of Roses TAke Conserve of Roses tinctured with Spirit of Sulphur four ounces Lohoch of Coltsfoot roots prepared with Sugar two ounces species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce Lac Sulphuris half an ounce red Oriental Bole prepared juyce of Liquorish extracted of each two drams Oriental Saffron prepared a dram flowers of Benjamin Cardamoms the less Mace of each half a dram Balsam of Sulphur prepared with Oyl of Aniseeds a scruple true Oyl of Roses four grains Mix them and with our simple Pectoral Syrup make a Lohoch Virtue Use and Dose It helps those who are troubled with continual Coughs Hoarsness Pleurisies c. It brings offensive matter from the Lungs with ease and effectually heals purulent Exulcerations as well of the Breast as Lungs and takes away the ill smell thence proceeding It also helps those who spit blood The dose is the quantity of a Hazel-nut taken often Lohoch Violatum or Lohoch of Violets Take fresh Conserve of Violets tinged with our Elixir of Sulphur four ounces Lohoch sanum expert two ounces species of Diamargariton frigid Diaireos simple of each half an ounce compound flowers of Sulphur Extract of Liquorish roots of each three drams Oriental Saffron prepared Styrax Calamit of each a scruple Oyl of Hyssop and Benjamin of each four grains Mix them and with our compound Pectoral Syrup make a Pectoral Lohoch Virtue Use and Dose This Medicine is experimented in the Cough Asthma Phthisick difficulty of breathing and straitness of the Breast and in other diseases of the Breast and Lungs The dose is the same as before Lohoch Pectorale or a Pectoral Lohoch Take both our simple and compound pectoral Syrups of each two ounces Lohoch of Coltsfoot roots of sanum expertum of each an ounce Manus Christi with Aniseeds prepared six drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce green Ginger of each three drams Mix them and make a Pectoral Lohoch according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a certain Medicine for a Cough and Hoarsness coming of cold or thick Flegm contained in the Thorax and Lungs It is a present Remedy for all distempers of the Breast difficulty of Breathing Pleurisie pain of the Ribs c. The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg often in the day Lohoch seu Diacodium Crocatum or a Lohoch or Diacodium with Saffron Take of the heads and seeds of white Poppy twenty one sweet Bean cods the seeds being cast away roots of Liquorish of each three ounces seeds of Bombace Marsh mallows and Quinces Myrtle-berries of each half an ounce fat Figs Dates and Sebestens of each eleven flowers of great red Mallows Violets and Hearts-ease of each two drams Boil them in a sufficient quantity of fountain-Fountain-water according to Art Then take of this Decoction being strained two pound Sugar Candy rosated Penids of each half a pound Make of all a thick Syrup Then toward the end of the Preparation add Syrup of the juyce of wild Poppies Iujubes of each two ounces Extract of Saffron half a dram Mix them and over a gentle fire let them boil to the consistence of Honey which aromatize with a scruple of Gallia Moschata Virtue Use and Dose It is a great Secret in all hot thin sharp and salt Defluxions and Destillations from the Head upon the Thorax and rough Artery which cause continual Coughs and Watchings For it lenifies the roughness of the Throat and maturates the Spittle by making it thick and glutinous and fit to expectorate It allays thirst mitigates heat and procures sleep Also by cooling and moistning it roborates the Spirits repairs strength and preserves the native heat Moreover it cannot be expressed how profitable it is for those who are afflicted with the Colick Stone and Gravel Pleurisie Gout c. It is also good for the over-great excretion and evacuation of the Blood and Terms nay 't is of good use in burning Feavers Fluxes of the Belly Dysenteries c. which are caused by a sharp and cholerick matter The dose is from a dram to two three or four Lohoch Antiphthisicum or a Lohoch for the Consumption or wasting of the Lungs Take of our Diacodium crocatum four ounces Lohoch sanum expertum and de pulmone Vulpis of each two ounces our white red and citrine pectoral Rotula's of each an ounce our simple and compound pectoral Syrups of each six drams green Ginger half an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton frigid of each two drams Mix them and with an Emulsion made of white Poppy seeds and the water of Calves Lungs an ounce and a half over a gentle sire boil it to the consistence of a Lohoch Virtue Use and Dose It is of great efficacy and power in the Phthilick Asthma Cough Pleurisie Catarrh Hoarsness and other vices of the Thorax and Lungs It extenuates those humors that are hard to be spit forth and induceth sleep The dose is the quantity of a Hazel-nut often in the day SECT XVI Of Syrups Syrupus Perlarum Orientalium or Syrup of Oriental Pearls TAke water of Roses Borage and Bugloss of each six ounces Salt of Oriental Pearls half an ounce These being mixed and dissolved add of sweet Almonds a quantity sufficient to make an Emulsion with which afterward mix white Sugar a pound and then boil it to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Heart Brain and Memory preserves the Body sound It relieves the Consumptive and keeps off Old age It drys up vicious Humors amends Milk in Women restores the humidum Radicale and increaseth Seed in both Sexes It is also a certain Preservative from the Apoplexy Epilepsie and Palsie and is to be given divers times in the week The dose is from half an ounce to six drams by it self or with other Specificks Syrupus Corallorum rubrorum or Syrup of red Coral Take Tincture of red Roses extracted with succory-Succory-water distilled from the juyce of the whole Plant and as it were red ten ounces Salt of red Coral half an ounce These being mixed dissolved and filtred add of white Sugar a pound exprest juyce of Barberries and Goosberries of each four ounces Again mix them and bring all into the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the weakness of the Heart and much increaseth its strength It mitigates the intemperate heat of the Liver Spleen and Reins and wonderfully relieves them in Obstructions It cures any Haemorrhage mundifies the blood through the whole body It is a good Remedy for cholerick Vomitings It allays Thirst refrigerates and strengthens the Stomach It restores and amends the other internal Bowels distempered by heat Whence it is a great Secret in the Dysentery Lientery pains in the Guts Liver-fluxes Gonorrhoea Flux from the Womb c. It is also good in contagious Diseases and gives ease in malignant Defluxions and Colliquations It strengthens and preserves the Child in the Womb and prevents Abortion if while she goes with Child she takes half a spoonful at a
is also a good Remedy in drying Erysipelas's and healing Fistula's But in applying it take heed lest you touch the Eyes or Teeth therewith Liquor Cerussae or a Liquor of white Lead Take the best white Lead an ounce of Pompholix half an ounce of Lapis Calaminaris and Litharge of each two drams Tutty prepared and Spodium of each a dram Let all be finely pulverized and mixed and then pour upon them water of Housleek Plantane and red Roses of each three ounces Again mix them and keep them for use Virtue and Use. It is used externally and cools and drys any part infested with a Tumor Redness or Inflammation It allays pain cures blood-shot Eyes It takes away the yellow spots of the Face and Body and renders a mans Countenance clear and vivid The use of it consists in often using divers day together Liquor Tutiae or a Liquor of Tutty Take Tutty prepared Litharge and Ceruss of each half an ounce Camphire a dram crude Alum half a dram Let all be diligently mixed and then add water of Plantane and Roses of each four ounces Again mix them and keep it for use Virtue and Use. It cools and drys the external parts of the Body infested with Tumors and Inflammations Liquor Mercurii Saccharatus or a Liquor of Mercury with Sugar Take water of Plantane and Roses of each four ounces Ceruss an ounce sublimate Mercury white Sugar Candy and the best Spirit of Wine of each half an ounce Mix them and then add to it a scruple of Aqua fortis Virtue and Use. It cures all contumacious Ring-worms Tetters and such like disease of the Skin But before it is used let it be shaken and the part effected touched with a Feather or such like thing Liquor Mercurii Acetosus or a sour Liquor of Mercury Take white Vitriol and Camphire of each half an ounce sublimate Mercury Ceruss white Tartar and burnt Alum of each two drams white Pompholix half a dram Mix all and make a Powder Take of this powder half an ounce the best Wine Vinegar four ounces Mix these and keep it for use Virtue and Use. We use it in the same manner as before to cleanse the Skin It perfectly cures all Ring-worms Tetters and such like SECT XXI Of Emulsions Emulsio Rosata or an Emulsion with Roses TAke sweet Almonds an ounce seeds of white Poppy two drams of the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram rose-Rose-water eight ounces water of Strawberries and Vervain of each four ounces Of these make an Emulsion and edulcorate it with Julep of Roses Virtue Use and Dose I happily use it in all hot affects of the Head burning of the Stomach Thorax Breast Heart and all the lower Belly Emulsio Violata or an Emulsion with Violets Take sweet Almonds an ounce seeds of Violets twâ— drams seeds of white Poppy a dram water of Violetâ— eight ounces water of Lettice and water-Lily of eacâ— four ounces Of these make an Emulsion which eduâ— corate with Julep of Violets to make it grateful Virtue Use and Dose It is good in a hot intempeâ— rature of the whole Body for it cools and moistenâ— allays Thirst induceth Sleep relieveth the Breasâ— and resists the Acrimony of Choler The dose is a moderate draught Emulsio Somnifera or a sleeping Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two drams white Poppy seeds a dram Melon seeds half a dram Lettice seeds half a scruple water of Violets and water-Lilies of each an ounce and a half of our Hypnotick water a dram Make an Emulsion and edulcorate it with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy and add Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each three grains Mix all for one dose and drink it in the evening at going to bed and it gives rest Emulsio Pleuritica or an Emulsion for the Pleurisie Take seeds of Carduus Mariae an ounce seeds of Carduus benedictus half an ounce seeds of white Poppy two drams water of Carduus Mariae six ounces water of Carduus benedictus water of wild Poppy flowers Chamomil flowers and Scabious flowers of each four ounces Make an Emulsion according to Art and edulcorate it with Sugar Candy concrete in Syrup of Violets Virtue Use and Dose It cures the Pleurisie and suddenly it allays all the pains of the Sides to the amazement of the Beholders but it is convenient that the sick should be daily purged or at least the Belly kept open by continual Clysters The dose is from two ounces to three or four Emulsio Laxativa or a Laxative Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two ounces of the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram water of Succory and Peach flowers Acacia and Violets of each four ounces Make an Emulsion according to Art in which dissolve Manna two ounces Let it be then strained and then add Cinamon water buglossated half an ounce Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is experienced in Children who are subject to be bound in their bodies Also in acute and burning Feavers in continual Tertians Hecticks Marasmus Synochus c. The dose is a moderate draught Emulsio Stiptica or a Stiptick Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two ounces white Poppy seeds half an ounce the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Lettice seeds half a dram water distilled from the juyce of Quinces and Millefoil of each four ounces water of Plantane Tormentil and wild Poppy of each three ounces water of Oaken leaves and Cinamon buglossated of each an ounce and a half Of these make an Emulsion according to Art to which add Iulep of Roses four ounces Magistery of red Coral a dram Mix them Virtue Use and Dose It cools and binds it cures the loosness of the Belly and Dysentery coming of a hot cholerick Cause It also helps cholerick Coughs and brings sleep The dose is a good draught at a time Emulsio Cannabina or an Emulsion of Hemp seed Take Hemp seed an ounce and a half the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram With water of Water-Lily flowers and Roses of each a like quantity to make an Emulsion Take of this Emulsion fourteen ounces Syrup of the juyce of Violets two ounces Cinamon water buglossated an ounce Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is profitably given to stop the Gonorrhoea or Flux of Seed Pollutions and other vices of those parts It is also good in burning Feavers and other distempers of Choler and Blood The dose is from two ounces to three SECT XXII Of Clarets and medicated Wines Claretum Antepilepticum Laxativum or a Laxative Antepileptick Claret TAke leaves of Sena two ounces the best Turbith and Mechoacan of each half an ounce filings of Elks hoof and mans Skull Nutmegs of each two drams roots and seeds of Peony duly gathered Misleto of the Oak of each a dram and a half the lesser Cardamoms Cassia lignea Cloves of each a dram flowers of male Peony Lily of the valley Lavender Teil-tree of each half a dram Let them be macerated in twenty
each two drams Mix them and boil it to the consumption of the half and towards the end of its boiling aromatize it with a dram and a half of Cinamon let it cool by degrees and strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a clear Potion of it which edulcorate with Syrup of Violets four ounces Virtue Use and Dose The use of this Decoction doth not only give ease in the Catarrh Asthma and Pectoral diseases but also rectifies the whole Body and hath a singular force in curing Ulcers of the Lungs But it ought to be considered whether the Patient hath a Feaver or not for if he hath a Feaver he must abstain from the use of this Decoction It is given twice in the day for sweating but in the Cure it is used to be made of the Diaphoretick wood and for his ordinary drink at dinner and supper he may use the following Decoction of Raisons Decoctum Passulatum or a Decoction of Raisons Take small Raisons four ounces Barley husked three ounces roots of the best China Liquorish and Scorzonera of each half an ounce Cinamon two drams flowers of Violets dryed a scruple Boil them in six pound of fountain-Fountain-water to the consumption of the third part then let it be strained and clarified with the Whites of two Eggs and make a clear Potion of it Virtue Use and Dose Let the sick use this Decoction at Meals for his ordinary drink for it hath a certain singular faculty in curing the distempers of the Thorax and Liver for by lenifying and deterging it gives great ease in the vices of the Lungs The dose is a good draught at a time Decoctum Citri or a Decoction of Citrons Take Citrons rind and pulp cut into thin round pieces three or five white Sugar four ounces fountain-Fountain-water six pound Boil it to the consumption of the third part then strain it and the Decoction being clear like Wine keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose We do usually appoint this for a common drink to those who are sick of the Plague Epidemical diseases burning Feavers Cholerick diseases Inflammations small Pox and Meazles Stone immoderate Thirst Cholera c. because it curiously cools and moistens the Heart Stomach Liver Spleen Reins and also comforts the other Bowels that are hot and impaired and preserves them from putrefaction The dose is a good draught at a time but for delicate Palates it is prepared without the rind of Citrons and so prepared it is more palatable And a little Wine being mixed with it may prove an honest excuse to prevent drunkenness Decoctum Hepaticum or a Decoction for the Liver Take the stalks of Spanish Lettice preserved three ounces roots of Succory and Scorzonera preserved of each an ounce and a half seeds of Melons bruised and Currans of each an ounce the Liver of a Wolf half an ounce flower of white Epatice Violets Succory and water-Lilies of each a dram species Diarrhodon Abbatis Triasantalon of each tyed up in a Nodulus half a dram Let all be boiled in six pound of Barley-water to the consumption of the half and being strained clarifie it with the Whites of Eggs afterward add the juyce of acid Pomegranates and Citrons of each six ounces Syrup of blue Violets vitriolated four ounces Cinamon water half an ounce Mix them and make a clear Decoction Virtue Use and Dose It is of great power and use in contemperating the heat of the Heart and Liver for it cools and comforts and is good to lenifie the Breast and Lungs and to humect the Praecordia's The dose is from three ounces to four or a good draught Decoctum Spleneticum or a Decoction for the Spleen Take leaves of Sena and Sea Coleworts of each an ounce roots of Cappars Fenil Grass Flower-de-luce and dwarff Elder of each three drams Rhubarb Dodder species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each two drams and a half Maidenhair Hyssop Harts tongue and Betony flowers of the lesser Centaury Hops and white Liverwort of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and then infused 24 hours in water of Scurvy-grass Fumitory Sorrel and Pauls Betony of each eight ounces Afterward boil it according to Art and make a clear Decoction in which dissolve Cream of Tartar six drams that being dissolved add these Syrups following i. e. Syrup of Scurvy-grass of Succory simple of Fumitory and Agrimony of each an ounce Spirit of Salt corrected half a dram Mix all Virtue Use and Dose This Decoction is excellent in the Obstruction Tumor and Scirrhus of the Spleen also in the Scurvy rectification of the Blood ill disposition or inclining to a Dropsie The dose is every day from two ounces to three Decoctum Antictericum or a Decoction for the Iaundice Take Southernwood half an ounce Goose dung collected in the Spring and tyed up in a Nodulus three drams roots of Celandine Turmerick Rhubarb and Zedoary of each a dram and a half Nutmegs and Bay-berries â—uâ—ked of each a dram seeds of Cummin and Anise of each half a dram Oriental Saffron and white Lilies of each ten grains the best white Wine four pound Boil all to the consumption of the third part and make a clear Potion Virtue Use and Dose Let him that is sick with the Jaundice drink a draught of this Decoction warm every morning for six days together and it perfectly cures the yellow Jaundice But the poorer sort may instead of Wine use good clear Beer or Ale and be as effectual Decoctum Ficuum or a Decoction of Figs. Take fifteen fat Figs Raisons two ounces Harts-horn and pulp of Tamarinds of each an ounce roots of Liquorish and Mock-chervil of each half an ounce Barberries two drams seeds of Carduus and Fenil of each a dram and a half Make a Decoction in Barley water and being strained clarifie it with the White of an Egg then take of this Liquor a pound and a half Syrup of the juyce of Citrons four ounces Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It safely and without any danger expels and drives forth the small Pox and Meazles and curbs the malignity of them The dose is often in the day from one spoonful to two but if the Belly were too loose add Gum Tragacanth in the place of Pulp of Tamarinds Decoctum contra Mictionem Sanguinis or a Decoction against Pissing of Blood Take roots of Liquorish an ounce seeds of white Poppy and Myrtle-berries of each half an ounce Acorns and Acatia of each two drams Pauls Betony Maidenhair Ceterach Sage and Burnet of each a dram and a half flowers of red Roses a dram and of wild Poppy a scruple Boil them in a sufficient quantity of fountain-Fountain-water so that two pound may remain which edulcorate with Syrup of the Juyce of Violets for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a very good Medicine for those who piss blood for it doth quickly and without any trouble take away the affect and cure it really The dose is morning and evening from two
ounces to three or four Decoctum Satyriacum Take seeds of Ashen-keys an ounce Boletus cervinus Bulls pizzle Venetian Borax of each half an ounce roots of Pellitory and Aron of each three drams long Pepper Castor Ginger and Canamon of each two drams Cloves the lesser Cardamoms and Cubebs of each a scruple All being cut and bruised let them be put into a new clean glazed Vessel and pour upon it a sufficient quantity of Malmsey Wine and let them boil in a Vessel well luted according to Art Virtue Use and Dose He that would be presently and powerfully armed for the Sports of Venus let him drink a little draught of this Decoction morning and evening Decoctum contra Herniam Intestinalem or a Decoction against the Rupture of the Bowels Take seeds of Thorough-leaf and Cummin of each an ounce roots of Aron fresh dryed roots of water-Acorus Tormentil and great Comfry of each half an ounce the herb Perwincle Sanicle Winter-green golden Rod Mouse-ear Rupturewort and Orpine of each two drams red Roses Balaustines the lesser Galangal and Cloves of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and boiled in a sufficient quantity of the best white Wine to the consumption of the third part and make a clear Decoction according to Art Virtue Use and Dose Internal Balsams being given with it cure the Rupture without any trouble and is in this case a singular Experiment The dose is a good draught morning and evening Decoctum contra Uteri Haemorrhagiam or a Decoction against a Plux of Blood from the Womb. Take roots of Succory an ounce roots of Tormentil Avens Liquorish and Plantane of each half an ounce Gum Arabick Elder-berries dryed Harts-horn Coriander prepared of each three drams Shepherds-purse Bloodwort Burnet Sorrel Horstail Rosemary of each two drams grains of Mastich a dram and a half red Roses dryed Nutmegs of each a dram Make a Decoction in a sufficient quantity of Water of Millefoil and white Wine to twenty four ounces and in the clear strained Liquor dissolve four ounces of Syrup of the Juyce of Quinces Virtue Use and Dose It is a Secret in the unmeasurable purgation of the Terms and the continual destillation from the Womb. The dose is morning and evening from three spoonfuls to four or a little draught Decoctum contra Menses suppressos or a Decoction against the suppression of the Terms Take Cinamon an ounce and a half roots of red Mugwort Smallage Asparagus and Fenil of each half an ounce Venetian Borax Bay-berries husked Iuniper-berries of each three drams Centaury and Savin of each two drams Motherwort Maidenhair Nep Pennyroyal Calamint Mother of Thyme of each a dram and a half flowers of Chamomil and Bugloss Oriental Saffron and Mace of each a dram Boil all but the Saffron Mace and Cinamon in a sufficient quantity of good old Wine to the consumption of the third part and then at last add the Species and make a clear Decoction according to Art which edulcorate with Syrup of the Juyce of Mugwort and Maiden-hair Virtue Use and Dose This Decoction is approved by often Experience for it wonderfully and potently brings down the Terms the retained Secundine and dead Child if not rightly disposed for birth it brings away without danger The dose is morning and evening at going to bed a moderate draught drunk warm and continue it so long till the Terms appear Decoctum contra Scabiem or a Decoction against the Itch and Scab Take Agrimony Origanum and Pauls Betony of each half an ounce roots of Elicampane Scorzonera and Swallow-wort of each two drams Cinamon and Mace of each a dram Boil them in four pound of the best Beer to the consumption of the half and make a clear Potion Virtue Use and Dose Universal Remedies premised and the Body being duly purged it certainly drives forth the Itch and cures it The dose is morning and evening a good draught at a time warm Decoctum Vulnerarium or a Vulnerary Decoction Take Ladies mantle red Beets Winter-green Sanicle Periwincle golden Rod seeds of Angelica of each equal parts Let the Herbs be cut small and the seeds of Angelica bruised only and let them be well mixed one with another then take half an ounce of this mixed Powder tyed up in a linen Rag and boiled in two pound of Rhenish Wine in Balneo and make a clear Decoction Virtue Use and Dose It cures all Wounds and Blows in what part of the body soever they are and expels Iron Wood Lead and other such things And it consolidates and heals more in a week than other vulnerary Potions do in a month and is such an Experiment that all Chirurgions deservedly ought to receive it with both hands and with a thankful mind The dose is morning noon and night two or three spoonfuls warm Decoctum Ligni Guajaci or a Decoction of Guajacum Take shavings of Guajacum a pound the bark of it four ounces roots of China two ounces Sarsaparilla and Sassafras of each an ounce Infuse it according to Art in sixteen pound of clear fountain-Fountain-water for 24 hours and then boil it in a new glazed Pot close covered to the consumption of one half and let this serve for a Sudorifick Afterward boil it again in twelve pound of Barley water to the consumption of one third and keep this for ordinary drink And to this last Decoction you may add a few Raisons and aromatize it with Cinamon if you please Virtue Use and Dose This Decoction hath a most admirable faculty in the French Pox and chiefly in those who are full with Ulcers which loathsom disease this Decoction cures Of this first Decoction the Patient may take one good draught warm in a morning and another two or three hours before supper and let him drink of the second Decoction as often as he pleaseth in the day besides Another of Lignum Sanctum or the Holy Wood. Take Lignum Sanctum a pound the bark of it four ounces Sarsaparilla two ounces Sassafras an ounce Let them digest 24 hours in sixteen pound of fumitory-Fumitory-water and then distil them in an Alembick and in the distilled Liquor boil Raisons four ounces roots of Liquorish and China of each an ounce seeds of Fenil and Anise of each half an ounce the herbs Betony and Succory of each two drams Let it be strained according to Art and keep the strained Liquor for use Virtue Use and Dose It drys attenuates expurgates and provokes Sweat and therefore doth resist Putrefaction and Contagion It amends the vices of the Brain cures the Pox strengthens the Liver opens the Spleen and is very good in the Scirrhus thereof It is of good use in the Dropsie It heals malignant Ulcers and cures the Leprosie and Elephantiasis c. The dose is a good draught at a time twice a day given warm Dococtum adstringens or an astringent Decoction Take roots of Tormentil and Snakeweed of each an ounce dryed Quince six drams seeds of Docks and
seeds of Roses of each two drams dead Nettles with their red flowers a dram and a half Nutmegs Cinamon the lesser Galangal and Cloves of each a dram Sebestens nine Boil these according to Art in three pound of Plantane to the consumption of one third and in the clear strained Liquor dissolve one dram of Camphire and if you please edulcorate it also with Miya of Quinces Virtue Use and Dose It is an experienced Medicine in Dysenteries and other Fluxes of the Belly and it also cures divers Haemorrhages The dose is a good draught in a morning fasting Decoctum Polypodii purgans or a purging Decoction of Polypody Take roots of Polypody of the Oak and Raisons stoned of each two ounces Carthamus seeds and Barley of each an ounce and a half Liquorish half an ounce Hyssop Scabious Coltsfoot and Germander of each a dram Iujubes fifteen fat Figs six and Dates cleansed from their skin four Boil them in so much Whey that there may remain about twenty one ounces and about the end of the Decoction add Leaves of Sena three ounces Troches of Agarick three drams seeds of Fenil and Anise of each a dram and a half Let them stand over the fire a while but not boil much then make a clear Potion according to Art Virtue Use and Dose We happily use it in the Asthma Phthisick Pleurisie and other Pectoral diseases The dose is from four ounces to five and the body being purged let the Patient drink our Pectoral Decoction called Subacidum or Subdulce as occasion serves Decoctum Galli antiqui farcinati or a Decoction of an old Cock stuffed Take Polypody an ounce and a half Carthamus seeds an ounce Cinamon three drams leaves of Sena white Turbith and Orange peel of each two drams white Ginger the lesser Galangal and Mace of each a dram species Diacymini and Dianisi of each half a dram and one Bay-berry The Species being mixed and put in a linen Rag let them be put in when the Cock is almost boiled enough Virtue Use and Dose It is very useful in the Colick when it proceeds from a thick flatulent and flegmatick Cause Decoctum Sanguinem mundificans or a Decoction to cleanse the Blood Take Citrine Myrobalans an ounce flowers of Violets dryed a dram Prunes nineteen Sebestens and Iujubes of each eight Boil them in water of the flowers of Acatia to three ounces in which dissolve of our potable Scammony a scruple Oyl of Cinamon and Aniseeds of each a drop Mix them and make a draught for one dose Virtue and Use. It purgeth Choler of both kinds Flegm and other Humors It also mundifies the Blood and keeps the body laxative in Feavers Decoctum Senae or a Decoction of Sena Take elect Sena three drams acid Tartar a dram Fumitory water warm four ounces Let them infuse all night and in the morning let them boil a little yet so as that the Tartar may be throughly dissolved and in the strained Liquor while it is warm dissolve of the best Manna six drams Again strain it and then add Cinamon water a dram Elaeosaccharum of Citrons ten grains Mix them and make a purging draught for one dose to be given warm Virtue and Use. It is a good Purge for the whole Body for it opens the obstructions of all the Bowels and mundifies the blood But in the first place it purgeth Choler both black and yellow and Flegm also It cleanseth and strengthens the Head Brain Heart Lungs Liver Spleen and all the Senses of the Body and carrieth off all that offends them It retardes Age increaseth Youth Moreover it is an excellent Medicine in all chronical tartarous and melancholy diseases as the Epilepsie Dotage Deliria's Heach-ach Gout Elephantiasis Scabs Pustles Itch and all other vices of the Skin It is also profitably given to Women with Child and to Children and Men of all ages for it purgeth modestly without any molestation But for Children and young Patients half or a third part of it is sufficient Decoctum Senae cum Rhabarbaro or a Decoction of Sena with Rhubarb Take elect Sena two drams the best Rhubarb and acid Tartar of each a dram of Fumitory water warm four ounces Let them infuse all night and in the morning let them boil a little enough to dissolve the Tartar afterward the expression being made and in the strained Liquor while warm dissolve of the best Manna six drams Again strain it and then add Cinamon water a dram Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds ten grains Mix them and make a purging draught for one dose which is to be taken warm Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth Flegm and both kinds of Choler chiefly from the Stomach Liver and Spleen c. It mundifies the Blood opens all Obstructions and cures all Affects thence proceeding as Jaundice Dropsie Tumor of the Spleen putrid and continual Feavers pains of the Hypochonders c. Let no man wonder at the small dose of Sena in this Prescript for four drams of Sena infused in four ounces of Fumitory water do not purge more than two drams macerated in the like quantity because the water doth extract as much as it can and leaves the rest therefore two drams of Sena are sufficient to quicken other things in four ounces of Water Decoctum Rhabarbari or a Decoction of Rhubarb Take of the best Rhubarb a dram and a half red Roses dryed half a dram roots of Liquorish sliced and flowers of Marsh-mallows of each a scruple Let them be cut and bruised and infused all night in three ounces of Plantane water warm in the morning strain it in the strained Liquor dissolve of the best Manna half an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs ten grains Spirit of Vitriol four drops Mix them for one dose and give it warm in the morning for a draught Virtue and Use. It is very effectual in all Fluxes of the Belly it gives one or two motions and by those it expels the cause of the bloody Flux Annotation Many use Rhubarb torrefied which is an evil practice because it consumes the virtue of it and the terrene part only remains and so makes it more stiptick Decoctum Violatum purgans or a purging Decoction of Violets Take leaves of Sena two ounces Fenil seeds and acid Tartar of each half an ounce dryed Violet flowers and the best Rhubarb of each a dram and a half white Ginger and Cinamon of each a dram Galangal the less and Cloves of each half a dram Let them infuse all night in Fumitory water warm in the morning boil them a little and afterward strain it and take of the clear strained Liquor ten ounces Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb and Syrup of the juyce of Violets Syrup of the juyce of Sorrel and Oxysaccharum simple of each an ounce Mix them and make a Potion which divide into four equal parts for four doses Virtue and Use. It is good in Tertian and Quotidian Feavers c. and gently purgeth all humors that offend
it is likewise an excellent Remedy for the Stone And is given in the running Gout Scurvy Sciatica and such like diseases and is to be continued four mornings successively Decoctum Nucis Cupressi or a Decoction of Cyprus Nuts Take Cyprus Nuts Turkish Galls of each eight ounces filings of Iron prepared with Vinegar Roch Alum of each four ounces medicinal Stone and Pomegranate peel of each an ounce and a half Let them be bruised and mixed and boiled according to Art in a sufficient quantity of red Wine or Plantane water Virtue and Use. It is applied outwardly and doth extenuate and consume all superfluous Carnosities c. The way of using is to wet a Sponge in it warm and having squeezed it bind it upon the part Decoctum Nigrum or a black Decoction Take crude Alum a pound green Vitriol half a pound Turkish Galls four ounces Verdigriese and white Tartar of each two ounces Mix them and boil them in eight pound of Wine Vinegar to the consumption of one half then add of Spirit of Wine rectified a pound Again let them be mixed and filtred and then kept for use Virtue and Use. A linen Rag wet in it and applied to the part drys and heals old Venereal Ulcers in any part of the body and takes away other Defluxions and Excrescences of evil flesh and roborates and mundifies the part affected It also perfectly cures Wounds and Bruises in other Creatures SECT XXVI Of Gargarisms Gargarismus de Althaea or a Gargarism of Marsh-mallows TAke Roots of Marsh-mallows an ounce of common Mallows half an ounce leaves of Violets Strawberries Hyssop and Sage of each three drams leaves of Peaches and Cherries of each two drams shavings of Ivy wood Album Graecum prepared with Marigold water Honey of Saturn of each a dram and a half Vitriol of Mars and Venus of each a dram flowers of Marigolds Marsh-mallows wild Poppies and Bugle of each a dram Let them be grosly cut bruised then mixed and boiled in Fountain-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-Fountain-water and Wine Vinegar of each a pound and a half to the consumption of one third in the end add of Honey of Roses so much as will make it grateful Virtue and Use. It cures the Putrefaction and Scurvy of the Mouth it renews the Gums perished by any disease or rotted by an Imposthume It fastens the Teeth and makes the flesh grow up to them again and it also contracts the Uvula that is fallen In short it is of good use in all the vices of the Mouth Tongue Palate and Tonsils nay Ulcers and Inflammations also And if used warm often or every hour it restores them to their perfect health again Gargarismus de Pyrethro or a Gargarism of Pellitory Take roots of Pellitory of Spain two drams the best Olibanum and white Ginger of each a dram and a half seeds of Henbane bruised of Sage of each a dram long Pepper a scruple Boil them in Wine Vinegar and Fountain-water of each half a pound and make a Gargarism Virtue and Use. It is excellent and very effectual in pains of the Teeth for it hath an Anodyne faculty But the sick must use it often in the day till the pain ceaseth Gargarismus de Hyoscyamo or a Gargarism of Henbane Take roots of Henbane an ounce roots of the lesser Nettles Cinquefoil and Pellitory of Spain of each six drams shavings of Lignum
Sanctum Box and Tamarisk white Frankincense seeds of Stavesacre of each half an ounce Pomegranate rind long Pepper white Ginger and Cloves of each three drams Sage Mother of Thyme Calamint Peachwort Origanum of each two drams Mix them and make a gross Powder which keep for use And when the use of it is required Take of this gross Powder an ounce and a half Wine Vinegar and fountain-Fountain-water of each a pound Boil them and make a Gargarism Virtue and Use. The Liquor being strained warm is to be held in the mouth and being so used it stays the most painful and tormenting pains of the Teeth Gargarismus de Acatia or a Gargarism of Acatia Take of the best and fresh Acatia half an ounce of Cyprus Nuts Balaustines the outer rind of Pomegranate of each two drams the herbs Marjoram Hyssop and Sage of each a dram and a half roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce and Alum of each a dram Acorns and red Roses of each half a dram Let them boil in a sufficient quantity and equal parts of red Wine and water of Oaken leaves to the consumption of the third part then take of this strained Liquor a pound and a half Rob of Nuts two ounces Spirit of Vitriol a scruple Mix them and keep it in an earthen Vessel Virtue and Use. It fastens loose Teeth and preserves them so but the Gums and Teeth must be often washed with it Gargarismus de Papavere or a Gargarism of Poppy Take four heads with the seeds of white Poppy the spongy heads that grow upon sweet Bryar two roots of Plantane and Bistort of each half an ounce seeds of Nigella flowers of wild Poppy of red Roses and Balaustines of each a dram Boil them in Lettice and rose-Rose-water of each a sufficient quantity Take of this strained Liquor twelve ounces Syrup of Poppy simple Diacodium violated of each an ounce and a half Pomegranate Wine and Tincture of wild Poppy of each an ounce phlegm of Alum rectified half an ounce Mix them for a Gargarism which is to be held in the mouth Virtue and Use. With this Gargarism let the Mouth be often washed and let it be also held in the Mouth without gargling and it prevents Catarrhs caused by sharp thin and hot Rheums SECT XXVII Of Lixiviums Lixivium Benedictum TAke Ashes of common wood of Iuniper of red Mugwort of Broom of Beans in the shells of Wormwood of each an ounce Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of strong white Wine make a Lixivium according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is of excellent use for those grieved with the Dropsie called Hydrops for it doth powerfully and effectually expel the water by Urine and by this means we have cured several of the Dropsie giving no other remedy than this for certain days The dose is in the morning fasting from two ounces to three Lixivium Sapientiae Take roots of Avens Pellitory of Spain and Asarabacca Misleto of the Oak of each an ounce Olibanum and yellow Amber of each half an ounce Rosemary Marjoram Balm Origanum leaves of Sage and Bays of each two drams flowers of Lavender red Roses Peony Betony and Primrose of each a dram Boil all these in a sweet Lixivium and keep it for use Virtue and Use. The Body being purged once a week let the Head be diligently washed with this Lixivium and it restores the loss of Memory c. caused by cold and moisture For it wonderfully comforts the Brain and Memory and strengthens the animal Spirits and also preserves from the Apoplexy and Epilepsie Lixivium Cephalicum or a Lixivium for the Head Take leaves of Sena six drams roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce and seeds of Carduus of each three drams the herb Eyebright with the flowers Vervain Marjoram Rosemary Sage and Origanum of each three drams the best Agarick a dram and a half flowers of yellow Stoechas Chamomil red Roses and white Violets of each a dram They being all cut and mixt let them be boiled in a good Lixivium then let it be clarified according to Art and it is prepared Virtue and Use. It is very profitable in pains of the Head It roborates the Brain Nerves Eyes and all the other Senses Let the Head be washed with it twice in the week But they who are cold and moist naturally ought to use Lotions for the Head but seldom but those who are hot and dry may use them more frequently Lixivium Antiasthmaticum or a Lixivium for the Asthma Take roots of Liquorish sliced Florentine Flower-de-luce and Elicampane of each half an ounce yellow Amber white Frankincense and Myrtle-berries of each three drams Sage Betony Hyssop and Origanum of each two drams seeds of Nigella and Caraways of each a dram and a half flowers of Chamomil red Roses wild Poppies and Rosemary of each a dram Let them all be put into a little Bag and boiled in a sweet Lixivium afterward clarified and kept for use Virtue and Use. Let the Head be washed with this Lixivium once or twice in the week For in the Asthma it drys and stops Defluxious falling from the Head upon the other parts but after the Head is washed let it be quickly dryed and covered Lixivium Diureticum or a Diuretick Lixivium Take wild Flax with its flowers Broom with its flowers dwarff Elder both root and branoh leaves and flowers of Elder of each a like and a sufficient quantity of all Burn them to ashes according to Art of which with a sufficient quantity of Rhenish Wine make a clear Lixivium Virtue Use and Dose It powerfully expels water by Urine from those who have the Dropsie and is a Secret in the Dysury c. The dose is from two ounces to three by it self or in any other specifick Vehicles Lixivium Tartari or a Lixivium of Tartar Take white Tartar calcined till it is black what quantity you will And with distilled rain-Rain-water make a Lixivium in which afterward boil Orange peel and the tinctured Lixivium being strained and clear keep for use Virtue Use and Dose This being given for certain days doth dissolve and expel the Stone and insensibly brings away all the mucilaginous matter as well from the Reins as Bladder The dose is one spoonful in some specifick Vehicle Lixivium Tingens or a Dying Lixivium Take of Lixivium of Vine branches or cuttings two pound roots of Bryony Celandine and Turmerick of each half an ounce of Saffron two drams flowers of Mullein yellow Stoechas Broom and St. Iohns-wont of each a dram Let them boil together and make a clear Lixivium according to Art Virtue and Use. It cleanseth the Hair and makes it clear and yellow but it must be often washed with it till it be perfectly dyed SECT XXVIII Of Baths Balneum Artificiale ubi Thermae naturales desunt or an Artificial Bath where the natural are wanting TAke of yellow Sulphur three pound Sea-Salt and roots of Pellitory of Spain of each a pound white Tartar and Nitre of
Wine rectified extract a Tincture from it and when it will give no more Tincture add all the tinged Spirit together and put to it the same quantity of our Pectoral water and set them for some days in a warm place that they may digest afterward draw off the Spirit of Wine in B. M. with a gentle fire and so the Tincture of Sulphur will remain in the Pectoral water This take off by inclination to the quantity of half evaporate the rest till it be like Oyl what remains filter through a Paper and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Tincture doth not only free the Breast from all thick humors that obstruct the Organs of Respiration and cause the Cough and shortness of breathing but it cleanseth the Thorax Lungs and neighbouring parts of all putrid and imposthumous Tumors and hastens their Cure and gives freedom and ease in breathing It succours drys and roborates a cold Brain in such as are falling into a Consumption It also allays the pains of the Colick and resists Putrefaction It is likewise given with great success in the Plague proceeding from a moist Cause but especially to the Common people who by feeding upon gross and bad food fill their blood with moist crude humors and therefore more proper for this kind of infection than to the others The ordinary Dose is from five six or seven to ten drops in a proper Vehicle Tincture of Tartar TAke Salt of Tartar well depurated by frequent solution and coagulation what quantity you will pour upon it the best Spirit of Wine Alkoholisated to the eminence of three or four fingers set it in digestion for certain days and every day as often as it is convenient shake it but take heed lest the Spirit of Wine should break the Glass let it stand so till it is tinged of a most red colour This Spirit being tinctured pour it off and pour on more that is fresh and this work repeat so often till it can receive no more Tincture from the Tartar Lastly the Spirit of Wine thus tinctured mix together filter it through a Paper and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It cleanseth the Reins and Bladder it breaks the Stone and brings it away like Bran it works by Urine and preserves Health It is excellent to remove Obstructions and Putrefactions and for penetrating and roborating it doth almost exceed all other Medicines and Arcana's It preserves from the Palsie and Gout if it be taken constantly morning and evening either by it self or in specifick Liquors Moreover in rectifying the blood it is of admirable use and cannot be sufficiently praised for its effects as well in that as in the Head-ach Dropsie Erysipelas Jaundice both black and yellow Colick Leprosie Pox Scabs Itch Tetters Pimples the Terms retained Pleurisie prickings in the Sides Feavers Contractures Gout and in other tartarous and venenate Diseases The Dose is half a spoonful at the most by it self or in some appropriate Liquor but the Dose is to be increased or diminished according to the Age Sex Complexion c. of the Patient Tincture of Lacca Take Gumm Lacca finely powdered half an ounce burnt Alum two drams Mix them and pour upon them water made of Lapis Medicamentosus with water of Sage and Roses three pound Let them stand in digestion till it be perfectly tinctured which being done filter it and keep the red Tincture for use Virtue and Use. It is experimented in the Scurvy and cures the laxity and rottenness of the Gums and takes away the stink thence arising it repairs the decayed flesh about the Teeth the way of using this Tincture is to wash and rub those parts often Tinctura Proprietatis Take Spirit of Wine prepared with Aniseeds sixteen ounces Elixir Proprietatis an ounce Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Clove-gilli-flowers a dram Let them stand in digestion till the Spirit be perfectly tinged then filter the tinctured Spirit sweeten it with white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Medicine in Melancholy Hemicrania Vertigo Palsie Catarrh Asthma Cough weakness of the Stomach passion of the Heart Quartan Ague and Stone Moreover it comforts the Heart keeps back baldness and makes the Patient merry and joyful c The Dose is from one dram to two in some convenient Vehicle Tincture of Iuniper-berries Take of fresh Iuniper-berries grosly powdered a pound Aniseed bruised four ounces Angelica-roots an ounce Nephritick wood half an ounce of the best Mace two drams Mix them and infuse them in four quarts of Spanish Wine let them infuse fourteen days and every day let them be stirred or shaken afterward distil them in B. M. and with this Liquor distilled extract the Tincture of Juniper-berries according to art which afterward filter and a little edulcorate and preserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It heats opens attenuates and discusseth and is good for the Stomach It is effectually taken in all distempers of the Breast Cough Wind Gripings and the biting of Serpents and is very profitable in the Plague it expels the Stone provokes Urine and helps the Convulsion and Suffocation of the Matrix The Dose is from one spoonful to three in the morning fasting Tincture of wild Poppy Take the Conserve of the flowers of wild Poppy an ounce flowers of wild Poppies moistned with Spirit of Vitriol a dram Mix them and with water distilled from the juyce of the before-mentioned flowers thirty ounces draw a most red Tincture which filter and then add of the Syrup of the juyce of wild Poppies a little vitriolated eight ounces Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is very profitable in hot thin and sharp Defluxions that trouble the rough Artery and Jaws and it procures sleep it helps the Cough Catarrh and Phthisick it is an admirable remedy in Pleurisies and prickings in the Sides it mitigates Pain removes Inflammations and causeth Sweat gently moreover it is very profitable in Fluxes of the Belly and Dysenteries stirred up by the efflux of Choler and sharp Humors The Dose is from one ounce to two by it self or in any convenient Liquor Tincture of Cassia Lignea Take cinamon-Cinamon-water made with Spanish Wine one pound good Cassia Lignea six drams Let them stand so long in digestion till it be perfectly tinctured which filter and keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It is fit for all cold Distempers it strengthens the Stomach Liver Spleen Lungs Heart Brain and Nerves and also sharpens the sight It is good against Poisons and poisonous bitings or stingings c. It sweetens the Breath provokes Urine and the Terms it helps Vomiting and loathing at the Stomach it gives ease in all diseases where we are willing to heat open attenuate digest and strengthen yet they who are of a hot Constitution or are troubled with inflammations must for bear the use of this Medicine Tincture of St. Iohns-wort Take Iuyce of the Herbs and flowers of
is called Golden and in virtue and operation it comes near our Solar Bezoar only it is easier prepared In the first place it is a most excellent remedy against the Plague Epidemical diseases and all kinds of Poison For whosoever in time of the Plague shall use this Medicine keep it in their bodies and sweat with it do by the Providence of God escape without having the distemper But let one that is insected use it from half a dram to a dram in his greatest necessity expecting the operation of it in his bed and while he sweats let him forbear sleep which many Physicians do not permit under the space of 24 hours especially when the Bubo and Carbuncle appear yet seeing it doth restore strength and that heat in sleep is carried rather to the exteriors than to the interiors it ought not to be forbidden beyond the time of Sweating neither let the sick use any rigorous means to procure Sweat for I observe that either with or without it by the use of this Alexitery Evacuation is made by insensible Transpiration and the pestiferous matter is retunded which ought to be observed in giving all Diaphoreticks Moreover it helps Epilepsies Apoplexies Hemicrania's Cephalalgia's Vertigoes Convulsions Palsie and Melancholy It is a present help in the Asthma pains of the Heart Spleen and Liver Dropsies spitting of Blood the bloody Flux Colick Sciatica Gout and all kinds of Feavers either Quotidian Tertian or Quartan The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple and half a dram in some specifick and appropriate Vehicle Extractum Panchymagogon Take leaves of Sena eight ounces Pulp of Coloquintida roots of white Turbith black Hellebore of each four ounces Mechoacan Hermodactyls Elateris resinous Ialap of each three ounces Aloe rosata elect Rhubarb dwarff Elder-berries of each two ounces Of these Hermetically make an Extract of a just consistence to which add of Scammony rosated acid Tartar of each an ounce these Oyls of Cloves Cinamon Mastich Fenil Chamomil Oranges Mace of each a scruple Mix all into a mass for Pills which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an universal Cathartick profitable for all ages because as well in general as particular it purgeth all superabounding humors in what parts of the body soever they lurk and that pleasantly without any nauseating The Dose is from one scruple to two or a dram especially in strong bodies Extractum Polychrestum or an Extract good for many things Take Aloe rosata leaves of Sena of each four ounces Hermodactyls white and gummy Turbith Ialap of each three ounces black Hellebore Mechoacan Troches Alhandal Gum of Peru red Myrrh the best Mastich Ammoniacum Sagapen Opopanax Sarcocol of each an ounce and a half Troches of Agarick dwarff Elder-berries dryed the best Rhubarb of each an ounce Myrobalans Indian and yellow Polypody of the Oak Dodder Cummin seeds flowers of Arabick Stoechas of each half an ounce true Castor Indian Spike Cloves of each two drams These being mixed draw a Tincture according to art in the best Spirit of Wine of which make an Extract of a just consistence for our Pills called Pilulae Polychrestae Virtue Use and Dose It is called Polychrestum because it is profitable in many distempers of the body and purgeth all humors The Dose is from half a dram to a dram by it self or mixed with other Pills it is quickned with our Scammony rosated Extractum Specificum Hydropicum or a Specifick Extract against the Dropsie Take juyce of the roots of Flower-de-luce made thick Elatery of each eight ounces Mix them and in Spirit of Wine in which Species Diarrhodon Abbatis hath been infused draw a Tincture according to art which preserve till hereafter then take Pulp of Coloquintida roots of white and gummy Turbith black Hellebore of each four ounces the best Rhubarb gummy Ialap Mechoacan of each two ounces the inner bark of the roots of Elder Walnut-tree Alder-tree of each an ounce Hedge-Hysop Fumitory grains of Pepper of the Mount dwarff Elder-berries of each six drams Mix these likewise and with Spirit of Wine rectified in which Species Diacubeba hath been infused extract a Tincture with which mix the former and draw off the humidity in Balneo leaving the Extract at the bottom of the consistence of a Pultis to which add Magistery of Gutta Gamba Scammony rosated of each an ounce Tartar vitriolated Hyacinth prepared of each half an ounce Crocus Metallorum absinthiated Mercurius vitae of each two drams Spirit of Vitriol rectified a dram Let all these be carefully pulverized by themselves and faithfully mixed with the Medicine and about the end add of the Oyls of Cinamon Cloves Mace Chamomil Oranges and Mint of each half a dram and of all make a Mass of a consistence like an Extract Virtue Use and Dose It is specifick in Dropsies for it principally purgeth those serous Excrements and carries off all superfluous humidities and discusseth the matter of Tumors It also prevents and cures all diseases arising from a salt and burnt humor as Elephantiasis Mange Leprosie Cancer Tetters running Sores Ulcers malignant and fistulous It is given in the morning with care because it is a strong Cathartick and powerfully purgeth Flegm and all watry humors from the whole body Extractum Diasenae or an Extract of Sena Take of elect Sena four ounces Ialap Polypody of each two ounces Agarick black Hellebore prepared elect Rhubarb of each an ounce Fenil seeds half an ounce Cinamon Squinanth of each two drams Ginger Zedoary of each a dram After they are bruised infuse them in a sufficient quantity of warm water then shift the water and pour on new until all the virtue be draw forth which being done evaporate the humidity till it comes to the thickness of Honey and then add Oyl of Aniseeds and Cloves of each a scruple which being well incorporated the work is ended Virtue Use and Dose It is a most profitable Purge in all Constitutions especially Melancholy c. Dose from one dram to four scruples Extractum Specificum Emeticum or a Specifick Vomiting Extract Take Diarâ— hodâ—n Abbatis half an ounce fresh roots of Asarabacca Bryony Sowbread of each an ounce the inner bark of the roots of Alder the best Rhubarb juyce of Liquorish elect Mastich of each half an ounce From these with Spirit of Wine draw a Tincture by digestion stirring it often in the day which being done reserve it Then take Roots of the lesser Spurge prepared white Hellebore prepared of each eight ounces These being cut and moderately bruised pour upon them the Tincture you before prepared and let them stand in a gentle heat in Balneo for fourteen days then take the Spirit by inclination and pour on fresh do this so long till all the virtue is extracted Lastly the Spirit truly tinged being mixed together draw off the humidity according to art until the Extract doth appear in the bottom like Honey to which add Salt of Vitriol half an ounce Gutta Gamba Tartar
vitriolated of each two drams Oyl of Cloves of Cinamon Nutmegs of each a scruple Mix them all carefully and make an Extract according to art Virtue Use and Dose This is a specifick Vomit and works variously by Vomit and Stool and is of great force and virtue in all Feavers pains of the Head and Joynts Gout Jaundice Dropsie and in obstructions of the Liver and Spleen yea in the Appetite depraved and the Stomach debilitated for it leaves nothing of a depraved nature in it but radically casts forth all the impure and peccant humors nor doth it do any injury The Dose is to be regulated according to the Age Sex and Complexion c. from a scruple to half a dram in some convenient liquor or in the form of a Pill c. having eaten something convenient before for then it works with the most ease and the least trouble Extractum Specificum Colicum or a Specifick Extract for the Colick Take of the yellow rind of Oranges six ounces specieâ— of Diacymini Iuniper-berries of each three ounces roots of Elicampane Pimpernel Cloves Zedoary of each an ounce and a half seeds of Chervil Bay-berries dryed Mother of Time Marjoram juyce of Liquorish of each an ounce Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron of each six drams Mix them and with Spirit of Wine draw a Tincture which afterward in Balneo abstract to the thickness of Honey and add of Nitre vitriolated thra drams Harts-horn Hermetically calcined Swines and Hares Cockal-bones calcined of each two drams white Amber prepared Magistery of Corals the Carp-stone of each a dram and a half Diaphoretick Mineral Iovial Bezoar the Bezoar stone Lac Sulphuris of each a dram Spirit of Salt rectified half a dram Mix them all together and make of it a Mass like an Extract to which add of our Carminative Oyl two drams the Oyls of Angelica Cloves white Amber Mastich Mace Cinamon Citrons of each a scruple All being well incorporated make an Extract and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a Specifick in the Colick and is properly applied to the Colick and Iliack Passion rising from a cold moist and flatuous Cause and the Excrements of the Guts being evacuated it is a Secret in allaying the vehement and mosâ— grievous pains of the Intestines for it dissolves and attenuates the thick and viscous humors and dissipates wind It helps the distension and windiness of the Hypochonders and Stomach and wonderfully relieves the coldness of the Stomach and the weakness of the Bowels It is also profitable for old Folks and those who have the Quartan Age c. It repairs Concoction and effectually expels the Tartar that is dissolved and loosned in the Guts The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram in our Water against the Colick or in any other appropriate Extractum Specificum Uterinum or a Specifick Extract for the Womb. Take Elder-berries dryed dwarff Elder-berries of each four ounces roots of Piony duly gathered red Mugwort white Dictamnus Briony of each two ounces Misleto of the Oak Climmin seeds Pennyroyal Balm new dryed Cassia lignea of each an ounce Oriental Saffron true Castor of each half an ounce Mix them and draw a Tincture with Spirit of Wine which being done separate the Spirit and the Extract will remain in the bottom to which add the blood of a Hog dryed in an Oven and prepared with the Hysterical water half an ounce Iovial Bezoar two drams Magistery of English Tin of Mother of Pearls and Coral of each a dram and a half Oyl of Cloves of Angelica white Amber Oranges of each a dram Let them be all well mixed and made into the form of an Extract which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose We have not a greater Secret for the Womb than this is for in the suffocations of the Matrix where all things are irritated and as it were desperate it is a most salubrious Medicine for it takes away the cause of these most cruel effects and all or at least-wise the most deplorable fits and strangulations of the Womb caused by a retention of the Seed and it resisteth many other things of the same nature it also perfectly quiets the motion of the Matrix The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram three or four mornings together in our Hysterical water or any other appropriate as those of Mugwort Balm Motherwort Pennyroyal c. Laudanum Opiatum Take of Thebane Opium Spagyrically prepared two ounces juyce of wild Poppy-flowers made thick an ounce roots of Hounds-tongue transmarine Mummy Styrax calamitis juyce of Liquorish Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce With Spirit of Wine draw the Tincture of each of them apart except the Opium which is to be drawn in distilled Vinegar or Juyce of Citrons then abstract the Spirit of all the Extractions in gentle heat of Balneo to the thickness of Honey and add to it the Extract of Bezoar stone Anodyne Sulphur of Vitriol of each two drams Salt of Oriental Pearls red Coral of each a dram Elks hoofs Hermetically calcined bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each half a dram Ambergriese a scruple Musk half a scruple These being all well incorporate and mixt add of our Aurum potabile a dram and a half Oyls of Chamomil Dill Wormwood Oyl of Oranges Cloves Nutmegs of Citrons rectified of Aniseeds and Caraway seeds of each half a scruple Let all be well mixed and brought into a Mass or Extract Virtue Use and Dose It is an admirable Medicine in stopping all fluxes of Humors and Catarrhs and all excretions of Blood and Terms in unreasonable watchings and want of rest in Feavers of all kinds and in sudden weakness In Phrensie Madness Melancholy Vomiting Epilepsie Heart-passions Hiccupping Colick weakness of the Stomach Pleurisie pains of the Joynts Gouts of all kinds Sciatica Stone Nephritick pains c. For in allaying all vehement and sharp pains it is really a Divine help and as it were our last refuge there being not a Medicine to be found in the Spagyrick Republick more excellent speedy safe and secret than this is witness the very Mother and Nurse of Physick Experience therefore use this Divine Medicine only to the Glory of the most high God and the Health of your sick Neighbour and with me give thanks for the same The Dose is from two or three to four five or six grains which is given at bed time the body being empty for when the Patient takes it he should omit his Supper that evening lest his food should obstruct the Medicine And because the use of Laudanum Opiatum is grown so famous and frequent I will here subjoyn the various use thereof In Affects of the Head A Draught Take Laudanum Opiatum three four five or six grains marjoram-Marjoram-water half an ounce Syrup of Betony two drams Confection of Smaragdus a scruple oyl of Oriental Pearls three drops oyl of Fenil one drop spirit of Vitriol as much as doth suffice to make it
grateful Mix them and make a Draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum what quantity you please Syrup of the juyce of black Cherries water of Vervain Nutmegs of each two drams Confection of Hyacinth a scruple salt of red Corals three grains oyl of white Amber a drop Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiatum what quantity is convenient Magistery of Pearls Smaragd or Emerauld prepared of each three grains Mix them and with Oyl of Fenil make little Pills which gild for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a convenient quantity Magistery of red Corals Hyacinth prepared of each three grains Mix them and with Oyl of white Amber or Marjoram make little Pills which gild for one Dose A Bole or Bolus Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity conserve of Marjoram a dram confection of Smaragdus a scruple species of Diambrae half a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cinamom a sufficient quantity to make it into a Bole for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity conserve of Rosemary flowers a dram confect of Hyacinth a scruple species of Diamoscu dulce half a scruple oyl of Mace one drop Manus Christi Perlats a sufficient quantity to make it into a Bole for a Dose In Affects of the Heart A Draught Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Syrup of Lemmons two drams water of Borage Cinnamon Roses and Water-Lily of each a dram Confectio Alkermes Tincture of Corals of each half a scruple Salt of Oriental Pearls three grains Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Syrup of the juyce of Citrons and of Black-berries of each two drams water of Balm and Bugloss of each a dram and a half of our Confectio pretiosa a scruple Tincture of Coral half a scruple Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity our Magistery of Pearls and the bone of a Stags heart of each three grains Mix them and with Oyl of Mace make little Pills and gild them for one Dose Others Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity of the five precious Stones prepared Oriental Bezoar of each a grain With Oyl of Cinamon make Pills and gild them for one Dose A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity confection of Borage vitriolated a dram confection of Alkermes a scruple species of Diamargariton frigidum half a scruple of Manus Christi Perlat enough to make it into a Bole for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity conserve of Clovegilliflowers vitriolated one dram our confection of Citrons a scruple species Diarrhodon Abbatis half a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon enough to make it into a Bole for one Dose In the Epilepsie and Vertigo c. A Draught Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Syrup of Piony flowers waters of the Lily of the Valley of our Epileptick of each two drams of our Cephalick Confect a scruple oyls of Cubebs and Elks hoofs of each a drop Spirit of Vitriol a sufficient quantity to make it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Syrup of Betony water of Lavender and Teil-tree of each two drams confection of Smaragdus a scruple essence of Camphire three grains oyl of white Amber and Harts-horn of each a drop of our Elixir of Piony so much as will make it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity of the Animal Unicorn Magistery of Corals of each three grains With Oyl of Mans Scull make Pills and gild them for one Dose Others Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity Magistery of mans Scull Sulphur of the Moon of each three grains With Oyl of Elks hoofs make Pills which gild for one Dose A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity confection of Piony flowers vitriolated a dram confection of Smaragdus a scruple of our species Dialunae half a scruple oyl of Rosemary a drop Mix them and with Troches of Diambra q. s. make a Bole for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity conserve of Rosemary flowers a dram of our Cephalick confect a scruple of our species Diacranei half a scruple oyl of Lavender a drop Mix them and with Troches of Diamoscu dulce make a Bole for one Dose In Vomiting Hiccup and a weak Stomach c. Take Laudanum Opiatum a sufficient quantity syrup of Mint our Stomach-water of each three drams Extract of Calamus Aromaticus our Sal stomachicum of each four grains oyl of Nutmegs and Mace of each a drop our Elixir of Vitriol q. s. to maâ—e it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate a sufficient quantity syrup of Quinces water of Calamus aromaticus of each three drams Extract of Galangal the less Nitre vitriolated of each four grains oyl of Cloves of Water-mints of each a drop of our Elixir of Sulphur q. s. to make it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate a sufficient quantity Diagalangal ten grains With Oyl of Sage make small Pills for one Dose which gild Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. species of Aromaticus Caryophyllat ten grains With Oyl of Wormwood make Pills for one Dose which gild A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. preserved Ginger a dram preserved Acoras half a dram oyl of Mastich and Zedoary of each a drop Mix them and with Troches of Diagalangal make a Bole for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. conserve of Water-mint a dram Diacydon aromat half a dram oyl of Cinamon and Calamus aromaticus of each a drop Mix them and with Troches of Aromaticus Caryophyllatus make a Bole for one Dose In Melancholy Madness and Phrensie c. A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Basilicon Iulip Bugloss water of each three drams spirit of sealed Earth essence of St. Iohns-wort of each a scruple Elixir Proprietatis q. s. to render it grateful Of these make a draught for one Dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Balm water half an ounce syrup of Bugloss two drams our confection of Citrons half a dram essence of Saffron tincture of Smaragdus ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one Dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Sulphur of the Moon Magistery of Oriental Pearls of each three grains With Oyl of Cinamon make Pills for one Dose which gild Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. powder of burnt Crab-fish magistery of red Coral of each three grains With distilled Oyl of Roses make little Pills for one Dose and gild them A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Confection of Hyacinth a dram Essence of St. Iohns-wort a scruple species of Diamargariton frigidum Elaeosaccharum of Citrons of each half a scruple Mix them and with Manus Christi Perlat q. s. make a Bole for one dose
Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. confection of Smaragds a dram essence of St. Iohns-wort a scruple tincture of Corals Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon of each half a scruple Mix them and with Troches of Diarrhodon Abbatis make a Bole for one dose In Feavers of all kinds A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Carduus water an ounce syrup of the lesser Centaury two drams of our febrile Salt ten grains Extract of Zedoary half a scruple Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua febrifuga an ounce syrup of Wormwood two drams of our febrile Elixir a scruple Extract of Cloves half a scruple Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our febrile Salt half a scruple With Oyl of Wormwood make small Pills for one dose and gild them Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of Nitre vitriolated half a scruple Mix them and with Oyl of Camphire make little Pills for one dose and gild them A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our febrile Treacle a dram preserved Ginger half a dram species of our Febrifuge a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Myrrh half a scruple Mix them and with white Sugar Candy make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our febrile Treacle a dram preserved Calamus aromaticus half a dram of our febrile Salt a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Rue half a scruple Mix them and with Diarrhodon Abbatis make a Bole for one dose In Pectoral Diseases Cough Asthma and Phthisick c. A draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. syrup of Liquorish and Horehound of each a dram and a half water of Lohoch sanum Hysop and Fenil of each a dram Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds ten grains Of these make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. water of Horehound Coltsfoot and Betony of each a dram and a half syrup of Hysop and Iujubes of each a dram Rob of Nuts Elaeosaccharum of Fenil ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. compound flowers of Sulphur Benjamin of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Sage make Pills for one dose Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Lac Sulphuris white Tragacanth of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Chamomil make small Pills for one dose which gild with Leaf-gold A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of o r Pectoral Confection a dram Lohoch sanum exper half a dram juyce of Liquorish Elaeosaccharum of Fenil of each half a scruple Extract of Oriental Saffron three grains Mix them and with Troches of simple Diaireos make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of Violets a dram conserve de Pino half a dram of our species of Diasulphuris a scruple Extract of Elicampane Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds of each ten grains Mix them and with simple Manus Christi q. s. make a Bole for one dose For the stopping of Defluxions of Humors and thin Catarrhs falling from the Head upon the Wind-pipe which causeth broken rest and a continual Cough A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. water of the bark of green Walnuts and Scabiose of each two drams Syrup of wild Poppies a dram and a half Rob of Nuts a dram Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs ten grains Of these make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua Serpilli benedict half an ounce syrup of Iujubes two drams of our Diacodium with Saffron a dram Elaeosaccharum o Cubebs ten grains Of these make a draught for one dose Another in a very hot Cause Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of Pomgranate-wine half an ounce water of Roses two drams syrup of Poppies simple Diamorum of each a dram and a half Nitre vitriolated two grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of Sandaraca Emerauld prepared of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Mastich make Pills for one dose and gild them Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of Mastich white Amber prepared of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Frankincense make it up into Pills for one dose and gild them A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of the flowers of wild Poppies half a dram Rob de Cornis half a dram of the species of Diamargariton frigidum a scruple Mix them and with Sugar Penids make a Bole for one dose In all Fluxes of the Bowels A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Tormentil water half an ounce of our Stiptick Syrup two drams essence of the flowers of red Nettles or Archangel half a scruple Extract of the roots of Bistort Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs of each ten grains Of these make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. plantane-Plantane-water half an ounce syrup of Quinces two drams essence of Balaustins a scruple Extract of Tormentil Elaeosaccharum of Cloves of each ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of Coral rosated Crocus Martis of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Mastich make little Pills for one dose Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of Gum Arabick Harts-horn burnt and prepared of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Sage make it into small Pills and gild them A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Confection of dryed Roses a dram of our Narcotick Confect a scruple our species of Diamartis and Elaeosaccharum of Oranges of each ten grains Mix them and with Troches of Diarrhodon Abbatis q. s. make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of Comfry flowers a dram of our Stiptick Confect half a dram species of our Diaplantaginis Elaeosaccharum of Citrons of each ten grains Mix them and with Troches of Diamargariton frigidum make a Bole for one dose In Excretion of Blood and over-much Evacuation of the Terms A Draught Take shavings of Brasil a handful of Gum Arabick three drams Boil these in a sufficient quantity of white Wine in Balneo Then take of this liquor being strained and clear and of Laudanum q. s. syrup of Quinces Diacodium with Saffron of each two drams Magistery of Coral rosated essence of Crocus Martis of each ten grains Elaeosaccharum of Cloves four grains Rob of Barberries q. s. to give it a grateful relish Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Tormentil Dragonwort Chicory of each a dram shavings of Harts-horn seeds of Roses Plantane and Sorrel of each half a dram Shepherds purse Pimpernel and Liverwort of each a scruple flowers of Millefoil red Roses and Rosemary of each ten grains Sebestens two Boil these in a sufficient quantity of red Stiptick Wine in Balneo Then take of the clear straining an ounce and a half Laudanum q. s. syrup of wild Poppies syrup of Comfry of each two drams essence
of Dragons blood a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs ten grains Rob of Gooseberries q. s. to make it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another most excellent in the overflowing of the Terms Take Laudanum five grains water of Shepherds purse an ounce and an half Rob of Elder three drams Sal Prunellae two scruples Extract of Tormentil ten grains Camphire four grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum q. s. red Bole prepared Magistery of Corals Rosated of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Rosemary make Pills and gild them Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. moss of the Sloe-tree Magistery of the mother of Pearls of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Sage make little Pills and gild them for one dose A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. the preserved rind of Quinces a dram Troches of Spodium half a scruple powder of Cuttle-fish bones Elaeosaccharum of Zedoary of each ten grains Mix them and with Troches of Diamargariton frigidum make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. roots of Comfry preserved a dram Troches of sealed Earth a scruple white Amber prepared Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs of each ten grains Mix them and make them into a Bole for one dose In the Colick and Iliack Passion c. A Draught Take Conserve of red Roses an ounce roots of Zedoary a dram Boil them in three ounces of Chamomil water To an ounce and a half of this water strained add Laudanum six grains syrup of Oranges two drams of our Colick Extract a scruple of our Carminative Elaeosaccharum ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua benedicta Serpilli half an ounce syrup of Mint two drams of our Colick Extract a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Oranges ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua Carminativa half an ounce syrup of Citron rinds two drams Extract of Zedoary Elaeosaccharum of Angelica of each ten grains spirit of Salt of Nitre q. s. to make it grateful Of these being mixed make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of the Carp-stone bones of the Hares foot calcined of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of white Amber make small Pills for one dose which gild Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Oriental Bezoar stone the Cockal-bone of a Hogs foot calcined of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Cummin seed make little Pills for one dose which gild A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Confection of Mint a dram of our Extractum Colicum half a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon ten grains Mix them and with Rowls of Dianisi make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of the flowers of wild Poppy a dram Elaeosaccharum of Chamomil a scruple of Nitre vitriolated four grains Mix them and with Rotula's of Diacymini make a Bole for one dose In the Pleurisie A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. water of wild Poppy flowers half an ounce syrup of Maiden-hair two drams Extract of Liquorish a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. water of Carduus Mariae half an ounce syrup of Iujubes two drams essence of the flowers of wild Poppy Elaeosaccharum of Fenil of each ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of the jaw-bone of a Pike the tooth of a wild Boar of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Benjamin make little Pills which gild for one dose Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. compound flowers of Sulphur Extract of the juyce of Liquorish of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Hysop make little Pills for one dose which you may gild A Bolus Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of the flowers of wild Poppies a dram Lohoch sanum expert half a dram of our Species Pleuritica a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cummin seeds ten grains Mix them and with Diatragacanthum frigidum make a Bole for one time Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of Violets a dram of our Diacodium crocatum half a dram our secret Pulvis Pleuriticus a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Chamomil ten grains Mix them and with Rotula's of Diaireos simple make a Bole for one dose In the Stone and Gout A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua Nephritica half an ounce syrup of Marsh-mallows two drams salt of the Perch-stone ten grains oyl of Oriental Pearls sour drops Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. water of Germander half an ounce syrup of Mallows two drams salt of Crabs eyes ten grains oyl of red Coral four drops Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of the Iewish Stone of Venetian Borax of each four grains Mix them and with Spirit of Turpentine make little Pills for one dose which you may gild Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of the Spunge-stone Nitre prepared of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Parsley make little Pills for one dose which gild A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of Violets preserved roots of Pimpernel half a dram of our species Dianitri a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Parsley ten grains Mix them and with Sugar of Violets make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Confection of Mallow flowers a dram preserved roots of Eryngo half a dram of our Species Nephriticus a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Citrons ten grains Mix them and with Syrup of Roses make a Bole for one dose In immoderate Watching and unquiet Rest. A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. poppy-Poppy-water half an ounce Syrup of Poppies two drams Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds ten grains Spirit of Vitriol three drops Mix them and make a draught for one dose to be taken in the Evening Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua Hypnotica half an ounce syrup of flowers of wild Poppies two drams Elaeosaccharum of Fenil ten grains oyl of Oriental Pearls three drops Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of Pearls of Ambergriese of each four grains With Oyl of Styrax make Pills for one dose and gild them Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of red Coral Lignum Aloes of each three grains With Oyl of Benjamim make small Pills for one dose and gild them A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of red Roses vitriolated a dram Lohoch de Papavere half a dram species of Diamoschu dulce ten grains Extract of Saffron three grains Mix them and with Rotula's of Diarrhodon Abbatis make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of Violets
Centaury the less Tansie and Nettles or Archangel Also in Oxymel of Squills Honey clarified Syrup of Citrons Sorrel Hydromel or any other way which Children best like Species Diajovis or the Compound Powder of Jupiter Take Faecula Bryoniae half an ounce Salt of English Tin Mother of Pearl red Coral of each three drams roots of white Dictamnus and Peony of each two drams white Amber prepared Oriental Saffron Misleto of the Oak Antophyllorum of each a dram true Castor a scruple Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is a blessed Medicine in the most vehement and desperate suffocation and strangulation of the Womb and as it were sent from Heaven of God to Women For which Divine help let the Name of the Lord be blessed The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram three or four mornings together or in time of necessity in our Hysterical water or any other appropriate Liquor Species Diaveneris or a Compound Powder of Venus Take Sulphur of Vitriol of Venus sublimate and Spagyrically prepared half an ounce Venetian Borax two drams seeds of Ashen-keys of Rocket of each two drams of Parsneps Nettles and Leeks of each a dram and a half roots of Pellitory of Spain Boletus cervinus of each four scruples Galangal the less white Ginger Cinamon of each a dram Sea-Skinck prepared Magistery of Pearls Oriental Saffron of each half a dram Cantharides with the wings cut off Ambergriese each a scruple Musk Oyl of Mace of each ten grains Mix them and make of all a fine Powder with which mix an ounce of white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is by Experience the most effectual and indeed the last and most powerful remedy of all against the defect in the act of Venus And he that is willing to please his Consort and would to the utmost prove his virile force let him take after Supper if he desires the effect presently at his going to bed or if he would continue that work every morning from one scruple to two or a dram in warm Milk Sack c. It may also be prepared without Cantharides Species Diasaturni or the Compound Powder of Saturn Take Magistery of Saturn an ounce juyce of Liquorish depurated Lac Sulphuris compound roots of elect China of each three drams Salt of Oriental Pearls salt of red Coral salt of Wheat bread of each two drams red Bole prepared Benjamin sublimate Olibanum of each a dram Oriental Saffron Cassia lignea of each half a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder to which add of white Sugar Candy three ounces and being well mixed with the Powder keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose I know not with what words to extol this incomparable Medicine For a Consumption that cannot otherwise be cured by humane skill is oftentimes by this Medicine The Dose morning and evening is from half a dram to a dram in our Specifick water against Consumptions or in any other appropriate Vehicle Species Diasulphuris or a Compound Powder of Sulphur Take Lac and compound flowers of Sulphur of each an ounce and a half juyce of Liquorish cleansed Cardamoms the less sealed Earth of each six drams seeds of Roman Nettles seeds of Quinces Cinamon Ginger Nutmegs Saffron long Pepper Mace of each three drams Tragacanth roots of Flower-de-luce flowers of wild Poppy Mastich cream of Tartar of each a dram and a half Mix them and of all make a Powder to which add Oyls of Hysop Fenil Sage Aniseeds and Chamomil of each a scruple and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It helps continual Coughs difficulty of Breathing chronical Asthma's It doth cut and attenuate divers thick and gross humors in the Breast it preserves and cures without any other Medicine the Consumption Wasting Pleurisie and all Putrefactions and Imposthumes and is wonderfully effectual in all affects of the Throat and doth quickly restore the loss of the Voice It also drys up the Rheum from the Head and the evil humors in the Body from which are used to proceed Gouts pains in the Joynts and such like dolors It is a good Medicine in the Epilepsie Apoplexy Leprosie Pox Convulsion of the Nerves Colick and Dropsie c. The Dose is from a scruple to a dram morning and evening in some convenient Vehicle but in the Dropsie it is given with the like quantity of Magistery of Crocus Martis the body being first cleansed and it never fails In the affects of the Throat we use it in the form of a Tragaea by adding white Sugar Candy or mixed with Pectoral Syrups in the form of an Electuary or Lambitive Pulvis Refectivus or a Refective Powder Take white Sugar Candy concrete in Syrup of Violets an ounce Lac Sulphuris half an ounce compound flowers of Sulphur Confectio Alkermes of each two drams Magistery of Pearls red Coral and Saturn of each a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It repairs strength comforts the Heart and Nature it self it nourishes and fattens it drys up the Rheum in the Head roborates the Brain allays the Cough cures the Asthma Consumption and wasting The Dose is a scruple in water of Calves Lungs or Aqua Caponis or any other Specifick or so much of the Powder is mixed with any thing as will tinge the Vehiculum white and of this mixt Liquor the Dose is morning and evening one or two spoonfuls Pulvis excellens contra Tussim Infantum or an excellent Powder against the Cough in Children Take of Sugar Penids three ounces species of Diatragacanth frigid Diaireos simple of each half an ounce roots of Peony two drams juyce of Liquorish a dram Lac Sulphuris Saffron of each two scruples Mans skull calcined without fire seeds of white Poppy of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a most fine Powder Species Diavitrioli or a Compound Powder of Vitriol Take Galangal the less an ounce Magistery of Vitriol roots of water Acorus of each half an ounce long Pepper Cummin seeds Zedoary of each two drams Cinamon Calamus aromaticus Mace of each a dram and a half Cardamoms the less white Ginger Cloves Saffron Indian Spicknard wood of Aloes of each half a dram Musk and Ambergriese of each half a scruple Make them into a fine Powder for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a profitable Medicine against frigid humors of the Ventricle and putrefaction in the parts thereof and it digests flegm It helps digestion and concoction nauseating and vomiting and preserves the natural heat and warms the members of nutrition It dissipates flatulent humors it restrains four belchings and is useful in all diseases of the Liver It is profitable for those who are upon recovery after a long disease it helps the stink of the Nose and Mouth which ariseth from the consent of the Stomach The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram or by adding Sugar may be
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-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
of Suffocation for if one or two be taken in the morning for three days together in our Hysterical water or in any other appropriate they do under God cure the Patient for which Divine gift let God alone be blessed Trochisci de Alumine or Troches of Alum Take crude Alum roots of Pellitory of each half an ounce long Pepper a dram seeds of Henbane Wheat-meal white Chalk Nitre prepared of each a dram and a half white Ginger Cloves Opium prepared of each a dram Mix them and with Juyce of the lesser Nettles make Troches Virtue and Use. They take away pain being applied to the Teeth and Gums due Purgation or Phlebotomy being first used Trochisci de Satureja pro Lixivio or Troches of Summer-Savory for a Lixivium Take dryed Savory half an ounce Marjoram and Origanum of each two drams Lavender flowers red Roses Rosemary flowers of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes Gum Arabick white Tragacanth roots of Avens and Flower-de-luce of each a dram Cloves Nutmegs Cardamoms the less Cubebs of each a dram Ambergriese and Musk of each a scruple Mix them and with the Whites of Eggs make Troches each weighing a dram Virtue and Use. Boil two three or more of these Troches in a sufficient quantity of Lixivium and with that wash the Head in the morning fasting having first been at stool and presently let the Head be rubbed and dryed with warm Linen It takes away all the sweat and filth of the Head and strengthens it opens the Pores of the Skin drys up Catarrhs comforts the Memory and quickens the Sense Trochisci de Nitro or Troches of Nitre Take Rotula's of the juyce of Barberries and Rotula's of the juyce of Goosberries of each eight ounces species of Diarrhodon Abbatis moistned with spirit of Vitriol Nitre prepared of each an ounce powder of red Roses vitriolated two drams Oyl of Cinamon four drops Mix them and with Tragacanth dissolved in Juyce of Citrons make Troches Virtue Use and Dose They are of great use in the Quincy Inflammation of the Mouth and Tongue boiling of the Blood heat of Urine burning Feavers and especially putrid Semi-tertains The dose is from one dram to two in appropriate Vehicles Styli Dentrifricii or a Medicine for the Teeth Take the powder of calcined River-flints two ounce Pumice stone prepared burnt Alum of each half 〈◊〉 ounce roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce white ashes of Indian Tabaco of each two drams Gallia Moschata oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple Mix them and with Gum Tragacanth dissolved in rose-Rose-water make little Rowls to cleanse the Teeth Virtue and Use. They are most used to cleanse the Teeth and to remove their ill colour For when the Teeth turn yellow black c. this Powder doth wonderfully cleanse them and make them white if they be often rubbed and cleansed with it Pomum Ambrae Take roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce Cloves Mace Cinamon of each half an ounce wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Styrax Calamit Benjamin of each two drams Ambergriese a dram Alexandrian Musk half a dram Balsam of Peru Oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple All being diligently mixed add of true Civet two drams then with Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each alike dissolved in water of Marjoram Narcissus Roses and Lavender make a mass of which make Troches Balls Cakes c. which put into a Glass and kept will grow hard Virtue and Use. It is a specifick odoriferous Medicine which in cold Cephalalgia's Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy pestilential Air Colick suffocation of the Matrix falling out of the Womb c. and especially when Medicines cannot be taken into the Body if these be applied to the Nose or other parts they comfort the Heart and vital Spirits exceedingly Sapo odoratus or perfumed Sope. Take Venetian Sope dissolved in water of Narcissus a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce an ounce Styrax Calamit Benjamin of each half an ounce wood of Aloes yellow Sanders of each two drams Ambergriese and Civet of each a dram of Musk Balsam of Peru of each half a dram the Oyls of Rhodium Lavender Cinamon and Cloves of each a scruple Mix them and with Oyl of Tartar per deliquium make little Balls and as you are making them up anoint your hands with the aforesaid Oyls SECT X. Of Suffiments Suffimentum Angelicum TAke Styrax Calamitis and Benjamin of each equal parts Dissolve these in the best Rose-water and presently well prest afterwards dryed pulverized and kept for use Take of this powder thus prepared an ounce wood of Aloes two drams red Roses dryed and Ambergriese of each a dram true Civet and Musk of each half a dram Balsam of Peru and Oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple Ivory calcined till it be black a sufficient quantity Mix all well and with rose-Rose-water make a Paste of which make little black Cakes put them among Rose-leaves and dry them in the shade then put them in a glass Vessel and keep them for use Virtue and Use. They are used for a Perfume by Kings Princes and Great men for one or two being laid upon hot Coals or infused and boiled in Rose-water give a most sweet delectable and celestial Odor which doth refresh the Brain and vital Spirits and prevents the contagious Infection of a malignant Air. Suffimentum Imperiale or an Imperial Perfume Take Styrax cleansed Benjamin of each half aâ— ounce wood of Aloes two drams true Civet a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Roses â—f each ten grains Mix them and make all into little Balls or Cakes which keep for use Virtue and Use. These sweet Balls being laid upon hot coals send forth a most grateful Odor which doth not only correct a poisonous stinking and putrid Air but sweetly and pleasantly refresh the internal Spirits of man the Fume also conveyed by a Tunnel or other such Instrument into the Orifice of the Womb doth wonderfully help Women that are almost suffocated and stays all the inordinate motions of the Matrix But when it is thus used take care to cover the Head close lest the Patient should receive the odor by the Nostrils also Suffimentum Epilepticum or an Epileptick Fume Take white Amber eleven drams red Myrrh elect Mastich Gum Animae Galbanum and Elemi of each two drams Misleto of the Oak seeds of Peony huked Iuniper-berries shavings of Elks horn of each a dram Wormwood Marjoram Lavender flowers flower of Lily of the valley red Roses of each half a dram Mix them and with an Infusion of Tragacanth made in our Epileptick water make little Troches or Balls Virtue and Use. These being laid on coals and the Fume received up into the Nose by one that is grieved with the Epilepsie takes away the fit and is very profitable for those who are troubled with dangerous diseases of the Head as the Apoplexy and Palsie c. It is also used against the suffocation and falling out of the Womb. Suffimentum de Sandaracha Take of the
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-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
time twice in a month The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce either by it self or in appropriate Medicines Syrupus Vitriolato-rosatus or a vitriolated Syrup with Roses In the Preparation of our Magistery of Corals already mentioned a red Liquor will remain in the separation of the Coral from the Menstruum to which if a sufficient quantity of white Sugar be added and boiled to the consistence of a Syrup it will be red and a most noble and efficacious Medicine very profitable in the Plague Epidemical Diseases Feavers Dysenteries Liver-fluxes vices of the Stomach Scurvy obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Inflammations and many other Diseases The dose is from an ounce to two by it self or with other appropriate Vehicles Syrupus Cephalicus or a Syrup for the Head Take the juyce of Carduus and Millefoil depurated of each a pound water of Lavender and Betony of each half a pound roots of Avens and Peony of each an ounce Cassia lignea Nutmegs Cubebs of each an ounce and a half Marjoram Vervain Rosemary and Origanum of each three drams flowers of Lilies of the valley Teil-tree Primroses Rosemary and red Roses of each two drams seeds of Lavender Fenil Sage and Peony of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes Misleto of the Oak Oriental Saffron of each a dram Boil them to the consumption of the third part afterward let them be strained and clarified and then add of white Sugar a sufficient quantity to bring it into a Syrup according to Art which aromatize with Species Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Remedy in all dangerous distempers of the Head as inveterate Head-ach Hemicrania Epilepsie Apoplexy Palsie c. It roborates the Head Brain and Ventricle and is agreeable to those who are troubled with a trembling of the Head and Heart The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or with other appropriate Medicines Syrupus Pectoralis or a Syrup for the Breast Take roots of Liquorish sliced Coltsfoot of each two ounces roots of Elicampane Flower-de-luce Angelica of each an ounce both sorts of Lungwort Maidenhair sharp Sage Horehound Scabious of each half an ounce flowers of Coltsfoot Violets Chamomil and Hearts-ease of each two drams Let them be cut bruised and infused in water of Carduus and Fenil of each three pound of Mallows Fluellin and Marsh-mallows of each a pound Let them be boiled to the consumption of the third part Take of this Liquor strained six pound and infuse in it small Raisons four ounces seeds of Carduus Anise Roman Nettles Quinces and Myrtle-berries of each half an ounce of Dates Iujubes Sebestens and fat Figs of each twenty one Boil them again to the consumption of the third part and then let them be strongly prest and strained Take of this strained Liquor four pound white Sugar two pound Boil them again and as they are boiling aromatize it with Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Mace and Cinamon of each two drams Let these be tyed up in a thin Cloth and boil together with the rest till it comes to the consistence of a Syrup to which last of all add three ounces of cinamon-Cinamon-water and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of wonderful force and power in all affects of the Thorax Vitals Destillations and Obstructions for it cuts and attenuates thick Humors It is also of good use in Consumptions Wastings and Ulcers of the Lungs And is a present Remedy for Asthma's and Coughs and is profitably used in the pains of the Hypochonders and a Pleurisie beginning It dissolves suppurated matter and helps to cast it forth and is a great Secret in Hoarsness and defect of the Voice The dose is from half an ounce to six drams by it self or in appropriate Vehicles Syrupus Asthmaticus or a Syrup for the Asthma Take white Sugar Candy a pound water of Lohoch sanum eight ounces Syrup of Horehound and Liquorish of each four ounces Syrup of Maidenhair and Iujubes of each three ounces Syrup of Hyssop and the juyce of Violets of each two ounces Mix them all well together and boil them to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It doth chiefly help in the Asthma and Pleurisie It safely cleanseth opens and inlargeth the Thorax and Lungs and also opens Obstructions It helps wheesing dry Coughs and is profitably given in the pain of the Breast and Hypochonders the Stone in the Reins c. It is also very agreeable to old people and those who are cold by Nature The dose is by it self or with Pectoral Waters from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus Cordialis or a Cordial Syrup Take Cinamon two ounces roots of Bugloss an ounce flowers of red Roses Borage Balm and Violets of each half an ounce Cardamoms the less Nutmegs wood of Aloes of each two drams Oriental Saffron and Mace of each a dram All being cut and bruised let them be macerated in three pound of good odoriferous Wine until the Wine hath imbibed all the virtue of the Ingredients then boil it to the consumption of a pound Take of this Liquor strained two pound white Sugar a pound and a half Boil these together and toward the end add of each of our Cordial Waters four ounces And boil all to the just consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It exhilarates and daily increaseth the Magnanimity of the mind and is a most efficacious Medicine in almost all melancholy Diseases Moreover it is of singular use in the passions of the Heart proceeding from grief or sorrow and this it doth by roborating of that part The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or in other convenient Vehicles Syrupus de Cassia Lignea Take Gelly of Quinces a pound Boil it over a gentle fire to the thickness of Honey then mix with it our Tincture of Cassia lignea so much as may bring it to the consistence of a Syrup at last add to it an ounce of Elaeosaccharum of Cassia lignea and again mix them and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is agreeable to old weak and frigid Patients and to those in whom the Radical moisture and natural heat are diminished It comforts all the principal Members It roborates the Heart and a cold Stomach It helps the Syncope and trembling of the Heart It allays Nauseousness Vomiting and Hiccup It takes away the ill savour of the Breath and makes it sweet The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce either by it self or in any other specifick Medicine Syrupus Diacitri Rosatus or a compound Syrup of Citrons and Roses Take juyce of Citrons and Lemmons first strained through a cloth or strainer but not prest and tinctured with powder of red Roses a pound Rob of Barberries and Goosberries of each seven ounces Syrup of the juyce of unripe Grapes Syrup of Vinegar Rasberries and Strawberries of each four
ounces Cinamon water buglossated in which species Diarrhodon Abbatis hath been infused two ounces Nitre prepared a dram and a half Mix them and boil all into the consistence of a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It potently refrigerates penetrates drys and defends the parts from Putrefaction It is of excellent use in malignant cholerick Feavers and other contagious Diseases It powerfully resists Sur feits by drinking Poysons and Pestilence It extinguisheth Thirst and all intemperate heat of the Head Heart Stomach Liver Spleen Reins and Bowels It provokes Sweat and Urine represseth cholerick Vomitings and cures the Cholera It helps the passions of the Heart Dysenteries and griping of the Guts the body being first purged The dose is from half an ounce to two either by it self or in any other Vehicle respecting the Disease Syrupus Antiscorbuticus or a Syrup against the Scurvy Take of the juyce of Norway black Berries three pound juyce of Watercresses Brooklime Sorrel and Scurvygrass of each half a pound These being mixed add of white Sugar a pound and a half and so make a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most noble and approved Remedy against the Scurvy The dose is from an ounce to two or three by it self or with our Antiscorbutick Water Syrupus de Pyrethro or a Syrup of Pellitory Take of the best Agarick an ounce and a half roots of Pellitory an ounce roots of Acorus Burnet and male Peony of each half an ounce seeds of Peony and Fenil Iuniper-berries of each three drams Motherwort Agrimony Hyssop Primrose wild Mints Nep of each two drams flowers of Lily of the valley Mullein Bugloss and Rosemary of each a dram and a half Cinamon Nutmegs and Cubebs of each a dram All being cut and bruised let them be infused in water of Sage and Rosemary of each three pound Let them stand and infuse a whole night and then boil them to the consumption of the third part Take of this Liquor strained and clear four pound white Sugar two pound Mix them and boil them to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It is very useful in all passions of the Nerves as the Palsie Convulsions Epilepsie Hip-gout c. For it potently dissolves the peccant matter and mitigates pain The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or in any other convenient Vehicle Syrupus Nephriticus or a Syrup against the Stone in the Reins Take of our Aqua Antinephritica and Lithontriptica of each ten ounces Salt of the Pearch stone and Crabs eyes of each half an ounce Being mixed and dissolved add flowers of Marsh-mallows new dryed as many as sufficeth Let them stand in digestion a few days until the Liquor be perfectly tinctured afterward with two pound of white Sugar boil it to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It is given to those troubled with the Stone and Gravel from an ounce to an ounce and a half by it self or with some other agreeable Vehicle for it breaks and expels the Stone though great as you may see by daily Experience how sand and fragments of Stones lye at the bottom of the Urine Syrupus Stipticus or a Stiptick Syrup Take Sloes ripe and dryed a pound roots of water-Acorus Snakeweed Tormentil and Zedoary of each an ounce rinds of Pomegranates dryed Quinces of each half an ounce Turkish Galls red Roses Balaustines of each two drams seeds of Sorrel Bloodworth and Plantane of each a dram and a half Boil all according to Art in a sufficient quantity of white Wine till it be perfectly tinctured Take of this clear strained Liquor four pound white Sugar two pound Boil it again till it comes to the thickness of a Syrup and let it be aromatized with Cinamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Oriental Saffron white Ginger the lesser Galangal of each a dram wild Poppyflowers and Clovegilly-flowers of each half a dram Let these be all tyed up in a thin Cloth and boiled in the Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It helps Hepatick Dysenteries that arise from the sharpness of the Humors It moves Appetite to meat helps those that cannot hold their water But it is chiefly agreeable to those who are afflicted with long protracted Fluxes of the Belly caused of a watry humor as well cold as hot It stops Vomiting the flux of the Haemorrhoids overflowing of the Terms c. The dose is from an ounce to two universal Medicines being premised Syrupus Dysentericus laxativus or a purging Syrup for a bloody Flux Take roots of Polypody of the Oak two ounces Liquorish Burnet of each an ounce roots of Tormentil and Succory of each six drams leaves of Harts-tongue Agrimony Fluellin Knotgrass of each half an ounce Make a Decoction in water of Comfry-roots Plantane and Oak-leaves of each a like quantity boil it to the consumption of the third part and strain it Take of this strained Liquor three pound the best Rhubarb an ounce and a half Mechoacan yellow Myrobalans leaves of Sena of each an ounce Troches of Agarick half an ounce flowers of red Roses white Lilies Elder Chamomil and Mullein of each two drams seeds of Anise Quinces and Dill of each a dram and a half Cassia lignea Cloves and Nutmegs of each a dram Let them infuse in a warm place all night and in the morning let them be gently boiled and strained and prest and to the strained Liquor add of white Sugar two pound and make it into a just consistence of a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It gently moves the Belly downwards without trouble and purgeth all sharp and cholerick Humors from whence proceed the Ulcerations of the Bowels Moreover it mitigates the pain and its purging operation being over it stays the Flux The dose in young people is from an ounce to an ounce and a half But in those full-grown from two ounces to three Syrupus Pantagogus Take roots of Polypody of the Oak white Hermodactyls of each four ounces white and gummy Turbith Mechoacan of each two ounces the best Rhubarb an ounce and a half black Hellebore prepared the best Ialap of each an ounce Troches of Agarick of all the Myrobalans of each half an ounce Let them be cut and bruised and put into a sufficient quantity of white Wine in which let them infuse for certain days afterward boil them according to Art and in four pound of the strained Liquor again infuse the following Ingredients Sena three ounces small Raisons three ounces Cream of Tartar an ounce Maiden-hair Fluellin and Fumitory of each half an ounce Anise and Fenil seeds of each two drams flowers of Peaches Violets and Roses of Acacia and Epithymum of each a dram Let them stand in Infusion all night in the morning let them be boiled strained and pressed and then with two pound of white Sugar boil them to the consistence of a Syrup adding these things following Cardamoms the less Cloves Galangal
the less Mace white Ginger Cinamon Spicknard of each half a dram Let them be pulverized and tyed up in a Linen cloth and as they boil rub them in the Cloth that as they boil with the Syrup they may leave their virtue in it Virtue Use and Dose It doth kindly readily and safely purge alk morbifick and peccant Humors in all Diseases where Purging is requisite and it opens the obstructions of the Veins and Bowels It is given to men or women of all ages to Old folks and Children and to weak delicate bodies yea if need requires it is given to Women with Child either by it self or in waters that respect the part affected But in robust bodies it is quickned with some other strong purgative Medicine according to the diversity of the Disease The dose is from an ounce to two or three Syrupus Hydragogus or a Water-purging Syrup Take German Flower-de-luce cleansed from its exterior bark let it be well stamped and pressed and the juyce pressed out put into a glass and let it stand till it settle and grow clear of it self then take of this Iuyce sixteen ounces Cinamon water four ounces Magistery of Gum of Peru an ounce Let them infuse together in a Glass close stopt for twenty four hours then pour it forth and add to it sixteen ounces of white Sugar species Diarrhodon Abbatis the best Rhubarb of each half an ounce red Sanders and roots of Alkanet of each two drams These being mixed must be tyed up in a Cloth and boiled with the Syrup to a just consistence And lastly let the Syrup thus prepared be aromatized with Cloves Cinamon Mace of each a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple Virtue Use and Dose It is a most glorious and Divine Cathartick in the ill Habit of Body and in Dropsies of all sorts if from an ounce and a half to two ounces more or less according as the Belly is loose or bound it be given twice or thrice in the week For that Dropsie which cannot otherwise be cured by humane skill is cured by this Syrup alone SECT XVII Of Elixirs Elixir Vitrioli or Elixir of Vitriol TAke Galangal the less an ounce and a half Calamus aromaticus an ounce water Mints and Sage of each half an ounce the best Cinamon Cloves and white Ginger of each three drams Nutmegs and Cubebs of each two drams wood of Aloes and Citron peel of each a dram Pulverize all and mix them and then add to the Powder white Sugar Candy four ounces let all be moistned like Spirit of Wine that it may make a Mixture like Honey which put into a Glass and pour upon it the height of four fingers Oyl of Vitriol of Venus or Mars or in defect of those Spirit of Vitriol often rectified and let them stand in digestion three weeks or a month at last pour off the Tincture and filter it and pour on more Spirit of Wine upon that which is left in the bottom of the Glass and draw a Tincture as before and this work repeat the third time if need require till all the Essence be extracted Mix the several Extractions and circulate them and reserve it for use yet it would be of far more efficacy if it were set in Balneo the space of fourteen days Virtue Use and Dose There is not a more noble and efficacious Medicine in the whole Republick of Physick for the Stomach than this is as I can justifie by Experience and therefore I will be brief in declaring its Virtues It is an incomparable Medicine in all distempers of the Stomach and is given in our Stomach-water or in water of water Mint or in any other appropriate Liquor It comforts the Stomach and Intestines exceedingly and warms all the principal Members debilitated by Cold and provokes Appetite Moreover it preserves from the Epilepsie and Apoplexy purgeth the Brain drys the Head and whole Body oppressed with flegmatick Humors and Catarrhs and defends the Head from pain In the Epilepsie it is given in Peony-water Lily of the valley c. In pains of the Head often proceeding from the impurities of the Stomach afflicting the Brain it is given in Betony-water c. In all Feavers it is given in water of the lesser Centaury Carduus c. The dose is from half a scruple to a scruple Elixir Sulphuris or Elixir of Sulphur Take Oriental Saffron and red Myrrh of each an â—unce and a half Mastich Benzoin Cardamoms the â—ess Cinamon of each an ounce juyce of Liquorish Conâ—ectio Alkermes roots of Elicampane of each six drams Alipta Moschata a dram Mix all and make a Powder to which add white Sugar Candy two ounces then wet it with rectified Spirit of Wine so as it may be made into a Paste afterward pour upon it well rectified Spirit of Sulphur that it may swim above it four fingers let them stand thus and digest and circulate for a month At last what is tinctured and extracted separate by inclination and what remains in the bottom pour on it fresh Spirit of Wine separate them as before and mix the tinctured Liquors together and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Medicine in the affects of the Thorax and Lungs It cleanseth the Breast from impurities and Catarrhs It takes away the Cough as well new as inveterate and confirmed It gives content of Mind to those afflicted with Consumptions Melancholy Sorrow and easeth the pain of the Heart or Stomach It helpeth the straitness of the Breast difficulty of Breathing Chronical Asthma Moreover it comforts the Heart preserves from Putrefaction prolongs Life and keeps back Old age Neither need we fear that its sharpness will irritate the Cough for it soon penetrates and resolves and immediately gives ease The dose or way of giving of it is in some Vehicle that may take off its sharpness for it cannot be taken by it self but always with an appropriate Vehicle And is most profitably given in our Pectoral Syrups or Waters Elixir Poeoniae or Elixir of Peony Take roots of Palma Christi Angelica and Pellitory of each an ounce Misleto of the Oak Fenil seed Anacardus of each six drams flowers of Rosemary Stoechas and Lavender of each three drams shavings 〈◊〉 Elks horn and Mans Skull true Castor of each a draâ— and a half dryed Marjoram a handful Spirit of Winâ— rectified two pound Let all be cut and bruised anâ— infused in a glass Vessel close stopt let them macerate and digest for fourteen days and afterward distil it by an Alembick Then to the distilled Liquor add roots flowers and seeds of Peony duly gathered of each an ounce species Diamoschu dulce Diaxyloaloes of each half an ounce Mix them and set them to digest in a gentle heat for a month often stirring them afterward take the tinged Spirit of Wine by inclination and draw off at least half of it let the rest remain with the extracted Essence of which take twelve ounces Spirit of
wonderful operation and a happy restitution in a short time Spiritus Vini Theriacalis or Spirit of Wine with Treacle Take Venice Treacle four ounces roots of Angelica Elicampane and Swallow-wort white Diptamus Devils-bit Snakeweed Pimpinella Tormentil Zedoary Citron seeds of each an ounce Make all into a gross Powder and mix them on which pour eight pound of simple Spirit of Wine Let them digest fourteen days and then digest them in B. M. and keep the abstracted liquor for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a most excellent Spirit to preserve people from the Plague And is also called a Catholick Medicine because it consisteth of just twelve Ingredients It may be taken from one spoonful to two three or four hours before dinner or before they go abroad and is to be used every morning It prevents the danger of contagious Air and doth revive the Spirits But in curing it is given from two spoonfuls to three in Carduus-water or in our Aqua Cornu Cervi and it expels the Venom plentifully by Sweat SECT XIX Of compound distilled Waters Aqua Epileptica or an Epileptick Water TAke Roots of Peony duly gathered two ounces roots of round Birthwort white Diptamus and Angelica of each an ounce and a half Misleto of the Oak Peacocks dung Squills prepared Anacardus of each an ounce seeds of male Peony Coriander Caraway and Fenil of each six drams a dryed Secundine of a male Birth Castor of each half an ounce Carduus Millefoil wild Rue Sage and Rosemary of each two drams Let them be cut and bruised and infused in twelve pound of Spanish Wine and set to digest in a warm place for eight days the Vessel being often shaken in the time afterward distil them by an Alembick and into the distilled Liquor again put these things following Flowers of male Peony Lily of the valley of each four ounces flowers of Betony Teil-tree Lavender Balm Borage and Bugloss of each an ounce and a half Nutmeg Cinamon Cubebs Mace long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mix them and over a gentle fire in Balneo distil them the second time Virtue Use and Dose It is an effectual Medicine against the Epilepsie Vertigo Lethargy Catalepsie and Subeth which Diseases it chiefly cureth It is given in the Fit from an ounce to an ounce and a half But in preservation at the four Quarters of the Moon especially in all moist and nebuâ—ous constitution of the Air from one spoonful to two Aqua Apoplectica or a Water for the Apoplexy Take seeds of Rocket a pound seeds of Mountain-Osier Caraway and Anise of each an ounce roots of Avens four ounces roots of male Peony Pellitory and water Acorus of each two ounces Iuniper-berries four ounces Bay-berries husked an ounce and an half Ground-pine Hyssop Marjoram Origanum and Vervain of each half an ounce Let them be grosly bâ—uised and beaten and put into a large Matrace with ten pound of Spanish Wine and two pound of Spirit of Roses Let them stand in digestion fourteen days and then distil them in Balneo and into the distilled Liquor put fresh flowers of the Lily of the valley Primroses and Lavender of each four ounces Sage Marigold Betony and Rosemary of each an ounce and a half both sorts of Cardamoms Cabebs wood of Aloes Nutmegs Mace Cinamon the lesser Galangal long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mix them and again digest them for three days and over a gentle fire distil it in Balneo and afterward rectifie it by it self with a scruple of Gallia Moschata wrapping Cotton about the Snout of the Alembick At last the water being put into a close Glass keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is rightly called the water of Philosophers because it is of a wonderful virtue in comforting the Brain and Nerves It also strengthens the Memory and Intellect exceedingly It preserves from the Apoplexy and Palsie and all other dangerous diseases of the Head It doth excellently discuss and attenuate Humors renders the Blood pure and gives a lively Colour to the body But chiefly and especially it cures the Apoplexy and may be as well outwardly applied as taken inwardly The dose is from one spoonful to two c. Aqua de Xyloaloe or a Water of Wood of Aloes Take of the species of Confectio Anacardina an ounce seeds of mountain Osier Caraway Fenil and Lavender of each six drams leaves of Marjoram Rosemary and Sage flowers of Primrose Stoechas red Roses and Rosemary of each two drams lesser Galangal Cinamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Cubebs the lesser Cardamoms of each a dram Let them be grosly bruised and cut and infused in four pound of Spanish Wine let them stand in the Sun or in some other place to digest for a month and then add to it water of the Lily of the valley and flowers of St. Iohns-wort of each two pound water of the flowers of Bugloss Balm and Betony of each a pound Mix them and distil all in Balneo and in the distilled Liquor again infuse the best wood of Aloes four ounces Cassia lignea an ounce species of Diaxyloaloes and Diambra of each half an ounce Oriental Saffron a dram Mix them and after due digestion again distil them in Balneo and the distilled water reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a most illustrious and renowned Water in comforting and strengthening a weak Memory for it opens all the obstructions in the passages of the Brain and consumes all thick and viscous humors in the Head The dose is from one spoonful to two taken in the morning and at the same time to anoint the nape of the Neck with the same liquor and also rub it in well and let the Patient observe a regular Diet So it strengthens the Intellect removes forgetfulness and wonderfully sharpens the Wit Aqua Mastichina Take water of Water-Mints a pound Cloves infused in Spanish Wine of the best Mastich an ounce Let them boil in a double Vessel for two hours and then filter it and edulcorate it with Syrup of Quinces and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Water is of great efficacy in the nauseousness and loathing of the Stomach in Vomiting and the Disease Cholera which are known Evils It also strengthens the Stomach and roborates the retentive Faculty The dose is two ounces Aqua Hypnotica or a Somniferous Water Take seeds of white and black Poppy of each seven ounces Melon seeds husked seeds of Anise and Dill of each an ounce bitter Almonds two ounces Liquorish and Nutmegs of each an ounce and a half Cardamoms the less and Mace of each an ounce and half Oriental Saffron flowers of wild Poppy and Violets of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and then infused in waters of Lettice three pound of red Roses and Water-Lily of each two pound of Purslain and Endive of each a pound Mix them and set them to digest in a warm place for two or three days and
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-Rose-water eight ounces water of Fenil and Vervain of flowers of Succory Eyebright Pennyroyal and Garden Rue of each six ounces Virgin Honey four ounces Tutty prepared an ounce and a half white Vitriol Crocus Metallorum red Myrrh Aloes rosata of each half an ounce white Sugar Candy and Camphire of each three drams white Ginger Cloves black Pepper Bay-berries and Cinamon of each a dram Salt of Celandine Valerian and Saturn of each a scruple All these being well mixed one with another make of all according to Art a Collyrium which in a Glass close shut set to digest for a month either in the Sun or in a gentle heat shaking it every day and so keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use in all affects of the Eyes For it perfectly cures all distempers of the Eyes as Inflammations Bleer-eyedness Fistula's Films Spots c. and it takes away the violent pain thereof and if it doth not cure the same day yet it doth in a short time if a drop or two be but dropped into the Eyes carefully morning noon and night Aqua Ophthalmica viridis or a green Water for the Eyes Take Virgin Honey eight ounces ripe Strawberries three ounces white Vitriol and common Salt of each half an ounce Mix them and let them stand in a cool moist place in a Copper Vessel often stirring it till it wax green or shews it self of a green colour then add of Spanish Wine a pound water of Roses and flowers of Elder of each half a pound waters of wild Cummin Eyebright Celandine Valerian and Blue-bottles of each four ounces Let them be mixed and set to digest in a well stopt Glass for a month in a gentle heat or what is better exposed abroad both to the Sun and Dew for certain weeks and then the Liquor will appear green and separate it self into the superficies the impure Faeces remaining in the bottom from which it is separated at last having stood in the Sun long enough pour it off and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a most solemn Medicine for all distempers of the Eyes as Contusions Inflammations Ardor Redness Blearedness Fistula's Pustles thin Rheum c. And the use of it is thus drop a drop or two into the Eyes twice or thrice a day and let the water be diffused all over the Eye that so the infirm part may be the sooner cured Aqua Ophthalmica subnigra Take of generous Greek Wine a pound water of Celandine white Roses Eyebright Fenil and Garden Rue of each six ounces Cloves Epatick Aloes Tutty prepared of each five drams Camphire six drams Mix them and in a glass Viol expose them to the Sun all the Dog-days shaking the Glass once a day whicâ— being done keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It makes Rheum thin discusseth redness sucks up the cause of Blearedness renders the Eye clear and by its nourishing quality extenuates the adjacent thick humors The way of using it is to drop a little of it into the Eye as before or you may dip a Rag in this Collyrium and lay it upon the Eye Aqua Ophthalmica de Cancris or an Eye-water of Crabs Take River Crabs alive in the month of June tâ—â— Sun and Moon being both in Cancer thirty one Adâ— to these as much Celandine as will equal them iâ— weight beat these together and then add to theâ— Fenil seeds bruised an ounce Sea-Beans prepared 〈◊〉 Camphire of each half an ounce Cloves Epatick Alâ—â— and Tutty prepared of each two drams Mix them anâ— divide them into three equal parts and distil the first in Balneo then put the second part into a Cucurbit and pour the distilled water upon it and draw it off again as at first then put the third part in and pour upon that all the distilled water already drawn off and so distil it the third time And so you have that most famous Water of Celandine truly prepared And if you will calcine the Faeces and extract a Salt and add it to the Medicine it will be far more efficacious Virtue Use and Dose This is a most precious Eye-water and also esteemed at a great price of which Crollius in his Basilica Chymica hath made mention in these words There may be made a wonderful and stupendious Ophthalmick of Celandine and Crabs Which if it be prepared by due artifice and time it virtually restores the Eye though hurt to desperation and agglutinates all wounds in those parts in the space of twenty four hours Thus far Crollius But the way of preparing it out of meer envy he would not reveal or else he never knew it unless by relation or perhaps had stole it from another Of this Water drop one two or more drops into the Eyes of the Patient or it may be used with a Feather dipped in the water and then anointed with it twice thrice or four times a day according as necessity requires and let this be continued till the Patient be restored to his former health again Aqua Ocularis interna or a Water for the Eyes inwardly taken Take Iuniper berries two ounces Cassia lignea an ounce seeds of Mountain Osier and Fenil of each half an ounce seeds of Rue three drams species Diamoschu dulce Nutmegs wood of Aloes of each
two drams leaves of Eyebright Vervain and Rue tops of Rosemary Sage of Pennyroyal Dill and Fenil of each a dram and a half flowers of greater Celandine Betony Lavender red Roses and Rosemary of each a dram Let them be macerated in six pound of Spanish Wine the space of eight days and afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual universal Medicines being premised for the weakness and dulness of sight and to comfort the visive Spirits and to rectifie the Brain and the humors thereof The dose morning and evening is from half an ounce to an ounce and a half Aqua Pectoralis or a Pectoral Water Take bitter Almonds and small Raisons of each half a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows and Coltsfoot of each an ounce roots of lesser Mallows Comfrey and Elicampane of each half an ounce seeds of Fenil Anise Quinces Carduus benedictus Carduus Mariae Myrtles and Nettles of each three drams Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Mace Cinamon of each two drams both sorts of Lungwort Fluellin Horehound Ground-Ivy Maidenhair Scabious Hyssop and Sage of each a draâ— and a half flowers of Chamomil Coltsfoot Violets and Hearts-ease of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and infused in twelve pound of the best old Hydromel and digested for eight days afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It operates to a Miracle in all the distempers of the Thorax as straitness of the Breast Asthma and Cough c. It cuts attenuates and deterges thick and viscous flegm gathered in the Lungs and cavity of the Breast and renders it easie to be spit out It also comforts the Stomach and with the help of our Species Diasulphuris it preserves from and cures all Putrefaction and Apostems Moreover it doth effectually help those who are troubled with Phthisicks Pleurisies shortness of Breath destillations of Rheum spitting of Blood and other purulent Matter The dose is from half an ounce to one or two Aqua Antiphthisica or an Anticonsumptive Water Take roots of great Comfry flowers of red Roses of each a pound crums of Wheat-bread four ounces Pine-apples and green Pistick Nuts of each three ounces roots of China two ounces flowers of Liverwort and Rosemary pith of Indian Nuts of each an ounce Mace half an ounce Let them be bruised and broken and put into a large Matrace with water of Calves Lungs two pound Plantane water and Capon water of each a pound water of Cinamon buglossated water of Fluellin and Scabious of each half a pound Let them stand in digestion for eight days often shaking them in the time and afterward add to them exprest juyce of Coltsfoot and Goats milk of each half a pound the blood of one Pig Snails taken from their shells and bruised an ounce and a half Hens Livers three Oriental Saffron a dram Again mix them and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Mariae Virtue Use and Dose This Water hath a wonderful operation it certinly cures the Phthisick or Consumption it heals Ulcers of the Lungs and cleanseth the Breast from thick humors But in Phthisicks coming of Rheumatisms in the Thorax and in Asthma's Pleurisie c. we usually give it in this Form following with good success Take of Aqua Antiphthisica nineteen ounces white Sugar candy three ounces Lac Sulphuris two drams flower of Sulphur a dram and a half Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a dram Mix them ready for use The dose is morning noon and night from a spoonful to two And by the use of this Liquor only a man will grow fat because it moistens lenifies nourishes comforts restores the radical Moisture and allays the Cough and is the only relief to extenuated consumptive and hectical bodies for it restores them to their pristine health and expels the Disease but before it be made use of it should be diligently moved Aqua Pulmonis Vituli or Water of a Calves Lungs Take the Heart Lungs and Liver of a Calf the fat and veins being cut off and add to it great Comfry roots four ounces French Lungwort Pimpernel Fluellin Hyssop Sage and Agrimony of each half an ounce Pour upon them a sufficient quantity of the same water also and boil them in a new well glazed earthen Pot close covered Take of this Broth with the other things three pound water of Borage Bugloss and Roses of each a pound species Diamargariton frigid roots of Pimpinella Cinamon of each an ounce the foâ— greater cold Seeds of each two drams the Cordial Flowers of each a dram Mix them and distil them in an Alembick Virtue Use and Dose Hectical and consumptive people may be nourished a long time by the use of this Water therefore not without reason was this Description always esteemed among us of great price The dose by it self is from one spoonful to two Aqua Caponis or Capon-water Take a Capon which you must boil in a well glazed new earthen Pot according to Art with small Raisons Pine-nuts and Liquorish of each an ounce Iujubes and Sebestens of each twelve new dryed Figs eight Lungwort Coltsfoot Endive and Lettice of each half an ounce flower of Violets and Betony of each a dram The Decoction being finished let all be bruised in a stone Mortar then take good Canary Wine three pound water of Coltsfoot Horehound and Bugloss of each a pound the crum of white Bread steeped in Goats milk half a pound Conserve of Borage Roses and Maidenhair of each four ounces species of Diamargariton frigid half an ounce Cinamon Mace and Aniseeds of each two drams Mix them and distil it in an Alembick according to Art and the distilled Liquor keep for use Virtue Use and Dose This capon-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
bruised and then infused in the following Waters i. e. water of wild Poppy flowers and both kind of Mallows of each a pound and a half water of Plantane Purslain Violets Lettice leaves of Oak and Moneywort of each a pound Let them digest some days and then distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It takes off the heat and difficulty of Urine and obtunds the acrimony thereof that arises from hot Meats c. It deterges glutinates and cicatriseth all Ulcers and Ulcerations in the Bladder Reins Ureters and urinary passages For which it is a present Remedy which I have also experienced in Old people who are subject to a heat in the Bladder and from thence are subject to make water often This Water therefore sweeps away all mucous rough and painful filth and dregs of the Urine The dose is from one ounce to three Aqua contra Vermes or a Water against the Worms Take shavings of Harts horn four ounces crude Mercury well cleansed with Salt and Vinegar two ounces the best Sena seeds of Cina and Citrons true Corallina of each an ounce and a half Peach kernels Rhubarb Agarick and Myrrh of each an ounce roots of white Diptamus the pith taken away round Birthwort and Zedoary of each six drams white Tartar Nitre prepared Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce the tops of lesser Cantaury and Tansie chips of Hazel-tree of each three drams Let them be cut and bruised and then infused in four pound of Hydromel and after eight days digestion add to it water of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each a pound and a half of Carduus Grass and Scordium of each a pound Mix all and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Aqua Theriacalis or Treacle-water Take Venice Treacle eight ounces sealed Earth two ounces roots of Angelica and Tormentil Elicampane of each half an ounce Harts-horn and Elks hoof Spagirically calcined Sassafras Iuniper-berries Citron peels of each an ounce Boletus cervinus red Myrrh of each six drams Diaphoretick Antimony and Oriental Saffron of each three drams All being pulverized and mixed let them be infused in eight pound of Malmsey Wine for fourteen days and then distilled in Balneo with a gentle fire Virtue Use and Dose Because this Water by its tenuity and thinness doth quickly insinuate it self into all the Members and puts the native heat into action we happily use it in all diseases where Sweat is desired as Feavers Jaundice Putrefaction Worms Pox punctures of the Sides trembling of the Heart Plague rectification of the Blood c. The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua de Cornu cervino or Water of Harts-horn Take Harts-horn Spagirically calcined two ounces sealed Earth and Oriental red Bole of each an ounce roots of Tormentil white Diptamus Scorzonera and Zedoary of each half an ounce Sassafras yellow Sanders Cassia lignea of each three drams seeds of Sorrel Angelica and Citrons dryed of each two drams Oriental Saffron Mace and Marigold flowers of each a dram and a half These being cut and bruised let them be infused in the depurated Juyce of Carduus and Sorrel of each two pound of Scabious and Fluellin of each a pound of the husks of green Nuts and Scordium of each half a pound Let them macerate 24 hours then with a gentle fire distil them in Balneo with glass Vessels cohobating the second time Virtue Use and Dose This Water hath great force in the Plague and all other poysonous Diseases but especially in Women and Children for whom the Treacle-waters are not convenient Of this water an ounce or two or more according to the strength and nature of the Patient may be given either by it self or with other sudorifick Medicines in the place of Specificks c. Aqua Aloetica solutiva or a solutive Water of Aloes Take Epatick Aloes sixteen ounces juyce of the leaves of green Sena expressed Elaterium of each four ounces red Myrrh an ounce All being well mixed let them be distilled in glass in Balneo by the help of a gentle fire Virtue Use and Dose Anoint the Stomach often with this water and lay on after it a warm Cloth or Sponge and you shall see a wondrous Operation For it is a most excellent Medicine and only fit for Kings and Princes Aqua Cosmetica or a Beauty-water Take Goats milk four pound water of Aron roots Bean flowers white Roses white Lilies and Solomons seal of each a pound white Virgin Honey four ounces white Sugar candy and white Frankincense of each two ounces white Hermodactyls Florentine Flower-de-luce Venetian Borax of each an ounce Salt of white Tartar burnt Ivory and Camphire of each half an ounce flowers of white Narcissus of common white Mallows of white water Lily of each two drams Mix them and distil them in Balneo for the richer sort you may add a scruple of Gallia Moschata with Cotton to the neck of the Alembick Virtue Use and Dose It is used outwardly to cleanse and clarifie the Face For it takes off Spots Pimples c. from the Face and it hath a singular faculty in amending the foulness of the Skin in the Jaundice To accomplish which the Face must be often washed with it in the day Or take of this Cosmetick water six ounces of the Mercurial Cosmetick two drams Mix them and make a Lotion like Milk with which anoint the Face often SECT XX. Of mixed Liquors Nectar Vitrioli or Nectar of Vitriol TAke white Sugar candy ten ounces Spirit of Vitriol rectified two ounces Mix them and in a glass Vessel close covered keep out the flies and filth let them stand for some months till it all appear black like Pitch then take of this black matter four ounces rose-Rose-water an ounce and a half water mint-Mint-water half a pound Cinamon water buglossated six pound Syrup of the juyce of Citrons four ounces Manus Christi simple two ounces Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is commended in all intemperature of the Stomach as well cold as hot For it refresheth the languid and decayed strength thereof It provokes Appetite prevents Putrefaction It is good in malignant Feavers and allays Thirst. The dose by it self is from two ounces to three Liquor Vitriolatus or a Vitriolated Liquor Take Syrup of Violets and Roses of each half a pound juyce of Citrons or Lemmons four ounces Mix them diligently and being mixed add water of Endive ten ounces water of Sorrel and Roses of each eight ounces of water-Lily and Scabious of each six ounces of Cinamon water buglossated two ounces Spirit of Vitriol so much as will make all tart and grateful Again mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of a curious cooling quality in the Plague Hungarian disease burning Feavers and all other Inflammations It also allays Thirst c. The dose is from two ounces to three Liquor Ophthalmicus subalbidus or a whitish Water for
the Eyes Take our Ophthalmick water of Crabs half an ounce water of Eyebright and Fenil of each two drams our Ophthalmick Troches and Powder of each a scruple Mix them and make according to Art a whitish Collyrium Virtue Use and Dose It is of great virtue in the dimness and dulness of Sight and in Suffusions of the Eyes and it may be dropped into the Eyes without any pain it being void of all acrimony whatsoever and with it the Eyes may be washed every morning and so continue it for many days together Liquor Nitratus or a Nitrified Liquor Take water distilled from the juyce of Carduus benedictus nineteen ounces Rob of Goosberries four ounces simple Manus Christi two ounces Nitre prepared an ounce Mix them well and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a most admirable Diaphoretick Diuretick Bezoartick Refrigerative c. and is good in all hot and malignant Diseases whatsoever The dose is by it self from one ounce to two or three Liquor Cephalicus or a Cephalick Liquor Take of our Aqua Apoplectica four ounces Aqua Epileptica and Lily of the valley of each three ounces water of Marjoram Betony and Sage of each an ounce and a half Rotula's of Diambra an ounce Confectio Smaragdina half an ounce Salt of white Amber a scruple Mix them faithfully and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of good use in all diseases of the Head and gives present help in the Cephalalgia Hemicrania Epilepsie Apoplexy Madness Vertigo c. It quickens the Senses sharpens the Understanding and recovers a lost Memory The dose is from one spoonful to two Liquor Pectoralis or a Pectoral Liquor Take Cinamon water buglossated and Capon water of each four ounces water of Calves lungs Ground-Ivy Fluellin and Coltsfoot of each three ounces milk of Sulphur three drams flower of Sulphur a dram and a half Magistery of red Coral and Oriental Pearls of each half a dram Mix all and with Manus Christi simple three ounces edulcorate it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use to all those who are troubled with the Asthma Pleurisie Phthisick and Hectick It comforts the Heart and to admiration it takes away the grievous and dangerous Coughs and restores the Patient to his former health The dose morning noon and night is from one spoonful to two But before this Liquor is given it ought to be well shaken Liquor Cordialis or a Cordial Liquor Take of our hot and cold Cordial waters of each four ounces of Cinamon water buglossated and water of a Stags heart of each an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams Salt of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple All being mixed let it be edulcorated with an ounce and a half of simple Manus Christi and reserved for use Virtue Use and Dose It is good for the Heart-burning and pains of the Heart caused by sorrow It cures Palpitation Trembling and Swooning It animates the Spirits exhilarates the Mind refresheth those who are weak and languid It comforts the Heart in general and preserves it from the Plague and many other evils The dose is from one spoonful to two Liquor acidus Perlarum Orientalium or an acid Liquor of Oriental Pearls Take Vinegar of the solution of Oriental Pearls and again drawn off in Balneo two ounces Spirit of Vitriol duly rectified with Spirit of Wine Mix them and you shall have a whitish liquor of wonderful operation which keep as a Treasure for your use Virtue Use and Dose It strengthens the Head Brain Stomach Heart Liver and all the other principal Members It preserves the body from the Apoplexy Epilepsie Vertigo Leprosie Pox c. It raiseth an appetite in recovering Patients It cleanseth the Eyes of clouds and dimness resists Putrefaction and Poyson and is the last refuge in all malignant Feavers and hot Diseases The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram Liquor acidus Corallorum rubeorum or an acid Liquor of red Coral After the preceding manner is this acid Liquor of Coral prepared for the affects of the Head as Epilepsie Melancholy also the Dysentery Flux of the Womb c. and to rectifie the Stomach and Blood It is also a good Medicine to root out many internal Diseases and to refresh the Spirits and Mind The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram Liquor Nephriticus or a Liquor for the Stone and Urine Take Citron water distilled by it self in Balneo our Nephritical water of each a pound and a half Syrup of the juyce of Violets a pound white Sugar candy an ounce Salt of Perch stone and Crabs eyes of each two drams Nitre prepared with flower of Sulphur salt of white Amber of each a dram Mix them and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual in breaking and expelling the Stone both in the Reins and Bladder It provokes Urine and takes away the pain which happens in those parts The dose is in the morning fasting or at a good distance from eating from one spoonful to three Liquor Diaphoreticus Take of our Treacle water six ounces Spirit of Tartar often rectified three ounces Spirit of sealed Earth distilled by it self and rectified Spirit of Guajacum rectified the acid liquor of Oriental Pearls the acid liquor of red Coral of each half an ounce Mix them and in a Glass close shut let them digest for three or four weeks then filter it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It expels all Poyson from the Heart by Sweat It is good in Syncopes sudden Fits Epilepsie Melancholy Quinsie Palsie Dropsie Jaundice Pleurisie Pox Plague Epidemical disease Asthma malignant and putrid Feavers retention of the Courses Contractures Scurvy Scabs or Itch For this Medicine doth excel all others in taking away all Obstructions and Putrefactions And if it be given daily in the Palsie it doth wonders It penetrates the Nerves Muscles Marrow and whatsoever it finds hurtful it expels The dose is from half a dram to two drams in our Harts-horn water or Carduus water or any other Vehicle respecting the Disease Liquor refrigerans or a cooling Liquor Take water of the juyce of Succory four ounces water of Rasberries Carduus Roses Endive and Sorrel of each four ounces Rob of Goosberries and Barberries prepared without Sugar syrup of the juyce of Citrons of each three ounces Nitre prepared eleven scruples Mix them Virtue Use and Dose It cools and comforts admirably in Feavers and all acute hot Diseases The dose is from two ounces to three at a time Liquor Vulnerarius or a Wound-Liquor Take roots of the lesser Galangal Zedoary Crabs eyes and Mace of each half an ounce Foreign Mummy two drams of Nux vomica fifteen grains Let them be grolly bruised and infused in a pound of good generous Wine let them stand in a warm place Virtue Use and Dose The dose of this Mixture is morning and evening a
spoonful and if any thing remains fixed in the bottom of the body it removes it but in wounds of the Head let the Nux vomica be omitted Liquor Camphoratus Take spirit of Wine camphorated two ounces water of all the flowers and Frogs spawn of each an ounce and a half the Anodyne Sulphur of Vitriol a dram liquid Styrax Thebane Opium spirit of Vitriol of each half a dram Mix them and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose Let it be applied to the part affected for it allays the pain of the Gout and all pains proceeding of a hot Cause Or it may be given twice in the day with two scruples of prepared Nitre in Elder-flower water Liquor Tartareus or a Tartarized Liquor Take of the best Rhenish Wine a pound Tartar vitriolated an ounce Let them be mixed and dissolved according to Art and then add Barley water with Raisons boiled Cinamon water and syrup of the juyce of Violets of each half a pound Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an universal Digestive and is given in many Diseases where purging Medicines are requisite It is given warm unless in an intense Feaver or a hot intemperature of the Stomach be present It is given for a Feaver in the morning but if the Fit happen in the morning it is to be given in the evening In Chronical diseases it is continued for five days and may be given twice in a day that is morning and noon But in diseases of the Head it is given at going to bed and the Belly ought to be loose for if the Belly is bound pain doth usually succeed because the matter that is moved and cleansed away by the Medicine if it cannot pass out of the body it is converted into wind and that causeth pain The dose is when occasion requires a good draught at a time Liquor Arthriticus or a Liquor for the Gout Take Virgin Honey with the comb two pound Vitriol calcined to a yellowness a pound River Flints calcined half a pound Rosemary and Vervain of each six ounces white Hermodactyls three ounces Gum Ammoniacum Mastich Olibanum red Myrrh Bdellium Opopanax of each two ounces yellow Sulphur Sea-salt white Tartar of each an ounce and a half juyce of Henbane made thick Foreign Mummy Thebane Opium of each an ounce All being mixed pour upon them the Spirit made of the Faeces of red Wine or else of that Spirit which is left in making Laudanum Opiatum five pound or so much as will suffice and let them digest for certain days then put all into a glass Alembick well luted with a head sufficiently large and a large Receiver and distil them so long as you can see any Spirit come forth When all is cold take the Caput mortuum and pulverize it and pour the distilled Liquor upon it the second time and distil it And repeat this labour three or four times and so you have the Liquor Arthriticus prepared Virtue Use and Dose It is a Secret in all continual and inveterate pains and defluxions on the Members and Joynts Let the part affected be anointed with it often in the day warmed and at certain intervals of time also till all the tormenting pains cease Liquor Antipodagricus triunus or an Antipodagrick Liquor of a threefold Preparation 1. Take of spirit of Wine well rectified two pound Frog spawn water a pound and a half of Virgin Honey a pound Mix them and distil it in Balneo and the Liquor drawn off keep by it self then take the Caput mortuum and pulverize it and then add to it Lixivium made of Vine twigs two pound white Tartar half a pound flegm of Vitriol not yet separated from the spirit four ounces true Castor six drams Oriental Saffron half an ounce Venice Turpentine two drams calcined Salt a dram Let them macerate for the space of 24 hours then distil it and keep the distilled Liquor by it self then take out the Caput mortuum and pulverize it and pour upon it all the Liquor before drawn off in the first distillation Mix them and after due digestion distil them again the third time Lastly the Liquors being mixed rectifie them in Balneo Mariae and let it be called A Compound Water of Frog-spawn 2. Take Cloves six drams white Hermodactyls and Iuniper-berries of each half an ounce Nutmegs two drams Vervain and Elder flowers of each two handfuls flowers of Lavender Spicknard Marjoram Rosemary and Betony of each a handful Cut those that are to be cut and bruise the other and infuse them in five pound of Rhenish Wine Let them stand in digestion 24 nights and days and then distilled in an Alembick and called Aqua Arthritica or the Gout-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
Let them infuse together for certain days afterward strain them through Hippocrates sleeve and edulcorate the Liquor with sixteen ounces of white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of excellent use in the Asthma Cough and other vices of the Breast also in the weakness and windiness of the Stomach Dysury Strangury and Stone The dose is from one spoonful to two or three often in the week Claretum Anisatum or a Claret prepared with Aniseeds Take Spirit of Wine anisated three pound water of Lohoch sanum Horehound and Violet flowers of each a pound Cassia lignea two ounces Mace cut small half an ounce Let them macerate eight days and then add twelve ounces of white Sugar Candy to it strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It is very good and proper for difficulty of Breathing and Asthma's and other cold affects of the Thorax arising from thick humors sticking to the Bronchia of the Lungs also for an old Cough Dyspnoea The dose as before is from one spoonful to two or three Claretum Chalybeatum or a Claret prepared with Steel Take the best Malmsey Wine three pound Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce roots of Scorzonera and cream of Tartar of each half an ounce the lesser Galangal Cassia lignea and Cloves of each a dram Put these mixed into a glass Vessel and let them digest in a warm place often shaking them for the space of two days afterward strain them and clarifie them through Hippocrates sleeve and you have a chalybeate Claret Virtue Use and Dose It opens all the obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Meseraick Veins It corrects an ill habit of Body and expels all vicious Humors cures the black Jaundice provokes the Terms and stays them if too superfluous It expels water in Dropsies and discusseth Wind it promotes the resolution of the Salt tending to Coagulation and by its Martial rays it drys the Microcosmical Earth swelling with too much moisture But in the use of this Liquor for the aforesaid Affects it is convenient to give gentle Purgers as often as may be that as this Wine prepares the body and humors fit to be purged so the purging Medicines cleanse and carry it off as in other Cures The dose of this Claret is from one ounce to two or three morning and evening But in defect of the Courses in Women it is given five days before the New Moon to young ones but to those more in years so many days before the Full Moon and so to proceed till the Courses appear Claretum Antinephriticum or an Anti-nephritical Claret Take whole Barley and red Cicers of each an ounce and a half roots of Restharrow and Eryngo of each an ounce Liquorish and Parsley of each half an ounce Iuniper-berries bruised and Winter-cherries of each two drams seeds of Gromel white Thorn-berries seeds of Marsh-mallows and small Mallows of each a dram and ahalf flowers of Broom and Violets of each a dram fat Figs and Sebestens of each eleven Let them be infused in small white Wine and Rain-water of each three pound for 24 hours then boil them to the consumption of the third part that there may four pound remain to which add of white Sugar four ounces clarifie it with Hippocrates his sleeve and make a Claret of it Virtue Use and Dose It gives great ease to those troubled with the Stone for it dissolves breaks and drives forth the Stone in the Reins and Bladder with the Urine by inlarging the Ureters and urinary passage and by opening the obstructions of the Loyns and Reins and the other parts The dose is every morning fasting a good draught from three ounces to four Claretum Moschatum or a Muskified Claret Take Cassia lignea half an ounce Cloves two drams Nutmegs Mace and Citron peels of each a dram roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce and the lesser Galangal of each half a dram yellow Sanders and wood of Aloes of each a scruple Ambergriese and the best Musk of each ten grains All being pulverized and mixed add to them twenty ounces of odoriferous Spanish Wine and let them stand in digestion for certain days afterward add Spirit of Roses four ounces clarifie them in Hippocrates his sleeve and make a Claret which for delicate Palates may be edulcorated with Sugar Candy Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use other universal Medicines and Purgations being premised to amend the ill savour of the Mouth and Nose and render them sweet it also roborates the Heart and Ventricle Let the Patient take a spoonful or two every morning fasting Claretum purgans or a purging Claret Take leaves of Sena two ounces roots of our Flower-de-luce an ounce Mechoacan white Hermodactyls and Turbith of each half an ounce Agrimony Harts-tongue and Fluellin of each two drams seeds of Fenil and Anise of each a dram and a half Cassia lignea Cloves white Ginger and Cinamon of each a dram flowers of Broom Balm Bugloss and Sage of each a dram and a half Infuse them all in a sufficient quantity of old Wine for 24 hours and then boil them and in sixteen ounces of the strained Liquor warm dissolve four ounces of the best Manna Again strain it and add of Cinamon water an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Citrons a dram Mix them well again and make of all a laxative Claret Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth flegm and water and that from the Joynts It gives ease in the Head-ach and Epilepsie and checks old Defluxions and for that reason gives ease in Gouts of all kinds It is also a good Purge in all pains of the Joynts Colon and Reins The dose is from three ounces to four Vinum Antiscorbuticum or an Antiscorbutick Wine Take Rhenish Wine four pound juyce of Scurvy grass Water-cresses Brooklime and Sorrel of each depurated four ounces roots of wild Radishes Elicampane and our Flower-de-luce of each cut into small pieces anounce and a half seeds of Rocket bruised an ounce All being mixed put them into a Glass in a cool place and reserve it for use adding to it two Nutmegs Virtue Use and Dose This medicated Wine universals being premised and the body duly purged perfectly cures the Scurvy in these Northern and Maritime Regions where it is natural and domestick and is also an infallible Medicine in rectifying the Blood The dose is from three ounces to four morning and evening two hours before meat and let the sick continue the use of this Medicine till he finds himself better SECT XXIII Of compound medicated Vinegars Acetum Aromaticum odoratum or a sweet Aromatick Vinegar TAke Florentine Flower-de-luce an ounce and a half flowers of Lavender red Roses and Clove-gilliflowers of each an ounce Cloves and Cinamon of each half an ounce Nutmegs Mace lesser Galangal and Zedoary of each three drams Orange and Citron peels of each two drams Styrax Calamitis red Myrrh Benjamin of each a dram and a half
flowers of Rosemary Rue Marjoram and Sage of each a dram Gallia Moschata wood of Aloes Spicknard of each half a dram of Wine Vinegar a sufficient quantity Mix them and when the Vinegar is tinctured and well impregnated with the Ingredients keep it for use Virtue and Use. A linen Cloth wetted in this Liquor and applied to the Nose and the smell thereof received up into the Nostrils doth very much comfort the Brain quickens the Sense refresheth the Spirits and doth plentifully restore the decayed strength of the Mind and Intellect and is of singular use in the other diseases of the Heart Acetum Theriacale or a Vinegar of Treacle Take Venice Treacle an ounce Elks hoofs Spagirically calcined Bay-berries seeds of Carduus benedictus of each half an ounce leaves of Vervain Scordium and Rue of each two drams red Myrrh and Citron peels of each a dram and a half roots of Tormentil Angelica Zedoary and Butterbur of each a dram Camphire wood of Aloes Mace of each half a dram Wine-Vinegar in which Lavender flowers have been infused a sufficient quantity Mix them and let them stand till the Vinegar be well tinctured which pour off and keep for use Acetum Mithridaticum or Vinegar of Mithridate Take Mithridate of Damocratis sealed Earth roots of Tormentil Elicampane and Angelica of each six drams Harts-horn calcined without fire powder of Vipers and red Myrrh of each half an ounce seeds of Citron husked seeds of Sorrel and Bay-berries of each three drams flowers of Marigold and Clove-gillyflowers of each two drams Oriental Saffron Cloves and Camphire of each a dram Wine Vinegar in which Roses have been infused a sufficient quantity Mix them and when the Vinegar is well coloured keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose These two Vinegars are of excellent use in the Plague for they resist its impression and preserve from Putrefaction and whosoever shall take a spoonful of either of them in the morning shall not by the Providence of God be infected that day But in the Cure the dose of either of them is two spoonfuls with a scruple of our Solar Bezoar or Aurea Hadrianea c. There is another way commended for its use which is this In the morning before the Patient goes abroad let him wash the Pulse of his Wrists with these Vinegars and also carry a Sponge in his hand wet in the same But those who have a dry Brain and are troubled with watching must not smell to it often if at all Acetum Zedoarticum or a Vinegar of Zedoary Take roots of Zedoary an ounce roots of Tormentil Angelica and Scorzonera of each half an ounce Bay-berries husked Iuniper-berries of each three drams flowers of Marigold Lavender and red Roses of each two drams red Myrrh wood of Aloes and Mace of each a dram and a half Cloves and Nutmegs of each a dram Infuse them in Wine Vinegar in which Elder flowers have been steeped a sufficient quantity till it be perfectly coloured then strain the Vinegar and keep it for use Acetum Myrrhatum or a Vinegar with Myrrh Take red Myrrh an ounce roots of Gentian half an ounce Carduus Rue Wormwood Scabious Fluellin and Scordium of each two drams Oriental Saffron Cassia lignea and Castor of each a dram Macerate these in a sufficient quantity of Wine Vinegar in which Clove-gillyflowers have been infused and after eight days digestion filter the Liquor and being clear keep it for use Acetum Rhizoticum or a Vinegar of Roots Take the roots of Tormentil Snakeweed Burnet Angelica Valerian Masterwort Devils-bit white Dictamus Elicampane Swallow-wort Zedoary and Burdock of each half an ounce Let them infuse in a sufficient quantity of Wine Vinegar impregnate with Sage and after due digestion strain it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose These three preceding Vinegars have great force against pestilential Poysons and are armed with various virtues to that purpose for if the Nostrils or Pulses be often wet therewith or a Sponge wet therewith and often smelt to or Flints or Bricks red-hot and quenched in it and the Liquor drunk is very effectual both for Preservation and Cure but in the Cure a spoonful or two may be given to provoke Sweat the strength of the Patient considered but for Preservation half a spoonful is sufficient Acetum Bezoarticum or a Bezoartick Vinegar Take roots of Scorzonera Angelica and white Dictamus of each an ounce roots of Tormentil Zedoary and Elicampane of each half an ounce Camphire a dram and a half All being pulverized and mixed infuse them in Spirit of Wine left in making our Solar Bezoar and distilled Wine Vinegar in which Elder flowers were infused of each equal parts to that quantity that it may rise six fingers above the Ingredients let them stand in a Glass close stopt till the Liquor be perfectly tinctured then filter it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Bezoartick Vinegar is endued with excellent virtues that if half an ounce or an ounce be taken by it self or with a small quantity of any Cordial water it wonderfully relieves those infected with the Plague or bit or stung with any venemous Creature to the admiration of the Beholders and restores them to perfect health again It is of no less effect in poysonous Draughts it sâ—rengthens the Heart refresheth the Spirits c. And for preservation 's sake in any of the cases mentioned you may give half a spoonful in the morning but to cure give it from half an ounce to an ounce in water of Carduus Swallow-wort Scordium and the like Acetum Diaphoreticum or a Diaphoretick Vinegar Take Sarsa parilla and China of each an ounce Sassafras six drams Elder flowers half an ounce Cassia lignea two drams Let them be cut and bruised and infused in a sufficient quantity of sharp Wine Vinegar let them digest so long till it be of a red colour then filter it and keep the filtred Vinegar for use Virtue Use and Dose This Vinegar is commendable for its use in curing the diseases of the Head and Brain strengthening the Liver opening the Spleen and the obstructions in the Dropsie expelling the Stone in discussing Wind staying Vomiting helping Digestion resisting Putresaction and curing the Pox and incipient Elephantiasis in all which cases it hath an excellent Diaphoretick faculty Also by reason of its great driness and moderate heat it is an excellent Remedy for all kind of Defluxions but it is hurtful to those who are extenuated and weak Also a Sponge dipped in this Vinegar and smelt to often is very profitable against the Plague especially other Remedies not being neglected The dose is from one spoonful to two by it self or in appropriate Vehicles Acetum Hystericum or a Hysterical Vinegar Take dryed Rue and dwarff Elder-berries of each an ounce Sagapen and Galbanum of each half an ounce roots of Hogs sesmel and Castor of each two drams the Callus or Protuberances on Mares legs Assa foetida of each
each half a pound Iuniper and Bay-berries of each seven ounces of Earth-worms washed in Spirit of Wine and again dryed six ounces Rosemary Sage Marjoram Lavender Hyssop Groundpine and Thyme of each an ounce flowers of Chamomil Mullein Melilot and St. Iohns-wort of each half an ounce Boil them in water for a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. This Bath should be often used for it refresheth paralytick Members warms the nervous parts drys roborates and restores them to their pristine motion Yet general and particular Evacuations ought to precede Balneum contra Sterilitatem seu difficultatem impraegnationis probatum Or an approved Bath against Barrenness or difficulty of Conception Take roots of Madder Parsley Polypody and Valerian of each three ounces seeds of wild Rue and Darnel of each two ounces green Iuniper-berries an ounce and a half Motherwort Mother of Thyme Balm Mugwort Fumitory of each an ounce Marjoram Lavender Agrimony Melilot and Mullein of each six drams Calamint Chamomil and Origanum of each half an ounce All being grosly cut and bruised let them be boiled in a great Cauldron to the consumption of the third part of which make a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. This Decoction together with the Herbs Roots and Seeds put into a great Vessel or Bathing Tub and in that let the barren Woman after she hath been well purged from her Terms sit up to the Navil so that all the lower Belly may be bathed and refreshed and let this be continued for twelve days and the Bath to be renewed every third day And during the twelve days let her forbear Coition for by the use of this Bath only many barren Women have been made fruitful But when the Woman goes out of the Bath let her body be well covered with Cloths lest the cold Air should hurt her Balneum Stipticum contra Uteri Haemorrhagiam probatum or a Stiptick Bath approved of in Fluxes of Blood from the Womb. Take crude Alum two pound roots of Plantane Tormentil water-Acorus and Bistort of each four ounces bark of the roots of Acacia Pomegranate rind and Turkish Galls of each three ounces flowers of red Roses and Balaustines of each two ounces the herb Burnet Shepherds-purse Sage and Millefoil of each an ounce Boil all in a sufficient quantity of water in which while it is boiling Iron and Steel is quenched often and make a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. Let the Bath be moderately hot and the Woman sit therein up to the Navil every morning fasting for an hour or two and let this be continued for certain days and by the Providence of God she will be perfectly cured Balneum contra suppressionem Menstruorum probatum or an approved Bath against the suppression of the Terms Take of the whole plant of Mugwort four ounces roots of Angelica Madder Asparagus and Smallage of each two ounces seeds of Parsley Iuniper-berries and Bay-berries â—â—â—ked red Myrrh of each a dram and a half the herbs Centaury Savin and Pennyroyal of each an ounce Fenil Mother of Thyme and Balm of each six drams Wormwood Groundpine Horehound Pellitory Nep Mercury and Rosemary of each half an ounce Let them boil in a large Vessel in a sufficient quantity of River-water to the consumption of the third part then put it into a bathing Tub for use Virtue and Use. Let the Woman sit in it up to the Navil and continue in it for half an hour then let her be dryed and put to bed yet this is not to be used once only but to be repeated three or four times a week Balneum in Icteritia ad Cutem detergendam expertum or a Bath to cleanse the Skin in the Iaundice Take white Tartar a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce white Hermodactyls and Solomons Seal of each four ounces whole Beans Lupines whole Barley of each two drams leaves of Misleto of the Oak an ounce and a half Wormwood common Mallows Pellitory Celandine and Sopewort of each an ounce flowers of the lesser Centaury Chamomil and water-Lilies of each half an ounce Make a Decoction for a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. Let the Patient as it were swim in the Bath that is be covered all over with the water and when he goes out of the Bath let him go into his bed and sweat there the space of an hour and let this be continued Balneum contra Calculum Renum Vesicae or a Bath against the Stone in the Reins and Bladder Take roots of Marsh-mallows and common Mallows of each three ounces roots of Parsley and Restharrow of each two ounces roots of Vervain Eryngo Fenil and Brambles of each an ounce and a half Bay-berries husked and Linseeds of each an ounce flowers of Marsh-mallows six drams of the herbs Chamomil Tansie Dill Melilot Mullein Pellitory of the Wall Saxifrage Cinqfoil Violets and Strawberries of each half an ounce Mix them and boil them for a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. Let the Patient sit in this Bath while he is in his greatest pains And it is successfully used after other Evacuations but while the sick is in the Bath Potions should be given him for to break the Stone Balneum medicamentosum sive Lotio pedum or a medicinal Bath or Wash for the Feet Take Lapis medicamentosus four ounces the best Alum three ounces the inner bark of green Elder an ounce and a half of the herbs Mugwort dwarff Elder Cinqfoil St. Iohns-wort Dill Maidenhair of each six drams ashes of Guajacum common Salt of each half an ounce Boil all in River-water for a Bath for the Feet Virtue and Use. Pour it into some convenient Vessel fit to bathe the Feet in it is good in the Scurvy and in other diseases to take away Tumors of the Feet but the Patient ought to continue in the Bath two or three hours in the morning fasting and this must be continued for three or four days together and when he comes out of the Bath let him wipe his Feet with a Towel Balneum Nitrosum pro pedibus or a Nitrous Bath for the Feet Take of the best Nitre half a pound Sea-Salt four ounces flowers of Chamomil Marsh-mallows and red Roses of each an ounce of the herbs Betony Origanum Sage and Rue of each half an ounce Mix them and boil them and make a Bath for the Feet Virtue and Use. Let the sick use this morning and evening for it draws away the flegmy matter that lies in the Joynts and draws down the humors from the upper parts when he hath done bathing let him wipe his Feet with a clean Cloth Balneum Hypnoticum pro pedibus or a Bath for the Feet to procure Sleep Take the bark of the roots of Mandrake of Henbane and common Mallows of each an ounce leaves of Violets Melilot Lettice Nightshade and Dill of each half an ounce eleven heads of white Poppy with the seeds flowers of water-Lily Chamomil and Roses of each two drams
dram Mix them and with the White of an Egg and Juyce of Plantane make Suppositories according to Art Suppositoria Dysenterica Anodyna somnum conciliantia or a Dysenterical Anodyne and Sleep-procuring Suppository Take of boiled Honey three ounces seeds of white Henbane and black Poppy of each a dram and a half Thebane Opium Balaustines Spodium and Olibanum of each a dram flowers of wild Poppy and Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Mix them and make Suppositories according to Art Suppositoria Carminativa or a Wind-breaking Suppository Take Orange peel and Chamomil flowers of each a dram and a half seeds of Cummin Caraway Mountain-Osier Ameos Agnus castus Chervil and Rue of each a dram pulp of Coloquintida and common Salt of each a scruple With a sufficient quantity of Honey make Suppositories according to Art SECT XXXII Of Clysters Enema Nutriens or a nourishing Clyster TAke of Beef and Capon Broth of each eight ounces Barley cream and Cows milk of each four ounces the best Wine three ounces Sugar of Roses an ounce Wheat bread dryed and pulverized half an ounce Yolks of two Eggs. Mix them and make a Clyster according to Art and let it be injected as the manner is Annotation Such Clysters are sometimes given in the Quinsie to nourish and conserve strength also in the Tumors of the Jaws not being able to open their mouths in the Stomach being stopped either with Tubercles or Ulcers in the Convulsion of the Mouth Palsie of the Tongue and the like Diseases It is also of great use when the sick can take nothing of nourishment by the mouth nor retain any thing in the stomach But it is to be given when the body is emptied of Excrements or when they go to rest for otherwise it mixeth with the Excrements and so becomes ineffectual In short it is a great Nutritive to the sick Enema Bilem evacuans or a Clyster evacuating Choler Take small Raisons three ounces Barley husked and Linseeds of each two ounces Rhubarb an ounce Boil these and when it is strained Take one pound of the Liquor Oyl of Violets three ounces the best Manna an ounce Electuary of the juyce of Roses an ounce Mix them and make a Clyster Enema Pituitam purgans or a Clyster purging Elegm Take roots of Elicampane and Pellitory of Spain of each an ounce the herbs Calamint Horebound and Pennyroyal of each half an ounce Troches of Agarick tyed up in a thin rag white Turbith of each three drams Carthamus seeds two drams flowers of Chamomil and Rosemary of each a dram and a half Boil these and take of the strained Liquor a pound Oyl of Rue three ounces Malmsey Wine two ounces Honey of Squills an ounce benedicta Laxativa and Diaphaenicon of each half an ounce common Salt two drams Mix them and make a Clyster Enema Humores melancholicos deturbans or a Clyster purging Melancholy Take roots of Polypody of the Oak an ounce roots of Parsley Fenil and Asparagus of each six drams the herbs Fumitory Dodder Harts-tongue and Melilot of each half an ounce flowers of Chamomil Borage and Bugloss of each two drams seeds of Fenil and Anise of each a dram Boil these and take of the strained Liquor a pound Oyl of Dill two ounces Honey of Rosemary an ounce Confectio Hamech and Diacatholicon of each half an ounce Sal Gem a dram and a half Extract of black Hellebore two scruples Mix these and make a Clyster Enema Phlegma Hydropicorum aquas purgans or a Clyster purging Flegm and water in Dropsies Take roots of Couch-grass Parsley Asparagus and Cinqfoil of each an ounce leaves of Sea Coleworts and Mercury of each six drams flowers of Elder Broom Stoechas and Rosemary of each half an ounce Agarick tyed up in a thin cloth Mechoacan and Bay-berries of each three drams seeds of Fenil Caraway and Cummin of each two drams Boil these and take of the strained Liquor a pound the exprest juyce of the roots of our Flower-de luce three ounces the exprest juyce of the inner bark of Elder two ounces Oyl of Rue and Dill of each half an ounce Benedicta laxativa six drams common Sa't two drams Mix these and make a Clyster Enema in Cephalalgia Vertigine Scotomia Phrenetide in aliis Capitis affectibus Or a Clyster in the Head-ach Vertigo Giddiness Phrensie and other affects of the Head Take leaves of Alexandrian Sena an ounce roots of Bryony and Agarick of each half an ounce leaves of Marjoram Chamomil the lesser Centaury Sage and Origanum of each two drams flowers of Lilies of the valley and Rosemary of each a dram and a half pulp of Coloquintida and black Hellebore of each a dram Mix them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of rain-Rain-water to the consumption of half and then take of the strained Liquor one pound Oyl of Vervain three ounces Honey of Rosemary flowers an ounce and a half common Salt two drams Mix them and make a Clyster Aliud Enema Cephalicum or another Cephalick Clyster Take roots of Asarabacca newly dryed an ounce Wheat bran half an ounce Calamint Betony Mallows Mercury and Chamomil of each two drams With these make a Decoction and of it when it is strained take one pound and add to it Oyl of Elder flowers three ounces Honey of Roses two ounces Electuary of Diasena an ounce Sal Gem a dram and a half Mix these for a Clyster Aliud Enema fortius or another Clyster stronger Take roots of black Hellebore half an ounce seeds of Coloquintida bruised three drams Chamomil Vervain Marjoram Origanum and Marsh-mallows of each two drams seeds of Fenil Caraway and Anise of each a dram Boil them and take of the strained Liquor a pound Sallet Oyl three ounces Honey of Rosemary flowers an ounce and an half common Salt three drams Essence of the leaves of Sena a dram Mix them and make a Clyster Annotation Concerning the Laxatives in these Clysters it may be either increased or diminished according to the Sex Age and Complexion of the Patient which is also to be observed in all the other Compositions A specifick Clyster in Melancholy Madness Sorrow Congelation Quartans Scabs Ring-worms Morphew Cancer Elephantiasis Scirrhus of the Spleen and all other Diseases proceeding from Melancholy Take roots of Polypody of the Oak two ounces bark of Indian Myrobalans an ounce Fumitory St. Iohns-wort Marjoram Dodder Hops Stoechas of each half an ounce black Hellebore two drams Boil these and take of the strained Liquor a pound Oyl of Chamomil three ounces Hiera Logadi Tartar vitriolated and Sal Gem of each a dram and a half Mix them for a Clyster Aliud Enema specificum in Melancholia or another specifick Clyster for Melancholy Take the bark of Bugloss roots two ounces leaves of Alexandrian Sena an ounce Masterwort lesser Celandine Dill Roman Chamomil Fumitory and Gentian of each half an ounce Boil all and take of the strained Liquor a pound Oyl of Roses three
Thesaurus Armamentarium Medico-Chymicum OR A Treasury of Physick WITH THE Most secret Way of Preparing REMEDIES Against all DISEASES Obtained by Labour confirmed by Practice and published out of good will to Mankind BEING A Work of great Use for the Publick WRITTEN Originally in Latine by that Eminent Physician Hadrianus à Mynsicht Com. Palat. Med. Phys. And faithfully rendred into English by Iohn Partridge Physician to His Majesty LONDON Printed by I. M. for Awnsham Churchill at the Black Swan near Amen Corner 1682. To the Honourable Lady Madam Frances Jenynes of St. Albans in the County of Hartford Health and Happiness Honoured Madam THose many Favours that I have received by your generous Approbation of my unmeriting Endeavors were too considerable to be passed by without my remembrance or immerged in the Gulf of Oblivion without my acknowledgment with thanks for the same yet upon a review of what is done methinks it appears so slender a piece of service that I do indeed question your Acceptance Yet I have ventured to present to your Ladiship 's Patronage these few sheets as a digression from my other Studies and the Earnest of what I acknowledge my self in Arrears for your former Favours Be pleased therefore I beseech you to accept my service and pardon my presumption The thing it self is really Foreign only drest in an English Garb but I fear not so fashionable as this captious Age may expect However we are all bound by Nature to be Civil to Strangers And seeing this is so I presume to put it under your Protection your Name being sufficient but especially your verbal Commendation to give it a better Reception and Esteem among all Persons of Honour and Eminence than he that is YOUR LADISHIPS Humblest Servant I. Partridge TO THE READER Friendly Reader I Here present thee with a Treatise in our own Language that is plain English which I assure you is one of the best Pieces of its kind and will I question not be serviceable to all those who understand not the Latine and yet are willing to be acquainted with the Mystery of Physick and therefore to omit all other Prolegomena's I come to speak something to the Book in general and particular The Book is generally Chymical and turned into as good English as the matter without too much swelling the Book with impertinent words would bear and therefore for thy convenience and satisfaction I have added an Explanatory Table to give the meaning of those words which perhaps may not seem plain to every Reader as Dysentery Haemorrhage Narcotick Sudorisick c. But yet there are three or four words which I do confess remain doubtful to me what English to give them and therefore I have put them in the English as I found them in the Latine that those who pretend to be Learned may give their own sence of them And the first is Sem. Cinae mentioned in the Powder called Species Diamercurii and in the Water called Aqua contra Vermes The second is Antiphyllorum mentioned in the Powder called Species Diajovis and in the Marmelada Hysterica The third is Boletus Cervinus mentioned in the Species Diaveneris Confectio Satyrii Confectio Pacifica and divers other Medicines so that did I not think it a piece of modesty or honesty to translate them into such words as my Iudgment thought most congruous there being no Authority for it but Opinion and in so doing I should have abused both Reader and Author and therefore I fairly expose them to every Reader that either is or thinks himself able to give the true meaning of them Fourthly In that Medicine called Morsuli Martiales the Author hath prescribed half an ounce of Oyl of Cinamon which I judge should be but half a dram for half an ounce of that Oyl will cost of it self about forty shillings or three pound and so make the Medicine too chargeable for common use Hence I conclude it a mistake of the Printer putting half an ounce for half a dram yet I have in the English followed the Latine Prescript Fifthly The Species Confectio Anacardinae being the first Ingredient mentioned in the Composition of the Water called Aqua Xyloaloe is a Composition of it self and may be found in the Dispensatory of Valerius Cordus pag. 83. Sixthly In several places of this Book the Author commands things to be duly gathered as Peony in the Aqua Epileptica in the Spiritus Vini Cephalicus in the Elixir Poeoniae and other places there is no more designed by that but to gather them Astrologically in the hour of that Planet governing the same the Planet at the same time being strong also Angular and every way fortified if possible Thou hast three several Tables The first of the Sections in which thou mayst see the general Heads and Matter of the whole Book The second of all the distinct Medicines Alphabetically set down under the Letter beginning the first word of the Medicine as Oleum Balsami under O and Sal Apoplecticum under S and so of the rest The third Table shews the Diseases that the Medicines in this Book cure and for the Printers ease and the Readers convenience they are brought under as few Heads as may be For instance sake thus Burning Feaver Intermitting Feaver and Hungarian Feaver and others of that denomination are all brought under the word Feaver Likewise Wind in the Stomach weakness of the Stomach Diseases of the Stomach c. are all brought under the word Stomach and so are Diseases of the Matrix brought under the word Womb and so of the rest which thou wilt no sooner see but understand them Lastly I recommend it to thy Perusal not desiring thy Commendation of it beyond its Merit nor expecting thee so disingenuous as to condemn it without a cause but wishing thy impartial Opinion as if the Author hereof were thy real friend But what need I say more to this purpose for Books have their Horoscopes as well as Men and therefore by consequence Fate too Habent sua Fata Libelli Fate is not bound to Man to Prince or State But Books have also their peculiar Fate And this Fate of Books is wrapt up in the Opinion and Iudgment of every Reader for according as he understands so he reports and according to his Credit so he is believed in the World and therefore hard is the Fate of Authors if thus to be dealt with But I leave it with thee hoping that my pains may be thy profit and advantage which if it be and that thou art satisfied with my well wishes and endeavours 't is all that is either desired or expected By thy Friend J. Partridge A Physical Dictionary Explaining the Terms of Physick used in this Book derived from the Latine and Greek A. APozem is a Decoction of divers herbs and other ingredients to which sometimes Syrups are added Acrimony sharpness Anodyne Medicines asswaging pain Acute sharp Asthma shortness of breath B. BOlus a
did first prepare it in the Year 1610. and found it strong and powerful in operation Virtue Use and Dose IT is a wonderful Diaphoretick and a most powerful Secret in all Distempers of the Womb and in many other Diseases belonging to Women 'T is very good in the Plague Feavers Seurvy and all Epidemical Diseases 't is a present Remedy against Poyson of any kind that is drunk also in all Falls where Bezoardick and Sudorifick Medicines are useful The Dose from three grains to five and six in Treacle-water or in our water of Harts-horn or in any other convenient Liquor Crocus Metallorum absinthiated TAkeof the best bright crude Antimony Salt of Wormwood of each four ounces Mix them and in a Crucible let them be calcined according to art and you will find the Antimony calcined of a reddish colour and fixt being utterly bereaved of all its Arsenical Sulphur this wash so often till no more acrimony of the Salt of Wormwood be perceived by the taste this Powder so edulcorated and dryed keep for your use as the true and most genuine Crocus Metallorum Virtue Use and Dose THis is an excellent profitable Remedy accommodated to most Diseases pain in the Head Epilepsie of what kind soever in all distempers of the Stomach Feavers Plague Hypocondriack Melancholy Asthma's Pleurisies as well spurious as exquisite Gouts c. in all which it hath most excellent effects In the Dropsie it purgeth without any offence or nauseating and that sometimes by Vomit sometimes by Stool In other Diseases it works by Vomit and Stool together It opens the obstructions of the Liver cures the yellow Jaundice rectifies the Spleen and is an excellent Medicine for the Scurvy The Dose from three grains to four five or six in Conserves or other appropriate Vehicles or what is better let so many grains be infused in two ounces of Rhenish wine and two drams of cinamon-Cinamon-water all night in the morning strain it throw away the powder and drink the clear Wine warm If you infuse it in Spanish Wine it seldom vomits but works only by stool therefore for Vomiting white or Rhenish is best Tartarus Emeticus or a Vomiting Tartar TAke acid Tartar finely powdered Crocus Metallorum absinthiated of each two ounces mix them well and put them into a Viol and pour upon it two pound of our Aqua Benedicta Serpilli place it in warm Sand for three or four days and keep it close covered or stopt shake it often that the acidity of the Tartar may be perfectly dissolved afterwards while it is warm filter it through Hippocrates sleeve according to art that the Crocus Metallorum being well separated from the solution may remain in it but the solution it self may pass through it clear and void of Feces This done set it in a cool place to crystallize then take these Crystals impregnate with Tartar which being dried and powdered keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Vomit in all chronical and stubborn Diseases especially in those men who are of weak Constitutions seeing it is far more gentle and safe than Crocus Metallorum and other Mineral Vomits It is good against all Melancholy Madness a distempered Mind Deliriums continual pains of the Head which arise from other parts of the body by consent the Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy Fascination difficulty of Hearing ringing of the Ears Also against nauseating and windiness of the Stomach and Sides yellow Jaundice Dropsie Tertian Quartan and other chronical continual putrid and acute Feavers Love-potions poisonous Draughts cholerick Pleurisies and all Diseases in general that Choler hath a share in It is also good against that poisonous Dysentery that happeneth commonly in the Plague Also against the Hangarian disease it is an excellent divine and safe remedy If any have unadvisedly or unawares taken poisonous Meats or Drinks or swallowed Flies Spiders and such like also little Fish-bones and other such like things sticking in the Throat or from other things which are brought into the Stomach by Inchantments as hairs nails pins yarn or other prodigious things of that kind that are dangerous to life are all removed by the wonderful effects of this Vomit The Dose is from four to five and six grains especially in robust bodies in any appropriate Vehicle taken two or three hours before or after meals or at any time in necessity But this is to be observed That neither this nor any other Vomits may be given to every one without danger but they are to be given to those only who are apt to vomit that have a strong stomach a wide throat and are accustomed to vomit and in whom the peccant humors are naturally carried upwards But cholerick men and those who abhor vomiting or have weak brains or any weakness or imperfection in the Head which doth properly reside there and is not caused by consent from other parts of the body All those who have Phthisicks Asthma's Coughs Colicks spit blood are subject to be feaverish those who have internal Imposthumes or inveterate and confirmed obstructions of the Mesentery Liver and Spleen or have schirrous Tumors in those parts or have any of their principal members hurt Also all those who have their spirits exhausted by burning and pestilential Feavers all those who are troubled with a nauseating at the stomach that they are not able to contain either meat or drink which is not from any inherent matter in the Ventricle that Nature endeavours to cast off by Vomit but it riseth accidentally from the effects of the parts adjacent all these are to abstain from Vomits Lastly as well Women with Child as other Women and Virgins who are troubled with the obstruction of their Terms not rising from the impurity of the Bowels but from the obstruction of the Veins only which pass into the Womb these likewise are to forbear Vomits It is to be noted also when any one begins to vomit it is usual to give them Broth made of Pulse or flesh without fat or a draught of warm drink and if it be needful to reiterate the same that so the Vomit may work the easier and the motion of the Medicine may be hastened Tartarus Nitratus or Tartar Nitrified Take Salt of Tartar Nitre prepared of each equal parts Dissolve them in Rose-water warm then filter it and boil it gently over the fire till there appear a crust on the top then put it in a cool place and it will crystallize which Crystals keep for use Virtue Use and Dose 'T is a most excellent Medicine for it hath a singular faculty in cutting and cleansing thick and tartarous humors and in opening obstructions Also in putrid Feavers and hath been experimented both in the Hungarian and malignant and it resisteth putrefaction In the inflammation of the Throat called the Prunella it is a present remedy it brings forth the stone in the Kidneys cleanseth the Bladder of all impurities and provokes Urine The Dose is from one scruple to half a dram
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
must abstain from the use of it Some do coagulate the Spirit of Vitriol with the Salt of Wormwood which way of preparing of it is equal in force of operation to the other The Gemm of Life TAke of Sal Gemm first prepared then certain times Chymically dissolved in Rhenish Wine then filtred and coagulated three pound Put this into a Cucurbit well luted and put upon it a double Alembick as Artists well know with a Receiver large enough and by degrees sublime it with a strong fire till all the white and corrosive Spirits go forth and the Receiver be filled with clouds then let all be cleared again and take away the Salt which is risen into the Alembick and with Spirit of Wine extract it the Spirit being impregnate with the Salt take it by inclination and keep it by it self The Salt left in the bottom dissolve again in the Rhenish Wine before abstracted then filter it and with an Alembick draw off all the humidity the Salt being dryed sublime it the second time and being sublimed again with Spirit of Wine as before extract it and this labour repeat four times or more till there can be no more extracted Lastly all the Spirit of Wine impregnate with the Salt and kept apart now mix them together and in a gentle heat in Balneo bring it to the driness of Salt and so you have a Salt spiritual lovely fair and crystalline of great force and operation At last put this Salt into a silver Vessel gilt with gold melt it and when it is melted put to it under an earthen covering so many leaves of Gold by degrees as may make it of a most red colour and after a quarter of an hour take it away let it cool and reduce it into a most fine Powder and keep it for your use as an incomparable Treasure Virtue Use and Dose It is a Medicine that deserves great praise and esteem and that I may say all in a few words it is the only Treasure of humane life against all diseases even the most desperate its force and power in altering penetrating comforting expelling and resisting putrefaction is greater than can be found in any other Besides it opens all obstructions dissipates poisons it renders the substance of the blood and all the Spirits more pure and lightsom and prolongs life unless opposed by Fatal necessity God so ordering it The Dose is from four grains to half a scruple in some appropriate Medicine which must be considered according to the quality of the disease Alum Tinged Take crude Alum an ounce Magistery of Dragons blood half an ounce Dissolve them in carduus-Carduus-water and coagulate it according to art Virtue Use and Dose This Alum thus impregnate with Dragons blood is of excellent use in Feavers and Quartan Agues and a great Secret in Dysenteâ—ies and all other Fluxes of the Belly The Dose is from half a scruple to a whole scruple in some appropriate Vehicle but in Feavers or Agues it is given some hours before the Fit in Tabaco-water to move Sweat if possible Bezoar Potabile TO accomplish and perfect this Arcanum prepare with singular care and study the following dissolving Menstruum Take Nitre cleansed Spirit of Vitriol rectified of each equal parts distil it in Sand in a Retort observing degrees in your fire And this first time when the fire hath been at the height and is again abated pour out the Liquor and weigh it and add to it the same quantity in weight of Spirit of Wine Alkoholisated and pour it on your Nitre again and draw it off as at first keeping a gentle fire in the beginning of your work lest the Spirit of Wine should fly too soon then gradually increase your fire to the fourth degree until you can perceive no more to rise This labour is performed in about three hours ere you get your fire to the fourth degree lastly you will see your Retort red-hot from which when it is cold you may take your Receiver and your Menstruum is prepared ready for use and in the bottom of your Retort you shall find a very little white matter almost void of taste Then take of the Oriental Bezoar-stone finely powdered an ounce put it into a small glass Cucurbit and pour upon it of this Menstruum last mentioned as much as will stand above the Medicine three fingers and set it in Balneo with a moderate heat and in the space of two or three hours the Menstruum will turn the Bezoar-stone into a red colour Pour off this solution and what still remains undissolved pour upon it again the fore-mentioned Menstruum after the same manner as before and again put that into a Bath and repeat this work till it is all dissolved and when it is so put all the tinged Menstruum into a Cucurbit and with an Alembick draw it off gently which being done pour Spirit of Wine upon the mass left in the bottom and again draw that off as before and so do the second and third time remembring to add new Spirit of Wine each time until you can perceive no more acrimony of the Menstruum left then again pour upon it water of Harts-horn or other Cordial water and again set it in Balneo till all the Extract is dissolved in this Liquor afterward filter it through a Paper and evaporate it that about four ounces may remain which keep as the most excellent Treasure among all earthly things for your use How this water of Harts-horn is truly and peculiarly prepared shall be shewed in the Section of Waters Virtue Use and Dose This most noble and more than Royal Medicine is a singular Antidote against Poison of every kind but chiefly against noxious vapors of a poisonous quality and pestilential infections reigning in the habit of the body and afflicting the vital Faculty which it expels by Sweat and insensible Transpiration and roborates the Heart and all other of the principal internal parts This I have found by Experience that it operates with great virtue and force against all sudden and dangerous affects produced from pestilential Poison in Feavers the small Pox Epidemical Pleurisies the Hungarian disease and all other diseases which arise from the same causes neither is it used with less success against the Erysipelas and other poisonous Symptoms where Diaphoretick Bezoars are required it is an enemy to all putrefaction and malignity and it mundifies the blood The Dose is from a scruple to a dram in proper Vehicles It is also given to the sick in some Potion to be drunk and not to put him into a violent heat therefore it may be taken early in the morning or if need require at any other time of the day being guided by your reason lest it should weaken and abate the strength of the Patient by giving too much vent for the Spirits and yet it is necessary that the Patient be warm and do gently sweat as much as may be without the debilitation and decrease of
exceed all other Preparations yea the very Rosin of Scammony it self For it dissipates its tough viscous and poisonous malignity and doth correct it and doth certainly purge which doth not always follow from the taking of the Rosin only Magistery of Scammony THE true and Spagyrick Preparation and Correction of Scammony which is used as a Secret by Physicians is this Take a sufficient quantity of select Scammony which dissolve in Philosophical Spirit of Wine after due filtration draw it off again in an Alembick at least to half then pour upon it Rose-water as much as shall seem necessary for precipitation and the pure Rosin of Scammony will be precipitated void of all its poisonous quality and freed from its nauseous smell and taste which when the humidity is separated from it reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth the body of both sorts of Choler and divers other diseases without any offence to the body neither can there be a more mild sweet and noble Cathartick found in the whole bosom of Nature The Dose is from half a scruple to a whole scruple in Conserves or other appropriate Vehicles Magistery of Gum Guttemaw or Gambogia BY the forementioned Method may a Magistery or Flowers be prepared of this Peruvian Gum which is an incomparable Cathartick to purge serous and thick humors let it be prepared carefully and reserved for use The Dose is from ten twelve or fifteen grains to a scruple especially in robust bodies Gum of Peru Rosated Take Gum of Peru or Guttemaw well pulverized an ounce chicory-Chicory-water half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol rectified a dram These being well mixed put it into a Glass or a well glazed Vessel and in a warm place but if it be too hot it will grow black and be spoiled let it evaporate and grow dry till it looks of an earthy colour Afterward pulverize this and add to it powder of red Roses an ounce of red Sanders two drams and pour upon it a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine and let it circulate for twenty four hours and when it is grown cold again filter it through a Paper and by degrees let it evaporate till it is dry and so you have a red Extract of valid and excellent efficacy and in aspect fair and lovely though the Gum by it self or the Magistery of it is of an unpleasant yellow colour and doth easily nauseate Hitherto it is revealed and communicated to none but to the ingenious and worthy for which end it was found Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth serous humors without danger and difficulty from all parts of the body for which reason it is used with excellent success in all ill habits of body Dropsie Gouts of all sorts and such kind of diseases also in the Scurvy and Greensickness it is found excellent by Experience The Dose is from fifteen grains to twenty one especially in robust strong bodies Amber Muskified Take of the best pure Amber an ounce of the most odorate Musk a dram Elaeosaccharum of Citrons half a dram Mix them and bring the mass into a most subtile Powder which moisten with Spirit of Roses hot and let it dry again and this labour repeat certain times and afterward let it be again finely powdered and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It heats and drys It comforts the Brain it roborates and succours it in all its affects it helps the continual pain of the Head it cleanseth the Eyes of white specks and consumes the moist defluxions thereof It wonderfully gives help to old people and to those who are naturally cold it hastens drunkenness being infused in Wine The Dose is from four to six and eight grains at the most in Sack or other proper Vehicle Regal Diacinamon Take of the best Cinamon four ounces three Nutmegs of our Syrup of Cinamon as much as will suffice Make it into an Electuary to which add Confectio Alkermes an ounce Oyl of Cinamon half an ounce Amber Muskified Troches of Pearls of each a dram Leaves of Hungarian Gold thirty one Mix them and so make a Royal magnificent Medicine which reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of a hot quality It comforts the Brain and Heart above measure it discusseth the vitious humors of the Stomach and helps Concoction it helps the Syncope and Palpitation of the Heart it resists the inflation and swelling of the Stomach and dissipates wind It allays the Colick-pains proceeding from a cold Cause and it sweetens the Breath It resists all putrefaction It is very agreeable to old people who are cold and debilitated and in whom the native Balsam and natural heat are lessened and impaired It doth wonderfully recover strength increase Seed and promotes the strength of Procreation it excites to Venery and much sweetens the pleasure thereof and safely increaseth the motion thereunto The Dose in the morning fasting and in the evening at going to bed is the quantity of a Hazel-nut more or less according to the Complexion and Sex of the Patient Pearls Trochiscated TAke white Salt of the Oriental Pearls and free from all its acetosity what quantity you please dissolve it in water made of May-dew gathered from the standing Wheat or in some Cordial liquor to this solution add by drops of Spirit of Vitriol rectified as much as shall seem requisite for precipitation and a white Powder will precipitate to the bottom which the flegm being removed edulcorate and dry it according to art and you have the true Magistery of Pearls Then take of this Magistery an ounce the true Oyl of Roses and Oyl of Cinamon of each a scruple Mix them and with Tragacanth dissolved in equal parts of rose-Rose-water and Cinamon-water let little Troches be made according to art which lay by for use and reserve it like a Treasure Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Comfortative in all affects of the Heart as Pain Sorrow Trembling Pulsation Palpitation defects of the Mind c. Also in pains of the Head Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy Palsie Contractures resolution of the Nerves Convulsion Phrensie Melancholy Madness Gout and Gouty pains in the Joynts Consumption Blasting the numbness and decay by Age Stone Dropsie Scurvy French Pox and Feavers c. It purifies the Blood it comforts all the Senses Brain Memory and Heart and preserves the whole body sound It fortifies Nature within also the Child in the Womb it roborates the Spirits repairs the strength and increaseth the humane Seed it amends Milk in Women takes away the spots of the Eyes and consumes Catarrhs c. And these Troches of Pearls thus made by our ordination have been highly approved by many Great and Noble men and by them esteemed as a great Secret and equal in effect to the Aurum Potabile The Dose according to the nature of the infirm and the Judgment of the Physician is from six grains to eight in appropriate Vehicles Elaeosaccharum of Citrons Take of Rose-water sixteen pound the exterior bark
St. Iohns-wort strained and depurated two pound of Pimpernel with purple flowers strained and depurated one pound blood of an Ass taken from the veins behind his ears half a pound flowers of Bugloss red Roses and Rosemary of each six drams Confectio Alkermes and Cassia lignea of each half an ounce of Saffron one dram Let them infuse all night and then distil them in B. M. cohobate the Liquor and repeat the work the second time Take of this water two pound Essence of the flowers of St. Iohns-wort made with Spirit of Wine half an ounce Let them stand all night in a warm place in the morning filter it so often till you have a most red Tincture which edulcorate with white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Water is a great Secret in Melancholy Madness Witchcraft Inchantments yea in the Imagination impaired or abolished and as much as lyeth in art it amendeth the weakness dulness and stupidity of the Mind and the slowness of the Understanding it happily takes away all the affects of the Imagination It also provokes Urine and the Terms it helps Tertians and Quartans and is useful for all diseases of the Reins and Bladder The Dose is from three spoonfuls to four twice in the day in the morning before Sun-rising and at night going to bed Tinctura Vitae Take simple Spirit of Wine six pound of the best Rose-water four pound Orange peels Citron peels red Roses dryed water-Mints Balm white Sanders Cinamon of each eight ounces wood of Aloes Mace of each two drams seeds of Angelica Coriander Anise and Fenil of each a dram and a half Spicknard Galangal the less Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Cloves of each half a dram Ambergriese and Alexandrian Musk of each half a scruple Let them stand in digestion for eight days and then distil them in an Alembick Then take of this Spirit drawn off seven pound Cassia lignea two ounces Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Oriental Saffron a scruple Let them digest until the liquor is perfectly tinctured afterward let the tinged Spirit be edulcorated with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy dissolved in its proper liquor and reserved for use Virtue Use and Dose By the pleasantness of its smell it refresheth the Heart and Spirits it exhilarates and prolongs life and comforts the Stomach and Brain it increaseth the heat of the Ventricle confirms its strength dissipates wind and encourageth digestion it helps the Gripings of the Guts and keeps them sound yea it is very profitable in the cold distempers of the Thorax Liver and Spleen The Dose is from one spoonful to two Tincture of Guajacum Take raspings of Guajacum four ounces of the best Mastich an ounce resinous wood of Aloes a dram Clove-gilliflowers half a dram These being mixed pour upon them a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine to extract the Tincture which afterward filter and reserve for use Virtue and Use. Let the Mouth and aking Teeth be washed often with this Tincture for the pain often proceeds from the defluxions of the Head it drys Catarrhs takes away the stink and rottenness of the mouth and renders the breath sweet at the same time let there be warm Plasters applied to the Temples made of Mastich or Gum Elemi and after spitting let the mouth be diligently washed with a Decoction of Aniseeds Tincture of Sassafras Take Fountain-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
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
habits of body Dropsie pains of the Joynts Scabs or Scald Jaundice obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and also in Quotidian and Tertian Feavers in all which diseases we happily use it as an experienced Medicine The dose is from a scruple to half a dram and two scruples especially in strong bodies Pilulae Terebinthinae or Pills of Turpentine Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in juyce of Lemmons an ounce and a half juyce of Purslain made thick six drams Extract of the roots of Liquorish and Rhubarb Tartar vitriolated of each three drams the spongy brush that grows upon sweet Bryars the stones of Medlars of each a dram and a half Salt of white Amber Nitre prepared of each a dram Magistery of the Peach stone Crabs eyes of each half a dram Mix them and make a mass according to Art from which afterward with rectified Oyl of Citrons make Pills Virtue Use and Dose They are admirably good to break the stone in the Reins and provoke Urine and this chiefly to those of a hot Constitution for they expel the Tartar and Sand even to a miracle They cure the Running of the Reins and such like Fluxes and open the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen The dose is from half a dram to a dram taken a good distance of time before and after meat Pilulae Stipticae or the Stiptick Pills Take Extract of the juyce of Liquorish half an ounce species of Diaplantaginis and Diamartis of each three drams Laudanum Opiate two drams Birch-fungus Runnet of a Hare Camphire of each half a dram Horse hoofs burnt Sandarac Olibanum of each a scruple Mix them and with Juyce of Liquorish dissolved in Pomegranate-wine make a mass from which afterward with Oyls of Nutmegs and Cloves make Pills of the bigness of small Pease and gild them Virtue Use and Dose It stays all Fluxes of the Belly from what cause soever and stops blood flowing from any part of the body it stays the Courses in Women mitigates pain and procures sleep The dose from a scruple to half a dram at bed-time Cicera Tartari Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in Violet water and in the same water boiled to a just consistence two ounces acid Tartar an ounce species of Diaireos simple two drams Nitre prepared a dram Mix them and keep your hands wetted in cold violet-Violet-water and so make Pills the bigness of a Pease Virtue Use and Dose We happily use it in all diseases proceeding from a thick tartarous matter And it is known by Experience that some by the use of this Pill have so cured and prevented the Gout that it hath not returned again for many years or else it returned more slowly but in others it hath been more mild and went off sooner They are also commendable in all obstructions of the Bowels and Veins in the Hemicrania Jaundice Contractures Dropsie Feavers retention of the Terms c. It fortifies the Reins and expels the Stones from the Kidneys and Bladder and doth not only relieve the Ventricle and parts about it but strengthens them also The use of these Pills is excellent in the Asthma Phthisick Cough c. and in all other Pectoral diseases They sometimes work by Sweat and sometimes by Urine according as the sick is propense to this or that The dose in preservation at the Quarters of the Moon is from half a dram to a dram but in curing every morning from a dram to a dram and a half Pilulae de Sandaraca Take of the best Sandarac half an ounce Extract of Polypody white Tartar of each two drams white Amber prepared black Pepper Roch-Alum red Sarcocol of each half a dram Lacca washed Nitre prepared round Birthwort seeds of wild Rue and Parsley of each a scruple Mix them and with the Juyce of the lesser Centaury made thick make a mass according to Art and of every scruple make two Pills and gild them Virtue Use and Dose It extenuates fat and makes people lean and attenuates all preternatural Carnosities in the humane body It is given every morning one Pill gilded Pilulae de Sabina or Pills of Savin Take salt of Savin two parts Oyl stilled from Savin one part They being mixed seal them Hermetically and set them in a Philosophical fire so long till they are hard like a stone afterwards Take of our Pil. Aloephanginae an ounce and a half of this Stone prepared an ounce Venetian Borax three drams Extract of our species Dialauri flowers of the lesser Centaury the herb Savin of each half a dram Oriental Saffron a scruple Mix them and with Oyl of Juniper make a mass from which afterward with Oyl of Cinamon and Mace make Pills Virtue Use and Dose These Pills do so happily open the obstructions of the Womb and so plentifully move the Terms retained that they deservedly claim the first place among Physical Arcana's that move the Courses The dose morning and evening is from a scruple to half a dram Pilulae Uterinae or Pills for the Womb. Take Pilulae Aloephanginae an ounce Faecula Bryoniae a dram salt of English Tin salt of Mother of Pearl salt of red Coral of each half a dram Extracts of Castor and the Callus of Mares of each a scruple Oyl of Angelica ten grains Mix them and make a mass according to Art of which when need requires with Oyl of Amber make Pills and gild them Virtue Use and Dose It is a peculiar and specifick Medicine for the suffocation of the Womb for it happily raiseth women that are as it were suffocated by Hysterical passion The dose is from a scruple to half a dram continued for certain mornings successively SECT VII Of Rotula's or little Rowls or Cakes Rotulae Imperiales TAke Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Troches of Pearls a dram Ambergriese a scruple the best Musk half a scruple white Sugar dissolved in rose-Rose-water eight ounces Mix them and make Rotula's according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It strengthens the Head Brain and Memory to admiration It also roborates the Heart afflicted with cold and trembling and affords great help in all its other affects It gently draws away the continued pains of the Head discusseth the Vertigo sharpens the Sight drys up moist defluxions of the Eyes it prevents baldness and prolongs life shortned by bad diet c. The dose is one two or three at a time often in the day Rotulae Smaragdinae or Rowls of Emerauld Take of Emerauld prepared two drams Elks horn Spagirically calcined a dram and a half seeds of male Peony gathered the Moon decreasing Citron seeds huskt of each a dram roots of white Diptamus grains of Kermes the lesser Galangal Oriental Saffron prepared Cubebs Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Magistery of Oriental Pearls red Coral Hyacinth prepared of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Nutmegs Mace and Cinamon of each ten grains Oyl of Rosemary and Lavender of each four drops white Sugar dissolved in an equal quantity of our
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-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
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-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
a dram Galliae Moschatae seeds of Ashen-keys and Nettles flesh of Skinks Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Oyls of Cloves Mace exprest Cinamon of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in water of the roots of Satyrion and Rosemary flowers sixteen ounces Mix all and make little morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They have an excellent and indeed a sudden operation on those who are willing to be abundantly kind to the Women I also commend them to those who are slow idle or negligent in their duty called by St. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 debitam benevolentiam so that when their cause comes before the Judge there is a Verdict against them or to use my Authors own words for it Ita ut si deferantur ad Iudicem causâ cadant The dose is upon occasion happily begun in the evening and continued from a dram to two and half an ounce drinking after it a little Sack or other rich Wine Morsuli Diacretae Take Chalk three or four times washed in Violet water half an ounce Crabs eyes prepared two drams Nutmegs Bole Armeniack of each a dram Coral prepared half a dram Pearls prepared Cinamon cut small of each a scruple Carp-stone Mace torrefied Oriental Saffron of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in rose-Rose-water eight ounces Mix them and make little morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are profitable and useful against the heat of the Stomach commonly called Heart-burning which is no ways dangerous but troublesom and is often common to those most healthy coming sometimes by eating and drinking as well as fasting and they are desirous to belch as it were a fiery vapour shut in that hath not force enough to break forth This boiling pain do they resist and also take away its cause The dose is from one dram to two SECT IX Of Troches Trochisci Vitae TAke Manus Christi simple eight cunces Confectio Alkermes an ounce and a half our Troches of Pearls Ambergriese of each a dram the best Musk the five precious Stones prepared of each a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon and Cloves of each ten grains Mix them and with Tragacanth dissolved in rose-Rose-water make little Troches sor use Virtue Use and Dose They increase and renew decayed strength and repair it wonderfully as it were by a Celestial power They recreate the Spirits support the radical Moisture and roborate the Head Heart Stomach and Liver c. above measure they discuss the vicious humors of the Stomach and open the obstructions of the Veins They are proper in all cold Distempers restoring Age helping Digestion and resist all Putresaction They prevent the Vertigo sharpen the Sight and are a great Preservative from the Epilepsie and Apoplexy They hasten the Birth and are a present Remedy in the distempers of the Mind The dose is one or two at a time They may also be prepared with Musk. Trochisci de Radice Rhodia or Troches of Rose-root Take of the roots of Rhodia an ounce the bark of the roots of Mandrake Peach-kernels Opium Hermetically prepared red Myrrh of each six drams flowers of wild Poppy Oriental Saffron red Roses of each half an ounce seeds of Henbane Dill and Smallage of each three drams Nutmegs Cubebs Camphire of each two drams Mix them and with Mucilage of the seeds of Fleabane and Quinces made of lettice-Lettice-water make Troches according to Art Virtue and Use. I have had Experience of these Troches in Melancholy Madness Pleurisie and excessive Watchings yea in all pains of the Head if they be applied like a Liniment or dissolved in water of Lettice and Roses or in our Hypnotick or Womans milk and applied to the Forehead and Temples Trochisci Ophthalmici or Troches for the Eyes Take white Lead washed an ounce Harts-horn calcined without fire Sarcocol Tutty prepared of each half an ounce Gum Arabick white Tragacanth dust of Flour of each two drams Mother of Pearls prepared white Pompholix Olibanum of each a dram Opium Spagirically prepared Camphire of each half a dram Mix them and with the Whites of Eggs make Troches for the Eyes to be used in Collyriums with appropriate Waters Virtue and Use. They are proper and useful for all kind of accidents and passions of the Eyes as Rheumatisms Blood-shot thin sharp Rheums Pustules Burnings Ruptures Fistula's Roughness Itching and all pains there they also consolidate and heal Ulcers of the Eyes Trochisci de Papavere or Troches of Poppy Take Sugar Penids two ounces white Poppy seeds half â—n ounce Melon seeds huskt Gourd seeds of each two â—rams juyce of Liquorish extracted red Bole Armenick â—repared compound flowers of Sulphur of each a dram and 〈◊〉 half white Tragacanth dust of Flour of each a dram Extract of wild Poppy flowers half a dram Mix them and with Mucilage of the seeds of Quinces and water of wild Poppies make little Troches Virtue Use and Dose We happily use these in all sharp Catarrhs falling from the Head upon the Breast and Lungs which they powerfully stop and restore the Head to its pristine state again and powerfully lenifie the pains of the Breast The dose is every hour or at certain hours two or three rubbed on the tongue till they dissolve Trochisci Glycyrrhizae or Troches of Liquorish Take white Sugar Candy and Penids of each four ounces juyce of Liquorish extracted ten drams powder of Diaireos simple Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamagariton frigid of each a dram the four greater cold Seeds Aliptâ— Moschatae Lac Sulphuris of each half a dram Mix them and with a Mucilage made of roots of Marsh-mallows and violet-Violet-water make Troches Virtue Use and Dose They are of great use in hot and dry Coughs they restore the Voice lost cleanse the Thorax and are excellent with other remedies to facilitate Spitting They are proper for Children troubled with Asthma's and straitness of the Breast c. They are given many times in the day two or three at a time according to the disease and strength of the Patient Trochisci Cordiales or Cordial Troches Take white Sugar Candy eight ounces Consectio Alkermes an ounce of the five precious Stones prepared of each a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Cinamon of each tâ—â— grains Mix them and with Mucilage made of Tragacanth and rose-Rose-water make little Troches Virtue Use and Dose They comfort the Heart and relieve the faintings thereof also the infirmities of the Mind They help those who lye long undeâ— Distempers or languish under any weakness and conduce much to the recovery of their former strength They take away the loathing of the Stomach and help Digestion The dose is from three to six at a time Trochisci Ioviales Take Magistery of English Tin Mother of Pearls red Coral of each a dram Oyl of white Amber rectified a scruple Mix them and with Gum Tragacanth dissolved in our Hysterical water make little Troches each weighing half a scruple Virtue Use and Dose They are of admirable force and operation in all kinds
Peony and Pellitory of the wall of each a pound seeds of Peony shavings of Cyprus wood Misleto of the Oak of each half a pound Cinquefoil Millefoil Rue Mullein Lavender Rosemary Henbane of each four ounces flower of Primrose Stoechas Teil-tree Peony and Elder of each two ounces Being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory and then add the ashes of young Magpies and Swallows and Peacocks dung of each an ounce And with an appropriate Liquor according to Art make a white crystalline Salt Virtue Use and Dose It is effectual in all Epilepsies Vertigo Lethargies and other stupefying Diseases 't is also given to those who fear or are troubled with dangerous diseases of the Head The dose is from ten to twenty or thirty grains in Teil-tree flower-water or in our Epileptick water Sal Cordiale or a Cordial Salt Take roots of Avens and Bugloss of each two pound the herbs Rosemary Sage and Balm of each a pound seeds of sweet Basil Citron peels of each half a pound the five Cordial flowers Clovegilly-flowers of each four ounces Mix them and calcine them into ashes the Vessel being close shut then add ashes of Cinamon three ounces ashes of Cloves and Cardamoms of each an ounce and a half ashes of Oriental Saffron and Mace of each three drams From these ashes thus mixed with Cordial waters extract a white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is most useful in Lipothymies Syncopes and other affects of the Heart to strengthen and refresh the Spirits The dose is from ten to twenty grains more or less in Cordial waters Sal Pectorale Take roots of Liquorish two pound Florentine Flower-de-luce Elicampane and Marsh-mallows of each a pound roots of Comfry and Mallows of each eight ounces both sorts of the herb Lungwort Horehound Hyssop Coltsfoot Fluellin Ground Ivy Maidenhair Scabious of each four ounces seeds of Fenil and Anise of each three ounces flowers of Coltsfoot Chamomil and Hearts-ease of each two ounces From these being mixed and well calcined with Pectoral waters extract a most splendid Salt Virtue Use and Dose It is excellent in Pectoral Diseases for it doth attenuate thick tough and viscous Flegm gathered in the Lungs and doth inlarge and cleanse the Breast Moreover it provokes Urine and purgeth the Reins and Ventricle The dose is from ten to twenty and thirty grains in Pectoral or other appropriate Vehicles Sal Stomachicum or a Salt for the Stomach Take roots of Burnet two pound Calamus aromaticus white Ginger of each a pound Sea-wormwood Water-Mint Sage Rosemary of each half a pound Quinces dryed and Zedoary of each four ounces Calcine all in a close Vessel and then add the ashes of the lesser Galangal and Cinamon of each three ounces ashes of Cloves both sorts of Cardamoms Nutmegs round Pepper of each an ounce Mix them and with Mint or other specifick Water make a Spagirick Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It wonderfully roborates and warms a cold Stomach it helps Digestion and Loathing of Meat It is useful in all distempers of the Nerves it quickens all the Senses allays pains of the Head preserves old people from Catarrhs and gives ease in the Dropsie The dose is a scruple more or less respecting both Disease and Patient in specifick Vehicles Sal Epaticum Take roots of Agrimony two pound roots of Chicory and Scorzonera of each a pound bitter Costus Eryngo Turmerick of each half a pound Calamus aromaticus Rhapontick of each four ounces Pontick Wormwood Southernwood Agrimony Harts-tongue Fluellin Liverwort Cascula of each three ounces These being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory then add ashes of Rhubard and Cassia lignea of each an ounce and a half Then with some Epatick or other convenient water draw a Spagirick Salt Virtue Use and Dose It takes away the hardness wind and obstructions of the Liver and dissolves the scirrhous Tumors there It helps the ill habit of body and takes away dropsical Humors It cures the Jaundice and amends the ill colour of the Skin moves the Terms provokes Urine and dissolves the Stone The dose is from a scruple to two in appropriate Vehicles Sal Spleneticum or a Salt for the Spleen Take Pontick Wormwood two pound Carduus benedictus a pound Rosemary Harts-tongue Fluellin and Ceterach of each half a pound roots of both sorts of Fern Calamus aromaticus of each four ounces bark of the Caper-tree Tamarisk Ash of each three ounces flower of Chamomil the lesser Centaury Broom of each two ounces Bring all into Ashes and with the distilled water of the aforesaid Herbs extract a Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It opens Obstructions mollifies and resolves the pains tumors and hardness of the Spleen It is good for aged people and those troubled with Quartan Agues The dose is every morning from a scruple to half a dram in Harts-tongue water or other convenient Liquor Sal Nephriticum Take roots of Parsley and Restharrow of each two pound roots of Dropwort and Vervain of each a pound roots of Eryngo and Burnet of each half a pound Beans dryed the cores of Medlars of each six ounces berries of Bays and Iuniper Winter-cherries and seeds of Gromel of each four ounces Ground-Ivy Fluellin Horstail Fumitory Strawberry leaves of each three ounces flowers of great Mallows Elder and Broom of each two ounces seeds of white Lilies of white Saxifrage and Burdock Barberries of each an ounce and a half Let all be calcined into white Ashes according to Art to which add ashes of Lignum Nephriticum of Peach-stones and kernels bitter Almonds round Pepper the lesser Galangal white Ginger of each an ounce Nitre prepared six drams Mix all and with rain-Rain-water make a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It breaks the Stone expels Urine and Gravel and helps those that piss with difficulty and relieves those who are troubled with other distempers of the Reins and Bladder The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in water of Restharrow Parsley Burnet or Ground-Ivy or any other other Specifick Sal Hydropicum Take of the whole Iuniper-tree cut small two pound roots of Flower-de-luce Elder red Mugwort and Dwarf-Elder of each a pound roots of Swallow-wort Acorus and Turmerick of each half a pound leaves and stalks of Pontick Wormwood the lesser Centaury Agrimony Carduus benedictus Bindweed of each six ounces flowers of Liverwort Elder and Broom of each four ounces seeds of Ash Rocket and Cummin of each three ounces All being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory then add the ashes of Sarsaparilla Cubebs Rhubarb Nutmegs and Mace of each an ounce Mix these Ashes and with elder-Elder-water make a crystalline Salt Virtue Use and Dose It discusseth wind and carries away water and is good in Dropsies of every kind for it potently drys up the swellings of the Microcosmical Earth caused by too much moisture It corrects the ill habit of body and exterminates
to Art Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and Stomach helps Concoction stirs up Appetite allays Vomiting and Loathing raiseth the native Heat refresheth the Spirits takes away Putrefaction dissipates Wind and is a famous and present Remedy in all cold Diseases The dose is the quantity of a Chestnut Confectio Citri or an Electuary of Citrons Take Conserve of red Roses vitriolated a pound and a half Rob of Barberries and Goosberries of each a pound Syrup of the juyce of Citrons Oxysaccharum Syrup of the juyce of unripe Grapes of each half a pound Pulp of Citrons preserved Citron peel preserved species of Diarrhodon Abbatis moistned with Spirit of Vitriol of each six ounces Nitre prepared thirteen drams Mix them and with a little cinamon-Cinamon-water make an Electuary And let the Reader take notice That the pound here mentioned is not the Physical but the common pound used in other things and this is to be observed in all the Compositions through the whole Book therefore let this admonition serve for all Virtue Use and Dose By cooling and moistning it doth extinguish the heat of burning Feavers and mitigates the vehemence of their fiery quality It cures the Disease called Cholera the bloody Flux and contagious Diseases It resists Venery and Drunkenness It roborates the noble Members i. e. the Heart Stomach Liver Spleen Reins and other Bowels and defends the weak parts from an intemperate heat It opens and resists putrefaction It represseth cholerick Vomiting stops bleeding and is a good Medicine for cholerick Pustles The dose is from a dram to two or half an ounce certain times in the day Confectio Theriacalis or an Electuary of Treacle Take roots of Tormentil white Diptamus the best Camphire of each two drams Harts-horn and Elks horn Spagirically calcined of each a dram and a half white Amber Oriental red Bole Hyacinth Emer auld of each prepared a dram Salt of Wormwood Scordium and Carduus of each half a dram Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple Let them be all pulverized asunder and then mixed and divers times moistned with Spirit of Juniper in which Roots of Butter-bur Betony and Ginger have been steeped Then add Venice Treacle and Mithridate of Damocratis of each two ounces Extract of Elicampane roots and Angelica of each half an ounce juyce of Fumitory made thick juyce of Elder-berries of each three drams flower of Sulphur two drams distilled Oyl of Garden Rue Oyls of Zedoary Cinamon Myrrh Cloves and Citrons rectified of each half a scruple Mix them and with Rob of Elder-berries make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose In operation and virtue this Composition far exceeds the Treacle and Mithridate and hence the reasonable Reader may easily gather its use and strength It is experimentally good in the Dropsie Erysipelas Jaundice Scab Lues Venerea c. It is a most excellent Alexetery against the Plague and all other Poysons all which it virtually expels from the Heart by Sweat to the circumference and superficies of the body And the Poyson being once driven forth the Patient ought to refresh himself with comfortable things The dose is from half a dram to a dram more or less according to the age and strength of the Patient the disease and time of the year c. it is given in specifick and appropriate Vehicles In the Dropsie c. it is exhibited in Water or Spirit of Elder four or five hours after supper at going to bed and then toward morning it will sweat powerfully Confectio Magnanimitatis or a Magnanimous Electuary Take Essence of Satyrion two ounces recent Indian Nuts Pine-nuts cleansed of each an ounce and a half green Pistick-nuts kernels of Hazel-nuts sweet Almonds each an ounce white Pepper Calamus aromaticus white Ginger the lesser Galangal Cardamoms of each half an ounce Venetian Borax our Aurum Potabile of each three drams seeds of Rocket Ashen-keys and Nettles of each two drams Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral Salt of Sparrows of each four scruples Boletus cervinus of Bulls and Harts pizles the stones of a Badger dryed the flesh of Sea-Skinks of each a dram and a half the best Musk Ambergriese Oyl of Mace of each two scruples Oyl of Nutmegs Cinamon and Cloves of each a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of the Roots of preserved Satyrion make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a great Secret in comforting the Venereal parts and is given to those who are debilitated there for it gives help wonderfully to old people and to those who are cold by Nature It potently restores Virility lost and stirs up Venery in those who have forgot it It causeth erection of the Genital parts though cold and utterly decayed It increaseth and correcteth the Seed in both Sexes The dose is from a dram to two or three at bed-time in Sack or Muskadine or it is given in time of necessity to the quantity of a Nutmeg drinking after it a draught of good old odoriferous Wine But if the impotency were from birth it cannot be cured because the defects of Nature are hard to be restored Confectio Pacifica de Succulata Inda or a Pacifick Electuary of Succulata Inda Take Succulata Inda four ounces the preserved roots of Satyrion two ounces Cocks stones boiled in milk preserved roots of Eryngo Chestnuts boiled in Sack of each an ounce sweet Almonds Pine-nuts green Pistick-nuts kernels of Indian Nuts of each half an ounce Cassia lignea Boletus cervinus of each three drams seeds of Ashen-keys Venetian Borax of each two drams species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each half a dram Lignum Aloes leaves of Marjoram Oriental Saffron Nutmegs of each a dram Cloves the lesser Galangal white Ginger Cardamoms the less long Pepper of each two scruples Oyl of Cinamon and Mace of each a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of preserved Nutmegs make an Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose This Medicine is a great Arcanum for the weakness and impotence in the virile parts and hath been hitherto reserved for my Friends only It restores impaired and lost Virility it stirs up Venery in those who have lost it by taking away the cold impediments of the Testicles and Seminal Vessels and increaseth Seed in both Sexes it doth in a short space reduce the weak old and impotent persons to their pristine pleasure again The dose is daily the body being empty the quantity of a Chestnut more or less according to the age time and custom of the Patient drinking after it a good draught of rich Wine Confectio Satyrii or an Electuary of Satyrion Take the preserved Testicle-like roots of Satyrion four ounces Conserve of Clovegilly-flowers preserved Ginger of Bengal of each two ounces seeds of Ashen keys Venetian Borax of each half an ounce species of Diathamar three drams Nutmegs preserved in India one Teâ—ticles of a Hart and a Badger dryed of each a dram and a half Boletus
cervinus two drams Cinamon and long Pepper of each a dram Magistery of Pearl and red Coral of each half adram Gallia Moschata and Oyl â—f Cloves of each a scruple leaves of pure Gold fifteen Mix all and with Syrup of preserved Ginger make â—n Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It hath a great force to provoke the desire of Coition and doth egregiously excite â—oth Sexes thereunto it doth wonderfully increase Sperm and singularly restore those that are consumed and emaciated The dose is morning and evening from two drams to three with old rich Wine Confectio Stiptica or a Stiptick Electuary Take Tinctures of Crocus Martis of Celandine Rhubarb and dryed Nuts of each an ounce Tormentil Zedoary Gum Arabick Cloves white Ginger torrefied Nutmegs of each six drams sealed Earth white Amâ—er prepared Calamus aromaticus the lesser Galangal â—oth sorts of Cardamoms Cinamon of each half an â—unce shells of River-crabs boiled in Vinegar seeds of Bloodwort Plantane and black Poppy Orange peel â—f each three drams leaves of Sage Burnet and Mint of each two drams Bulls pizle Coriander prepared Acatia of each a dram and a half Cypress-nuts burnt Frogs calcined Talk of each a dram Let all be subtilly powdered and mixed and with Miva of Quinces make an Electuary according to Art to which add of our Carminative Oyl three drams and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It hath been wonderfully experimented in all fluxes of the Belly as Dysenteries Diarrhoea's Hepatick Fluxes bleeding at the Nose and Terms and also in other desperate ruptures of Blood For it comforts the Guts and internal Bowels and refresheth Nature by Constipation The dose is from a dram to half an ounce in Sack or other generous Wine either in the morning fasting or at any other time the Stomach being empty Confectio Terebinthinata or an Electuary of Turpentine Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in Rhenish Wine two ounces white Sugar Candy an ounce and a half powder of Liquorish six drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Nitre prepared a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of Violets make a mixture Virtue Use and Dose It is proper for those troubled with a Cough or Consumption It cleanseth the Breast and provokes Urine It helps the Strangury purgeth the Reins and easeth the pains of them It digesteth crude Humors loosens the Belly c. The dose is from a dram to two Theriaca Mulierum or a Treacle for Women Take Venice Treacle three ounces Iovial Bezoar half an ounce Elks horn and Harts horn of each Spagirically calcined a dram and a half Extract of roots of Angelica and Elicampane of each a dram Essence of Castor half a dram Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber half a scruple Mix them and with Rob of Elder-berries make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It cures almost all Diseases in Women by Sweat as well hot as cold by a certain occult property and for that Sex there is not a more excellent and noble Diaphoretick given The dose is from a scruple to a dram in waters appropriate to the Disease yet where the Disease is of a hot Cause we give it in cold Vehicles Theriaca Saxonica or the Saxonick Treacle Take Rob of Elder-berries and dwarff Elder-berries of each two ounces Harts horn Spagirically calcined an ounce juyce of Fumitory made thick simple Syrup of Poppies Spirit of Iuniper of each half an ounce Oriental rod Bole two drams Oyl of the seeds of Angelica Oyl of Zedoary of each a dram Mix them and over a gentle clear fire make them into the form of an Opiate Virtue Use and Dose It is a most noble Antidote powerfully working by Sweat and insensible Transpiration it defends men from and cures many and grievous Diseases It profligates and extinguisheth Feavers of all kinds whether intermitting continual or malignant Also the Dropsie Erysipelas Scurvy Jaundice Plague suffocation of the Matrix and other affects of the Womb the Pox Scab Itch Leprosie c. nay it deserves its praise so justly that no man is sufficiently able to proclaim its virtues The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg according to the Sex Age and Constitution of the Patient and the urgency of the Disease it is given in any fit and congruous Liquor especially such as is appropriate to the Disease I give it in many affects the body being first purged in the evening at going to bed four or five hours after supper with a sufficient quantity of our Harts-horn water and toward morning it doth use to sweat powerfully Theriaca Febrilis or an Electuary for Feavers Take species of our Febrifuge three ounces Conserve of Pontick Wormwood Conserve of Carduus and the lesser Centaury of each two ounces Venice Treacle an ounce and a half Harts-horn calcined without fire Mineral Diaphoretick white Ginger of each three drams species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each a dram and a half Camphire dissolved in Spirit of Angelica half a dram Mix them and with Rob of Elder-berries make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It cures almost all Feavers and is very profitable also in the Plague The dose is from a dram to two in our Aqua Febrifuge or in Carduus Scabious or Marigold-water c. let the Patient drink it two hours before the Fit and being in bed let him sweat for by this means it cures the Feaver Electuarium Opticum or an Electuary for the Eyes Take preserved Elicampane roots and preserved Chebul Myrobalans of each two ounces long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mace the lesser Galangal white Ginger and Cubebs of each half an ounce Sea-Beans prepared Pikes eyes Eyebright Pennyroyal Germander Clovegilly-flowers Rosemary of each three drams seeds of the Mountain Osier and Fenil of each two drams seeds of Parsley Anise Smallage Dill and white Saxifrage of each a dram and a half All being pulverized mix them then with twenty four ounces of white Sugar Candy dissolved in Spirit of Juniper and the depurated Juyces of Sage Rue Celandine and Hyssop of each a sufficient quantity and then boiled to a just consistence make an Electuary to which add Oyl of Cinamon and Nutmegs of each a dram And then again mix them and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Stomach consumes superfluous Humors cleanseth the Reins and is good to expel all flatulent Humors But it chiefly restores a weak Sight and hath been wonderfully experimented in weakness of the Eyes Suffusions c. let the cause be what it will The dose is constantly in the morning fasting and at night going to bed the quantity of a Chestnut And by so using of it the Patient shall be able to read a small print by a clear and free sight without Spectacles even to his life's end Electuarium Stomachicum or an Electuary for the Stomach Take sweet Almonds eight ounces aromatical Reed white
Confection with Raisons Take Sena four ounces roots of Polypody of the Oak two ounces roots of Scorzonera and Bugloss of each an ounce roots of Succory and Liquorish of each half an ounce Spanish Wine four pound In which boil the other Ingredients being cut and bruised and after it is prest and strained infuse in it all night Flowers of red Holy-hocks Peaches Violets and Roses of each two pugils Acacia white Ginger Cinamon and the lesser Galangal of each a dram Then let them be strained and well prest and in the strained Liquor again infuse small Raisons stoned and washed in white Wine six ounces Carthamus seeds husked three drams Iujubes Sebestens and Prunes stoned of each twenty one Boil them and extract the Pulp with a Sieve and then add of Manus Christi anisati four ounces Pulp of Tamarinds and the best Manna of each an ounce and a half Cream of Tartar an ounce Mix them and make them into a soft Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is a most sweet mild and lenifying Medicine and is good for those who are apt to be bound in their body For without trouble it moves the Belly downwards and gently purgeth yellow and black Choler It also mundifies the blood and takes off its acrimony It is also profitable in the distempers of the Reins and Bladder and prevents the generation of the Stone The dose is from three drams to half an ounce more or less Catharticum Passulatum or a Purge of Raisons Take of our Confectio passulata two ounces powder of Ialap an ounce Oyl of Aniseeds a scruple With Syrup of Cinamon make them into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth Choler of both sorts Flegm and Water and other offending Humors It expels Wind opens Obstructions purifies the Blood and is good in the pains of the Joynts Colick and Reins It helps those that are troubled with the Asthma old Cough and Pox. It is no trouble to the Patient in the taking this Medicine because it doth partake of no ill savour and is therefore proper for those who loath other Medicines The dose is from two drams to three Cartharticum Peruvianum liquidum or the moist Peruvian Cathartick Take of the Electuary Diacorus six ounces Extract of Gum of Peru rosated an ounce species of Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce Extract of Kermes-berries three drams Gallia Moschata half a dram Oyl of Mace a scruple With a little Syrup of preserved Citron-peels make all into a thick Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is a good Medicine in all strong and contumacious Diseases It powerfully purgeth all serous humors and water gathered in the Abdomen together with crude and thick Flegm from the remote parts of the body and is therefore good in the Gout and all distempers of the Joynts the Dropsie Ascites and Anasarca also The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Peruvianum solidum pretiosum or a solid and precious Purge of Gum Peru. Take Extract of Gum Peru rosated half an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis two drams Confectio Alkermes a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple Oyl of Cinamon half a scruple Mix them and with four ounces of white Sugar first dissolved in rose-Rose-water make them into little Morsels Catharticum Peruvianum solidum commune pro tenuioris fortunae hominibus Or a solid Purge of Gum Peru for the poorer sort of People Take Extract of Gum Peru rosated half an ounce preserved Orange and Citron peels of each a dram Cassia lignea Cloves white Ginger Mace of each a scruple Oyl of Aniseeds ten grains Mix them and with four ounces of white Sugar dissolved in fenil-Fenil-water make according to Art a Confection in little Morsels Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth thick serous and tartarous humors in the Dropsie Gout Jaundice Scab Pox and the like and is in these cases a Secret The dose is from a dram and a half to two Passulae Laxativae or Laxative Raisons Take leaves of Sena four ounces roots of the best Turbith and Ialap of each an ounce Magistery of Scammony elect Rhubarb of each half an ounce Anise and Fenil seeds of each three drams the cordial Flowers of each a pugil Mix all these and then infuse them in a sufficient quantity of rectified Spirit of Wine let them stand in infusion until the Spirit hath imbided the Tincture together with the taste and virtue of the Ingredients Then pour off the tinged Spirit and put into it nine ounces of small Raisons let them digest until the Raisons have sufficiently imbided the Spirit Then at last the Raisons being taken out add Cinamon and Cloves of each two drams long Pepper the lesser Galangal white Ginger of each a dram and a half Indian Spicknard Gallia Moschata of each ten grains With a sufficient quantity of solutive Syrup of Roses make a Condite according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They purge Melancholy and adust Humors and carry off serous Excrements and keep down salt Flegm and neatly cleanse the body of the Leprosie foulness of the Skin and Scabs It is an excellent Remedy in the Gout straitness of the Breast Stone Catarrhs and the pain and tumor of the Sides The dose is from half an ounce to six drams more or less according to the Sex and Complexion of the Patient Catharticum Terebinthinatum or a Purge with Turpentine Take Turpentine often washed in juyce of Lemmons three ounces species of Lithontribon an ounce Magistery of Scammony seven drams Cassia newly extracted the pith of Carthamus seeds of each half an ounce white and gummy Turbith Tartar vitriolated of each two drams Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Oyl of Chamomil and Aniseeds of each ten grains With a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Roses solutive mix all into the form of a Bole or a thick Electuary Virtue Use and Dose This Terebinthinated Cathartick doth chiefly purge all flegmatick thick and tartarous humors that oppress the Reins and Bladder It dissolves coagulated Tartar and it is an admirable Purge for all kinds of stones in what part of the body soever they lye The dose is from a dram and a half to two in good odoriferous Wine Terebinthina Laxativa or Laxative Turpentine Take Turpentine washed in Rose-water two drams Tartar vitriolated half a dram Salt of white Amber elect Rhubarb of each ten grains Mix them and with Sugar and powder of Liquorish make a Bole for a dose Terebinthina Purgans or purging Turpentine Take Turpentine washed in Violet-water two drams acid Tartar a scruple Magistery of Perch stone Crabs eyes and Scammony of each ten grains Mix them and with Sugar and powder of Cinamon make a Bole for a dose Virtue Use and Dose It is a great Secret in the Gonorrhoea Stone in the Reins and Bladder pains of the Back c. It is given an hour before supper or early in the morning and it may be taken in a Wafer moistned in Wine SECT XV. Of Lohochs or Eclegma's Lohoch Rosatum or a Lohoch
Vitriol carefully rectified and Spagirically impregnate with native Cinnabar four ounces Salt of Peony a dram and a half Let them be all well mixed and set to digest and circulate for eight days Virtue Use and Dose It may be deservedly called a specifick Epileptick Medicine for its admirable virtues and properties For in curing the Epilepsie it exceeds all other Remedies It is also good in all dangerous diseases of the Head such are the Apoplexy Palsie Vertigo Swimming c. Also in the stupor of the Brain Catarrhs Suffocation of the Matrix Colick c. it is of great use The dose and way of giving is to alter its acid sapor and give it in appropriate Vehicles as suppose our Epileptick water or in water of the flowers of Peony Lavender Tiel-tree Lily of the valley c. continuing of it nine days together and let the Patient fast for two or three hours at least after the taking of the Medicine Elixir Febrile or an Elixir for Feavers Take of our Species febrifuge four ounces long Pepper Cloves and Nutmegs of each an ounce the lesser Centaury Carduus and Wormwood of each six handfuls Cinquefoil and Rue of each three handfuls All being pulverized and mixed extract their Tincture with the best Spirit of Wine pour off the tinctured Spirit and pour on fresh so long till all the Tincture and Essence be throughly extracted Lastly draw off half the Spirit in Balneo and the remaining Spirit together with the Essence filter through a brown Paper and in a glass Vessel well stopt keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose After the body hath been duly purged it preserves cures and drives away all kinds of Feavers It is given in the Fit or just before it so that it may work with the Fit The dose is from a dram to half an ounce in water of the lesser Centaury Carduus Wormwood or in a draught of warm Beer But in robust bodies it is given from half an ounce to six drams Or it may in ill habits of body Dropsie c. with good success be mixed with common Drink for by its bitterness it expels all Putrefaction and by its thinness it opens all Obstru ctions SECT XVIII Of compound Spirits of Wine Spiritus Vini Cephalicus or a Spirit of Wine for the Head TAke Fenil seeds three ounces roots of Peony dulâ— collected Misleto of the Oak Anacardus oâ— each an ounce Iuniper-berries six drams Marjoram Balm Origanum Hyssop and Sage of eacâ— a handful flowers of Stoechas Lily of the Valley Rosâ— mary Primrose and Lavender of each two pugils Lâ— them be grosly cut and bruised and then infused in eight pound of common Spirit of Wine after due digestion let them be distilled in B M. and in the distilled Liquor again infuse Coriander seeds prepared seeds of mountain Osier Peony and Caraways of each half an ounce species of Diomoschu dulce and Diambra of each three drams Cardamoms the less Nutmegs the lesser Galangal Coves of each two drams sweet Cane Cubebs and Mace of each a dram white Amber prepared wood of Aloes Clovegilly-flowers red Roses of each half a dram Let them all stand in digestion for eight days then distil them in Balnco and reserve the Spirit for use they that please may edulcorate it with white Sugar Candy or with Essence of Peony flowers Clovegilly-flowers Violets red Roses or grains of Chermes or any other with which it may be variously tinged Virtue Use and Dose It is of great use in all cold affects of the Head applied both internally and externally Also it easeth those who are sorrowful and fearful and it helpeth those also that talk in their sleep for it doth not only warm dry and comfort the Head and consume cold Catarrhs but also roborates the other Members I commend it for an excellent Medicine in the Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy Palsie Convulsions and Trembling The dose is from one spoonful to two c. Spiritus Vini Aromaticus or an Aromatick Spirit of Wine Take Confectio Alkermes an ounce roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce red Roses of each half an ounce wood of Cassia Citron peel wood of Aloes Cloves of each two drams Cardamoms the less Nutmegs Cubebs Mace Zedoary of each a dram All being pulvetized and mixed infuse them in six pound of simple Spirit of Wine for eight days shaking them often in the time afterward distil them in an Alembick and the distilled Spirit edulcorate with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart in full-grown persons who are of a cold Constitution it also roborates the Breast Stomach Liver Spleen c. it also strengthens the Reins and expels cold and serous Humors The dose is morning and evening from one spoonful to two Spiritus Vini Odontalgicus or Spirit of Wine good for the Tooth-ach Take Chips of Guajacnm four ounces roots of Pellitory two ounces seeds of Stavesacre and Henbane Pomegranate peels Turkish Galls of each four ounces Cloves white Ginger long Pepper and Olibanum of each half an ounce flowers of wild Poppy Thebane Opium Camphire of each two drams Indian Tabaco Sage Arsmart wild Mints of each a dram Being bruised and mixed infuse them in six pound of simple Spirit of Wine and let them stand in digestion fourteen days and then distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose Let it be held in the mouth a while and spit out again and let this be repeated if there be occasion and it is a present Remedy for it effectually takes away all the pain of the Teeth Sometimes also for the greater content of those who use it it may be tinctured with flowers of Poppies and being tinctured kept for use Spiritus Vini Otalgicus or Spirit of Wine for the Hearing Take a hundred Pismires Eggs bitter Almonds an ounce roots of black Hellebore Garden Radishes Sowbread English Galangal of each an ounce Pomegranate peel six drams Bay-berries husked Iuniper-berries of each half an ounce seeds of Fenil Cummin Anise and Caraway of each three drams Pulp of Coloquintida true Castor of each a dram and a half Marjoram Wormwood Savin and Rue of each a dram Bruise them and being mixed infuse them in four pound of the best rectified Spirit of Wine and after due digestion let them be distilled in Balneo yet do it ingeniously lest you break your Glass The Spirit being abstracted add to it a sufficient quantity of live Millepedes and digest them all so long till the Spirit be tinctured this being done filter it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose A few drops of this Spirit dropped into the Ears morning and evening and the Ears stopped with muskified Cotton take away deafness and thickness of hearing nay it is an excellent Medicine in the ringing noise and hissing of the Ears also in the thickness of hearing c. But in these Affects Bread a little under-baked and taken hot out of the Oven and the lower Crust broken off
and dipped into this Spirit and so applied to the Ear but it will be convenient to lay some Cloth to the part to keep it from burning so that the Vapor may be received into the Head is much better And let this Method be continued till the evil ceaseth Spiritus Vini Acovisticus Take Pismires Eggs and Millepedes alive of each thirty one bitter Almonds half an ounce Bay-berries husked Iuniper-berries and Savin of each two drams Cummin seeds roots of round Cyperus Grass of each a dram Earth-worms thrice dryed Tabaco Wormwood of each half a dram white Amber prepared true Castor of each a scruple Oriental Saffron ten grains Let them be grosly bruised and infused in sixteen ounces of Spirit of Wine let them digest for eight days often shaking them in the time then filter it and keep the tinged Spirit for use Virtue Use and Dose This Spirit is a Secret in Deafness and thickness of Hearing and the noise in the Ears also though inveterate And the use of it is this drop a few drops into the Ear in the morning fasting and at night before supper and afterward stop the Ear with some muskified Cotton Spiritus Vini Pectoralis or a Pectoral Spirit of Wine Take small Raisons and Aniseeds of each four ounces Lohoch sanum expert and Pine-nuts of each two ounces extracted juyce of Liquorish an ounce and a half Conserve of flowers of Hyssop Violets and Comfrey of each an ounce Cinamon six drams species of Diatragacanth frigid Diaireos simple Diarrhodon Abbatis of each half an ounce Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron Mace of each a dram and a half Maidenhair Horehound of each a dram flowers of Marsh-mallows Clotsfoot and Sage of each half a dram All being bruised and mixed let them infuse eight days in eight pound of simple Spirit of Wine then distâ—l in Balneo and the abstracted Liquor edulcorate with white Sugar Candy Virtue Use and Dose It is of excellent use in cold Catarrhs diseases of the Breast Cough old Asthma's and difficulty of Breathing The dose is from one spoonful to two It also purgeth and cleanseth the Breast from all thick and viscid Humors and opens all Obstructions there Spiritus Vini Juniperinus or a Spirit of Wine with Iuniper Take Spirit of Wine Iuniperated two pound Sugar Candy bruised half a pound Mix them in a fit Vessel and let the Spirit be set on fire that they may mix together and while the Spirit flames stir it sometimes with a Knife or a Spatula till the Sugar is all dissolved then strain it and tye up two scruples of Oriental Saffron in a Nodulus and let it hang in the Liquor and so keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a good Medicine in the Asthma difficulty of Breathing vices of the Breast Cough weakness and windiness of the Stomach pains of the Belly c. Moreover it provokes Urine helps the Stone Ruptures Convulsions and Suffocations of the Womb. The dose is from one spoonful to two at a time Spiritus Vini Stomachicus or Spirit of Wine for the Stomach Take of the best Cinamon four ounces Galangal the less Aniseeds of each two ounces Cloves Nutmegs of each an ounce water Mints Rosemary of each half an ounce sweet Cane white Ginger red Roses of each two drams All being grosly bruised let them infuse in eight pound of simple Spirit of Wine and after due digestion let them be distilled in Balneo and the Spirit being drawn off edulcorate either with white Sugar Candy or with Gelly of Quinces Virtue Use and Dose It is good for those who have a bad Appetite and a depraved Digestion a cold distempered Stomach Hiccup Loathing of Meat Vomiting Dog-hunger four Belchings straitness of the Breast and for cold Constitutions oppressed with too much humidity but it is most agreeable to Old folks c. It wonderfully comforts and restores the natural Heat preserves from Putrefaction It sharpens the Sight and the Mind also in those who are apt to be forgetful and keeps back Old age The dose is from one spoonful to two Spiritus Vini Nephriticus or a Spirit of Wine for the Stone in the Kidneys c. Take roots of Restharrow and Marshmallows of each three ounces Cucumer two ounces Liquorish Asarabacca of each an ounce and a half seeds of Gromel three ounces seeds of white Saxifrage Roman Nettles Parsley Radishes and Anise of Rhubarb round Birthwort the lesser Galangal Cinamon Mace white Ginger and Horstail of each an ounce Pearch stone Iews stone Sponge Lapis Lyncis Snail-shells prepared of each six drams Cassia fistula Winter Cherries Iuniper-berries Venice Treacle Goats blood Crabs eyes Cockal bone of a Hares foot of each half an ounce Being pulverized and mixed let them infuse in six pound of simple Spirit of Wine or a sufficient quantity let them stand in digestion fourteen days after let them be distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It breaks the Stone and brings it away in small pieces It cleanseth the Reins and Bladder from all impurities and at last makes the Patient produce a clear Urine And what is more it doth so cure and bring away the gravelly matter by Urine that it shall never breed nor generate any more Moreover there is not a Remedy like it in the Colick and suffocation of the Matrix for it loosens most humors and dissolves all ventosity The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Spiritus Vini Lithontripticus or a Spirit of Wine for the Stone Take roots of Elicampane Pimpinella and Parsley of each an ounce Pearch-stone River Crabs eyes Goats blood of each six drams seeds of Water-Carrots white Saxifrage Fenil Anise Gromel Roman Nettles Broom Iuniper-berries Winter-Cherries of each half an ounce species of Lithrontribon Diathamaron and Trion Pipereon of each two drams All being bruised and mixed let them infuse in four pound of simple Spirit of Wine for the space of fourteen days then distil them in Balneo for use Virtue Use and Dose It doth not only break the Stone in the Reins and Bladder but brings it away also in sand and small pieces by Urine The dose either for Preservation or Cure is from one spoonful to two by it self or mixed with other Medicines Spiritus Vini Paralyticus or a Spirit of Wine for the Palsie Take Earth-worms dryed Iuniper-berries seeds of Rocket of each two ounces roots of Angelica Pellitory and Aron of each an ounce flowers of Lavender long Pepper Rosemary Sage green Garlick of each half an ounce Mastich Myrrh yellow Amber Euphorbium Castor of each three drams Let them be bruised and mixed and then infused in four pound of well rectified Spirit of Wine let them digest for a month then filter it and the Spirit with the Essence extracted reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose The paralytick Members anointed with this tinctured Spirit universal Remedies being premised and Linen Cloaths wet in it and applied to the affected parts you will find a
Wine and in the morning distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and preserves it from trembling and other dangerous accidents sometimes also it cures the loss of Reason and the defect of the Mind For by its nourishing and increasing quality it raiseth both the vital and natural Spirits and relieves the Heart as speedily as any thing The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua Cordialis frigida or a cooling Cordial Water Take Conserve of red Roses a pound and a half Rasberries a pound species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton frigid of each an ounce and a half seeds of Docks an ounce Sanders red white and yellow of each half an ounce the Cordial Flowers of each two drams Mix them and infuse them in these Waters following water of Sorrel water-Lily Strawberries Violets Borage and Bugloss of each a pound Mix them and digest them for some days and then again add Cinamon water buglossated a pound and a half juyce of Quinces depurated juyce of Lemmons and Citrons of each half a pound Again mix them and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It doth sweetly and effectually refresh and strengthen the Heart in all burning Feavers and all other hot and corrosive Diseases by which means it removes imbecillity and fortifies strength through the whole body It also helps those who are disturbed in Mind whether it takes its Original from the Heart or Stomach it discusseth and throws off all Poyson and poysonous qualities that offend the Vitals and it restores the Spirits that languish with weakness from an excessive heat to their pristine state and strength The dose is from one ounce to two Aqua Cordialis calida or a hot Cordial Water Take Cinamon four ounces roots of Avens three ounces Cloves sealed Earth of each an ounce both sorts of Cardamoms Galangal the less Mace Zedoary the peels of yellow Oranges Citron peels seeds of Basil of each half an ounce odoriferous wood of Aloes Oriental Saffron Spicknard Pennyroyal dryed of each three drams flowers of Borage and Bugloss of each a dram and a half All being pulverized and mixed let them infuse eight days in four pound of Spanish Wine then add Cinamon water distilled with Wine Clove gillyflowers of each a pound and a half flowers of Rosemary Lavender Balm and Sage of each a pound Mix them and in an Alembick in Balneo let it be distilled Virtue Use and Dose It doth help wonderfully in all cold affects of the Heart and is a good Remedy for its palpitation and the defect of the Mind It cureth the Syncope and Swooning refresheth the vital Spirits it takes away a sorrowful heaviness and the cause thereof and exhilarates the Heart It also restores those to health who are weak by the continuance of a lingering Disease and is an excellent Roborative It renders the whole body lively retards Baldness For whosoever is old and useth this Medicine will need no other Conservation for his Health The dose is from one spoonful to two or three at a time Aqua acetosa Stomachalis or a tart Stomach-water Take white Sugar a pound Conserve of Roses and Rose-water of each four ounces Spirit of Vitriol rectified half an ounce Make a Mixture and when it is strained keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This tart stomach-Stomach-water is good in any intemperance as well cold as hot and is very effectual in the loss of Appetite or Loathing which is caused by the vitriolated Juyce that is vitiated in the bottom of the Stomach and for this property it cannot be sufficiently praised For it doth most excellently restore Concoction whether it be lost impaired or vitiated and fortifies the Stomach It is to be given in some proper Vehicle two hours before meat without exercise or an hour before meat with exercise after it respecting the disease for in a hot distemper it may be given in Pomegranate-wine or Syrup of Lemmons or of the Juyce of Citrons or Tincture of Roses c. but in a cold defect with our hot Cordial or Stomach-water Wormwood-wine Malmsy or other generous Wine c. The dose of it is so much as will make the Liquor it is taken in tart and sharp Aqua Stomachica calida or a hot Stomach-water Take lesser Galangal an ounce and a half Cloves Nutmegs Cinamon white Ginger Mastich roots of Burnet Elicampane water-Acorus of each an ounce water-Mints six drams Rosemary Sage and Wormwood of each half an ounce both sorts of Cardamoms sweet Reed Mace long Pepper Cummin seeds of each three drams Squinanth Spicknard wood of Aloes of each two drams Bruise and mix them and macerate them in eight pound of Malmsy Wine and of Balm and Pennyroyal water of each a pound let them digest eight days and then distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It warms the Ventricle and rectifies the coldness thereof It allays the Gripes pains and punctures of it It also digests and concocts Flegm and crude Humors collected there It stays Vomiting and Loathing and is a present Remedy for sour Belching It is a Divine help in Leanness and the disposition of Old age and to excite appetite and heat in old people to expel thick ventose humors to open obstructions and to resolve moist humors and corrupt superfluities The dose is from one spoonful to two or three or from half an ounce to one or two Aqua Epatica frigida or a cold Epatick Water Take ripe Strawberries a pound species Diarrhodon Abbatis four ounces roots of Succory Agrimony Scorzonera and Eryngo of each an ounce flowers of the lesser Centaury Liverwort Borage and red Roses of each half an ounce Rhubarb three drams Sanders three sorts of each two drams the four greater and lesser cold Seeds Dock seeds of each a dram and a half Let them be cut and bruised and infused in four pound of red Wine Let them infuse eight days and then add water of the flowers of Liverwort Purslain Sorrel Endive Melons Succory Rasberries and Dodder of each a pound Mix them and distil by an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose The use of this Water is most safe and happy in its success in all Feavers as burning Tertians Quotidians Quartans and other noxious distempers rising from the heat of body in which the Liver suffers Moreover it corrects and amends the intolerable and corrosive heat of the Stomach Lungs and Spleen The dose is every other hour from one ounce to two or three by it self or with some specifick Syrup Aqua Epatica calida or a hot Epatick Water Take species Diacubeba three ounces roots of bitter Costus roots of Smallage Turmerick and Fenil Iuniper-berries seeds of Anise Cummin and Carrots of each an ounce sweet Reed Rhubarb Cassia lignea of each six drams Spicknard Oriental Saffron and Squinanth of each three drams Southernwood Wormwood Agrimony Mother of Thyme and water-Germander of each half an ounce flowers
of Liverwort and golden Stoechas of each a dram and a half All being faithfully bruised and mixed put them into six pound of generous Wine and let them digest eight days afterward add waters of lesser Centaury Succory Fluellin Maiden-hair Chamomil Fumitory Horehound Harts-tongne and Liverwort of each half a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is happily given in all cold diseases of the Liver and the obstructions thereof It is good in ill habits of body and Dropsie It also eradicates the old chronical distempers both of Liver and Spleen and is a good remedy against their cold and moist affects For it cuts and attenuates thick and viscous humors collected in those parts The dose is from one ounce to two or three by it self or with appropriate Syrups Aqua Splenetica or a Water for the Spleen Take roots of both sorts of Fern of Polypody and Smallage of each an ounce and a half roots of round Birthwort water-Acorus sweet Reed and Lovage of each an ounce Rhubarb Cappar bark and Tamarisk of each six drams Pontick Wormwood Mugwort Agrimony Fumitory Harts-tongue Dodder and Spleenwort of each half an ounce seeds of Lovage Fenil Anise and Caraway of each two drams Let them be grosly bruised and mixed and put into ten pints of Rhenish Wine and after eight days digestion distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It attenuates and mollifies thick matter and melancholy Juyce collected in the Spleen and Mesaraick Veins and opens their obstructions It dissolves Wind and Tumors and cures the black Jaundice Hypochondriack Melancholy and Quartan Agues The dose is morning and evening from one ounce to three Aqua Antihydropica or a Water against the Dropsie Take seeds of Rocket half a pound Ash Cummin and Smallage of each an ounce and a half roots of Acorus Avens Swallow-wort Turmerick bitter Costus dwarff Elder Carduus and Sarsaparilla of each an ounce Rhubarb the lesser Galangal Nutmegs and Cloves of each six drams Cappar bark the middle bark of Elder and Tamarisk of each half an ounce Agrimony and Bindweed the tops of green Iuniper of each half an ounce flowers of Liverwort and Elder of each two drams Let them be cut bruised and mixed and put into eight pound of Malmsey Wine and after fourteen days digestion in a warm place the Vessel being shaken often every day then add water of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each half a pound of both sorts of Liverwort Mugwort Carduus and Mother of Thyme of each a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is a most proper Remedy for the Dropsie For it heats and comforts a cold Liver opens its obstructions and restores it to its faculties It dissipates thick flatulent Humors consumes the cause of ill Habits and Dropsies and expels it by its Diaphoretick force The dose is from one ounce to two or three Aqua Antiscorbutica or an Antiscorbutick Water Take wild Radishes cut into small pieces a pound roots of Polypody two ounces Masterwort Angelica and Zedoary of each an ounce and a half chips of Guajacam and Sassafras sweet Reed the lesser Galangal of each an ounce Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron Fenil seeds bark of Cappars and Tamarick of each six drams Let them be cut and bruised and put them into six pound of Spanish Wine and set to digest in a warm place for eight days shaking the Vessel often and then add water of Scurvy-grass of the lesser Nettle of Water-cresses of Stone-crop of Celandine of Money-wort and Fumitory of each a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Mariae Virtue Use and Dose It properly cures in these Northern maritime Regions that disease which they call the Scorbute or Scurvy for it opens obstructions of the Spleen mollifies and attenuates the feculent melancholy humor It also rectifies the blood through the whole body and comforts the Spleen exceedingly It is to be given for divers mornings successively from one ounce to two or three Aqua Anticolica seu Carminativa or a Carminative against the Colick Take the rind of yellow Oranges six ounces roots of Zedoary three ounces Bay-berries husked and Iuniper-berries of each an ounce and a half sweet Reed lesser Galangal Cinamon of each an ounce of the four greater and lesser hot Seeds seeds of Chervil Nigella and Dill of each three drams Let them be grosly bruised and mixed and put into eight pound of Malmsey Wine Let them infuse eight days and then add water of the juyce of Chamomil thrice distilled of Mother of Thyme distilled with Wine of each a pound Mix them and in an Alembick in Balneo distil them Virtue Use and Dose It cures the Colick to a Miracle which hath its Original from a cold and moist matter with wind universal Medicines being premised The dose is from one spoonful to two or three or from one ounce to two or three Aqua Benedicta Serpilli or Aqua Benedicta of Mother of Thyme Take Mother of Thyme with its flowers and gather it in the morning before Sun-rising the Moon decreasing eight ounces Roman Chamomil two ounces Savory and Thyme of each an ounce Put them into eight pound of the best Rhenish Wine and let them infuse certain days and distil them and in the distilled Liquor again infuse Mother of Thyme with its flowers eight ounces Cassia lignea an ounce wood of Aloes and Mace of each half an ounce Cut them small and after due digestion distil them again in an Alembick in Balneo and so it is truly prepared Virtue Use and Dose It stops all Catarrhs and Defluxions and preserves the Head from them It roborates the Brain Stomach and all the Intestines being vitiated with Cold. It stirs an Appetite provokes Urine expels the Stone mitigates the pains of the Belly but chiefly the Colick It dissipates wind from the Bowels and Hypochonders It allays Pains and Hiccup stays Vomiting provokes Womens Courses brings forth the Birth After-birth and dead Child It dissolves concreted Blood It is a good Remedy for those oppressed with a Compression of the Lungs difficulty of Breathing or any Rupture in those parts The dose is from half an ounce to two Aqua Castitatis or the Chast Water Take sealed Earth four ounces seeds of Agnus castus an ounce and a half seeds of Rue water-Lily Lettice and white Poppy of each an ounce seeds of Hemp Sorrel Purslain Gromel Endive Cummin and Coriander prepared of each six drams roots of white Diptamus Hounds-tongue Bistort and Florentine Flower de luce of each half an ounce of all the sorts of Sanders Magistery of Saturn and Camphire of each three drams Pontick Wormwood water-Mints Shepherds-purse Sowthistle Vervain and leaves of Willow of each two drams Let them be cut and bruised and put into ten pound of red Stiptick Wine let them digest eight days and then digest them in Balneo
Virtue Use and Dose This Water is not undeservedly called Chast because it doth so restrain and bridle the fiery prolifick Seed of Monks Nuns Widows and others who are appointed to live a single life so that all libidinous persons use it who are Lovers of Chastity and Modesty and are willing to suppress those excitements without danger to their health For by its frigidity and a certain occult quality it dissolves the Venereal matter Besides it cures the Gonorrhoea or Flux of Seed without any trouble universal Remedies being premised The dose is morning or evening or in time of necessity from one ounce to three Aqua Febrifuga or an Ague-shasing Water Take of our Species febrifuga the lesser Centaury Carduus benedictus Cinquefoil and Wormwood of each four ounces Macerate them in Goats whey and distil them in Sand cohobating thrice that is pour the abstracted Liquor upon the Faeces three times and draw it off again Virtue Use and Dose It doth without doubt utterly extirpate bastard Tertians and Quartans universal Medicines being premised The dose is from two ounces to three either in the morning or in time of the Fit Aqua Hysterica or a Hysterical Water Take dryed Elder-berries three ounces roots of Bryony white Diptamus Peony and Zedoary of each an ounce Misleto of the Oak six drams Cassia lignea red Myrrh Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron and true Castor of each half an ounce seeds of Agnus castus Cummin Carrots of each three drams flowers of black Hellebore two drams Let them be cut and bruised and put into six pound of Malmsey Wine and there macerated for fourteen days then add water of Mugwort Motherwort Pennyroyal Balm and Nep of each a pound Mix them and distii them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose This salubrious Water cures and mitigates all the Suffocations of the Womb nay the worst of them and all the grievous Symptoms thence arising The dose is from two spoonfuls to three by it self in the Fit or it may be given with a scruple of Species Diajovis or with ten grains of our Jovial Troches or with twenty grains of our uterine Specifick But in preservation it is given only one spoonful at a time at the four Quarters of the Moon There is also another most famous Hysterical water for the Epilepsie formerly given by that excellent and worthy Man Dr. Iacob Martin Physician of Lubeck and my Honoured Friend and this Water is still used in the Shops and is vulgarly called Aq. Lit. A. and is thus made Take the best Cinamon an ounce Cloves Ginger and Nutmegs of each six drams peels of Citrons and Oranges of each half an ounce Spicknard four scruples Endive Pennyroyal Scordium Balm Mint female Southernwood and Motherwort of each two ounces Sage eight ounces Marjoram half an ounce Rosemary four ounces true Castor sixteen scruples burnt Wine six pound Rhenish Wine sixteen pound Let them digest three days in a warm place and afterward distil them in Balneo Aqua Dominarum or the Ladies Water Take Cassia lignea two ounces roots of red Mugwort Gentian and white Diptamus of each an ounce and a half bitter Almonds kernels of Peaches and Cherries of each an ounce red Myrrh Venetian Borax seeds of Lavender of each half an ounce Horehound Rue and Savin of each three drams flowers of Centaury the less of Elder and white Violets of each two drams the kernel of the stone Aetites true Castor Opopanax Sagapen and Assa foetida of each a dram and a half black Pepper Oriental Saffron and white Amber of each a dram Let them be grosly cut and bruised and put into six pound of Malmsey Wine and digest them for eight days then add water of Calamint Bugloss Motherwort Mugwort Pennyroyal and Vervain of each a pound Mix them and distil them in Balneo by an Alembick Virtue Use and Dose It facilitates the Birth and expels the dead Child and the Secundine without delay which if it be long detained doth great injury to the Brain Heart and Stomach by the depraved Vapors that arise from it to those parts wherefore the education of it is not to be neglected nor yet to be done irregularly This Water also by its present help provokes the detained Courses The dose is from a spoonful to three Aqua Antinephritica or a Water for the Stone in the Reins Take roots of Restharrow a pound Cut them small and steep them in three pound of generous Wine for three days and then press them and in the strained Liquor infuse Liquorish Saxifrage root and branch roots of Parsley Eryngo and Burnet of each three ounces Winter-cherries and Iuniper-berries of each fouâ— ounces seeds of Gromel Fenil Melons and Nettles of each two ounces Sassafras and Nephritick wood oâ— each an ounce Cinamon and Mace of each half aâ— ounce Let them stand in Infusion for certain days and then add juyce of Ground-Ivy and Purslain of each a pound and a half juyce of Fumitory Parsley and Fluellin of each a pound Distil them in Balneo and cohobate the second time Virtue Use and Dose It doth to a Miracle amend the calculous disposition of the Reins by comforting the parts and casting forth the stony matter The dose is two spoonfuls both for Cure and Preservation Aqua Lithontriptica or a Water for the Stone Take the kernels of Cherries and Peaches of each ten ounces bitter Almonds five ounces flowers of Elder and Acacia of each three ounces roots of Burnet Restharrow Vervain Eryngo and common Mallows of each an ounce chips of Ashen-tree the stony part of Medlars Goats blood prepared Cinnamon the lesser Galangal Perch-stone and Crabs eyes of each six drams Bay-berries busked Iuniper-berries Winter-cherries of each half an ounce leaves of Ground-Ivy three drams seeds of white Saxifrage and Roman Nettles seeds of Burdock Parsley Broom Gromel Carrots of each a dram Let all be cut and bruised and put into sixteen pound of Malmsey Wine and digested fourteen days often shaking the Vessel and afterward distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is given for the Stone of all kinds but chiefly in the Reins and Bladder where it potently breaks and dissipates it and from thence wonderfully expels the long detained Sand with the Urine It easeth the pains of the Loyns and in an instant opens the passage in the Strangury and Dysary The dose is from one ounce to two in the morning fasting either by it self or with appropriate Syrups Aqua contra ardorem Urinae or a Water against the heat of Urine Take roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows common Mallows and Florentine Flower-de-luce of each two ounces of Pine-nuts cleansed and sweet Almonds of each an ounce and a half seeds of Melons husked and Quinces seeds of Smallage white Poppy Endive and Lettice of each six drams Winter-cherries and Myrtle-berries Cassia fistula and the lesser Galangal of each three drams leaves of Violets Dazies and Betony of each two drams Let them be cut and
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
one of the spongy brushes growing on sweet Bryar Mix them and according to Art make a Bath for the Feet Virtue and Use. This Lotion for the Feet should be used in the evening either before supper or going to bed for so it discusseth lassitudes and sweetly induceth sleep but let not the Feet be wiped after the use of it but wrapped in linen Cloaths SECT XXIX Of Vesicatories Vesicatorium in dolore Capitis Dentium occipiti post aures applicandum Or a Vesicatory to be applied behind the Ears in the pain of the Head and Teeth TAke Venice Treacle two scruples Cantharides their wings and heads cut off Hares fat of each half a dram roots of Pellitory of Spain and Nutmegs of each a scruple Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Leaven make a Vesicatory according to Art for the part where the pain is Vesicatorium aliud in Cephalaea c. or another Vesicatory in the Head-ach Take Cantharides macerated in Vinegar a dram white Ginger and long Pepper of each half a dram Marjoram a scruple Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Leaven make it into a good convenient body afterward with half a Nut-shell apply it till the Blister be raised which being cut apply Colewort leaves to it and keep it running Vesicatorium in omni mentis Alienatione Phrenesi Melancholia Mania c. probatum Or an approved Vesicatory for all distempers of the Mind as Phrensie Melancholy Madness Take Cantharides with their heads and wings cut off four scruples Hares fat a dram white Amber prepared and Cubebs of each a scruple fat Figs two and a little Vinegar Mix them with a sufficient quantity of Leaven and a few drops of Spirit of Wine and without fire bring them into the form of a Plaster which apply to the Crown of the Head the hair being shaved off Vesicatorium in Augina expertum or an experienced Vesicatory in the Quinsie Take Leaven half-an ounce roots of Marsh-mallows and Florentine Flower-de-luce of each two drams Cantharides a dram and a half juyce of Liquorish and Oriental Saffron of each a scruple fat Figs two Mix them into the form of a Plaster and lay it on the Breast for it draws the matter thither and is a worthy Experiment SECT XXX Of Pessaries Pessus aperiens contra Menses suppressos or an opening Pessary for the suppressed Terms TAke Roots of red Mugwort white Diptamus Asarum white Hellebore and Madder of each two drams Scammony Marjoram Savin Oriental Saffron of each a dram Bay-berries husked red Myrrh true Castor Sagapen Epatick Aloes of each a scruple seeds of Stavesacre Nigella Water-cresses and Rue of each half a dram Let all these be well incorporated with Juyce of red Mugwort or with Turpentine and make a Pessary the length of the middle finger and the bigness of it also and in making of it up let a third pass along the middle of it coming out at the end a hands breadth to pull it out of the body again or the Powder may be put into a Bag made of a thin Cloth with the addition of a little Cotton make it to the bigness of a large finger and put it into the body Pessus adstringens contra Uteri Haemorrhagiam or an astringent Pessary against a Flux of Blood from the Womb. Take Mill-dust half an ounce roots of Tormentil and Bistort of each two drams Ashes of Frogs Crocus Martis Turkish Galls Dragons blood Bole Armeniack and burnt Harts-horn of each a dram Hypocistis red Roses Balaustines Acacia Olibanum Mastich of each half a dram Mix them and with Plantane water and the White of an Egg make a Pessary according to Art which is to be put into the privy parts of a Woman Pessus contra Suffocationem Praecipitationem Uteri or a Pessary against the Suffocation and Precipitancy of the Womb. Take roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce and red Roses of each three drams Styrax Calamitis and Benjamin Cloves Spicknard and Gallia Moschata of each a scruple Mix them and according to Art make a Pessary in the form of a Suppository which being tyed with a thrid let it be put up into the body at night If the Woman be barren because of fatness or much moisture then the following Pessary is of good use Take Darnel seed which is found growing among Wheat half an ounce Hares Runnet burnt Alum Castor and liquid Styrax of each two drams red Myrrh Opopanax Galbanum Calamint round Pepper of each a dram Musk and Amber of each half a scruple Let all be well incorporated and make two Pessaries of this Composition one of which let the Woman keep in her privy parts from noon till night Annotation 1. If after sharp Pessaries a pain remains in the passage let them immediately put up something dipped in Oyl of Violets or it may be mixed with some Mucilage of Fleabane to prevent Ulceration 2. If the Pessaries are strong they cannot retain them above an hour but if weak a whole night 3. Pessaries are generally put up after Bathing and in like manner so are Pessaries made of soft Cotton or Woollen and dipped in Juyces SECT XXXI Of Suppositories Species ad Suppositoria acuta conficienda or a Species to make sharp Suppositories TAke Seeds of Coloquintida half an ounce roots of white Hellebore the lesser Esâ—la and white Hermodactyls of each an ounce bark of yellow Myrobalans roots of Polypody leaves of Sena Troches of Agarick of each half an ounce Sal Gem and Nitre of each two drams flowers of Chamomil a dram Mix them and make a Powder which keep for use Suppositoria sicca or dry Suppositories Take Wheat flour four ounces common Salt half an ounce Coloquintida seeds an ounce white Hermodactyls white Hellebore the lesser Esula prepared of each half an ounce roots of common Mallows and white Tartar of each two drams Opopanax and Sagapen of each a dram Mix them and with the Yolks of Eggs according to Art make dry Suppositories A Suppository in the Epilepsie Apoplexy Vertigo Subeth Congelation Stupor c. Take Troches of Alhandal Troches of Agarick of each a dram black Hellebore leaves of Sena of each half a dram Sal Gem and Nitre of each a scruple With a sufficient quantity of Honey make two Suppositories thick and long as the manner is Suppositoria Anodyna or an Anodyne Suppository Take seeds of Cummin and Rue of each two drams Foreign Mummy Thebane Opium of each a dram wild Poppy flowers and Oriental Saffron of each half a scruple Styrax Calamitis and true Castor of each a scruple Mix them and make a Powder which mix with Honey for use Suppositoria Stiptica contra Dysenteriam Ventrisque fluxus or a Stiptick Suppository against the Dysentery and Flux of the Belly Take Hypocistis an ounce Turkish Galls and Acacia of each half an ounce Pomegranate rind three drams roots of Marsh-mallows and Liquorish of each a dram Harts-horn burnt Crocus Martis and Dragons blood of each half a
drams Boil them and take of the strained Decoction a pound Oyl of Linseed four ounces brown Sugar Candy an ounce Diaphaenicon six drams Sal Gem a dram and a half Mix them for a Clyster Enema Ventrem leniens in Colica ab Apostemate or a lenifying Clyster in the Colick caused by an Imposthume Take roots of Comfry and Marsh-mallows of each an ounce leaves of common Mallows Violets and Melilot of each half an ounce flowers of Marsh-mallows Acacia and white Lilies of each two drams Boil them and take of the clear Decoction a pound Oyl of Chamomil four ounces Electuary of the juyce of Roses six drams Cassia fresh drawn half an ounce Cream of Tartar two drams common Salt a dram and a half Mix them for a Clyster Enema in causa à duritie Faecum or a Clyster in Costiveness of the Bowels Take roots of Marsh-mallows and common Mallows of each an ounce leaves of branch Ursine Pellitory of the Wall Marsh-mallows of each six drams flowers of Chamomil Linseed and Foenugreek of each half an ounce Boil them and take of the clear Decoction a pound Oyl of Sesamum three ounces Benedicta laxativa aâ— ounce common Salt three drams Mix them for a Clyster Enema Colicum quod vehementer probatur or a Clyster for the Colick when the pain is vehement Take Broth of fat Meat a pound Oyl of Chamomil and Dill of each two ounces clarified Honey an ounce and a half Cream of Tartar three drams Gal Gem a dram and a half Enema dolorem Colicum sedans or a Clyster allaying the pain of the Colick Take roots of Marsh-mallows and common Mallows of each an ounce flowers of Chamomil Melilot and Elder of each half an ounce seeds of Fenil Anise Cummin Flax and Smallage of each two drams Boil them and take of the strained Decoction twelve ounces Malmsey Wine four ounces Oyl of Chamomil and Dill of each two ounces Benedicta laxativa an ounce the Yolk of an Egg. Mix them and make a Clyster Enema Anodynum or an Anodyne Clyster Take roots of Marsh-mallows white Lilies and Liquorish of each an ounce leaves of Melilot Chamomil Violets and common Mallows of each half an ounce seeds of Foenugreek Flax and Quinces of each three ounces the bark of Mandrake and wild Poppy flowers of each a dram Boil them and take of the strained Decoction a pound and a half fresh Butter not seasoned the Yolk of an Egg Extract of Oriental Saffron ten grains Mix them and make a Clyster Enema refrigerans or a cooling Clyster Take leaves of Strawberries Purslain Violets and Lettice of each half an ounce the four greater cold Seeds of each three drams Damask Prunes twenty flowers of water-Lilies Mullein and Roses of each a dram Boil them and take of the strained Decoction a pound Oyl of Violets three ounces Honey of Roses an ounce Electuary of the juyce of Roses six drams Nitre prepared a dram Mix them and inject it Enema calefaciens or a warming Clyster Take roots of Elicampane and Pellitory of Spain of each an ounce leaves of Calamint Mercury Hyssop and Origanum of each half an ounce flowers of Chamomil Stoechas Rosemary and Sage of each two drams Agarick tyed up in a cloth seeds of Cummin Anise and Bishops-weed of each a dram and a half Boil them and take of the strained Decoction a pound Oyl of Rue three ounces Benedicta laxativa an ounce Sea Salt three drams Extract of Wormwood a scruple Mix them for a Clyster Enema Stipticum in fluxibus Ventris or a Clyster in Fluxes of the Belly Take of dry Cheese prepared an ounce and an half roots of Hounds-tongue Pomegranate rind Turkish Galls of each an ounce Boil them in a sufficient quantity of Stiptick Wine and take of the clear Decoction a pound Frankincense pulverized three drams the Yolk of an Egg. Mix them and give the Clyster warm Enema aliud Stipticum or another Stiptick Clyster Take Oyl of St. Iohns-wort six ounces Honey of Roses Goats Suet and new Wax of each three ounces Melt them together over the fire and make a restringent Clyster Enema adstringens or an astringent Clyster Take roots of water-Acorus Tormentil and Snakeweed of each an ounce leaves of Pimpernel Ribwort and Plantane of each half an ounce seeds of Sorrel Purslain and Myrtle of each three drams flowers of yellow Mullein red Roses and Balaustines of each a dram and a half Boil them all in Milk burnt to or in Smiths water and take of the clear Decoction a pound Mill-dust an ounce Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each a dram Mix them and make a Clyster without Oyls Enema aliud adstringens or another astringent Clyster Take roots of Tapsus barbatus Plantane and Bistort of each an ounce leaves of Horstail Knotgrass and Rupturewort of each half an ounce Balaustines and Pomegranate peel of each two drams red Roses and Sumach of each a dram Boil them in Chalybeate or Smiths water and take of the clear Decoction a pound juyce of Millefoil two ounces Goats Suet an ounce and a half Oriental Saffron a scruple Mix them and make a Clyster which give after detersive or purgative Clysters Enema ad Lienteriam Diarrhoeam Take roots of Mullein Snakeweed and Tormentil of each an ounce leaves of Millefoil St. Iohns-wort and Bramble of each half an ounce Cyprus Nuts and Myrtle-berries of each two drams Boil them and take of the strained Decoction a pound Honey of Roses an ounce Hypocistis and Acacia of each two drams Laudanum a dram Mix them and give it Clyster-wise aftâ—â— Detersives by purging and astringent Medicines Enema tergens siccans or a drying and cleansing Clyster Take whole Barley half an ounce leaves of Wormwood and Myrtle of each half an ounce Lupines and Lentils of each two drams flowers of the lesser Centaury and red Roses of each a dram Boil them in rain-Rain-water and take of the strained Decoction a pound Honey of Roses three ounces Make a Clyster and give it warm Enema consolidans or a consolidating Clyster Take roots of Tapsus barbatus and great Comfry of each a dram and a half of the herb Plantane Horstail and leaves of Myrtle of each half an ounce red Roses two drams Make a Decoction in Chalybeate or Smiths water and take of it when strained a pound of Goats Suet two ounces Mill-dust a dram Mastich half a dram Mix them and make a Clyster Enema ad Bilem alterandum in Dysenteria c. or a Clyster altering Choler in a Dysentery Take Barley husked and Linseed of each two ounces small Raisons an ounce common Mallows and Violets of each half an ounce Make a Decoction and when strained take of it a pound Oyl of Roses three ounces brown Sugar an ounce and a half the Yolk of an Egg and a little Salt Mix them and give it for a Clyster Enema dolores Dysentericos sedans or a Clyster allaying pains in the bloody Flux Take of
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
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
Unguentum Pectorale or a Pectoral Oyntment Take Oyl of Pistick Nuts exprest oyl of Pine-nuts exprest and oyl of sweet Almonds of each an ounce and a half May Butter unsalted Capons grease and Goats Suet of each an ounce These being mixed add to it three ounces of our Pectoral water and boil them together to the consumption of the water then add Essence of Oriental Saffron two drams distilled oyl of Chamomil oyl of Fenil Mace Dill and Aniseeds of each a dram Mix them and with white Wax make an Unguent according to Art Virtue and Use. It is properly applied to the pains of the Breast for by anointing it therewith it dissolves flegm in it and heals all imperfections there it warms moistens and mollifies c. Use it morning and evening before a gentle fire Unguentum Pleuriticum or an Unguent for the Pleurisie Take the Fat of Field-Mice four ounces May Butter without salt two ounces oyl of Walnuts sweet Almonds of Poppy by expression and oyl of Bays of each an ounce juyce of wild Poppy flowers six ounces Mix them and boil all to the consumption of the Juyce afterward add Oyl of distilled Chamomil and Dill of each a dram and a half oyl of Bricks and Cummin seed of each a dram Again mix them and with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make an Unguent Virtue and Use. After the beginning of its violence and in allaying the pain of the Pleurisie and dissolving the Imposthume this Unguent is of wonderful use which is applied to the part grieved not ceasing from anointing till the pain desists And know for your credit that this Remedy is effectually prevalent used to any other strong pain in the whole body to the great profit of the Patient Note That Plasters and Unguents in all Pectoral diseases ought to be laid upon the Breast before and upon the Back behind but in the Pleurisie they must be applied more upon the Sides Unguentum Anodynum or an Anodyne Oyntment Take our Anodyne oyl of the seven Flowers six ounces oyl of sweet Almonds oyl of Henbane and Poppy exprest oyl of Earth-worms and St. Iohns-wort of each an ounce Fat of a Goose and wild Cat of each six drams juyce of Tabaco depurated juyce of Germander and Vervain of each four ounces Mix all and boil them to the consumption of the Juyces afterward with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make an Oyntment according to Art Virtue and Use. It mitigates pain in any part of the body from whence indeed it hath its name But in a case where excessive cold is the cause add to two ounces of the Oyntment Oyl of Peter Juniper and Bricks of each a scruple and mix them for use Unguentum Spleneticum or an Oyntment for the Spleen Take Oyl of Capers three ounces oyl of Rocket seeds exprest of Nigella exprest of Hemp exprest of sweet Almonds of each an ounce oyl of Iuniper half an ounce All being mixed pour upon them four ounces of Juyce of Harts-tongue exprest and boil them to the consumption of the Juyce then add distilled Oyl of Mastich Cummin and Myrrh of each a dram oyl of Ammoniacum Chamomil and Wormwood of each half a dâ—am Extract of Saffron two scruples Again mix them and with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make an Oyntment Virtue and Use. The Region of the Spleen being bathed with this Oyntment before a fire opens and comforts it and preserves it from scirrhous Tumors it also easeth the pains and discusseth the flatulency thereof Unguentum Spasmaticum or an Unguent for Convulsions Take Oyl of Snails distilled per descensum oyl of Earth-worms and Sesamus of each an ounce and a half the Fat of a gelded Ram Hedge hog and Fox of each an ounce May Butter without salt Stags marrow of each half an ounce Spirit of Iuniper three ounces Mix them and boil them to the consumption of the Spirit then add distilled oyl of white Amber three draâ—s oyl of Chamomil and Bays of each a dram and a half oyl of Rosemary and Sage of each a dram Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make an Oyntment Virtue and Use. It is chiefly useful in Convulsions after due Evacuation for it being applied to the grieved part and the Nerves with their Originals being anointed doth mollifie resolve and refresh the Nerves c. Let the part grieved be anointed morning and evening warm and you will quickly find ease Unguentum Renale or an Unguent for the Reins Take our Anodyne oyl of the seven Flowers four ounces oyl of white Poppy seeds exprest two ounces Oyntment of fresh Roses and Populeon of each an ounce Capons grease and the marrow of a Stag of each half an ounce red Sanders and Nitre prepared of each two drams juyce of the flowers of red Marsh-mallows six ounces Mix these and boil them to the consumption of the Juyces after with yellow Wax make an Oyntment Virtue and Use. It hath an excellent faculty in cooling and moistning for wheresoever there is need of humectation and refrigeration this may safely be used But first the Back Loins c. anointed with it cures all heat inflammation of the Reins and Stone nay it allays and mitigates pain coming of a hot Cause in any part of the body Unguentum Nephriticum Take simple oyl of Scorpions six ounces oyl of flowers of Mullein Chamomil Poplar and Dill of each an ounce oyl of Cherry kernels exprest and bitter Almonds of each an ounce and a half fat of a Hen Goose and Duck of each six drams Butter made red with Crabs Oyntment of Marsh-mallows of each two ounces Balsam of Turpentine three drams juyce of Pellitory of the Wall exprest a pound Mix them and boil it to the consumption of the Juyce and then with Wax make an Oyntment Virtue and Use. Let the Reins Loins and Back downwards as far as the Privy parts be often in the day anointed with this Unguent for being so anointed it wonderfully dilates and opens the passages that the stones and sand may pass downward with the more ease It lenifies the pains in the Kidneys relaxeth the Ureters and makes the stone and tartarous matter soft Unguentum ad Ambusta or an Oyntment for Burns Take Whites of Eggs two parts Sallet oyl one part Let them be wrought diligently together and exactly mixed that they may be made into a white Oyntment Virtue and Use. This Liniment is of most excellent use although it seems to be but of little worth or esteem yet I tell you That there hath not been found hitherto a more secret and present Remedy for all Burns than this is For it quickly safely and perfectly takes out the fire lenifies and stops the pain and cures all Ulcers by fire let them be made of what matter they will and leaves no Scar behind it so that it may be deservedly reckoned among the domestick Arcana's and communicated to Posterity And this is the way of using it Let the
quantity of Spirit of Wine and being dissolved add Oyl of bitter Almonds and Peach kernels common oyl of Wormwood of each six ounces Bulls gall three ounces Wine Vinegar an ounce and a half Mix them and boil it to the consumption of the Spirit of Wine Vinegar and Gall and toward the end add red Myrrh an ounce Troches of Alhandal and oyl of Savin of each three drams Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Wax make an Oyntment Unguentum Herniosum or an Unguent for Ruptures Take five and thirty Yolks of Eggs boiled hard May Butter without salt half a pound Mix them and upon a Charcoal fire boil them always stirring and scumming it and when it appears like pure Oyl let it be strongly prest and reject the Faeces afterward in the exprest Oyl being yet warm dissolve of our Balsamick oyl six ounces oyl of Peter four ounces Oxycroceum Plaster five ounces Mix them and make an Unguent according to Art Virtue and Use. It cures the Rupture of the Bowels but the Patient must lye on his back in bed for eight or fourteen days shunning excess both of meat and drink and let him take heed of windy Diet the part affected must be anointed twice a day morning and evening and the part duly swaddled or bound with things convenient and by the Blessing of God he will be certainly cured But in the mean time let him drink of our Decoction contra Herniam three or four spoonfuls at a time and with these Remedies I have cured innumerable Unguentum contra Pediculos or an Oyntment to kill Lice Take Oyl of Bays and Templinum of each four ounces juyce of Rue exprest six ounces Mix them and boil it to the consumption of the Juyce then add Quick-silver killed with the juyce of Sage an ounce and a half seeds of Stavesacre Nitre prepared Epatick Aloes of each half an ounce roots of Docks and white Hellebore Indian Tabaco of each two drams Camphire and oyl of Spike of each a dram Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Wax make an Unguent Virtue and Use. Experience it self teacheth the excellent use of this Oyntment for it kills all kind of Lice and is of good use in the Camp of Mars as well as Venus Unguentum ad Livorem Faciei or an Oyntment for the black Bruises of the Face Take white Tragacanth half an ounce Dissolve it in rose-Rose-water to the form of a Liniment then add Roots of Solomons Seal finely powdered four scruples Camphire two scruples Mix them and make a Liniment Virtue and Use. It is by Experience found good for the black and blue spots or marks on the Face or elsewhere caused either by Contusions Blows or any other violence and restores the part to its native and pristine colour if the part affected be anointed or imeared with it and so continue using it till it be well SECT XXXVI Of Plasters Emplastrum Epilepticum or a Plaster for the Epilepsie TAke Oyls of Castor Rue Flower-de-luce of each an ounce roots and seeds of Peony and Pellitory of Spain of each a dram Misleto of the Oak Squills prepared Elks horn and Mans Skull both Spagirically calcined of each two scruples Frankincense Mastich Ladanum Galbanum and Opopanax of each a dram flowers of Lavender Arabian Stoechas and Indian Spike of each a pugil distilled oyl of Rosemary and Hyssop of Nutmegs by expression of each a scruple of Rosin and Wax a sufficient quantity to make a Plaster according to Art Virtue and Use. It is applied to the Coronal Suture in the Epilepsie and other dangerous affects of the Head and gives present help and by a specifick quality doth virtually resist it Emplastrum Hypnoticum or a somniferous Plaster Take Unguentum Populeon and yellow Wax of each three drams Opium Spagirically prepared oyl of Nutmegs by expression of each a dram and a half Tacamahacca Mastich and Sandarack of each a dram Styrax Calamitis Olibanum and Rosin of each half a dram Gallia Moschata Extract of Saffron of each a scruple distilled oyl of Roses ten grains Mix them and make a Plaster of a just consistence according to Art Virtue and Use. It being laid to the Temples Forehead and Pulses it produceth a pleasant sleep and that especially if it be laid on at night going to bed Moreover it is of excellent use to stop Defluxions from the Head and to allay pain But for Hysterical Women the Gallia Moschata is to be omitted Emplastrum Stomachicum or a Plaster for the Stomach Take of Gum Tacamahacca four ounces the best Ladanum and Benjamin of each two ounces Colophony and yellow Wax of each an ounce our Balsamum Absinthiacum and Balsam of Peru of each half an ounce distilled oyl of Origanum Mother of Thyme Zedoary and Rosemary of each a scruple white Turpentine a sufficient quantity to make it into a Plaster of a just consistence Virtue and Use. It frees the Stomach from crudity and wind and helps the weakness and distention of it for it heats and wonderfully helps digestion and stays Vomiting and Loathing if it be laid to the Stomach and there continued Emplastrum Spleneticum or a Plaster for the Spleen Take Oyl of Capers and Chamomil of each four ounces juyces of Harts-tongue Wormwood Rosemary and Agrimony of each three ounces Boil them in Balneo to the consumption of the Juyces then add Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar Ammoniacum and Bdellium of each an ounce of Melilot Plaster and Diachylon simple of each six drams distilled oyl of Iuniper juyce of both sorts of Fern made thick of each half an ounce seeds of Agnus castus Garden Rue and Broom of each a dram and a half Rosin and Wax so much as will make all into a Plaster of a just consistence according to Art Virtue and Use. Spread this Plaster upon red Leather and being covered with a fine Linen Cloth sprinkle upon a sufficient quantity of Oyl of Rosemary and so lay it to the Region of the Spleen whose swelling and hardness it softens and dissolves it likewise comforts and opens the Spleen Emplastrum Marciale Take Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar Tacamahacca of each an ounce white Turpentine and yellow Wax of each six drams Assa foetida red Myrrh and Castor of each three drams Magistery of English Tin oyl of yellow Amber of each a dram and a half Mix them and make a Plaster according to Art Virtue and Use. It is effectually useful either in the rising or falling of the Matrix for being laid to the Navil it refresheth the Womb and suddenly reduceth it into its proper place and indeed in this most cruel Disease it is the only and best Plaster for the Womb in being and also approved c. Emplastrum Carminativum or a Carminative Plaster Take Oyl of Iuniper-berries and oyl of Rays of each four ounces juyce of Elder made thick juyce of Rue and dwarff Elder of each three ounces Pigeons and Goats dung macerated in Vinegar
Ship Pitch of each two ounces flowers of Chamomil an ounce and a half red Myrrh Sandarack Mastich and Olibanum of each an ounce roots of Angelica and Elicampane roots of English Galangal and sweet Costus round Cyperus Zedoary of each half an ounce white Turpentine sufficient to make a Plaster toward the end add distilled Oyl of Cummin and Caraways of each six drams and so make a Plaster according to Art Virtue and Use. It is effectually applied in the Dropsie and to discuss wind It also allays all pain proceeding from a cold intemperature of the Stomach Guts Liver Reins Bladder Womb and from the flatulencies of those and other parts In the Dropsie it is to be spread upon a thick Linen Cloth and applied to the whole Belly shunning the Region of the Liver Emplastrum Stipticum or a Stiptick Plaster Take Colophony Turpentine and yellow Wax of each six ounces Crust of Bread toasted and macerated in Vinegar four ounces oyl of Nutmegs exprest three ounces Mastich Sandarack and Olibanum of each two ounees sealed Earth Bole Armenick water-Mints and Wormwood of each an ounce sweet Cane and Cloves of each half an ounce Balaustines red Roses Cyprus Nuts Pomegranate peels Turkish Galls and Dragons blood of each two drams Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Oyl of Quinces make a Plaster according to Art Virtue and Use. It is a most excellent Plaster in the Dysentery Lientery Diarrhoea the Cholera and Vomiting in Children and for those who cannot retain their meat in all Fluxes it is applied to the lower Belly but for disorders of the Ventricle it is applied to the Stomach being spread upon Leather cut like a Buckler and laid on cover it with a Linen Cloth and let it be neatly applied Emplastrum Sticticum seu Puncturale or a Stictick Plaster for Punctures c. Take Cyprus Turpentine four ounces Gum Elami two ounces yellow Wax and Colophony of each an ounce red Lead finely powdered and Dragons blood of each six drams Styrax Calamitis and the Load-stone of each half an ounce roots of round Birthwort Foreign Mumy of each two drams Epatick Aloes and burnt Alum of each a dram Mix them and with Vulnerary Balsam make a Plaster according to Art Virtue and Use. This Plaster is of excellent use in green Wounds and Punctures in what part of the body soever they are though in the Head all which it drys mundifies consolidates and heals and hinders the growth of corrupt proud flesh Moreover it draws out Iron Lead Arrows pieces of Wood Darts c. that are struck into any part of the body it also draws any thing out of Wounds that offends them it mitigates pain and cures the biting or stinging of any venemous Beast Emplastrum Diaphoreticum or a Diaphoretick Plaster Take yellow Wax eleven ounces Colophony and Bdellium of each four ounces yellow Amber three ounces Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar and white Turpentine of each two ounces Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar Sandarack of each an ounce Mastich and Frankincense of each half an ounce Mix them and make a Plaster according to Art Virtue and Use. It consumes discusseth and draws out Flegm as by the use of it may appear certain drops of water standing upon the Skin and Plaster when it is pulled off Hence it is good in the Sciatica swellings of the Feet Kings-evil swellings and Tumors of the Glandules where we are not willing to bring them to Suppuration It takes away pain and the Scorbutick hardness of the Legs and is of good use in fractured Bones pains of the Joynts Luxations Falls and Contusions for it consumes the humidity of humors that falls upon the part Other ingenious and successful Practitioners use this following which is of great virtue also which use is the same with this Take yellow Wax sixteen ounces Bdellium pulverized five ounces Colophony and Ship Pitch of each four ounces yellow Amber three ounces Gum Ammoniack two ounces Mix them and make a Plaster which make soft with Oyl of Eggs. Emplastrum de Pice ejusdem fere operationis pro tenuioribus fortunae hominibus Or a Plaster of Pitch of the same operation for the poorer sort of people Take Ship Pitch a pound yellow Wax four ounces white Turpentine two ounces yellow Amber an ounce and a half Frankincense an ounce clarified Honey and liquid Varnish of each two spoonfuls Mix them and make a Plaster Emplastrum de Galbano Crocatum or a Plaster of Galbanum with Saffron Take Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar six ounces Melilot Plaster and Diachylon simple of each three ounces yellow Wax two ounces white Turpentine an ounce Oriental Saffron six drams Mix all and make it into the just consistence of a Plaster Virtue and Use. It is of most excellent use to mollifie and dissolve hard and scirrhous Tumors and to allay and mitigate the vehement pains of the Breast Shoulders Dugs Sides Hypochonders Stomach Liver Spleen Reins and Womb c. whether they arife from crude humors or thick flatulencies or any other cold intemperature of the Members Moreover it mollifies asswages concocts digests incides and dissolves Wens as well inveterate as those more new and recent We also use it happily in Convulsions and Hiccupping c. Emplastrum de Galbano or a Plaster of Galbanum Take Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar an ounce Ship Pitch half an ounce Diachylon simple two drams Sal Armoniack a scruple Mix them and make a Plaster Virtue and Use. It being spread upon Linen it is applied to the Corns and other Excrescences of the Feet that are troublesom and painful in travelling and it is changed once in three or four days Emplastrum mitigativum emolliens sedans or a mitigating emollient Plaster Take Oxycroceum Plasters two ounces Diachylon simple Diachylon compound and Melilot of each an ounce Mix them and with Oyl of Chamomil make a Plaster Virtue and Use. It maturates extracts discusseth resolves and mollifies all hardness and scirrhous Tumors in the Hypochonders Breast Stomach Liver Spleen and other parts it also forcibly mitigates and allays pain Minium coctum or red Lead boiled Take eleven ounces of Oyl Olive white Lead pulverized two ounces Boil them to the consistence of a Plaster then add red Lead finely powdered four ounces Goats Suet a pound and a half red Sanders six drams yellow Wax and burnt Alum of each three drams red Roses pulverized a dram Mix them and make a Plaster according to Art Virtue and Use. It cools and drys and is therefore effectually applied to burning Sores It potently cures Wounds old malignant and inveterate Ulcers which spread by the Acrimony of the humor and are difficult to consolidate it heals all the Exulcerations of the Skin Heats and Excoriations be the cause what it will Galbanum coctum or boiled Galbanum Take Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar and yellow Wax of each six ounces white Turpentine four ounces Mix them and make a Plaster of a just consistence Virtue and Use.
Great are the virtues of this Plaster in mollifying and dissolving for it digests mollifies and dissolves the knots and hard scrofulous Tumors arising on any of the principal Joynts and Members It takes away the Warts and Corns on the Feet Being applied to the part affected it removes the pain in the Head called Hemicrania It roborates the Nerves and Womb and easeth pain in any part proceeding from an influx of cold humors Being applied it heals the biting and stinging of any venemous Creature Scorpions Weasles Polcats c. Emplastrum Saturni or a Plaster of Saturn Take Lead burnt and washed two ounces Goats Suet and yellow Wax of each an ounce and a half Turpentine six drams Lapis Calaminaris prepared and white Lead washed of each half an ounce Pompholix Tutty prepared of each two drams red Myrrh Mastich and Olibanum of each a dram Epatick Aloes Camphire and Nitre prepared of each half a dram Mix them and make a Plaster of a just consistence Virtue and Use. This noble Plaster of Saturn is as it were a Divine help of late found out by me and by my Experience I have found it good for Burns Inflammations Tumors the Persian Fire c. It is also good for Wounds all malignant fetid insanable and corroding Ulcers as Fistula's Wolf Cancer Polypus Noli me tangere c. and the like deplorable Ulcers of Saturn which by this Plaster are cured and filled with flesh in a few days And this is our true and sincere Description of the Plaster of Saturn of which there are many Prescripts abroad but there is none true but this Emplastrum Arthriticum or a Plaster for the Gout Take fresh Sallet Oyl a pound red Lead finely powdered two ounces Being mixed boil them to a moderate consistence of a Plaster then add yellow Wax a pound seeds of Henbane finely powdered Colophony white Turpentine of each four ounces Mix them and make a Plaster according to Art Virtue and Use. The Plaster is really Anodyne and therefore universal Medicines being first prescribed it is most profitable in the Gout and running pains and to other cruciating pains also at any time for it wonderfully allays and pacifies all the injuries of pain Emplastrum Narcoticum or a Narcotick Plaster Take the juyces of Housleek six ounces of Henbane Hemlock Rosemary Vervain and Nightshade of each three ounces Oyl of white Lilies Camphire flowers of Mullein and Chamomil of each an ounce and a half Marrow of a Stag an ounce Let them be boiled according to Art in Balneo to the consumption of the Juyces then add of Virgins Wax and Colophony of each two ounces Ceruss an ounce and a half Opium Spagirically extracted flowers of wild Poppy of each three drams Foreign Mumy two drams Mix them and make a Plaster according to Art Virtue and Use. It cools and wonderfully allays the tormenting pains of the Gout and mitigates the Herpes Erysipelas and Phlegmons It potently extinguisheth all other hot intemperatures nay the burning heat of Inflammations It also easeth the pains of the Head and being applied to the Temples and Pulses it induceth sleep Emplastrum foetidum or a fetid Plaster Take Assa foetida three ounces seeds of Snap-dragon seven three Oaken Leaves red Coral and powder of the Load-stone of each a dram and a half Mix them and make a Plaster with Oyl of St. Johns-wort Virtue and Use. It hath been stupendiously experimented in any kind of Witchcraft and is as it were a thing sent down from Heaven For being laid upon the Centre of the Member where the tormenting pain is it doth not only drive away the Witchcraft but also all Phantasms and Inchantments without Superstition immediately vanish yet in the interim let the Patient drink of the following Decoction Take the herb Snap-dragon with the seeds St. Iohns-wort and Winter-green of each alike Boil them in Oyl or Wine to the consumption of the third part and drink a good draught morning and evening Emplastrum de Carne bubula or a Plaster of Beef Take Beef well dryed and pulverized Oyl of Tartar and yellow Wax of each two ounces white Turpentine Lapis Calaminaris Pumice-stone red and white Bole Litharge Mastich burnt Alum Oyl of Eggs of each half an ounce red Myrrh Olibanum and Camphire of each two drams Mix them and with two ounces of sharp Wine Vinegar make a Plaster according to Art Virtue and Use. It heals Woundâ— and old malignant corroding cancrous Saturniâ—e Ulcers which are difficult to consolidate it fills them with flesh drys them and brings them to cicatrize And Fistula's which are not grown callous this Plaster heals It is also of good use in all Putrefaction Piles and other Swellings of the Fundament as also all other distempers and accidents in those parts as Chops Fici c. And lastly it is successfully applied to all depascent Ulcers of the Paps and Privities Emplastrum Talpinum or a Plaster of a Mole Take May Butter without salt half a pound green Rue and fresh roots of Solomons-seal Boil these till the Butter appear green then let it be strained and prest and to the exprest Butter add yellow Wax half a pound Ship Pitch four ounces Oyl of Saturn an ounce one live Mole burnt Virgin Honey two spoonfuls white Oats and Wheat dryed over the fire in a Frying-pan till they be black and then pulverized of each a handful Of these make a Plaster Virtue and Use. It is most properly applied to Wounds and old stinking Ulcers all which it drys and heals fills them with good flesh and brings them to cicatrize drawing from them all sordid and filthy humors though they lye deep in the flesh Emplastrum contra Herniam or a Plaster for the Rupture Take Rosin six ounces Turpentine three ounces Oyl of Eggs and Dragons blood of each an ounce great Comfry roots and red Sanders of each half an ounce Crocus Martis made by reverberation two drams burnt Alum a dram Let the Rosin and Turpentine be melted together and being removed from the fire sprinkle the Powders in and then add the Oyl all being well mixed make a Plaster which by the help of hot water may be made into Rolls Virtue and Use. It is a present Remedy in all kind of Ruptures but in the first place it cures the Rupture of the Guts and Navil Let this Plaster be applied to the part affected that is to the lower Belly first bringing the Guts into their place by degrees then the Mons Pubis and the Scrotum being shaved apply it there also and let all be kept together by fit Ligation or strait Drawers lest the things fall off and let this be continued till the Patient be perfectly well During which time let him lye on a soft bed and be at quiet observing a regular Diet and let him shun a cold intemperate Air Wind Noise Clamor Singing Laughing Weeping lifting great weights or any other violent motion And let him also abstain from all flatulent windy
Diet and eat only thick viscid and adstringent Aliment the quantity of which ought to be small for hunger helps forward the Cure Emplastrum Diachylon Anodynum or an Anodyne Diachylon Plaster Take the Anodyne Oyl prepared from the seven Flowers four and twenty ounces Litharge well cleansed twelve ounces Mucilage of the seed of Henbane and Fleabane of Quinces and Flax the middle bark of the Teil tree roots of Marsh-mallows extracted with water of Nightshade four ounces Let the Litharge be finely powdered and prepared and then put to the Anodyne Oyl then let them boil over a gentle fire always stirring them till they are well mixed Remove them from the fire and let it cool a little theâ— put in the Mucilages and mix them all well together and bring them all to a just consistence c. Virtue and Use. It mollifies allays pain dissolves humors gathered in any part it digests and ripens hard Inflammations and hot Tumors and cures all things that are inflamed Moreover it gives ease in the Gout and is an excellent Medicine to bring down and abate a hot intemperature Emplastrum de Spermate Ceti or a Plaster of Sperma Ceti Take white Wax four ounces Sperma Ceti two ounces Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar an ounce Mix them and make a Plaster Virtue and Use. It being laid to the Breast of Women after their Delivery that do not give suck and there worn for certain days heals and removes all the pain caused by the Milk and all hard Tumors and swellings in those parts The Milk also coagulated or concreted it dissolves and also consumes the abundance of it SECT XXXVII Of Cataplasms Cataplasma de Fermento or a Cataplasm of Leaven TAke old Leaven an ounce and a half yellow Amber three drams Nutmegs and Cubebs of each half a dram water-Mints and Cloves of each a scruple Castor and wood of Aloes of each ten grains Mix them and with a little simple Spirit of Wine and Wine Vinegar of each alike bring all into the form of a Cataplasm Virtue and Use. Let it be applied warm to the top of the Head and repeat it often it curiously discusseth the cause of the Palsie of the Tongue and doth so consume and evacuate the matter from the superiour parts that always not without admiration the motion and speech returns and indeed it is a Secret in recovering the Speech and drying Catarrhs Cataplasma Febrile or a Cataplaesm for Feavers Take Gun-powder pulverized common Salt melted of each an ounce Spiders web Nutmegs and Olibanum of each two drams the herb Wormwood Shepherds-purse small Nettles and Rue of each a handful white Turpentine a sufficient quantity to make a Cataplasm for the Pulses Virtue and Use. This Cataplasm being put between two Cloths and laid to both the Wrists two hours before the Fit cures all Feavers in Children but especially bastard or spurious Tertians and wonderfully allays the violence of the Fit Cataplasma Scorbuticum contra Tumores Pedum or a Scorbutick Cataplasm against the Swelling of the Feet Take Wheat-bran well powdered half a pound Meal of Barley and Beans of each three ounces Meal of Lupines and Lentils of each an ounce and a half Venice Sope two ounces flowers of Chamomil two ounces of Marsh-mallows an ounce Litharge of Silver and red Bole Armeniack of each half an ounce roots of China and Rhubarb of each three drams Fungus of Elder-tree I suppose he means Jews Ears seven Boil them in Juyce of Elder exprest to such a thickness as may make a Cataplasm Virtue and Use. This Cataplasm in the Scurvy is applied warm to the Feet at night so that the whole Tumor be covered with it and there lye all night the next night let it be renewed and again applied and this continue and repeat so long till the Tumor be dissolved which by the use of this Cataplasm and the Blessing of God will soon succeed and the parts be corroborated Cataplasma de Cineribus or a Cataplasm of Ashes Take the Ashes of Hermodactyls roots of Asphodel Bean stalks Elder wood Figs Cutting of Vines dwarff Elder of each alike Mix them and with white Wine make a Lixivium Take of this Lixivium four pound of brown houshold Bread a sufficient quantity Boil them to a thickness and then add sharp Wine Vinegar half a pound Lapis medicamentosus three ounces powder of Cummin seed Bay-berries and Cloves of each an ounce Boil them gently and make a Cataplasm according to Art Virtue and Use. It is spread upon Linen Cloths and applied to Dropsical Tumors and Swellings Evacuation being first made there let it lye for certain hours and when it begins to raise the skin apply it lower toward the Knees and so by degrees still downwards till you come to the Feet Cataplasma de Nido Hirundinis or a Cataplasm of a Swallows Nest. Take a Swallows Nest Album Graecum an ounce and a half roots of Marsh-mallows and white Lilies of each an ounce Figs and Dates of each three Boil them in common water to the form of a thin Pultis then add Oyl of Violets meal of Chamomil Foenugreek Flax and Wheat of each six drams the brain of a Cat half an ounce of an Owl and Swallow burnt of each two drams the Yolk of an Egg Oriental Saffron a scruple Mix them and make a Cataplasm for the Neck Virtue and Use. It is often applied warm to the Neck in a desperate Quinsie and is indeed a Secret But the Album Graecum should be gathered from the Dog when the Sun is in Leo and the Dog should be shut up and fed with nothing but bones of a Calf gelt or otherwise and give him not much water and the first three days what the Dog voids throw away but what comes afterward gather for use Cataplasma contra Singultum or a Cataplasm against Hiccupping Take Leaven three ounces Iuniper-berries red Roses and water-Mints of each a dram Cloves Nutmegs and Mace of each half a dram strong Wine Vinegar a sufficient quantity make a Cataplasm with which mix Oyl of Cummin and Caraway of each half a scruple Virtue and Use. This is only useful in the Hiccup which being put between two Cloths and laid to the Stomach warm gives ease especially if it be often applied and it is a singular Medicine Pannus Linteus Crocatus or a Linen Cloth prepared with Saffron Take a coarse Linen hempen Cloth wash it five or six times in Frog Spawn gathered in March and filtred so that the little black things like Eyes may be separated and dry this Cloth by it self in the shade not in the Sun or by any other heat Then take Vinegar of Elder-flowers and Oriental Saffron a sufficient quantity and make a Tincture in which boil that coarse hempen Cloth till it hath imbibed a deep Saffron-colour this being done remove them from the fire and let them cool together then take the Linen Cloth thus saffronized dry it in the shade and keep it for
proprietatis 117 Pilulae Anodynae or pills easing pain 118 Pilulae Narcoticae or Narcotick pills ibid. Pilulae cephalicae or head-pills 119 Pilulae senectutis ibid. Pilulae Smaragdinae or pills of Emerauld 120 Pilulae Odontalgicae or pills for the Tooth-ach ibid. Pilulae de Calce viva or pills of quick Lime ibid. Pilulae odoriferae or odoriferous pills 121 Pilulae de Origano or pills of Origanum ibid. Pilulae rosatae 122 Pilulae polychrestae or pills good for many things ibid. Pilulae Melanagogae ibid. Pilulae Hydragogae 123 Pilulae spleneticae or pills for the spleen 124 Pilulae dulces ibid. Pilulae Peruvianae 125 Pilulae Terebinthinae or pills of Turpentine ibid. Pilulae Stipticae or the Stiptick pills 126 Pilulae de Sandarach 127 Pilulae de Sabina or pills of Savin 128 Pilulae uterinae or pills for the womb ibid. Pomum Ambrae 149 Pulvis Bezoarticus Imperialis or the Imperial Bezoartick powder 88 Pulvis Epilepticus c. or the wonderful Epileptick powder 90 Pulvis Ophthalmicus or a powder for the Eyes ibid. Pulvis refectivus or a refective powder 94 Pulvis excellens contra tussim infantum or an excellent powder for the Cough in children 95 Pulvis Stipticus c. 100 Pulvis Stipticus aliud or another Stiptick powder 101 Pulvis Polychrestus Imperialis or the Imperial powder good for many things 104 Pulvis Dysentericus or a powder for the bloody flux 105 Pulvis Stomachicus or a Stomachpowder 107 Pulvis Pleuriticus secretissimus or a most secret powder for the Pleurisie 108 Pulvis Febrilis probatus or an approved Feaver-powder 109 Pulvis Carminativus or a Carminative powder 111 Pulvis Haemorrhoidalis or a powder for the Piles ibid. Pulvis de Verbasco or a powder of Mullein 112 Pulvis probatus or an approved powder to heal the small Pox ibid. Pulvis Cyprius Violato-rosatus 113 Pulvis Cyprius moschatus ibid. Pulvis Manualis odoratus or a powder to wash the hands ib. Pulvis Erysipelatodes 114 Preparation and Calcination of River-flints 86 Preparation of the sweet earth of Vitriol ibid. R. ROs Mineralis or the Mineral Dew 13 Rotulae Imperiales 129 Rotulae Smaragdinae or rowls of Emerauld ibid. Rotulae Hyacinthinae or rowls of Hyacinth 130 Rotulae Cordiales c. ibid. Rotulae pectorales albae or white pectoral rowls 131 Rotulae pectorales citrinae or yellow pectoral rowls ibid. Rotulae pectorales rubrae or red pectoral rowls 132 Rotulae lac provocantes or rowls provoking milk ibid. Rotulae refectivae ibid. Rotulae stimulantes 133 Rotulae Aromaticae ibid. Rotulae refrigerantes or cooling rowls 134 Rotulae Carminativae or Carminative rowls ibid. Rotulae Diacymini ibid. Rotulae contra vermes or rowls for the worms 135 Rotulae Mithridaticae praeservantes or preservative rowls of Mithridate ibid. Rotulae Theriacales liberantes 136 Rotulae Angelicae c. or rowls for women with child ibid. Rotulae Zedoarticae pro pueris or rowls with Zedoary for children ibid. Rotulae Catarrhales calidae or rowls for a hot Catarrh 137 Rotulae Catarrhales frigidae ibid. S. SApo odoratus or persumed sope 149 Sal Apoplecticum or an Apoplectick salt 155 Sal Epilepticum or an Epileptick salt 150 Sal Cordiale or a Cordial salt ibid. Sal pectorale ibid. Sal stomachicum or salt for the stomach 157 Sal Epaticum 158 Sal Nephriticum 159 Sal Hydropicum ibid. Sal Uterinum 160 Sal Carminativum ibid. Sal Febrile 161 Sal Spleneticum or a salt for the spleen 158 Scammony rosated 39 Species Diasolis 88 Species Dialunae or the compound species of the Moon 89 Species Diamartis or the compound species of Mars 90 Species Diamercurii or a species compounded of Mercury 91 Species Diajovis or a compound powder of Jupiter 92 Species Diaveneris or a compound species of Venus ibid. Species Diasaturni or a compound species of Saturn 93 Species Diasulphuris or a compound species of sulphur ibid. Species Diavitrioli or a compound species of Vitriol 95 Species Diacinnabaris or a compound powder of Cinnabar 96 Species Dianitri or a compound species of Nitre ibid. Species Diatartari or a compound powder of Tartar 97 Species Diacrystalli or a compound powder of Crystal ibid. Species Diasuccini or a powder compounded with Amber 98 Species Diacretae or a compound powder of Chalk ibid. Species Diaboracis or a compound species of Borax 99 Species Diaterebinthinae or a compound powder of Turpentine ib. Species Diamumiae or a compound species of Mumy 100 Species Diaolibani or a species compounded of Olibanum 101 Species Diatabaci or a compound species of Tabaco ibid. Species Diamarjoranae or a compound species of Marjoram 102 Species Diabalustinae or a compound species of Balaustines ib. Species Diabuglossae or a compound species of Bugloss 103 Species Diaplantaginis or a compound powder of Plantane ib. Species Dialauri or a compound powder of Bay-berries 105 Species Diajalapiae or a compound powder of Ialap 106 Species Diaesulae or a compound powder of Esula ibid. Species stomachicae or a compound powder for the stomach 107 Species Pleuriticae or a Pleuritick species 108 Species Febrisugae 109 Species Nephriticae or a compound powder for distempered Kidneys 110 Species Cholagogae or a Choler-purging powder ibid. Spiritus vini cephalicus or a spirit of wine for the head 212 Spiritus vini Aromaticus or an Aromatick spirit of wine 213 Spirit of wine for the Tooth-ach 214 Syirit of wine for the Ears ibid. Spiritus vini Acovisticus 215 Spiritus vini pectoralis or a pectoral spirit of wine 216 Spirit of wine with Iuniper ibid. Spirit of wine for the stomach 217 Spirit of wine for the pain in the kidneys 218 Spiritus vini Lithontripticus or a spirit of wine for the Stone ibid. Spirit of wine for the Palsie 219 Spirit of wine with Treacle ibid. Spirit of salt coagulated 30 Spirit of Vitriol coagulated 31 Styli dentifricii or a cleansing medicine for the teeth 148 Syrupus Perlarum c. or syrup of Pearls 197 Syrup of red Coral 198 Syrup of Roses vitriolated 199 Syrupus Cephalicus or a syrup for the head ibid. Syrupus pectoralis or a pectoral syrup 200 Syrupus Asthmaticus or a syrup for the Asthma 201 Syrupus Cordialis or a Cordial syrup ibid. Syrupus de Cassia lignea 202 Syrupus Diacitri rosatus or a syrup compounded with Citrons and Roses ibid. Syrupus Antiscorbuticus or a syrup against the Scurvy 203 Syrupus de Pyrethro or a syrup of Pellitory ibid. Syrupus Nephriticus or a syrup against the stone in the Reiâ—s 204 Syrupus Stipticus or a Stiptick syrup 205 Syrupus Dysentericus laxativus or a purging syrup for the bloody flax ibid. Syrupus Pantagogus 206 Syrupus Hydragogus or a water purging syrup 207 Suffimentum Angelicum 150 Suffimentum Imperiale or an Imperial Perfume ibid. Suffimentum Epilepticum or an Epileptick Perfume 151 Suffimentum de Sandaracha ibid. Suffiment of white Amber 152 Suffiment of Tacamahaca ibid. Suffiment
keep it for use To the candid Reader THou hast here courteous Reader these Arcana's being Chymical and other Preparations partly private elaborated with my own care and Experience and partly from others yet by a due method produced in this place which for the dispensing our following Compositions are wholly necessary for thee with which few in this place I do satisfie my self I do neither hope for nor expect any other thing than thanks for things found and pardon for those omitted therefore do thou accept of these things such as they are as well with a benevolent as a ready hand and give when need requires thy assistance to those that want it improve all prudently and by these things preserve thy Neighbours health SECT V. Of Species and Powders Species Diasolis or the Compound Species of the Sun TAke Harts-horn and Elks hoof Spagyrically calcined sealed Earth of each a dram and an half Oriental Bezoar a dram Diaphoretick Mineral Iovial Bezoar of each two scruples Magistery of Pearls and-red Corals white Amber prepared of each half a dram the Solar and Animal Unicorn bone of a Stags heart of each a scruple true Gallia moschata eleven grains Oyls of Cinamon and Citrons of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is an Arcanum in all Epidemical and Pestilential diseases Erysipelas's poysonous draughts and in the Asthma or most dangerous straitness of the Breast for it defends the Heart from danger of poyson and expels by Sweat all noxious humors from it and doth wonderfully relieve it in all its distempers The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple in Carduus water Elder flowers or Treacle or any other appropriate Vehicle Pulvis Bezoarticus Imperialis or the Imperial Bezoartick Powder Take of Elks hoofs and Harts horn Spagyrically calcined of each three drams the red Oriental Bole prepared Iovial Bezoar of each two drams Oriental Bezoar stone sealed Earth of each a dram and a half flower of Sulphur compound the Animal Unicorn Magistery of Oriental Pearls red Coral of each half a dram native Cinnabar prepared bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Diaphoretick in all peracute diseases in burning malignant and Epidemical Feavers for it wonderfully drives out by Sweat all poisonous and vitious humors from the Heart and other principal Members The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple in appropriate sudorifick Waters or in Water or Decoction of the shaving of Hartshorn Species Dialunae or compound Species of the Moon Take roots and seeds of Peony gathered in a due time Elks hoofs Spagyrically calcined Magistery of Mans Skull of each half an ounce of the true Soul of the Moon in powder Lunar Bezoar of each four drams native Cinnabar prepared Misleto of the Oak Squills prepared of each two drams the Secundine of a Woman dryed but it must be of her first child and that a son also Peacocks dung prepared of each a dram and a half Salt of Oriental Pearls and red Corals of each a dram true Castor long Pepper Cubebs of each a scruple the best Musk and Ambergriese of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a most subtil Powder to which add Oyl of Hartshorn rectified Oyl of white Amber Nutmegs and Rue of each half a scruple Mix them again and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It doth wonders in Lunatisms Epilepsies or Comitials Vertigo's Lethargies Subeth and in all cold congealed evils of the Brain it doth also relieve those who are troubled with frightful dreams and uncertain fears The Dose in curing is from a scruple to half a dram given in the Fit in our Epileptick or Apoplectick or any other convenient water But in preservation it is given in all Quarters of the Moon and in all moist and unconstant seasons of Air from half a scruple to a scruple in the fore-mentioned Waters Pulvis Epilepticus mirabilis or the wonderful Epileptick Powder Take of the Skull of a man strangled and calcined without fire an ounce Misleto of the Oak counterfeit Cinnabar Elks boofs of each half an ounce Mix them and make a Powder of which give a scruple to Children immediately after the Fit but to full grown persons a scruple let this be repeated and it cures them Pulvis Ophthalmicus or a Powder for the Eyes Take of white Sugar Candy and Tuty prepared of each two drams Pearls prepared and Sarcocol of each half a dram Beans prepared a seruple Mix them and make a most fine Powder for the Eyes Virtue Use and Dose This Powder is a great Secret to me in many affects of the Eyes and first it heals dulness and spots in the Eyes it wipes away the little clouds and specks therein and is a present remedy for watry Eyes It sharpens the Sight and makes it clear and then conserves the Eyes sound and well It being used in time a small part of this Powder is sprinkled into the Eyes morning and evening or it may also be mixed with other Eye-medicines Species Diamartis or the Compound Species of Mars Take Tormentil Nutmegs Galls of each half an ounce Crocus Haematitis Crocus Martis made by calcination of each three drams Zedoary Calamus aromaticus white Amber prepared roots of Cinquefoil and Cloves of each two drams ashes of Spunge Oriental red Bole prepared sealed Earth Acacia of each a dram and a half seeds of Plantane those things corruptly called Rose seeds of each four scruples Harts horn and Mans bones Hermetically calcined of each a dram burnt Alum Soul of Vitriol of each half a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It helps the tenderness of the Stomach also Dysenteries pains in the Guts and spitting of blood and matter the Gonorrhoea Haemorrhoids It helps those that cannot hold their water or have a bloody Urine it stops Womens menstrual Purgations And lastly it stops all Haemorragies of blood from what part soever it proceeds The Dose from a scruple and half a dram to one dram in some convenient Liquor Species Diamercurii or the Compound Powder of Mercury Take seeds of Cina thirteen drams Mercurius dulcis five drams the best Rhubarb Gummi Turbith Corallina of each two drams shavings of Harts horn red Myrrh of each a dram tops of the lesser Centaury Tansie Camphire of each a scruple Oyl of Hazel-wood distilled per descensum Spirit of Vitriol of each half a scruple Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is given for the Worms the Moon decreasing from a scruple to a dram according to the age and strength of the Patient it is given in Milk and is an excellent Medicine against all kind of Worms for having killed them it brings them away by stool It is given also in water of Wormwood