pains and in the heat and driness of burning Feavers than those Medicines made out of the substance of Henbane Mandrake and Opium because of their virulence and excessive stupefactive quality The dose is from half an ounce to two either by it self or by adding Almonds and the four greater cold Seeds to it and so make it into an Emulsion Aqua Narcotica or a Narcotick Water Take juyce of the flowers of wild Poppy depurated sixteen ounces Opium dissolved in water of Nightshade two ounces bark of the roots of Mandrake Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce Styrax Calamit two drams wood of Aloes a dram Mix them and distil them in Balneo drawing off the Liquor three times from the same Faeces which Chymists call Cohobation Virtue Use and Dose It provokes sleep wonderfully and is a most excellent profitable Anodyne in all pains unquietness and extreme watchings And it operates to a Miracle in those troubled with sorrowful and pensive Melancholy for it refresheth the animal Spirits takes away sorrow and discusseth all those ill Vapors that rise and offend the Brain It restrains the heat of Choler and mitigates the fury of Phrensies and Madness and suddenly produceth rest The dose is from one dram to two Aqua Ophthalmica aurea or the golden Water for the Eyes Take the Decoction of Brasil wood made with a little Alum in Spanish Wine water of the roots herb and flowers of Valerian distilled in the same Wine Sugar distilled with a like quantity of ripe Strawberries of each twelve ounces of fragrant Rose-water eight ounces water of Fenil and Vervain of flowers of Succory Eyebright Pennyroyal and Garden Rue of each six ounces Virgin Honey four ounces Tutty prepared an ounce and a half white Vitriol Crocus Metallorum red Myrrh Aloes rosata of each half an ounce white Sugar Candy and Camphire of each three drams white Ginger Cloves black Pepper Bay-berries and Cinamon of each a dram Salt of Celandine Valerian and Saturn of each a scruple All these being well mixed one with another make of all according to Art a Collyrium which in a Glass close shut set to digest for a month either in the Sun or in a gentle heat shaking it every day and so keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use in all affects of the Eyes For it perfectly cures all distempers of the Eyes as Inflammations Bleer-eyedness Fistula's Films Spots c. and it takes away the violent pain thereof and if it doth not cure the same day yet it doth in a short time if a drop or two be but dropped into the Eyes carefully morning noon and night Aqua Ophthalmica viridis or a green Water for the Eyes Take Virgin Honey eight ounces ripe Strawberries three ounces white Vitriol and common Salt of each half an ounce Mix them and let them stand in a cool moist place in a Copper Vessel often stirring it till it wax green or shews it self of a green colour then add of Spanish Wine a pound water of Roses and flowers of Elder of each half a pound waters of wild Cummin Eyebright Celandine Valerian and Blue-bottles of each four ounces Let them be mixed and set to digest in a well stopt Glass for a month in a gentle heat or what is better exposed abroad both to the Sun and Dew for certain weeks and then the Liquor will appear green and separate it self into the superficies the impure Faeces remaining in the bottom from which it is separated at last having stood in the Sun long enough pour it off and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a most solemn Medicine for all distempers of the Eyes as Contusions Inflammations Ardor Redness Blearedness Fistula's Pustles thin Rheum c. And the use of it is thus drop a drop or two into the Eyes twice or thrice a day and let the water be diffused all over the Eye that so the infirm part may be the sooner cured Aqua Ophthalmica subnigra Take of generous Greek Wine a pound water of Celandine white Roses Eyebright Fenil and Garden Rue of each six ounces Cloves Epatick Aloes Tutty prepared of each five drams Camphire six drams Mix them and in a glass Viol expose them to the Sun all the Dog-days shaking the Glass once a day whicâ— being done keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It makes Rheum thin discusseth redness sucks up the cause of Blearedness renders the Eye clear and by its nourishing quality extenuates the adjacent thick humors The way of using it is to drop a little of it into the Eye as before or you may dip a Rag in this Collyrium and lay it upon the Eye Aqua Ophthalmica de Cancris or an Eye-water of Crabs Take River Crabs alive in the month of June tâ—â— Sun and Moon being both in Cancer thirty one Adâ— to these as much Celandine as will equal them iâ— weight beat these together and then add to theâ— Fenil seeds bruised an ounce Sea-Beans prepared 〈◊〉 Camphire of each half an ounce Cloves Epatick Alâ—â— and Tutty prepared of each two drams Mix them anâ— divide them into three equal parts and distil the first in Balneo then put the second part into a Cucurbit and pour the distilled water upon it and draw it off again as at first then put the third part in and pour upon that all the distilled water already drawn off and so distil it the third time And so you have that most famous Water of Celandine truly prepared And if you will calcine the Faeces and extract a Salt and add it to the Medicine it will be far more efficacious Virtue Use and Dose This is a most precious eye-Eye-water and also esteemed at a great price of which Crollius in his Basilica Chymica hath made mention in these words There may be made a wonderful and stupendious Ophthalmick of Celandine and Crabs Which if it be prepared by due artifice and time it virtually restores the Eye though hurt to desperation and agglutinates all wounds in those parts in the space of twenty four hours Thus far Crollius But the way of preparing it out of meer envy he would not reveal or else he never knew it unless by relation or perhaps had stole it from another Of this Water drop one two or more drops into the Eyes of the Patient or it may be used with a Feather dipped in the water and then anointed with it twice thrice or four times a day according as necessity requires and let this be continued till the Patient be restored to his former health again Aqua Ocularis interna or a Water for the Eyes inwardly taken Take Iuniper berries two ounces Cassia lignea an ounce seeds of Mountain Osier and Fenil of each half an ounce seeds of Rue three drams species Diamoschu dulce Nutmegs wood of Aloes of each
in some appropriate Liquor or other Medicine Oxysaccharum Emeticum or a Vomit of Vinegar and Sugar Take Crocus Metallorum absinthiated half an ounce Cassia lignea two drams Lignum Aloes Roots of Angelica of each one dram red Roses half a dram Let them be infused in fifteen ounces of Vinegar of Clove-gilly-flowers let them stand in infusion for 24 hours in a gentle heat and afterwards filter them and add of white Sugar Candy as much as will make it like a Syrup and then keep it for your use Virtue Use and Dose It is excellent in pains of the Head in Melancholy Epilepsie of what sort soever Quinsie Plague Pleurisie Cough Asthma in all affections of the Stomach in the Dysentery Pox Coagulation of blood c. it is good for those who have taken poisonous draughts it preserves from the Gout The Dose is from half an ounce to six drams in specifick Liquors or given by it self Catharticum Argenteum or the Silver Cathartick TAke of pure Silver an ounce Aqua fortis distilled from the Salt of Nitre and Vitriol and in a Retort in Sand over a gentle fire first rectified six ounces Dissolve the Moon in this water and to the solution add of fresh Aqua fortis four ounces of purified Nitre half an ounce mix them well and distil it in an Alembick in Balneo Mariae or in Sand three times still pouring on again the distilled Liquor on the Faeces according to art then put the Cucurbit into Sand that is higher than it is luted that so all the Aqua fortis may be drawn off till it be throughly dry Then break the Glass and take out the coagulated Medicine in the bottom which is black without-side but white within break this into small pieces and then dissolve it in about four ounces of Aqua fortis before drawn off till the Powder grow black and then you have the true Philosophical Moon take this clear Liquor and put it into a cold place and it will shoot into Crystals Take these Crystals and dry them by the fire not in the Sun if you do they will grow black and unprofitable and when they are sufficiently dried keep them for your use without edulcoration Virtue Use and Dose 'T is a most powerful Cathartick with which the most skilful Chymists purge in the Cachexy and Dropsie c. it also purges all serous and watry Humors and cures external Tumors of the Body in the strongest Constitutions it expels the watrish humors in the sides which cause various Symptoms and Diseases and it relieves any parts of the body overprest with humors The Dose is from four to five grains in a morning in a good draught of warm Wine It is most proper to use it in the decrease of the Moon about her last Quarter unless urgent occasion require otherwise Turpethum Minerale verum or the true Turbith Mineral THE true and genuine Turbith Mineral is not by the best Chymists prepared from crude Mercury with Aqua fortis but from sublimate in the following manner Take of the best sublimate Mercury what quantity you please dissolve it in Aqua coelestis warm filter the solution often which being done put the filtred Liquor into a Glass and pour upon it by drops so much Oyl of the Salt of Tartar as is requisite till you see a red Powder in the bottom of the Glass then pour off the Liquor and keep the red Powder edulcorate that with common water till it hath lost all its sharpness and saltness then pour upon it Aqua Mellis six or seven times well rectified and let this be repeated as many times at last take the Powder being dry and pour upon it Alkohol of Wine that it may be well moistned set the humidity on fire and keep it stirring with an Iron Spatula till all the Wine be consumed and so you have Turbith Mineral truly prepared whose excellent virtue is known almost to all neither shall I enlarge further upon it The Dose is from four or five grains to six and seven in some convenient Vehicle Mercurius Dulcis or Sweet Mercury MErcurius dulcis by the best of Spagyrists is thus prepared Take of Mercury sublimate six ounces of crude Mercury four ounces Mix them well that the crude Mercury may be no more seen sublime it the common way and this sublimation repeat five or six times till the Mercury becomes insipid or sweet The red Powder in the bottom and the white which is sublimated into the neck of the Glass is to be thrown away and that in the middle only reserved and so you have Mercurius dulcis truly prepared break the Glass and take it out pulverize it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It doth wonders in the Dropsie Plague Pleurisie Gout yellow Jaundice c. for by purifying the blood and rectifying the marrow in the bones it radically drives out all noxious humors from the body it is also an excellent Cathartick and by right deserves to be called a Panacea In all desperate diseases caused by a putrefaction of humors it is of singular use for it draws forth all poisonous and vitious humors and doth not move Vomiting but only by stool it gently purgeth and performs all its operations without trouble It kills Worms heals all Venereal Ulcers yea the Pox it self and it powerfully dries and radically takes away the defluxions of the Brain The Dose from one scruple to half a dram and in strong bodies two scruples Mercurius Vitae Corrected LET Mercurius vitae vitrified by the benefit of common Borax be finely powdered pour upon it distilled Vinegar first strongly impregnated with Spirit of Salt of Nitre and again well dryed in Sand so shall you have after due edulcoration a Powder which is safer to be taken and whose desired operations are performed with less trouble than by that of other preparations Virtue Use and Dose It is good in Quartan and other intermitting Feavers in most diseases of the Head in the Plague Dropsie Leprosie Pox malignant Ulcers and the like grievous affects it works wonders Dose in weak bodies from two grains to three in strong bodies from four to five either by it self or in Conserve of Roses or Violets or so many grains may be infused in Wine or other convenient Liquor all night in the morning let it be strained through a Cloth and drunk The Aperitive Magistery of Mars TAke of the Juyce of Sorrel depurated three pound pour it upon eight ounces of the best Tamarinds rub them well together either with your hands or with a wooden Pestle in an earthen Bason not a Pewter one that it may be all like Pulp or thick Pottage then take out all the husks and little stringy fibres boil it a little and clarifie it with the whites of two Eggs then strain it through a woollen Cloth and being clear put it into a glass Cucurbit to which add filings of Steel well cleansed from all its filth four ounces Let them
keep it for use To the candid Reader THou hast here courteous Reader these Arcana's being Chymical and other Preparations partly private elaborated with my own care and Experience and partly from others yet by a due method produced in this place which for the dispensing our following Compositions are wholly necessary for thee with which few in this place I do satisfie my self I do neither hope for nor expect any other thing than thanks for things found and pardon for those omitted therefore do thou accept of these things such as they are as well with a benevolent as a ready hand and give when need requires thy assistance to those that want it improve all prudently and by these things preserve thy Neighbours health SECT V. Of Species and Powders Species Diasolis or the Compound Species of the Sun TAke Harts-horn and Elks hoof Spagyrically calcined sealed Earth of each a dram and an half Oriental Bezoar a dram Diaphoretick Mineral Iovial Bezoar of each two scruples Magistery of Pearls and-red Corals white Amber prepared of each half a dram the Solar and Animal Unicorn bone of a Stags heart of each a scruple true Gallia moschata eleven grains Oyls of Cinamon and Citrons of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is an Arcanum in all Epidemical and Pestilential diseases Erysipelas's poysonous draughts and in the Asthma or most dangerous straitness of the Breast for it defends the Heart from danger of poyson and expels by Sweat all noxious humors from it and doth wonderfully relieve it in all its distempers The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple in Carduus water Elder flowers or Treacle or any other appropriate Vehicle Pulvis Bezoarticus Imperialis or the Imperial Bezoartick Powder Take of Elks hoofs and Harts horn Spagyrically calcined of each three drams the red Oriental Bole prepared Iovial Bezoar of each two drams Oriental Bezoar stone sealed Earth of each a dram and a half flower of Sulphur compound the Animal Unicorn Magistery of Oriental Pearls red Coral of each half a dram native Cinnabar prepared bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Diaphoretick in all peracute diseases in burning malignant and Epidemical Feavers for it wonderfully drives out by Sweat all poisonous and vitious humors from the Heart and other principal Members The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple in appropriate sudorifick Waters or in Water or Decoction of the shaving of Hartshorn Species Dialunae or compound Species of the Moon Take roots and seeds of Peony gathered in a due time Elks hoofs Spagyrically calcined Magistery of Mans Skull of each half an ounce of the true Soul of the Moon in powder Lunar Bezoar of each four drams native Cinnabar prepared Misleto of the Oak Squills prepared of each two drams the Secundine of a Woman dryed but it must be of her first child and that a son also Peacocks dung prepared of each a dram and a half Salt of Oriental Pearls and red Corals of each a dram true Castor long Pepper Cubebs of each a scruple the best Musk and Ambergriese of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder to which add Oyl of Hartshorn rectified Oyl of white Amber Nutmegs and Rue of each half a scruple Mix them again and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It doth wonders in Lunatisms Epilepsies or Comitials Vertigo's Lethargies Subeth and in all cold congealed evils of the Brain it doth also relieve those who are troubled with frightful dreams and uncertain fears The Dose in curing is from a scruple to half a dram given in the Fit in our Epileptick or Apoplectick or any other convenient water But in preservation it is given in all Quarters of the Moon and in all moist and unconstant seasons of Air from half a scruple to a scruple in the fore-mentioned Waters Pulvis Epilepticus mirabilis or the wonderful Epileptick Powder Take of the Skull of a man strangled and calcined without fire an ounce Misleto of the Oak counterfeit Cinnabar Elks boofs of each half an ounce Mix them and make a Powder of which give a scruple to Children immediately after the Fit but to full grown persons a scruple let this be repeated and it cures them Pulvis Ophthalmicus or a Powder for the Eyes Take of white Sugar Candy and Tuty prepared of each two drams Pearls prepared and Sarcocol of each half a dram Beans prepared a seruple Mix them and make a most fine Powder for the Eyes Virtue Use and Dose This Powder is a great Secret to me in many affects of the Eyes and first it heals dulness and spots in the Eyes it wipes away the little clouds and specks therein and is a present remedy for watry Eyes It sharpens the Sight and makes it clear and then conserves the Eyes sound and well It being used in time a small part of this Powder is sprinkled into the Eyes morning and evening or it may also be mixed with other Eye-medicines Species Diamartis or the Compound Species of Mars Take Tormentil Nutmegs Galls of each half an ounce Crocus Haematitis Crocus Martis made by calcination of each three drams Zedoary Calamus aromaticus white Amber prepared roots of Cinquefoil and Cloves of each two drams ashes of Spunge Oriental red Bole prepared sealed Earth Acacia of each a dram and a half seeds of Plantane those things corruptly called Rose seeds of each four scruples Harts horn and Mans bones Hermetically calcined of each a dram burnt Alum Soul of Vitriol of each half a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It helps the tenderness of the Stomach also Dysenteries pains in the Guts and spitting of blood and matter the Gonorrhoea Haemorrhoids It helps those that cannot hold their water or have a bloody Urine it stops Womens menstrual Purgations And lastly it stops all Haemorragies of blood from what part soever it proceeds The Dose from a scruple and half a dram to one dram in some convenient Liquor Species Diamercurii or the Compound Powder of Mercury Take seeds of Cina thirteen drams Mercurius dulcis five drams the best Rhubarb Gummi Turbith Corallina of each two drams shavings of Harts horn red Myrrh of each a dram tops of the lesser Centaury Tansie Camphire of each a scruple Oyl of Hazel-wood distilled per descensum Spirit of Vitriol of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is given for the Worms the Moon decreasing from a scruple to a dram according to the age and strength of the Patient it is given in Milk and is an excellent Medicine against all kind of Worms for having killed them it brings them away by stool It is given also in water of Wormwood
and Liver once heated They gently and pleasantly remove and repel all Inflammations as well internal as external The dose is two three four or five at a time Rotulae Carminativae or Carminative Rowls Take of our Carminative Oyl a dram and a half Cinamon and Cloves of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Carminative water sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make all into little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They dissipate the wind and ventose humors lurking in the Ventricle and Guts They help Digestion and sour Belchings and give ease in the Nephritick pains by moving Urine and bringing away the Stone They are given as necessity requires three four or five at a time Rotulae Diacymini Take the species of Diacymini and Dianisi of each half an ounce of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur with Aniseeds Oyl of Fenil of each a scruple Oyl of Oranges and Mace of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Aqua benedicta Serpilli sixteen ounces Mix them and make a Confection in Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They powerfully dissipate the flatulencies of the Bowels and are good in all cold Distempers They wonderfully relieve old Folks and all those troubled with distempers of the Brain Vertigo Stomach Arteries Liver Spleen also in the Cough Asthma passion of the Heart Wind-Colick Quartan Agues c. They help digestion amend ill habits of body and free the Hypochonders when distended with wind Let the sick take one or more as he pleases Rotulae contra Vermes or Rowls against the Worms Take of our species Diacina two ounces white Sugar dissolved in water of the roots of Couch-grass and Tansie of each sixteen ounces Mix them and make little Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They kill Worms and bring them away They are given some days together to Children troubled with the Worms two three four or five at a time more or less as need requires Rotulae Mithridaticae praeservantes or preservative Rowls of Mithridate Take Extract of Mithridate prepared with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined Citron seeds husked compound flowers of Sulphur Emerauld prepared Oriental red Bole prepared of each a dram roots of Tormentil and Zedoary of each half a dram Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral Camphire of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Angelica of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Rue of each four grains the best Sugar dissolved in the waters of Sorrel and Roses sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Rowls Rotulae Theriacales liberantes Take Extract of Venice Treacle prepared with distilled Vinegar a dram and an half Elks horn Spagirically calcined sealed Earth seeds of Sorrel Tincture of Sulphur Hyacinth prepared of each a dram roots of Elicampane and Angelica of each half a dram wood of Aloes bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each a scruple Oyl of Camphire and red Myrrh of each ten grains Oyl of Cassia lignea and Zedoary of each four grains white Sugar sixteen ounces Dissolve the Sugar in Carduus and Scabious-water and make little Rowls for use Rotulae Angelicae praeservativae pro gravidis or preservative Rowls of Angelica for Women with Child Take Extract of the roots of Angelica made with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined sealed Earth Bole Armenick prepared roots of female Peony seeds of Sorrel of each a dram Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral Hyacinth prepared of each half a dram Mace macerated in Vinegar and again dryed Cassia lignea Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Oyls of white Amber rectified and Zedoary of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Citrons of each four grains white Sugar dissolved in water of Tormentil and Betony sixteen ounces Mix all and make little Cakes Rotulae Zedoarticae pro Pueris or Rowls of Zedoary for Children Take Extract of Zedoary made with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Elks horn Spagirically calcined white Amber prepared sealed Earth Oriental red Bole prepared of each a dram roots of male Peony of white Diptamus and Tormentil of each two scruples Emerauld prepared Hyacinth prepared seeds of Citrons husked seeds of Sorrel and Cina of each half a dram Magisteries of red Coral Oriental Pearls and Crabs eyes the bone of a Stags heart Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds of each a scruple Oyls of Cinamon Mace Citrons of each four drops white Sugar sixteen ounces Mix all and with the Sugar dissolved in water of Roses and Water-lily flowers make little Cakes Virtue Use and Dose They are good against the Contagion of the Plague and defend and preserve the body from being hurt by any malignant and infectious Air. The dose when there is occasion is two or three at a time Rotulae Catarrhales calidae or hot Rowls for a Catarrh Take species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram species of Aromaticum rosatum Diaireos simple of each half a dram Frankincense Mastich Harts-horn prepared of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Betony-water five ounces Make little Rowls and smear them gently with Oyl of Cloves Virtue Use and Dose When the humor is preternaturally sent from the Brain to the Eyes Nose Mouth c. or if it falls upon any other part and is perceived to hurt the actions of that part by altering it from its natural quality and state in such a case these Rotula's are of excellent use for they stop all cold Catarrhs and comfort the Head and Breast The dose is three or four at a time Rotulae Catarrhales frigidae or Rotula's for a cold Catarrh Take seeds of white Poppy bruâ—sed four ounces of the heads that contain the seeds grosly powdered two ounces Let them infuse a few days in water of Scabious and Coltsfoot of each a like quantity then distil them and in a sufficient quantity of this distilled Liquor dissolve an ounce of Mastich let it boil a little and then filter it to which add of white Sugar eight ounces and so make little Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose When the Catarrh is thin and sharp the Head hot and the Face and Eyes appear red the humor exasperating and exulcerating the part upon which it falls and a bitter saltness is perceived and a Feaver begun then are these Rotula's of great use The dose is three or four at a time SECT VIII Of Morsels Morsuli Cephalici or Cephalick Morsels TAke Conserve of the flowers of Peony and Rosemary of each half an ounce species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each two ounces Mans skull Spagirically calcined Elks horn prepared in the same manner of each a dram roots and seeds of Peony duly gathered Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Oyl of white Amber rectified a scruple Oyls of Lavender Nutmegs and Caraways of each four grains white Sugar dissolved in our Epileptick and
Apoplectick Waters of each sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make little Morsels Virtue Use and Dose They are used as well in preserving from as curing the Epilepsie Apoplexy and Palsie and other dangerous diseases of the Head Brain and Nerves The dose in preservation is from half a dram to a dram at all Quarters of the Moon but in curing it is given from a dram to two or three in the Fit or a little after either by it self or in some proper Vehicle And if necessary repeat it but to Children by reason of their age half so much or less is a sufficient dose Morsuli Regii Take green Pistick Nuts two ounces Pines cleansed sweet Almonds of each an ounce Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral of each a dram the Cordial Flowers cut small of each a pugil Oyl of Mace a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Rose-water sixteen ounces Mix them and make them into little bits or Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are of a grateful taste and comfortable above measure They nourish and restore those who languish under any Weakness Phthisick Consumption or are extenuated with a long Disease You cannot err in the dose for they may be taken at Meat or before or after it as the sick pleaseth Morsuli Rosati Take the best Conserve of red Roses two ounces species of Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce species de Gemmis frig Diamargar frigid of each two drams Confectio Alkermes Troches of Barberries flowers of Nitre of each a dram Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each half a dram Elaeosaccharum of Roses and Citrons of each a scruple Cinamon and Mace of each ten grains white Sugar sixteen ounces dissolve it in water of Roses and Strawberries of each a like quantity Mix all and make little Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are proper for all intemperate heat of the Head Heart Stomach Liver Womb and Reins and are given successfully in burburning cholerick Feavers They refresh those that are weak and dejected with a long Disease and restore them to their pristine strength They help the trembling of the Heart the defection of the Spirits and Digestion and those whose Countenance is vitiated The dose is from two drams to half an ounce Morsuli Pectorales or Pectoral Morsels Take Lohoch sanum expert two ounces species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce compound flowers of Sulphur juyce of Liquorish extracted of each two drams roots of Flower-de-luce Aliptae Moschatae of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur anisat Oyl of Fenil of each ten grains white Sugar sixteen ounces dissolve the Sugar in water of Horehound and Coltsfoot of each a like quantity Mix them and make little Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They relieve those afflicted with a lingering Cough Hoarsness Asthma c. They help difficulty of Breathing cut and attenuate the thick humors in the Breast and Lungs and ease pain there The dose is from half a dram to one or two every hour or when the Patient pleaseth Morsuli Refectivi de Cancris or Refective Morsels of Crabs Take the carnous part of River-Crabs boiled in pectoral Waters two ounces Conserve of Damask Roses an ounce and a half Pines cleansed green Pistick Nuts sweet Almonds of each macerated all night in scabious-Scabious-water an ounce white Sugar dissolved in our water of Calves Lungs five ounces Mix them and in the end add Syrup of Mastich two ounces Lac Sulphuris two drams Troches of Pearls and Oyl of Nutmegs exprest of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds a scruple Mix them and with great diligence according to Art make a Confection into little Morsels Virtue Use and Dose It is an Arcanum against the Phthisick and Consumption of the body which ought to be preferred deservedly before many other Remedies for there is nothing almost that doth more conserve the radical moisture than these It restores lost strength and comforts the principal members The dose is often in the day from two drams to half an ounce more or less according to the Complexion and Sex of the Patient Morsuli Stomachici or Stomach-morsels Take Diacydonium simple two ounces preserved China Ginger an ounce Calamus aromaticus preserved green half an ounce Nutmegs Cassia lignea the lesser Galangal Mace of each a dram seeds of Coriander prepared Cummin seeds of each half a dram Oyls of Cloves and Cinamon of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in our stomachical Water sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They wonderfully comfort a cold Stomach and help it to retain the meat They roborate and strengthen the members of Nutrition hurt and debilitated and do powerfully excite the Appetite and Taste They discuss Flatulencies and dissolve ventose Humors They abate and take away the swelling and extension of the Hypochonders and restore the native heat They take away the ill savour of the body and wonderfully help those who have cold Bowels The dose is from one dram to two Morsuli Epatici or Morsels for the Liver Take roots of Scorzonera and Succory preserved of each an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis Conserve of red Roses Raisins of each half an ounce Citron flowers preserved two drams Magistery of red Coral Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds Spodium of Wolfs lungs dryed of each a dram seeds of Sorrel and Purslain of each half a dram flowers of white Agrimony white Sugar dissolved in our Epatick water frigid and calid sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Tablets and gild them with gold Virtue Use and Dose They are very good for the weakness and imbecillity of the Liver they take away its obstructions and give it strength They are good in the Jaundice some kind of Dropsies and ill habit of body The dose is from a dram to two and half an ounce Morsuli Martiales or Morsels of Mars Take filings of Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce Cassia lignea the lesser Galangal Cloves of each a dram Mace Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Oyl of Cinamon half a scruple white Sugar dissolved in water of Wormwood and lesser Centaury eight ounces Mix all and make little morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are profitable in all Obstructions especially of the Spleen and help all the vices of the Stomach Heart Head the paleness of the Face and provoke the Courses in Women c. They are taken in the morning four hours before dinner drinking a draught of Wormwood-wine after it and after taking it to use exercise for an hour The dose from two drams to three at a time Morsuli Viriles Take of our Confection succulata Inda an ounce green Pistick Nuts sweet Almonds Pine-nuts of each half an ounce preserved Nutmegs two drams Venetian Borax lesser Galangal long Pepper Cardamoms the less of each a dram the pizzle of a Bull and a Hart of each half
all depraved Humors The dose is from a scruple to a dram in appropriate Vehicles Sal Uterinum Take roots of Bryony two pound roots of white Diptamus and Peony of each a pound Misleto of the Oak Dwarff Elder and common Elder-berries of each half a pound Rosemary Balm Motherwort Nep and Penny-royal of each four ounces Mix all and calcine them to ashes and with Balm water or any other appropriate Water extract a most white Salt Virtue Use and Dose It opens all obstructions of the Womb helps Convulsions precipitates Suffocations and Fumes and provokes the Terms It removes sterility and takes away many other infirmities of those parts The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in appropriate Vehicles Sal Carminativum Take Chamomil two pound Pennyroyal Mother of Tyme Water-mints and Dill of each a pound Let them be calcined according to Art into white Ashes then add the Ashes following i. e. ashes of Anise Cummin Caraway and Fenil seeds of each two ounces ashes of the lesser Galangal white Ginger and Zedoary of each an ounce Mix all and with chervil-Chervil-water make a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is excellent to discuss wind It helps the Gripes and allays all pain proceeding from wind The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in our Carminative water Sal Febrile Take Sal Armoniack divers times sublimed Nitre prepared Salt of Carduus benedictus of Wormwood and the lesser Centaury of each an ounce Dissolve them all in Succory-water and make of all a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Alexipyretick in Feavers of all kinds whether Quotidians Tertians Semitertians or Quartans c. without danger It is given from half a dram to a dram two or three hours before the Fit in Centaury-water or any other Specifick expecting Sweat toward the end of the Fit And the same dose is to be repeated if the first or second dose doth not perform it Annotation If any one proceeds so ingeniously that from the forementioned specifick Compositions he desires to prepare with the safe and secret Spagiâ—ists the Essential Salts as they call them let him â—ake the simple Herbs or mixt with other Ingrediâ—nts and being well dryed by a temperate heat boil â—hem in common Water according to Art till all â—heir strength and native Salt is well excocted for otherwise his labour is in vain then pour off the Deâ—oction and again boil that to the consistence of Hoâ—ey or to the thickness of a Syrup put that into a â—ery cool place till it shoots into Crystals which â—ake off and purifie well by divers Solutions Filtraâ—â—ons and Coagulations until it be fit for Physical â—se This excellent Salt is also extracted from the â—uyce of Herbs made thick concerning which see â—eguinus Lib. 2. cap. 17. And do thou know Reaâ—er that three grains of these Essential Salts will be â—ore effectual than a scruple of the vulgar made by â—alcinations SECT XII Of Marmelades Marmelada Cephalica or a Marmelade for the Head TAke Diacydonium simple four ounces Rotula's of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each two ounces preserved roots of Peony an ounce Conserve of Rosemary flowers half an ounce preserved Walnuts three Nutmegs preserved in India one Emerauld prepared a dram Elaeosaccharum of white Amber Marjoram and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them and without any other additional Medicine make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Brain and resists all the affects thereof It is also happily given in the Apoplexy Epilepsie Vertigo Lethargy Palsie Trembling c. The dose is from a dram to half an ounce Marmelada Stomachica frigida or a cold Marmelade for the Stomach Take Diacydonium simple four ounces preserved rooâ— of Succory two ounces Rotula's of Diarrhodon Abbatâ— an ounce preserved Emblick Myrobalans Conserve 〈◊〉 red Roses of each half an ounce Nitre vitriolated haâ—â— a dram Mix them and without any additional Medicine make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It relieves the Stomach oppressed with hot Humors It comforts and provokes Appetite Moreover it alters a hot Temperature and is happily given to those that have pains about the Heart or are subject to vomit The dose is the quantity of a Chestnut Marmelada Stomachica calida or a warming Marmelade for the Stomach Take Diacydonium simple four ounces aromatick Rotula's Succulata Inda of each an ounce Bengale Ginger preserved Calamus aromaticus preserved Chebul Myrobalans preserved of each half an ounce preserved Orange and Citron peels of each two drams Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon and Cloves of each a scruple Mix all and without any addition make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Ventricle and parts serving for nutrition It helps Digestion moves Appetite discusseth wind and preserves from putrefaction It opens the obstructions of the Veins and helps Hiccup and Vomiting The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg Marmelada Pectoralis or a Pectoral Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple four ounces our Pectoral Morsels and Rotula's prepared with the juyce of Violets of each two ounces compound flowers of Sulphur an ounce preserved roots of Fenil and Elicampane of each half an ounce extracted juyce of Liquorish two drams species Diaireos simple Confectio Alkermes of each a dram Mix them and without any other addition make a Marmelade and cover it with gold Virtue Use and Dose It helps those who are troubled with infirmities of the Lungs Coughs Asthma's pains of the Breast It also helps those who are subject to a deflux of humors from the Brain upon the Thorax and vital parts The dose is from a dram to two Marmelada Cordialis calida or a hot Cordial Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple four ounces preserved roots of Borage and Bugloss of each an ounce and a half aromatick Rotula's species of Aromaticum Rosarum species de Gemmis and Diambra of each six drams preserved Citron peels and Confectio Alkermes of each half an ounce Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a dram Mix all and make a Marmelade according to Art without any other addition Virtue Use and Dose It strengthens and exhilarates the Heart and all the vital Spirits hurt by cold and refreshes them by its heat It wonderfully helps old people and women troubled with cold Diseases and is very proper for the distempers of the Womb. The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg Marmelada Cordialis frigida or a cold Cordial Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple three ounces Manus Christi perlati Rotula's of Diamargariton frigid of each an ounce and an half Pulp of preserved Citrons Conserve of red Roses of each six drams preserved roots of Succory half an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams precious Stones prepared of each a scruple Mix them and bring all into a Marmelade Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and extinguisheth the heat thereof it contemperates the
Ginger and Grains of Paradise of each an ounce Water-mint Zedoary Iuniper-berries roots of Burnet of each six drams of Avens Tormentil Elicampane and Water-flag of each half an ounce the lesser Galangal Nutmegs Mace Cloves elect Mastich long Pepper Cinamon and Cummin seeds of each two drams All being pulverized mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Sugar dissolved in our Aqua stomachali make an Electuary to which add of our Elixir of Vitriol a sufficient quantity to make it tart or you may use it without if you please Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Stomach by heat corrects its softness and helps its imbecillity It helps Concoction and raiseth a dejected Appetite It comforts the lower Venter and all the instruments of nutrition It is almost a peculiar Remedy for all cold Distempers but it is especially found to dry the superfluous humidities of the Stomach The dose by it self is morning noon and night the quantity of a Nutmeg drinking after it three or four spoonfuls of Spanish Wine or an ounce of our Stomachical water Electuarium Absinthiacum or an Electuary of Wormwood Take Conserve of Pontick Wormwood three ounces Carduus Fumitory Scurvygrass of each an ounce flowers of the lesser Centaury Succory and Elder of each half an ounce preserved Orange peels preserved Indian Nuts of each six drams species of Diacurcuma Diacubeba and Dialacca of each three drams Tincture of red Coral Magistery of Crocus Martis of each two drams Goose dung gathered in the Spring elect Rhubarb of each a dram and a half Salt of Wormwood a dram Oyl of Salt rectified a scruple Mix them and with an equal quantity of Syrup of Harts-tongue and Maidenhair make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It opens and removes all stubborn and desperate obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Gall and is a noble Remedy in both kinds of Jaundice Dropsie c. The dose in the morning three hours before meat and at night going to bed the quantity of a Chestnut more or less Electuarium de Scorzonera or an Electuary of Scorzonera Take preserved roots of Scorzoner a six ounces Conserve of red Roses vitriolated four ounces species Diarrhodon Abbatis and Diacubeba of each an ounce a Wolfs liver prepared Nitre prepared of each a dram seeds of Sorrel and Melons huskt of each four scruples Tincture of red Coral Salt of Warmwood of each half a dram Mix them and with Rob of Barberries and Goosberries of each a like quantity make an Electuary to which add so much Spirit of Sulphur as may make it grateful Virtue Use and Dose It is generally good for all hot Constitutions but especially in the debility obstruction and pains of the Liver It mitigates the heat and fervor of yellow Choler and burning Feavers but chiefly it cools and comforts a flatulent Liver The dose is from a dram to half an ounce Electuarium de Nitro or an Electuary of Nitre Take preserved Eryngo roots four ounces species of Lithontribon two ounces simple Manus Christi an ounce and a half Nitre prepared with Spirit of Vitriol Salt of Wormwood of each six drams Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Aniseeds of each half a dram Mix them and with Syrup of green Ginger make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It powerfully breaks the Stone in the Reins and Bladder and expels it by Urine Moreover it is a great Secret in the Colick suffocation of the Matrix obstructions of the Liver and Spleen debilitated Stomach and in most Feavers The dose is from a dram to two or three morning noon and night at a distance from eating Electuarium Dysentericum or an Electuary for the bloody Flux Take Conserve of wild Poppy flowers old Conserve of Roses of each three ounces our Narcotick Confection two ounces Venice Treacle Tincture of red Coral Blood-stone Essence of Crocus Martis of each two drams Troches of Amber sealed Earth and Spodium of each a dram Oyl of Nutmegs and Cloves of each a scruple Mix them and with our Diacodium Crocatum make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a specifick Medicine to stay all dolorifick fluxes of the Belly and blood flowing from any part the Terms Spitting c. and is also good in the Piles it induceth sleep consolidates Ulcers of the Breast Lungs and Bladder The dose is from a dram to two or three at night going to bed or afterward or in the morning fasting or at any time of the day the Stomach being empty It is given either by it self or in Vehicles respecting the Disease and part affected Diascordium Rosatum or Diascordium Rosated Take Conserve of red Roses vitriolated eleven ounces Bole Armoniack prepared three drams Scordium two drams Diptamus of Creet roots of Tormentil Bistort and Gentian Terra Lemnia Cinamon Lignum Cassie Gum Arabick Galbanum Styrax Calamitis of each a dram long Pepper white Ginger Opium prepared Spagirically and dissolved in aromatick Wine seeds of Sorrel of each twenty three grains Mix them and with Syrup of the Juyce of Citrons bring all into the form of a thick Electuary Virtue Use and Dose We happily use it according to the mind of Hieronymus Fracastorius in those cases where Treacle is not allowed as to Children and great-bellied Women But in the Plague and other desperate Epidemical diseases we are used to give it in this manner following Take of the exprest iuyce of Citrons an ounce Syrup of the juyce of Sorrel Vinegar of Elder flowers of each half an ounce Diascordium rosatum a dram and a half of our Bezoar powder half a scruple Mix them and make a Draught which works wonderfully and virtually expels all poysonous noxious Humors by Sweat SECT XIV Of purging Confections and Electuaries Catharticum Caesareum or an Imperial Cathartick TAke green Ginger of China an ounce Magistery of Scammony half an ounce Confectio Alkermes a dram and a half species of Diarrhodon Abbatis moistned with Spirit of Vitriol Cream of Tartar of each a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple Oyl of Cinamon ten grains Of the above mentioned Ginger so much as will suffice to make all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It is a pleasant Cathartick â—n all cold Distempers and is by us prescribed for Princes and Great persons For it throughly purgeth the body without any hurt or molestation It refresheth the Mind provokes Appetite strengthens all the principal Members takes away the stink of the Nose and Mouth rectifies the Blood dissipates Wind. The dose is from a dram to four scruples Catharticum Regium or the Royal Cathartick Take Confectio Alkermes vitriolated ten drams Magistery of Scammony half an ounce powder of red Roses moistned with Spirit of Vitriol acid Tartar of each a dram Nitre prepared a scruple Mix them and bring all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose This solutive Confection of Alkermes I invented for dainty Constitutions and is a most excellent Purge in malignant Feavers and
Virtue Use and Dose This Water is not undeservedly called Chast because it doth so restrain and bridle the fiery prolifick Seed of Monks Nuns Widows and others who are appointed to live a single life so that all libidinous persons use it who are Lovers of Chastity and Modesty and are willing to suppress those excitements without danger to their health For by its frigidity and a certain occult quality it dissolves the Venereal matter Besides it cures the Gonorrhoea or Flux of Seed without any trouble universal Remedies being premised The dose is morning or evening or in time of necessity from one ounce to three Aqua Febrifuga or an Ague-shasing Water Take of our Species febrifuga the lesser Centaury Carduus benedictus Cinquefoil and Wormwood of each four ounces Macerate them in Goats whey and distil them in Sand cohobating thrice that is pour the abstracted Liquor upon the Faeces three times and draw it off again Virtue Use and Dose It doth without doubt utterly extirpate bastard Tertians and Quartans universal Medicines being premised The dose is from two ounces to three either in the morning or in time of the Fit Aqua Hysterica or a Hysterical Water Take dryed Elder-berries three ounces roots of Bryony white Diptamus Peony and Zedoary of each an ounce Misleto of the Oak six drams Cassia lignea red Myrrh Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron and true Castor of each half an ounce seeds of Agnus castus Cummin Carrots of each three drams flowers of black Hellebore two drams Let them be cut and bruised and put into six pound of Malmsey Wine and there macerated for fourteen days then add water of Mugwort Motherwort Pennyroyal Balm and Nep of each a pound Mix them and distii them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose This salubrious Water cures and mitigates all the Suffocations of the Womb nay the worst of them and all the grievous Symptoms thence arising The dose is from two spoonfuls to three by it self in the Fit or it may be given with a scruple of Species Diajovis or with ten grains of our Jovial Troches or with twenty grains of our uterine Specifick But in preservation it is given only one spoonful at a time at the four Quarters of the Moon There is also another most famous Hysterical water for the Epilepsie formerly given by that excellent and worthy Man Dr. Iacob Martin Physician of Lubeck and my Honoured Friend and this Water is still used in the Shops and is vulgarly called Aq. Lit. A. and is thus made Take the best Cinamon an ounce Cloves Ginger and Nutmegs of each six drams peels of Citrons and Oranges of each half an ounce Spicknard four scruples Endive Pennyroyal Scordium Balm Mint female Southernwood and Motherwort of each two ounces Sage eight ounces Marjoram half an ounce Rosemary four ounces true Castor sixteen scruples burnt Wine six pound Rhenish Wine sixteen pound Let them digest three days in a warm place and afterward distil them in Balneo Aqua Dominarum or the Ladies Water Take Cassia lignea two ounces roots of red Mugwort Gentian and white Diptamus of each an ounce and a half bitter Almonds kernels of Peaches and Cherries of each an ounce red Myrrh Venetian Borax seeds of Lavender of each half an ounce Horehound Rue and Savin of each three drams flowers of Centaury the less of Elder and white Violets of each two drams the kernel of the stone Aetites true Castor Opopanax Sagapen and Assa foetida of each a dram and a half black Pepper Oriental Saffron and white Amber of each a dram Let them be grosly cut and bruised and put into six pound of Malmsey Wine and digest them for eight days then add water of Calamint Bugloss Motherwort Mugwort Pennyroyal and Vervain of each a pound Mix them and distil them in Balneo by an Alembick Virtue Use and Dose It facilitates the Birth and expels the dead Child and the Secundine without delay which if it be long detained doth great injury to the Brain Heart and Stomach by the depraved Vapors that arise from it to those parts wherefore the education of it is not to be neglected nor yet to be done irregularly This Water also by its present help provokes the detained Courses The dose is from a spoonful to three Aqua Antinephritica or a Water for the Stone in the Reins Take roots of Restharrow a pound Cut them small and steep them in three pound of generous Wine for three days and then press them and in the strained Liquor infuse Liquorish Saxifrage root and branch roots of Parsley Eryngo and Burnet of each three ounces Winter-cherries and Iuniper-berries of each fouâ— ounces seeds of Gromel Fenil Melons and Nettles of each two ounces Sassafras and Nephritick wood oâ— each an ounce Cinamon and Mace of each half aâ— ounce Let them stand in Infusion for certain days and then add juyce of Ground-Ivy and Purslain of each a pound and a half juyce of Fumitory Parsley and Fluellin of each a pound Distil them in Balneo and cohobate the second time Virtue Use and Dose It doth to a Miracle amend the calculous disposition of the Reins by comforting the parts and casting forth the stony matter The dose is two spoonfuls both for Cure and Preservation Aqua Lithontriptica or a Water for the Stone Take the kernels of Cherries and Peaches of each ten ounces bitter Almonds five ounces flowers of Elder and Acacia of each three ounces roots of Burnet Restharrow Vervain Eryngo and common Mallows of each an ounce chips of Ashen-tree the stony part of Medlars Goats blood prepared Cinnamon the lesser Galangal Perch-stone and Crabs eyes of each six drams Bay-berries busked Iuniper-berries Winter-cherries of each half an ounce leaves of Ground-Ivy three drams seeds of white Saxifrage and Roman Nettles seeds of Burdock Parsley Broom Gromel Carrots of each a dram Let all be cut and bruised and put into sixteen pound of Malmsey Wine and digested fourteen days often shaking the Vessel and afterward distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is given for the Stone of all kinds but chiefly in the Reins and Bladder where it potently breaks and dissipates it and from thence wonderfully expels the long detained Sand with the Urine It easeth the pains of the Loyns and in an instant opens the passage in the Strangury and Dysary The dose is from one ounce to two in the morning fasting either by it self or with appropriate Syrups Aqua contra ardorem Urinae or a Water against the heat of Urine Take roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows common Mallows and Florentine Flower-de-luce of each two ounces of Pine-nuts cleansed and sweet Almonds of each an ounce and a half seeds of Melons husked and Quinces seeds of Smallage white Poppy Endive and Lettice of each six drams Winter-cherries and Myrtle-berries Cassia fistula and the lesser Galangal of each three drams leaves of Violets Dazies and Betony of each two drams Let them be cut and
the Eyes Take our Ophthalmick water of Crabs half an ounce water of Eyebright and Fenil of each two drams our Ophthalmick Troches and Powder of each a scruple Mix them and make according to Art a whitish Collyrium Virtue Use and Dose It is of great virtue in the dimness and dulness of Sight and in Suffusions of the Eyes and it may be dropped into the Eyes without any pain it being void of all acrimony whatsoever and with it the Eyes may be washed every morning and so continue it for many days together Liquor Nitratus or a Nitrified Liquor Take water distilled from the juyce of Carduus benedictus nineteen ounces Rob of Goosberries four ounces simple Manus Christi two ounces Nitre prepared an ounce Mix them well and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a most admirable Diaphoretick Diuretick Bezoartick Refrigerative c. and is good in all hot and malignant Diseases whatsoever The dose is by it self from one ounce to two or three Liquor Cephalicus or a Cephalick Liquor Take of our Aqua Apoplectica four ounces Aqua Epileptica and Lily of the valley of each three ounces water of Marjoram Betony and Sage of each an ounce and a half Rotula's of Diambra an ounce Confectio Smaragdina half an ounce Salt of white Amber a scruple Mix them faithfully and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of good use in all diseases of the Head and gives present help in the Cephalalgia Hemicrania Epilepsie Apoplexy Madness Vertigo c. It quickens the Senses sharpens the Understanding and recovers a lost Memory The dose is from one spoonful to two Liquor Pectoralis or a Pectoral Liquor Take Cinamon water buglossated and Capon water of each four ounces water of Calves lungs Ground-Ivy Fluellin and Coltsfoot of each three ounces milk of Sulphur three drams flower of Sulphur a dram and a half Magistery of red Coral and Oriental Pearls of each half a dram Mix all and with Manus Christi simple three ounces edulcorate it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use to all those who are troubled with the Asthma Pleurisie Phthisick and Hectick It comforts the Heart and to admiration it takes away the grievous and dangerous Coughs and restores the Patient to his former health The dose morning noon and night is from one spoonful to two But before this Liquor is given it ought to be well shaken Liquor Cordialis or a Cordial Liquor Take of our hot and cold Cordial waters of each four ounces of Cinamon water buglossated and water of a Stags heart of each an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams Salt of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple All being mixed let it be edulcorated with an ounce and a half of simple Manus Christi and reserved for use Virtue Use and Dose It is good for the Heart-burning and pains of the Heart caused by sorrow It cures Palpitation Trembling and Swooning It animates the Spirits exhilarates the Mind refresheth those who are weak and languid It comforts the Heart in general and preserves it from the Plague and many other evils The dose is from one spoonful to two Liquor acidus Perlarum Orientalium or an acid Liquor of Oriental Pearls Take Vinegar of the solution of Oriental Pearls and again drawn off in Balneo two ounces Spirit of Vitriol duly rectified with Spirit of Wine Mix them and you shall have a whitish liquor of wonderful operation which keep as a Treasure for your use Virtue Use and Dose It strengthens the Head Brain Stomach Heart Liver and all the other principal Members It preserves the body from the Apoplexy Epilepsie Vertigo Leprosie Pox c. It raiseth an appetite in recovering Patients It cleanseth the Eyes of clouds and dimness resists Putrefaction and Poyson and is the last refuge in all malignant Feavers and hot Diseases The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram Liquor acidus Corallorum rubeorum or an acid Liquor of red Coral After the preceding manner is this acid Liquor of Coral prepared for the affects of the Head as Epilepsie Melancholy also the Dysentery Flux of the Womb c. and to rectifie the Stomach and Blood It is also a good Medicine to root out many internal Diseases and to refresh the Spirits and Mind The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram Liquor Nephriticus or a Liquor for the Stone and Urine Take Citron water distilled by it self in Balneo our Nephritical water of each a pound and a half Syrup of the juyce of Violets a pound white Sugar candy an ounce Salt of Perch stone and Crabs eyes of each two drams Nitre prepared with flower of Sulphur salt of white Amber of each a dram Mix them and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual in breaking and expelling the Stone both in the Reins and Bladder It provokes Urine and takes away the pain which happens in those parts The dose is in the morning fasting or at a good distance from eating from one spoonful to three Liquor Diaphoreticus Take of our Treacle water six ounces Spirit of Tartar often rectified three ounces Spirit of sealed Earth distilled by it self and rectified Spirit of Guajacum rectified the acid liquor of Oriental Pearls the acid liquor of red Coral of each half an ounce Mix them and in a Glass close shut let them digest for three or four weeks then filter it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It expels all Poyson from the Heart by Sweat It is good in Syncopes sudden Fits Epilepsie Melancholy Quinsie Palsie Dropsie Jaundice Pleurisie Pox Plague Epidemical disease Asthma malignant and putrid Feavers retention of the Courses Contractures Scurvy Scabs or Itch For this Medicine doth excel all others in taking away all Obstructions and Putrefactions And if it be given daily in the Palsie it doth wonders It penetrates the Nerves Muscles Marrow and whatsoever it finds hurtful it expels The dose is from half a dram to two drams in our Harts-horn water or Carduus water or any other Vehicle respecting the Disease Liquor refrigerans or a cooling Liquor Take water of the juyce of Succory four ounces water of Rasberries Carduus Roses Endive and Sorrel of each four ounces Rob of Goosberries and Barberries prepared without Sugar syrup of the juyce of Citrons of each three ounces Nitre prepared eleven scruples Mix them Virtue Use and Dose It cools and comforts admirably in Feavers and all acute hot Diseases The dose is from two ounces to three at a time Liquor Vulnerarius or a Wound-Liquor Take roots of the lesser Galangal Zedoary Crabs eyes and Mace of each half an ounce Foreign Mummy two drams of Nux vomica fifteen grains Let them be grolly bruised and infused in a pound of good generous Wine let them stand in a warm place Virtue Use and Dose The dose of this Mixture is morning and evening a
a dram Let them infuse in a sufficient quantity of sharp Wine in Balneo for five or six days till the Vinegar be perfectly tinctured then filter it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose The smell and odor of the Fume upon hot Coals immediately raiseth Women that are suffocated c. it is also good in the Vertigo's Lethargies and other sleepy diseases And if it be taken inwardly it also performs the same The dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one Acetum Vomitorium or a Vomiting Vinegar Take bark of the roots of Thapsia four ounces â—oots of fresh dryed Asarabacca two ounces seeds of Cart aâ—us or bastard Saffron an ounce Cinamon half an ounce All being bruised and mixed infuse them in four pound of the best Wine Vinegar Let them digest in a Glass close shut for a month often shaking them in the time after distil them in Sand in a Copper body with a Leaden top to it And so you shall have distilled Vinegar impregnated with Saturn and a little sweet all which keep for use not rejecting the flegm Virtue Use and Dose It is a sweet and pleasant Vomit and purgeth all Humors as well cold as hot and is given in Quotidian and Tertian as well true as bastard both which it cures it takes away debility and loathing caused by super fluous sharp humors it is also an approved Medicine in renewed Feavers after seven Fits The dose is from two ounces to three more or less And to delicate bodies it is given in Syrup of Vinegar SECT XXIV Of Epithems Epithema generale or a general Epithem GOod in Melancholy Madness Phrensies immoderate Watchings pain and disorder of the Head in general from any cause Take water of wild Poppy Lettice and Roses of each four ounces of our Troches of Radice Rhodia an ounce Mix them for an Epithem Another of the same efficacy Take water of Henbane Sage and Vervain of each four ounces our Troches of roots of Rhodia an ounce Mix them for an Epithem and when there is a necessity of using it wet a double linen Rag therein and press it gently and apply it warm to the Temples and Forehead and this direction is also to be observed in the following Epithems An Epithem for the pain in the Head coming of a cold Cause with or without a Catarrh Take water of Betony Rosemary and Vervain of each four ounces Peach kernels half an ounce Cubebs three drams Nutmegs and Sandarack of each a dram roots of Mandrakes half a dram Mix them and make an Epithem and apply it warm Another in a hot Cause Take water of Chamomil Sage and Rosemary of each four ounces Peach kernels half an ounce the best Olibanum two drams Cloves Mace and wood of Aloes of each a dram roots of Zedoary half a dram Mix them for an Epithem An Epithem for pains of the Head coming of a hoâ— Cause with or without a Catarrh Take water of Roses Violets and common Mallows of each three ounces all the Sanders of each a dram and a half white Amber prepared a dram flowers of wild Poppy and Vervain of each half a dram Camphire a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Head Another in the same Case Take water of wild Poppy and Roses of each three ounces mans Skull calcined without fire a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram Mix them for an Epithem for the Head which operates wonderfully Epithema Hypnoticum or a Sleep-bringing Epithem Take water of Roses and Lettice of each four ounces Opium Spagirically prepared a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram of the spongy knot growing on wild Roses a scruple Mix them and dissolve them faithfully the mixture being prepared wet a linen Cloth in it and apply it warm to the Temples and moisten the Nostrils with it also and presently they begin to sleep Another to procure Sleep Take water of Nutmegs Lettice and Night shade of each four ounces seeds of white Poppy half an ounce seeds of Henbane and Dill of each two drams roots of Hounds-tongue a dram and a half flowers of Elicampane yellow water-Lily and Violets of each a scruple Bruise the Seeds in a stone Mortar with a wooden Pestle then mix them and press them and so make an Epithem for the Head An experienced warming Cordial Epithem Take water of Cinamon Balm and Bugloss of each three ounces Elks horn Spagirically calcined Cloves Nutmegs and Citron peels of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes a dram Pearls prepared red Coral prepared of each half a dram seeds of Marjoram and Basil of each a scruple Oriental Saffron and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Heart Another for the same Case Take water of Roses Basil and Clove-gillyflowers of each three ounces species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each a dram and a half Dianthos and Gems calcined of each a dram Mix them and make an Epithem to be applied to the region of the Heart A cooling Epithem in the Syncope and other Affects of the Heart Take water of red Roses four ounces water of Sarrel and water-Lily of each four ounces Vinegar violated an ounce red Coral prepared all the Sanders of each a dram sealed Earth and Bole Armeniack of each two scruples of the five precious Stones prepared bone of a Stags heart Pearls prepared Mace Cinamon Camphire of each ten grains Mix them for an Epithem for the Heart A most noble Epithem in the Palpitation of the Heart Take water of Marjoram Basil Balm Roses and Malmsey Wine of each three ounces Vinegar rosated an ounce species de Gemmis calid of Diambra and Diamoschu dulce of each a dram wood of Aloes and Mace of each two scruples Cinamon and Rosemary of each half a dram bone of a Stags heart Pearls and red Coral prepared Citron peel of each a scruple the five precious Stones prepared a scruple Mix all for an Epithem for the Heart Another for the Palpitation of the Heart Take water of Roses Sage and Borage of each three ounces odoriferous Wine an ounce Vinegar violated half an ounce species Diathameron and Diamargariton frigid of each a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined Cassia lignea yellow Sanders Cardamoms the less of each half a dram Oriental Saffron flowers of Cloves and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem to be applied to the Breast An Epithem for the Weakness and Inflammation of the Liver Take water of Water-Lilies Wormwood Endive Roses and Succory of each two ounces Vinegar rosated an ounce species Diatrion santalon half an ounce Crystals of Saturn two drams Rhubarb a dram and a half red Coral prepared two scruples seeds of Purslain and Sorrel of each a scruple Camphire Mace and Spike of each ten grains Mix them and make an Epithem according to Art Another in the same Case Take water of white Epatick flowers Rasberries Strawberries and the lesser Centaury of each three
ounces Vinegar prepared with Sanders an ounce and a half species Diarrhodon Abbatis roots of Scorzonera and Plantane of each two drams Salt of Endive and Succory of each half a dram the four greater cold Seeds and the four lesser cold Seeds of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Liver Epithema Hepaticum in causa frigida or an Epithem for the Liver grieved with a cold Distemper Take Malmsey Wine four ounces water of Agrimony Pauls Betony and Mother of Thyme of each three ounces Spirit of Iuniper an ounce and a half species of Diacurcuma and Diacubeba of each two drams Rhubarb sweet Cane Cane Cassia lignea of each a dram Salt of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each two scruples Oriental Saffron seeds of Cummin and Lavender of each half a dram Squinanth flowers of yellow Stoechas of each a scruple Mix all for an Epithem Epithema in Inflammatione Renum praesentissimum or an Epithem for an Inflammation of the Reins Take juyce of Plantane and Night shade depurated of each four ounces water of Housleek and Purslain of each three ounces odoriferous Wine and Wine Vinegar violated of each an ounce and a half Nitre prepared Mix them and make an Epithem to be applied to the region of the Reins as the manner is But it is to be noted If cooling Epithems are to be applied to noble parts they are not to be applied cold but warm except the heat be very intense and then it may be used cold SECT XXV Of Decoctions Decoctum Catarrhaie or a Decoction for a Catarrh TAke clear Fountain water nine pound clarified Honey five pound Sage Origanum Marjaram Hyssop and Rosemary of each an ounce Boil it to the consumption of the third part and then strain it and to the strained Liquor add roots of Elicampane Coltsfoot and Florentine Flower-de luce of each six drams seeds of Roman Nettles Carduus Anise and Fenil of each half an ounce Maidenhair spotted Lungwort Scabious and Horehound of each two drams the Cordial Flowers and flowers of Coltsfoot and wild Poppy of each a dram Let these macerate 24 hours and then add Cubebs Cinamon Nutmegs Cardamoms the less white Ginger Galangal the less Cloves of each a dram Then let them boil once and so put them into some glass Vessel and let it there stand a whole day and make a clear Decoction according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual in Catarrhs falling from the Head upon the Breast and the parts thereabouts The dose is a good draught at a time or the Patient may drink so much daily as his thirst requires Decoctum Cosmeticum or a Beautifying Water Take Venetian Borax white Sugar Candy and sublimated Mercury of each two drams Let them be finely pulverized and tyed up apart in a linen Rag and boiled in four pound of May-dew gathered off from the Wheat till the Mercury be dissolved and in the strained Liquor while warm dissolve two drams of Camphire then filter it and keep it for use Virtue and Use. It is only applied outwardly to the spots of the Face which it takes away and leaves the Skin white and clean But in using of it take heed lest it touch the Eyes or Teeth Decoctum Arthriticum or a Decoction for the Gout Take small Raisons eight ounces shavings of Guajacum eight ounces roots of China an ounce roots of Liquorish and water-Acorus of each half an ounce Cinamon and the lesser Galangal of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and then infused 24 hours in ten pound of Barley-water afterward boil them over a gentle fire to the consumption of the third part and make a clear Potion according to Art Virtue Use and Dose I use this happily in all Catarrhs and running Gouts proceeding from a destillation of cold Humors especially where the sick is very dry I also ordinarily give it in ill Habits and Dropsies for their common drink for it roborates and drys the body of all its superfluity The Patient cannot well erre in the dose but let him drink at his pleasure Decoctum Pectorale subacidum or a Pectoral Decoction a little tart Take Fountain-water two pound and a half Virgin Honey two pound the best Wine Vinegar a pound and a half Boil it over a gentle fire till it comes to four pound in which infuse small Raisons three ounces seeds of Carduus and Roman Nettles of each an ounce roots of Elicampane Florentine Flower-de-uce and Coltsfoot of each half an ounce Maidenhair Scabious and Hyssop of each two drams Dates Iujubes and Figs of each eight flowers of Coltsfoot Violets Borage and Bugloss of each a dram Let them macerate twenty four hours and then boil them over a gentle fire to the consumption of one part at last strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and aromatize it with a little Cinamon Virtue Use and Dose It attenuates thick humors in the Phthisick Asthma Cough and other Pectoral diseases it cuts the tough softens the hard and brings forth the unprofitable humors it also resists Putrefaction The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Decoctum Pectorale subdulce or a sweetish Pectoral Decoction Take small Raisons and white Sugar Candy of each four ounces roots of Liquorish Coltsfoot and Florentine Flower-de-luce of each an ounce spotted Lungwort Pauls Betony Harts-tongue Maidenhair and Horehound of each an ounce seeds of Myrtles Anise and Fenil of each three drams flowers of Chamomil Marsh-mallows Bugloss Liverwort lesser Centaury and Violets of each a dram and a half Dates dryed Figs Iujubes and Sebestens of each eight Let them be cut and bruised and infused 24 hours in four pound of Hydromel two pound of the water of the Juyce of Scabious distilled then boil them to the consumption of the third part and about the end of the Decoction let it be aromatized with Galangal the less Cinamon Cardamoms the less and white Ginger of each a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram Then strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a clear Potion which edulcorate with white Sugar Candy Virtue Use and Dose It relieves those troubled with Asthma's distempers of the Liver Pleurisies Coughs c. and the continual use of this Decoction for some time cures the Consumption For it facilitates the Spitting mundifies the Breast heals the Ulcers of the Lungs c. nay and it opens the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen also The dose is morning noon and night from two ounces to three Decoctum Rad. Chinae Pectorale or a Pectoral Decoction of the Roots of China Take the best and heavy roots of China cut cross into little round and thin pieces three ounces Infuse it in water of Scabious Coltsfoot and Pauls Betony of each two pound Let them stand in infusion 24 hours in a glazed Vessel in a warm place well covered with Cloaths then add Bugloss an ounce roots of Liquorish and Elicampane of each half an ounce seeds of Cudwort and Fenil of
seeds of Roses of each two drams dead Nettles with their red flowers a dram and a half Nutmegs Cinamon the lesser Galangal and Cloves of each a dram Sebestens nine Boil these according to Art in three pound of Plantane to the consumption of one third and in the clear strained Liquor dissolve one dram of Camphire and if you please edulcorate it also with Miya of Quinces Virtue Use and Dose It is an experienced Medicine in Dysenteries and other Fluxes of the Belly and it also cures divers Haemorrhages The dose is a good draught in a morning fasting Decoctum Polypodii purgans or a purging Decoction of Polypody Take roots of Polypody of the Oak and Raisons stoned of each two ounces Carthamus seeds and Barley of each an ounce and a half Liquorish half an ounce Hyssop Scabious Coltsfoot and Germander of each a dram Iujubes fifteen fat Figs six and Dates cleansed from their skin four Boil them in so much Whey that there may remain about twenty one ounces and about the end of the Decoction add Leaves of Sena three ounces Troches of Agarick three drams seeds of Fenil and Anise of each a dram and a half Let them stand over the fire a while but not boil much then make a clear Potion according to Art Virtue Use and Dose We happily use it in the Asthma Phthisick Pleurisie and other Pectoral diseases The dose is from four ounces to five and the body being purged let the Patient drink our Pectoral Decoction called Subacidum or Subdulce as occasion serves Decoctum Galli antiqui farcinati or a Decoction of an old Cock stuffed Take Polypody an ounce and a half Carthamus seeds an ounce Cinamon three drams leaves of Sena white Turbith and Orange peel of each two drams white Ginger the lesser Galangal and Mace of each a dram species Diacymini and Dianisi of each half a dram and one Bay-berry The Species being mixed and put in a linen Rag let them be put in when the Cock is almost boiled enough Virtue Use and Dose It is very useful in the Colick when it proceeds from a thick flatulent and flegmatick Cause Decoctum Sanguinem mundificans or a Decoction to cleanse the Blood Take Citrine Myrobalans an ounce flowers of Violets dryed a dram Prunes nineteen Sebestens and Iujubes of each eight Boil them in water of the flowers of Acatia to three ounces in which dissolve of our potable Scammony a scruple Oyl of Cinamon and Aniseeds of each a drop Mix them and make a draught for one dose Virtue and Use. It purgeth Choler of both kinds Flegm and other Humors It also mundifies the Blood and keeps the body laxative in Feavers Decoctum Senae or a Decoction of Sena Take elect Sena three drams acid Tartar a dram Fumitory water warm four ounces Let them infuse all night and in the morning let them boil a little yet so as that the Tartar may be throughly dissolved and in the strained Liquor while it is warm dissolve of the best Manna six drams Again strain it and then add Cinamon water a dram Elaeosaccharum of Citrons ten grains Mix them and make a purging draught for one dose to be given warm Virtue and Use. It is a good Purge for the whole Body for it opens the obstructions of all the Bowels and mundifies the blood But in the first place it purgeth Choler both black and yellow and Flegm also It cleanseth and strengthens the Head Brain Heart Lungs Liver Spleen and all the Senses of the Body and carrieth off all that offends them It retardes Age increaseth Youth Moreover it is an excellent Medicine in all chronical tartarous and melancholy diseases as the Epilepsie Dotage Deliria's Heach-ach Gout Elephantiasis Scabs Pustles Itch and all other vices of the Skin It is also profitably given to Women with Child and to Children and Men of all ages for it purgeth modestly without any molestation But for Children and young Patients half or a third part of it is sufficient Decoctum Senae cum Rhabarbaro or a Decoction of Sena with Rhubarb Take elect Sena two drams the best Rhubarb and acid Tartar of each a dram of Fumitory water warm four ounces Let them infuse all night and in the morning let them boil a little enough to dissolve the Tartar afterward the expression being made and in the strained Liquor while warm dissolve of the best Manna six drams Again strain it and then add Cinamon water a dram Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds ten grains Mix them and make a purging draught for one dose which is to be taken warm Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth Flegm and both kinds of Choler chiefly from the Stomach Liver and Spleen c. It mundifies the Blood opens all Obstructions and cures all Affects thence proceeding as Jaundice Dropsie Tumor of the Spleen putrid and continual Feavers pains of the Hypochonders c. Let no man wonder at the small dose of Sena in this Prescript for four drams of Sena infused in four ounces of Fumitory water do not purge more than two drams macerated in the like quantity because the water doth extract as much as it can and leaves the rest therefore two drams of Sena are sufficient to quicken other things in four ounces of Water Decoctum Rhabarbari or a Decoction of Rhubarb Take of the best Rhubarb a dram and a half red Roses dryed half a dram roots of Liquorish sliced and flowers of Marsh-mallows of each a scruple Let them be cut and bruised and infused all night in three ounces of Plantane water warm in the morning strain it in the strained Liquor dissolve of the best Manna half an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs ten grains Spirit of Vitriol four drops Mix them for one dose and give it warm in the morning for a draught Virtue and Use. It is very effectual in all Fluxes of the Belly it gives one or two motions and by those it expels the cause of the bloody Flux Annotation Many use Rhubarb torrefied which is an evil practice because it consumes the virtue of it and the terrene part only remains and so makes it more stiptick Decoctum Violatum purgans or a purging Decoction of Violets Take leaves of Sena two ounces Fenil seeds and acid Tartar of each half an ounce dryed Violet flowers and the best Rhubarb of each a dram and a half white Ginger and Cinamon of each a dram Galangal the less and Cloves of each half a dram Let them infuse all night in Fumitory water warm in the morning boil them a little and afterward strain it and take of the clear strained Liquor ten ounces Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb and Syrup of the juyce of Violets Syrup of the juyce of Sorrel and Oxysaccharum simple of each an ounce Mix them and make a Potion which divide into four equal parts for four doses Virtue and Use. It is good in Tertian and Quotidian Feavers c. and gently purgeth all humors that offend
it is likewise an excellent Remedy for the Stone And is given in the running Gout Scurvy Sciatica and such like diseases and is to be continued four mornings successively Decoctum Nucis Cupressi or a Decoction of Cyprus Nuts Take Cyprus Nuts Turkish Galls of each eight ounces filings of Iron prepared with Vinegar Roch Alum of each four ounces medicinal Stone and Pomegranate peel of each an ounce and a half Let them be bruised and mixed and boiled according to Art in a sufficient quantity of red Wine or Plantane water Virtue and Use. It is applied outwardly and doth extenuate and consume all superfluous Carnosities c. The way of using is to wet a Sponge in it warm and having squeezed it bind it upon the part Decoctum Nigrum or a black Decoction Take crude Alum a pound green Vitriol half a pound Turkish Galls four ounces Verdigriese and white Tartar of each two ounces Mix them and boil them in eight pound of Wine Vinegar to the consumption of one half then add of Spirit of Wine rectified a pound Again let them be mixed and filtred and then kept for use Virtue and Use. A linen Rag wet in it and applied to the part drys and heals old Venereal Ulcers in any part of the body and takes away other Defluxions and Excrescences of evil flesh and roborates and mundifies the part affected It also perfectly cures Wounds and Bruises in other Creatures SECT XXVI Of Gargarisms Gargarismus de Althaea or a Gargarism of Marsh-mallows TAke Roots of Marsh-mallows an ounce of common Mallows half an ounce leaves of Violets Strawberries Hyssop and Sage of each three drams leaves of Peaches and Cherries of each two drams shavings of Ivy wood Album Graecum prepared with Marigold water Honey of Saturn of each a dram and a half Vitriol of Mars and Venus of each a dram flowers of Marigolds Marsh-mallows wild Poppies and Bugle of each a dram Let them be grosly cut bruised then mixed and boiled in Fountain-water and Wine Vinegar of each a pound and a half let them boil to the consumption of one third and toward the end of its boiling add of Rob of Elder a sufficient quantity to make it grateful Virtue and Use. It is of good use in the Quinsie Imposthumes of the Throat Jaws Tongue and Uvula it dissolves and discusseth the Inflammations of the Tonsils and allays and amends the pain and difficulty in swallowing but the Patient ought to use this Gargarism every hour And it is to be observed That all Gargarisms are to be used warm Gargarismus de Glycyrrhiza or a Gargarism of Liquorish Take roots of Liquorish sliced an ounce Album Graecum two drams Roch Alum a dram Boil these a little in water of Plantane Roses common Mallows and Bugle of each equal parts and a sufficient quantity of all Take of this strained Liquor a pound white Wine three ounces Diamoron and Dianucum of each a dram and a half Mix them and make a Gargarism Virtue and Use. It is of excellent use in a desperate Quinsie and other distempers of the Mouth and Throat if the Patient useth it often and warm Gargarismus Lacteatus or a Gargarism of Milk Take new Milk from the Cow two pound Album Graecum half an ounce Honey of Roses two spoonfuls Verdigriese half a dram Boil them and when strained make a Gargarism Virtue and Use. It is effectual in the Quinsie repels the Tumors and pains of the Jaws and Mouth and detergeth and heals Ulcers in those parts and it is to be used often Gargarismus de Cortice Granatorum or a Gargarism of Pomegranate bark Take of Pomegranate rind half an ounce Endive Scabious Night shade and Burnet of each three drams seeds of Sorrel and Quinces Barberries of each two drams burnt Alum a dram and a half flowers of Marsh-mallows Balaustines and Bugle of each a dram Boil them in water of Roses and Plantane and red Stiptick Wine of each a pound to the consumption of the third part Take of this strained Liquor two pound Diamoron and Dianucum of each two ounces Syrup of Pomegranates clarified Honey and Vinegar of Roses of each an ounce Spirit of Nitre so much as will make it grateful Mix them and make a Gargarism to be applied warm Virtue and Use. This is also proper for the Quinsie and it doth in a wonderful manner as well allay the Inflammation as dissolve the Imposthume and is attended with a singular discussive faculty But the use of it must be often repeated Gargarismus de Auricula Judae or a Gargarism of Iews Ears Take Barley husked half an ounce Liquorish sliced and Iews Ears cut of each two drams flowers of Marsh-mallows a dram Let them boil a little in a sufficient quantity of Plantane water Take of this clear Decoction a pound Syrup of Violets two ounces Nitre prepared a dram Mix them for a Gargarism with which let the Mouth be often washed Virtue and Use. The Medicine is of great worth as by Experience it hath been proved against Inflammations driness roughness sores and fissures of the Tongue Jaws and neighbouring parts which often happens in continual malignant and burning Feavers from hot sharp and putrid Vapors that rise to those parts Gargarismus de Tormentilla or a Gargarism of Tormentil Take roots of Tormentil and water-Acorus of each an ounce Pomegranate bark and bark of the roots of Acatia of each half a dram Balaustines and Alum of each three drams Rosemary Cinquefoil Stone-crop Sage Plantane and Hyssop of each two drams flowers of Marigolds and red Roses of each a dram Boil them in Fountain-water and Wine Vinegar of each a pound and a half to the consumption of one third in the end add of Honey of Roses so much as will make it grateful Virtue and Use. It cures the Putrefaction and Scurvy of the Mouth it renews the Gums perished by any disease or rotted by an Imposthume It fastens the Teeth and makes the flesh grow up to them again and it also contracts the Uvula that is fallen In short it is of good use in all the vices of the Mouth Tongue Palate and Tonsils nay Ulcers and Inflammations also And if used warm often or every hour it restores them to their perfect health again Gargarismus de Pyrethro or a Gargarism of Pellitory Take roots of Pellitory of Spain two drams the best Olibanum and white Ginger of each a dram and a half seeds of Henbane bruised of Sage of each a dram long Pepper a scruple Boil them in Wine Vinegar and Fountain-water of each half a pound and make a Gargarism Virtue and Use. It is excellent and very effectual in pains of the Teeth for it hath an Anodyne faculty But the sick must use it often in the day till the pain ceaseth Gargarismus de Hyoscyamo or a Gargarism of Henbane Take roots of Henbane an ounce roots of the lesser Nettles Cinquefoil and Pellitory of Spain of each six drams shavings of Lignum
new Mineral until you think you have water sufficient for your purpose Then rectifie this water eight or nine times that the pure may be separated from the impure which being done let it be reserved for use as the true Arcanum and Hermetical Treasure and he that knows how to transmute this water into a viscous and vivid liquor hath really that most secret and rare Key which is known but to a few by which that golden Castle that is fenced with a threefold Wall is most easily recluded and by the thread of wisdom he legitimately enters to those Treasures hidden in Gold But this work is the following labour c. Now take the best Arabick Gold with Antimony according to Art purified to the height and wrought into thin plates by the Goldsmith or otherwise and then without any other additament it may be brought into a most fine Powder or if you know how without Corrosives to prepare a fine Calx of the Sun Spagyrically you may do it with more profit c. Then put of this most secret Powder what quantity you will into a Philosophical Glass and pour upon it a little of the Solar Menstruum that it may exceed the Powder half the thickness of your little finger seal the Glass Hermetically and set it to digest in such a heat as the Embryo is nourished by in the Mothers womb till the water is consumed or drunk up by the Powder of Gold then open your Glass and pour upon it so much of your Solar Menstruum as you did the first time Let it dry again the same way as before and repeat this work so often till the Gold is changed into a reddish Powder and then the Solar Unicorn is prepared which is approved in many and most desperate Diseases a most profitable and sweet Remedy It is truly that golden Fleece which after a manifold and so often repeated Philosophical Concoction doth overcome and conquer the heat of fire neither can it be overcome by it Hence you may recal the quality of this sort of Mystery to the Touchstone of a more ripe counsel Virtue Use and Dose BY this Arcanum the wiser Physicians not only conserved by the will of God the health and strength of the body and prolonged life for many years but also they cured the Epilepsie the Apoplexy the Elephantiasis Morphew Melancholy Madness Quartan Agues Sciatica Gout pains in the Joynts Dropsie yellow Jaundice Pox Asthma Phthisis Pleurisie Itch and Scurff Cancers Noli me tangere and the like dangerous humane Diseases of this kind by other Remedies incurable and this done by the strength of the fire contained in it which doth not only consume the lethal humors but also doth repair and renovate the very marrow in the Bones and raise and succour the whole humane body though half dead And one thing is worthy to be noted of this Medicine that it contains in it self a most powerful and diaphoretick force Therefore whosoever is willing to use this Remedy especially if he labours under any of the fore-mentioned Diseases let him repair to his Bed for one or two hours and prepare for a Sweat and it will cast it out sweetly and plentifully without any pain and leave nothing impure or superfluous in the Body To young men who desire a long life it is given once a month and the day he takes it let him forbear both meat and drink till the evening by which means the virtue of the Medicine will grow into a radical equality with the humors and the strength of the Body will increase more and more the natural beauty will increase and out-do the art of paint c. giving a comliness pleasing and conspicuous to every beholder But to those who labour under the before-mentioned Diseases it ought to be given ten days successively in Vehicles proper and appropriate to the Disease and so God willing they will be restored to their pristine health as much as Art and Medicine can perform To old people it is given twice a month and by the Providence of God it preserves their Intellectuals firm and entire and in their greatest age it renders their bodies vigorous and fresh even to their graves To young Women and Virgins this Arcanum is given four times a week at the New Moon it keeps Nature in its due current and every part of the body in order Also if you should give it to a Woman who is long in Labour and though the Birth were hindred by the bigness of the Child yet immediately after the wished for Infant will be brought forth almost without any pain If it be given to Women whose Courses have left them it keeps them fresh lusty and fair and sometimes it causes their Terms to come again so that they are made capable of Child-bearing It also cures the Pestilence and if any Carbuncle should appear it dispels the matter of it and by a friendly Sweat drives forth the cause of it For which great and glorious Mystery we ascribe honour to Jehovah and the individual Trinity for ever and ever Aurum Potabile or Potable Gold TAke the best Hungarian Gold throughly prepared with Antimony and a strong fire which done let it be wrought into thin plates then dissolve it with good and well rectified Oyl of Salt known to none but to the absolute Chymist and after solution draw off the humidity with an Alembick and in the bottom you shall find the yellow Calx of the Sun Take this and put it into a glass Vessel and pour upon it so much of the Oyl of Cinnamon as will make a Mixture like a Pultis and you will see the matter in the middle begin to boil and wax black then have ready at hand good Spirit of Wine very well rectified and impregnated with the Tartar of the Philosophers pour a little of that into the forementioned liquid Mass that it may rise a fingers breadth above the matter and the Spirit will presently extract the soul of the Sun clear and in colour like Gold this being done pour off the tinged Spirit and pour on fresh and this labour repeat so often until the Spirit receives no more Tincture Dissolve the remaining Calx of the Sun again anew with fresh Oyl of Salt and proceed as at the first by repeating and continuing this work till the whole body is dissolved and a potable Liquor made of the Gold after all let this Aromatick Liquor of the Sun be circulated that it may be freed from all the acrimony of the Oyl of Salt which still remains in it or in the Spirit of Wine and this is the first solution made without Corrosives which no man will ever be able to reduce again into natural Gold Virtue Use and Dose AMong the best of Medicines this is the chief it takes away most Diseases and Distempers of the Body intrinsecally drawing away the original and constantly works the Cure with great admiration it renovates and conserves the whole body it
digest together in Sand warm for three days and three nights putting a blind head upon the Cucurbit and stir it often with a wooden Spatula After digestion filter it into a Glass or earthen Bason and in Sand let it evaporate to the consistence of a liquid Extract and you shall have this Aperitive Magistery of Mars What remains of the Steel let it be dried and brought into a most fine Powder and reserved for use and so you have Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds for Chalybeate Wine whose description and use seek in its proper Section Virtue Use and Dose It hath a singular property in opening dissolving and drying which admirable Title is not given to it only for opening the oppilations of the Liver Spleen and Meseraicks but also for dissolving and consuming hard scirrhous Tumors and for drying and corroborating the parts grieved and debilitated by a redundance of humors Besides it hath an excellent faculty of attenuating loosning and preparing black Choler and therefore it hath been experimented in the Cure of Melancholy black and yellow Jaundice Quartan Agues and all other affects arising from superfluity obturation putrefaction and the like It also by a specifick quality openeth the Veins of the Matrix being obstructed and hence it moves and provokes the Terms c. It hath been also experimented in the Green-sickness ill habit of Body and the beginning of a Dropsie It also corroborates the Genital parts of man or woman debilitated and relaxed by a superfluity of moisture Lastly it is also very profitable in an inveterate Gonorrhoea and the white stinking flux of the Womb. Moreover if this liquid Magistery be mixed with a just quantity of Rhenish Wine it colours it black but if it be filtred again through a Paper it becomes clear and dilucid as before and doth no ways abate of its strength it still retaining its strong taste and is of equal virtue and force therefore in all affects where the Spaw-waters or any other Medicinal Waters that are impregnated with the Minerals of Mars which are so highly commended by our practical Physicians are useful this will supply the place and may be given as effectually to the Patient to drink For where the body is conveniently cleansed and some Veins opened if there be occasion and afterwards for certain days drink this Martial Wine and observe a good diet there and then it works upon the same affects which those Medicinal Waters are given for or can perform The Dose of this Aperitive Magistery is from half a dram to a dram more or less in some appropriate Vehicle or in Electuaries Conserves Boles Rotula's and in other Species of Medicines it may be mixed according to the judgment of the Physician But the Dose of the Martial Wine is from two ounces to three either by it self or mixed with other Liquors The Magistery of Jupiter TAke the Ashes of fine Tin prepared in an open fire and with strong distilled Vinegar extract a Salt according to Art afterwards take Spirit of Vitriol well rectified and drop it in upon this Extraction being first filtred and immediately it will become white like Milk and a white Powder will precipitate to the bottom which Powder take and edulcorate by washing it often with distilled Rain-water till it hath lost all its acrimony then dry the Powder and keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of excellent virtue in the infirmities of the Womb and other Hysterical affects It repels those Vapors which arise from the Womb to the upper parts and doth prevent those grievous Symptoms that are hence used to rise The Dose is from four grains to six in proper Vehicles The Magistery of Saturn TAke of the clear and crystalline Salt of Saturn what quantity you will dissolve it in Rose-water afterwards pour upon it Spirit of Vitriol there are some who use Oyl of Tartar but Spirit of Vitriol is best slowly and yet with a quick fall till it be of the colour of thick Milk then filter it through a brown Paper and a white Magistery will remain there then with Cordial water edulcorate it according to the Spagyrick Art and having dryed it keep it for your use Virtue Use and Dose This Magistery of Saturn is freed from all its nauseous and noxious sweetness and we happily use it in Phthisicks Hecticks burning Feavers and in other internal Inflammations Also in Quartan Agues in affections of the Spleen in the Colick and Venereal Lusts it is a great Secret it being contrary to these things The Dose is from four to six grains in some specifick and congruous Vehicle It is also of excellent use in the rottenness and foulness of the Mouth in malignant Ulcers in Cancers in all Saturnine Diseases the Wolf an Ulcer so called Fistula's all burning Sores Burns red Pustles of the Face the redness of the Eyes c. and may be variously mixed either in Plasters or Liniments or dissolved in other things for external use Anima Vitrioli or the Soul of Vitriol TAke several great and large earthen Vessels by how much the larger they are by so much the better fill those Vessels full with Rain-water and into every Vessel put two three or more handfuls of common Vitriol yet measure the Vitriol and either increase it or diminish it according to the bigness of the Vessels and let this Vitriol dissolve in the water let the Vessels stand where they may not be moved and sometimes exposed to the Sun or the Air yet so that it may not rain into them nor any filth be cast therein Then you shall see the Soul of Vitriol swim on the top of the water in colour like the Rain-bow or a Peacocks tail this being thin you shall take it off with a Spoon divers times in the day This being done stir the water about and by and by when it is setled again there will appear fresh Soul which take also and so by little and little you shall gather as much as you shall think sufficient Note When there will no more colours rise in the water the Soul is all extracted and the water is to be replenished with fresh Vitriol The Soul being all abstracted it will at first appear like mud which lay upon a Tile or other earthen Vessel and put it into a strong fire till it be red-hot and then it will be of the colour of blood and endure the flame which being done though it should lye in the fire many days it will not waste a grain Virtue Use and Dose This Soul of Vitriol Philosophically extracted and Spagyrically prepared is given in many Diseases especially all fluxes of the Head and Belly the flux of Blood and Terms c. in the Epilepsie Dropsie Gonorrhoea prickings of the Sides Gout Feavers Phrensie c. in all which it is of admirable use The Dose from five grains to six or eight in appropriate Vehicles and Medicines respecting the Disease The Arcanum of Vitriol DIstil from native
vitriolated a dram Diacodium crociated half a dram species of Diambra ten grains Extract of Elicampane flowers three grains Mix them and with Rotula's of Diamargariton frigidum make a Bole for one dose Laudanum Minerale or the Mineral Laudanum Take of the Anodyne Sulphur of Vitriol corrected and fixt two drams Magistery of Pearls Extract of Lignum Aloes of each a dram and a half of Saffron a scruple Bezoar stone the Animal Unicorn of each fifteen grains oyls of Cloves and Cinamon of each half a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of the Juyce of wild Poppy flowers make a soft Mass according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Anodyne and most profitable to procure sleep also to stop Catarrhs Defluxions from the Brain upon the Nose or Eyes Coughs and other such kind of affects it helps the Distillations that fall upon the Thorax Lungs c. The Dose is from six grains to eight or ten in any Conserve or convenient Liquor or in the form of a Pill SECT IV. Of the Preparing certain things c. The Calcination and Preparation of Harts-horn Elks hoofs Mans Skull c. Spagyrically or without Fire THis Calcination is effectually performed in a Bladder by continual boiling or digesting in fair water by which vapor the Horn hanging in the neck of the Bladder in which place it may be best wrought and penetrated by a pleasant and wonderful manner is calcined to a perfect whiteness without those violent flames which otherwise consume its virtues as is used to be done in the vulgar Calcination but let the fourth part of the Bladder be empty And if in boiling the water should consume pour on more scalding hot and this do until this fumigatory Calcination for whatsoever is calcined by this method is not undeservedly said to be calcined by Suffumigation be absolutely finished Virtue Use and Dose Harts-horn thus prepared is equal to the Unicorns horn in its Diaphoretick force for it is profitable in all affects of the Heart and wonderfully excellent in all kind of Poison Moreover it is very effectual in the yellow Jaundice Dysenteries pains of the Guts voiding of blood either upwards or downwards pains in the Bladder Fluxes of blood in Women c. The Elks hoof also of the same Preparation is of great efficacy being a noble Cordial in malignant Feavers and a Secret in many other diseases likewise mans Skull wonderfully cures the Epilepsie Apoplexy Vertigo c. The Dose is from ten to twenty or thirty grains in some appropriate Vehicle The true Spagyrical Preparation of Thebane Opium Put Thebane Opium cut into small pieces upon an Iron plate and set it upon hot coals constantly stirring it till all the poisonous and corrosive quality is separated by Evaporation Yet take this caution let not him that tends it receive the Fumes for it is hurtful When this is evaporated the Opium left upon the Plate will have a fragrant smell like Violets which is a true sign that all its malignity is separated then dissolve this Opium thus prepared either in Wine-vinegar distilled or in Juyce of Citrons which being done again draw off the Menstruum and keep it for use The Preparation of Nitre Take of Nitre purified with Flos Sulphuris half a pound dissolve it in Spirit of Wine and Vitriol of each a like quantity then draw off the Spirit until the mass remains crusty what is left in the bottom put into a cool place and the Nitre will shoot into Crystals from which take the humidity and dry the Crystal and reserve them for use The Preparation of Millepedes commonly called Wood-lice Take Millepedes what quantity you please wash them in Spanish Wine and in a Glass close stopped and covered with Paste all over dry them in an Oven again wash them in Spanish Wine and dry them as before and repeat this the third time fourthly infuse them in our Aqua Nephritica vitriolated for two or three days afterwards dry them and pulverize them and keep them for use The Preparation of white Hellebore Take white Hellebore finely pulverized pour upon it often Vinegar left after the dissolution of red Coral being abstracted and vitriolated but first infuse in it the Cordial flowers and grains of Chermes dry it again and so you shall have white Hellebore well and Spagyrically prepared which may safely be given inwardly in many diseases in a certain dose and mixture without any danger The Preparation of Fish-shells Take oblong shells which are found near Fish-ponds and Lakes pour upon them distilled Vinegar and let them lye therein a whole night to extract the filth from them which you shall carefully scrape off and afterwards pulverize them and with Carduus water prepare it upon a Marble for the volatile Powder of them made by Calcination is of no worth nor use in Physick The Calcination and Preparation of River flints Take River-flints white and shining and heat them red-hot in a strong fire then quench them in water in which Sal Armoniack hath been dissolved and repeat this work often till at last the Flints appear white like Snow and may be easily brought to a Powder This Powder edulcorate with Rose water and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Powder is not only a powerful Dentifricium cleansing the Teeth on a sudden from all their corrosive Tartar and other filth and makes them white but also Iron and Steel and hence it takes away all rust from Arms and Weapons presently and makes them fair and clean especially if the rust be first rubbed with Oleum Templini and then afterward scoured with this Powder By this way Arms that are kept in store may be preserved pure and clean for many years from the filth and damage of rust And indeed it is of great use not only for the Armory of Princes but of Cities and Persons of Honour and though it is but an ordinary thing it ought not to be contemned The Preparation of the Pumice-stone Quench a red-hot Pumice-stone in Cows milk thrice and the fourth time leave it in the Milk until all grow cold then pulverize it and it is prepared for our Farina Virginea The Preparation of the sweet Earth of Vitriol Take of green Vitriol calcined to a perfect redness what quantity you please pulverize it and edulcorate it by often washing it in distilled Rain-water till the red Earth is freed from all its saltness and acrimony then dry this sweet or rather insipid Earth and reserve it for use The Preparation and Calcination of Alum Take of common Salt two parts of the best Alum one part Mix them and in a convenient Vessel reverberate them according to art for twelve hours then take away the reverberated matter and wash it so often with warm water till it is perfectly edulcorated and the Powder is quite freed from all its saltness then pour upon it our Juniper Spirit of Wine that it may swim three or four fingers above it and
made a Tragea Note That this and all other Compositions which have a great quantity of Musk may be also prepared without it Species Diacinnabaris or a Compound Powder of Cinnabar Take native Cinnabar prepared half an ounce Lapis stellaris prepared Elks hoofs Spagyrically calcined of each three drams the raspings of the fore-part of a Mans skull Misleto of the Oak of each two drams roots and seeds of Peony of each a dram and a half species Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Magistery of Pearl and red Coral of each half a dram Oriental Saffron Oyl of white Amber of each a scruple Leaves of Gold thirteen Make all into a fine Powder and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It hath a wonderful force and power in the Epilepsie and in all other kinds of dangerous diseases belonging to the Head and is both a sure and certain Experiment by which God assisting we have perfectly restored to health an incredible number who were incurable by other means and some of them labouring under that sorrowful disease nine ten twelve and some eighteen years and more and yet have been happily restored by this Medicine The dose is from a scruple to two according to the age and strength of the Patient in appropriate and specifick Vehicles to be repeated every morning till the Patient enjoys perfect health Species Dianitri or a Compound Powder of Nitre Take Crystals of Nitre prepared with spirit of Wine and Vitriol an ounce salts of Pearch stones Crabs eyes white Amber of each two drams roots of Dropwort and Liquorish of each a dram and a half seeds of the lesser Nettle Burdock Saxifrage Gromel Broom of each a dram berries of Bays huskt Iuniper of each four scruples Cinamon white Ginger Saffron long Pepper and Mace of each two scruples a burnt Hare Goats blood prepared powder of Ceterach red Sanders of each half a dram Millepedes prepared a scruple white Sugar four ounces Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent powerful Medicine in breaking and expelling the Stone in the Reins and Bladder The dose is from a scruple to half a dram early in the morning in a specifick Vehicle Species Diatartari or a Powder compounded with Tartar Take Tartar vitriolated Magistery of Scammony of each two ounces white and gummy Turbith Hermodactyls of each half an ounce Oyl of Cloves and Cinamon of each ten grains Mix them and make a Powder which reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It gently resolves Tartar coagulated in any part of the body and being resolved it safely and easily brings it away by stool with all other Podagrical defluxions It purges yellow Choler plentifully and watry humors lying between the Skin It also cleanseth the Skin of foulness Scabs Leprosie and such kind of filth Moreover it cures the Scurvy and mitigates the pains in the Joynts The dose from half a dram to a dram especially in strong bodies Species Diacrystalli or a Powder compounded with Crystals Take the flesh of a young red Cows udder boiled in Wine and dryed in a Furnace an ounce long Pepper five drams Crystals prepared half an ounce Pearls prepared â—wo drams seeds of Borage Fenil Lettice and Nigella of each a dram roots of Goats-beard Cardnus and wild Rape of each half a dram white Sugar three ounces Mix them and make all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is a specifick Medicine for Mothers and Nurses that give suck for it doth so increase milk in them that it doth turn almost all their food they take into milk And it hath also a secret quality to increase milk of it self The dose is from half a dram to a dram morning noon and night in Broth carduus-Carduus-water or any other convenient Vehicle Species Diasuccini or a Powder compounded with Amber Take white Amber prepared half an ounce Magistery of red Coral rosated Nutmegs torrified red Orientaâ— Bole Smaragdus prepared of each two drams Crocus Martis made by reverberation Dragons blood of each a dram and a half Styrax Calamitis burnt Harts-horn prepared Laudanum Opiate of each a dram Rose seeds seeds of Plantane flowers of wild Poppy of each half a dram Cloves Saffron Cinamon and Mace of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose This Powder restrains and obtunds the viscous and tartarous Salts which erode the Bowels and doth disquiet the ordure of the Guts Hence it is the only healing Medicine in alâ— Dysenteries and Fluxes of blood by stool The dose is from a scruple to a dram in appropriate Vehicles Species Diacretae or a compound Powder of Chalk Take Chalk prepared with Rose-water three drams Nutmegs a dram and a half roots of Liquorish and seâ—â— of Quinces of each a dram Oriental Bole prepares red Coral prepared of each half a dram the Carp fâ—â—â—â— prepared with Plantane water Mace a little torrifies best Mastich Oriental Saffron of each a scruple wâ—â—â— Sugar three ounces Mix them and make a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose This is a Catholick Medicine in the Orexis or burning of the Stomach for these Species have such a power that they hinder the ebullition and tartarous sublimation of yellow Choler into the Orifice of the Stomach and do powerfully resolve and precipitate it The dose is from half a dram to a dram in the Fit For Medicines in this case are to be given whensoever the stomach is distempered and to continue taking till it is restored to health again Species Diaboracis or a compound Powder of Borax Take Venetian Borax half an ounce Cassia lignea Oriental Saffron of each a dram shavings of the Savin-tree white Amber prepared of each half a dram bone of a Stags heart Misleto of the Oak flowers of white Violets of each a scruple Mix them and make them into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is successfully given to Women who are inclined to be barren and to those who bear them with difficulty It is most excellent to facilitate the Birth to cast out the dead Child or After-birth retained The dose is from a scruple to a dram in water of Cinamon white Violets Mugwort or in good white Wine Species Diaterebinthinae or a Powder compounded with Turpentine Take Turpentine twice washed in Citron water two ounces Magistery of Scammony an ounce white and gummy Turbith six drams Tartar vitriolated white Hermodactyls of each three drams species of Lithortrib two drams Saffron and Mace of each a scruple Sugar of Violets four ounces Mix them and make of all a Powder to which add Oyls of Aniseeds Oranges Cloves Cinamon and Fenil of each ten grains Mix them well and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Cathartick and wonderfully experimented in the Gout Colick Gonorrhoea Dysury Strangury Stone in the Reins and Bladder and in other distempers of the Urinal passages The dose is from half a dram to
dram to a dram in the morning fasting and before dinner and supper in two or three ounces of Plantane water Pulvis Polychrestus Imperialis or an Imperial Powder good for many things Take white Sugar Candy six ounces Crocus Martis prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce and an half seeds of Fenil shavings of Ivory the Ankle-bone of a Hare Pikes eyes Cardamoms the less white Ginger Nutmegs roots of Liquorish of each an ounce Cinamon Cubebs Cassia lignea Spicknard roots and seeds of Peony Misleto of the Oak acid Tartar of each an ounce and a half Magistery of the Carp-stone of Crabs eyes of the Pearch-stone Oriental Saffron seeds of Parsly and Smallage true Castor Cloves red Myrrh wood of Aloes Hysop Oyl of Aniseeds each two drams Magistery of Pearls and red Coral the best Mace of each a dram leaves of Hungarian Gold forty three Mix them and make them all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It expels wind flatulencies and all peccant humors from the Stomach and Intestines and also comforts those parts it preserves from putrefaction and roborates the Brain it increaseth Memory and is excellent in the Epilepsie in the trembling and debility of the Heart difficulty and straitness of the Breast Cough Asthma c. It sweetens grief exhilarates sorrow removes timidity and opens all obstructions of the Liver and Spleen It cures the Tympany coming of a cold cause and many other long and confirmed diseases It stops the running of the Piles purifies the blood procures a fresh colour it warms a frigid Matrix and amends a corrupt intemperature of the Womb it purgeth the Reins and Bladder of stones sand c. It opens the Urinary passage and gives ease in the Strangury The dose every morning is the quantity of a Chestnut either by it self or in some Liquor respecting the disease Pulvis Dysentericus or a Dysenterick Powder Take Harts horn Spagyrically calcined an ounce and a half seeds of Bloodwort and Plantane of each an ounce Chalk prepared Nutmegs Misleto of the Oak Nitre prepared of each half an ounce Mix them and make a fine Powder which is effectually given in all Fluxes of the Belly The dose is one dram in some specifick Vehicle Species Dialauri or a compound Powder of Bay-berries Take Bay-berries dryed in an Oven in paste and pulverize an ounce flowers of Centaury the less three drams Madder red Myrrh Oriental Saffron of each a dram round Birthwort Cardamoms the less Galangal the less of each two scruples salt of Cinamon and Savin of each half a dram Mix them into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose They powerfully open obstructions of the Womb and as wonderfully stir suppressed Terms and bring them down in a large quantity too The dose is from half a dram to a dram in decoction of Savin with Saffron or in Beer Ale or Wine twice a day in the morning fasting or at night going to bed and to continue it till the Courses are produced Species Diajalapiae or a compound Powder of Ialap Take the best and resinous roots of Ialap two ounces acid Tartar eleven scruples Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Mix them and make a Powder according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It purges by stool without any trouble and mundifies the blood It draws away Flegm Choler and â—ll other impurities from the whole body and removes obstructions For that reason it is given in pains of the Joynts and Hypochonders Dose from half a dram to a dram especially in strong bodies Species Diaesulae or a compound Powder of Spurge Take the lesser Spurge prepared Rotula's of Diarrhodon Abbatis of each an ounce and a half white Hellebore prepared salt of white Vitriol of each three drams juyce of Liquorish extracted red Sanders of each a dram Cinamon Flower de-luce white Ginger of each two scruples Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cloves Nutmegs Mastich of each half a scruple Mix them and make a Powder according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is successfully given in all Quotidian Feavers also in all Tertian and burning Feavers and all other infirmities of the Stomach in salt Defluxions Worms pains of the Back Plague Epidemical diseases in poisonous draughts and carries off the slimy matter from the Joynts that causeth the Gout it works both upwards and downwards but without any trouble or molestation The dose is from half a dram to a dram Species Stomachicae or a Powder compounded for the Stomach Take acid Tartar three ounces Galangal the less white Ginger long Pepper of each a dram and a half Cardamoms the less Nutmegs Cloves Zedoary of each a dram roots of Liquorish leaves of Sage seeds of Rue and Caraways Olibanum of each half a dram Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Oyl of Water-mint of Oranges and Aniseeds of each ten grains white Sugar Candy eight ounces Mix them and make a Powder Virtue Use and Dose It stirs up lost Appetite takes away pains Vomiting and Hiccup it helps the Asthma prevents surfeiting and other disorders by excess it expels flatuosity and roborates the Stomach And lastly it hastens the distribution of Aliment The dose morning and evening is from half a dram to a dram in Sack or other Cordial Wine Pulvis Stomachicus or a Stomachical Powder Take the Cream of white Tartar oftentimes moistned with spirit of Vitriol and dryed again two ounces Harts-horn Spagyrically calcined half an ounce salt of Pearch-stones and Crabs eyes of each two drams Magistery of Pearls and red Corals of each a dram Oyls of Cloves and Cinamon of each half a scruple white Sugar Candy eight ounces Make of all a Powder Virtue Use and Dose As the Medicine is noble so it nobly comforts the Heart the Stomach and all the rest of the members of nutrition it corrects the niceness and crudities of the Stomach and prevents putrefaction and flegm It wonderfully helps those troubled with the Gravel Spleen or vomiting their food also those who by continual and Chronical diseases are utterly extenuated and by that means are grown very weak it roborates and strengthens Dose from half a dram to a dram in appropriate Vehicles Species Pleuriticae or a Pleuritick Powder Take Sulphur sublimate two drams Carduus seeds Bay-berries husked Misleto of the Oak roots of Zedoary Olibanum of each a dram and a half teeth of a wild Boar and of a Pike flowers of wild Poppy of each a dram Make all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose This is a great Secret against all Pleuritick pains and punctures of the sides where the sick by reason of their violence is almost dead The dose is from half a dram to a dram in water of Hysop and Fenil or in wild Poppy-flower-water morning noon and night or be sure at the least five hours between every dose It is also given in Scabious water and God assisting it certainly cures Pulvis Pleuriticus secretissimus or a secret Powder for the Pleurisie Take
wonderful operation and a happy restitution in a short time Spiritus Vini Theriacalis or Spirit of Wine with Treacle Take Venice Treacle four ounces roots of Angelica Elicampane and Swallow-wort white Diptamus Devils-bit Snakeweed Pimpinella Tormentil Zedoary Citron seeds of each an ounce Make all into a gross Powder and mix them on which pour eight pound of simple Spirit of Wine Let them digest fourteen days and then digest them in B. M. and keep the abstracted liquor for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a most excellent Spirit to preserve people from the Plague And is also called a Catholick Medicine because it consisteth of just twelve Ingredients It may be taken from one spoonful to two three or four hours before dinner or before they go abroad and is to be used every morning It prevents the danger of contagious Air and doth revive the Spirits But in curing it is given from two spoonfuls to three in Carduus-water or in our Aqua Cornu Cervi and it expels the Venom plentifully by Sweat SECT XIX Of compound distilled Waters Aqua Epileptica or an Epileptick Water TAke Roots of Peony duly gathered two ounces roots of round Birthwort white Diptamus and Angelica of each an ounce and a half Misleto of the Oak Peacocks dung Squills prepared Anacardus of each an ounce seeds of male Peony Coriander Caraway and Fenil of each six drams a dryed Secundine of a male Birth Castor of each half an ounce Carduus Millefoil wild Rue Sage and Rosemary of each two drams Let them be cut and bruised and infused in twelve pound of Spanish Wine and set to digest in a warm place for eight days the Vessel being often shaken in the time afterward distil them by an Alembick and into the distilled Liquor again put these things following Flowers of male Peony Lily of the valley of each four ounces flowers of Betony Teil-tree Lavender Balm Borage and Bugloss of each an ounce and a half Nutmeg Cinamon Cubebs Mace long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mix them and over a gentle fire in Balneo distil them the second time Virtue Use and Dose It is an effectual Medicine against the Epilepsie Vertigo Lethargy Catalepsie and Subeth which Diseases it chiefly cureth It is given in the Fit from an ounce to an ounce and a half But in preservation at the four Quarters of the Moon especially in all moist and nebuâ—ous constitution of the Air from one spoonful to two Aqua Apoplectica or a Water for the Apoplexy Take seeds of Rocket a pound seeds of Mountain-Osier Caraway and Anise of each an ounce roots of Avens four ounces roots of male Peony Pellitory and water Acorus of each two ounces Iuniper-berries four ounces Bay-berries husked an ounce and an half Ground-pine Hyssop Marjoram Origanum and Vervain of each half an ounce Let them be grosly bâ—uised and beaten and put into a large Matrace with ten pound of Spanish Wine and two pound of Spirit of Roses Let them stand in digestion fourteen days and then distil them in Balneo and into the distilled Liquor put fresh flowers of the Lily of the valley Primroses and Lavender of each four ounces Sage Marigold Betony and Rosemary of each an ounce and a half both sorts of Cardamoms Cabebs wood of Aloes Nutmegs Mace Cinamon the lesser Galangal long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mix them and again digest them for three days and over a gentle fire distil it in Balneo and afterward rectifie it by it self with a scruple of Gallia Moschata wrapping Cotton about the Snout of the Alembick At last the water being put into a close Glass keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is rightly called the water of Philosophers because it is of a wonderful virtue in comforting the Brain and Nerves It also strengthens the Memory and Intellect exceedingly It preserves from the Apoplexy and Palsie and all other dangerous diseases of the Head It doth excellently discuss and attenuate Humors renders the Blood pure and gives a lively Colour to the body But chiefly and especially it cures the Apoplexy and may be as well outwardly applied as taken inwardly The dose is from one spoonful to two c. Aqua de Xyloaloe or a Water of Wood of Aloes Take of the species of Confectio Anacardina an ounce seeds of mountain Osier Caraway Fenil and Lavender of each six drams leaves of Marjoram Rosemary and Sage flowers of Primrose Stoechas red Roses and Rosemary of each two drams lesser Galangal Cinamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Cubebs the lesser Cardamoms of each a dram Let them be grosly bruised and cut and infused in four pound of Spanish Wine let them stand in the Sun or in some other place to digest for a month and then add to it water of the Lily of the valley and flowers of St. Iohns-wort of each two pound water of the flowers of Bugloss Balm and Betony of each a pound Mix them and distil all in Balneo and in the distilled Liquor again infuse the best wood of Aloes four ounces Cassia lignea an ounce species of Diaxyloaloes and Diambra of each half an ounce Oriental Saffron a dram Mix them and after due digestion again distil them in Balneo and the distilled water reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a most illustrious and renowned Water in comforting and strengthening a weak Memory for it opens all the obstructions in the passages of the Brain and consumes all thick and viscous humors in the Head The dose is from one spoonful to two taken in the morning and at the same time to anoint the nape of the Neck with the same liquor and also rub it in well and let the Patient observe a regular Diet So it strengthens the Intellect removes forgetfulness and wonderfully sharpens the Wit Aqua Mastichina Take water of Water-Mints a pound Cloves infused in Spanish Wine of the best Mastich an ounce Let them boil in a double Vessel for two hours and then filter it and edulcorate it with Syrup of Quinces and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Water is of great efficacy in the nauseousness and loathing of the Stomach in Vomiting and the Disease Cholera which are known Evils It also strengthens the Stomach and roborates the retentive Faculty The dose is two ounces Aqua Hypnotica or a Somniferous Water Take seeds of white and black Poppy of each seven ounces Melon seeds husked seeds of Anise and Dill of each an ounce bitter Almonds two ounces Liquorish and Nutmegs of each an ounce and a half Cardamoms the less and Mace of each an ounce and half Oriental Saffron flowers of wild Poppy and Violets of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and then infused in waters of Lettice three pound of red Roses and Water-Lily of each two pound of Purslain and Endive of each a pound Mix them and set them to digest in a warm place for two or three days and
two drams leaves of Eyebright Vervain and Rue tops of Rosemary Sage of Pennyroyal Dill and Fenil of each a dram and a half flowers of greater Celandine Betony Lavender red Roses and Rosemary of each a dram Let them be macerated in six pound of Spanish Wine the space of eight days and afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual universal Medicines being premised for the weakness and dulness of sight and to comfort the visive Spirits and to rectifie the Brain and the humors thereof The dose morning and evening is from half an ounce to an ounce and a half Aqua Pectoralis or a Pectoral Water Take bitter Almonds and small Raisons of each half a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows and Coltsfoot of each an ounce roots of lesser Mallows Comfrey and Elicampane of each half an ounce seeds of Fenil Anise Quinces Carduus benedictus Carduus Mariae Myrtles and Nettles of each three drams Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Mace Cinamon of each two drams both sorts of Lungwort Fluellin Horehound Ground-Ivy Maidenhair Scabious Hyssop and Sage of each a draâ— and a half flowers of Chamomil Coltsfoot Violets and Hearts-ease of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and infused in twelve pound of the best old Hydromel and digested for eight days afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It operates to a Miracle in all the distempers of the Thorax as straitness of the Breast Asthma and Cough c. It cuts attenuates and deterges thick and viscous flegm gathered in the Lungs and cavity of the Breast and renders it easie to be spit out It also comforts the Stomach and with the help of our Species Diasulphuris it preserves from and cures all Putrefaction and Apostems Moreover it doth effectually help those who are troubled with Phthisicks Pleurisies shortness of Breath destillations of Rheum spitting of Blood and other purulent Matter The dose is from half an ounce to one or two Aqua Antiphthisica or an Anticonsumptive Water Take roots of great Comfry flowers of red Roses of each a pound crums of Wheat-bread four ounces Pine-apples and green Pistick Nuts of each three ounces roots of China two ounces flowers of Liverwort and Rosemary pith of Indian Nuts of each an ounce Mace half an ounce Let them be bruised and broken and put into a large Matrace with water of Calves Lungs two pound Plantane water and Capon water of each a pound water of Cinamon buglossated water of Fluellin and Scabious of each half a pound Let them stand in digestion for eight days often shaking them in the time and afterward add to them exprest juyce of Coltsfoot and Goats milk of each half a pound the blood of one Pig Snails taken from their shells and bruised an ounce and a half Hens Livers three Oriental Saffron a dram Again mix them and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Mariae Virtue Use and Dose This Water hath a wonderful operation it certinly cures the Phthisick or Consumption it heals Ulcers of the Lungs and cleanseth the Breast from thick humors But in Phthisicks coming of Rheumatisms in the Thorax and in Asthma's Pleurisie c. we usually give it in this Form following with good success Take of Aqua Antiphthisica nineteen ounces white Sugar candy three ounces Lac Sulphuris two drams flower of Sulphur a dram and a half Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a dram Mix them ready for use The dose is morning noon and night from a spoonful to two And by the use of this Liquor only a man will grow fat because it moistens lenifies nourishes comforts restores the radical Moisture and allays the Cough and is the only relief to extenuated consumptive and hectical bodies for it restores them to their pristine health and expels the Disease but before it be made use of it should be diligently moved Aqua Pulmonis Vituli or Water of a Calves Lungs Take the Heart Lungs and Liver of a Calf the fat and veins being cut off and add to it great Comfry roots four ounces French Lungwort Pimpernel Fluellin Hyssop Sage and Agrimony of each half an ounce Pour upon them a sufficient quantity of the same water also and boil them in a new well glazed earthen Pot close covered Take of this Broth with the other things three pound water of Borage Bugloss and Roses of each a pound species Diamargariton frigid roots of Pimpinella Cinamon of each an ounce the foâ— greater cold Seeds of each two drams the Cordial Flowers of each a dram Mix them and distil them in an Alembick Virtue Use and Dose Hectical and consumptive people may be nourished a long time by the use of this Water therefore not without reason was this Description always esteemed among us of great price The dose by it self is from one spoonful to two Aqua Caponis or Capon-water Take a Capon which you must boil in a well glazed new earthen Pot according to Art with small Raisons Pine-nuts and Liquorish of each an ounce Iujubes and Sebestens of each twelve new dryed Figs eight Lungwort Coltsfoot Endive and Lettice of each half an ounce flower of Violets and Betony of each a dram The Decoction being finished let all be bruised in a stone Mortar then take good Canary Wine three pound water of Coltsfoot Horehound and Bugloss of each a pound the crum of white Bread steeped in Goats milk half a pound Conserve of Borage Roses and Maidenhair of each four ounces species of Diamargariton frigid half an ounce Cinamon Mace and Aniseeds of each two drams Mix them and distil it in an Alembick according to Art and the distilled Liquor keep for use Virtue Use and Dose This Capon-water is most famous and effectual in all Pectoral Diseases as the Cough Asthma Phthisick c. and is given by it self The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua Cinamomi Buglossata or Cinamon-water Buglossated Take Bugloss water six pound flowers of Violets and Roses of each two pound Cinamon a pound bark of the roots of Bugloss three ounces flowers of Borage and Balm of each an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce Mix them and after due digestion distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It concocts mollifies and resists Poysons it also comforts the Brain Heart Stomach Liver and Spleen It clears the Sight provokes Urine and gives ease in diseases of the Reins and Bladder The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua ex Corde Cervi or Water of a Stags Heart Take a Stags heart cut into small pieces Cinamon half an ounce Cloves Cardamoms the less Galangal the less Mace Oriental Saffron of each two drams wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Citron peels seeds of Basil that smells like Avens of each a dram and a half flowers of Lavender Rosemary Balm and Sage of each a dram Let them be macerated all night in Spanish
spoonful and if any thing remains fixed in the bottom of the body it removes it but in wounds of the Head let the Nux vomica be omitted Liquor Camphoratus Take spirit of Wine camphorated two ounces water of all the flowers and Frogs spawn of each an ounce and a half the Anodyne Sulphur of Vitriol a dram liquid Styrax Thebane Opium spirit of Vitriol of each half a dram Mix them and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose Let it be applied to the part affected for it allays the pain of the Gout and all pains proceeding of a hot Cause Or it may be given twice in the day with two scruples of prepared Nitre in Elder-flower water Liquor Tartareus or a Tartarized Liquor Take of the best Rhenish Wine a pound Tartar vitriolated an ounce Let them be mixed and dissolved according to Art and then add Barley water with Raisons boiled Cinamon water and syrup of the juyce of Violets of each half a pound Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an universal Digestive and is given in many Diseases where purging Medicines are requisite It is given warm unless in an intense Feaver or a hot intemperature of the Stomach be present It is given for a Feaver in the morning but if the Fit happen in the morning it is to be given in the evening In Chronical diseases it is continued for five days and may be given twice in a day that is morning and noon But in diseases of the Head it is given at going to bed and the Belly ought to be loose for if the Belly is bound pain doth usually succeed because the matter that is moved and cleansed away by the Medicine if it cannot pass out of the body it is converted into wind and that causeth pain The dose is when occasion requires a good draught at a time Liquor Arthriticus or a Liquor for the Gout Take Virgin Honey with the comb two pound Vitriol calcined to a yellowness a pound River Flints calcined half a pound Rosemary and Vervain of each six ounces white Hermodactyls three ounces Gum Ammoniacum Mastich Olibanum red Myrrh Bdellium Opopanax of each two ounces yellow Sulphur Sea-salt white Tartar of each an ounce and a half juyce of Henbane made thick Foreign Mummy Thebane Opium of each an ounce All being mixed pour upon them the Spirit made of the Faeces of red Wine or else of that Spirit which is left in making Laudanum Opiatum five pound or so much as will suffice and let them digest for certain days then put all into a glass Alembick well luted with a head sufficiently large and a large Receiver and distil them so long as you can see any Spirit come forth When all is cold take the Caput mortuum and pulverize it and pour the distilled Liquor upon it the second time and distil it And repeat this labour three or four times and so you have the Liquor Arthriticus prepared Virtue Use and Dose It is a Secret in all continual and inveterate pains and defluxions on the Members and Joynts Let the part affected be anointed with it often in the day warmed and at certain intervals of time also till all the tormenting pains cease Liquor Antipodagricus triunus or an Antipodagrick Liquor of a threefold Preparation 1. Take of spirit of Wine well rectified two pound Frog spawn water a pound and a half of Virgin Honey a pound Mix them and distil it in Balneo and the Liquor drawn off keep by it self then take the Caput mortuum and pulverize it and then add to it Lixivium made of Vine twigs two pound white Tartar half a pound flegm of Vitriol not yet separated from the spirit four ounces true Castor six drams Oriental Saffron half an ounce Venice Turpentine two drams calcined Salt a dram Let them macerate for the space of 24 hours then distil it and keep the distilled Liquor by it self then take out the Caput mortuum and pulverize it and pour upon it all the Liquor before drawn off in the first distillation Mix them and after due digestion distil them again the third time Lastly the Liquors being mixed rectifie them in Balneo Mariae and let it be called A Compound Water of Frog-spawn 2. Take Cloves six drams white Hermodactyls and Iuniper-berries of each half an ounce Nutmegs two drams Vervain and Elder flowers of each two handfuls flowers of Lavender Spicknard Marjoram Rosemary and Betony of each a handful Cut those that are to be cut and bruise the other and infuse them in five pound of Rhenish Wine Let them stand in digestion 24 nights and days and then distilled in an Alembick and called Aqua Arthritica or the gout-Gout-water 3. Take Alum two pound white Vitriol and Verdigriese of each half a pound white Tartar Litharge Cuttle-bone and Ceruss of each four ounces Let all be most finely powdered and then mixed set it upon the fire and let it fume so that the Verdigriese may evaporate and then call it Lapiâ— Admirabilis or the wonderful Stone 4. Now follows the Composition Take of the Compound water of Frog spawn four pound of the Aqua Arthritica a pound of the Lapis admirabilis three drams clear and white Nitre two drams Oriental Saffron ten grains Mix them and let them stand in infusion a whole night and afterward filter the Liquor and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose In this Liquor which Chymists and Practitioners in Physick use at this time with good success wet linen Cloaths and frequently apply these warm to the part affected or at least three or four times a day and this continue till all the intolerable tormenting pains cease and utterly vanish For it is a singular and an incomparable Medicine in all Gouty pains and is well experienced in repelling the violence of the adventitious Humor and it is called Triunus from the three several Preparations in the Composition Liquor Vestimentalis or a Liquor for Cloaths Take Fountain water two pound ashes of Hearts-ease the quantity of a great Walnut one Citron cut into small pieces Mix them and let them stand in digestion twenty four hours then filter it and keep the clear liquor for use Virtue and Use. It takes away the filth all greasie and pitchy Spots as well from Hats as Cloaths either in Silk Woollen or Linen And the Spots being taken out and the place clean it is to be rinsed immediately with fair water Liquor Mercurii vivi Take crude Mercury and Aqua fortis of each an ounce Dissolve the Mercury in the Aqua fortis and to the solution add Plantane water two pound Lapis medicamentosus made with Rose-water Mix all and keep it for use Virtue and Use. This whitish Mercurial water is to be applied to all the external parts and diseases thereof It drys up all old Ulcers and Wounds and skinneth them over but especially the old sordid Aphrodisia It takes away all Morphew Spots Scurff and Pimples of the Face It
each four ounces Let it be often injected to the quantity of four ounces at a time Enema ad Vermes in Ventriculo or a Clyster for Worms in the Stomach Take Liquorish and Barley cleansed of each an ounce sat Figs and Damask Prunes of each twenty Aniseeds a dram and a half Boil them and take of the Decoction half a pound brown Sugar and the best Honey of each an ounce and a half Mix them and make a Clyster without Oyl or Salt Enema ad Ascarides or a Clyster for the little Worms in the Guts Take roots of round Birthwort and Gentian of each an ounce the herbs Wormwood Southernwood and Carduus of each half an ounce Peach leaves and the tops of the lesser Centaury of each two drams flowers of Horehound two drams Make a Decoction of which take twelve ounces of a Lixivium four ounces Mix them for a Clyster which inject by degrees that is twice in the same hour Enema ad evacuandum Vermes interfectos or a Clyster to bring away Worms Take Liquorish and Myrrh of each an ounce Sebestens twenty five Make a Decoction of which take a pound brown Sugar an ounce crude Honey six drams the Yolk of an Egg and a little Salt Mix them and without Oyl make a Clyster Enema in Rhagadiis rimis seu scissuris Ani or a Clyster for the chops or clefts of the Fundament Probatum Take Oyl of Violets five ounces Butter not seasoned three ounces Mucilage of Tragacanth seeds of Fleabane and Quinces of each an ounce and a half brown Sugar an ounce Mix them and make a Clyster Enema pro Pueris or a Clyster for Children Take Chamomil and Pellitory of the Wall of each half an ounce roots of Liquorish two drams leaves of Sena a dram Boil them and take of the clear Decoction six ounces the best Manna half an ounce Oyl of white Lilies two drams common Salt a scruple Mix them and make a Clyster Enema aliud pro Infantibus or another Clyster for Infants Take of Marsh-mallow roots half an ounce the herb Melilot two drams flowers of Marsh-mallows and Mullein of each a dram Boil them and take of the Decoction three ounces brown Sugar half an ounce Oyl of Chamomil a dram and a half Calabrian Manna a dram Mix them and make a Clyster which give warm Annotation 1. Clysters are of great use and are most noble and mild Medicines in all passions and affects of the Head 2. If a Purge he given and it should not work in two or three hours let a moderate Clyster be applied that it may be drawn downwards 3. If the Patient should not retain his Clyster long enough let there be another presently applied and if this should not stay with him a third also is to be given for the sick person is not to be constrained to keep them but others to be again repeated 4. Commonly two Clysters a day may be administred or at the most three beyond which it is not safe to proceed and let there be at least four hours between each of them 5. But if one Clyster should work well and effectually let that one suffice 6. In the Epilepsie Apoplexy Convulsion Palsie c. sharp Clysters are generally to be used yet let not one or the other be used that may hinder 7. In the bloody Flux because of Ulcers in the Bowels Clysters are to be used warm but not hot 8. In the Stone of the Reins and Bladder nothing is more excellent than Clysters for the drawing away of the superfluous humors but the quantity of them ought to be sometimes less than usual because repletion increaseth the pain of the Bowels Afterward the matter being thus discharged the parts mundified and the pain asswaged Diureticks may be given 9. If you would give Clysters for the Worms Oyls are not to be mixed therewith for the Worms do usually shun Oyl 10. If one Clyster or more should be given in a day although compounded with the strongest Catharticks and should have no operation in such a case take water well impregnate with Salt and make a Clyster which apply warm for this never fails but returns with great plenty of the offending Excrements and is indeed a great Secret For example Take warm water a pound common Salt an ounce and a half which being mixed and dissolved give it for a Clyster 11. Whosoever is troubled with difficulty of breathing is not to be forced to retain a Clyster SECT XXXIII Of compound Oyls Oleum Otalgicum or an Oyl for the Hearing TAke Roots of black Hellebore half an ounce pulp of Coloquintida three drams leaves of Sena and Bay-berries of each two drams Millepedes alive Alipta Moschata and Cloves of each a dram and a half the herb Rosemary Mouse-ear Marjoram and Savin of each half a handful Boil them in Wine and take of the strained Decoction three ounces Oyl of bitter Almonds two ounces Oyl of Iuniper-berries and Oyl of Peter of each half an ounce Oyl of Pismires a dram and a half Again boil them to the consumption of the humidity and reserve the Oyl for use Virtue and Use. It helps difficulty of Hearing and takes away the ringing in the Ears if a few drops of it be dropped prudently into the Ears morning and evening or Cotton dropped therein and applied Oleum Acovisticum ambratum or an Oyl for the Hearing with Amber Take Oyl of bitter Almonds four ounces Oleum Nardinum compound Oyl of white Lilies of each two ounces the juyce of Origanum Marjoram Rue Leeks Radishes and Onions of each an ounce All being mixed boil it to the consumption of the Juyces and the Oyl being strained add to it Spirit of Wine well impregnate with Millepedes sharp Wine Vinegar of each half an ounce Ambergriese flowers of Mother of Thyme Savin-berries Cummin seed and Mace of each a dram Cubebs white Hellebore Mastich Ladanum and Styrax Calamitis of each half a dram true Castor long Pepper Oriental Saffron and Nitre prepared of each a scruple Every Medicine being pulverized by it self and all diligently shaken together let them be again boiled in Balneo to the consumption of all the humidity and being cold and the Oyl pressed and strained mix with it Oyl of Pismires and Aniseeds of each a dram Gallia Moschata finely powdered a scruple Mix them and keep them for use Virtue and Use. It is an excellent experienced Medicine against Deafness and thickness of Hearing also for the ringing in the Ears caused of Vapors Humors or Wind It also asswageth the pain of the Ears breaks Imposthumes and cures running Ulcers And the use of it is thus drop a few drops of it into the Ears morning and evening stopping the Ears after it with muskified Cotton and thus using it for three or four days it performs the Cure Oleum Carminativum or a Carminative Oyl Take Oyl of Cummin seed half an ounce Oyl of Fenil seed Aniseed and Caraway seed of each a dram Oyl of
Dill Oranges and Chamomil of each half a dram Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a true Anodyne Medicine for it discusseth Wind and cureth the pain of the Belly and Matrix and all other diseases arising from Wind. Sometimes also it lenifies and allays the pains of the Breast Stomach Spleen Guts Reins and Bladder It is also a present help for flatulent and Hypochondriack Melancholy The dose is from four drops to five in appropriate Vehicles Oleum Nephriticum or an Oyl good in the Stone Take Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Turpentine and Iuniper of each four ounces Leaven of coarse Bread common Salt and white Tartar of each two ounces water of Ground-Ivy Parsley and Restharrow of each three pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick afterward separate the Oyl and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It potently breaks the Stone in the Reins and Bladder and expels it by Urine And moreover it allays the pains of the Colick It roborates the Womb and makes the Birth easie if it be drunk in water of Vervain And being taken in Teil-tree-flower-water it helps in diseases of the Head and Nerves as the Falling-sickness Stupefaction c. and the Nostrils anointed with it preserves from all Poison and pestilential Air. The dose is from five drops to six in specisick Vehicles Oleum septem Florum or an Oyl of the seven Flowers It is prepared of Oyl Olive by many repeated Infusions of the flowers of Violets Elder Roses Chamomil white Lilies Mullein and red Marsh-mallows Let the flowers be infused apart in Oyl every sort in its season so that they may be fresh let them digest in the Sun and after due maceration let every sort by themselves be strongly pressed and this labour with other fresh flowers is often to be repeated c. And at last you shall have a true Balsamick and Anodyne Oyl appropriate to all pains as well cold as hot and this Oyl keep for use Virtue and Use. It is truly Anodyne and mitigates the pains of the Head and Cephalalgia and being laid to the Forehead and Temples of those in a Phrensie and watching induceth sleep It easeth the distension of the Hypochonders and allays the pains of the Thorax Ventricle Colon Womb and nervous parts It is a present remedy for Pleuritick Consumptive and Hectical persons and soon allays the intolerable heat of burning Feavers and the immoderate heat of the Liver and Reins In short it extinguisheth all intemperate heat It mollifies the hardness of the Womb and composeth many other accidents of those parts It ripens all hot Tumors and discusseth Lassitudes It is also effectually used with the White of an Egg or the Mucilage of Quince seeds for Burns and Scalds Lastly given in Clysters it allayeth the pain of the Belly moves to stool and carries off serous Excrements Oleum Sabinae Crocinum or Oyl of Savin with Saffron Take distilled Oyl of Savin four ounces Oyl of Oriental Saffron three drams Mix them and put to it two ounces of rectified Spirit of Wine impregnate with Mugwort lesser Centaury and Cinamon Boil it to the consumption of the Spirit then separate the Oyl and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is approved in moving the Courses in Women The dose is morning and evening from five drops to six or seven in water of Mugwort or Pennyroyal Also in Malmsey or other generous strong Wine or in our Decoction against the Terms suppressed it is profitably given But is most usually given at the time when the Courses use to come down that Nature assisting the Medicine may work with more force and efficacy Oleum Balsami or the Oyl of Balsam Take Sallet Oyl a pound Oyl of St. Iohns-wort and Bay-berries of each an ounce Oyl of Iuniper-berries and Peter of each half an ounce Oyl of Rhodium and Spike of each two drams Oyl of Angelica seeds and Aniseeds of each a dram Cyprus Turpentine washed in Violet water half a pound Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Roots of Alkanet make according to Art an Oyl or red Balsam Virtue Use and Dose It heats opens discusseth attenuates and penetrates Hence it helps in all cold distempers and dissipates wind wonderfully It is of excellent use in the Palsie the Original of the Nerves being anointed with it It cures deafness singing and pain of the Ears coming of a cold Cause The Spine of the Back being anointed with it it takes away the pain and shivering cold of the Reins in Agues It drives away Feavers resists Putrefaction and the Plague It breaks the Stone and expels it It provokes Sweat and is an excellent Remedy used internally and externally in the Convulsions Colick Dropsie Tympany Contractures Suffocation of the Matrix debility of the Stomach c. The dose is from a scruple to a dram in Vehicles respecting the disease Oleum Formicarum or Oyl of Piâ—â—ures Take Pismires alive and seeds of Rocket of each what quantity you please Mix them and bruise them and make as it were a Paste Put this into a Glass and expose it so long to the Sun and Air till it becomes Oyl which separate by expression and keep for use for our Venereal Balsam Virtue and Use. If the soles of the Feet Privy parts and Perinaeum be anointed with this Oyl it wonderfully raiseth and revives those who are stupefied and benum'd and is good in other such kind of cases Oleum Lignorum or Oyl of Woods Take Lignum sanctum three pound Sassafras and Rhodium of each eight ounces Mix and distil them according to Art and you shall have an Oyl and Spirit which often rectifie apart and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose This Spirit hath a Diaphoretick force and expels by Sweat whatsoever is noxious to the body The dose is from half a dram to a dram in specifick Vehicles but the Oyl is experimentally found good in a Gonorrhoea and doth powerfully resist Contagion and Putrefaction and for that reason is of great use in the French Pox for pocky Ulcers Pustles Crusts Tetters and Scabs by anointing them with Oyl only are cured The dose internally is from three drops to six in some convenient and appropriate Liquor SECT XXXIV Of Balsams and odoriferous Medicines Balsamum Polychrestum TAke Sallet Oyl a pound Oyl of St. Iohns-wort and Bays of each an ounce Oyl of white Amber rectified of Iuniper-berries and Peter of each half an ounce Oyl of Spike two drams Oyl of Nutmegs Oranges and Rosemary of each a dram Oyl of Chamomil and Cummin of each half a dram Mix them and add a pound of well rectified Spirit of Wine in which for eight days Frankincense Mastich Benjamin Styrax Calamitis Mumy Cochinel flowers of lesser Centaury great Comfry Roses and Violets also the Roots of Alkanet have been all infused Then add Cyprus Turpentine well washed in Rose-water half a pound our Balsam of Sulphur with Aniseeds six drams
Again carefully mix them and let them stand either in a Furnace or the Sun often stirring them for fourteen days afterwards abstract the Spirit of Wine by a gentle heat in Balneo and in the bottom will remain a most red Balsam to be reserved for publick and common use Virtue Use and Dose This noble Balsam is very effectual as well internally as externally used it is thin in substance because of penetration by which means it refresheth all the Members for it drys attenuates opens discusseth and heats It wonderfully assists in all cold Destillations of the Head but doth principally relieve those troubled with the Apoplexy Epilepsie Vertigo and loss of Memory if the Coronal Suture the Nostrils Temples hinder-part of the Head Crown c. are frequently anointed therewith It is happily given in the ringing of the Ears caused by thick Vapors dulness of Sense proceeding from cold and frigid Humors It doth to a Miracle cure all the cold punctures and pains of the Brain Breast Liver Spleen Womb and all the Nerves and Joynts and all other nervous parts It is of good use in the extensions of the Hypochondres and dissipates and discusseth the Scirrhus and hard Tumors there and produceth a good Colour It is a Sâ—cret in the Palsie Convulsions Hip-gout c. It purgeth the Lungs of thick and viscid humors and roborates the Stomach if it be anointed therewith It helps shortness of Breath and potently dissipates internal Wind. It is an Arcanum in the Colick if the Navil is but anointed therewith and at the same time taken inwardly It dissolves coagulated Blood the part being anointed and at the same time taken inwardly to procure Sweat It being taken in Parsley water or any other convenient Liquor and at the same time the Region of the Reins and Bladder anointed therewith expels the Stone and other impurities in the Urinary passage and also provokes Lust and causeth erection It helps the Suffocation of the Womb and the parts being anointed brings away the Child from the Womb. In Quartans and other Agues and Feavers if it be applied warm from the Nape of the Neck down to the Hips and rubbed in before a good fire a little before the Fit comes it mitigates and takes away with the using the cold pain and shiverings of the Back and Shoulders and drives away the Feaver Lastly it preserves the whole body and defends it from Putrefaction Poison and all pestilential Air. The dose internally is from a scruple to half a dram or a dram in specifick and appropriate Vehicles Balsamum Apoplecticum or a Balsam for the Apoplexy Take Oyl of Nutmegs an ounce Oyl of white Amber rectified half a dram true Oyl of Roses and Cinamon of each a scruple Oyl of Lavender and Marjoram of each fifteen grains Oyl of Benjamin and Rue of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Citrons of each four grains Having mixed them well add thereto Ambergriese a dram and a half true Civet four scruples the best Musk a dram Mix them faithâ—â—lly and make a Balsam of a just consistence according to Art Virtue and Use. There is scarcely to be found in the whole Republick of Physick an Apoplectick Balsam which is more illustrious in Fame more noble in Virtue more worthy in Honour more ready for Help and more fragrant in Smell than this is For by anointing the top of the Head the Nostrils and Pulses therewith it doth miraculously raise the vital animal and natural Spirits and most sweetly refresh them Balsamum Hypnoticum or a Balsam to procure Sleep Take Oyl of Nutmegs exprest five drams vulgar Oyl of Roses Violets and water-Lily of each two drams Oyl of Henbane seeds exprest and of white Poppy seeds exprest Oyl of Bricks and Benjamin of each a dram Mix them faithfully and then add these following Unguentum Populeon an ounce a Stags marrow three drams Opium dissolved in Spirit of Wine Extract of Oriental Saffron of each a dram Amber and Musk and true Oyl of Roses of each a scruple Mix them and make a Balsam according to Art Virtue and Use. By anointing the Nose and Pulses of the Temple and Arms and if need be the Ears and soles of the Feet with it it sweetly produceth sleep and mitigateth the pains of the Head Balsamum Memoriae or a Balsam for the Memory Take Oyl of Nuts exprest half an ounce oyl of Bricks and Castor of each three drams oyl of Myrrh and Frankincense of each a dram oyl of Lavender Rosemary Marjoram and Rue of each a scruple oyl of Cloves white Amber Cinamon and Benjamin of each ten grains Mix them and with the Caput mortuum of exprest Oyl of Nutmegs make a Balsam of a just consistence to which add true Gallia Moschata two scruples Again mix them and keep it for use Virtue and Use. It is a great Secret in recovering the Memory lost or to comfort and conserve it But it is hurtful in Womens Hysterical distempers and therefore the Gallia Moschata may be omitted or to suppress the odor of it the weight of Oyl of white Amber may be increased The use of it is thus anoint the hinder-part of the Head therewith morning and evening Balsamum Odontalgicum or a Balsam for the Tooth-ach Take the Oyls of Origanum Cloves and Camphire of each two drams Opium Spagirically prepared flowers of Nitre of each a dram species Diambrae and red Sanders of each half a dram Mix them and with the Caput mortuum of exprest Oyl of Nutmegs or in defect of this white Wax half an ounce make a Balsam according to Art Virtue and Use. It is effectual in the Tooth-ach of what cause soever but especially cold A little Lint or Cotton wet in it and the Tooth stopped therewith doth immediately take away the pain if the Tooth be hollow Moreover it kills Worms and brings away humors plentifully by the Mouth Balsamum Puerorum dentientium or a Balsam for Children breeding Teeth Take May Butter not salted three ounces sat of a Hen and a Duck of each two drams flowers of wild Poppies a dram Boil them in Juyce of living Crabs bruised and with water of Blue-bottles and Extract of roots of Marsh-mallows of each two ounces Let them boil to the consumption of the Juyces then being prest add white Sugar Candy four ounces Gallia Moschata vera a scruple the Yolk of one Egg. Mix them and make a Balsam according to Art Virtue and Use. Infants in breeding their Teeth are often in danger of their life because of the hardness of the Gums by reason of the great pain that attends it but the use of this Balsam doth so rarifie and mollifie the Gums that it removes all fear of danger and makes them breed their Teeth easily if the Gums be frequently anointed therewith Balsamum Paralyticum or a Balsam for the Palsie Take Oyl of Galbanum distilled with Spirit of Turpentine oyl of Amber rectified of each an ounce oyl of Rosemary and Angelica of each a
good will of excellent Spagyrick Artists and the prudent Searchers into the things of Nature I freely communicate to the Sons of Learning and Experience yet I do appoint it as a thing beyond all doubt that this healthy and celestial comfort may be received with a pleasant countenance and with the delight of a thankful mind dedicated to God in praise and thanksgiving The Preparation TAke native Vitriol green and known to the Philosophers only or for want of that the Crystals of Vitriol of Venus well cleansed sublimely mundified and free from all its terrestrial quality put it into a strong and well luted Retort increase the fire by degrees till it produceth a reddish Oyl which carefully preserve the use of it shall be shewed hereafter Then take the Caput mortuum which is left in the bottom of the Vessel and pour upon it an appropriate Menstruum and set it in a cold place and it will shoot into Crystals of the nature and savour of Vitriol Calcine the Caput mortuum the second time and proceed as before is directed and it will again produce new Crystals almost of the same kind but less profitable to this Mystery Repeat this labour so often and so long till no more smell remains in the Vitriol and then lastly calcine the Caput mortuum throughly but Philosophically and extract from it its Salt which will be excellent and pleasant to the taste which also preserve in hope of the following doctrine and in the mean time be mindful of what hath been spoken You may by due rectifying of the terrene part find a true occult Medicinal Stone Then take the fore-mentioned Oyl and pour into it Water in that dissolve filings of Steel and prepare Vitriol of it which dissolve in distilled Rain-water that the Crystal may the better appear which labour you shall so often repeat till you have the pure from the impure and that the Crystals appear clear and pellucid without dimness and obscurity From these Crystals of Mars in the former manner distil a red Oyl and let it be well rectified lest any of the flegm should remain in it Then you shall have the blood of the red Lion that is a Mineral the Sulphur of Mars and Venus together of excellent virtue and this taken from Vulcan according to that saying Mulciberis capti Marsque Venusque dolis This being done extract from the Caput mortuum a Salt void of all smell of Mars prepare it after the same manner as is already shewed in the Extraction of Salt of Vitriol of Venus Both these Salts mix together in equal weight put it into some open Glass-vessel and set it in a Cellar or other cold place where it may resolve it self into a Mercurial water Then take the solution and from that again draw fresh Crystals and then you will have a duplicate Mercury the Salt of Sapience and Nature the Salt of the Philosophers under which is hidden the Basis of the World And this duplicate Mercury being wrapped in a hood of obscurity was never manifested so plainly by any of the Philosophers as by my self although in certain obscure words it was delivered by them which was not easie to be understood till by the search of more laborious men the thing was further sought into and this Mercury is called by the Philosophers Rebis which is as it were the terrestrial Treasure discovered by the mercy of God an Experiment of the best and greatest knowledge which you must reserve for the following use Take the Mercury now mentioned and that red Sulphur those two joyn Philosophically by the rule of Reason and Understanding and let the Spagyrick Vessel in which they are mixed be three parts empty and the fourth part only filled with the Medicine this seal Hermetically and manage it with a Philosophical fire by degrees in a continual heat till the whole mass be coagulated and brought into the form of a stone Which being done you may if you please reduce into its forms principally and in a short time render it more noble and illustrious and so you have made the great Mystery If you are curious you may observe before the Coagulation a wonderful appearance of many things and many colours also all which consider well honour God and accommodate your Neighbour Virtue Use and Dose IT is an universal Medicine and such a Treasure that is able to cure all Diseases by what name soever they are called in all and every Creature One two or more grains of this Arcanum taken according to the age and constitution of the Patient doth presently penetrate the whole body like smoke it removes all the vicious and malignant attendants of Nature and puts all into a better conformity it doth renew the whole Creature and as it were regenerates all de novo it keeps the whole structure in order beyond the power and disturbance of small accidental Diseases even to old age or to the end of life which is determined by the Almighty c. For Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis When death 's impowered by the God above No medicine can our miseries remove Also this illustrious Medicine when duly fermented with the pure Gold of Philosophers cleanseth Metals from their original impurity and renders them good by the virtue of the pure fixt Gold For which immense and ineffable benefit and every other gift and wisdom let it be to the praise and glory of the great Creator who is God blessed for ever Unicornu Solare or the Solar Unicorn LIke as the Unicorn in the animal Kingdom is esteemed of great price by all men but especially great ones and is esteemed of such a price that it far exceeds all Gemms precious Stones Gold and Silver both in price and excellence and hath a place among the richest of Treasures So also the Solar Unicorn in the Mineral Kingdom is to be esteemed of great price for its great fixitude and more than solid perfection for it is the highest most precious and next to universal to which it is joyned as a Partner both in virtue and operation and so secret a Mystery that it is not improper to call it a most powerful and inaccessible Remedy Preparation ALthough it is easie to the knowing and skilful yet it will be difficult to the ignorant and unskilful they being wrapt in ignorance like a garment Take the original Mineral of Gold broken into piece like Hazel-nuts the quantity of a pound or less put it into a Cornuta or other Spagyrick Vessel and with a gentle clear fire distil it the work being made secure and all well luted and let the matter in the bottom not melt but sweat only without burning that it may send forth a sweet and celestial Water which is of great price And indeed by the benefit of this Spagyrick Art a pound of the Mineral will scarce cast forth by sweat the quantity of a spoonful of water therefore you may reiterate this labour with
Cows milk half a pint Oyl of Violets three ounces the marrow of a Stag an ounce Mill-dust half an ounce Tragacanth two drams of the fish called a Pike two drams Mix all for a Clyster which inject warm Enema aliud dolores Dysentericos sistens or another Clyster taking away pain in the bloody Flux Take Liquorish and Rice of each an ounce red Roses two drams flowers of wild Poppy a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram Boil them in Cows milk and take of the clear Decoction a pound Oyl of white Lilies three ounces Goats Suet an ounce Mill-dust half an ounce Olibanum two drams Styrax Calamitis a dram Mix them and make a Clyster Enema aliud Anodynum or another Anodyne Clyster Take Barley husked two ounces roots of great Comfry and Linseed of each an ounce flowers of wild Poppy Violets and Roses of each a dram and a half Make a Decoction in Milk of which take a pound brown Sugar an ounce the Yolks of two Eggs Extract of Oriental Saffron a scruple Opium Spagirically prepared ten grains Mix them for a Clyster Enema dolorem ardorem leniens or a Clyster asswaging Pain and Heat Take Oyl of sweet Almonds Oyl of Linseed exprest of each half a pound Mucilage of Quince seeds made with Milk four ounces Mix them and make a Clyster Enema aliud dolores Dysentericos placans or another Clyster asswaging pain in the bloody Flux Take of the Decoction of Barley and Milk of each half a pound Oyl of Roses three ounces juyce of Plantane two ounces brown Sugar an ounce Goats fat half an ounce Philonium persicum a dram Mix them and make a Clyster Enema Diureticum or a Diuretick Clyster Take roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows and Couch-grass of each an ounce the herbs Saxifrage Pellitory of the Wall and Mallows of each half an ounce Raisons and Iujubes of each three drams of the four greater cold Seeds bruised Winter-Cherries and seeds of Gromel of each two drams flowers of Chamomil Broom and Mother of Thyme of each a dram and a half Boil them and take of the clear Decoction a pound Oyl of bitter Almonds and Oyl of Scorpions of each an ounce and a half Salt of Restharrow a dram and a half Mix them and make a Clyster to be injected Enema in Calculo Renum Visicae or a Clyster for the Stone in the Reins and Bladder Take roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows and common Mallows of each an ounce seeds of Gromel and stones of Medlars of each half an ounce Boil them and take of the strained Decoction ten ounces Oyl of Violets three ounces Cassia new drawn ten drams Benedicta laxativa half an ounce common Salt a dram and a half Mix them and make a Clyster Enema Calculum comminuens or a Clyster to break the Stone Take roots of Parsley Restharrow and Marsh-mallows of each an ounce the herbs Pellitory of the Wall Pauls Betony and Ground-Ivy of each half an ounce seeds of Burdock common Mallows Gromel and Saxifrage of each two drams Iuniper-berries and Bay-berries husked Winter-Cherries of each a dram and a half flowers of Chamomil white Lilies and Marsh-mallows of each a dram Make a Decoction and of that take twelve ounces Oyl of Scorpions simple and Violets of each two ounces Salt of Eryngo and Fenil of each a dram Mix them for a Clyster Enema aliud in Calculo Renum Vesicae or another Clyster for the Stone in the Reins and Bladder Take roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows and white Lilies of each an ounce the herbs Pellitory of the Wall Flaxweed Ground-Ivy and Pauls Betony of each half an ounce flowers of Marsh-mallows Elder and Chamomil of each two drams Boil them and take of the strained Decoction twelve ounces Oyl of Mullein two ounces Honey of Roses an ounce Cassia new drawn six drams Cyprus Turpentine and Benedicta laxativa of each half an ounce the Yolk of an Egg Sal Nitre half a dram Mix them for a Clyster Enema aliud in eodem casu or another in the same case Take roots of Marsh and common Mallows of each half an ounce white Hermodactyls Album Graecum and Ground-Ivy of each two drams seeds of Marsh-mallows Gromel and Fleabane of each a dram and a half flowers of St. Iohns-wort Broom Melilot and Flaxweed of each a dram Boil them and take of the Decoction twelve ounces Anodyne Oyl of the seven Flowers two ounces Cyprus Turpentine mixed with the Yolk of an Egg an ounce Benedicta laxativa half an ounce Nitre prepared a dram Mix them and make a Clyster which I my self make use of Enema mirabile in Calculo renato or a wonderful Clyster for the Stone in the Reins Take the roots of marsh and common Mallows of each an ounce white Hermodactyls six drams the four emollient Herbs and Dovesfoot of each half an ounce seeds of Parsley Anise Ivy and Seseli of each three drams the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram and a half flowers of Chamomil Broom Marsh-mallows and Melilot of each a dram Boil them and take of the Decoction twelve ounces Oyl of Scorpions simple and Oyl of sweet Almonds of each an ounce and a half brown Sugar two ounces Cyprus Turpentine washed in white Wine an ounce Benedicta laxativa an ounce and a half Salt of Nitre a dram Mix them and make a Clyster which doth use to bring away great plenty of thick gross humors Enema in dolore Calculi or a Clyster in the pain of the Stone Take Album Graecum an ounce Figs fifteen Boil them in white Wine and take of the Decoction twelve ounces Oyl of bitter Almonds and Oyl of Poplar buds of each an ounce and a half the fat of a Duck fresh Butter not seasoned of each half an ounce common Salt a dram and a half the Yolk of an Egg. Of these make a Clyster which works wonderfully Enema ad dolorem Nephriticum or a Clyster for the pain in the Kidneys Take roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows Couchgrass and Asparagus of each an ounce of the herb Flaxweed Mallows and Melilot of each half an ounce flowers of Marsh-mallows Chamomil St. Iohns-wort and Broom of each a dram seeds of Parsley Winter-Cherries and Gromel of each a dram and a half Boil them and take of the Decoction twelve ounces Oyls of white Lilies bitter Almonds and Scorpions of each an ounce clarified Honey Benedicta laxativa and Venice Turpentine of each half an ounce Sal Gem a dram and a half Mix them and make a Clyster Enema ad Scirrhum Uteri or a Clyster for the Scirrhus of the Womb. Take roots of white Lilies Marsh and common Mallows of each an ounce the herbs Mercury Pellitory of the Wall and Arach of each half an ounce seeds of Quinces and Flax of each two drams flowers of Chamomil Melilot Mullein and Marsh mallows of each a dram Make a Decoction in water and to the Decoction add fresh Butter not seasoned and Sallet Oyl of