strength of Roses is rather placed in the earthy part Quercetan erreth whilest he would have the digestion of the juyce at length drawn or prest forth to be repeated in Balneo and that which is clear to be seperated adding thereto the earthy parts But plenty of the said flowers being wanting infusion in boyling water the vessell being well closed up hath the next place nor then is there any need of Balneum it sufficeth to be placed in a warme place for certain houres or if you had rather use the distilled water of Roses it ought not to boyle forth but to be placed a while in Balneo with the Roses There is also a salt made or prepared by decoction out of salt waters It is the propriety of Salt to bind and be sharp brachish and of a watry of spring by which name it receiving into it self a moist aire forthwith melteth as also others which from their first origine are rather watry then earthy From hence it followeth that no true Salt can be got out or Plants yea even from them which abound with Saltness Such as are Kaly or Saltwort and Sea-grape or knotted Kaly For which cause we refuse and altogether reject those white Powders which are made of sodden lyes whilest lye filtered is stilled till there remaineth in the bottome a thicknese like Hony which is dryed at the sunne or by the Fornace and at length for whiteness sake is burnt by a moderate fire in a Gold smiths pot when they want a native genuine saltness and if there be any it is much inferiour to that in naturall Salt when in like manner the lye retaineth nothing of the nature of a Medicine besides sharpness much lesse the foresaid Powders unless peradventure those which are void of all sharpness may be usefull gently to dry but will not answer the labour of making them and cost in their operation Neither can true Salt be gotten or made out of urine For if it be boyled or stilled till the watery moisture is resolved into vapours and the dregs be calcined there ariseth a Powder with an odious taste and if you poure water upon the thing calcined and after draw it by distillation you may truly wash away the stinke but you will have remaining rather the taste of Salt-peter then of Salt But what madness is it to reckon Vitriall Allum and Sugar in the number of Salts where is their faltness shall then likeness make all things the same In like manner also by decoction almost are prepared your Lohochs your Electuaries candid things Morsels Pils Trochisces Glisters Suppositories Ointments Pultesse and Cerots In making your Medicines which are called Lumbitives and Arteriacks from the rough artery a Wind-pipe they mollifie The Arabians call those Medicines Lohochs which have power to mollifie the Brest stay Catarrhes or Rheumes and cut flegme and they make a decoction first to clamminess then adde Sugar Pennels and boil it to the thicknesse of honey and after expression when it begins to cool mingle the rest in a morter without decoction as Vine kernels sweet Almonds husked juyce of Liquorice Tragacanth and Gum Arabick Ireos Roots and white Starch Because their strength will rather be weakned by decoction then drawn forth But seeing the cutting faculty is extream contrary to tough and thickning and that the one weakneth the strength of the other sometimes they are wont with great oversight to be mixed together In like manner in Electuaries they are first boyled in the same order of which I have formerly advised you those things whose faculty may fitly be drawn forth by decoction to the consumption of their parts there is after added a third part of Sugar and then it is boiled up again to a consistence as well for taste as lasting and last of all such things are added which are not fit to be boyled such as are conserves flowers of Cassia pulp of Prunes Tamarindes c. or Sena leaves Rubarb Agarick Coloquintida are infused into the boyling decoction and about twelve hours after they may bestreined with expression and the expression forthwith boyled up to a consistence with Sugar the rest as I have said being added Those things which we will preserve we first cleanse and throw away that in the roots which is woody and by decoction we soften hard things and take away the bitterness from bittter things though this rather serve for gluttonie then Physicall intentions and being lightly dryed we put Sugar to them warm boyled up to a fit thicknesse for too much heat shrinketh the fruit till they are well covered and then if any of the waterie moistnesse appear that being separate and reboyled is poured on but some fruits as for example sake Cherries are presently dipped into the said Sugar The soundnesse of the Flowers is conserved from whence they are called conserves if unto them being small bruised a double part of Sugar carefully poudered be mingled and exposed to the Sun to drie up the watry moisture and therefore they are to be gathered in fair and dry weather and the whites are to be clipt off from the roses for their bitternesse Some times to gratifie the sick we mingle powders simple or compound or distilled oiles with sugar and also medicines cut into small parts If the pouder be pleasant or purging that the purgative power may not be weakned by too great a proportion of sugar we mingle an ounce of it dissolved and perfectly boyled with a dram of the said sugar in odoriferous water or such as shall serve for our purpose but with pouders lesse gratefull one dram with two ounces of Sugar but of oile one scruple with half a pound of Sugar and the Sugar being boyled enough remove it from the fire beat it a good while with a Pestle untill the pouders or oile are well mixed together and then poure it forth upon a Table and frame out round pellets or four square Tablets or Lozenges or Long which they call Bits Sometimes to the Sugar poudered we mingle onely some few drops of distilled oile without any decoction but this we have referred unto our Infusions Pills called Cataphotia because they are swallowed are made up either of Extracts or Pouders moistned with some lost humour of such a bignesse as any one may swallow them an that they may not offend in smell or taste let them bee guilded The close is esteemed by the working of the Ingredient v. g. The scone of the golden pills of Nicolaus is to purge all humours which Scammony performeth but more slow flegme therefore Coloquintida is added to it But Aloes though it loosen the belly yet it is chiefly here inserted because according to the opinion of Mesue it strengtheneth all the bowels but especially the Stomack and liver by opening this and cleansing that and by his thicknesse correcteth the acrimonie or the rest Mastich and Tragacanth by their clamminess corrected the sharpnesse the seed of Fennell and Annise Saffron and Roses
scabs and hot pushes Also it stayeth fretting sores namely on the privie members Furthermore it stincheth mattering eares if it be dropped thereinto and if it be sod in the rind of a Pomegranate it expelleth worms out of the ears Childes urine The urine of a child under 14. yeers of age doth cure the toughness of breath if it bee drunken If it be sod in a brazen vessell with honey it healeth creythes and also the web and the tey in the eie There is made of it and copper good soulder for gold Dregs of urine The dregs of urine is good for Saint Anthonies evill if it be nointed thereon so that as Galen doth wisely add the sore be cooled first with some other thing and bee not burning If it be heated with oyle of privet and laid to the womb of a woman it will asswage the grief of the mother and cureth also the rising of the same It cleanseth the eie-lids and the creythes in the eyes Oxe stale Oxe stale being tempered with myrrh and dropped into sore eares healeth the pain of them The urine of a wild Bore Wild bore is of the same vertue if it be kept as Sextus Platonicus writeth in a glasse and dropped warm into them but it hath a more peculiar property in breaking of the stone and to expell the same if it be drunke Goats urine Goats urine drunke every day with Spikenard and three ounces of water is good for the dropsie for it expelleth urine by the sege and it cureth pain of the ears if it be dropped into them Asse pisse Asse pisse as it is written is good for the grief of the reins if it be drunke Mules stale Mules stale as Paulus Aegineta saith is good to heal pain in the joynts Camels and goats stale The stale of Camels and Goats also doth provoke sege and therefore is good for them that have the dropsie Sextus Platonicus Sextus Platonicus saith That Goats urine if it be drunke doth provoke womans terms and cureth pain in the eares being droped into them and being mixed with mulset wine Paulus Aegineta and so dropped into the eares it draweth out matter if there be any Wild Bore The urine of the wild Bore with mulset vineger is good for the falling evill if it be drunke Dogs pisse A Dogs piss tempered with dust and laid in wool will heal corns marveilously and destroy warts Childes urine A childs urine will heal the stinging of a Bee Waspe and Hornet if the place bee washed therewith Mans urine A mans urine will cleanse the freckles and spots in the face And if a woman cannot be delivered of the after burden let her drinke mans urine and she shall be delivered straight Collumella saith that the best dunging for yong shots of trees Collumella is mans urine namely which hath stood half a yeer For if you water vines or apple-trees with it there is no dung that will cause so much fruit as it will doe and not only that but it causeth also the savour and the taste both of the apples Sheeps urin and of the wine to be much the better Constantinus Affricanus saith That the urine of a Sheep Constantinus Affricanus or an Oxe with some hot oil is good for the grief in the cars that cometh of cold Urine as Vitalis de Furno saith fretteth Vitalis dryeth and burneth and is good for the grief of the spleen if it be drunk as Gontilis writeth Asse stale The Urine of a male Asse as the same Vitalis saith tempered with Nardus doth increase and preserve hair And as some say by the writing of Marcellus Virgilius Vrine is of no smal nourishment M. Virgilius for divers folk in the time of dearth have been preserved by the onely use and drinking of it Also Marcellus the Practitioner Marcellus in the 27. Chapter doth witnesse That the Vrine of a man is good for divers diseases of the wombe and bowels and namely for the Collick because that partly with provoking of vomit and partly by occasion of seges it expelleth strongly all noysome humours and for the same cause doth common Practitioners keep it still in daily use Vldericus Huttenus Vlderick Hutten also witnesseth That he did drive away the Ague above 8. times with the only drinking of his own Vrine at the beginning of his sickness And many still doe use the same practise and it proveth well Marsilius Ficinus Likewise Marsilius Ficinus writeth that Many men doe use to drink urine for the Pestilence which thing did Galen write long before him and also Paulus Aegineta and doe testifie also that it preserved them that dranke it a the least way as they thought All urine as Galen writeth is hot in vertue Galen and sharp as saith Aegineta howbeit it differeth according to them that make it For the hotter they are that make it the hotter is it also and likewise the colder urine comet h of a colder body Mens urine is the weakest of all other except tame barrow hoggs for they in very many points agree with man but the urine of wild Bores is stronger Mans urine Mens urine is of as strong cleansing vertue as any thing else and therefore doe Fullers use it to scoure and cleanse their cloth And in cure of grief s also for the same reason it is used to soke and wash maunginess and scabbedness and running sores that are full of corruption and filth and specially if they have in them putrified matter and for such sores on the privie members it is good and for mattering eares and for scales and scurf if the head be washed in it I have healed with it many times sores on the toes namely which came of bruises and were without inflammation and that in servants and husbandmen which had a journey to goe and no Physitian with them bidding them to wet a small clout with it and to put into the sores and then to bind a cloth about it and as often as they listed to make water to let it fall on their sore toes and not to take the cloth away till it were quite whole That medicine which is made of childes urine called of some men in Greek Chrisocola Chrysocola that is to say gold soulder because men use to soulder gold This I say is exceeding good for sores that are hard to heal For this medicine doe I use for the chiefest mixing it with such other things as are good for such like sores In the time of Pestilence in Syria many did drinke Childrens urine and mens also and thought that they were preserved by it Of urine also do Alchumysts make divers things Alchumists as salt and other things moe And many other commodities there bee of urine as for washing and scouring and other like which for briefness I over-passe and the rather because they are commonly
vertues have done their office duly FINIS The Safe New Way of examining Urines by Weight first invented and found out by Joannes Baptista Van Helmont that famous Philosopher and Physitian AN Ounce may weigh 600 grains I got a glasse Vessel with a narrow neck weighing 1354 graines but filled with rain Water weighing over 4670 grains The Urine of an old man is found to weigh in the same Vessel 4720 grains or to over-weigh the rain water 50. grains But the Urine of a healthy woman of the age of 55 yeers weighed 4745 grains The Urine of an healthy yong man of 19 yeers of age weighed 4766 grains But the Urine of another yong man of equall yeers being abstinent from drinking weighed 4800 grains And a yong man of 36 yeeres of Age having a sertian with a Cough weighed 4763 grains But the aforesaid yong man of 19. yeers of Age having a double Tertian the night before drunk little but his water weighed 4848 grains which was 82 grains more then when he was in health A Virgin troubled with a passion of the heart made water like rain water and which therefore equally weighed with the rain water The Urine being warm is alwayes found to bee a few grains lighter then when it is cold as also more large Lee therefore the vessel be of a short neck and pointed so that even in a point of time you may measure the Urine To these other Observations may be added by a curious Observer of these Directions specified And it is a farre easier Method then that which by another Author is reduced into Aphorisms by weighing out of the whole man and so judging of his particular estate Turnheiserus also hath invented a new way of judging of Urines in framing a Stillatorie Vessel for urine and distinguishing it into 24. parts and marking it out on the outside with his lines divideth the humane body into so many Sections and then judgeth of them Courteous Reader I Have only inserted these two passages and late inventions that those who are curious Students in this way may in prosecution of these new Discoveries confer the Ancient and Modern Practises together being promised if God please to afford my Friend life and health in a very short space to inlarge these Observations and Novel Inventions into a more full and exact Method In the mean while I shall desire my gentle Reader to take these Offers as they have been presented unto me in as good part as I have freely published them Farewell A DETECTION Of some Faults in Unskilful PHYSITIANS Ignorant and Careless APOTHECARIES and unknowing running CHIRURGIANS Written by a Doctor of Physick in Queen Elizabeths dayes And also a Translation of Papius concerning Apothecaries Usefull for all sorts of People LONDON Printed by G. D. 1651. TO THE READER Courteous Reader AS the Books came to my hands I have presented them faithfully to you If you accept of them I shal account my labour well bestowed intending it for the publike good If otherwise you are offended at him that best owed them on me he desires you would be pleased to present something of your own better may oblige him and others to thank you for it I thought fit lastly to acquaint you that since my fitting of Record this second time for the Presse lighting by the help of a Friend upon these two other Peeces The one A Detection of some faults of unskilful Physitians Ignorant and Covetous Apothecaries and Vnknowing Running Chirurgions Written by a Doctor of Physick in Queen Elizabeths dayes a Book out of Print and almost knowledge I thought fit to put again to the Presse as reproving the too frequent abuses of these times And also a translation of Papius concerning Apothecaries Encouraged the rather since the publishing of that translated or rather transverted Dispensatorie by that Sapientum Octavus Culpepper wherewith I have presented as it came to my hands a cursorie passage by some Well-wisher to that Honourable societie of Physitians prefixed before his translation Intituled The Translator to the Reader Curteous Reader THere is a Book lately put forth against Anthroposophia It is conceived the sum of the whole Book collected from what is scurrilous and unworthy of an Academian may be comprised in little more then a sheet of Paper whereby you may conceive how much the Author burtheneth the Readers patience with superfluous trash He is much troubled with Sendivogius and Anonymus Books I beleeve his capaciy never yet understood and for his being graveld at what is wrote against Aristotle hee will finde it a greater task to answer Basson Gassendus or Van Helmont in what they have taxed him then to write Invectives without discretion Concerning Mr. Culpepper he saith He that looks on a game may see as much into it as he that playes 'T is true if he well knows the game but you have plaid your game with the Physitians and though your Gentilitie be not questioned ingenious men will give you the Epithite of Eques male moratus though not according to Riders interpretation of Eques at Cards You say the Liberty of our Common-wealth is most infringed by three sorts of men Priests Physitians Lawyers the one deceiving men in matters belonging to their souls if your father were a Priest as is related why might not he do so The second in matters belonging to their bodies hardly not more then you by your Dispensatorie The third in matters belonging to their Estates you are reported to dave tryed some other Professions but only fasten on the Rayler Physitians you say walke in the clouds and that 's the reason men are led by the noses 'T is strange men in the clouds should lead men below by the noses but you have as visible a piercing eye to see that as you have into Physick But they are led by a company of proud insulting domineering Doctors whose Wits were born five hundred yeeres before themselves 'T is a pretty riddle a mans wit should antecede him five hundred yeers If your own went but half so long before you I should beleeve they would hardly gallop up to one another and you scarcely wiser in five hundred yeers subsequent But some have wasted whole Estates in Physick it hath certainly been with such wise Aesculapians as your self though I scarce beleeve any wiseman would fool out a groat on your judgement It is unhansome and unbeseeming you say to see a Doctor ride instate in Plush with a foot-cloth envie not their merits When a Traslator may be trusted with his own government and writes any thing Dignum bono viro he will be commended servum Reipublicae but they dare not visit a visited house not for that they fear themselves but because they would not fear others whose lives may be in as great danger But you think you have paid them with two Proverbiall Verses when the Patients ingratitude when they are restored may rather keep them away according to this Verse 1. Angelus
smell of turpentine is washed away with water as also when the Cyancan and Armenian stone are washed oiles and fat that the vitious malignant qualities and foul smell may be taken away Lye is a waterie or spiritous humour sifted through ashes Therefore it is to bee valued as well from the nature of the ashes as the moisture poured out on it for from the ashes it hath his strength of drying cleansing and cutting by his sharpnesse which the actuall and potentiall hear of the liquor poured forth increaseth and by consequent it hath no strength of softning or conglutinating together If the moisture poured on be potentially hot or cold of the same nature will the lye bee also But seeing the ashes doth retain nothing of the vertue of the medicine neither from the lye will any vertue be in it at all The lightnesse of the lye ariseth from that moisture of the ashes which we have said is melted with a vehement fire and advance the passage through the vessels taken by the mouth and after the cleansing of the foulnesse away induceth especially a smoothness to the skin of man In the said faculties and in the manner of generation it is like to the wheyie part of blood by which name it hath a sympathie with the reins and bladder and from thence a dieuretick power of cutting the flegm and de-obstructing the veins But it hath no sweating power unlesse it bee got from good wine or the Spirits of wine nor of a counterpoison by it self unlesse it be got from distilled waters decoctions and infusions of this kinde or that plants resisting poyson be put in place of strata in the straining through But by accident whilest it resisteth putrefaction and tough clammy poisons by drying and cutting by urine and sweatings it carryeth along with it the poison nature together thrusting forth the poison by which advice many drink their own urine in times when the aire is infected That mixture also is like to infusion when the oile and watery humour is mixed with the earthy matter for when the oily humour repelleth from it the water contrarily the waterie may be easily dryed up with the earthy so that thence it may easier admit the oile it accordeth rather that the earthy matter be mingled before with the waterie moist then with the oylic so in the threefold medicine lythargie or white-lead is first mingled with vinegar and after with oyle 5. Decoction The humour is either digested by the fire alone or with the humour and earthy matter untill that either for the most part the waterie parts exhale away as it is in boyling of salt water 1. Of a Nitrous humour of juyces expressed c. That no occasion of Putrefaction on may be given 2. The vitious or evill qualities exhale away 3. Hard things may be softned 4. The Medicinable qualitie of the things infused may bee communicated to the humour 5. And that the moist pants may be exactly mixed and united with the earthy And these also are two ends of insolation when we expose into the sun oile spirits or vinegar with things infused for this also is a certain decoction or digestion that the earthy matter may be gathered together and settle so that afterward it may be separated That humour is either an oylie or a waterie juyce drawn forth water wine beer sweet wine honyed wine and vinegar Foolishly called by some a menstruum since no Physicall infusion or decoction requireth the spaces of a month but may at the utmost be finished in three daies space 1. Decoction is made in a vessell shut or closed when we fear the losse or flying away of the subtile and thinner vapours 2. Or in an open vessell when we would exhale offensive qualities There is need of being carefull about it and looking often to the matter that it may not bee burned and of double clarifying it either in the bath to keep in the faculties of the things infused and to prevent Empyreuma 1. By reason of the delay hard things require a long time which for this cause ought first to be put in and require more moistnesse in which their great abundance of moisture is to be resolved for avoiding putrefaction 2. Lesse hard require a lester time when there is not such great abundance of water to be resolved so we boil leaves to the consumption only of the fourth part of the water 3. Flowers and Spice require a short time to the boyling of which two or theee walmes will suffice Sometimes the decoction is reiterated or the infusion by a straining or expression renewed that the thicker parts being separated those which are thinner may in the other decoction bee mote exactly united together There is also a certain naturall coction as when new Wine boyleth up or as new Beer brewed Honey and water mixed new Wine c. and some infusions when as the potentiall heat actuated or put a working separateth the grosser parts from the thinner some advancing upward and some setling downward and resolveth the thinner parts into vapours or spirits which being scattered if there be not space or issue enough to goe forth the same break the vessels a peices though very strong Though according to the opinion of Actaurius Sirrup or a Julep be water boyled with Hony or Sugar or Wine boyled to the third part yet at this day all Decoctions are called Sirrups in which water with plants is boyled either with or without Sugar or Hony and Juleps when stilled waters Rob when the juyces are pressed forth in an equall weight with Sugar or boyled with a halfe part of Sugar Sugar and Hony are added for cleansing taste or lusting sake For by their clamminess as by a coagulation it conserveth the parts united In preparation of simple Sirrup for continuance as for example sake of flowers of Violets or Roses it is best to have the juyce of Violets pressed out to be infused raw in Sugar clarified warme not boyling lest it exhale away some of the smell and to set it into the Sunne to resolve away the superfluous watry moistness and if insolation suffice not by inclining the vessell to seperate that which is watry and then being boyled again to poure it on for so the smell and strength of the Medicine will be preserved and kept more powerfully concerning which our Reformer Quercetan hath nothing he can more boast of But seeing in Roses there is an aicry spirituous and oyly matter which either doth not enter the juyce or is more drawn out by a fervent decoction it is best that Roses be first infused in a boyling or fervent decoction and some houres after pressed forth and to this juyce other Roses be put and being about nine times iterated by infusion in Balneo to prevent Empyreuma and Evaporations then that juyce at length prest or strained out should be boyled with about a third part of Sugar to a fit consistence in Balneo Mariae For since the purgative
correct the power which is offensive to stomack brain and heart and also prepare and fit the flegm by cutting and cleansing it Aloes Parseley seed and the other seed And because gentle purgatives are mixed with strong and vehement pursers there is almost the same quantity of correctors that is ten dragms as of Purgatives which are eleven drams And whereas a dose of Pills ought not to exceed four scruples this Masse ought to be divided into about 20. drams by which name there shall be in every dose of Aloes Scammonie Coloquintida whose highest dose is ij â„¥ and 12. grains of each 15. grains and 3. grains And to every Pill shall have of vehement Purgers 18. grains which dose is therefore the greater because the correctors doe not a little dull and weaken the strength of the Purgers By the like reason round orbicular Pellets or Trochises are framed the strength of Agarick being an enemy to the stomack is corrected by wine in which ginger is macerated and with Tragacanth which is slow and dull an Union is made of the broken and scattered parrs And the sharpness and malignitie of Coloquintida in the Trochises of Alhandal For ten ounces some read evilly so many Dragms for otherwise the Purgatives should be much overcome by the Correctives which were saulty are rubbed with oyle of sweet Almonds for one whole dupe and then they are reduced into a Maste or body by the infusion of four ounces of Rosewater of Bdellium Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each nine Dragms The Masse being again dryed in the shadow being very small beaten is at length with the said infusion brought into a paste Clysters are profitable in vomiting when the sick hold not those things which they receive at the mouth or when they can receive nothing by the mouth They are good in a hard belly to loosen it and the dregs or excrements and in a fluid or moist to binde the same and to thicken the excrements or mollifie the sharpe For Ulcers in the guts to cleanse and glew them together and for diseases of the belly of the reines and bladder for they can work strongly upon these parts by discussing the vapours and windiness Loosning may be caused in one of full age by a pinte of flesh pottage of decoction of milk barly or emollient herbes of water or whey strained that the passages may be cleansed and of Sugar or hony boyled least windiness may be moved halfe an ounce strained for cleanness sometimes instead of hony we take purgative Electuaries in the same or lesse quantity according to their faculty and the Patients strength and by reason of the disease of oyle or fat by reason of the dryness of the intestines and excrements three ounces or five then we add when the sharpness of the rest is not sufficient to provoke and advance the worke or the sense is duller in the night gut about a dram of salt sometimes we add a yolke or two to wash and cleanse the guts that they may not be hurt by the sharpness of the humours or to dull the stirring or provoking faculty Sometimes if there be no obstruction present for otherwise heat by drying causeth and increaseth obstruction in a cold distemper a Glister is made of Muscadine or Spanish wine with an ounce of seeds discussing winde boyled and strained hot and mingled with halfe an ounce of Treacle So you may gather by these the use of the rest When we would have Clisters kept a good while we exhibite them in a lesser quantity decocted and avoid all sharpe things When either age or custome will not endure Glisters as 1. They that ace troubled with piles or Ulcers of the Fundament are offended with Glysters or if Glysters and Purges doe not work we will draw them from the head or the midriffe as in old diseases or of the stomach then we put up Suppositories into the Fundament of young women to loosen them of Butter or Larde 2. And unto people of full age provoking and cleansing of the root or Beet scraped annoynted with a littie Butter sprinckled with a little Salt and Hony boyled up into hardness whew the Fundament doth not perfectly feele or is moved wee 'l put on it a little purging Powder or otherwise frame some of fit and conveinent matter When Oyles will not cleave or fasten on the parts Art hath invented Ointments which may stick and hold closer to and work stronger Therefore either oyle distilled is mixed with Waxe Manna or the like Aieriall matter for cause of a more exacter mingling by reason of their simpathy and a terrestriall matter by reason of his making up in forme of a liniment 1. And it is called a Balsome because it commeth very near to the nature of a true Balsome 2. Or the juycie parts of the plants are boyled with oyle or butter rather then their juyce pressed out because if they have oylie or spirituous parts in them by this meanes that and the strength of it is extracted and drawn forth which is not in the watry juyce 3. The dry plants are sod with equall portions of Wine Butter Oyle that the aquosity or watrynesse of the Wine may as well restraine the collection of foule corrupt matter and that the fire by insinuating his heat may not change the temper of the ointment and that the spirituous parts peircing by their thinnesse may draw out the spirituous and oylse part which is in them and may com municate it to the oyle Either decoction is drawn to the consumption or the Watry juyce Wine When the watrynes is not mixed with the oyle and gives occasion of Putrefaction By Olives of which oile omphocine is made we understand the wild boyled in oyle according as Theophrastu and Atheneus conceive in their writings because Astringent oile cannot be pressed forth neither from ripe nor putrified Olives nor from unripe which rather yeeld a watery juyce astringent Emollient pultisses are made with emollient decoctions bran and pouders and oyle butter fat honey and the decoction strained forth is mixed with pouders that which is fat is poured upon the hot for that must not be boyled till all things mingled come into the form of a pultiss But those which draw from the inward parts to the Superficies as heat nourishment c. are made of sharp mustard seed and dry figs because they draw and restrain that the mustard seed burn not too much which the day before are macerated in varm water and is bruised and brought into a Masle When we would draw lesse violently we take equall parts of both or two of figs and mustard one of mustard and of figs. Cerots are of a thicker and dryer consistence besides pouders oiles and fatts they take up waxe and rosin which makes them stick and cleave faster especially Turpentine or hard Rosin for the mildnesse and sweetness and they are boyled so long till they soil not the hands The matter of them is various