vehement heate of the Kidneyes miraculously and in short tyme and it like auayleth in them which haue the Lyuer and Lungs vlcered and this often experienced in many persons The water of Angelica The .ix. Chapter THe aptest tyme for the distillation of the most singular herbe Angelica is when this begynneth to yéelde the floures then the whole Herbe with the rootes broken and shredde infused a tyme in the best wyne to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of Glasse with his heade and large Receyuer set to the Nose of it well closed about with Waxe and Rosin myxed togither This water thus Artely dystilled by dryncking a quantitie sundry Mornings doth not onely open attenuate and expell euill humours but marueylously preuâ—yleth agaynst the Plague and deadly poysons The same drunke with a quantitie of Rosed honie and a scruple weyght of the pouder of Cynamon or more digesteth Fleugmaticke and clammie humors Yea this amendeth the Cough in short time procéeding of colde in that it causeth the person more easily to spit vp grosse and clammie fleugme The water drunke diuers Morninges swéetened with a little Sugar or Rosed honie doth recouer and heale the inner Vlcers of the Bowelles and dissolueth the clotted bloâ—de wythin the Bodie and strengtheneth the stomacke Thys water ministred wyth a little of Cynamone water and a scruple of the pouder of the roote at a time for sundrie Mornings doth miracâ—lously helpe swouning and other passions or griefes of the heart This water auayleth agaynst the byting of madde venymous Beasts applyed outwardly with Rewe and receyued within the bodie with a scruple weyght of fine Tryacle Hereof it commeth to passe that certayne of the later Phisitions haue a great opinion in the bestowing of the roote of the Herbe in their Medicines for the expelling of poyson The water of the Nettle The .x. Chapter THe leaues and flowers plucked of require to be dystilled about the .xiij. daye of Iuly in Balneo Mariae This water drunke at Morning Noone and at Euening vnto the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme profiteth agaynst the Cholicke passion and grypings of the Bowels it putteth away the stone and griefes of the Kidneyes procéeding of colde The lyke quantitie drunke helpeth an olde Cough the harde fetching of breath and swouning of an vntemperate coldenesse procéeding and lyke recouereth the Lungs colde The same druncke a tyme togither preuayleth agaynst wormes of the belly and all maner of wyndie passions in the same It profiteth filthie and mattrie wounds and sores running if they be often washed with the same or Lynnen clothes wet in it be applied vpon If linnen clothes wet in the water of the red Nettle be diuers times applyed doth marueylously recouer helpe in short tâ—â—â— the byte of a mad Dog. The water of the rootes purely washed and shred before the dystilling in the Canicular dayes drunke Morning and Euening vnto the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a tyme preuayleth agaynst a long continuing and colde Cholicke ceaseth an olde Cough and breaketh the Impostumes of the Lungs The water drunke and applyed on the members putteth away the depriuation of féeling speach and moouing and the Palsie It also profiteth the prime place looseth the Bellie healeth the griefes of the Lunges and is to be applyed to the breast The same drunke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of two or thrée ounces at a tyme putteth away the payne of the stomacke draweth downe womens Termes and expelleth the yoongling deade A dramme weyght of the pouder of the Séedes drunke with a quantitie of the water and a little of the swéete Cuite of Reysius prouoketh a desire to the Venerall acte The water of Alkakengi or Winter Cheries The .xi. Chapter OF the kirnels gathered in the Moneth of August and brused let a water be dystilled in Balneo Mariae according to Arte This water dayly drunke at Morning Noone and at Euening to the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a tyme but to Children and Infants onely one ounce giuen helpeth the Lyuer the stone of the Kidneyes and Bladder The water drunke in the same maner stayeth the dropping of the Vrine spéedily purgeth the Lyuer Kidneys and Bladder This also drunke in the maner abouesayde recouereth the grieuous blystering and sorenesse of the Kidneys and Bladder and right profitable for the pyssing of Bloude The water of Alchimilla or Lions foote The .xij. Chapter VNto the congruent Dystillation the roote and Herbe wyth the whole substance requireth to be shredde and to be dystilled about the ende of Maye or the myddes of Iune in Balneo Mariae This water drunke vnto the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a tyme both Morning and Euening is not onely auayleable for inwarde woundes but healeth wynding vlcers and ruptures The water applyed wyth Lynnen clothes wette in it on outwarde wounds doth not only asswage the euill heate but also closeth them in short tyme this experienced in wounde drynckes ministred by diuers skilfull Germaines A dramme of the pouder of it taken with thrée ounces of the water helpeth the falling of the Bowels into the Codde or other rupture in short tyme without any cutting The lyke weyght of the pouder gyuen with the water swéetened with a little Sugar for fiftéene or twentie dayes togither procureth the woman not apt to conceyue through a coldenesse of the ouermuch moysture of the wombe which letteth the retayning of the séede iniected to conceyue in short tyme after The dystilled water drunke and conceyued into the wombe doth myraculously staye the whytes or whyte fluxe from the backe in women yea by the dayly iniection is the priuie place made so straight that hardly she can be knowne from the chaste Mayden the rather by sitting in the decoction which then is sooner perfourmed This also draweth vp hanging Pappes or Breastes of women and causeth them to be fast and harde if Lynnen clothes wette in it with the water of Horsetayles and the dryed peares of Roses with other â—ipticke things be often applyed The water of Barberies The .xiij. Chapter THe fruite of Barberies when they be rype as in October require to be dystilled in Balneo Mariae This water giuen with the sirrupe of Violets to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme Morning and Euening doth not only cease thyrst in vehement and pestilent Agues but suppresseth Cholericke and pernicions exhalations causing an euill heate in man The same like drunke profiteth against the heate of the Lyuer in the Cholicke passion in the casting or vomiting vppe of meate in fluxes and painfull grypings of the bellie and restoreth the appetite weake The water myxed with redde Corall and drunke stayeth the ouermuch shedding of the Termes The water drunke with the water of Grasse or Purcelane or Southernwoode sweetened well with Sugar â–ª killeth the woormes in the Bellie the water drunke sundrie tymes helpeth the spitting of bloud It fasteneth loose téeth if they be often washed wyth
it It strengtheneth the gummes and Iawes by often gargelling and represseth the hote styllinges from the heade The water closeth the freshe woundes in the vpper face of the fleshe and dryeth vp olde Vlcers being orderly applyed Neuerthelesse this water harmeth them which be grieued wyth paynes of the stomacke procéeding of wynde and coldenesse and that hardly fetch breath The water of Bryonie The .xiiij. Chapter THe roote of Bryonie shredde small requyreth to be dystilled about the ende of May This water drunke to the quantitie of foure ounces at a time with the conserue of Quinces a little Maâ—ticke helpeth digestion clenseth the breast mundifieth the brayne openeth the stoppings of the bowels causeth Vrine expelleth the stone in the Kidneyâ— deliuereth the falling sicknesse The water gâ—â—en with the â—rrup of Roses and Figges wrought togither doth marueylously helpe the Cough and resolueth hard swellings especially of the Mylt The water drunke with a little Cynamone draweth downe the Termes purgeth the whole wombe and expelleth the deade yongling the rather if she sitteth in the decoction of the rootes The féete washed and laboured with the faine preuayleth against the gout Foure ounces of the water drunke with a dramme weyght of sâ—me Cordiall pouder amendeth an euill stomacke but eyght ounces receyued at a tyme looseth the Bellie The water asswageth the burning heate of the Shingles putteth away vnséemely spottes moles and pimples yea cleareth a redde and Lâ—prâ—â—â— face and amendeth the scarres of woundes if it be often applyed after the forme of a Liniment The water applyed with Linnen clothes wet in it doth recouer a running Palsie and putteth away a swelling and the â—ingâ— euill The water sundrie dayes drunke doth marueylously helpe the suffocation or strangling of the Matrice insomuch that it throughly deliuereth and healeth such of the same griefe And a 〈◊〉 dayly deâ—eâ— in a 〈◊〉 with this griefe for certaine yeares was in the ende throughly cured of the same by drinking of the water boyled with an ounce of the roote swéetned with Sugar at the going to Bedde once in the wéeke for one whole yeare The water of Shepeheardes Purse The .xv. Chapter THe Herbe with the whole substance gathered and shredde small requireth to be dystilled in Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye or beginning of Iune This water drunke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme with a little fine Bole and Plantaine water is profitable for all maner of fluxes and grypings of the Bellie and helpeth the spitting vp of Bloude in the same maner druncke stayeth the abundance of the Termes in women if they sit in the decoction of the Herbe and Persicaria or Arssmart The water orderly applyed closeth freshe woundes and mitigateth the dolour of all woundes by washing them oftentimes with it This also dropped warme into the eares â–ª amendeth the matterie running of them The water applyed with Lynnen clothes wette in it on Inflammations and the Shingles mightily preuayleth Yea it stayeth all fluxes of Bloude by applying Lynnen clothes wette in it round about or on the place This also commended for the washing of wounds on the heade in that it mightilye stayeth bléeding and the same druncke to the quantitie of vj. or .vij. ounces swéetened with a little Sugar stayeth the bléeding of woundes The water restrayneth the bléeding at the Nose if a Pessarie made with rawe silke and dipped or wette in the same be put vp into the Nosethrils The lyke it perfourmeth if with a Lynnen cloth wette in the water it be applyed on the foreheade The water of Camomill The .xvi. Chapter THe Herbe Camomill with the whole substaunce shredde requireth to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of Glasse about the ende of May or beginning of Iune This water drunke morning and euening to the quantitie of two or thrée ounces at a tyme swéetned with Sugar doth mittigate the paine of the Bellie and grypings in the Bowels It strengtheneth the sinewes taketh away the Palsie and softeneth styffe members The same quantitie drunck with Rosed honnie looseth the Bellie purgeth downewarde Melancholie and Fleugme with other clammie humors and asswageth heate in the Bowels The water in lyke quantitie druncke amendeth the yelowe Iaundyse openeth the Vrinall wayes procureth vrine breaketh the stone of the bladder and Kidneys by mixing the Saxifragâ— water with it It mooueth the Termes in women and expelleth the deade yongling if any such be in the wombe of the woman all clammie humors besides of the Matrice This water druncke in the lyke maner abouesayde doth put away Agues without burning in the bowels procéeding of Cholericke humors or by thicknesse of the skynne It also openeth the Mylt stopped putteth awaye swelling of the stomacke by comforting and heating it stayeth besides the fluxe of the Bellie named Lienteria In the abouesayde maner druncke recouereth the impostume of the Lunges and amendeth the Leprie The water applyed with Lynnen clothes on the vlcered priuities asswageth heate and diminisheth the payne The water druncke and applyed with Lynnen clothes wette in it doth spéedily heale the bytte and stinging of venimous wormes and beastes The water profiteth the Marrowe or Bones if they shall be felt colde by often washing and rubbing of them with the same It also comforteth the Brayne ceaseth headach procéeding of a colde cause stayeth the colde running of the eares and draweth downe euill humors from the Brayne gathered of colde if the heade by a Lye made with the floures boyled in it be well washed The water of Honysuckles The .xvij. Chapter THe tyme congruent to the Dystillation is that the flowers bestowed in a Cucurbite of Glasse be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Iune This water druncke foure or fiue dayes morning and euening recouereth the Cardiacke passion and harde fetching of breath The water druncke in the same maner helpeth the Dropsie the shortnesse of wynde causing a long breath and purgeth the stomacke This in lyke maner preuayleth agaynst the stone of the Loynes purgeth the reynes and dissolueth the swelling of the Mylt yet by drincking a long time togither of this procureth barraynesse all the life time This water is profitable for them to drincke which feare the coÌ„ming of the Leaprie and purgeth the bloud it also amendeth the redde pushes in the Face putteth awaye Moles and causeth a cleare face if it be dyuers tymes in the daye washed wyth the same the water is effectuous for Palsie meÌ„bres which be dryed and consumed if with the same they be dayly rubbed it profiteth olde and new woundes washed morning and euening wyth the same it also healeth spéedily olde vlcers on the legges as the worthie Chyrurgian Iohannes de Vigo affirmeth if they be often washed with the same this annoynted on any swellinges healeth them or druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme The water doth lyke recouer astonished or benummed partes of the body by
nim 455. expelleth the same nor suffereth any hurtfull disease to insue to the parson The water druncke fasting for certayne dayes procureth an appetite to meate and purgeth the stomacke of clammye humours If with it before the taking be halfe a drame of pure Calamus Aromaticus brought to fyne powder and a dramme of Sugar myxed the same potion taken thrée or foure tymes doth mightily restore the taste and desire to rate The â—ater druncke with a dramme of Ginger and an ounce of Sugar â—asting doth spéedily deliuer the grypings of the Bellye caused by wynde and the obstruction in the flankes This of experience founâ—e that the freshe roote brused and applyed in playster forme on the bellie doth vndoubtedly kill the wormes consisting in the Bowels The Water of ioynted Grasse The .xxxvi. Chapter THe congruent Distillation of it is done of the Herbe with the rootes and the whole substance shredde small And the same after the bestowing in a Cucurbite of Glasse distilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water drunke morning and Euening to the quantitie of foure ounces at a tyme with a dramme of the fyne powder of Synamone and a little Sugar stayeth the great fluxe of the Bellie The same quantitie of the water drunke at one time purgeth the Reynes prouoketh vryne and openeth the stopping of partes in the bodie The like quantitie taken with a little Rosed Honie fasting expelleth the wormes in the Bellie to Infantes and children onely giue but twoo ounces to youth of more yeares minister thrée ounces to men and elder persons foure ounces as aboue taught The water ceaseth the grieuous payne of the Shyngles by applying lynnen clothes wette in it â–ª It putteth awaye the Feuer arysing by heate eyther by drinking or applying the same without the bodie The water preuayleth against all paynes and burning beate of woundes yea and closeth them if they be gently wasshed and soupled with a lynnen clothe wette in it or lynnen clothes wette in the same be applyed The water in the foresayde quantitie drunke fasting ceaseth and helpeth the grypinges of the Bowels amendeth the stopping of Vryne recouereth the vlcers of the Bladder and breaketh the stone but a dramme of the powder of the séedes mixed with the water more auayleth in sending forth the vryne The water dropt warme in the matterie eares healeth them in short time It profyteth the rottennesse of the Gummes if they be often washed with the same This helpeth blacke pushes â— if a lyâ—â—nen clothe or soft Towe wette in it be applyed twyse or thâ—yce a daye and that at eche tyme be thrée or fower ounces drunck The water ceaseth all maner of heates by applying without lynnen clothes wette in it In yongmen and of xxx yeares doth this water mâ—â—e worke than in the elder persons The water of Grounde Yuie or Tunhoue The .xxxvij. Chapter THe congruent time of Dystillation is that the whole herbe shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Iune This water drincke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a tyme swéetened with Sugar preuayleth against the trembling of the heart the Kinges â—uill and a weake stomacke The water druncke in a bathe throughlye clenseth clammie hâ—mours which are contayned in the stomacke the Lungs the Liuer and Bladder and procureth the â—erson healthfull The water druncke in like maner preuayleth â—â—ainst the infection and poyson of the Plague in that it expelâ—eth the same The water druncke twyse a daye to the quantitie abouesayde doth recouer the vlcers of the Heads openeth the stopping of the Lyuer and Mylt draweth downe the Tâ—rmes of women and prouoketh vrine The water drunck morning noone and at euening preuayleth against the wearynesse of members in women if the partes also be rubbed with it fower times in a daye This water stilled into dropping and running eyes stayeth and dryeth vp the water The like perfourmeth the â—â—â—ce of the leaues or myxed with this water and applyed to them The water of Cowslippes The .xxxviij. Chapter THe aptest time for Dystillation of it is that the leaues and floures with the whole substance shredde togither be dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of Glasse about the beginning of Maye or sooner This water druncke twyce a day to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a tyme heateth the stomacke the Liuer and Matrice For which cause it is much auayleable for women painfully traueyling and prouoketh the termes in them The water in the foresayde maner druncke asswageth swellings of the hoade if lynnen clothes wette in it be often applyed The water twyse a day drunck resolueth humors gathered causing ache in the Hyppes and Ioyntes and sendeth them forth by vrine This water preuayleth against all maner of headache procéeding of colde by applying lynnen clothes wette in it to the aking heade It healeth also the bytte and stinging of venimous wormes and beastes and all poysonings The water clenseth the fowle staynings the wrinckling and spottes of the face and the rest of the bâ—die in that it causeth a smoothe and fayre skynne by often washing with the same The water druncke twyse a day helpeth the Palsie putteth awaye the stone in the Kidneyes and Bladder It also recouereth loose and broken bones by drinking and often applying lynnen clothes wette in it The flowers made into a Conâ—eâ—â—e with Sugar profite such as are féeble and often swounding and that be decayâ—d of strength in that they recouer and restore strength lost The water of Stoikes bill or herbe Robert. The .xxxix. Chapter THe â—â—st congruent time for Distillation of it is that the stalkes leaues and whole substance shredde small be distilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae about the ende of May or beginning of Iune This water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time mixed with a little Pepper and Myrrhe in fine powder profiteth such as are dacayed in strength and the like quantitie druncke twyce a day for thrée dayes togither or longer time mixed with Rosed Honie preuayleth against Inflations and recouereth the Phthisick or sore in the Lunges with a Consumption of all the bodie The water drâ—nck with halfe an ounce of the séedes and a quantitie of Myrrhe and Pepper in fine powder myxed togither doth put awaye the â—rycke and sâ—yffenesse of turning the necke The water profiteth the exulceration of womens places if they be wasshed twise a daye with the same and that lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed This water putteth away the blacke and blewe of the skinne caused by a fall or stâ—ype if it be applyed with linnen clothes thrée or foure times a day in that it dissolueth and weareth away the congealeâ—â—loude vnder the skinne Thâ—s also healeth the Fistula if it be washed with the water morning and euening or that lynâ—â—n clothes wette in it be applyed The water auayleth against ioyntaches of the shoulders and féete if it be laboured on the
time as a certaine man of proofe affirmeth The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time strengtheneth the stomack heateth and comforteth nature The water in like maner druncke putteth awaye the yelowe Iaundise and prouoketh vrine The water taken in the morning fasting for a certaine time togither to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time and that Lynnen clothes wette in it be often applyed doth preuayle against all swellings being as well without as within the bodie The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time and that Lynnen clothes wette in it be often applyed doth heale olde and newe woundes aswell wythin happening as without the bodie The water of Cinkfoyle or fiue leaued grasse The Lix Chapter THe best time for dystillation of it is that the herbe stalke roote with the whole substance shred small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of Maye This water druncke morning and euening for certaine dayes to the quantitie of foure ounces at a time helpeth the stone the griefe of the Stone in the Loynes and clenseth the Reynes The water druncke fasting to the quantitie of eygth or nine ounces at a tyme doth mightily loose the belly and like resolueth the hardnesse of belly by applying it without The water applyed with lynnen clothes wette in it ceaseth all maner of heates and swellinges applyed with lynnen clothes wette to the foreheade stayeth the bléeding at the nose It recouereth the trembling of members and the handes if they be often laboured with the same and let to drye in by it selfe The water healeth newe and olde woundes if they be washed with the same or applyed with lynnen clothes It also putteth awaye all swellinges and Impostumes The water druncke fasting for certaine dayes profiteth against all maner of Feuers and expelleth them vtterlye The water of Thowrowaxe dystilled in Balneo druncke to the quantitie of two ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar helpeth the inner rupture of Children healeth inflammations with a readnesse and the Shingles and ceaseth the griefe of a burning stomacke The water of S. Iohns Worte The Lx. Chapter THe best tyme for Dystillation of it is that the herbe the leaues and flowers drawne from the stalkes be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Iune This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of two ounces at a time preuayleth against the Apoplexie or depriuing of senses This water myxed with the powder of the rootes or séedes or water of Pionie and druncke twyse or thryse a daye to the quantitie of two or thrée ounces at a time recouereth and helpeth the falling sickenesse The water preuayleth against the trembling of members if they be laboured with the same twyse a day The water drunck with redde wine helpeth all manner of superfluous fluxes of the Bellie the rather being applyed with a lynnen clothe wette in it The water druncke morning and euening healeth all maner of woundes being as well without as within the Bodie foynes or cuttes the rather if they shall be washed or applyed often with a lynnen cloth wette in it The water of Pympernell The Lxi. Chapter THe congruent tyme for dystillation of the lesser Pympernell which hath a sharpe roote is that the rootes the herbe with the whole substance shredde and bruised be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of May. This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a tyme swéetened with Sugar helpeth the stone and griefe of the stone in the Loynes and Bladder and clenseth the Reynes This water helpeth the Plague druncke once wythin sixe dayes It profiteth women whose matrice is become colde and draweth downe the Termes The water druncke in lyke quantitie with a little of Castoreum brought to fine powder fasting putteth away the palsie of members The water druncke fasting to the quantitie of foure ounces at a time defendeth the person from sickenesse that daye in that it putteth away all maner of griefe from the heart deliuereth euill humors and procureth vrine this druncke with a little fine Triacle preuayleth against poyson The water causeth a cléere and fayre skinne of the face and handes if any often washeth these outwarde parts with it The water of Plantayne The Lxij Chapter THe rootes and herbe with the whole substance shredde small dystill by Balneo Mariae about the ende of May. The water druncke for fortie dayes morning and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a tyme swéetened with a little Sugar recouereth the Dropsie a hote Cough and that swelling procéeding of a heate and healeth Blysters and pushes rysing of heate It profiteth any fluxe of the Bellie but especiallye helpeth that fluxe Dysenteria if you mixe in the drinking the powders of the stone Hematites and Bole Armoniacke to the quantitie or weyght of a dramme of eche with two ounces of the water This lyke mixed and druncke stayeth the humorall fluxe and the ouer great fluxe of the Termes The water healeth the vlcers and impostume of the Lunges it preuayleth against poyson The water recouereth the falling sicknesse by drincking it for fortie dayes The water druncke for fower dayes helpeth the loue medicine if a purgation be afterwarde taken and this druncke a time deliuereth the griefe of the Mylt It killeth wormes by drincking fasting the quantitie abouesayde taken fasting for thrée dayes togither to the quantitie of foure ounces at a time helpeth the Ague It also recouereth the Matrice and sendeth forth the after burthen The water helpeth the Plague and profiteth inflammations by applying Lynnen clothes wette in it The water healeth all vlcers which are happened by a bruise stripe fall or by any other cause The water retayned a long time in the mouth healeth all woundes and vlcers of the mouth and the gummes rotten by bloude The water dropped euery day into a Fistula healeth it the rather if it be often washed with the same The water dropped into the eares remooueth the payne of them It helpeth the Shingles and dropped or applyed to the eyes putteth away the swelling of them The water gargelled in the mouth recouereth the exulceration of the throte The water applyed with lynnen clothes on freshe woundes stayeth the issue of bloud It healeth the bytte and stinging of venimous beastes and woormes recouereth inflammations and those with a readnesse by applying lynnen clothes wette in it The water applyed with lynnen clothes preserueth woundes that no inflammation or other incommoditie happeneth to them It healeth those Vlcers which by féeding créepe abrode The water cureth that fore féeding which most men name the Wolfe if in it be boyled the flowers of Pomegranates Psidia the Cypresse nuttes Xylobalsamum Carpobalsamum Sugar Alum of eche an ounce of Mumia an ounce and a halfe and of Camphora one dramme of Plantaine water one pynte with the which decoction thus prepared let the sore bée dayly washed The water often
dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Iune putteth away vlcers of the gummes by often washyng the mouth with the same The water profiteth the consumption of members if they be often rubbed and laboured with the same in that by it they recouer strength and flesh The water heateth the marrowe of the bones if they be often washed and laboured with the same and let to drie by themselfe The water profiteth against a colde disease of the ioyntes if they be rubbed and laboured with the same and let to drie by themselfe The water of Mullaine or Hygges Taper The Lxxiij Chapter THe leaues with the flowers full rype gathered from the stalkes after the shredding small dystill by Balneo Mariae This water is most precious against all swellinges as well inwarde as outwarde by drincking of it morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a time or that a lynnen cloth doubled and wette in the same be often applyed The water in such maner taken helpeth the lunges ascending vnto the throte and increasing Thys in lyke manner profiteth against a hote gowte by drincking of it morning and euening and applying lynnen clothes wette in the same for on such wyse handled a better remedie is not to be founde The water profiteth against all maner of griefes procéeding of a fluxe by drincking thereof morning noone and at night to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar and a little of the fine powder of Cinamone in the same maner druncke putteth away the grypings of the bowels The water recouereâ—h the face which appeareth infeâ—â—ed after the kynde of a Leprie if a soft lynnen cloth dypped in the same be often applyed vpon The water helpeth burnings or scalding â–ª if a double lynnen clothe assoone as the harme done wette in the same be applyed the rather by dooing on such wyse oftentimes for it draweth forth and extinguisheth the heate without harme leauing The water amendeth an ytching scabbednesse whether the same shall be moyst or drie by applying lynnen clothâ—s wette in the same morning noone and at euening The water profiteth if an inflammation with rednesse happeneth on the skinne by wetting a lynnen clothe in the sâ—me and applying it to the place The water profiteth if anâ—e shall haue a long tyme dymme eyes and weake of sight by letting one or twoo droppes fall at a time into eche eye for two or thrée wéekes togither The water of the Lynde or rope Timber tree The Lxxiiij Chapter THe flowers orderly gathered and put into a Cucurbite of glasse dystill by Balneo Mariae This water clenseth anye spottes of the face if the face be often washed with the same as Hieronimus the Herbarian reporteth The water druncke with a little Cynawone water recouereth the trembling of the heart The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time helpeth the falling sickenesse The water drunck in like maner profiteth against the fretting of the guâ—tâ—s and dropped at euening into the eyes procureth a cléerenesse of them The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time helpeth the stone In the same maner druncke recouereth swellings and sendeth all maner of euill humâ—rs out of the bodie The water of Tormentill The Lxxv. Chapter THe herbe with the whole substance shredde and bruised requireth to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae from the xv day of August vnto the viij of September This water druncke in the morning fasting to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time preuayleth against all maner of poysons The water is a good preseruatiue against the plague and an vnhealthfull ayer For the plague when it inuadeth any incontinent open a veyne as it behooueth after giue this potion on such wyse prepared take of the water of Tormentill thrée ounces of Uenice Triacle a dram weyght of wyne vinegar an ounce and a halfe which diligently myxed togither minister warme to the pacient lying in his bed and well couered with clothes to sweate whyles he thus lyeth in a sweate rubbe and labour his handes and féete with Uinegar Rue Wormewoode and Salt myxed The next day following minister againe the same potion and he shall then recouer helth The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time recouereth the desperate and all vlcers in maner and stayeâ—h any maner fluxe of the bellie especiallye the fluxe Dysenteria The water taken in the same maner strengtheneth the bodie comforteth the brayne the heart stomacke lyuâ—r mylt and the whole brest if wyne sometymes be myxed with the same The water druncke in the same maner helpeth all Agues it strengtheneth and comforteth such recouering out of a long sicknesse The water druncke profiteth woundes as well within the body as without and cureth outwarde woundes the spéedier if they be often washed with the same It also helpeth all manner of griefes of the eyes by dropping of the same euery night into the eyes for it cleareth the sight The water healeth the Fistula and Canker if they be often washed with the same and that lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed To be briefe in what maner and what sickenesses the water shall be applyed and ministred shall of experience founde be profitable The water of Valeriane The Lxxvi Chapter THe congruent time for dystillation of it is that the herbe rootes and stalkes with the whole substance shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of May. This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a time and applyed with lynnen clothes recouereth vlcers swellings causing payne and great pyles in the fundament It also profiteth against other pyles by applying lynnen clothes wette in the same The water helpeth such bursten and the bone somewhat broken by applying and drincking of the same It also dropped into the eyes cleareth them The water druncke in the morning fasting of Chyldren to the quantitie of of a spoonâ—full at a time deliuereth the wormes in the bellie The water druncke profiteth against poyson and a pestilent ayer It healâ—th newe and olde woundes recouereth vlcers and impostumes within the bodie and putteth awaye ache of the hyppes The water drunck procureth cleare eyes taketh away the paiâ—â— of them and prouoketh sweate powred into troubled wine causeth the same cléerer and purer The water remooueth griefe of the members procéeding of a cold cause by labouring the members with the same The water of the rootes onely dystilled by Balneo Mariae from the myddes of August vnto the viij daye of September drunck helpeth poyson and profiteth against venimous beasts wormes The water helpeth the quotidian feuer drunck to the quantitie of sixe ounces before the coÌ„ming of the fit The water drunck and applyed with lynnen clothes preuayleth against payne stitches of the sides The water procureth vnitie loue where twoo shall drincke togither a cup full
rounde about for the easier and handsommer setting to and fastening of the Receyuing vessels The water wythin the Tubbe must he cause so long to séeth vnto the tyme all the matters and substances in the Cucurbites be wholy dystilled The forme of makyng the abouesayd Balneum Mariae is borowed out of that skilfull worke named Pirotechnia which in Englysh is called the Arte of Firie workes or working by fire The figure of Balnei Mariae inuented by Albâ—casis as the learned Gesnerus coniectureth The .xij. Chapter THe Letter A. in this figure representeth the Furnace where the fire appeareth be made and kyndled the Character B. expresseth the Funnell or Chymney of the Furnace the note C. declareth the Potte sette and standynge ouer the fire in whyche the water boylinge is contayned the Figure D. sheweth the Pype by which the water boyling runneth forth into a Wooden Tubbe standing nygh to the Furnace the letter E. expresseth the Tubbe of woode which receyueth the water heated wythin which is set and standeth the Cucurbite or Bodie of Glasse the letter F. demonstrateth the Bozia or Cucurbite with his Helmet which contayneth the matter to be dystilled the figure G. representeth the hollowe Pype by which the water runneth forth into another waste Tubbe or Panne standing vnder the letter H. sheweth the Glasse vessell which receyueth the water dystilled It séemeth vndoubtedly sayth the woorthie Gesnerus the same to be the better fashion of all others for the Dystilling in Balneo Mariae but much more commodious than if the fire were putte vnder the Dystilling vesselles Consider and marke the other forme lyke in a maner to this hereafter among the Oyles The Dystillation of the Quintessence in Balneo Mariae The .xiij. Chapter TAke foure or fiue measures of the best whyte wine or of simple water or of Maye dewe or of other lycour pure according to the greatnesse and largenesse of the Bozia or Cucurbite in such sort that a thirde part of the Glasse bodie remayne emptie which done set the Lymbecke or Heade on the Vessell fast luted about with the whytes of Egges Flowre or Meale and water myxed togither and spred on a Lynnen cloth the Bodie of Glasse on such wyse trymmed and prepared let be set into Balneum Mariae after dystilling by a small or most soft fire daye and night vntill the tyme that the fiue measures be come to the one halfe the same keepe that you haue thus dystilled foâ— the extractions you shall haue a signe or note certayne of the perfite Dystillation of the Quintessence if you cast a heare of the Eye browe into the same and that it sinketh or falleth to the bottome incontinent then haue you brought the Quintessence to a perfection commodious and apt for other Dystillations The lyke may you bring to passe and doe with water â—ymple or Maye dewe In the meane whyles it behooueth that the Bozia be very long to th ende that the grosse vapours oâ— earthly spirites ascende not on hygh The same Dystillation must be repeated fiue or seauen tymes ouer or so often vntill that it be perfite And such a fashion or way séemeth verie excellent for that the saâ—â—e infecteth nothing at all the extractions infused in it wyth anye straunge qualitie you shall also obtayne a water wyth expedition if on any iuyce or lycour heated you set a Goblet or Bowle of Glasse into which the fume ascended turneth it selfe into sweating drops and those drops gathered togither of the sweatings are on such wyse conuerted into water By the lyke meanes and waye is the Vineger easily conuerted into water euen so the vapor of Herbes boyled in Wyne is gathered rounde about the bottome of Platters or Dyshes couered ouer such a Quintescense is very excellent for the clensing of spottes and Webbe or Pearle of the eyes especially if a man boyle of the Rue or herbe Grace in whyte Vineger us the worthie Phisition Cardanus affirmeth An ingenious maner of distilling by Sande The .xiiij. Chapter BEstowe the matter which you will distyll wythin a Glasse body stopping the mouth wyth Paste that no ayre at al may breath forth after do the like as followeth Set the Cucurbite into a Kettle or Copper panne full of water and fresh Oten strawe which cause to séeth softly vntill the time that the matter or substance boyleth no more as the same perhaps maye be at the consumption of all the water in the Kettell after remooue the Kettle with the Cucurbite from the fire and assoone as the Cucurbite is through colde put the same a newe into another vessell full of Sande in which let it be compassed about and couered with Sande vp vnto the necke after bestowe the same in a sunnie place where the sunne all the day shyneth very hote and in that hote place let this stande for fortie dayes togither which tyme expired take it forth of the Sande and set the Glasse againe on the Sande only without a vessell for the space of eyght dayes at the tyme ended let it runne through a newe Lynnen cloth and wring the substance harde in a Presse for the purpose c. This manner of Dystillation ought rather to be wrought and done in the Monethes of Iuly and August A forme very rare of Dystilling by Dung borowed out of the worke Pyrotechnia The .xv. Chapter THere is also another fashion and maner of distilling sayth a certaine Author much vsed of the Chymistes which is wrought in Horse dung whose heate is to be increased by the fume or vapour of Boyling water after thys order Lette a wooden Coffer or Chest be made of sixe Flemishe Elles in length or not aboue foure yardes and a halfe of our measure and of such a breadth that the same maye commodiously contayne of eyther side the Vrinall bodies of Glasse and that there be no more left than a space by which the Pype maye passe and retch betwéene the rowes of the Glasses standing on eyther side This long Chest fill with dry dung myxed with short chopped straw after lift vp and set the same on a wooden Forme or Benche to the ende that it may stande the higher and commodiouser for the performance of the worke These done it behooueth you orderly to bestowe the Vrinall bodies or Cucurbites of Glasse in the Dung wyth their heades aboue it and regarding by their heygth ouer the edge of the Chest on eyther side to the ende the Noses of the Lymbeckes may the handsomer be luted to the receyuing vessels In the myddest betwéene these vessels must a Pype of Copper or Leade or if you wyll of Woode be extended and couched hauing bored rounde about manye small holes and these in order throughout or all the length of the pype the one ende of which to bende after such fashion that it wholye regardeth towardes the Grounde to this mouth and ende of the Pype let a vessell of the best Earth or of Copper be raysed and set hauing a long necke and
manner drunke morning and euening auayleth agaynst the swellinges of the Bodie but especially the Dropsie euen so this drunke helpeth the Quotidian Ague and stytches or other paynes in the sides it profiteth agaynst the outward swellings of the Body by applying Lynnen clothes wette in the same This water also remooueth stytches or other griefes in the sides by applying Lynnen clothes wette in it This gargelled wyth a little of the pouder of Pellitorie helpeth the falling of the Vuula downe Thys drunke warme after the manner aboue taught helpeth a drye cough This gargelled in the throte helpeth that swelling there named Angina The dystilled water of the rootes finely shredde doth much mitigate the grieuous dolor of the Goute by daylye dryncking and applying Lynnen clothes wette in it on the grieued places This also helpeth marueylously ioynt aches by applying on the grieued places Lynnen clothes wette in it and eating a fewe of the tender gréene toppes whether two or thrée in a Sallate causeth a man soluble and to haue sundrye stooles The water drunke with Sirupe of Vineger helpeth a burning Ague The pouder of the leaues marueylouslye worketh in all sortes of Vlcers in that the same asswageth paynes clenseth them and doth incarnate The water of Imperatoria The fift Chapter THe tyme aptest for dystilling the Herbe Imperatoria is when it yéeldeth the floures then the whole Herbe wyth the rootes well shredde although some rather wyll the rootes onely require to be infused in wyne for twelue houres after the bestowing into a Cucurbite dystill the whole after Arte in Balneo Mariae This water drunke doth marueylous expell the wynde of the stomacke Bowels and Bellie for which cause auayleable in the Cholicke pâ—ssions and tâ—â—sionâ— of the stomack This also procureth the Termes in women and mooueth vryne If asswageth toothach by washing the mouth therewith The same myxed with Rosed Honie and drinke warme helpeth marueylously the griefes and stranglings of the wombe or Matrice in women and Conception greatly furthereth where the impediment procéedeth of coldenesse This water in lyke maner drunke warme strengtheneth the stomacke and causeth digestion This water sundrie tymes gargelled in the mouth comforteth a colde Brayne and purgeth it effectuously of Flewme A dramme of the pouder drunke with a quantitie of the water preuayleth in colde sicknesses so that this marueylously helpeth the loose parts of the Bodie convulsions and the falling sickenesse This water myxed with Rosed Hony and drunke wyth halfe a spoonefull of the fine pouder of the roote an houre before the comming of the fitte helpeth myraculously the Quartane ague The water gargelled in the mouth amendeth the breath and strengtheneth all the senses Thys drunke wyth halfe a spoonefull of the pouder of the roote helpeth the plague all maner of poysons the byting and stinging of venymous beastes and wormes Thys water drunke with Rosed Honie and halfe a spoonefull of pure Cynnamone water amendeth such hardly fetching breath openeth obstructions helpeth the water betwéene the skynne and flesh the Dropsie and diseases in the Mylt To be briefe it heateth all those partes of the Bodie where colde occupyeth and offendeth The water of the blessed Thystell The sixt Chapter THe commended time for the dystillation of the blessed Thystell is that the Herbe alone finely shredde and stamped be dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of Glasse about the end of May. This water drunke Morning and Euening vnto the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a tyme with Rosed Honye purifyeth the bloude remooueth headache comforteth and causeth a readie memorie breaketh the stone putteth away gyddynesse of the heade amendeth the consumption of the Bodie and preserueth the person long in health This lyke ministred auayleth agaynst the Plague and deadly poysons receyued as well within the Body as outwardly by the stinging or byting of venymous Beasts applyed vpon This water drunke with a dram of the powder before the comming of the fitte helpeth not only the Quartayne but other Feuers whose beginning are wyth colde This lyke drunke helpeth the falling sickenesse in chyldren The water drunke with a quantâ—tie of Rosed honye asswageth the griefes of the bowels and kydneys ceaseth the other torsions of the Belly and kéepeth the Bodie soluble It also causeth sweating sleyeth the wormes in the Bellye amendeth the defaultes of the stomacke and wombe The abouesayde quantitie of the pouder drunke with pure Aqua vitae not only kylleth worms in the Bodie of Chyldren but deliuereth in short tyme the grieuous paynes of the Bodie A Passe made with the pouder of the blessed Thystle whyte Breade and Honye and dystilled wyth whyte wyne yéeldeth a water right singular for the decayed sight of the eyes The water of Pellitorie of the wall The .vij. Chapter THe tyme of the dystillation is that the whole Herbe shredde and infused in wyne be dystilled about the ende of Maye in Balneo Mariae the water drunke with Rosed honie for eyght or nyne dayes togither to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme Morning and Euening openeth the stopping of the Lyuer and Mylt purgeth the kydneyes and Bladder ceaseth the griefes of the Matrice and sendeth downe the Termes in women The same drunke Morning and Euening vnto the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme helpeth an olde and continuall cough The water simplye of the Herbe gargelled and applyed without amendeth the inflammation of the throte The aboue sayde water drunke with a quantitie of Rosed honye auayleth agaynst the Strangulion and grypings of the Bellye procéeding of wynde and colde humors The water applyed with Linnen clothes wet in it asswageth swellings and paine of the Goute also the Shingles burning or scalding and hote vlcers The water of Yarrowe The .viij. Chapter THe congruent tyme of the dystillation of Yarrowe is that the whole Herbe shredde and infused in wyne be dystilled about the ende of May in Balneo Mariae This water drunke euery morning for a tyme togither to the quantitie of foure ounces at a tyme and applying of it on the region of the heart heateth a colde stomacke This also auayleth agaynst the wormes of the Bellie and difficulties of Vrine The water drunke with a dram weyght of the fine pouder of Cynamone stayeth the ouer great fluxe of the Termes The rather if the gréene Herbe bruised be applyed at that tyme by a skilfull Midwyfe This water drunke sundrie dayes profiteth that person which hath lost his colour by much bléeding and purgeth the bloude Also fresh woundes wasshed with the same and Lynnen clothes after the wetting in it applyed vpon morning and euening doth spéedilye cure them A handfull of the herbe brused betwéene two stones and applyed on freshe and bloudie woundes after the stitching of the lyppes if they be great cureth them throughly within the space of .xxiiij. houres as of experience knowne by sundrie persons Thys water drunke with Coowe mylke vnto the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme both Morning and Euening helpeth the
diuers dayes drincking or rubbing them wyth it it healeth the burning or scalding if the places shall be washed wyth the same or linnen clothes wet in it applyed vpon them it healeth the Canker in the mouth if it be often washed wyth the same and the gummes vlcered within the mouth A Canker washed wyth the same morning and euening or if linnen clothes wette in it be often applyed doth in short time cure the sore The water dropped into the eyes doth amende a thicke and dimme sight The water healeth a Fistula putteth awaye whelkes the ytche and fowle scabbes by often washing wyth the same The water of Centorie the lesser The .xviij. Chapter THe tyme of Distilling this Centorie is about the ende of Iune then the stalkes leaues and flowers shred togither require to be distilled by Balneo Mariae in a cucurbite of glasse this water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a tyme is right profitable for them which haue a rawe and colde stomacke for all that which is euill and hurtfull in the same it coÌ„sumeth this druncke in the like quantitie abouesayde draweth and sendeth forth Choller Flewme and other grosse Humours by sieges This water druncke of a Childe to the quantitie of twoo ounces but of a man of full age fower ounces in the morning fasting expelleth the wormes in the bellye the same druncke at the beginning of the fitte putteth away the Ague but druncke for thrée morninges fasting swéetned with sugar auayleth agaynst all Agues The water druncke in the maner abouesayde helpeth the harde fetching of breath and putteth away an olde cowgh The water druncke of a woman expelleth out of the wombe the dead younglyng This is ryght profitable for staying the desire to vomite belching of the stomacke it procureth an appetyte to meate purgeth and expelleth grosse Humours of which are woont to procéede Ache and payne in the hyppes féete and handes the Iaundyse and others lyke The water swéetned with sugare and druncke in the morning fasting recouereth the stopping of the Lyuer Loynes Milte and Bladder and amendeth the hardnesse of the Lyuer and Milte it preuayleth agaynst the Chollicke passion gripinges of the bowels The water closeth and cureth new woundes bigge if they be washed with the same or by Lynnen clothes wette in it applyed vppon and olde vlcers that may hardly be brought to a scarre are dooing in the same maner couered wyth a scarre The water druncke much auayleth in the spitting of Bloude The water mixed wyth a little Honny and dropped into the eyes greatly cleareth them the same druncke sendeth downe the Termes This druncke helpeth the sinews affected by emptying and drying vp the matter offending The water swéetned wyth Sugar and druncke fasting is much auayleable for the obstructions of the lyuer and applyed aswell without the bodie as receyued inwarde is a singular remedie in the hardnesse of the Milte The water of Cherryes The .xix. Chapter THe great redde and sower Cherries wyth short stalkes when they shalâ— be rype are to be gathered And for twoo dayes spreade abrâ—de on a shete after distilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of glasse This water druncke twise or thrise a day to the quantitie of fower ounces at a tyme swéetned wyth a little sugar doth restrayne the termes the fluxe Dysenteria and all other Fluxes of the Bellie In the same maner druncke and applyed without amendeth the heate of the Lyuer stomacke and other partes of the Bodie and comforteth the heart The distilled water of the flowers dropped into the eyes at euening when the pacient goeth to bedde putteth away the pinne and webbe and other spottes of the eyes and the water lyke putteth awaye the rednesse watering of the eyes if it shall be dropped into them twise or thrise a day The water of the blacke Cherries distilled in the same maner druncke twise a daye to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme helpeth the Dropsie but it behooueth that the pacient in the meane time refraine froÌ„ taking any other drinck The water druncke in the same maner remooueth the depryuation and Palsie of membres so that they be washed and rubbed with the same and let to drye in by it selfe in lyke maner washing and gargelling the mouth with it restoreth the vse of the tongue lost Also such annoyed wyth those griefes ought dayly to drincke the water fasting to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a tyme The water druncke helpeth swellings and is auayliable in burning and pestilent Agues in that it cooleth seasseth thirst and yéeldeth strength The water of the rype blacke Cherries newlye distilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae druncke to the quantitie of halfe an ounce at a time or powred into the mouth at the tyme of the fytte of the falling sickenesse doth forthwith reuyue the person to knowledge of himselfe and causeth hym to be frée from convulsions and Crampes vntill the next fitte take hym Which assoone as it shall happen to come agayne let the same quantitie of the water be powred into the pacients mouth for this not onely shall let but take awaye and heale altogither the fitte as the lyke of experience knowne A certayne woman afflicted wyth the falling sickenesse recouered health and was delyuered throughly of it by the dayly receyuing at the fittes of the water distilled of the blacke Cherries the lesser Nettill and the flowers of the trée named Tilia The water distilled of the meate and kernelles brused togither doth sende foorth the sande procuring the stone in the Kidneyes and Bladder The Gumme of the trée infused a tyme in this water and druncke twise a day is not onely auayleable agaynst an olde cough but helpeth such as are vexed wyth the stone The water of Cheruell The .xx. Chapter THe chosen time for the distilling of Cheruell is that the herbe the roote wyth the whole substaunce finely shred be distilled by Balneo Mariae about the midle of Maye This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of foure ounces at a tyme helpeth persons bursten and harmed by a grieuous fall and resolueth the Bloude clotted into lumpes The same drunke helpeth the stone of the Kidneyes and a great quantitie druncke at a tyme looseth the Bellie it causeth a good stomacke strengthneth and comforteth the heart putteth awaye the colde shiuering or shaking of the Ague amendeth the heade comforteth the senses The water druncke in the maner abouesayde putteth away most great paynes and prickinges or stitches it helpeth the Lunges and his affectes or griefes The water of Germander The .xxi. Chapter THe time of the distillation is about the middle of Maye then the herbe wyth the whole substaunce shredde small requyreth to be distilled by Balneo Mariae The water druncke fasting to the quantitie of foure ounces at a tyme dissolueth the swollen and harde Milt prouoketh Vryne sendeth downe the termes This druncke in lyke quantitie cutteth asundre
by Balneo Mariae thys water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme recouereth all griefes of the Lyuer and Lunges by purging and comforting for it clenseth ◠by a certayne astriction strengthneth it openeth the stoppinges of the Lyuer and dyssolueth the hardnesse of the Mylt and Lyuer by drincking of the water of heartes tongue myxed wyth the same The water druncke twyse a daye expelleth Flewmaticke and Chollericke humours out of the Bodie and causeth Vryne In the same maner druncke putteth awaye Iaundise and sendeth furth the stone of the Bladder It helpeth the grypings of the Bellie druncke morning and euening the water dropped into the eyes causeth them cleare wythin short time The water recouereth womens places colde if it be drunke in the foresayd maner The water helpeth women whose termes be stayed and that haue a swelling about the Nauell The water druncke with a little powder of Annis séedes ▪ profiteth such which abounde in corrupt Bloude and be infected wyth fowle or Leaprowse scabbes The water myxed wyth common drincke and druncke daylie for a tyme comforteth the stomacke The water helpeth Feuers in Chyldren gyuen in Ale wyth a little of the powder of Annis séedes in that it purgeth the hote humour The water of Elecampane The .xxvij. Chapter THe congruent tyme for dystillation is that the rootes wyth the Hearbe shredde togither be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of an Egge shell full at a tyme for fyue or sixe dayes togyther delyuereth the griefe of the stone washing the téeth therewyth strengthneth them i◠amendeth the cough by drinking twoo ounces at a tyme wyth the powder of Lycorise and Annis séedes myxed It also expelleth wormes in the Bodie helpeth conuulsions and swellinges and payne in the Loynes In the foresayde maner druncke or taken with drinke helpeth such bursten The water druncke wyth a little Rosed honie and the heade well laboured with the same that it may drye in by it selfe comforteth the heade The water druncke many dayes togither not onely comforteth and strengthneth the stomacke but clenseth the breast and Lunges of grosse and clammie humours Yea this causeth a fayre skinne to women both in face and Bodie through the often vsing of it It also procureth a glansome minde and the person often vsing the same to haue a chéerfull and amyable countenaunce The water druncke and annoynted strengthneth loose membres It profiteth such fetching the breath hardly by drincking sundrie morninges wyth Rosed honie The water druncke morning and euening for a certayne tyme togyther expelleth the stone of the Kydneyes and Bladder clenseth them and causeth Vryne The water of the rootes alone dystilled about the ende of Maye or from the moneth of Iulye vnto September druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a tyme for certayne dayes healeth an inner rupture In the same maner druncke helpeth the stone prouoketh the Termes in women delyuereth the griefe of the stone and causeth Vryne This druncke in the abouesayd maner sendeth furth the dead yongling out of the mothers wombe It like druncke or applyed with linnē clothes dissolueth putteth away the swelling of womens places This on such wyse druncke or applyed remooueth the swelling of the testicles The water often druncke swéetned wyth Rosed honnie seasseth the Coughe and consumeth the grosse and clammie humours detayned wythin the Breast The water of Eiebright The .xxviij. Chapter THe congruent tyme for the dystillatiō of it is that the leaues stalkes flowers wyth the whole substaunce be dystilled in a Cucurbyte of glasse by Balneo Mariae when it yéeldeth or beareth the flowers This water dropped and stryked about the eyes causeth cleare eyes and sharpeneth the sight the water vsed in the same maner seasseth the payne of the eies the water dropped into the eyes an houre before night and striked about druncke to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme comforteth strengthneth and preserueth the sight especially in the aged persons and flewmaticke of complexion The hearbe dryed and brought to powder and eaten euerie day in a reare potched Egge for a certayne tyme togither restoreth sight lost the water myxed wyth halfe a dramme of the powder and druncke euerie euening for a moneth or fourtie dayes togyther recouereth a weake sight The water of our Beanes The .xxix. Chapter THe best tyme of dystilling them that the gréene bestowed in a Cucurbyte of Glosse be dystilled by Balneo Mariae wyth the water of Beanes washe vlcered and matterie legges that remayning after the water dystilled quite forth bring by heate of fire into powder Which then sprinckle on the sore for it dryeth vp and is the best remedie for fowle and matterie legges The water of the Beane coddes distilled when the Sunne shall be in Leo and the Moone in Aries druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a time doth marueylously remooue and helpe the griefe of the stone of the Kydneyes and Bladder The water of the gréene hearbe wyth the stalkes dystilled about the ende of Maye druncke for certayne dayes morning euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a tyme swéetned wyth sugar putteth away the stone in Children the same euerie day druncke to the quantitie of foure or fyue ounces at a tyme preuayleth agaynst a strong Poyson The water druncke in the lyke maner for a moneth engendreth good and pure bloud The face and skinne of the Bodie washed wyth the same water procureth a soft skinne and cleare and a fayre face The water of the flowers gathered at the full rypenesse and before the rotting dystilled in a Cucurbyte of Glasse by Balneo Mariae dropped into the eyes at euening dryeth vp the watering and dropping of the eyes It amendeth the exulceration and rednesse of the eyes dropped into them after the maner abouesayd The lyke it auayleth in pushes of the eyes The face also washed wyth thys water or laboured on the Bodye causeth a cleare and soft skinne and clenseth or taketh away spottes on the skynne The same druncke to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a time auayleth agaynst poyson If Lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed vpon doth drawe furth Dart or Arrow heades and thornes runne into the Bodie The water druncke of women morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a tyme for sixe or seauen dayes togyther sendeth downe their Termes in due season The water extinguisheth the burning of the Shingles and expelleth euill pushes if it be applyed morning and euening wyth a Lynnen cloth or soft towe wette in the same The water of Filipendula The .xxx. Chapter THe chosen time for dystillyng the same is that the whole herbe with the rootes shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water druncke Morning Euening to the quantitye of thrée ounces at a time with a
dram waight of the powder of the Gentiane roote swéetned with sugar healpeth the stayinge backe of the vryne and dropping of the same it also amendeth the coldenesse of stomacke and helpeth digestion This in lyke maner druncke helpeth such fetching the breath shorte and painefully and all sicknesses procéeding of a cold cause The water druncke in the like quantitie abouesayd mixed with a dram waight of the powder of the blessed Thistell swéetned with sugar helpeth the plague and preuayleth against poison eaten or druncke by happe The water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitye of fower or sixe ounces at a tyme swéetned with Sugar easeth the griefes and expelleth the stone of the Kydneyes and Bladder The Water of Fumitarie The .xxxi. Chapter THe best tyme of dystillation is that the herbe with the whole substance shredde small be dystilled by Balneo about the end of Maye or the middes of Iune this water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a tyme recouereth the Iaundyse and cleareth awaye the foule scabbe on the face after the kinde of a Leaprie and preserueth the person by the dailye vsinge of it from the Leaprie In the same maner druncke helpeth euery kinde of scabbes the morfew ytche Let the pacient entred into Bath drincke this wyth a little Triacle for it then prouoketh sweate by which the bloude is pourged and helpeth the sickenesse which is procéeded of corrupt bloud In the tyme of the plague maye the water be vsed in that it preserueth such by drincking of it The water myxed with fine Tryacle and pure bole Armoniake and giuen to that pacient afflicted with the plague yealdeth a helpe deliuereth him in short tyme The water druncke attenuateth pierceth openeth obstructions looseth the bellye it also purgeth the bloud Choller and all discommodities procéeding of chollor adust humours The water drunck twise a daye strengthneth the stomack the Lyuer and the Bowels it also putteth away the chollericke and burning Agues and those sicknesse which are caused by the obstruction of the vessels The water in the foresayd maner druncke prouoketh much chollericke vryne and helpeth the stoppings of the Lyuer It also putteth away clotted bloude and dissolueth the swelling both within and without the bodie and prouoketh the termes in women The water druncke with a dram waight of the powder of Synamon comforteth the stomacke prouoketh vrine putteth away scabbes and ytche and mundifyeth the bloude A potion of the same water recouereth vlcers of the mouth and dolours The water of the garden Clarâ—e The .xxxij. Chapter THe aptest tyme for the Dystillation of it is that the whole herbe shredde small be distilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddle of Maye this water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time swéetned wyth Sugare ceasseth the gripings of the bellie and paynes of the stomack and sides the rather by applyng vpon the places lynnen clothes wet often in it The water drunck twise a day to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme remooueth the payne of womens places and prepareth them apt to conceiue with childe it also comforteth and recouereth the members harmed by colde by applying lynnen clothes wette in it on the places The water of Caryophyllata The .xxxiij. Chapter THe Herbe wyth the rootes finely shredde and bestowed in a Cucurbite of glasse requyre to be distilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of March or myddes of April this water druncke Morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a tyme swéetned wyth Sugar for fower of fiue dayes togither ceasseth gripinges of the bellie stayeth the blouddie fluxe womens Termes the spitting of bloude and strengthneth a colde brayne This in like maner druncke purgeth all euill clammye humours and sendeth them furth of the bodie The water drunck in the foresayde maner digesteth meate hard of digestion and amendeth a colde stomake This druncke twise a daye profyteth the Lyuer The water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitye of thrée or fower ounces at a tyme healeth the inner woundes of the breast the like doth this recouer woundes déepe and desperate vlcers if they be often washed and that linnen clothes wette in it be applyed on the fores The water helpeth impostumes by applying lynnen clothes wet in it on the swellings The water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitye of thrée ounces at a tyme swéetned with Sugar healeth fistulaes it also profiteth much if they be washed with the same or that linnen clothes wette in it be applyed on the places The water remooueth and putteth away spots moles or other like markes which Infantes haue taken of the Moothers if they be often washed in their Infancie with that water The Water of Broome flowers The .xxxiiij. Chapter THe dystillation of the flowers is to be done by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of glasse when the flowers are full rype and begynne in a maner to fall of thys water druncke wyth a little Rosed honye morning euening to the quantitie of two or thrée ounces at a tyme for twelue of fourtéene dayes togither draweth humors from the ioyntes purgeth flewme and auayleth against the shedding of the Gaule The water druncke twise a day to the quantitye of fiue or sixe ounces at a tyme swéetned wyth Rosed honye and a dram waight of the powder of Feâ—ell séedes myxed expelleth the excrementes of the kidneyes causeth vrine effectuously and breaketh the stone as well in the bladder as in the kidneyes and suffereth not matter after to gather in thâ—â—â— to harden into a stone The water druncke with Oximell or 〈◊〉 hony for a certayne tyme dissolueth the hardnesse of the Mylte and putteth away the swellinges in the throte The water profiteth the heade if applyed it be suffered to drie in by it selfe thys in lyke maner ordred recouereth the wearinesse of members The Water of Gentiane The .xxxv. Chapter THe congruent tyme for dystilling onely the roote as more commendid is that the gréene or freshe roote shredde small and bestowed in a Cucurbyte of glasse be distilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of the Caniculare dayes where otherwise the dryed rootes infused a tyme in wyne maye be dystilled at anye tyme The water symple of the fresh rootes druncke often fasting to the quantity of thrée ouncâ—s at a tyme expelleth feuers caused by the obstruction of the Bowells and other partes of the bodie kylleth the wormes in the bellie clenseth all maner of spottes in the face if they be often washed with the same and prolongeth mans lyfe in that it consumeth all the clammye humours in the stomacke The water like druncke prouoketh the termes in women and causeth vryne against the plague and stinging or bit of venimous wormes and Beastes this druncke and applyed with lynnen clothes doth myraculously auayle The water druncke of him which hath taken by happe the venemous and monstruous bloude of a
grieued place â–ª or that it be â–ª applyed with lynnen clothes wette in it The water applyed with linnen clothes wet in it putteth away swellings of the Pappes and ceaseth the payne of them The water applyed on brused shaken members to péeces recouereth them and putteth away the clotted blouder The water of Horsetayle The .xl. Chapter THe congruent time for the distillation of it is that the herbâ— and rootes shred smal be dâ—stiâ—â—ed by Balneo Mariae about the middes of Maye This water drunke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time â–ª mixed with a dramme of the powder of Cynamone and a little Sugar recouereth the spitting of bloude healeth the bowels exulcerated and hurt stayeth the termes of Women the fluxe Dysenteria and all other fluxes of the Bellie cureth the Bladder vlcered comforteth the stomacke harmed and the Lyuer by applying also of lynnen clothes wette in it without The water druncke morning noone and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time swéetened with a little Sugar and that lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed in a playster forme asswageth inflammations and burning of the Shingles The water druncke twyse a daye helpeth the griefe of the stone the Strangurie The water recouereth the perillous fluxe Dysenteria if a linnen clothe wet in it be often applyed to the fundament The water applyed hote with lynnen clothes to the mans priuie member swollen doth put awaye the swelling ceaseth the payne The water healeth woundes of the féete the holes open if they be washed with the same The water applyed with lynnen clothes on the swelling of the Dropsie morning euening doth asswage put away the same The water applyed with linnen clothes wet in it to the foreheade nose and put within the nosthrils restrayneth and stayeth the bléeding of the nose and putteth awaye the running of the nose by drawing it vp by the nosthrils The water of Hoppes The â–ª xli Chapter THe congruent time for Dystillation of it is that the vpper toppes and first braunches cut vp in heygth or length of two handbredthes and shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Aprill This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time and that mixed with Rosed hony it be vsed for thrée or fower wéekes togither putteth away Melancholie of which commonly is caused scabs ytche and the Leprie and such lyke griefes that are woont to happen of corrupt bloude The water druncke in the abouesayde maner openeth the stopping of the Milt putteth away the pricking and all griefes which are woont to be caused by the stopping of the Mylt The water druncke and of it dropped at Euening into the eares clenseth and weareth away the mattering of them The water myxed with a like quantitie of Hartes tongue water and druncke with a little Rosed Honie or Sugar before the beginning of the cold deliuereth the Quartaine ague in short time The water on such wise prepared and druncke twise a day amendeth the harde fetching of breath and the stopping of the Breast The waters like prepared and drunck putteth away the Iaundise and Dropsie and looseth the belly The water druncke correcteth Choller purgeth the bloude of the same and extinguisheth his inflammations It also putteth away headach gathered of heate The water druncke mittigateth the heate of the Lyuer and stomacke and auayleth in Feuers caused of Choller and bloud The water of Henbane The .xlij. Chapter THe chosen tyme for Dystillation of it is that the whole Herbe with the rootes and flowers shred and brused be dystilled about S. Iohns daye This water ceaseth all manner of payne of the head procéeding of heate if the head be rubbed and laboured with the same The water annoynted on the forhead and Temples and washing the féete with it procureth sléepe in a sharpe sickenesse the rather if the séedes brought to powder and myxed with womans milke and the whyte of an Egge and a little Vinegar be applyed on the Temples It represseth and asswageth all maner of heate if linnen clothes wette in it be applyed on the places On such wyse it remooueth all dolour of the members and palifyeth or rather hydeth the forme of the Leprie on the face if it be often washed and sowpled with the same in that it draweth forth all maner of heate not naturall The water profiteth them which haue no naturall rest by applying it by discretion as well within as without the bodie and if it be laboured oftentimes on the heade and applyed with linnen clothes wette in it then it causeth a man the rather to rest naturally The water of Hartes ease The .xliij. Chapter THe congruent time for dystillation of it is that the Herbe with the Flowers shredde and bruised be dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of Glasse about the ende of Iune or myddes of Iulie This water ministred to children twyse a day to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time swéetened with a little Sugar recouereth without doubt the burning heate that commonly taketh them The water drunke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a tyme helpeth such hardly breathing and drawing the wynde short â–ª the inflammation and impostume of the Lunges and those which haue a straytenesse about the heart and breast and that haue there some sore or a swelling The water druncke fasting for a certaine tyme healeth scabbednesse and all other corruptions of the skynne The water of Iuniper Beries The .xliiij. Chapter THe congruent dystillation of the Beries is when they bée rype and waxing blacke then they ought to be bruised and dystilled by Balneo Mariae This water drunke morning noone and at euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time swéetened with a little Sugar deliuereth and helpeth the stone of the kidneyes and Bladder also clenseth the kidneyes and Bladder causeth vryne and draweth downe the termes of Women by drincking thrée ounces at a time with a dramme of the powder of Cassia lignea The water druncke with a little Cinamone and Sugar expelleth the deade yoongling and poyson and profiteth against the byte and stinging of venimous beasts and wormes The water auayleth against all ioyntaches procéeding of colde if the ioyntes be rubbed and applyed with the same morning noone and at euening and let after to drye in by it selfe The water attenuateth openeth and clenseth filthie vlcers if they be washed with the same The water of the woode Lillie The .xlv. Chapter THe flowers onelye are distilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae about the middes of the Spring yet the rootes distilled more excell The water of the flowers druncke to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar recouereth them which haue eaten poyson in their meate The water ministred orderly preuayleth against the byte of a madde Dogge it helpeth the harde traueyle of Chylde comforteth the Brayne
the Heart the Liuer and other spirituall members and riddeth away the falling sickenesse by drincking of the same for fortie dayes togither The water druncke fasting swéetened with a little Sugar helpeth swounding recouereth the lacke of speach lost and sundrie diseases of the bodie and restoreth plentie of mylke in womens brestes The water druncke in the foresayde maner helpeth the Strangurie auayleth against the pricking about the heart and amendeth the inflammation of the Liuer The water druncke twyse a daye stayeth the immoderate course of the termes in women The water healâ—th the byte and stinging of venimous beastes and woormes if a lynnen clothe wette in it be applyed on the place The water dropped into the eyes putteth away the inflammation and darckenesse of them It cooleth also hote inflammations by applying Lynnen clothes wette in the same Whose members or head doe tremble it behooueth him afore to washe purely and drie them after to rubbe and labor this water on the places and to let it dry in by it selfe recouereth them if this be done morning and euening The water applyed with Lynnen clothes wette in it putteth awaye the payne of the priusties To conclude this water orderly ministred recouereth loose and palsie members the falling sicknesse convulsions dazeling and swimming of the heade and swounding In Germanie certaine doe make of the Flowers dryed in the summer time a wine in the time of pressing forth the Grapes which after the myxing and standing togither a certaine time they minister of it for the foresayde griefes But there are other which stéepe a pounde of the freshe flowers in a gallon or twoo of olde wyne and set the Glasse in the Sunne for sixe wéekes or two Monethes putting to it of Lauander and of Rosemarie flowers with sundrie pleasant spyces this after the strayning they distill in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae which water purchased they bestowed for the preciousnesse of it in Siluer or Golden vesselles close stopped and they name this the Golden water which they vse to all the foresayde griefes of the bodye The rather if it be dystilled thrée tymes ouer and rectified by a Pellicane which then ministred with sixe graynes of Pepper a little of Lauander water worketh miraculously for it coÌ„forteth the Brayne restoreth such swouning and left for deade in a maner yea causeth them to liue after a long time It also recouereth the depriuation of Senses putteth away the Cholicke passion and profiteth that person which shall haue an impostume in the hinder part of the Brayne and Heade by drinking a spoonefull at a time of this precious water This water in lyke manner by applying it often on the foreheade and hynder part of the head procureth a good memorie and readie wit. As touching the recouerie of swounding and great hazard of death by it the learned Mathiolus reporteth that he hath of proofe founde manye tymes the contrarie yet such is the fame of it sayeth he in Germanie that many cannot refrayne the ministring of the same yea in most hote sickenesses The water of the Wyldinges or Crabbes The .xlvi. Chapter THe congruent tyme for Dystillation of them is that they bruised be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of October This water druncke Morning Noone and at Euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar is a most precious water and miraculously auayleth against the grypings of the Bowels The water in lyke maner taken helpeth the fluxe Dysenteria deliuereth the griefes of the stone clenseth the Reynes and Bladder The water of the vnrypened Crabbes or Wyldinges dystilled by Balneo Mariae about S. Iohns daye not onelye helpeth the face swollen by washing it with the same and letting it to drye in by it selfe but putteth away the high red colour and péeling of the skinne on the face and the red pymples or other deformitie of the same The water of putrified and rotten Apples The .xlvij. Chapter OF the graffed or swéete Apples which shall be rotten shall you dystill a water by Balneo Mariae This water helpeth that inflammation which cooled and putrified larger spreadeth insomuch that the fleshe falleth out if the place be morning and euening washed with the same or Lynnen clothes often applyed The water recouereth hote and red swellings and sores or Cankers eating and pestilent Botches by applying Lynnen clothes wette in it thryse in the daye The water of the Apples through ripe and before their rotting dystilled by Balneo Mariae very much auayleth for comforting in that it cooleth the body and heart by drinking morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time swéetened with a little Sugar The flowers of the graffed Apples requyre to be gathered when as they be thorowe blowen and by a Lynnen sheete spredde vnder the trée the blossomes ought to be beaten downe with a staffe and to be dystilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae This water recouereth and throughly helpeth the rednesse and deformitie of the face if for thrée or fower wéekes togither it be washed morning and euening with the same The water of the Peache tree flowers The .xlviij. Chapter A Certayne Chymist of fame in Germanie dystilled a Rose water out of the Peache Roses or Flowers which looseth the Bellie and procureth to vomite and he tooke for loosing of the Bellie the water which dystilled forth first before the Roses were burned and dystilled them in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae where he also dystilled the drye herbes and others in Sandâ— The water of the leaues dystilled by Balneo Mariae at the increasing of the Moone in Maye druncke in the morning fasting putteth away the griefe of the stone in the loynes the rather by taking it thryce a daye to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a time which in lyke maner vsed procureth vrine and purgeth the Bladder The water druncke of children fasting to the quantitie of an ounce at a time swéetened with Sugar killeth the long wormes in the bodie The water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time preuayleth agaynst the stone The water dropped into the eares killeth the wormes in them Rubbing the heade with it ceaseth headach The water of the smaller Mallowes The .xlix. Chapter WHen the Mallowes shall beare flowers then the rootes with the whole Herbe gathered and shredde small dystill by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Maye This water betwéene daye and night druncke fower tymes to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time swéetned with a little Sugar recouereth the pricking or stitches in the sides and Pleurisie and purgeth woundes The water druncke to the quantitie of sixe or eyght ounces at a time fasting softeneth and looseth the bellie remooueth the payne of the Matrice breaketh and healeth inwarde swellings The water in lyke maner druncke stayeth the perillous fluxe Dysenteria putteth away the griefe of the stone asswageth the payne of the
Bladder and clenseth the Reynes and Bladder The water applyed on the Temples procureth sléepe If the féete of a sicke person of a hote Ague be rubbed or laboured with the same procureth rest and ceaseth thirst The water putteth awaye the Impostume behinde the eares by dropping it warme into them and by applying it without and by drincking a quantitie eche day The water druncke helpeth the often desire to the stoole and by applying lynnen clothes wette in it on the Bellie The water healeth the bytte of venimous things if it be washed with the same and lynnen clothes wette in it applyed vpon This also putteth awaye scabbednesse and ytche and spots of the body by dooing the like The water drunke resisteth the infection of the Plague and preserueth the person that he be not taken with the same sickenesse The water applyed on woundes or washed with the same filleth them with fleshe The water of the flowers dystilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae drunke morning noone and at euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time putteth away the grypings of the Bowels heateth and softeneth the Bellie The water dropped into the eyes diuers tymes in the day doth marueylously recouer and restore a decayed sight as the same of experience founde The water of Horehounde The L. Chapter THe time for Dystillation of it is that the whole substaunce with the rootes shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of two or thrée ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar preuayleth against the Cough the hardnesse of fetching breath the spitting of bloud the Dropsie comforteth the stomack clenseth the breast and lungs openeth the liuer Mylt and strengthneth the Kidneys bladder It comforteth the yongling in the mothers wombe druncke of women with chylde to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar This comforteth and quickeneth the wytte and memorie by chasing or rubbing it on the head The water dropped into the eares taketh awaye the payne of them purgeth and clenseth freshe woundes by washing them morning and euening with it yea it healeth open vlcers The water putteth away visions and euill dreames by drincking sundrie times of it It also helpeth the Dropsie if such refrayne from moyst things and to much drincking and all swellings this healeth by applying it on the places The water of the herbe Baulme The Li. Chapter THe herbe with the whole substaunce shredde small and well stamped lay to stéepe for a whole night in good white wine that it may well dryncke in of the wyne Which done dystill the whole on the morrow in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae about the ende of May. This water druncke twyse a daye to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a tyme recouereth in short tyme any kynde of scabbednesse of the bodie and causeth a swéete sauour of the same if with a grayne of Muske myxed it be washed The water remooueth Pymples Letters and all other spots happening on the face or breast by myxing a quantitie of the naturall or artificiall Baulme and washing or rubbing the places wyth the same and it causeth the face to come to a fayre redde colour The water druncke euery morning fasting to the quantitie of a small Nutte shell full at a time putteth awaye the yll â—auour or stincking of the breath The water also remooueth toothache by holding it a time in the mouth The water preserueth a long time fleshe or fishe by lying in it and poured into turned wyne restoreth the same to be druncke The water druncke procureth vrine and applyed with a Lynnen clothe on the bottome of the Bellie breaketh the stone of the Bladder causeth vrine and mooueth the Termes of women The water druncke recouereth the payne of the Bodie and Kidneyes The water druncke twyse a daye and the herbe applyed in playster forme on that swelling vnder the Chynne named Scrophula helpeth it greatly The water druncke fasting breaketh an impostume growne within the bodie It healeth also all prickinges or stitches of the heart and sides This water taken in the manner abouesayde is a mortall enimie or killeth all maner of wormes within the bodie The water druncke fasting comforteth the afflicted spirites strengtheneth all the members and recouereth those partes endammaged or grieued with the Goute through colde For this comforteth the sinewes farre better than any other remedie The water druncke fasting with a little Triacle deliuereth and helpeth the falling sicknesse And the person which by occasion of any sickenesse cannot speake by putting a fyne lynnen clothe wette in the water and put vnder the tongue oftentimes recouereth the speache hyndered and lacking The water druncke fasting comforteth the brest and helpeth digestion The water drunck twise a day procureth a swéete breath ceaseth all inward swellings putteth away the Cholick and grypings of the Bowels purgeth the matrice and helpeth the Dropsie The water applyed on wounds twyse a daye healeth them in short tyme The water dropped into the eyes stayeth the watering of them and procureth a sharpe sight â–ª The water druncke fasting cheareth the heart maketh a man merrie helpeth a colde stomacke strengthneth the vitall partes helpeth digestion recouereth the stoppings of the brayne amendeth a féeble courage strengthneth the weakenesse of the heart and the same especially by which sléepe is often broken in the night and the beating of his pulse repressed It also putteth awaye the cares of the mynde and troublesome imaginations which eyther are of Melancholie or of adust flewme engendred The water druncke fasting sharpeneth the vnderstanding and wytte and procureth a good or readie memorie The water of the herbe Mercurie The Lij Chapter THe congruent time for the dystillation of it is that the whole herbe shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Iune This water drawne vp into the Nosethrilles oftentimes profiteth vnto the purging of the heade helpeth the running of the eyes nose and eares The water applyed wyth lynnen clothes wette in it on burnings healeth them and mitigateth the griefes The water tempered with wyne and applyed with lynnen clothes wette in it on Vlcers cureth them The water druncke in the morning fasting to the quantitie of two ounces at a time expelâ—eth superfluous heates and grosse humors as Flewme and the grosse blacke Choler The water druncke and the herbe eaten for thrée dayes togither of women as a day before and twoo dayes after the Termes begun and at the fourth daye comming out of Bathe to coeate worketh a marueylous matter in conception The rather as Hippocrates affirmeth if before it the powder of the rootes of Iroos and it formed into a Pessarie with Honie be conueyghed vp into the bodie the readier to cause the Termes to come downe The water druncke in time of traueyle of chylde and a Bathe made with the Herbe and Malloes sendeth forth the afterburthen The water dropped into
applyed causeth fleshe to growe againe it healeth the Fistula in the Fundament and recouereth Canker sores by often washing the mouth therewith it healeth the exulcered bowels giuen vp in glyster wyse by the fundament The water applyed on running Pyles with Cotton cureth them it cureth also euill Pushes and grieuous vlcers The water of Rybworte The Lxij Chapter THe time of Dystillation of it is that the rootes and herbe with the whole substance shredde small by dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of May. This water druncke with Rosed Honie to the quantitie of foure ounces twoo houres before the comming of the fitte deliuereth the Quartaine feuer so that it be vsed before the beginning of sundrie fittes The water in lyke quantitie druncke sendeth forth the afterburthen clenseth the Reynes and Bladder and preuayleth agaynst the vlcers of the Nosethrils or eyes if they be washed twyse a daye with the same The water druncke warme with a little Rosed Honie expelleth the wormes of the bellie This water hath in a manner the same vertues which the greater Plantaine possesseth sauing that these are not so mightie in working The water of the Polipodie The Lxiij Chapter THe seasonable time for Dystillation of the Polipodie of the Oke is that the rootes onely gathered wythout the herbe and shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae from Iulye to September This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time with Rosed honie helpeth the Cough and frensinesse It also putteth away Melancholie heauinesse and griefe of the mynde and druncke for certaine dayes deliuereth the quartaine Ague The like quantitie drunck with the broth of a Cocke or Pullet expelleth by siege Melancholie and flewme and helpeth them greatly which by nature are costiue The water druncke looseth the streyghtnesse of the breast softeneth the bellie putteth away fearefull dreames prouoketh vrine purgeth the bloude comforteth the heart and amendeth an euill colour The water of the Daysie The Lxiiij Chapter THe herbe and rootes with the whole substance shredde small require to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of May. This water druncke Morning Noone and at Euening to the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a tyme procureth an appetite to meate The water druncke profiteth that person which shall haue a rybbe or legge broken and healeth woundes by drincking or washing them with it The water taken to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a time looseth the Bellie healeth the vlcered bowels and strengtheneth the Palsie members if they be often rubbed or laboured with the same It cooleth the Lyuer extinguisheth an inwarde heate represseth Choller helpeth the blysters of the mouth and tongue procéeding of heate The water of Knotgrasse The Lxv. Chapter THe whole Herbe with the rootes shredde small require to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the middes of Maye Thys water druncke morning noone and at euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time stayeth the ouer great fluxe of the bellie The water profiteth against the Ague which inuadeth with a heate It also healeth the Shingles by applying lynnen clothes wette in the same The water helpeth all manner of payne of wounds where an inflammation with redneâ—se consisteth if they be washed with the same or that a lynnen clothe wette in it be often applyed The water druncke in lyke maner abouesayde clenseth the Reynes expelleth the stone of the loynes procureth vrine and openeth the obstruction of such members The water druncke with Rosed honie profiteth children and men agaynst wormes It recouereth rotten gummes if they be often washed with the same and healeth blacke pushes or bladders by applying lynnen clothes wette in it The water extinguisheth all maner of heates happening as well within as without the bodie The water of wylde Tansey The Lxvi Chapter THe whole Herbe with the rootes shredde small require to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae from Iuly vnto September This water druncke morning and euening for sixe or eight dayes togither to the quantitie of twoo or three ounces at a time stayeth the whyte termes or whytes in women The water dropped into the eyes recouereth the much running of them and healeth the eye lyddes folding outwarde by annoynting them often with it The water applyed to the eyes profiteth against dymnesse of sight the pinne and webbe and other spottes happening in them The water healeth woundes if they be washed with the same and applyed often with lynnen clothes wette in it If the backe bone be laboured with the same it taketh away the griefe therof The water of the flowers when they shall be full rype dystilled in a Cucurbite of glasse by Balneo Mariae druncke in the morning fasting to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a time for certaine dayes togither comforteth all the members of man The water druncke and applyed with a lynnen clothe on the forehead profiteth against the gyddynesse and swimming of the heade The water deliuereth the Rheume and running of bleared eyes It also recouereth moyst vlcers by applying lynnen clothes wette in the same in that it draweth forth the moysture by the poores The water of selfe heale The Lxvij. Chapter THe time for dystillation of it is that the herbe stalkes and flowers shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water recouereth the putrifaction of the mouth tempered with the oyle of Roses and vinegar and applyed to the Temples putteth away the burning of the heade mixed with Rose water doth lyke helpe the heade The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time profiteth against the stitches which are felt in the sides and against the inner impostumes of the bodie It also extinguisheth inflammations and recouereth a weakenesse of the heart In the lyke manner druncke healeth the Shingles and the inflammations with a rednesse as well in men of rype age as in children The water euery daye druncke fasting preserueth from the plague clenseth the breast and putteth away the strangurie It also preuayleth against the Tertian and Quartaine Ague The water druncke in the abouesayde maner helpeth such women whose matrice wythin begynneth to putrifie and matter for by the same are they healed The water recouereth woundes if they be often washed wyth the same and that lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed The water healeth swellings and exulceration of the mouth by washing and gargelling the mouth with it for this deliuereth the putrifaction and heate and the pushes or sores of the mouth The water of the leaues of the Oke The Lxviij Chapter THe leaues gathered and bruised requyre to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the middes of May. This water drunck to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a time recouereth the fluxe of the bellie whether the same be whyte or matterie It also expelleth congealed bloude into clottes by a strype The water druncke to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at
a time profiteth a fowle and corrupt lyuer and diseased lunges or at the least beginneth to putrifie This in lyke maner druncke preuayleth against stitches in the sides The water druncke twyse a daye stayeth the ouer great fluxe of the termes stoppeth the bléeding of wounds and lyke helpeth the pyssing of bloude by taking it in the foresaid quantitie The water dayly druncke doth especially preuayle agaynst the stone of the loynes and bladder It also healeth the bowels exulcerated by the daungerous fluxe of the bellie The water applyed with lynnen clothes on the inflamed member exceedingly cooleth It healeth olde vlcers of the legges if they be often washed with the same and let to drye in by it selfe The water auayleth against rednesse and burning of the legges by black pushes in applying on the places twyse or thryce a day towe or lynnen clothes wette in it vntill the heate be extinguished The water druncke with a dramme weyght of the fine pouder of Mestiltowe of the Oke for certayne dayes togither adding to it a scruple weyght of Aqua vitae rectified recouereth not onely Feuers and the Apoplexie or depriuation of senses but helpeth without doubt the falling sickenesse The water in lyke manner prepared and druncke putteth away gyddynesse swellings of the bodie preserueth from the Leprie and deliuereth most diseases in that it purgeth and sendeth forth the grosse and euill humors offending The water of the leaues of the Willowe The Lxix Chapter THe leaues of the whyte Wyllowes strypped from the twygges being tender in the Spring time requyre to be dystilled about the beginning of May by Balneo Mariae This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of foure ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar helpeth the stone procureth vryne and preuayleth against the wormes of the bellie The water profiteth against the rednesse of eyes being often washed with the same It helpeth the Shyngles and recouereth the Fistula by applying lynnen clothes wette in it The water druncke in lyke quantitie expelleth the yoongling dead The water of the flowers dystilled after the maner of the flowers of the Apples and Peaches recouereth the sight healeth scabbednesse of the heade procureth fayre heare if wetting the heares well with a Spunge dypped in it and kembed be after suffered to drie by themselfe The water of the Elder The Lxx. Chapter THe outwarde rynde scraped and pylled from the slyppes of the Elde◠trée and the inner ryndes taken and shredde requyre to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of May. This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time recouereth the Dropsie The water druncke fasting to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a tyme swéetened with a little Rosed honie mightily looseth the bellie without harme The water of the tender leaues of the toppes and sides budding forth shredde small and dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of May helpeth hote legges and putrified vlcers if they be often washed with the same and let to drie by themselfe The water of the flowers through blowne and stamped togither dystilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time swéetened with Rosed honie looseth the straitnesse of the brest The water in lyke quantitie druncke profiteth agaynst the swelling and water betwéene the skynne and openeth the stopping of the lyuer mylt and kidneyes The water druncke putteth away the Tertian ague clenseth and helpeth all courses procéeding of Melancholie and strengtheneth the stomacke The water druncke to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a time purgeth all humors by siege and clenseth the bodie The water dropped into the eyes extinguisheth the heate of them It also druncke twyse a day and dropped into the eyes consumeth whyte spottes in them The water helpeth the trembling of the handes if they be wette and laboured with the same and let to drie by themselfe The water profiteth against vlcers and that be colde if they shall be often washed with the same or that lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed The Water of Scabious The Lxxi Chapter THe leaues and rootes shredde togither requyre to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water druncke thrée or fower tymes a daye to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme recouereth the straytenesse of breast and helpeth the impostumes of the same The water druncke morning noone and at euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme preuayleth against stitches of the sides The water profiteth against swellings in the bodie against the Plague poysoning the Cough and all inwarde corruption of the bodie The water in the abouesayde maner druncke helpeth scabbednesse and clenseth the bloude corrupt It also putteth away swellings arysing in the bodie and healeth woundes as well without as within the bodie by applying lynnen clothes wette in it The water in lyke maner druncke purgeth the lunges and putteth away the Cough The water helpeth the Pyles whyte scurfe Letters and Ringwormes It also recouereth pestilent pushes as the Carbuncle sore and amendeth the sight of the eyes The water of the Saxifrage with the whole substance shredde small and dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of May drunck euery day fasting to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar breaketh the stone of the kidneys and bladder helpeth ache in the hyppes deliuereth the stopping of vryne and clenseth the reynes and bladder The Water of Nightshade of the Garden The Lxxij Chapter THe leaues with the stalkes gathered and shredde small require to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae when that the berries be gréene This water druncke morning noone and at euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time helpeth a swelling procéeding of an vntemperate hotenesse It perfourmeth the lyke by applying lynnen clothes wette on the swelling The water in the foresayde maner taken helpeth the stone and putteth away sweate myxed with the water of wormewoode and druncke to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time The water preuayleth against the griefes and aking of the hynder part and whole heade procured of heate The water applyed with Lynnen clothes wet in it on a hote Gowte and the Shingles doth in short time helpe them the rather by the often applying of the clothes wette in the water The water dropped into the eares putteth away griefe in them asswageth inflamed impostumes of the breastes or pappes of women and represseth hote swellinges in the throte that they doe not hastily strangle nor stoppe the wynde and the water gargelled in the throte cooleth the liuer and extinguisheth heate The water helpeth men bursten by often applying lynnen clothes wette in it on the rupture The water druncke greatly auayleth if by any night terrour certaine pushes shall arise and the lyke doth the water preuayle applyed with lynnen clothes The water of the Mustarde séedes when the herbe bearing flowers is to be
of this water The water of Verueyne The Lxxvij Chapter THe male Uerueyne with the whole substaunce gathered shredde small dystill by Balneo Mariae about S. Iohns daye in Iune This water druncke morning anâ— euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time for sixe or eyght dayes togither recouereth the yelow Iaundise preuayleth against poyson helpeth the Tertian and Quartaine feuer and expelleth wormes of the bellie by taking the lyke quantitie euery morning fasting The water in such maner drunck helpeth the straitnesse of the breast the hardnesse of fetching breath the vlcers and consumption of lunges It comforteth the lyuer and causeth a good coulour The water druncke recouereth griefes of the stomack the stoppings of the lyuer and mylt and grieuous paynes of the loynes and bladder The water drunk amendeth the stopping of the bowels stomack and bellie The water clenseth the reynes and bladder and washeth the stones in them The water profiteth against inwarde pushes of the bodie it helpeth the pyssing of bloud and grypings of the bellie It is a precious water for grieuous paynes and strypes of the heade by often annoynting and applying lynnen clothes wette in it to the heade It also helpeth long sickenesses whose cause is not knowne The water preuayleth against all manner of dymnesse of the eyes and vlcers in them comforteth a weake sight â–ª and procureth a clearenesse to it by â—ropping and annoynting it diuers tymes in the eyes The water helpeth sores or scabbes arysing amongst the heares of the heade or other places of the bodie and griefes of the stomacke lyuer and mylte by annoynting and applying lynnen clothes wette in the same The water profiteth against the exulceration of womens places if they be washed morning and euening with the same and that a lynnen clothe wette in it be often applyed The water of Fluelling The Lxxviij Chapter THe herbe with the whole substance shredde small and infused for a day and a night in good Sacke or white wyne dystill by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Iune which after rectified will indure for tenne yeares This water druncke in the morning fasting to the quantitie of two ounces or lesse at a time or that a Spunge wette in the water myxed with other sauours be borne in an Orenge pyll to smell oftentymes to it preserueth the person from the plague The handes heade forheade and temples annoynted with the same profiteth against any euill and noysome smell The person which is taken with the plague if he letteth a veine before it be opened and taketh an ounce and a halfe of the fine powder of this herbe with thrée ounces of the water myxed with a scruple weyght of Venice triacle and after the drincking be well couered with clothes to sweate the poyson and euill humors be then expelled from the heart and by sweating auoyded so that it is a present and prooued remedie agaynst venimous and pestilent feuers The water druncke twyse a day to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a time healeth newe woundes in that the same issueth forth of the woundes by sweating lyke to an Oyle The woundes are also to be washed wyth this water morning and euening applyed with lynnen clothes wette in it for this on such wyse cureth wounds and euill vlcers in a marueylous manner An ounce of Vitrioll or rather of the stone Chalcites brought to powder dissolued in a pynte of thys water healeth all putrified vlcers the Ringworme spottes of sundrie colours or any euill scabbe whelkes and fowlenesse of the skinne procéeding of corrupt humors The elder that thys water shall be so much the worthyer in diuers causes The water annoynted or applyed with lynnen clothes on the sting of Spyders or byte of venimous beasts healeth and putteth away the swelling The water druncke and gargelled morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time putteth awaye incontinent the swelling of the throte If halfe a pounde of Allum be dissolued in a pynte of this water and heated dryueth awaye Mothes out of clothe by wetting and washing it with the same The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of an ounce and a halfe or twoo ounces for certaine dayes togither putteth away gyddynesse of the heade helpeth memorie clenseth tough and clammie humours wasteth and purifieth corrupt bloude the matrice and bladder purgeth expelleth poysons the stone of the kidneyes and all inwarde poysons of the bodie The water deliuereth the wandring heate and openeth the passages of the bodie This also druncke euery morning fasting for sixe wéekes togither to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a time maketh a man leane of bodie strengtheneth the lyuer and consumeth superfluous euill humors The water druncke in the morning fasting anâ— labouring it especially on the heade doth greatly profite to the comforting of memorie and to the strengthening of the heade and brayne it also causeth a readynesse of speache and purifyeth the bloude The water druncke to the quantitie of twoo ounces or twoo ounces and a halfe with a dram weight of the fine pouder of the leaues of Fluelling â–ª and a dram of the myddle rynde in powder of Amara dulcis that is bytter swéete myxte and druncke fasting for certaine dayes togither deliuereth the clammynesse of the lunges purgeth the breast by spittings forth helpeth the Cough difficulties of fetching breath corruption of the lungs for which cause the shepeheards in our time vse to giue the herbe with salt to shéepe vexed with the cough The water taken morning and euening doth especially helpe the lunges and liuer if they inwardlye putrifie and doe ascende vnto the throte yea though they shall putrified vnto the gretnesse of a hasill nutte yet will they againe be restored to helth by this The water druncke with a dramme of the powder of the herbe deliuereth the shedding of the gall gâ—ntly procureth vrine and causeth very fatte and barren women leane and fruitefull The water druncke to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time procureth sweate according to necessitie The water of the Birche tree The Lxxix Chapter THe leaues newly sprunge out â–ª shredde and beaten dystill by Balneo Mariae about the middes oâ— May. This water drunck morning and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time â–ª swéetened with Sugar deliuereth the griefe of the stone in the loynes The water profiteth vnto the cooling of hote vlcers especially those which shall happen on mans priuities if it be applied with lynnen clothes The water dyâ—tilled out of the tappe of the trée after this manner purchased as that 〈…〉 a hole bored in the bodie of the trée néere to the roote and vnder the same a glasse set to gather the lycour dystilling forth which after dystilled by Balneo Mariae profiteth vnto all wounds washed with the same yea healeth and dryeth vp open vlcers if it be often applyed with lynnen clothes The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo
after the â—â—éeping for thrée dayes dystill in a Cucurbite 〈…〉 water and the next an oyle which 〈◊〉 let 〈…〉 in a double veâ—â—ell A water helping 〈◊〉 procéeding of 〈…〉 the trembling of the heart the Quartain◠〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 and griefes of the splene and wâ—â—be diseases 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 cause Take of the flowers of Rosemarie of the flowers and rootes of Buglosse and of the Qâ—â—nce 〈…〉 oâ—nceâ— of Saffron halfe a dramme all 〈…〉 and infused in 〈…〉 of whytâ— wyne 〈…〉 bodie couered and set in 〈◊〉 after dystill and vse â–ª this but of Fumanellus A water that deliuereth 〈…〉 of Ague 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 of Fumitarie purified in which Reysins of the sunne be 〈…〉 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 Take of Cloâ—â—â— of Nutmegges of 〈…〉 oâ— Ginger of â—osemarie of Herbe grace and of Scabious of eche twoo ounces 〈◊〉 finely 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 which after 〈…〉 with a soft 〈…〉 kéepe to your vse A water causing the pacient to reâ—yâ—e and to appeare yong agayne Take of pure Turpentine one poâ—nde of clarified honie 〈◊〉 pyntes â–ª of burning water twoo pyntes of Xyloaloes the purest in powder thrée or drammes and a halfe of the Saunders 〈◊〉 much of Olibanum of 〈…〉 of the bone of the Harteâ— heart of Zedoaria and of long Pepper of eche thrée drammes of gumme Arabecke one ounce of the Nutmegge Galingale Cubebae Cynamone Carowayes 〈◊〉 Mace Cloues Spikenarde Saffron and Ginger of echâ— thrâ—eacute e drammes of chosen Muske a peâ—â—e weyght all these diligently brought to powder dystill according to Arte vntill a water 〈◊〉 forth so cleâ—â—e as the fountaine water whyles the 〈◊〉 water is in comming forth which then appeareth fierie increase the fire by little and little for the water will â—ssue then vnto the thycknesse of honie Another water of youth this so named the water of youth in that it preserueth youth and deliuereth the person vsing it from sickenesse Take of Xyloaloes of Cloues of Ginger of Galingale of Cardamomum of Cubebae of graynes of Paradyse of Rubarbe of Cynamone of Nutmegs of Aloes of Calomus aromaticus of Mace of eche twoo drammes all these brought into a grosse powder seaâ—se diligently adding to it of the iuice of Celondine twoo pyntes of 〈◊〉 of Brionie of Buglosse of Fumiterrie of Rue of Betâ—nie of Mynte of Borage and of Fennell of eche halfe a pounde all these reduced into one and dystilled with the best whyte wyne of this dystilled lycour druncke euery daye in the Summer time one spoonefull but in the Wynter twoo A dystilled water for the drying of vlcers and the Fistula take of the best Aqua vitae and that thryse dystilled ouer so much as you will into it 〈◊〉 of Betâ—nie of Veruaâ—â—â— of Rosemarie and of saint Iohns worte of eche alike well boyled put into the Aqua vitae â–ª or otherwise let them be dystilled againe togither and the vlcers after washed with it A marueylous water healing the Fistula and all woundes â–ª Take of Rosemarie of Bâ—yâ—s of the Myrtill of the wilde Smâ—lledge â—â—garden Smalledge which fower herbes cause newly 〈◊〉 be dystilled by a glasse Lymbeck of which water take one ounce after adde of Turpentine sixe ounces of gumme Iuie thrée ounces of Olibanum twoo ounces of Saffron Mastick of Cubebae of Nutmegs of Myrre of Galingale of Cinamone of Aloes â—â—ceatrine of Cloues of eche one ounce but let all these be finely brought to powder and infused in the abouesayde waters put the whole into a Cucurbite which dystill accorâ—ing to Arte this water reserue in a glasse bodie for this auayleth against any Fistula being from the throte downewarde and all woundes iâ— of the same you shall apply on them and that a clothe wette in this water be applyed vpon the sayd Fistulaes chaunging it foâ—th â— as it wareth driâ—â— this also much auayleth and helpeth any passionâ—â— the bodie impostume and inwarde griefes by drincâ—ing a litâ—le of the same But if any Fistula shall be from the thrâ—te vpwarde then let be added to the foresayd substances one ounce of Pepper â–ª and it will be most perfite and the fecies which shall remayne of the sayde dystillation bying to powder for that applyed on anye vlcer healeth it A water of a diuine workingâ— healing any wounde in a shorte time and both ytche and scabbes Take of the whyte Tartare calcined that is with the quicke siluer decocted and purified of burning water so much as shall suffice vnto the dystilling that if oftener it shall be dystilled it is then caused the effectuouâ—â—â— Fumanelluâ— Another prooued water against the Fistula which so hardeneth yron that you may cut another péece of yron therewith so easie aâ—â— if the same were woode Take of â—aâ—th wormes and of them drawe a water by dystillation and like drawe a water of Raâ—â—sh 〈◊〉 whâ—ch myxed togither into thiâ— then put 〈…〉 yron 〈…〉 redde hote the same thus heated and 〈◊〉 for three or fowre tymes by anequall qâ—â—ntitie vsed as 〈◊〉 tymes and the knyfe tempered with an edge â—ippe redde hote againe into the glasse with the waters abouesayde for you may after cut any Iron safely and easily and this wâ—ter 〈◊〉 is marueylous in Fistulaes A water for all woundes Take of Egâ—â—monde of Solanum of Pâ—â—â—taine of 〈◊〉 a pounde of whyte wyne to much â–ª of whyte glasse fower ounces of crude Alluâ— thrée ounces of Masticke twoo ounces of Orpiment halfe a scruple of the whytes of egges sixe in number let all these be stronglye beatin togither and dystilled with this water washe twyse a day the wounde Another water for Fistulaes knobbes knottes bunches scrâ—fâ—â—s and any other manner of swelling without payne Take of the chosen oyle of Tylestones fiue pyntes of whyte Franckincense of Masticke of gumme Arabecke of Turpentine of Venice of eche thrée ounces these finely wrought togither dystill in a Cucurbite after Arte and in the dystilling ouer againe adde fiue poundes of Salte and that dystilled lycour then kéepe to thy vse this Fumanellus A water soone healing wounds Take of burning water fower ounces of Triacle halfe â—n ounce this after the dystilling apply on woundes and strawing then the pouder of Aloes and Myrre this Fumanellus A water which healeth all woundes spéedily in any part of thâ— bodie whether those be newe or olde woundes and the Fistulâ— â–ª as the author hath 〈…〉 â—â—perienced Take of Aqua vitae dystilled of the best whâ—te wyne twoo pyntes of Rosemarie water and of Sage water dystilled at one time of ech fiue pyntes of whyte 〈◊〉 ten poundes which laboured togither or still ouer againeâ— after adde a viall or glasse full of Rosemary flowers and so much of Sage flowers these mixed with the foresayde dystâ—lation 〈…〉 it so stande for a daye which after strayne and kéepe in a glasse to your vse The maner of vsing is that it must be applyed on with a lynnen cloth wette in it and as the same cloth alwayes dryeth moysten it againe Another water to drawe out bones
water Take of yong Swallowes brought to pouder to which adde Castoreum or Castorie myxing a quantitie of vinegar withall these distill in a Cucurbite The water drunck auayleth against the falling sickenesse If he be a yong person of xiiij yeares of age taken with the sickenesse if he shall drincke of this water fasting for fortie dayes shall throughlye be cured It also helpeth the Cough the straitenesse of the breast or fetching of breath by drincking of it fasting nine mornings togither It comforteth and amendeth the brayne it purgeth the stomack it inlargeth the breast and taketh away the cause procuring the Palsie it increaseth sperme and heateth the colde persons and druncke fasting with Isope healeth the Dropsie of a colde cause and the Quotidian or dayly Ague But euery woman with child must refrayne that season from the drincking of this watâ—r in that the same slayeth the chylde This also druncke with Isope helpeth the diseases of the heade and procureth an appetyte purchasâ—th sléepe helpeth digestion and sendeth forth the vrine The fift water Take of Isope of Gladen of Sauin of Sothernwood of eche alyke of theâ—e make a paâ—te letting it so stand impasted togither for certaine dayes which dystill according to Arte for this is a singular water and of a great vertue It auayleth against all manner of Agues as well hote as colde It prouoketh womens termes and for that cause women with child ought to refrayne the taking of this water for doubt and feare of loosing the yongling The water druncke stayeth the bloudie fluxe or the perillous fluxe of bloude named Dysenteria and is a singular remedie also agaynst any maner of fluxe of the bellie It purgeth the stomack of euill humors and stayeth the wormes in the bodie Druncke with Castoreum helpeth the Palsie ministred or taken warme euery morning The sixt water of the Philosophers is made of a Moule which serueth vnto the dying or colouring of heares whyte eyther of man or beast Take a Moule which artely brought to powder with Brimstone adde to it the iuice of Celondine which orderly myxed let so stande for certaine dayes after dystill the whole according to Arte The vertue of this water is on such wyse that if a beast wholy blacke of heare shall be washed all ouer with this water the heares shall in short tyme become so whyte as snowe Also if to this water be waxe and Aloes myxed and annoynting the Palsie member therewith it cureth the same in short tyme It healeth besides the disease named Noli me tangere if this be applyed plaisterwise vpon it amendeth the weakenesse of the head Further this water commixed with the stone named Calaminaris and Aloes healeth the disease named the Wolfe if the same be applyed playster wyse twyse a daye or onlye washed twyse a day with the same water but beware that this lycour enter not and especially that you vse it not within the bodie The seauenth water which is named the water of conseruation or preseruing Take Persely which after the well beating in a morter dystill according to Arte who that drincketh of thys water not hauing an appetyte to meate with a fasting stomack doth not onely amende all wyndynesse and rawnesse of the stomacke but procureth digestion it purgeth also the breast of superfluous humors The eyght water is named the condupliciue or doubled Take of Smalledge séedes of the oyle of Poppie of whyte Sugar and of Cloues of eche alyke these laboured togâ—ther in a Morter adde to the whole the aboue sayde water of preseruing and mixed diligently togither dystill these in a glasse body after Arte This water drunck cold in the morning fasting and warme at the going to bedde doth marueylously helpe the Cough and griefes or paynes of the breast This water also druncke warme with Castorie auayleth in all the diseases of the splene and tremblings of the members yea and comforteth both the heade and brayne These eyght waters did the Authour translate out of the Germayne into the Latine tongue written first by that godlye man Aegidius And a ninth water affirmeth the Author there was which for that the description of the same was vnperfite for that cause he left it as vnmentioned in this place ¶ Of the compounde waters which are named Elixir of which some also extende vnto Baulmes and may like be applyed as shall after appeare The Lxxxvij Chapter A secrete water Take of Malmesey pure and good into which put your flowers herbes and spices and what thinges besides you please that let so stande infused for thrée or foure dayes in a glasse bodie close luted to putryfie after dystill the whole with a most slowe and easie fire and make no separation vntill the end then separate or drawe awaye the waters and cease least the waters styncke and the spyces burne In that water drawne dissolue Sugar adding after of Muske Amber and Cinamon and if you will haue your water very delectable or pleasant theâ—â— take of Sugar Candie pouring vpon it the best Aqua vitae and the same dystill from the Sugar vntill the spirites and fumes ascende poure the other water in the abouesayde glasse bodie in which will thrée or foure Aromaticall redde drops fall and such a dystillation also shall be repeated with Sugar Candie as before and the same so often repeated ouer shall marueylouslye worke being especially mixed with golde as you may like coâ—ceyue and you shall then haue golde dissolued or potable golde that is both marueylous and very effectuous and swéetest And if you be mynded to haue pure golde then laye a deade heade in a moyst place and you shall purchase and possesse a marueylous Arte And this abouesayde maner doth excell the others as reason the like instructeth which the Authour here will not reueale for causes that he knoweth A golden water or Elixir vitae Take of Sage thrée quarters of a handfull of Nutmegs of Mace of Gynger of graynes of Paradyse of Cloues and of Cynamone of eche twoo drammes of Reubarbe of Castorée and of Spikenarde of eche halfe an ounce of oyle of Bayes Artely drawne twoo ounces these diligently beaten and mixed togither infuse in sixe measures of good wyne close couered in a glasse bodie for a moneth at the ende of which tyme let the wyne be strayned and the spyces or drugges agayne beaten very fine vntill the whole be lyke a thicke broth or lycour vpon which poure then the abouesayde wyne letting the whole stande for other thrée dayes couered which after dystill by a Limbecke The water which commeth forth will be so cleare as Chrystall the same kéepe in a glasse bodie with a narrowe mouth being close stopped which applye to these griefes and sickenesses ensuing If you sprynckle Fyshes Byrdes Fowles Venison and such lyke with this water they shall not putrifie so long as you be mynded reasonablye to kéepe them Wyne of a sower straung sauour decayed is made pleasant and perfite if you poure a little of
prepare orderlye Another strong water take of strong water of common salt and a lyttle of Salt Ammoniacum these dystill togyther or if the strong water shall be distylled before and the others after distylled with it this then is named the regall water or water of a kyng which seperateth Golde But the common Aqua fortis or strong water doth only seperate Syluer so that it doth both leaue the Gold and maketh it apparaunt A causticke water in the Fistula without payne â—nd auayleth also against kernelles swellinges and knobbes yea it taketh awaye all maner of excessiue or superfluous increasing of the fleshe in mans bodie without payne The making of which is on this wyse take of the best oyle of Tyle stands of chosen Masticke of gumme Arabicke and of Turpentyne of eache thrée ounces such as are to be beaten beate dilygentlye the whole then myxe togyther which distyll by a Lymbecke this after myxe and incorporate with halfe a pound of the ashes of the trée Cerrus which distyl agayne by a Lymbecke and that distylled or come forth kéepe in a Glasse well stopped A marueylous water in the Fistula with which golden letters may be written in yron take a Rammes horne cleane rasped and cleansed without which cutte into small or fyne pieces puttyng it after into a Lymbecked of glasse to be subtylly distylled this water then come forth worketh so on hote yron that it gyldeth it and marueylously auayleth in Fistulaeâ— This Bertapalia A water corroding and eating away in the stéede of a cauterice in so much that it eateth into yron take of â—alt water two ounces of Romaine Vitryoll one pounde of Vermylion or * of the redde sanguinarie stone fowre ounces grynde each a part which after the myxing togyther dystyll by a Lymbecke the water kéepe in a Glasse this Bertapalia A ruptory which serueth to part and cutte away any swellyng or mattery impostume without yron take of Romaine Vitryoll rubysâ—ed or made redde sixe ounces or Salt and nyter of each two ounces of gaules of salt AmmoniacuÌ„ of ech eyght ounces of Vitryol not rubifyed two ounces all these after the powthering and distylled in a Lymbecke keep warely in a glasse The vse of this lycour is that if an Olyue twygge or other piece of wood edged lyke to a knyfe be dypped and well wette in this water that the same cutteth awaye the swelling and wartes maye in lyke maner bée taken away with it This borrowed out of Fumanellus A water agaynst long continuing vlcers yea howe peryllous or wycked so euer they bée and the Fistula a medycine learned of a certayne religious person of which in another place we haue mencioned taught to mée many yeares agoe and by sundry practises tryed the same that it cleanseth all rottennesse and bringeth to healing yea and healeth them in a short tyme which is prepared and made after this maner take of Chalcitis or of the Romain Vitryoll one pounde of Salt nyter so much of water so much as shal suffice these boyle togither with a lyttle of quicksiluer Take of this water cleared two pyntes of quicksiluer one pounde the whole myxed together distyll in a Lymbecke and the distyllacion ended breake then the Glasse body and the substaunce within it which he as Feces or grounâ—e grinde fynely on a marble stone which distyll togyther agayne with the abouesayd water thrée or fowre tymes ouer For the vlcers being olde doth the powder remayning heale by applying vpon them withall the water This Fumanellus â–ª Another water taking away and healing Fistulaes knobbes or kâ—ottes Take of the oyle of Tyle stones fyue pyntes of vnquenched Lyme â—ew made thrée ounces of pure Arsenicke two ounces of Euphorbium one ounce all these distyll in a Lymbecke according to arte This Fumaâ—ellus Another mightyer water inputting away Fistulaes knobbes and wartes Take of the oyle of Tyle stones halfe a pynt of vnslaked Lyme fowre ounces of pure Ammoniacum so much of Euphorbium halfe an ounce all these myxed with the oyle distyll after arte in a Lymbecke and the distylled lycour â–ª kéepe to your vse This Fumanellus An Oyle for the cleansing of the Morphew take of whyte Tartare and of Salt nyter of eache a lyke these grynde finely on a smothe stone after make a hole in the myddle of the powder in which laye a burning coale and the oyle which runneth from the stone dilygently kéepe with the same annoynt the Morphew places and they shall speedily be cleansed and healed A strong water take of OrpymeÌ„te of Floris aeris of ech two ounces of Romaine vitryoll one pound and a halfe of Salt nyter two poundes of Alome thrée poundes all these dyligently brought to powder distyll according to art A strong water maruaylous in the curing of an old Fistula and that déepe entered within the bone borrowed out of a most auncient wrytten booke Take of Salt Ammoniaci of vitrioll of the redde and cytrine Orpymente of gréene copperase of each two drams eyther more or lesse according to the discrecion of the workeman all these brought to powder distyll in a glasse bodye well luted making a gentle fyre at the fyrst and increasing it so long vntyll the glasse body become redde that distylled keepe in a glasse closse stopped in that otherwyse it would breath out and consume away This water is of such a force and vertue that it pearceth the bones and for that cause one small droppe let fall in the hollow of the Fistula doth forthwith canterizate the same euen lyke to fyre After let the burning be taken or gotten away with the whyte of an egge or freshe butter and a warie application then vsed for the increasing of fleshe Another strong water take of Salt peter and of the Romaine Vitryoll of eache two poundes of Alome calcyned halfe a pound all these brought to powder distyll in a Cucurbite but I rather thinke a Retorte the better This water whytneth the téeth that be blacke if so be you applye a droppe of it on the téeth with a Goose feather and washe them after with spring or Conduite water A kynde of strong water auayling against wormes wartes and knobbes or lytle swellinges take of Salt Ammoniacum of Romayne vitryoll and of each two ounces of Sugar Alome and of vnslaked Lyme of eache halfe an ounce all these dilygentlye myxed distyll after arte Another water maruaylous in the Fistulaes and in the dyssoluing of pearles and the Gold in leaues Take of Salt Ammoniacum halfe a pounde of Salt niter three ounces of Tartare two ounces of coÌ„mon salt halfe an ounce all these finely brought to powder and distylled by a Lymbecke keepe in a glasse close stopped A water which dyeth or coloureth Horses Dogges cloathes and Feathers of a greene colour take of Salt nyter one pound and of Smerilij halfe a pounde these fynelie brought to powder distyll by a Lymbecke the water kéepe in a glasse closse stopped For the taking away of a Canker a secrete of Master Frances
angelike electuarie to be made with this stone that is marueylous in many disseases and sicknesses For this ministred auayleth in al Agues by abating the force of them for griefe of the flankes eyght marueylous and easeth straungely the gowte by taking adosed quantitye of it euery thyrde daye and that three tymes togyther in ten dayes for by that time doth the Aucthour wryte that he shall throughly he cured of his gowte he reporteth that many tymes he hath woonderfullye cured it to his great fame This also auaileth in the cough the rewme dissease of the Milt helpeth besides the French dissease ioynt aches and such lyke The making of which precious lycour is on this wyse take of Saffron of Lignum aloe of Cynamon of redde Corall of each a dram of blacke Deâ—â—abore without preparation two ounces of the electuarie of the iuyce of Roses of Mesue not to much or to highe boyled sixe ounces of Sugar Roset or of the conserue of Roses eyght ounces of the East Muske one dram of the Philosophers stone thrée ounces of the best quintessence two ounces of stone Hony boyled skimmed so much as shall suffice to make a good forme of an electuarie these after the powthering myxe incorporate dilygently togyther ouer a softe and easie fyre in an earthen glased vessell in that a vessell of any metall is not fyt for this composition and being made kéepe dilygently in a glasse rather than in any other vessell And this electuarie may be matched or myxed with any other solutiue medicine and taken with a fasting stomacke in the morning the quantity at one tyme to be mynistred is from two drams vnto fowre This conceyue that the same rayseth in a maner the doad through the singular vertue contained in it as the Aucthour in Rome and in sundry other places hath both seene and done many experiences worthy memorie For which cause he wysheth the skylfull practysioners not to be without this Angelike electuarie that myndeth to purchase fame on earth This borrowed out of the singular practises of the skylfull Gréeke Leonard Fiorauant The making of the vegelant stone after a rare strange order that changeth bodies froÌ„ one quality into another defendeth or preserueth the body a long tyme in health and that hath also infinite vertues in a maner and without comparison Is borrowed out of the practises of the aboue sayde Aucthour in this maner Take of the Tartare of whyte wyne which is both thicke and cleare or bright of TurpeÌ„tine very pure and cleare of the hearb Aloes which hath long leaues thicke and indented on the sydes and hanged in mennes houses being continuallye greene and brought of Marryners many tymes out of Barbarie into England of each of these three one pound which after stampe togither in a morter making and incorporating the whole to a paste the same put then into an vrynall bodye of Glasse with a head luted to and a Receauer artlie fastned vnder which apply fyre so 〈◊〉 vntyll all the lyquide substaunce and moysture be come after drawe forth the Feces out of the vrynall and if you otherwyse can not choose breake then the vrynall and grynde those Feces which incorporate with the whole water come after distyll the whole as aboue taught and in the ende alwayes of your worke make a greater fyre and so mightye that your Feces maye appeare burned well those Feces againe drawe forth grynde and impaste with the sayde water as afore taught and distylling it the lyke ouer againe which repeate doe fiftéene tymes ouer â–ª or twenty tymes togyther without ceassing vntyll all the water bée wholye consumed after this maner and that no moisture resteth in the Feces but are so whyte and bryght as Salt. Those Feces then laie vpon a smoothe marble stone hanging it or laying it in a moyst place and the stone wyll after dyssolue and turne into a most cleare water and being thus wholye dissolued keepe the same in a narrow mouthed glasse close stopped for this water is the vegetable stone â–ª Which water is of such a vertue that one scruple of the same myxed with two ounces of the Iulepe or syrupe of Violets mynistred or taken by the mouth of any sicke person or euyl complexioned for the space of fortye dayes shall be delyuered and quyted of any gréeuous and harde sicknesse and this must be taken with a fasting and emptie stomacke in the morning and that the meate be well dygisted before for being â—n such wyse this then worketh the greater effect and is also a syngular remedie against wormes in mynistring of it as aboue taught and clenseth the Lyuer dryeth vp the moysture of the Mylt delyuereth the cough the rewme causeth the pacient to pysse which hath impediment of vryne and sundrye other vertues this myraculous water hath which the Aucthour ouerpasseth for doubting that he should seeme to any that he vttered impossible matters Wherefore he wysheth the skylfull to examine these and to make further tryalles of this water whereby they may finde out other secretes both straunge and myraculous to the benefite recouerye of health This also serueth for the fixation of Myneralles without flying away in the fume in that this stone resisteth the force of any great fyre without the consuming away and it also so fyxeth the Brimstone and Orpymente that they after may abyde the fyre and causeth them also most white through which in making proiection with them on Copper or brasse 〈◊〉 it chaungeth eyther into a most pure Syluer for whytenesse or as I may aptlye terme the same syluer lyke to the eye which the Aucthour saw wrought and done by a Chymiste before his face A Mercurie sublymed borrowed of an Emperick Frenchman made on this wyse take of quicksyluer one pound which extinguishe in the strongest vinyger of vitryoll dryed and pure two poundes of common salt verie whyte thrée poundes after powre the whole into an vrinall body strongly luted with the head and Receauer close luted in the ioyntes vnder which keepe fyre for sixe howres as by lytle and lytle increasing the worke ended breake then the Cucurbite and you shall haue persite Sublimatum Quicksyluer out of Leaâ—e was on this wâ—se drawne and gâ—tten 〈◊〉 the same Empiâ—â—cke take of 〈◊〉 moâ—â—â—nely chopped tenne poundes of Salt â—yter and of 〈◊〉 calcyned of eache twelue ounces let all these be put into an earthen vessell glased after they are dissolued in strong Aqua vitae let them be set in the hotter place of all the hote house for fowre or sixe dayes togither and you shall then purchase and haue seuen poundes of quicksyluer Mercurie or quicksyluer crude powred into strong water the whole is so reduced and brought in a maner vnto the fourme of an oyle with this are rotten fleshe and the piece of fleshe within the nose causing a stincke taken away c. But if an euyll or sore shall be within the mouth then is Vnguetum
increasing stronger and stronger vnto the ende of the worke and this which first commeth named the mother oâ— Baulme Of this mother of Baulme then and of the Elixir vitae alyke myxed in the Lymbecke and fermented againe as aboue taught and a distyllacion after wrought in Balneo Mariae there wyll a most cleare water distyll and come forth which is named the mother of Baulme coniunct or compouned A Baulme inuented and fyrst made in Rome take of Turpentine halfe an ounce of Olibanum syxe ounces of Aloes succotryne of Masticke of Galingale of Cynamon of Saffron of Nutmegges of Cloues and of Cubebae of eache one ounce of gumme yuie two ounces all these brought to powder and myxed with the Turpentyne and put into a Glasse bodye and to these adding of Camphora Amber greese of eache two drams distyll after with a soft fyre The fyrst water which commeth is whyte and cleare and the wyne of the Baulme the second is yellow and named the oyle the thyrde more yellowe and is the true Baulme The discripcion of a certaine Baulme or water inuented of a famous Phisition of which he reported and affyrmed verye rare and woonderfull matters and gaue to it a royall name which is the reuyuer and defendour or mainteyner of youth Take of Turpentyne one pound of pure hony halfe a pynte of good Aqua vitae two pyntes of Lignum aloes dilygently beaten and of al the Saunders of each three drams and a halfe of Olibanum of gum yuie of the bones of the Hartes heart of Zedoaria of long Pepper of eache three drams of gumme Arabicke one ounce of Nutmegges of Galingale of Cubebae of Cynamon of Carrowayes of Masticke of Cloues of Spykenarde of Saffron and of Gynger of each thrée drams and a scruple of â—ine muske the wayght of two pence these artelie prepared distyll according to arte begynning with a softe fyre and increasing after a stronger and stronger heate vnto the ende the first water that commeth forth is as cleare as the Cunduite water the seconde wyll be fyrie as a coale and then increase the fyre and the thyrde lycour wyll come forth blackishe A Baulme lycour of Iohan Mesue verye excellent and most profitable vnto many grieffes and disseases he tooke of thosen Myrre of Aloes hepaticke of Spykenarde of Dragons blood of pure Frankencense of Munia of Opobalsamum of Bolellium of Carpobalsamum of Ammoniacum of Sarcocolla of Saffron of Masticke of gumme Arabicke of Lyquide storax of each two drammes otherwyse two drammes and a halfe of chosen Ladanum of Succi castorei of eache two drammes and a halfe of Muske halfe a dram of the best Turpentyne vnto the wayght of all these artlie brought to powder and myxed with the Turpentyne and powred into a Glasse bodie with a headde and the same strongly fensed with the lute of wisedome distyll in the begynning with a softe fyre and increasing the heate after according to skyll and discretion the lycour which aryseth by distyllacion and artlye gathered preserue in a strong Glasse close stopped This lycour draweth nighe vnto the true iuyce of Baulme Guido a cauliaco dyd sometymes to this precious lycour adde the hearbes appoynted and vsed to the Palsie and then the worthyer and much more effectuous as he wytnesseth practyses he wrought and did And with this lycour alone in the palsie Mesue many times dealed without the addition of any others and had good successe by annoynting the pacientes nape of the necke and all the rydge bone of the backe downwarde and that part affected or taken For in this maner doyng it marueylously helpeth the great debilitie of the backe decayed strength of all the partes and the depriuation of the synewes and bones So that it much profiteth the Palsie all the griefes of the synewes the beating and trembling of the hearte and a manyfest loosenesse of partes through the secrete propertie incredible And this conceaue that there can no medycine bée inuented nor founde worthier then it For at any tyme when the heart needeth any speedie comforting and strengthening vse this as a singular and diuine remedie if we may credite the learned practisioner Mesue An oyle of the Philosophers drawen out of Turpentine and Waxe which is a certaine secrete Baulme hauing infinite vertues excéeding all other lycours that can be inuented and made in that the same is made of two symples which be but litle subiecte to corruption or in a maner incorruptible the one is Turpentine which is a lycour dystilled and gotten of the Fyrre trée and the other is the waxe which is a celestiall matter that discendeth or falleth from heauen and that this is true we throughly know that nature neither produceth the honny nor waxe but rather prepared and sent from heauen And we after see that the Bees by their woonderfull skill and Arte farre aboue mans towardnesse gather the one and the other and carrie them to their home which man by no industrie can gather one droppe the lyke but to abreuiate this the preparyng and makyng of this precious lycour is on thys wyse take of cleare Turpentyne eyghtene ounces of sweete yealow waxe twelue ounces of the Ashes of the Wyne tree sixe ounces these put togyther into a Retorte or crooked neckte glasse artely luted and fensed which after the setting into Ashes distill accordyng to Arte mayntayning a stranger and stronger heate vnto the ende of the worke And when no more wyll dystyll forthe you shall then see aboute the necke of the Retorte within waxe courded which is a manifest sygne of the distyllation perfourmed This nowe distylled and gathered stoppe dilygentlye with waxe and kéepe to your vse for you haue then a lycour lyke to Baulme in properties which is of a syngular vertue and much piersing If any with this lycour shall be annointed all the bodie ouer it then by the sundrye tymes vsing preserueth and mayntayneth youth a long tyme and kéepeth all things put in it from corrupcion and putrifying and doth also kéepe the bodie a long tyme in health and preserueth dead bodyes imbaulmed with it a long tyme And a person wounded in any member or parte of the bodye by onelye annoynting on the wounde thrée or fowre tymes with this oyle shall throughly be cured And that personne which can not pysse by taking onely two drammes of this lycour by the mouth shall forthwith pysse plentifullye and this the lyke mynistred helpeth the greeuous payne of the flankes stitches in the sides the wormes in the body the cough the rewme and pestilent Ague and other lyke grieffes and disseases by mynistring the abouesayd quantytie by the mouth shall speedilye be delyuered This borrowed out of the skylfull practyses of the Greeke Leonarde Fierouant A water or Baulme of Hermes borrowed out of that booke named Trotula in the ende of the woemens passions where he wylleth to take of Turpentyne thrée tymes distylled ouer and at last all togyther one pounde of Lignum aloes lykewyse three tymes
of experience â–ª in his booke of secreetâ— This oyle miraculously healeth al maner of woundes bruses that especially happen on the head for that singular Surgiane Gabriell Fallopio dyd woonderful cures with it among which hée healed a plowman of two such long déepe cuttes on the head that were fearefull to behold besides a wound that passed through both sydes of his thyghe that he healed onely with this oyle with such expedicion that it were in a maner incredible to be reported so that where neede is of drying there cannot be founde anything of greater vertue then this blessed oyle so often and many tymes proued of Fallopio Besides the gréeke Fiorauant reporteth that it causeth heare to growe on the head the heares of the beard shedding this stayeth causeth them to grow againe with expedicioÌ„ by annoynting the weake place the bare plaâ—e after a wounde this also helpeth the paine of the flanks retention or staying backe of the â—ryâ—â— by applying a glyffer prepared with a lytle of this oyle withâ—â— the body this it doth forthwith For it mightylie dryeth vp that alteracion caused in the secrete places within where no loâ—all matter can be applyed on the kydneys nor otherwyse deâ—â—â— withall This oyle first inuented by the famous Greeke Leonarde Fiorauant and increased by that worthy man Gabriell Fallopio â–ª 〈…〉 â—â—most precious oyle for worâ—â—â— â–ª whiâ—â—â—uer they be â–ª borrowed out of the first chapter 〈◊〉 written by Bertapaâ—â—a Take of the kernelles of Peaches of bytter Almondes of Gentiane of wormewood of Horehounde or of Lupynes of Colewort seedes of the Peache tree leaues of the ryuer or water Catmintes of Oleandri of Pellytorie of whyte Elleborie of the rootes of the long grasse of eache halfe a handfull all these dilygentlye brought to powder and laboured with the gaule of a caulfe and the iuyce of Leekes and myntes of each two ounces of Neunphare oyle one ounce of wormewood oyle two wyne pynts all these after the dilygent myxing togither set in horse doong to putrify for a moneth in a strong glasse well stopped which after distyll with a headde close luted and you shall then purchase a water and an oyle reuyuing and strengthning the disseased and sicke of the wormes by taking two scruples of the water by the mouth with Malmâ—sie by annoynting of the oyle on the temples pulses of the hands and feete and all about the body and the mouth of the stomacke and about the shoulder poyntes By which doing the Aucthour sawe many children in a maner deadde of the wormes recouer health in a short tyme after and healed woundes with this oyle and vlcers with expedicion Of Baulmes which are applyed and vsed without the bodye of which some are prepared and done by distyllacion and some without distyllation The .x. Chapter AN artificiall Baulme curing all olde woundes helping the drynesse of members and the members shrunck take of Galbanum of AmmoniacuÌ„ of Mastick of pure Myrre of gum Elemi of Bolellium of eache halfe an ounce of Turpentine one ounce and a halfe or two ounces which is the better of oyle Oliue two pyntes of Viridis aeris two ounces and a halfe all these brought to powder infuse for sixe or eyght dayes in the strongest vineger â–ª after distylled by a Lymbecke as in the first daye by Balneo Mariae and the next daye in sande but if you wyll haue it stronger of better taste then adde these vnder taught and let it be brought and done as afore vttered take of Storax calamâ—â—a of gum yuie of Spykenard of Carâ—â—e of â—olophonia of gâ—m Tragaâ—â—â—ite of gum Serapine of Opopanax of each halfe an ounce 〈◊〉 phâ—â—â—bium halfe a dram of Viridis aeris thrée drams of Turpentine one pounde This baulme cureth all olde woundes in a colde and hote cause It helpeth also the drynesse and shrincking of members if those shall be annoynted with that baulme A distylled oyle helping the trembling or shaking of the hands let equall portions of the oyle of Bayes of Rue and of Sage be distylled togyther which after tenne dayes powre into a strong wyne and distyll the whole in a Lymbecke with this water gathered annoynt the handes feete and the trembling members Another oyle helping the treÌ„bling of the head take al the abouesayde which put into Aqua vitae for fowreteene dayes the whole distyll by a Lymbeck and with this water annoynt the temples both morning and euening Here it is to be vnderstanded that where he speaketh by the matters aboue taught he meaneth not the oiles in this but the Bay berries the Rue Sage especially A distylled baulme helping and curing woundes and deepe vlcers take of Turpentyne sixe poundes of Olibanum halfe an ounce of Lignum aloes of Masticke of each one dram of Cloues of Cynamon of Zedoaria of Nutmegges of Cubebae and of Galingale of eache thrée drammes of oyle Olyue sixe drams these brought to powder and myxed distyll with a slowe fire this helpeth the colde poysons of Toades Fistulaes Noli me tangere the Palsie and venymous woundes with or by a Tente Here in this place besides is to be noted after the mynde of Theophrastus Paracelsus that baulmes prepared and gotten by distyllation are not to be applyed at all on woundes of which let others iudge An oyle effectuous and proued for softning of the synewes or palsie and the shrincking of them or the crampe the falling sicknesse or Epileptia the trembling of partes and any colde disease it increaseth also memorie the vnderstanding Take of Galbanum halfe an ounce of gum yuie fiue ounces these after the bringing to powder distyl in a Lymbeck mixed after with one pouÌ„d of Sebesten distyll the whole againe with this annoint the hinder part of the head and the nape of the necke at nyght before the entering into bedde this borrowed out of Fumanellus The best oyle seruing vnto all the synewes vnto the ioyntes helping marueylously all the aches hapning in the hyppes the knées the handes and féete the bodye before purged â–ª after the begynning of the sycknesse and let the grieued place be annoynted at the fyre or in the Sunne twyse a daye Take of chyldrens vryne twentye pyntes of Brymstone one pounde of vnflaked Lyme two poundes let the Brymstone and Lyme bee brought to powder and the Vryne â—â—â—tyng a hande breadth aboue them which boyle togyther vntyll it shall come vnto a gréene colour after the strayning boyle agayne the grosser partes and Feces remayning with the other parte of the Vryne restyng and thys doe three or fowre tymes and so often vntyll the vryne hath leste his colour and seeth that whiche remayneth vnto the thycknesse of Honny being colde distyll in a Glasse bodye the same which fyrste commeth forth in the colour of water throwe awaye and the nexte which commeth being of a yellowe collour through the fire increase dylygentlye keepe Another of the same mans An oyntmente helping
then must the stroÌ„ger heate or fyre be left and the other followed and mayntained but if otherwise then let the heate be increased Thyrdly must be considered learned that the oile fyrst distilleth so that at the coÌ„ming of the second or thyrde oyle the receauer may be changed And within an howres space in a maner wyll halfe an ounce be distilled and gathered in the receauer So that when no more lyquidnesse appeareth on high in the Cucurbite then wyl no more matter distyll forth and the work vpon this sight is fully ended The oyle of Annise seedes is thus prepared drawne take of Annise seedes for this is a coÌ„mon forme waye vnto the distylling also of oyles out of other séedes one pounde these after the grosse beating râ—t into a horned or croke necked body to which let the receauer be artly closed fastned setting the body theÌ„ into a pot of ashes the same distyl with a most soft fyre you shall gather a water an oyle in the receauer The water you shal draw forth by a reuoluing or repeting againe of the whole substance that oyle remaining or tarrying behind in the body whose vse serueth vnto the collicke passion paine of the bowels But of the water is an electuary made with Sugar in the forme of losings or Manus christi of which one table at a tyme eyther after dynner or after supper may be giuen or taken For this strengthneth the stomack digestion putteth away or expelleth wynd This at any time takeÌ„ or vsed profiteth but in the morning especially helpeth the lungs the cough the obstructions or stoppings of choller helpeth the inward parts The vse of it properly is in droppes The oyle of Annise is much more in property then the Annise it selfe and in working myghtier Yet the naturall heate of the whole Annise seede can neuer be so exactly purchased as to draw forth seperate a perfite substance although an artificiall preparation may be wrought the same by mans industry For like as any meate that the same may be taken eaten without daunger or harme it néedeth before an outward preparation euen so must a lyke preparation be wrought in medicines that the subtyller parts be seperated from the grosser before those be applied or taken within the body for on such wyse prepared and ordered may any medicine worke the easier performe the proper action in the body without harme to the pacient The vse of this oyle much auayleth in the gyddinesse of the head the harde fetching of breath procéeding through a dangerous Rewme in a maner suffocating or choking the person in the weaknesse of stomâ—ck and wyndinesse in the dropsie in other colde diseases and those procured of wynd This also much profiteth the members lacking blood and the synew partes as the stomack the veynes the bladder the bellye and the whyte fluxe of the wombe this mightilye stayeth This oyle may be taken or ministred by droppos in gyuin certain droppes of it eyther in wine or in breath in the morning or in tyme of necessitie The oyle of Fennell séedes helpeth the head but the eyes especially the kydneys bladder Tables may be made of the same of lyke propertyes and vnto the same vses or certayne droppes may be mynistred alone at any time or else taken morning and euening And an oyle is drawne out of the drye séedes without any other addicion it is very pleasaunt and swéete of taste as the Aucthour prooued and felt of the same the same also in colour is whyte that first distylleth The oyle of Cummyne drawne is profitable to woundes ioyning néere vnto the Mylt the swellings of the body procéeding of a colde cause which sometymes happeneth and is the cause why the vryne is stayed backe vnto this vse may a droppe or two be mynistred in Ferne water or in Tables if they be made with it The oyle out of Henbane séedes prepared in the same maner as the oyle of Roses by the discription of Rogerius auayleth the lyke that the oyle of the apples of Mandrake doth It auayleth also in the hote ioynt aches in repressing mightily the payne and causing an astonishment to those places applyed in burning and in excoriations it may procure and make a lyttle scarre and mytigate the burnings out of the same Aucthour A compounde oyle out of Séedes procuring sléepe Take of the Seedes of Lollij of Henbane of the whyte and blacke Poppie of the Lettuce and Purcelane séedes of eache fowre small handfulles of the séedes of Faba inuersa which is Telephium two small handfulles let all these be distylled togyther of this distylled mynister two scruples wayght at a tyme with a lytle or small quantity of Opium Of the oyles out of Fruytes The .xiiij. Chapter THe oyle of Iuniper berryes is distylled in the same maner as the Aqua vitae by powring water vpon and it then spéedilye and easilye distylleth As an oyle fyrst commeth and a water next inseweth euen in the lyke maner as wheÌ„ the Spike is distylled But it behooueth to breake the berries before Some also distyll them in a bodie this auayleth vnto many grieffes vnto the gripings of the belly vnto the mattering of the yarde which is as the same were the Gonorrhaea vnto the paynes or grieffes of the necke procéeding of Rewme Agyrtae or Iuglers publishe marueylous matters of the same oyle which who that lyste may reade theyr tables imprinted with them But the maner howe this oyle ought to be distylled is on this wyse I tooke sayth the Aucthour a pynt full of Iunyper berryes which I brake somewhat small vpon which I powred pure water such a quantitie as verie well couered them after I powred the whole into such a copper vessell as the same is in which the Aqua vitae most commonly is distylled and with a copper pype also passing through colde water dyd I distyll hauing vnder a bygge Receauer fastened to the pype which myght well receyue or holde fowre measures of lycour and on this wyse dyd the oyle distyll come with the water But another instrument I vsed standing on the head which I fylled with colde water for the better cooling of the spyrites that they burned not in the comming Out of the abouesayde quantity of berryes I neuer drew aboue three ounces of perfite oyle There is a further instruction for the drawing of this oyle in the first part of distyllations By pressing out also in this maner or on this wyse we drawe get an oyle not euyll sauouring take of Iuniper berryes broken fyrst myxt with burning water and after with oyle Olyue let them boyle a lyttle or at the least let these be infused togyther often sturring them with a spattle for eyght dayes then powring them into a bodie distyll in a Furnace after art the oyle after swymmyng aboue gather into another glasse you may then put into it a lytle of Angelica or some other thing a lyttle
of oyle Olyue tenne ounces of Frankensenâ—s of Sarcocolla of Mastick and of Saffron of eache one ounce of Panis porcini of Cauda equina or horse tayles and of Madder of eache one ounce of earth wormes washed thrée ounces all these incorporate well togyther in a panne ouer a very soft fyre which then powring into a Retort of glasse distyll in the begynning with a soft fyre after increase the fyre vnto the ende of the worke Which ended seperate the oyle from the water and the oyle kéepe dilygently in a glasse For this is a myraculous lycour against the crampe and marueylous sone healeth woundes bruses and other grieffes of the bodie This out of the secretes of Gabriell Fallopio An oyle out of Turpentyne Larigna marueylous against the shryncking of members if members be annoynted with it borrowed out of an vnknowne wryter to the Aucthour He tooke of Turpentyne one parte of Vitryoll calcyned one parte of Apples dryed and brought to powder without skynne or paring one part of oyle Olyueene parte of burnte Tyles one parte all these synelie brought to powder and myxed togyther he let stande in a potte glased in a hotte place for fowretéene dayes sturring it about each daye After the whole he distylled by descention in a vessell which most diligently be luted of thrée fyngers thycknesse and through dryed it before the occupying And when any matter is in the distylling both the Furnaces in the meane time ought to be closed and shutte in all places except certayne vent holes in both the Furnaces that the fume may so passe by them And that these Furnaces may appeare playner to vnderstanding conceyue this figure here aboue discrybed With this oyle purchased by the meanes aboue taught the payned members ought moderatelie to be annoynted An oyle by distillacion of the shyppe pytch annointed on places doth auayle vnto the extenuation of resolued weake members yet doth it not lyke resolue as the pytche lying a long tyme togyther An oyle out of the whyte pytche by distyllacion may be gotten ryght precious this borrowed out of an Empericke vnknowne to the Aucthour Of the oyles gotten out of Barkes The .xviij. Chapter A Water or oyle of Cynamon is to be requyred and coueted before other waters and Oyles as the Cynamon it selfe in respect to other spyces And the Cynamon is of a subtyll heate through which it especially auayleth in the wynter in that it strengthneth then more the stomacke and marueylously putteth away all euyll and corrupt moystures of the stomacke and defendeth it from corrupting at all it also sharpeneth the sight and openeth any maner stopping of the veynes and marueylously comforteth the heart But an oyle distylled of it doth answere in generall to a naturall baulme which within helpeth all putrifaction and without the body cureth all freshe woundes or vlcers And the distylled water mightily auayleth in all colde diseases as well of men as women especially which haue a stomacke so affected that they haue no appetyte When the spirites also bée weakned or the pacient weake a draft of this water with a litle of good Malmesie oâ— of the iuyce of the Pomegranate taken by the mouth woonderfully auayleth and helpeth Men in a maner dead by dropping or powring a droppe or two into the mouth doth recouer the person in a swoone or traunce especially which to olde men many tymes hapneth this is the presentest remedy Mydwiues and other motherlye women with vs carry of this water with them and vse of the same with prosperous successe to yong women in the daungerous traueyle of chylde For doth in the hastening and helping forward of the byrth it is the worthyest remedy The sundry maners that a water and oyle may be distylled gotten out of the Cynamon shal by a few examples here be vttered Some there be which stiepe the Cinamon before in Rosewater others in whyte wyne â–ª many drawe it in a Cucurbyte luted about but then is the substaunce lightly burned If the same be distylled in a bladder which the Apotetaryes vse it can not then be done without the great quantity of Cynamon The best maner and waye of drawing these is in the vapour of boyling water but as touching the rehersall of these is here sufficient The Poticaries certaine yeares past were woont to stiepe the Cynamon for certayne dayes in Rosewater as that which regarded the heart and was alwayes applyed for the recouerie of strength and for that a lyttle quantity of the water hath not his smell the water is estéemed of the lesser value with many And for that cause better it is that the CynamoÌ„ be stieped before the distyllation in olde pleasaunt whyte wyne for a certayne tyme For on such wyse prepared the distylled water is caused the excellenter and in piercing more effectuous The maner of preparing a water out of Cynamon which Gesnerus receiued of a certaine friend of his that made great tryals and often distylled the same Let one pound of chosen Cynamon be gotten which beat so fyne that the powder may passe through a fine sieue yet the whole you may not worke to powder after put al into a Cucurbite on which powre of the water of Borrage of Buglosse of Endiue and of baulme of each halfe a pynt these let stand to infuse in a glasse close stopped for fowre or fiue daies After out of this Cucurbite or glasse body let the whole be shyfted into a copper body which you shall place in a Furnace with his head set vpon cooling beake fastened to after art and beware that the body stand not ouer nigh the fyre but that an yron plate full of holes be fyxed in the myddle betweene that the fyre may so vent through and the vapour be sent vpwarde â–ª Fyrst kyndle or beginne with a soft fyre vntyll the distyllacion be somewhat come but increase after the fyre bygger and bygger that it may the spéedilyer distyll forth When a measure is come or dystilled forth seperate that a part as principal setting vnder another Receauer for the same which next distylleth is gathered is much inferiour to the first and may serue for new Cinamon to be styeped in the same And in the same maner may a water be distilled out of Cloues Where to be noted that a maner and way of cooling be vsed as when the water beginneth to waxe hote to draw forth the same and powre in colder water A water of CinamoÌ„ if any wyl distyl by a bladder made of copper togyther with a pype fyxed to it passing through a vessell of cold water a great quantity then shal be distylled togyther for it would not easily be drawne in a small quantity But in a Cucurbite dilygently luted this speciall care is to be had that your stuffe burne not to the bottome whereby your water then distylling forth may sauour of the burning That if the fyre shall be hoter increased an oyle also distylleth and so much the more if the
maner vnto one part of the powder of Brymstone they adde another part of flynt stones lyke brought to powder this myxture powre into a Retort and set ouer a very soft fyre they so drawe a singuler oyle Which oile in what maner diseases it may be vsed and with what it may be gyuen in eache and in what quantitie and howe shall briefâ—y be here vnder vttered This oyle is vsed in cold diseases whose cause procéede and are the humours eyther cold or putryfyed or in whome much wynde consisteth as in rotten Agues Tertians â–ª Quotiâ—ians and Quartaynes in the Pestilence in wounds in vlcers espetially hollow and wynding in many grieffes of the brayne the mouth the teeth the stomacke the Lyuer the Mylt the Matrice the bladder the Bowelles and ioyntes to those also which procéede of the abundance of humour or of putrifying And a lytle of this oyle is ministred with a distilled lycour or decoction of a congruent hearbe according to the qualitye of euery part and disease This is the maner of the measure a Hennes quyl must be dypped into the oyle and quicklyer drawne out agayne what that haÌ„geth on the quyl of the fatnesse or oyle the same temper in eyther syrupe or distylled lycour giue to drinck to the sick And with what this may be conioyned in each disease in the quotiâ—â—aÌ„ Ague in the wine of the decoction of Rosemary or mint a lytle before the fyt In the Tertian with the decoction of Centorie in wyne In the quartaine with the water of Buglosse In the Pestilence with the wyne of the decoction of Radishe to which a lytle Triacle Methridate is mixed In the vlcers sores of the mouth a feather or fine bombasie wette in the oyle and the same softlye apply on the vlcered place for in the repeating sundry tymes this oyle doth so throughly heale the euyll And druncke of such as are molested with falling sicknesse in the decoction of Byttonie and Pyonie speedily helpeth To such vered with the cough with Nettle séede and Ysope boyled in wyne In the abundaunce of flewme with the water of wormewood In the payne of the stomacke and great gutte of winde with the water of Camomyll In the coldnesse of the Lyuer and dropsie with the water of Ireos Celondyne and Hony. In the stoppings and griefe of the Mylt with Aquatamaricis In that French disease with â—umiterre water and broome flowers Against wormes in the long grasse or wormwood water In the griefe of the Matrice with wyne of the decoction of byttonie and Mugwoort In the staying backe of vryne with wine of the decoction of garlike Vnto the cold gowte with the water of Chamaepytyos And in al these the like maner must be vsed as afore was vttered of the quyll or feather dypped in the oyle and forth with tempered in an apte lycour But in wounds and vlcers the affected place must be annoynted with the oyle and that gentlye with a feather The tooth that aketh must be dressed with the same softly But if all the téeth payne and ake then let the pacient holde a space washe the mouth with the hote decoction of mynts myxed with a droppe or two of the oyle An oyle of brimstone inuented of a certayne Phisition of Rome and borrowed out of a written booke in the Italian tongue An oile of brymstone is easily and soone prepared gotten with a Bell of glasse but the better perfiter maner is this Let the brymstone be finely brought to powder and so much of the Pumeyse stone in fine powder which two myxed togyther put into a Retort fasten to it a sufficient large and bygge Receauer and within two dayes space by a most soft fire 〈◊〉 shall distyll gather the oyle of brymstone which of the Italians is named oile De grata or De regestro And the pouder of that Pumeise is added that the brimstone may not ascend that it may also send the vapors sooner vpward The selfe same properties in a maner are assigned to it which a lytle afore we recyted sauing that in a few we noted this diuersity That it cureth wounds by taking of the powder of the leaues of the Oke of Pympernel of Eâ—râ—â—onie of Campherie of S. Iohns wort al which well beaten togither seath in wyne to the straining mixe a lytle of this oyle or at least so much as may be for the malice and greatnesse of the wound And with this decoction let that fresh wouÌ„d or old vlcer â—e washed and they are speedily cured In the French disease after a sufficient purgation avayleth the oyle ordred in the same maner as aboue taught These truly and al the others afore wrytten which are to be applyed here are reported to be all experieÌ„ced by a singular phisitioÌ„ of the Emperors at Bononie of another notable phision at Rome An Odoriferouse or sweete smelling oyle of brimstone potable or to be druÌ„cke which healeth cureth in a maner all diseases griefts how wicked desperate so euer they bee borrowed out of the ItaliaÌ„ booke of secretes of the singuler Fallopio Let the Brymstone be grosely brought to powder which put into an earthen vessell ouer which hang a head or Bell with a Nose being two or three fingers distant from the vessell and to the Nose set a Receauer in which let a lyttle of pure Muske dyssolued in Rosewater be put Which done kyndle the Brymstone and the fume shall so ascend be receyued within the head But before the Brymstone distylleth wyll a certayne Câ—ate or thynne skynne as it were be gathered within the head which nothing wyll distyl before this Coate shall be thus gathered rounde about the head remembring alwayes to adde or powre in of the Brimstone by lytle and lytle as the other afore shall be consumed This oyle thus dystylled is caused swéete smelling yet very sowre in tast But the same that it may be potable or to be drunck and well delyghted to be taken by the mouth let a inlyppe be made of Hony in the same maner as commonly is made of Sugar into which instyll so much of the oyle of Brymstone now made as shal be néedefull to the purpose and that the same be not ouer sowre to take This drunck prouoketh sweate and vryne it cutteth a sunder and â—◠〈…〉 the wicked humours of the stomacke all Agues which in â—ade with a colde it helpeth it dyssolueth the stones of the kydneys â–ª â—â—â—â—â—eth all kynde of vlcers if they be applyed with this oyle in that of the proper nature this heateth and dryeth And all these the oyle of brymstone prepared in the abouesayd maner I haue found to performe by a sure and infallyble experience Another maner â–ª but the same by distyllacion vttered by the same Aucthour â–ª the ioynts before dilygently luted and sealed followed with a sofâ— fyre euer increasing the fyre by lytle lytle in a meanâ— maner In this maner is
the body in health With the water of Pympernell it clenseth the blood â—heaâ—eth the heart and mayntayneth naturall heate With the deâ—oâ—tion of Buglosse or the water of the same Mastick helpeth the gâ—â—â—iâ—â—sse of the head With the water of Sage it auayleth against the crampe With the waters of Maioram and Basill â—â— auayleth against the trembling of the heart With the waters of Fennell and Wythie of the mountayne it helpeâ—h the weakenesse of 〈◊〉 With the water of the flower De luce it is good against the rewâ—â—â— of the â—eaâ— With the water or the 〈◊〉 of â—oâ—es it â—â—yeth the bleeding of the Nose With the water of Mayden hayre it helpeth the â—ough With the water of the Cytrone it procureth an â—â—petyte â–ª With the water of Byttonie it healeth all the belâ—hingâ— and paynes of the stomacke that if the payne shall be of a hote cause then shall the oyle be ryghtly gyuen with Rosewater and Diorâ—hodon Abba â–ª This borrowed out of the Italian secreteâ— of Ty. Rusâ—ellus An oyle of vitryoll learned of that singular Georgius Haymberserus take of common vitryoll so much as you wyll out of which distyll a water by a Lymbecke as you know after take the Feces or earth of the vitryoll out of the glasse calcyne the same so much as is possible then powre the water which you distylled from it before vpon the earth of the vitryoll calcyned which after set into a drye wine Seller and you shall attayne the true oyle of vitryoll But the earth of the vitriol calcined ought a fore to be wel brought to powder the water then powred vpon it With this oyle and vermylon make as you knowe vnto the coniealing of Mercurie This first borrowed out of an olde Alchymy booke written Another maner that you may make the oyle of vitryoll take of Romayne vitryoll finely brought to powder twentye poundes which dissolue by lytle and litle on coales in a pot or panne not glased and after the vitryoll shall be molten suffer it after so long to boyle vntyll it be well dryed Which done let it be diligently brought to powder and powred into an other vessel not glased but well and close couered that no fylth nor dust fall into it After this a cleare and vehement fyre of coales made aboue beneath it that the vitryoll may become so redde as Vermylon of this vitryoll brought and made so redde take twelue poundes which powre into a Retorte verye well luted with his Receauer lyke luted in the ioynt and the fyrst day begynne with a soft fyre but the seconde daye with a stronger fyre of coales onely and the thyrde day with a most strong fyre made of wood shall you distyl the oyle of vitryol It is here to be noted that you must powre in a lytle Aqua vitae into the Receauer that the spyrites of the vitryoll may be retayned in it And after the distyllacion ended the same ought to be euaporated forth the Receauer being set on coales for on such wyse is the styncking vapour eleuated and when no more vapour shall appeare or greeuously stincketh then shall the oyle be left and remayne pure The propertyes of this oyle be in a maner innumerable With the water of Tamaricis it auayleth against the passions of the Splene With the water of Radishe or powder of the Tables of marble stone it auayleth against the stâ—ne and all passions of the kydneys the stopping of them With the waters of the Marygold and Veruayne it auayleth agaynst the pestilence With the waters of Sage and Buglosse against the byt of Serpents With Aqua vitae it is a singular remedy for the superfluous course of womens termes In the same maner giuen it cureth the Tertian Ague With the waters of cinquefoyle Horehound it helpeth the Quartayne With the Ferne water giuen it kylleth the wormes within the body With good Malmesie or with Pympernell water vnto the quantity of eyght droppes druncke with a fasting stomacke doth cheare the heart mundiâ—yeth the blood represseth the Lepry and both preserueth increaseth natural heate Taken with Fumyterre water and the water of MirobalanoruÌ„ Citrinorum cureth the Leprie With the Maioram water doth ease the headach and kylleth the Lyce of the head With the waters of Buglosse and Baulme it taketh away the payne of the head the mygrime gyddinesse and dymnesse of sight Taken after a purgation with the water of the whyte Lyllyes â–ª purgeth the Letharge or sléeping downryght With the water of Rue it lyke cureth the Letharge With the water of Fennell or smallache or Acorus it helpeth memory and profiteth vnto the dyminishing or losse of vnderstanding With the water of Lettyce or the whyte Poppie it prouoketh sleepe With the water of Borrage or Buglosse it profiteth the Melancholicke persons With the water of Nenuphar or the water Lyllies with the water of the Myrtylles delyuereth frenfynesse a hote impostume and profiteth in the pellycle of the brayne With Aqua vitae after a purgation taketh away the Apoplexie With the water of Pyonie delyuereth the falling sicknesse With the water of wylde myntes it preuayleth against the palsie With Sage water helpeth the crampe With the waters of Basil and Maioram deliuereth the trembling of the hart With the water of Trifoyle taketh away the payne of the body With Fennell water and water of the wythie of the mountayne taketh away all maner of weaknesse of syght With the water of Sigillum salomonis it auayleth against defenesse and rynging of the eares With the water of Ireos helpeth the rewme of the head With the water of the Acorne cuppes and cuppes of the Roses it stayeth the bléeding of the Nose With the water of Sage Hysope auayleth against the Palsie With the waters of Maiden heyre and Hysop it helpeth the cough With the water of Playntayne preuayleth agaynst the plewresie and such which spytte blood speedily helpeth With the waters of Doder and Mayden heyre auayleth against the plewresie With the water of Roses or wyne of Pomegranates auayleth against sounding With the water of the rinds of the Cytrone recouereth the weaknesse of appetyte With mynt water auayleth against the weaknesse and coldnesse of stomacke With the water of Myrtylles quallyfieth agaynst the payne of a hote stomacke With the water of Purcelane auayleth and extynguisheth thyrst With the water of Byttonie taketh awaye belching and payne of the stomacke and if the payne be of a hote cause it ought then to be gyuen with Rosewater or with the powder of Diarrhodon abbatis With the water of Quinces it delâ—uereth vomyting and if the same be with blood let it then be giuen with Plantaine water or with the water of sâ—epperds purse and powder of Diarrhodon abbatis And if it be of a vayne broken in the breast then applye with the Lyme of Egge shelles and be shall be whole in giuing it euery day fasting for one whole moneth With the water of Penny royall
doth helpe forgetfulnesse ◠weake memory 18. It cureth the toothach by rubbing or annoynting the gums with it 19. The oyle drunke helpeth the coldnesse of the matrice being also annointed both within and without and the staying backe of the monthly termes 20. It bringeth forth the deade yongling by opening the mouths of the veynes 21. It auayleth or cureth the clotted bloud of a stripe dryeth vp the euill humors of barren women 22. The oyle helpeth a cold cough stopping of the lungs by drinking and annointing the brest with it and it cureth a dry and weake cough which is named the straytnesse of the brest dissolueth there the congealed humors openeth the pypes of the lunges annoynted also on the watry eyes cureth them if the annoynting be done on the lids of the eyes 23. The oyle cureth the swelling of the lids the paine rednesse through the swelling or the abundance of bleude caused in them 24. It also cureth the bit of any venimous beast as the Scorpion the Spyder the Waspe the Bee the Snake Adder if the stinged or poisoned place be annoynted with it 25. The oyle helpeth swounding and weakenesse of the heart stomacke if of it be drunk with good wine 26. The oile profiteth fishermen if their nets be annoynted with it before they go to fishing for it allureth and draweth fishes in with the only sauour 27. It auaileth against the drinking of Opium or Henban 28. This helpeth the griefe and payne of the fundament wormes drunke and annoynted especially if wormwood shall be admired with it 29. It helpeth the spitting of bloud pissing of bloud 30. And whose bloud is congealed or clotted in the head the cause is of an impostume ingendred or of a strype if the place be annoynted with it this helpeth in short tyme 31. The oyle also auaileth and helpeth the person broken by annointing and applying of it in plaister forme with the iuyce of wormwood 32. This auayleth against a hard drie scab of the head by annoynting the places with it 33. This helpeth any Fistula 34. The oyle helpeth the stone of the bladder and kidneyes if the herbes agréeable vnto this as the Saxifrage Grummell séedes Parsely séedes Fennell séeds Gotes bloud be mixed with it and giuen to drinke And blessed be the Lord God who of his excéeding liberality hath prouided so many sūdry helps varieties of things to mans frailtie 35. If in the oyle Benedick you shall boyle long pepper the graines of paradise Pelitorie of ech one dram and halfe a dram of Castorie with this shall annoint the Edray auayleth vnto coeating 36. That a candell may not go out neither with rayne nor the wynde take a quantitie of silke or towe wet the same in the oyle Benedick with talow or waxe make a candle which may burne in the water 37. The dung also of the Doue myxed with the oyle Benedick a drie stick annoynted with that mixture layde for a space in the hote Sunne will kindle burne of it selfe 38. Take also of vnstaked Lyme Brimstone of ech a lyke quantitie these temper or myxe with the oyle Benedick and forme pylles of the whole which throwe into a pot of water and fire will issue forth of the water That a thread may put out a candell burning wynde it then about the candell but annoynt it before with good Triacle and it will put the light forth ¶ The fourth Booke of Dystillations conteyning many singular secrete Remedies ¶ Of the dystilling of Aqua vitae or as some name it burning water and of the properties of the same The first Chapter That if you will trye whether the Quintessence be pure or coūterfaited wette a napkin or lynnen cloth in the sayde lyquour and putting a candell to it set on fire if incontinent it flameth and the cloth neuer the worse then is it most effectuous and perfite And handkerchiefes wette in this water being kyndled flame and not consume them for the flame so lightly burneth on the linnen cloth that it pierceth or entreth not through but as it were by a licking maner suppeth vp the lycour agréeable to it and of a firie nature That if you poure a little of it in the palme of the hande and set it on fire with the flame of paper it then burneth in the palme and not heateth nor burneth the hande I haue tryed the marueylous vertue of it sayeth Lemnius in many matters for at what time the ayre is very colde and that it strongly fréeseth this lycour for all that is not frosen nor congealed to yse insomuch the ynke at that season and many others besides myxed with certaine droppes of it are defended from being frosen and the same procéedeth through the extréeme hotenesse and thynnesse which consist in it this burning wyne myxed with salt and set on fire causeth the standers about whyles it flameth to appeare lyke deade persons Hitherto Ringelbergius This séetheth an egge and preserueth boyled or rawe fleshe from putrifying being dipped in the same and troubled wyne myxed with it cléereth and is restored and dropped into newe wyne doth lyke cleare it Wyne decaying and sower it also restoreth It draweth forth the vertue of all herbes if they be infused in it except the sauour of the Violet which it retayneth not The sauour of it slayeth all venymous wormes and auoydeth poyson This Vitalis And this one thing is marueylous which I learned sayth the Author of a credible person that if certaine droppes of the water be poured into a gunne and myxed with the pouder at the shooting of this htetsarb In the same maner are also great rockes of stone broken and I heare sayth the Authour a beaten way so made by the valley Tellina as I gesse toward Millaine By the dropping of the water on the rockes made of wyne thrice dystilled ouer which by that meanes are woonderfullye cracked and broken a sunder Further a lynnen clothe dypped in it as we haue aboue vttered doth wholye flame without harme of the threades and dystilled a fourth time ouer if you then throwe of it vp into the ayre nothing of it will discende or fall to the earth And if you will a fishe to haue a better sauour with it kill the fishe then in this dystilled licour and suffer the same to lye in it a time and it wil continue in the like sauour for many days if you season the fishe killed in this maner with Salt and Pepper there will nothing eate pleasanter especially if it shall be a fishe of the best kinde The burning water often distilled if with it you shall wash the hands and set on flame they will burne without harme This Gaudentius Merula in libro 4. memorabilium that if in the dystilling the pouder of Sulphur viue be myxed then the Aqua vitae kindled will burne the stronger This ceaseth the payne of the heade if it procéede of a colde
matter And druncke with a fasting stomacke for two dayes togither with a little quantitie of Triacle purgeth the heade and dryeth vp by the moystures of the same If any drincketh a quantitie of this with some maner of wyne in the morning fasting doth like comfort the brayne This putteth away the dymnesse of sight and consumeth the webbe and spottes of the eyes and dryeth vp the running of them and dropped into the eares restoreth hearing A lynnen cloth wette in it and layde on the tongue restoreth the speach of the palsie person if it shall be often repeated for certaine houres Some commende the sublimation of wyne against wormes which bréede in the téeth by washing the mouth with it and the best wyne for thys purpose as affirmeth Alexander Benedictus is the Candie or Rennishe wine which the oftner repeated by distillation will be the stronger This water drawne by a glasse Limbecke annointed on the neck and drunck in the morning fasting helpeth hoarsnesse The vse of it in the dropsie is on this maner exercised take halfe a measure of the Aqua vitae which gently heate that it may be in a maner warme after washe the féete with it let the féete stande in the same for one quarter of an houre then the soles of the féete rubbe with the iuice of the Nettle and about the ancle bones and the pacient shall in short time be cured as Virus of Rochberg reported to the Author The water sublymed of pure wyne auayleth against refting or belching procéeded of cold and wynde This Alexander Benedictus The Germaines in a certaine place doe drincke or taste of the water thryse distilled ouer supposing it auayleable against flewme the same Author To be auayleable against the paynes of the loynes and flegmatick swellings did the author vnderstand learne this of a certaine farmer or franklin of the countrie on this wise that a platter or basen should be taken so fenced that it coulde not be harmed with the fire thorow a cloth layd on it the same so prepared set into a hot house close on euery side the cloth then wet with the best Aqua vitae set on a flame for if the Aqua vitae be good the cloth will not be burned and let the pacient incontinent enter into that close roume and he shall forthwith sweate in that it procureth there a mightie heate and let this be done fiue times or more according to the strength of the pacient and the places payning bath well with the Aqua vitae in which the flowers of Spykenarde shall be stéeped and the pacient shall be shortly holpen And vnto the stone of the bladder they will to drincke the water of lyfe for the space of seuen months euery day morning and euening myxing togither two partes of pure wyne and one of the water of lyfe and in this maner is the stone broken and the péeces sent forth with the vrine Woundes bathed with the water and the Canker and Fistula are healed with it Vitalis de Furno out of many attributed these properties to it that it breaketh impostumes aswell within as without the body if it be drunck or applyed sometimes without It taketh away the spots of the eyes and both the rednesse and heat of them and stayeth the shedâ—ing of teares It helpeth such diseased in the splene and lyuer being discretely drunck It congealeth Mercurie whiteneth Copper and dissolueth the spirits and bodies calcyned It cureth woundes any maner Goute the Canker and Fistula if drunck or the place of the wounde washed with it It sharpeneth vnderstanding discretely taken and matters past it bringeth to memorie and maketh the person excéeding merie and preserueth youth It cureth the salt flegme and redde spots of the face It taketh away the stinke of the nosthrils gummes and armeholes Gargelled breaketh impostumes in the throte It very much helpeth the Melancholick and much profiteth the ache in the hippes the goute ioyntaches It cureth the Dropsie of a colde cause It much auayleth against the cholicke passion with his lyme dissolued in wyne it breaketh the stone of the bladder but dissolued with his salt doth breake the stone of the kidneys and sendeth the péeces forth And taken moderatly doth put away the quartaine Ague If the leprous person shall measurably drinck of the water sometimes the lepriâ— shall not further extende It profiteth women to conceyue and conception it strengthneth if the woman conceyued drinck of it If a little of it be druncke sometymes or holden a whyles in the mouth cureth the Rheume â— The water annointed on the decayed eyes and liddes cureth thâ—m It giueth boldnâ—sse if any faint harted or weake couraged person shall somtimes drink of it These hitherto Vitalis Further of the properties of the same water in general doth Leuius Lemnius vtter these in his booke of the secret miracles of nature where he wryteth that no lycour which is ministred vnto any vse to mans bodie is eyther lighter or more péercing than the Aqua vitae or that more preserueth defendeth all things from putrifying or córruption whose vse hath growne so common with the nether Germanie Flaunders that fréelyer than is profitable to helth they take and drinck of it for not to all persons or at all tymes the drinking of it is so agréeable and healthfull insomuch that to leane persons of a drie nature in the summer time the vse of it is very daungerous for it burneth their bodies and consumeth naturall moysture in them but in the fatte and moyst bodies and such which doe abounde in the flegmaticke humors this nothing harmeth in that the water digesteth the excrementall humours and both defendeth and preserueth such bodies from the lithargie or sléeping downe right the Apoplexie all colde sicknesses For which cause in the winter time I allow a moderate vse of it as the quantitie of halfe a dram which filleth a spoone at one tyme throughly swéetned with sugar and a slyce of fine white bread eaten with it whereby the burning force of it may the lesse strike or giue vnto the nosthrils and brayne or hastily carie any harme to the lyuer through the penetrable and feruent heate but applyed without doth greatly helpe the sinewes and muscles and the members oppressed with colde all other painefull diseases which come of colde humors it asswageth and putteth awaye through the heating force and swiftnesse of piercing and it recouereth also speach depriued lost if at that instant tyme be mixed to it of the séedes of Roket and the squillitick vineger That if the Aqua vitae be distylled twyse or thryse ouer it purchaseth an incredible force of peerchig These hitherto Lemnius Of the instruments which the best practitioners vse vnto the dystilling of Aqua vitae The seconde Chapter SEing in the dystillation of the water of lyfe many grosse spirits are eleuated or sent vp by force of the heate for that cause the practisioner must indeuour to temper them
three ounces of Gynger of Cloues of eache one ounce of the red Saunders two ounces of Mace of Nutmegges of blacke Pepper of Galingale of Cubebae of Cardamomum of Annise of Fennell of Coriander prepared of Speticrum aromatici Rosati of Drambrae of Dianthos of Maioram of Basill of Lauēder flowers of Rosemary flowers and of Spyknarde of eache halfe an ounce all these beate in a grosse maner to which then adde of red Roses two handfuls and a halfe of good Malmesie foure pyntes or two of sublimed wyne xi or vj. pyntes of Rosewater Musked one pynt and a halfe of the water of Cloues and of Cinamon that is of the water of each two ounces of Sugarcandye brought to pouder thrée poundes let all these stand to infuse for fowre dayes After let a decoction be made according to Arte and claryfied after the accustomed maner A water of Lyfe being a great secrete of Maister Edwardes Take of Cynamon of Cloues of Nutmegs of Gynger of Zedoaria of Galingale of the long and blacke Pepper of Iuniper berryes of the ryndes of the Cytrone of the rindes of the Orrenges of Baye berries of Sage leaues of Basill of Rosemary of Mace of Spyknard of Ligni aloes of Cubebae of Cardamomum of Calamus aromaticus of Stoecadus Arab of Chamcepityos of Myrre of Masticke of Olibanū of the séedes and leaues of the Dyll of the séedes of Mugwoort of eache one dram of drye Fygs of Reysons of the meate of Dates of swéete Almondes of Pynaple kernels of eache one dram and a halfe of white and pure Honny sixe ounces of harde and white Sugar vnto the wayght of all the aboue sayde All these beaten and myxed togyther distyll by a Lymbecke of Glasse fiue tymes ouer A water of Lyfe helping ioynt aches and synewes drawne togither and the Crampe of colde Take of Cloues of Mace of each thrée drams of the graines of Paradize two drams of long pepper two drams of Nutmegs of Ginger of Lauender of Basil of Hysope of Baulm of each one ounce of Galingale of the flowers o◠Rosemary of sage of each halfe an ounce of Xyloaloes two drās of fine Muske halfe a scruple all these brought to pouder poure into fowre pyntes of Aqua vitae distilled out of Malmesie for fouretéene daies which after distyl in Balneo Mariae according to Art. A water seruing vnto many harde infirmyties and disseases For this water cureth the Canker the Fistula Sinus Morbum attonicum the falling sicknesse the ryng woorme the Serpigo the ioynt sicknesse the Goute and any paine of the synewes whether the same shall procéede of hote cause or cold the making of which is on this wyse Take of burning water fine and pure tenne or fiftéene pyntes of Ina one handfull of Sagapeni halfe an ounce of Cubebae one ounce and a halfe of Xyloaloes two drams of chosen Myrre halfe a dram of Aloes hepanticke halfe an ounce of Aristolochia of Ammoniaci of Opopanacis of chosen Cadanum of eache halfe an ounce of Sarcocollae halfe a dram of Frankinsence thrée ounces of Masticke halfe an ounce of Gumme Arabicke so much of the red Saunders two drams of Spyknard one ounce of Galingale halfe an ounce of Saffrō two drams of Mumia halfe an ounce of Gum Elemi three ounces of Galbanum halfe a dram of Storax and of Cloues of eache one dram of Nutmegs halfe an ounce of chosen Cinamon halfe an ounce of Graines of Paradize or of Amomum halfe an ounce of Resina liquidae fyue poundes of Turpentyne thée poundes of Dragons blood and of Castorie of eache halfe an ounce of these let a lycour be dystylled according to Arte. This borrowed out of Fumanellus A syngular water for the preseruing of youth and staying backe of olde age the making of which is on this wyse Take of Ligni aloes of Cloues of Gynger of Galingale of Cynamon of Mace of Nutmegs of long Pepper of Calamus aromaticus of Cubebae of Rubarbe of the graynes of Paradize of Cardamomum of each two drams of Rosemary of Celondine of Mercurie of the blessed Thystle of Imperatoria and of the white Dittany of eache one ounce all these after the beatyng infuse in syxe pyntes of the best Aqua vitae that serueth for the Quintessence which let so remayne for eyght dayes after distyll the lycour in Balneo Mariae according to Arte. Of that water gathered adde to eache pynte two ounces of fyne Sugar dyssolued in Rosewater and eyght graynes of Muske which dillegentlye kéepe in a Glasse close stopped This syngular water druncke euerye morning vnto the quantitye of one or two drammes at a tyme preserueth the personne a long tyme in health and perfyte strength in that the same heateth the stomacke being colde increaseth naturall heate and causeth good digestion of meate through which nature is preserued long lustye and young This also heateth the bloud in the Veynes in suche manner that the same causeth it to runne and worcke his effectes without impedyment It dryeth up colde and moyste humours whiche hynder the working of nature and worcketh many other helpes This borrowed out of the singular practises of the Gréeke Leonar Tiorauant A water not to be mysliked yéelding and working many matters for this helpeth the Goute ioynt sicknesses the dystillation of the head preserueth young age and strength gyueth also wyt and memorie reuyueth the spyrites and causeth them purer The making of which is on this wyse take of burning water thrée or foure tymes distylled ouer foure pyntes of Rosemarye flowers one pound of the toppes of the branches of the same halfe a pound these stiepe togyther for a daye and drawe in a double vessell with a long necked Receauer the neather part of it resting in a colde place For we so name it sayth Galen when in a Pan or Kettyl which containeth the hote water another vessell standeth Of thys water thus distylled by a Lymbecke take halfe a pynte of Nutmegges of Galingale of Cloues of Cardamomum of Mace and of Cubebae of eache thrée ounces of white Aumber one ounce and a halfe of Ligm aloes so much of Castorye and of Spyknarde of eache two drams these beaten seuerall and apart and compounded after altogyther vntyll they be come vnto a certaine thycknesse and then distylled againe togyther keepe to your vse For an ounce of the aboue sayde water druncke with a slyce of white bread auayleth so much as a Baulme This Fumanellus as the Aucthour supposeth Of the Iuyces or drawing of Iuyces out of Symples and compound matters The jx Chapter IVyce which of the Greekes is properlie named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the working of the same termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is that which is pressed or wringed out of symple or compounde matters brused chopped or stieped But Iuyces are otherwyse pressed out as eyther out of the leaues or braunches of the hearbes beaten alone and that greene and full of iuyce or out of fruytes as out of
Leâ—arge with the â—â—â—â—ning water Lyllyes â–ª Memorye corrupt with the decoction of the Fennell and drunck restoreth â—ebâ—ed partes it remoueth Melancholie all maner of madnesse with the water of Bâ—rage it helpeth an aâ—tonishâ—â— sicknesse with burning water â–ª and cureth the falling sicknesse taken with the decoction of the wâ—â—ite â—â—te of the Pyonie â–ª gathered in the decre◠〈◊〉 wayne of the 〈◊〉 it â—â—â—â—eth vnto the softnesse or losenesse of members witâ— the distâ—lled water of Sage or decoction of the sameâ— it cureth the Ophtalmia â—â— inâ—â—amation of the eyes and other paines with the water of 〈◊〉 â—ythie of the 〈◊〉 and waterâ— it helpeth distyling 〈◊〉 â—or 〈◊〉 with the water of 〈◊〉 the bleeding of the Nose this helpeth with the water of Sâ—abious it cureth the cough with the water of Mayden hayre and in the spytting of blood with the water of â—â—antane in the consumption of the Lunges with the water of Honny and mylke in the paine and swelling of the Lâ—ngâ— with the water of ryuer Creauisses in the trembling of the heart with the water of â—â—â—line or Buglosse in the payne of the stomacke with the water of Myntes or decoction of the same in a hote disposition of the body with Rosewater or the water of Myrtylles in the blooddy scouring and gryping of the bellye or flyxe with the water of plantaine in the payne of the Collycke with burning water in the passions of the wormes with the decoction of Zedoaria or wormewood in the swellinges of the Liuer or stopping and water betwéene the skinne with the water of the wylde Endyue and of Lyuerwoort in a hote cause but in a colde cause with the decoction of Spykenarde or Cynamon in the Iaundise with the water of Honysocles commonly named Periclymenos or with Goates whaye in the passions of the Mylte with the water of the Ashe or Tamariske in the passions of the Kydneys stoppinges or fylling and the stone with the water of Tribulorum marinorum or Radyshe Alkekengi and Pympernell or with the pouder of Philantropos or Apparina in the Srangurie vlcers of the Kydneys with Goates mylke in the rupture of the caule of the guts and falling downe of the guts into the coddes with the water of eyther Consolida in the staying backe of the Termes with the water of Sauyne or Mugwoort and in the painfulnesse or straightnes of byrth with the water of Mugwoort it helpeth besydes barrennesse with the water of Nepte and Lauender all maner of ioynt aches happening in any member part of the bodye and consumpcions this cureth with burning water or the Cowslyp or the Lauender this serveth to the pestilent Ague with the water of Sorrell or Buglosse and Scabious to the Canker fystula and scabbydnesse with the water of Verueyne or Buglosse or Sorrell It preserveth a man from poyson and helpeth persons poysoned cureth the byt of a mad Dog with the water of Tormentyll white Dittany or Bystorta or the water of the roote of the Pyonie Quotydians Tertians quartaine Agues in the comming of the cold or beginning of the fytte giue it with the water of Harts tung and it putteth away the vnstable burning Agues with the syrupe of Violettes and that briefly to wryte they affyrme the potable Gold with burning water to procure a noble effect in mans bodie to put away in a maner all sicknesses And of it they appoynt in great sicknesses one scruple or halfe a dram wayght to be ministred at a tyme but in easier or gentler sicknesses vnto the quantitye of halfe a scruple in small grieffes vnto the wayght of two Barlye graines and myxed with a decoction being ten times so much Séeing that they vtter â— teach the making of it many waies for that cause wyl I here declare sundry of them but if any shall desire to knowe more wayes of the same and that the Chymistes terme name of fyxion of the Sonne in our heauine let him reade the Commentarie named the heauine of the Philophers where you shall finde many formes of the potable Golde and that sundrye wyse and in the same also shall you reade many compositions of Aqua vitae of which the trueth it selfe vttereth what fydelitye is to be gyuen to them A dyscription of the making of potable Golde The fyrst take a quantitye of the leaues of chosen Golde which shall seeme apter to thy purpose of the iuyce of Lemmons verye well puryfied so much as shall suffice powred into a bodie orderly stopped as it behooueth set into a Furnace of ashes vnder which a fyre made of a Candle or other lyght for fowrâ— dayes or more to which after adde halfe so much of burning water fiue tymes distylled ouer this vse according to discretion The second they vttering teaching another way of making the poâ—able gold doe take of gold leaues beaten very fine thin a. C. iâ— nuÌ„ber of salt finely grinded on a smoth marble stone half anounce these mixed togither washed in hote water they after poure into a glasse body framed or hauing a long neck in the bottom fenced with the lute of wisdom on the mouth of which a keuer artly set vnder which a fire made of a light hauing iij. matches or wykes that they may distil as the order is accordiâ— to art â–ª that if any part of the gold shal yet remain in the bottom of the vessel they kâ—epe the same vnto vse The thyrde by another maner preparing and making the potable Gold they take one part of the purest Golde of quicksyluer two partes which they stiepe togither for a daye and a nyght vntyll the Golde shall be dyssolued by his force after they distyll the whole with a fyre vntyll the quicksyluer be seperated from the Golde and to the Golde resting in the bottome of the vessell then tending vnto a blacknesse they adde of Buglosse water halfe a pynt and the mouth of the vessell being stopped or keuered after arte they mayntaine fyre vnder for three dayes three nyghtes vnto the meltyng or through dyssoluing of the Gold. The fourth let be taken of the cement of Gold one ounce which compound or myxe with one ounce of pure Spanishe quicksiluer the whole put into a Glasse bodie common Oyle powred vpon floting well two fingers aboue then let it boyle on hote Ashes or ymbers for .xxiiij â–ª howres and when it shall be through cold draw forth the Oyle that which remayneth washe with warme water vntyll the moysture and vnctuousnesse be seperated dryed the same bring or worcke into a fyne pouder which then put with the Sulphure into a Crucible or coales mayntayning the fyre vntyll the Brimstone be burned or consumed after take the gold and grynde it with Salt for a certaine tyme and after with Hony make a long grynding on a Marble stone then washe it with hote water vntyll the Gold be very well clensed and pure after take vryne dystylled